Village Council - workshop

Alright. We're gonna call to order this meeting of the village council agenda review for Monday, March 9. Mister Barnes, what do we got on this?

Alright. Let's get started with presentations and proclamations. First item is recognition of Connie Sterling, twenty twenty sixth school rated employee of the year. We have miss Sterling coming to be recognized for her countywide award. Next item is presentation of the audit results for fiscal year ended 09/30/2025. And Ms. Quickel and her team of auditors will be here to give you all a presentation. I suspect all of you have completed. If not, we'll be close to completing all your one on ones. It's good that we follow-up But the auditor will present it for public consumption tomorrow evening.

Bringing us the consent agenda, which is authorization. First item is authorization to order contract for the person delivery of a compact telehandler. This is for the utility department. Piece of equipment they utilize to basically, it's like a forklift, all terrain type forklift with a telescoping arm on it that can go extend out and up.

Do we have one of these now? We're replacing it? Or this is the first time

we're

doing That's a

great question.

We are replacing it.

Okay.

It's twenty two years old. It's time.

Okay.

Alright. I'm good. Brings to the next item, which is mister Radler is gonna hang out there in case you have questions. Authorization to order a contractor to remove and replace roofs at four village pump stations. And this is basically an item that after a roof assessment was completed, we did a bid for the roof replacement at four of the pump stations. And these are what we're bringing to you for the replacement and the intent to award for those projects, that project.

What was the tiebreaker between Creative Contracting and Roofing Systems? Because they came in at the same price.

Actually, Creative we've, it's actually cheaper. But what it is creative, we've worked with before.

And there's no car breakers since it's 59 and 59.9. Right.

Close, but No cigar.

All right. Very close. All right. Any questions? All right. Right.

Brings us to next item, which is authorization to renew contracts with multiple vendors to provide landscape maintenance services for facilities, parks, utility sites, primary roads, secondary roads, equestrian tails, canals, specialty areas and also to amend an existing contract to include a new aquatic center location. And this is just utilizing existing contracts that we already have and there's a renewal of those services with the addition of the aquatic center.

Once again, we're all very happy with the three contractors that have been awarded. They do a good job.

Did pricing go up a lot or stayed the same?

52.7%.

Okay. Any questions?

No.

Them looking good. All right. Next item is authorization to execute a guaranteed maximum price amendment for aquatic complex swimming pool demolition. And Mr. Reinfeld is here to take us through it.

Good afternoon. This item is for the demolition of the former aquatics complex facilities. The previous pool was decommissioned before the opening of the new pool earlier this year on January 3. With that facility now in service, we're moving forward with the removal of the old pool infrastructure. On the screen in front of you is the rendering of the site as it would look like in the once the demolition is complete. The one thing I would say that would be different is that concrete pad in the middle is now to be removed based on field assessments that we've done since then.

That concrete pad being the old spot pad? Correct. Not gonna be worth keeping?

No.

Are we changing the elevation at all? This still gonna be a big hill when we're done?

It's gonna be a big hill. We're gonna we're gonna keep it at the same elevation and then slope it down to, existing grade if you actually, we have a cross section of it right here if you wanna you know, it's it's not too much higher, maybe two and a half, three feet higher than grade. Okay.

And what's the timeline for getting this done and completed?

Construction timeline is five and a half months. We'll be starting this month, assuming approval.

And who do we hire for this?

Burkhart Construction, our contract manager at risk. They we have an annual, contract with them to provide these services.

And what are the buildings that are showing here that we're keeping?

On the on the left side of the rendering is the existing office and locker rooms. On the right side is the there's existing bathrooms that are next to next to where the former slide or where the slide is currently and where it will well, and then the the one on the on the bottom of the rendering is the equipment building.

The building on the left, that's the former locker rooms. Is it possible at some point to maybe make a door on the backside so people can use those restrooms more easily than going around? Or once the pool's gone, is it gonna be no difference really?

We we can look into that, but there's a there's a significant elevation difference on the back side of the building to the

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay. We can look at that when we complete this project.

Okay.

Any questions on the removal, demolition of the old pool?

I don't know if I missed this, but you guy this white spot, is that where the little

That's the keeping the splash pad.

Is correct? Oh, that's the splash pad.

Is it gonna be working immediately? Like, once once this is all done, we're gonna have that up and running?

Not here thirty seconds too late.

We're not

keeping it. I can tell you why.

We're not. So the the facilities underneath it, and actually, the the way it's it's sloped and graded, it's just not feasible to keep. It wouldn't meet any sort of standards for a new facility. So we'd have to look into replacement of it. The pipes and facilities and pumps that service it would remain.

So what is that right now? What is this white square?

It would just be Grass. Yeah, it would be grass.

So square the is not going to actually be there? Correct.

That was the plan until they inspected it and realized it's not worth keeping.

Okay. And so then what is the building then to the right of that?

That's the REPRESENTATIVE:] existing

restrooms that are near the slides. Okay. And just since I was late, what is this other square down here? That's the existing equipment room or

equipment Okay.

Building.

Thank you.

So there's going to essentially be two sets of restrooms on this green space, one on both ends?

Correct.

The existing restrooms are going to remain. They're

not Right. And Right. Bonus, we'll be able to remove the crowd pleaser that we keep on on-site now.

We could

do that.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Literally, I wanna just say that I I feel like I have been to, in the last eleven years, literally every village facility. I didn't even know there were restrooms in this building to the right here.

There's still time, John.

I mean, I guess I could go tour that, but

Before we demo, we could schedule a slide I'd have one council slide.

Slide your way right off council.

Schedule a last slide down the slide for council.

I hear there's a lot of people that want to do that.

But they don't want it to be, you know, more of a never mind. Any other questions about the former pool site?

Well, they say they say you can't they say you can't make green space. It looks like we're doing it. I like that.

Alright. Next item. Alright.

Brings this fun one. Brings this authorization to award a contract for the 120th Avenue South and Lake Worth Road intersection roundabout improvements, execute a task order for construction phase services. And third, approval of Resolution twenty twenty six-twelve amending Gas Tax Capital Fund budget for fiscal year twenty five twenty six by allocating monies from contributions in Gas Tax Capital Fund balance for the Lake Worth Road and 120th Avenue intersection improvement project. Mister Rines will get us started and miss Cohen will add a couple of items to this one as well.

Okay. This is the 120th Lake Worth Road roundabout that we have discussed on numerous occasions over the years. We are now at the point where we have full design plans, full procurement, and are ready to pull the trigger on construction on this one. The cost is 4.29 or $4,290,000 for the actual construction costs. We're asking for an additional $200,000 for construction engineering inspection services.

The inspector would be MacRus, the engineering firm that designed the project. The the contractor that won the bid is JW Cheatham. JW Cheatham actually built the road from on 1 20th between Lake Worth Road and 50th Street. So they have experience with the area. And this is a a nine month project, nine month construction project to substantial completion and ten months to final completion. So once we start construction on this, there's no way of avoiding this going into both season and the school year no matter which way you cut it. Because the timeline. Because of the timeline. Correct.

So you're looking to start this when?

We would be looking to start this at the end of the school year. So at least we would start the construction in May and work through the summer and hopefully be done by January, February of next year.

GREGORY Okay. Let me ask this question. What is the earliest we could start it? I mean, we know that we're going to fall into the start of the school year, the end of the school year you know, can we move it into the end of the school year? I mean, how far what's the soonest we could start, actually? MR.

If approval tonight, we would need thirty days of contract procurement time and then shop drawing review and all that sort of stuff. So probably thirty days from now would be the soonest we could start.

UNIDENTIFIED But that's going to bring us to another discussion that we need to have concerning this item and concerning Grand Isles. So some time ago, we had started a conversation with Grand Isles. They were concerned about the location of the aquatics facility and the other things, Wellington Athletics facility. And we were working cooperatively with the community to move the aquatics facility and make some other changes to the design in order to, number one, preserve a seven foot berm and to make it easier for them to access the area behind their community that they're responsible to maintain. And we discussed there are several tracks.

When we were looking at this area. There were several tracks that we realized were dedicated on the plat to the POA. And those tracks contain one of our major conveyance canals. And I think Jonathan can go through the area the pictures with you and show you the areas in question.

Correct. So going south to north here at intersection, you have Lake Worth Road here and 120th Avenue. Going south to north as I scroll, you have this area in magenta. It's Track E. And as you can see, it's kind of it's over the canal. And that area is actually owned by Grand Isles POA UNIDENTIFIED

as part of it was a

plateauing Well, for it may actually owned by Lennar. The owners and encumbrance report that was run by the association showed that Lennar REPRESENTATIVE:]

oh, I'm sorry, that's Q and S that are owned by Lennar,

Right. My So D is owned by the POA. And then going north, it just continues in the same region. It encumbers the canal. This is Tract Q in orange, and blue here is Tract S. And both of those, we believe, are still owned by Lennar.

Grand Isles POA, the Board members, and we were proposing to do some improvements to Lake Worth Road to install some curb and gutter there that would make it easier for them to maintain the swale area along that roadway. Because as you know, parents park there and it messes up their sprinkler system.

We've been working on all of

that.

And they're responsible for maintaining that. But in exchange for that, we had asked for them to convey to us tracts E1 that is shown in the purple plus tracts Q and S, a portion of tracts Q and S. And they seem to be agreeable at that time. And since then, they have changed law firms. And the new law firm referred this matter out to a land use attorney.

And there seems to have been a change in their level of cooperation since that time. We believe that because we have even though ACME owns the roadway, one hundred and twentieth, the areas adjacent to the roadway are an integral part of the roadway because they allow for the drainage of the roadway. And we believe that having Wellington having maintained them for more than who knows, more than seven years, maybe twenty years or more.

Yeah, the roadway was built in 2003.

2014. 2003. Okay. So for that entire period, we've maintained it. We believe that under Chapter 95 or Section 95.361, the village actually owns those appurtenances to the roadway.

So I have drafted a draft complaint. I've provided it to counsel for the association. I'm hoping not to have to file it. Today, we received an email that had a little bit more cooperative tone. And we're hoping that we can enter into an easement agreement for tract E1 that would or a portion of tract E1 that would allow us to construct the roundabout.

Who's law firm for the Grand Isles now?

Now it is Wasserstein out of Boca Raton. And the land use attorney that is handling the matter now is Ryan. Bear with me Ryan Abrams.

But what's the name of the firm again?

Abrams. We got the email from them today.

Wasserstein, PA. So we're hoping not to have to file that lawsuit. We had a very cooperative relationship with the POA until recently. And there seems to have been some movement in terms of them potentially agreeing to give us a permanent easement so that we can construct that area and maintain that portion of our canal. Mr. Abrams will be here tomorrow night to speak on this consent item. He will have three minutes to comment.

He's the land use lawyer?

I beg your pardon?

He is the land use lawyer?

He's the land use attorney. I believe he's out of Fort Lauderdale. But I may I intend to ask you for authorization, if necessary, to file the lawsuit that has been drafted.

Do we have a copy of that yet?

I I have drafted. I'll send you I'll send out a copy. It's it's an action for declaratory judgment and quiet title.

Who's the current president of the Grand Isles POA?

Doreen Levy.

Okay. Do we have a relationship with her?

Yes. We had actually we had a very productive meeting initially with a prior board with a prior attorney and those board members. But when was the last time we talked to her?

Well, asked that all communications be through the

law firm. Listen, think we should have meet the manager. And I think and the property manager? Yes. Okay. And who is that?

George what's his last name?

Pull that up. Bear with me. George

George Toro, and he is with GRS Community Management.

Okay. Well, I mean, don't you think that while they're going to come tomorrow and certainly, I think we should authorize you to file the lawsuit if necessary. I think that should be a last resort. And I think it should follow

Oh, absolutely.

Follow some meeting that Mr. Barnes has with the property manager and or the president of the association, which should happen like tomorrow. We can

do that. We actually

SPEAKER Expeditiousness. And if the lawyer doesn't want us to meet with the HOA president or the association president, I would like to talk to him tomorrow night about why that is. Because I think that it I just don't think it works for the village government not to be able to meet with the association president and or the association property manager when they're representing 1,000 plus homes. I mean, I don't think that that can be constructive going forward. I don't care if the lawyer is there or on Zoom or on the speaker But phone or what he I think that this is a situation of penny wise and pound foolish.

And this is a I mean, building this roundabout is a public safety element at this point.

Right. Well, I'm thinking perhaps we suggest a meeting before the council meeting Yes. Tomorrow Since he's going to be here anyway, perhaps he could have his client here, and we could have some sort

Or some questions. We'll go

coordinate with Mr. Toro directly.

Okay.

JAMES Because, I mean, this is

JAMES It's a canal that we maintain and take care of for water drainage issues. They have no use for this property other than to try hold us up with our roundabout to improve JAMES But

a roundabout

that is going to improve the life of their resident mean, is not JAMES

Correct.

I mean, what is it that they're trying what is it they're seeking? What is this lawyer's position?

GREGORY in addition to the improvements that we were going to do for Lake Worth Road, They want us to agree never to widen 120th. They want us to waive our sovereign immunity. And I think they may want some additional consideration. How could

we I'm not prepared to recommend

How could we agree to never widen 120th when, obviously, Mrs. Siskin and I are departing, but no matter who's sitting here is going to only be here for some period of time and

JAMES If you entered into an agreement, you probably could. But I don't think it's wise, because we don't know what the future is going to hold. However, as a practical matter, we would have to what do you call that, Jonathan?

JOSEPH We would have to fill the canal and covert pipeline. It would

be Well, right. We know. Mean, we've been through all

of that.

We just went through that when we talked about the other side of 01/2020. And then don't we also still have not to give up any of our legal options? I mean, can't we just take this by eminent domain if we have to?

It's not eminent domain.

Think

It's

a better that mechanism.

Yes. Because there are no fees. There is it's not a taking under 95.361. We have all of the records of having maintained it for HARRIS: the requisite period of time.

How long will this take?

It's difficult to say. And of course, it depends on GREGORY

Which they fight.

GREGORY Right.

GREGORY Why you would have they so you're saying under the path that you're talking about, is ultimately no option where we pay their fees? No. There's no So they're going to just essentially take all this out of their budget to pay for this battle over a roundabout that they actually that they and their residents want?

And more importantly, the area adjacent to the canal is what we're concerned about. Because we have to be able to maintain and control our own, you know, major conveyance canal that provides drainage only for their community, the entire equestrian

And I take it the school district's in complete agreement they have no issue with this?

They don't.

We may have to name Lennar because they are they appear to be still owning tracks Q and R. And we're only looking to gain title to the portions of those tracks that are actually adjacent to the canal

to the roadway. If we can set this meeting up. My day is a little jammed up. But if, John, you can cover the meeting from our side, that would be fine with me.

My day is tomorrow? Yeah. Yeah. I I'll make I can make I have something in the morning, and then I'm free the rest of the day.

Okay. Does everyone agree with that? We can get this meeting set up for tomorrow for the council meeting with Jim, Laurie, and John as the council rep to try to work through this issue so we don't have to sue Grand Isles over property that they don't use or maintain that we need for a roundabout?

Yes. Okay.

And I would just since we're talking about construction time line, I just want to make sure that we're clear here. This is the optimized version. This approach here is the optimized version. If we needed to pivot to have a different version of this approach that doesn't affect this retract, we can do that. But we don't want to, obviously, because this is the more optimal DAYLE: version of

When the roundabout. We say optimal, doesn't that mean two things: most efficient and safest? Yes.

It does.

JAMES Well, that's why we prefer this

design. Well,

sort of.

I will say there was some movement late this afternoon from the attorney who suggested a permanent easement in exchange for tract E1, that portion of tract E1 that's adjacent to one So I'm drafting that. But again, we're not going to be waiving sovereign immunity as part of that agreement. And we're certainly not going to agree not to expand one hundred and twentieth in the future because we don't know what the future holds.

Obviously. Obviously, that all goes

It seems like something we should really get done without having to file a lawsuit if they're

Well, I'm hoping that we can.

These people couldn't possibly, their residents couldn't possibly want them to go down this road.

I can't imagine they would. It seems Right. Contrary to their own

Any other questions on this? It looks great, by the

way. Thank you.

It does. Can we just go back for one second? And that's going to is this portion here on the bottom left where Black Rectangle is, what am I looking at there?

This here?

Yes. That is an access drive. To what? To existing 40th Street. But is that going

to go into the roundabout? I mean, is that getting constructed? Or does it end in grass like it does there?

It's actually an access drive with a gated arm for our staff to use as needed.

Oh, so it's not a public access? Okay. It's for us to maintain the canals and stuff down there? Correct.

And the folks along that road are going where? We didn't build the extra arm there that we once upon a time talked about, or that's not in the plan?

JAMES That's correct.

JAMES So what is their exit point now?

JAMES They would have to go to Onethirty, to Indian Mound, to 120th. And

what do they do now?

They either do that route or they go from 40th into the intersection as it exists. So it's it's a kind of a two parallel roads there, where it goes through here like this, and you make a left. And then you make a decision here where you're going. Can pull up the arrow if you like.

No, but I mean, we think that this is safer than letting them continue forward and turn onto the road.

Yeah, the geometry just didn't work out. Design engineer wasn't comfortable with adding the fifth leg into this configuration.

Talking to you about this. There was quite a blind spot for them coming out with the other leg right there and the traffic flowing.

That's correct.

Right. It was never a good turning, you know, movement anyway to come in and out of there. There were a lot of complaints about that in general.

Yeah. This is a safer option.

Thank you. Thank you. Next item.

All right. Brings us to authorization to renew an existing contract with multiple vendors for the supply and delivery and installation of SOD. And this item covers SOD that we utilize in our swale work with public works around our inlets and adjacent to roadways and also other repairs as necessary, including medians and also includes side replacement for the athletic turf on our parks fields.

So this includes Village Park, etcetera?

That's correct.

So this is all the sod for everywhere. The 6 and 40,000 is not just for swales and That's correct.

It covers both Florotam or Citra Blue. It covers Bahia. And it covers the Bermuda Turf.

What? Did you want this odd father to address this?

No, no, think we're good. We're good.

You did a great job last time.

What on Village Park are we replacing now?

We don't have anything specific. It's just we need to have that in the event. A lot of times, notwithstanding the entire replacement we did last year or almost entire replacement, you have to go in and repair goal mounts. You have to go and repair center circles in some areas for soccer. You've got to repair different spots where

It's just as needed. Correct.

Right. Is just general maintenance, not a project. Right.

This is not a project. This is an annual agreement. So as needed, we would use it. Okay.

We've got lotus coming back or coming for the first time to come back.

Well, that brings us to our public hearings. And Mr. Stillings and Ms. Kramer are here to talk about that. First item is Resolution twenty twenty six-seven, which is the Lotus II Master Plan Amendment. This is a quadratio item, and I'm sure there'll be a presentation full for tomorrow evening. But they can answer any questions today.

So what's the high level overview of this project for this application for tomorrow? What are they asking to do and change?

So this is the master plan that was postponed from January. Actually, was postponed from December and then came back in January with a postponement. And it's to remove the indooroutdoor entertainment conditional use and to allow two new uses, a 8,000 square foot combined restaurant retail and an 8,500 square foot restaurant. They want to increase the day care capacity from 110 to two thirty. And there's a modification to some of the conditions of approval.

Wasn't this also coming to us in February? I mean, didn't we move this at the very last meeting? Correct. Okay. But the item that was coming to us at the last meeting, the February meeting, there are no changes between what was coming to us at that time and what is coming to us now?

No. They just needed to postpone the meeting, but they were didn't

make Well, was any changes because wasn't that because Mr. Kassar had left and there was some change and a need for who was going to be here to come to see us? I mean, there was some issue with that?

Yes.

Yeah. There was a staffing issue on their part, but there's no change in the application from what they were going to previously request.

Okay. And this is the same item. What did PZAB do with this?

So PZAB provided a recommendation for

approval. Of the whole thing, or pieces of it? Bear

with me one

Recommended second. One, and they recommended denial of the other one, I think. No,

five to two. They recommended with conditions which include not removing the entertainment use and recommended the applicant provide the name of the national restaurant chain that was going into the 8,000 square feet and also wanted a some information on Popstroke's termination.

Did we get that letter?

No. We did not. They did have justification for it, which I'm assuming they're gonna provide to you tomorrow.

Okay. So the PZAB, with the exception of mister Drehaus and Ms. Yaquis, essentially approved all of this?

Yes.

Okay.

Alright. Anyone got more questions tonight? Otherwise, we can have a more full discussion tomorrow with the applicant here.

Alright. Brings us to the next item, which is Resolution twenty twenty six-eight, which is Wellington Village, formerly known as Cape Park, conditional use for building height. Mr. Stillings can get us started for Ms. Cramer.

So this is the conditional use for the building height for pod B only. This includes the hotel and several of the supporting buildings. This did go to ARB, and they made a recommendation that the hotel be revisited with their comments, which we'll provide to you tomorrow. And otherwise, it was approved by PZAB and approved by ARB unanimously.

Okay. So it was unanimously approved at both committees. Give me this give me the high level of their comments.

PZAB really did not have too many comments. They understood that it met the criteria. They really didn't discuss the building facade very much. They looked at the landscaping to make sure that it was to scale. They really asked a lot of questions based upon the criteria of meeting the code for the additional height. ARB, they did not have any major comments on the buildings except for the hotel. The hotel, they felt, was very urban, stark, and lacked character and charm. And so that was their recommendation, was that they were going to approve the height for the rest of the building.

So their issue is as to design?

Correct. And they approved the height for the hotel as well. They just would like them to revisit the design.

Has that been raised with the applicant?

The applicant is aware.

But we're not approving design right now, are we?

We are. Yes.

Yes. We're approving height and design?

Well, the elevations are part of the overall approval, yes.

And the elevations will start on Page five thirty of your packet.

Yeah. Do we know if the applicant has agreed or disagreed or looking to make any changes to the elevation based upon the ARB recommendations? Or they're saying thank you for your recommendations. We're still moving forward with this. It'd be nice to know before tomorrow what their thoughts are.

Well, right now, they're saying thank you for the recommendation. We're moving on with what we've submitted.

Did you say five thirty or Five thirty one.

Yes. 530.

Okay.

I think what the applicant has said in the past is that they've taken an overall look at the entire project and the hotel would be consistent with the bespoke design that is throughout the entire project. Project. Right. Because I

recall them talking about having like a mix of design elements, that way it didn't all look like it was one, you know

the general theme of the design was

If still the they're not all matching, if go together. Alright. I'll look at this more for tomorrow. Any questions for staff? Hearing none, mister Barnes?

What I would recommend is then that we take the item that is at the end, the last item h, and recommend approval to, in the beginning of the meeting, move that to the next item after the Yeah. Kate Park hide item, which is the ordinance number twenty twenty six dash zero nine establishing the Village Landing Community Development District.

Yeah. The with the other. It's all

The related items, no pun intended, that are we have a second reading. If you recall from our about a month ago, we had the first reading on this item. And the related team and their attorneys will be here to follow-up on that discussion.

I think they should go together.

So we're moving the last item, the CDD, ahead of the artistry items.

Right.

Item H then becomes item D, and D correspondingly drops down to E and onward. Well, this would become Actually, take that C. I take it back C.

I was like, what am I looking at because It

goes in front of the water supply plan.

Yes. So

that brings us to the water supply plan, which is orange number 20 Three-six-one, water supply facilities ten year work plan and related update of the comprehensive plan. Mr. Kramer can get us started. Ms. Pence is here. Mr. Stillings is here. This is

our second reading of this item.

Yes. This is the second reading. And the water supply plan is required to be updated within eighteen months of South Florida Water Management's plan, which was updated in September I'm sorry, 2024. So this is second reading. Nothing has changed. And Angelie is here to answer any questions about the plan.

Nothing has changed on this since the last time we voted on Nothing

has changed since the last time.

I think we all know what this is for. And you can save your explain it to people when people are watching tomorrow night. That's what we're doing.

Sounds great.

Need to

hear it again.

Anyone want hear

it again? Nope.

Nope. We're agreed. Thank you.

All right. Moves us to the next item, which is Ordinance No. Twenty twenty five-thirteen, which is the Artery Lakes PUD annexation corresponding related items twenty twenty six-four, which is the comprehensive amendment for Artistry Lakes, and twenty twenty six Dash 05, which is the rezoning for Artistry Lakes, as well as 2026 Dash 02, which is the master plan for Artistry Lakes.

This is the last four items on the agenda.

Last four items in the the final action for Artesprix Lakes. So we'll be adopting the annexation, adopting the rezoning land use, and approving the master plan as proposed.

Assuming we approve everything tomorrow, what's the next step? Does there need to be a vote of the one landowner? Does the county have a say in it? Where are we?

SPEAKER So we have consent from the landowner. The effective date of the annexation is thirty five days after the adoption. And at that, we'll start the clock. So then land use will be effective thirty one days after that. And at that date, the zoning and master plan would be in effect. The county is taking up the conflict resolution resolution on March 26. And so we'll know at that time whether they're going to object to the annexation.

That's the ISBA we were talking about?

No. That's actually separate and distinct from the ISBA. The conflict resolution resolution is actually the method by which the county preserves their right to object to this annexation and ultimately fight it, because there's a time limit by which they can do that after our adoption. They're doing that to hedge their bets in the event that we don't come to agreement on the ISBA and that there remains something that remains an issue for them on this annexation.

The the appeal process for local government is through the chapter one sixty four conflict resolution procedures. And so that's the resolution will initiate that process as as their effective objection or appeal to the annexation.

Alright. This is a different process than what they undertook during the Seminole Pratt Southern Boulevard annexation because of that annexation, they actually were an affected party because they own property within the annexation area. In this case, they're strictly the adjacent local government, the originating unincorporated local government, so they have to pursue the process that mister Stillings outlined in chapter one sixty four.

And assuming everything gets approved and passed tomorrow night, how much time do they have to file something or do some sort of formal objection so we know when so we know when we're done?

Well, they have thirty days for the appeal, and so that's the timing they need to do the conflict resolution. And that process effectively initiates a meeting among the parties. We develop an agreement and then bring it back to the two bodies for adoption to resolve the conflict. If there is no resolution, then they can go to the court to seek further action.

It just preserves their right to be able to do that. It doesn't guarantee that they're going to have to do that. But

we've seen or we suggested the ISBA as that agreement that would resolve the conflict.

And

what is our sense of their position on that?

Mean, staff is still objecting, strenuously objecting.

Right. Based on based on the two items that I think collectively Mr. Sillings, Ms. Cohen and I don't agree with the county's position on it, related to one, developing in an urban character, and also the contiguity based on JAMES

J.

The rest of it in regards to the

overall district, all of that? The land use and zoning, I think they're fine with. The master plan, I mean, they prefer to see the multifamily workforce housing remain. We've had some conversations to ensure that the civic pod is set aside for fire rescue, fire station, which

Right.

Has been committed to. The remainder of the public rec pod that's being dedicated, we, I think, have some disagreement on on whether we would wanna hand that over to the county for future use or

Right.

Hold it for a Wellington use.

Or hold it for a county use. But at this point, until there's an actual specified use, they had looked at it for a potential library. But as we all know, hearing from the library director two weeks ago, that the county's initial plan right now for this current expansion program that they have would be to expand existing facilities. And that new facility, I don't think is anywhere in anywhere any kind of a five, ten year or longer planning horizon. So at this point, it would be our recommendation that the entire site in our master plan be identified as civic, and we have no problem at all.

We are it's not if, it's when, we're ready to go as we have worked with Chief Kennedy and Chief O'Mearo as far as maximizing the minimizing the amount of time it takes to get them to stand up a permanent fire station and have offered our assistance in what we need to do to help them stand up a temporary fire station to be able to serve the western portion of the Southern Boulevard corridor.

The other item is the Okeechobee Boulevard future right of way dedication, which we there is a condition within the master plan for that. We will likely have a replacement condition for tomorrow night's meeting. But in talking with the county deputy engineer, they believe they will have that right of way dedicated before the annexation is in

effect. DELL:

But either way, we'll have a GREGORY belts and suspenders condition in our plan as That's for a potential but not guaranteed connection to Okeechobee?

Well, that's for their dedication for the right of way. Or when the roadway gets extended. DAY: timing

of construction is strictly on the county. However, this reserves the right of way for their thoroughfare identification map.

JAMES Because they still have some remaining property to achieve the full right of way.

Right. Any other questions for this today? Seeing none. I think we're done with the agenda. Mister Bond, what's what's next?

That's all that's all we have left.

You have a blue folder.

Last item is basically the add on consideration. You also the email from the resident related to project tango and a desire to have the village adopt a resolution opposing the project and related to Project Tango specifically and hyperscale data centers in general. We've taken a look at that and working with Mr. Stillings and Ms. Cohen to come up with our version of the resolution recommendation. So we'd like you guys to take a look at that. If there's a desire in counsel's part to move forward with it, we can add that as a regular agenda item for consideration by counsel.

I'd be okay putting on the agenda for discussion tomorrow night as far as if we wanna do one, and if we do what it should read like. Yeah.

Is is this I read the version that was provided to the mayor by the by the the people asking us

to This is a bit more generalized. Okay.

Because there were some issues with that one.

That one was very specific. Right.

I mean, this is still fairly specific,

but we try to generalize it a bit and can certainly And we're limiting it, for example, to this data center, not the part about data centers, other parts, any other parts of the county that we don't have anything to do with? Correct. Okay.

We want to add this is the last to the first item on the regular agenda.

And what we basing all of these things on that you have in here? Have you guys been doing some research? Or are you just

Both. I mean, basically, this point, until we actually hear more detailed information from the project, a lot of it is just based on what's either been built or proposed elsewhere.

I mean, think we should wait to hear more information on the project before we just randomly write things like this. We put the letter out, which in the future, not that I disagreed with this at all, but all of our names are on it. It looks like we're all speaking on this, and there's been no discussion. I didn't opine on it, and it looks like we all opined on that together when it was just really the mayor. I don't disagree with it.

Thank goodness. But I've talked about this before, either letterhead just for the mayor when he wants to opine on things, because I'm not always going to agree with you. I do on this one. Or we have a discussion before we put something out that looks like the entire counsel has made a decision. So I definitely want that for the future before we opine on things. And it looks like we've all made a decision. And I think we should wait on this until we have more research and information.

So do you want to add this tomorrow or just move it to another meeting?

Well, I'm fine to add

it because I think that's where we'll have the discussion.

Well, don't we need if we're going to do this, isn't the county meeting still coming up in April as of now?

So we have time to do this at a later meeting

before So you want do

this after long as we decide to take a yes or no before the

county rules. County meets. Well, that's fine. I'll find a way until after the county.

But not before no. Before county, but after not do this tomorrow, is what

you're saying.

Yeah. Sure.

But I'm getting when is the date of the counting meeting?

April 23, I think.

Well, that's before your next meeting, so

It's after our next meeting, April.

Oh, April. Okay. I'd rather have it in

April and everybody can pay attention to all the studies that they bring forward. And then maybe you want to adjust some things on here. And I haven't really looked at it, so I would just rather wait.

I think the point of this consideration here is to weigh in prior to the county meeting, right? Our resolution after the county meeting is a pointless thing. That's what they're asking us to do. That's the

whole point of it, right?

So if that's going to happen at your all's first meeting in April, that's fine. I'm also I happy with taking just this the

county need for what they're approving. Do we know? Is it just just one? One.

So when it's

So in zoning my point is that I don't have a problem delaying from tomorrow. But then we need to either take this up on the meeting at the twenty fourth, or you all need to take this up on the first meeting in

April. So

that we can work on this wording and the basis and that kind

of the consensus is we're not adding it tomorrow night, and we'll figure out when we want to add it. Yes. Is that agreed?

Ms. Antuna has a comment. I'm sorry. And I blocked her.

GREGORY DELL: No worries. I think that it should be put on tomorrow for the sake of the residents just to let them know we are doing something and we are in process of taking a stand, a formal stand. But I think we owe something to the residents at this point.

Well, think we're still gonna do something,

but I think we just need a little more information before we But the information is out there because there's already studies that have been made. Many studies have already been made.

Well, I think part of

the issue is wants to see some of that information herself before she starts signing off on a resolution that she may or may not agree with because she hasn't seen the facts yet.

That is exactly what I'm

saying. CHAIRMAN thought you were saying.

So the question just simply is what data are we bringing this forward? I'm happy to

do it at our very

next meeting. Mrs. Siskin and I are saying we should bring this forward. You're saying that it should be brought forward. Even Ms. Silvestri is saying she brought forward. The question just is when.

I'm Okay with waiting until our next meeting, because there's no urgency for us to do this right now.

Is that the March 24 meeting or the April meeting? I don't know

if we're having a March 24 meeting or not yet. That's up in the air still. So but we're having an April meeting.

So at this point, why don't I suggest this? Is how about we bring it on the agenda for tomorrow evening for discussion purposes without the goal of actually having a resolution finalized so that I can get some input from counsel as to which way I should go? Because if we go back to either another March meeting or an April meeting and I come back with a resolution, we're still going to be in a situation where I don't may not have all the answers you need at that time. So at least I know what I need to go look for. If the information's available, I'll bring it back at the following meeting. But at this point, for discussion purposes, but not for consideration of the resolution.

Councilwoman, does that work for you?

That's fine.

Okay. Let's do that. Anything else?

That is all I have.

Laurie, anything?

I have nothing. Okay.

Tanya? All good. All right. Then we are adjourned.

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