Town Council - Regular Meeting

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No, it doesn't matter. We're happy to Good evening. The time is now 700 p.m. and I'll call to order the town council meeting of Tuesday, November 18th. We'll begin with an invitation followed by a moment of silence and then a pledge of allegiance. If all those that are able, please join me in standing.

Let us pray. Almighty God, as we gather here today, we give thanks for the opportunity to serve our community. May you guide our work here today and may it be characterized by fairness, transparency, and a deep dedication to the best interest of the residents. Amen. Amen. We will now pause for a moment of silence.

Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

May we have a roll call, please? Mayor Kitzky, here. Vice Mayor Delaney. Here. Councelor Choy, here. Councelor Ginger here. Councelor Sunstrom here. Town Manager Kitser, Town Attorney Baird. Okay. Uh, special meeting tonight. Um, first I'll turn it over to Councelor Sunstrom to, uh, welcome the troop that's here. I forgot the troop number. Sir, can you remind 5774?

PAC 774. So, I would like to welcome and give a special welcome to PAC 774 who is joining our town council meeting today. They did join us just before uh for one of their government projects. They were learning about local government and elections specifically and we're just honored to have you and thank you so much for coming to learn about us. So, we hope you'll stay involved. And for the record, um, we get troops that come and we always try to recognize them and and, um, and particularly I wanted to just say, consider this maybe a challenge, but there was a Girl Scout C troop one time that set the record for duration staying at the meeting. Well, I just want to give the girls credit. Um, but you're welcome to try to beat that record if you'd like. I'd also like to welcome uh we have a new deputy town clerk who's sitting uh with and joining us tonight uh Kerry Johnson. Welcome. Okay. Um moving on to the agenda. We have a presentation uh a JFRD update. Good evening. Let's get this going. Oh, maybe it's my glasses. Probably shouldn't need these. [clears throat] Uh good evening uh mayor, council, and to all those who are attending both virtually and in person. Um my name is Steve Shaw. I'm the deputy chief of operations for the town of Jupiter Fire Rescue Department. If I may take a moment real quick, very happy to see

this right here. Um for myself, it's a personal thing. I'm I'm a family of scouts. My father was an Eagle Scout. My brother and I are both Eagle Scouts. And my sons, 8 and 12 years old, are both involved with the Scouts. It is a wonderful, wonderful thing you're doing. It is a wonderful journey. So, thank you guys for being here this evening and thank you for the adults for all the what you put into them. So, thank you for that. All right. So, I am honored to be able to present a uh update on the town of Jupiter Fire Rescue Department. So, we are counting down the months until Jupiter Fire Rescue begins providing fire and emergency medical services to the community. Tonight, I'll provide an update on our recruiting and our hiring as well as the progress of our fire station construction. So this slide represents a timeline of our final year of implementation. I'll just go through it real briefly. Uh again, final year of implementation. Very exciting. We're in November right now and as you can see by driving down the roads, our two new fire stations are they're coming up just nicely. The topping off ceremonies were last week and they'll be this Thursday for both of them on Sinquaz and Piatt. In January of 2026, our ambulances, our fire rescue ambulances will be here. Uh, in April of 2026, our fire engines will have been delivered. Both two engines, a squad type engine. In May of 2026, our new fire stations and our temporary station will be online. And also in May and 2026, our ladder truck will be delivered. In June of 2026, all firefighters will be on board. In July of 2026 and into August of 2026, phase one and phase two of our training program will be in full operation. and following in September going right into the end of September will be fully operational to take over services in October 1st of 2026. You know uh there was some speculation about whether uh you know who would be able to want to join JFRD at some time ago. Today the answer is unmistakable.

The strong number of applicants for every position we posted, the large number large group of individuals on our interest list and the outstanding team we've already assembled make one thing very clear. People are eager eager to be part of Jupiter Fire Rescue. We've assembled a great team so far and we have so many great people that are coming in the very near future. Over the next 6 months, we will be hiring 98 new personnel. We are managing our hiring in two phases. In the first phase that is underway right now, we are filling some of the key leadership and administrative roles. In the next phase that starts in December, we will be recruiting and hiring our operational staff. We've completed the recruiting and selection process from some of our key leadership and administrative roles. And we have offers out for our executive assistant position with an anticipated start date of the 1st of December, three battalion chiefs with an anticipated start date of January 11th, and a training captain and an EMS captain with an anticipated start date of January 26 of 2026. We are looking forward to these key members joining our team and helping us take the next phase of our recruiting and hiring for operational personnel. The second phase of our recruiting and hiring, which begins in December, will be for an administrative specialist who will be support our operations division and 90 operational personnel to include 12 fire rescue captains, 12 fire rescue lieutenants, and 12 driver engineers with an anticipated start date of May 11th, 2026. Near the end of December, we'll begin advertising for 54 firefighter EMT and or firefighter paramedics, all with the anticipated start date of June 1st, 2026. With over 1,000 people who have put in an interest card to work at JFRD and with the incredible quality of those who already work here, we are excited about the opportunities in this next phase of the recruitment and we're hiring. We are also excited and anxious to get our entire team on board to establish the beacon of excellence in fire service right here in Jupiter. So, off to fire station constructions. Now, the trick with fire stations is

twofold. You know, one, well, let me be clear first. You know, there's so much that goes into building the fire stations. I really want to be intentional and deliberate to celebrate all the work that all the departments within the town of Jupiter are have in in the role in building these fire stations and in building Jupiter Fire Rescue. It's not just the members of Jupiter Fire Rescue that are building this department. It's everybody in the town and we're just so honored every day to be joining that culture that that we see every day here. So, let me start with that. The second thing and the challenge with these pictures is every time we take a picture of one of these firehouses in a few days is old news because there's so much construction going on. these uh pictures right here. Um if you've been by the stations lately, there's more construction happening on both stations. Uh right here uh we've had our topping off station, our topping off ceremony last week for the uh Piatt station. We're having one this Thursday for the Sinqua station. This is a view of the Piatt station. This is a view of the second floor of that station in which the kitchen uh eating area is here and the areas around there will be the dormas uh that the firefighters will uh sleep in. Going on to the Sinquest station. This is a uh picture of the front of the station. And again, uh, the picture doesn't do it justice because there's already the top lever of of CVS blocks, uh, roof on top and so on and so forth. So there things are moving so quickly. It's so wonderful to see these things moving at the speed that which are moving. Uh, it's just a pleasure to see them coming out of the ground. So, all that being said, uh, I'm just very happy to keep going and and as I leave you here tonight, I just wanted to say, [clears throat] so, you know, we're in the final year of launching the Jupiter Fire Rescue Department. In a little over 6 months from tonight, we'll have hired all of our operational personnel, completed our new fire stations, all of our apparatus and equipment will be in place, and we prepare we'll be preparing for the transition of services Jupiter Fire Rescue in a little over 10 months from tonight. Tonight, the Jupiter Fire Rescue Department will begin providing full fire and emergency medical services to the community and we remain on schedule and on budget. Thank you very much,

council. Any comments or No, thank you. It was a great update and very exciting 10 month going to go by fast quick. It's coming quick. Vice Mayor, no questions. Just uh we're right on track and keep up the good work. It's looking great. Thank you. Oh, yeah. I got questions. First of all, I'm going to record notice that the mustache is gone. So, so much for No Shave November. So, a valiant effort. So, my wife is very happy that it's off. So, uh great presentation, Chief Shaw. But I do have a couple questions. Sure.

Um where will the 96 uh officers and firemen be located? Cuz you got them all being hired in June. Where do we plan to position all these? Obviously, we can't put, you know, 50 in each fire station even though they'll be built. So, what's the plan for locating those personnel? So, the question is where will they be located when they start operations after October? No, in June when you hire training program. Okay.

So, you know, all the members of the the current Jupiter Fire Rescue Department have been involved in training in some way, shape, or form, right? Training chiefs, uh, training officers, training captains. I don't think any of us has worked on something so comprehensive and complex as the training program we're putting together right now. Uh today was one of our meetings where we brought in the whole team and we went over our our tentative plan of what that looks like. Uh in general the the basic layout is this. um for the first part of the the the May when we hire the officers and the firefighters, I'm sorry, the officers which is the captains and lieutenants and the drivers for 3 weeks they'll be getting their own training on their own in terms of officer development, leadership, culture, uh basically catering to them as the officers who will not only lead these individuals and coach and mentor them but also be part of the training cadre through the rest of the training program. Um the remaining of the training program after that starting in June when the firefighters are hired um will be a combination of uh basically onboarding uh from a crawl to a walk to a run transition. Uh we're working on that transition right now. We're talking about the the program and whatnot. We're building it as we speak. Um the idea of it is um basically modulizering it or modularizing it. In other words, it's a large group of individuals. Um there are some places in the beginning that we [clears throat] can go like for example when everybody's here on the first week during during June. Um there are some days we'll be using the community center and the auditorium to house all the individuals. When we get down to the nuts and bolts where we're actually training in the field we'll be divvying up and uh dividing those to to conquer basically. In other words, some will go to the fire academy, some will go to EMS training, some will go to different types of training to split up that load. We're managing that right now. Um it's very exciting to put this together. Uh we also know that for us there's so much we want to put into this program. There's what we have to do. There's what we would like to do. So we're putting everything we have to do in there into this program. And then after uh we start October 1st, 2026, then we'll put in

everything else that we want to do on a regular basis. And uh and just it's exciting to talk about. We're excited to get this training program started. Great. I appreciate your enthusiasm. One last question. One of your two milestones here, phase one and phase two training. What's the difference between the phase one and two training?

Right. So the idea of this um is [sighs] when you think about the people that we're going to be bringing into Jupiter Fire Rescue, uh a good chunk of them, a lot of them will be coming from other organizations with a variety of experience, especially from the rank of driver on up to captain and chief levels. So they're going to be coming with all this experience, all these traditions, these cultures, things that have worked, things that haven't worked, and so on and so forth. And the firefighters the same way. We're going to hire a a vast a good chunk of firefighters, the 54 firefighters. Some will be brand new, fresh out of the academy. Some will have a lot of years of experience behind them. So, the challenge is that we're hiring all these individuals with all of this experience, and that's why they're here. That's what they're here for. Their pedigree, the the culture they bring, their their the way they they carry themselves, the that um the attitude, all that the the match for the culture here in Jupiter. But they all again come with that individual experience. So the challenge for us is to make sure that highlighting and celebrating that while making sure they all understand we are on the same boat and this is the direction we're going. So we don't assume anything. We're starting with this crawl walk run mentality because we want to make sure from the beginning we don't assume that somebody knows how to fight a certain fire or they've seen certain types of medical calls. So we're ingraining them from this this this transition phase to make sure we start from the basics. They make sure everything from the knowledge of a firehouse, uh, the ins and outs of how to run and work in a firehouse to the knowledge of a truck to knowledge of equipment. Um, some equipment will be, you know, it'll be something that they're familiar with. Some are brand new to most of us. And we've talked about some of the the advanced medical equipment, for example, we'll be carrying. You know, some of them never seen that before. So, we have to make sure, we don't assume they know how to do it, but we ramp up to an operational phase. So, we crawl. We get into the walking phase to make sure we're validating all the experience that they bring to the table while making sure we're teaching them the way we want to see things here in Jupiter. And then the last phase of that is all basically

scenarios and operational uh down basically operational scenarios uh working in ourselves working with PD working with other agencies uh working with our partners both internally and externally. Um I know I'm I'm rambling here and I apologize but I get very excited when it comes to training.

Uh but does that make sense? In other words, it's it's making sure we don't assume anything. We want to make sure we're accounting for everything that they need to know as firefighters. And and through this pro through this process, to be quite honest, you know, they're meeting each other for the first time. You got to remember, you know, there there's over 100 people coming here from all different walks of life. So part of this training process is for them to get to know each other because this is going to be their second family. So, um, yeah, there's a lot to it, but that's kind of the gist of it. Good. I appreciate the energy you're bringing to Jupiter Fire and and with that I know you guys will be successful. Thank you very much. Nice presentation. Thank you, sir.

We probably need to work. There we go. Now we got it. Um, just a couple of things to follow up. Uh, again, as I was saying a minute ago, Chief Charles is like this all day long going 100 miles an hour. So, uh, to summarize the answers to some of your questions on the first question of where will all these firefighters go. Um, it's it's sort of like what we do in police training. It depends on what we're doing. Uh, initially the onboarding will involve many if all of them um in a in a one big large environment. And you know then we can introduce our other teams to them other departments how the town operates and build that culture initially. Uh eventually what's going to happen is we want them to work in their uh their teams that they will be working on or working with when we go live. And so they'll be breaking out into those groups. Some will be on, you know, uh training with the gardens at the academy. Some will be here. uh they these guys have mapped out they've got it like every minute of the day mapped out. Um and and then um on the other piece between the phase one and the phase two training, one of the things that Chief Shaw hit on is the fact that we're bringing in a lot of new uh equipment, a lot of medical equipment. And phase one is going to be a a pretty large amount of hands-on training, learning to use that that type of equipment that we have. And the things that they're they're planning are just really remarkable. Phase two will predominantly focus on the practical applications. This is scenario-based as the chief talks about what to do in this environment and that environment. So that's the fundamentals of of both of those. um when you see what these what these this leadership team has mapped out, it's really quite impressive. So, I hope that adds a little bit more to what we're looking for.

Oh, it does. Thank you very much.

Just uh just want to make a couple uh comments also and observations. First of all, um I appreciate our town manager's leadership and the fact he set up this cadence of monthly updates. That is one of the reasons for the success. someone has to come up and give a status more inclined to make sure that they stay on track. Um, it's been a phenomenal effort. You know, I'm longtime project manager and in project management things go wrong. You try to anticipate them ahead of time, but things do go wrong. Um, and it is just incredible. I think this is the perhaps the best overall team effort that I've ever witnessed because I would imagine most every department and many of the employees have participated in some way in the success that to get us to this point and I've considered it kind of like a relay race uh you know where batons you know someone's running so far in and they hand the baton off but it's a phenomenal effort are excited. Um, and uh, I thank everybody in the town staff, you know, and our fire rescue department for being on track and bringing that enthusiasm and thank you.

Absolutely. Thank you. Okay. Um, citizen comments. Do we have any citizen comments? Yes, sir. We have one citizen comment. Laura Boofski.

Good evening. Um, my name is Laura and I've lived in Jupiter almost my whole life. I'm a mom and um, I'm finding myself in trouble with the internet. It's become a real problem. Um, so far we've navigated it okay, but now we're at an time in life where he can access and know more things much more than I do. And his safety is scary. Like you have, you know, crossing the street, that's safety. The internet is safety to me. It's more important than him going to school and learning math because this this could be his life. So, I'm trying to find ways to educate myself on how I can protect him. I've talked to the school. They have no resources. I've talked to um somebody at the police department. They have no resources. I've looked at the gardens, the uh city of Palm Beach Gardens. I've looked at um I think the village town of Juno um and I'm just looking to try and get some resources to help myself and help other people cuz I know I'm not the only one. My other question is regarding um the train tracks um near where I live. Uh, I live north of the river, right off Riverside Drive in Alternate A1A and there's an area there where it's just dirt and to get some plants in there would be great and they don't have to I'm not requesting any money or any time of anybody. Um, I'm a native person and I would love to throw some seeds at the

ground and hope that they grow. I've read online like there's a distance you have to be from the railroad tracks and I think it's like 15 ft but you have to ask specifically I think the FEC or who you know the government the body that governs that. Um but I was wondering if that's a possibility. That's all.

Thank you. Um, usually I introduce and I did and I apologize, but at this point of the agenda, we we hear public comments, but we don't have dialogue about it. Typically, what'll happen is uh our staff will get back with the person raising questions and have dialogue. So, that's what'll happen. I will say, you know, so I don't know what we have, but if there if there is anything available, I think and and I think maybe our town manager wants to speak on that one. On the other item, um, you know, uh, it takes an act of Congress, um, uh, to do anything within the FEC card, and I mean that sincerely, right? So, uh, we've been working on getting fencing installed since Bright Line started going through, and we think we're going to be successful, uh, hopefully in the next so many months. But uh um I would suggest and I mean this that talk to a u a congressman or a senator. They have better influence than we might have over that. So I'm just being honest about that. There's probably nothing at all we can do about it.

Okay. I normally don't answer citizen comments now, but I think that first question you brought up is just so important. Um, if you haven't done so already, take a look at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Okay. Uh, and and yeah, whatever that acronym is. Um, they have a phenomenal online uh, safety program for children. They have characters. They teach them at their level. It's they spend quite a bit of time there. And I wanted to bring it up in case anybody's listening at home. National Center for Missing Exploited Children. Uh, take a look. They've got a pretty comprehensive internet safety program. Okay, great. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you.

That was it. Okay, moving on. Uh council, we have before the minutes of the November 6th meeting. I don't see any change on the dis. If there's none, I'll take a motion and a second to approve the cons uh the uh agenda meeting minutes as presented. I'll make a motion that we accept the minutes of November 6th, 2025 as presented. Second. Motion to second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries unanimously. Moving on to the consent agenda. Um, is there any member of the public that wanted to pull a consent agenda item? No, sir. Any member on the dis wish to pull a consent agenda item?

No, ma'am. Seeing none, I'll take a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. That's items 3 through 7. So moved. Second.

Motion in a second. I'd ask uh for ordinance 1725 uh to be read. Ordinance 1725, an ordinance of the town council of the town [clears throat] of Jupiter, Florida, amending the town code to create division 17.1 entitled recreation district to establish uses by right, accessory uses and special exception uses, providing for supplemental regulations, providing for severability, providing for the repeal of laws in conflict, and providing for an effective date. We have a motion and a second uh to approve the consent agenda. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I.

Motion carries unanimously. Moving on to regular agenda. Uh first item uh is uh resolution 11025. Uh this is quasi judicial. Does council have any expard uh disclosures to make? Vice Mayor? Uh, I had a um conversation with the applicant's agent and I I have none. I spoke with staff and drove by the site. I visited the site and also spoke with the property owners property manager for Botanica and I do need to disclose I did have a conversation with the applicant.

I've been by there in the past but not with regard to this item. Uh so I think this uh being quite Would those that will be given testimonies please stand and be sworn in?

Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give in this hearing is the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

Okay. Um I guess we have the applicant uh make its presentation. Great. Well, I appreciate that, Mayor. Sorry for the delay. Um, for the record, Zach Cera with Cutler and Hearing in Jupiter. I hear I am here on behalf of uh Jupiter Medical Center. We do have would like to make you aware the chief operating officer of Jupiter Medical Center, Mr. Steve Cely, here in attendance tonight. And just to keep going with some of these introductions of the project team, we do have uh Mr. Don Hearing and Miss Lorie Hood in our office. And then of course the architect and civil engineer are not in attendance here tonight, but very well respected in the community and in the medical industry for their their work on different medical buildings. So I have a you know, of course, a fantastic project here tonight, very critical for women's health in our community. um here tonight for to ask for approval of phase 3 of Jupiter Medical Park, the expansion of Margaret Needland Breast Cancer Center. The expansion will be one story, 13,000 square ft.

And if you are unfamiliar with the site, it's located right down the street here, actually on the east side of Military Trail. It's just north of the Sea Plum Shopping Center. The site's just under 16 acres, commercially zoned and within the bioscience research protection overlay. And the history of this site, it's been developed in phases. Starting with phase one, you can see on your screen there, that approval was done in 2000. Construction was uh completed a couple years after. Uh similar with phase 2, that approval was done in 2014. That is for the existing Margaret Needland Breast Cancer Center. Construction was done in 2016. Phase three, as you can see on your screen there, is what we are asking for tonight. in the future development areas of course for the future. And a little bit of background just on uh the operation side, this site opened in 2016. The existing building, it's two stories, about 26,000 square ft. It houses JMC's women's center offering a variety of comprehensive services. Most of their equipment is on the first floor. They do have an outpatient lab drawing suite um and and of course the offices of the in-house surgeons on the second floor. This gives this slide gives you a good representation of the existing conditions uh with our footprints overlaid the parking footprint and the building footprint. And why are we asking this tonight? Um it's really the demand which is a result of Jupiter Medical C Center's first class services which is really becoming one of the most wellrespected medical facilities in the area. Um the current wait time for women's imaging services is about 1 to 3 months. Far too long. So we need to meet that demand, meet that demand of our community, of our customers, of our guests and um provide this expansion for them which will ultimately provide more equipment, more capacity and new classes as well too on

the uh operations side. And of course to follow that up, it'll offer 20 to 25 high-paying medical jobs to our Jupiter community here. [clears throat] And looking at our proposed site plan, um you can see our proposed building there within the yellow dash line, our proposed building C on your screen. We are adding 68 uh additional parking spaces into the parking lot. Uh we have a very very large setback, 153 ft from the Botanic Neighborhood property line. We are removing some of the exotic vegetation. Uh and then just into the technical details, we far exceed the open space. We far exceed the required green space and the building lot coverage for a parcel of this size is very very minimal. Uh this slide really gives you a good representation of the buffer not on our side, but the buffer on the Botanica side. So, we not only have the thick landscape buffer on our side of the property, but Botanica has a very large existing buffer on their side, which this is the alley right here. Um, we did hold three virtual public outreach meetings. The first two meetings we did not have any attendees. The last meeting we did have one gentleman show up. We received overwhelming support from him. Um, he was very excited for the project. But it's funny, one, he had one concern with the project and that was that we were taking out and removing the Australian pines in that future development area. He would much rather prefer that buffer. So, um, unfortunately, that is a condition of approval here tonight, but of course, if you were to delay that until the, um, phase 4, we would serve no objection to that. Uh, going over the architecture though, I mean, very, very good renderings here. Great renderings by Davis Stokes Architects. Um they actually uh designed the Pam rehab building that expansion that was here in front of you a few months a few months ago. Um but the

existing building just a continuation of the contemporary architectural style, a variety of mix of materials. You can see the brick wall bench on the bottom left hand corner of your screen. Very unique trait. Um and this enhanced healing garden. And the healing garden is uh existing but we are enhancing it and just a continuation of the neutral earthy color palette. I just wanted to show you the elevations here the 2D elevations to so you can get a good representation of the height difference between the existing building and the proposed building. So the existing building is 42 ft in height. Our proposed building is 20 ft to the top of the parapit less or more than half actually. um less than half of what the current building is. I apologize. Um so the massing is generally 20 ft. We do have one small architectural feature which raises to 24 ft, but the massing of what you would see is is 20 ft in height. And my last slide here, of course, this significantly improves the accessibility to women's imaging services, which is critical to our community. It's critical for um early detection, of course, as you as you all know. um create new high-paying jobs in Jupiter and of course we'll continue the vision and success of the first class services of Jupiter Medical Park and Jupiter um Margaret Needland Breast Cancer Center and of course I would like to note that we did receive overwhelming support and really no um opposition or comments at all. It was all very complimentary from the planning commission and that was on October 14th, 2025. So, uh, with that, I will turn it over to staff for their presentation. Of course, we are all here in attendance to answer any questions and receive any feedback you may have. So, I appreciate that. Good evening. For the record, Peter Meyer, senior planner of staff, the

proposed site plan applications consistent with the comp plan and town code subject to conditions of approval and resolution 110-25. At the athletes request um to modify the length of the wall to be installed, the planning zoning commission recommended approval of the application with the modification to conditions 4A and five to require the perimeter wall to only extend 50 ft south of phase 3. Um since the southern portion of the property is not being developed at this time, a wall or hedge is not needed to screen the commercial development. Uh when phase 4 development is um submitted in the future, it will be required to install the wall and hedge prior to permits being permits for the construction. Staff notes that the um applicant proposes to install shade trees along the east buffer to to the southern property line. Since the plane zoning commission meeting, the applicant received traffic performance standard approval from Palm Beach County, which includes conditions of approval to extend the ex the southbound left turn lane in the existing median of Military Trail and to fund the cost of signalizing the project driveway at Military Trail. The applicants working with the county to revise the traffic conditions. staff has added condition 12 to require the owner to meet the conditions of the outlined by the county in their letter as may be amended and stuff time for rebuttal. Thank you.

Okay. Um [clears throat] let me ask council go down the line if council has any questions from either the applicant or staff. Councelor Choy.

No. Um I agree that women's imaging is critical. The weight is long. Um I applaud too you looking at this and and seeing that the impact to parking it. You've got that covered coming out onto Military Trail. You're a Monday through Friday um type of business. Um I really don't have any questions at this point. and I think you've done a great presentation, but I do appreciate the fact that Jupiter Medical is looking at all phases of what needs to be addressed with women's imaging.

Vice Mayor, yeah, just a quick question. Could staff just clarify the um the covered situation with the southbound traffic lane and the ingress egress. Where does that stand? Well, go to staff first. We don't have any update. All I know is that the app is working with the county to revise it and they require additional information analysis to amend the condition. Um, and maybe Zach could fill you in in regards to the status of that analysis be provided to the county. But that condition 12 was to allow for changes to the letter if it was to be removed or revised. Okay. To allow for

They had options of a extension of the lane or a traffic signal. Correct. No, it's both. It's both. So, the conditions of in the traffic performance standard letter is they need to extend the southbound left turn lane into the project and provide um the cost for the signalizing signalizing at the intersection at the driveway at Military Trail. Okay. And so, and so um the applicant is objecting to both that standard or I'm just trying to clarify or the county's calculating what needs to be installed. Correct. So either the applicant is not is opposed to both of those conditions and they're working with the county to revise them. Okay.

I just don't have that the details of what their meetings are with the county to give you that information. Okay. And maybe exactly fill on that information. That's okay. But yeah, so it's all just a work in progress at this point. Yeah. And then that condition was allow for those things if it was a change to be less than it would, you know, but to come back before you guys to council. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you.

If I could just provide a little bit of clarity there. We are performing a queueing analysis for that uh southbound left turn lane. It's really justification. We believe it's really not going to um require an extension of that turn lane. That is a separate condition. The second condition is monitoring, but we do have to post a bond for it. But monitoring for that traffic signal. Of course, we had conversations with the county and just from a personal note, I live in Jupiter. Um, I'm sure you all know that the last thing military needs is a traffic light. So, we we certainly don't think that our project would um, you know, promote that or have to provide that, but we will need to go through the motion of monitoring that as as this project moves forward.

Okay, great. Thank you.

Just um, I got, you know, further questions about that. Um, let me emphasize, I think this is a great project. I'm very I know the use is something that's needed. Um, and I'm going to ask staff to answer my question first and then the applicant can. But one thing I'm just a little bit concerned about and I understand how there's uh conversation with between the applicant and the county. Uh and I'm fine with that. Um, but I was concerned I'm going to ask staff if you look at the attachment C the Palm Beach County TPS letter and uh you look at page two and um right below condition 3 A and B, it states that all of the conditions numbered 1 through three above shall be incorporated into the municipal development order exactly as set forth above. you know, I don't recollect seeing that kind of language before in one of these uh um and uh but we're not complying with it as was you presented in in I'm at you know staff. So while you may have what you put in the ordinance was just I'm looking at page E item 12. The owner shall meet Palm Beach County traffic performance standard conditions as may be amended. Uh I just want to make sure that somehow the town doesn't get a uh a burden here. So I I do believe that we really should as they asked us uh include those conditions as exactly as set forth as were being asked and then um and then we can add a note that it's subject to change uh if

uh the applicant is successful in getting the county to change. So uh staff have any comments about that? I just wanted to uh you I'm just kind of concerned on that. I'm not trying to push those conditions upon the applicant, but I don't want the town to inherit him.

John Sickler, for the record with planning and zoning, um [clears throat] you know, we had felt that the by reference by concluding that letter by reference as may be amended, it still gave the county um full control over what those requirements were should they agree to amend um that letter. um we could either um make more specific reference to the letter and the date um for that traffic performance standards approval um or I'd also defer to the town attorney if he may have some other suggestions.

Okay. Yeah, I think I'd feel better with some strengthening of the language referencing it specifically, but and in the past you've you and the town attorney have provided that language when we get to that point. Uh but again I just you know it's interesting been here a long time and once upon a time the county never even looked at turn lanes that was a site plan item they would say and the town would look at them right so they just seem like they're really going and you know I've certainly been through that area a number of times including at that facility um and I haven't seen traffic back up but you know so I'm not suggesting that I want a traffic signal there but I think when you read the language that the county did. It didn't say you had to do it. It just said you had to put a shorty on it in the event it was needed and at some point in time then you released of that. Um so I'm not trying to ask for it. I mean make it clear but I just don't want I've never seen them write something so specific that that I can recollect.

No, I I agree with you on that. Okay. Thank you. Sure. This is this the applicant want to comment about that or you accept as it is. Okay. Move it down to dis. Uh, councelor Sunstrom. Thank you. I think my questions have been asked regarding the uh signalization. I do I'll save comments later. Um, one question I had is the future connection to the adjacent site. I see on the plan. So, um, I think we have Publix to the east of it, that shopping center there. Um, what plans, if any, are being discussed for that? I imagine that would come in phase four. And could that relieve this traffic problem potentially? proceeds.

Uh yes to both items, you're absolutely correct. Um that will be built out in phase 4 in connection to Cplum and we're very very hopeful that uh that will relieve any traffic light in the future. So yes to both.

Okay. I think that's incredibly important and helpful. I know that's a priority on Indian Town. I know many of us benefit from all the connectivity on Indian Town. Um, I think how that's designed so that flow it can handle more flow and it can do it can get to that light near C plum would be great. So looking forward to that down the line. Sad it couldn't have been earlier, but I understand the phasing. Um, but we'll see, you know, how the traffic standards go. Um, and the wall. Uh, well, I agree with the condition. I'll save comments for later. Councelor Kiser.

Yeah, just one question on your public outreach. understand this is to the applicant that uh you sent an imitation. I think you mailed them just to the the residents at a button against the wall there and uh two meetings no one showed up the virtual meeting the third one you had one person send any reason why you didn't reach out to the HOA I contacted the property manager that they knew nothing about this project this plan so just curious why you didn't reach out to AOA since they had the capability for email blast discussing at a board meeting some to get more input back to you rather than just the residents along that area so for the record Donaldson hearing here tonight on behalf of the applicant. Uh we did notify the HOA via via mail. We sent actually the first time we just sent general mail and since we literally didn't get a single response, we were like shocked like why isn't anybody even calling? Uh and we had two specific dates for those meetings. Second time we sent out registered mail uh and uh and the HOA was notified and I'm sure that they picked up a card. We did have, you know, as with, you know, any type of registered mail, we had a lot of people who just didn't even go get the mail. So, uh, but we did have one person who was very interested and we appreciated him attending, uh, a little Zoom call and we're able to answer all his questions.

So, so the HOA, you actually contacted the board. We sent a a certified letter and a and a regular letter to the uh, property owner of record, their their management company. Okay. Because I talked to her, she knows about it, but I'm taking your word that you did reach out. I appreciate it. We absolutely would. Thank you, sir. All right. I have no further questions. I have one followup. I just in mail doesn't always work or get to many people. Is it possible to use more than one form of communication? Perhaps go to the website and do email in future. Okay.

Okay. Uh do we have any public comments? No sir. No public comments. Um I just ask if the applicant had any final uh items to share or fine. Staff likewise. Okay. I'll uh move to council to begin our deliberations. Uh councelor Gyisinger. Turn off. Uh no further comments. I think it's a good project and well needed in the town of Jupiter. So I support it. So Council Sunstrom,

I agree. I think it's an excellent project. Um I am excited for the connectivity. I think the traffic questions have been answered. I think the buffer is appropriate. I agree with the conditions. Um and and that's it for now. Vice Mayor, I think this is a fantastic addition to the community and I appreciate Jupiter Medical's investment in the community and u investing in, you know, accessibility for women's health. Uh the parking I mean the u the inress issue did jump out at me, but I guess we've been satisfied that it's going to be handled down the road by the county. So that's it. Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate the um presentation as well. All the traffic questions have been answered and I do support this.

I'm going to uh ask uh well I'm going to just suggest on that uh on that res on the resolution that's before us page E item 12. Um perhaps it could read uh the owner where it reads the owner shall meet Palm Beach County traffic performance standard conditions as may be amended. I think as uh as our uh director uh of planning and zoning had indicated, we can say um including all of the conditions numbered one, two, three in the uh in reference to letter and as amended uh by Palm Beach County or something like that. Mr. Sickler, did you have any suggested language or do I ask the town attorney on that one?

I would suggest um inserting before or after the comma. So, it would read uh the owner shall meet the Palm Beach County traffic performance standards conditions, and then insert as detailed in the traffic performance standards review letter dated October 29th, 2025 from Mosher Ramen, and then it would continue to read as may be amended. Okay. Thank you.

Welcome. So, I can make a motion to approve resolution 11025 um with with this as detailed in the um TPS letter dated October 29th, 2025 and as may be amended. I'll second it. Motion to second. Uh all in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you.

Thank you. Moving on to public business resolution 11925. Uh turn it over to our engineering director. Get this off here. [clears throat] Good evening, mayor, council. For the record, George Zama, director of engineering and public works. I'm pleased to request council's approval of resolution 119-25 and the award of contracts to LP Asphalt LLC and Timothy Rose Contracting, Inc. for street resurfacing and a combined amount not to exceed $10 million for a three-year term and two additional two optional one-year renewal terms. So um for a potential uh term of max of 5 years um the uh contract scope is outlined in the executive summary. This is an extensive roadway construction contract um that includes um all forms of roadway rehabilitation from standard milling and resurfacing to total roadway reconstruction as [clears throat] well as um ancillary items such as drainage, striping, sidewalk, and pavers. So, it's an all-encompassing contract um that's very beneficial to the town. It included 109 unit price scope items. So, it's it's very extensive and it um will uh certainly meet the needs for our 5-year work program. Um not only for engineering and public works, but also other departments such as utilities. Um there's drainage projects that include roadway repairs um that also may utilize this contract as well as parks and uh facilities, parking lots and um

roadways. um projects will be assigned uh on an individual basis to these awarded contractors via work order. Um the the benefit is uh the staff will control the scope and and the prices be uh in fact staff will already know the prices of a lot of the projects because um they're all unit prices. So when we request a proposal, we'll already know the the the total cost of the project. Um uh some of the benefits in addition to cost control are uh efficient CIP programming. Um so we will you know when as we are programming projects um and our uh annual CIP um we can effectively program projects to meet uh within our budget. Um also accelerated contract time. Um you know the procurement time will be drastically reduced. So, um, at the end of each or at the start of each fiscal year, um, we'll assign work orders for council's approval and we will hit the ground running with our projects. Um, uh, lastly, um, just cost price reduction. Um, just I'm I'm pleased to to announce that the tonnage prices just in these contracts are 20% lower than our last project we performed in Avakcoa. So very pleased to see the the bids um come in lower um than some of our uh other projects. Um one final note um this contract was bid prior to council's requirement for the experience modification rate or the EMR qualification. Uh however staff we did uh did reach out to the vendors and um they both had a score of EMR1. Um so they are um per the the new standard they are responsible biders and

um moving forward we will be incorporating the EMR qualifications and all of our bids. Any vendor with EMR over one uh will be deemed a non-responsible bidder. And with that I'll answer any questions you may have. Any questions? Sir.

Yeah. Just want first of all nice thank you for uh including the EMR in this. I think it's very pertinent. So I appreciate you gone [clears throat] outside retroactively and getting that information. Second question on the uh as we place work orders. Will each one of those work orders be bid between these two contractors or through a unit pricing? You already know what their bid will be and how to distribute the various work orders. Yeah, that's how that works.

Yeah, that's correct counselor. So we'll already know the prices. So we'll have the unit uh we'll have the scope, the quantities. We'll know we have the unit prices. We'll already know who the the low bidder is. However, um we can also start we can work on projects concurrently between the two vendors. And some of these vendors specialize in scope, you know, more certain scope um that differentiate from each other. So, some may specialize in some of the smaller um parking lot type projects and drainage and sidewalk and and striping where some is um you know, one of the vendors is a large scale roadway resurfacing contractor that will specialize in a lot of the the higher tonnage uh neighborhood projects.

Okay. Thank you. No further questions. Council,

I just want to express appreciation for this. I know during our budget process in the summer um we wanted to tighten this up in terms of assessing neighborhoods and when or what you know when we need it when we don't and getting the schedule but also the pricing. There was discussion of pricing and trying to nail that down and be able to plan for future CIPs. So I think this helps accomplish that and so I'm grateful to you for it. Um no other um questions. I think, you know, I'm I appreciate the instrument and and how it went about. I'm glad to see the prices were lower. You don't see that in today's environment. Um, so that is, you know, it's wonderful. I saw one of the bids was more than twice uh the bid that we chose. So, I'm very pleased and thank you for all your work on this,

Vice Mayor. Yes. Um, some of these bid calculations are sort of all over the place. Um and as and once again we're going with the lowest biders which has given me some heartburn over the last couple years. So that the the two uh outfits that we're choosing are you well familiar with these companies? I am familiar with them. Um both of them are um out of the Treasure Coast. Um one is actually LP Asphalt was formerly um a vendor that um sold his his company to a larger paving company. he had a non-compete cause and he he started another company.

So I have a lot of I've done a lot of work with with that uh company LP asphalt with the with the president. So very familiar do they do very good work and um I he has his own asphalt plant so that's that's even bigger plus so it's kind of economies of scale for him to come in lower. Okay. Absolutely. How did what do you attest to the the you know the the 9.2 2 million and 12. Do they just throw something at the wall, see if it sticks or they don't want to do the job or

Yeah, it's uh you know, first of all, we had um uh it was like nine bids, so it was um very competitive. Um a lot of the um a lot of the contractors, they specialize in just roadway paving. So, a lot of the other costs like drainage and striping and sidewalk um they will add a lot of overhead to those correct higher costs and all that. So, okay. Uh I think that was about it. Thank you. Good presentation. Appreciate it. You're welcome.

In just looking at all of this, share with me because I'm not familiar. H how do you prioritize where these projects go and are you able to if something became major jump over to it if that makes sense?

Yeah, gladly. Uh so we prioritize within the uh community investment plan the budget workshops and we actually identify the prioritized projects within the um within the CIP. So those are outlaid each year and they [clears throat] are based on the roadway conditions and so we go out and uh staff goes out and we perform uh pavement evaluations. There's other conditions that also tie in such as drainage.

That's where I was going with this. So we we coordinate closely with utilities and um so uh we're trying to align our projects um for the greatest investment um that the town um instills in these projects and programs.

Yeah, I think it would be helpful to understand the criteria. I think about our police vehicle program and you know it's got 100,000 miles and it's got this you know use and at this point we replace it. So it's helpful to understand the criteria. We I mean I forget the total mileage lean miles that the town manages but I know it's included in our audit each year the number that we do. This is not a want to do this is a need to do and regular maintenance is important. Um so just understanding the criteria I know one neighborhood had reached out to me about it you know making sure that they're on the schedule. Um but then you know just the discussion of you know is there flooding is there drainage are there drainage problems? So what you know at what point do they move ahead of the line given that you know you look at our CIP and we've got you know 2,000 in projects 2026 or sorry 2 million then 1 million 1 million each year after and so you know what percentage is that and how I mean it's a small percentage so how do you prioritize that percentage so it would be interesting just for future CIPs or discussion um and thank you for touching on it tonight but it's interesting thank Is it 310 linear miles in town? [clears throat]

How many miles of roadway do we service? Yeah, it's around 120 center line. 120. Okay. Center line. I thought I said I thought I read 310. I thought that was So, well, lane miles is is doubles, right? Okay. Basically a lane. You know, most of the roadways in the town are two lanes. Okay. One in each direction. So, center line is Okay. Um inclusive of both.

Yep. couple comments and then I guess probably just one question. But number one, um this is the outcome. First of all, I appreciate the leadership and the collaborations between all the departments which has never been done before where we're getting one contract with handling paving whether it's for the utility or for engineering. Um, and then the fact that and and I know we we've had discussions about this before, so I knew about this initiative and I'm grateful for it. Um, because if you think about it in the and you said 20% lower than the recent project. Well, recent projects were bid individually. Um, so it's an advantage both to the owner, procurer, and the contractor to line up a more longer term contract. Um, so I attribute the savings to that is the contracting approach uh being more efficient for us and being more efficient to the contractor. So I mean that's what my experience tells me. So good work. Um and um you also may have captured a change in the market I suspect as well with oil prices down and what have you. Uh certainly uh but uh and but love it. This is what we want to do. We want to get competitive bids and then enter into an agreement and then leverage them as you're planning to do. So along with the utility, I appreciate that. Um just a comment with regard to the EMR just to make it pretty clear what the council asked was and I think what the policy is is that uh an EMR greater than one doesn't make it nonresponsive. It's subject to evaluation and then um if staff recommends and the town manager agrees by exception um it can go more than that. I just

don't want to make it clear that because there could be some extenduating circumstances but and the language that had been presented to us by uh finance was just that that if it's above one then we can we can choose but it's I want to make sure you understood it's not an obligation but I think the the way it was set up is that not correct town manager that ultimately you can weigh in on that

that's correct mayor Okay, thank you. And then just lastly, the only thing that caught my attention, I thought this was extremely well done was the $10 million. I didn't think we had anywhere near that in the budget for paving work. I mean, I thought we should had more in the budget, but uh that's a conservative number, I suppose. Yeah. So, over the 5-year plan currently, um we have um including this year budgeted about 6.2. So, um, this includes any potential, you know, if the council chooses to understand. So, it's to to

it was like it was reading like 10 million was in three years. So, I get it more if it was five years, but the way it was I was reading it was over. So, I So, it's uh it's the threshold is for cost is 10 million and the threat there's a threshold for time. So after 3 years, if we feel we want to go in a different direction or rebid, we certainly can, but it's a maximum of five if we choose to. And um if we if council chooses to increase the budget for the resurfacing program or some of the other departments wish to utilize this contract more, we wanted to add a little bit of

Okay, I'm fine on that. That's a good that's a good approach to use. So I always So the optional is just to extend the time, not the not the dollar in value. Correct. Okay, great. Thank you. Good work. Um if there's no more questions or comments, I'll take a motion and a second on resolution 1925. I'll make Oh, go ahead. Motion to approve resolution 1925. Second. Have a motion, a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I motion carries unanimously. Moving on to resolution 13325. Uh

mayor, if I may, there's no presentation on this item. This was added um earlier today and I just wanted to say I know many of you were able to make the public hearing uh held in Jupiter at the legislative delegation recently. Um there's a local bill before them that could impact the municipality or our town Jupiter. Um the it's gone through another revision. So the version presented at the public hearing has changed. You have the latest version. Um there's some understanding that this could become the final version presented um to the legislative delegation for a vote. Um it makes one um major change. Line 34. If you go to line 34, page two of three, it says, "Following," about halfway down, it says, "Following the annexation by a municipality that does not have a charter provision, an ordinance or an interlocal agreement with Palm Beach County that includes the entirety of the municipality within the MSTU. Um, then you know it would go on as before. So, um you know what this does is say Jupiter annexes five or 500 homes or businesses or whatever it is um the those homes the the MSTU would contract. It would no longer include those homes or businesses. Um they would not have on their tax bill a charge to county fire. the municipality Jupiter would then pay the county um the equivalent of what those houses would have paid um into the MSTU. So we you know this resolution just talks about um it adds to the conversation and it shares a perspective on where Jupiter is in the county and how it could potentially impact Jupiter. Um it talks

it speaks to you know if it speaks to double taxation and how in effect it is double taxation because you know all of us all Jupiter residents all Jupiter businesses um would you know that Jupiter is paying this fee for those homes and so we're diverting resources away from parks or other priorities in the town street reserve ing um to make payments to a county obligation. So, I would just ask um yeah, I'd like to ask that we approve this resolution tonight that we share our perspective with the legislative delegation and with the League of Cities as they continue their conversations. Um and I I would recommend, you know, that we we don't support this bill. So, any comment? I uh just to comment on it and thank you for uh your um efforts to make sure that we're aware of this and giving us the opportunity to be aware of and attend a legislative delegation meeting and um I just think that uh so I'm certainly supportive of what's before us. It's kind of really disappointing to me when you think and just as it stands for the town of Jupiter. So, we're building a fire station across from the county one in Bert Reynolds Park. And uh we know that based on the calls historically that uh the county uh station will have less than one call a day. And we've offered for two years now that we will make those uh we we'll service those one call a day per mutual aid at no cost. and the county at least for the first year said we're going to keep it open and spend the money which is a stunner but nonetheless

so you know just share a further perspective so we've offered that we're capable of doing it they had one station servicing all the calls and we could do the same but they don't want to do it and uh but you know we have in the CRA there's a few there's a few individual pieces of property this has always been the case with governments that uh small parcels commercial that had not annexed in and there's been a long-standing agreement with the county that uh when they go to develop something we would see a voluntary annexation and then they would be governed by zoning codes of the municipality. That's the way things have worked for as long as I know. Um, no debate, no argument, just that's common sense. So just picture this. So this someday that's going to happen and it's good for all that one, you know, you're not having a different code on some properties versus the other. This is all along US Indian Town Road. This happened in the inlet. And um and so now the absurdity of this is so someone comes in for voluntary annexation and for the first time I'm seeing we're going to have to make a decision that's going to cost us money when we have a station that can serve it. Not to mention we wanted to help the county. Um so I just you know for many many reasons they can keep trying to rewrite this but it's completely wrong. it it it I would hope that they're actually going to just pull it off and and uh and and rethink that through and and collaboratively work with municipalities. And I think that's what was say stated at the u at the legislative delegation meeting. But thank you for bringing this forth and I'm supportive of it. Uh but uh you know

we're going to I'm just concerned about they're going to keep amending it. Yeah, their amendment was to kind of remove support from those municipalities that use Palm Beach County Fire, but your point is accurate. It free it kind of freezes annexations or, you know, there's no incentive to do them really. It it's what's textbook and what's on paper and what happens in effect, you know, in practice. And so, you're not going to see those annexations that would improve service delivery and a number of other things, not just on fire rescue, but on everything else. Um, and then it creates kind of two classes of property owners. You've got property owners that don't get to choose and those that have, you know, and those that receive. And you've got those who are annexed are paying a town millillage that's going towards Jupiter Fire, but they're not receiving Jupiter Fire Rescue Services. And then you have all the rest of us paying towards the MSTU rate because the municipality is paying towards the MSTU rate, but we're not necessarily using county. So, it's it adds complexity for sure. The um bill summary, there's a local bill summary attached to the new bill language. And this part really um I found quite interesting. The very last sentence of this local bill summary which is provided on the website says although this local bill does limit municipalities home rule powers. So it states it outright. It limits our home rule powers. The Florida constitution grants the legislature the authority to limit municipalities authority. So I mean I think it's much broader than that but they're not hiding it. Like that is that is the effect of this. So, um, yeah,

this, uh, I I couldn't be more concerned. Again, I'm I'm going to emphasize in the voluntary annexation one, which was the way it's worked for decades to avoid different zoning codes next door to one another, which is just chaos. So, this this creates that is more possible to happen, which, you know, the county wouldn't want any more than we would want. So, uh, again, thank you for bringing this forth and I'm 100% supportive. But, and, uh, you know, it's interesting. Tonight, we were at a Nabacola meeting. I had a chance to talk with, uh, former county commissioner Karen Marcus, and gosh, you know, there was agreements that she had led on annexation boundaries. So this annexations have always been considered to be the right thing and the good thing from a service provider standpoint uh for county government and the municipalities because that was all worked out. Now all of a sudden we have one entity that uh is you know is in a financial bind because they don't want to take mutual aid help from their neighbor and um and they're trying to you know push something like this through. So I'm I'm I'm completely opposed to it.

Yeah. I think there's a solution in negotiation. I know that I know the League of Cities is going to be meeting with fire rescue and I know that you know collaboration is important um and we're going to we're iterating and this this is an important contribution to the conversation but um as we as we go through this I think you know the current law allows for negotiation and allows for agreements. So if you look at the county's own data, if you go to the website for their annual annexation report, they say and like an FY22 report, it's outdated, but it does say from 2004 annexations are actually declining. You know, there may be attempts, but they're not successful like Gardens's case. So I mean a the number of annexations has actually been in decline. They're not on the rise as was said in a county letter. So I'm not clear on the reasoning behind it. I don't [clears throat] think there's been a good argument made. The current law allows for negotiation. I know Greenacres has an agreement with them on a parcel that was annexed. So, there is room maybe that that just needs to be spelled out and there needs to be a road map. Um, but I don't know that this bill is that or could be that. So,

any other comments or I'll take a motion. I have one. I I had one, but go ahead. I appreciate the effort. This a lot of effort went into both on council sun and also the town pulling this resolution together and and phenomenal job and I think it's right to get out ahead of what this bill is trying to do. But with that, do we honestly think that this bill has any legs when it gets to the Florida legislation? We can't tell. We don't know. Yeah, we're still waiting on a draft of it though, right?

We were caught by surprise. I mean what really um during the you were there at the public hearing and almost every comment was against was one for it. um a number of municipalities came forward, the League of Cities came forward and the real issue then was collaboration, right? And they did not notify us beforehand, right? So, we are having to learn as we go. Um our hope is that the public hearing for this bill, given that every impacted [clears throat] party is in Palm Beach County, that that hearing be in Palm Beach County because there's a chance it could be in Tallahassee. There really needs to be a chance. that started badly is what one speaker said without notifying all the different parties and that they should include those parties if there is a hearing on this that it be in Palm Beach County because all the affected parties are here not just us but others we may not be aware of so and businesses and you know residents anyone so um you know we're we're continuing to discuss but we don't we don't know so we we share what we can we work with what we have this isn't a final you know, it hasn't been we think it could be final, but this is the best we have and the best we can do for right now.

And the county delegation legislative delegation could have tabled it for a year. They didn't. And then these uh potential prospective sponsor of this uh had a another meeting that he had to leave to. Um so he didn't withdraw it either and just said that uh that's representative Snder just that um you know it it could evolve and be complet significantly different but that meant it's still under dialogue. So

I think there's a lot of empathy for the county and it's the sustainability of its MSTU and I think a lot of people see that it's projecting deficits according to a 2025 document. So I don't you know I don't know what that solution is. I know that there are a number of losses that they've taken. You know, that doesn't include annexations. So, with regardless of annexations, they're projecting deficits. So, I'm not sure again the premise, like the why, right, and why this is going on. But, um, we do [clears throat] all need to work together to make sure we come to a resolution. I do think it would be better if it were based on that negotiation, like a road map. Um right now the county may or may never right allow the municipality to provide fire rescue services for its own residents. Um I don't know if that's not acceptable. So you know creating more detail around that at the very least. But again structurally I think I agree with the mayor. I think we need to toss it out and start with something that involves the negotiation and the roadmap. I mean, the whole point of annexation, as difficult as it is in the first place, is continuity within a municipality. This is the exact opposite. And it's another every time I turn around, there's a there's a there's an affront to home rule. So, I I don't know. I don't know what the justification of this is. I I don't know. Maybe it is a part of the business model that's not doing well or I don't I don't get it. But that I totally support we appreciate all the work you've done on this because this this can't stand. I I can't see it even being constitutional. And to councelor Gisinger's uh comment, I I don't know if this would pass or if it would stand if it was challenged in court. So, but I I support this 100%.

And I do want to thank our town clerk who worked incredibly hard on this as well as our town attorney. Um there I know that there were a number of drafts that went through. I was able to see several of them. So, thank you. Okay. Okay, I'll take a motion and a second on approving resolution 13325. I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution 133-25. Second written. Motion a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries unanimously. Moving on to reports. Town attorney.

This just in. We have another draft of the resolution the town clerk and I have been working on during the meeting. No, I'm just kidding. We had about five today. Um, I do want to uh congratulate Councelor Gesler and Vice Mayor Delaney on a successful I know it must have been a grueling campaign. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, town manager.

Thank you, mayor. To follow up on the town attorney's comments, um, as most know, earlier today, the qualifying period for the town's 2026 municipal election closed. Terms were up for one first district seat and one second district seat. The town only had one candidate qualify for each of these seats. Current council member Dan Gisinger for the first district and current Vice Mayor Ron Delaney for the second district. These individuals are automatically elected to fill the seat and no election will be held in March of 2026. So, I'd like to join the town attorney in congratulating Vice Mayor Delaney and councelor Geisinger on their reelection to their respective seats. Congratulations.

Um, I would also like to acknowledge some staff members who recently celebrated significant milestones with the town. If you notice, we do this quite regularly, which speaks volumes about our staff. Michael Isham and Francis Ber Berintos, both with the utilities department, recently celebrated 20 years of service uh of employment with the town. And so once again, we're adding to that Club 20 list and uh and kudos to them for their work. Um on Monday, December 1st, construction crews will begin a project to connect the new Sinquaz fire station to the existing wastewater line along uh Carver Avenue. During this project, a section of Carva Avenue located just south of the new entrance road to Sinko Park will be dug up. To ensure residents have access to their properties during the two-eek project, a bypass road has been created that will connect the south end of Carver Avenue to the new Sinquest Park access road. Again, living up to the promises that we made that community about giving them that access and that cut through. uh all homeowners will have full access to the properties and during this construction we encourage those residents who wish to visit Sinquis Park to use the east entrance to the park. Uh lastly, Friday uh the the town and Kaufman Lind Construction, the contract builder for our two new fire stations celebrating the topping off of the Patt Place fire station. It was pretty remarkable when you when you go in there actually. And then this Thursday we will celebrate the topping off ceremony for Sinquist station. These separ ceremonies represent a significant milestone in the construction of our station. And as Deputy Chief Shaw pointed out earlier tonight, the construction of our stations remain on schedule and within budget. Um I will tell you one other

thing about Jupiter Fire. I had the uh privilege of walking into one of their command staff meetings today and it's amazing how fast this group is multiplying now because instead I'm used to just seeing Chief Donado and Chief Shaw and now we got all the other chiefs in there and then today I walk in there's a whole room full of chiefs and battalion chiefs. It's I don't know fire rescue has a lot of chiefs and so uh but but it was good to see them all in there. Um, and then I want to close tonight as we're progressing along. We got Thanksgiving knocking on the door here. And uh, and so I want to close by reminding everyone of some events the town has planned in the weeks ahead. And they're coming quick. Uh, don't forget on Friday, December 5th, the town will hold its annual holiday tree lighting ceremony. Uh, this year, for the first time, the event has been moved to the to the town green, our new town green located here on the municipal campus. Uh the tree lighting ceremony will feature food trucks, performance by local schools and community groups, and of course the tree lighting be the event begins at 5:00 p.m. and the tree lighting is scheduled to occur at 6:25 p.m. The annual holiday boat parade will be the next evening, Saturday, December 6th. The Pope uh parade should arrive in Jupiter between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. On Saturday, December 13th, the following week, the town will hold a tanual snow place like Jupiter event. Um, and that's at the Abicoa Community Park. This event will uh always is always a favorite of the children and uh it begins at 3 and will go until 6:00 p.m. The annual JTAa holiday parade will occur on Sunday, December 14th. So you get you're getting this now. Your schedule is really going pretty quickly in December. Um the annual JTA holiday parade on Sunday, December 14th. Uh the theme of this

year's parade is 100 years of Christmas cheer and we'll commemorate the town centennial. And finally, while we're talking about holiday decorations, I'd like to thank uh Roger, who's in the back over there, who has been working with uh the folks at the lighthouse. If you remember last year, we had some folks that were disappointed about the fact that there weren't any holiday lights around the railing. Well, after a lot of negotiation, a lot of hard work by Roger. Just signed the agreement the other day, and you'll see the holiday lights going around the railing up there. I think Roger's going to hang them up himself. No, I'm just kidding. And uh but thank you for doing that. So, we'll get that done as well. So, that's a lot. And that's my report, Mayor. Thank you.

Thank you, uh Councelor Gisinger. Again, thank you to everybody tonight for their presentations, both the applicants and the staff. And again, I can't say enough about getting this resolution 133-25 to both Melissa and also to our town council, I mean, uh, town clerk and the staff that helped put that together. A lot of work went in that in the last couple days, and it's appreciated. Thanks, Councelor Sunstrom.

Councelor Gisinger, I want to thank you. I want to thank you for stepping up when we made the appointment. We weren't quite sure uh who we were appointing. We knew we were appointing a rocket scientist. Um we're happy to have one and we love talking about that. You know, we talk about it all the time. Um but I just want to say I'm so impressed with your research, your knowledge, what you bring to this council. I'm so glad that you'll be serving with us for a number of years going forward. And you know, I'm known for doing my homework, but I'm feeling some competition over here. [laughter] So, it only spurs me on to makes me better. And I'm really grateful um just to have you here um over on this corner of the DAS.

Thank you. I appreciate it. And I'll keep asking the questions. So,

and vice mayor, congratulations as well. you know, you have so much experience on this dis and we've had a lot of turnover in recent years and I know that we all benefit from it and it really I mean you might be one of the calmst among us. Um but when you act it's big and you know when I think of things you've done recently I'm looking behind you on that screen and I see one of them right there. So um congratulations and um to all you know I'm I think the holiday season's one of the best times um to serve around the town. So, I'm excited for all the the festivities. I know JTA has a shirt that they're selling um with the hundred years and the Christmas parade. So, or the holiday parade. So, I just want to say that's wonderful and thank you all for approving the resolution. I think um it'll go far. It'll be shared. I know people were very responsive to garden, so I know that they'll be responsive when they see this as well. And it really does. I think it because of our position in the county and who our representatives are, I think it'll speak loudly. So, yeah.

Vice Mayor,

thank you for the kind words. Um, just a couple [clears throat] things. Um, we were, some of us were able to attend the uh, police um, promotion ceremony this morning and you speak of my experience up here. uh like you and the mayor, the town manager, the mayor. I've gotten to see some of these folks come up the ladder and grow as officers and move up the ranks and all that. It's it's making me feel old, but it it was just a it was a beautiful ceremony. There were um police officers from all, you know, all over the county and their families in here. It was just just a really nice just a nice um nice time. So anyway, so yeah, we um the election's over and we I'm looking forward to another three years and this has been one of the great honors of my life to serve up here and this this is a great council. This is a diversified different walks of life and different views and uh we all kind of come in for a soft landing on most, you know, projects and things that we deal with here. So I'm I'm honored to serve with all of you. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you, George. Last week we some of us had the honor of attending U Mayor Marino's year in a recap. My takeaway besides everything that she's done is it's the power of we tonight. Every one of us on this dis including staff and counselors we are the power of we. We've [clears throat] worked well together. Congratulations to our vice mayor, to councelor Geisinger, to all of our police officers this morning. Um Shane Lunsford, Scott Kimbach, Joseph Aronachi, and John Monti. Fabulous ceremony. Congratulations to all of them. Seeing our PAC 744 here tonight, you know, that's the future. And hopefully someday they'll remember they came here cookies in hand. But they got to stand here at the DAS. That was a really big deal to these young men. Thank you councelor Sunstrom for giving them that opportunity. They were so excited. Um so again thank you all and it is the power of we.

I have a number of just small items. First of all, um kind of in a humor side, um and building upon one thing that councelor Sunstrom said, you know, people nowadays are can be sensitive when someone doesn't intend it to be insensitive, but I remember having to tell counselor Gisinger after he got uh uh was sworn in, if I say it's not rocket science, don't take it personal. Oh, I haven't had to say it, so I'm going to just say it probably the only time. But what we do up here is not rocket science, but the rocket science expert on the council has a lot of other um talents that he brings, which is helpful. Um the um another quick item, just the topping out celebratory event at Quiet Place. One thing I was most delighted about other than seeing how it's coming along and what a phenomenal facility that's going to be was, you know, that those of us know that uh that was an event that a contractor holds for his staff to celebrate a milestone. And I think I heard not just once but at least twice uh when uh the contractor's rep was addressing you know the workers that were there about the milestone date to complete the project. I can remember you know at the groundbreaking event I was emphasizing the importance of that date. So, it I was delighted to hear the contractor emphasize to this whole team that we're that's the date we're going to make. Um then, uh just another quick item. Um Town Green,

this event. Um well, just everything that's happened at the Town Green. I mean, I have to say, maybe others had the vision, but you know, when we decided we were going to do a town green, to some degree, it was space and we were going to just do something with it, but it's really turned into something pretty special. Um, and uh, and you know, I came one I was here on one Sunday to pick up some stuff from my office and there was a soccer team playing on the green. So, it Well, they were practicing. I mean, it's not a game, but you know, it was a field, whatever. But the point is it's being used and uh it's it's nice and I can't wait to see it come alive, you know, for that uh tree lighting event um and other events like when we have, you know, um the Jubilee and such. Um then uh uh two more items, just one um in the way of things to look forward to. Uh, I'm pleased to report that the Kretzky family holiday decoration display is almost complete. I'm going to make I'm confident uh that I will make the date, which has always been Thanksgiving weekend. I'm we're ahead of schedule. Um, but uh I welcome everybody to come by and uh take a look at it both daytime and nighttime um when it's done. So, it will be done by Thanksgiving. And then lastly, and this is just an open-ended item, but um and I don't want to put staff on the spot to answer this question here. Um they probably could, but uh to get back with us, first of all, you know, the Bush Road construction has been an impact. Um, I try to stay off Indian Town Road as much as I can and I like a number of residents have have uh been impacted by construction that I don't know what's happening there. I never really stopped

and looked, but seemed like it's dragging along. Um and um so uh and it and it's been contracting and it is what it is, but I'd ask staff to just let us know what is the scope of work and when is the road going to be opened back up completely for the public. And I'm just going to say in the future um and I'm not suggesting efforts weren't made, but in the future I'd hope that uh and I think about I know there's more than paving going on because I know there's uh uh coverts and other work, but again I don't know completely what it just seemed like it's taking a long time and I don't know if they're working their way down the street and I got months more to wait here but um you know those kind of projects on a road like that they need to be planned and contracted to be expedited to the maximum amount. So, I just want to make that I mean I think we've probably have said it before, but I just want us because just experiencing it because I know this isn't we're not even getting the intersection improvement we're going to be doing, but that road uh is uh is used by people to avoid um Indian Town Road as it should be. So, you know, with that, I just again ask the staff to get us an update on that and so I at least know is it is it about finished or is it going for months more because I I don't know. Um anyway, with that, um the time is now 8:34 and we'll adjourn the meeting.

I got stuck in at the not stuck to go around. I I use it all the time. cut through the public. The whole thing's for Indiantown Road defeated the whole purpose. Right. So, you're close with the display, huh? The event. I'm ahead of schedule. Good. Good. Well, I started earlier because I was mad enough we talked about this, but I was just worried.

Well, we were gone for four four days to a wedding in North Carolina, Mike Fellow's daughter, but uh so I started early, but uh but I'm at 140 hours. Do you pay yourself overtime? [laughter] No, I don't. Could some lifetime. But uh that was great. But I think I'm going to get it done potentially this weekend as early as the weather's been nice, too. That's that knock wood, right?

So, I call them and I prefer that because now I can keep track