Village Council - Regular Meeting

Alright. We're gonna call to order this meeting of the Wellington Village Council for Tuesday, 05/12/2026. We have a full house and we're gonna start off with an invocation by Deacon Pete followed by the pledge. So please stand.

Let us pray. Heavenly God, we gather this evening with gratitude for the opportunity to serve the people of the village of Wellington. We ask your blessing upon this council, upon its leaders, staff, first responders, volunteers, and all who work each day for the good of this community. Grant wisdom to those entrusted with decisions that affect families, neighborhoods, businesses, and future generations. May their discussions be guided by integrity, fairness, patience, and respect, even when opinions differ.

Help them seek not personal gain, but the common good of all residents. Bless the people of Wellington with safety, unity, and compassion, and hope. May this village continue to be a place where children flourish, families grow strong, and neighbors care for one another. We remember those facing hardships, illness, and loneliness, or uncertainty tonight, And we ask that your peace rest upon them. Guide this meeting in a spirit of cooperation and purpose. And may all that is done here reflect wisdom, service, and goodwill. And we ask this in your holy and venerable name. Amen.

Do you want us in the pledge? Right. Artwork out there, so let's take us through this agenda.

Yes, we do. Initially, let's just go and start. Staff recommends approval of the agenda as presented. Is there a motion to approve?

So moved. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Agenda is approved. Brings us to presentations proclamations. And the first proclamation item is a proclamation recognizing congratulating local winners of the American Water Works Association twenty twenty six DropSavers Water Conservation Poster Contest.

Whereas each year, the Florida section of the American Water Works Association partners with water utilities across the state to sponsor the Drop Savers Water Conservation Poster Contest, where students from kindergarten to twelfth grade are encouraged to create a poster depicting a water conservation theme. And whereas the contest allows students to promote water awareness and the importance of water conservation in their daily lives. And whereas in support of May, being National Water Conservation Month, the village of Wellington utility department created a local drop savers contest in 2017. And whereas students from Wellington elementary, middle and high schools were invited to participate in the contest, which resulted in four sixty three posters being submitted this year. And whereas after judging the posters for message, creativity and originality, posters submitted by Celeste Ocampo, Division I from Wellington Elementary School, Lily Flores, Division II from Panther Run Elementary School Winter Vega, Division III from Panther Run Elementary School Bentley Davis, Division IV from Emerald Cove Middle School and Scarlett Kirk, Division V from Wellington High School were selected as first place winners in their designated divisions for the local contest.

And now therefore, on behalf of the residents of the village of Wellington, the village council hereby recognizes and congratulates Celeste Ocampo, Lily Flores, Winter Vega, Bentley Davis, and Scarlett Kirk on winning first place in the local contest of the American Water Works Association's DropSavers Water Conservation Poster Contest. In witness thereof, I have here to set my hand and cause the seal of the village of Wellington, Florida to be affixed this May, signed by Michael J. Napolione, mayor.

Thank you. Ms. Pants? Hi. So my name is Ann Julie Pants. I'm the utility director for Wellington. I think everybody knows at this point this is my favorite item of the year. I don't have any items like this, so we look forward to this. It's quite an event at our office. So as mentioned, every year we participate in the American Water Works Association annual statewide Dropsavers poster contest.

So on all our projects in Wellington, we work to protect the environment as one of our core principles. So this water conservation poster allowed kids in Wellington schools to help us promote the importance of water conservation and environmental stewardship. Each participant had to submit an entry on letter sized paper showing a slogan drawing or a combination of a water conservation idea. So this year we had participation from eight of our Wellington schools, which was wonderful. All elementary, middle, and high school participated in the contest with over four fifty entries.

Most of the schools submit just a couple of their best and kind of prescreen it for so actual participation we know to be quite a bit higher. The posters were judged based on the water conservation theme, as well as artistic ability. So the contest was divided into the following division. We have Division I, which was kindergarten and first grade division two, second and third grade division three is fourth and fifth grade division four is middle school and division five is high school. So all of our winners will get a fun bag of goodies from the team, And the first place winner also gets a gift card.

So I think what we're going to do is I'm going to call I'll call all of our winners up. You'll get Ms. The lovely Marlene. We'll give your bag and your certificate. And then we'll have you sit back down. And afterwards, we'll bring up everybody for pictures. Okay. If that works for everybody.

Works for us.

Yep. All right. So Division I, K through first grade, from Wellington Elementary. First place, we have Celeste Ocampo. Second place, from Binks Forest Elementary School, we have Haley Cain.

And in third place from Wellington Elementary, we have Tice Morland.

Julie, while they're waiting for the photo, maybe they can stand by their pictures so

you

can That see sounds what great. Yeah, so after you get your certificate, maybe stand by the pictures, and then we'll do the artwork, and then we'll do all the pictures. All right, so division two, which is second and third grade. So from Panther Run Elementary, first place we have Lily Flores. Second place, also from Panther Run Elementary School, have Wynn Lee.

And third place from Panther Run Elementary School, we have Leilani Lopez. And if I mispronounced, I apologize. So from Division III, fourth and fifth grade, from Panther Run Elementary School, first place is Winter Vega. Second place from Binks Forest Elementary School, Alma Mayorga. Third place from Panther Run Elementary School, Olivia Motilitsky.

So division four is our middle school students. All of our winners are from Emerald Cove Middle School. So in first place we have Bentley Davis. Second place we have Joshua McKinnis. On third place, we have Naomi Morales.

Last but not least, have our high school students. All of our winners are from Wellington High School. So in first place, we have Scarlett Kirk. Second place, we have Odelia Newton Denyles. Third place, we have Logan Wheeler.

So those are all of our winners. We're thank you for participating. Myself, And we're very excited when we review these. It's a really fun event at our office, and something we love to promote, the water conservation and environmental. So I think our communication team wants to get some pictures.

What about division

one? Yes. So let's have division one. So if you're kindergarten or first grade

Counsel, this is

We'll bring counsel down. And if you're kindergarten or first grade winners, if you could come to the front to get a picture with counsel, that would be wonderful.

Hi, guys. Here's a right in the middle.

There we go.

I keep a sponge.

All

right. So we can have Division II, our second and third grade winners. All right, so we'll call up our fourth and fifth grade winners. And so now we have Division Four, our middle school students. If any of our students couldn't make it, we will be delivering their prizes to the school.

And last we have our high school students,

I think.

All right. So we're all set. Thanks. Much more efficient this way.

That looks like tough choices. Thank

you to all of our everybody who came out.

All of your artwork is amazing, and it's got good advice. I'd like to hang some of those for my kids to see to remember to turn water off and take shorter showers and do all the things they don't do, that would be helpful to save the planet. Thank you all. It was fantastic. You're not obligated to stay for the whole meeting.

You can stay, but no one ever does. That's the best thing ever I've ever We can leave. Great.

See you. What?

I say no.

You can't.

No. I can't.

Mr. Barnes, you want to start the next one?

Alright. Brings us to our next presentation and proclamation item, which is Wellington High School's designation is No Place for Hate. And mister Williams will come up and get us kicked off for this item.

Good evening, counsel. Doctor Martin Luther King once said that darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Just as hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. And those words truly capture what no place for hate is all about. Choosing love, choosing respect, choosing kindness, and choosing community each and every day. And so tonight, we would like to recognize Wellington Community High School for this designation. As we know, lot of hard work goes into creating a culture within a school where your students feel loved, feel respected, feel seen, and feel heard. And so tonight, to tell you a little bit more about this designation, I'd like to bring up miss Beth Levy.

Welcome.

Speaking

Speak into the mic. We want to hear you.

Hi. Thank you so much for having us. And speaking for us is the President. This is Safira. She has prepared something to speak and share with you today.

Awesome.

Hi. My name is Safira Minicappelli. I am the president of our chapter of No Place for Hate. As she said before, I've prepared a couple words. So when I first thought about finding a club that fits the mission of No Place for Hate, I wanted to form a group where everybody felt safe, welcomed, and respected.

Over time, I realized that this goal is about much more than just a club. It's about creating a community that stands against hate and promotes inclusion. This year, through meaningful activities like hosting the cattle car on campus, organizing links of kindness, and adorning trees with butterfly ornaments bearing words of hope and joy as part of our Trees of Hope initiative, along with open discussions and support of students and staff, we proudly earned our designation as a No Place for Hate school. This recognition reflects our strong commitment to kindness, inclusion, and standing firmly against discrimination in all of its forms. I want to thank the village of Willington for having us today, Principal Gorham for her support, Mrs.

Ford, my sponsor Mrs. Levy, Mrs. Coombs from the district, all the students of Wellington High School, and dedicated club members who put their time and effort into making today possible. Your support and hard work truly made this year a success. I firmly believe that this club has established a long lasting foundation that will enable future students to carry on this work well beyond our graduation. Thank you.

Thank you. That was great. Ms. Levy, did you want to say anything? You don't have to. You look like you don't want to say anything. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Are lovely words and we appreciate all the work you and your club have done. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Alright. Brings us to our next item, which is recognition of their Emerald Cove Middle School championship boys basketball team. And, mister Williams can get us kicked off with this one as well.

Counsel, we're here to celebrate something else special. And, our young gentlemen here to my right at Emerald Cove Middle School have done something so incredible, and they've had an amazing season. Finishing 14 and o, and bringing home the Palm Beach County Championship. And bringing home the Palm Beach County Championship, we know that championships aren't come by easy. Right?

They take hard work, dedication. They take teamwork. They take resilience, and they take perseverance. And those gentlemen right there, they did that throughout an entire season, and it ought to be applauded. And so what I'd like to do what I'd like to do right now is bring these gentlemen to the podium as well as their coach and athletic director for a few words.

Mister William, I thought you had music like an NBA game. It it shows the players one at a time. I really you know? Very not good.

Now that's a throwback. That's correct.

That's where some Opening season.

Mister Barnes is a throwback.

Come on. First year. Show him the back. Oh, yeah. Let's get ready to rumble.

Mister Barnes, is that when you were on the team?

When we opened the school.

Mister Tilly was also my AD.

Yes, I was. I told him he couldn't wear those Chuck Taylors when he came to our school though. First and foremost, I wanna thank the board, the village council, specifically village manager, mister Barnes, and newly elected councilman, Johnny Meyer, for making this night possible. My man couldn't have said it any better. This was an incredible season. We're just so proud of these young men. To go 14 and o or to go undefeated in anything is an incredible feat. Our coach, Christina T. Hayden, I'm gonna kind of talk, translate for her. Not because she doesn't speak the language, but she is sick and has some laryngitis.

So, but this evening really is awesome. But what she achieved this year, she moved here from Colorado right before COVID and said, hey, I'm a coach. I said, oh, great. We have a a a we're gonna be having a coaching for our girls basketball team. She says, no, coach. I coach boys basketball. And I said, wow, that's awesome. And talked to our principal, who unfortunately can't be here tonight, Doctor. Eugenie Fehman, had a death in the family, and she's in Georgia at the services. But our incredible assistant athletic assistant principal, excuse me, Jason Wheeler's here. If you just stand up, mister Wheeler.

Come on. Give it.

Easy to you, Jason. But a

lot of times with you have principals, you have teachers and stuff. But just He's a jock. Was a jock in high school. Athlete. He gets it. So it's really nice to have someone that gets it. But getting back to coach Hayden, she And this is according to Yetta Greene. People in this room might have had Ms. Green at one point. She worked in the district as an administrator, athletic director, teacher for, I believe it was forty eight years or something.

She recently retired, but I spoke to her by phone. And to her knowledge, coach Hayden is the first ever female head basketball coach to win a county championship, or to win any type of state or regional championship in Palm Beach County. So it's a huge feat. We're just so lucky to have her on our staff, and she's done a phenomenal job. And she's actually been contacted by several high schools, colleges, even travel, and AAU teams.

But she's her heart's at the middle school level. Her heart's here in Wellington, and we all know that the council, we are your number one school in Wellington. And, we're the favorite son. But before we do, I do have some special gifts. Coach, if you think you can say a few words, if you would address the council. Just talk about the team and the season just briefly, because I know they're in a rush. But I do have some some cool little partying gifts for the the council.

Well, appreciate that, coach, for recognizing me. But I really want to take the excuse my voice opportunity to recognize these kids. Because there's you know, I've coached a lot of years. This is my nineteenth year coaching. And these kids are I have to say, he keeps mentioning over and over again championships aren't easy.

Going undefeated isn't easy. And the only thing I keep telling everyone all year is that these kids made it incredibly easy because of their talent, how hard they work, but most importantly, the kind of kids they are. So their high level of character made everything we did pretty flawless and simple and easy. So I really wanna thank them and honor them. They're the best group of kids I've ever had.

Which one of your guys can dunk?

Thank you.

You wanna see that guy dunk? Yeah.

That's what

I thought.

And then, unfortunately, I

they didn't have one for mister Barnes, so I had to go on T move. I got a name with special T move special.

Barnes. That's awesome. Number one.

With the bow tie.

That's great.

That's what I'm talking about, brother.

There's a boat. Mister boat. Mister Barnes, can you try that on?

I don't know if this room's ready for that. Oh, well, please don't right now. You can wear it to a next meeting.

And I also Go ahead. Because coach Hayden has a heavy foot. And with the the new school, there's traffic cameras. I thought we'd give this to our our favorite bailiff over here.

Nice. Get out of jail free court. Yeah. Okay. Two. Alright.

Well, my wife might need

one as well.

But again, guys, thank you so much for having us.

Thank

you. And we hope to be back tomorrow. Or excuse me, I'm young. Tomorrow is the Palm Beach County Track and Field Championships. And we didn't get to be recognized last year, but our boys track team are the defending county champions. So we hope to bring home another back to back championship for you. So maybe we'll see you at the next meeting. All right. Right. Coach Beatty's on the coach there. But thank you so much.

Just keep winning titles, keep coming back. It's pretty simple. So I said keep winning titles, you keep coming back. It's pretty simple. We'll get you a chair up here.

You're gonna do a photo?

Yeah. Congratulations guys. We're gonna come down take a photo with you guys, but great year undefeated, a huge accomplishment. Give a lot of credit to your coach, you know how much you guys are all great, she's got to bring you all together. So great year. We'll do a photo. Try and win it again next year so we can come back. The team wants to come on over here to the middle. And this is the stop line right here. So everybody has to be in between both of these podiums right here.

Okay? Alright. Thank you, guys. Well done, boys. Well done.

Go go bring it home again next year.

The

same rule applies to you. You don't have to say.

Learning to dance and dance.

My shirt.

I have pants on it.

Alright. Oh,

yeah. Okay. Come on, firefighters.

To school. Come on.

Get the clothes together with your your shirts. Like this one. My god. Why we didn't earn? First of retirement. We're just stand together really quick. There we go. Oh, yeah. Mister Barnes, you

got it.

Bow tie

on there. There we go.

Turn it around.

After the last name. Wow. Love

when it's spelled right. That's perfect.

Alright. Everybody look right here. 321. One more for good luck. 321. Looks good. Thank

you, guys.

You, sir.

Wait. Chevelle, you should've come with a picture.

You can't get out of way fast enough. On.

Mister Barnes, we have the right color theme going for next group up.

Come on.

Got green. Green. I know. We got green.

Alright. Brings us to our next presentation proclamation item, which is presentation by the crown pearls of Wellington, presenting the village with recognition and award. And mister Williams will get us kicked off with this one as well.

Good evening council. The Crown Pearls of Wellington are truly an amazing organization throughout our community. From leaving a lasting impact in the lives of our youth, to volunteering at events that touch so many throughout our village, whenever there's an opportunity to serve, the crowns of pearls of Wellington are there. But tonight, they would like to recognize you all. So I'd like to invite the president, miss Adriana Coffey Ortiz, to say a few words.

Good evening. Good

evening, counsel. As Ian said, my name is Adriana Ortiz Coffey, and I'm the president of the Crown Pearls of Wellington. I have here with me Ms.

Ms. Good evening, Counsel. I'm Joan Asbury, the President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, Alpha Alpha Upsilon Omega Chapter, chartered here in Wellington.

Ms. And we make up this wonderful organization that has been a part and a part of Wellington throughout the last couple years. And on behalf of our organization, we wanted to express our sincerest gratitude to the mayor, to the council members, to all of the staff of the village of Wellington. We just wanted to let you know how much your partnership has allowed us to impact the community through our initiatives. We've been able to support local students, families, and residents.

And because of that, we wanted to extend a special thank you. In addition to that, we wanted to extend a special thank you, and I don't believe they're here, to Tanya Siskin and John McGovern because of all of their support when we first started a few years ago. We truly value the relationship that we've built with the village of Wellington, and we wanted to present an award. Would my crown pearls of Wellington members please stand? So just we wanted to say thank you for standing beside us. Thank you for partnering with us. And we wanted to present this award to you that reads

Presented to the village of Wellington for your generous contribution and unwavering support of the initiatives and success of the Crowned Pearls of Wellington, Incorporated fifth annual Night Lights and Crowned Pearls Equestrian Event twenty twenty six. To Mayor Napolione, Mr. Barnes, older seasoned council members, and your newly elected seasoned council members, We look forward to the continued partnership with you and the village of Wellington. Thank you very much.

Well, it feels strange to get an award from you all because you all are volunteers. And you took this place by storm when you showed up a couple years ago. And you've been in every event. You're some of the best community partners we have. And you guys volunteer for everything. And you're crushing it with the SWAG program. We can't thank you enough for all that you guys do for Wellington. So, yeah, I'd like to give it back to you, but we'll keep it. But no, we mean it. So thank you all very much, and I guess we're going to do a photo with you all too.

They're also instantly recognizable in that they always come well attired. And in green.

Maria and I have shirts to match you guys now. Yeah, yeah. Speak with green.

I'll hold this. You trust me with this? Yes. Okay. Looks good.

Alright. Here we go. Everybody look right here. 321. Let's get another one.

Ready? And by now you know you don't have to stay. Ms. Crickle, you have an award for us? No award.

Okay. Well, we'll listen anyway.

Our last presentation item is a resolution twenty twenty six-twenty four, which is presentation of preliminary trim rates for Wellington Solid Waste Collection and Recycling Assessment. And Ms. Quickle is here to present this item.

Good evening, everyone. I'm here to present the agenda item Resolution No. Twenty twenty six-twenty four, which requests your approval of the preliminary trim rates for Wellington's solid waste collection and recycling program for fiscal year twenty six-twenty seven. We are requesting adoption of preliminary non ad valorem assessment rates for solid waste collection and recycling services. These rates must be set now in advance of the August public hearing to meet the solid waste authority of Palm Beach County's processing timeline for the annual trim notices that go out to all property owners this summer.

The proposed rates are $325 per unit for curbside service. This is up $5 from the current rate, and $240 per unit for containerized service, which is also up $5 from the current rate. That is a 2% increase in both service categories. The primary driver is our solid waste collection contract with FCC, which permits an annual adjustment tied to the consumer price index for water sewer and trash collection. And that CPI indicator came in at 4.74% for March 2026, and we are budgeting 4.75% contract cost increase for fiscal year twenty seven.

That is within the 5% contractual ceiling for the contract increase. Additional cost factors includes payment for new accounts added during the year, trash bin replacements that we are responsible for, and asset replacement and indirect costs, all of which Wellington handles. The preliminary fiscal year twenty seven solid waste budget totals $8,100,000 which represents an increase of approximately $260,000 or 3% over the current adopted budget. This budget is balanced at the proposed rates and includes an addition of $245,000 to fund balance. So, we are not drawing down reserves, we are building them slightly.

We currently serve approximately 22,800 curbside accounts and nineteen fifty containerized accounts with revenue projections based on roughly 23,000 curbside units and the nineteen fifty containerized units. This is with the standard 5% discount allowance built in. Today's action sets the preliminary rates for TRMM notice purposes. The final assessment rates and budget will come back before council at the required public hearing in August. And at that time, the council remains on full flexibility to lower the rates.

You cannot increase the rates after TREM is adopted. We recommend approval of Resolution Number R26 dash 24, setting the fiscal year '27 Wellington Solid Waste Assessment rates. I'm happy to answer questions.

Thank you, Ms. Quickle. And just so people are clear, this sets the ceiling. And when we get back to discussing this in more detail, we can lower it, keep it the same. We just can't make it any higher. Correct.

So Do

we have any cards on this item, madam Vice Mayor?

There is none.

Okay. Ms. Cohen, is there a simple majority vote? Yes. Okay. Is there a motion on the item?

Motion to approve.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Hearing no opposed, passes five-zero. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

We'll see you back for the budget soon. Mr. Barnes, back to you. All right.

That brings us to the consent agenda and staff recommends approval of consent agenda as it's presented.

Is there a motion?

So moved. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, passes five-zero. We should have asked first. Were there cards on the consent agenda? No, sir. I didn't think so. Okay. Based upon the crowd.

Passes five-zero.

Alright. That concludes our next item which is we have no public hearings, brings us to the regular agenda. First item on the regular agenda is the Weldon Athletics discussion, and Mr. Bostic was going be here to present this item. Unfortunately, he's still traveling and is delayed. So up to counsel how we wish to proceed. We can postpone this item to our next meeting, or we can move it to the end of the agenda after the other two regular agenda items. Why don't

we just skip it for now and if we're not done by the time we get here, we'll address it. If we're done before we get here, then we'll do it at the next meeting. That's fine. Or is it or I don't have go ahead.

Have a

different idea.

Do we have anticipated time, Craig?

I think at this point, he estimates that he'll be here in fifteen to twenty minutes.

Okay. Okay. So let's let's start with the

next So

think that we I think that's called a punt.

What did you say? Punt? Yeah.

Right. That brings us to our next item, which is item B, council appointment of board and committee members. And as you all know, you received from Ms. Hall all the items as it relates to committee positions. And you have information as to who currently serves on those existing committees and those that have all either wished to be reappointed, reconsidered for another committee, or submitted a new application as they have not served previously.

And you have all that information in the backup that's been provided by Ms. Hall. And at this point, what I would maybe recommend, given that there are some folks that have suggested that they be considered for multiple committees and they leave that up to counsel, certainly, ultimately for discussion is perhaps, since there were some folks that had submitted for multiple ones, maybe we look at the Planning Zoning Adjustment Board and the Question Preserve Committee first, since those had some multiple folks listed for multiple committees on those requests. And then take the other committees in succession after that. And recall that each of you have an appointment and then also as a group, you have two at large appointments.

Thank you, Mr. Barnes. And that was the quarter I was going to propose that we start with planning and zoning and equestrian since those are kind of our two most forward facing committees to the outside world. We'd start with those and then go back to the beginning and go through them alphabetically. Is everyone okay with that procedure?

Yes.

Okay. And I think it makes sense to do the if we can do the at largest for each committee first. That way if you if your person doesn't become at large you still can save your pick for that person to get them on the committee does that work for everyone do at largest?

Yes fine.

Okay so starting with planning zoning and adjustment we've got a couple of vacancies I don't get to make motions by the way because I'm the chair. So I get to entertain motions. So does anyone have a motion for at large? I think we've got some good people on there. I mean Liz Mariocca served well for a long time. Ryan's new but he was on ARB for nine years and just got to PZAB. We've lost some folks. John Bowers has been on a long time. He's a very good member. Jeff Roberts has been there as well.

Don't touch Bowers. He's mine. I think that we could do Ryan Michkin and Liz Mariaca for At Large.

Is that a motion?

I support that.

Yes. Second. Okay.

All in favor to make Liz Mariaca If you're good with one of the two,

is it all or none?

Well, motion is both. So if you don't want to approve the motion, you can substitute the motion or you can just vote no on it and see if it passes without your vote.

So

all in favor of the current motion for Liz Mariocca and Ryan Mishkin? Aye. Opposed? Aye. They are appointed four to one. Now we'll go through individual appointments and we'll go I'll start. I'm going to appoint Scott Lee as my appointee.

I'm Who

else wants to go next?

I'm gonna do John Bowers.

Okay.

I am doing sabbatore Ben Kesseryn.

Sal. Okay. I'm going Lauren Brody. Mister Levin, your last.

Sergio Aguero, please. Sergio. Okay.

I don't think he heard you.

No, you're

Oh, he did. Okay.

So that's everyone. Okay. Excellent. That committee is now done. May they all be that quick? They might be. You never know. Flipping over to Equestrian Preserve Committee, I think based upon emails I've seen this committee is going to possibly stay similar to what it is right now. Anyone? I mean, they've I mean, this it's got these are good people on this committee. This is a this is a well staffed committee.

There's a lot of seniority. There's a lot of expertise. And I would make a motion to keep Mr. Glenn Fleischer at large and Judy Sloane at large.

Second. Yes.

All right. Moved and seconded for Glenn Fleischer and Judy Sloane to be the at large appointees. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, congratulations, Glenn and Judy. Anyone else want to go first this time?

I'm going to reappoint Gail Bailey for the EPC.

Okay.

I am reappointing Annabelle Garrett.

Okay. I'm going Syracuse. Okay.

Doctor. Christy Lund, please.

Oh, and I'll complete it by reappointing ASH. So it's the same committee. They have different names next to them now. So congratulations to everyone who's been reappointed.

You're doing a good job.

No new people. Excellent. Alright. Now we'll flip back to the beginning alphabetically. Architectural Review Board.

I would suggest Maria Responte and John Green for at large for that one.

I would support that. She was my appointee, but I'm happy to move her to the at large spot. She's done a good job on the committee. Any other at large suggestions?

I would like consideration to be given to Sarah Medcalf.

To be at large?

Yes, she is a new applicant.

I'm good with that too. I'm good with that as well.

Just a moment so I can find her application. I'm sorry. Vice Mayor, tell me the name again, please.

Sarah Medcalf.

Thank you. Hang on, let me find her. This book is not as easy to manage as you would think it would be.

Is she in the new? I don't have that.

She's in the new section.

Can I see someone's paper? Yes. I could possibly even,

depending upon that large picks, but Kimberly Reicha.

She's not in my book. Who? Kimberly Reicha. She's in my book. Book, but no, don't have a who did you say?

Sarah Medcalf.

She's not in my book, so I don't know who that is. I only have two new people, Doctor. Jason Jackson and Doctor. Kimberly Reicha as the new I'm

ARB new applicants.

Yep, maybe it's a misfiled? Let's see. She's not in my book there. So don't know anything about her. She's the second one of mine.

And who did you say, Johnny?

Kimberly Reicha. She's right behind Sarah Medcalf. Do you have that one?

I do have her.

Is that Sarah? Did you want to pass that down to the mayor?

You have I'm sorry, haven't seen Sarah Medcalf. Mister Mayor, do you have miss Reicher?

I do have miss Reicher in here. Don't have Sarah, though. Let's see. Here you go. I got I got two other names.

Oh, you

have it?

You can keep you can get that one. I think the two names are good. I mean, I'm more comfortable moving someone at large who's already served and we know what they're getting out of them. So there's more reliability there when we have to vote for them as as a three person vote

Mhmm.

Versus someone's individual appointee. So, you know, I'm I'm more comfortable with was it your was it your motion?

It was.

Was it your motion? I'm more comfortable moving Maria and John to at large and allowing the other people to be their individual picks because I don't I don't have any experience with them to know to vote for them or not.

I'll second miss Silvestri's motion.

Okay. So that is a motion for Maria Responte and John Green to be the at large members of the ARB. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, congratulations to the two of you. Next appointments, go ahead. You want to start?

Sure. Am reappointing Stacy Summers.

Okay.

I'm reappointing Maria Wolfe.

I'm appointing Lily Cho.

That's nice. Good choice.

She's not in your book.

She's not. That's okay. All She's in our emails. Know she's No.

I know her.

She's great. Mr. Levin, did you have someone?

I do not, but I'll take my pages back and study them and see if I can select imminently.

Okay.

No obligation to select tonight, mister mayor. Is that correct?

Correct. You can but try to have someone by the next time they meet. Very good. I don't have anyone either because my person got moved out large. But if you don't take Sarah, I might consider her. I haven't seen her resume before just now. So I'll take a look at her. If you don't pick her as a possible appointee.

Better hurry up.

And just for clarification, in your books, for each board, you have the current board members. Then there's a separate sheet where all of the new applicants are for each board.

So she still wasn't in my book, so she must have just gotten missed in the shuffle. It's a lot of pages.

It's okay.

Construction board, one of the legally required boards to have. We have some at large potential selections.

Most people wanted to stay, correct?

I think so.

And then there was a couple of people that that was their second choice. And if it is, we should if there's someone that because I know mister Browning doesn't wanna continue.

Right. And Scott Lee has been moved to a different board. So those two seats are open. We haven't heard back from Elizabeth Ron.

Yes. She she wants to get reappointed.

Does she? Okay. Mine.

Let me see. There was someone that wanted one or the other, but I think I'm gonna have to actually dig through the papers. I don't remember which person it was.

Would you want to keep mister Povetta at large?

I would like to keep mister Povetta at large.

Okay. So I want to make a motion to move him to at large?

Yeah. Motion to move him at large.

Second. Carlos Povetter.

All in favor? Aye. Okay. He stays at large. Mr. Browning does not want to come back, so we have to have another at large person. Anyone want to move their person to at large and then pick a new person? Don't have a person at the moment.

So I was prepared to select Terrence Bailey, and based on the logic we used earlier of moving tenured folks to at large,

I would support that. He's been there ten years.

Ten year. Ten years. Ten years?

Yes.

Very good, sir.

Anyone want to second that motion? Do want to put Mr. Bailey at large? That's a tough Board and staff because it has that actual criteria to be on the Board. Motion and seconded from Mr. Bailey to be the second at large person. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none.

And then we can look through this book later. I'll just reappoint my person. I don't know how to say his last name, but Bruce.

Carrie Yellow or something?

I'm not even going try.

Okay. Bruce C.

Mr. Bruce C. And then we can look through the book because there were a few people that wanted that as their second choice, but I don't know if they meet the qualifications, so maybe we can have staff look at that.

Vice Mayor, are you going to reappoint your person?

I am. Okay. I said, yeah.

Okay.

And this book.

And you guys got people for this one yet?

Michael Gogger.

Okay. Mister Levin? Defer. Defer. Okay. I may appoint Nathan George. He didn't apply to that committee, but I'm going to see if he wants to serve on it. He's a planner, he's got some experience, he might be good on that board. So I gotta look, I gotta see if he wants to be appointed before I voluntold him.

Sounds good.

Education committee going alphabetically.

Starting with at large. I'd like to move retain Shelly Albright at large and move

Hayden to

at large role. Based on their experience, their time, their commitment, the effort they've put in, I think they're strong candidates.

You're the two longest serving members of that committee.

I'll second.

All right.

Moved and seconded for Shelly Albright, Marcia Hayden. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none. Thank you, Marcia and Shelly. You're at larges. I will reappoint Marcella Montesinos.

I'm doing a new appointment. Ashley Ahern. I don't really know. It could be Ahern.

Okay.

Ashley.

I am reappointing Krista Basor.

Okay. Mr. Meyer, Mr. Levin? Andrea Preston? Pretty sure. Let me go back. Yes, here we go. Is she in the book? She is.

Andrea Preston. Let me find her. I think I circled her name earlier. I had her circle her name. Okay. Preston. And then Mr. Levin? Defer. Okay.

I've not heard back from my selections yet.

Okay. That's a good answer to the question. Skipping over a question because we did that takes us down to Parks and Rec. Got some people who've been on this for a long time but we've got a lot of open seats so we're gonna get some new blood on this committee is there a suggestion for the at large members

let's see oh okay I've written down

the main notes

Ryan McCarthy and Anthony Forgione is the at large.

But Anthony No,

he's at large.

Okay. Great. Currently at large.

He loves And both to want to remain? Sorry? Both of those gentlemen want to remain?

Well, Ryan would be new

moving from

safety okay he's good on parks and rec he's got young kids I'd be good with that so there's a motion, is there a second for Ryan McCarthy and Anthony Forgione to be the LR members? Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, congratulations Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Forgione. Going to my appointee is going to be Elizabeth Rochane.

I am appointing Amanda Vomero. And

I am appointing Doctor. Samuel Falzon.

Excellent. Gentlemen. Roger Pollock.

It's a new applicant, new candidate.

Okay. Josh Zilmer. Josh Zilmer heard that name before met him once or twice

welcome back buddy all

right that's that committee is now full moving over to public safety we've got one vacancy well two because Mr. McCarthy has moved so there's two vacancies on this committee any suggestions for at large members I think the two Matthews have been there I think the same amount of time. I

would entertain Matthew Ladd. He has asked to be reuptake

There's some good names in the book for

Amanda, you're reappointing Bob?

I am.

Okay.

I think Kevin Kimberly Kimberly.

Kimberly. Kimberly. I can't

read my I wrote Kevin because I can't read my handwriting. I don't I don't I don't know him, but that doesn't mean he

I like can't what I read. I do Matthew Ladd and Kevin Kimberly.

Okay. There's a motion and is there a second on that motion for Mr. Ladd and Mr. Kimberly to be at larges?

Second. Motion.

That's fine. Can have it.

All good. All All in favor?

Aye.

I'll vote for them. Opposed? Hearing none. Okay. Those are the new at largest. Congratulations gentlemen. Public Safety Committee members I'm going to reappoint Ron Herman.

I'm reappointing Bob Chenoweth.

Gentleman appointing

Vice Mayor.

Emory Payne.

Okay. Joseph Rosenberger. Is he in the book? Nope. Okay. I don't think so. Didn't sound familiar. Okay. Mister Levin?

I need to defer. My candidates have been selected for at large, which is great, from other committees. So I have a pick, but I want to confer with that individual.

Okay. Almost a full committee. Senior Advisory Committee. We're almost done. Our two at larges are Mabel King and Donna Baxter. They've served for all Mabel doesn't say how long she served, but she's been there for a little while. She's an excellent member so is Donna Baxter I would entertain a motion to keep them at large if someone wants to

make a So moved.

Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, congratulations, Mabel and Donna.

My pick, Penny Raman.

Quick. There you go. Okay. Good job. You got somebody. I'm going to keep Roxanne Stein.

I'm reappointing Richard Westwood.

Okay.

I'm appointing David Sanchez.

Okay. Mister Meyer? Since you stole Roxanne, I know she's I steal it. Mine. Stolen years ago. Niraj Minderati. Okay. Niraj Minderati. 65. In the book.

Takes us to the tree board. I like the two at large as we have now. Anyone wants to keep them or change them?

I'm totally fine with them.

Totally fine. Second.

Okay. Is that a motion? You're totally fine

with That's the motion.

Totally fine motion. And we have a second from this side. All in favor? Aye. Opposed, hearing none. Congratulations. John and Lisa, you are back on the tree board. I'm going to keep my person. Umabhati?

I'm keeping Kim Chenoweth. I'm keeping Kathy Siena.

I'd like to take Heather Hassandras. Okay.

You didn't sound sure. I'm Maybe you shouldn't say the name. Alright.

It's a pronunciation.

Understood. I'm going with James Jimmy Moran. Who? James Jimmy Moran.

Is he new?

I'm like a boy.

Is he in the book?

Oh. He is.

He is. 31. Oh, okay. He's what you were saying. Was. Alright. Alright. So then completion. We're done. We've appointed all of our committees. A couple of us have people to still appoint. And I know our clerk will remind us where we've left gaps and we will fill them as promptly as possible.

And just a quick note, the village attorney's office has already scheduled our in person ethics training for all of the boarding committee members to take place June 25 at 4PM. We're gonna have Rhonda Geiger come.

Okay. So I guess we'll let these people know probably by tomorrow that they have to block their calendar off. Okay. Excellent. Committees are done, and I see mister Bostik has arrived. So you want us pivot back to mister Bostik? That? Do have cards or anything else?

Yeah. Well, we have

What are the cards on?

Where he wishes to speak.

Item? Nine c's. Just public Uh-huh.

And then this one is 9C. All

dolled up. Yes.

Okay. We've got no cards. Moving into the Athletics presentation, and we've got staff up here to start us off. Let us change our binders back, since we don't need this binder anymore.

Alright. Good evening, everyone. On 04/03/2026, Wellington Sports Academy received their certificate of occupancy for their building located at Village Park. During the past few weeks we've had multiple conversations with Mr. Bostik, which include operating concerns by both Mr. Bostik and the village. Such concerns have centered around Mr. Bostik adhering to certain provisions in the comprehensive agreement, for example, hiring of a management company, public use our basketball or volleyball court, and maintenance both inside and outside the Sports Academy building. In addition, Mr. Bostik has raised some concerns regarding additional field space at Village Park, and use of additional village facilities. And here tonight, mister Bostik will be providing an update and addressing those concerns. Mister Bostik.

Good evening. Welcome.

Good evening. How are you guys doing?

Superbeautiful tie for you.

Yeah. Sorry sorry about the tardiness. I was at the facility with some of the girls basketball local kids in the area. But appreciate you guys for giving me a little bit of time tonight just to kinda catch you guys up. I know I sent a, you know, message to everyone to be able to, you know, kinda address, you know, where we're at, you know, in the project. So just to kinda give you a quick, you know, rundown if you didn't get a chance to read any of that stuff yet. You know, we should we're looking right now to have this building. We've got our CEO, as he said, on April 3. We're looking to get the full building complete now that we've started the additional space in there. We're looking to get that done in three months.

I've been trying to push Vertex to give me specific date you know and they're going to try to get done as fast as they can, but they did say three months is what we can plan for. So with us doing kind of just pouring that concrete and getting that started May, I see something like July, early August at the latest, you know, from there. So, you know, with, you know, some of the concerns that, you know, we had talked about within the building, once we took over the building April 3, you know, then we could, you know, basically have our cleaning staff that can get in there full time, you know, cleaning crew of six. Right now they before then they were just kind of doing tournaments because obviously, you know, we just had a partial TCO to the building with the with us having a partial TCO. We usually have volleyball that'll come in every evening, you know, for like two hours and then they'll head out.

But for the most part, you know, we were just kind of using the building for the batting cages and the smaller weight room in there and then, you know, the kids were pretty much out of there. They were playing baseball or out training out on the field. But now April 3, which like I said, we got great news there. We're waiting for quite some time to be able to get that completed and done. Looking forward to getting the rest of the building completed.

The kitchen just got completed yesterday. So we can now kinda get ready to officially open that for, you know, tournaments and things for the past, obviously, few months. We've been wanting to get that space open, but, you know, just certain things didn't go our way. But Chaney Brothers has addressed all those things and now has got that space up and moving to where now that can open for for tournaments and we'll be able to have more space within the building, but also to be able to kind of serve, you know, concessions and drinks and whatever during during games. We also had a chance to be able to discuss the basically, the rest of the building right now.

The Wayne's coating has started to go up on the walls inside there. You know, I know myself and our team, you know, we requested right before the CEO. They Verdex wanted to go through and paint the rest of the building because there's a lot of stuff that's not, you know, painted right now and you've got a lot of construction that's going on where constructors construction workers may hit the walls carrying different things and what we wanted to do was wait until after because I knew if we would have done it now, they would hit the walls and now I've been pissed that we had to go and paint it again. But it made more sense to wait until, you know, the we can get everybody out of there and then once we get everybody completely out of there, then we can go through paint everything and the wainscoting and stuff will be up there, which are gonna help especially during tournaments if somebody's waiting on the side or just kinda just leaning against the wall. This will help a wear and tear on that so, you know, sweat is not, you know, dripping into to drywall from there.

And we I know we had talked, you know, previously about, you know, the boys bathroom for Burst Thomas was able to address the partition. Now I didn't know partitions were actually custom, but they're custom and they took, you know, couple weeks to get here. But that just got installed probably about two weeks ago, which we're excited about that. So now we don't have to worry about that in the hallway if anybody's ever walking by so that, you know, people can see in the bathroom from that standpoint. Gym's finally done.

They finally put up the wall padding and stuff in there. All the dividers are are there. The commercial gym that'll, you know, be available to the public. Those bumpers, which we call weights, that will get here next Monday, which we're excited about that. Treadmills are on the ship still. We're trying to get those off the ship, but they are here. So taking a little bit longer to you know, than we would, you know, like, but at least we can confirm that they are here, and they're supposed to be here by the end of the month on-site. So if we can get everything on-site, then we can look to get ready to open up that space. Another concern, you know, why we haven't opened the weight room to the public just yet. We had one part of the design that needed to be addressed by Burst Thomas and Vertex.

Inside the girls locker room where the sauna and steam room are at, We needed to be able to have an exhaust vent that would take, you know, a lot of that humidity and heat out of there. On that side, we did not have it there. So they were able to go back through. They're gonna get ready to address that because right now, if we turn those saunas and steam rooms on, it's gonna get so hot and so steamy in there, which is not good because it doesn't have any place for the moisture to be able to go, which long term can create, you know, mold in that area. But also when we have turned those spaces on just to make sure that they work, the floor is like somebody basically turned a water hose on in there.

And so what we don't wanna do is have somebody go in there and slip and fall by trying to open this up before, you know, we're really ready from that standpoint. So if everything goes as well with that, you know, we should be getting ready to open up the gym for the community sometime in June. That's you know, like I said, that's the worst come to worst if we have where it takes us all the way until the May just to get those treadmills, but that's that's kind of where we're at on that standpoint. The Burst Thomas has also done a good job with Vertex and the flooring company. The flooring hasn't held up like Burst Thomas had expected.

Like, right now, obviously, it's a concrete floor. They put, like, this paint down there, but it just it didn't it didn't hold up like they thought it would. And the main thing, they were like, they should have sealed the floor. They painted it. It looked really good as soon as we started, but as time goes with just construction, dust, and everything getting on top of there, even you can mop the floor and, you know, whatever, but it just it didn't look good.

And so right now, right before the workers or right when the workers are done, they're gonna come back in. They're gonna resurface the floor, and then they're going to put a seal over. And with us doing that, then it should really start bringing that facility to life. But with that, with the Wayne's coating that's going up and put that final coat of paint, I think the facility will be in a great condition where I think we're all gonna be proud of. I know we're already doing great work, you know, within the community with what we have so far, but now we can get ready to start opening all this stuff up, you know, and then it'll allow us to really get ready for our full operations and stuff that we plan for in the building.

As I said, like, right now, we're looking at three months. So probably July, you know, August that the building will be fully complete. And then, you know, we can get ready to start, you know, get ready the the rest of our staff will will be in the building. You know, our plan right now is to have our management company in inside the facility by October 1. We want it earlier.

You know, we know we said for fourth quarter this year, the sooner the better for us. We've been in talks right now. I mean, obviously, we've talked the most with the sports facilities company as this project first started, but we've had two more that have come to the table and put together some really good proposals, you know, for us. You know, one of our biggest things and even not going forward right off the back was obviously the move from South Shore over, but also we've been in talks with some donors that have gone for naming rights and stuff the facility. And one of our big things was making sure that the individuals that went out and got these naming rights within our team, financially, that's gonna be something that helps us long term versus trying to give up 20% of that just because we have somebody in place.

So we wanted to make sure that, you know, financially that all that money, you know, that we work to be able to get in all the meetings and everything, like, that's that's important for us, you know, on on that end and especially the individual that, you know, really worked to get this piece in. So we're excited to can't say who that is just yet, but we're excited to be able to to be able to put that on the building as time goes.

Well, that's great. Your update was very it was very comprehensive. There was a lot of lot to it. I got it late yesterday. I got just to read it today.

Sorry about No,

no. It's more is better. Sooner is better, but more is still good too, But that's we're excited about the project and what's going on and what you're planning for. There have been a lot of growing pains, as you know better than everyone else because you've been dealing with them and our staff knows. How are we working through resolving some of the competing scheduling issues with you know, the parking challenges that creates? And how are we trying to resolve because you had an event before that we got some angry letters to us about they didn't like the parking situation. Was the whole that was one of your early ones, like in January, think. Was a big problem. But how are we working to avoid these problems in the future to make sure we don't have two big overlapping events on the same weekend, which doesn't really work for the facility in the space?

You said I'll answer. Yeah. I mean, I'll start and then, you know, they can finish it off. But we've been working together literally every week. Monday morning, I think at, like, about 08:30, I think I get an email, you know, from Eric, you know, about parking for the week, you know, how we can, you know, maneuver different programs that can be going going on.

So, you know, we wanna try to keep everybody happy, and, obviously, you're never gonna be able to keep everybody happy. We understand, you know, on our end, you know, what's really going on and the the plans that, you know, Jonathan has put together and, you know, showed our team, which our team is excited about for the future. We've been trying to share it with every tournament, you know, organizer that's came in here so we can try to get them to come back. The sports sports commissioner, they've been working as well with us to try and help offset cost to be able to use, you know, polo for now. But long term, when we talk about the additional parking that, you know, is gonna be brought within the the park, I think it's gonna be able to help ease all these parking concerns and and whatnot.

We get it right now. Nobody's gonna be happy, you know, when they're when they're walking over. It's hot outside and all that stuff. So we try to stand outside and and, you know, deescalate the situation every week, and and I think we've done a good job really since then. Obviously, that weekend, specifically in January, that, you know, is probably something that we're none of us wanna do again. It just it wasn't a great weekend to try that, but especially because you had

Let's talk just for a second about that. So I was there that day

Yeah.

About five hours with you that day. Yep.

Mhmm.

But the truth is the whole thing could have been avoided Mhmm. If there was proper communication ahead of time so that we all knew that this long standing fifteen plus year tournament

Mhmm.

That's always been there, tons of families. The parking wasn't available for you. So when we talk about how in your in your letter, you talk about how rock tournament, you know, decided not to come back because of the parking. It's not necessarily just the parking. Was it was an entire issue that probably could have been avoided. It probably would have meant that that tournament wouldn't happen that week. But it's all about working together with us, and we want that. Correct. You have amazing talent in that facility. My daughter's doing some privates over there. We love it. Mhmm. We're excited about it, but we all really have to work together. We have to have proper communication ahead of time. I think we all learned from that that day, right?

Mhmm.

I don't think it was the only issue that Rock saw, and I don't think that that's why they decided not to come back based on their couple emails they've sent us. Mhmm. But that is a humongous issue that it could have been avoided that when that tournament comes for Wellington Wave, we can never have anything else going on. Correct. But if you work closely with Eric and Ed and his team, we're here to make this successful. That's what we want. But we have to work together. And it can't be day of, oh, guess what's happening now? Like, it has to be worked out ahead of time. Yeah. Because we provide so many different things. That's like the most amazing park in Palm Beach County that you're located in, and we do a lot of things. So we all have to work together to program it properly.

And what systems do we have in place now? What have we set up to make sure that we're not having big competing tournaments on the same footprint at the same time? How are we avoiding this chaos in the future?

Think best the way to answer that question is right now he has his last tournament scheduled at the June, June 26, correct? Correct. We haven't scheduled anything else since then. Before he schedules anything else moving forward, we're going to discuss to make sure that when we plot it out, it doesn't compete with anything that we're already providing. If it does, then we won't do it. If there's a way to blend them, we will.

Well, I'm assuming that you're working on your tournament calendar for volleyball, and maybe you already have a set, Right? Your dates? We have have those been provided to Eric?

So the sports commissioners is they we like to share an excel sheet, you know, with them, and they just got out back from their their convention in Vegas. So they've obviously been pushing our facility. And, obviously, as these three management companies are fighting, you know, for our, you know, business, you know, they're pushing our stuff out there as well. But, you know, a lot of these individuals, they're reaching out from all over. There's even some new ones that are coming up where

But do you have dates set, and have they been provided to Wellington?

We we we haven't had dates set. We haven't, put it on the calendar just yet. We have

But with all these people that are communicating with you and they're giving you dates, when are you gonna be telling Wellington so we can make sure that we have it all?

Whenever whenever whenever they fill out, like, an agreement. So, like, when they fill the, like, application out, then we basically I basically send it I'll send it to them, and I'll send it to the sports commissioner, as well because

I'm already set on your end?

What's that?

When you sign it and you send it to Eric, is it already set?

No. No. No. No.

That's just happened. Approved by Eric.

Yes. As you approved by them.

Take place and what will take place in the next month or two. We'll have a comprehensive meeting to discuss the next six months or a year, however far out we can, and we'll coordinate that way. So we won't double book things like we did for the MLK tournament. And what we're doing now is we're treating each week as its own thing. So every time he gets a tournament, it's not just a cookie cutter. We're not just doing the same thing every week. We're looking at Village Park, what programming we have, what are we not having, giving up as much parking as we can. And when we don't have enough parking, we've been using NPC. Have we started that?

Yes. Is that working?

It works very well. Now we're not using MPC anymore because it's not needed because our rec soccer program has ended. WCFL is ending this weekend. So we have ample parking to provide. So we're literally taking it. We can't just forecast. We're we're taking every week at a time. And when we schedule it, we're going six months out moving forward. But right now, when we go week by week, I provide him a site map, as he alluded to, every Monday at around 09:00 in the morning

Mhmm.

Give or take. And it literally labels where he can and can't parks, and then he provides it to his organizer. The organizer provides it to his participants, so there's no communication.

I think there is a lack of that happening. I will tell you that. Mean, we weren't receiving it, I would get it from Eric and forward it to it. So I think we need to just make sure that people are truly sending it out. Because if it's

changing all the time and

you really need we all have to follow that, it just needs to be sent and more confirmation that that's actually happening because I can tell you it wasn't.

Yeah. And and and I I can definitely say, you know, there there are some groups that are better than others when it comes to the communication field, especially, you know, a group like Made Hoops that came in. You know, as soon as it hits Monday, I probably get an email from them, you know, faster than I get an email from you. Hey. What is it gonna look like this week?

So then we can hurry up and get it, you know, to, you know, our basically, you know, people that are coming in clientele. And they've done a really good job, you know, with their stuff. A lot of their tournaments have been very, very clean to where it's no, you know, hiccups, you know, along the way. And the good thing about them is they're the last tournament that we have, so they're actually gonna run five tournaments with us, you know, this this year. We're hoping they come back in the fall and, you know, in the spring, but as he spoke, per the agreement, we, I think, meet, like, before July 1 or something like that, that we'll come in and we sit down the sports commissioner.

Our team will come in and all these different events that, you know, they're interested in, whether it's the junior Miami Heat, you know, or something like that. They bring all that stuff to the table. We'll discuss it. You know, we'll see, like, what's available because they're bringing stuff that not even just we can do, but it's stuff that you guys are gonna be able to be a part of where, just like how you have the big football event at the end of the year, they've approached us about, you know, certain things or, you know, we've sent them, you know, their way. So we'll have we'll have a whole system in how we sit down and and, you know, make sure going forward that we have a whole system.

And obviously, once the parking gets in place, you know, we'll still have a system, but it's gonna be very it's gonna be very easy because now there's enough parking all the way throughout to be able to still coordinate everything and not have any where we gotta go and use MPC or something like that.

Is there signage in the parking lot as well as, like, parking attendance during your events on the weekends, designated where people should be parking based on your map that you're seeing on a Monday?

Yeah. We're we we put up a public works, actually manned the aquatics parking lot to ensure that the aquatics lot doesn't get taken up by his tournaments since they start sooner. And then as soon as we see as what we've been doing lately is by one, 02:00 in the afternoon, depending upon the uses at the pool, we open up the remaining of the the remainder of the lot for him

That's correct.

For his tournament. We're also looking to update all of the signage in Village Park here in the near future with, you know, signage throughout telling you what facilities are where, what fields are where, so that when people drive through for his tournaments or for our tournaments or for our program use that are not normally there, they'll know exactly where to go.

And just so that everyone understands, then we had that MLK weekend tournament, two tournaments that we know we had issues. Subsequent to that, Mr. Bostik has a tournament out there almost every weekend. I would say probably subsequent to that you've had 10 tournaments out there. We've handled those 10 tournaments.

The biggest issue, which is kind of unique to us, is the fact that we've got a parking lot between both facilities, the Aquatic and Wellington Sports Academy. Wellington Sports Academy's tournaments begin at, as you know, Sylvestri, 7AM, six, 7AM. If that parking lot is completely unattended, all of the tournament goers will take the Aquatics Wellington athletics parking lot, which then when we open at 9AM on Saturdays for Aquatics, there wouldn't be any spaces available. So what we've asked, what I've asked Eric and his team to do is, since we have no history of how much parking we're actually going to need for the aquatic facility, because we just opened it up in January and we haven't gone through an entire season, is his folks go out there three times a day on Saturdays and Sundays, eleven a. M, one p.

M, and two p. M. And they count how many empty spaces there are out there. And we've been doing that now for a few months. We haven't gotten close to filling that parking lot yet. On one tournament, we opened up 64 spaces closest to Mr. Bostic's building and allowed him to use that for his tournament, and that worked out fine. We got real close. We ended up with like 20 empty spaces. So we, you know, his 64 and all of our aquatics, we got down to 20.

And we were monitoring that because we want to make sure our residents have a place to park if they're going to the aquatic facility. We're going have a much better idea as we get through the summer when we expect an increase in usage at our aquatic facility, and we have some data that we can say, you know what? We're never gonna fill this up. He's gonna be entitled to 64 spaces right outside his building, and we still have enough to cover for our aquatic facility. So we're we're kinda juggling that right now back

and forth. Right. We're learning

that.

It's a learning process

for We've mitigated a lot of the issues. I would say by January, we'll like so he's already going through the June. So then we'll have to get through another six months of communication, trying to figure out, make sure we can do these tournaments, handle it, parking. Come January, we'll have all the data that Ed just mentioned, so we'll know we'll be able to see what the pool did for a whole year. We'll have the additional parking at Village Park. Every week that's gone by in terms of tournament use, we've improved and gotten better and better since that first tournament. I don't think we've had any issues, any complaints about parking or anything from any of

the And what you find, and it's understandable, is the frustration from the tournament folks that come because what happens is they've got we've got two sixteen spaces that are wide open at 07:00 in the morning on a Saturday when his tournament they starts can't use it.

Right.

So now they're walking from MPC or they're walking from the the Wellington Wave parking lot or from the Rec parking lot, and they're walking right by an empty parking lot. So it's very frustrating for them to say, why can't I just park here? Well, we know why they

tell you, though. I'm sorry. When I go to tournaments Mhmm. Let's just say the Broward County Convention Center, I have to pass all the empty parking spots at the bottom and go all the way up to the top. This is what it is.

Unique to to Wellington.

Families are very used to it. The one thing I will say is the MLK tournament was much larger than a lot of the ones that you've had

Correct.

By a lot. So when he goes to book these next tournaments

Mhmm.

Some of them could be larger, again, like MLK. So while we say that there hasn't been issues with some of these, it's because they're a lot smaller. There's not as many cars, there's not as many teams. So when you're looking for these new ones, we need to kind of know how big they are, too, because there could be issues, again, with parking depending on how large they are. And the larger the better, kinda, but not too big.

And my assumption is that you have you know how many participants are going to be in each of these events. So you're giving that information to Eric, I'm guessing?

Yes. So, like, when they fill out the application process before they're approved or anything, they have to tell us how many teams are gonna be in there, how many spectators are are, you know, gonna be there, and what days they're gonna be running it, and then we're able to go back and say, hey, you know, what does this look like? You know, because now we can look at the size. You have people that come in like, hey, I just wanna be able to run a tournament, you know, on six volleyball courts. You know, we've we've had that. We've had people that come in and, hey. Look. I wanna be able to get these three weekends, and I wanna bring a 104 teams every weekend. You know? So then we're able to go back and look at, you know, hey.

How can we make this work? Do we have an open date? Does this even make sense, for us? Because look, there's going to be some groups that come in and they're great partners and we're going to always want them back. And there's going to be some groups where it's just not a fit for us on our end. Not saying they're bad people or anything, not a fit for us on our end.

Math doesn't matter. Yep. And the pool is going be a swim meet destination also. So we've got to make sure we're programming all the space that's going to coordinate.

Absolutely. And this past weekend is a prime example. This past weekend, we had a large swim meet, and he had a tournament, but we had no rec soccer. So we had ample parking throughout the park. The swim meet took up the entire aquatics parking lot, and there were no issues.

I don't have the same experience at tournament coordination that you guys do in coordinating the park. Is it fair to assume that through the summer, when school's out, aquatic usage will increase?

It actually works out very well for us because when our regs sports end, summer at the pool is going to increase.

And it sounds like, Mr. Bostik, your tournament bookings right now go through June, but through summer, are are tournaments as as prolific? Are there as many tournaments as as not maybe your season is down a little bit while swim season is up a

little bit? Well, it kinda goes like hand in hand and plays together. Usually, like, they like, the pool hours, and and correct me if I'm wrong, they're gonna be, like, slammed nine to three, you know, during the day, you know, when you got your summer camps and stuff that are coming in. And the same thing for us, you know, we'll be, you know, busy during the day from summer camps to training and stuff like that. When it comes to tournaments and stuff on the weekends in the summer, a lot of the tournaments that are in season, like your volleyball, your AU basketball, they're all at, like, national events.

They're in Orlando, AU nationals. In the summer for basketball, they have called the live period. So they go and they play in, you know, these different cities and convention centers, and they've got two, three hundred, 400 college coaches that are walking around those events. So those are usually in the summertime, and then it's kinda quiet usually at the facility. So that's why most facilities usually run summer camps. They have additional program and to be able to support it. And one thing that, like I said, for us, how we're trying to get started is making sure that we have the programs in the summer to be able to support the facility all the way around.

I have a few questions, Mayor Mike, if I may have the floor Yes, go for a few

for it.

My first question is first of all, thank you so much for the update. On here, it says that prior to the date per our contract with Verdex, Verdex was responsible for many of the maintenance related items. Has anyone been working with Verdex to make sure that all these items are being taken care of?

Yes. So, the one the one big thing too was Verdex had some changeover with, their main crew. So three of their main, you know, superintendents and stuff that were on the job, one had a baby and stepped away. Another one, they had actually, two of them, they moved to different job sites. So they had to replace him.

So it was kinda like a quiet period, you know, during that time as they were moving things over, but they had a whole crew that was responsible for, you know, maintenance, you know, and cleaning and stuff like that. But, you know, during that time period, that was probably the the most crucial period that we saw from them. But other other than that, outside of those couple weeks, maybe month and a half, something like that, like, everything else has been pretty smooth with them, but obviously, they did have to replace those those three gentlemen, you know, up there. And some of the stuff was just they were waiting on, you know, vendors to to show up because sometimes it's like people tell you they're gonna show up this date, and you're waiting on them, then all of a sudden everybody's you get a phone call at end of the day, hey, we're not gonna be there for another two weeks.

So So where where are you today with all this?

Right now, we're we're we're full steam ahead now that we've got that concrete poured. That three months has has started, and we're we're hoping they get done faster than that, which they have. You know, like I said, I I wish they would tell me exact days, but that's what contractors do. They never wanted you to hold them to an exact date. They'll give you at at, you know, at the worst type of date, and then if they do finish, you know, beforehand, then, you know, it's it's a plus to it. So

And, Dan I'm sorry. Can I piggyback off of what you're what you're talking about right So now before you move in your email, you say that you officially took over the maintenance of the building as of April 3? So now you guys are in charge of cutting the lawn, cleaning up after whatever is going on.

Power, all that stuff.

All of it. And so let me just ask you, you when we talk about cleaning up for the tournaments, you weren't expect that was on you. That

was not fair value. So We we had a crew that was crew of six that would be there for tournaments. Even one of the things that we learned from speaking to all these management companies, like we had two big tournaments earlier this year where we had to call the plumbers out and had to take off nine toilets. And it didn't make sense even though the plumbers said they have never seen anything like that. So we kind of thought it was a little bit intentional because there was a bunch of paper towels that were stuffed down the the toilets. And so after speaking with Yeah. That that was terrible. Yeah. Like, it just Yes.

I be

talking about that on the next page, though.

Sorry. Sorry. I sorry about jumping ahead, but it was just like, it's, I mean, to think one, maybe two, but to take off nine and two trips, like like I said, he was like, that's something we've never seen. And he's like, I'm not trying to say somebody did that intentionally, but you can't, you know, rule that out. But for us to be able to, you know, speak with these companies, like, how do you guys normally deal with this? We spoke with the big house up in Orlando. We spoke down to pickleball, and these are technically two competitors of ours, and they gave the there were exact words where, like, you guys are gonna learn, like, it comes to tournaments, don't put paper towels in there, just stay with hand dryers for now because if you put paper towels in there, they just always end up in a toilet.

And I have a couple of more questions, if I may. Dan, here it says that the final coat will be completed after we receive the CO for the entire building. When are you anticipating on getting the CO?

That's the so we have the CO, but we still have that front portion that's getting completed. That's on that's on a different permit. But what we're expecting, once that's done, then we can go in and we can put that, you know, final code on and really, you know, bring the the facility life. Like, we have video walls that we haven't put up yet, and we haven't put that up just because there's there is so much construction dust. Like, that's just as people are walking in and out the space, people are walk to the bathroom, people are walking back to walk down the hallways.

Like, now they're putting those Wayne coatings, you know, on the hallway and the baseball hallway and going into the gym. Like, it's somebody which has to stand there with a mop all day, you know, to to do that. And so for us, just trying to wait until the very end so the people aren't tracking up and creating footprints and paint and all that because we did have that once on the basketball courts where when they painted the basketball court, somebody accidentally went in and stepped on the paint, and then the footprint was there. So we had to, like, buff it out and then repaint it. So we're trying to prevent, you know, all those things that so we don't have to go back and and do it again.

And where are you with the flooring concerns? Because it says late last year.

But we're still dealing with a

No. No. They solved that. So Burst Thomas did a really good job of meeting with the flooring company that provided that, and that's where they came up with the solution. As of we need to not only resurface this thing, but we need to put a seal down on top of it. And once we put the seal down on top of it, it should solve all those issues and, you know, bring the floor back to what it what it's supposed to look like.

And one last thing for me. Mr. Bostik, I really would like to see a timeline on these issues. Yeah. Because there is no timeline here. It's more of informational for us.

Yep.

But we don't know if some of these items are going to be done in six weeks, one week, a year, six months. I would really like to see you do a timeline on these issues.

Yeah. Can put a on when

we can anticipate all this to be completed.

Okay. And we can put that right now like the I think the timeline, and we'll make sure we put that together for you. But that timeline, we're looking as July, early August at the latest that everything should be completed, then we can run back in and, you know, resurface the floor because we'll need to shut the facility down probably for a weekend to be able to resurface the floor and then, you know, put the seal on top. And then for the walls, you know, same thing. We're gonna wait until everybody's out of there and nobody's carrying, you know, heavy equipment or driving lifts and stuff, you know, on top of the floors. We wanna make sure everybody's out of there so we can put it up and and then we can have something going forward versus, you know, basically spending the money twice, and we we don't need to spend twice.

Can you give me a timeline tonight on when we we can expect something from you in a day or two or three on

on next one? I can send that later tonight. I mean, like I said, I would say right now, the the best case to plan for is literally early August, probably that August at the very latest, you know, because right now, they did they poured that concrete the May. So if you take, you know, May, June, July, you know, I'm just try I'd I'd rather plan for the worst, you know, and then everybody, you know, gets better on that. So so that's that's where we're at, but I'll make sure it's I'll make sure it's laid out for you.

I know you've got a couple options you're looking at. When do you anticipate hiring a management company?

Right right now. October 1. Okay. Yep. So want to get them in there earlier, just we want to make sure we got the right program and stuff in there to help support it right, you know, now. I think that kind of lead into some of the

other Yeah. There's three main points that we've been discussing with Mr. Bosik. One is the management company, which if I'm hearing tonight is committed to by October 1. The second major component is that as part of the comprehensive agreement, the village is entitled to use of one basketball court Monday through Friday, 6PM to ten Monday through Thursday, 6PM to 10PM.

When does that begin? That's

It's well, actually, it's going right now. So a lot of stuff we just haven't, like, marketed or anything, but, like, the Wellington Wolves are are in there. They they have practice, you know, inside there. We've made it open. Like, a lot of the coaches with the Wellington Wolves, I've known them. My

sister You're played saying this is open play. This is not the Wolves. This is an open play.

Well, we have access to the facility, but we haven't made a determination yet on what we're gonna use that basketball court for. We did bring up the the the prospect of using it for open play to mister Bostik. He has some concerns. Do you wanna go ahead and address those real quickly?

Yeah. So just the open play stuff. So one of the big things as we look at, like, how this is gonna work, there were some some concerns. Now we have a whole Gator moms group that, you know, really supports our program, and they kinda, you know, help us out whatever we need, whether it's volunteering if we need to be able to bounce, you know, ideas and stuff off their heads, they help us out in any way. And so one of the things we talked about getting ready to, you know, use it for open play as as as we talked about. Right now, there's there's a big problem that's going around. All the LA Fitnesses have shut down their basketball courts.

All of them or has one of them?

All of them.

Have all of them shut down their basketball program that you know of?

They're all shutting down.

My staff looked into it, and the four that are in the area, the one on Montana shut it down. Wellington hasn't shut it down yet. The one on West Palm hasn't shut it down yet. And I forgot the third one, but they have not shut

it down. They they have they have the dates to shut it down.

If we did open play, we're gonna have our staff there to make sure that nothing goes wrong. Correct? Well, think that in the original plan for this was always that it was supposed to be something that the residents, the community had access to. I think that that's a very important thing for us to do moving forward.

Correct. And and just to kinda touch on some of those topics and and why just speaking even with the volleyball parents and why a lot of them are concerned. The reason these LA Fitnesses have all put their dates in to be able to shut this down and change those spaces inside their gym is the security, you know, that comes with it. A lot of the the individuals aren't safe. When you have those courts open, you bring a different crowd, and that crowd is something that we're not gonna be able to control and make sure that we can keep our kids safe in this space. There's been a lot of things that have come in where people have brought weapons and stuff, you know, people

So you're

saying because you have other programs that are gonna have practices at the same time you feel uncomfortable with that?

Well, no. No. Not I feel uncomfortable and there's the the families feel uncomfortable, but I think just understanding when you have open play like that, that is a big concern of how we're going to keep those, you know, individuals safe. That's something that I brought up. That, like I said, a lot of our families, you know, within our volleyball program are very concerned about.

And, you know, I'm afraid on my end, if we turn around and we open that for, you know, just open play just to any, you know, resident, understand, this is the exact reason why all these LA Fitnesses are shutting down these courts and not just here, but they're doing it around the country. And and I understand, you know, why I've been to those, you know, type of venues, and and I've seen just how, you know, some of those things can get out of hand and get get out of hand really, really quick. And the last thing we want is to, you know, an individual within our community or, you know, one of our kids to, you know, get caught, you know, in a situation that they don't need to get caught in.

Well, I I understand all of your concerns. And as a club parent, I don't want random people in there, especially because you don't have the parents in there. I understand that.

Mhmm.

You have your nice, big, championship room. Maybe that can be the open play. We have to figure it out. Because it that the whole thing was always supposed to be for the residents too. If they're not gonna be in the main area where you do your your practices, maybe we can do it in your championship room, and that's your open play, and we'll figure out access to get in there that blocks off everything else.

And what about hiring security, Lincoln? Well, we have brought that up and that's some of the stuff that we talked about because, you know, when you talk about, you know, some of the open play, certain sports, you know, bring in a different level of threat that a lot of, you know, individuals may feel a little bit comfortable with. We've talked about having the open play where, you know, maybe that's, you know, for volleyball. We've talked about also opening the hours up and, you know, even, you know, on Sundays being able to have the open play. They've offered, you know, to to be able to staff that, you know, in a way because right now, Respectfully, the only way we can keep those, you know, individuals safe if we open that up to just open play basketball or or whatnot, you're gonna have to have PBSO there. Jessica, how

do manage open play at our facilities? How does that work for us?

We have open play volleyball and we have open play basketball inside of Village Park. We staff it with either part time rec assistants or full time staff that are there during the day. At night, it's part time staff. And just being we have not had issues. Every once in a while, there'll be an issue with a conflict that arises, and we deal with it.

Can you explain to them the check-in process?

The check-in process is they come to the front desk, they provide their driver's license or ID. And if they're a resident, they get to use this facility for free. If they're a non resident, they pay a $5 fee.

And you do no bags in there?

No bags.