Page 8 - Jupiter Spotlight - January '22

Page 8, Jupiter Spotlight
Family Adventure Day Returns

To The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum Jan. 15!

Experience a fun family day on the waterfront at the From the moment you walk in, you’ll discover Life on the fun with Family Adventure Day games, lighthouse climbs,
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum! This year’s Family Loxahatchee River with your history passport! Your family fishing on the new pier, and family-friendly food trucks.
Adventure Day will offer unique and educationally will enjoy pioneer demonstrations, hands-on history activities, Admission is $5 for children and adults, children ages 5 and
entertaining ways to explore the lighthouse grounds and archaeology, arts and crafts, meet our friends from the Ah- under are admitted free. This is a timed-ticket event. Online
our History Shaped By Nature with your whole family Tah-Thi-Ki Museum Seminole Tribe of Florida, hear some ticket purchase is required. More information and tickets can
on Saturday, Jan. 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. great storytelling and some toe-tapping music too. Plus have be found at jupiterlighthouse.org.
Commissioner’s Update

A Year In Review financial hardship due to COVID. The Department of Housing help combat saltwater intrusion, and assist in the restoration of
and Economic Development assisted 5,182 businesses affected the Loxahatchee River and the Lake Worth Lagoon.
By Commissioner by COVID through $78.5 million in grants to help them survive. The commission passed amendments to the Floating
Maria Marino Additionally, the county allocated $19.5 million for mortgage Structures Ordinance to prohibit the improper anchoring or
Reflecting on my first assistance and emergency home repairs, helping approximately mooring of floating structures in waters of the county. When
year as your District 1 2,230 households. people improperly anchor or abandon floating structures, this
Commissioner, the time has The county’s building division processed over 82,000 permits can create navigational hazards, result in the discharge of
passed at a dizzying speed. by Sept. 30, 2021, calculated at almost $2.5 billion in permitted harmful releases into the waterways, and negatively affect nearby
Through each issue we have value, while conducting 1,000 inspections per day. Current residences. Enforcement of the ordinance will apply to cities and
considered together, I feel a trends will put total permits issued easily over 90,000 in fiscal unincorporated areas of the county.
great sense of gratitude for year 2022. Numerous roadway improvements, traffic-control device
having the honor to serve you. In conjunction with the League of Cities, the building division installations, and sidewalk and bike path projects are in process
Your input, participation and has initiated development and implementation of a program to in District 1, which will enhance driver and pedestrian safety.
ideas continuously influence evaluate the safety of certain building types in the wake of the Recently, the commission approved on the first of two public
the policies the commission approves and the projects undertaken collapse of Champlain Towers in Miami-Dade County. readings, an amendment to the Unified Land Development Code
to maintain a high quality of life in Palm Beach County. We developed a balanced budget for fiscal year 2022, setting that would allow a hotel or motel as a conditional use within a
Our unwelcome visitor – COVID – has created health the millage rate at 4.7815 mils for the 11th straight year. commercial pod of a planned unit development. Some golf clubs
and economic hardships for many individuals, families and Construction on Segment III of the North County have suffered financial decline, and this use would allow a club
businesses. Despite staff shortages related to the virus, your Comprehensive Shore Protection Project is now complete, owner to maintain the overall golf operations rather than sell off
county government has kept working to provide the services addressing critical beach erosion along Juno Beach and the south portions of the golf course for redevelopment of housing.
you need, and beyond. end of Jupiter. Construction on Segment I, which extends from Perhaps most rewarding for me in this role is the opportunity
We addressed the call for greater access to vaccines in the just south of the Jupiter Inlet to the southern boundary of Carlin to meet constituents and neighborhood groups to learn about the
North County area by forging a partnership with the City of Palm Park, is underway. This project will fully restore the dune and issues that are important to you. Even if I do not immediately
Beach Gardens, the Health Care District and the Department of beach, provide storm protection, recreational opportunities, and have the answer to your problem, I, and my staff are dedicated
Health to open a vaccination site at the Burns Road Community sea turtle nesting habitat. to investigating and working with county departments to develop
Center. Construction commenced on the C-51 reservoir located on solutions.
Community Services disbursed $32 million in rental and utility Southern Boulevard near 20-mile bend. This storm water storage Please contact me at (561) 355-2201 or by email at mmarino@
assistance from the treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance facility, which is a phased project, will help with water flows pbcgov.org, and let me know how I can assist you.
Program to more than 5,200 households who experienced during the dry season, enhance flood protection and water quality,
Northern Notes

Snowbirds and a level course through the air are State. By June 1, they’ve reached the
often nocturnal migrants. At night the
Arctic region of northern Canada.
By Katie Roundtree, air is calmer or more stable and predators Enjoy the cooler temperatures of the
Director of Finance and are fewer. These can be viewed with a Florida winters and get out and try to
Administration, Northern telescope as they pass by the light of a spot some of these transients. There are
Palm Beach County full moon. Soaring birds, on the other many preserves and natural areas that
Improvement District hand, prefer daylight when they can ride attract birds this time of year. These areas
Snowbirds (an affectionate thermals of rising hot air. (Source: South are rich in food sources and attract birds
name for a subspecies of Florida Audubon Society) as either a destination or stopover on
Homo sapiens) flock to When migrants start moving, they the way to areas further south, like the
Florida each winter from all form broad, diffuse waves that merge into great “rivers” of Caribbean or South America; similar to our cruise ship ports
around the world; many can birds. The four main North American “rivers,” or “flyways,” attracting visitors cruising to points south. Happy travels!
be spotted enjoying Florida’s are known as the Pacific, Central, Mississippi and Atlantic. NPDES tip: Please pick up after your pet. When pet
great outdoors as well as shops Florida is the southernmost point within the United States on waste is washed into lakes or canals the waste decays, using
and restaurants in the area. However, there are true migratory the Atlantic flyway. The bird species in these great bird-rivers in up oxygen and sometimes releasing ammonia. Low oxygen
birds of the feathered species that visit or pass through south the sky pass specific spots on the map at more or less predictable levels and ammonia combined with warm temperatures can
Florida during the cooler months. times. For instance, when spring’s first yellow warblers, which kill fish. Pet waste also contains nutrients that encourage weed
Annually many bird species migrate as their food supply winter from southern Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, return and algae growth. Overly fertile water becomes cloudy and
disappears, water sources freeze, shelter options lessen, and northward each year they reach southern California and southern green – unattractive for boating and fishing. Perhaps most
daylight hours reduce. Migration cannot begin, however, until Florida around April 1. By May 1, their “northern front” lies importantly, pet waste carries diseases that make water unsafe
the young birds have fledged in their breeding range and all along a line running between Washington State and New York for humans and animals alike.
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