2MC Podcast Eps 72 - Local Friends

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MAK
Hey everybody, it's MAK

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Courtney
And I'm Courtney. Welcome back 2MC

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MAK
We missed y'all.

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Courtney
We did. You might have noticed. Maybe we weren't here last week.

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MAK
Our friends missed us. Yeah. Anyway, we.

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Courtney
Missed being here.

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MAK
We did. I'm glad we're back in the studio. We have a bunch of stuff to talk about.

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Courtney
We do? Yeah. There was a board meeting last week, and so we're going to be meeting. Yes.

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MAK
Two things.

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Courtney
It's a two for.

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Courtney
Okay. Let's go. So we had a board meeting. We had the, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. And find Florida Inland Navigation District.

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MAK
Yes. Oh, man. I'm so good. You did good. God, I remember I was like, Florida and. Yeah, you got it.

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Courtney
So they came and spoke about the project, the dredging project on the Intracoastal Waterway in Okeechobee waterway maintenance.

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MAK

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Courtney
That they do. Just kind of gave like a little snippet of what that project looks like, the permitting and also the monitoring that goes on during the.

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MAK
Project, because they do a lot of that.

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Courtney
Yes. There was also a parcel near Poinciana Gardens that are ELOC Committee, which is our.

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MAK
Environmental Lands Oversight committee.

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Courtney
Yes.

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MAK
Nailed it.

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Courtney
So we are going to acquire that piece of property as part of that, which will be conserved forever.

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MAK
Yes. Yes. Then we talked about an MSBU or a municipal service benefit unit to allow installation of water lines for. What was it? Lake Grove water? Yeah. Lake Grove. So for utilities.

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Courtney
Yes.

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MAK
That was good.

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Courtney
And Kevin Abate, which is our parks department director.

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MAK
Yes. Parks and recreation.

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Courtney
Parks and recreation, which also their month is in July. So it's coming up. Parks and rec.

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MAK
Month. Like their month?

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Courtney
Yeah. Parks and rec month.

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MAK
Oh, yeah. That's coming up. So we'll be highlighting a lot of things about our parks.

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Courtney
Yeah. But he did a presentation to kind of about their reinvestment reserves that they put back into the properties.

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MAK
I love.

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Courtney
That all that stuff. So it's very interesting. Lots of.

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MAK
Info. I'm sure we'll put a link to the meeting in the show notes. So if you want to go back and dive into any of those in more detail, you can feel free. Yeah, they can feel free. This public meeting. I know, yeah. Joint meeting.

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Courtney
Joint meeting?

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MAK
Yep.

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Courtney
Yes.

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MAK
So there was a lot of public comment about, first of all, joint meeting. That's village of Indian town, city of Stuart school district school board, school district and.

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Courtney
Martin County.

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MAK
Board. Right. So we do those quarterly. And I think it's a that's a great opportunity for all of those guys to come together. And then obviously public comment. So there was a lot of public comment about the swimming pool at Martin County High School.

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Courtney

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MAK
Yes. And I thought the comment was comments were good. And then the school district really took a bunch of notes and they are starting to address, the, the requests from the residents and requests. Yeah. Basically people want that to be used as a, you know, or available to the public. It, it and it is available to the public.

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MAK
They have, much like parks or rental agreements or contract agreements where you can utilize their spaces. And so they did talk about that, but they had some other things that they're going to look into.

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Courtney
Nice.

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MAK
Yeah.

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Courtney
Yeah. And it's really it's an opportunity to for all the different municipalities to share updates on projects that are happening just around town. So that way we're all aware of what's going on.

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MAK
Right. Because I feel like, you know, even though it's a small community, we kind of focus on, like, what our, what our public works department is doing. You know, cities tour focuses on theirs or whatever. So it, it was really going listening to the meeting and then going through the presentation afterwards. In preparation for this, there was a lot of kind of fascinating stuff going on.

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Courtney
Yeah. They had they spoke about population projections.

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MAK
Yep. They always do that. Yeah. So I love that. And, ours were right in line. I think the, the population projections. Well, projections they have for 25. But the populations go back from the late 80s, I think. And they were right in line. It was like one, it was under 2%, 1.68% expected increase. So yeah.

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MAK
Under 2% is pretty good.

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Courtney
Or 2% is good.

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MAK
I think so. I think so. And they also look at, residential units like things that are in development review. So residential units and non residential units. And then look at those for all the municipalities.

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Courtney
So and there is a map for development for the maps.

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MAK
Right. Oh cool.

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Courtney
Yeah.

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MAK
Yes you can.

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Courtney
Yep.

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MAK
Check it out. It has a lot of filters. So you can look at, you know, things that are approved or things that are in construction. You can look at it by area. So it's a pretty cool way to kind of see big picture what's going on in, in our, in our community as a whole. Nice. Yeah, I really dug into that and was I found it fascinating.

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Courtney
Yes. You you did share with me and now we're sharing it with you.

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MAK
Yeah.

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Courtney
So that was kind of like all the things that happened meeting wise. Yes. Right. Yep. I do know it. It was National Mosquito Week, or it is this week.

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MAK
This week is national. Is it mosquito awareness or are we hosting a troll? Okay, so it's not a week for the mosquitoes.

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Courtney
No, it's a week for the control of the mosquitoes.

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MAK
Get them under.

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Courtney
Control. Yes. Right. And we have a really great team that does that. So, you know, they love to they do a lot of community.

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MAK
Outreach outreach there at the library sometimes. And they're talking about all the different things that homeowners can do. Right? The tip and toss. We've talked about that.

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Courtney
Especially with the tire drive, the rain we just had. Yes. Make sure you're tipping and tossing.

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MAK
Yeah. So like for your containers and things like that, even if you have like bromeliads. Right. Those flowers that kind of catch the water and hold it like a cup. You don't want that. No. Because then the mosquitoes are in there doing their thing, and nobody needs that.

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Courtney
No. Still standing water?

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MAK
Yes.

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Courtney
And easier turns.

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MAK
Yeah, you could say that too.

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Courtney
But yeah. So they do an amazing job. And so we just wanted to give them a little shout out.

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MAK
Thank you. Mosquito control.

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Courtney
Thank you. And then also another thing about our the staff here in Martin County. We have. Yes. We have our on the job series. I don't know if you guys have checked them out, but if you haven't, I should. They are. I honestly, I love seeing those a lot.

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MAK
Of you, too, because you, like, you hear about, you know, what this person does for a living. Like what their job is. But I feel like you get to know them a little bit more, their personality. Right. And the jobs that maybe you wouldn't even think. Yeah. Are available or around, like, that's somebody's job and they're going out and they're checking.

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MAK
I don't know how many trees are supposed to be at a development, and they make sure that they're there. And this one was, Sarah and our, our legislative.

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Courtney
Yes. Yeah. We've had, veteran services. We've I mean, it's just it's really, really cool.

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MAK
I think they're unique jobs.

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Courtney
Yeah. Take a moment. Check those out. We just finished one. Well, William just finished one. Yes. I can't say we know.

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MAK
We had literally nothing to do with that one.

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Courtney
That's true. So William just finished one for Sarah. She's our legislative coordinator.

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MAK
And kind of a big job.

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Courtney
It is a big job. She's up in Tallahassee a lot and DC.

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MAK
She brings back information about what's going on in Tallahassee. What's going on with the legislative session.

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Courtney
State and federal.

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MAK
And. Yeah. Yeah. And she then makes it. I don't know, bite size information so that, you know, kind of the average person can understand. What does that bill mean? What impacts do they have locally?

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Courtney
Yeah.

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MAK
Yeah.

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Courtney
So yeah, it's a really honestly interesting. You guys should.

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MAK
Check them out. Yep. So you're going to put a link to that actually.

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Courtney
Yeah. William really put us going to put a link down in the show notes for local. Yeah. And that's all.

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MAK
That's it.

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Courtney
That's all we got.

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MAK
Okay. Well, so tuning in.

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Courtney
Yeah. And we'll see you guys next week.

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MAK
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Courtney
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MAK
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Courtney
All the things.

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MAK
All the things I always forget that one.

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Courtney
Oh, yes. So we'll see you guys next time. Bye.