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Village of Indiantown Village of Indiantown Where Great Things Grow Bi- Monthly Report and Update: Saturday, August 8, 2020 To: Honorable Mayor & Members of the Village Council Thru: Howard W. Brown, Jr., Village Manager From: Daniel W. Eick, Management Analyst CC: Village Staff Date: August 6, 2020 Village Manager’s Office Village Schedule A schedule of upcoming events is included below: • The first 2020 Virtual Budget Workshop is scheduled for Thursday, August 13, at 5:30 PM. The meeting will be held via Zoom, and members of the public are encouraged to attend. Further information can be found at the following link: • https://www.indiantownfl.gov/community/page/virtual-budget-workshop-1 • The next Regular Council Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, August 13, at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held via Zoom, and members of the public are encouraged to attend. Further information can be found at the following link: • https://www.indiantownfl.gov/community/page/virtual-regular-council-meeting-3 • The next Special Magistrate Hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, August 18, at 10:00 AM. This meeting WILL NOT BE HELD VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM. Instead, the meeting will be held at the Indiantown Civic Center. Further information can be found at the following link: • https://www.indiantownfl.gov/community/page/special-magistrate-hearings-1 • The first 2020 Land Development Regulation Workshop is scheduled for Thursday, August 20, at 6:00 PM. The meeting will be held via Zoom, and members of the public are encouraged to attend. Further information can be found at the following link: • https://www.indiantownfl.gov/community/page/virtual-land-development- regulations-workshop-1 • The second 2020 Virtual Budget Workshop is scheduled for Thursday, August 27, at 5:30 PM. The meeting will be held via Zoom in Spanish, and members of the public are encouraged to attend. Further information can be found at the following link: • https://www.indiantownfl.gov/community/page/virtual-budget-workshop-2- spanish Finally, it should be noted while not all meetings or announcements necessitate Council action, all questions from the public are welcome. For further information please contact Management Analyst Daniel Eick at [email protected] or click on the following link: • https://www.indiantownfl.gov/village-clerk/page/virtual-meeting-information Important Information On Wednesday, August 5, 2020 the Indiantown Community Trust Fund (ICTF) Committee, as directed by Council, reconvened to deliberate upon final selections and awards. The resulting recommendation is included below for review. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Management Analyst Daniel Eick at [email protected]. On Tuesday, August 4, the Indiantown Fire/EMS RFP Committee met to finalize their draft 2020 RFP Review & Action Plan. The draft action plan is included below for review. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Management Analyst Daniel Eick at [email protected]. The Summer 2020 Regular Edition of the Village of Indiantown Newsletter has been published. The Newsletter focuses on ongoing improvements, administrative and structural, throughout the Village and is included below for review and distribution. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Management Analyst Daniel Eick at [email protected]. The Village’s planned move of Village Hall from the Martin County Governmental Building to the previous Non-Profit Center building is progressing smoothly. The process is being overseen by staff from the Village Parks and Recreations Department. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Administrative Generalist Luis Perez at [email protected]. Finally, the latest U.S. Census Bureau 2020 Self Response Newsletter, alongside some Census 2020 promotional material, has been provided to staff and is included below. Village Clerk’s Office Emergency Management Matters Staff are in contact with state and local officials to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic situation and continue to update our COVID-19 webpage as needed. Several updates regarding the reopening of Village Hall are highlighted here: • Phase 1 of the Village Hall reopening plan has commenced. For the immediate future, Village Hall will be open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM. Touchless temperature checks, face coverings, and hand sanitization are all required prior to entry. • Village staff are in the process of procuring potential FEMA consultant assistance to assist in garnering RPA and CARES Act funding reimbursements. Further information is forthcoming. • Due to the extension of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s Executive Order all meetings scheduled for August 2020, apart from the Special Magistrate Hearing scheduled for August 18, will be conducted virtually via Zoom. Election Updates The Village of Indiantown General Election will be held locally on Tuesday, August 18, from 7AM-7PM. Alternatively, those wishing to vote early can do so at the County SOE’s Stuart Office 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily from August 8 through August 15. On August 18 there will be two Precincts in the Village listed below. To find your Precinct, check your Voter ID Card or visit https://www.martinvotes.com/content.aspx?id=77. You will only be allowed to vote in your assigned Precinct on Election Day. • Precinct 1: The Elizabeth Lahti Library at 15200 SW Adams Ave., Indiantown, FL 34956 • Precinct 2: The Boys & Girls Club of Indiantown at 17375 SW Palm Beach Road, Indiantown. Code Compliance Department The Code Compliance Department has nothing major to report currently. The most recent weekly report prepared by Code Enforcement Officer Robert Perez is included below for review and distribution. Building & Permits Department The Building & Permits Department has nothing major to report currently. The Most recent monthly permit report is attached to this document for review. Finance Department The Finance Department has nothing major to report currently. Parks & Recreations Department Parks & Recreations Director Albie Scoggins has completed orientation of their new Office Temp Katina Joy. Ms. Joy will be stationed at the Booker Park Fire Station alongside Parks & Recreations and Code Compliance Staff. Planning and Development Department The Planning and Development Department has nothing major to report currently. Community & Economic Development Department Village staff are coordinating with Calvin, Giordano & Associates (CGA) to finalize the Village’s Land Development Regulations (LDR). The second workshop is scheduled for Thursday, August 20, and will cover articles on zoning districts and development regulations. Draft documentation will be made available on the Village’s website shortly. The third workshop is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, September 17. Additionally, staff are working to draft Property Maintenance, Noise Ordinance, and Temporary Use codes to establish guidelines for Code Compliance personnel and the Village’s Special Magistrate. Public Works and Engineering Department The Village’s Public Works Director, William Archebelle, has several items to highlight: • PRP Construction is expecting to complete the paving of Washington Ave., Post Family Park’s parking lot, and Trail Drive shortly. Roadway striping will install shortly once the asphalt settles. • Pavement maintenance, specifically mill and overlay revisions, on Zones 4 and 5 are nearing completion. • Public Works staff are working to establish a contract for the cleaning of surcharged and clogged drainage along Charletson. Further information will be forthcoming shortly. Village of Indiantown Village Hall: Mailing Address: 16550 SW Warfield Blvd. PO Box 398 Indiantown, FL 34956 Indiantown, FL 34956 Digital copies of this, and previous, Manager Reports can be found by clicking here. To sign up for e-notices and alerts from the Village via Constant Contact please click here. Questions or comments? E-mail us at [email protected] or call 772-597-9900 Florida Department of Health Updates New COVID-19 Cases, Announces Two Hundred Twenty-Five Deaths Related to COVID-19 Florida Division of Emergency Management sent this bulletin at 08/05/2020 12:21 PM EDT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2020 Contact: Joint Information Center on COVID-19 for the State of Florida (850) 815- 4940, [email protected] Florida Department of Health Updates New COVID-19 Cases, Announces Two Hundred Twenty-Five Deaths Related to COVID-19 ~497,181 positive cases in Florida residents and 5,558 positive cases in non-Florida residents~ TALLAHASSEE —The Florida Department of Health (DOH), in order to provide more comprehensive data, releases a report on COVID-19 cases in Florida once per day. The DOH COVID-19 dashboard is also providing updates once per day. The state also provides a report detailing surveillance data for every Florida county, which is available here. In order to make the daily COVID-19 report easier to download and more accessible, the daily report will now separate case line data in a separate PDF. Both reports will continue to be updated daily. The case line data report is available here. Test results for more than 57,200 individuals were reported to DOH as of midnight, on Tuesday, August 4. Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are: • 5,409 new positive COVID-19 cases (5,408 Florida residents and 1 non-Florida residents) • 225 Florida resident deaths related to COVID-19 On August 4, 10.89 percent of new cases** tested positive. There are a total of 502,739 Florida cases*** with 7,627 deaths related to COVID-19. Since August 4, the death of two hundred twenty-five Florida residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been reported in Bay, Brevard, Broward, Dade, Duval, Escambia, Hamilton, Hernando, Hillsborough, Jackson, Lake, Lee, Leon, Manatee, Martin, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, Seminole, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Sumter, Suwannee and Volusia counties. Florida long-term care facility data: • The list of long-term care facilities with active COVID-19 cases is available here. • The list of long-term care facilities with deaths is available here, which is updated weekly.
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