May 13, 2024 Regular City Commission Meeting

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I A CONFIRMATION. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE WELCOME. WE'RE READY TO START THE STUART CITY COMMISSION

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[1. ARTS MOMENT - NATALIA CARABALLO SONG PERFORMANCE]

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ITALIAN. I HAVE A MM.

THANK YOU. BEFORE WE GO INTO THE PROCLAMATION. I ONLY HAVE ONE

[2. POLICE MEMORIAL WEEK - MAY 12-18, 2024]

POLICE MEMORIAL WEEK. I DO THAT? MATTHEW, YOU'RE LUCKY. WE KNOW PEOPLE.

THERE WERE TWO OTHER POLICE OFFICERS, UH, CELEBRATING 110 YEARS OF SERVICE AND THE OTHER 110 YEARS OF SERVICE. THEY'RE NOT HERE TONIGHT, BUT WE'LL MAKE SURE THEY GET THEM.

THIS IS POLICE. OR WE MAY 8TH MAY 12TH 1820 24. COULD YOU READ THIS FOR ME? LEE? OF COURSE, MAYOR WHEREAS THERE ARE MORE THAN 800,000 LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SERVING IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE DEDICATED MEMBERS OF THE CITY OF STUART POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND WHEREAS SINCE THE FIRST RECORDED DEATH IN 1786 , THERE ARE CURRENTLY 23,785.

LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN THE UNITED STATES WHO HAVE MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY. AND WHEREAS MAY 15TH IS DEDICATED AS PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY IN HONOR OF ALL FALLEN OFFICERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. AND US FLAGS SHOULD BE FLOWN AT HALF STAFF.

AND WHEREAS THE SERVICE AND SACRIFICE OF ALL OFFICERS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY BE HONORED DURING A MEMORIAL CEREMONY WHICH WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 15TH 2024 AT 2:30 P.M. AT THE SES POINT, POLICE DEPARTMENT. NOW THEREFORE I REBECCA S BRUNNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE WEEK OF MAY 12 THROUGH 18 2024 AS POLICE MEMORIAL WEEK. THANK YOU. WHO'S HERE TO RECEIVE HIS CHIEF.

LIKE FOR PIERCE TRAFFIC IS, UH, PRETTY TREACHEROUS. I WANNA THANK THE, UH, COMMISSION FOR

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THAT'S WHY WE DO IT. UM I APPRECIATE MY OFFICERS. THEY DO A FINE JOB. AND I CERTAINLY WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU UP HERE FOR THE RECOGNITION. SO THANK YOU, CHIEF. COULD YOU STAY RIGHT THERE? I WAS GOING TO READ THIS WITH MY COMMENTS. BUT I'D RATHER WHILE YOU'RE THERE. IS IT BAD OR GOOD? VERY GOOD. UM LAST TUESDAY , THERE WAS A SWEARING IN CEREMONY OF THE P AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR A NEW POLICE OFFICER. HIS NAME WAS JAMES HERRON. NICE YOUNG MAN. AND BACK IN FEBRUARY, WE HAD TWO NEW POLICE OFFICERS SWORN IN BY THE NAME OF BRENT MEYER IN PRESTON COTNER. I JUST WANT TO APPLAUD THESE OFFICERS WILLING TO PROTECT OUR LIVES. WHATEVER COST I ALSO WANT TO GIVE THANKS TO OUR POLICE AND POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR VERY FINE INVESTIGATION ON THE SOLVING OF THE HIT AND RUN OF THE MAN WHO LOST HIS LIFE. YOU GUYS DID A EXCELLENT INVESTIGATION. AMAZING. SO PROUD TO LIVE IN THE CITY OF STUART. AND UM ONE MORE THING. I WANTED TO ASK YOU. ARE YOU THERE? CHIEF COULD YOU COME UP WHILE YOU'RE HERE AND EXPLAIN TO US WHAT JUGGING IS? OK AND REPORTS, YOU KNOW. NO UM BE THE DETECTIVES CAN PROBABLY EXPLAIN IT BETTER THAN I CAN, BUT WHAT IT IS, THEY COME FROM OUT OF TOWN OR WHATEVER. BASICALLY A PERSON DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE FROM OUT OF TOWN. IT COULD BE ANYONE. SO BASICALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS A PERSON. GOOD TO THE BANK, AND THEY'RE OBSERVED BY THESE NEFARIOUS CHARACTERS WHO ARE GOING TO COMMIT COMMIT CRIME. SO WHAT THEY'LL DO IS THEY'LL WATCH AN INDIVIDUAL. AND I WATCHED A PERSON COME OUT OF THE BANK TO SEE IF THEY RECEIVED SOME CASH. AND WHAT THEY'LL DO IS THEY'LL FOLLOW THAT PERSON AND WAIT FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO EITHER. PHYSICALLY ROBBED THEM BECAUSE WE JUST HAD ONE. UM WHICH RESULTED IN ARREST OR BURGLARIZE YOUR VEHICLE. SO THAT IS WHAT JOGGING IS. IT'S CALLED PAIN JOGGING. SO AM I RIGHT, GUYS? ALL RIGHT. WE APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE IT IT. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION THAT I DO NOT KNOW. TAKE A PICTURE. IT'S QUITE OK. CAN WE GET A PICTURE OF EVERYONE? ALL THE OFFICERS? I LOVE THAT. HERE. SHE MUST HAVE DECIDED TO COME DOWN. I THOUGHT WE WERE YES. THAT'S CORRECT.

THAT'S ALL RIGHT. HE ALREADY ADDRESS IT. THIS RIGHT? ARE YOU GONNA GET IN THERE? I'LL DROP IT.

AND JUGGING IN THIS CONTEXT COMES FROM THE IDEA THAT THE VICTIM IS CARRYING A JUG OF MONEY, MAKING THEM A TARGET FOR CRIMINALS. I GOOGLED IT. JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING. I COULDN'T LET US GO ON RIGHT. IT'S GONNA BE LIKE GOOGLE THAT NO ONE COULD FOCUS ON ANYTHING ELSE. HERE'S ANOTHER PROCLAMATION THAT I AM VERY PROUD TO PRESENT, UM, AS A

[3. WOMAN'S CLUB OF STUART 110TH ANNIVERSARY]

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VERY EXCITED. WHEREAS OVER A CENTURY THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF STUART HAS BEEN A CORNERSTONE OF OUR COMMUNITY, FOSTERING FELLOWSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP AMONG ITS MEMBERS AS THEY WERE COLLABORATIVELY TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL RESIDENTS. AND WHEREAS THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF STUART HAS A RICH HISTORY OF COMMITMENT TO LITERACY, NOTABLY BY ESTABLISHING THE FIRST PUBLIC LIBRARY IN MARTIN COUNTY IN 1916, AND DUTIFULLY OPERATING IT FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS. I'M SORRY FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS. AND CONTINUING THIS DEDICATION BY STEADFASTLY SUPPORTING LITERACY PROGRAMS THAT EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS. FOR THE GIFT OF EDU EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE. AND WHEREAS THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF STEWART HAS PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION BY AWARDING MORE THAN ONE HALF MILLION DOLLARS IN COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS TO DESERVING GIRLS AND WOMEN IN MARTIN COUNTY. THEREBY OPENING DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY AND FOSTERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS, INNOVATORS AND CHANGE MAKERS. AND WHEREAS AS WE COMMEMORATE THE 110TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS ESTEEMED ORGANIZATION, WE HONOR ITS EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS. WE EXTEND OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE TO THE MEMBERS PAST AND PRESENT OF THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF STEWART, WHO'S UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO SERVICE , EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CONTINUES TO UPLIFT AND INSPIRE US ALL. NOW THEREFORE, I REBECCA S BRUNNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART TO HEREBY CONGRATULATE THE WOMAN'S CLUB OF STUART ON ITS 110TH ANNIVERSARY AND PROCLAIM MAY 2024 AS THE WOMEN'S CLUB OF STEWART 110TH ANNIVERSARY. PRESIDENT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? YES ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU TO ALL THE COMMISSIONERS, ESPECIALLY TO YOU . MAYOR BECKY BRUNER, WHO IS ALSO OUR MEMBER AND TO COMMISSION, OUR CLERK WHO IS ALSO OUR MEMBER, GENTLEMEN. YOUR WIVES COULD BE MEMBERS, YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. YOUR SISTERS . WE ARE A WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION. AS YOU HAVE HEARD, 100 AND 10 YEARS THAT WE ARE VERY PROUD OF TO BE ENHANCING THE LIVES OF THOSE IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT. WE HAVE HAD A VERY BIG YEAR. OBVIOUSLY OUR 110TH ANNIVERSARY TO THINK THAT WE STARTED WITH 29 WOMEN. IN THIS COMMUNITY, 100 AND 10 YEARS AGO AND WE ARE PART OF THE GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS, WHICH IS AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION. AND NOW THIS ORGANIZATION HAS OVER 3000 CLUBS WITH OVER 60,000 MEMBERS IN 12 COUNTRIES, ONE COUNTRY OF WHICH IS MY PLACE OF BIRTH. LIMA PERU WHICH I'M VERY PROUD TO ALSO BE A MEMBER OF BUT WE ARE, UH, CELEBRATING SOMETHING ELSE THIS YEAR. JUST LAST MONTH IN THIS ROOM, THE CITY OF STUART DESIGNATED OUR CLUBHOUSE AS HISTORIC SOMETHING ELSE TO BE VERY, VERY PROUD OF, AND WE ARE PART OF THE NATIONAL PRESERVATION MONTH IN MAR, MARTIN COUNTY AND NEXT MONTH.

UH, EXCUSE ME. NOT NEXT MONTH THIS MONTH NEXT WEEK TUESDAY, THE 21ST. WE WILL HAVE OUR UNVEILING AND DEDICATION OF THE MARKER AND I HOPE ALL OF YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ATTEND AND ALL OF YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ADAPT. BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS IT A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE MARKER TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND HOW IT CAME TO BE, BUT ALSO WE'RE HAVING A COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE ALSO VERY PROUD OF BECAUSE WE'LL BE ABLE TO DISPLAY ALL OF THE WONDERFUL ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS THAT WE HAVE HAD THROUGHOUT. SO MANY YEARS IN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CITY. AND UH, WE WILL HAVE MANY OF OUR MEMBERS DRESSED IN PERIOD COSTUME AND, UM, WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT, OF COURSE , ALL OUR DIFFERENT COMMITTEES, BUT ESPECIALLY OUR HOLIDAY HOME TOUR, WHICH IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE . THIS WILL BE OUR 16TH YEAR AND THAT IS OUR MAJOR FUNDRAISER IN WHICH WE CAN RAISE MONEY TO THEN GIVE SCHOLARSHIP TO, UH, COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS TO MARTIN COUNTY GIRLS AND OLDER WOMEN CONTINUING EDUCATION, SO I HOPE MANY OF YOU WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN US. I DO HAVE ONE MORE THING. MAYOR BRUNER. UM BECAUSE OF OUR ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR, WE DECIDED TO GIVE OUT PINS OF

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THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NOW NEXT PROCLAMATION, BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY YOUTH OF

[4. BOYS & GIRLS CLUB YOUTH OF THE YEAR - JOMAR ZELAYA]

HAVING PERFORMED MORE THAN 500 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE. HE'S DUAL ENROLLED. HE'S A DUAL ENROLLED HONOR STUDENT AND PLANS TO BECOME AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON. NOW THEREFORE, I REBECCA ES BRUNNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART, TO HEREBY CONGRATULATE AND RECOGNIZE JILL MARSAY AS YOUTH OF THE YEAR. SAID.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY I HAVE THE DISTINCT HONOR OF INTRODUCING YOU TO JOE MARS. ALI, THE 2024 MARTIN COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB YOUTH OF THE YEAR. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS JAR ZELAYA. I HAVE BEEN GOING TO THE PORTS AND LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS NOW AND AT FIRST I WAS A SUPER SHY KID. BUT THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB QUICKLY CHANGED ME INTO BECOMING A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY. RECENTLY I WENT, I WAS ABLE TO GO TO JACKSONVILLE TO COMPETE IN THE STATE LEVEL, BUT I MADE IT. I DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE SECOND.

GROUND WHERE THEY ANNOUNCE EAGLE FLOWERS FROM THE JACKSONVILLE DISTRICT AS THE FLORIDA STATE YOU THROUGH A YEAR, BUT I MADE IT TO THE SEMIFINALS NOW. NOW, THIS WAS A BIG THING BECAUSE I GOT GOT TO SEE SO MANY YOUTH OF THE YEAR FROM THE MILITARY ROUTE TO THE TRADITIONAL ROUTE, AND I GOT TO SEE ALL THEIR PERSPECTIVES. SEE THINGS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES IS SOMETHING THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB HAVE TAUGHT ME FROM SEEING VARIOUS STAFF AND FRIENDS COME AND GO SINCE WHEN I WHEN I WAS SIX YEARS OLD TO NOW THAT I'M 18. I GOT TO SEE A KID NAMED ROBERT HE GOES TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, AND HE WAS A YOUTH OF THE YEAR FOR THEM. HE TAUGHT US SOMETHING CALLED WALK, WALK A MILE WITH A CHILD, WHICH HELP YOUNGER STUDENTS, THE YOUTH YOU WOULD WALK WITH. SORRY WE WOULD WALK WITH THEM AND THEY WILL TEACH TALK TO US ABOUT THE DAY WHETHER THAT DAY WAS BAD, WHETHER IT WAS GOOD, BUT IT WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL BECAUSE WE WERE WITH THE CHILD, AND WE GOT TO HELP THEM THROUGH WHATEVER IT WAS. THIS IS

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[5. FLORIDA EMANCIPATION DAY - MAY 20, 2024]

AND WHEREAS IT WAS MORE THAN TWO YEARS LATER, AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR ON MAY 20TH 1865 THAT, UH, UNION BRIGADIER GENERAL EDWARD M MCCOOK ANNOUNCED IN TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, THE FREEING OF THE STATE'S AFRICAN SLAVE POPULATION. ON THAT SAME DAY, SPECIAL ORDER NUMBER 63 ARRIVED FROM MAJOR GENERAL QUINCY A. GILMORE AND STATED THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK RACE ARE FREE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. AND WHEREAS NEWLY FREED SLAVES CELEBRATED THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WITH A PICNIC AT BULLS POND, WHICH IS LOCATED IN TALLAHASSEE, AND TODAY CALLED LAKE ELLA. AND WHEREAS FOR DECADES AFTER THE INITIAL PROCLAMATION, AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE STATE CARRIED OUT CELEBRATIONS AS A WAY OF BOTH HONORING THE PAST AND CELEBRATING THE PRESENT. WHILE THE END OF SLAVERY IN TEXAS IS COMMONLY OBSERVED, AS AS THE END OF SLAVERY IN THE US AND CELEBRATED AS JUNETEENTH. FLORIDA'S OWN DAY PROVIDES AN IMPORTANT PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO HONOR THE HISTORY OF AND CONTINUED FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FOR HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES. AND WHEREAS EMAN EMANCIPATION DAY HELPS SHED LIGHT ON THE CONTINUING CHALLENGES OUR COUNTRY FACES IN COMBATING RACISM, INEQUITY, INEQUITY AND INEQUALITY. NOW THEREFORE, I REBECCA S BRUNNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM MAY 20TH 2024 AS FLORIDA EMANCIPATION DAY.

FORWARD JIMMY.

MR JIMMY. JUST A FEW COUPLE 23 WORDS. I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU. CITY COMMISSION CITY STEWARD, CITY MANAGER. ALL OF YOUR, UH WHAT A GREAT JOB YOU'RE DOING. I THINK THIS WAS INITIALLY STARTED. UH, MISS EULA CLARK, COMMISSIONER CLARK. BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION TO THE CITY. YEAH WE SHOULD RECOGNIZE S MAP PATIENT DAY. UM IT'S SUCH AN HONOR. SO ALL OF US IN HERE.

WHETHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT, YOU HAVE A PART OF THIS HISTORY. OF WHEN ONE IS $3 FREE. AND WHAT WE HAVE GAINED TOGETHER IN THIS CITY. AND I'VE BEEN HERE FOR A LONG TIME SINCE 62 HERE IN THE

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[6. SAFE BOATING WEEK - MAY 18-25, 2024]

AND WHEREAS SAFE BOATING BEGINS WITH PREPARATION THE COAST GUARD , UH, ESTIMATES THAT HUMAN ERROR ACCOUNTS FOR MOST BOATING ACCIDENTS AND THAT LIFE JACKETS COULD PREVENT NEARLY 83% OF VOTING FATALITIES. THROUGH BASIC BOATING SAFETY PROCEDURES, CARRYING LIFE SAVING EMERGENCY DISTRESS AND COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT WEARING LIFE JACKETS ATTENDING SAFE BOAT BOATING COURSES PARTICIPATING IN FREE BOAT SAFETY CHECKS AND STAYING SOBER WHEN NAVIGATING WE CAN HELP ENSURE VOTERS ON AMERICANS COASTAL FINLAND AND OFFSHORE WATERS STAY SAFE THROUGHOUT THE SEASON AND WHEREAS ON AVERAGE 650 PEOPLE DIE EACH YEAR IN BOATING RELATED ACCIDENTS IN THE US 75% OF THESE FATALITIES CAUSED ARE ARE FATALITIES CAUSED BY DROWNING. IN A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF VOTERS WHO LOSE THEIR LIVES BY DROWNING EACH YEAR WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY HAD THEY WERE IN THEIR LIFE JACKETS. NOW THEREFORE, I REBECCA S BRUNNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, DO HEREBY COMMEND. VOLUNTEER SERVICE. VOLUNTEER MEMBERS OF THE US COAST GUARD AUXILIARY FLOTILLA. 59 STEWART FOR THEIR EFFORTS IN FURTHERING THE GOALS OF THE SAFE BOATING CAMPAIGN AND PROCLAIM MAY 18 THROUGH 25TH 2024 IN THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA AS SAFE BOATING WEEK. OK UM PLEASE COME FORWARD. ARE WE GONNA PUT THE UM YES. OK. ALL THE COMMISSIONERS. THANK YOU. OH, YES. YOU'RE ALL IN GOOD TREATMENT. YEAH. I CAN HELP SOMEBODY. OK, ALL RIGHT. THE I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT. YOU SAW ME? THAT. I YEAH. WHAT'S GOT A LIGHT? HOW WOULD HOW DO WE GET THE VICTORY THAT YOU MAYBE. I KNOW THAT LIKE .

HERE. THAT OK, EVERYONE. OK, YOU WANT THERE WE GO. JUST HAVE YOUR HANDS IN.

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THANK YOU. NEXT DESERVE A PUBLIC WORKS WEEK MAY 19TH TO THE 25TH RECIPIENT, MILTON LEGGET, PUBLIC

[7. PUBLIC WORKS WEEK - MAY 19-25, 2024]

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HONEST. MR MARTEL. MIRROR VICE MAYOR COMMISSIONERS. OUR CITY MANAGER. ON BEHALF OF PUBLIC WORKS. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR THIS PROCLAMATION. I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR LETTING US DO EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IN THIS GREAT CITY OF STEW. MAINTAIN OUR CITY. AND THE LAST THING I LIKE TO SEE IS NO ONE WORKS LIKE PUBLIC WORKS. THANK YOU, MELTON. MILTON. THERE ARE

[8. MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH - MAY 2024]

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HELPING YOU KNOW, TRYING TO FIND OUT SOMETIMES IT'S A VERY SIMPLE PROBLEM. SOMEBODY HURT THEIR FEELINGS. SOMETIMES IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT PROBLEMS LIKE PROBLEMS AT HOME, SO WE ARE ABLE TO GET IN AT THE VERY FIRST OF THIS CHILD'S ISSUE AND BEGIN TO HELP BOTH THE CHILD AND THE FAMILY VERY EARLY, AND WE'RE HOPING THAT WITH THIS KIND OF APPROACH, ONGOING THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO REALLY HELP STOP THE PROBLEM, RATHER THAN ALWAYS DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM. BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE, UM, WE HAVE 30 THERAPISTS THAT WORK WITH US ON A DAILY BASIS. SO IF ANY OF YOU OR ANYONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE WOULD LIKE TO MEET WITH US TO SEE IF WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP YOU OR ONE OF THE FA FAMILY MEMBER OR FRIEND, WE'RE CERTAINLY THERE FOR YOU. AND WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR RECOGNIZING THIS VERY, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT RECIPIENT ON MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS. UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF NAMI NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF THE TREASURE COAST. UH, JIS GRILLER. OH, I HAD LEAVE, OF COURSE. WHEREAS MENTAL HEALTH IS PART OF OVERALL HEALTH AND HELPS SUSTAIN AN INDIVIDUAL'S THOUGHT. PROCESSES RELATIONSHIPS, PRODUCTIVITY AND ABILITY TO CHANGE OR FACE ADVERSITY. MENTAL ILLNESS ADVERSELY AFFECTS THOSE ABILITIES AND OFTEN IS LIFE-THREATENING IN NATURE. AND WHEREAS ONE IN FOUR AMERICANS UM , HAS A MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION IN 12.8 MILLION ADULTS LIVE WITH A SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS. IN FLORIDA. 2,769,000 ADULTS HAVING MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION.

APPROXIMATELY 50% OF MENTAL MENTAL ILLNESS. BEGINS BY AGE 14 AND 75% BY THE AGE OF 24. EARLY IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMENT CAN MAKE A PROFOUND DIFFERENCE IN SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND RECOVERY. AND WHEREAS THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF THE TREASURE COAST IS AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT, EDUCATE AND ADVOCATE IN AREAS RELATED TO MENTAL ILLNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH AND OFFER VARIOUS SUPPORT GROUPS, CLASSES AND ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

AND WHEREAS EVERY CITIZEN AND COMMUNITY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN HELPING IN THE SILENCE AND STIGMA THAT FOR TOO LONG HAS SURROUNDED MENTAL ILLNESS AND DISCOURAGED PEOPLE FROM GETTING HELP. NOW THEREFORE, I REBECCA S BRUNNER AS MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM IN THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA THE MONTH OF MAY 2024 AS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH.

MS LER, PLEASE FORWARD. HE'S A STICKLER.

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WE ALSO HAVE MANY OTHER PROGRAMS THAT HELP BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY. ONE OF THE MY FAVORITE IS THE FAMILY TO FAMILY PROGRAM THAT IS AN EIGHT WEEK PROGRAM. IT'S VERY INTENSE, AND IT'S COST FREE. WE OFFER IT THREE TIMES A YEAR. LIKE I MENTIONED IT IS AN EIGHT WEEK PROGRAM ONCE A WEEK FOR EIGHT WEEKS, AND IT GOES OVER DIAGNOSIS. PHARMACOLOGY. COMMUNICATION SKILLS, DE ESCALATION SKILLS AND SO MUCH MORE. AND BEFORE I LEAVE, I'D LIKE TO READ OUR MISSION STATEMENT. OUR MISSION IS TO SUPPORT ADVOCATE AND ENCOURAGE THOSE WHO HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN ALL AREAS OF THEIR LIVES MENTALLY PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY.

THANK YOU. I'M VERY PROUD TO ACCEPT THIS. POPULATION. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. THANK YOU.

[9. HISTORIC PRESERVATION MONTH - MAY 2024]

MISTER ANDERSON ISN'T HERE. BUT I'M JOETTE LAURIAN RICE AND I I'M HERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YOU. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM MAYOR, UH, VICE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS. I'M JOETTE LAUREN RICE A PAST CHAIR AND I'M STILL A MEMBER OF THE MARTIN COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD. I'M HERE TODAY TO THANK YOU FOR THIS PROCLAMATION. AND FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS PARTICIPATING WITH US IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION MONTH WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD HABIT GOING ON. THE CITY IS STUART MARTIN COUNTY WILL BE CELEBRATING THIS VERY SPECIAL MONTH ALONG WITH THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. THE THEME THIS YEAR IS PEOPLE SAVING PLACES AND ALL THOSE BRONZE PLAQUES THAT WE PUT ON BUILDING SHOW ALL THE EFFORT AND THE MONEY THAT GOES INTO REALLY SAVING THESE PLACES. AND I MUST TELL YOU THAT WHEN I MOVED HERE IN 2005 FROM MIAMI, I MOVED HERE BECAUSE OF HIS CHARM. I CAME FOR A ON THE EVERGLADES AND MOVED HERE BECAUSE OF CHARMING, HISTORIC DOWNTOWN STEWART IN THE FIRST THING I DID WAS GET ON THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD. AT THAT TIME. THE CITY OF STEWART DID NOT HAVE ONE. SO I GOT ON THE MARTIN COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD. SO FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS, OUR BOARD HAS BEEN COORDINATING THIS MONTH. THE FIRST YEAR WE THOUGHT WE'D

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[10. GARDEN WEEK - JUNE 2-8, 2024]

AND WHEREAS GARDENING FURNISHES A CHALLENGING AND PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITY FOR OUR CITIZENS FOR THOSE JUST LEARNING AS WELL AS THOSE HAVING YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. GARDENING PROMOTES A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE THAT LASTS A LIFETIME HELPS REDUCE STRESS FROM OTHER AREAS OF OUR LIFE.

TEACHERS THAT REWARDS AND CAN COME FROM DILIGENT EFFORTS. AND WHEREAS GARDENING ENABLES MEMBERS OF GARDEN CLUBS ACROSS THE NATION AND THE WORLD TO MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE IN THE COMMUNITIES WHERE THEY RESIDE AND WORK NOW. THEREFORE I REBECCA S BRUNNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA. HEREBY PROCLAIM JUNE 2ND THROUGH THE 8TH 2024 AS GARDEN WEEKS YOU HEAR? COME FORWARD.

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PRESIDENT OF THE GARDEN CLUB OF STUART. AND I AM HONORED TO RECEIVE THE NATIONAL GARDEN WEEK PROCLAMATION ON BEHALF OF THE GARDEN CLUB. THE GARDEN CLUB OF TOUR IS A MAN AS MANY AS 5000 GARDEN CLUBS ACROSS AMERICA AFFILIATED WITH THE NATIONAL GARDEN CLUBS, ALL OF WHICH WILL SOON BE CELEBRATING NATIONAL GARDEN WEEK ON JUNE 2ND TO THE EIGHTH. IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OF US TO WORK WITH OTHER LIKE MINDED GROUPS INVOLVED IN THE AREAS OF FLORIDA FRIENDLY PLANTINGS, NATIVE PLANTINGS, F DESIGN AND, IN TURN KNOWLEDGE ABOUT GARDENING. FOR GARDEN WEEK WILL AGAIN PLACE F ARRANGEMENTS AT ALL OF MARTIN COUNTY'S PUBLIC LIBRARIES. OTHER ACTIVITIES LEADING UP TO THAT WEEK INCLUDE AN EXTENSIVE CLEAN UP OF THE ART COUNCIL COURTYARD GARDENS.

THAT'S THE HISTORICAL OH COURT HOUSE. AND AT THE COURTHOUSE AS WELL AS 50 NEW PLANTINGS AT THE CHAPEL SCHOOL OF SMAN. AND REFRESHING. THE BLUE STAR MEMORIAL GARDEN IN MEMORIAL PARK, WHICH IS OUR TRIBUTE. TO OUR PARENTS. SO ON BEHALF OF THE GARDEN CLUB OF HIS TOUR, I THANK THE C. THE STUART CITY COMMISSION. COMMISSIONS FOR REC RECOGNIZE IN WITH THIS PROCLAMATION, OUR EFFORTS TO BEAUTIFY AND BEAUTIFY THE COMMUNITY AND WE NOT ONLY LEAVE YOU WITH THIS GARDEN WISDOM FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN WE CAN COMPLAIN BECAUSE ROSE BUSHES HAVE THORNS OR REJOICE BECAUSE THORN BUSHES HAVE ROSES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. NO, I GET IT NOW.

[COMMENTS BY CITY COMMISSIONERS]

AND I KNOW THAT YOU'RE NEW TO US AS STAFF, BUT YOU WORK WITH THE ENGINEERS WHO WORKED AT THE 10TH STREET LOCATION, AND WE HAD THE PF LAWSUIT AND SO MANY PEOPLE ARE WONDERING. OH, WE'VE HAD LOTS OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WATER QUALITY IN STEWART AND WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH WATER QUALITY. SO WE HAD THE RIBBON CUTTING. AND HOW LONG IS THAT OSMOSIS PLANT SUPPOSED TO LAST US EXCEPT FOR FOREVER. CONSERVATIVELY. THAT PLANT WILL LAST 40 TO 50 YEARS, IF NOT LONGER. THANK YOU SO MUCH . IT'S JUST SO MUCH TECHNOLOGY THAT GOES INTO THAT MR WOODSIDE IS THERE AND IT'S JUST I KNOW THAT I'VE TALKED TO CITY MANAGER ABOUT HAVING MAYBE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS DO OR SAY SOMETHING EVER SO OFTEN THAT OUR CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WORK SO HARD AT BOTH

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PROCLAMATION TODAY. MAY 20TH IS EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION DAY, THE STATE OF FLORIDA GENERAL MCCOOK COME TO TALLAHASSEE AND SAYING THAT THOSE WHO WERE ENSLAVED TWO YEARS AFTER THE PRESIDENT HAD GIVEN THE PROCLAMATION AND IT CAME TO FLORIDA TWO YEARS LATER, IN, UM ON MAY THE 20TH 1865, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE THIS PROGRAM IN THE EVENING STARTING AT 530 AT THE STUART PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, PLEASE COME OUT AND PARTICIPATE IN THAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. UM I THE WOMAN'S CLUB UP THERE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THERE, SO I WON'T MENTION THAT THAT'S ALREADY THERE. I'M GONNA BE HAVING A TOWN HALL AT THE 10TH STREET RECREATION CENTER ON JUNE 13TH JUNE 13TH. IT'S ALL CONFIRMED. WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR CR A WITH OUR HISTORICAL COMMITTEE WITH OUR, UM, COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SEVERAL OTHERS FOR THEM. HAVE TABLES AS WELL AS SOME THINGS THAT WILL BE GOING. WE'RE GOING TO BE WORKING ON A PROGRAM. BUT THIS IS A UH UM TOWN HALL ON JUNE THE 13TH AT THE 10TH STREET STARTED, I THINK AT 6 P.M. THAT'S GONNA BE THERE. I WANTED TO DO THIS, BUT I KNOW THAT CITY MANAGER WILL PROBABLY DO THIS HIMSELF. WELL I KNOW THAT WE HAVE MEMORIAL DAY COMING UP, AND MANY OF US WILL PROBABLY BE HERE PARTICIPATING IN ACTIVITIES, BUT THAT'S ALSO A DAY WHEN WE WILL MISS A CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND I THINK WE WILL HAVE THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING THE NEXT DAY AFTER THAT ON THE TUESDAY AT THE 5:30 P.M. TIME FRAME. OK, SO, UM THAT'S ALL I HAVE. I JUST WANNA CONGRATULATE MR UM LEGGETT AGAIN AND HIS STAFF FOR PUBLIC WORKS WEEK AND, UM, WE JUST REALLY APPRECIATE ALL YOU DO TO KEEP OUR CITY WELL AS LONG AS YOU PUT UP MORE LIGHTS THIS CHRISTMAS.

IT DOESN'T COST US ANY MORE MONEY. WE'LL BE HAPPY. THANK YOU. MADAM MAYOR. YES I JUST WANTED TO PUBLICLY THANK SHERIFF SNYDER. I SAW HIM. ROAMING AROUND IN THE BACK THERE. BUT FOR PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE LITTLE CITY OF STUART AND USING HIS PLATFORM TO ADVOCATE FOR THE CHARACTER OF OUR CITY, SO I WANTED TO THANK HIM PUBLICLY. AND SECONDLY, THANK ALL OF YOU. WE DON'T NORMALLY HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE ROOM. UH SO I WANTED TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR TAKING YOUR EVENING TO BE HERE AND I'M SEEING THESE GREEN SHEETS FILLING IN. SO I'M THANKFUL FOR ALL OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT YOU WOULD ALL BE WILLING TO COME HERE AND, UM AND SHARE HOW YOU FEEL. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, SO WE HAVE A FEW TIMES DURING THE YEAR. WE DO GET THESE THREE WEEK BREAKS AND SO MUCH HAPPENS. I'M GONNA HAVE TO START WRITING IT DOWN. UM BESIDES THESE MEETING, I KNOW ALL OF US SIT ON MANY OTHER BOARDS AND GO TO MANY OTHER MEETINGS AND I ATTENDED QUITE A FEW. I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO CULMINATE. AND THE, UH SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT BOARD COMING DOWN HERE AND HOLDING THEIR MEETING AND ALLOWING US TO ATTEND, BUT ACTUALLY, IT DID IT IT IT CULMINATING WITH US, OPENING THE WATER PLANT. THE REVERSE OSMOSIS, WHICH COMMISSIONER CLARK MENTIONED. I'M SURE THE MAYOR WILL HAVE OTHER WORDS, UM I AM THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE CITY COMMISSION TO THE TREASURE TREASURE COAST COUNCIL OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. I ATTENDED THAT LAST WEEK AND I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO HEAR A PRESENTATION. LITTLE BIT NERDY BUT FROM THE PUBLIC UTILITIES DIRECTOR OF THE CITY OF PORT SAINT LUCIE, WHO WAS VERY ENTHUSIASTIC. DETAILING THEIR FOCUS ON WHAT IS A NEW FOCUS FOR SO MANY COMMUNITIES IN FLORIDA, WHICH IS RATHER THAN

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SO THIS IS A GROUP THAT UH, HAS A, UM, A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. UH, THEY HAVE A PETITION TO PUT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ON THE BALLOT IN 26, AND IT IS THE RIGHT TO CLEAN AND HEALTHY WATERS. AND THEY FAILED INITIALLY. AND EVE. MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME. WHAT YEAR DID THEY TRY TO GET IT ON FOR 24? THIS YEAR. OK SO THE BUT THEY'RE GOING AGAIN, SO I ADMIRE THEIR DETERMINATION AND THOSE OF US WHO ARE TRYING TO FIGHT FOR CLEAN WATER. RECOGNIZE THAT I'M GONNA READ YOU. WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO THE CITY OF STUART. BECAUSE THIS THESE ELEMENTS ARE WHAT WE'VE LACKED IN OUR EFFORT TO ENSURE OUR RIVERS STAY CLEAN, SO I'M QUOTING HERE. THIS AMENDMENT CREATES AN ENFORCEABLE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO CLEAN AND HEALTHY WATERS AUTHORIZING A PERSON TO SUE FOR EQUITABLE RELIEF WHEN A STATE EXECUTIVE AGENCY BY ACTION OR INACTION.

ALLOWS HARM OR THREAT OF HARM TO FLORIDA WATERS. THIS AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR STRICT JUDICIAL SCRUTINY OF SUCH ACTION OR INACTION. ADDS TO AVAILABLE REMEDIES IDENTIFIES AFFECTED CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS PROVIDES FOR ENFORCEMENT. AND DEFINES TERMS AND REQUIRES ATTORNEYS FEES AND COSTS PREVAILING PLAINTIFFS. THIS IS A TOOL OF THE CITY HAS NOT HAD BEFORE, AND THIS IS IF ANY MUNICIPALITY IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA WILL BE IN A POSITION.

TO MAKE CLAIMS. UNDER THIS AMENDMENT, IT WOULD BE THE CITY OF STEWART. SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN PUT A LINK ON THE CITY SIDE OR IF WE CAN GET A CONSENSUS. I'M NOT SURE CITY MANAGER BUT WITH THAT ALL OF YOU TO SUPPORT GO TO THE SITE THE RIGHT TO CLEAN WATER AND SIGN THAT PETITION. AND, UM I JUST THIS IS SOMETHING WE CAN REALLY USE AS WE GO FORWARD.

INTERESTING WORDS ARE THERE IN OUR ACTION AND INACTION AND THAT'S WHAT WE SUFFER FROM A GREAT DEAL IN OUR FIGHT WITH WATERS IN ACTION AND LACK OF ENFORCEMENT. AND SO THIS IS WHAT WE NEED. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. VERY GOOD. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK? YEAH JUST, UH I'M GONNA BE VERY BRIEF. IN THE INTEREST OF TIME. THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE. I JUST WANT TO SAY THE, UH, THE OPENING OF THE REVERSE OSMOSIS PLANT. UM WAS A MONUMENTAL EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF STUART. IT WAS ONE OF THE PROBABLY THE LARGEST PUBLIC WORKS UTILITIES PROJECT WE'VE EVER HAD IN THE CITY. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND ME AND COMMISSIONER CLARK WERE HERE WHEN BACK IN 2016. WHEN WE GOT THE NEWS ABOUT, UH, ABOUT THE PFS AND OUR ENGINEERS IS OUR PUBLIC WORKS. OUR UTILITIES DEPARTMENT, STARTING WITH, UH SAM EMERSON AND DAVE PETERS AND PETER NOW WHO HAVE DONE A FABULOUS JOB OF MOVING THIS THROUGH THE PROCESS AND GETTING THIS DONE, AND IT'S FOR THE BETTERMENT OF ALL OF THESE UTILITY USERS IN THE CITY OF

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THEY'RE GONNA, UM UH, IT'LL BE AT THE ROAD TO VICTORY. AN OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY, JUNE 6TH 2024, AND THEY WOULD LIKE WHOEVER TO COME THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY. THE DAY. AND ONE THING. UM, I JUST WANTED TO ASK ABOUT IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION, UM, MANAGER ON THE, UH, SEVENTH STREET. OF THE TRAFFIC THE FOUR WAY STOP, AND I THINK WE HAD A CAMERAS THERE. HAVE YOU HEARD ANY MORE? MY NEIGHBORS ARE ASKING ME CROSSWALK. UM, I KNOW THAT WE DID THE STUDY. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S COMPLETE AND I KNOW THAT WE HAVE COLLECTED THE DATA FROM IT. AND WITH THAT DATA, WE STILL HAVE TO DETERMINE WHAT TO DO WITH THE INFORMATION AND TO DO DESIGN AND OR DECIDE WHAT TO DO.

I ALSO KNOW I THINK IT WAS THE FOLLOWING WEEK WE PUT THE STOP SIGN UP. UM SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RESPONSE FROM THE NEIGHBORS ARE WHAT'S CURRENTLY PENDING BUT WE HAVE THE DATA AND I KNOW THE SIGN WENT UP. IT WASN'T EVEN A WEEK LATER. IT WAS LIKE THREE DAYS LATER. OK, THANK YOU, MIKE.

THAT'S LET'S SEE. UM, MY OUR MANAGER. DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS TO ME? I DO? UM FIRST,

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THEY CALLED ME UP AND SAID, WE SHOULD HAVE WARNED THEM THAT WE WERE WRITING TICKETS AGAIN.

THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING RIGHT NOW. GUYS WARNINGS HERE. UM ALSO, UH, EVE SAMPLES. THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES, IS PRESENT AND IS HAPPY TO COMMENT, BUT SHE'S ASKED US TO JOIN THEM AS A CO PETITIONER TO PETITION THE EPA. TO SET. UH LEVELS FOR SANIT TOXINS IN THE WATER. UM UNDER THE EPA RULE MAKING UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT. THIS PETITION NEEDS TO BE FILED NO LATER THAN MAY 23RD SO I DON'T HAVE TIME TO PUT IT ON AN AGENDA ITEM AND DO THE FULL PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD. WHAT I'M REQUESTING IS A MOTION FROM YOU TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR TO PARTICIPATE AS A PETITIONER WITH THE FORENSIC EVERGLADE AND THEN I'LL PUT IT ON THE 28TH FOR A FULL EXPLANATION AS WELL. OK? COMMISSIONER MCDONALD MADE THE MOTION. WE HAVE A SECOND. OH, YOU DID OK. DO I HAVE ANY COMMENTS FROM ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS? THANK YOU. THANK YOU FROM THE PUBLIC. IF I JUST I'M SORRY. I IF I NOTICED IN READING THE PETITION THAT THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS A TRY ANY REQUIREMENT TO I'M SORRY, AND IT WOULDN'T OPEN IN MY BUT IT HAS A TRIENNIAL REQUIREMENT TO ADDRESS THE LATEST COULD YOU JUST EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT AND WHY? THIS IS SO IMPORTANT? THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT. EVE SAMPLES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES, SO UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT, THE STATES ARE SUPPOSED TO REVIEW THEIR WATER QUALITY STANDARDS EVERY THREE YEARS SINCE THE TRIENNIAL REVIEW . UNFORTUNATELY THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS BEEN MUCH DELAYED.

AND ACTUALLY FIVE YEARS AGO, A GROUP OF ENVIRONMENTAL NON PROFITS PETITIONED THE STATE TO DO THIS VERY THING THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR RIGHT NOW TO ADD STANDARDS FOR CYANOX. THESE ARE THE TOXINS AND BLUE GREEN ALGAE THAT WE ALL REMEMBER FROM 2018 2016. THERE ARE PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT A REAL CONCERN, SO THE STATE HAS NOT ACTED. SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO ASK THE EPA THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO IMPLEMENT THOSE FOR THE STATE OF FLORIDA. THIS IS A PETITION. IT'S NOT A LAWSUIT. IT'S A PETITION FOR RULEMAKING, AND IT GIVES US YET ANOTHER TOOL TO KEEP OUR WATER CLEAN HERE IN STEWART, SO THANK YOU STAY FAILS TO FILE THAT TRIENNIAL. UPDATE IT NEEDS TO THEN PROVIDE AN EXPLANATION OF WHY IT FAILED TO FILE HAS THE STATE DONE THAT EITHER. THERE HAS BEEN NO EXPLANATION PROVIDED TO EPA. AND THIS ALL GOES TO THE POINT WHERE WE NEED TO TAKE THESE MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS AS TO GREATEST DEGREE AS POSSIBLE. AND THIS BOTH THESE ITEMS THIS EVENING ARE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN THAT, SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL. UH, CAN I DO ALL IN FAVOR OR WE NEED ALL IN FAVOR IS FINE. IT'S ALL IN FAVOR. I AND SO I'LL PREPARE THAT LETTER.

OBVIOUSLY UH, TO HER, AS SHE PROBABLY ALREADY KNOWS, BUT, UM, WE WILL PARTICIPATE IN THAT AND THEN I WILL BRING IT BACK ON MAY 28TH FOR A MORE FORMAL AGENDA ITEM JUST SO THAT WE CAN GO THROUGH SHARE THE PETITION WITH YOU AND SHOW YOU, UH, WHAT YOU JUST SIGNED UP FOR? THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. THE LAST THING I HAVE IS, I HAVE, UM, REQUESTED THE CITY ATTORNEY JUST GIVE YOU A BRIEF DISCUSSION ON THE QUASI LEGISLATIVE AND QUASI JUDICIAL HEARINGS THAT ARE GETTING READY TO BEGIN SO THAT, UM, THE COMMISSION HAS CLEAR DIRECTION AS WELL AS THE PARTICIPANTS.

THANK YOU, CITY MANAGER. UM I HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FROM CITY STAFF AND, UH, FROM A COMMISSIONER TO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN QUASI JUDICIAL AND QUASI LEGISLATIVE AND UH, IN THE ADOPTION PROCESS, SO I THOUGHT I'D JUST KIND OF BRIEFLY GIVE YOU A RECAP, OR A SUMMARY OF SUCH UM AND THIS COULD BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOLKS HERE FROM THE PUBLIC. WELL, UM ON THE UNDER THE COMMISSION ACTION ON THE AGENDA. WE HAVE ITEMS ITEMS 13 AND 14. THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT AGENDA ITEMS. UM WITH THE SAME PROPERTY LOCATED AT 500, SOUTHEAST INDIAN STREET.

AND THE FIRST THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS A LEGISLATIVE. IT'S A QUASI LEGISLATIVE HEARING. AND THE SECOND ONE IS QUASI JUDICIAL. AND SO THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. EVEN THOUGH IT'S THE

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FUTURE LAND USE MAP. OR THE REZONING. SO, UM I'VE HAD TO REVIEW ALL OF THEM AND I WANT TO SUMMARIZE. WHAT MY OPINION IS THAT WE NEED TO COMPLY WITH AND SO THERE THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION. AND I HOPE THAT THIS WILL HELP IN CLARIFYING THE CONFUSION. UM, IT'S MY OPINION THAT WE? WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE TWO HEARINGS. UM, AND TONIGHT AT A BARE MINIMUM. ALL THAT, IN MY OPINION IS REQUIRED IS THAT WE READ THE, UM, THE TITLE OF THE ORDINANCES.HAT'S THE BARE MINIMUM. AND THEN AT OUR SECOND HEARING, WHICH WOULD TAKE PLACE AT THE NEXT HEARING. UM YOU WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE A FULL SCALE HEARING ON BOTH OF THEM. HOWEVER, I KNOW HISTORICALLY.

THE BOARD HAS AT THE FIRST READING. DONE SOME OF THE HEARING AS WELL. SO UM, WHEN I WHEN I GAVE MY OPINION THAT IT'S A BARE MINIMUM, YOU GOTTA AT LEAST DO THAT. BUT HISTORICALLY YOU DO MORE AND I THINK THAT'S FINE. I THINK THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO VOTE ON OUR MOTION TO APPROVE AND A VOTE ON SUCH ON EITHER OF THE AGENDA ITEMS TONIGHT. I THINK IT WOULD BE SIMPLY TO A MOTION TO CLOSE THE HEARING. UM BECAUSE THE LAW IS PRETTY CLEAR THAT THE, UM THE VOTE ON THE ADOPTION ON APPROVAL OR DENIAL NEEDS TO HAPPEN AT THE SECOND HEARING. WHICH WOULD BE AT THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING. SO I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF GIVE YOU MY OPINION ON THAT. AND, UM HOPEFULLY THAT CAN CLARIFY SOME OF THE QUESTIONS I GOT OVER THE LAST WEEK OR SO. SO. THANK YOU, LEE. OK, DO I HAVE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA? TO APPROVE THE

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YOU'RE WELCOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. I LOVE THE EXPERIMENT IN GOVERNMENT. THE EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY THAT WE ENGAGE IN WHEN WE DO THINGS LIKE THIS. THIS IS WHAT GOVERNMENT

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THERE'S THIS PLACES YOU CAN GO AND THEN GO HOME. IT'S THE LIVE IN. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. SO AS PEOPLE AND I'VE HAD SOME PUSH BACK, UH THE THEY ADVOCATE. WELL WE IT'S ONE OF THESE. NOT IN MY BACKYARD ARGUMENTS. WELL THAT'S NOT REALLY THE ARGUMENT. THE ARGUMENT IS, IT'S IN ALL OF OUR BACKYARDS IN MARTIN COUNTY. IF YOU HAVE 100 AND 40 PEOPLE WE DID THE MATH ROUGHLY AND YOU COULD HAVE A 30 DAY. STAY 1680 PEOPLE MOVING THROUGH MARTIN COUNTY EVERY YEAR. AND I WOULD SUSPECT MANY OF THEM FROM OUT OF STATE. WHEN I WAS IN TALLAHASSEE, I SPENT SIX YEARS AS A STATE REP. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE FACING. I KNOW THE PRESSURES YOU HAVE. YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO START A LEGITIMATE BUSINESS AND ARE YOU HEARING BOTH SIDES, BUT ONE THING I LEARNED WHEN I WAS UP THERE, I WOULD ALWAYS ASK MYSELF THIS QUESTION WHEN I WAS FACING AN ISSUE IS THE JUICE WORTH THE SQUEEZE? IN OTHER WORDS TO TRANSLATE IT. WELL WE USE MARTIN COUNTY TO BE BETTER OFF IF THIS FACILITY COMES. I DON'T THINK THE QUESTION AND I'LL AND I'LL BRING THIS IN FOR LADY. I DON'T THINK IT'S A QUESTION TODAY IS WILL PEOPLE GO THERE AND GET HELP? UH, LET'S SAY, LET'S JUST MOVE TO THAT POSITION, OF COURSE. SOMEBODY IS GOING TO GO THERE AND GET HELP. THE QUESTION IS, WILL MARTIN COUNTY TAXPAYERS PEOPLE LIVING IN IN WILLOUGHBY COVE? PEOPLE IN THE, UH UH AFFORDABLE HOUSING JUST TO THE NORTH OF THAT THE TWO SCHOOLS ARE ARE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE. WELL WE HAVE TO SUBSIDIZE AS TAXPAYERS AND PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE. ARE WE GONNA HAVE TO SUBSIDIZE THIS? WE SAY, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SUBSIDIZE? THERE'S NO TAX DOLLAR. HERE'S THE SUBSIDY WHEN THEY FAIL OUT OF THE PROGRAM, WHICH THEY WILL THEY'LL BE IN MY JAIL, THEY'LL BE IN THESE PEOPLE'S BACKYARDS. THEY'LL BE ON THE STREETS.

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I HAVE BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR YEARS NOW FOR MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY THAT WOULD BE INPATIENT THAT WE COULD HELP PEOPLE HERE IN MARTIN COUNTY. I STAND BEHIND THAT. AND I STAND BEHIND ANY EFFORT THAT WOULD HELP PEOPLE. IT'S BEEN IN MY FAMILY. THERE'S NOBODY OUT HERE. THERE'S NOBODY OUT HERE. WHOSE FAMILY HAS NOT BEEN AFFECTED BY DRUG ABUSE OR ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HAS IT. WE ARE ALL ADVOCATES FOR TREATMENT. WHAT WE ARE NOT ADVOCATES FOR IS RUNNING 1000 600 PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY THROUGH OUR VULNERABLE COUNTY, WHICH IS CHANGING WAY TOO FAST AS IT IS, AND WITH THAT THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. ORDER. OK? THERE'S HAVE TWO OR THREE PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE NEXT ONE IS JACK KLEY PEELS. YES. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. UH, MY NAME IS JACK D. POOS. I LIVE AT 842 SOUTHEAST WESTMINSTER PLACE HERE IN OUR COUNTY OVER AT WILLOUGHBY GLEN SUBDIVISION. I GREW UP IN THIS TOWN. THE NAVY FOR 25 YEARS AND CAME BACK TO THIS TOWN BECAUSE I LOVED IT. AND RIGHT NOW, JUST LIKE CHIEF SNEER SAID. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF TRANSIENTS COMING DOWN HERE AND I HAVE A SCRUB JAKE PRESERVE.

THAT'S RIGHT BEHIND MY HOUSE. WE'VE HAD ALL THE TRANSIENTS THAT CAME FROM BEHIND WALMART, WHERE HOG IS NOW WHERE THERE USED TO BE THE CEDAR FOREST. THEY ALL MOVED INTO THE GRUB.

JAY AND WE'VE BEEN CALLING NONSTOP TO HAVE SHERIFF SNYDER'S PEOPLE COME IN AND KICK THEM OUT. NOW WERE THOSE PEOPLE GOING TO GO WHEN THEY FAIL? JUST LIKE CHIEF SNYDER SAID. THEY'RE GONNA BE MY BACKYARD. WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THEM BACK THERE. THEY'RE LOOKING IN OUR BACK DOOR, OUR BACKYARDS THROUGH OUR WINDOWS. AND IT'S SCARY. AND WE'RE GOING TO BE SET UP FOR FAILURE. IF YOU GUYS LET THAT THING HAPPEN. THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. THANK YOU. WE HOLD DOWN THE CLAPPING SOME GO ON FOR NEXT. SO THE NEXT ONE IS, UM, KAREN RMR. THANK YOU FOR COMING. YES, YES, YES. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONERS. MAYOR. UM PEOPLE ARE UPSET, SO I CAME UP WITH JUST A CUP. OH, KAREN HALL, YOST , RUD 1701 SOUTHWEST PALM CITY ROAD. I'VE BEEN VOTING IN MARTIN COUNTY SINCE 1996 RAISED MY KIDS HERE. I'M THE LUCKIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD TO LIVE HERE. PEOPLE ARE UPSET. WE I HAVE A COUPLE THINGS. I THINK WE CAN DO NUMBER ONE. THIS PUBLIC COMMENT NEEDS TO GO FIRST. EVEN BEFORE YOU GUYS TALK, OK, AND IF YOU WANNA TALK, UNLESS IT'S ABOUT THE WATER, THE WATER IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. BUT YOU GUYS SHOULD ONLY HAVE THREE MINUTES TO TALK, AND WE SHOULD GO FIRST. YOU HAVE CUT US FROM 5 TO 3. AND THEN YOU GUYS ALL TALK. NO PEOPLE ARE UPSET TRANSPARENCY NUMBER TWO EMAILS. WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOUR EMAILS. WE'RE TIRED OF 0 200. PEOPLE TEXTED ME ABOUT COSTCO REALLY SHOW IT. ME. WE WANNA SEE WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING. WE'RE TRYING TO REBUILD OUR TRUST AND FAITH IN YOU. BUT YOU GOTTA DO YOUR PART. YOU GO AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT. WE GO FIRST. OK AND, UH, THE PHONES I DON'T WANT TO. I THINK IT'S RIDICULOUS. IF YOU'RE UP THERE ON YOUR PHONES, YOU'RE ONLY HERE TWO TIMES A MONTH. STAY OFF YOUR PHONES. WE DON'T WANNA HAVE STUFF HAPPENING LIKE WITH COMMISSIONER MCDONALD AND I.

CRUMPLER AND MARTIN COUNTY REALTORS. KEEP YOUR COMMENTS GENERALLY AT OUR OWN, TIFFANY.

NO, MA'AM. NO MA'AM, YOU'RE POINTING OUT. YOU CAN'T DO IT. NO, I'M TELLING YOU, WE WILL CLAP. WE WILL CLAP WHEN WE WANT TO CLAP. WE ARE RUNNING. THIS IS OUR THING. OK NOT YOU GUYS. WE PUT YOU IN THERE, BUT WE WANT YOU TO LISTEN TO US AND WE WANT SOME RESPECT AND I DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED. AND NOW THAT NOW YOU GOT ME OFF TRACK. HERE WE GO . NOW I HAVE TO APPEAL BECAUSE YOUR MANAGER SLASH ATTORNEY, WHATEVER HE'S DOING, HE IS DISHONEST WITH THE COURT. I'VE BEEN ASKING YOU SINCE 2019 VERY RESPECTFULLY. JUST LET SOMEONE ELSE LOOK AT THE CASE. HE JUST DEFRAUDED THE COURT. UH, LIKE, YOU KNOW, A MONTH OR SO AGO. HE SHOULDN'T BE RE REPRESENTING

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THIS IS CRAZY THAT SHE WOULD INTERRUPT ME. YOU DON'T INTERRUPT PEOPLE. I'M A RESIDENT . AND WE LOVE YOU GUYS. I LOVE EACH ONE OF YOU. I PRAY FOR YOU ALL THE TIME, ESPECIALLY THIS ONE. BUT ANYWAY, YOU KNOW WHAT I AND NOW YOU'VE INTERRUPTED ME AND MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT WAS GONE. BUT YES, WE HAVE OUR OWN TIFFANY HENYARD RIGHT HERE IN MR MORTEL. AND WE LOVE YOU AND PRAY FOR YOU. MISS CARTWRIGHT. WOULD YOU FOLLOW THAT? WELCOME. GOOD EVENING. I'D BE HAPPY TO FOLLOW THAT ACTUALLY, BECAUSE LET'S TALK ABOUT CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND ETHICS. I APPRECIATE THAT. A CANDIDATE. GETTING A DONATION FROM A DEVELOPER BY DEFINITION IS NOT A CONFLICT OF INTEREST, NOR IS IT UNETHICAL EVEN IF THEY RECEIVE A DONATION RIGHT BEFORE A PIVOTAL VOTE, THOUGH THE TIMING IS QUESTIONABLE, ALSO QUESTIONABLE, LEAKING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SURROUNDING A LEGAL CASE TO A FORMER COMMISSIONER TURNED BLOGGER WHO PUBLISHED IT AND MAYBE COMPROMISED THE POTENTIAL SETTLEMENT. YEP CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEY CLIENT TALKS WERE LEAKED AND PUBLISHED AND NOBODY KNOWS. BY WHOM. FUN FACT WHEN I SUBMITTED FOR A FOIA TO FIND OUT WHO WAS THE LEAK, SIX MESSAGES WERE LABELED ATTORNEY CLIENT. AND WERE UNAVAILABLE TO ME. THE ONLY ONE THAT HAD ANY RELEVANT CONTACT WITH THE TEXT FROM ONE CURRENT COMMISSIONER TO A TO THIS HEAD BLOGGER STATING THEY WERE IN A CANNER. CPUD SETTLEMENT TALK AND WOULD CALL AFTER WERE THEY THE LEAGUE? WE'LL NEVER KNOW. THOUGH IT WAS STATED THIS WOULD BE INVESTIGATED AS IT WAS A QUOTE UNQUOTE SERIOUS ISSUE AND IT WOULDN'T BE TOLERATED. CRICKETS.

SO WHAT ELSE CAN YOU LEARN FROM A FOYA? LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PROPERTY AT 228 SOUTHEAST ILLUS STREET OR ISLA STREET. IT WAS REPORTED TO THE CITY THAT THE OWNER AMENDED AND DIVIDED HIS SINGLE FAMILY HOME INTO THREE UNITS TO ALLOW FOR RENTALS. THERE WERE MEETINGS, INCLUDING CURRENT STAFF AND COMMISSIONERS TO DISCUSS IT, AND IT HAS BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED THROUGH EMAILS AND PHOTOS. THE EMAILS WERE MAINLY BETWEEN THE FORMER CITY ATTORNEY AND THE HOMEOWNER.

INCLUDED IN THE EMAILS WAS A STATEMENT QUOTE. IF I GET FIRED OVER THIS CASE, I'M SURE THE NEXT LAWYER THE CITY HIRES IS GOING TO BE MUCH HARSHER THAN I WOULD EVER BE. WELL, WE ALL KNOW THAT HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION WON'T HAPPEN. BASED ON THE RESPONSE SENT BY THE NEW CITY ATTORNEY ON APRIL 29TH. THE CASE HAS NEATLY WRAPPED UP WITH THE CITY DETERMINING THAT, BASED ON THE EMAIL FROM THE NEW CITY ATTORNEY, IT IS INDEED LEGAL, AS LONG AS THERE IS ONLY ONE ELECTRIC METER AND ONE WATER METER ON THE HOME. SO THE LESSON TO EVERYBODY WATCHING AND IN THIS ROOM WHO OWNS A SINGLE FAMILY HOME AND IS IN THE CITY LIMITS WHO APPLY TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND WERE DENIED OR WHO JUST WANT TO AVOID THE WHOLE PERMITTING PROCESS AND CREATE YOUR OWN MULTIFAMILY RESIDENCES. THE FOLLOWING GO AHEAD. DO WHAT YOU WANT. CALL IN FAVORS TO STAFF. DON'T FILE FOR PERMITS ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS, NOT PERMISSION. GET THE MAGISTRATE TO LESSEN YOUR FINES AND FEES BY MORE THAN 60% KEEP ONE ELECTRIC METER AND ONE WATER METER AND HAVE THE NEW CITY ATTORNEY SAY IT'S OK BECAUSE THE PROPERTY APPRAISER SHOWS IT IS A SINGLE FAMILY PROPERTY DOESN'T MATTER. THE PICTURES EXIST DOESN'T MATTER THAT THERE'S PHOTO DOCUMENTATION SHOWING THERE ARE MULTIPLE UNITS, AND IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT A YEAR AGO, EVERYONE IN THE CITY WAS IN AGREEMENT. THANKS TO F. WE KNOW THIS THAT THE SUBDIVISION WAS AN ISSUE AND THE CITY WON'T FORCE YOU TO RETURN IT TO ITS ORIGINAL STATE. THE PRECEDENT HAS BEEN SET IN A RELATIVELY MEAGER FINE AND THREE UNITS LABELED AS A SINGLE FAMILY HOME BECAUSE IT HAS 1 M. BOY, WOULDN'T IT BE WONDERFUL? WE WERE ALL GIVEN AND OFFERED THE SAME COUNCIL AND THE SAME LATITUDE. SO A GENTLE REMINDER TO EVERYONE WATCHING AND WHO'S IN THIS ROOM. MAKE SURE YOU'RE REGISTERED TO VOTE BECAUSE THE STAFF REPORTS TO COMMISSION COMMISSION REPORTS TO RESIDENTS, AND WE DESERVE A COMMISSION WITH ETHICS. HEY. THE GREEN SLIPS THAT I HAVE ARE FOR 13TH AND 14TH. WHEN WE GET TO THOSE, UH, THAT DON'T CALL YOUR NAME AND YOU COME UP. CALENDAR. THE COMMISSION ACTION, JODY UM, LET ME READ THIS THE INFORMATION? UH, 13. ACTION INFORMATION. ONLY THE CLERGY POINT PU SMALL SCALE, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND USE MAP. AMENDMENT LOCATED AT 500, SOUTHEAST INDIAN STREET, AND THIS WILL BE, UH, LEGISLATIVE UM LADY WANT TO READ

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I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. ORDINANCE NUMBER 25 29-20 24. I HAD A MAYOR BEFORE WE PROCEED. COULD I

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THIS AGENDA ITEM IS BEING PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSION FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY, AND NO ACTION IS REQUIRED UNTIL THE ADOPTION OF THE REZONING TO THE MIXED USE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS SCHEDULED FOR THE SECOND AND FINAL READING BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING ON MONDAY, MAY 28TH 2024 BEGINNING AT 530, OR THERE SOON AFTER. PER FLORIDA STATE STATUTE, 163.3177 PERENS EIGHT. SORRY PER A S EIGHT. FUTURE LAND USE AMENDMENTS SHALL BE BASED UPON THE FOLLOWING ANALYSIS, THE ABILITY OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES THE SUITABILITY OF PLAN AMENDMENT FOR ITS PROPOSED USE, CONSIDERING THE CHARACTER OF THE UNDEVELOPED LAND SOILS TO NATURAL RESOURCES AND HISTORICAL RESOURCES ON SITE THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF LAND NEEDED TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS AND REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION. THIS AND THAT DATA ANALYSIS WAS PRESENTED DURING THE FUTURE LAND USE AMENDMENT WHEN THE ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY WAS ESTABLISHED BACK IN 2018. THE 9.46 ACRES SUBJECTS PARCEL OUTLINED IN YELLOW IS LOCATED AT 500 SOUTHEAST INDIAN STREET, SITUATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTHEAST INDIAN STREET, APPROXIMATELY 580 FT EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF SOUTHEAST CANTOR HIGHWAY AND SOUTHEAST INDIAN STREET. THE C HISTORY OF THIS PROPERTY IN 1997. THE PROPERTY WAS ANNEXED INTO THE CITY AND WAS ASSIGNED A COMMERCIAL LAND USE FOR THE PROPERTY. IN 2004. AN ORDINANCE WAS APPROVED

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I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD HE SHOULD HE SPEAK WITH HER? PETITIONER IT'S THERE. THEY'RE THE APPLICANT. NOW IT'S THEIR OPPORTUNITY, RIGHT? YES. WELCOME THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING FOR THE RECORD. BRAD CURRY, REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT. UM I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS FOR INFORMATIONAL. ONLY TONIGHT STAFF DID AN EXCELLENT JOB PRESENTING THE APPLICATION.

I DON'T KNOW THAT I NEED TO DO THE PRESENTATION. UM JODY, IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT SHE DID TO SHOW THAT THE REQUEST TO CHANGE THE FUTURE LAND USE TO COMMERCIAL IS COMPLETELY CONSISTENT WITH THE USE OF SURROUNDING US. THERE IS COMMERCIAL LAND USE TO THE EAST

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100 AND 38 OF THOSE ARE COMMERCIAL. UM 423 OF THOSE ARE CONSERVATION, SO NO ONE'S GONNA GO NEAR THOSE. SO IF WE LOOK AT THE VACANT ACREAGE IN THE CITY, IT'S ACTUALLY 211. ACRES. OR COMMERCIAL 66% 2 3RD OF THE LAND IN THE CITY. THEY CAN LAND IN THE CITY AS COMMERCIAL. ZERO IS MULTIFAMILY. EVERY REPORT I READ. SAYS. THAT WHAT THE CITY NEEDS IS MORE HOUSING. NOT MORE COMMERCIAL. AND WE HAVE ZERO VACANT. ACRES TO ACCOMMODATE THAT. I CAN JUST SEE AND JUST OVERALL, THERE'S 925 COMMERCIAL ACRES IN THE CITY, INCLUDING THE AND MULTIFAMILY. THERE'S 579. I JUST DON'T I. I CAN'T COME UP WITH A GOOD REASON. TO MAKE THIS FUTURE LAND USE CHANGE. I JUST CAN'T THAT'S MY COMMENT. DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSIONER? YES ALONG WITH COMMISSIONER RICH'S POINT, UH, FOR ME PERSONALLY, I YOU KNOW, THIS JUST GOT CHANGED IN 2004 TO MULTIFAMILY. IT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO. FOR ME THAT'S BASICALLY IRONED OUT FROM JUST A LAND USE AND NOT DISCUSSING THE PROJECT OR NATURE OF IT. UH, SEEMS SORT OF LIKE WE'RE FLIP FLOPPING AND LAND USE FOR WHATEVER. IS THE WIND OF THE DAY. SO FOR ME, I WOULDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE. YOU KNOW? FOR I KNOW WE'RE NOT VOTING, BUT JUST SORT OF VOCALIZING. MY THOUGHTS. UM BY THE MAYOR OF FS, MR MARTEL, IF YOU PUT ON YOUR ATTORNEY HAT, BUT, UM, I THINK I'VE ASKED YOU THESE QUESTIONS BEFORE AS A CITY ATTORNEY, BUT I CAN ASK MR, UM, PET, AND THEN I THOUGHT WE HAD THE THREE CS OR SOMETHING COMPREHENSIVE, CONTIGUOUS, AND THERE'S ANOTHER C WELL, JUST TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THESE LAND USE TYPE ISSUES AND, UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, SOMETIMES IT LOOKS UH, GOOD WHEN YOU CAN SAY WELL, THESE ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE SURROUNDING THE AREA AND WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING KIND OF COMPLETES WHAT'S IN THIS AREA? IT'S CONTIGUOUS TO THE AREA, AND, UM YOU KNOW IT FITS IN WITH A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND, UH, USUALLY THAT THAT'S A GOOD THING. BUT ALONG WITH THAT I DID ASK STAFF TO LOOK THROUGH IT. AND I'M GLAD THAT MR RICH ACTUALLY HAS SOMETHING WRITTEN DOWN. THEY MIGHT HAVE RESPONDED TO ME, BUT I HADN'T LOOKED AT ANYTHING SINCE AFTER THE TIME I ASKED TO CHECK WAS THAT THE WILLOUGHBY PUD ITSELF AND THE CHANGES THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THERE AND WHEN THIS LAST CHANGE HAPPENED, UM YOU KNOW, IT HAPPENED FOR A REASON TO HAVE THIS TO HAVE THIS . UM THIS PUD IN THERE WITH THE WITH THE NURSING HOME AND WE REALLY DO NEED TO KEEP MULTI

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JURISDICTION. UM BUT, UM, IT'S A VERY, UM THE LAND USE ISSUE AND LOOKING AT THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE. UM I. I APPRECIATE YOU SPEAKING TO THAT, MR MR RICH AND ALSO MR COLLINS, THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE ISSUE AND I. I HEAR WHAT MR SEE MR CORD AND MR O. I REMEMBER MR A'S NAME I. I HEAR WHAT THEY'RE SAYING. BUT I'M REALLY LOOKING AT IT FROM THE FROM NUMBER ONE, THE C PERSPECTIVE OF OUR OVERALL LAND USES AND WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE AND WHAT WE CAN DEVELOP IN THE FUTURE, HOW WE CAN DEVELOP IN THE FUTURE. AND THEN WHEN WE LOOK AT THE MICRO OF WHAT HAPPENS IN A PARTICULAR AREA AND WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON WITH THE CROSSINGS AND THE HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S COMING ALONG THERE AND HOW THOSE LAND USES HAVE BEEN SET. AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU THAT THEY'RE PERFECT. WE HAVE A LOT OF HOT SPOT STUFF THAT GOES ON AND IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE WAY LAND HAS BEEN OWNED AND THINGS HAVE HAPPENED A LOT OF THE WAYS IN THIS AREA. IF WE LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF REASONS WHY I WANTED THE HISTORY FOR MYSELF, EVEN IF WE DON'T DO IT ALL HERE, BUT WE'RE TRANSPARENT AND WE TRY TO BE AS TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE. IS THAT THESE PRO OF THESE PROPERTIES WERE IN THE COUNTY, AND THEN THEY CAME IN WITH A CERTAIN TYPE OF LAND USE, AND WE GOT THE CLOSEST THAT WE CAN TO THE CITY, AND WE EVEN HAD THAT ISSUE ON ON THE KENNER UM, PUD PROJECT. SO IT IS, UM, SOMETHING THAT WHEN WE DO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE A NICE PATCH OF RESIDENTIAL MULTI FAMILY THAT I THINK THAT WE PROBABLY NEED TO KEEP THAT THAT WAY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. AND, UM THAT'S ALL I'M GONNA SAY FOR RIGHT NOW. BUT I REALLY WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING A GOOD LAND USE ANALYSIS, AND IT'S NOT JUST THAT ALWAYS BECAUSE SOMETHING IS CONTIGUOUS IS ONLY ONE OF THE ISSUES. THERE ARE OTHER THINGS AND, OF COURSE, OVERALL. UM THING I THINK WE EVEN IF YOU WERE HERE FOR A LONG TIME, WE HAD A PROCLAMATION OR SOMETHING THAT SOMEBODY MENTIONED ABOUT, UM, A SENSE OF PLACE IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND THAT IS ALSO A VERY IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION. SO UM, I THINK THAT WE'RE WE'RE LOOKING AT THINGS AND WE'RE HAVING THE RIGHT DISCUSSION THAT WE NEED TO HAVE FOR THE, UM SMALL SCALE. COMPREHENSIVE FUTURE LAND USE MAP CHANGE WHERE WE'RE CONSIDERING THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER. MCDONALD. I'VE GOT NO PROBLEM AT THIS TIME. JOHN. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING MORE TO SAY OR ADD? OR ANY QUESTIONS? FINE. UH, MAYOR BRUNER. I DO NOT MA. I WANT A MAY OR MAY I AND I'M GONNA GO TO THE CITY MANAGER AGAIN AND TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, ESPECIALLY. I NOTICED THAT I DIDN'T. ACTUALLY I ADMIT THAT I DIDN'T GET TO READ THE MINUTES. BUT I DID TALK TO SOME PEOPLE ABOUT THE, UM LP, A THAT LP MEETING THE MEMBER THE NUMBER OF LP A MEMBERS AND THEN THE VOTE. WE HAD, LIKE FOUR MEMBERS. AT THE MEETING. THERE WAS A 22 VOTE ON THE SO IS THE ZONING OF THE ZONE. I WAS GONNA SAY THAT I WAS AND THERE WAS A 31 ON THE LAND USE. I'M SORRY. I

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ALL RIGHT, UM, THERE'S NO MORE DISCUSSION. I THINK WE NEED A MO. I THINK COMMISSIONER RICH HAS MADE A MOTION TO CLOSE DISCUSSION. I BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT WE SAID. WE NEED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ISSUE. WHAT DO YOU TAKE ON THE LAND USE? RIGHT? I'LL SACK YOU TO COMMISSIONER RICHARD'S MOTION. THANK YOU. WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE THIS. I HAVE A SECOND BY, UM COMMISSIONER MCDONALD OWN FAVOR. WE NEED PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE MOTION. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? ON THE LAND USE MAYOR YES, YES. JUST ON 1313. 13. THEY'RE GETTING ME CONFUSED HERE. SO UH, I DO HAVE SOME 13. BUT SHOULD WE DO THAT? IF YOU HAVE 13? THAT'S WHAT THIS AGENDA I'M GOING TO CALL JUST 13. AGAIN THREE MINUTES I'VE BEEN THROUGH, REALLY 14. YEAH, CALL IT. LARRY, UH, TROM. DO YOU LIKE TO SPEAK? YEAH. THANK YOU, SIR. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. I'VE BEEN LIVING IN, UH, STUART FOR 21 YEARS. I CAME FROM BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. WHICH WAS AN INTERESTING PLACE TO GROW UP. I WANT THIS TOWN, STUART THAT I LIVE IN FOR OVER 20 YEARS TO BE BETTER THAN WHERE I LEFT. OK YOU ALL KNOW IF YOU WATCH THE NEWS WHAT'S GOING ON UP IN NEW YORK CITY? DO WE WANT THAT HERE? AND STUART I HAVE BEEN HEARD ANYBODY SAY A WORD. ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE PLANNED TO MOVE IN HERE, OR ARE THEY GONNA WHOEVER OWNS THIS PROPERTY? THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT.

WHAT IS IMPORTANT AS A BOARD IS TO FIGURE OUT WHY SHERIFF SCHNEIDER, WHO'S ONE OF THE BEST SHERIFFS I'VE EVER HEARD ABOUT TELLS US THAT IT'S NOT GONNA BE A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE THESE TYPE OF PEOPLE LIVING RIGHT IN THIS COMMUNITY AND SORRY, I DON'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT YOU, BUT THAT'S THE ZONING ISSUE. THAT'S NOT THE LAND USE ISSUE. I THINK WE WILL. YOU KNOW, I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE A POINT IN THE BORDER. THAT'S ALL I'M TRYING TO DO. DON'T WELL, THIS PLACE TO GET SPOILED. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. I MOVED HERE 20 YEARS AGO BECAUSE I ESCAPED THE PLACE. THAT'S WORSE NOW, ANYWAY. THANKS FOR HEARING ME. I APPRECIATE IT. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. THANK YOU, SIR. OK? WE WERE GOING, UH, NO MORE PUBLIC COMMENT, EXCEPT FOR YES, ALL IN FAVOR. OK, THANK YOU, 1414. OK? THIS IS OUR FIRST READING. 30 POINT PUD REZONE FROM THE CITY OF STUART OFFICIAL

[14. CLARITY POINTE PUD - REZONE FROM THE CITY OF STUART OFFICIAL ZONING ATLAS FROM RESIDENTIAL PLANNED DEVELOPMENT (RPUD) TO THE MIXEDUSE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (MXPUD) ZONING DESIGNATION LOCATED AT 500 SE INDIAN STREET (QJ)(RC): ORDINANCE No. 2530-2024; AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, REZONING THE CITY OF STUART OFFICIAL ZONING ATLAS FROM RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (RPUD) TO THE MIXED-USE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (MXPUD) DESIGNATION FOR AN APPROXIMATELY 9.46 ACRE PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SE INDIAN STREET AND APPROXIMATELY 540 FEET EAST OF KANNER HIGHWAY, TO CONVERT THE EXISTING 84-BED ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY (ALF) WITH MEMORY CARE KNOWN AS CLARITY POINTE TO ALLOW FOR AN INPATIENT PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH AND RESIDENTIAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL FACILITY WITH MEDICAL DETOX; PROVIDING FOR MASTER SITE PLAN APPROVAL; PROVIDING FOR CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL; PROVIDING FOR SPECIFIED COMMERCIAL USES; PROVIDING FOR SIGNAGE REQUIREMENTS; PROVIDING DIRECTIONS TO THE CITY CLERK; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND OTHER PURPOSES.]

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THAT'S MADAM MAYOR. I HAVE SPOKEN TO MR KENNEDY ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT RESIDENCE, UM, READ THEIR EMAILS THAT HAVE BEEN COMING THROUGH STAFF. I'VE ALSO RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM MISS TUCKER FROM COASTAL DETOX. AND I'VE ALSO MET WITH, UH, MISS TUCKER AND MR CRUMPLER. I'VE MET WITH THE APPLICANTS. UM MR. KENNEDY WAS THERE. UM REPRESENTATIVE OBERDORF WAS THERE. I MET WITH THEM TWICE, ACTUALLY. AND THEN I TOURED THE APPLICANT'S FACILITIES IN SAINT LUCIE. HE WAS NICE ENOUGH. UM WENT TO SEE THE BUILDING WITH HIM. THE PROPOSED BUILDING. THEY WANNA OCCUPY AND REPRESENTATIVE OVER TO WAS THERE AT THE TIME AS WELL. I MET WITH THE PEOPLE FROM COASTAL DETOX. WHICH INCLUDED, UH, MR CRUMPLER. AND, UM I DON'T KNOW. SKYLER'S LAST NAME. SORRY.

GORMAN. SKYLER GORMAN. UM AND I RECEIVED, UH, QUITE A BIT OF DOCUMENTATION FROM THEM, AND I HAVE PROVIDED THAT TO OUR PARALEGAL, AND I BELIEVE UH, THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE FOIA REQUEST. UH, SHERIFF SNYDER WAS NICE ENOUGH TO TAKE SOME TIME AND I MET WITH HIM. IN HIS OFFICE. THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE THERE AND I FORGET WHO IT WAS. HE WOULD KNOW. UM AND OBVIOUSLY I HAVE MET WITH STAFF REPEATEDLY AND TALKED TO THEM ABOUT THIS ISSUE AT LENGTH. AND YES, READ MANY, MANY EMAILS. UH, WITH REGARD TO PEOPLE'S CONCERNS. FORGIVE ME. UH, MADAM MAYOR, I LEFT OUT THAT I'VE ALSO SPOKEN WITH MR OVERDORF AND SHERIFF SNYDER. FOR THE RECORD. BETTER BEAR. UM I SPOKE WITH THE AFRICAN AND HIS TEAM OF PROFESSIONALS I SPOKE WITH, UH, COASTAL AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES. I SPOKE WITH SHERIFF SNYDER AND, UH, I'VE, UH, RECEIVED NUMEROUS EMAILS FROM RESIDENTS REGARDING THIS MATTER, AND HERE IS AN OPEN MIND. MADAM MAYOR. I HAD TO SPEAK TO SHERIFF SNYDER. ALSO, I FORGOT THAT. I DIDN'T SPEAK TO THE SHERIFF SNYDER, BUT HE TEXT ME. UM AND I HAVE SPOKEN WITH WITH JASON. THE APPLICANT

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A LOT OF EMAILS. UM AND I. I TOO AM HERE WITH AN OPEN MIND. ROOM. OK? SO. JODY AGAIN FOR THE RECORD. MY NAME IS JENNY K. I NEED TO SWEAR IN THE POTENTIAL WITNESSES. WE ALL POTENTIAL WITNESSES FOR THE APPLICANT AND CITY S. UH, PLEASE STAND AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND BE SWORN IN UH, DO YOU AFFIRM THAT THE TESTIMONY THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO PROVIDE IN THIS HEARING WILL BE THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP YOU GOD. MAY BE CITY. OK, VERY GOOD. RIGHT? GERRY, YOU CAN PROCEED. WE GET ALL THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE WHO STOOD UP. I THINK SO. YEAH. MANAGER, NOT WE DON'T THINK WE ONLY NEED THE NA MES OF THE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY TESTIFY. RIGHT? MM. GO AHEAD, JODY. THANK YOU HAVE YOUR PRESENTATION. I APOLOGIZE. AGAIN FOR THE RECORD. MY NAME IS JOEY KUGLER, THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT WITH THE CITY OF STUART. I'LL BE PRESENTING THE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 14 THE APPLICANT JASON, A. WITH PERSEVERANCE RECOVERY CENTER. LLC IS REQUESTING APPROVAL OF A REZONING FROM THE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT. OR A MIXED USE PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT WITH THE CONCURRENT SITE PLAN TO CONVERT THE FORMER 84 BED ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY WITH MEMORY CARE TO ALLOW FOR INPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH AND 100 AND 40 BAD DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION FACILITY WITH MEDICAL DETOX. BY PUBLIC NOTICE REQUIREMENTS OUTLINED IN SECTION 11.02 0.00 OF THE CITY OF STUART LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE ON APRIL 2024 AND MAY TW 4 2024 THE APPLICANT MAIL NOTICES TO SURROUNDING PROPERTY OWNERS LOCATED WITHIN 300 FT OF THE SUBJECT PARCEL, AND THE SIGN WAS PLACED ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY DISPLAYING THE MEETING DATES AND THE DISCRETION OF THE PROPOSED PETITIONS. AS STATED IN THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS OUTLINED IN YELLOW ONLY 9.46 ACRES ARE BEING PROPOSED FOR THE REZONING. THE REMAINING 1.2 ACRES IS NOT PART OF THIS PETITION. THE EXISTING ZONING IS, UH, IDENTIFIED IN SECTION 2.0 7.00 IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AS A RESIDENTIAL PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT AND IS AN EXISTING 84 ASSISTANT LIVING FACILITY WITH MEMORY CARE. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A PROPOSED ZONING, UH, OUTLINED IN SECTION 02.07 0.00 AND REQUESTING A MIXED USE PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROPOSAL IS THE 140 INPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH, DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION FACILITY WITH MEDICAL DETOX. A MIXED USE PLANTED DEVELOPMENT MAY BE LOCATED IN THE CITY IN AIR AND IN AREA DEFINED AND DESCRIBED AS OFFICE RESIDENTIAL. MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONAL RECREATIONAL DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT, EAST STUART MARINE INDUSTRY OR NEIGHBORHOOD SPECIAL DISTRICT. IN PUBLIC BY THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT OF THE CITY OF STEWART'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN WHICH IS SUITABLE AND COMPATIBLE WITH SURROUNDING USES, AS DETERMINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION.

RESIDENTIAL USES INTEGRATED IN A MIXED AND UNIT DEVELOPMENT SHALL BE DESIGNATED TO BE COMPATIBLE IN DEVELOP, DEVELOPED AND A COMBINATION WITH ANY ASSOCIATED COMMERCIAL, RETAIL, MEDICAL, GOVERNMENTAL AND LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USES. THE EXISTING ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY, LOCATED ON A SITE WILL BE CONVERTED TO A PROPOSED INPATIENT DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION FACILITY AS PREVIOUSLY STATED. NO NEW IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING PROPOSED.

WHILE THE FACILITY BED COUNT WILL INCREASE FROM 84 TO 100 AND 40 BEDS. THE BUILDING FOOTPRINT IS NOT BEING ALTERED. AS SUCH AS A FACILITY WILL REMAIN CONSISTENT WITH THE ADOPTED LEVELS OF SERVICE FOR UTILITIES AND FACILITIES AS OUTLINED IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ELEMENT OF THE CITY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. THE 2016 APPROVAL, WHICH I WHICH ACTUALLY DEVELOPED THE, UH THE CITIZEN, THE ASSISTANT LIVING FACILITY. NO ONE HAS CLARITY POINT. THIS IS THE APPROVED SITE PLAN. AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, THIS IS THE WHERE THE EXISTING BUILDING IS TODAY. THE 1.92 ACRE

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THE EXISTING SITE CURRENTLY OPERATES AS AN ASSISTANT LIVING FACILITY, WHICH IS CONSISTENT WITH THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED TRAFFIC STUDY. A MENTAL HEALTH REHAB FACILITY IS PROPOSED, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THE EXISTING USE WITH A MINIMUM WITH A MAXIMUM INCREASE FROM THE EXISTING 86 BEDS TO 100 AND 40 BEDS. THE PROPOSED INCREASE TO A MAXIMUM OF 100 AND 40 BEDS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE A NET INCREASE OF 146 DAILY 10 TRIPS ENTERING AND FOR EXITING AT AM PEAK HOURS AND 14, WHICH IS FIVE ENTERING AND 99 EXITING AT PM PEAK HOUR TRIPS, BASED ON THE NET CHANGE IN THE PEAK HOURS, IT IS LESS THAN A LESS THAN 20 TRIPS. A TRAFFIC STUDY IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THE CITY OF STUART LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE SECTION POINT SECTION. 4.0 0.04 0.05.

UH, CAN I ASK A QUESTION? JODY WHY WAS THE TRAFFIC STUDY NOT WARRANTED THERE AGAINST WHAT? WHAT'S THAT POINT? ACCORDING TO OUR CODE AND OUR LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE UNDER THE SECTION 4.04 0.0. 4.04 0.05. ANY TRAFFIC TRIPS LESS THAN 20 TRIPS PER PER AM AND PE PM PEAK TIMES DOES NOT REQUIRE A FULL TRAFFIC STUDY. BUT THE TRAFFIC DATA HERE IS BASED ON AN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY. THAT CODE 254 IS, UM FOR AN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY WHERE THIS WOULD BE A DRUG REHAB DETOX. WHY WAS THAT? CODE USED FOR THIS TYPE. BASICALLY, ALL WE DID WAS APPLIED THAT SAME 2.6 NUMBER TWO, AN INCREASED NUMBER IN BEDS TO DETERMINE THAT INCREASE GOING FROM 218 TO 364 WHERE THESE ARE GONNA BE DIFFERENT USAGES. SO A CODE FOR FORGIVE ME IS NOT A CODE FOR MENTAL DRUG AND REHAB. UH, THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER COLLINS. THAT IS CORRECT. THERE IS NOT AN ACTUAL, UH, ITE CODE, WHICH IS WHAT THE TYPICAL UM TRANSPORTATION TRAFFIC ENGINEERING WILL USE SO THEY USED A MENTAL HEALTH REHAB, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO A HOSPITAL. UH, THEY USE THE 140 BEDS AND THEY ALSO USED THE 84. YOU'LL SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXISTING TRAFFIC COUNTS IN 2018 VERSUS THE PROPOSED THAT THE DEVELOPERS REQUESTING AND THE WAY THAT WE LOOK AT TRAFFIC AND THE WAY OUR CONSULTANT LOOKS AT TRAFFIC IS THE BASED ON THE AM AND PM PEAK HOURS. AND IF IT'S OVER THE 20 20 TRIPS, THEN THEY'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE A FULL TRAFFIC STATEMENT. SO THIS THIS DATA THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE? UH, THE IT'S CALLED DRUG REHAB. UH, WHAT WE'RE SEEING 100 AND 40 BEDS AND 364. THAT'S THAT IS THAT SAME 2.6? DEPLOYED AT 100 AND 40 BEDS, SO IT'S 2.6 TIMES. 84 GETS TO 18 2.6 TIMES 140 GETS 364 IT'S THAT SAME ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY CODE DEPLOYED AT THE MENTAL DRUG AND REHAB. SO MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE ARE YOU SAYING THEN THAT WE SHOULD BE USING THE INPATIENT HOSPITAL.

CODE FOR THIS AND THIS IS JUST OF YES. I'M ACTUALLY GONNA HAVE THE APPLICANT. UH, FURTHER, UM, ADDRESS THAT, UM, TRAFFIC GETS A LITTLE CONFUSING AT TIMES. I DON'T MEAN TO GRILL YOU. I JUST I SAW THAT. WAIT A SECOND. NO I UNDERSTAND. UH, SO WITH THE TRAFFIC COUNTS, IF YOU'RE USING THEM IN EQUIVALENT, AND THE OUR TRAFFIC CONSULTANT, AGREES WITH THE EQUIVALENT TO ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY VERSUS THE REHAB THEIR EQUIVALENT USE, UM THEY ARE NOT GENERATING MORE THAN 20 TRIPS PER THE AM PM. HOWEVER, THERE IS A NET AMOUNT OF 146 TRIPS, ADDED. OVERALL. BUT NOT

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AGAIN THIS, UH, APPLICATION WAS HEARD ON AT THE LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY ON MARCH 14TH 2024. THEY HAD A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE REZONING PETITION AND VOTED TO FORWARD A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL TO THE CITY COMMISSION. THAT MOTION DID FAIL 2 TO 2, SO THERE WAS NO RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD. UM AGAIN. THIS PETITION CONFORMS TO THE CRITERIA OUTLINED IN SECTION 11.01 0.09 OF THE CITY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AND IS CONSISTENT WITH THE CITY OF STEWART COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. GOALS OBJECTIVES AND POLICY AND STAFFERS REQUESTING THE STATE COMMISSION DISCUSSION AND CONSIDER MOVING THIS PETITION TO THE SECOND READING AND FINAL ADOPTION FOR THE REZONING FOR THE FROM PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT TO ARE WE RESIDENTIAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT TO A MIXED USE PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT AND IS SCHEDULED FOR A REGULAR CITY COMMISSION MEETING TO BE HELD ON MONDAY, MAY 28TH 24 AT 530, OR SOON THEREAFTER. AND THE APPLICANT DOES HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION AND THEY CAN'T ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE TRAFFIC. THANK YOU. JURY, THE APPLICANT AGAIN FOR THE RECORD, BRAD CURRY. GOOD EVENING. UM BEFORE I BEGIN, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK FORMER CHIEF DEPUTY GEIGER UM, WHO IS NOW RUNNING FOR SHERIFF OF PALM BEACH COUNTY TO COME UP AND SAY A FEW WORDS BEFORE I BEGIN.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR COMMISSIONERS. STAFF AND MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE. WE DO WE DO WE SWEAR YOU IN? YES, I SAW HIM. YES, SIR. THANK YOU, SIR. UH, MY NAME IS MICHAEL GOUGER. I DON'T LIVE IN STEWART. I LIVE IN WELLINGTON, FLORIDA. I SPENT FIVE DECADES AT PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. I RETIRED IN FEBRUARY OF 21 AS THE CHIEF DEPUTY SERVING THAT FOR 16 YEARS. I WOULD TELL YOU THAT, ISN'T IT A LITTLE IRONIC THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH SUBSTANCE ABUSE FACILITY. WHEN JUST AN HOUR OR SO AGO, WE GAVE A PROCLAMATION. RECOGNIZING MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH. AND THE NEED TREATMENT. YOU KNOW IT. IT'S SO TOUGH FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUES AND THE STIGMA THAT THEY SOMETIMES CARRY, AND I THINK, HISTORICALLY IN OTHER AREAS OF PALM BEACH ANYWAY, THAT, UH I GOT A BAD NAME.

PARTICULARLY OUT OF DELRAY BEACH WHEN THEY HAD ALL THESE SOBER HOMES THAT WERE OUT OF CONTROL AND THE PATIENT BROKERING THAT WAS GOING ON, AND PEOPLE WERE GETTING RICH AND PEOPLE WERE FAILING AND MOVING ONE TO ANOTHER TO ANOTHER. THIS IS NOT THAT TYPE OF ORGANIZATION. WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED AS A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION. THAT IS THAT HAS THE LICENSES OF ACA DEA, ALL THE DIFFERENT LICENSES THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION. THEY HAD PSYCHIATRISTS AND DOCTORS AND MEDICAL STAFF THAT WILL BE THERE. SHARED WITH YOU THAT I RETIRED WITH 50 PLUS YEARS, BUT I'VE ALSO BEEN AN ADVOCATE. I HAVE A MASTERS IN SOCIAL WORK. I DID THAT A LONG TIME AGO BECAUSE I RECOGNIZE THAT YOU KNOW, JAILS DON'T WORK. YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S A REVOLVING DOOR OF JUSTICE THAT IN AND OUT AND IN AND OUT, AND UNTIL WE GET THEM STRAIGHT AND SOBER. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DON'T RETURN. BECAUSE THEY GET STRAIGHT AND SOBER AND THEY DON'T KEEP GOING BACK TO JAIL. AND I'VE WORKED WITH OUR STATE ATTORNEY AND OUR PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE AND BATTLED WITH, UH, GETTING PEOPLE HELP. I'VE SERVED ON MANY BOARDS AND, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY. I SERVED ON, UH, FERN HOUSE. I'VE BEEN ON THAT BOARD FOR 40 YEARS AND WE'VE TAKEN THE WORST OF THE WORST WITH NO MONEY AND PUT THEM IN A TREATMENT PROGRAM THAT IS LOCATED IN OKEECHOBEE AND CHURCH STREET. I'VE SERVED ON THE CARDBOARD. I SERVED ON F, UM, GROWING TOGETHER, WHICH WAS AN ADOLESCENT RECOVERY PROGRAM YEARS AGO. SO II, I BELIEVE IN RECOVERY. WE TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE. THERE ARE SO MANY AM'S CO

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I HAD PROVIDED MANY SCHOLARSHIPS FOR, UH, FOLKS THAT, UH, WERE RELEASED. EVERYWHERE. UH, WE LOOK AND THOSE WAITING LISTS ARE THERE AND, YOU KNOW ANOTHER FACILITY. IT IS NOT THE TYPE OF FACILITY WHERE PEOPLE WANDER IT IS NOT THE TYPE OF FACILITY WHERE PEOPLE WILL ESCAPE. THEY HAVE SECURITY. THEY HAVE ALL THE THINGS NECESSARY TO KEEP PEOPLE IN THAT FACILITY. UH, IT'S HIGHLY LICENSED. IT HAS ACA AND OTHER ACCREDITATION ORGANIZATIONS THAT DISPLAY THE PROFESSIONALISM OF THE ORGANIZATION. IF IT WAS A SOBER HOME. I WOULDN'T BE HERE TESTIFYING ON THEIR BEHALF. HOWEVER WHEN I LOOK AT THE, UH PROGRAM OUT IN PALM BEACH. THEY HAD A HOLIDAY INN AT LAKE WORTH ROAD AND THE TURNPIKE. SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN DOWN THERE. YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH IT. WELL, GUESS WHAT? THERE WAS A PROGRAM CALLED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OF THE PALM BEACHES. THEY PURCHASED THAT HOLIDAY INN. AND THEY WENT THROUGH THE SAME KIND OF A CODE PROBLEM THAT THEY ARE FACING HERE NOW. WELL I. I WAS A CAPTAIN OF THE DISTRICT AT THE TIME AND I WENT IN AND TESTIFIED ON BEHALF OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN OPERATING IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WAS LOW INCOME AND THEY HAD IMPROVED THAT NEIGHBORHOOD TREMENDOUSLY AND CLEANED UP THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND SO I TESTIFIED ON THEIR BEHALF. IT WAS APPROVED. THE FOLKS THAT TESTIFIED AGAINST IT AND WERE AFRAID THAT ALL THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN THAT PEOPLE WERE GOING TO BE WANDERING AND BREAKING INTO THEIR HOMES, AND IT NEVER CAME TO FRUITION. IN FACT, A YEAR LATER, WHEN I MET WITH THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS THEY THANKED ME AND SAID WE HAD NO IDEA. IT IS SO MUCH NICER THAN A HOLIDAY INN AND THE PROBLEMS THAT WENT ON WITH THE HOLIDAY INN. SO IF IT WAS A SCHLOCK OPERATION. I WOULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT. BUT IT'S A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT IS WELL RUN, AND HE HAS A GOOD HISTORY OF WORKING WITH OTHER AGENCIES LIKE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND THE LOCAL POLICE. SO, UH, HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER. YOU SAY? APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS? YES, I'M SORRY. GUY. HE DOES COMMISSIONER RICH SO I THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP THE POINT OF A SOBER HOME BECAUSE I THINK THE APPLICANT HAS BEEN IS THAT THE HE'S HE'S BEEN UNFAIRLY LABELED AS WANTING TO OPEN A SILVER HOME. NOT THE CASE HERE. AS YOU POINTED OUT, WHAT WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SOBER HOME

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IT'S GOING TO BE SECURED. THE DOORS WILL BE SECURED. THEY HAVE SECURITY ON STAFF, PEOPLE WILL NOT BE WONDERING. AND THAT'S THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOBER HOMES. YOU KNOW THE SOBER HOMES THAT WERE IN DEL RAY BEACH THAT CREATED SUCH A NIGHTMARE IN PALM BEACH, ALONG WITH THE PATIENT BROKERING. I WORK WITH THE TASK FORCE. WE PUT PEOPLE IN PRISON. FOR THEIR CONDUCT. AND PUT A STOP TO A LOT OF IT. UH, THE STATE ATTORNEY, DAVID, UH, UH, HAD A BURGER? YEAH. WHAT? WHAT DOES WHAT DOES? UH, ALSO I, I THINK IS IN FAVOR AND RECOGNIZES THAT IT'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SOBER HOME AND A PROFESSIONAL, HIGHLY LICENSED ORGANIZATION LIKE THIS.

THANK YOU. YEAH. THANK YOU, CHIEF. DEPUTY GUYER. UM AGAIN. I'M BRAD CURRY WITH ENGINEERING, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT. I DO HAVE A VERY BRIEF POWERPOINT. UM . AND ONLINE ABOUT THIS. PROJECT. UM, COMMISSIONER RICH JUST MENTIONED THIS IS NOT A SOBER HOME. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE CALLING AN INPATIENT. TREATMENT FACILITY, MEANING THAT PEOPLE COME TO THIS FACILITY. THEY GET CHECKED IN, AND THEY STAY THERE FOR BETWEEN 3045 DAYS, THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO COME AND GO. THEY WILL BE IN THIS FACILITY. UM, FOR THEIR ENTIRE STAY. IT'S MORE LIKE A HOSPITAL THAN IT IS LIKE A SOBER HOME. UM AS WAS PREVIOUSLY STATED THEY ARE LICENSED. THEY HAVE MEDICAL PERSONNEL ON SITE 24 HOURS A DAY. THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM THAT PROBABLY KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS TYPE OF FACILITY THAN I DO. I'VE LEARNED A LOT OVER MY YEARS OF BEING A LAND PLANNER, AND I'M GONNA TRY TO TALK ABOUT THIS USE AS A AS A AS A COMMON PERSON AS A PLANNER, AND, UM, I MAY GET SOME OF IT WRONG AND I'M SURE I'LL BE CORRECTED IF I DO. BUT THE PROFESSIONALS IN THIS IN THIS TYPE OF PROFESSION USE ACRONYMS AND TERMINOLOGY THAT SOMETIMES IS UNFAMILIAR TO US AND COULD CONFUSE US AND SO WE'RE CONFUSED ME. I'M NOT SAYING YOU GUYS ARE EASILY CONFUSED. UM, SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I PUT IT DOWN AS CLEARLY AS AS CLEANLY AS POSSIBLE. AND SO THAT'S WHERE OUR PRESENTATION IS GONNA GONNA TRY TO BE, UM, AGAIN, I. I DON'T WANNA MISREPRESENT ANYTHING. AND IF I DO, I'M SURE I'LL I'LL BE CALLED OUT ON IT. UM JODIE. WHICH BUTTON DO I HIT? I FOUND IT. UM AGAIN. THE REQUEST BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS A REZONING OF THIS PROPERTY, BASICALLY FROM A FROM A RESIDENTIAL PUD DESIGNATION TO, UH MXD DESIGNATION PUD DESIGNATION. YOU MAY ASK WHY WE WENT WITH MXD. THE REASON IS, IS THAT THERE IS ANOTHER FACILITY JUST DOWN THE STREET. THAT DOES BASICALLY THE SAME THING THAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO DO. AND THAT PROPERTY ALSO HAD THE MXD ZONING DESIGNATION. AND SO WE FELT LIKE IT MADE SENSE. THERE WAS A PRECEDENT SET THAT SHOWED WHAT THE ZONING SHOULD BE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE CHOSE. AND AGAIN. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT AGAIN. I THINK THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSIONS ABOUT SCHOOLS IN THE AREA AND PARKS IN THE AREA. THERE'S ALREADY A FACILITY IN CLOSE B PROXIMITY TO THOSE SCHOOLS AND PARKS. SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE UM, THAT I SAID THAT AND THIS IS THE LOCATION STAFF HAS DONE A FAIRLY GOOD JOB OF SHOWING WHERE IT IS JUST WANTED TO SHOW WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND THE PROPERTY.

UM, YOU HAVE THE WILLOUGHBY GOLF CLUB, UM, PRESERVATION AREA TO THE SOUTH OF US. YOU HAVE COUNTY RIGHT AWAY. IT'S ACTUALLY A COUNTY OWNED PROPERTY TO THE TO THE WEST OF US, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE CROSSINGS IN INDIAN HILLS TO THE NORTH. AND THEN YOU HAVE, UM CLEVELAND CLINIC TO THE NORTHWEST. ABOUT 725 FT FROM OUR PROPERTY TO THE NEAREST RESIDENTIAL TO THE SOUTH, SO IT'S A PRETTY GOOD DISTANCE. IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THEM. AND IT WOULD BE THROUGH THE PRESERVE AREA. AGAIN. HERE'S THE SUBJECT PROPERTY JUST A LITTLE BIT ZOOMED IN. UM WE ARE NOT PROPOSING ANY DEVELOPMENT WITH THIS PROPERTY. IT WILL STAY JUST AS IT IS, IT FITS PERFECTLY FOR OUR USE. I WISH I KNEW WHERE TO POINT THIS THING, JODY. OH, YOU

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FACILITIES IN ONE BUILDING. AND FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, HAVING ONE FACILITY THAT DOES ALL FOUR THINGS IN ONE BUILDING, IT ACTUALLY REDUCES THE IMPACT ON THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD OR THE SURROUNDING CITY, AND IT ALSO PROVIDES A HIGHER LEVEL OF CARE FOR THE FOR THE PATIENTS THAT ARE IN THIS FACILITY. SO WHAT WE HAVE IN THE RED AREA IS ABOUT 24 BEDS OF DETOX. THAT'S MEDICAL DETOX, 24 HOUR SUPERVISION THAT IS TYPICALLY LAST BETWEEN FIVE AND SEVEN DAYS OF AN INDIVIDUAL COMING TO THIS FACILITY IS TYPICALLY TIME WHERE THEY'RE THEY'RE PRETTY HEAVILY SEDATED. GOING THROUGH THE DETOX PROCESS. IT IS A LIFE THREATENING PROCESS. I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY HAS EVER BEEN A PART OF A DETOX PROCESS, BUT IT CAN BE VERY, UM HARD ON THE BODY AND COULD CAUSE YOU KNOW, EMERGENCY CALLS, AND I GO TO THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER IN MY PRESENTATION. UM THE LIGHT BLUE AREA IS THE MALE RESIDENTIAL INPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY. UH AND I'LL I'LL GET INTO THE LEVEL OF CARE A LITTLE BIT LATER. IN MY PRESENTATION AT THE PURPLE IS THE FEMALE RESIDENTIAL INPATIENT FACILITY AND IN THE GREEN AREA WOULD BE THE MENTAL HEALTH 36 BEDS EACH FOR THE FEMALE AND MALE. SO THAT'S A, UM TOTAL OF 72 AND THEN 30 MENTAL HEALTH BEDS. SO THAT SCREEN THAT SLIDE THAT'S ON THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW SHOWS A TOTAL OF 100 AND 26 BEDS. NEXT ONE. SO WE HAVE TO MAKE THE DECISION YOU KNOW IS THE SIZE OF THE ISSUE. I JUST DEMONSTRATED TO YOU THAT IT'S REALLY FOUR SEPARATE FACILITIES AND IF WE TOOK THESE FOUR SEPARATE FACILITIES AND SPREAD THEM OUT THROUGHOUT THE CITY, WOULD THAT BE MORE ACCEPTABLE TO THE OPPOSITION? BECAUSE THAT COULD BE DONE? WE TALK ABOUT INPATIENT AND OUTPATIENT OUTPATIENT FACILITY. ALL YOU NEED IS A MEDICAL OFFICE AND AN APARTMENT COMPLEX. I'LL GET INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER. SO AGAIN. WHAT I'VE SHOWN ON THE SCREEN IS TRYING TO DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU COULD PICK THESE FOUR QUADRANTS UP, PUT THEM THROUGHOUT THE CITY. HAVE THE SAME OVERALL, UM, AMOUNT OF BIDS AND AMOUNT OF PATIENTS IN THE CITY JUST HAVE THEM SPREAD OUT THROUGHOUT THE CITY. PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE TO COME BACK BEFORE THIS BOARD FOR THAT IF WE WERE ABLE TO FIND OTHER PLACES, SO I JUST JUST WANNA UNDERSTAND. IS IT THE SIZE OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE PUSHING THE, UM THE FOLKS THAT ARE IN OPPOSITION TO THIS PROPERTY. UM, NEXT SLIDE. IS THE FLOOR PLAN AGAIN? UM, JUST SHOWING YOU THAT WE'VE GOT SOME PICTURES. I WANNA BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT THE ENTRANCE TO THIS FACILITY IS ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN. YOU COME IN, AND YOU HAVE THE COURTYARD IN THE MIDDLE ALL THE OUTDOOR AREA. OUTDOOR TIME FOR THE PATIENTS IN THIS FACILITY WILL BE INSIDE OF THIS COURTYARD . THERE'LL BE NO PATIENTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE ALLOWED OUTSIDE OF THE FACILITY. THAT'S WHY WE BELIEVE THAT THIS BUILDING IS PERFECT FOR THE USE THAT'S BEING PROPOSED AGAIN. THE PATIENT WILL GO INSIDE THE COURTYARD. THEY WILL NOT GO OUTSIDE. THEY WILL NOT BE OUT ON THE FRONT BUILDING. THE BACKYARD. NONE OF THOSE THINGS. AND THE FACILITY IS SET UP IS FOUR QUADRANTS. AS I PREVIOUSLY STATED, EACH QUADRANT HAS A SITTING AREA. I THINK OF IT AS LIKE A LIVING ROOM OR DEN EACH. EACH QUADRANT HAS A KITCHEN AREA WHERE YOU CAN GET A LIGHT SNACK. IT ALSO HAS A FULL COMMERCIAL KITCHEN THAT WILL SERVE MEALS ON A REGULAR BASIS. BUT IF YOU WANT A SNACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT OR IN THE DAYTIME, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GO TO IT. IT HAS A SALON FOR YOU TO GET YOUR HAIR DONE HAS A

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SHOW SOME PICTURES OF THE FACILITY IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN IN IT. THIS IS THAT EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE, UM SITTING AREAS AGAIN. THERE'S FOUR OF THESE ONE IN EACH QUADRANT. GO AHEAD. THIS IS THE LOCKS. THIS IS THE DOORS THAT SEPARATE THE FOUR QUADRANTS. YOU CAN SEE. UM WE CALL THEM THE MAGLOS. THEY'RE GONNA LOCK. THEY'RE GONNA BE LOCKED AND YOU CAN'T OPEN THOSE DOORS. THAT'S WHAT'S GONNA SEPARATE THE FOUR FACILITIES. I BELIEVE THERE WILL BE AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT LICENSES. JASON CAN SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. SO WE WILL ACTUALLY FUNCTION AS THREE DIFFERENT FACILITIES IN ONE BUILDING. NEXT TIME. THIS IS THAT DEN AREA WITH THE WITH THE PLACE TO WATCH TV. THIS IS THE COURTYARD. AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS WOULD BE WHERE THE PATIENTS HANG OUT ON A ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. THIS IS THE THIS THE KITCHEN AREA WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE THEIR MEALS AS WELL AS IF THEY WANTED TO GET SOMETHING YOU CAN SEE THE KIND OF KITCHEN AREA OVER ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THAT PICTURE. THIS IS A TYPICAL ROOM. THIS WOULD BE A TWO PERSON ROOM THAT SHARES ONE BATHROOM. AND THIS WAS THE SALON THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHERE YOU CAN GO GET YOUR HAIRCUT OR HAIR DONE. SO ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT OR WE'VE REVIEWED AND SEEN IN IN MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED OR OR OR GIVEN TO YOU ALL FROM THE OPPOSITION IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IN NETWORK VERSUS OUT OF NETWORK INSURANCE. I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION. ABOUT THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE GOING TO BE COMING INTO THIS FACILITY. I BELIEVE THE OPPOSITION IS SAYING THAT WE ARE BAD BECAUSE WE ARE AN OUT OF NETWORK FACILITY. I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S BAD OR GOOD IN IN NETWORK OR OUT OF NETWORK, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE OUT OF NETWORK IS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF CLIENTELE THAN WHAT THE IN NETWORK WOULD BE. I THINK OF IT AS, UM, I. I HURT MY SHOULDER A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, AND I HAVE A DOCTOR THAT I WANT TO GO TO. THAT DOCTOR IS OUT OF NETWORK.

SO I HAVE TO CHOOSE TO GO TO THAT, DOCTOR. I PAY MORE MONEY TO GO TO THAT, DOCTOR. I'M FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WEAR. I CAN AFFORD THAT MANY PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THAT ABILITY AND THEY HAVE TO GO TO IN NETWORK, SO AN OUT OF NETWORK PROVIDER IS ACTUALLY UH, THE PATIENT THAT COMES THERE IS HAS PLENTY OF MONEY AND THEY TYPICALLY ARE FROM A FAMILY THAT IS SUPPORTING THEM, AND THEY HAVE A JOB TO GO BACK TO. THEY HAVE A FAMILY TO GO BACK TO ONCE THEY'RE DONE WITH THEIR, UH ONCE THEY'RE DONE WITH THEIR TREATMENT, AND SO I'M TRYING TO SAY HERE IS THAT THE INDIVIDUAL THAT COMES HERE ISN'T SOMEONE THAT IS GOING TO LEAVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND GO BECOME A HOMELESS PERSON. THEY TYPICALLY ARE SOMEONE THAT HAS A SOLID FAMILY BACKGROUND THAT HAS THE MEANS TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD AN OUT OF NETWORK PROVIDER. SO I'M NOT SAYING THAT PEOPLE WON'T LEAVE HERE. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I HAD NEVER HEARD. I'VE BEEN WORKING IN THIS BUSINESS FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS AND I HAD NEVER HEARD THE TERM A MA AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE. THERE IS GOING TO BE PEOPLE THAT LEAVE AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE AND GO BECOME HOMELESS. THEY'RE PROBABLY GONNA LEAVE AND FLY BACK HOME BECAUSE THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH. IF THAT'S THE CASE, THEY'RE GONNA CALL A FRIEND. IF THEY LIVE IN THE AREA TO COME GET THEM AND I'LL GET TO THAT IN A SECOND. THESE AREN'T THE TYPE OF PATIENTS THAT HAVE EVER LIVED ON THE STREET. THEY TYPICALLY COME FROM A FAMILY AND THAT'S AND THAT'S WHAT THEY WILL GO BACK TO ON THE NEXT SLIDE TALKS ABOUT THE PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST. THIS WAS SOMETHING ELSE THAT, UM WE FOUND THAT YOU THAT THE FOLKS HERE AT STEWART WERE WERE THE COMMISSIONERS THAT WERE REVIEWING, AND I BELIEVE THERE WAS A DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT. THEY WERE, UM 18 CALLS. I DON'T HAVE IT IN MY NOTES, UM, EARLIER 18 CALLS FROM MARCH OF 2024. AND WHEN YOU GO IN AND LOOK AT THE DATA, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMISSIONERS DO THIS WHENEVER THEY GET. I'M SURE THEY DO. BUT I WANT TO JUST, YOU KNOW, EMPHASIZE IT. THAT OUT OF THE 18 CALLS THAT WERE PUT IN THE MATERIALS THAT YOU REVIEWED.

ONLY NONE OF THEM WERE ACTUAL CALLS. IF YOU GO IN AND START LOOKING AT THE MATERIALS, THEY DUPLICATE THE CALLS. WHEN SOMEONE CALLS 911. FOR THE MOST PART, THEY SEND A POLICE OFFICER AND A FIRE RESCUE PERSON TO THE FACILITY. SO WHEN YOU SAY THAT THERE'S 18 CALLS OR OR OR, HOWEVER MANY CALLS ARE ARE STATED. IT'S TYPICALLY YOU HAVE TO GO IN AND LOOK AT THE DATA AND WE'VE DONE THAT. I'VE GOT INFORMATION ABOUT HOW WE WENT IN, AND WE LOOKED AT EACH CALL.

WHAT IT WAS. WHO WAS THERE ALL OF THOSE THINGS, SO THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT MY CLIENT'S FACILITY IN IN PORT SAINT LUCIE HAVE AN 18 CALLS IN THE MONTH OF MARCH. 2024 THE REALITY IS IT WAS IT WAS ONLY NINE AND WE HAVE A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT THOSE TYPES OF CALLS WERE.

NEXT TIME. SO WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS JOB IS HOW CONFUSING IT CAN GET. WHAT I HATE ABOUT THIS JOB IS HOW CONFUSING IT CAN GET SO THE VERY TOP NUMBER IS 102 CALLS WERE IN FROM 4 1320 23 TO 43 2024 AND WHEN YOU WHEN YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT THAT, IT'S ONLY 56 CALLS THAT GENERATED THIS 102 PEOPLE COMING THERE, SO THAT'S BASICALLY DOUBLE SO SOMETIMES JUST THE POLICE WOULD COME OUT.

BUT FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE TIME YOU HAD THE POLICE AND THE FIRE RESCUE COME INTO THE FACILITY.

SO OUT OF THE 56 REALITY CALLS REAL CALLS THERE. THERE WERE 36 THAT WERE MEDICAL THE 20. OTHER CALLS ARE, I GUESS WOULD BE THE BAD CALLS. THAT WOULD BE THE CALLS WHERE SOMEONE WAS UNRULY.

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THE FIRST ONE IS MY CLIENT'S PROPERTY IS 710 HAD 24 CALLS IN A SIX MONTH PERIOD. UM THE, UM OTHER FACILITY IS THAT THE 2349 CARRY IS 21 CALLS IN A IN A SIX MONTH PERIOD. UM THE COASTAL DETOX AT 25 CALLS IN THE SIX MONTH PERIOD AND, UM, THE BON TREATMENT CENTER IS AT 13.

WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS SLIDE IS IN THAT SAME SIX MONTH PERIOD WHEN WE BELIEVE THE ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY WAS HALF OCCUPIED. AT 36 CALLS. SO THE EXISTING FACILITY WAS ACTUALLY A BIGGER STRAIN ON FIRE RESCUE, THEN THE PROPOSED FACILITY SO IF IT WERE DEVELOPED AS IT IS, IT WOULD ACTUALLY REQUIRE MORE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE EXISTING FACILITY. SO WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE DRAIN ON THE PUBLIC FACILITIES ON FIRE RESCUE AND POLICE IS A JUSTIFICATION. FOR GOING AGAINST THIS PROJECT BECAUSE THE EXISTING FACILITY ACTUALLY HAD MORE CALLS THAN THE OTHER FACILITIES. NEXT SLIDE. SO I'M SORRY. GO BACK. JASON IS GONNA COME UP AFTER I'M DONE AND DO AND TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF, UM THINGS AND ONE OF THE THINGS HE'S GONNA TALK ABOUT IS OUT OF TOWN PATIENTS. UM, WE HEARD THE SHERIFF TALK ABOUT OUT TOWN PATIENTS AND WHAT JASON'S GONNA PREPARE FOR YOU AND TELL YOU IS THAT THE SUCCESS RATE FOR IN TOWN PATIENTS IS MUCH LOWER THE RATE OF A MA AGAIN AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE IS HIGHER FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS. THAT MAKES COMPLETE SENSE. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, JUST TAKE ME FOR EXAMPLE. I'M SUFFERING FROM ADDICTION. I GO TO A FACILITY HERE IN TOWN. I KNOW WHERE I'VE BEEN GETTING MY DRUGS. I KNOW HOW TO WALK TO THE NEAR 7-ELEVEN. I KNOW WHO TO CALL TO COME GET ME. I'M MORE LIKELY TO LEAVE BECAUSE I'M FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA IF I WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE, CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, TEXAS, I WOULD BE LESS LIKELY TO LEAVE THAT FACILITY BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THE PEOPLE IN THE AREA. I DON'T KNOW WHO IT IS. I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO TO GET MY TO GET MY DRUGS. AND SO THE REALITY IS THAT OUT OF TOWN PATIENTS ACTUALLY PROVIDES A LOWER RATE OF A MA AND WE HAVE, UM, WE HAVE WE CAN PASS IT OUT TO YOU. WE HAVE INFORMATION FROM JASON'S OTHER FACILITIES THAT DEMONSTRATE THAT THAT WHEN YOU LIVE LOCAL, YOU HAVE A HIGHER LIKELIHOOD OF AM AS AN OUT PATIENT DOES NOT HAVE THAT IS NOT IS NOT AS HIGH OK, NEXT ON.

SO WE TALKED ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INPATIENT OUTPATIENT AND SOBER HOMES.

INPATIENT AS AS OUR PREVIOUSLY STATED YOU WERE SUFFERING FROM ADDICTION. YOU WOULD GO TO THIS FACILITY GO THROUGH THE DETOX PROGRAM, MOVE INTO THE MENTAL HEALTH OR THE, UM FEMALE OR MALE PORTION OF THE FACILITY. STAY THERE BETWEEN 3045 DAYS DEPENDING ON YOUR, UM YOUR LEVEL OF CARE AND HOW LONG YOU'RE GONNA BE THERE. UM IT'S 24 HOUR CARE. THE PATIENTS SHOULD NOT LEAVE THE FACILITY. THEY MAY LEAVE TO GO TO MEETINGS. BUT FOR THE 1ST 30 DAYS, THEY TYPICALLY DON'T LEAVE THE FACILITY, SO IT'S COMPLETELY INSIDE THE FACILITY. OUTPATIENT IS ANOTHER WAY THAT THEY DO TREATMENT. THE OUTPATIENT TREATMENT COULD BE WHERE I COULD LIVE IN MY HOUSE, AND I COULD GO TO THE FACILITY. UM IN THE MORNING, GET MY TREATMENT AND THEN LEAVE. UH, IT'S I DON'T IT'S NOT TO ME IT'S NOT AS HIGH A LEVEL OF CARE. YOU THINK ABOUT IT AS I'M GONNA EAT AND I'M GONNA SLEEP IN ONE FACILITY AND I'M GONNA RETREAT RECEIVE MY TREATMENT IN ANOTHER FACILITY THAT'S CONSIDERED OUTPATIENT. WHAT WHAT WE'RE CONSIDERING IS YOU EAT AND YOU SLEEP AND YOU GET YOUR TREATMENT , ALL IN THE SAME PLACE. THAT'S INPATIENT AND IN SOBER HOMES WOULD BE AFTER YOU GO THROUGH THE, UM, THE TREATMENT FOR PROCESS THE 30 TO 45 DAYS. IF

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PARKING WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS DISCUSSED AT THE LP A MEETING AND WE JUST WANTED TO SET IT STRAIGHT THAT WE DO HAVE ENOUGH PARKING BASED ON THE CODE AS WELL AS BASED ON THE, UM OTHER FACILITIES IN THE AREA AGAIN. WE BELIEVE THAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE 55 STALLS AND THERE'S 87.

NEXT TIME. SHOWS THE PARKING AREA. AND THEN THIS WAS JUST A FACILITY DOWN THE STREET. VERY SIMILAR FACILITY. UM 0.5 SPACES SO BASICALLY JUST SHOWING THAT WE'RE PARKING AT A STANDARD RATE AS WHAT THEY ARE. THIS SHOWS THAT THE PARKING THAT WE'RE USING IS ASSISTING FACILITY AND WE TALKED ABOUT THAT ASSISTANT LABOR FACILITY ACTUALLY GENERATES MORE PARKING THAN WHAT OUR FACILITY WILL ASSIST THE LIVING FACILITIES. PEOPLE WOULD BE ABLE TO DRIVE THERE. UM A ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES. PEOPLE HAVE VISITORS. SO WE BELIEVE THAT EVEN THOUGH WE'VE USED ASSISTED LIVING AS A GENERATION FOR PARKING AND ALSO FOR TRAFFIC WE BELIEVE IT'S ACTUALLY INFLATED. IT'S ACTUALLY HIGHER THAN WHAT OUR USE WAS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE VISITORS AND OUR PATIENTS DO NOT DRIVE TO THIS FACILITY, AND THEY DO NOT NOT LEAVE THE FACILITY IN A CAR.

NEXT TIME. THIS SHOWS WE ACTUALLY WENT OUT, UM, COMMISSIONER COLLINS AND WE DID TRAFFIC COUNTS. WE SAT OUT THERE AND COUNTED IN THE AM AND THE PM AND WHAT WE FOUND. WAS THAT OUR ANALYSIS WHAT WE ANTICIPATED WAS 0.24 TRIPS PER BED. AND AFTER ALL, THE ANALYSIS FROM THE 710 TO 208 1131 SOUTHEAST INDIAN STREET, WHICH IS THE COASTAL DETOX OSCEOLA. IT'S ACTUALLY 0.29 TRIPS PER BIT. SO WE WENT FROM 0.24 WAS WHAT WE USED IN OUR ANALYSIS AND WE WENT OUT AND COUNTED CARS AND WE GOT 0.29 VERY COMPATIBLE. I WILL ALSO SAY THAT THE CITY REVIEWER UM I BELIEVE WAS KINLEY HORN, WHO DID THE REVIEW FOR THIS? THEY ACTUALLY RESPONDED AND SAID THEY WERE COMPLETELY IN AGREEMENT WITH OUR TRAFFIC STUDY. SO, FROM OUR STANDPOINT, WE'VE SUBMITTED A TRAFFIC STUDY THAT THE CITY REVIEW REVIEW AND WE'VE DONE ACTUAL COUNTS THAT SHOW THAT WE ARE IN WITH THE TRAFFIC, SO WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE TRAFFIC IS A CONCERN FOR THIS PROPERTY.

WE HAVE SOME CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL. WE WOULD BE AS I PREVIOUSLY STATED. I THINK WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT 140 BEDS. WE WOULD BE WILLING TO GO TO 100 AND 26 BEDS BASED ON UM, GETTING INTO THE DETAILS A LITTLE BIT MORE. I THINK WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THIS PROJECT WE THOUGHT WE WON 40 WAS THE NUMBER. BUT AFTER WE SPENT A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME, WE'RE GONNA BE CONVERTING SOME OF THOSE BEDS INTO INTO THE SOME OF THE EXISTING BEDROOMS AND OFFICES AND TREATMENT ROOMS. AND SO WE BELIEVE THAT WE ARE NOW AT 126. WE WILL NOT BE A BAKER ACT RECEIVING FACILITY AND, UM SURE MOST OF YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT BAKER ACTING IS, BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE A BAKER ACT RECEIVING FACILITY. UM WE ARE NOT GONNA OFFER ANY OUTPATIENT SERVICES. PEOPLE WILL NOT BE COMING AND GOING FROM THIS FACILITY. IT WILL ONLY BE AN INPATIENT FACILITY. AND, UM WE WILL NOT BE AN OUTPATIENT MEDICAL DETOX. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THAT HAPPENS. UM 90% OF THE PARK WILL BE ALLOCATED TO STAFF. THAT'S AN EASY THING FOR US TO SAY, BECAUSE AGAIN, OUR PATIENTS AREN'T DRIVING THERE AND WE HAVE VERY FEW. THE GUESTS, UM, APPLICANT WILL ENSURE THAT THOSE BEING TREATED FOR MENTAL HEALTH DO NOT INCLUDE THOSE IDENTIFIED AS SEXUAL OFFENDERS ARE THOSE WITH A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. SO THERE IS AN INTAKE PROCESS THAT THEY GO AND I'M SURE JASON WILL TALK ABOUT PEOPLE HAVING WARRANTS THEY GO THROUGH AND THEY DO A BACKGROUND CHECK AND THEY THEY RESEARCH THE INDIVIDUALS THAT COME IN HERE, AND I'M SURE IF THERE'S ANY WARRANTS, JASON WILL EXPLAIN HOW THEY'RE HANDLING THAT. SO I DON'T KNOW THAT. I THINK THE EXAMPLE THAT THE SHERIFF GAVE I DON'T THINK IS APPLICABLE TO THIS PROJECT. AND JASON IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT SCHOLARSHIPS. UM, YOU HEARD, UM, MR GEIGER BEFORE ME TALK ABOUT THAT JASON WAS GIVEN SCHOLARSHIPS OUT IN OR HE WAS DOING IN PALM BEACH. UM HE'S HE'S WILLING TO OFFER UP A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SCHOLARSHIPS EVERY MONTH TO CITY OF STUART RESIDENTS. UM, IF THIS FACILITY

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OK, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR JACK. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, BRAD. NICE JOB ON THE PRESENTATION. UM I WILL MAKE A FEW CORRECTIONS TO BRAD'S STATEMENT, EVEN IF IT'S MY OWN DETRIMENT BECAUSE I'M ALWAYS GONNA BE HONEST WITH YOU, AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH THE PEOPLE. UM FIRST OF ALL, MY NAME IS JASON A. I'M A MARTIN COUNTY RESIDENT AND NOT SOME OUTSIDER. I'VE OWNED BUSINESSES HERE FOR OVER TWO DECADES. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS WERE AWARE, BUT I HAD 100 AND 73 TREATMENT BEDS IN MARTIN COUNTY. NONE OF WHICH YOU APPROVED. NONE OF WHICH YOU GOT THE VOTE ON. THAT'S HOW THE CODE WORKS, AND THAT'S RIGHT NOW THERE'S HOW MANY TREATMENT CENTERS MARTIN COUNTY. DO YOU GUYS KNOW HOW MANY LICENSED ONES 22. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OF THOSE HAD TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS? TWO OF THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONLY LICENSED INPATIENT DETOX AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE FACILITIES, AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT THERE'S A LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY IN MARTIN COUNTY.

BECAUSE WHAT THEY DO IS, AS BRAD SAID, YOU JUST NEED MULTIFAMILY ZONING. I CAN RENT AN APARTMENT, BUY AN APARTMENT. AND JUST GET AN OFFICE BUILDING AND LEASE IT AND I WAS BUSSING BACK AND FORTH 173 PATIENTS A DAY AND TREATING THEM FOR OVER 15 YEARS IN YOUR COUNTY. NOT ONLY DID I DO THAT, BUT I ALSO DONATED OVER $15 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PEOPLE THAT COULDN'T AFFORD TREATMENT TO GET THEM OFF THE STREET AND GIVE THEM A BETTER CHANCE AT LIFE. I DID THIS WITH MY OWN PERSONAL MONEY. THIS WAS MY MISSION. I DO THIS BECAUSE I'M VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT IT. SO IF ANYTHING I SAY TONIGHT MAY COME OFF INAPPROPRIATE OR ANGER. IT'S MY PASSION AND NOTHING MORE THAN THAT. I HEAR A LOT OF PEOPLE BEHIND ME SNICKERING MAKING COMMENTS. YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE BEHIND ME HAVE LOST LOVED ONES HAVE SEEN THIS DISEASE RAVAGE FAMILIES RAVAGED HOMES, NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT I'VE ALSO SEEN THE OF RECOVERY AND THE TURNAROUND WHEN YOU SEE A HUSBAND AND WIFE OR A DAUGHTER AND HER FATHER RECONNECT FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND YOU SEE THE TWINKLE IN THEIR EYES. THAT'S WHAT MOTIVATES ME TO DO WHAT I DO. THIS ISN'T ABOUT MONEY FOR ME. I'M OPENING THE EXACT SAME FACILITY IN THE CITY OF WILDWOOD. RIGHT NOW, I ALREADY HAVE ALL MY APPROVALS. AND I'M OPENING A PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH IN THE CITY OF ROCKLEDGE. YOU ALREADY HAVE ALL MY APPROVALS DIDN'T HAVE ANY OF THIS OPPOSITION AT ALL. AND THAT'S OK, EVERYONE'S ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINION. BUT I WANT TO PUT SOME OF THE MISINFORMATION TO BED TONIGHT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT IS. THERE'S A LOT OF MISINFORMATION. UNFORTUNATELY, THE DISEASE ADDICTION. UM HAS NOT COME VERY FAR IN THE PAST 100 YEARS IN EDUCATION. MOST PEOPLE ARE HIGHLY UNEDUCATED AS IT RELATES TO IT, AND EVEN IGNORANT AS IT RELATES TO ADDICTION. MENTAL HEALTH HAS MADE SOME PROGRESS THANKS TO CELEBRITIES AND MEDIA, SWIMMERS, MUSICIANS, ATHLETES, UM, MOVIE STARS, COMMERCIALS LIKE IT'S OK NOT TO BE OK. IN THE PAST YEAR OR TWO YEARS. I DON'T HAVE THE DATA IN FRONT OF ME, BUT YOU CAN FACT CHECK THIS OVER 50% OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES HAVE REACHED OUT FOR SOME FORM OF HELP. WHETHER IT'S THERAPY, WHETHER IT'S INPATIENT OUTPATIENT. ONLY 1% OF PEOPLE WITH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER HAVE BEEN COMFORTABLE REACHING OUT FOR HELP BECAUSE OF THE STIGMAS THAT ARE PLACED ON THEM BECAUSE OF ARTICLES THAT ARE RUN SHOWING A MAN WITH A BLOODY FACE FROM ARKANSAS, SAYING HIGH SPEED CHASE, THIS IS WHAT THE FACE OF ADDICTION LOOKS LIKE. NO THE FACE OF ADDICTION LOOKS LIKE EVERYONE IN HERE AND EVERYONE UP THERE. I CAN'T VIOLATE HIPAA, BUT I HAVE TREATED SEVERAL PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN THIS COUNTY AND MULTIPLE OTHER COUNTIES. I HAVE TREATED RESIDENTS AS THE PEOPLE OF RELATIVES OF PEOPLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THIS DISEASE IS NOT DISCRIM. IT AFFECTS EVERYBODY. EVERY SINGLE PERSON AND I'M SURE EVERYONE IN HERE KNOWS SOMEBODY WITH EITHER A DISEASE OF ADDICTION OR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. AND GUESS WHAT, WHICH CAME FIRST. MM. ANYONE KNOW WE DON'T DO YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN PEOPLE CALL AND SAY I NEED MENTAL HEALTH HELP SEVEN OUT OF 10 OF THEM WHEN THEY ADMIT, AND WE DRUG TEST THEM. THEY'RE POSITIVE FOR FIVE SUBSTANCES, BUT THEY'RE NOT COMFORTABLE SAYING I NEED HELP WITH MY SUBSTANCE ABUSE. I'M DRINKING TOO MUCH. IT'S NOT MANLY TO BE A POLICE OFFICER AND ADMIT YOU'RE DRINKING TOO MUCH. SO THEY SAY IT'S PTSD. IT'S MENTAL HEALTH, BUT YOU CAN'T CURE THE MENTAL HEALTH IF YOU DON'T CURE THE ADDICTION. SO I'M GONNA GO AND ORDER OF SOME OF THE

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SO IF THEY GET AN IMPULSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, THEIR CAR IS NOT AVAILABLE. THEIR KEYS AREN'T AVAILABLE. THEY'RE IN A SAFE AND NO ONE OTHER THAN THE DIRECTOR OF NURSING OR THE CLINICAL DIRECTOR CAN ACCESS IT TO THE FOLLOWING DAY. SO THAT'S A SAFETY PRECAUTION WE PUT IN PLACE. UM YOU KNOW, BRAD WAS TALKING ABOUT THE PARKING, UH, THE AC LF. THEY SOME OF THEM DRIVE IN. THIS WAS A MEMORY CARE FACILITY. NOBODY DROVE IN. NOBODY HAD CARS THERE. SO I'M GOING TO BE VERY TRANSPARENT AND HONEST ABOUT THE FACTS HERE, I. I KNOW THAT THAT WAS A CONCERN.

TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER COLLINS. I'M I'M ADDRESSING IT. NOBODY DROVE HIM. BUT THEY DID HAVE 35 TO 40 VISITORS A DAY BECAUSE AC LFS MEMORY CARE. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THEY'RE CLOSE TO THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR FAMILY CAN COME VISIT THEM. WE'RE STRONG BELIEVERS THAT IN THE 1ST 3 TO 4 WEEKS OF TREATMENT, THEY DON'T GET VISITORS FROM THE OUTSIDE ADDICTIONS OF FAMILY DISEASE. THEY NEED TO BE TRIGGERED BY DIVORCE PAPERS OR A KID CRYING AND SCREAMING. I MISS YOU, MOMMY AND DADDY. SO WE TRY TO REMOVE THAT SO THEY CAN FOCUS ON THEMSELVES, SO THEY DON'T DO THAT AT THIS LEVEL OF CARE WHEN WE TRANSFER THEM TO PORT ST LUCIE TO OUR PARTIAL HOSPITALIZATION, INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT AND HAVE TRANSITIONAL CARE THERE AND HELP GET THEM EDUCATED, UH, VOCATIONAL TRAINING. GET THEM FOR INTERVIEWS. GET THEM BACK INTO THE WORKFORCE. THAT'S WHEN WE START TO REINTEGRATE THE FAMILY AFTER DOING FAMILY THERAPY, BECAUSE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, A LOT OF THE FAMILIES PRETTY HURT AND OFFENDED IN THE CONVERSATIONS. DON'T GO VERY ONCE. HEY UH, HONEY, I'M I'M A WEEK SOBER. THAT'S GREAT. BUT YOU SPENT OUR MORTGAGE AT THE CASINO YOU WERE, YOU KNOW. THERE'S NOT A LOT OF TOLERANCE AND UNDERSTANDING IN THE EARLY STAGES, SO WE WANT OUR PATIENTS TO FOCUS ON THEMSELVES, BECAUSE IF THEY GET DISTRACTED BY WHAT'S GOING ON AT HOME, CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES THAT. OH I GOTTA GO HOME. MY WIFE'S GOING TO DIVORCE ME IF I DON'T OR MY HUSBAND'S GONNA DIVORCE ME IF I DON'T GO HOME, SO WE PRETTY MUCH ELIMINATE THAT COMMUNICATION UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. UM AS FAR AS CARS. LIKE I SAID, WE WON'T HAVE ANY CARS AT THE FACILITY. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 100 AND 5 TO 110 STAFF MEMBERS THAT WORK. THE NURSES WORKING IN 12 HOUR SHIFTS. THE REST OF THE EMPLOYEES WORKING AN EIGHT HOUR SHIFTS AND THE 15 TO 20 THERAPISTS. THEY'RE ONLY THERE DURING THE DAYTIME, SO THERE'S NEVER GOING TO BE MORE THAN 35 TO 40 CARS ON OUR PROPERTY AT ANY GIVEN TIME, SO WE HAVE MORE THAN ADEQUATE PARKING. IN FACT, I'M SO CONFIDENT THAT YOU'LL RARELY SEE ANY PEOPLE PARKING OUT FRONT. THEY'RE GONNA BE PART. ALL THE EMPLOYEES WILL BE PARKING IN THE BACK. TO TOUCH ON THE LAND USE OF THE EXISTING PROPERTY. COMMISSIONER CLARK. I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU AS FAR AS RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY, BUT THIS PROPERTY IS ALREADY BUILT. THERE'S A RESIDENTIAL, MULTI FAMILY NEXT DOOR. THIS PROPERTY IS BUILT AND I KNOW THE OWNER PUT CLOSE TO $35 MILLION INTO THIS PROPERTY. I DID THE MATH WITH OUR LAND PLANNER. YOU CAN GET ROUGHLY 200 HOMES THERE. $35 MILLION. 200 HOMES. THAT A

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THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THAT. SO IF ANY OF YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES NEEDED A QUALITY MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY, THERE'S NOTHING IN MARTIN COUNTY. AS THE MARTIN COUNTY RESIDENT. I'M KIND OF ASHAMED. THERE'S NOT A RESOURCE HERE TO TAKE IT ONE STEP FURTHER. WE'RE GOING TO ACCEPT MEDICARE. ALL THE BABY BOOMERS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISING FAMILIES FOR YEARS THAT MAYBE THEY GOT DEPENDENT ON SLEEPING MEDS LIKE AMBIEN, AND THEY'RE DEPRESSED OR THEY JUST LOST THEIR SPOUSE, AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE TO TURN. GUESS WHAT? THERE'S NO MEDICARE FACILITY IN THE STATE THAT'S GOING TO TREAT THEM WITH DIGNITY. NOT MEDICAID. OK NOT MEDICAID, MEDICARE. MEDICAID IS WHAT THEY GIVE OUT TO PEOPLE THAT ARE POOR HOMELESS THAT CAN'T AFFORD ANYTHING. AND I'M NOT DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THAT ON DIFFERENTIATING. SO YOU GUYS UNDERSTAND THE MEDICARE IS FOR PEOPLE 65 AND OVER THAT WANT TO HAVE OPTIONS. SO WHETHER IT'S IF I'M NOT GOING TO PRESUME ANY OF YOU ARE OVER 65. I'M GONNA ASSUME ALL OF YOU ARE UNDER 65. BUT YOU HAVE PARENTS. IF YOUR PARENTS NEED HELP, DO YOU WANT TO SEND THEM OUT OF STATE? OR WOULD YOU RATHER SEND THEM SOMEWHERE LOCAL THAT PROVIDES QUALITY CARE THAT YOU KNOW THEY'RE GETTING THE TREATMENT THEY DESERVE. THERE'S NO. THERE'S NO MEDICARE FACILITY ANYWHERE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA THAT PROVIDES QUALITY DIGNITY, DIGNIFIED CARE TO PEOPLE THAT DESERVE IT. SO WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT 100 AND 40 BEDS. IT'S NOT 140. IT'S GOING TO BE 126. THE WAY I LOOK AT FACILITIES IS I BUILD THE PROGRAM. I BUILD THE MEDICAL NEEDS. THE PSYCHIATRIC NEEDS THE AMENITIES, THE PHYSICAL THERAPY, THE GYM, EVERYTHING THEY NEED AND WHATEVER IS LEFT OVER AFTER THAT, THAT'S HOW MANY BEDS WE'RE GONNA FIT IN THERE. I'M NOT LIKE MOST OPERATORS THAT SIT THERE AND SAY WE'RE GOING TO FILL AS MANY BEDS IN HERE AS POSSIBLE AND TRY TO MAXIMIZE PROFIT.

THAT'S NOT HOW I DO THINGS. I BUILT THE FACILITY AS FAR AS THE LAYOUT, THE DESIGN THE LICENSING AND THE HOWEVER MANY PATIENTS ARE LEFT OVER AND IT HAPPENED TO BE 126. I'M NOT SAYING THIS TO TRY TO CURRY FAVOR OR PLEASE YOU GUYS AND TELL YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR. IT'S A FACT THAT'S HOW I WOULD BUILD THE HOW I WOULD BUILD OUT THE FACILITY. UM I ALSO HEARD IT MENTIONED THAT 1680 PEOPLE WOULD BE COMING IN AND OUT OF OUR TOWN. THAT'S NOT TRUE, EITHER OVER 50% COME LOCALLY, RIGHT? JUST BECAUSE I ADVERTISE NATIONALLY AND HALF OF MY ADVERTISING BUDGET IS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE ALREADY LIVING IN FLORIDA. THEY JUST HAVE NEW JERSEY OR NEW YORK AREA CODES. I TARGET BY AREA CODES WHEN THEY SEE ADS ON THEIR CELL PHONE, OR THEY SEE ADS ON THEIR COMPUTER BASED ON AN IP ADDRESS, SO A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE ALREADY HERE. THE OTHER THING WE DO IS TREAT THE MILITARY. THERE'S NOT AN INPATIENT TRI CARE FACILITY OF THIS OF THIS CALIBER AND QUALITY THAT OUR VETERANS TRULY DESERVE ALL THE OTHER 22 FACILITIES I MENTIONED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MAYBE TWO OF THEM. THEY'RE THESE OUTPATIENT PROGRAMS WHERE YOU GO LIVE IN AN APARTMENT. YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF SUPERVISION. AT NIGHT. YOU COME TO THE TREATMENT CENTER FOR FIVE HOURS FOR THERAPY. DURING THE DAY THEY BUST YOU BACK OUT. THIS IS HAPPENING ALL AROUND THE COUNTY ALL DAY LONG IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, OR KNOW ABOUT IT, IT'S HAPPENING. VERY SHORT STORY. UM ABOUT 10. YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE DETOXES OPENED IN PORT SAINT LUCIE. WE HAD A LOT OF PUBLIC OUTCRY, JUST LIKE THIS RIGHT NOW. RIGHT ONE OF THE GUYS THAT CAME AND WAS THE MOST VOCAL FAST FORWARD 10. YEARS LATER, WE GET A KNOCK ON THE DOOR FROM THE FBI AND SAYS, WE NEED TO USE YOUR PARKING LOT AS A STAGING FACILITY. I SAID MAY I ASK WHAT FOR THE LARGEST DRUG BUST EVER IN ST LUCIE COUNTY, FIVE HOUSES DOWN, THEY BUSTED A GUY THAT WAS MANUFACTURING POUNDS OF FENTANYL. KILOS OF COCAINE. MD MA HE HAD ASSAULT RIFLES $800,000 IN CASH AND LOOK IT UP.

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SORRY BRAD. NO DISRESPECT THE 364 CARS. THAT'S NEVER GONNA HAPPEN AT OUR FACILITY. LIKE I SAID, WE'RE GONNA HAVE 35 TO 45 AT ANY GIVEN TIME THERE. I KNOW YOU WERE USING FORMULAS AND CALCULATIONS, BUT THEY'LL NEVER BE 364 CARS COMING IN AND OUT IN A DAY BECAUSE WE DON'T DO OUTPATIENT AND WE DON'T ALLOW VISITORS. UM WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE ABLE TO HELP BY HAVING A PROMINENT VISIBLE DETOX. WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO REDUCE SOME OF THE BURDEN ON THE ER INSTEAD OF PEOPLE RUSHING TO THE ER BECAUSE THEY'RE HAVING DTS DE LEARY TRES FROM ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL OR BENZODIAZEPINE WITHDRAWAL OR VARIOUS ISSUES THAT ARE NON LIFE THREATENING, OR ACTUALLY, THEY ARE LIFE THREATENING. IF THEY GO UNTREATED. THEY KNOW WHERE TO SHOW UP RIGHT NOW, IF I ASKED EVERYBODY IF YOU HAD AN EMERGENCY AND YOU RAN OUT OF YOUR XANAX AND YOU START SHAKING OTHER THAN THE HOSPITAL, WHERE'S THE CLOSEST FACILITY? YOU GO TO AND I'M SURE EVERYONE HERE THAT WORKS FOR COASTAL IS GONNA SAY COASTAL. BUT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THAT MOST OF YOU DON'T KNOW. SO THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO POINT OUT ABOUT THE QUADRANTS IS NOT ONLY IS EACH QUADRANT GOING TO BE LOCKED DOWN AND HAVE A SEPARATE LEVEL OF CARE, RIGHT? WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE MENTAL HEALTH. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE DETOX, MALE AND FEMALE SEPARATE RESIDENTIAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE. BUT THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN NURSES STATION. THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN PHARMACY. THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN THERAPISTS, AND THEY'RE DEDICATED TO THAT WING. I AGREE.

ONE FACILITY WITH 121 140. ANYTHING OVER 65 BEDS IS WAY TOO MUCH IN ONE FACILITY BECAUSE YOU CAN'T PROVIDE THE QUALITY OF CARE. RIGHT. SO THE ONLY REASON INTERESTED IN THIS PROPERTY AND IN WANTING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH IT IS BECAUSE WE'RE ABLE TO BREAK IT INTO THE FOUR QUADRANTS AND KEEP THEM SEPARATE AND PROVIDE PERSONALIZED CARE. WE EVEN IN LARGE EDUCATIONAL GROUPS . YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO HAVE MORE THAN 32 TO 33 PEOPLE. WE HAVE WHAT'S CALLED CASE LOAD WHERE EACH THERAPIST IS NEVER ASSIGNED MORE THAN EIGHT PATIENTS, SO IT GIVES THEM AMPLE TIME TO DO ONE ON ONE THERAPY WITH EACH PATIENT. AND THE OTHER THING THAT I WANNA SAY, AND I WANNA CHALLENGE EVERYBODY IN HERE. I WANNA ASK EVERYBODY. WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO? TO HELP REDUCE THE HOMELESS POPULATION IN THE CITY OF STUART, WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO DO? WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO TO HELP WITH MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AND ADDICTION CRISIS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD? WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO DO? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'M WILLING TO DO. WHAT I'M WILLING TO SIGN IT IN FRONT OF ALL OF YOU PERSONALLY GUARANTEE IT AND PUT MY HOUSE UP AS COLLATERAL. I WILL DONATE 10 FULLY FUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS. THE CITY OF STUART RESIDENCE IS EVERY MONTH. THAT'S OVER $6 MILLION A YEAR IN FREE SERVICES. I WILL PROVIDE THE CITY TO HELP WITH THE HOMELESS PROBLEM. I DON'T WANT TO BE A BURDEN. I DON'T WANT TO BE PART OF THE PROBLEM. I WANT TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION. I'LL COMMIT TO IT AND I'LL SIGN IT RIGHT NOW. DOES ANY OF YOU WILLING TO DO THAT? IS ANY WILLING OF YOU TO DO ONE? DOES ANYBODY WILLING TO DONATE $10,000 TO GET A HOMELESS PERSON OFF THE STREET? OK? SO THE STATS. I WANNA PRO PRODUCE ALSO BECAUSE ANYONE IN THE INDUSTRY NO MATTER WHAT THEY MAY SAY, OTHERWISE, IT'S BEEN PROVEN TIME AND TIME CLINICALLY BY PSYCHIATRISTS BY PSYCHOLOGIST THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE CHANCE OF SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY ESPECIALLY YOUR FIRST GO AROUND IS TO GET YOU OUT OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT. THEY SAY CHANGE PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS. IT MAKES SENSE. HOW BRAD EXPLAINED IT. IF I KNOW THE LOCAL LIQUOR STORE IF I KNOW THAT I CAN GET A HOLD OF A DRUG DEALER, AND HE CAN THROW A FOOTBALL OVER THE FENCE THAT'S FILLED WITH HEROIN. TRUST ME. THIS HAPPENS NOT AT OUR FACILITY. FROM OUT OF TOWN PEOPLE WHO DO YOU THINK IT HAPPENS WITH THE LOCAL PEOPLE, AND I'M NOT DISCRIMINATING BECAUSE I'M A LOCAL PERSON. I'M JUST SAYING THEY HAVE THE ACCESS TO IT. SO THE STATISTICS LOOKING AT OUR PATIENTS FROM THE LAST 12 YEARS WELL, SORRY. THE LAST 12 MONTHS. PEOPLE FROM OUT OF STATE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED TREATMENT 72% OF THE TIME IN RETURN BACK HOME. 17% LEFT BEFORE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING TREATMENT AND 11% LEFT FOR MEDICAL OR OTHER REASONS.

PATIENTS WITHIN THE STATE OF FLORIDA 65% OF THEM SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED TREATMENT 23% LEFT BEFORE COMPLETING AND 12% FOR OTHER PATIENTS THAT RESIDE IN MARTIN COUNTY, WHETHER THEY'RE HOMELESS, OR THEY PHYSICALLY LIVE IN A IN A DWELLING HERE, ONLY 54% SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED TREATMENT 38% LEFT BEFORE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING TREATMENT, SO THERE'S A 224% GREATER FAILURE RATE. IF YOU GO TO TREATMENT LOCALLY, THEN GOING OUT OF TOWN. AND 8% LEFT FOR OTHER REASONS. IT SADDENS ME. WITH THE DEATHS, THE UNNECESSARY AND UNTIMELY DEATHS THAT OCCUR EVERY DAY. UM THIS INDUSTRY HAS SHOWED ME SOME OF THE WORST THINGS THAT I WISH I WOULD NEVER

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THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. MR ACKER, YOU MIND GETTING BACK UP THERE? I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR YOU. SO WOULD YOU CONSIDER THIS TO BE THE LARGEST, UM MEDICAL DETOX AND RESIDENTIAL CENTER. IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA IF APPROVED. I DON'T BELIEVE SO. BUT I CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN THINGS. I DON'T REALLY COMPARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING AND LOOK INTO THEIR BED COUNT, BUT I KNOW THERE ARE SOME OTHER LARGE FACILITIES OUT THERE. SO I APPRECIATE THAT ANSWER. THAT'S A BIT VAGUE. UM IT'S JUST TRUTHFUL , I. I REALLY DON'T KEEP TRACK OF THE BIG COUNT OF COMPETITORS AND I APPREC. I APPRECIATE THE REBRAND A BIT FOR THE FOUR SEPARATE QUADRANTS. UM VERSUS THIS IS ONE FACILITY. CORRECT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT YOUR APPLICATIONS FOR ONE FACILITY.

CORRECT JUST FOR CLARIFICATION. SORRY. OUR APPLICATION HERE WILL BE APPLYING FOR MULTIPLE BUT OUR APPLICATIONS. I'M ANSWERING THE QUESTION. HE'S ASKING ONE FACILITY CORRECT. THAT'S CORRECT BECAUSE IT WAS A LITTLE CONFUSING, BASED ON THE PRESENTATION. UM MY FIRST QUESTION. I'M SURE YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH, UM THIS IS THIS IS THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION. LIST OF ALL MEDICAL DETOX AND RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTERS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. RIGHT. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BEFORE I SEEN IT. OK, SO THEN YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH BED COUNTS AND THE NUMBER OF THESE SAW IT IN THE PAST WEEK BECAUSE THAT WAS PROVIDED TO YOU BY SOME OF THE OPPOSITION. SO WHEN WE MADE A PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST THAT WAS SENT TO ME, SO I SAW IT FOR 10 SECONDS. OK OUTSIDE OF YOU'RE SAYING BE COUNT. I JUST I GLANCED AT IT. YES SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE NUMBERS OF BEDS, UM AND I KIND OF I THINK THERE WAS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 253 100 OF THESE MEDICAL DETOX AND RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTERS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. BUT THE QUESTION I ASK YOU, SIR, IS HOW MANY OF THOSE ARE STATE FUNDED LOCKDOWN FACILITIES WHERE THE QUALITY OF CARE IS SUBSTANDARD AND YOU'RE TREATED LIKE A CRIMINAL. SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING A T, THE NUMBER OF BEDS THERE'S NOT ONE THAT'S EVEN OVER 100.

CLOSEST WE GET TO IS GOING TO BE 90. SO YOU'RE COMPARING DETOXES, AND WE'RE ONLY GOING TO HAVE 2 60 23 DETOX BEDS. BUT IN TERMS OF FACILITIES THIS WHAT YOU'RE COMPARING DETOXES. THIS IS NOT BREAKING DOWN EACH OF THEIR DIFFERENT WINGS. THIS IS SO I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT WAS A LIST OF ALL DETOXES IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOR THE FACILITY. THIS IS THIS IS THE LIST OF NUMBER OF BEDS. WE DON'T GET OVER 100. SO CLEARLY, I GET ONE AT 90. THERE'S ONE AT 82 ANOTHER AT 80.

MOST OF THESE MOST OF THESE ARE GONNA BE MUCH LESS YOU WOULD BE THIS WOULD BE THE LARGEST OF THIS TYPE OF FACILITY IN THE STATE. IT WOULDN'T WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT DETOXES. WE'RE ONLY GOING TO HAVE A LICENSE FOR 23 DETOX IS MEDICAL DETOX AND RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTER. THAT'S THAT'S THAT IS RESIDENTIAL AS WELL. SO THEN, WITH THAT INFORMATION, YOU WOULD AGREE THAT THIS WOULD BE THE LARGEST OF THAT TYPE OF FACILITY. YES. UM IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF CALLS. THAT'S ANOTHER POINT. I WANTED TO GET TO BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY WHO'S GOING TO BE PAYING OR AN INCREASED NUMBER OF CALLS. WHO WOULD THAT PUT THE BURDEN ON? THERE'S AN INCREASED NUMBER OF CALLS FROM THE A F IS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE COST. THE MEMORY CARE FACILITY THAT WE REPLACED WOULD BE REPLACING. THEY HAVE. I THINK TRIPLE PER PATIENT THE NUMBER OF FALLS SO WE WOULDN'T BE INCREASING THE BURDEN WE'D BE REDUCING IT. SO WITHOUT GETTING TOO TECHNICAL. IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 100 AND 26 BEDS, WE CAN'T REALLY PREDICT EXACTLY WHAT THAT NUMBER OF CALLS WOULD BE COMPARED TO THAT MEMORY. I KNOW WHAT THEIR CENSUS NUMBERS WAS FRIENDLY WITH THE OWNER AND I COULD LOOK AT MY FACILITIES I'VE OWNED OVER 17 YEARS AND COME UP WITH A PRO RATA FORMULA. SO WITH THE, UM YOU ARE THE OWNER CORRECT OF THE UNITY, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. THAT'S NO LONGER OPEN. I SHUT THAT DOWN DURING COVID. THAT WAS AN IN NETWORK FACILITY, BUT THE RECORDS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NUMBER OF CALLS THAT WAS ALSO REFERENCED THOSE PROPERTIES THAT WOULD APPLY CORRECT CORRECT. SO, UH, THIS IN PARTICULAR HAD 26 BEDS.

THE ADDRESS IS THE 2349 CARRY, THEN? YES. SO 26 BEDS SO WE COULD ROUGHLY TIMES FIVE. IT WHATEVER THIS NUMBER IS, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 126 BEDS RIGHT. SO WHEN WE SAY THAT, THAT A LF HOW MANY CALLS? I THINK IT WAS 35 IN A MONTH. THIR 36 IN A MONTH. SO WHEN WE START TALKING

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AND YOU SAID YES, MA'AM. IF THAT THAT IS IN STARK CONTRAST TO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE. EVEN IF YOU WANT TO SAY THAT, I AGREE THAT WE SO TRYING TO REMEMBER THE CONTEXT OF THE CONVERSATION.

SHE DID ASK ACROSS ALL FACILITIES. YES SIR. OK, MAYBE I MAYBE MY ANSWER AND I'M IS WAS ONES THAT WE DON'T INITIATE. HOW MANY FACILITIES DO YOU OWN? WE HAD 17 AT ONE POINT, AND FIVE OF THEM WERE IN MARTIN COUNTY. SO WE CONSOLIDATED WITH COVID. CURRENTLY WE IF WE JUST TALK ABOUT UNITY THAT'S NO LONGER IN EXISTENCE. BUT AND EVEN IF WE TAKE NINE CALLS IN MARCH INSTEAD OF THE 16 THAT'S LISTED HERE WHERE OUR PUBLIC SAFETY IS GONNA BE ANSWERING THOSE CALLS. IT MAY BE ONE EVENT, BUT WE'RE STILL GETTING THESE CALLS. RIGHT SO TELL ME, I'LL PAY FOR IT. SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT YOU GOTTA UNDERSTAND SOMETHING. OUR PATIENTS ARE PPO TOP OF THE LINE. YOU DON'T THINK THE EMS BILLS THEIR INSURANCE, 1200 BUCKS A POP. YOU DON'T THINK THAT THEY'RE BEING COMPENSATED? FAIR POINT. BUT FROM A PUBLIC SAFETY STANDPOINT, THE CITY OF STUART IS NOT MARTIN COUNTY. YOU DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES WITH POLICE AND FIRE THAT THE COUNTY DOES. IT'S GOING TO HIT A CITY OF PORT ST LUCIA DOESN'T EITHER, BUT WE COMBATED IT THERE. I MEAN, WE CAN'T PLEASE EVERYBODY. WE'RE EITHER GOING TO SAVE SOME LIVES AND USE SOME RESOURCES.

AND IF OUR PATIENTS INSURANCE PAY FOR THOSE RESOURCES, AND IF YOU CAN SHOW ME IT'S A BIG ENOUGH STRAIN. I'LL MAKE AN ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S VERY GENEROUS OF YOU. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S GONNA BE TAXPAYERS THAT ARE PAYING FOR THAT EXTRA PUBLIC SAFETY. SO WE'RE LOOKING A T, YOU KNOW, IN MARCH, YOU SAY IT'S NINE. BUT I SEE 16.

YOU KNOW, DECEMBER THE NUMBER OF CALLS YOU'RE SAYING IT'S NINE. BUT I READ 16. ARE YOU BACKING OUT THE DUPLICATES? THESE ARE STILL CALLS. THEY MAY BE ONE EVENT, BUT THEY'RE MULTIPLE CALLS. YEAH, BUT THE RESOURCES ARE ONE PERSON TAKING TWO POLLS. THEY'RE NOT BRINGING OUT UNLESS NECESSARY. MULTIPLE EMS AND P. I GUESS YOU'RE NOT FOLLOWING MY LOGIC WHEN YOU TOLD MISS PETERSON THAT IT WAS 2 TO 3 ACROSS ALL OF YOUR FACILITIES, RIGHT? WHAT I SAID AS I WAS. I WAS PROBABLY SPEAKING ABOUT PATIENTS THAT INITIATE THE CALLS , NOT US, CALLING FOR MEDICAL SAFETY REASONS. THAT'S THAT'S PROBABLY ANOTHER POINT YOU MADE IS THAT THESE ARE NOT THESE ARE THESE ARE JUST SUICIDE ATTEMPTS WHICH THERE ARE THERE ARE PLENTY OF THOSE IN HERE, BUT THERE ARE ALSO PHYSICAL FIGHTS AND ASSAULT. AND YOU SAID, YOU'VE ONLY TRACKED MAYBE ONE OR TWO OF THESE, AND THAT'S VERY RARE. AND I'VE GOT TWO OF THEM ON, UH, JUST ONE FACILITY. OK IT SEEMS LIKE MAYBE WE'RE NOT BEING ENTIRELY ACCURATE TO CHARACTERIZE THIS IS SOMETHING OTHER THAN WHAT IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF ASSAULT A FEMALE WALKS BY A MALE AND SPITS ON THE FLOOR NEXT TO HIS SHOES. SHE'S A MENTAL HEALTH PATIENT, SHE SAYS. I WANT THE POLICE CALLED. I'M PRESSING CHARGES. THAT'S ASSAULT. IT'S HARD TO DECIPHER WHAT THAT IS. I'M JUST SEEING ASSAULT WITH WITH A BUSINESS ASSOCIATE AFFILIATE AGREEMENT THAT PROTECTS HIPAA. I'D BE GLAD TO OPEN THE CHARTS AND SHOW YOU I'VE GOT NOTHING TO HIDE. YOU GUYS CAN COME ON MY PROPERTY.

YOU COULD LOOK WITH THE PROPER DOCUMENTATION SIGN AND SEE WHAT THESE INCIDENTS ACTUALLY ARE. MY NEXT QUESTION WOULD BE WHERE YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR PATIENTS FROM YOU'VE YOU'VE ANSWERED THIS AND I HEARD A BIT OF A PIVOT TONIGHT, BUT WHEN MISS PETERSON ASKED, ARE YOU? ARE YOU GETTING YOUR PATIENTS FROM THE COURT SYSTEM HOSPITALS OR BOTH? YOU RESPONDED. NEITHER. WE GET AGAIN . THIS IS QUOTING YOU VERBATIM. OK NEITHER WE GET PROBABLY 10, MAYBE 10% OR ALUMNI. MAYBE 5% OF PROFESSIONAL REFERRALS AND THE OTHER 85% WE SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON ONLINE ADVERTISING.

100% CORRECT. I THOUGHT THAT WAS INCREDIBLE POINT. UM WHEN SHE PRESSED YOU A LITTLE BIT HARDER AND SAID, ARE MOST OF YOUR PATIENTS AND THIS WAS TALKING ABOUT THE PORT SAINT LUCIE FACILITY OR MOST OF THEM FROM PORT ST LUCIA, OR DO THEY STAY IN PORT ST LUCIE? AND YOU SAID, I WOULD SAY ABOUT 50% OF OUR PATIENTS LOCALLY. 50% ARE FROM OUT OF STATE. I'M GOING TO QUOTE YOU VERBATIM. 50% OF OUR PATIENTS ARE FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA. AND 50% ARE FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY. HALF OF THEM GO BACK, USUALLY TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM. AND I CLARIFIED THAT WHEN I STARTED BY SAYING THAT 50% OF OUR MARKETING EFFORTS AROUND THE COUNTRY, AND HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD YOU SAY YOU SPEND ON ON MARKETING? IS THAT RELEVANT? JUST A QUESTION. YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER, BUT I'M JUST CURIOUS. PROBABLY CLOSE TO A MILLION DOLLARS A MONTH. SO A MILLION DOLLARS A MONTH WITH UM AND I'M ASSUMING WHO'S GOING TO COME HERE WHO YOU'RE MARKETING TO, RIGHT? SO 50% ARE FROM OUTSIDE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA. NO, WHAT I SAID, IS THAT WE TARGET

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WHAT'S CALLED THE FULL CONTINUUM. SO YOU BRING THEM IN, YOU DETOX THEM. UM AND THEN YOU SAY YOU ARE NOT GONNA PROVIDE VIRTUAL HOSPITALIZATION OR NO, ABSOLUTELY WE ARE. I'M A BIG BELIEVER IN THE CONTINUUM AND TRYING TO KEEP THE MONITOR THEM FOR UP TO A YEAR NOT OUT OF THIS FACILITY NOT OUT OF THIS FACILITY. THAT WILL BE ONE UP IN PORT. THAT'S SO THEY THEY'RE SO THEY'RE SAYING YOU'RE GONNA DO WHAT 100 AND 20 PEOPLE A MONTH. IS THAT ACCURATE? I MEAN, THERE'S BEEN SOME REMARKABLY HIGH FIGURES. 40 DAISY 120 PEOPLE A MONTH IS A AND SO THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE. 1000 PEOPLE ENGAGED IN SO IT'S IT SEEMS THAT THE FULL CONTINUUM IS GONNA BE.

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YES, BUT IT'S NOT ALWAYS BECAUSE THE PHP IS THEY STAY SOMEWHERE AND THEN RETURN TO YOUR FACILITY , RIGHT? CORRECT AND THEN INTENSIVE, IOP INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT SIMILAR THING, JUST LESS LESS HOURS A WEEK OF THE SO BUT IF YOU WANT, EVERYBODY WOULD BE GOING THROUGH THAT BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE HAVE CAREERS TO GO BACK TO. THEY HAVE CHILDREN TO TAKE CARE OF. UM, SO THE FULL CONTINUUM DOESN'T APPLY TO EVERYONE. IF I HAD TO GUESS I WOULD SAY PROBABLY HALF THE PATIENTS GO THROUGH THE WHOLE CONTINUE. BUT I MEAN, THAT'S THAT'S WHAT YOUR BUSINESS MODEL WOULD PREFER TO HAVE IT HAPPEN, RIGHT? NO NOT NECESSARILY. I MEAN, YES. I'M NOT GONNA SIT HERE AND LIE TO YOU AND SAY IT DOESN'T BENEFIT THE BUSINESS'S CASH FLOW FOR THAT TO HAPPEN, BUT I PREFER THEM TO COME ONCE AND NEVER HAVE TO COME BACK AGAIN AND HAVE A GREAT LIFE AND REFER THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. AND THEN THERE'S OPIE. THERE'S OUTPATIENT. WHICH IS VERY TYPICAL IN THIS RIGHT WITH THE CURRENT FACILITIES WE HAVE, BUT NONE OF THAT WOULD BE DONE AT THIS FACILITY, AND I HAVE NO PROBLEM PUTTING IN THE DEVELOPMENT. SO NONE OF THE PPIO OR PEOPLE WOULD BE RETURNING FROM TO THIS FACILITY FROM WHERE THEY MAY BE STAYING IN THE COUNTRY. ABSOLUTELY YOU YOU WERE WITH ME AND YOU SAW THE MEDICAL STRIP CENTER. THAT'S WHERE THEY WOULD GO TO. AND THEN THERE'S APARTMENTS RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM THERE THAT THEY LIVE IN. SO THIS IS A VERY FOCUSED IN THE AREA OF TREATMENT. WHAT IN HOUSE. YEAH, INPATIENT. OKAY IT SAID THAT YOU'RE GONNA CHARGE $2000 A DAY FOR DETOX. IS THAT A CORRECT INFORMATION THAT THAT THE COMPETITORS GAVE TO YOU? THAT WAS COMPLETELY MADE UP. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT MY RATES ARE AT A MAXIMUM. WE CHARGE $1000 A DAY AND IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE AN EXTENDED DETOX BECAUSE OF A LONG HISTORY OF BENZODIAZEPINES OR METHOD, UH, METHADONE, UH, WE TYPICALLY CHARGE BETWEEN 507 50 A DAY. SO THE STATEMENT WAS MADE THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE 300 PLUS ADMISSIONS AND DISCHARGES A MONTH. THAT WAS ANOTHER LIE. THIS IS NONE OF THIS INFORMATION WAS CREATED BY ME. IT WAS REVIEWED BY ME. THIS IS WHAT THE COMPETITORS HANDED YOU TO FEAR MONGER AND TO GETTING THIS DENIED BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN PERSONAL GREED AND FEAR. SORRY I DON'T WANNA DO THAT. I DO GOOD WORK AS A AS A POINT OF REFERENCE. I SHOULD SAY THAT. I DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF THOSE RECORDS ARE PART OF THE RECORD. IN THIS CASE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN OFFERED BY EITHER AN INTERVIEW. WOULD THE APPLICANT AND THEY'RE NOT AS PART OF THE FILE AT ALL OTHER THAN THEY WERE REFERENCED AS EX PARTY COMMUNICATIONS. I'M JUST ALLOWING HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO CLARIFY STATEMENTS THAT WERE THAT WERE MADE TO THE COMMISSIONERS BOTH VERBALLY AND IN WRITING. AND I'M TRYING TO GET AS ACCURATE A PICTURE IF THEY CAN. NO NO, NOT BY. YOU ARE CLARIFYING FOR THE REST OF THE COMMISSIONERS AND THE PUBLIC THAT NONE OF THE AVERAGE DETOX TAKES ABOUT HOW LONG THE AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY IS ABOUT 5.6 DAYS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE LEAVE AFTER A COUPLE DAYS THEY DECIDE THAT THEY'RE NOT READY OR THAT THEY CAN DO IT ON THEIR OWN, AND THEY GO BACK HOME. AND THEN THE AVERAGE RESIDENTIAL AVERAGE RESIDENTIAL FOR US IS ABOUT 28 DAYS. WOW. OK, SO THAT'S ON. THE PEOPLE THAT SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE TREATMENT AT AN INPATIENT LEVEL OF CARE. STAY WITH US APPROXIMATELY 43 DAYS BETWEEN DETOX AND THE RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT IS THAT AN UNUSUAL LENGTH OF TIME OR TYPICAL UM IT'S A LITTLE HIGHER THAN INDUSTRY AVERAGE. AND THAT LENGTH OF TIME IS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE HAD SUCCESS, OBVIOUSLY, WITH IT'S WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE THEM THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CARE AND GIVE THEM THE MOST SERVICES. OK THANK YOU, MR E. YES? JODY CAN YOU PLEASE PULL UP THE FOUR QUADRANTS FOR ME? AND IF YOU COULD JUST GO THROUGH A DAY FOR ME ON THOSE FOUR QUADRANTS AND SEE HOW THAT WORKS. UM IT WASN'T COLOR LIKE FOUR COLORS. YES. SO TYPICALLY WHEN THEY ADMIT TO THE DETOX LEVEL OF CARE. WE PROVIDE CLINICAL SUPPORT. WE DO PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENTS. WE DO CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TESTING. WE DO MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS, BUT THOSE FIRST FEW DAYS THEY'RE COMING OFF THE SUBSTANCES. THEY'RE MENTALLY FOGGY. THEY'RE PHYSICALLY NOT FEELING WELL. SO DURING THAT PROCESS, WE LET THEM REST A LOT. WE DO. STAY RIGHT IN THAT AREA. IN THAT WING. THEY WILL NEVER LEAVE THAT WING FOR ANY REASON. IN FACT, WE CAN'T EVEN LET THEM LEAVE IF THEY WANT TO AT THAT PHASE BECAUSE THEY'RE BEING MEDICATED BY US, AND THEY POSE A DANGER TO THEMSELVES OR SOMEONE ELSE SO THAT SOMETIMES CALL THE POLICE FOR THAT. HEY THIS PERSON'S ON A BENZODIAZEPINE TAPER OR TAKING LIBRIUM FOR ALCOHOL PATROL. THEY'RE NOT SAFE TO BE OUT IN PUBLIC. SO THEN THE POLICE COME AND EXPLAIN TO THEM. YOU CAN'T LEAVE UNTIL THE MEDICAL DOCTOR SAYS THIS HAS BEEN OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM LONG ENOUGH WHERE IT'S SAFE FOR YOU TO LEAVE. UM SO AT THAT LEVEL OF CARE, WE OFFER GROUP COUNSELING INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING, BUT IT'S MOSTLY TESTING AND RESTING AND MEDICATING AND GETTING THEM COMFORTABLE TO GET ALL THIS, UH, SUBSTANCES OUT OF THEIR SYSTEM. ONCE THAT HAPPENS, THEN THEY'LL BE TO THE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM.

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THEY GO TO THE NURSES' WINDOW. THEY GET THEIR MEDICATION. THEY GO AND HAVE BREAKFAST. THEY'LL DO LIKE A SPIRITUAL GOALS GROUP IN THE MORNING. THEN THEY'LL DO WHAT'S CALLED CASE LOAD WHERE THEY MEET WITH THEIR THERAPIST AND THE SIX OR SEVEN OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO THAT THERAPIST. SPEND ABOUT TWO HOURS THERE DISCUSSING REALLY DEEP ISSUES AND GETTING VERY PERSONAL . THEN THEY'LL HAVE LUNCH HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A BREAK AFTER LUNCH. THEY'LL COME BACK FOR SOME GROUP EDUCATION, THEN THEY'LL PROBABLY HAVE A ONE ON ONE SESSION IN THE AFTERNOON.

THEN THEY MAY DO AN APPOINTMENT IN OUR NEUROFEEDBACK DEPARTMENT, WHERE WE DO QEG BRAIN SCANNING TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF IMPULSIVITY , HYPERACTIVITY AND CREATE CUSTOM NEUROFEEDBACK PROTOCOLS TO HELP REGULATE HELP THEIR BRAIN AND NEUROTRANSMITTERS HEAL A LITTLE BIT FASTER THAN THEY WOULD JUST ON THEIR OWN. AFTER THE END OF THAT, THEN THEY WILL WORK OUT OR EXERCISE, WHETHER IT'S YOGA, TAI CHI WEIGHTS. WE WILL BE INSTALLING A GYM IN THERE AND THEN AFTER THAT, THEY EITHER HAVE WHAT'S CALLED HN. I HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS FROM NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS AND OR ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS OR BOTH. AND OR NAMI. THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL HEALTH IS HERE. THEY WILL COME IN AND BRING MEETINGS IN AND HOLD MEETINGS ON THE PROPERTY WITH OUR PATIENTS. UM, AND THEY'LL HAVE A CURFEW IN A BEDTIME, AND THEY REPEAT THAT BASICALLY SIX DAYS A WEEK ON THE SEVENTH DAY, WE GIVE THEM A LITTLE BIT. THERAPY A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A BREAK. THEY CAN SPEND TIME JOURNALING. UM WE ALSO GIVE EVERY PATIENT A CHROMEBOOK THAT WE CONTROL FROM A CENTRAL PLATFORM SO THEY HAVE ACCESS TO BE ABLE TO ZOOM IF THEY CAN'T SLEEP. 24 HOUR 12 STEP MEETINGS. THERE'S MEDITATION APPS ON THERE . UM THERE'S JOB SEEKING EMPLOYMENT WHEN THEY'RE READY, AND WE CONTROL WHAT APPS AND FUNCTIONS THEY HAVE ACCESS TO.

EACH PATIENT HAS THEIR OWN. COMMISSIONER CLARK, WE COULD BE HERE ALL NIGHT. NO, NO, NO, BUT I JUST I JUST NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN. IN THIS THING SO THAT WE KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN. SO THAT'S ABOUT A WEEK TOO. AT THE END OF WEEK TWO? YEAH AFTER THE FIRST WEEK, YOU KNOW 7 TO 10 DAYS. THAT'S WHAT THEY START IN, AND THEY'LL STAY IN THAT TYPE OF CURRICULUM FOR GIVE OR TAKE 28 DAYS OR A LITTLE BIT LONGER. OK AND THEN DURING THAT TIME, WHETHER THEY'RE THERE FOR 28 DAYS OR THERE FOR 40 DAYS, THEY DO NOT GO SHOPPING. THEY DO NOT GO TO PICK UP THEIR OWN MEDS SOMEWHERE ELSE OFF CAMPUS. THEY DON'T GO TO PARTIES OR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE CAMPUS. YOU'RE STRICTLY INPATIENT IN HOUSE ALL THE TIME. THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG ALLURE. YES, MA'AM, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG ALLURES TO ME IS RIGHT NOW IN OUR RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS PEOPLE HAVE NEEDS THEY WANT A HAIRCUT. THEY WANT TO GET THEIR NAILS DONE. I WANT TO DO THIS. THAT BY US HAVING A SPA ON SITE WITH HYDROTHERAPY, MASSAGE THERAPIST, CHIROPRACTOR HAVING A BARBER SHOP, A HAIR SALON, MANICURE PEDICURE. THERE'S NO REASON FOR THEM TO LEAVE SO THEY CAN HAVE ALL OF THEIR NEEDS AND WANTS MET AT THE SAME TIME WITHIN REASON. CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR MEDICAL OVERSIGHT? UH, WHETHER IT'S DONE BY A PSYCHIATRIST OR PSYCHOLOGIST OR OR HEAD MEDICAL PERSON MEDICAL DIRECTOR IS A PSYCHIATRIST. AND I BELIEVE HE IS ALSO A BOARD CERTIFIED IN NEUROLOGY. UM, WE HAVE DIRECTOR OF NURSING. WE HAVE PASAR MP S.

ONCE WE OPEN THIS FACILITY WILL BE. I CAN'T DISCLOSE THE PERSON'S NAME. BUT A VERY PROMINENT MEDICAL DIRECTOR WILL BE JOINING US AS WELL. AT THIS FACILITY. UM CAN'T DISCLOSE IT BECAUSE SHE'S AND YOU HIRE MORE THAN 30 PEOPLE. OH, WE HAVE WE HAVE AT LEAST 105 TO 110. WE'RE STARTING WITH ALL THOSE WILL BE PARKED ON THE SITE, BUT NOT AT THE SHIFTS AND DIFFERENT SHIFT.

OK? I BELIEVE DON'T HOLD ME TO IT, BUT I THINK THERE'S 3540 SPACES OUT BACK, WHICH THAT'S WHERE THE STAFF AT PARKS. SO FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, THE FRONT PARKING LOT IS GOING TO BE EMPTIED. PRETTY MUCH ALL THE TIME. OK CAUSE YOU'RE ON A SHIFT SHIFT, AND SO YOU DON'T USE ALL OF YOUR 140 SPACES OR WHATEVER. WE TALKED ABOUT THE LARGEST IN THE STATE RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT.

YOU'RE DEFINITELY DIFFERENT FROM CORAL SHORES, WHICH DOES A LOT OF OTHER THINGS. BAKER ACTIVE HOSPITAL FACILITY, AND I DON'T KNOW, MA'AM. WHY EVERYONE HAS THIS CONCEPT OF THE LARGEST IN THE STATE IF THERE'S 300 BEDS IN A TWO MILE RADIUS, AND YOU'RE BEING BUSED ALL AROUND YOU AND THEY'RE GOING IN AND OUT OF GROCERY STORES AND BARBER SHOPS AND HEAD SHOPS AND DOING WHATEVER THEY DO, WOULDN'T WE RATHER KNOW THEY'RE ALL IN ONE PLACE AND SAFE AND NOT LEAVING AND GOING ANYWHERE BECAUSE THAT'S HOW IT IS. NOW IS WE HAVE MULTIPLE FACILITIES SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE STEWART AND THE PEOPLE ARE BEING BUSSED AROUND ALL DAY LONG AND IT'S WAY MORE THAN 100 AND 26 PEOPLE. I CAN TELL YOU THAT OK, I KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS TO GIVE THEIR COMMENTS. I'M GONNA HOLD BACK. I WANNA LISTEN TO THEM. OK FAIR ENOUGH. AND MAYOR COULD I JUST HAVE ONE LAST QUESTION REAL QUICK. DO YOU SHARE ANY MEDICAL STAFF WITH COASTAL DETOX? YES,

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SO I JUST WANNA KNOW ABOUT THAT. SAMSUNG REPORT. WHAT YEAR IS THAT? GREAT QUESTION. YEAH. I DON'T SEE A YEAR ON SO LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT MY BACKGROUND. I WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RESOURCES SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, WHICH OF THE AGES OF THAT, UM, THAT FEDERAL ORGANIZATION AND SO WHAT MY JOB WAS IS TO PUT TOGETHER A DEMONSTRATION OF NEED AND UNMET NEED FOR THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES REGARDING ALL TITLES. RYAN WHITE. UM THAT'S HIV AIDS AND MANY SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES. THEN I GOT HIRED BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA TO PUT TOGETHER A DEMONSTRATION OF NEED AND UNMET NEED FOR ALL 67 COUNTIES, AND I WAS HIRED, UH, BY HANLEY HAZELTON, BY THE WAY, THEY HAVE 100 AND 50 BEDS JUST TO CORRECT YOU IN PALM BEACH COUNTY THAT ARE ACROSS THE CONTINUUM OF CARE, STARTING WITH F RES PHPIOP AND OUTPATIENT. I ALSO, UM THEN WORKED FOR KAREN.

KAREN HAS ABOUT 100 AND 60 BEDS IN DEL REY SO AS FAR AS LARGE UM OUR PLACE IS KIND OF SMALL. UM AND I WORKED AT BOTH OF THEM. JUST JUST FOR UP ACROSS DIFFERENT FACILITIES. IS THAT THE IDEA? THESE ARE? NO THIS IS ONE FACILITY. THESE ARE ONE FACILITY. HANLEY'S ON A MAIN CAMPUS, JUST LIKE CAMERON IS ON A MAIN CA CAMPUS CARON. BUT ANYWAY, UH, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY BACKGROUND. I'M ALSO ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE FLORIDA SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE. AND TO TALK ABOUT DEMONSTRATION OF NEED AND UNMET NEED WHAT WE DO TO GATHER THOSE NUMBERS IS LOOK AT PEOPLE 18 AND OVER IN A COUNTY AND SO MARTIN COUNTY HAS APPROXIMATELY 100 AND 60, PEOP, 100 AND 60,000 PEOPLE. AND IF WE WERE TO LOOK AT 18, PLUS, THAT'S ABOUT 100 AND 34,000 PEOPLE SO OUT OF THE 134,000 PEOPLE ABOUT 16.5% OF THOSE HAVE DEMONSTRATED A NEED FOR SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT AND OUT OF THAT, UH, 34,000 ABOUT 19,000 HAVE SOMETHING CALLED UNMET NEED, IN OTHER WORDS, RIGHT IN THE COUNTY OF MARTIN. WE HAVE AN UNMET NEED OF ABOUT 19,000 PEOPLE WITH A SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH. AND MR AKNER. I'VE WORKED FOR HIM FOR GOING ON EIGHT YEARS. AND I GOT TO CUT YOU OFF. YEAH. THREE MINUTES. OK, SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT HE'S A GREAT GUY TO WORK FOR AND WHAT I DO. THERE IS SOMETHING THAT THE REST OF THE STATE KIND OF DOESN'T DO. WE DO. LEAVE IT TO THREE MINUTES. OH,

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MICHAEL MICHAEL GUYER GOER. USED TO SHARE OH, YES, UM BEACH COUNTY. THANK YOU. UM, DEPUTY DOCTOR SOFA. UM GIORGIO GOLIAS. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS DOCTOR SOPHIA T. JULIUS I'M A LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST IN NEW YORK AND FLORIDA. UM I'VE BEEN A DIRECTOR IN NEW YORK CITY FOR OVER 10 YEARS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE. I'VE TRAINED DOCTORS AND PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL AND ON HARM REDUCTION. UH, THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. AND I AM ALSO INVOLVED IN SPEAKING THIS EVENING, UM, BASICALLY ADVOCATING FOR TREATMENT. I'VE BEEN A CO CHAIR. UH, DISCUSSING IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES THAT EFFECTS OF ADDICTION AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING UP ABOUT PEOPLE'S LIVES. YOU KNOW. FENTANYL NOW IS KILLING THE YOUTH. AND UM NOT ONLY I'M A MEMBER OF STAFF, BUT I BELIEVE THAT WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT NUMBERS , AND WE SPEAK ABOUT US BEING AFFECTED, THESE NUMBERS ARE ARE LOVED ONES, AS WAS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED. SINCE BEING HERE I'VE WORKED MOSTLY NON PROFIT, BUT WORKING IN THIS FACILITY, I HAVE SEEN HIGH FUNCTION INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE COME WITH MONEY. THERE'S NEVER BEEN AN ISSUE. ANYONE LEAVING AND BEING IN THE STREET. SO YOU KNOW, I JUST URGE EVERYBODY TO REALLY CONSIDER THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE'S LIVES. YOU KNOW OUR CHILDREN. I HAVE A 10 YEAR OLD AND IT'S LONGER. MARIJUANA IN THE PLAYGROUND IS FENTANYL. SO PLEASE CONSIDER AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EVEN IF ONE LIFE IS SAVED IF IT'S YOUR SON, YOUR BROTHER, YOUR DAUGHTER, YOUR SISTER. IT'S ONE LIFE. YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR LOVED ONES AND EVERYBODY'S AFFECTED BY ADDICTION. SO THANK YOU FOR THE TIME TO SPEAK, AND, UM, MAKE SURE THERE'S NO EVENING. THANK YOU APPRECIATE IT. UH, LOUISA LEVY. MY NAME IS LOUISA LEVY I LIVE AT, UM 3661 SOUTH EAST DOUBLE TO DRIVE. AND I'VE IT'S BEEN VERY INTERESTING LISTENING TONIGHT. I'VE REALLY LEARNED A LOT. I'VE PERHAPS, UM, MODERATED MY FEELINGS ON IT. BUT THERE'S STILL SEVERAL CONCERNS. I DO AGREE THAT MENTAL HEALTH IS A BIG ISSUE. I AM A, UM REGISTERED NURSE. I'M UH UH, I HAVE MY MASTERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING . I WORKED AT A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL. DUKE UNIVERSITY WHEN I GRADUATED FROM SCHOOL, AND, UM, I'VE SEEN THE PROBLEM FIRST HAND BOTH HERE IN THE HOSPITAL, AND, UM, I GUESS THERE ARE. I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT ARE STILL UNANSWERED. AND I'M ASSUMING THAT ALL OF YOU WILL GET THE ANSWERS TO THEM AND KNOW HOW TO FURTHER PROCEED. UM, WHAT WILL THE DIAGNOSIS BE OF THE MENTAL HEALTH SEGMENT OF THE GROUP. UM WHAT KIND OF DIAGNOSIS WILL THEY HAVE? WE I THINK THEY SAID SOMETHING LIKE DUALITY. MAYBE THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TWO DIAGNOSES . BUT THAT WOULD BE VERY CONCERNING TO ME. WHAT ONES? I KNOW. HE SAID WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE SCHIZOPHRENIC, UM MURDERERS, BUT LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THEY ARE. UM, SECONDLY, UM WHEN THEY ARE GOING OUT TO GET PHYSICAL EXERCISE IN THAT MENTAL IN THAT MIDDLE AREA. HOW ARE THEY GONNA BE MIXING? I GUESS MAYBE THEY'LL TAKE TURNS GOING OUT IN THAT. COURTYARD BUT I DON'T SEE THOSE FOUR GROUPS MIXING IN THAT AREA, AND THERE'S NO OTHER PLACE FOR THEM TO BE AVAILABLE. UM THIRD, UM, ABOUT THE SIGNING OUT A MA. UM THE POINT WAS MADE THAT IT'S ALWAYS THE, UM IN TOWN, PEOPLE THAT EXCEED THE OUT OF TOWN PEOPLE SIGNING OUT A MA. THAT MAY BE TRUE. BUT IF THERE ARE ANY PEOPLE THAT ARE SIGNING OUT A MA GIVEN THE 48 HOUR UM SIGN IN WHICH I THOUGHT WAS A GREAT, UM, ADDITION THAT HE ADDED, UM, STILL, THEY'RE SIGNING OUT AND THEY'RE NOWHERE. THEY'RE UNLIKE SIGNING OUT WHEN YOU'RE A LOCAL FLORIDIAN. YEAH, YOU HAVE SOURCES. YOU CAN GO IF THESE PEOPLE FROM OUT OF TOWN SIGN OUT. YOU KNOW? WHERE ARE THEY GOING? WHAT ARE THE AGES OF THESE PEOPLE? HE MENTIONED THAT THEY WERE NOT HAVING A BUNCH OF TEENAGERS. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE AGES ARE. THEY HAVEN'T COVERED THAT. SO IF YOU'RE GONNA GET 2022 24 YEAR OLDS THAT ARE ADDICTED TO DRUGS, WHICH ARE VERY TYPICAL OF THESE HIGH INCOME PEOPLE THAT WILL BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE TREATMENT HERE DOWN IN FLORIDA. THEY VERY LIKELY WILL DISAPPEAR INTO FLORIDA. WHY NOT? IT'S EASIER TO BE HOMELESS IN FLORIDA THAN IT IS IN NEW YORK STATE. SO I THINK

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BOTTOM LINE IS MOST PEOPLE BUYING A HOME IN ONE OF THESE IS ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST INVESTMENTS THAT THEY WILL MAKE. SO WHEN THEY DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE, LOOK AT THE SURROUNDINGS AND DETERMINE WHAT THE VACANT PARCELS ARE ZONED FOR, AND THEN DECIDE TO MAKE THE PURCHASE OR NOT. THEN YEARS LATER, THE CITY COMMISSION PRETTY MUCH STARTS GRANTING LAND USE CHANGES TO EVERY DEVELOPER THAT WANTS HIGH DENSITY. SO FOR THE WILLOUGHBY RESIDENTS WHO WERE FIGHTING THE EDEN PROJECT TO OUR EAST AND NOW A DEVELOPER WANTING TO PURCHASE A CLOSED DOWN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR TO CONVERT TO AN INPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH, RESIDENTIAL DRUG, ALCOHOL AND DETOX FACILITY, I ASK WELL, WHAT COULD GO WRONG THERE SO BOTTOM LINE IS WE KNOW WHY THE DEVELOPER WANTS TO APPROVE TO GET THIS APPROVED. BUT WHY DOES THE CITY WANT THIS IN OUR BACKYARD? COME ON. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THE UH POLICE, UH, CHIEF HIMSELF. OR THE SHERIFF. AND THE CITY IS GONNA PUT ON DUE EXPENSES ON THE CITY AND COUNTY TAXPAYERS, NOT TO MENTION THE HOSPITAL AND WITH THIS MANY PEOPLE THEY SAY, MAYBE 50% COMING FROM OUT OF STATE. THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE CHECKING THEMSELVES OUT OR WHEN THE DOLLAR STOPS COMING IN, AND LIKE THE OTHER PEOPLE SAID, WHERE COULD YOU GET A BETTER LOCATION WITH BEACHES AND EVERYTHING ELSE? SO I ASK YOU. WHY ARE WE EVEN DISCUSSING THIS? I MEAN, WE GOT THE WHOLE COUNTRY AND THIS IS WHERE WE WANT TO PUT THIS IN OUR BACKYARD. MIND ANYWAY. THAT'S ALL I HAD TO SAY. THANK YOU, SIR. YEAH. CYNTHIA ROBEL W.

WELCOME GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN TO ME. UM I AM RETIRED.

LIVE HERE FROM CHICAGO. MY PARENTS MOVED TO STEWART IN 1998 . AND I'M ALSO HERE TO REPRESENT THEM. THEY'RE 93 YEARS OLD, AND THEY LIVE IN A COMMUNITY THAT IS JUST EAST. THAT HAS NOT BEEN, UM SHOWN AS A RESIDENCE ON THE MAPS THAT WERE SHOWN, UM THIS EVENING . THEY LIVE THERE INDEPENDENTLY.

THEY'RE 93 YEARS OLD, AND I WORRY THAT THIS FACILITY BEING SO CLOSE TO THEM WITH THE ABILITY FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE ADDICTED TO DRUGS CAN SIMPLY CHECK THEMSELVES OUT IN A 48 HOUR PERIOD THAT THEY CAN AND WILL BE AT RISK AND IT WILL BE A SAFETY HAZARD FOR THEM. TO CONTINUE TO LIVE HERE. THEY ON THEIR STAFF COUNTS. THERE'S NO SECURITY LISTED. THERE'S NO UM STAFF CALLED SECURITY SO I'M JUST CONCERNED FOR THEIR WELL BEING. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU. OK, THE NEXT BARBARA PETIT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS BARBARA PETTIT. I SPOKE AT THE MARCH 14TH LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY MEETING EXPRESSING MY CONCERNS. IT WAS MYSELF THE ONLY ONE SPEAKING AND THE PEOPLE FROM COASTAL DETOX. I PRESENTLY LIVE IN WILLOUGHBY CRESCENT, WHICH IS WITHIN 300 FT. OF THE PROPOSED CLARITY POINT. SAME PLACE WHERE THE PREVIOUS WOMAN SPOKE OF HER

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HE WAS ANSWERING ONE OF MY QUESTIONS. LATER ON, HOWEVER, EVEN A LEVEL ONE BIPOLAR PATIENT CAN BE DANGEROUS TO OTHERS, INCLUDING THEMSELVES IF THEY LEAVE THE FACILITY. TYPICALLY, A LOT OF THESE PATIENTS CAN HAVE A HISTORY OF BEING IN AND OUT OF ALL THE SYSTEMS RELAPSING AND LEAVING OR ELOPING. ELOPING DOESN'T MEAN RUNNING AWAY AND GETTING MARRIED. ELOPEMENT IS A MEDICAL TERM, LEGALLY DEFINED AS A PATIENT WHO IS INCAPABLE OF ADEQUATELY PROTECTING HIMSELF AND WHO DEPARTS THE FACILITY. MR AKNER STATED INITIALLY, THIS WAS ALL AT THE MEETING THAT THERE WOULD BE EIGHT MENTAL HEALTH BEDS AND AT THE END, HE SAID THAT HE WOULD CAP IT AT 12 MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS. AND NOW WE JUST SEE ON THE BOARD THAT IT'S 30 BEST. AND TODAY IN THE STEWART NEWS, I DON'T KNOW HOW ACCURATE THAT WAS. IT SAID 25% WOULD BE MENTAL HEALTH, AND THAT ALONE WOULD BE THE 30 BEDS THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. SO HOW COULD IT BE CAPPED AT 12? IT'S ALMOST TRIPLE THE AMOUNT THAT CONCERNS ME AND BRINGS UP THE POINT OF STAFF RATIOS. THERE COULD BE MANY EMPLOYEES LIKE YOU SAY CUSTODIAL HOUSEKEEPING, DIETARY, BUT WHAT I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE RATIO I THINK YOU SHOULD ASK WOULD BE FOR THE MEDICAL STAFF FOR EACH MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS. ANOTHER MAJOR CONCERN OF MINE IS SECURITY, WHICH MR ACKER EXPLAINED IN DETAIL WITH INDIVIDUAL LOCKED WINGS, WHICH HE CONTINUES TO TALK ABOUT INTERIOR COURTYARD, ET CETERA. THAT AT THE THEN AT THE END, HE SAID, THAT A PATIENT HAD THE RIGHT TO LEAVE, WHICH WE'VE HEARD. NOW THAT REALLY SCARES ME BECAUSE, HE SAID 50% OF THE OCCUPANTS WILL BE FROM OTHER STATES. THEY WOULD BECOME HOMELESS HAVE NOTHING AND BE VERY DESPERATE BY AGAINST. HE SAYS THAT IT WON'T BE BUT I THEY LEAVE THERE. THEY REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING AND THEN TODAY'S NEWSPAPER SAID THEY WOULD HAVE 25% FLOWN IN THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. UH, RICH PETTIT. BEFORE I START AND YOU PULL UP THE CHART THAT WAS DONE BY BREAD THAT SHOWED BUSINESSES AND BUILDING GOLF CLUB. NO, SIR. COME FORWARD. YOU GOT THREE MINUTES. MY NAME IS RICH PETTIT AND I LIVE IN WILLOUGHBY CRESCENT VERY CLOSE TO THE PROPOSED REHAB CENTER. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO SHOW YOU THE MAP NOW, BUT WILL BE CRESCENT WAS NOT ON THE MAP. IT HAD WILLOUGHBY GOLF CLUB, WHICH WAS VERY INACCURATE BECAUSE IT WILL BE CRESCENT HAS 27 UNITS WHICH ARE VERY, VERY CLOSE TO THIS. I WAS AT THE LAST MARCH 14TH LP A MEETING. THEY ARE AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THAT GIVES THEIR OPINION ON THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AT THIS MEETING. THEY WERE NOT IN FAVOR OF THE PROPOSED REHAB CENTER. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THIS APPROVED BY YOU. IF YOU FILED MARTIN COUNTY RULES, YOU WOULD NOT APPROVE THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE COASTAL DETOX CLOSE BY AND THE PROPOSAL IS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF BEDS FROM 84 TO 140 OR 126. THIS WOULD BECOME ONE OF THE LARGEST OUT OF NETWORK FACILITIES IN FLORIDA. ALSO WE DO NOT NEED A FACILITY WHERE 50% OF THE PATIENTS ARE FLOWN IN FROM OTHER STATES. THE PATIENTS ARE FREE TO LEAVE ON THEIR OWN, WHETHER IT'S 48 HOURS OR WHATEVER, AND WITHOUT LOCAL SUPPORT, THEY'LL BECOME HOMELESS IN OUR COMMUNITY. MR ACKER HAS REFUSED TO BE INTERVIEWED BY THE LOCAL PRESS TO HEAR HIS SIDE OF THE PROPOSAL BASED ON THE LP A MEETING IT APPEARED TO ME THAT HE WAS A CORPORATE BUSINESSMAN LOOKING FOR A DEAL. HE HAS AN OPTION TO BUY THIS $35 MILLION PROPERTY FOR $12 MILLION IF HE WAS CONFIDENT THAT YOU WOULD APPROVE THIS PROPOSAL, HE WOULD HAVE PURCHASED THE PROPERTY RATHER THAN HAD AN OPTION. LAND USE CHANGE SHOULD ONLY BE PASSED WHEN IT IS GOOD FOR THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES IN YOUR TOWNSHIP. I SEE NO GOOD IN THIS.

I AM AGAINST THIS PROJECT. PLEASE DO NOT APPROVE IT. THANK YOU, SIR. DOUGLAS ASHLEY. NO, DOUGLAS. I'VE TAKEN OVER 25 PAGES OF NOTES. LET ME GIVE YOU MY BACKGROUND. I'VE BEEN AROUND THE WORLD I'VE BEEN IN FRONT OF THIS CITY, UH, SEVERAL TIMES ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT REASONS IN

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THERE'S NO HOMELESS SHELTERS. I'M ALSO A REALTOR FULL TIME. FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS, AND MY HOME'S BEEN HERE SINCE THE SIXTIES. AND I'M VERY LIKE I SAID, I'VE TAKEN 2020 PAGES OF NOTES. I ALSO WAS A CORPORATE TROUBLESHOOTER AROUND THE WORLD. I'VE BEEN IN A LOT OF THESE MEETINGS. NOT IN YOUR COUNTY, NOT AROUND THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOR LUXURY APARTMENT BUILDER NATIONAL ONE. THE NUMBERS HAVE FLOWN BY ME TODAY, AND I DON'T WANNA CRITICIZE. I CAN'T CRITICIZE. IT'S A PUBLIC MEETING . BUT MY HEAD'S SPINNING AND I HOPE YOU HAVE A BETTER HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT THAN I DO, BECAUSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE BASICS DO I DO UNDERSTAND? WAS ONE MR RICH BROUGHT UP THE FACT THAT WE'RE WE'RE DESPERATELY IN NEED OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING. YOU DON'T HAVE SITES ANYMORE. UM VERY, VERY FEW. AND I SEE THAT IN THOSE NUMBERS AS A REALTOR, AND SOMEBODY WHO'S TAKEN HOME CARE OF HOMELESS PEOPLE. THE OTHER FACTOR THE PERSON WHO STAND HERE EARLIER HIS BACKGROUND. SHERIFFS WILLIAM SNYDER. I'VE DEALT I'VE DEALT. I SHOULDN'T SAY IT THAT WAY. I'VE WORKED WITH HIM. AND I DON'T THINK SOMEBODY'S EVER CRITIQUED HIS BACKGROUND. HE HAD 48 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE 20 YEARS WITH THE PUBLIC, UH, MIAMI DADE POLICE DEPARTMENT 13 YEARS WITH THE MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF. HE WAS A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SIX YEARS. HIS BACKGROUND IS A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN FLORIDA.

GULF COAST UNIVERSITY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, A GRADUATE GRADUATE OF THE FBI NATIONAL ACADEMY IN THE HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT. THE SOURCE . IT'S ON MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S WEBSITE. SOME OF THE SOURCES I HEARD TONIGHT, MY HEAD LIKE I SAID, IS SPINNING. I DON'T SEE THAT FACTUAL NUMBERS. I'VE SEEN A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU COULD PUT UP ON THE SCREEN AND I AGAIN I WAS A TROUBLESHOOTER. I ALSO WORKED FOR A CPA FIRM THAT DID, UH, STUDIES FOR RESORTS A AGAIN I WANNA BE CAREFUL. IT'S PUBLIC MEETING. I MEAN, I CAN MAKE NUMBERS WORK. I JUST WANT TO CAUTION YOU PLEASE DILIGENTLY, DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND LISTEN TO PEOPLE VERY CAREFULLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, SIR. UM NEXT. YOU HAVE TO REBUTTAL AT THE END. LET ME FINISH WITH THIS. MISS HARRIET? UH, SHAPIRO. THAT ONE MORE THANK YOU. MY NAME IS HARRIET SHAPIRO AND I HAVE BEEN A CITIZEN OF MARTIN COUNTY FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS. I LIVE AT 1 1902 SOUTHEAST TALBOT PLACE, SO I'M VERY CLOSE TO, UM, THE FACILITY. I AM A CPA AND MY OFFICE IS AT 730 SOUTHEAST INDIAN STREET. SO I'M JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM THE PROPOSED FACILITY. I VERY OFTEN DURING TAX SEASON WORK VERY LATE. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I AM IN MY OFFICE BY MYSELF UNTIL NINE OR 10 O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING. UM I'VE NEVER BEEN. I'VE NEVER FELT AFRAID OR UNSAFE IN THE AREA, HOWEVER, THE TYPE OF FACILITY THAT'S BEING PROPOSED DOES MAKE ME FEEL VERY NERVOUS KNOWING THAT PEOPLE CAN LEAVE ALL RIGHT AFTER 48 HOURS. I HAVE NO SELF DEFENSE TRAINING AND I'M NOT LOOKING TO GET ANYTHING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MA'AM. THE LAST ONE IS LAURA GILBY. NOT HERE. THAT'S IT. PLEASE COME FORWARD AND WANT TO SPEAK WHAT YOU NEEDED TO SAY. THANK YOU, MARY. I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS A COUPLE QUICK POINTS. FIRST OF ALL, I LISTEN TO ALL THE RHETORIC FROM THE CROWD TALKING ABOUT ADDICTS, NOT ALCOHOLICS, RIGHT? BECAUSE ALCOHOLISM IS AN ACCEPTABLE THING IN THIS COUNTRY. I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM HAVE ALCOHOL PROBLEMS AND ARE IN DENIAL ABOUT IT? THAT'S FOR THEM. NOT FOR ME, BUT ADDICTS AREN'T MURDERERS, RAPISTS, KIDNAPPERS, OK, THOSE PEOPLE EXIST THAT AREN'T ADDICTS . YOU KNOW, THE MISCLASSIFICATION IS WHAT FURTHER DRIVES THE STIGMA TO PEOPLE LOSING THEIR CHILDREN. THEIR HUSBAND, THEIR WIVES. YOU CAN'T LUMP A GROUP OF PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A AAA HEREDITARY DISEASE IS DEFINED BY THE A MA AND SAY, OH, THEY MUST BE A RAPIST OR A CHILD MOLESTER OR THIS OR THAT. THAT'S THE DEFINITION OF DISCRIMINATION.

DIDN'T WE START THIS MEETING ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS? WASN'T IT PART OF THE ACCOLADES, THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS AND THAT EVERYONE COMES UP HERE WITH THEIR OWN PRIVATE AGENDAS TO LABEL PEOPLE AND DO THAT? FIRST OF ALL, A BAKER A RECEIVING FACILITY BY LAW, THEY CAN ONLY HOLD YOU FOR 72 HOURS. THOSE ARE THE CRAZY VIOLENT CRIMINALS AND GUESS WHAT

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THE ADOPTION HEARING WILL BE ON THE 28TH. ONE, A TUESDAY, WHICH IS NOT A REGULAR TIME WE USUALLY WHEN YOU TAKE ROLL MARY, IF YOU'D LIKE ME TO. IT'S NOT NECESSARY. OK WELL IN FAVOR, THEN YOU WANT OK? I'M SORRY. IT'S A BOAT. CLOSE THE HEARING, RIGHT SO I CAN TAKE THE ROLE IT WOULD BE BEST. I MEAN, WE NEED SOMETHING. COMMISSIONER COLLINS COMMISSIONER MCDONALD MAYOR BRUNER YES, VICE MAYOR RICH COMMISSIONER CLARK THANK YOU, EVERYONE. THANK YOU. I NEED TO GET WE W ADJOURNED. I DIDN'T CARE ABOUT WHEN WE ON MILL IS A LONG

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