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And there we go. Alright. We are on the air. We're ready to roll for the agenda review for the village council for Monday, May 11. Mister Martz, what do you got?

Alright. Starting with presentations and proclamations. Proclamations. We have a few for tomorrow evening. First is a presentation recognizing congratulating local winners with American Water Works Association Drop Savers Water Conservation Poster Contest. Miss Pants and her team will be here to present those items tomorrow evening. We have students from various schools that all the schools participated. We have winners from each of the schools and placing as well as they always do every year not only locally but also I think statewide. So we have that. Next item is a presentation of Wellington High School, having been designated as a no place for hate.

And we'll have representatives from the high school to present that and we can recognize them for that. And the next item is a presentation recognizing Admiral Cove Middle School championship boys basketball team and their team representatives, parents and coach and athletic director will be here so that we can recognize them for their achievements as well. And lastly, we'll have representatives of the Crown Prosecutor Wellington presenting the village with recognition and award for our partnership over the years as we've partnered with them on different projects that they've undertaken and also that we've undertaken where they've participated. So they will be recognizing us for that. And then the last presentation item is the resolution twenty twenty six-twenty four, which is setting our preliminary trim for Wellington Solid Waste Collection And Recycling.

So we'll have a full house right up until we get to that item.

That's correct. That's correct. And that's usually when people start leaving and our viewership drops. But I want to reassure everybody that is one of the most exciting items we'll cover tomorrow evening. And

Even your doesn't agree with you.

Bringing us to the consent agenda, which is where a lot of the action is for this meeting is, of course, you have the minutes. If you have any comments or recommendations to correct any items on there, please see the clerk's office and they'll address those before tomorrow evening. Next item is first consent item for services. We need a contract for annual auditing services, and Ms. Koko can take us through that.

This is with CBIZ CPAs, our annual auditors that we have had for several years. This is a renewal of the upcoming audit for the fiscal year ending 09/30/2026 in the amount of $98,750 We've been very pleased working with them, and we would like to go ahead and have this contract renewed. It has one more year's renewal after this one, and it was originally bid, I think, in 2023, awarded.

And they're new because we've had our prior auditors for a very long time, and we decided to put it out for bid to see if we get some new people, because it's always good to change your auditors every

so often to get a fresh look.

Correct. It was originally awarded to Markham, and their name changed. They were acquired by CBIZ CPAs.

Right. Okay. Any questions?

I just walked in. I'm sorry. This was the audit that they recently did.

Yes.

I did make a comment then that I would have liked more of something visual when they go over the audit for the audience to be able

to see.

I would just like when they do the report to make sure that that happens.

So subsequent to that, we did put it on the website. It's on the rotator now with the whole presentation about the audit with it, So we'll incorporate that in the presentation next year as well.

Thank you.

Try to make it exciting.

Exactly. We don't like exciting audits.

I know.

But I also think it's important to teach them to go to the website and see

There's great a lot of information. The whole audit is on the website and we summarize it as well, the highlights of it.

There's nothing secret. It's all posted.

Exactly. So that they know that it is on the website, not necessarily has to be, but they can do that too.

Right. Brings us to our next consent item, which is resolution number twenty twenty six-twenty two, which is the twenty five-twenty six mid year budget amendment. This covers several items, and Ms. Gorkan will take us through that as well.

So we do these periodically. We call this the mid year budget amendment. This covers six budget amendments, and they cover a wide range of things. First is the school zone speed camera program. Can you

first explain what a budget amendment is for people who are watching, so know why we're doing one?

Absolutely. Council originally approved our budget. The final version was last September, the fiscal year 'twenty six budget, and it's a living, breathing thing. Things happen every day here throughout the year. So periodically, based on, we make adjustments for both significant changes in revenues and expenditures that differ and alter the budget to a material amount.

And this first one here, the school zone speed camera program, was actually a new revenue. When the budget was approved last year, the cameras were not installed. So, this is the first year you've had that. It started with the beginning of the school year in September. So, we're looking at a total increase of revenues we've collected to date, dollars 575,000 in revenues, and we anticipate an additional $175,000 The program does not operate through the summer months, and so we need to amend the revenue budget for that.

The revenue is being used for the it has requirements, but we're using it for the PBSO parking, event parking, light bars related to them, and a reduction in the fund balance appropriation, which covers the PBSO annual contract, which is a little over 11,000,000 So that's the first budget amendment.

Putting it back into public safety. Correct.

And I'm sorry, we update the budget, we amend the budget when there's additional receipts as well as expenditures.

Correct, both ways. So, the next one is the tennis program. And again, this has a revenue and an expenditure component to it. So, the good news is Mr. Gill is expecting increased program revenues of $150,000 and to do that, we have the program cost to conduct those.

So, that's on the revenues increase of $150,000 the expense side is $109,000 So, that's for the tennis budget. And then, the third item that we have is from Hurricane Milton. Have received FEMA reimbursements of $838,571 and that will be returned to the reserve for emergencies from that. So you all remember that. Remember, it takes a long time to get those in.

That's money we spent that we're now getting back.

Correct. And we don't anticipate that until we actually get it, so that's a good thing. Then the next one, Wellington Athletics, we invest those funds when we issue the bond funds and earn interest on those. And periodically, we update the project account for the interest earned. This is an additional $680,000 in interest earnings to go toward that project.

Then, the next item we have is related to the traffic signal at Lake Worth Road and Isles View Drive. 50% of this was reimbursable from the Palm Beach County School Board, and the project was completed with a cost savings of $144,200 and the savings is being used to offset the transportation impact fee capital reserves account.

Have we gotten the contribution from the school district yet?

Yes, have.

Good.

And then the last budget amendment is related to the sales surtax. And again, the sales surtax ended as of 12/31/2025, and our estimates were low. The good news is we collected more than we had anticipated, and so we've collected $1,029,901 more in revenue. And that funding, it will be budgeted in the sales surtax account. And this budget amendment will increase the revenue budget, it will appropriate $500,000 for Village Park parking improvements, and return $5,300,000 to the General Fund facilities and infrastructure reserve to replace the monies that we use for the aquatic center.

Remember that was discussed in the long range financial plan when we talked about reallocating part of the sales surtax funds back to that. So this budget amendment covers all of those items.

And the sales surtax money is estimated to be used only for capital expenditures, correct? Correct. Capital projects?

Correct.

Any additional questions? If there's grant money that today there was a news item that Lois Frankel was able to procure for the village, a significant chunk, is that oh, very nice check. Thank you. Wow, that was fast.

You can't negotiate that one, though, with the

real money. So will that kind of a grant contribution go in as a budget amendment?

So we will actually, at some point, have a budget amendment for that when we get the actual agreement for this. So the check is great, but we'll get the actual agreement, and you'll see that back on an agenda for that, And we'll put that in also, it'll be a budget amendment as well, and you'll approve the documentation for the grant.

I have a question about the monies for PBSO under A as far as that goes, expenses or the monies collected by the school zone cameras to provide for PBSO and reallocating those funds into our safety, which I'm a big fan of. Is there another place we can find those dollars in such things like grants and things of that nature if it was the case that the school zone cameras go away because they're wildly unpopular?

We fully fund the PBSO contract. It was fully funded without this.

Regardless.

So, this is funded by the general fund revenues, the millage rate. So, it was fully funded, and we budget for the entire thing. Again, this was a new program that was not anticipated. Yes.

Okay. All right.

Right.

All right. The next item, which is Resolution twenty twenty six-twenty three, Legal Department Outside Legal Fees and Costs.

So we have had some additional expenses this year. We normally budget $200,000 for outside legal, which generally covers all of our outside legal. But this year, in addition to the we had the Palm Beach Polo, what I call the collateral attack on the 130 violations case. We did get a summary judgment or a final judgment in our favor. So we are pursuing fees against Palm Beach Polo because we believe that it was a frivolous matter.

And so in that case, we expended $45,595.37 We also have the brief rank quiet title matter where we currently have expended almost $60,000 but we will be reimbursed for 50% of that. We just don't have the money yet. And then, of course, we have the K Park matter, the land swap, agreement with the corner of Pearson Road, and then now we have the 120th Avenue cases that

The Isle Of Carroll. Isle Of Carroll.

Yes, mean the actual name of the Well,

people that are watching The

Isle Of Carroll. The Isle Of Carroll matter, which has spun off three separate actions. Okay? So we are seeking a budget amendment of $75,000 to get us through to the end of the year. And once we receive some of those fees back that we're expecting, if there's anything left over, it's going back into the general fund.

Okay. Well, we have a lot of litigation. We did a good job ending it, but now it's coming back. So it is what it is. Any All

right. Brings us to the next item, which is authorization to enter into a sole source continuing contract for water treatment plant storage tank inspections, maintenance and upgrades, and additionally an authorization to execute a task order for a five year water treatment plant storage tank cleaning and inspection project. Ms. Pantzen walks through that.

So the utility owns and operates six water storage tanks. We can store up to 8,250,000 gallons of water at any given time. The tanks are a critical part of the system, so we don't produce water entirely on demand. We produce water at a steady rate, and then people use it at all different times during the day. So the tanks provide the required storage we need for peak flow and emergency fire events.

So by law, every five years, those drinking water tanks have to be taken offline, inspected, cleaned, and disinfected. So this proposal covers that required work. The base price for the proposal is about $138,000 This covers the inspection, cleaning, disinfection, and a signed and sealed engineer's report for each of the six tanks. If everything is good, that's all we're going to spend. We also have with this approval a $200,000 in contingency, which is intended to cover any repairs that we find.

Unfortunately, because of how difficult it is to take the tanks offline, it's not really cost effective to identify everything ahead of time. We need to get in there, see what we have, make those repairs very quickly, and then disinfect them and get the tanks online again. So this item includes and is proposed to be done under a continuing sole source contract with Crom. They are the manufacturer of our tanks. They do require repairs to be made by a Crom approved contractor.

So this contract covers this work, and it can also be used for any work over the term that we may elect to use them for. We don't have anything planned outside of this at this time. But since we went to the effort to negotiate the contract for cleaning and repair work and find mutually agreeable terms, we thought it made sense to have it available for future use should something come up. Future use of this contract still requires us to come to counsel to get approval in accordance with our purchasing requirements, depending on the amount. So with that, staff is recommending a task order for a contract with Crom for our five year inspections and cleaning services of up to $337,935.35 Any questions? I'm happy to answer.

The

$200,000 in owner control contingency you probably even said it if it's not used because nothing's wrong, and that just goes

back It just goes right back into the capital fund, yep. And we're hoping the last time did this five years ago, obviously. And we buttoned them up in very, very good condition. So I'm hoping we don't have a lot, but we really just don't know until we go in these tanks about once every five years.

Got it. Vice President, do have a question?

I do. Just so I fully understand, we don't necessarily have to use we're not using those funds now. We just want to have them

Available.

So that in the event that we do need them, we already approve them, they're ready to go, and you don't need to come back.

Yes. When we take the tanks offline, we set a target. We want to have them offline for one tank. Have to do it one by one, and we take them off for two weeks at a time, and that's the most we want to do. So we want to get in there, identify any repairs we have to make very quickly, and just get it online as fast as we can.

All good, next one.

All

right, next item is authorization to order contract for the water reclamation facility, Aeration Basin 3, Manway addition, and concurrently also a task order for the same project. And Ms. Pantz can take us to this one.

Sure. So at the wastewater plant, we have three aeration basins. So these are very large tank structures, very central to the wastewater process where organics are broken down. So these are the three largest structures on the plant site. One of the three basins, the newest one, is Aeration Basin 3. It has a concrete top, and there's just one access point in the entire structure. So it's up a tall set of stairs and down a ladder. So these structures are very large. We have to get people in and out from time to time. They have to be cleaned, emptied, equipment taken in and out.

So from a safety standpoint, a confined space of this size, you really want to have more than one access point. And so from a maintenance standpoint, and getting equipment and debris in and out, the current configuration isn't ideal. To help with this, we're proposing constructing two thirty six inches manways. So these are water tight openings at the base of the structure. They're I mean, you're standing next to them, they're like two stories tall, or a story and a half.

And this is basically at grade, at the base of the structure on each corner, to facilitate access and maintenance by our staff. So the structural openings, they were designed by Hazen and Sawyer, and a bid was put out. We got three bids. The lowest was Crom, actually coincidentally, for $188,700 which was about $100,000 less than the other two bidders. So we pretty happy with the set of bids.

That bid price does include $25,000 in contingency. So staff is recommending approval of the construction contract, and we're also recommending approval of $23,910 work order to Hazen and Sawyer, their engineers, for construction phase services to assist with structural inspections, RFIs, and things of that nature. Any questions? I'm happy to answer.

Any idea what we attribute the discount to from Prom, dollars 100,000 less than

the other two? No, I think. I mean, they're good at this work.

Happy with it.

Yeah, no, I was happy with it.

Any questions?

I think that's in the range of what we estimated, so it's along the lines of what we were expecting. All That's all I

right. Brings us to the next item, which is authorization to award a contract for the C8 Multi Use Pathway and execute a task order for the CEI services, and additionally execute a supplemental agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation. And mister Reinsvotn take us through it.

Thank you. This project is to construct a new multi use pathway along the CA Canal. It's along the east side of the CA Canal corridor. It extends from Forest Hill Boulevard to Stribling Way. The focus of this presentation here will be on council authorization that's needed to move this project forward to construction.

We are asking for $451,000 in construction funding with $30,000 in CEI services. We are also asking for a supplemental agreement with FDOT to be revised to adjust the funding that is attached to this project. Total cost would be $481,679 This slide shows the limits along Stribling Way. As you can see, Pathway is along the corridor of the CA Canal. There's a non zero chance that in the future, the roadway on Stribling Way will be widened.

And in such case, there would be no space left over for a multiuse pathway. So this would supplement that in the future should that happen. The existing corridor but residential, the Wellington Mall, and there's also existing utilities within that corridor, including a potable water main, forced main, and reclaimed water main, which would not be affected by this project as everything will be above ground. The project itself is a 10 foot pathway. Again, it's a one mile connection between two points.

This is a lab construction project, which means it's delivered through the FDOT local agency program, which means that we have to use a construction engineering inspector, CEI oversight, to actually administer the program. It's one of the requirements of the grant. That's where WGI comes in. They include construction administrations, submittal review, and field inspections. Primary scope, of course, is to add a 10 foot multiuse pathway while maintaining the character of the corridor.

This went out to bid in January. We received 13 proposals. Low bid was M and M All Paving, operating as All County Paving. The FDOT construction contribution is $355,000 Our contribution is $95,000

That's part of the most important part of

the slide showing that most of the money is coming from FDOT,

not Most of the money is coming from FDOT, exactly. And construction duration would be one hundred and twenty days. We hope to get this going by the June. In fact, we have to get it going by the June per our agreement. And we'll be looking for authorization to start from you guys. And of course, we recommend approval to award construction contract to all paving or all county paving, CEI task order to WGI, and to authorize the supplemental the FDOT supplemental agreement. And with that, I'll take any questions you have.

All right.

We've been talking about this for a while. Glad we're getting to it and glad we're using most of the money from FDOT instead of our own money because you know once we widen Striveling, we're going to lose the pathway we have right now. Good project, good use of funds.

Yes. So if there's a 0% chance that scribbling is or is going to be widened, would it be better? And I know that there's a deadline to utilize this money by June so that we keep the grant or whatever it is from the county. Is it better to just wait to add the multimodal 10 foot path when you're widening scribbling and then utilize these $355 from the county in a different location? Because my question really centers on who's using that multimodal path. Is it so that we connect Village Park to Forest Hill? Is it so that people in Oakmont and Castellina can go to

Forest Hill and wherever from there? What's the purpose of this particular one mile stretch? Agreed. So I see your concern that there's two parallel paths next to each other. And the reason for it is, as stated, the likelihood of struggling being widened within five to ten years is very high.

We went through the process with the MPO, our local MPO, which is Palm Beach County, to go through some of these projects. And this was put project was put on the list, as a future project. And during the selection process, they identified this particular project as a high priority project to construct with the notion that the future widening would happen since we don't have enough room in that corridor for a multiuse pathway. And since we now have funds to do it, most of it, 75% of it is grant funds. State funds, yeah.

I recommend that it would be a good time to do it now. This is quite a deal.

And you take it when the money's available because it will be there next time.

Right. So my second part of the question was, is there another place that we can utilize those funds that are smarter to use them now versus do the multimodal and then do a

road extension later? At this point, if we ask that question From widening? Yeah. If we ask that question to answer your question, yes, probably. If we ask that question, like, three years ago, that would certainly be able to make you know, we'd certainly be able to actually take those funds and transfer them. But at this point, we're They're projects We're married to this project. Projects. Yeah. This project is a form.

They're not just a free grant

to

spend on something else. This is

dedicated It's going to be this.

And I think maybe something that may have been missed in Jonathan's explanation is that while there will be work on stripling at some point, whether they be additional through lanes, turn lanes or a combination thereof from Forest Hill to the roundabout is that the right of way limits are such considering our adjacency to the existing easement also for the FPL corridor that's there is that at some point, depending on the extent of that widening that will happen is that it may eliminate portions, if not all, or narrow up the existing pathway there. So the reality is that at some point when that roadway is expanded, you may lose most, if not all, of that pathway. And this would end up being main path. Understood.

Makes sense. Cool. If I may, what's is the there typically a three year ramp period for identifying a project, getting it funded, and getting ready to start?

So this project was actually first conceptualized in 2019. So these TPA projects go anywhere from six, seven, sometimes eight years from the time they're conceptualized. Long way of

succession plan that the projects

get on the list and they last up to five years and they get renewed and put

back on there. It's not the money's available today. It's very rare that the TPA I'm on

the board for ten years. It's very rare

that money comes in immediately, so usually prioritize, you get on the list, and then you just wait patiently until your project gets reached and you get the funds. And hopefully, the funds are still available when you get reached,

and they don't reprioritize that we've been reached.

We love all our state and federal partners, but this timing is sometimes only rivaled by FEMA reimbursement. That's that's that's how it works. Just a good little quick way back. One of the comments that we're adjusting the budget for, the Milton reimbursement, happened two years ago. That's fast. Mr. Zombrowski will confirm that some of our previous reimbursements have taken double or triple that time frame before.

Bruce made some phone calls.

Probably true.

Thanks Jonathan.

Back to you Jonathan. Brings us to our next item which is authorization to utilize the school district of Palm Beach County contract with Air Club, sorry. Award contract for Greenbrier Boulevard Bike Lanes Air Club to Greenview Shores and the second item as part of that is execute a task order for CEI services and lastly another supplemental agreement with FDOT.

Similar type funding.

Similar funding. And to bring it back to the last statement of the last project that we were just talking about, the funding for the conceptualization of this project actually happened in 2017. So this one's even this one's about nine years old. So anyway, just fun fact. So that's Greenbrier Boulevard Bike lane project. This is an AI generated image of what the corridor could look like after we finish.

I thought that was 11 right there.

Yep. It's on my I skinny do want to point out that the bike lanes wouldn't actually be green. It's just shown for clarity on here. They would be green at the conflict points, but not along the whole corridor. So for this project, we're asking for $3,458,000 in construction and $219,000 in CEI services.

This is a much larger project than the C8. It's 1.9 miles long. It entails widening the road. It has drainage improvements, so we'd be actually raising the road in certain areas to accommodate some of the drainage concerns that we've had or drainage issues that we've had on Greenbrier throughout the years. And Mr. Wagner's team can attest to how often it floods in certain areas in Greenbrier. So that's part of the project that we'd be fixing. And this one also has a supplemental lap agreement, that we would be needing to execute to provide the funding. Total project cost, dollars 3,677,000. There's also a Vision Zero component to this project.

Back in 2024, we went through the process of creating a Vision Zero action plan. In that plan, there was certain projects that were called out. This was one of them. It's a to add bike lanes along certain corridors. If you look at that map there, all the areas in purple are corridors that we are looking to add bike lanes to in the future or as part of mill and overlay projects.

And this one is obviously a project that went through the FDOT LAP agreement process, and we're looking to utilize grant funds for this one as well. Project extends from Arrow Club to Greenview Shores Boulevard. We have residential it's mostly abutted by residential equestrian communities and bookmarked by two community parks. We have Greenbrier Park on the West side and Tiger Shark Cove on the East Side. There's also an elementary school next to Tiger Shark Horizons.

Horizons, correct. Length is 1.9 miles, and it is a collector road. We'd be putting in five foot bike lanes on each side of the project or each side of the roadway. Of course, doing drainage improvements to accommodate the additional impervious area, raising the roadway, adjusting the swales, etcetera. Part of the project as well, and it's being coupled with the public works function of mill and overlay, so that we don't come back and do a project twice, we're pairing the project with the mill and overlay program.

And we're adding enhanced crosswalks to the equestrian and pedestrian mid block crossings and preserving the corridor not preserving the corridor by not removing the trees. So there's no landscaping that's going to be affected by the addition of these bike lanes. If you're familiar with the corridor, there's a lot of Washingtonians on that road that people in the area quite adore.

Sorry, can you go back to the last point that was Sure. Up This does not impact equestrian bridal paths?

No.

This is a typical section of the roadway. We're showing five foot bike lanes. We're actually narrowing the through lanes from 12 foot to 11 foot, which is consistent with the rest of the EP Equestrian Preserve area. Most of the roadways around there are 11 foot lanes. We do that for traffic calming to keep the speeds down as much as possible.

The existing, of course, the bridal trails to remain and the trees are to remain. There's also a multimodal path, along the south side of corridor, that will remain as well. I should have led with this, but the FDOT funding is $2,400,000

It's going to get there.

Yeah. And our funding for this project is 1,000,000 of which I would point out that most of that funding comes from the Millen overlay program, which is something that we would be doing anyway.

Right, for the road repairs?

Correct. Another one that the LAP agreement expires 06/30/2027. So we have to get this one going by 06/30/2026 in order to meet that deadline. Of course, the funds are available in the Gas Capital Fund and Multi Purpose Pathways and Bicycle Lanes program. And we're recommending approval to award a contract to R and D paving, CEI task order to WGI, and to authorize the LAP agreement.

We have a lot of these longtime coming projects that are finally sheltered

in for the

years. It's nice to see them finally getting the funding. Any questions?

Just one more, sorry. The project plan, the How many of these are done? How many of these are futurescape? Let me go back. How many of them are wishful?

So T is in progress with this project. C1,

it

will be completed next time we do mill an overlay. The bike lanes are actually there on C1. That's Greenview Shores Boulevard. However, they're not marked and signed properly. So next time we do the mill and overlay, we'll mark and sign them properly.

Item A1 will be actually coming back to you on June 30 for a mill and overlay program to add in bike lanes along that corridor. That's Wellington Trace from Greenview Shores to Forest Hill. Then A2 is Wellington Trace, which is the roadway that connects Forest Hill to Forest Hill, the road where the water treatment plant is on. So that one is a future future project. We have nothing allocated for that. That's something we would have to apply for in the future, as part of our Vision Zero grant applications that we do yearly.

And Dee is ready? Dee is finished? South Shore?

Dee would be coming to you actually, we applied for a grant already with Dee, and we're waiting on if that's going to be approved or not. Either way, if it's approved or not, what we would do with that one is next time it next time it's up for Millen Overlay, we would add the bike lanes to to that roadway.

And c two is

C2, that's another one. So a little background on C2. C2 was a lab project that was actually funded at the same time that this project was. From the time that we estimated the project, back in 2017, project prices doubled, sometimes tripled. So we actually took the funds, asked to to bring the funds from c two to project t, so that we can actually do one of the projects. But we we do have a set of plans. It's designed. We we would just need funding to do it. Okay.

Any questions? That's all. Thank you, Jonathan. Thank you.

Thank you.

Alright. Next item is authorization to utilize the school district Palm Beach County contract with precision air as a basis for pricing for village hall server room HVC replacement. Mister Bill, can get us started. Mister Wagner is here to answer any questions. And if we need to bring mister Silliman out of the bullpen. I see him. I'm sure he's listening in radio and TV land that we can bring some detail if we need it.

Okay, we're looking to utilize a school district of Palm Beach County contract with precision air systems as a basis for pricing to replace the village hall server room HVAC in the amount of $124,485 The contract that we're using the Palm Beach County School District contract, I'll show

you how that works.

If you turn the page to go to page 300 in your books, you can see that this was awarded, it actually was awarded this year in 2026, it's a three year contract and they awarded it to 13 different HVAC vendors and you can see they're listed there beginning with abundant air heating all the way down to Southeast chiller services on the chart. And basically what we do is we utilize that contract, reach out all 13 awarded vendors that the school district awarded a contract to, and we ask them to provide a quote on this specific project. So we were able to get six of the 13 proposals or awarded vendors to bid on this project and Precision Air Systems came in at the lowest price at $124,485 I think we all have used Precision Air Systems here quite frequently. And '21 they've done a good job for us so at this point we're recommending awarding a contract to Precision Air Systems.

They're the cheapest and we like them. Seems like a win.

They were Wellington residents too. That was a good thing.

Even better.

Obviously, they've done a good job, but we're going

to be using them.

That's correct.

And do they service the unit after install?

They they will, but we we take care of that after that. In the beginning, it's on them,

but then we take it off.

This is an original, though. That's the reason why it's getting replaced. And, of course, there's server room. Bill served room.

Gotta keep that place cold. Gotta keep it

cold. Yeah.

Mr. Darnes, next

item brings us to authorization to award contracts for disaster related debris management and support.

Oh, it's hurricane season.

Again, we have Mr. Del Vega has started and Mr. Wagner to provide any backup required.

Alright. We're seeking authorization to award contracts to Thompson Consulting LLC and Ralston Solutions LLC to provide the village with disaster related debris management and support services. The firms shall support the village during a disaster recovery effort and will be responsible for the overall monitoring of debris collection and provide consulting services to assure that the village has the necessary compliance and documentation to support full reimbursement for all eligible disaster related recovery costs from FEMA, FHWA, the state of Florida and all other federal agencies. So we issued an RFP for this and we are looking to award contracts, standby contracts to Thompson Consulting as a primary and Roast and Solution as a secondary firm. And you're not authorizing any spend at this point.

These are just contracts that are standby contracts and Lord forbid we get an emergency hurricane or tornado hits, we've got these folks already contracted and awarded by counsel. So we can bring them on immediately. This would be a five year contract and would have two additional one year renewals. And like I mentioned before, these are unit price contracts will be standby contracts in the event of an emergency and no compensation is paid to an awarded vendor unless we issue a notice to proceed for this debris monitoring and FEMA reimbursement consulting services. So, is important for us.

We have them on standby, anything happens, we pick up the phone, we call them and they help us with all the paperwork related to monitoring all of collection, trucks, amounts, so forth, and, we can then seek FEMA reimbursement like we just received and you saw previously.

These are the administrative companies, not the people hauling and picking

it up?

Those coming soon. Yeah.

Okay. Correct. Correct.

Why the order of Thompson first, Froston second, and touch

up tertiary?

There

an RFP that was issued, and if you look at I'll show you how it works. Did you look at Page three fourteen of your packet?

Ed, explain the whole ranking process so people know how this works.

Yes. Basically what we do is we issue an RFP looking for qualified firms and we establish criteria. You can see on page three fourteen, you can see Nicole Coates is the first one. She was on there's a five member selection committee. If you look on page three fourteen, it's got Nicole Coats and Anna Acevedo were the first two of the members on the selection committee.

And they basically score based on qualifications of experience from zero to 35 points, technical approach and methodology from zero to 35 points, and the fees to perform services from zero to 30 points. And each one of the selection committee members, and this included Nicole Coats, Anna Acevedo, if you turn the page to three fifteen, you got Matt Mills, Elizabeth Orocho, and Dennis Larrity. So those were the five selection committee members. They basically score each one of them based on the scoring criteria, and then we convert their grand totals to a ranking. And then what we do is we add the rankings of all five selection committee members.

So if you look at I'll start on page three fourteen. If you look at Rosten, Nicole had them as a ranked third, Anna had them ranked second.

They all ranked Thompson number one. Three. Yeah.

And then what we do is we add up all their rankings and the one with the total with the totally the less number of ranked is the highest ranked. So in other words Like golf. Correct. So if you can see the final rankings were on page 316. Rosten had 12 total ordinal points, which converted to a ranking of two. TETRA had 13 ordinal points, which converted to a ranking of three. And Thompson had a total ordinal point of five, which was a ranking of one. So everyone on the committee had Thompson ranked number one. And when you multiply that times five committee members, that's where you get your five total ordinal points.

So just to clarify, it's not based solely on price because it's $40,000 less to use TETRA, but Thompson had better perceived results. Qualifications.

Qualifications. Understood. Methodology. Yeah. We used Thompson three times, we're actually getting money faster now than we've ever done it before.

The pricing that was used are all based on estimated hours and emergency or you know, so those are going to vary, but it gives us at least a for the selection committee to look at in order to score based on pricing. Understood, thank you.

Any other questions? Seeing none. Next item. A lot of consent items.

Item which is authorization to order contract for roadway striping and pavement marking services and approving what we've got listed right now for FY 26 projects. So

we're looking to we utilize a contract to provide pavement marking and striping services for roadway construction, resurfacing, rehabilitation projects. The contract provides village wide striping and pavement marking services including temporary and permanent painted striping, thermal plastic striping, refurbishment and replacement of existing traffic markings, installation of green bike lane pavement markings and symbols and placement of replacement of retro reflective pavement markers. So we issued a bid on 02/25/2026 for roadway striping and marking services. We're recommending awarding a contract to three vendors, McShay contracting as the primary awardee, Stefan and Sons as a secondary and Southwide Industries as a tertiary awardee. The initial term of the contract is for three years from the date of award and with two additional one year periods.

And you can see listed are the projects that were already budgeted and approved in the budget for 2026, which include Guilford Subdivision, Burkdale Drive, Greenview Shores Boulevard, Wellington Trace, Big Blue to Forrestal Boulevard, Wellington Trace, Greenview Shores to Big Blue, Wellington Trace Greenview Shores to Greenbrier, Avondale Woods, Tiger Shark parking lot including the area behind the baseball fields, and Wellington Trace signing and pavement markings including bicycle lanes. The total estimated cost of all of these projects is $630,037 Like I said, this was all budgeted in this year's fiscal budget. This is just the procurement of it and we're seeking authorization to go ahead and award those contracts to get these projects started.

Bruce, we've worked with these companies before. Do you like them?

McShea is the only one we haven't. They're number one, but they are tremendous. We've looked at their product and everything like that and they're doing an excellent job, so we can't wait

to start up. You're excited to start using them? It must have come in with a good number finally. Correct.

No grant money here?

No grant money. Okay.

Bruce, can you make some calls?

Right. When it's time to select or prioritize the locations that are gonna get service, what's the what's the methodology? There's a roadway rating that we have and we go through each, know, usually the oldest and what happens is anything under a 70. That's when we start to mill an overlay and restriping and stuff like that. Is that anything under a 70, is that a condition of wear, use, age? Every one of those. All that.

When do you anticipate on starting these projects?

Actually once this gets approved.

Tomorrow night.

So, no.

Probably June.

That will be at 12:11 tonight.

Usually. You know that.

Yes. And is that going to be happening at the same time as mister Reinhold project that he discussed before? As I heard Greenview Shores, are they gonna No.

Coming back to tell you.

We're married to each other. And look,

they're church matched.

We called each other.

We were

hoping to arrest

you. Who's wearing the ring?

But what happens is we're in constant communication so we do we do not overlap or anything like that. We try to you know and this one's going to have though the contractors are going to be the same on this particular one you know, we will not be stepping on each other.

Now we coordinate all those things so we get it all done at one time. So we brought that together two or three times. Correct.

I just want to make sure that was cleared for the ones that are listening that this is not going to be

No, we don't do that.

You're We have a full presentation for you on Wednesday of all the projects that will be going on this summer.

Very exciting. I look forward to that.

It's exciting for me.

I know. No falling asleep during it, though. I'm good.

Anything else on that? Striking? All good?

Mister Barnes.

Alright. Next item is authorization to utilize Palm Beach County contract for multipurpose pathway parking lot and sidewalk improvements.

Just as

they can get it started and twins can back them up.

Public works department is requesting authorization to utilize Palm Beach County pathway and minor continuing services construction contract which was awarded to Wynn and Sons Environmental Construction. The contract was awarded executed 03/10/2026 and expires 09/09/2027. Several village locations have been identified for rehabilitation based on observed conditions including pavement deterioration, concrete degradation, vegetation intrusion, drainage concerns and ADA accessibility deficiencies. We have identified three projects that are listed. The first one is Brookdale Road, Forest Hill Boulevard to Wellington Trace at a cost of $338,380.50.

Second project is annual sidewalk replacement Guilford subdivision and Chatsworth Village at a cost of a $193,520 and Tiger Shark Cove parking lots and roadway at a cost of $142,311 Total cost of all three projects is $674,211.5 All these projects were budgeted in this year's fiscal year and this is the procurement of such projects and we're seeking authorization to go ahead and award this contract to Wynn and Sons who has done a massive amount of work here at the village and I think Mr. Wagner is very happy with her.

Yes, definitely.

Just in case your words confuse anyone, the annual sidewalk replacement, we don't replace our sidewalk every year in that location. Sounds

It's an annual contract

Correct. In case they don't

think we're going

to replace it every year.

That we do when we're we're coming into your particular area, we do the sidewalk, we do the swale, and then we do the roadway. We try to do it that way. It works out so much better. We give you a whole instead of back in the day, they used to do it differently. Now we try to give you the whole area, tries to get a uniform completed thing, then we move on. I know usually, times, I'm not gonna see you for another fifteen years.

I was just gonna say, these hold up for fifteen?

Yes.

This project is going start right away as well. That's approved. Any other questions?

Jim, we go all the

way to queue. I just want to make sure there any questions today. I wanna encourage any engagement here. Authorization to utilize the city of Green Acres contract for the removal of replacement of split rail wood fencing along South Shore from Lake Worth Road to 50th Street. Just so that way, can get us started again and the lovely couple can help.

The Public Works Department is seeking authorization to utilize an existing city of Green Acres fence installation maintenance and repair services contract with e Gomez Construction for the removal and replacement of approximately 5,080 linear feet of deterioration deteriorating split rail wood fencing along South Shore Boulevard and Lake Worth Road to 50th Street. We're basically seeking authorization to utilize this contract with E. Gomez. The cost of the project is $135,700.

We're here to answer your questions. Is it on both sides of South Shore?

It's one side of South Shore.

That was good because one side is gonna get developed. We got a whole story. Okay.

Next items to renew existing contract for the purchase and food fertilizers and chemicals. So if we get it started, mister Wagner can answer any questions.

The village utilizes a variety of fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and other special specialty items throughout the year to maintain the health and aesthetics of athletic fields, playgrounds, and other village properties, including common areas. We awarded a contract on 05/14/2024 to three vendors. And 05/13/2020 May 14 through 05/13/2026, only two vendors, Howard Fertilizer Chemicals LLC and SiteOne Landscape Supply LLC agreed to renew contracts. Now we do have some price increases and decreases from both of them based on our usage last year. The fiscal annual impact of these increases and decreases nets out to about $37,000 more than what we paid last year if we use the same amount of quantities.

Now we don't know what quantities we're going to be using because those fluctuate depending on need, but we did assess it based on last year's usage and the increases total approximately $37,000 if we're able to use if we need to use the same amount of material. At this point, we're still looking to renew these contracts and it'll be good to do 05/13/2027. Any questions?

Next item is authorization to renew an existing contract for the purchase and delivery of fill materials.

Parks maintenance and landscape maintenance use a variety of fill materials to maintain park facilities. We issued a bid on or actually awarded a contract on 06/14/2022 and this was initial contract of two years with three additional one year renewals. This is the request for a final third and final annual renewal to do 06/13/2027. You can see that this is a contract with Florida Superior Sand. You can see on the chart there are some minor increases from 0% all the way to 6.13%.

Not a huge increase when you tally it up and we expect the annual impact to be about $2,000 more annually, so significantly less than the fertilizers. We're Try to

bid this out again next year?

Yes, we have to bid it next year. Last year.

Questions on Phil? Seeing none.

Alright. Next item is to award a sole source contract ThorGuard Inc. For the purchase and installation service of a lightning prediction and warning system. Bill, can get us started.

The Public Works Department maintains lightning prediction and warning systems at village facilities to ensure public safety during severe weather events. The existing systems at Greenbrier Park and Tiger Shark Park require upgrading due to outdated software that is no longer supported. In addition, the public works facility currently has no lightning prediction coverage and requires a system installation. So we are seeking authorization to invest $58,065 in order to get those systems in place at those three locations with ThorGuard and ThorGuard is the system that we use throughout the village, for instance, Village Park, our town center, our aquatic facility, they all use ThorGuard. So we need to use ThorGuard in these three places and we are seeking authorization to spend $58,065 in order to get those three locations done.

Keep everyone safe. Bruce, you guys actually go in and stop working when the thing goes off or they keep working and ignore course Don't answer the question. They're going.

It's the same on the golf course.

Right. I should stop playing now.

Yeah. How many facilities do we have in the village that have no lightning prediction coverage? Are we in are we in for this in the future for other facilities? Trying to think.

After after this, every court

should have it. Maybe Julie's area might not have it.

Waste water plant.

I mean,

we have lightning protection. We have this

particular We just don't

have the prediction. But, basically, generally, with the exception of public works, we have a larger yard area. It's been limited to either parks or any place where you got a larger outside.

Large congregation of people.

Right. And Greenbrier is a new one because we relocated the public works storage yard to that location. And previously, the only park that was out there was the dog park, which generally didn't have people the way you do at sports fields or golf courses where people want to stay out even when it's lightning and considerably inclement weather outside.

So that's Greenbrier Park, you got Tiger Shark Public Works, and then the Aquatics Center is also

Aquatics already has it.

There's a

Village Park. There's a complete system for all the Village Parks. There's a complete system here at town center that existed when the pool was here and will remain throughout those areas.

And how often are those tested?

A weekly.

Lot of times the big issue is making sure that somebody doesn't turn them off.

Correct. Do we

have it at the South Shore Park, did you want?

Yes. Yes. Okay.

Any other questions? Moving along. Oh, we're queue.

Alright. The Last consent item is authorization to utilize the city of West Palm Beach contract for permit inspection fee evaluation services. Mister Stillings is here unless mister Delvay

Mister Stillings.

So we've been the benefactor of a few legislative bills that are affecting how we can collect permit fees. The legislation is requiring us to no longer base our fees on the cost or value of construction. So we have to go strictly to a cost recovery and fee based upon the actual costs that we expend to provide the permitting review and inspection service. This will apply to utilities and engineering as well, so they're included in the scope of services. We've used Reftalis twice now in the past, the first time to do a full review of our permits, permit fees for building, and then more recently an evaluation of what their estimates and projections were from that initial report analysis.

So we've been very happy with their work and they understand our system and have worked well with our finance department through our previous work and recommend approval of this proposal.

So they're going to help us figure out how to comply with the new legislation?

Yes, sir. Okay.

The new legislation, I'm assuming it's spelled out like in black and white as far as like your project costs are x, y, and z, and labors x, y,

and z? No, that's what we have to determine. That's what Reftellus is doing. Yeah. So it just simply says it has to be based on costs incurred. That's all it says.

Which is a vast departure from DELL: project

value. Which was easier to

this point, it was basically based on project value. And you had some tiered approaches as to 2,000,000. And as projects got more expensive, the percentage went down. But generally, it's the same thing. Engineering was based on 4% of the construction value of the site civil and utilities had a prescribed service based on the amounts as well. But at this point going forward, all our fees have to be based on actual services revenue.

So it's a much more complicated formula now than it was before. Right.

It will be. What do

you anticipate that doing to permit fees increasing, decreasing, probably about the same? We won't

know until we get into it. I suspect it will decrease it a little bit. That's one of the other elements of RAF work is they're going to help us with identifying how we can use our reserves because we have a bit I won't say in excess, but we have a large reserve that we need to spend down because we're only allowed to carry over certain amount based upon our operating expenditures.

Can't move that into another fund.

Unfortunately, so just for a little quick

background. Change the

rules on

that too.

Background is years ago there was always the way the model for building was designed, and I'll speak specifically to building because the rest of the utilities are separate because that's an enterprise fund. Building, while we treat it like an enterprise fund, isn't set up as an enterprise fund, but it's treated that way. And engineering goes back to general fund. But for building, the concept was always whatever reserves we had would ultimately continue to fund the department at a certain level, perhaps a higher level of service during what we'll call lean years, where we have either fewer building projects, development, or what have you. And over time, if it got to the point where the expenses to run the department exceeded the actual revenue being brought in, those would help cover some of that.

Forward to a few years ago, there have been continually continual annual changes to the legislation that have addressed how local governments can either one, spend the building fund money reserves, what it can be spent on, etcetera, up to and including the most recent legislative session where and last session where there were changes to be able to spend it and limited the ability of the building department to use it for capital improvements. That was also a secondary plan is that the original concept for the PBSO substation was actually a joint use building where you had the building department sharing space with the PBSO. That way a percentage of the cost for that project could be offset with building funds, we had some available to use for that project. That's no longer allowed as well. So we're going to be looking at that as part of the evaluation.

And one thing going forward, given that we're going to have to look at fees reflecting strictly cost of services rendered, that will definitely affect how we evaluate the model going forward and what we use those funds for.

Questions? Questions?

Question. In every instance, we're borrowing somebody else's contract. In this case, we're leaning on the authorization to utilize City of West Palm Beach contract. Other cases, green acres and so forth. Are those the most recent? This one I noticed is dated February '26. Are those the most recent, most vetted, most price negotiated? Why do we lean on those particular agreements to utilize?

I'll go ahead and field that one first and certainly Mr. DelVey can provide any additional background and context. But generally speaking, we look first at scope and that is generally a requirement is that, you know, if your scope of services that you need are not included in the scope that's previously included in the prior in a different local government's contract, well, you can't use it. So we look at scope. We look at certainly pricing, but that's not the only thing we look at.

It's primarily scope. And then, ultimately, we also, just like we would in traditional bids, you know, we look at references and talk to people about the value and and the and the service level they've received. And a lot of times, as you guys experienced with the other explanation we gave you a couple of meters ago, as it relates to coops, it's the same thing. If somebody has already gone through the effort and cost of actually going out for a request for proposals on a qualifications based process or an actual bid, then that also saves us some additional dollars because while it may not seem like a lot, we do have quite a bit of man hours involved including time that the department, you know, can't be using the service when we actually have to go to straight de novo RFP or bid process for a project. And it's not that there's any one particular local government between the purchasing staff and the using department.

They generally will research what's available. Certainly, And one, purchasing won't let us use anything that's not a current valid contract, and generally that involves us checking to make sure what's the most recently bid project out there.

It seems to be spread fairly well around.

Yeah, we're not picky. We want to look at what gives us the best price.

We are picky. We are picky.

We're not picky in terms of like we just want to have one local We generally want to get the best price and the service.

And also the IG does recommend piggybacking because of the cost savings to municipalities and having to procure independently something that has already gone through a competitive procurement The

RFP we looked at, we had five employees working through the three vendors and grading them and putting the RFP together. That takes a lot of time.

That takes lot of time.

Daytime job. If we can find a good deal somewhere else, we'll just take it.

Excellent. Thank you very much for the explanation.

That concludes our consent agenda, brings us to the regular agenda. First item on the regular agenda is Walton athletics discussion. Mr. Delvay can get us started on this one.

Yeah, we've been meeting with Mr. Bostick and

Is there any backup material? Because there's nothing in here.

Actually, just got an email at 04:39PM, Gemini, which seems like it's a very detailed email, which I'm assuming we're going to be forwarding to counsel. It talks about project updates, addressing key concerns, facility maintenance, cleanliness, all the things that we've been talking to him about the last few months. It seems like he's addressed most of those and like I haven't even had a chance to read this yet, but we'll forward this to you. Mr. Bostik will be here tomorrow and he'll basically give you an update of where they are.

They just received their CO within the last month or so. He's got a lot of different things going on out there, and there's there's gonna be, as as I understand it, an ask to, for the village to consider, allowing him to use one of the fields out there on nights and weekends, which will help his programming. And all of the different things that are he's required to provide as part of the comprehensive agreement we've spoken to him about, whether it be management company, the cleanliness or maintenance of the facility, use of our court. So all of those things he's going to address tomorrow in person. So you can hear him out and make a determination of which way we want to go.

Any questions? Without getting into specifics, and we can't get into that if we want to.

Not right now for me.

I'll save it for tomorrow. Any questions right now?

It would have been nice to get the information earlier printed out and ready to go. Not your fault, it's his fault, but it would have been nice to have that and have more time to review it than just tomorrow at some point. Right.

Look forward to the email.

Sounds good. Okay.

Alright. Next item is resolution number twenty twenty six dash twenty special magistrates election and appointment. No.

You skipped over boards and committees.

Boards and committees. Basically means

Board didn't slip, I don't know why. Council appointment of boards and committees is actually regular item 9B.

Which we'll do tomorrow.

Absolutely. On to the third item, which is special suit number 2026Dash20. Mr. Stoehling is ready to give us some quick background on that special magistrate selection and appointment, as well as a special magistrate reappointment.

So at the direction of counsel, we put out the request for letters of interest for additional special magistrates to add to our fleet of magistrates. We did not receive a large response. The two that you have in front of you that are new are the two that we received. The other two are reappointments of mister Posner on an as needed basis and miss Hahn for an additional two years. And so we recommend the well, you have Rafael Suarez Rivas, who was a magistrate from 2013 to 2021, so we have experience with him.

And then we have Mr. Richard Gendler.

I do want to point out that Mr. Gendler's firm was actually representing the plaintiff, Arian Holdings, when they filed the lawsuit against us that's currently pending. Their firm subsequently withdrew, but mister Gendler's firm, not him personally, his son, I believe, was adverse to the village. Okay.

Good information to have.

Mhmm. These are two year appointments. And that's why you said you have two separate resolutions, one for the new appointments and one for the reappointment.

So we're ideally looking to reappoint the two who are serving who want to stay and add one additional person to the roster?

One or more. One or more. Okay. Think we were looking And

it'll serve

at the pleasure of counsel. If we don't like someone by Thursday, can vote to remove them in next meeting. They're not locked in for two year terms?

Yes. Okay.

And we just I think in our request to go out for the letter of interest, we've had several instances where we've had possible conflicts among the magistrates and wanted to make sure we had enough of them to cover in the case of multiple conflicts.

Specifically with respect to the school speed zone hearings, Ms. Hahn is not able to hear those, nor is Mr. Posner, because Ms. Hahn works for the school district, and they are a beneficiary of those funds. And Mr. Posner's firm represented Genoptik in their corporate filings. And so those two are not able to hear those hearings, which leaves us just with the law firm

who Which has one person or two people?

Well, they had two with an alternate third person. The second person has left that firm. So now we just have one

Unless we got rid of the school zone cameras.

And you already vetted Suarez Rivas to make sure that there's no conflict with

the department. No conflict with Mr. Suarez Rivas, and he served for a number of years as a special magistrate for us.

So no conflict with doing the school zone, the speed zone camera hearings?

I I have not spoken to him personally about that,

but I

tomorrow. Can

I certainly I will?

I hope not since he is part of us already.

And these are these are paid positions, I'm assuming? They're not volunteer or anything.

Right? It's $202,100 dollars an hour for magistrate services across the board.

And you need to be an attorney, anything

other than

You have to have been admitted to the bar for, I think, five years. As an attorney? I beg your pardon?

Five years as an attorney is the requirement?

Yes. Yes.

Can you vet both of them, even though obviously I would think that our first pick would be Suarez Rivas that just vet Make Sure. Both sure that they of can

Okay.

Just for background, what we have with the magistrates handle used to be many years ago an item items handled by a volunteer board like boards and committees that you'll be discussing tomorrow evening. We used to have code enforcement board, but the council several years ago made a determination to move to a magistrate system of enforcing and implementing those codes and ordinances and penalties. And Many years we have since used them.

I was on counsel when we did that. What

else you got?

That's all I have and just to reaffirm just what we spoke about briefly in the beginning. Looks like she has something, but let me finish this one. We have a check from fake check, but it's got money behind it at some point. It's just a little bit over a million dollars. We had submitted the project request through the community project funding appropriation request process that happens annually through the congress.

And we were one of three other communities identified today. There were several other recipients but specific to emergency management and resiliency related requests, Lake Worth Beach, Boynton Beach, Village Of Wellington, as well as Green Acres received dollars through the appropriation process and community funding. And this was for the PBSO substation EOC project.

Okay. We'll take the grant money. Thank you. Ms. Cohen?

So we have several matters, or at least two matters, that are going to mediation. The first is the Arian Holdings versus the Village of Wellington. The mediation is scheduled on June 24 at 10AM. So I'm going to be asking you tomorrow night to select one of your members to attend that mediation with us.

What's the date again?

The date is June 24 at ten a. M. The second matter is the Isla Carroll matter, and that mediation is going to be July 30 at 09:30AM. And so we'll also need someone to attend that. I did send you a letter that Mr. Rosenbaum had sent us with respect to the denial of the Farnientes comp plan amendment.

And

he was requesting mediation, which is permitted under a specific statute. But because there has not actually been a denial yet, it's only been first reading, It's a little bit premature, so we're going to hold off on that. But I probably will ask you to go ahead and appoint someone, and then we can coordinate a date if and when we need it. So I'll ask you to do that tomorrow evening.

See for you, Ms. Cohen. When you say one of us to be present, what does that mean to us? Just show up and be there, or there's

speaking time? No, no. It's a mediation.

They're a lot of fun if you've never done one.

So what happens is the parties that have a dispute come together. Right. And there's a mediator. And they just want to make sure

what would be our role?

You would be there just as a representative of counsel, but of course no settlement could occur unless it is approved by counsel.

The person that goes has no authority. They're just there as the representative. If we decide to make a deal, we bring it back to counsel and

Right. We make would have a shade session. And then we would discuss whatever the proposed resolution is. And then if you approved it, you would have to take a public vote to approve it.

Generally the Village Attorney's Office, the Manager, and the Representative Counsel attend the mediations.

That's correct.

In case anyone wants to volunteer me, I'm available both dates.

Done. A second.

And if you just want to do one, I'm happy to do one of them.

Okay.

Myself

also. The fourth is a harder one for me. The thirtieth I can do. The twenty fourth is more challenging because I've got a board meeting in the afternoon. So if someone else we can do this tomorrow. If someone else wants I to think about

don't think that the mediation on the twenty fourth is going to be a long meeting.

I don't believe so either. Right.

So But I'd happy unless someone

else twenty fourth?

June? Yes.

Oh, okay. I can't do that one.

June 24.

What's the other date? The July 30? July 30.

I can do the thirtieth.

Oh, okay. Can do the twenty fourth.

There you go.

Okay. So in theory, tomorrow we might vote to appoint people tomorrow based on how we discuss Right. It right

And then I would like a third person just to be appointed in the event that we go forward with a mediation on the Which one? Farniente nine matter.

That was his okay. We'll flip

it It's premature, but just in case

I'd wait till we get a date, because I mean it's going to depend on who's available. If we pick someone today and they're not available at the date, we Right,

can change but I would coordinate

with whoever was Let's wait till we get to that point. That's my thought.

That's fine with me.

Anything else, Ms. Cohen?

That's it.

Anyone else along the wall have anything to chime in?

No? We go back? Just real quickly to the board appointee positions. There's an amendment with a person's resume in here, DeGraham, Mrs. DeGraham.

I apologize. She submitted her resume. She just wanted to send her resume. She sent it today.

Did she express which board she'd like to be? It's in her book. Oh, the other book. Yes. Got it. All right. Thank you.

I have a question. Is there I'm missing all of my presentations and proclamations. Is there an insert for that? Just so I can make little notes on nice things to say for tomorrow. I don't have any. What do you mean you're missing them?

I don't know.

They're not in my in my book.

You don't have, like, a page even?

I don't have anything.

Under proclamation, so. Oh, okay. Well, I it's not municipal clerk's week anymore, but I'm sure they'll be happy to help you out. Anything else?

Nope. All good.

Then we are adjourned. Thank you all for coming. See you tomorrow night.