Village Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Thank you all for coming. It's nice to have a crowd. We're going to call to order this meeting of the Wellington Village Council for Tuesday, July 28th. We are going to start with the invocation by Deacon Pete from St. Therese de la Sault, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Please rise if you can.

Good evening, everyone. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, As we gather this evening for the Village of Wellington's Council Meeting, let us keep in mind that you created all people in your image and in your likeness. Open our eyes to the strength of your love for all people. Open our minds to your intervention in every pressing human situation and social issue. Give us the humility and discernment to enter into your love, into your mercy, into your justice, and into your patience for all humanity. Open our hearts to your compassionate understanding. Show us where to begin and remain with us as we do the work of governing this great community. And we ask this in your holy and venerable name. Amen.

Join us in the pledge. All right, Mr. Barnes, take us through it.

That brings us to the approval of the agenda, and staff recommends approval of the agenda as presented. Is there a motion to approve?

So moved.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Agenda is approved 5-0.

This brings us to our presentations portion of the agenda. At this point, I'd like to bring up Captain Adazio to present the Sheriff's Office District 8 2025 annual report presentation.

Good evening, Mayor, council members, and village staff. For those in the room that don't know me, I'm Captain Nicole Adazio with District 8 Wellington substation. Joining me today are a couple members of our staff that I would like to introduce. Our analyst, criminal intelligence analyst Vivian Fernandez, is sitting behind me. She is responsible for putting this report together and the data analysis. Also is Lieutenant Barry Stotts, who is sitting behind me. And to my left is Deputy Sheriff Harold Harper. So to begin with, it was a banner year for PBSO in 2025. Our crime was down, our arrests were up, and our vehicle stops were up. We'll start with the annual calls for service. So for the council members, you have a comprehensive, very lengthy report in front of you. What I'm presenting today on this PowerPoint is a summation of that. What we include is really what you're most interested in historically. We've gotten questions about things, so I've included some extra things, and then I've taken some things out. but we'll start with calls for service. So as you can see, the calls for service starting back in 2021 through 2025 has steadily increased. While I'm going through these slides, I want to let you know that some of the questions you may have could be answered on the next slide. So just hold tight. So wait till you're done. Right. Thank you. So of those calls for service, the large majority of the calls are self-initiated by the deputies. So these are not calls that are coming in. 911 calls are calls for help. As you can see here in the green, that's 77,143 self-initiated calls for service by our deputies, with 17,820 non-self-initiated. And so some of those self-initiated calls include traffic stops, which was 17,600, 52,000 approximately business and residence checks, and about 8,100 other self-initiated incidents. These are our zones. Our deputies are divided into different zones throughout the village. And as you can see, I've listed next to each zone the calls for service in those particular zones. And you can see based on where the zones are and the numbers that the areas that have more residences, more businesses are getting a bit more calls for service to include the mall, which you see has about 2,300. That whole sector is about the 2,300 for calls for service. This is the uniform crime reporting data. It's a five-year statistical comparison. I don't like to really hone in on a lot of the UCR data, because the FDLE defines a couple of crimes a little bit differently than us. So there are some nuances here, but it's very close. So for example, you can see here We're down in everything with the exception of larceny. And there's only been about a 5% increase, which is shoplifting. So we were down in all these crime categories. This is our arrest data. Also, UCR data, total arrests for last year, 2024. And excuse me when I say last year. This is a 2025 report. So for 2024, the arrests were 272. And for 2025, it was a bit more, 307. I really like this slide. I'm sure the audience can see this, but it is a breakdown of our annual cases since 2009. And what you can see here, especially if you look at the property crimes, is a drastic decrease in crime. We had in 2009, 2010, and 11 upwards of 400, 300, 300 vehicle burglaries, very high residential burglaries. And when we move into 2025, 22 residential burglaries and 101 vehicle. And again, as we've known, property crime, excuse me, persons crimes in the village of Wellington is very minimal. This is a breakdown of our robbery incidents. And I wanted to provide you with a little bit more detail about these robberies. Two of these cases were juveniles. The suspects were juveniles. And none of the suspects in all six of these cases resided in Wellington. In these particular cases, Four were robberies by sudden snatching. So whether somebody was holding something in their hand like a telephone and somebody came up and snatched it out of their hands or they had a purse on their shoulder and somebody ran off with their purse, that was four of them. One of them occurred on Halloween and that was the only armed robbery that we had in the village at the time. And a woman and her son, I believe, were getting out of the car in their garage when they were confronted by two males on Halloween night. In a few of these cases, the suspects were claiming that they were football kids that were trying to raise money, and they were hitting areas like the Wellington Mall to raise those funds and then committing the sudden snatching. But if you look at the robbery trends in the bottom right-hand corner, you're going to see again from 2021 to 2025, we're still 7, 4, 6, 3. We're still in that 5 to 6 range. Stolen vehicles. We had 29 stolen vehicles in 2025. 12 of those cases, the vehicles were unlocked with the keys left inside. 41% of the cases. 12 of the 29, the vehicles were recovered. And 11 of the 29 involved golf carts. Residential burglaries, 22 residential burglaries in 2025 versus 27 in 2024. So that was a 19% decrease. 10 of the 22 were cleared. It's a 45% clearance and seven of the cases were cleared by arrest and three of those the victims refused to prosecute. And even in the residential burglaries, I just want to point out in reviewing some of these cases over the last couple of weeks, Many of these cases were bikes, e-bikes and bicycles. They were crimes of opportunity. They were garages that were left open. They were stolen bikes off of porches. It is rare that you're going to see a legitimate residential burglary. They do happen. Absolutely. But it's it's few and far between that you're going to see like a smash slide or most of these cases are crimes of opportunity. Vehicle burglaries. We had 101 in the village versus 108 in 2024. 21 of those cases were cleared by arrest. 84 of the 101 cases were unsecured or unlocked vehicles. That's 83% of the vehicles. This is the same message year after year. I think this is actually probably we've increased the number of unlocked vehicles for the year. 10 of the 101 were forced entry. Six of them were attempts only where they grabbed the handles. And 21 of the 101 cases involved suspects who lived in Wellington. So only 21% of our suspects lived in the village of Wellington. shoplifting cases. This is where we went up a little bit when I came in. I've been here about three and a half years when I came in, we really focused on shoplifting. Our numbers increased last year as our focus moved elsewhere. And that will be a focus again this year and moving into next to try to get those shoplifting numbers down. We see a lot of organized retail theft now. So it's becoming a much more lucrative business, some of the shoplifting cases. are golf cart incidents. 112 incidents involving golf carts in 2025 to 80 in 2024. So they are increasing. 43 of those incidents were proactive traffic stops conducted on the golf carts compared to 27 in 2024. Nine of these incidents involved juveniles compared to 19 in 2024. And 14 of these incidents were crashes that involved golf carts compared to 16. in 2024. Short-term rentals, this is a great success for us. 33 total calls for service at short-term rentals compared to 62 calls for service in 2024. That's a decrease of almost 50%. 19 of those calls for service were noise-related, five parking issues, and 11 incidents at Sugar Pond Manor. And I have to give the credit to our community policing team, in particular to Deputy Harold Harper, who's standing to my left. He was the one that really took a hold of this issue and made contact with property owners. He reached out to the Airbnb contacts, security contacts, and was able to obviously get these numbers down with the calls for service regarding the short-term rentals. We also, at PBSO, had a special designation that was implemented by Lieutenant Bobby Humphrey. So when we get a call to a short-term rental, It is noted in the CAD information, so we know that it is indeed a short-term rental. traffic crashes remain about that they remain the same in the village to be honest, you know, we we have a bit more crashes a season is here. The season ends from excuse me runs from November to the end of April. And you can see February is a tough month for us, including March, it declines up to about October, November, December. But our crash rate for the village still remains very low. traffic citations, written warnings, and verbal warnings. This was a significant increase from 2024. As you can see here, we had 9,219 citations written, 6,300 written warnings, and 5,400 verbal warnings. We are big on attempting to warn the public about things, but especially during our back-to-school efforts, we'll spend a couple of weeks educating, warning, and then we go into the enforcement phase, especially with repeat offenders. 2024 was a different year for us. What I saw in the 2023 data and the 2025 data, it was more similar. In 2024, it was an election year. We had our three deputies that passed away on Southern Boulevard. We had a lot of dignitary protection needs, and our motors were pulled out of the village a lot. So that's one, I think, contributing factor to some of the lower numbers from two years ago. Our detective bureau, these are the numbers for them, total cases signed versus cleared. They have a 23% clearance rate, 316 cases assigned, and 73 cleared. Our performance goals for the village are to maintain burglary and theft crimes that are less than 800 cases. clear at least 10% of those cases by arrest. So how do we do? Our residential burglaries decreased 19% from 2024 to 2025. Burglary and theft crimes, specifically shoplifting as well, increased just a bit. We surpassed that objective of less than 800 cases with only 423 combined cases. And of the 128 burglaries, approximately 20% were cleared by arrest. Property crime is a bit more difficult to investigate and make arrests on. We get much higher clearances on our violent crimes than our property crimes. The district runs a significant number of operational plans throughout the year. The next two pages are just some highlights of those ops plans. Operation Fairway in 2025 was the first really organized golf cart operation plan that was very successful. We run into summer and run several operations plans involving juveniles because that is the 100 deadliest days of summer for juveniles once they're getting out of school. We've run operations plans regarding improper parking in various communities. We tend to have the same communities that get some issues as the equestrian season rolls around. And Moto Madness was one of our most successful operations that was an operation that involved e-bikes, e-motos throughout the village. And again, we did the entire education warning and then made a few arrests for people driving unregistered vehicles on the roadways. Our Citizens on Patrol unit is extremely active in the village of Wellington, probably the most active, I believe, in the Sheriff's Office. We have 28 members in Wellington in Unit 1. They worked a total of 17,500 volunteer hours, which is astounding. The number of foot patrols was about 6,600. Business checks are conducted numerous times for the month. almost 2,000 park checks, school checks, and this year they really, really ramped up their participation with food distributions. You guys see them out there quite a bit. And they issued a combined 1,435 tickets and warnings for illegally parked and handicapped parkings in swales and fire lanes. And in addition, that unit raised their own funds from their own pockets to buy a new vehicle for that unit. For the citizens in the audience, we do have a home away or house watch program that I implore you to use. You can see in 2025, we had about 100 extra patrol requests. You can go online and request that our deputies, you just provide your address and information, how long you're going to be home and what vehicles are in your driveway, and we'll swing by and we'll do some extra residential checks for you while you're away. Excuse me. All right, these are our favorite slides here. This first slide, these are the comparisons to other communities that are similarly situated. So if you look at the first slide, 2025 population, at the top we have Boca Raton, moving down, Delray Beach, Gardens, Wellington, Jupiter, Greenacres, and Royal Palm. So we're sitting right in the middle when it comes to population. Of that population, For residential burglaries, we had 0.036 per 100 residents here. So we remain towards the bottom when it comes to that property crime. So that's one burglary for every 2,800 residents. Same thing with your vehicle burglaries. We're sitting right in the middle, 0.163 for every 100. 100 residents. So that's less than one vehicle burglary per 100 residents or about one for every 600 residents. Our robberies are at the very bottom of that list, which is great because that's what we're worried about is violent crime. And we have very, very little to no violent crime in the village. That's one robbery for every 10,000 residents. Although our shoplifting numbers were up a bit for the year, you can see that we're still right at the bottom. And if you notice, the only other village below us is Jupiter, but we have a mall. We have a large number of shopping areas. So to continue to keep our shoplifting numbers low despite having a bit of an increase, that's pretty exceptional. And same thing with our accidents and hit and runs. Although our focus is on traffic a lot here in the village, we continue to maintain a very, very low accident number. And that's two per every 100 residents. So far this year, it is very difficult to read, but the green is what matters up there. And so this is almost the first half of the year when it comes to some of our crime stats. The very first section is crime persons, property, and then some general statistics. And in almost every category, our crime remains down. And going forward, we are already working on some of these things because this is moving from 2025 to 2026. But we continue to address e-bike issues throughout the village. We educate our village of Wellington residents on how to combat our auto theft and auto burglaries. We continue to address our parking issues. We have really ramped up our community engagement efforts in 2026 with our CP team. we were able to attain another sergeant a traffic sergeant so we were split those two sergeants the span of control is not as great which allows us the opportunity to really focus on community engagement efforts and you guys have seen that in the three unity fest that we have had in these last three quarters in the village And again, just we're continuing to grow in our traffic enforcement posture and mitigate unsafe driving. And you see that with our speed cameras through Genoptic, the villages be cameras through Genoptic. And of course, you want to maintain that hometown police department culture. So is there any questions?

I'll start by saying thank you to you and your team at District 8 because year after year, this is a great report to get. Some communities might dread this report. We love getting it because it shows we are one of the safest places to live in Palm Beach County, and that's attributable to all the work you guys do. It's still always surprising to see the number of vehicle burglaries based upon people who leave their cars unlocked with the keys in them. I mean, these are just crimes of opportunity. People are just asking to have something happen to them. You just lock your doors and take your keys inside, and those numbers would drop dramatically. I know our Citizens on Patrol team, those guys and girls, they're fantastic. They are so enthusiastic about what they do. They're at all of our community events. And they're really a force add to your team. So keep them working. Keep them involved. And keep them active and busy, because they've been really great. I want to ask about Moto Madness, because tonight we have an e-bike micro-mobility ordinance. And we're going to pass something. And I want to make sure that you guys are going to help us, especially at the beginning of the school year, enforce and educate on what the new rules are. So people who, they're not really that different than what they are now. enforcement and education is really the key to getting some of these riders under control. So I'm hoping you have something. Don't tell us your secrets, but I'm hoping you have something planned for the start of the school year so people can get started on the right foot and know what is expected of them at the beginning.

Yep, absolutely. The first, like I said, the first couple weeks of the school year, it's education-based. So we want to go out there and let them know exactly what they can and can't do. And a large majority of our problems are safety-related, not wearing helmets, not stopping at stop signs, speeding. And so we will be educating and then moving into enforcement. And without getting into a lot of the details, the enforcement efforts, they're hard. They're really, really hard. It takes quite a large team to enforce the e-bikes and the golf cart issues. Yeah.

That's for me, just thank you. Anyone else, comments, observations?

The numbers were fantastic. Thank you. That's a great, thorough presentation. I'm very excited for our children to go back to school and also nervous. Look, they've been doing this all through the summer too, but at least you'll have them more confined and in their specific areas so we can really hit as many kids as we and adults with the golf carts just so that we can really get this under control. So, you know, that's our main concern, really. But thank you for the presentation. Thank you.

I'll stay down here. Mr. Levin.

Thanks very much for the presentation and for keeping us safe. One of the things that you indicated was up was golf cart crashes. Why do you think that is? Is there just more golf carts or is there less rules around them or?

I think it's distracted driving. I think it's distracted driving by both the golf cart operators and by vehicle operators. And many of the times we see or even crashes involving pedestrians and dogs. And a lot of people are wearing their earbuds, so they can't hear the golf cart operators coming up behind them. As you can see, the numbers for the golf cart incidents, I think there was 20% were kids. The adults are the offenders here with the golf cart. So that's something we need to take into consideration. But that's the biggest issue. We have the multimodal pathways. The village of Wellington has set everybody up for success when it comes to operating these golf carts. It's a matter of the operator and paying attention and parents educating their children.

Yes. Mr. Meyer? I'd just like to say thank you. I mean, this is a testament of what you guys do each and every day to keep us safe and to keep crime down. So, you know, the village thanks you. The residents thank you.

Thank you. Vice Mayor, last word. Thank you. I like the last word.

First of all, I want to congratulate you on your leadership because what you've shared tonight is a testimonial of your leadership and everyone that works with you. It's wonderful to see that in Wellington. I can share because I see this and I hear you and I see all of you at work, PBSO here in Wellington. We have the safest community. And that is because, and I truly believe this too, we have the best of the best. And for that, I truly appreciate everything that PBSO does and the partnership we have with you. because these numbers are testimonial of how well we work together. And I have a question. Since we have such a great audience here tonight, what is something that the community can do to help you?

Besides lock their cars.

Yes. The 2026 focus for our team really was community engagement. And that's getting, it's not just listening to us when it comes to like locking your cars, but it's getting to know your local law enforcement officers. As you can see, there are various zones where we have the same deputies. There's two different day shifts, two different night shifts, but they're patrolling those same zones. Roll your window down and say hi. We have these Coffee with the Cops. We have business walk and talk programs. Pay attention to our social media. Get to know your local law enforcement officer. These UnityFests that we're hosting, they're happening in our community policing sites where we tend to have more calls for service. But they've been highly successful because we have people that are coming to us at these events saying, hey, This particular resident I'm worried about because it's an elderly female who's living alone and I know she doesn't have a lot of help. What can we do for services? Or we have a house that there's a lot of traffic inside that house, a lot of vehicles in and out, or we suspect potential drug use or drug sales. These are things that we need to know. When you see something, say something, we continue to push that out. So please do that and just be part of the engagement. Get involved in some of the activities with both the Village. The Village and the Fire Rescue and PBSO, we work together to create so many opportunities for community engagement. So that's my advice. Just get to know us a little bit better and come to some more of the events. I think as you see, the crime persons and even property crime is declining. But the crimes that I'm most concerned about are fraud. It's cyber crime. It's cryptocurrency crime. It's fraud in general. A large population of victims are the elderly. And these are opportunities for you to learn on how to combat those types of crimes while the serious crimes on the rise we have i mean are on the decline we have a lot of fraud related cases that are on the rise and organized retail theft cases so i just want you guys to keep that in mind also any opportunity that you can learn about scams please take part in it so thank you and i just want to say um thank you to my team it is this has very little to do with me and it has everything to do with the people sitting behind me and the guys and the gals that are out there in the green and whites, doing the job, doing the traffic stops, putting their lives in danger every single day. And just so you know, my day shift Wellington deputies, I can't get rid of. Some people want to come to Wellington, but they won't leave. So you've got a number of deputies that really, really want to be here because they love to serve the village. So thank you all. Thanks for your time.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Mr. Barnes. That's the end of our presentation. This brings us to the consent agenda. At this point, staff recommends approval of the consent agenda as presented. Madam Vice Mayor, any cards in the consent agenda?

We have a public hearing. And no.

No cards on consent. Is there a motion to approve consent? So moved. Second. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

So moved.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Approved 5-0.

That brings us to our public hearings agenda. And the first item on public hearing is a resolution number 2026-25, the landings at Wellington PUD master plan amendment, R&B Tennis.

Resolution number R2026-25, a resolution of Wellington Florida's council for a master plan amendment amending the landings at Wellington plan unit development master plan for certain property known as Little Place of the landing at Wellington PUD. totaling four acres, more or less, located on the southwest corner of the Greenbrier Boulevard and Owsley Farms Road intersection, as more specifically described herein, to change the master plan designation for the property from daycare to assembly, to add two access points along Greenbrier Boulevard to illustrate the existing access to the assembly site, providing a conflicts clause, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date.

This is a quasi-judicial matter. So if you intend to be heard on this matter, would you raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

Yes.

OK. And we'll need to do ex parte disclosures, please.

Start with Mr. Meyer.

I spoke with staff and with Lauren Brody. And I can be fair and impartial.

Thank you.

Thanks, Mayor. Can you just generally summarize what was discussed?

With staff, they just went over the project with me, and with Lauren Brody, she just expressed some of her concerns for the project.

I spoke with the applicant, I spoke with staff, and I spoke with Chuck Gill. All of them were in reference to the vision of the project itself, and I can be fair and impartial.

Thank you.

I spoke with the applicant Betsy McCormick and Rodrigo Nascimento and John Schmidt and our staff generally about the project and what they're looking to do there, and I can be fair and impartial.

Thank you. I spoke with staff, John Schmidt, Betsy McCormick, Rodrigo Nascimento, staff, or I already said staff, about the project and what they're planning on doing, and I can be fair and impartial. Thank you.

I spoke with staff and applicants agent John Schmidt, just general information about the application, and I can be fair and impartial.

Thank you.

Take it away.

Okay. Good evening. Cori Lynn Kramer, Planning and Zoning. Before you tonight is a master plan amendment petition number 2025-0002. And it is for the landings at Wellington PUD and it's for RMB Tennis located at 2995 Greenbrier Boulevard. At this time I'd like to enter the files into the record. This is a four-acre property. It's located on the southwest corner of Osley Farms Road and Greenbrier Boulevard. The property does have a future land use designation of community facilities, and it's within the landings PUD. The applicant is requesting a master plan amendment to change the master plan designation of the property from daycare to assembly and to illustrate the two existing access points on Greenbrier Boulevard on the actual master plan. The agent, John Schmidt, is here with their team, and they'll be making their presentation first on behalf of the applicant, and then staff will follow up with our presentation.

Thank you. Mr. Schmidt.

Good evening. Thanks for Mr. Mayor and council. Thank you for your consideration this evening. I'm John Schmidt, agent for the applicant of R&B Sports. Who is R&B Sports? They're founded by tennis's two most respective names, Betsy McCormick, who's a Grand Slam champion, and Rodrigo Nesimino, who is an elite tour coach. They are focused on sports. This facility is going to be focused on sports, mentorship, community, and purpose, and they're going to be developing athletes and champions for life. Our specific request this evening is a master plan amendment to amend the approved four-acre parcel in pod A from the existing daycare facility to a membership-based assembly use and also reconfiguring the two access points that I'll show you in a little bit. Why are we changing to assembly? Per your definition, assembly means an institution or membership use that is organized meetings and programs for social, educational, and recreational purposes. Those examples would include botanical gardens, private clubs, lodges, religious institutions, places of worship, cultural and community centers. We are, again, reconfiguring those two access points, and we do have compatible or companion applications that includes a site plan that staff will be looking at that will be replacing the current 8,000 square foot daycare facility with a 26,000 square foot assembly building, 10 of it being in club and a two-story configuration, and 16,000 square feet in the actual two indoor tennis courts. We received approval from your planning and zoning board on June 17th. And if we Go forward tonight. We'll be at the August 26th architectural review board Again, this is a picture of the site four acres on the south side of Greenbrier and just west of Owsley Owsley farms road and just west of the canal and From a mapping standpoint, the four acres highlighted in red is a community facility, which is a gray tone, which is surrounded completely by the park and some of your facilities just to our south. The current zoning is PUD. The picture on the left is an aerial of the landings at Wellington PUD. So that was the original approval. On the right there is a map of the Wellington plan development. Our highlighted site there is in the yellow on the bottom right corner. And this is a blow up of those. So we'd be replacing the existing daycare use that's designated on the master plan to the assembly. And then we'd also be reconfiguring those two access points. So you can see highlighted in the green. We are compatible with the LDRs and the comprehensive plan, specifically 6.2.1. We're a permitted use within the community facility category. The proposed use is consistent with the community's facility designation. Of the land use and community design, it is compatible infill development consistent with surrounding uses. The mobility objective 1.2 is that we're located along a collector roadway. Via Greenbrier Boulevard, we comply. And from Parks and Recreation, it expands the recreational opportunities for the Wellington residents. This is a Table 6.2 excerpt from your code. On the left side are the uses. All the way down at the bottom highlighted is assembly. If you move over to the right, under our current land use, which is community facilities, we're permitted use within that category. We are consistent with the seven criteria of the comprehensive plan, items A through G. staff. Village staff recommends approval with 15 conditions of approval that we're in agreement with. In addition to Betsy and Rod, we have our four-legged mascot, Gunner, here, as well as our architects, Keith Spina and Tammy O'Rourke, and our project manager, Jordan, to answer any questions you may have. And that's all I have for you. Thank you, Mr. Schmidt.

Mr. Stilling, Ms. Kramer, you want to do the staff presentation before we open public hearing?

So the next two slides are going to look very similar to what you've seen. The property is located within the landings at Wellington PUD, and that was approved in 1979. The existing site is used as a daycare facility and has been since 1986. And the current owner purchased the property in 2005, and they are proposing to demolish the existing structure to develop the 26,000 square foot indoor tennis facility with outdoor courts and some additional recreational uses. this slide shows the existing landings at wellington pud master plan labeling and this is a designation based on the master plan so this is not related to the land use or the zoning so as you can see it currently is listed as daycare and they are proposing that it be listed as assembly Part of the staff analysis is to determine if the request complies with Wellington's comprehensive plan, the land development regulations, and other requirements. A detailed analysis was included in your staff report. However, some of the key points are included in the next few slides. PUDs do allow for non-residential uses to meet the daily needs of its residents. Modifying a master plan use designation to assembly will not increase the amount of non-residential uses within the PUD Assembly is defined as an institutional or membership use that has organized meetings or programs for social educational or recreational purposes Along with some of the other details that was previously mentioned by mr. Schmidt The proposed private tennis facility is designated as a membership-based tennis and fitness facility centered around organized instruction, training, and athletic development meeting the assembly definition. The property is surrounded by other community facility uses, including Greenbrier Park to the west and our water facilities to the south. Landscape buffers are required on all sides to limit any impact to the surrounding properties. The request does not add additional access points to Greenbrier. It is only illustrating the existing driveways that exist, and they will meet the separation requirements per our code. Assembly use is permitted pursuant to table 6.2-1 of our land development regulations and a site plan that meets the requirements of the land development regulations has been submitted and reviewed by all departments. At the June 17th PZAB meeting, the board recommended approval of the request with a five to one vote. The staff analysis concludes that the proposed request complies with the requirements for a master plan amendment subject to the proposed conditions listed in resolution 2026-25. And this concludes our presentation and we're available to answer any of your questions.

Great. Before you open public hearing, quick question. 5-1, who was the one?

Scott Lee.

PJB? Scott Lee. Did he give a reason for his vote?

He did not.

OK. And who recused themselves?

Ms. Brody.

OK. Is there a motion to open public hearing?

So moved. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now open. Madam Vice Mayor, cards.

We have one, Mr. Tooman.

He stepped out.

He stepped out.

Anyone else wish to speak on this item?

Did you actually open the public hearing?

Yes. Okay.

I'm sorry.

Now I'm going to close it. Move to close public hearing.

Second. Anyone? Second.

All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now closed. Questions for the applicant or staff? I'll let someone else go first.

I have a question for staff. It looks like there's 15 conditions that have been put on the applicant. They seem fairly standard. Keep the dust down, vertical encroachments. Help me with number 10. The applicant must make improvements or dedicate canal maintenance easements. The C2 canal is adjacent to the property on the east side. Yes. And what is this condition 10 saying?

Essentially, the village had just rehabbed the canal, putting riprap on the eastern side of the canal bank. Those are rocks. Correct. So people know it. Sure. Big rocks, referred to as riprap. Big rock. Yeah. Wrapping around the end of the canal at Greenbrier and stopping at basically their property line. And they're required to continue that, the length of their property line on the west side of the canal.

Basically to maintain the integrity of the canal wall. Yes.

Thank you Questions councilman I don't at the moment now understand I do have a question What do you know mr. Stilling the square footage of the actual club 26,000 square feet

Well, the full facility is 26,000 square feet. The club component, I think, is around 9,000 square feet of the 26.

Most of that is made up by the two indoor tennis courts, right?

Correct, yes. Okay. I think it's more of a cafe than a club.

Okay.

That's in the two-story clubhouse, 9900 clubhouse and 16-7 indoor tennis courts?

Yes, sir. Is this going to be run as a 501c3, or is this a for-profit facility?

I defer to the applicant. Mr. Schmidt, or someone, come on up. That's an applicant question.

Yeah.

Mr. Nascimento. Hi. Let Connor present.

In the microphone?

You've got to use a microphone.

No one can hear you. It's for profit, but we'll have certain type of help kids there and give scholarships and things like that. But it's going to be for profit.

Got you. How many members do you anticipate having in the club?

What was the number that we put down? I don't know offhand right now. We don't have.

About 200 I'm hearing.

Like 200. Okay.

How many, I know there's two indoor courts. How many outdoor courts?

Six. Six.

Gotcha. This is not, for clarification's sake, this is not in the equestrian preserve also, correct? Correct. I mean, I know the answer, but I wonder if anybody else knows. And does this butt up to any, like, bridal trails that horses will be riding up and down? No? No.

No, no, it is not adjacent it is not directly adjacent the bridal trails are on the other sides of the road So it's a north on the north side of Greenbrier and on the east side of Owsley.

Okay What are the hours of operation for this I

Ours operation will be utilizing the village's code, so that's Sunday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday, Saturday, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Gotcha.

Will there be events where spectators are coming in?

The primary use is for membership. If they were to have some type of tournament, they would have to go through a special event vetting here, unlike some of the equestrian events.

Gotcha. So the permits would have to be issued and things of that nature, right? And I think this question is probably more for the staff. When it comes to the buffer that's required, what is the 20-foot buffer that's required around it?

We have a graphic. If you want to go to the end of the presentation, we'll show the buffers.

If I may, it's 15 foot on the east along the canal, 20 feet along Greenbrier, and 10 feet on the other sides.

Okay.

That's all I have. Thank you.

This is privately owned property, correct? That's correct. And it's going to be a privately run facility? That's correct.

What's the total parking spaces? Forty. Forty.

Okay. I don't have any questions. I met with the applicant. It looks like, I mean, it's a great project from that standpoint.

It's absolutely beautiful. It's redevelopment. This is the type of thing that everybody can get excited about. I just wanted to piggyback off of the spectator question. We talked about this yesterday in our meeting, which is why I have no questions today. We talked about a lot of things. When we talked about your tournaments, you don't really have areas for spectators on all of your outdoor courts. So it would be more for your indoor courts. So it would be very small areas. tournaments if you have them so it's not of concern for for anything of that nature and the building is beautiful and so for your membership when we talk about the 40 parking spots well your members if you're gonna have 200 members in 40 parking spots we feel like this is sufficient parking no issues

The parking is based upon the size of the building and the number of courts. It's not necessarily based on the membership. Much like a gym, like LA Fitness, the number of parking spaces required is based upon the square footage of the facility.

Okay. Do we have a concern about the number of members versus parking spots? And if there was some sort of issue, would you be willing to reduce your number of members so we're not having a cluster over there?

Or add parking spaces. Or add parking if there's room for it? Is there room for it? Yes. Yes, ma'am.

Okay. So there's room for additional parking if needed?

Yes, there is. It could be expanded in this area right over here.

I see. Okay. For this area that you haven't really decided what you're doing when we discussed you were thinking either Volleyball or some sort of skating or you're still skate park.

Yeah, it's those have yet to be designed areas But you know would have to base our our additional party if we were doing to do other courts I'd have to increase the parking to to take care of those courts. I

I see. So you have it settled. You may need more parking and you're willing to do it. Yes, ma'am. Okay, great.

Thank you. What's the staffing load at the facility on a daily basis? And I ask that because with eight courts times four players, there's 32 players leaving you with eight open parking spaces.

If they were, yes.

Microphone, microphone.

If you really had full courts. So, you know, this is more of a teaching facility. So, you know, you're going to be more on a one-on-one basis versus a bunch of team play and maximum in every court. Okay.

And your target audience is youth, so maybe a lot of dropping off and picking up.

That's correct. Microphone. There's going to be a lot of dropping off kids, a lot of people, you know, that they're going to be training.

Right. Okay.

I know I said I had no more questions, but I've got a couple more. Yeah, thank you. So the requirement to serve the community or the residents, how would you say it meets that component when it comes to a private club, if it is private? I'm kind of understanding to be so.

Yes, sir. To meet the comprehensive plan, that's correct.

Okay.

I'm sorry if I need to elaborate.

So I think you were asking how does it – Are the 200 or so members, are they mostly Wellington residents or are they – where do you anticipate these people coming from?

We're going to open up room for anyone that wants to be. They're going to be members, but the courts will be also open for play, for somebody to come. OK. That's cool. And this is just the beginning, because it's so far, it's a little bit far away. Also, when we get closer, it's easier to make the decisions on numbers and do the correct things for everything. The balance.

Fees and membership fees. Got it.

And then as far as being able to operate until 10 p.m., are there residences close enough that this is going to cause a lot of phone calls to PBSO about noise or any of that stuff that you anticipate, staff?

No. You have the property you can see in the aerial on the screen to the east, and it's very similar to the north. I think one and a half of the winding trails properties is near this site. Okay. Yeah.

All right. Great.

Now I'm done.

Okay.

You can change your mind later. Vice Mayor?

Mr. Smith, can we talk about membership and what is the amenities or benefits that's going to be offered to the memberships? And is membership going to be the parents of the students, or is it going to be open to the community? How does that look?

Well, it's a paid membership, right? So that takes a lot of different paths. So that could be a family membership. It could be an individual membership.

And what is being offered? Is there any benefits, amenities with that membership?

Well, of course, the teaching that goes along with it, the courts that we're providing. So we've got the five outdoor courts. We've got a mixed basketball court. We have two indoor courts. In the building itself, there's a gym. There's a media center. There's a little smoothie station. There's workout facilities. There's conference rooms. There's offices. So it's a typical club setup, I will say.

And can we expand on the scholarship That has been mentioned.

I mean, no. I mean, I don't know if you're, I can ask the client here of what they're seeing. But I'll try to sum it up for you. They would be inviting students here. And I'll give the example of somebody I know. If they're really into the sport and show a lot of enthusiasm and time there, they might be granted a scholarship based on their performance, their abilities, and whether they really want to be in it. Not unlike an equestrian that you may find where they call them kind of barnhounds, that they're just there all the time and they're really into it. If they see a spark there, they might be given a scholarship.

Thank you.

Any other questions? Anyone want to make a motion?

I will move to approve resolution number R2026-25. Second. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none. Passes 5-0. Congratulations. Thank you for your time this evening. Go build a beautiful center.

Build fast.

Thank you. Teach me how to play tennis.

Mr. Barnes.

Brings us to our next public hearing item, which is resolution number 2026-26, which is zoning in progress for RVs within the RROZD.

Resolution number R2026-26, a resolution of Wellington, Florida's Council in accordance with Section 1.8.1 of Wellington's land development regulations, declaring a zoning in progress for Section 6.10.6 related to recreational vehicles as temporary residences within the Rustic Ranch's overlay zoning district for a period of 180 days and providing an effective date.

Thank you. So this request is for a zoning in progress to address the use of RVs as a temporary residence within Rustic Ranches. And the recently there was an adoption of to allow for RVs to be used the same way as the rest of the EOZD. And they have now, Rustic Ranches, the property owners, have determined that they would like to potentially consider utilizing those the same way that they would as grooms quarters.

Ms. Kramer, could you speak up a little bit into the microphone? I think the audience is having difficulty hearing you.

Can you hear me now? Okay. Okay. So with that being said, I'll go back just a little bit. This is a zoning in progress to address the use of RVs as temporary residents within Rustic Ranches. Rustic Ranches is subarea E of the equestrian overlay and located on Flying Cow approximately two miles south of Southern Boulevard. Recently, there was a modification to allow RVs to exist in the same manner as the rest of the EOZD. And since that time, the property owners have reached out and are interested in allowing RVs as a similar use to grooms quarters, where it would be based on a one grooms quarter per four stalls. And so with that being said, there is potentially another change coming forward with the land development regulations to accommodate their request. And so we would like to request a zoning in progress, which, again, is in effect for 180 days or until we bring forward an amendment to the land development regulations. And if for some reason we can't come up with an agreement in that 180 days you do have the option to extend it so staff will be working with the rustic ranches residents to finalize the language that we're going to bring forward and so that is the request for tonight

There we go. So the zoning in progress basically gives the rustic ranches folks time to keep utilizing RVs on their property while we're deciding what the zoning is going to look like going forward.

Correct. And essentially puts a hold on utilizing it in that manner until we come up with standards.

Questions? Yes, I do.

For the sake of everyone being on the same page and that there is a good definition, can you please share what is the definition of an RV? Because I know people use different terminology and have a different understanding of what an RV is. But could you please share what does it mean to us? What does an RV mean?

So for us, an RV is anything that is permanently on wheels and can be relocated, different than a module or off-site prefabricated structure. So this is something that can be moved.

But not a mobile home?

I'm sorry.

But not a mobile home.

But not a mobile home. With the exception of that. Correct. Yes.

They're not really mobile. Other questions?

No. I'll move to approve resolution. Hold on. You need a public hearing on this.

Moved to open public hearing. Somebody?

So moved.

Yes. Second. All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now open. Madam Vice Mayor, any cards?

We do not have any.

Anyone wish to speak on this item? Seeing no one moving towards the podium, is there a motion to close? Move to close. I'll take that as a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now closed. Now you may make a motion.

Okay. I will move to approve resolution number R2026-26. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none. Passes 5-0. Thank you very much.

It brings us to our next public hearing item, which is Resolution No. 2026-34, which is the Community Development Block Grant Annual Action Plan. And Mr. Stillings and Mr. Stoops will handle this item.

Resolution number are 2026-34, a resolution of Wellington, Florida's Council, approving and adopting the fiscal year 2026-2027 Annual Action Plan for the Community Development Block Grant Program, authorizing the village manager to forward the fiscal year 2026-2027 Annual Action Plan to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and providing an effective date.

I am Andrew Stoops, a senior community grant coordinator here at the Village. And I help administer our CAPG as well as our ship funds. And I'm going to go through our proposed allocation for program year 26 and 27. The Village of Wellington will receive a fiscal year 26-27 CDBG allocation of $286,335. $189,069 will go towards our housing rehabilitation. 40,000 will go towards youth services and employment training, and that is our SWAG program. And the rest will be for program administration. As a reminder, the annual allocation is not competitive. HUD calculates it automatically each federal fiscal year using a statutory formula after Congress appropriates funding for CDBG. HUD uses two formulas and essentially awards the amount produced by the formula that is more favorable to the community. The factors are for formula A, population, poverty, and housing overcrowding. Formula B, poverty, age of housing, and population growth lag. Florida receives the sixth most CDBG funding despite being the third most populous state. This is because of our state's newer age of housing. States in the Northeast in the Midwest Jupiter a similar community in size and average income reports an amount comparable to our allocation 270,000 was their last published amount in 2024 Accomplishments from 25-26, we were able to help four Wellington households. This was repairs to address health and safety hazards. 50% received roof replacements and 50% received impact rate windows and or doors. And for our SWAG program, we were able to help 30 youth in the area. Our So this is our Students Working to Achieve Greatness program. We use the CDBG funds. They're used to administer this program. Students are recruited primarily from Wellington High School as well as Palm Beach Central, and this is for an eight-week internship. The primary objective is to prepare high school students for future success, providing personal as well as professional development opportunities. This program helps them empower and motivate at-risk and underserved high school students in order to overcome social and economic barriers that impact their quality of lives. Part of the program highlights are a college tour, character development, community service, financial management, mentoring, network opportunities, tutoring, and workforce development. These are some pictures from projects from our housing rehab from the last year. We had four projects, and each they averaged 44,000. I had a pre-bid this morning with contractors for a project for this next cycle, and we had 12 different contracting groups show up. It just shows that contractors like doing these projects and like working with the village. And the staff's recommendation is for approval of Resolution 202634, approving and adopting the 2627 Annual Action Plan for the Community Development Block Grant Program.

Thank you, sir. This is a public hearing. Is there a motion?

There is not.

No, is there a motion? Motion to open public comment. Second. All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now open. Madam Vice Mayor, any cards on this item?

We do not.

Anyone wish to speak on this item? Again, seeing none, is there a motion to close public hearing?

Move to close public comment.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now closed. Any questions for staff? This is a great program. It's federal dollars, not ad valorem taxes that we get to put right back into our community to help those who need it. The housing rehabilitation helps those who can't afford to make these repairs. Keeps Wellington looking great. And the SWAG program is a fantastic youth outreach program that's helped 30 kids last year and it grows every year. So I think this is these are great dollars to accept and we've been putting them to good use. So I'm continue to be in favor of us using this program the way we've designed it.

Mr. Mayor, I appreciate your clairvoyance in looking at my notes before I had a chance to speak them. The SWAG program is great. Upcoming celebration to recognize their accomplishments. I was curious, who specifically can avail themselves of the housing rehabilitation program?

So it's open to Wellington residents within the boundaries of Wellington. You have to have lived in your home. You have to be a homeowner. Have to have lived in the home for 18 months. And it is income-based. So you have to be within 80% of the West Palm Beach metropolitan, that metropolitan for the income. So 80% of that. Average, medium income? Yeah, averages.

What is that dollar amount?

Well, it's based on household size. So it goes up for each up to, I believe, 10 members, but for a single person, it is now, for the new rates for 2026, it's like $72,000.

$72,000 for a single person? Or below. Or below, but let's say a family of four?

Probably about $110,000.

Yeah, I think it was around $111,000. Great.

Yeah, and out of, you said you had four rehab jobs. How many applicants did you get, approximately?

So we combine SHIP as well as CDBG. We do the applications at the same time. And for both, for this year, we probably got 40.

Okay, gotcha. And how many rehabs will you do out of the 40?

For CDBG, we'll do four, and then for SHIP, we'll do 15 probably. Maybe less.

Okay.

SHIP has more. We have to use the funds. There are certain special needs brackets, and the income set-asides are more strict than CDBG.

Got it.

I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'm being told that it's still difficult to hear staff. You have a lot of people in the audience who may have some hearing difficulties.

Everyone speak directly into your microphone.

I was just going to say, with the rehab projects, you know, you heard the average of $44,000. So, you know, $189,000. Divided by 44. Yeah. Okay. And And generally we're seeing roof repairs, AC change outs, window, impact windows. Those are the repairs that we fund.

Are there any stipulations on selling the property afterwards?

yes you have to uh maintain residence for five years okay and if you uh move within the five years you have to pay back a prorated amount nice yeah great i love the program i love the swag program as well especially since it's all good stuff for us in our community and doesn't cost us anything so

So all the items that you listed that are they fall under the community development block correct and that the reason I asked because the word block I want to make sure everybody understands that it's just not one block in Wellington. that all these that you listed and all of the things that we do falls under this, correct? Mm-hmm. And can you tell the audience that's here and the ones watching where they can find this information on our website? Is it listed under community?

Mm-hmm. so we do some advertising we uh when the application so we this is an annual grant and ship is annual as well so each year we'll put out applications and we'll advertise through through our website as well as through social media we'll put out ads in the town crier as well as we'll in the past we've done mailers with our utility bills

But you can go to the Planning, Zoning, and Building webpage, and there's a Grants tab that takes you to that information. Mr. Stoops was alluding to we have grant cycles, so we try not to take in more applications than we can serve, or at least too many more, to not have much of a waiting list. And so we will open it for a period of time until we get at least a sufficient pool, and then we'll close it until we get additional funds so that we're not MAKING PEOPLE WAIT OR OTHERWISE THINK THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO DO A HOME REPAIR IN PARTICULAR.

WONDERFUL. THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?

I will. I just want to say that this is something that we should all be very proud of that we do for our community. I know several people who have been beneficiaries of this and we're really helping them and we're changing their lives and we're taking a lot of stress away from them. So it's something to be proud of. I will move to approve resolution number R2026-34. Second. Second.

Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none. Passes 5-0. Thank you, sir.

Our next public hearing item is ordinance number 2026-08, which is the Lake Worth Road annexation item. And Mr. Kramer and Mr. Stillings will handle this item.

Ordinance number 2026-08, an ordinance of Wellington, Florida's Council, approving the uniform method of annexation of a portion of Lake Worth Road, totaling 5.5 plus or minus acres, located approximately 0.6 miles west of State Road 7 in Palm Beach County, as more specifically described herein. Amending Section 12 of the Village Charter by redefining the corporate limits of the Village of Wellington, directing the Village Manager to do all things necessary to effectuate this annexation, directing the Village Clerk to file a copy of this ordinance with the Clerk of the Circuit Court in Palm Beach County, the Chief Administrative Officer of Palm Beach County, and the Florida Department of State within 30 days after adoption, in accordance with Section 171 Florida Statutes, providing a conflicts clause, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date.

Thank you. And this is second reading on this item. So keep that in mind. We've heard this before.

This is second reading. And as you know, we annexed Panther Run a few years back. And at that time, the portion of Lake Worth Road that runs adjacent to it was not part of that annexation agreement. And so we've now started this process. And between first and second reading, we did receive a signed, executed agreement. ILA or interlocal agreement with Palm Beach County for the transfer maintenance and etc all that applies to us now having a that portion of Lake Worth Road within our jurisdiction and this is important so that we can enforce our land development regulations safety measures related to the school and to our community and we asked to take it over and the county said go ahead Absolutely.

Any questions for staff on this? There's no questions. We can take a motion.

Public hearing.

Oh, sorry. This is a public hearing. Is there a motion to open public hearing? So moved. All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now open. Do we have cards on this item, Madam Vice Mayor?

We do. OK. One?

One card.

If I can call Lori LaMansur? LaMansur?

OK. OK. Okay. No worries. We'll get there. Anyone else have any public comment on this item? Speak now or we're going to close public hearing. Just like that. Is there a second?

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now closed.

Now, any motions on this item?

He's the next one. He's the next item. Is there a motion?

Mr. Mayor, I move to approve ordinance number 2026-08. Second. All in favor?

Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, passes 5-0. Thank you.

Brings us to our next item, which is ordinance number 2026-11, freestanding shade structure zoning text amendment. Ms. Kramer and Mr. Stillings will handle this item as well.

Ordinance number 2026-11, an ordinance of Wellington, Florida's Council, amending section 6.4.2a, of Wellington's land development regulations related to residential district plan unit development specific development standards. Amending section 6.4.4a of Wellington's LDR related to design standards for residential zoning districts, providing a conflicts clause, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date.

Okay, good evening again. Before you is the second reading of Ordinance 2026-11, a zoning text amendment related to pergolas and shade structures, which I'd like to enter into the record. The proposed ZTA is a staff-initiated amendment which was requested by the Architectural Review Board to amend Sections 6.4.2a and 6.4.2b. of Wellington's LDR related to regulations for freestanding accessory pergolas and shade structures within PUDs and residential zoning districts. Just for a little background, the building department has received an increased number of requests for detached pergolas and shade structures similar to those shown on this slide. The current code requires ARB approval for accessory structures greater than 120 square feet that are not constructed of the same material as the principal structure. Since 2023, ARB has reviewed and approved 13 pergola requests. Earlier this year, ARB asked staff to look into changing the code to allow these structures to be approved by building permit as the added step to ARB. is a cost to the residents, not only in time, but in money. This slide provides a summary of the proposed modifications to the code. Freestanding accessory stage structures provide standards for accessory shade structures over 120 square feet, including setbacks, screening, location, and height. The standards also provide for the maximum amount of flat roof structure that can be on a property. Some of the minor updates and clarifications have been included through section 6.4.2 and 6.4.4. The ZTA was reviewed and approved by ARB at their April 20th meeting and by PZAB on June 17th. The proposed language includes all of the standards that have been applied to pergolas that have been approved by ARB in the past. Approval of the ZTA will reduce the approval time for these structures by eliminating the need for them to go to ARB, which only meets once a month. And this concludes our presentation. And we're available for questions.

I just wanted to, in your packet, we discussed yesterday the, yeah, the... recommended change to address a limit limitation that we failed to catch initially and that is that the this section limits the impervious service area for residential properties and it but it doesn't factor in the proportionality of larger lots. And so the proposed change to what is in your packet is to have those properties that are an acre or less still have a square footage maximum, including a percentage maximum, but greater than an acre would simply fall into the percentage maximum.

That's what this says. Okay. I was trying to understand where this came from and what it was. Because I was going to have you walk me through it, but now I don't have to.

Mr. Stillings, we discussed this at Agenda Review. This basically scales up for larger properties so their pergolas wouldn't be dinky. Dinky. There you go.

Well, dinky and also because this covers all impervious area, patios, driveways, pool decks, you name it. And so, yeah, it definitely doesn't factor in the proportionality of the larger properties. Very good. Thank you.

And a second reading that's a simple enough adjustment? Yes, sir. So I want to open public hearing.

So moved.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now open. I know we have a card on this. Yes, we do.

Miss Lori, come on up.

Yeah, come to the microphone. Either one, name and address, and you have three minutes. Wait till you get to the microphone, because it's not going to pick up.

Lori Lominator, 16552 Norris Road. The current 12,000 square foot cap treats a half acre property the same way it does a five acre property. So that's not proportional to the size and function of a land. So a property that's five acres won't be the same proportion as a property that's less than an acre. So right now, the ordinance reads that you're going to limit the impervious area to 12,000 square foot cap for a half acre property and the same limit would apply to a five acre property. So I'm in support of changing the ordinance so that it accommodates a bigger property in that we can allow up to 50 to 75%. So the front area of a property that's over one acre, there'll be a setback and we'll equal that to 50%. The other 75% would apply to the rear or the side of the property. So I respectfully request that the current ordinance be changed to accommodate a larger property, such as a five-acre property.

Thank you. Mr. Stillings, any comment on what our ordinance does and if it satisfies those requests? And if not, why did we pick the numbers we picked?

It does. The 6 and the 12 were basically established based upon our analysis of those size properties, but as I said, we didn't look at properties larger than an acre, and so that's why we're recommending this change.

But this change now addresses this resident's concern?

Yes, sir.

Okay. Any other comments or a motion to close?

Move to close. Public comment?

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. Public hearing is now closed. Any additional questions, comments, observations, or a motion on the item?

So if we approve it, we're approving it as amended. Yes. Based on this?

And as Mr. Stilling said, the amendment addresses the comment made by.

So we're addressing her issue and agreeing with her, and that's what we would be approving. That's correct. Okay. Good? With that. Okay. I'll move to approve ordinance number 2026-11 as amended.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, passes 5-0. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

All right. Brings us to our next item, which is ordinance number 2026-17, operation of non-human powered micromobility devices. And we have Ms. Bosch that will be coming up to the staff table together with Ms. Coates, Captain Adazio. Are we going to take the next two items together? As well as Mr. Reinfeldt.

Are we going to take the next two items together since they go together?

Right.

Okay.

I just wanted to make sure everybody was coming up. And then companion, but still a separate ordinance item and certainly a separate motion, will be ordinance number 2026-16, penalty for golf cart violations and operation of micromobility devices on public rights-of-way.

Ordinance number 2026-17, an ordinance of Wellington, Florida's Council, amending Chapter 14, Article 1, Division 1, sections 14-1 14-3 and 14-4 of the code of ordinances to include a definition of neighborhood park and clarify that violations of this chapter may be enforced by law enforcement officers amending chapter 14 article 2 division 2 section 14-1 of the code of ordinances to clarify that bicycles scooters and other similar activities are prohibited inside neighborhood parks and in other public recreational areas. And amending Chapter 14, Article 3, Division 4, Section 14-26 of the Code of Ordinances to prohibit nonhuman-powered micromobility devices in certain Wellington parks, providing for conflict, providing for severability, and providing an effective date. Ordinance number 2026-16, an ordinance of Wellington, Florida's Council amending Chapter 22 of Wellington's Code of Ordinances titled Traffic and Vehicles to clarify the penalty for golf cart violations in Section 22-34 and to create a new Article 7, Sections 22-46. 22-50, titled Micromobility Devices, Governing the Use of Micromobility Devices on Public Rights of Way in Wellington Consistent with State Law, Providing for Conflict, Providing for Severability, and Providing an Effective Date.

Mr. Mayor, we can combine the public hearing portion of this, but you'll need two separate votes on the ordinances.

Okay, that's fine. Let's do that. Let's combine. Do we have to vote on that or just do it?

No, you can combine.

We'll just do it. Okay, they're combined. Take it away, Ms. Bosch.

Good evening. We're here on first reading of ordinances 2026-17 and 2026-16. These both address micromobility devices. As we discussed at your workshop on July 16, 2026, we discussed both ordinances in detail. And as I explained at that time, the village has the ability to regulate micromobility devices, which include both human-powered and non-human-powered devices at its facilities. pursuant to its police powers and also on public rights of way pursuant to Chapter 316 of the Florida statutes. The ordinances before you tonight really speak more to the non-human powered micromobility devices. So we're talking about electric bicycles, motorized scooters and vehicles of that nature, not regular pedal bicycles or scooters. scooters powered, I guess, by your foot or skateboards or things like that. So the changes to Chapter 14 speak specifically to regulation at our facilities. The village has recently experienced some property damage at its parks and other facilities that appear to be due to the misuse of micromobility devices. And so the changes to Chapter 14 are intended to clarify some of the regulations that are already in that section so um we are introducing a definition of neighborhood park which applies to the entirety of the chapter and the neighborhood parks are identified on our website but we've just clarified that these are parks that are within the different neighborhoods throughout the community Additionally, we are clarifying that an already existing prohibition against roller skating, bicycling, and skateboarding already exists on turf basketball courts, tennis courts, and parking lots. And we are clarifying that that prohibition also extends to e-bikes and motorized scooters and electric skateboards as well. Additionally, we're adding that Those activities are also prohibited at neighborhood parks on boat docks and on playground equipment. So Human-powered and non-human powered would be prohibited in all of those places The other change to this section is we're adding a new subsection that specifically addresses certain places where these devices would not be permitted based on concerns about high pedestrian traffic. And those places are Wellington Town Center, our neighborhood parks, and the Hart Trail at Village Park. Additionally, we are clarifying that Chapter 14 as a whole can be enforced by PBSO and also aligning the penalty for a violation of Chapter 14 as a whole with Chapter 162 of the Florida statutes. It's a civil citation not to exceed 500. I'm sorry, it's not a civil citation. A fine not to exceed $500, imprisonment not exceeding 60 days or both, and that is consistent with 162. What's in there already is essentially the same, but the number of days and the amount is off, and so we're just aligning it with what's in the Florida statutes.

We're harmonizing the state law.

That's correct.

Okay.

So those are all the changes to Chapter 14, and that's 2026-17. Ordinance 2026-16 addresses changes to Chapter 22 of our code, which addresses traffic and vehicles. And I'm going to talk a little bit about the golf cart section first. Since we're amending the chapter, we're kind of amending everything together. So the amendment to the golf cart ordinance has to do with the penalty. Right now, in the golf cart ordinance, the penalty is a graduated penalty that starts with a warning and, you know, after... Second and third there are different amounts PBSO has has asked us to create a flat rate penalty because it's easier for enforcement Purposes and PBSO still retains the discretion to issue a warning just like they would for any other violation So we are changing the penalty to align with the statutory language That's in chapter 316 and also to make it a flat penalty and it will be based on whether it's a moving or non-moving violation That's the only change with respect to golf carts. The other change is to create a new article in Chapter 22, which deals with micromobility devices and, again, specifically non-human powered micromobility devices. We've added a definition that clarifies what those are. The regulations in this section that are being added are that operators of non-human powered micromobility devices will need to carry a photo ID. And pursuant to the direction given at the workshop, we've clarified that a school ID would be acceptable for that purpose. There's a 15 mile per hour speed limit on sidewalks. and non-human powered micromobility devices are prohibited on bridle trails. There's also a provision in this section that directs you to Chapter 14 for additional prohibitions relating to our facilities, which is the ordinance that I just discussed. Based on the direction that was given at council at the workshop on July 16th, we've eliminated an age restriction. We've eliminated any limitation to micromobility devices on multimodal pathways, so they would be allowed on sidewalks and pathways. And as I already said, we've defined what a non-human powered micromobility device for purposes of electric versus not. And I think that's the summary of all the changes.

Okay. Very nice presentation. Is there a motion to open public hearing?

So moved.

Second. All in favor? Aye.

Aye. Public hearing is now open. Madam Vice Mayor, we have cards?

We have for Ordinance No. 17 and Ordinance No. 16. We're combining them, I understand? Yes.

You're combining the public hearing?

We'll call the name up.

Okay. Mr. Bruce Tumman?

Are we doing both at one time? Yes, sir. Yes. Do I get six minutes or three?

You can have six minutes. You can have six minutes.

But please don't use all six if you don't have to.

My name is Bruce Tooman, and my primary and homesteaded zero-lot line property is 752 Lake Wellington Drive in the Villas of Wellington. Section 14-3, Item A states, may also be enforced by law enforcement officers. Who decides when law enforcement officers get involved, before the accident or after the accident? It is my understanding that the governor vetoed the e-bike regulation because he did not want law enforcement involved. But isn't our deputies part of a public safety program monitoring vehicles in a public right-of-way? Item B allows enforcement by reasonable orders given by a Wellington employee. What's reasonable? And what can the employee do? Can they detain the person? Can he arrest the person? Can he confiscate the e-bike? Can he be or bullied the alleged offender? Item C allows this council to adopt reasonable rules to govern park properties and activities. But what about the public right-of-ways where most of these accidents are happening? Section 14.4, penalties. Item A, state persons convicted shall be punished by fines up to $500 or up to 60 days in jail. because they complained about an employee? Now, while I agree we all need regulations to help public safety, I think it should be throughout the entire Villas of Wellington. And so it should include all the public right-of-ways like other cities are doing. As for item G, The purpose and the intent of this change is to promote the safe operation and micromodality devices, particularly electrical bicycles and motorized scooters. You know, golf carts are not even referenced in this ordinance change. In the title, why? Section 2248, item B, restricts the speed to 15 miles an hour, except otherwise provided by applicable law. The veto bill addressed e-bikes uses on sidewalks and other places designated for pedestrians and limits speeds to 10 miles an hour when 50 feet within people. 15 miles an hour is just too fast. If you're walking on the sidewalk and you've got a golf cart or an e-bike coming to you at 15 miles an hour, you're going to be jumping out of the way, hopefully not into the traffic. And finally, 2250 item A states this article may be enforced by law enforcement officers. So employees can't enforce it now. Who's enforcing it? You need to change this thing. 15 miles an hour, is this too damn fast? We need 10 miles an hour. Thank you.

Thank you, sir, and thank you for not using all your six minutes. Any other comments on this item?

Yes, one more. Mr. Mike Calandaria. Oh, thank you.

Oh, right in front. Excellent. Mike Calandra. Think of calendar when you say it. Thank you. I have an observation. You guys are discussing anything electric out there, especially the golf carts. I've noticed staff who cleans up the roadways, they go around the stop sign. They go across the street. And I got children in the neighborhood. They're watching your employees, I'll say. for sake of argument, go around the stop signs, going as fast as they can sometimes. What are we going to teach the kids? I mean, I've taught at Wellington Karate over here at the mall. And you try to set good examples. Try to get them to follow the same rules. I don't care if it's 10 miles an hour, 15, or 40 miles an hour. Whatever it is, follow the rules, at least for the young, because I've watched them on the e-bikes, 30 miles an hour on a 25-mile-an-hour street. So ask your staff to pass the word to follow the rules, too. That's all I have.

Agreed. Mr. Barnes, you handled that. Noted. You're on it. Okay.

Thank you. Sorry. Thank you.

That's okay. Good. Any other public comment on this item?

That is all.

Oh, she is. Come on up to the podium. You can fill out a card afterwards. Just when you get up, name and address, and then you've got three minutes.

I'm sorry. I did not realize this was on the agenda.

No, that's perfectly fine. That's why we're here. My name is Linda Mont. I live at 3592 Miramontes Circle in Wellington. And I just have a question because I may be misunderstanding this, but it sounds like you're banning the electric scooters from the sidewalks.

No.

No?

Nope.

So they're still allowed to take their scooters to school? Correct. In the morning. I see a lot of them do that. Okay, I was misunderstanding that. However, please clarify this for me. My husband and I like to take our electric scooter and go over to the park and ride our scooter around the park in the evenings when it's not so hot. Is that now not allowed?

You can ride to the park. Which park are you talking about?

I never know the names of these but by the Aquatic Center.

We live right on the other side She lives in Grand Isles Grand Isles.

Thank you.

You want to handle the question?

There is a prohibition in the ordinance that Speaks to the Hart trail at Village Park. So if that is where you're riding it would not be permissible I'm not sure where you can ride to and through Village Park.

You just can't run in the Hart trail. I which is probably where you're riding right now.

The Hart Trail. It's the paved asphalt pathway around the entire park, and there is a prohibition against riding it on that location.

So basically I don't have the ability to ride our scooters because we're just literally going to ride it up and down the street?

At Village Park. And I think primarily, I don't want to speak for Ms. Bosch, but I think the basis for that requirement in the ordinance as it's written today is that based on the use. Now, you're probably there in the middle of the day when the park's largely empty. Exactly.

We're not going there when it says soccer. Right.

And the evenings is when we have a lot of either pedestrian walkers, joggers, and kids in the park. And I think that was the basis for that. Certainly serve it up to council that if you look at a time issue to address that concern, because as we all know, generally speaking, with the exception of summertime, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 7 and largely probably 5 o'clock, the park is mostly empty.

Yeah. Maybe that would help. I think. Consider a time frame.

I think you're opening a can of worms with that.

It gets difficult to start parsing out times and that type of thing.

I hear what you're saying, but...

But I'm also just wondering, there's other places to ride your scooters, not just at parks, right? So there's, I mean, I understand you don't want to ride up and down the streets, but I think based on it being a safety issue for walkers and runners and things of that nature, that's why this rule's coming into play. So if... I mean, if you're going to ride a scooter, you would have to just find another location to ride it. We're not saying you can't ride it, just not at the village parks.

Let me ask this question. If we're allowing people to use micromobility devices on other multimodal pathways, what's the reason for singling this one out?

Singling out specifically the Hart Trail. I think during staff's discussions, we had identified this as a location with high pedestrian traffic. I don't know if Mr. Reingold has any comments.

More so than our other pathways? Yeah, so what happens is, I think, again, it becomes a time of day issue. On the weekends, as she noted, on the weekends and evenings when you have soccer, WCFL football, basketball, everything going on, and what generally happens, particularly during the week during practices, is you have parents drop off the kids at practice and start doing laps around the park. Similarly, you might have some joggers and that type of thing. But during the day, it's largely empty. So on those peak times, evenings during the week, weekends on a Saturday morning, it's pretty full. And I think that was the basis for it. But clearly, I'll acknowledge that during the week, during the day, the park's largely empty.

Is that trail more crowded than our other multimodal pathways like on Big Blue and Banks?

Yes, because what happens is if you look at the multimodal pathways outside of the park, you've got them totally distributed throughout the entire village. Big Blue, Greenview Shores, Greenbrier Air Club. Whereas here, it's concentrated in one location. And in the evenings in fall or on a Saturday morning in the fall, you could easily have over 5,000 people at that park. Absolutely. You never have that concentration on Big Blue, Greenview Shores, Aero Club, Greenbrier, and everything else. So it's a time effusive concentration issue.

Has there been an issue? Has there been some incidents that have happened where Walkers or runners are getting hurt by e-scooters?

Well, I think it was just a concern because it's not even just the activity on the pathway and those high peak times, weekend mornings and weeknights at night. It's that you also have adjacent activities, kids running off the field, as you know, for soccer, and you've got kids at the playground and that type of thing. So it's not just use on the pathway, but you've got active use areas up against that pathway as well. A lot of those multipurpose fields are right up against it, and you have people coming in on and off those areas. as well. So it's not I don't believe we've really had a major issue because again in the evenings I don't think there's anybody there that's riding a scooter around on a regular basis.

Well the park is that crowded absolutely I'm not talking about being unreasonable it's just that during the day when it's very quiet it's a Great opportunity for us and we're not gonna scooter to some other location. We live right there.

So thank you Thank you, this is first reading I think I think I think we'll take a look at this between now and second reading to see if we want to create an exception or a time zone where that would be allowed at that park but for but I want to try and do it while we're here without having the data to back it up so from my perspective It's something we should look at between now and second reading public comments Seeing none, is there a motion to close public hearing?

Motion to close public hearing.

All in favor? Second. Aye. Public hearing is now closed. Any comments or questions from council to staff?

I have a question. I want to get clarification on the recommendation from our deputies on the age. I want to hear, there was a lot of discussion at the meeting and a little bit of confusion. I think at one point we thought it was a different recommendation and then at the end he went back. So I want to hear exactly what their recommendation was on the age because we took it out, but I am the one that's wishy-washy on this and I want to hear exactly what the recommendation was.

To follow up with that, I'd like to also hear Chief Romero's point of view on that as well.

You're both welcome to come to the microphones.

Sure. I've got to be careful with sharing a lot of opinion on this, because I've talked to our legal department as well. But what we're seeing is a lot of the major injuries are the younger children that are not wearing the helmets. The criminal cases are typically the older children, 16 and 17, that are riding the motorcycles, the e-motos. So the concern is, yes, the damage that is being done when the younger children are not wearing helmets and they're utilizing these e-bikes that go up to 28 miles an hour. And there's been a lot of literature shared on this recently, and there's been a lot of increase in accidents and increase in the amount of damage, especially traumatic brain injury, to children of that age. So 15 was an age that in doing some studies, looking at some national studies and other ordinances and laws have been passed outside the state of Florida, that seems to be a pretty reasonable age and what people are using to include the fact that at that age they can get learner's permits and they typically have school IDs. So it seems like to be a bit more responsible age are able to get their learner's permit at that age, and then moving into 16 where they can have a driver's license anyway. And a little less reckless without even realizing it.

And to be clear, helmets are required under our ordinance and by state law.

helmets are not addressed in our ordinance because they are already required under state law for people under the age of 16. Okay.

And there is a speed limit of 15 on our pathways, which is not, people don't always follow the speed limit on the road, but their current pathway speed limit is 15, correct?

Correct. And just to clarify that, 15 miles per hour is prescribed by state statute. If we are choosing to regulate golf carts and micromobility devices, we have to, pursuant to Chapter 316, set a speed of 15 miles per hour.

Are we able to lower that to 10 as Mr. Tooman's recommended?

I don't believe that we can because, as Mr. Tooman pointed out, the governor vetoed the legislation, which said that what the legislation said is that if you're within 50 feet of a pedestrian, you need to slow to 10 miles per hour. The state did not accept that. So what the legislature has prescribed is 15 miles per hour, and I believe that's what the speed limit needs to be on sidewalks. Thank you.

Chief?

I couldn't have said it better than Captain Adazio did. She was spot on with her assessment and what she shared. The anatomy, as I explained earlier the other day, the anatomy of a smaller child, a little bit more underdeveloped, a more petite child, the impacts of the damages of the injuries can be much more severe on a smaller framed person than it would be on a more mature 15, 16, 17-year-old. the impact of where the vehicle would impact the child can also have a determination on the severity of the child's injuries as well. But other than that, I agree. The maturity level, are they all going to be more mature? No. We have some adults that like to have a lot of fun on them as well. But I think that as they do get older, maybe they have a little bit more –

Common sense.

Yeah. Well, they, you know, awareness of what's around, I'm at a loss for words, but, um, you know, what happens if I do this, you know, what could happen if I do this, you know, they understand consequences. Yes, exactly. Um, and then, you know, as they're 15, maybe they're looking for their learner's permit, they would have been exposed to traffic laws, some of the signs and understand right away and things like that, where a child who's not exposed to that doesn't even concern themselves with that.

The easiest thing to enforce on this is going to be the helmets. Speed is very difficult for us to enforce. And also making those casual contacts, it's hard for us to decipher, too. An 11-year-old, sometimes a 14-year-old. Right.

Age and speed are very subjective and hard to pick out. But a helmet is yes or no. That's much easier to enforce. And I think enforcement... is the key. I want to make sure we have an ordinance that we can actually enforce versus it sounds good on paper, but we can't really enforce it because a big 12-year-old might look like they're allowed, and a small 15-year-old, you'd want to pull over and say you're not supposed to be doing this. So, you know, I hear all the arguments as to why age is something to consider. But I do know we have to recognize the reality that we've got hundreds of kids in our community that use these things safely and responsibly, and some don't. But I still think this comes back to parental responsibility. If you don't think your kid should be riding a scooter or an e-bike, then don't give it to them. And if you think your child is safe enough and mature enough to do it, and you trust them with it, then that's a parental decision that you should make. And you've coached them on how to use it. Right. And I don't think local government just had an age restriction on that to tell parents how to parent their child. But I do think we should push out more educational efforts, because I understand we can't force anyone to take e-bike or micro mobility education courses. But we discussed at our workshop Maybe we can bribe them because these courses do exist, and if we can find people willing to sponsor and donate to these, if you complete one of these courses, you get a gift card to something. Maybe the mall wants to sponsor it and give gift cards to the mall, and it'll help get these kids to do it. My kid would probably take this course multiple times if he got gift cards every time he went to the course. So I think we should look at ways to encourage education and then make sure we're enforcing particularly the helmet rule and the speed. I mean, you can't tell 15 from... 20, but you can tell 15 from 40. So those are the people that you want to really try to stop. And I know it's hard because they're doing 40 miles an hour on a micromobility device, and you're in a car. So I don't know how you get them even with a helmet, but we've got to work on how these things are being enforced.

Right. And we're creative, and we're figuring it out, and we're doing a lot of enforcement. But, yeah, it's not something I'm going to divulge here. But my opinion is that, yes, 15, I think, is a reasonable age for these operators.

I fully agree. I think that it's irresponsible of us to not set an age limit on it. I'm not trying to tell anyone how to parent their child. But at the same time, I know that laws and rules exist to protect children from parents that aren't – aren't good parents. I hate to say it that way, but if we're going to regulate this, why don't we just take away the age restriction of driving a car at 16 too? I think that sometimes we have to make decisions to ensure the safety of our children, our future generation. To me, I think it needs to be 15 and up. I'm staunch about that. I'm not going to change my position on that. I think that if you want I think I understand the mayor's point about how to enforce it if somebody's 11 versus 14 or 15 or whatever. But at least the law is there or the rules there. And if they're stopped or contacted for whatever reason, if they're under 15, I think whatever happens as far as that consequence thing goes happens. But if you don't have a rule. And I just hate to say, I hate to think about the day that if we don't have this, a seven-year-old riding through the Dunkin' Donuts parking lot gets nailed by somebody pulling out of the drive-thru. I see it all the time. And it's just a matter of when, not if. It's a when. And we have a chance right now to help try to mitigate that. Not that we're going to be able to stop it, but at least we can try to mitigate it. And that's just my opinion.

Well, there's a reason why a 15-year-old that's the age to get a learner's permit to drive. I'm not going to give a learner's permit to an eight-year-old or a nine-year-old. It's a 15-year-old and then 16 to get the license.

I think changing it to 15, I've gone back and forth like a million times. I was very strong on this before we even brought it and then I went away and now I'm back. As a mom with kids that, you know, mine don't have them and they never will. But if we change it to 15, we are cutting it down and it is easy for you because the middle school children for the most part are under the age of 15. and that no longer is an issue. There's no more ambulance coming over for the e-scooter kid that didn't stop at the stop sign and the rolling stopped car hit him. So we do have an opportunity to really mitigate this on some level. It's easier for you guys to enforce knowing that we're not really dealing with the middle school kids. There are a few that they turn 15 right at the end of eighth grade, but we're really cutting back on that. And that is our major, major issue. And so I think Changing it to 15 is the responsible thing to do. And I know that there'll be some parents that are mad about it, and I'm sorry. But I think that that is going to solve a huge problem and keep our kids a little safer. So I'd like to see the age added back in. So are you making that a motion? Yeah, sure. I'll make a motion. I'll move to approve ordinance number 2026-17 with the amendments. I think it would be 16. Oh, is that 16? That's 16. Okay, 16 with the amendments we've talked about here with the age.

And also directing staff to... Yes. Directing staff to review the timing with respect to the heart trail, correct? Yes. Yes.

Okay. Okay.

Second. Motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Aye. So passes 4-1. 4-1.

And now you need a motion on the other ordinance.

Okay. And this one's normal. We didn't change anything. Correct. Okay. I'll move to approve ordinance number 2026-17. Thank you. No more questions for us? No, thank you.

Thank you. Is there a second?

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, passes 5-0. This is the one with the hard trail in it. Okay.

Oh, you're right. I'm sorry. I confused them. The second one is the one with the heart trail.

16 is the age and 17 is the heart trail.

We have the direction.

They're in our book backwards.

That makes it confusing to us. The numbers are backwards from the order they appear in the code.

When you see it on second reading, we'll hopefully be addressing the time on the heart trail. And then with the other ordinance, we'll include the age limitation.

And on the Hart Trail, is there a way to just allow on the Hart Trail but not in the parking lot or other areas of the park? So they're not mischievous all over the parking lot and they're only allowed to be on the trail? We can look at that as part of the review. I'd like that to be considered.

That is the end of our public hearing items. We have one regular agenda item. That is correct.

It brings us to our regular agenda. We have one item on regular agenda, which is a quick one, which is the appointment of the Metropolitan Planning Organization's alternate representative. We had informally done this previously and the council appointed Councilman Silvestri, and this just confirms that, ratifies it by council, and we'll transmit the information, should it be approved tonight, to the MPO.

Does someone want to nominate Councilman Silvestri?

I nominate council. Anyone want to second it? Second.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none.

Congratulations. You're my backup.

Yeah. You're always available for this one, though. Not always.

All right. That takes us to Mr. Barnes. That brings us to public comment.

And I believe we have some cards. We have a stack of cards.

We do. Thank you guys for waiting.

Thank you. Everyone's got three minutes. Use both podiums. Name and address. And thanks for coming.

So as I call your name, there's two podiums. Please, one goes to one. So we're going to start with Judith Lauro. She opposed Wellington Seniors Club. Linda Valancourt wishes to speak.

Step right up.

I'm understanding that you're trying to- Wait, wait, wait, stop.

Name and address, then three minutes. That's for the record.

Judith Lauro. I live at 3776 Miramonte Circle, Grand Isles, Wellington, Florida, 33414. It's my understanding that you're trying to reduce the funds for the Wellington Seniors Club.

We don't do back and forth generally. I think you're all going to say the same thing. So to the extent we have any comments, we'll probably save them until the end. So just tell us your three minutes of comment, and then we'll get through the stack of cards.

Okay. That's the basis that I'm going on. And as a senior citizen, I moved here in 1990, and I didn't know anybody until 2020. When a neighbor came, a woman in the neighborhood came and addressed me and took me by the hand and showed me the things that are available all around the community and introduced me to the Wellington Seniors Club. I'm on a fixed income. So I watch my pennies. I have a strict budget. And going to the Wellington Seniors Club made a tremendous difference in my lifestyle and in my relationship to the community, in my relationship to my neighbors, in my relationship to the people who are members of the Seniors Club. They go above and beyond. inviting everything that a single woman of an older age, I'm going to be 80 this year, and I think it would be a terrible disservice to the community of seniors to do anything to reduce the income. to this amazing organization. I don't know of any other community that has as many wonderful things available for the seniors as the Seniors Club provide. And I would like you to reconsider, if that's the issue, reducing this funding for this wonderful club.

Thank you, ma'am. Before you start, who's up next?

If I could have Jean Clancy, please. Hi.

My name is Linda Valancourt. I live at 8218 Santhus Lane. And I am also here to speak and ask for your continued support of the Wellington Seniors Club. I've been in Wellington since 2005, but I've only been involved with the Seniors Club since about three years now. And I find it's a really wonderful experience for all. Let me tell you, you are getting a lot of bang for your buck with these volunteers that help out with there. They are dedicated. They are excellent, excellent stewards of the resources available. They help keep the seniors in touch and healthy by providing communal social outings and luncheons. And because the seniors participating are augmenting with money of their own funds, they're able to provide more services of a nature like bus trips using the big buses to go to museums, to theaters, restaurants where they otherwise would not drive or have the opportunity to participate in. And they've developed processes to streamline some of the things that happen there to make sure that it's limited to Wellington residents. I go to the other Wellington things that they have once a month and whatever. And sometimes I'm sitting at a table, and we're talking. And they're from Lake Worth. They're from Greenacres. They're from wherever. At Wellington Seniors Club, when you come in, you have to RSVP. You have to come in and sign in. They check your ID. They give you a ticket. Now, when you go upstairs to get your meal and enjoy the entertainment, they take that ticket. So only the people in that room belong there. And that is not what happens at the other monthly ones. People come in from the side doors, head up the stairs, Walk in, get a free lunch, have the entertainment. It's not limited to Wellington, which is a shame because we all worked hard to be able to call this our home and choose this as our home. Like I said, I think you're getting a lot of bang for your buck with the small amount of money that you helped to make this club a success, and it is a big success. And I thank you for your time.

Thank you. Good evening. Jean Clancy. Wait one second. We're going to call someone else up here so we keep it moving. No, you're good.

Stay there. You're good. Jean Clancy, 9653 Via Grande West, Wellington. I wasn't going to talk tonight because I thought you might have already made up your mind because we were informed by your senior advisory committee that they had made a recommendation to stop the funding.

Thank you.

I don't know what else I can do. There you go. Closer.

Lean in.

We were advised that the senior advisory committee had made a recommendation to stop the subsidizing of the Wellington Senior Club. First of all, such an important decision I don't feel should be made when not all the committee members are in attendance. Two or possibly three of them were not there. Two of which stated at a subsequent meeting that they would have voted to continue subsidizing it. So that's number one. Number two, it's less than 1% of the budget that goes toward this. 1%, less than 1%. And for that, I know here, We have bingo with your staff, the Wellington community staff, bingo, lunch and learn, and the monthly luncheon, all of which, by your staff's statements, are either subsidized or paid for by merchants. That's why they have to open them up to people outside of Wellington. Our club is strictly for Wellington, as the other woman suggested. What we have that you cannot deliver We have outside luncheons and dinners. We have outside plays and theater things that we go to, and also outside trips. All of this helps us to maintain our integrity, our worthwhileness, and prevents us from being stifled by what your staff decides we should have. We get to choose. We get to choose. So I would respectfully request that you would reconsider, if you've already made your decision, for this minimal amount of money. What you get for your bang is well worth it. Thank you.

Thank you. Wait, ma'am, we're calling people up by name. We're calling people up by name. So we'll get to you. We promise we'll get to you.

If I can have Eileen.

OK, so you're psychic.

She knew.

She just had a feeling.

The thing I always love to do is start with a laugh. So thank you for that.

And if I could just for one second so I can call up Lori Shankman.

Take it away.

Okay, so I can talk. Yes. I'll just start with my little speech. This was originally prepared for the newspaper, who had asked me a couple of questions because they always know what's going on. Even when we don't talk about it, they know it. So this is an answer to questions they asked me. Wellington Senior Club was established to give seniors of Wellington an important ingredient missing in their lives, a sense of community and belonging as we age. These ingredients were missing in the village. There was no place for seniors to come together and experience belonging with other seniors. Our first community meeting as a senior club was October 21, 1992, with an attendance of 125 people. Yes, in October we will celebrate 34 years in this wonderful club. I'm nervous. I don't know why. OK. We have continued to grow and change as directed by the needs of our 470 members. On December 7, 2001, we became incorporated as a not-for-profit organization supporting the senior members of the Village of Wellington. As growth of this club was happening, we realized that the vision of our members was also growing. Therefore, we reached out to the village to help us function on a higher level. Lunch, trips, dances, Golden Banner, which is a newspaper with valuable information for our senior club. A contract was signed stating the things we would provide for our members in exchange for what the village provided, which is capital. This contract was signed October 1, 2002. To answer the question, why has the village recommended serving severing our contract? The answer is simply they believe they can duplicate the functions that we provide for our seniors. Therefore, they should keep the funds to do so. The truth, as I see it, is they try, but they really don't know us. We are seniors caring for seniors. Without funding, we will most likely be forced to close our doors at the end of the year. I'm trying to think. Maybe I better not add to this wonderful piece here. That's an all over. I don't know how you get on the agenda. as, you know, a meaningful subject for your board. I don't know when you wrote this money option for clubs or things like that.

Ma'am, it's not on our agenda anytime soon. If it does, it will be publicly noticed, and we'll let everyone know. So it's not on tonight's agenda. I don't know why you thought it was, but it's not.

But we're just trying to tweak your ears a little bit. We hear you. This is very exciting. Okay. Well, thank you for coming. What number am I taking here?

Thank you very much. Hi. I'm Lori Shankman. I'm probably one of the original members of, I mean, residents of Wellington. I've been here since 76. Moved into my house in 77. And I'm here like everybody else here is in support of the Seniors Club. And We really hope you will reconsider in keeping the Seniors Club. It's nice. As Eileen said, we have something that's for Wellington residents that we can keep. It has been said, well, you know, we don't know if we want to fund the Seniors Club because, you know, there's other things that they can come to, the Thursday night things that we have on the park with the concerts. Well, that's not really so true, because most of us are in our 70s and 80s and can't walk the distance. There is not handicapped parking. because it's not a senior's thing it's for the whole community so to have certain things for specifically for our seniors that we can go to wellington does put on a really nice luncheon without a doubt and we're very appreciative of the one that they do once a month okay but for us to have that additional extra month or two events for the month, it's important. It's important to our mental acuity to be able to socialize. It's not something that... you can easily do when you were in your 50s and 60s. Things change in 70s and 80s. Your body doesn't behave like it used to. You're not as mobile. You can't get out. But it's very important for that social aspect. So again, we're begging you to please consider keeping and funding the Seniors Club.

Thank you, ma'am.

Linda Mont and Bruce Tumann.

We call the last one, too.

And Maria Clarita Uria, if you want to, oh, okay. You want to come up?

That's not Maria. That was somebody else.

That's okay. You're up. Three minutes, ma'am. You're up. We called your name? You called my name? Then you're here. Let's go.

I'm Linda Mond, 3592 Miramontes Circle.

Don't move the microphone. It's a hearing issue today.

I'm Linda Mond, 3592 Miramontes Circle. And you've heard a lot about the Seniors Club, but I think one of the aspects of the club that I think we're missing in relaying to you is that it is a benefit to the community as well. One of the things I was surprised about is that with the senior club, the outings, there's three times in the year that they take the seniors to the equestrian center. These are people that wouldn't go to the equestrian center if they weren't in an environment like that and be able to enjoy it and see what's going on in our community. There's different restaurants that we go to that I wouldn't have known or gone to. And Judy mentioned, she's a single woman. People getting out and meeting other people, making those friendships. I texted Judy just to say, hey, I haven't seen you in a while. It's getting the community to look after each other and make sure that we're all taking care of each other. But it's also getting out into the community and finding out about the new restaurants that came into being or the different events that are going on. And I have one of those husbands that really hates driving. And so when there's something that is a little bit of a distance and they have the busing, he'll go with me on the bus, but he's not going to drive there himself. As I get older, as some of these ladies have already told you, that's an important part of our community. And you do have a big population of seniors. We appreciate everything that you've provided in that regard, but I think the senior club adds a dimension that, as everyone has been saying already, that is missing from what the Village of Wellington is providing and the services that you have. And again, thank you for those services. Thank you for being on the board. Thank you for looking after us and for all the decisions that you make. And thank you for the time.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

Mr. Tooman? Good evening. My name is Bruce Tooman, and my primary and homesteaded zero lot line property is at 752 Lake Wellington Drive in the village of Wellington. When I moved to the village of Wellington, I also moved my company, which I incorporated back in 1987. For the privilege of using my Wellington address, I'm forced to pay Wellington a business tax receipt, BRT. I have $100 a year. Palm Beach only charges $33. And what do we get from the Villas for this money? I believe some of your council have businesses. And if you're involved with your administration, you recently received an email entitled, Villas of Wellington invoice ready to pay. The email came to my company's email box and started with, hello, Bruce. Well, this is a rude and unprofessional request. using a first name for a former salutation. I was also unprofessional to fail to mention what the invoice was for. Now, going to the invoice page, I found the fee named BRT $100. The invoice date was July 6, 2026, with a due date of July 6, 2026. I contacted staff who said, well, it's a new system, and that's what it is. Incompetence? Especially since my BRT doesn't expire until September of this year. Now, the past 15 years, my company received professional emails reminding my company about the renewal of the business license. And it's just like the county. But not this year. A rude, unprofessional, incompetent management bullying the businesses who pay a lot for very little. However, you're going to love this. Yesterday, I got this. And guess what it says? Renewal notification. Dear business property owner. Not hello, Bruce. Not this. Again, I request my council to waive my liens, my fine, my penalty on my property, and accept my landscape plan because, let's face it, staff does make mistakes. Hear no evil, speak no evil, say no evil. There's no way for all exo-officials to become. And let's talk about the senior senators. This past election, 85% of the resident voters did not vote. And I bet you got at least 15% here. Are you really not going to give them what they want? You've been doing it for decades, and now an advisory committee is doing it? These guys, forget the advisory committee. These people are the ones going to vote. Thank you.

Good evening, ma'am. Good evening. You're up.

My name is, can you hear?

Yes. Yes, you're on. We can hear, but get close to the mic.

Close it. As close as you can get. First time in my life. You're doing great. My name is, yes or no? Yes. Yes. My name is Maria Clarita Yorrea. I live in Wellington at 9138 Via Elegante. For 34 years, the Wellington Seniors Club has been a lifeline for hundreds of older adults in our community. Eliminating its funding would not simply reduce a program. It will force the club to close its doors. That will be devastating for the seniors who depend on it for connection, purpose, and emotional well-being. Fortune Well Magazine ranked Wellington among the top communities in the United States two years in a row, eighth place in 2023 and 36th place in 2024. Information for 2025 is not available yet. These rankings highlight not only economic strength, but also quality of life, community support, and services for other adults. If the seniors club disappears, it directly undermines the very factors that allowed Wellington to be ranked among the best places to live. It will send a message that our village is moving away from supporting the people who built this community, our seniors. The seniors club is not a luxury. It is a necessity. For many members, it is the only place where they find companionship, activities, and reasons to stay active. It prevents isolation, depression, and loneliness. Closing the club harm real people, real families, and the reputation of Wellington itself. Protecting this funding is protecting the dignity, health, and humanity for our seniors. It also protects the reputation and values of our beautiful town. Wellington has the resources No. Wellington has the heart, and Wellington has the long tradition of supporting the Wellington Senior Club for 34 years. Let's not break that tradition now. And to put this decision into perspective, we are not talking about an overwhelming amount of money. The annual funding for the seniors club is equivalent to the property taxes of just seven houses at $8,000 each. Seven homes. That is all. It is a small investment with an enormous impact. I brought copies to all of you showing the scoring of Fortune Well magazine, and you will see clearly that senior-friendly amenities is a major factor for this magazine. That means our seniors matter, what we do for them, what we offer them. It all counts. How much more do you have left?

How much more do you have left?

Go for it. And it's part of what keeps Wellington shining. And our senior club is a vital part for the success. Thank you.

Thank you. Well done. Thank you. You can leave it right over there. She'll take that for you right there. Madam Vice Mayor, we have more cards coming in. Yes, we have two. Two more cards.

Lindsay Fernandez. Mr. Michael, I'm sure I'm going to butcher your last name. But Michael, are you still here? Come on up, Michael.

Go ahead, ma'am.

My name is Lindsay Fernandez. Address is 12085 Tumbleweed Court. I'm here to speak on behalf of funding the Wellington Seniors Club, which might look a little strange because I'm not a senior, 44, but what the club has done for my mother has been incredible. It has kept her involved after she retired. She very much still needed something to do, and I'm after my stepfather passed away, being involved in the Wellington Seniors Club and other activities has really kept her going. But also, I'm 44, and what I would not want is a bunch of teenagers directing what I do in my extracurricular activities and how I stay awake. and involved in things because they don't understand what it's like to be in your 40s when your body starts to fail and when things, you know, go very, very sideways on you. So, yes, I don't, not a senior, but me suggesting, which I understand, I've met the staff that handles a lot of the senior activities, but the catch is that until you're a senior and you know what you're capable of, you know what you enjoy doing, you want people around you who understand what you're going through, who have those same life experiences, to be able to decide, yeah, we're gonna go see this play on this day, and it's not at seven o'clock at night, it's three o'clock in the afternoon, or whether a trip to a casino is a good idea. So what I really think is that we need to let the people who are going to enjoy the activities determine what those activities are. It's been my experience that they've been excellent stewards of the money. The membership stays high. People stay involved. They look after each other. And these are people who have lived here for a very long time and made Wellington what it is and a place that people want to live. So I'm not a member of the Wellington Seniors Club, but from my perspective, looking at what it's done for my mom and other people, I think it's extremely important that they maintain their ability to determine what they do with their time and their energy. Thank you.

Thank you.

Michael Steiner, 10577 Galleria Street, Wellington, Florida. A different perspective is I moved to the community in 2017, moved down from the north. Moved into a community where I knew nobody, didn't know what was going on. The Seniors Club is essential for someone moving into the area. It lets them meet other people, builds a network of friends, gives them activities. It is probably one of the most important things that you can offer the newly seniors, period. And that's all I have to say. I think you really need to thank you for your service.

Is Linda McKean in the audience?

Okay.

She does not wish to speak, but I will read what she wrote. Oh, please.

Up to you.

Come on up. Come on. Would you like your card to read what you wrote?

No, no. OK. My name is Linda Mackin, 12085 Humbly Court, Wellington, Florida. And my note in there or question to you all is before you do take this vote or have your meeting on it, would you all please consider visiting some of the events that we host? I personally think the Senior Advisory Council was not kept apprised of all the things that we do as a seniors club of Wellington. And so when they did their vote, they were listening to just a certain section of what was going on in the community. We do not... We love what the community center offers. We look forward to it supplementing but not supplanting what we do. And so that's why we'd like you all to visit and talk with us and meet some other members so you can see the benefits before the vote gets taken. Thank you.

Thank you.

Let me say thank you all for coming, and thank you all for speaking, and thank you all for telling us your thoughts on the subject. And I know I'm confident in speaking for everyone up here that we love our seniors, and we appreciate everything you've done for the village and the things that you still do for the village. And we don't always follow the recommendations of our advisory committees, as many people know. And with the senior committee, the advisory committee, they took a vote and decided we should sunset the senior club. It has not come to us. We have not had it on an agenda. We have not even discussed it as a group yet. So it is nowhere coming anytime soon. But if we were to have that discussion on what the future would look like, we would definitely do a workshop. We would meet with all of you, and you would know exactly what we're doing before we do it. So it wouldn't be a surprise. But I think there's a gentleman at the end of the dais who's closer to joining your ranks who might have some comments on You know it's you, right?

Despite my useful appearance, I've been around a while. I don't remember when the senior club was operated by Mr. Springer and run by Mr. Springer. So I've been around that long, God rest his soul. And also we had our very slim senior program internally run by Mr. Klinger, and he's no longer with us as well. But over time, I think what we've seen is that both the senior club programming and the village program has evolved. And I think there's a lot of misinformation possibly out there. And I think what the issue is is really trying to figure out how we evolve into the future where both programs can continue to exist and we don't duplicate services. And I think both programs have grown. Both programs continue to provide a service. And I think there's a lot of options. And ultimately, I think when this initially first came to council for discussion purposes a couple of years ago, and again, as the mayor mentioned, the council took no formal action to change anything, except at the staff level, what we elected to do going back to 2024 is that looking at the current funding level within the senior club, which is a separate 501c3, There was sufficient funding to sustain it even until today and I know miss Cohen and the senior clubs attorney together with Senior Club board members had met and I've been part of those meetings as well And the intent was to utilize that existing funding that was in place Back then in 2024 going to fiscal year 25. There was about 146 thousand dollars in that account. I think as of the last senior club meeting I think there's probably 65,000 in that account The annual allocation was around, I think, $55,000, $52,000 on an annual basis. And so as the mayor mentioned, and again, as staff has said previously, in fact, for this year, that amount was funded but not granted yet due to the fact that there remains a substantial balance in that account. And I think that's how we're continuing to go at this point. And again, as the mayor mentioned, should there be any changes in that funding level, those are decisions that are made at the budget time, year to year. And certainly, we're not going to make those kinds of program changes without advising council and also having a public meeting.

My recollection is that once the funding level drops to a certain level, then we would go ahead and fund it under the agreement. So it's not taking away the funds, but it's just spending down the amount that they the the extra amount that they had in the account.

let me ask a question um the last speaker made me think um she said that we we don't know what they do so when the way we fund keely spinelli they come and they give a presentation and they tell us what they spent the money on how do we do that with the senior club and what can we do going forward so if we do decide to continue the way things are going. There's more of like a checks and balances and accountability on how the money was spent, what you spent it on, how much is left so that we were doing this properly as a, municipality funding some sort of...

I believe our staff has attended those board meetings when they've been allowed to attend and will continue to do that and certainly take any suggestions and input from those members and also the board members.

Well, I think if we're the ones that ultimately make the decision, then we should have some sort of presentation at some point.

Also, the agreement itself, I mean, I do think it's a good idea to have a presentation. Perhaps the president of the board or, you know, a board member can come maybe on an annual basis and make a presentation. But the agreement itself contemplates a number of activities that the funding will be spent on. They commit to a certain number of events. per year. So we know from the contract what those activities are going to be. But I do think it would be nice for an informal update.

Just, hey, we did this. This was amazing. Share some pictures on the computer just so that we see more because when you're coming here, you guys are explaining this thing that I don't go to them. I don't know. So when I hear what our people are doing for the seniors, I think all of that's wonderful. I understand a lot of what you said tonight, but otherwise would never know that. So I do think that there should be something that is presented to us, even if it's once a year. so that we stay apprised as to what you're doing and how special it is so that when we decide to continue to fund it, we're doing it because we know what's going on.

And do we see how the money is spent? Do we get a report? Okay. I mean, I've never seen it. I mean, I'm sure someone gets it, but it would be nice for us to see where the money is going for transparency and so everyone knows how their tax dollars are being spent and where. Right.

OK. We can get you that. When we say, and I think I heard it tonight, when we meet, do we meet with the board? Or do we meet with an audience like this? Who do we meet with in the senior?

So it's a combination. I mean, I would say the staff attends or tries to attend the board meetings. But ultimately, for events that are held at the community center, our staff's there. They don't necessarily participate because they're operated through other programs. We generally provide the space. Similar to essentially the best example I can give for how the senior club was intended to operate is the way our sports providers operate. They essentially are our senior program provider. And that's how it evolved. Because in the beginning, like I said, we had one guy that worked here for 20 hours a week running bingo. That was our senior program. That was the extent of it. The senior club provided the bulk if not really all of the senior programming. And as you've seen, that's evolved over the years. In the 23 years I've been here, it's changed a lot. And so I think our staff, community services staff, and previously Parks and Recreation staff, were the ones engaged with the club. And then certainly we support them by way of also providing the facilities.

Because if I heard correctly, all of the speakers tonight, part of the theme was we don't know what they do. We don't know what the activities and what you do as a group. So that's why I'm trying to see where the disconnect is. If we are doing some of these activities, but you are feeling we don't know the activities that you're doing, so how do we bridge that together to identify that?

We'll work with Ms. Brito's staff to make sure that we're more engaged with the team.

Go ahead. Sorry. Just one thing, and I've had a lot of conversations about this. I don't see who I met at their house, but I have been involved in this. My next-door neighbors are part of your club. They let me know that they were not happy to hear about this, but they're not here tonight.

I think we didn't do.

Yeah. I'm like, we didn't do anything. So one thing that I discussed with Ms. Brito is some of the things that we do here, it's just very easy for us to do them where it costs your club so much money. And so we were looking at a way to assist you in, let's say, the bus. We have buses. We don't have to pay for buses. So that's where all of this really started. stemmed from was more of a collaboration because it's just working smarter, not harder. And so that was kind of the thought. And it's never to take away. If we in some way wanted to combine this, it would be adding lunches. It would be making sure that you still went to your events. We talked about prioritizing the Wellington residents and them being the first to get to purchase certain things. So there was discussion and I understand where our staff was coming from with this and I hear everything you're saying tonight. I think there's a lot more discussion that should happen on this because I do believe that we could in a lot of ways help the club and make it easier for you to just enjoy it instead of working so hard. So I never want to take anything away from our seniors, but I think that our staff was looking to assist in making this easier for you and more fun and still welcoming residents to volunteer because some of you enjoy that aspect of it, planning and volunteering. I talked to Ms. Brito about how we can still do that if this became the way we do things. So there was, there has been discussion about it, obviously, but nothing's come to us because I'm just gathering information right now to make an informed decision on what, and that's why I'm so glad all of you guys are here tonight. But, um, I would like to hear at some point when we do a workshop, I hope we'll have some of our seniors there to discuss why that's a bad thing so that I can understand that better because I think in a lot of ways it's good for you guys because then there's less stress. So I think that... Moving forward, I'd like to really have a robust discussion where we're not just mad and thinking something's being taken away because that's not the goal here. It's to make it better and easier and still be enjoyable for all of you and you still get every activity that you ever wanted. So obviously we're not doing anything, but that's where my head's at right now.

To be collaborative is important. And showing up this evening to talk on a topic that we weren't really discussing is significant. And I definitely want to apologize that I didn't copy down last names quickly enough. But Eileen and Maria, to overcome their fear and to demonstrate courage in speaking in front of a large group was tremendous also. So I've attended meetings of a lot of different clubs, historical society. The Crown Pearls do a lot for the community. And to come and be a part of a senior club function meeting would be terrific. That way we would know more about what you do. So I look forward to it.

And at 70... He just wants to go to the casino.

I do want to go to the casino. At 70, your body doesn't fall apart. I wanted to take a moment and wish a very happy birthday to Vice Mayor Antuna.

I'm in your club. I'll be 70 on Sunday. Happy birthday.

Happy birthday. She's busy. We need her here.

She might have a conflict.

Thank you all for coming. Thank you. We're going to move on to Mr. Barnes. What's next? An attorney report?

That brings us to attorney's report.

I knew that was coming.

I have nothing to report.

Mr. Barnes?

Just a couple quick notes. Thank you, guys.

Lean into the mic, please, so I can hear you.

The next workshop that we're proposing to have was originally scheduled for August 10th. That's the first day of school. And that usually is a busy day for the staff and some council members. We have now scheduled the CIP workshop on August 6th. And that's at 3 p.m. And I'm assuming that since it's in my report that Ms. Aldrich has confirmed that with all of you. All right, moving along. The next agenda review meeting will be held on Monday, August 10th at 4.30 here, and the next regular council meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 11th here. And that's all I have.

Don't you have to wish someone a happy anniversary? Who's not watching, I'm sure.

No, I'm going to bet that she's not really watching Channel 18 right now.

Well, happy anniversary to Mr. and Mrs. Barnes.

Happy anniversary.

Happy birthday to Vice Mayor Antonia. And now we have council comments, and we'll start with Councilman Meyer. Please speak loudly so everyone can hear. Thank you.

Yes. All great information tonight. Learned some new things. Proud to be a councilman and represent our residents. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor?

Well, I have some... I'm excited to share that this month we actually did one, two, three, four, five... Five ribbon cuttings.

Can you all just hold it down so we can just finish up? We're almost done. So thanks, though. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Just leave quietly.

I'm excited to share it because it's great. It's very good to have new businesses be in Wellington. We're very fortunate that they have chosen Wellington. One of them is the Arcade Time located at the Wellington Mall. If you have small kids or even adults, I suggest that you go. Not only can you play the games, but you can also eat there. Degree Wellness located at Lotus. Very good wellness center, offering a lot, a lot of benefits that would be good if you went over there and checked what they offer. Soft Hands Dental, located also at Lotus. Wellington Flagship Cinema. I think we're all excited about this because this is where the old theater was here in Wellington. It has recently been remodeled and it's very nice. If you have an opportunity, please go support. LA Medical Center is located at the Old Cheddars. That is also a very good one. And then this past Sunday, Councilman Levin and myself attended PBSO Unity Fest at the Aquatic Center. It was absolutely awesome. And we appreciate always PBSO for what you do to unite the neighborhood and the residents of Wellington. And Mr. Barnes, I have a request.

Yes, ma'am.

Is it possible that we can maybe visit bringing back the Citizens Academy? I think that it would be compatible and align very well with the PBSO Academy.

We can do that. We've done that in the past. And we held it for several years. And then as things ebb and flow, we had lost some interest. But based on the success that we saw with PBSO's Citizen Law Enforcement Academy, we can put something together for council to look at and look at a schedule going forward for that. We can do that.

And during the Citizens Academy, do we bring PBSO and fire as well so that there's awareness?

We actually used to. That was the plan before. We'd have different focus days. And oddly enough, because they have all the cool toys, PBSO and fire rescue have the most interest when we have those scheduled. Planning, zoning, building, not so much. Code compliance, not so much. No cool toys. But PBS on fire rescue, they usually bring a demonstration.

And I'm sure I like the citizens want to talk based on what I heard.

I think that it would be good for the citizens and the residents of Wellington to know what's happening in Wellington.

It was very popular.

So that government administration day is packed, right?

That's it. Okay. I don't know. That's why I don't want you. You're done. Councilman Levin, maybe you should let something for you to say.

Just briefly, if I may, as the representative for the board of the Palm Beach County League of Cities, League of Cities in Palm Beach County represents all 39 municipalities and unites in a non-partisan fashion common themes. This past week... Sam Waggoner from the Florida League came and presented on the lead. He's the legislative advocate, presented information, and the president of the Florida League was there as well. We had some topics on the upcoming tax amendment and some other things that may impact residents. As with anything else, I encourage education.

That's it?

That's it.

Okay. Housewoman.

All right. I just want to wish all the kids good luck on their first day back to school and all of our teachers and yay for the parents. And then happy birthday, Vice Mayor Antunia. So we won't see you. Well, I'll see you probably, but we won't see you up here until after your birthday.

And that's it.

Well, you all said everything, so this meeting is adjourned.