and they've joined us for the Pledge of Allegiance. Let's start with a roll call. Please start, we'll start with the school board. Please identify yourselves. Starting with Mr. George. Anthony George, school board attorney. Amy Pritchett, district four. Risheli Roberts, district one. Marcia Powers, district two. Dr. Brian Moriarty, district five. John Russell, district three. Michael Main, superintendent. Phyllis Waters-Brown, mayor of Indian Town. Mike Giardino, interim village manager. Don Donaldson, county administrator. Eileen Vargas, district one. Blake Kapps, Martin County Commission, district three. Sarah Hurd, Martin County chair. Ed Campy, district five. Good morning, Stacey Hetherington, district two, county commission. Elise Elder, Martin County attorney. Mike Mortel, steward city manager. Good morning, Mayor Matheson, city steward commissioner, group three. Eula Clark, steward mayor, group five. Campbell Ridge, city of steward. Sean Raid, Lee Baggett, city attorney. Thank you. We'll begin with public comment. Please join us at the podium up here. You will each have three minutes to address us. The first request to speak for my habits from Alexia Haas, followed by Kelly Roboto. So I'm going to actually go first. It's Kelly Roboto. Okay, so good morning, commissioners. Earlier this year, I stood before you and asked Martin County to address school zone safety around schools, particularly Citrus Grove Elementary. And you determined that signs were distracting to drivers and there were not enough accidents to warn a school zone sign. I am here again because the safety concerns surrounding Citrus Grove Elementary have not gone away. And neither has the traffic. We have heard many explanations for why Citrus Grove does not have the same school zone protections we see in other elementary schools. But crash reports only tell you what has happened. They do not show you the near misses parent's witness. They do not show you the child who almost stepped into the path of a car. And they do not show you the driver who barely stopped in time. And traffic has increased. Martin County's own Vision Zero initiative recognizes that traffic crashes are increasing and that even one traffic-related death is one too many. Yet, we have an elementary school serving children as young as four without protections families reasonably expect around school. Before coming to Palm City, I did not even realize there were elementary schools without designated school zones. This is fundamentally about public safety and responsible planning. And that is your responsibility. I ask each of you to consider what happens if we do nothing and a child is seriously injured or killed after parents repeatedly came before you and asked the commissioners to act. None of you personally, publicly, or when asking voters to return you to this office should ever want to explain why additional school zone protections were rejected before a child lost their life. Do not make an accident the evidence you need to act. Re-evaluating Citrus Grove, work with the school district and sheriff's office, address the traffic light and enforcement and signage and school zone designation. Our children should not have to become into statistics before they become a priority. Thank you. Thank you. Alexia Haas is next, followed by Iris Haas. Good morning. My name is Alexia Haas. Thank you for being here. I happen to be one of the parents who witnessed something that I unfortunately will never be able to get out of my mind with my four-year-old crossing the road and a driver completely blowing through the light. When I reached out, I did have some responses saying thank you so much for, you know, the email. We acknowledge it. I think there needs to be more of an acknowledgement. The other response I received was it's redundant because there's a light. Well, the speed limit's 45 in front of the school. And on Martin County Highway from the Wawa to my neighborhood, it's, what is, I'm sorry, 30, 35? Yeah, 35 on a four-lane highway. And in front of our school, two lanes, 45. It's ridiculous. And that day, I witnessed it. There was a crossing guard. She's wonderful. She was in the road. And the car is still completely, even if he had a chance to hit the brakes, he never did. So I do think that it's extremely important for us to at least reduce the speed limits. There's signs for birds and not our kids. It's kind of crazy. So please take this into consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Iris Haas is next, followed by either Star or Stan Kellner. Good morning. Morning. Thank you all for your service. Iris, this is my daughter, Coral. She actually attends Citrus Grove Elementary. I tried to get her to come up here with her mom, but she was too scared. So I talked her into coming up here with me. She's not going to speak, but I thought it would be a good idea to bring her here today to see how government functions. So it's a little bit of a field trip for her today. We appreciate your guys' service. My wife got up here and spoke a second ago. I wasn't there that day, but I can tell you as a parent, it's extremely concerning that as difficult as the world has become, that us as parents have to come up here and plead with you guys for a school zone. It's not bad enough that we have to keep police officers at school now. It's not bad enough there's bomb threats, children bringing guns to school. My daughter's seven years old. My son is four. My daughter back there is two. My other son is 14. You can't imagine how difficult it is to send your children out into the world these days. We're not asking for a Costco. We're not asking for a self-storage center. We are asking for a school zone. We are asking for traffic to be slowed. I don't understand why it is that I had to take off work today and my community has to show up here today to ask for these things. It's not a basic right. It's just common sense. I'm happy to come here over and over again until this gets accomplished. Even my kids don't even go to Citrus Grove anymore. Like my wife says, and I'll correct her. She's probably not going to be happy about it. I come over the top of the bridge from Canopy Creek every morning to leave to go to work. When I hit the Wawa, there's a school zone for Hidden Oaks. Then there's a school zone for Palm City Elementary. Hidden Oaks is a middle school. There's a tremendous amount of kids coming in, going on bikes and e-bikes and scooters. Then you get to Palm City Elementary School. Again, kids, bikes, scooters. These are kids, most of them that are old enough to handle this on their own. But from Wawa to Map Road is 35 miles an hour on a road that goes from Okeechobee almost to past A1A. Where we're asking for a school zone is a 45 mile an hour speed limit. The traffic coming from Port St. Lucie comes around a corner. Next thing you know, if they're not paying attention, there's a line of 100 cars coming out of the brand new Newfield community that's going to have 4,000 homes. On the other side, there's a line of 100 cars coming from residents, bringing their children from the east. Then there's the community back here from Canopy Creek that moved into Canopy Creek, so we had the ability to walk our children to school. How many communities are able to do that anymore? Sir, your time is up. I'll yield. Please hear us. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Kellner is next, followed by Gary Erler. Good morning. My name is Stanislav Kellner. I am an anesthesiologist. Apologies for my handwriting on that piece of paper. It goes with the territory of being a physician. I also have three children, two of whom go to Citrus Grove Elementary. We've lived there for four years. I'm not going to go at this from the aspect of a parent. You've heard enough of those, and you will hear more. I'm going to tell you this from the aspect of an anesthesiologist, of which I think I'm the only one present in the room. I have been a trauma anesthesiologist in my past in South Carolina and in Philadelphia. I don't think anybody here, other than our distinguished law enforcement officers, has ever seen a trauma on a child. It is no joke. It is horrible. It is unforgettable. I will tell you this much as my time as chief of anesthesia in Orangeburg, South Carolina, I cannot forget any of the children that we had to go through as the level two trauma center over there with blunt force trauma, such as would be expected from a vehicle on pedestrian impact. You are talking about internal bleeding. You are talking about head bleeds. You are talking about eventual death. And you are talking about families being ripped apart because of it. I ask you that you please prevent this as someone who has actually seen this go down. Whatever your imagination tells you how bad it is, I promise you, it's worse. Thank you. Thank you. Gary Erler is next, followed by Andrea Horst. Hello. Thank you all for attending. My name is Gary Erler. I'm a resident of Port Salerno. My comments are from the BOCC meeting of September 29, 2026. Rules and procedures for the Martin County BOCC. 1A, it lists it's all open to the public. Under the J heading, it's appearance before the commission. Two members of the public have provided three opportunities to speak. Appearance before the commission, and I'll read the number two. It says, members of the public have provided three opportunities to address the board. The first is to address the board during public comment as defined herein regarding the scheduled agenda items for the meeting and or non-agenda matters of personal or general concern. The second opportunity is during that time of which the agenda item is under consideration. The third opportunity for a member to speak is at the end of the meeting. Nowhere in the rules of procedure did I find anything different for an Article 10 appeal. It was listed under a department of quasi-judicial undergrowth management. I said, if you watch the live feed, as I did, it was called by the chair for a request to speak and was denied, or I should say, Ms. Elise Elder said, it's normally not done. My question is, when you watch a recording on Martin County, the station, that whole section of being called for a request to speak wasn't even there. It was edited out. In the name of transparency and a public's right to speak, those things need to be there. Thank you. Thank you. Andrea Horst is next, followed by Kendall George. Good morning, and thank you again for having us today. We are also members of, or we live in Canopy Creek, and our children go to Citrus Grove. I, too, have witnessed the too-close accident almost happening. And until you witness it, like, it makes you shake even to talk about it. But I won't reiterate what everybody's already said. I have two children at Citrus Grove. I have one that went to Hidden Oaks last year, and I have one at Martin County High School this year. The difference in school zone signage, police presence, speed zones, I mean, it's completely opposite. And we're not asking for a lot. We're just asking you to listen, and we're asking you to protect our children. Thank you. Good morning. I'm Kendall George. I also have two children at Citrus Grove Elementary. I also have witnessed multiple encounters of very close calls, one of them, a child back there. One of them was also one of my children, wasn't as close as the Haas' child. But it's incredibly scary. All we're asking is for the traffic to slow down. As soon as you see a school zone, you're going from, you know, 45 miles an hour to 20 in a school zone. You're fully aware because there's a police presence. On Martin Highway, they're sitting out there and they're radaring. You know, they're ticketing people for going fast in school zones. Why don't we have that? Why are we not allowed that same privilege? All we're asking is for you to consider this, and, you know, it could really help our families and the children who attend Citrus Grove. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Patricia Milanis is next, followed by Christian Milanis. Christian Milanis. I also have a daughter who attends Citrus Grove. We actually just moved down here from New Jersey. Our daughter just started going to the school, and we were there the day that one of the children almost did get hit by that car on that turn. Cars do not slow down. Morning, afternoon, even midday pickups, there are still a lot of cars going a lot faster than what we would like them to go, obviously. We're here to support that school zone as well, and I appreciate your time. Thank you. Patricia Milanis is next, and Ms. Milanis is the last request to speak for my half. Eric Barnes is next. Good morning, everyone, and thank you again for your service to the community. So Eric Barnes from Canopy Creek as well, two young children that will be going to Citrus Grove, one already going. I did not witness the incident, but certainly witnessed people going 45, 55, 60 miles per hour on that road every day. I have to pick up my son. The concern, obviously, which someone raised already is we understand what you might look back at, might not support a school zone now. But for a lot of people that talk about slow growth here in Martin County, we know change is happening, which is fine. So we need to prevent a massive incident and trauma and a small child losing their life by looking forward. Obviously, a lot of change is happening in that community. If you look at the amount of kids that were walkers to Citrus Grove two or three years ago, it wasn't 30 or 40 kids. You fast forward to today and you go at that intersection, you're looking at 30 kids crossing that road every morning and every afternoon. So while we don't want to hear about history, we want to prevent something becoming history. So I think it's very important and we've seen people from the county out there the last few days and we appreciate that. But unfortunately, bodies there is not enough action. So we just want to make sure that school zone is implemented there. And this idea of somebody making a statement that other schools don't have school zones and I think there was it was Treasure Coast or there was an academy, a private school, maybe charter that doesn't have a school zone. It's irrelevant to what we're seeing on that road. People are going way too fast. And when Newfield is finished and there's 4,000 homes there, it's going to be even worse. The comment about the bend from Port St. Lucie is real. You see so many people not realizing that a school is coming up. You have 4,000 new homes in Newfield coming. Those people are not used to Citrus Grove. They're not used to Newfield. We changed the name of the road, but we can't change it into a school zone. So I just ask you to seriously consider this because we don't want to lose a kid's life. Thank you. Thank you. Would anyone else from the public like to address us? And we'll move on to our agenda item number A, which is the County Public Works Project. Hi. Good morning, everyone. I'm Keith Baker. I'm the Capital Project Administrator for Martin County. Today we're going to look at some active and upcoming construction projects. The Port Salerno Peninsula Resurfacing Project is scheduled to probably begin sometime in November. We just recently awarded the construction contract to LP Asphalt. Just kind of the scope of the project, it's milling and resurfacing the neighborhoods north and south of the Manatee Pocket. We'll be adding some parking near the Upland facility on Park Drive and make some sort of modifications to the geometry of the intersection of Southeast Seaward Street and Dixie Highway. So the two sides of the road align better to reduce the skew angle. This is one you probably see under construction near the airport. It's a Dixie Highway multimodal project. The kind of the limits of it, it goes from Airport Road to 16th Street in the city of Stewart. It'll also add bicycle facilities along Monterey Road to connect to the existing bike lanes. FDOT requested the county administer the construction of this project, and it's 100% grant funded for the construction portion. And it's part of the East Coast Greenway Trail Project, which connects Key West to Maine. These are some other photos of it currently under construction. It's a 10-foot-wide concrete path for the majority of it. Southwest Canter Highway and Waterside Way signalization project. These are adding a centered left turn lane and a right turn lane at that intersection. The contractor's JW Cheatham. It's approximately probably 90% complete. It's entering into the punch list and closeout phase. And then the County Line Road bridge replacement project. Here it says the construction is mid-November. We've actually confirmed the notice to proceed date with the contractor, which is Cone and Graham, for October 20th. So we've set that date. And there's a detour along Country Club Lane. It includes a full bridge replacement. It puts the sidewalk on the bridge. Right now there's a separate pedestrian facility you can see in the photo. And it's approximately 360 days. That's what's allowed in the contract. But we hope for a shorter construction duration. Canter Highway and Locks Road turn lane project. This is highlighting a couple of our traffic department's projects. This one is an additional left turn lane being added to Locks Road at Canter. This is to reduce congestion. And the design is approximately 60% complete. And then the Dixie Highway cross rip, this is an added traffic signal at that intersection. It's to improve rail safety. And the design is approximately 90% complete. Does anyone have any questions about that part? Any questions? Mr. Reid. Yes, I know you mentioned one of the capital improvement projects was grant funded entirely. What was the funding sources for the other ones? For all of the projects? Were they all grant funded? Or did they come from the general fund in the county? Or? You want me to go through each one? Sure. That'd be fun. This one is county funded. For that particular one, it's the neighborhood resurfacing project. This one was the one that was mentioned to highlight in the 100% grant funded. This one is a county funded project, the Canter Highway signalization improvements. And the county line road bridge, it's like, it's approximately like 7.42 million total construction cost. It's 6 million of that is grant funded. It's like 3 million from an appropriation from the state and 3 million from an appropriation from the federal government. So about, so 6 million out of the approximately 7.5 million is grant funded. Okay. Any further questions? Yes. The light at Cross Rip Street, Hobesound, we're at 90% design. Can you give me an idea on when we might actually have the light? And I've heard that once everything is in place, there's like a nine-month wait on the mast arms that go over the road, that those are on backlog. And so that's a very significant delay right there. But can you give a little more detail on when we might expect to actually have that light? Because there are a lot of accidents at that intersection, as you know. Jim Gorton may be able to add to what I know about it. It's a traffic department project. And, yes, I've experienced a similar thing in the recent past, like a six- to nine-month lead time on the mast arms themselves. I could check with Eric, though, Ferguson, and then we can send you an update if that's still, like, the current trend as far as, like, expected time to finish the design and then approximate lead time for the mast arms. And then one other thing, I don't know if everyone knows, but we had a collision of a car and a train there about a month ago. So any other questions, then we will proceed with John Mayle, our Environmental Resource Administrator. Good morning, John Mayle. I have a few updates from happenings in the Environmental Resource Division. First of all, and one of our favorites to talk about is progress with the Martin County Forever Program, which is your half-cent sales tax for conservation land acquisition. To date, we've secured almost 1,500 acres of ownership, fee simple acquisitions, 1,700 acres of conservation easements, and we have 58 acres that are in some stage of contracting where we have negotiated prices, full approvals, and we're just working towards closing. That would be a 20-acre piece on Bridge Road that would add to the Loxalusie effort, some additional acreage in Poinciana Gardens in the western portion of that area that's native wetlands, and a couple more Palmar lots. So that makes up that 58 acres. There's 800 acres that are going towards closing on ag easements or conservation easements through the Rural and Family Lands Program of FDACs. Last week, Governor and Cabinet had a meeting, and they approved three new easements in Martin County. Two of those were easements that Martin County was funding partner in that through the Martin County Forever Program. And the third one was 100% FDACs funded. That's really a consequence of us being a robust partner for FDACs. As they laid out their presentation to the governor and cabinet, half of their easements were Martin County. So it was kind of a proud moment to watch that unfold and just hear Martin County, Martin County, Martin County. In fact, the next day, Florida Forever called us, some of their new staff, and they were kind of doing some calculus across the state. And I'm going to put this in my words. They were more diplomatic. They said, the way things are shaping up, you guys might be our only future partner. And, you know, we'd like to be working with you. They need some money. But once they do get some money, I think we're well poised to go after some Florida Forever programs in future years. So that's been exciting. We've got several others in the works, some exciting recreational opportunities that will come as a consequence of some acquisitions that we are not quite under contract but are making good progress. I'll go to the next slide. This one's kind of a fun one, too. In 2000, Congress approved an act called the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. Hopefully most of you have heard of that. It was a robust plan to undo the environmental effects of the Central and South Florida flood control system. I will try to keep this short, but I think it helps to have the context. Within that plan was the Indian River Lagoon South component, which includes all of the watershed fixes for Martin County's estuary, the St. Lucie Estuary and St. Lucie River, and the southern end of the Indian River Lagoon. It included massive reservoirs and stormwater treatment areas and canal connectors that help to manage the water in the wet season and treat it and release it more effectively in the dry season. Those projects were super ambitious, and we've seen in the last eight or nine years incredible progress on those projects. And all of those were precursors to the ultimate restoration project that was identified in the Indian River Lagoon South, which was an 8 million cubic yard muck removal project to actually fix the estuary. It would make no sense to do that before you fix the watershed. It would just ensure that you'd have to do that again. But since we've seen those watershed fixes all start to come to fruition, and we've kind of got a light at the end of the tunnel, we started to focus our efforts on shining a light on that final, most important element. And as we started to develop, like, how do we move this thing forward? It's a massive project. It became apparent that one of the biggest challenges is where do you put 8 million yards of muck. That's always a challenge, and it's only more significant exponentially when you scale it up to that size. We had a project implementation report that Congress approved in 2007. It's a couple thousand pages if you want some light reading. Within that report, there are areas identified as the prime spots to spoil the muck for an efficient project. One of those spots is in the blue and red right there on that map. Florida Inland Navigation District had already acquired the 120 acres on the east side in the red, and the blue property was owned by the Newfield development. Our board last month approved a development order that will allow Newfield to donate that property to the county for use as a dredge management material area. So super exciting. We're going to be able to go to the Corps, and when we go to Congress and we argue for appropriations, to be able to say, hey, we have your spoil site. It makes it really hard for them not to make progress. So that's a super exciting development, and when that project's done, that's when we'll actually be able to look our neighbors in the eye and say, you know, we've actually restored the estuary. Next slide. We continue to aggressively plant seagrasses in the estuary, and lots of that is done as research and studying to see how it responds, but we've also had really good success with getting 100 percent funding for these projects, so we just keep putting more and more seagrass out there. We did another six acres a couple months ago of turtlegrass near the crossroads, and we've got about 100 acres in the plan. Something that came up in some of our survey work recently that's of note is down by Tequesta in the southern lagoon in Martin County, we discovered some exotic seagrass that has made its way into the estuary. It's been kind of coming up from the north, and I wrote it down because I'm not a scientist. It's called Halophylla stipulacea. I'm not great on Latin. We're not sure what to think of it. You know, seagrass is a great thing. We are about seagrass, an exotic seagrass that doesn't have natural controls and could potentially out-compete natives. There's a ton of research being done, and we're keeping a close eye on its development. It's probably got some benefits to have something covering that substrate. What we don't know is its long-term impact, so we're keeping a close eye on it, and we'll keep the community updated on its presence here. I'm happy to take questions. Questions? Thank you very much. We will move on to the City of Stewart's Utilities and Engineering projects. Good morning. My name is Peter Kunin, Director of Utilities and Engineering at the City of Stewart. It's great seeing everyone here this morning. I do have a few updates for you this morning on several City of Stewart projects. First is an update for our annual pavement maintenance project that is currently underway. The project started back in July and consists of a few streets that involve milling and resurfacing, point repairs, and asphalt overlay. The project is pretty far along where the contractor is scheduled to finish up work before the end of this month. The next project is our City of Stewart courtesy dock project. That, too, is currently under construction. And the project involves the demolition of the existing dock structure that's there and the construction of the new dock. That will have – it's a larger dock than the previous one. There will be more boat slips involved or part of the construction design of the project. And there will also be a floating platform. Currently, the contractor is setting the hundreds of piles, the pilings, for the new dock structure. And so if you go out there, you will see the pile driving activities underway. And when completed, this dock will have a total of 44 boat slips, which is larger than the current dock by approximately 18 more dock spaces or slips. Scheduling is – has it – the project being completed in March of 2027. The next project is a utility infrastructure project, one of our major sewer pumping stations, the North Stewart lift station, as it's called. It's located on the north side of the Roosevelt Bridge. That project is also under construction, and it is a total rehabilitation of the existing pumping station with replacement of piping, electrical control panels, pump control panels, the installation of a bypass pump in the event of a problem with the pump station. And as I mentioned, the project is currently under construction, and the anticipated construction completion is June of 2027. However, we're hopeful that this particular project will be completed ahead of time. And last but not least is an important facilities project for the City of Stewart at our water reclamation facility. It's the rehabilitation – or actually the reconstruction of the top portion of the headwork structure at the facility. Due to age-related deterioration of the upper deck, the concrete was pretty well gone due to the sewer gases. Necessitated the reconstruction of the whole top portion of the headwork structure, which is the main portion of that facility where all the wastewater is introduced into the facility. The project is currently under construction. We have the headworks under bypass, and also the equipment for that top portion of the headworks has been on order. And we're looking at replacement of not only all of the grit removal equipment, but also new bar screen, odor control equipment for the headworks as well. And right now, the anticipated completion of the project is January 2028. So with that, I am here for you if you should have any questions of me at this time. Any questions for Mr. Kunin? I don't see any. Thank you. Thank you. And for the record, the Village of Indiantown Council Member Hernandez has joined us. Welcome. Next, we will hear from the Village of Indiantown from Patrick Nolan about Village Utilities and Public Works Update. Good morning. Good morning. As stated, I'm Pat Nolan from the Village of Indiantown. We're going to start with our public works projects. Seminole Drive, that's a neighborhood revitalization project. We received funding from the Department of Economic Opportunity, CDBG grant. I'm happy to say that that project is mostly completed. If you've been coming to these joint meetings, you're going to hear me talk about a lot of projects that we've talked about for a very long time, but we're starting to see these projects come to fruition, Seminole Drive being one of them. So that project is nearly complete. We definitely have had some hiccups with all the rain that we're receiving, but we are almost finished with that project. I have an emergency drainage repair. If anybody's watched the news, we've had some flooding problems in the Village of Indiantown from all of the rain that we've received over the last two months. This one in particular caused a lot of flooding in the Booker Park neighborhood, specifically Palm Beach Street. So we did an emergency repair at 168th in front of the wastewater treatment plant, and thankfully that has solved that problem. And we also had some flooding on a farm road in the same vicinity. So I need to thank the Martin County Public Works Department, specifically Jim Gorton, because they have been working on that drainage as well to help out the village. So I definitely need to thank Martin County for their help in that situation. Roadway repair and maintenance. That was the second phase of a multi-year asphalt repair program that we started two years ago. We have completed that throughout the village, addressing problem areas, potholes, striping. Southwest Lincoln Street Roadway and drainage project. That is a project that we're trying to get off the ground. It's in design. We're just about to put it in design. That is FDOT funding. Water projects. We've got a multitude of water projects in the Village of Indiantown. The first one is a water plant project where we're planning to rehab the existing water treatment plant. We received funding from the SRF. We actually got acknowledgement last Wednesday that we can actually access the funding. So we have already started rehabbing the wells. We have eight wells in the system. We're going to rehab seven of those eight wells. That has already started. Again, I'm happy to report that we finally have come to terms with the SRF. We're already in design. We're going to be getting construction sooner than later. Railroad Avenue water main. That is a hundred-year-old water main that runs parallel to the railroad in the Village of Indiantown. We've also received funding for that project from the Department of Commerce. We're just going through an environmental study, and we should be starting that project within the next, hopefully, year. Florida Aquifer Wells. We have commenced in drilling four Florida Aquifer Wells to support the reverse osmosis treatment plant. We've actually completed the actual drilling of the four wells, and we're moving on to development, and then we'll be working on the headworks. That is funded by an appropriation from the governor's office through the DEP. 151st Sinasciola Street Water Main Project. It's also a grant-funded project. We're working with Congressman Matt's office to receive some funding on that project, special water projects. We have been working on a deep injection well for over a year, and that drill rig that you see actually just came down last week, so we have finished drilling both the deep injection well and the monitoring wells for that project. So we're going to be testing before the end of the calendar year, and that well will be ready to be put in service actually prior to us putting the reverse osmosis plant into operation. Wastewater plant. We've been working on the wastewater plant for well over a year as well, and as you can see by the pictures, we're moving along. We actually have an administrative building that is up, and we're working on that, and the physical footprint of the plant is progressing nicely. We're now working on piping. We hope to have that in service about June of 2027. And also, I need to, before I finish my presentation, thank Sam Amberson of the Mark County Utilities. After we had the flooding issue, which puts pressures both on the drainage and our wastewater system, we had a pump, mechanical failure on a backup pump at one of our lift stations. And thankfully, Sam was able to provide us with a backup pump, and we never missed a beat. But again, without the assistance of Martin County, some of these things that we're doing, we would not be able to get done. Questions? Questions. How's the Cedron Project proceeding? Cedron Project is proceeding, but a little slower than I would like it. They have pretty much finished up their design. I believe they're in front of the planning department with a couple of site plan changes. But they've started preliminary site work at the site, and hopefully they'll start construction sometime in the first quarter. All permits are in hand? I believe so. All the permits other than their site plan permits, yes. Other state permits that they needed, yes, they have them in hand. Great. Any further questions? I don't see any. Thanks, Mr. Nolan. All right. Next is the report from the School District Facilities Capital Projects update from Mark Sechrist. So good morning, everyone. Mark Sechrist, Director of Facilities and Planning, Martin County School District. I'm going to give you an update on one of our current projects. But as we stated in the last meeting, we had two projects actually close out since we last met. Over the summer, I'm proud to announce that we did start work on the Murray Middle School project, so I'm going to go through that project. Here again is a map. If you have any questions, this represents all the school sites and charter school sites across Martin County. So if you need a point of reference, we always include this map. So we're on Murray Middle School. Over the summer, June and July, we were actually removed building 18 and building 10 that had storm damage, which is located right here on this corner. So those two buildings are currently gone. The construction road was built so that we can access from the back street here and from the front street here with construction traffic, avoiding the car line at Murray Middle School while we're building during the school year. Currently, right now, these photos and pay apps are usually a month behind, so we actually have progress. The foundations for the new building were poured early Monday morning. We were dodging rainstorms last week, but they were able to pour on Monday. So that's exciting news. We actually have a full foundation for the building. And just as a point of reference so that you understand the new project, it's going to be one big building, two stories. It's going to have the admin, media, and classrooms because now we're replacing building 9, building 10, and building 18. And then the current admin building is right here at the front of the school. That's going to be gone. The gym will remain, and we're doing a full renovation project on that. So like I said, currently right now, as of Monday morning, the foundations are poured, and it takes up pretty much all the area that you don't see grass right here. And then eventually, when the admin building comes down, the car line will expand out, and we'll double the size of our car line in parking at the school. So that's where we currently are with that project, and I can take any questions. Questions? I don't see any. Thank you. I'm going to turn it over to Angie. And now we're going to get a pre-K programs overview. Hi, good morning. I am Angie Gilbride, the very proud principal of the pre-K programs for the Martin County School District, and it's my honor to be here today and share some of the great updates happening for our youngest learners in Martin County School District. And so I'm excited to share the progress and the outcomes we're seeing, especially for children. We put a lot of work in place. Last year, we served 540 students across our 32 Head Start and VPK classrooms. And this year, we're already up 11 students from last year, so that's very great that we're filling even more spots in our pre-K programs. So what I want to share today is not only where our students ended the year, but the intentional work that our teachers, support staff, leadership team, district partners, and community partners put in place to get us there. And then I'll briefly share how we're building upon that success this year. So this year, this data is the one I'm most proud to celebrate from last year. At PM1, which is our progress monitoring, that is the assessment that we actually take for pre-K programs in the public and the private sectors of pre-K, very similar to the K-12 space, just graded a little differently. At PM1, we had 7% of our students program-wide who were at a 707. A 707 is what the state of Florida determines what does kindergarten readiness look like. And so at the beginning of last year, there were only 7% of students at the 707. But by the end of the year, 76% of students in our pre-K programs were at a 707 or higher. Our goal for the 25-26 school year was 70%, and so we exceeded that goal. We had to make sure that all of our action plans and the things we were doing were very aligned and very targeted for our pre-K program staff to support our students. We also had 60% of our students achieve, it's actually about 12 points a month, so it's over 100 points in growth, actually about 115 for a child to actually show a growth gain. So it's really important that we highlight that as well. For me, what's important is we want to look at proficiency of students, which is the 707, but also the growth that children make, because it's our responsibility to grow children no matter where they start in our program. So, and the student data wasn't the only thing where we saw growth, we also saw improvement in the quality of instruction, and I'm not going to go into, like, really huge around how pre-K is actually assessed, because it is very different than the K-12 space. But we had a very big focus on the instructional domain and language modeling. And so the way that our teachers are assessed both in the private and the public sector for pre-K is about the student-to-teacher interactions, the interactions the teacher and students have together. So that was one of our focuses, is really just helping students build their language in order to apply it to their literacy or math areas. We intentionally focused on helping our teachers have richer conversations with children, ask deeper questions. We want them to be inquiring, just like they do when they're three years old and they're asking mom and dad a million questions. We want our teachers to go deeper with children so they develop that higher order thinking that they need to be successful beyond pre-K. We ended the year with no classrooms scoring below a 3.0 in language modeling. This across the nation is not a high-scoring area, so we were really proud of the work that we did. We had 55% of our classroom score a 4 or higher and 16% a 5 or higher, which is actually a very high range for this particular area in our class. Also, we had positive movement at our site designations, as you'll see up here. We had schools that moved from above expectations to excellent. We also had that at our Warfield site that continued. We had Perkins join us. Last year was a Head Start standalone site that joined Warfield. They still remained excellent. Every single one of our 13 sites, we have 12 elementary schools and one standalone site, met the state's expectation for the pre-K designation or exceeded it. So that's very encouraging. What I love about the results is we saw instructional quality, so what teachers are delivering in front of children, grow with the data that we saw growing. So that tells us the work happening with the adults is translating into better outcomes for children, which is the goal. Those results didn't happen by accident. We were very intentionable about putting systems in place and building our community partnerships. So our community partners are a huge part of our success, not only in our own school district, but outside the early learning coalition helps to support not only our program, but the private providers of pre-K throughout the district. There is a dedicated Indian Town coach that services both Warfield and the private daycares in Indian Town that is funded. That's through the ELC, but it is funded by the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties and also United Way. And then the other coaches are funded by the Children's Services Council through the ELC. And so they directly impact us, but also the private providers in our county. We also have had support from Early Learning Coalition, Tykes and Teens. It goes on and on. Elevate Hope for our Head Start program. We're very fortunate in the Martin County School District to have services and supports for our children. So our children are well-rounded. If they need something, they absolutely get it. Also, the coaching that went into our teachers and the professional learning in partnership with our own coaches in the ELC was a huge part of the outcomes that we saw in classrooms because the teachers were involved in that, and we saw those outcomes occurring in classrooms. These partnerships directly impact what happens in our classrooms by investing in our teachers through coaching, professional learning, collaboration. Our partners are helping children grow, learn, and ultimately be better prepared for kindergarten and beyond. So we're very thankful for these partnerships. As we move forward, we want to continue on the work that we had done last year through coaching and child interactions. So this year, our big goal was every conversation counts. That's what we started the year back with our superintendent. He joined our kickoff with our team. We want to build on the systems that produce those strong outcomes for students. We want to accelerate, strengthen, and enrich because we want every child to feel connected, confident, and ready to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. I'm incredibly proud of our pre-K team and grateful for the continued support of our superintendent, our school board, our district departments, the Early Learning Coalition, and our community partners because it truly takes all of them to create these great outcomes for our children. That's it. Thank you so much for allowing me to be here today. Any questions for Ms. Gilbride? I'm sure she can answer anything. I feel like we should clap. Just a little tidbit. It's an honor to be here. I am homegrown here in Martin County. I'm a proud product of the district, but I was born at Martin Memorial, so it's really great to be here in front of all of you, and thank you for all that you do for our community every day. Thank you. Don, get her resume. Sorry. Did I say that out loud? Sorry. Next, we'll move on to county and village growth and development updates. Ms. Lovelady will present the county's growth and development updates. Good morning, all the commissioners. My name is Samantha Lovelady with Martin County Growth Management Department, and these are the growth and development trends for the year so far for the calendar year, 26. So there's a small update on the population. They moved down just a little bit in the later years, but I will be producing a population technical bulletin later this year. And for 2025, the estimate is 166,281 for our population, and that's a 0.87% growth from 2024. So far this year through August 31st, we have approved 397 units for residential and 943,123 square foot of non-residential. And we have a list of projects here that are under review, and if you'd like to have any information about any of these, just let us know. And so far this year, we've issued 503 residential permits, and that is all I have. Are there any questions? Questions for Ms. Lovelady? I don't see any. Thank you. We'll now move to Lucia Mendoza from Indiantown. Good morning. While Lucy's setting up Mike Giardino, interim village manager, much of the activity in Indiantown is underway, and the slides that you're going to see are not much different than what you saw during the quarterly meeting in June. A lot of activity in the planning department. But I think to note is, number one, coming up on the 10-year anniversary of the village, which is awesome. My first job out of the Navy, I ran a village that was incorporated in 1829 on the Erie Canal. There's a difference between that number from 1829 to now than 2017 to now. A lot of growth. And as you can see from Pat's briefing, a lot of infrastructure that needs to be updated and is being updated, as well as legacy drainage issues and other things. But these challenges may be complex, but they're not complicated. These issues we will work through, and I'm not going to get ahead of my council, of course, but they'll be worked through in an honest, transparent, and lawful manner. You'll be seeing in front of the council this week a transparency policy, which I hope the council will adopt, so that everything that we're doing, not only in the planning department, but everything else will be transparent to the public. And I think that is what the community is asking for, and we want to be responsive. Thank you, Mike. Good morning. My name is Lucia Mendoza. Just a fun fact, Angie Gilbride, thank you so much for everything you've done. I started my first day as a high school assistant, working with Angie Gilbride as a kindergarten teacher. And that was the first day of my 12 years with the school district, and I appreciate everything she's done. She's been very involved with my family personally, was a kindergarten teacher for my firstborn, and now she's the director for my last one out of five. So now she's the director of the entire program. I'm very proud of you. I appreciate it. Again, Lucia Mendoza with the Village of Indiantown. I'm here to present a development activity update. We're going to start with our boundary map. This is just an update to show everyone the recent annexation from Project Parrot. So this entire area here, all the way up to the Palm Beach line, is now part of the Village of Indiantown. We have a couple of projects that you'll see on the upcoming tables that I'll be showing you. So the Village has received a numerous amount of projects, site plan requests. Next, we do have a church that's expanding Indianwood Landing. We're pending the applicant's resubmission. Sky Leasing is a property that is located within the Venture Park PUD area. We are waiting for the applicant to resubmit. Venture Park Lot 24 is also pending a resubmittle. So, sorry, we do have some projects in review currently. As you know, we are working towards reassigning some of these projects to contractors that we have with the Village of Indiantown. Right now, we have Tesoro Groves, who is in review. We have a Village Market convenience store that's also in review off of 710 right across Indian Wood Golf Course. Project Parrot is in review. Project Growler Lots 2, 1, and 3 are also in review. Iconic Energetics is also known as Grind Hard Ammunition. They are looking to expand their project, and that is currently in review. Tesoro Groves PUD Station, in review as well. Robin Chickadee 1 and Chickadee 2, also in review. Energy Storage Center, I love that project name. Sedron, I think someone asked about Sedron. They are currently in review right now. They are working out some other small details on their site plan, so they're very close with that. Their plat was approved already, which is great. Tesoro Groves plat, a lot of plats that were approved here. Don't want to go through every single one of them, but if you have any questions on a couple of these, I'm more happy to answer them. Silver Fox is a minor site plan that was approved with a development order recently, and that's just to access in a guardhouse entrance to that site. Let's see. Power Boats. Iconic. Iconic had a grand opening on the 25th. We're very, very excited for them. This is like one of our project tiles here. We are very excited. This is their second location. The first location is located in Martin County, currently right next to the Martin County School, and we were there, and I think Commissioner Capps was there. We appreciate your attendance. We're very excited for them and all of the work industry that we're bringing to the village of Indiantown. It's just, I think everyone played a part in this. We appreciate the Business Development Board for bringing that project to us. Residential. So we have Terra Lago residential project here. Overall, they have been approved for 2,500 housing units, and then they are split down into phases under construction, phase 1 and 1B. 1C is pending their final site plan submission, and phase 2 has been approved just recently in September with 3. So 4, 5, and 6 haven't been applied for. Terra Lago phasing plat has been approved, and the remaining plat for phase 1B has been approved. Apart from site planning, I'm also responsible for addressing, so that was a very fun project there. This is a screenshot of Terra Lago and what that looks like currently on our maps. An update to their phasing plan. Terra Lago presented an update to their phasing plan, including phase 6, I believe it was. And it included, on this end, straightening out this access off of Allapattah Road, and also determining a site or area for a future fire station for the village of Indiantown. And that will definitely help the western side of Indiantown. And on that note, we'll be working with the county, the county administrator and I will meet on that, and we'll move that project ahead. That is a great project. It's good news for the village and for the county for a new fire station, which with upgraded capability. Upgraded. Not the same, but upgraded. Seminole Crossing is under construction. They have only 25 units. That is one of the newest single-family developments in the Booker Park area. They have two-story homes in Booker Park. We have the same developer for Seminole Junction. He was a previous project, so he is looking at property within the village of Indiantown that's vacant and looking to develop and keep our community within Booker Park there, giving us an opportunity to stay within our own neighborhoods. We have Osceola Pines. They do have 158 units approved, but with only constructing 40 of those units because of water capacity. River Oak is under construction currently for 131 units, and they are off of Famel, closer to the marina. Heritage Park was a vacant property where we had FEMA site trailers. It was vacant, and now we have 71 units. They currently are pulling permits to install the infrastructure. JPI Indiantown is a corner of 150th and Shawnee Avenue. They have 40 units approved. The developer is aware we do not have access to water, and he is looking to install wells. Park View Apartments is an approved site plan. No building permits have been approved. That is located right behind our Village Hall property. Citrus Grove, Indian Wood Landing, and Osceola Pines and River Oak PUD Phase 2 are all in pending applications. I'm sorry. River Oak is in a pre-op right now. This is location site for Indian Wood Landing. This, if we could imagine now, because this was an old image, now right here we have the location of Garcia Drive into Terralago, and this is Indian Wood Landing, and across the street here is Village Market, which is a convenience store. The reason Village Market is back in review, they had an issue with traffic, so they're revising their plans just to make sure it's all safe off of 710. An aerial view of River Oak off of Thamel in the marina. This is a revised site plan that was recently approved, just allowing some amenities to their community, expanding a couple of lots, nothing significantly big of change. And then finally we have our annexation comp plan amendments. Project Parrot was approved, was annexed, and it had a comp plan amendment back in February. I think we've seen that before. Beskar, per the applicant, we're currently on hold for their annex request. Citrus Grove, we have a small scale comp plan amendment. It's pending DRC staff report. So we also are waiting for them to reapply, resubmit. So if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer. Ms. Roberts. Thank you. Do you have a handle on population? I know that when the county presented their numbers, they're showing from 2025 to 2050 that your population is going to grow in the village of Indiantown by 860. I'm just wondering if you guys track that or if you have any better information. Fortunately, we do not. The village was looking at, looking into, I believe it was cell phone data usage, pings, information, we don't have funding for that type of software currently, but we were looking into that at the beginning. I do have experienced that from my airport days. That's an interesting question. And, of course, this brief has been given multiple times in this venue, and I believe it was Commissioner Reed from Stewart who had a question about that last time we were together. And it was about development and population growth and capacity. I think it would be worthy if, you know, the powers that be would allow us to change this format a little bit to do at least an economic and quality of life analysis and presentation to this body because it needs to be brought forth, it needs to be analyzed, and it needs to be managed. Right. And I see the county is lurking over there who's going to tell us that they get their numbers from the state source, et cetera, which I understand that, but I know that oftentimes those numbers aren't really what reality is. And from a school planning standpoint, you know, we can't really, sorry, Samantha, we don't always rely on what they're having, but I just think that if there's some way that an individual municipality that is experiencing growth, like the Village of Indiantown is, if there's some way they can kind of try to get that information, it would be helpful. Yeah. And in the presentation, you could see that one development was actually limited to 40 units because of this particular issue, and, you know, Pat and I and our engineers, we all are working together to manage that capacity and to hopefully manage the expectations in the future as the school district would, I imagine. Right, because I think those, that issue that's limiting the capacity will be solved before 2050, so I think that, thank you. But that limit is because of water capacity, not school. Yeah, it is because of water capacity, but that's what the limit is, which I think is some of the driver for, sorry, Samantha, for what we get from that information from over there. But I mean, I think that what reality is, when we're looking out to 2050, I think the reality is probably different than what our projection numbers that we're looking at are. Thank you. Ms. Lovelady, would you like to add anything? Yes, I believe that we do get our, I mean, I know we get our population figures from the state, and that's required through state statute and through our comprehensive plan. And the way they do their projections are based on patterns and, like, electrical counts and and all that combined, the methodology will be in the report that I produced this fall. The state statute does allow for independent methodologies, but they have to be approved by the state. If the, you know, if the village wanted to submit something with their own methodology, I would be open to that. But so far, I expect that the more the village grows and the electrical counts get added in there, then the projections will catch up over time. It's, they produce them every single year, so it kind of rolls over, if you will, and I expect that to catch up as the village grows. Commissioner Capps. So, can anyone tell us a little bit about the timetable for resolving the water capacity issues, and then also how much development is in the pipeline that's actually being held up because of water capacity problems? We had a workshop on Saturday, and Pat gave an outstanding brief to the community, and I'll turn it over to him. As far as the water capacity issue, as I stated before, we're working on improving the existing water treatment plant. That won't add a lot of capacity, but it'll add reliability. With the reverse osmosis treatment plant, we're looking at building that to 4 million gallons a day. With the ability to expand to 6, and that, again, is for redundancy and resiliency. So, we're looking at hopefully getting the upgrades at the existing plant done in about a year, year and a half, and then we're looking at probably sometime late 28 for the RO plant if everything goes well. As we all know, you can set a timeline, but things change that. Perfect example is a generator. You can't open that plant without a generator. Generators are at least a year out. First, we have to spec them, find them, and then order them and hope that we get it in that year. So, hopefully, late 28, we'll be able to provide more water. But, again, the goal is to provide better water sooner and make the system more reliable and provide for redundancy. Thank you. Ms. Powers. Thank you. So, I guess this is not really – this is just a comment to the superintendent that maybe – I think it would be beneficial for us to provide the number of students that have been generated from new development in Indiantown. I know we have some numbers for Warfield. It's about 14 new students have been generated as a result of Terralago. So, we can kind of present that and also look at our – and share the capacity at each school because we currently have plenty of student capacity at both Warfield and Indiantown Middle. So, we'll bring that forward at our next meeting. I think that would be helpful for everyone. And I also just want to comment that wonderful presentation on our VPK programs in the Martin County School District. But as – not advocating either way, but as people are considering Amendment 3, those programs and the success would not be possible without the Children's Services Council. And that is part of what we pay as residents and taxpayers in Martin County. So, that has been really an instrumental piece in moving the needle for Martin County and being one of the top in the state of Florida for early childhood education. So, I just wanted to – Mayor Clark. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, Indiantown. I have a few questions. Do you still have that map that shows the southern area that you just annexed into Palm Beach County? I don't know if you had actually said the number of acreage. But I just wanted to have an idea what the future land uses are for that, or is it just going to be what it is now, or is it all residential? Sorry for switching back and forth. So, thank you so much for your question. So, this property here did annex up to the Palm Beach County line. So, this is the Palm Beach County line here. And I believe it's on the last slide we had that information listed for you here. There you go. Okay. So, this is the location, and it was 5,722 acres. So, right now, it is light industrial. All five? Yes, ma'am. Okay. All right. Thanks. And then, I see in the top of that where the existing land use is agricultural. I know that I could probably get a copy of your comprehensive plan and look it up myself. But it would just be interesting to know how much agricultural is there in the village of Indian town now in terms of agricultural acreage. You don't have to do it now, but I was just interested in that, and also conservation land to see maybe if we could just maybe get an overview of that at some point in the future. It shows what your conservation land is there in Indian town. And maybe I'm especially interested in how much agricultural you're maintaining within the village itself. Thank you. It will be done it. Thank you. Any further questions? Ms. Pritchett. So, this isn't for Indian town. I want to thank the people of Canopy Creek for coming today, and I'd like to know what the school district and the county can do to resolve this situation. I have no idea, but I really want to do something because the health, safety, and well-being of our students is our first and foremost issue. And thank you again for coming and speaking. I appreciate it. Mr. Campy. Mr. Campy. Mr. Campy. Thank you. Thank you. This is an issue that has been worked on. We had a presentation at the county. I completely understand what they're saying. It gets a little more complicated, not based exclusively on what the past experiences were on that roadway. The uniform traffic code requires certain things that even if those of us that are in the position to make decisions on this would like it to be that way. There are certain legal ramifications and qualifications that need to be met. Every set of circumstances is different. I was thinking as these folks were speaking, some of them I've had the opportunity to speak to before Dr. Moriarty is going to speak. He's my colleague in District 5 on the school board. It's certainly not for a lack of paying attention. There is a traffic signal that Newfield will be adding north on Newfield Parkway, which my traffic engineer folks would tell us will relieve some of that kind of like a long expanse of being able to maintain higher speeds. We have met, I have met, and our staff has met with the sheriff's office to have a much more of a robust traffic enforcement presence. We also have COP, which is community-oriented policing, so we do have deputies that are in that area. I know that sometimes I've seen in other school zones or school areas where kids are crossing, even the crossing guards have a supervisor who has a vehicle that sometimes will station right in the middle of the road with their lights flashing. As an indication, when I'm hearing this morning about excessive speeding, we see that whether there is a school zone or not. I mean, we've all noticed people when it's supposed to be on Martin Highway, where I commute to and from here and my regular job, you'll see people every single day racing. When I say racing, if the school zone limit is 20, someone's doing 35, 40. I think that's not even so much of an education because those drivers know what a school zone is. I think we can speak with the sheriff and enforce it more. I know it's a very high-priced ticket, which it obviously should be. We did try to address some of the issues that the neighbors and the residents and the parents wanted in terms of additional signage, flashing signage as you were heading into the curve at the school. And, you know, whether I agree or not, our professional traffic engineers can quote certain rules and statutes and national requirements that if we were to supersede those and added things in and someone were to get into an accident or, God forbid, hit, you enter, you leave yourself very vulnerable to litigation based on the fact that you did not follow the absolute rules of the national rules of the road. So I will commit that we will come out and take another look. Traffic safety and drainage, I would say, our colleagues, is our two biggest issues that we hear from every single time. And traffic safety is number one. You know, and I always say inconvenience of drivers does not trump safety. So we'll commit to work on it again. I know Dr. Moriarty and I, excuse me, in the district have had multiple conversations. To actually, Ms. Pritchett, you and I have as well, it's something that we would desperately like to handle. And we will try, continue to try some kind of opportunity to make it better. And Dr. Moriarty. Thank you, Madam Chair. So I also want to applaud the people from Canopy Creek and the surrounding Citrus Grove community for coming out today. This is an issue that we've discussed here before. And we've discussed it at school board meetings. And when you hear the passion from these parents, this isn't just like they're asking for a longer lunch hour. They are asking because of their children's safety. And I don't think that we are responding appropriately. There are school zones all over this county. I pass one every day on my way to work on Murphy Road. And I don't even think there's a school there, but there's some kind of a speed hump. And it's slowed down. But we can't get one at Citrus Grove. And I think the time has come to stop talking about studies and possible lawsuits and things like that. And the time has come to get something done here. Because they tell you stories of how they've seen near misses with children. And I can tell you stories. Because I've been out there and seen near misses with children. And the principal has. And the SRO has. And I guarantee you other parents have. So if there is some study or something out there that says that putting in a school zone there will cause more crashes, then bring that study to us. But if there is just a bunch of hearsay from stat, we need to act on this. So I personally, as a school board member from Palm City, would love to see the county take this up on a future agenda item and put this on the map. And let's get these kids. Because nothing is more important than the safety of our children in Martin County. Thanks. Thank you. Just to follow up, we did have it as an agenda item. We had our traffic folks come. I don't believe it was hearsay. But I'll have them come again. We did offer at the meeting, you can go back and watch the video. I did request that the same presentation that was made at our meeting be made to the school board and made to the PTA or the administration at the school. I don't know if that has taken place. If there was a time frame for that, I had requested that it be done immediately. So I'm not looking to make excuses. My nieces went there. A lot of my friends' kids go there. I think we're all, even if you don't have children, you're obviously interested in traffic safety. I hear those folks. I thought it was unnecessary that they would, it's not unnecessary, it's disappointing that they would have to take time out of their day to do it. I am like you. I'll do whatever it takes. But there are certain requirements that you can't just say it. And I'm not saying I agree, but I've been beaten into submission by the fact that certain things, you can't just dismiss the legal ramifications. Because if, God forbid, something did happen, and then we found out that what we had done there was not appropriate, that's its own problem. So are there solutions to be had? I'd like to believe that there are. But it's not a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to these kind of issues. I think the first easiest one, if people are speeding through that area, is traffic enforcement with real sharp teeth. Commissioner Capps. Has our county engineer come to the school board to make the same presentation yet? No. That might be a good starting point. You know, we could get that on your agenda. Well, that's what I was just going to add, that just the consensus of the school board, that we would add that to our next available meeting, which would probably be in November, just because of advertising requirements and preparation time. But we could have that at our November. I think it should be in a workshop setting as opposed to a regular board meeting. So we would have that on the first Tuesday in November. Oh, okay. Sorry. Our meeting is changed because of Election Day, so it'll be the second Tuesday of November. And we, if that's okay with the county, if you all would confirm with the superintendent, and we'll put that on the agenda for that meeting to have that presentation by your staff. That sounds good. We have reached the end of our agenda. Councilwoman Hernandez. Thank you, Commissioner Hurd. I just had a question for the school board. In regards of how our staff doesn't track population, but how do you track population with, like, all the projects that are going online or in current review with the Village of Inyantown? Because I know that before we had, there was, like, a non-voting member on the PZA board. I remember that the Martin County School District representative never attended or didn't attend. And then also, if you have any involvement with the Development Review Committee, because that's something that, you know, as an Inyantown resident, we are concerned. Because how is the county knowing what's in the pipeline when they don't know exactly how many students are going to expect in the future? So, we do, we are part of the Development Review Committee. We receive all that information. If we have the capacity, then it doesn't rise to the level of the school board. So, there is a student generation rate that is flawed, I will say, because we are not generating as many students as the student generation rate. People, birth rate is down. There's a lot of factors that go into that. But we do receive all that information. And if it reaches the point where it impacts our capacity or lack of capacity at the school level, then it would come to the school board to address that. So, we could then weigh in. But as long as we have capacity in our schools, it wouldn't necessarily come, rise to the level of the school board. But we do track all of that information based on those generation rates. But we're not seeing it materialize. Not just in Inyantown, but in Martin County in general. So, when there were the apartments, for example, that were constructed, I think they, one of the developments was it was going to generate 15 students. And it generated one. So, we look at not only the formula, but also the reality. Any further comments from school board members? Village of Indiantown. City of Stewart. Commissioner Hetherington. Oh, sorry. Commissioner Matheson. Yes. I had a couple comments. It pales in comparison to what we're hearing about Citrus Grove. But since the last election, I've been hearing a lot of comments from residents regarding Stewart Middle School and the Boys and Girls Club. And residents in 5th Street, Stittman area. When the Boys and Girls Club was created, they were under the impression that the entrance and exit on Martin Luther King was to be the primary usage. And recently, we had a lot of people speeding through the Stittman 5th Street, 6th Street neighborhood using the back entrance of Boys and Girls Club. So, I was wondering if that could be examined a little more in detail. As well, I've had a lot of complaints about the car line, Stewart Middle School. And they seem to favor when there's actually no one monitoring the car line on Georgia. And the cars coming off MLK and East Ocean get into a natural rhythm of alternating, as drivers would have a tendency to do, of one car versus the other car entering the car line at Stewart Middle School. The complaints are coming that when someone is monitoring that car line, they're letting 5 or 10 cars go in from East Ocean and then, say, 5 or 10 cars in some random aspect from MLK. And it's causing more problems than just one car from East Oceanside, one car from MLK. In a sense, both lines would be flowing at the same slower rate than these long-term pauses. So, I know there is a school zone there, and it pales in comparison to what I'm hearing today about Citrus Globe. And I'd love to see something happen as a father myself there, put a school zone there. Seems logical, but again, I don't know the legal requirements. And finally, as a boater, I know I've heard tons of concerns about the length of the boat trailer parking that I promised I would bring up at this meeting at Layton Park. And I know the length of boats and trucks has gotten longer over the years, but that's just a reality. So, I know many residents there would love to have some longer-length parking spaces added to those plans. So, thank you. Mr. Campy. I can't address the Stewart Middle School, but I can address Charlotte Layton Park. That park and the boat ramp there has been in a process of the county redoing or rehabilitating all of our boat ramps. There is obviously a lot of conversation on social media. The spots were 48 feet, the ones that were reconstructed and re-striped at 48 feet. We've heard that the average truck and trailer is about 45 feet. There were a couple of examples that were listed where someone had a triple-axle trailer and a large truck that was pulling it. We have heard those requests. The reason we didn't address it immediately is, as many of you know, when the project is being transitioned from the contractor back to the county, we were waiting. They had some other issues through the process of construction with the contractor. So, there was a lot of behind-the-scenes that was involved in the timing. We have been out there with Parks and Rec. We've been out there with Traffic. We've been out there with Public Works. We will have the opportunity to expand and extend some of those 48-foot spots to be 52 feet, which is probably the max that we can do there. There was also some concerns about the width of the boat ramps. We went from an old single that was not very efficient, and the concern was that it was very time-consuming to get your boat in and out when it was just one ramp. This new design is two ramps, so obviously they're a little bit narrower. We have heard people's concerns. We are addressing them. There was concerns or suggestion that we pull out all of the green open space and make it exclusively a boat trailer parking lot. The concern there, which we've been dealing with for many, many years, inherited it from Michael Dieter-Lizzi, is we cannot restrict out-of-county boaters from in-county boaters. So, if you added a whole bunch more parking spaces there, word travels very quickly to our neighbors in the north, and the lot is filled with just a lot of boats from out of the county. We can't charge residents from out of the county and not charge Martin County residents. A lot of that funding came from state grants, which then dictates how it's handled. We are addressing that issue as best we can. It was a very limited acreage spot to start with. We've tried to revamp it. In regards to the green open space, that park is for everyone, not just for folks that own boats and try to put their boats in the water there. We are addressing it to the best of the limited geographical restrictions that we have. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Hetherington. Ms. Powers. So, I just wanted to address the Stuart Middle issue with the Boys and Girls Club. We have been working with the Boys and Girls Club, and they did agree to close that gate in the back. So, if that's not happening, I guess the superintendent will look into that and see, because they should be entering the Boys and Girls Club and exiting through the MLK entrance. So, we will verify that, and I'm sure that when they realize that this is causing an issue for the community, they will make the necessary corrections. And as far as coming off of Ocean onto Georgia, we can bring that up to the sheriff and the sheriff's department, because they handle all of our school crossing guards. Those are their employees. So, we can bring that to their attention, or if you would like to, I think if they hear from a resident that is impacted, it's more meaningful. So, if you want to share that with the sheriff, but we will do the same. Absolutely. Thank you. I appreciate that. It's good to know about the Boys and Girls Club. Thank you. Commissioner Hetherington. As many of you know, this will be my very last joint meeting, joining you as District 2 County Commissioner. And I want to say what an honor and privilege it has been as I'm nearing this eight years of public service. It's really been an honor and privilege to serve the community that I grew up in, was born and raised in. And I hope that we have made a lot of accomplishments in District 2. We've worked really hard, and I would like to say that we've left the district better than we found it, and I want to say what a pleasure it's been to work with my colleagues here at the county. And I expect to continue to work with you because, as I will be entering my next chapter of life, I will still be a Martin County resident. I will still be working alongside of you. And I want to say to the staff, as we just talked, much of this meeting was about traffic safety. I want to say to the Martin County staff, many of the things that we got accomplished were the mandates of District 2 residents on traffic safety. And these things cannot be accomplished without professional, wonderful staff. And to public works, to utilities, to every department in Martin County, you are so professional. I think you set the standard of all of the 67 counties in Martin County, as well as my colleagues. We haven't always agreed, and when we disagree, we have a very collegial, professional working relationship that I've always appreciated. I've always appreciated working with my friends at the school board. I consider many of you, most all of you, friends, and I look forward to working alongside of you to be the best educational facility and community in the 67 counties. The village of Indiantown, born and raised, my hometown. My parents still live in Indiantown. So you have a very bright future, and I look forward to much success for you. The city of Stewart, my current hometown, all of you have dedicated a lot of hours of public service, and I wish you the best, too. And, again, it's been my pleasure and honor to serve the community. I look forward to participating in all of the things that you all do to make the community better from the other side. Thank you. Thank you all. We are adjourned. Thank you.