Village Council - workshop

Here we go. Alright.

We're gonna call to order the agenda review of Village Of Wellington from Monday, February 23 at 04:30. Mister Barnes, let's get through this one quickly because we've got workshop and a shave session and then

The candidate for our festivities. That's correct. Hopefully, will be brief. Most of the items everybody's had a chance to review and have one on ones on. But just going through the agenda very briefly and quickly. First item we have presentation and proclamation. We have Doug Crane of Palm Beach County Library System here to present to us on Tuesday evening. And that's the only presentation we have. Moving along to the consent agenda, of course, we have minutes from the last meeting we had for the Zeracchi Landowners Meeting. Next item is authorization to award a contract to Pyrotechnical Fireworks for the annual fourth of July display.

We're bringing this to you as a one item. As you know, in the past, we traditionally used Zambelli. We are using the prior technical for this year, looking at trying to change up the type of show. We had a brief display from Pyrotechnico at the thirtieth anniversary celebration and that's why we're bringing them forward for this one time and depending on how that show goes, you might be looking we'll be putting the contract back out to bid. Moving to the next item, this is Resolution number AC twenty twenty six-two Land Swap Agreement with MH Wellington twenty twenty three LLC.

This is an item that council looked at many months ago and it's the piece of property at the corner of South Shore and Pearson Road. It's the portion of ACME and property that is adjacent to Mallet Hill at the corner. If you recall, what we had looked at before is the corner property owner at Mallet Hill was interested in acquiring a portion of that property while not. We reviewed it to make sure it did not impact future intersection improvements and other right of way considerations. And what's being proposed is the swap for that property and the value is $200,000 as well as the appropriate bridal trail easements and ownership of the bridal trail along Pearson Road for the property that they control.

And that's something we wanted for a while. As you noted before in Mr. Kessler's presentation to us, that has been somewhat of an orphan bridal trail since it was privately owned and not maintained. We've since acknowledgement that we would be soon taking over that property, we've started to look at that given that it's the gateway into the showgrounds.

Okay. So we're gonna swap that triangle for

the bridal trail and they're gonna pass?

Not the entire

Not not the entire area.

That runs alongside the

It's essentially cutting the triangle in half.

Right. You're right. Okay. Okay?

Any questions? It's in the book.

Alright. Next item is Resolution Number AC2026Dash01, which is authorizing the ACME Board of Vice President and Board Secretary to execute a special warranty deed in favor of Wellington Property Owner LLC together with other documents necessary to close on the Cape Park property. And Ms. Cohen can provide more detail, but this is just in advance of the transaction moving forward. This is not authorized the execution of that now. It just provides who can execute it when we are at a point that we'll be closing on the property.

So that way we don't have to

come back again to give me authority to sign everything.

Correct.

Any questions? No. Alright.

That moves us to our public hearing items. First item is resolution number 2026Dash04. This is a quasi judicial item, Wellington Village, Cape Park, conditionally used for pod a to school. And this is the portion that if you recall, that's correct. It was postponed to a date certain to this meeting to be able to provide the information details that counsel sought from the applicant at the time.

Okay. That tomorrow. Alright.

Next item is resolution number 2026Dash07 which is a Lotus two master plan amendment and this is a same area where we had looked at the uses that they were not able to prepare replacement uses for. And at this point, we don't have any information that they've got any new uses proposed. Correct? So they'll be back to present on that item and I believe the applicant has had one on ones with some of you, if not all of you. Okay.

Any questions? And then it's quasi judicial and we'll have a full presentation tomorrow evening. Next item is Resolution number 2020Five-sixty7 Isla Carol Polo Residences and PUD Master Plan together with the next item which is Ordinance twenty twenty five-twenty nine Isla Carroll, I can't even talk this evening. Polo and Residences Rezoning and those are both gradual judicial items. There will be a full presentation tomorrow evening by both the staff and the applicant.

Okay. And I know you all have also had one on one meetings with the applicant previously. Next item is Resolution No Ordinance Number 2026Dash08. This is Lake Worth Road annexation. This is strictly for a portion of the Lake Worth Road right of way in front of Panther Run Elementary School. If you recall, two years ago, we annexed Panther Run into the village.

Did you think the road in front

of it? This is the road in front of it. We only took responsibility for the sidewalk and lighting, and this gives us the ability to regulate traffic on that section of roadway. Currently, limits and ownership of Lake Worth Road terminates at our previous village limits, was at the canal, just west

The west.

Of Panther Run, and this extends our responsibility and ownership in that location. We've met with Palm Beach County on this, and we are treating this as a uniform method of annexation, sometimes also called involuntary, but they will issue a letter of no objection. Where we're in now is our public works department has evaluated the condition of the roadway. Engineering has procured geotechnical services to get a couple of different pours in the area and absent the major finding, we will take ownership and maintenance responsibility for that section of roadway. The county has tentatively agreed that should something come up between the public works evaluation as well as our core samples that geotechnically reviewed, then they would be certainly willing and able to address that with us jointly so that it's not all something that we would incur as a cost to repair.

Currently the county is okay with us annexing this road?

That's correct. Pending we accept the roadway for maintenance responsibility. Right. Course.

Any questions on that? Alright.

That brings us to the regular agenda. Two items. One item is sixth amendment to the purchase and sale agreement with Welton Property Owner LLC and approval of the termination of purchase and sale agreement with EIM. And this is the portion of the PSA that speaks directly to two things. One is the ability for Wellington Property Owner LLC related Ross to be able to assume the purchase of the school property and to take responsibility for that which corresponding then would lead us to be able to terminate the agreement that we currently have.

We have two agreements, one with related to Ross and one with EIM. And with them taking over that portion of the transaction as well, that's what is covered primarily in the agreement. The other thing that's covered in the agreement includes the ability for the transaction to also address the issue that in the future when the school property comes forward, whether it's the exact same property area or not, if it's a lesser property that then becomes a school, thereby adding more property to the mixed use portion of the project. Or in the event that the school use changes and there is something other than a school proposed there, one, they would have to go through the regular land use and zoning process to obtain approval from council. Beyond that, it would also require them then to pay the additional cost given that the property would then potentially have a higher value given the non school use.

And that's what this PSA addresses. And related,

Ross doesn't get an opportunity to purchase and keep and operate that property that's designated for the school at the price we're selling it to the school.

They have to pay a higher That's correct.

That's right. End market price.

And that and that remains in effect for ten years. That

condition holds for ten that That's correct. Okay.

And the last item on the regular agenda is consideration of the Village Manager's Employment Agreement.

Least important item on the agenda.

This will be here on Wednesday. Just like we've said before, I have a thirty day contract, it's what really works out to Sometimes there's a meeting.

Mr. Barnes and I have met on several occasions, and we have worked through relatively minor changes to his employment agreement. You all were provided in your offices both a red line of the document which walks you through those changes. And then you were also provided a memo that gives you, for example, a detailed breakdown of the village manager salaries or the like equivalent position for each of the 10 largest municipalities in the county so that you can sort of see where we slot in and where we would slot in vis a vis making sure that we are paying Mr. Barnes commensurately with the size of our municipality and the scope of the job that we all know that he does, in addition to taking into account that this is now Jim's third contract, and we had shorter ones initially when Mr.

Barnes had first taken over the position. But now that we are years into it and we know

He's off probationary status.

Yes. He's

He's off. For thirty days.

He's a keeper. Jim, you get twenty weeks.

Well, But, yeah, I'm

All good with contracts, twenty weeks.

Thirty days.

So, if any of you have questions, I'm happy to talk about it. We can talk about it tomorrow. You can talk about it with mister Barnes, whatever your all's pleasure is at this point.

You don't wanna talk about it now or follow-up with mister Barnes separately or just wait till tomorrow night?

I'll wait for tomorrow.

Okay. There's no questions now. What else do

you got? Is that the last item?

That is the last item. So you have to lapse.

And miss Cohen, we have a a shade session at 05:30 that we set on time?

Yes. Okay.

So we have until 05:30 for the next item.

Laurie, have we decided if the shade session will be in here or out there?

We have to open out there and the shade

session.

Because that's all prepared for the and they've got the nameplates of all the candidates.

Don't think that matters

at So, just open and close it in there.

Yeah. That's it. Okay. Could

We could do it all in here.

Kenny, can you put the PowerPoint presentation up please?

And so that concludes the agenda unless anybody's got any questions or anything else to add. We have a workshop and a presentation on the Wellington athletics and Wellington Sports Academy project and facility. Awesome.

Well, I'll get us started. As you guys know that we've been working on Wellington athletics and the aquatic facility at Village Park. Vertex and Warden Smith have been hard at work. It's been a lot of work as you very well know. You've been out there. The facilities look fantastic. They're great. We wanted to bring John in as well as representatives from Verdex who constructed and continues to construct the final portions of the building. We also have with us George Lindley from the Palm Beach County Sports Commission and John's going to give you guys a quick update. We're going to go through first of all first the completed portions of the building, then the couple of portions of the building that still need completion construction wise.

We're going to get into some of his programming. We'll get into some of the partnership ideas and things that John has done with us. And then I'll jump in and talk about parking because that's been one of the challenges with the site and then we'll wrap up with any questions and so forth. At this point I'll turn it over to John. You go ahead and start.

I'm sure everybody's probably seen it by now, but it's the exterior of the building. Like I said, it's it's coming along. We're excited to finally get this thing ready to to open, you know, in the next couple weeks. You know, we've got some updates that we'll talk about as as we we go through the slides. This is the south side of the building right here. I think, you know, over time is I don't even what what are these walls called again?

Green walls.

Green walls. Okay. But, yeah, it's a this a grow up really nice behind here. This sign, especially if you pass by it at night, you know, it's it's lit up at night. It looks really nice. Everybody's come by there. It's really spoken highly of that side. Front entrance right here. So it's reception desk. As soon as people walk in, this will the first thing that they see as soon as they walk in the building.

So right here, this is you know, we've kinda obviously, it's a sports building. So, you know, one of the things that, you know, we always do before you start every day, you have a team meeting. I'm sure other professions are are just like that as well, but, you know, we've started doing some stuff already in here. And, you know, we've got all the chairs and everything lined up in there. Every every desk that's in there and chair that has power at each station.

It can fit a 100 people in here including handicap. So, you know, it's a nice area for Devon and the guys to be able to meet with the kids and our volleyball staffs in there. They meet with the the kids in the afternoon, and they watch film on the practice before, even on the tournament that they might have had over the weekend. Dining and Cafe. So for everyone that doesn't know, we finally got this approved on Thursday, this past Thursday, that this can open.

So, officially, we'll get ready to start outfitting this, and the chefs have already started unpacking, you know, everything in there. Chaney Brothers just dropped things off over the weekend in the middle of the So, you know, we're we're excited to to really get ready to open this piece as well. I'm not I'm not a kitchen guy, but Chaney Brothers designed the kitchen, And, you know, everybody that's come in there has just really talked highly about, you know, the size of the kitchen and then what we'll really be able to do. So this kitchen, obviously, for tournaments, it'll be something that definitely helps us be able to make sure we can keep everyone, you know, happy and fed. We'll still have food trucks and stuff that'll be outside, you know, helping take the pressure off the kitchen, especially with the amount of people and traffic that that comes through here, but also on a daily basis.

So when parents in the afternoon are, you know, waiting for the kids outside, they've got a place to be able to sit down and eat. I'm not a Starbucks drinker, but there's a Starbucks that'll be inside here as well. So that'll that'll be a place that parents can hang out or kids even after or before practice, they'll be able to sit down and grab something to eat or even on the way home. I know some parents have always kinda complained about having to go and get your daughter something, get your son something, get your husband something, and get yourself something. But now, you know, they'll be able to grab a whole bunch of food right from here and be able to go right home.

So this is one of our locker rooms that we have. So we've got a total of four locker rooms that are actually inside this building. This is the locker room that you see on the left. This is the same company that came in when I was drafted in Chicago up in Washington and at the University of Florida. It's the same company that that came in. It's actually the same guy who did our install. So that was pretty fun to be able to see them come out, but it's a really nice locker room. The kids love it. You know, families, we got a chance to be able to show some of our, you know, volleyball parents and baseball parents. They've had a chance to be able to swing through here, and, you know, we've kinda let the kids a little bit in this way.

You know, we told them we gotta learn to keep the building clean, and and as they really get ready to fully move inside here, they'll have access to this locker room as well. Got the steam room, sauna, and showers. So if you look on the left, we've got in ground cold tub and in ground hot tub. The one all the way to the left is the hot tub, and you can see kind of the top right in that same picture. That's the cold tub that's over there.

And then on the right side of the screen, where you kind of see illuminated blue, that's the steam room and right below there is a sauna, and then we've got the showers that are on the right hand side over there. These are just restrooms, hydration places. We've a bunch of water fountains and stuff that are around the building, and I don't think there's really anything to kind of talk about on that one.

I have

a question on the bathrooms. I guess it's your decision you're not going to have paper towels.

Do have Is correct?

Are you going fill them?

We do have paper towels for the tournaments. They haven't put those in. They make everybody use the hand dryers because during tournaments, we found for whatever reason, people are stuffing paper towels down. You know, we know we inside, especially the girls' restroom, we need to get something for feminine products to be able to put inside there because a lot of people were flushing that stuff down. And, I mean, we had one tournament. It was kinda like this had to be, like, intentional. It was, like, four stalls that had flooded, like, at one time. And so Plummer came out, and he pulled everything out. So that's when we were like, you know what? For tournaments, when we know we got a lot of people in there, especially when it's our kids, we understand that, and they understand the rules, they don't do that.

But during the tournament, you've got thousands of people that are coming in and out of that place. And so the easiest way for us to be able to kind of handle that situation is to kind of just do hand dry for now.

Okay. Just a suggestion. So when the women are lining up to go into the bathroom and the men, I haven't been in there to see if it's the same setup, but the women are lining up and the hand dryer is in the way of where all the women are standing waiting to go into the bathroom, so you can't even really get over there to dry your hands. And then if there's spills on the tournament floor, can't run to the bathroom to get paper towels to clean it up. So I would suggest putting paper towels in there, but or moving the hand dryer, because there's no way really to dry your hands.

Yeah, we could talk about being able to possibly move the hand dryer, because that might be probably the easiest solution. I know when there's like spills and stuff like during tournaments, you know, we've what we've the policy we've put in is trying to have a clear bag policy to just stay in line because, one, it keeps our kids safe, keeps, you know, family safe, but also it keeps food and, you know, beverages from on top of the gym floor. Like, I know we have staff that's running around, that's, you know, doing that. Some parents, they sneak stuff in, and, you know, a lot of times, they're they're cheering for their kids, and, you know, it spills literally every two seconds on every court. So the better we can keep, you know, food and beverage out of that area, especially during tournaments, the better off we're gonna be, you know, from that.

So just being able to try to get a policy in place that takes care of not only the families and the kids that are with the Turner, but also long term for the facility.

Okay, thank you.

So this is the indoor courts space right here, and I know probably before these pictures were taken, they've already started adding the dividers in between the volleyball courts now. So when you walk in there, it looks totally different. Next couple weeks, they should have everything completely hung and finished inside the gymnasiums, but gymnasium looks amazing. Everybody's walked in there, you know, from not just, you know, individuals that are coming to our events, but even some of the NBA players, ex NBA players that have walked in our facility have been, you know, very pleased and surprised with what we've been able to build here so far.

Can I ask you a question on the dividers? I was there this weekend, so I noticed you put in some of the ones going sideways, which we were blessed to be at one of those. But on the back of the facility, you don't have any hanging down for, like, the back of the courts. Are you going to

Those for all are coming. So if you I think they hung another one today. So they, like, literally build all that stuff, like, on-site. And so little by little, they're adding those pieces in there. So pretty much on the east side of the building, all those courts are are done. Now they're moving over to the west side of the building and and completing that side as well.

Okay. And is the seating different for each whoever hosts the tournament? Are they the ones that are deciding whether you sit at the back of the court or the side of the court?

Yes and no. Some tournament providers have kind of put their seating how they would like. You know, some some have a specific way of what they're used to as of, you know, being across from the judges' stand and, you know, because volleyball is very different for me. I didn't know the players don't sit down. Was kind of a weird one for me.

Like, I'm like lining up all the chairs, and I remember I stayed one night till like two, 03:00 in the morning, I'm like lining all these chairs up, and they come in the next day, they're like, we don't sit down. I was like, that would have been nice, you know? But yeah, no, we've talked about, especially since these dividers are getting up, you know, how we can put more seating on the sides of the courts for the individuals. Every facility is different. Like when you go to some facilities, I think that's one of the things that a lot of people have complimented us on, of like how much space they have to serve, like behind compared to some of these other places where they have, like, these rules where since there's not that much space behind, they let you do, a half a step, like, inbounds to be able to serve.

But for us, you know, we do we have a whole bunch of space back there. Now, I would still like more space, but, again, as as time goes and we start figuring out, you know, some of the best ways to to see things for us like this year, obviously, you have a lot of organizations that are coming in, and they're running their own events, but we're sitting back and we're watching and kind of just taking notes every weekend. As we get to be able to run our own events coming in the fall and spring next year, we'll have a way that we do things, but also as people come in, people will see like, hey, this is how we do this, this is how we're going to set up our entrance, This is how we're going to set up our exit. This is going to be our traffic patterns. This is how we're going to

make sure. I want to talk about traffic patterns. That's why I was asking about the seating. I think there definitely needs to be a traffic pattern because it's dangerous for the players. I did notice the design of the building, there's a lot of etching out, and I think there's less room for serving in those areas.

So I don't know if some of those courts maybe don't get used for tournaments, or if they're meeting their requirements, you would probably know best. I just have noticed things. I'm very involved in this stuff, obviously, so I just had a few questions about some of the design when it comes to that, and then also safety for the players and the elderly people who love to come watch their grandkids play. I think that the traffic flow, because you have to go in front of the spectators, and that's where the balls are flying. I've noticed that it's a little bit more dangerous than, let's say, you go to Tribe, at least they have in between the seats for each court, you can walk in between them. I don't think you have the space for that using every court. So I don't know if there's a design setup where you could use certain courts so you can have a better traffic pattern for safety.

Yeah. So it's like that was one of the things I know Katie and I, we've we've talked about and just even my my sister played travel volleyball as well, and it's like a lot of these events you do, you have where it's it's a lot of individuals that are, like, crossing your face, you know, and stuff like that. And I think, you know, some of the stuff that we talked about, even just as a start times, when the event starts, and trying to create ways where you don't have as much going back and forth, where it's like once everybody kind of sits down, everybody moves. And it's hard to do because like sometimes people don't want to give up seats. So they'll just sit there, you know, even though they're not playing for another two hours.

And it And that's annoying.

So it's like we're constantly trying to figure out, know, is there ways to do it? Because even when we talked about before, you know, with food and beverage, we were like, Well, do we even have food and beverage there? You know, because maybe that encouraged people to go outside and leave. With us not allowing food and beverage inside, you know, does that make, you know, individuals go out to the cafe? Does it make individuals go out to the food trucks to where now it starts opening seating and, you know, stuff after games and keeping those hallways flowing where people aren't just sitting down and just, you know, crowding up the hallway.

So we're we're trying to figure out, you know, the the best scenario possible for all that, and we've had some teams that are that have come in and ran some great tournaments, and so but it's still been you know, I'm a perfectionist, so I like to try to find, like, all the little things that we can take and all things that we can learn from.

Okay. Thank you.

So this is our indoor baseball softball complex. So this has been done for a couple months now. Now they're they're still installing things because our hitting lab, which you see on the bottom left, that's what that machine is there. And we've got, like, a kinda crazy pitching machine that that's in there called I forgot this, like, pro batter, but we'll have another one that's coming in called Traject. And so we'll actually be the first facility to actually have one inside the country.

They only sell it to MLB teams. This machine is like cost over half $1,000,000, but it's the closest thing to live pitching that you can get in. I mean, people are gonna literally try and move here just so they can use this machine, you know, each and every day. But this this area has been great. The kids love it.

We've got so many people that have come in this place even from other teams that have come to play our baseball team that walked inside our facility, and they're just like, man, this is crazy. You know? Like a team we played last week, a three, I mean, they probably put off their I wanna say they put, like, 15 or 16 division one athletes in college last year, and they came in, and they were like, we've never seen a place like this. Even our pro guys that walk in, they're just like, man, this is this is crazy because you think, like, you know, these pro teams have the best of the best in there, and they kinda really just throw something up in there. So for us to be able to have this where not only our youth in within our community, but our collegiate and pro guys, this is a space that they'll be able to come and now they can stay home.

They don't have to always drive to Cressy or try to drive all the way down south somewhere just to be able to find a place to work out. This is one of our weight rooms right here. We talked about the other we'll talk about the other weight room in a little bit, but this is where most of our kids work out right now. We've got 14 Soarinx racks in here. So Soarinx is one of the leaders in strength and conditioning.

So anytime you go in a collegiate or professional facility, usually there's only two brands that you'll ever really see in there, and Sorinex has kind of been the leader for a very long time, and they're not going anywhere anytime soon. We've got 14 Sorinex racks in here on every rack. You can't see it on these pictures, but there's camera system that's on every rack. These camera systems are able to track kids' progress and their development, because that's one of the big things that we talk the most about is how can we develop our kids. With the mom that has kids that are in volleyball, I think one of the biggest things that you want to be to see at the end of the year is development to know that, okay.

Hey. The the money that I put in, I'm able to actually see that my daughter got better. Not the fact that, hey. They won more games, but, you know, you you can see it one thing, but to be able to show it on on paper and say, hey. Look. You know, your daughter has grown two inches. Your daughter has, you know, put on, you know, three pounds of muscle. Her squat has gone from here to here, and, you know, she's this much more explosive. Not only is that good for you and it makes you feel good, but also for the kids, like, that's what really kind of gets them in to see, like, man, like, all this hard work that I put in all year long, like, I can I can see it now, you know, and all of a sudden, that's when they're they're just like addicted to it? So so a lot of this stuff that you see in here is the same stuff you're gonna see in a collegiate professional weight room.

So on the left, this is our pending construction of what we still have left. So on the left is our general fitness. This the flooring will start going down in the general fitness area March 16. They're gonna work ten days straight, so they're actually gonna work Saturday and Sunday. So it's March 16 is a Monday, and they're gonna finish up the following Wednesday.

I think they're gonna finish up faster than that, but one thing they've done a good job, same as Vertex, is they give us a long time frame and, you know, they basically under promise and always kinda overdeliver, which which I liked about them because they told the other weight room was supposed to take a week to put down the flooring. It took them a day and a half, and they told them it was gonna take a full week to do the equipment, and it took them a day. So this general fitness, the flooring will be done the following Wednesday after March sixteenth, and then the actual weights and stuff will show up April 6 between 8AM and 9AM. It's going to take them four to five days to install all the weights and the treadmills and all that stuff, And we plan to have this open up to the general public the April.

I have a question about your membership for the parents that, let's say, like your volleyball parents, have closed practices. Was the cost of what they paid, does that include their membership or is their membership an addition to?

So the membership is an addition to, but what we're doing for our parents that are part of our program, They don't know this yet, but Katie and I and Trey, we've been all talking.

You're live, just so you know.

Say that again?

You're live. You don't want them to know.

Now they know. But, no, we're we're gonna offer them, like, a presale membership to where they'll be grandfathered in at a lower rate than what, you know, the rates are gonna be, which will be cool because, you know, these were the kids that came, you know, to us first first and have been with us, you know, through the beginning to to hear, and, you know, we're excited to be able to offer that to not only, you know, the kids, but, you know, to the families, you know, as well. For did you ask one more question with that? All right, cool. For the space on the right, estimated completion May 2026.

This space up here was originally we talked about it being medical, and we still have a medical component that's inside the facility. It's actually technically on the other side, but this space in the front, you know, again, this is a community thing, and I think the more we talk to parents and what they want and what they need and how can the kids feel more supported, we want to have something where it's a little bit something for everybody, but also it can be a bonus to, you know, our kids that are coming in there, because a lot of times, yes, travel sports, it takes up a lot of your time, you know, driving to practices and, you know, then picking the kids up from practice and trying to get grab something to eat, it's like you're just constantly going. Then you're then they get home, and you still gotta talk about homework. And so, like, from this space here, we wanna be able to have something to where our kids that are, you know, part of our program or just within the community. It's just quiet space where they can come, they can sit down, they can get tutored inside there, they can do their homework before practice.

So now, let's say if the practice is at seven, parents maybe can drop their kids off at six and parents can be working out while, you know, the kids are getting their homework done, practice starts at seven, and then they could be out of there about 08:30 and grabbing food to go. So it kind of really gives that one stop shop feel for that, but also this space can be, you know, for for anything, for his birthday parties or different, you know, clinics or sessions, you know, for individuals around the community. Like, we want to make sure that this is not just for our staff or, you know, just for our kids that are involved, but even other coaches that, you know, within the village, you know, this is a place that, you know, will have projectors and stuff in there where if they wanna be able to come in and watch film and stuff with their kids, they'll they'll have that space to be able to do that. And if it it fits a good amount of kids in there, and I think, you know, it's it's gonna it's gonna be a big thing.

I mean, even we're right now, we're going through putting cameras and stuff on the baseball field. So, you know, a group like the Wellington Colts, like, you know, that's some place that they can come in and be able to see, you know, hey, like, you know, we can see our kids, you know, from there and our kids will be able to see the same angles that you're going to see in college and at the professional level. These kids are actually going have this stuff on the field now.

And is this also going to be your classrooms?

Yeah. So yeah. We we use this classroom space as well. So it's it's really it's a multi use space throughout the facility. We every space we in there, we try to make it a multi use space even with the the baseball softball area. Even though there's batting cages and we say say baseball softball area, those cages, if you go it's a touch screen on the wall, you press that button, all those cages actually live up into the ceiling. And when they live up into the ceiling, it's almost 10,000 square feet of open turf. So especially as it starts raining a lot in the summertime and practices, you know, kind of get canceled, we won't have to cancel practice because we can lift that stuff up and kids can do training and stuff right in

there. Okay.

So how many rooms is this going to be on

the right? Three. Three, possibly four, because there'll be a divider in one, you know, that we're going to add long term, you know, to where

So there could be a bigger room or smaller or two smaller rooms?

Yeah, we've talked about being able to add that divider in there to be able do that. But the meeting rooms that we already have there now, we've got two the same size as that and then one is probably half the size of that. So it'll fit a good amount of people inside there.

Okay. And let's go back to Mrs. Silvestri's question. So is this going to be the primary classroom space for the school that's now operating there?

Yeah. They'll be they can use that space as well. Understand like for our kids that are part of us, like it's a it's a virtual program. They just do everything online. You know, we we basically provide tutors for these kids to be able to come in and to not feel like they have to do everything, like, on their own.

So, yes, they they come in, they get with our teachers, our teachers tutor them and take them through the whole educational program, you know, if they need help. But a lot of our kids, as you can see, I think today, you saw us the the conference that we play and they're posting lot of our kids that are going to college, and, you know, we've got kids that you can miss South Alabama, Georgetown, all this. Like, we've got some really smart kids to where they don't really need much help, you know, inside there. And a lot of the stuff they just literally do on a computer, and they can do it from all over.

But is the plan for them to have a routine of going into a classroom and this is the setting that they're going to go into every day?

Correct. We want them to do that. So every day we meet in the team meeting room, you know, and we start there first, and then we move, you know, throughout our day depending on what the schedule is. Like, you know, right now and I'll kinda even get to a slide a little bit later, but, like, right now, our two top teams, they're actually in Georgia right now. They'll be playing in front in front of a bunch of college coaches and professional scouts up there. So, you know, with them being up there instead of them missing school, like, they're able to use this program that we have to to have that flexibility to go play a national schedule and play in front of all these college coaches and professional scouts.

I'll jump in real quick on the school. The rooms that you saw previously that said meeting room that was completed, the students will be moving into that space I think this week. So This they will no longer be renting space over at Village Park.

The team meeting room. And then when this is built out, they're

going They'll be able to utilize that as well.

They'll be

to their own town.

And the team meeting room is big enough to fit all the students that are attending the school

at one time? Yeah. They're never in there at one time. We split our middle school and high school kids. They don't cross. We keep them totally separate, we do that for a reason. We want our middle school kids to be able to develop at their own rate and not feel like maturity wise that they have to be on the same level as an eleventh or twelfth grader. So being able to keep those kids separate and where we only have them cross when we want them to cross, we feel is the best thing, you know, for all of our kids within the program.

Can you verbally visualize this? Is this just going to be open space with desks and chairs or tables and chairs or how?

What's the vision It'll look a lot like our team meeting room. We'll have tables and stuff that are set up in there. And it'll be a space we've talked about maybe not in the team meeting room, we have all the tables actually, like, screwed to the ground. We've talked about maybe not doing that so that it can still be a flexible space for whatever, you know, we decide we wanna put in there. But I also like the clean look of being able to have those tables and it being organized. I'm OCD, so like I like the straight lines and stuff and sometimes when kids get up and then I have everything straight in there, so but that's that's the plan for it.

We we just received these plans. They're in their building department for permitting, So you know we can absolutely share what the plans look like with you guys.

I know we have a hard stop at 05:30 so I don't want to go into it now but at some point I'd like to get a full understanding of what the curriculum is and how the school part functions from you know what curriculum who designed the curriculum, who's teaching the curriculum, how the students are enrolled in your school and they come out of the school. I'd like an understanding of the entire way it runs, which in twenty minutes we can't do. But we can follow-up with that at a different time because I want to have a lot more to get through here, I want to make sure I need to understand exactly how the school component works.

Okay. Yep. And I'll kind of just touch base on that just really fast on the other one and then we can still touch base on that as we go.

And on that point, how many kids are attending school at Wellington Athletics today?

I guess student athletes versus just athletes.

Think we have it on the hand Yeah, I think there's a slide here, but this is general fitness CFI. I think it's 95.

Here's the programming. There you go.

Right here. So if you look at here, total students, 95. We've got the one thing I'll kind of get into, the postgraduate stuff, and I think that's where we're very different than everyone on. So with the middle school kids, obviously, sixth through eighth grade. High school, you know, we've got, you know, the ninth through twelfth grade, which got 50 kids there, and postgraduate.

So one of the unique reasons why we put this educational component here is we can basically guarantee that any kid in Palm Beach County or in the Western communities always has a place to go after high school. Right now, we understand that getting a scholarship and being able to go play sports to the next level has gotten even harder. Look at basketball right now. They you got 27 year olds that are going back. They've already gone pro and coming back to college that are taking spots away from our kids.

So for us, being able to have a postgraduate enables our kids to still be able to play in front of college coaches and still be able to get bigger, faster, stronger, get older, develop, and have a chance to be able to still go and play in college without, you know, chancing their collegiate eligibility. So again, everything that we keep talking around is the flexibility and being able to put our kids in college. So for what we've done, we've created a model that will better help our kids long term and give them an opportunity as as we did. So if you go down right now, and this number has actually gone up, we took in 13 senior student athletes from local schools that had no offers, had no college interest. Obviously, everybody knows in this room that we started a little bit later than everybody.

So on paper, we started September 22, but really, we started October 1. To this date right now, out of the 13 seniors that we brought in, it says eight, but it's actually nine of them have signed and committed to this date. We lead Palm Beach County in that, and we also are one of the leaders in South Florida. Our plan is to have a 100% college placement rate within the next two months. And with us being able to do that, we'll probably be third in the state.

You know, there's two other academies that are pretty loaded and just have more kids. But again, to see that our kids have an opportunity from this community is means the world to us. So, again, you know, when you start talking about, like, why we've done this, it's it's kinda it's kinda, you know, part of it, like, right here. And I'll just kinda read this. This is our first game two weeks ago.

Our local kids were able to play in front of 55 plus MLB scouts that were in attendance. Even our staff said they've never in their life seen something like this before, and, you know, we've got coach Benedict that went four years straight at Wellington High School putting out every varsity player into a division one school or drafted. And the fact that he said he's never seen anything like that, like, rings a lot of bells, and and I think this is why we do everything that we do is to give our kids an opportunity like this. Volleyball Academy, we've got 151 total I think we got the number wrong because I think we got like 50 boys, but it's 125 girls, I'm pretty sure it's like 50 something boys. 82% Wellington residents.

Total scholarships awarded 12. These kids are here just for sports, not for school. Yeah. This is just travel sports, I think on the baseball side

There are 95 kids who attend school solely at Sports Academy. They withdraw

from Yeah, other so we don't have that. So the girl Oh, you're talking about the 95 So

these 95 kids come exclusively to school here?

Correct. Okay. Yes. And then we have an 86% resident. Wellington resident rate and we have out of our middle school and high school combined, we have 23 total scholarships. And so my foundation is the one that's actually sponsoring all these kids. You know, we need to get the scholarship total of number on there, but it's in a couple 100 thousands that we've put up, you know, from this, especially to be a first year program and a first year business to take, you know, that type of, you know, money to put in. It really shows that these kids that we care and, you know, we want to see them succeed because this for us, money doesn't mean anything. We've we're good, you know. So

So is there any baseball at Wellington athletics that doesn't involve going to the school?

Yes. There's a lot. So the the the postgraduate kids do not go to school with us.

That was just eight kids or something.

Yeah. But we've also got some other ones that do not go to school with us. They they live in separate counties. Like, we got one kid, a pitcher from Port St. Lucie. He drives down every day just to be able to train with us. He does Florida Virtual School. We just got a new player last week. He's coming from American Heritage. Goes to American Heritage. He's just driving up here. The dad's like, you know, I just want him to be able to play here. So he's

not gonna play from American Heritage here. When you say plays here

Mhmm.

He plays with the kids that go to the school Mhmm. Because there is no that is the crux of baseball more or less.

Yeah. Yes. Most most of our kids are in our program because the flexibility we have to go

in a baseball program like, let's say, there's gonna be for basketball or like you've just described for volleyball. Is that right?

No. No. We have that program. That program doesn't start till the summertime for baseball. Baseball is a little weird. Like, you, like, try out in, November, but then you don't play until May. It's it's the weirdest thing.

So there is gonna be a baseball program that doesn't involve going to the school?

We we we've had that going for this will be our second year doing it this year coming up. So Basketball Academy, you know, for for us, you know, we've got an executive board that's gonna come in and do a lot of different things for us and bring a lot of resources to our kids, but also help bring our kids back home. Whether you guys know it or not, we've got a couple top ranked kids in the country here that are from Wellington that are actually coming back home. These kids left because they didn't feel like, you know, they had, you know, the the staff and the coaches to be able to get them to where they wanna get to. You know, I think three of them are in the top 30 in the country.

You know, all of them should be draft picks at one point in time. So to be able to bring these kids, you know, back home is is gonna be, you know, special for us. And to think that, you know, a lot of these guys live down down the street, the Morris twins live down the street, you know, Lisa lives down the street, you know, you know, Kendrick Perkins, you know, right now, he'll actually get

What does

down the street mean?

Like Like

here in Wellington or in Broward or Miami?

Ten minutes away. Okay. Yeah. And then Kendrick Perkins right now, he actually gets here March, and they're going to be looking at, you know, what they wanna do. Do they wanna turn around and, you know, pick all their stuff up, you know, where he's at in Houston and look to move, you know, out this way to let his son come play basketball here as well. So but we we've got more people that we're gonna be adding, you know, to this group, you know, over time. Some people are, you know, in specific situations that we gotta make sure that they can end their season, you know, before, you know, we're able to announce that.

And is the Basketball Academy gonna be like the volleyball, or is it gonna be like the baseball where they attend your school?

Both. We'll have both. So we'll have we'll have some that just travel basketball. We didn't do travel basketball this year. You know, one, because what we didn't want to do is interfere with anybody. If we would have put something out there, now you got people trying to jump ship, and and it just it would ruin other organizations in a way, and we didn't want to do that. So we want to be respectful to all the organizations that are out there and, you know, wait until, you know, next year to to be able to have travel basketball. And then the Academy stuff, they've been working behind the scenes and talking to a lot of these kids about coming back home. Actually all those top kids will be the fifteenth through the seventeenth. They're actually back home, and they all visit the facility at the same time.

-What does that mean though in regards to as you've heard from the mayor, Mr. Silvestri, the question about the academy is the topic that certainly we have discussed the least. So And so before you talk about that generally, what I'm trying to figure out is if we have baseball there at the 90 kids or 95 or whatever the number you just showed us, how many basketball kids do you expect to be attending school there?

For us, it's not about numbers. It's more about quality and making sure that every kid that walks in there, they get that one on

one But do we intend to have another basketball academy that's going to have another 95 kids?

No, we can't accept 90 something kids. We won't be able to do that. We'll have where you'll have some high school teams, you'll have some middle school teams, but like we can't accept 90 kids. Just we don't have the capacity to be able to

do that.

Is there a do you have a cap where you can have only up to so many kids that are student athletes versus athletes?

Because I think that's important for

people to know. A lot of people outside this room are asking that

question also.

I think for us it's more of how many quality coaches that we can get in to be able to do this. So like, yes, there's a lot of people that are interested in our program. And again, as I said, we have a flexible program to where you may be coming in just like travel basketball. To be honest, like, those kids, if they're doing their online stuff, you know, they're coming in, they get tutoring if they need it, but they're they come in, they do their athletics, and then they go home. Now we keep them there most of the day because we're practicing, we're developing, we're training, we're doing the strength training.

There are people that, you know, in in other sports that want to come and be able to just do the training element, know, and then go back and play for the local schools, and we will offer that. You know, that's something that, to be honest, we're we're debating on the football side right now is how do we help these kids and but also be able to send these schools back better players. You know, they these kids will be able to come in, develop during the day, and then all of a sudden, we're sending back better players. So we've got a a plan in place of how we wanna go about and do that. But as of, like, how many kids will be with us on on that end, like, it's it's just like travel volleyball or travel, you know, baseball.

Like, if kids want to get in that model, the only reason we have that model is because we can do some unique things that nobody else in the county can do. Right now, there's not another school that can offer a postgraduate program. We got a kid that just had a Tommy John injury and had to have surgery. He thought his career was over. Well, since we're not part of the FHSA, that allows us to allow him to do a fifth year of high school.

With us allowing him to do a fifth year of high school because we have this hybrid flexible model, This kid that was, you know, depressed and in tears every day, couldn't even eat, you know, all this stuff, he comes and gives us this amazing hug when I sat down and I talked to him. I said, this is why we developed our program, to give yourself another chance. So now this kid is able to basically reclass with us and do a fifth year of high school, and if he needs to, he can do a postgraduate year or two before he takes off for college. The average age in college right now, you look at the national championship, is 24 years old. If you think, you know and I was one of the best recruits in the country coming out. I had offers. I can go anywhere. But if you think me graduating at 17 years old was gonna be able to go and take a 24 year old spot, like, we're we're all delusional in this room. It's just not gonna work. We have to do something different.

We all understand the world has changed and right now we're the only ones that's doing it. And we strategically behind the scenes created this model so we can put kids in college.

We can go through this pretty quick.

Yep. Just real quick on this, just kind of the free clinics that we run every Sunday from eight to ten on the baseball field, something that the pro guys did with us back in the day. We just bring the kids out. We've got really all the way up to about 150 kids now that have joined here, and we got obviously a lot of local kids, but we got people even driving from Miami to be able to come up here and be a part of this clinic that we do on Sunday. And our pro guys jump out there.

They don't charge the kids anything. They just ask that they come out and show up on time and work hard and just have fun. But just some of the stuff that we do, just giving back to the community. Civics one zero one, something, you know, my brother was involved in, obviously something that, you know, plays a close, you know, thing to my family. And and again, as I said, just being able to kinda communicate with individuals like myself when I was younger, you know, I looked it up to the, you know, Sean Burnetts and, you know, Brad Peacocks and even, you know, Pierre Garcons and stuff like, I looked up to those guys.

Any chance that, you know, we get a chance to be able to give back and partner with a lot of these programs, you know, we're trying to make sure, you know, we take every opportunity. Powell basketball, this is something that we hope to bring back, obviously, not just with basketball, but with other sports, you know, as well to be able to have a space that they can come in, you know, once, sometimes twice a week to to be able to get some work in and, you know, just provide a safe place for these kids to to continue to grow as not only as athletes, but as as individuals. Like I said, this this is this is what we're all about. Got another leadership forum that's coming up, and, you know, I'm proud to to to be a part of it and, you know, come in and share, you know, my insight. I grew up in this community, and, you know, I plan on leaving.

I don't like the cold, so today was a little hard for me. Still no jacket. Yeah, no, I don't own a jacket still to this

day. But

it'll be nice to be able to get out and just keep representing our community in the right way.

All right. I get to do parking in five minutes. That's good. Thanks, John. Appreciate

it. We go a couple of minutes extra. Appreciate it. Appreciate

your help on this. Well, as you know parking has been a challenge at this facility with aquatics, with all of our rec programming going on, as well as tournament parking. John has had, I believe now this coming weekend will be the eighth straight weekend where there's a tournament out in his facility. So the amount of people that are coming in and out is just incredible. If you remember, our biggest issue that we had was on MLK weekend, and that's because one of John's tournaments coincided with our 300.

When we ran the reports on that, we had 57,000 people here that weekend. So we know we can't do that again. We can't commingle those two events, they're just too large. The three hundred team tournament with Wellington Way will continue and then John will have to bypass that weekend because there's no way we can go through that again. But as you also as I'm telling you, the last seven weekends we've had tournaments out there and I've heard very little complaints about traffic, about parking and so forth.

We're treating each weekend individually depending on what's going on at the park. We are going to get into a situation like we're tracking, as you can see, and you don't really need to see the specifics of this, but we have a schedule of every single weekend what's going on at that park. And we try to accordingly set up the parking to best help the tournaments as well as our recreational programs. Now before I get into what we're going to do and what we are doing, we have a plan that will be coming at some point before you guys for discussion where we can add additional parking to Village Park. And it'll start over on the left hand side where you can see over behind the Aquatics building where we can add parking there.

Right north of the Aquatics facility there's some diagonal parking there and anything in black is additional parking as well as it looks like sidewalks Jonathan to connect multi so that we can connect but the total parking that you see up there in additional would be approximately three sixty spaces if we can get this done we feel like we can accommodate.

The three sixty include the lot to the far right?

Yes. Yes. That includes that. Three sixty total including that.

The lot to the right is two ten. That big lot you see below $6.07 is two ten.

Right. So we can really only get 150 lots if we don't make that massive investment.

Right. Correct.

Correct. The three sixty encompasses all of those changes. What we've done is we have a seven hour a week problem. Monday through Friday there are no parking issues. Sunday there's no parking issues. The only issue we have with parking is Saturday mornings, seven a. M. To two p. M. When John has a tournament. And have all of our programming, right, which is about to start this weekend. So February 28, the rec soccer starts, football starts, Wellington Wave is out there, and John's hosting a tournament. So we have a seven hour problem.

So I know you're going get into the plan of the parking, but before you do, I just want to iterate how important it is to communicate with the clubs that this is going to be the change, because it could be something that ruins rec soccer. We barely have parking for that. So if this communication doesn't happen, like this part of the partnership is very important going forward. I know that I think you guys think that this communication's happening, but I can tell you that we're not like clubs aren't all receiving it, so maybe some are, but I know all are not. But this is the time when it's going to matter the most because they can't park anywhere but here.

And I just have one suggestion. You can take it or leave it. You have limited parking at your facility, but coaches have to carry their little carts of balls, refs have to be there early, players have to be there early, spectators don't have to be there until the game starts. So if you dedicated the parking around the facility to refs and coaches and had a drop off line for players, and then everybody that's spectating can go to their off-site parking, there's some way that this could be coordinated, whether it's papers on their dash or something just to make it nice and effective. I would suggest doing something like that.

So what we've done is for that seven hour period where we have an issue and we've identified to date seven Saturdays in next couple of months where we have this parking issue, we've reached out to NPC and NPC has where am I going here, wrong way.

Hang on. Definitely the wrong way.

Right here. This is NPC's footprint and all their parking. All the way to the right is where 120th 20th Avenue is, which is closest to Boston and the aquatic facility. They have a parking area right there where it accommodates two sixty to 300 spaces. We are they have agreed to allow us to use that space and in return if they have any large scale events we have also agreed that we would provide parking at Village Park to help them with their spaces. This has all just been discussed verbally, very preliminarily. We'll get into the details of agreements and everything else, but we have procured insurance for that one corner or for that entire facility for us

to park there. There's 300 spots right at the front. Correct. At what we know is the place of the event space

where That's what we want to use, right.

Do you think that's sufficient for all the off-site parking?

Well, he's got 126 spots around his building, and we've got 300 there, so that's four twenty six spots. We have a basketball tournament this weekend that we're going to gauge to see how that goes. If worst case scenario, we have to move into the rest of inside of the MPC lot where there's another 200 spots, another 200 spots, and another 1,200 spots, now you're getting pretty significantly far away from his facility.

I have a question on your parking at your facility. I'm not trying to be nitpicky. But you have a big black van that you park in the back that blocks about six spots, and then you have a little dump area, scraps,

and

then pipes in addition to the little dump thing. It's taking up, I don't know, fifteen, twenty spaces. That has to be moved so that you have all of that, because we're giving we're working on this, but you have to provide all of yours as well. So that should all be moved.

Yep, correct. So the only reason the bus wasn't moved this weekend, the driver actually took the keys home with him. He didn't put them back in the drawer, so I couldn't move them to the other lot. You know, it still didn't, you know

Where will you move it? What's the other lot?

We could just move it to like parking all the way in the back. I don't mind walking over, Or you even if I got to move it, you know, to my house, I don't mind doing that either. I got a bunch of land. I live in Homeland, so plenty of land out there to do it. We've done either way. But as of the the piping that's out there, that piping, as you can remember from the first time we've had some volleyball tournaments, that piping has start that number started to go down. So the more and more stuff that they're putting overhead inside the gym, you'll see that stuff start to disappear. So as they're almost done, really within the next couple weeks, you're going to see all that stuff gone and hung up inside the gym.

Okay.

This is the map for off-site parking. If you can see in the lower left hand corner, that's where the NPC parking is. You can see the proximity from that to Mr. Bostic's building and to the aquatic facility is actually closer than some of the parking that we have inside Village Park itself. So what we have done is we've reached out to the parking attendants that MPC currently uses.

We've got them. MPC has requested that we use their parking attendants because they know how to park the cars in their lot. And in addition to that, we also are going to have a couple of public work staff that are going to make sure that the folks that park in that lot are able to cross that street safely so we can stop traffic, get them across the street, and then they can go use Mr. Bostic's facility and then come back and leave when they're done.

They're trying to do this Saturday?

This Saturday, yeah. So that'll be the big test. Now, there's a cost involved to this, obviously. Every time we use that lot, we've come up Nicole, thank you, has come up with a cost of the insurance, the cost of manning it with the parking attendants, and the cost of our public works employees crossing over safely. If we're able to use that a lot every time we use it, it costs about $1,000 to $1,200 That's why Mr.

George Lindley is here because it's very important for Mr. Lindley and the Palm Beach Courts Commission for us to continue to host these tournaments and they've been great. We've had some really good conversations with them. They've been gracious enough let us know that they're going to offset all or most of that cost. So in the event that that space isn't enough and we have to go inside of Polo where we have more parking, there would be a shuttle bus that would need to start shuttling folks over because the distance is just getting it just would be too far.

If we use those lots and we've spoken to Mr. Langley about this as well, the cost would be instead of 1,200, 10,000 to 1,200, it'd be closer to 2,000 to have a shuttle bus. So we're going to monitor and see how the tournament goes this week. I think I still think that 300 plus the 126 should be enough, the four twenty six spots, but we'll see if we have to move it into MPC and if we do, there'll be an added cost to that as well.

That's also the benefit of using the parking attendants that they use now. They know that lot very well. They know how to get cars in there and put them in there tight.

Okay and then the last thing is we're almost out of time, but Mr. Bostik has reached out to us and wanted to run by you a couple of things. Number one is field usage. He's in need of some additional fields, and right now I'll show you fields thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen which are closest to his facility are currently being used by the Wellington Wave and the fields on the, not the baseball, but the ones all the way to the east, ten, eleven, 12, that quad over there is being used by our WCFL, right. And then everything else in between, three, two, four, five, six, seven, those are all being used for rec soccer, for our rec programming.

So right now we have all of those fields that are currently in use. Now Mr. Bostik would love to have one field. I won't speak for you because if you can just kind of explain why you need the field and what you're looking for so that the council is aware.

Yeah, one of our biggest things is being able to have field usage. For us, we want to be successful. And this is going to be one of our main things that we definitely need to be successful. And kinda sucks right now. Obviously, I'm a football guy. You know, I'm not a basketball guy or anything like that, but, you know, a lot of the, you know, local football, you know, kids, they'll come. You know, they're asking, you know, hey. Can we can we come for training? And, you know, yeah, the weight room's one thing, but a lot of the times, the kids want to still be able to do something on the field. And, you know, right now, like we don't have any field access to be able to do anything, you know, for them.

And I know, you know, long term, like for us to be successful, you know, as part of our pro form a, which we first, you know, provided is, you know, we need some type of, you know, field space, you know, to to be successful. And and you look at all the outdoor sports from, you know, football to soccer to lacrosse and all these things like this. This stuff was, you know, and and, like, right now, like, we don't have, you know, an answer, you know, for any of that stuff. You know, as we want to be able to make sure that we can provide, you know, for this community and for these kids, you know, long term, like that's it's going to be important for our success because right now we we do. We gotta turn down a lot of kids, and, know, it sucks because this could be, you know, some momentum that we have going in to make sure that we're hitting, you know, all the numbers that we talked about in our performance to be successful.

Because right now, we gotta cross all those sports out, you know, outside. We got to cross those things off.

Do now you need it during the day or at night or both?

Right now

he has access to 13, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen from 8AM to 5PM Monday through Friday because all of our kids are at school. There's no he needs nights and weekends.

Yes, nights and we're sharing 21. We're sharing 21.

21 we're sharing, that's where he's using for his baseball academy. Yeah. And that's all been approved and it's part of the comprehensive agreement.

And Wellington Waves contract includes how many fields?

Wellington Waves contract does not specify number of fields.

Many have they been using for years and years? Four.

All

at once.

But they're five right now though.

But considering that one of those fields 13 to 16 is being re sodded, where are they getting four or five feet?

What they're doing right now currently, they're on thirteen, fourteen, and 16, and 15 is resting.

Right. They're on thirteen, fourteen, and 16, but you're telling me

that they're using four fields. And they're on a portion of field six and seven, which you see to the right, where you see field A, eight, B, they're on the right side of that.

In order to accommodate all of their because they still need four fields. So when we rest one, we move them somewhere else. But we've been able to do that because rec soccer has not been starts this weekend.

They need

be for tournaments, for games, or practice?

Games, well, tournaments. All four. All the The

sports provider agreement doesn't have any specificity as to the number of fields they require and have and the number of fields they use. But historically, prior to those four fields being built, they were scattered throughout the balance of the fields. Since those fields were built around 2006, they've had those four fields and they use it for practice, for games, tournaments, everything. There's not been any limitation as to their use. Are they using all four fields every day of the week, the entire time they have the allocation? No. But they have had those fields

Has anybody had a conversation with Patrick about downsizing to three fields?

We have not.

I think that that would be an important conversation to have. We don't want to ruin Wellington Wave, but if this is something that we can offer, the

Wellington this

is Sports

Academy. Mr. Bostik, and we have not spoken to the Wave about this, Patrick, is that John, in lieu of if he's able to utilize Field 16 on nights and weekends, was going to offer there were some things that you were going to provide to possibly the WAVE to

Yeah, like for us, as I explained even earlier like in the presentation, like this facility is not just WSA's facility. Like this is I hate when a lot of people come to me and like, hey, this is your facility. I'm like, no, like, this is our facility, you know. And when I say our facility, like this community's facility, and then we want coaches to feel like they have, you know, usage and stuff, you know, in this facility and, you know, some of the stuff that we want to help, you know, bring even to the Wolves and to, you know, Wellington Wave. It's about being able to work together and be able to help, you know, everyone, you know, for us.

But both sides have to want it. I think that that's the most So important I understand what you're I think both sides have to want it. I think MLK Week can maybe set you back a little bit with them. I think there's conversations that need to be had with Wellington Wave before we could do anything, because we can't ruin Wellington Wave over it. But I think there's conversations that could be had. I know that we have to wrap this up, but I have one question for you. How many children are you looking to train on this field, and do they fit in your black van?

So let me explain this.

We're going to park them all down.

Did I get that? Well, me explain this. So we kind of went through that workshop of like, know, hey, can we use like another, you know, field, you know, around the village somewhere? And like the reason that doesn't work is how we design our facility to be successful is that, you know, look, we're paying a heavy price on this, and we want to make sure we can bring the debt down, not try to add to the debt, but like one of the biggest major things in our pro form a is our community gym that's in there. So what we've strategically done is put that community gym in there so when the parents aren't, you know, watching practice and all that stuff, they're able to go inside the gym and use the membership there, which helps them long term, but also it helps us.

So as we start talking about pulling those, you know, kids and stuff off-site to be able to go do the training, we got to wipe that out. So now we're going have to wipe out another major part in our pro form a, which, you know, will be detrimental to us to where it just this whole thing is not going to work, you know, so.

Just very quickly, as I know we're running out of time, like as you said, I'll just very quickly, there are portions of the year where right now WAVE soccer is about to use all those four fields, 13 through 16 starting this weekend because seasons picked up, rec soccer, WCFL started. So that's why they're able to use a portion of six, seven. There are periods of time where one of those fields can be available, but there are many times throughout the year where all four of those fields are used, 13 through 16.

Okay. I mean, I think, again, as has always been sort of our statement, is that we should work together and work with them when we can. So if there's already time that they could be having it, some of the time, that it's not being used, I don't think anybody has a problem with that because it's not being used just like we're talking about during the day, eight to five or whatever. When we talk I so from me, that's my just first initial opinion. When when we get to a larger discussion about how to do we can we dedicate them a field and that kind of thing, we get into all kinds of things.

Cost of the maintenance, who's gonna maintain it, who's gonna do all of that kind of thing. The same things we're talking about with George about who's going to insure, how are we going to make the parking arrangement with NPC, are we going have to hire a shuttle, these kinds of things. But then we get to the question that I think now we're coming up to, and not to belabor us, Ms. Cohen, but when we talk about the pro form a.

She's dying here.

Right? The pro form a, as I recall the pro form a, and maybe I'm wrong about this, the pro form a never talked about a school. The pro form a talked about what we're calling the general fitness gym being done. I'm still unclear why that isn't done. Everything else in the building seems to be done and that isn't done.

And I know you gave us some dates about maybe that's gonna be done by April, but it's unclear to me why that isn't done today. Mhmm. And and then and then I think the pro form a talked about having a management company that was going to be here to deal with some of this nuts and bolts of the money. And the actual day to day of the detail operation. Where are those folks? What's the name of the company, mister Barnes?

SFA.

Where is SFA?

So to to kind of talk about all those key points, SFA is coming on. Remember, when we first were talking about at the old site about bringing SFA on and and and having them, you know, do this, you know, when we moved everything over, there was a lot of unknown that we were trying to go through and work through with all the different parties. As we went to go about that, we've been in contact with Jim Arnold, constantly talking about some of the things that we're going through and trying to push this whole thing along. So obviously, our timeline, we would love for this building to already be done. But again, like there's certain things that happen, you know, within construction and, you know, certain times, certain trades are faster than others.

And as we push forward, you know, our our building, is getting completed in April and May. And after we get that done in April and May, we plan to bring SFA on in the start of the fourth quarter of this year, as we get ready to make sure that everything that we talked about in our pro form a, all that stuff, it gives them a chance to be successful just like us. We want to make sure that we have all our pieces in line and we understand there's a lot of conversations that have to be had, and we're trying to have those conversations because those are, you know, important pieces of our pro form a. But, you know, you kind of go back to even, you know, at the old site, you know, there was going to be a field that was there, but, you know, one of my biggest things was I've always been one of those kids that, you know, come out and go to the field even when I was as a professional athlete. Like, I can afford, you know, $155 an hour.

You know, the the average person couldn't. So when we talked about having that field, you know, there, we wanted to dedicate that field to make sure that nobody would ever get kicked off that field. Because again, you don't always use the whole field and, you know, with practices and stuff. So as we went through and said, we're talking about having that give back, that give back was, yes, we were gonna be training kids and doing stuff on that field, but that field was going be open to the community and stuff too where they can come out there, you know, and play catch, you know, with dad or play catch with mom. And but again, that that just that's a place that everybody that's within this community can come in and feel safe.

So as I said, like some of the stuff when you talk about long term for us and what we've promised to these kids and to these families and to this community, that we want to continue to do that. And you look at the baseball stuff we've you know, we plan to do that with other sports, you know, as well. I don't

really have to wrap it up. I'm sorry.

Yeah. Yeah. No. No. You're good.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yep. Thank you for coming. We appreciate the feedback and the update. It's

there's a lot

of good stuff going on, a lot of kinks that work out, but I think we have the framework of a plan to resolve a lot of them. So before Ms. Cohen kills all of us in

the room, I'm sorry. I

just want to say real quickly, thank you, Mr. Denley, your partnership. Really appreciate it.

You're welcome. We absolutely love the village of Wellington. This believe it or not, you're the you're the the one of the biggest sports destinations in the state of Florida based on the history of what we have going on. Of course, Equestrian leads that. And certainly, when we look at our county and who the top Florida who are the top destinations in terms of generating sports of both rec from a recreational perspective and from a an economic development perspective, Village Of Wellington is number one. So we appreciate we love the partnership that we have. Thanks, George.

Thank you.

Mister Barnes, if we need to bring this back at the March 9 agenda review or whatever, can continue this conversation.

Yeah. I think that there's more he wants to discuss. There's more we all wanna discuss, and now we have to do this, but I would love for him to come back. Yeah.

Alright. I'm gonna need everyone to

make make a Adjourn?

Yeah. Because we're gonna

do it from here.

Farrah, you gotta come back.

You gotta come back, Rick.

We can go out there. We're stay here.