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AGENDA
ST. LUCIE COUNTY
Regular Meeting
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
4:00 PM
Planning and Development Services Department
Conference Room 1
St. Lucie County Administration Building
2300 Virginia Avenue, Fort Pierce, Florida 34982
BOARD MEMBERS
Land Use Planning or Historic Preservation Planning
KRISSTA KING
Architecture
MIKE MENARD
Anthropology, Archaeology, History
RICHARD MCAFOOS
Layperson
BETTY JO STARK
Layperson
MELANIE TREWYN
Conservation/Curation
MIKE MIDDLEBROOK
Construction
JUDY BIGLIN
Mission Statement
To provide service, infrastructure and leadership necessary to advance a safe and sustainable
community, maintain a high quality of life, and protect the natural environment for all our citizens
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GENERAL RULES AND PROCEDURES – Attached is the agenda, which will determine the order of business conducted at today’s Board
meeting.
REGULAR AGENDA – Proclamations, Presentations, Public Hearings, and Department requests are items, which the Commission will
discuss individually, usually in the order listed on the agenda.
As a general rule, when issues are scheduled before the Commission under department request or public hearing, the order of
presentation is: (1) County staff presents the details of the Board item (2) Commissioners comment (3) if a public hearing, the Chair
will ask for public comment, (4) further discussion and action by the Board.
ADDRESSING THE COMMISSION – Please state your name and address, speaking clearly into the microphone. If you have backup
material, please have eight copies ready for distribution.
NON‐AGENDA ITEMS – These items are presented by an individual Commissioner or staff as necessary at the conclusion of the
printed agenda.
PUBLIC COMMENT – Time is allotted at the beginning of each meeting for general public comment. Comments may pertain to any
matter related to the Board’s duties as the County’s governing body. General comments in support or opposition to candidates for
public office are not pertinent to the Board’s duties.
DECORUM – Please be respectful of others’ opinions.
MEETINGS – All Board meetings are open to the public and are held quarterly on the third Tuesdays of month at 4 p.m. and on the
Meetings are held in the Planning Conference Room in the Planning and Development Services Department at 2300 Virginia Ave.,
Fort Pierce, Fla. 34982. Anyone with a disability requiring accommodation to attend this meeting should contact the St. Lucie
County Community Services Manager at 772‐462‐1777 or TDD 772‐462‐1428 at least 48 hours prior to the meeting.
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1.CALL TO ORDER
2.ROLL CALL
3.ANNOUNCEMENTS
A.Introduction of New Member of St. Lucie County Historical Commission‐ Judy Biglin
4.PUBLIC COMMENT
5.MINUTES
A.Draft Historical Commission Meeting Minutes dated 08‐20‐19
6.ITEMS FOR ACTION / CONSIDERATION
A.OLD BUSINESS
B.NEW BUSINESS
1.Board of County Commissioners’ Resolution No. 19‐201 – Referral of Applications to
Name Public Facilities to the St. Lucie County Historical Commission for Review and
Recommendation
2.Request for Recommendation - Naming of Proposed St. Lucie County Artificial Reef after
Paul Jacquin
3.Request for Recommendation - Naming of Public Facility in honor of Sylvie Kramer Marceau
7.MEMBER MATTERS
A.Next Meeting Date: January 21, 2020 @ Port Saint Lucie Botanical Gardens and Historical Village and
Museum
8.DISCUSSION
A.Edenlawn Plantation
B.Affirmation of Winter Meeting at Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens and Historic Village & Museum
9.ADJOURNMENT
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Historical Commission 1 Tuesday, August 20, 2019 4:00 PM 2 2300 Virginia Ave, Fort Pierce, FL 34982 3 Planning & Development Services Department 4
Conference Room One 567 CALL TO ORDER Chair McAfoos called the meeting to order at 4:02 PM 89 ROLL CALL 10 11 Richard McAfoos .............................. Chair 12 Melanie Trewyn ................................ Vice Chair 13
Betty Starke ...................................... Commission Member 14 Mike Middlebrook.............................. Commission Member 15 Mike Menard ..................................... Commission Member 16
Krissta King ...................................... Commission Member (arrived at 4:10pm) 17 18 ANNOUNCEMENTS 19 20 None 21 22 MEMBER ABSENT: 23 24
None 25 26 STAFF PRESENT 27 28 Kori Benton ....................................... Historic Preservation Officer 29 Vanessa Desnoyers .......................... Recording Secretary 30 Heather Young ................................. Assistant County Attorney 31 32 OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE 33 34 None 35 36 1.Public Comment37 38 None39 40 2.Review and Approval of Minutes41 42 Chair McAfoos called for a motion to approve the minutes from the April 23, 2019 Historical 43 Commission meeting. Mr. Middlebrook moved to approve the minutes as submitted, Mr. 44 Menard seconded. The motion passed unanimously. 45 46 47
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1 3. Member Matters 2
3 None 4 5 4. Items for Consideration 6 7 New Business 8
9 A. Review of Florida Sunshine Law Overview by Heather Young, Esq. 10 11 Mrs. Young presented an overview of the Sunshine Law as a review for the Historical 12 Commission Board Members and entertained staff questions. 13 14 B. Discussion 15 16
Mr. Benton discussed the open position within the commission due to Mr. Freeman 17 resigning. 18 19 Commission Members discussed various roles that required to be filled. Chair McAfoos 20 requested an updated membership roster to update his records and to clarify 21 appointments by each individual County Commissioner. 22
23 Vice Chair Trewyn presented a historical landmark as a topic with accompanying 24 documents for Commission members to review. The Landmark property has since 25
been removed, but in place, a kiosk was placed to document the history. Ms. Trewyn 26 suggested the Commission look into ways to duplicate the actions of the state of 27 Charlotte, North Carolina. 28
29 Vice Chair Trewyn explained that she plans to make an additional trip to North Carolina 30 to see family. Chair McAfoos requested that Vice Chair Trewyn bring back more 31 detailed photos and information from the kiosk. Mr. Middlebrook stated that he has 32 contacts from Berk County from which, the Commission can obtain the information. 33 34 Mr. Benton stated that the Westmoreland Park and Historical Village preservation can 35 be seen as a pilot program to review costs, develop procedures, and presentations, 36 photographic evidence of structures being moved onto the sight, the rehabilitation work 37 and overall transformation of the site and finding out maintenance costs would be 38 beneficial long term for preservation of White City. 39
40 Chair McAfoos and Vice Chair Trewyn discussed concerns for vandalism and security 41 measures. Chair McAfoos stated that most government facilities have adequate 42
surveillance. Mr. Benton stated that Harold Smith and Gina Wilson worked on an 43 exhibit within the PP Cobb building and created a kiosk that plays a big on a loop 44 displaying the history of Port Saint Lucie and Fort Pierce’s waterfront. Mr. Benton 45
mentioned the Navy seal Museum as an example as to what is possible with support 46 and funding. 47 48 Chair McAfoos stated that Councilwoman Carabello invited the Historical Commission 49 members to re-visit the Port Saint Lucie Botanical Gardens for a tour of the Historical 50 Structures for the January 21, 2019 Historical Commission meeting. Chair McAfoos also 51
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shared news from an article he read that the Jackson house in Vero Beach, from the 1 early 1900’s is being moved and will be rehabbed using salvaged materials from 2
previously dismantled Historical homes that still have original furnishings. Mr. Benton 3 directed a question to Mrs. Young inquiring of the ability to host the meeting and have 4 the tour as an extra-curricular activity after the meeting has concluded. 5 6 Ms. Young inquired if the tour would be open to the public. Chair McAfoos stated that it 7 would be, barring the building is safe and stable. 8 9 Chair McAfoos and Commission members discussed logistics of January meeting. 10 11 C. Member Matters 12 13
A. Next meeting date January 21, 2020 14
Adjournment 15 16 Mr. Menard moved to adjourn the meeting. Ms. Starke seconded the motion. The 17 meeting adjourned unanimously at 4:59pm. 18 19
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6.B. NEW BUSINESS
1. Board of County Commissioners’ Resolution No. 19‐
201 – Referral of Applications to Name Public Facilities to
the St. Lucie County Historical Commission for Review
and Recommendation
6.B. NEW BUSINESS
2. Request for Recommendation - Naming of Proposed
St. Lucie County Artificial Reef after
Paul Jacquin
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Artificial Reef Program
In order to provide better areas to fish and dive and to enhance local
fisheries, artificial reefs are being deployed to provide additional
hardbottom areas. These reefs have been created using donated heavy
concrete and steel materials like culverts, concrete pilings, light poles, and
steel vessels.
Recent Developments
In December 2012 and January 2013, four barges of light poles donated
from Florida Power and Light were deployed to create two reefs. The first
reef, located in 62-foot depths, had a profile of 27 feet, while the second reef,
located in 102-foot depths, had a profile of 25 feet. Post deployment dives
on the reefs showed fishes (i.e. triggerfish, black seabass, pelagic baitfish) already utilizing this new habitat.
Last April, the St. Lucie County Artificial Reef Program
deployed 2,000 tons of concrete and steel materials in two
separate locations (150-foot depth, 110-foot depth). Profiles of
these reefs were 11 feet and 14 feet, respectively.
All of these
artificial reefs
were deployed
with the help of
the Florida Fish
and Wildlife
Commission
Artificial Reef Construction Grant. The reefs help provide
destinations for recreational anglers and divers and habitat for
over 110 species of fish and numerous invertebrates.
ST. LUCIE COUNTY ARTIFICIAL REEF DEPLOYMENTS
Deployment Date Latitude Longitude Zmax Zmin Profile feet2 m2 Materials COST FUNDING SOURCE Name
8/17/2005 27*26.675'N 80*10.305'W 55 43 12 2,650 246 440 tons FEC railroad ties $62,500.00 County Artificial Reef Program
27*26.670'N 80*10.295'W 55 43 12 5,390 501 FEC railroad ties A "
9/30/2005 27*26.687'N 80*10.333'W 55 35 20 4,410 410 340 tons FPL materials A "
5/4/2006 27*26.402'N 80*09.601'W 54 43 11 22,385 2,080 490 tons dock piles $60,000.00 FWC Grant
5/6/2006 27*26.633'N 80*10.107'W 54 44 10 25,591 2,377 572 tons dock piles B "
5/9/2006 27*26.531'N 80*09.936'W 53 45 8 15,720 1,460 515 tons mixed concrete materials B "
5/11/2006 27*26.750'N 80*10.208'W 54 44 10 21,600 2,007 523 tons mixed concrete materials A SKA Reef
5/15/2006 27*26.743'N
27*26.777'N
80*10.214'W
80*10.229'W
56
56
46
46 2,843
140' Sterling Barge - Bow
140' Sterling Barge - Stern
Donation Sterling Equipment, Inc. Sterling Equipment, Inc.Civic Center Reef
1/31/2007 27*26.743'N
27*26.777'N
80*10.214'W
80*10.229'W 56 35 0
555 tons Civic Center materials $34,000.00 County Artificial Reef Program Civic Center Reef
2/7/2007
27*26.777'N 80*10.229'W 56 37 0
539 tons mixed concrete materials (Civic
Center and culverts)
"County Artificial Reef Program Civic Center Reef
6/4/2007 27*23.168'N 80*03.704'W 95 84 11 12,840 1,193 526 tons mixed concrete materials-$85,050.00 $60,000.00 FWC Grant; $25,050.00 Erosion District FundsMidway Reef
6/6/2007 27*23.596'N 80*03.668'W 91 73 21 28,600 2,657 485 tons mixed concrete materials - N ""N
6/8/2007 27*23.465'N 80*03.707'W 89 76 12 9,810 911 473 tons mixed concrete materials-SW ""SW
6/9/2007 27*23.464'N 80*03.619'W 92 74 18 14,279 1,327 526 tons mixed concrete materials-SE ""SE
12/6/2007
27*24.048'N 80*02.206'W
12/8/2007
2/16/2008 27*24.103'N 80*01.577'W
2/24/2008
8/25/2008 27*22.990'N 80*03.699'W 526 tons mixed concrete materials +
8/26/2008 481 tons mixed concrete materials
8/27/2008 27*26.767'N 80*09.538'W 630 tons mixed concrete materials +
8/28/2008 461 tons mixed concrete materials
9/17/2008 27*24.132'N 80*01.114'W 152 133 19 Tug Lee (50' tug)$5,000 $5,000.00 Bob Herbst Tug Lesley Lee Reef
6/10/2009
27*31.213'N 80*11.169'W
53 48 5
6/11/2009
27*31.214'N 80*11.158'W
53 37 16
8/31/2009 27*31.279'N 80*11.103'W 53
8/31/2009 27*31.187'N 80*11.107'W 54 27 27
5/16/2011 27*32.272'N 80*10.769'W
5/17/2011
5/18/2011 27*31.632'N 80*10.371' W
5/20/2011
4/3/2012 27° 24.228’ N 80°01.096 W 142 11 500 tons mixed concrete materials 74200 Site A
495 tons mixed concrete materials 74200 $60,000 FWC Grant 10166
$14,200 Erosion District
485 tons mixed concrete materials "
DMC Barge (65" inland barge)8000 $10,000.00 FishAmerica Foundation Fish America
Foundation Reef
500 tons mixed concrete materials FAF Reef
153
$50,000 FWC Grant 09090
$1,000 Donation - Bob Herbst, Jr.
Footprint
93 76
19
Bob Herbst Jr. Reef
$60,000.00 FWC Grant 07304;
$14,050.00 Erosion District
$5,000.00 Bob Herbst
$74,050.00
30,600
120-ft. Reef
140-ft. Reef"
$54,000.00 FWC Grant 07016; Erosion District
"140
Bob Herbst Sr. Reef
500 tons mixed concrete materials + 500 tons
concrete RR ties
500 tons mixed concrete materials + 500 tons
FEC railroad ties
122 19103
18122
18
17
55 34 21
61 43 22
56 39
$60,000 FWC Grant 11178
$14,200 Erosion District
Site I (NE)
Site II (SE)
51000
4/10/2012
4/25/2012 27°23.892’ N 80°02.531’ W 97 14
4/27/2012
12/20/12, 12/28/12 27o 23.551'80o02.961'102 77 25
12/18/12, 1/2/2013 27o 32.083 '80o11.433'62 35 27
Total 193,875
Average 14.9375 16,156
Bold numbers are not yet confirmed by post-deployment dives.
ST. LUCIE COUNTY HISTORICAL ARTIFICIAL REEF DEPLOYMENTS
10/5/1985 27*24.386'N 80*00.175'W 207'153'155' Steel Tug - "Deep Tug"
6/1/1986 27*23.634'N 80*01.064''W 162'135'65' Steel Tug - "Beverly M. Tug"
1/21/1989 27*24.447'N 80*00.866'W 168'88'468' Navy Vessel - "USS Muliphen"
8/30/1991 62005.2 43295.2 55'100'x55' Barge
8/30/1991 62005.1 43295.3 55'41'Ferro-cement sailboat
6/14/1992 27*24.508'N 80*01.814'W 136'123'70' Steel Tug - "Ken M. Tug"
5/6/1942 27*23.514N 80*03.658'W 88'73'255' Steel Ship - "Amazone"
mid 90's 27*26.311'N 80*09.470'W 58'47'FPL materials
6/1/1995 27*26.651'N 80*10.312'W 55'49'100' Steel Barge - "Twin Barges"
1/1/1995 27*26.638'N 80*10.310'W 56'49'61' Steel Barge - "Twin Barges"
11/22/1996 27*26.65N 80*10.29W FPSC - Brad Keen
3/1/2001 27*26.682'N 80*10.274'W 54'50'Concrete Bridge Span
3/1/2001 27*26.708'N 80*10.350'W 54'50'Concrete Bridge Span
unknown 27*26.684'N 80*10.226'W 56'48'90' Steel Barge - "Lee's Barge"
3/1/2001 27*26.751'N 80*10.246'W 53'49'Concrete Bridge Span
3/1/2001 27*26.629'N 80*10.251'W 54'50'Concrete Bridge Span
3/1/2001 27*26.672'N 80*10.235'W 55'50'Concrete Bridge Span
3/1/2001 27*26.671'N 80*10.241'W 53'47'Concrete Bridge Span
3/1/2001 27*26.661'N 80*10.222'W 55'50'Concrete Bridge Span
3/1/2001 27*26.575'N 80*10.346'W 54'50'Concrete Bridge Span
unknown 27*26.577'N 80*10.512'W 53'46'68' Steel Barge - "TV Barge"
pending
1000 tons FPL power poles $60,000 FWC Grant 12105
500 tons mixed concrete materials 74200 Site A
500 tons mixed concrete materials "Site B
153
111
$60,000 FWC Grant 11178
$14,200 Erosion District
6. B. NEW BUSINESS
3. Request for Recommendation - Naming of
Public Facility in honor of Sylvie Kramer Marceau
Community Recognition of Sylvie Kramer Marceau
-Compiled by Staff-
WHEREAS,the American Public Health Association brings together communities across
the United States to observe National Public Health Week during the first full
week in April of each year; and
WHEREAS,Sylvie Kramer Marceau is being recognized as a Public Health Hero for her
passion and leadership that transformed a maternal child health system for
moms and their babies in the City of Fort Pierce; and
WHEREAS,Sylvie Marceau began her work in St. Lucie County as a faculty member in 1991
through the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health; and
WHEREAS,after examining the delivery of health services by Sylvie Marceau to pregnant
women and infants with poor outcomes, poor access to care and high rates of
infant mortality, an effective and efficient obstetric delivery system was
implemented; and
WHEREAS,in 2000, Sylvie Marceau founded the Healthy Start Coalition of St. Lucie
County and Kids Connected by Design, an umbrella organization that tied
together three organizations which included the Healthy Start Coalition,
Healthy Families and Healthy Kids; and
WHEREAS,due to Sylvie Marceau’s efforts, access to pre-natal care was increased, teen
births dropped significantly and transmission of HIV from mother-to-baby
dropped from 30% to 0%, the infant mortality rates also dropped from a high
of 11.7% in 1993 to 4.7% in 2011; and
WHEREAS,Sylvie Kramer Marceau passed away in 2011, but her legacy lives on through
the work of 15 programs serving over 16,500 children and families per year
which operate under the umbrella of Kids Connected by Design.
NOW, THEREFORE,I Linda Hudson, Mayor of the City of Fort Pierce, Florida, do
hereby issue this proclamation in honor of:
Sylvie Kramer Marceau
in recognition of her outstanding and dedicated service to the City of Fort Pierce.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Official Seal of the
City of Fort Pierce, Florida, to be affixed this 7th
day of April, 2014.
MAYOR/COMMISSIONER
City of Fort Pierce Proclamation - April 7, 2014
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By Anthony Westbury of TCPalm
Posted: Nov. 02, 2011
I first noticed Sylvie Kramer many years ago at a Coffee with the
Mayor in Fort Pierce.
Statuesque, blonde and striking, the sophisticated lady with the
model looks was even more interesting when she opened her
mouth. Her slight Midwestern drawl was offset by traces of a
European accent.
Sylvie Kramer (later Marceau) died Oct. 22 after a decade-long
battle with cancer. She'll be long remembered for her
groundbreaking work with infants and mothers through the Kids
Connected by Design agency she founded, and by the way she did it.
Sylvie was recruited to St. Lucie in the early 1990s to overhaul the
county's then-deplorable infant mortality rate.
As she was fond of reminding all of us, St. Lucie's rates were more
than twice as high as the state average when she first arrived.
Over the next decade, Sylvie was able to radically reduce the
number of children dying before their first birthday, so much so
that St. Lucie's rate ended up significantly lower than the Florida
average.
Sylvie achieved that, she said, through "Education, education,
education."
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True, but mostly it was "Sylvie, Sylvie, Sylvie."
While she was relentless about telling everyone in St. Lucie County
about the importance of supporting programs that included
educating Latino moms and ensuring their daughters got good sex
education advice, Sylvie also was well-known in Tallahassee.
For years, she fought like a tigress to improve the flow of state
money to pay for all those outreach efforts.
Sylvie would frequently take off to Tallahassee to buttonhole a few
politicians in person.
Children's Services Council Executive Director Sean Boyle recalled
one such trip to lobby the chairman of the Senate health
appropriations committee.
"We all had our presentations rehearsed," Boyle said. "Sylvie kicked
things off and immediately went on the attack. She reminded the
senator how his own county was getting much more money per
child than we did in St. Lucie, and how they were doing a rotten job
of spending it."
Abruptly, the senator stood up and left the room. The meeting was
over before it had started.
I reminded former state Senate President Ken Pruitt of that
confrontation. He'd set up the meeting and laughed when I
described Sylvie's attacking style.
"Maybe that's why he never spoke to me again?" Pruitt said,
chuckling.
Pruitt remembered being on the receiving end of Sylvie's "dressing
downs" many times.
"But you couldn't get angry with her because she always had her
facts right," he said. "(She left me) stammering and stuttering many
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times because I never had a comeback. Yet she never got personal.
She was the only person who'd dress me down in such a way that
made you think critically. You knew she was right."
Yet while Sylvie knew all the movers and shakers, she also
embraced being an outsider.
For one, she wore her native French-ness like Joan of Arc's suit of
armor.
"Yes, she was always telling us how much better they do things in
France," Boyle recalled.
Sylvie ran for Fort Pierce mayor in 2001 and later worked with
mayoral candidate Rick Reed in 2004. She wasn't shy about telling
everyone that the city's good-old-boy system of politics needed a
major shake-up, and that she was just the outsider to do it.
Sylvie unquestionably left the world a better place than she found
it, both Pruitt and Florida Department of Children & Families
Circuit 19 Administrator Vern Melvin agreed.
"Sylvie was as passionate as she was compassionate," Melvin said.
"She was one of the most colorful characters I've ever encountered
in my years in social services. Agree or disagree with her, she would
not be ignored.
"Friends are families that we choose for ourselves," Melvin went on,
"and I considered Sylvie a very close family member."
Colorful, exotic, always opinionated — and always right — we're
certainly going to miss Sylvie Kramer Marceau.
And even though they may not realize it, so are the thousands of St.
Lucie County children who are alive today because of her untiring
advocacy.
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Newspapers. This column reflects his opinion. For more on St.
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Contact him at 772-409-1320 or anthony.westbury@scripps.com.