Environmental Advisory Board - Regular Meeting

Here. They don't care either.

Well, I don't think they were prepared for

I guess so. That

item. Yeah. They just got

Everybody in storms. I think it's a storm.

Right. When Ian comes and sits on you for

Well, it was like it was last year.

Was Helene

and Oh,

it was

Helene and Melton. It was only Helene and Melton.

You know?

They they couldn't stomach that.

Oh. Yeah. Alright. That's your 05:30. So we're all all meeting to order.

Roll call. David Fradolani. Paul Jackerman. Bella

justice for all. Okay. Any public comment? Not

at this time.

All righty. First item on the agenda is to approve last month's meeting minutes. Can I get a motion to approve?

I approve the approve. Yeah. I throw in a motion to approve last month's minutes.

Second.

All motions, Bella seconds. Everybody in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. New business.

I don't have that. Do you have an extra copy?

Oh, yeah.

I got the welcome new members.

Right there.

Oh, I forget now. Okay. Missed being served. It's work.

Okay.

Item 24 dash nine to four discussion and possible action regarding holding a joint meeting with the Parks and Rec Advisory

Board. Thank you, chair. We've made some some progress finally with this item regarding scheduling this meeting. And as of right now, it does appear that we have a go ahead for May 5 to schedule the joint meeting. So this was also coordinated with our parks and recreation liaison. So our

regular meeting was going to be on that day also. Are we going to have that ahead of time, or are waiting another month, or what are we doing?

So from the way that I was explaining that the process works, this meeting will be in lieu of the regular meeting for the environmental advisory advisory board. Board. So So our our next regular meeting will potentially be in June.

But I saw a memo or something across my email that said that they wanted to start it at 06:30 at night, which I have to I'm not a fan of that time because that means it's really gonna run late. Did you see that? Anybody else?

I did see

that. Yeah. So I was wondering if we have

Half any the half the board half that board needs the later time. Of what? Half that board needs the later time.

Oh, okay.

That's I mean, me, I'm I'm, you know, of course, diplomatic.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Alright.

I am not sure if there's an easy way to vote for which time would work for each member. I know that mainly this would happen through email communication. So if, Jessica, if you have a time that you would prefer works better, you can propose that. And I would I

would like to go ahead and propose a a a a splitting. We do 05:30. They do we do we do 05:30. They we do five 06:30. What about a 06:00 meeting? Would that would that would we be able to get that brought in in time?

I think that we can ask, the other group and see if see if that works.

I mean, I probably at five from 05:30 to six.

Yeah. Six to eight, basically, because they're two hours long. So six to eight instead of 08:30.

We've never had one we've only had one meeting in the last two years there go over.

Well, I'm just thinking it's gonna be the two of us meeting together for the first time. So I think we can sort of expect that it might possibly run into a longer time. So I'm wondering maybe as a possible compromise to running over, I'm wondering if they'd amenable to a split, like, one meeting to you know, into two. You know? I don't know.

I I was told that it's going to be a joint format where everyone will meet at the same time at the meeting. We'll start at the same time. And

I mean, instead of one meeting, so instead of one meeting, joint joint meetings, have two. If it looks like it's gonna run ahead of time and we have to see an agenda, right, if we have a four page agenda

But we're not gonna have that much.

Oh, you're not?

We we've already made it. We've worked between Okay. And that's fine. Recommendation was we only had three items that we were recommending discussing.

Oh, okay.

And Okay. I actually think I only brought up two of them at our meeting.

I'm just a worried word.

No. I have need to say just upside down because I

have a question. Is this the only scheduled joint meeting that we have as of now? Yes. So maybe in the future we can It's a start.

That's exactly right, right? Yeah.

So maybe we can propose in the joint meeting meeting the time situation.

Yeah, right? Exactly. And that's why we also came up with only three or four items because we could debate any number of items that may or may not be good. Let's get it started, see what happens. There may or may not be a need for another meeting. Who knows? Right? I mean, we gotta at least come together once and see what's happening.

And are you gonna lead the meeting? Or who?

Excuse me.

Are you gonna lead the joint meeting? Or how is that?

Most likely, it will be myself and the other liaison, Trish, with the Parks and Rec Advisory Board. And we'll likely do it together. And just wanted to specify that from my understanding, one reason why they are proposing the meeting at 06:30 is because most of the members, they're working during the day. That was my understanding.

But

we can perhaps suggest six p. PM and see if that could be an alternative.

Well, I So an email went out. Right? Have we had responses to it? Do we have a sense of the people that are okay with this, what those numbers are? I didn't respond because I wanted to wait till today. Yeah. That's fine. We

have had a few responses that say yes. But I can't speak for Sarah because I don't to her. Okay.

We can perhaps verify, and I can follow-up with the members to inform you approximately how many do we have.

Man, I know our student is was was was looking forward to it. My co chair, myself, only two other people.

This thing's been our agenda since.

I'll do whatever time happens. It's just

I think it's been on since.

Since Hector was up, man. I'm telling you, we're talking like this thing's getting old.

Yeah. It's just my meeting.

Let's Let's meet it. And if we need further ones, if you can't make it, it's not like you'll be excluded. We'll update everybody at the next meeting that we have. And to Bella's point, we may be getting back together again also if we're right, if the meeting goes in such a way.

I think the meeting is going to lead to good things. And it has been a while. It has been a long time in the making. So we're almost there.

We're almost there. That's great. Come on, man.

But it does appear that the Board specialist said that the Board members on both Boards have agreed. And my guess is that we have a majority from each board agreeing to meet at this time.

Great. That's a good start. Awesome. Any other comments or thoughts on the joint meeting? Good? We're good. Let's go to the next item. A25-nineteen 98, presentation and discussion regarding potential future development projects in Northport.

Thank you, chair. If you give me a minute to set up

here. Gladly.

You want the lights out?

That's probably a good idea. So the awkward part is that I don't see this screen that is on there in front of me, but we'll go this way. And we'll go project by project. So just a quick side note that on the handout that I provided to you, you can see links for our development web page, and that's a nice interactive map where you can hover over areas of interest and you can see which projects are currently on the way with the city of Northport. For this item, this is just to make the Board aware of potential future projects that are upcoming in our city.

There's strong interest for development with these applications. However, even an approval here does not guarantee that these projects will happen and if they will happen in the configuration that you see on my presentation there. So these are some of these are in their preliminary stage. Some of them have not received full comments yet from different departments. So that may change the overall configuration or type of project.

And in some cases, it may even discourage applicants to drop their project. Currently, I see this here and there with builders and contractors and applicants coming up with the site plans in the engineer drawings, but not following through for a variety of reasons, especially after they hear some of the comments from different city departments, they may decide that pursuing their projects is not what they want to do. So this is, again, a preliminary FYI for our reviews that we've completed for projects that were turned in, in the month of March. Okay. And next time, I will do these as a PowerPoint presentation because this is a bit more challenging.

I cannot even see my pointer right now, which is odd.

Okay. There you go.

So I'm going to can you see this okay? In one of the links that I provided, it has the agenda and the link to this item. Through the link of this item, you can open this presentation, which gets uploaded about a week before the meeting. So this one is called Flexi Space and this is a fairly small project. I believe that this is a storage unit space project.

And the main concerns were that we did not see a professional landscape plan and the project must comply with our sustainable development standards by incorporating low impact development practices, such as minimizing impervious surfaces and implementing green infrastructure. And examples of these are defined in our Unified Land Development Goal. We also did not see enough green space between their parking lots, which is per ULDC definition. And we've also had some concerns about their islands. Market.

The have in parking. So And this project is in a very early pre application stage and the applicant simply wanted to provided us with a rough draft and they wanted to see how should they adjust their project in order to meet our requirements. In addition to this, they will need to provide a full environmental assessment with flux map identifying the habitat and any listed species identified on-site. Okay. So this is a medical facility and the applicant proposes to remove the paid drop off area in front of the building and replace it with landscaping.

We don't have any comments or concern. This site is already cleared and partially developed through another larger project. So this update does not have any environmental implications. So we do not have any ecological concerns with this project.

Yes, probably for it, right? Remove the paved area and include landscaping. That's better.

I think that it's yeah, it's actually going to be it's going to be of those. From what it was initially.

Yeah, right.

It The area behind the bank and I

believe so. And if you would like

Yes, I think it is. Yes, that is. I just looked it up. Yes.

Here's the PID. The easiest way, if you go on the property appraiser and you can look at the parcel ID. Please note that sometimes well, they actually just updated the aerial to the 20241, which is the most recent one. So the area is fairly updated. But in some cases, you may see a parcel that's not cleared yet, where in reality, maybe.

So for this project, it's called Synexis Apartments at Northport. You can see the PID and the address. The applicant has to provide an environmental assessment featuring a wildlife survey, vegetative survey with a site plan, and of course delineate any wetlands through a wetland jurisdictional survey, if applicable. Additionally, a full tree survey is necessary for any for this project. Furthermore, the development must align with sustainable practices promoting Florida Green Building Standards, LEED certifications and low impact development designs.

As I understand from my environmental planner, this is not the case at this point. So some changes need to happen with this project in order for them to move forward. We're hoping to see more environmental features, rain gardens and we're trying to promote this as much as possible. So there's a minimum in addition, there's a minimum open space requirement of 35% for such residential developments. So for these projects, we would like to see this 35% area that's there designated for preservation in perpetuity where wildlife and our natural systems can thrive.

You know what this is?

Yeah. Yeah. It's right on

Right off the Sumter.

Right on Sumter at La France.

Yeah. Yeah.

And if you would like, when the presentation is over, we can go through each of these. Thank you, sir. Yes, we can pull up the locations and take a close look. But again, please understand these are not final comments. These were our comments upon review in March. There will be some changes and some of these projects also need to go through a commission hearing and ultimately get the commissioner's blessing to move forward. And I believe that this one may be the case.

Lot of heat over there. Yeah. Lot of heat. I imagine that

Counter arguments are gonna be Look at us

in the hospital. Look at all the heat. Well, that's just a resident. Yep. Look at all the heat we got from with the gas station to go in at

Cranberry. Right.

So to So So this one is called 70 The 5 Park Place in Northport. I have the PID for you. And this is a large area, pretty much a large designated park area. I am not too familiar with this particular project. My environmental planner reviewed this one.

But the overall comments are that we recommend additional revisions to this project. The application requires further revisions due to its failure to adequately address the open space and landscaping requirements and the preservation of heritage trees in accordance with the City of North Port's Unified Land Development Code. The master concept plan for this project lacks a comprehensive strategy for preserving an appropriate percentage of these significant trees, which are essential for maintaining the site's partially ecological integrity and aesthetic value. The revised plan must incorporate these recommendations to recommend some of the trees along the property. And we did not see this effort from this resubmittal.

So again, we did not approve this project. I hope that going through this. Okay. Let's I don't want to give you false answer. Okay.

Yeah. With the new aerials, it's beautiful. Okay. So, yeah, off of Toledo

And then in the Chamberlain. North Chamberlain. That's right.

North of What

would be going in there?

It is a so I just wanted to explain that our comments are just as far as the natural resources impact. There are other teams that look

So good

we're going

I think think do question. It's a pay good though, of course. Oh, yeah. Storage. I

Yeah. Park your So it's

for perhaps for RV storage or other vehicle storage. And this is what they're proposing. And again, it's private property development rights. They have the right to propose it, they need to now go through the motions. We have our issues with this project. I cannot speak for other teams, but

They just have a question.

Yes.

Aren't they supposed to do a 75 interchange at Toledo Blade?

I know that that's coming at some point.

This person is going to build some

I know that that's going to be coming at some point with expanding the interchange, but ultimately, that's

right there at that. Okay.

It should be where it's proposed as far as the interchange, that should be fine because that's usually department FDLT. So they have their other plans and timelines. But as far as this project, we had multiple concerns with it. There are some beautiful heritage trees in the area and we did not see the effort we were hoping to see at this point of the review process.

I Yeah. Hope we can be ultra aggressive on our demands on something like this. Right. This is Wow.

Yeah. Know.

We need to follow the

100%. Yeah.

I understand. Right.

But I'm saying it interpret interprets the ULDC in an aggressive fashion.

Doug, is there a chance that there's gonna be eminent domain on this to take over the interchange?

What interchange are you talking about?

I'm sorry.

With Toledo.

With Toledo Blade. They're gonna change.

This is that's It's far enough where I don't think that it's going to impact it because the interchange sorry.

I mean, that is Toledo Blade. It's on.

Yeah. The interchange is here.

So Oh, I see. I didn't know

So it's it's

know that they've talked about

the Okay. Blood

They will not really impact this this particular log. The the bulk of the work will be Alright. When that happens.

Why do

you Some of these, it may take them ten years.

This is how old I am. I knew somebody when I grew up in Boca Raton, you know. And and one of the richer guys in town got wind of where they were gonna place 95. And he went out at this time. Boca was really tiny. And he went out west of town and built two houses, spec houses, right where 95 was going to be, expecting to get eminent domain. And nobody bought them because it was, you know, five miles from the beach or something.

Yeah.

Well Yeah. You know what they did? They made a curve in the interstate and went around

the house. Went around it.

Right? All those trucks got pulled back when they were putting the railroad

This is a fairly large piece of property. Currently, it's proposed for development for this project.

So

we are going through the review process. And

Good. No. Okay.

I think there's a lot to review. It'll take

a long time. It's on the other side. It's on the website.

Yeah. I was confused by that too.

Yeah. I

just That's why I asked Thanks

for pulling that up, Stephane. I appreciate that because I was Absolutely. Yeah. I just wasn't bright enough to figure it out.

Think

question from

the we

first

19. Of answer 20 questions.

And And And and it does appear that the projects as submitted, there was some back and forth. They need to readjust and provide additional information. And ultimately, this one was approved, that's a coffee place on 41, a bit smaller scale. I think this is the last one that I have as part of our reviews for March.

Any questions about those or write how to track down on the appraiser's website or anything like that? Are

you all familiar with I the tracking

like that you added in those numbers. I didn't know what they were at first, so you for educating me on those those extra numbers.

You're very welcome.

I like that.

Any any other Yeah.

Oh, yeah. It makes all

the difference. Oh, yeah. I mean, I just pulled up every single one of those things on on by address. Any That's what

I'm talking to. Yeah.

I don't I don't I don't have the, web the the, property appraiser on my phone. Yeah. Right. Right.

Okay. Let me

Actually, that's a pretty smart place for a coffee house.

Yes. It is. Stephan, I got a question for you. Yes, been any type of

you

know, of course, here. Last month, Sarah told us that she was informed that the VA is moving is closing the Cape Coral Hospital Ah. And moving it here.

Oh, that's the. Is

there been any have you heard anything on your end yet on that one outside the building? No.

Is this true? That's a brand

new

building. That is a beautiful facility.

I am not aware.

Now Sarah's a vet. He goes there. Sarah Sarah is a vet. So she she

And where are they gonna move it?

Here. In Northport? The hos the VA hospital up to Northport. When when? I don't know.

But they have no need to close that. It's always crowded, and it's a beautiful, beautiful

effectively.

Don't we don't have here at his office. They need more they need more help.

For that

here, anyways.

At that house at that clinic.

If you reach out to the planning and zoning, they may be

able to

they may have some public records. I am not aware

I was just curious

if you'd heard anything. Yes. Good question. And just wanted to go over this one real quick. If you type up in Google Northport's current development map, you're going to get to this map, which is a fantastic resource.

It's interactive and it shows you where the development is occurring right now throughout our city. So if you are interested in a project or an area, you can look through this portal through this webpage and find a bit more about proposed and ongoing projects. So yes, with that being said, do you have any other questions for me?

No, I don't.

Good. Excellent. Thank you, Stephane. Appreciate it, man.

Thank you.

Any public comment on that?

No.

Chair, before we move on to the next Yes. Last month's meeting, we had made a discussion about new members discussing are stuff with we going to it's not on our agenda for this month that we're going to put unnoticed.

So the next item is future agenda items. And perhaps we can discuss with this item.

Yeah. For sure.

And then yeah. But I think we need to put it on there. It is not a motion item, but definitely for future future meeting of talking to our new mem a new member. Yeah. I came up with a quick little thing.

You know, first of all, thank them, you know, thanking them for joining the board and then allowing them to know that this is not a personal you know, I don't know the quite wording of, you know, board. It's not your little pet project. Right. This is a this is a this is we run by citizens and city and work at the commission's request so to we can stop. I know you said you've had people that have been in here because they have a we've had them out on Parks And Rec.

That is a good point. And I would say along with that is I think part of that onboarding process is to make sure that they understand what the charter says exactly. It's very clear. And it's easy. And I go off track all the time.

It's really easy to get re centered if you look at that charter. And essentially what the charter is is that our charter is to make recommendations to the commissioners regarding regarding flora, flora, fauna, fauna, environmental health, environmental impact, that sort of thing. That's really what the charter is. Now to be able to make those recommendations, that's why I want information about the tree fund, why we want to get people on board in a particular way, right, so we can make intelligent, impactful recommendations. You're exactly right.

David, what do you think you would have liked to have known coming onto the board? You're relatively new, right? This is three months, four months for you, rough and tough?

Roughly. Yeah. Really? I can't really think of it right now. But so far, I've learned quite a few. I've been trying to do, my own research myself at home when I have the time. Sorry I couldn't be here the last two meetings. I have family business been sick. But, really, everything we covered is helping me a lot for what I want to go into for college as well and just everything in general. It's just been good overall, everything I've learned.

David and I came on board about the same time. Mean, granted my coming on board was to help facilitate the joint meeting, the the connection between Parks and Rec and us. I'm actually beginning to really enjoy this board. It there's it's different. There's a different side, and it's slowly but surely I'm getting more into I mean, I'll be reading up.

How much I I was I did have a question about this. Level of screening screening isn't the right word. So somebody applies for the board. That's great, right? We're taking all comers.

If you live in Northport, that's awesome. But I wonder if there's a part in there where we have somebody actually talk to them and say, what are your expectations? What are the kinds of things that you're going to want to look at? And we can help determine whether that's a good fit or not. Because if somebody had come on and say, you know what, my neighbor, they're playing, they've got a dump in their yard or whatever. Right? And that's my issue. Because the one lady that was here, it was all about garbage on her street. That was her main thing. And if we set that expectation ahead of time, that's right.

You're more than welcome to join, but that's probably not going to get covered.

I think that's where it comes to defining defining what we do here and what it's all about. Like, I think it's nice that we have the freedom for everybody to join. But I see your point because we don't really have like, if somebody doesn't participate, it's not like like, you can always sit here and be a part of the board. But we're all here for different reasons.

Yeah. I wouldn't want to actively turn people away. In my mind, it's more of this is kind of how it is. Does this still appeal to you? Because we'd love to have you. Right? Come on. But this is kind of what goes on. You still think that you want to do that. As opposed to having somebody come on, they sit here, it's nothing near what they thought it was going to be. Then they don't show up. And we don't have a quorum and then nothing gets done. It's tough enough to get anything done.

I have, if I may, a couple For of the next regular item, I would like to have an overview and a synopsis of what we do, what the Environmental Board does is we have several new some new members, and I think that it will be a good opportunity to share this with them and all members, so everyone can be on the same page. But so that will be on the next regular agenda item. And I think that as we have new members now, I personally think that it will be beneficial for the Board to discuss and have the opportunity to have that conversation as part of the agenda with the new member of the Board. So if the Board if you, the Board, feel that this is a good idea, perhaps that's something that we can implement moving forward. I will be paying attention to the member roster.

So every time we have a new member, I can set this time for the Board to have the opportunity to have that conversation with the new member to make sure that they are up to the task and they understand what the goals are and what the Board does.

As an ongoing agenda item whenever we have somebody new.

Is that correct? Correct.

Yes. I like that. That sounds really good.

I like that. I think it's great idea. Jessica, what do you think?

Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. So I think almost everybody comes in with some sort of preconceived ideas about they want to effect some change. Right? Exactly. We still can, but you have to work within certain parameters. And it'd be nice to know what those parameters are ahead of time. You know? I think the lady who wanted the garbage cleaned up was led in in our mission statement with the word beautification.

And we don't discuss that at all. I mean, she had a point. Right? So I don't know what maybe we should think more deeply about our terms that we use in our mission. Because beautification is a whole different ballgame from environmental.

I agree. I don't recall beautification being part

of the charter. Think it's in there.

Can you pull the charter up, Stefan? I sure can. I just wanted to mention one thing, if I may, because we're on future agenda items right now. Would the Board like to perhaps vote on the future new member? Additional agenda item because I think that you all agreed, but I did not see an official vote

Vote for on having an a agenda motion for an ongoing agenda item whenever we have a new member that it becomes an agenda item to Discuss it.

I second the motion.

Paul seconds. Yes. Jessica made it.

Yes.

Perfect. Thank you.

But

I am going to pull the charter and while I'm doing this, Jessica, the point that you brought up is perfectly fine to discuss under this item for future agenda items.

So We can put it under the future.

Yep. I'm fine.

Motion to

Well, let's look at the chart first.

Yeah. I you know, I'm an old person. I never

Come on,

My dad is 77. He hates the word old. He says, I'm older. Older. I'm not old. I'm older. Oh, wait.

Our generation, we are old when we were 30.

There we are. Alright. Right there is our charter, Gay.

Okay. So the Environmental Advisory Board shall serve as an information resource to and advise the city commission.

Get bigger. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. There it is. Number seven.

Hi, Jessica. Well done.

There it is.

We don't talk about that at all ever.

Well, we could.

I mean, we should.

Like, we have taught we just we're focusing on, like, the environment that's in right now. But, I mean, Northport could be more beautiful. That's already very beautiful. It's great. Definitely.

It's not gonna be beautiful with garbage lining there. Space. No way so.

Or with parking lots full of boats and RVs.

Well, you know, litter littering is nobody likes it. Exactly. I mean, there there is no defense. You know?

It's just we do we can bring up cleanups, things like that, right, like use of trash cans, recycling,

using reusable They don't put trash cans out. There's something

We can

make a difference with that. No.

But there is something. They don't want to, like, litter. They say if we have signs or, you know, things like that, that it litters the look of them. Well, that's you know, I don't know who came up with that idea. But every every city has you know, they should have benches and track. Well, they don't put up benches if they want people to sleep.

Alright. So should we carve out an agenda item for the next time we get together to just focus on Can

we talk about it? Charter. Yeah. We can talk about it anyway, But our ideas about it are what does that include. Right?

So we don't need to have a motion put for future agenda items.

No motion.

Because in the charter. But we have one. Stephan, we used to have that one agenda item that basically allowed us to talk about anything. And it hasn't been on there for like the last four or five.

Okay. I was The guy

that I can't remember the fellow before you, he's an Art Jeremy. Jeremy. I'm horrible with names, right? In fact, he told us make sure to keep that on there so that you can talk about things that are part of the charter but not necessarily delineated on the agenda.

The way that I

I'd like to see that.

I think the way that I was interpreting how this would work best as far as mainstream or would be for each item, each future item to to be discussed under this last item that keeps rolling on every agenda, which is future agenda items. Once it's on there, once the Board brings it up, then we can bring those under this future agenda item, you can discuss any issue that you would like on the agenda. We very quarter quarter

twenty.

Duplicating because under future agenda items, you can bring any item that you have in mind. I'll write it down within the file that's attached in there. So you will see all the potential future agenda items written down, and then I will include those on the agenda. Okay. We can discuss it. So

like today, we can discuss it, right? Right. We just couldn't take any action on it until it's

of year, got lot So this is the reason, Chair. It felt like a duplication.

I agree. Okay. Good enough. So is there anything about beautification that you want to talk about, Gabe?

Well, I am not I don't go on the website like I should. But this is great with if we had known about this cleanup, which is next weekend, this weekend. Is Last weekend. Weekend.

Couple of things I wanted to bring this up is it's good timing.

Yes, really. Very timely. Few things

I would highly recommend for you to join the email list of the city. And if you are not, please let me know and I can explain to you how to join.

That should be part of the orientation, by the way.

Absolutely. Yeah. Jessica, I can send that send that info to you.

Thank you.

It's a great way to

Okay.

Stay in touch with all the current events, and they give you plenty of plenty of time to prepare for some of these Okay. Events.

But it's that nice spot where the volunteers are full. So that's really

I hopeful.

I I mean, hopeful. It's like, wow.

That's great. This one's going to be a fantastic event. I will be there. It's this Saturday at 8AM, and I believe that most of our efforts will be around a few of the main roads to pick up some trash there. So I wanted to share that with you while you're having that other discussion. But I I would highly re encourage and recommend to to join. It should be it's a great event. Okay. So but as

That's great. I just wanna say something. We go to that little public works pavilion on the river by Sumter a lot, because it's like a little park and everything. And my husband always cleans up everything. He cleans up the whole thing every time he's there. So just wanna say thank you. Thank you. Oh, he does. You know? He always said people shouldn't leave this mess. You know? Pick up cigarette butts and all the rest of it and clean it up. You know? So

I'm glad you brought that up on the beautification. Absolutely.

And I can That's a

good point too.

I can include an item for one of the next one of the next regular meetings. If we'll have time for the next regular meeting, I will include an item, if not, perhaps the next one. But I think that that's a great idea.

Any other future David, did you have anything you'd like to see under future agenda items that you'd like to discuss?

Not that I can think of at

the top of my head right now.

But everything that I heard, I

will already partly agree with it. Because where I live, it's starting to build up with all new houses and everything. Like, soon I heard somewhere that it's starting to be within city limits because they're building up so much back there. They're near

the estates. They're doing all. Just Yeah.

I I like it, but I don't see this. It's a secluded area. There's not much going on. There's not a lot of trash back there. It's and now all these construction states. Workers leaving their beer bottles, beer cans everywhere.

Even in our yard, there's stuff from us. Yep. Send them send an email to the builder. I did. And I had the builder at my doorstep Really? Apologizing because the two houses next to me were being built, they were leaving guys were sitting across the street from my house in a shade under the shade and leaving all their trash. I didn't I didn't write to him. He came to my house, apologized, and cleaned it up himself, the builder. Yeah.

I think we need to encourage people to report those things more often.

Oh, it's a good idea to go to the builder.

Yeah. Great idea. Yeah.

Well, future agenda items? We're good with what we've decided on.

Bella? I would like to know how the air quality is going. And I would like to, like, keep on top of that. If nobody else wants to, then we don't have to.

No, no. That's the scorecard. I forgot. I can't tell you how near and dear that is to my heart. But anyway, right? So you want

I think since North Park has so many trees, we should be pretty on top of our air quality.

I think it's been pretty good so far.

Oh, we have a scientific

But we can measure it now that we have the actual measure. Measure. What's good, what's bad?

This potentially can be an agenda item for discussion. But I wanted to bring up Bella on our website on the Natural Resources division. We have the monitoring station data. So if you go to northportfl.gov slash first

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particle of certain size. 19. With It's very indicative of the overall water quality. It's one of the more basic, but it's very important parameter to keeping track of. I wanted to mention that this could be a fantastic topic for discussion in my opinion as this is a program that we would like to popularize and perhaps expand.

But there's a lot happening right now, and we're fortunate to live in part of the the state where the air kind of does not stagnate much. So our air quality is fairly good. But under specific conditions and if there are fires in the area, the air quality can quickly deteriorate. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.

Good. Jessica, were there any besides beautification?

No, I think I could talk to them.

So I have a couple. I still wanna see a review with the tree fund

Yes, sir.

That I brought up last time. And I'd like to see a review with the scorecard.

Thank you.

Great. All right. Anything else, gang? We're adjourned.

Thank you all. Thank you for coming. Appreciate it. Sure.

Thank you. That's a really good job about beautification. You know, that is