February 11, 2025 • 17 mins
Kuretski has one challenger in his bid for reelection as Jupiter's Mayor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Joel Malcolm Forward w j n O dot com.
My election spotlight on the town of Jupiter busy town
on March eleventh. We hope it'll be busy with lots
of voters getting out and UH electing UH mayor and
two council members. Now we do have an incumbent in
the mayoral race running for a second term, Jim Koretzky,
(00:21):
being challenged by a current council member, Cameron may And
we are speaking with Mayor Koretzky. Now, thank you for
joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Thank you for the opportunity to join you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Catch people up on you know your your background. For folks,
you know, we always have people moving moving to Florida
practically every day. I know it was that case over COVID.
Maybe it's slowed down a little bit, but nonetheless, folks
that may not be familiar with you, let's get some
bio on you, a little biomanum.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Professional engineer, project manager. I work for spl for forty
six years. I've been on the council, was on the
council as a council member for a number of years.
I ran for election as mayor three years ago in
the money for re election to a second term.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
How long have you lived in Jupiter?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Lived in Jupiter for thirty three years?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Okay, all right, anything else before we move on to well,
let's talk about some of your you know, you've you've
been mayor three years. What are some of the things
you'd like to hang your hat on.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, my one of my core values is growth management.
There's been no other representative on the council that has
had a stronger growth management track record. When something doesn't fit,
I say no, We've you know, brought up property to
reduce the amount of development intensity in traffic. I've been
(01:51):
I'm a fiscal conservative. We've got the lowest avalue tax
rate of all municipalities in North County. I've been advocating
from the day I moved to Jupiter for traffic mitigation solutions,
and we continue to implement a number of those over
the course of time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You know you mentioned FBL. Do you still work for FBL?
Or you you're not? You don't work there anything.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I retired in May of twenty four.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I didn't want to assume that you were retired. So
all right, all right, so you know, you talk about traffic,
I don't I have other bigger things, you know, to
talk about. We got the fire department coming and that's
been a big bone of contention Sunny Sands. But let's
start with the traffic. Since you referenced it, and I've
been talking to candidates about this. It is kind of
(02:39):
an interesting situation, or I would say maybe a tough
situation as a town council when we talk about traffic
on indian Town Road, right, because it is so it
gets so hectic, especially at certain times of the day.
But what can be done? Because it's what is it?
It's either a county and or a state road. Correct, Yeah,
it's road.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But this is something that you know, I've been championing
for years and going back many many years ago, there
was a group that wanted to put a big box
regional mall on Indiantown Road and from a minority, we
stopped it because the road system couldn't handle it. But now,
if you look at our strategic plan for twenty five
(03:22):
through twenty seven, we've got seven different mitigation solutions that
would improve Indiantown Road traffic. It is a state road
and so we have to go through them to get
things done. There's one under construction, there's another one that's
funded anyway. There's a number of them that we've been
working on and it takes a long time to get funding,
(03:44):
but you get Once you get the funding in the queue,
you know, then you can move the design, then you
move to construction, and then relief happens.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah. Let me ask you, since you are the mayor,
and there was, you know, news and it's been a
while since I've heard the news about Harbor Place, but
is it harbor Place right the Harborside? Thank you? So
you knew exactly what you knew exactly where I was
going though. What is the latest on the situation with Harborside?
And I'm not necessarily talking about the sad incident with
(04:17):
the electrocution in the but I know that there was
for a while there was a little bit and maybe
I'm using too harsh a word, but like a battle
between the town and the harbor Side owners over the
noise and whatnot. Where are we with that.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
All those issues have been settled amicably after a long time.
I was the only council member that was not supportive
of Harborside. I didn't think it hit our community and
I don't think it behaved in the early years as
it hit our community. But I'm grateful that they reached
out to me at the beginning of my maorial time
(04:57):
to say, hey, Jim, can we settle And they've and
we settled in one of these and they heard what
min issues were. One, we had given them a tax
incentive where they were getting money back every year in
tax credits, and I got them to return that tax
incentive to the town, saving our residents about three million dollars.
(05:22):
And they've rebranded themselves, realizing to fit better in with
our community. So I'm grateful what Harborside Place has done.
And I would say all those issues are behind us now.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They still do well. I don't. I'm assuming they still
play music after that unfortunate incident with the fountain, they
still have events there? Correct? And if so, what is
there is do they have a specific cutoff time?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
For the most part, they're not having events there. And
I understand you know from them that they're considering and
desirous of, you know, changing out the amphitheater to something else,
to which they have to come to us and ask for.
We don't tell them what to do with their property.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, all right, let's move on to the one of
the you know, probably from a news standpoint, probably the
biggest elephant in the room would be the upcoming Jupiter
Fire Rescue Department. This is I don't have to tell
you've been a bone of contention or a number of
residents that you know have been against it. I've been
(06:34):
told by some folks running for some of the offices
in Jupiter that the public didn't really get their say,
even though they were told there were nine public meetings.
But the essentially what the gist of it, I believe
is is that the claims are that the town had
already made up their mind prior to hearing from the public.
(06:58):
So I want to you know, as mayor, I want
to get your side of it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, that's absolutely a falsehood. You know. Clearly, what we
were faced with as a town is we had a
contract agreement with Palm Beach County to pay at cost
every year for what a cost to serve as Jupiter,
and then the County Commission and the Union decided, well, no,
(07:24):
we need to increase our addle on tax raid to
the tune of a quarter billion dollars over ten years.
So clearly, I don't know how anybody, any elected official
or candidate can be out there advocating a tax increase
of a quarter billion dollars to our residents and businesses
every ten years. So no, we held a number of
(07:46):
public hearings and during that time period the local union
had spent about two hundred thousand dollars with the misinformation campaign.
They got a referendum, you know, request signed by residents
misleading them, heard from many residents about how misled they were,
(08:07):
which was illegal, and it was ruled accordingly from a judge.
So we're moving ahead with our fire department. We've got
an incredible leadership team. The equipment's hired, been purchased, it's
going to come early, and everything they said couldn't be done,
we're doing. The leadership team is such a phenomenally well
(08:30):
known high professionalism group that we have one hundred and
fifty people that have already applied applied for the hundred spots,
even though we're not hiring until next year.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, I believe October of twenty twenty six is when
that for the or I guess there's going to be
three stations, two under construction and ones already there being
used by the county.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Correct, yes, correct, you.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Have You're being challenged by a current council member but
also a Palm Beach County fire fighter for Pombach County
Fire Rescue. How big of an issue has the fire
department been in this race?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Thinks first, I think it's the underlying one. I think
my opponent, Cam, which I know very well we served
together as on council for five years. You know, he's
trying to some degree stand clear this one. But you know,
the Union went ahead and said that you can. President
said hey, we're going to we're going to turn over
the council and he got a slate of three people
(09:34):
that he endorsed. They endorsed, fund their campaigns. Cam's the
one from mayor, and hey, that's fundamental. Let's let the
public decide what they want. Do they want to quota,
they want to quarter billion dollars in tax increase over
ten years or are they and I believe that they don't.
Who wants a tax increase at all? Let alone that
(09:55):
order of magnitude.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, and then we interviewed Cameron may your your challenger,
the council member, and he you know, obviously I brought
up the topic to him and he acknowledged that he
was against it, but that it's a done deal essentially,
and he's at the point where as a council member,
he just wants to make sure that you know, it's
(10:18):
going to be done in the right way and whatnot.
That sound accurate.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well, that's one of the things he says. He also
says that he's mayor and he's hearing from other members
of the council or the public that they want to
read this decision. He'd go along with that.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Could that even happen?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, I want this you know. That's code for yes,
we're going to go back to county fire rescue if
we get the right people elected.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Is that? Is that legally possible?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Though? Is that?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Is that how I mean? Could that happen?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yes? It could?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Okay, all right, yeah, I don't understand how contracts work
and whatnot. I would assume that you'd, well.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
We know what would happen. So we we have our
track with the county now terminates on September thirtieth, twenty
twenty six, because we're starting a new fire department. But
if the three union trialisk your union candidates get elected,
they would have the majority, and then they could say,
(11:17):
you know what, let's go back in contract with the county.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So what would happen then? What happened?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Will we have?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
What would happen then? With the two depart fire stations
that are being.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Built, they would have to source through that interesting you know, hey,
you could imagine. Okay, first of all, the equipment we're buying,
they could repurpose. They buy equipment all the time, so
that's an easy thing for them to try to sell
the stations. You know, they could make their claim to
t the one in Burt Reynols Park was really aged
(11:50):
and we'll go ahead and buy from the town, you know,
the one they built across the street. And so you know,
there's a whole bunch of rationalization that could go on.
But the impact it would be a quarter billion dollars
and ten years of extra taxes.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
All right, Let's talk about Sunny Sands and this is
this is something that a lot of folks are talking about.
Where do we stand with Sunny Sands and what are
your thoughts on it?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well, in Sunny Sands, you know, and that's another one
that between my councilor may and myself, we are in
off different camps. They have a property owner, you know, again,
I've had the strongest growth management record in the town,
second to none by a large degree. And you know,
I say no and something's not a fit, so we're
(12:38):
not going to allow it, just anything to happen there.
We were hearing under a special situation. They had to
apply for a statisticate to dig cam and one other
council member had agreed with a Historic Resource Board that
the property owner his ten acres of property he would
(12:59):
know longerould be allowed to put a shovel in the
ground on his property. And three of us went ahead
and said, that's crazy, that's not justified. We were acting
under a special appeal process, which is the only time
I think it's happening in the history of the town.
We had actors judges. I had to go through one
thousand pages of testimony to look at the prior hearing,
(13:24):
and we ruled that four acres had to be preserved,
but the rest of it would be subject to a
certificate to dig. The property owner has pursued a mediation process,
which is entitled to legally, and we've been in confidential
mediation to try to see if we couldn't reach to
(13:45):
reach a settlement on that property. But once again that property.
If Cam had his way and he had one more
person voting with him, and they would have denied the
property under the right to put a shovel in the ground.
The next step the property owner would have delightfully taken
(14:05):
was to go to a court and saying, my property
has been taken by the government, give me my money,
and we would have been un hooked for about one
hundred million dollars crazy Exus of Jupiter.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
If re elected to a second term as mayor, Are
there a couple of things that you have in mind
that you'd like to get, you know, get done or improve?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Oh? Absolutely, Number one, I want to see our far
recipe department to continue moving forward and be ready for
full service operation on October first, twenty twenty six. I'd
like to settle you know, we've just celebrated on February ninth,
our one hundred year birthday for the town, I believe,
(14:53):
and we added a strategic item on this that we
did to collaboratively work with the Semi Sans property and
to respect and preserve you know, unique and archaeological history
of portions of that site. And so I've always I
was the first number on council that was trying to
acquire portions of the property. But to buy property or
to acquire property, you have to have a willing property owner,
(15:18):
willing to talk and considered either giving it to you
or selling it to you. So we'd like to we'd
like to close settle that matter sometime in the next
year or so, but we'll see what happens there. I
want to make sure that traffic mitigation solutions that are
in progress happen to reduce traffic on Indian Town Road.
(15:41):
And you know, I can go on and on, but
I think that's enough to give you a feel for
the things I hoped to accomplished in the next three
year term.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
All right, and you've covered some of this, but you know,
as you run for reelection, ultimately, in a nutshell, why
should folks vote for Jim Kretzky for mayor?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, I think I have a you know, one thing.
One advantage of being an incumbent is I have a
track record. It's amazing how candidates can say a lot
of things in their campaign literature. I've always been good
to my word. Everything that I've pledged in fire elections,
I've delivered upon. So if they don't want huge tax increases.
(16:27):
If they support our decision that we made fiscally response
to what on the far Rescue Department, if they resport,
if they support the fact that we're not going to
take people's property, and then the fact that we want
to implement traffic mitigation solutions I need me in town road,
then they'll decide to vote for me to elect re
(16:49):
elect me as mayor for another three year term.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
All right, well, I appreciate you taking the time speak
with the voters of the Town of Jupiter again. Mayor
Jim Koretzky running for re election in the Town of
Jupiter here on wj and O dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Thank you very much,
Hey, Joel Malcolm Forward w j n O dot com.
My election spotlight on the town of Jupiter busy town
on March eleventh. We hope it'll be busy with lots
of voters getting out and UH electing UH mayor and
two council members. Now we do have an incumbent in
the mayoral race running for a second term, Jim Koretzky,
(00:21):
being challenged by a current council member, Cameron may And
we are speaking with Mayor Koretzky. Now, thank you for
joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Thank you for the opportunity to join you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Catch people up on you know your your background. For folks,
you know, we always have people moving moving to Florida
practically every day. I know it was that case over COVID.
Maybe it's slowed down a little bit, but nonetheless, folks
that may not be familiar with you, let's get some
bio on you, a little biomanum.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Professional engineer, project manager. I work for spl for forty
six years. I've been on the council, was on the
council as a council member for a number of years.
I ran for election as mayor three years ago in
the money for re election to a second term.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
How long have you lived in Jupiter?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Lived in Jupiter for thirty three years?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Okay, all right, anything else before we move on to well,
let's talk about some of your you know, you've you've
been mayor three years. What are some of the things
you'd like to hang your hat on.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, my one of my core values is growth management.
There's been no other representative on the council that has
had a stronger growth management track record. When something doesn't fit,
I say no, We've you know, brought up property to
reduce the amount of development intensity in traffic. I've been
(01:51):
I'm a fiscal conservative. We've got the lowest avalue tax
rate of all municipalities in North County. I've been advocating
from the day I moved to Jupiter for traffic mitigation solutions,
and we continue to implement a number of those over
the course of time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You know you mentioned FBL. Do you still work for FBL?
Or you you're not? You don't work there anything.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I retired in May of twenty four.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I didn't want to assume that you were retired. So
all right, all right, so you know, you talk about traffic,
I don't I have other bigger things, you know, to
talk about. We got the fire department coming and that's
been a big bone of contention Sunny Sands. But let's
start with the traffic. Since you referenced it, and I've
been talking to candidates about this. It is kind of
(02:39):
an interesting situation, or I would say maybe a tough
situation as a town council when we talk about traffic
on indian Town Road, right, because it is so it
gets so hectic, especially at certain times of the day.
But what can be done? Because it's what is it?
It's either a county and or a state road. Correct, Yeah,
it's road.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But this is something that you know, I've been championing
for years and going back many many years ago, there
was a group that wanted to put a big box
regional mall on Indiantown Road and from a minority, we
stopped it because the road system couldn't handle it. But now,
if you look at our strategic plan for twenty five
(03:22):
through twenty seven, we've got seven different mitigation solutions that
would improve Indiantown Road traffic. It is a state road
and so we have to go through them to get
things done. There's one under construction, there's another one that's
funded anyway. There's a number of them that we've been
working on and it takes a long time to get funding,
(03:44):
but you get Once you get the funding in the queue,
you know, then you can move the design, then you
move to construction, and then relief happens.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah. Let me ask you, since you are the mayor,
and there was, you know, news and it's been a
while since I've heard the news about Harbor Place, but
is it harbor Place right the Harborside? Thank you? So
you knew exactly what you knew exactly where I was
going though. What is the latest on the situation with Harborside?
And I'm not necessarily talking about the sad incident with
(04:17):
the electrocution in the but I know that there was
for a while there was a little bit and maybe
I'm using too harsh a word, but like a battle
between the town and the harbor Side owners over the
noise and whatnot. Where are we with that.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
All those issues have been settled amicably after a long time.
I was the only council member that was not supportive
of Harborside. I didn't think it hit our community and
I don't think it behaved in the early years as
it hit our community. But I'm grateful that they reached
out to me at the beginning of my maorial time
(04:57):
to say, hey, Jim, can we settle And they've and
we settled in one of these and they heard what
min issues were. One, we had given them a tax
incentive where they were getting money back every year in
tax credits, and I got them to return that tax
incentive to the town, saving our residents about three million dollars.
(05:22):
And they've rebranded themselves, realizing to fit better in with
our community. So I'm grateful what Harborside Place has done.
And I would say all those issues are behind us now.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They still do well. I don't. I'm assuming they still
play music after that unfortunate incident with the fountain, they
still have events there? Correct? And if so, what is
there is do they have a specific cutoff time?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
For the most part, they're not having events there. And
I understand you know from them that they're considering and
desirous of, you know, changing out the amphitheater to something else,
to which they have to come to us and ask for.
We don't tell them what to do with their property.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, all right, let's move on to the one of
the you know, probably from a news standpoint, probably the
biggest elephant in the room would be the upcoming Jupiter
Fire Rescue Department. This is I don't have to tell
you've been a bone of contention or a number of
residents that you know have been against it. I've been
(06:34):
told by some folks running for some of the offices
in Jupiter that the public didn't really get their say,
even though they were told there were nine public meetings.
But the essentially what the gist of it, I believe
is is that the claims are that the town had
already made up their mind prior to hearing from the public.
(06:58):
So I want to you know, as mayor, I want
to get your side of it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, that's absolutely a falsehood. You know. Clearly, what we
were faced with as a town is we had a
contract agreement with Palm Beach County to pay at cost
every year for what a cost to serve as Jupiter,
and then the County Commission and the Union decided, well, no,
(07:24):
we need to increase our addle on tax raid to
the tune of a quarter billion dollars over ten years.
So clearly, I don't know how anybody, any elected official
or candidate can be out there advocating a tax increase
of a quarter billion dollars to our residents and businesses
every ten years. So no, we held a number of
(07:46):
public hearings and during that time period the local union
had spent about two hundred thousand dollars with the misinformation campaign.
They got a referendum, you know, request signed by residents
misleading them, heard from many residents about how misled they were,
(08:07):
which was illegal, and it was ruled accordingly from a judge.
So we're moving ahead with our fire department. We've got
an incredible leadership team. The equipment's hired, been purchased, it's
going to come early, and everything they said couldn't be done,
we're doing. The leadership team is such a phenomenally well
(08:30):
known high professionalism group that we have one hundred and
fifty people that have already applied applied for the hundred spots,
even though we're not hiring until next year.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, I believe October of twenty twenty six is when
that for the or I guess there's going to be
three stations, two under construction and ones already there being
used by the county.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Correct, yes, correct, you.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Have You're being challenged by a current council member but
also a Palm Beach County fire fighter for Pombach County
Fire Rescue. How big of an issue has the fire
department been in this race?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Thinks first, I think it's the underlying one. I think
my opponent, Cam, which I know very well we served
together as on council for five years. You know, he's
trying to some degree stand clear this one. But you know,
the Union went ahead and said that you can. President
said hey, we're going to we're going to turn over
the council and he got a slate of three people
(09:34):
that he endorsed. They endorsed, fund their campaigns. Cam's the
one from mayor, and hey, that's fundamental. Let's let the
public decide what they want. Do they want to quota,
they want to quarter billion dollars in tax increase over
ten years or are they and I believe that they don't.
Who wants a tax increase at all? Let alone that
(09:55):
order of magnitude.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, and then we interviewed Cameron may your your challenger,
the council member, and he you know, obviously I brought
up the topic to him and he acknowledged that he
was against it, but that it's a done deal essentially,
and he's at the point where as a council member,
he just wants to make sure that you know, it's
(10:18):
going to be done in the right way and whatnot.
That sound accurate.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well, that's one of the things he says. He also
says that he's mayor and he's hearing from other members
of the council or the public that they want to
read this decision. He'd go along with that.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Could that even happen?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, I want this you know. That's code for yes,
we're going to go back to county fire rescue if
we get the right people elected.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Is that? Is that legally possible?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Though? Is that?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Is that how I mean? Could that happen?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yes? It could?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Okay, all right, yeah, I don't understand how contracts work
and whatnot. I would assume that you'd, well.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
We know what would happen. So we we have our
track with the county now terminates on September thirtieth, twenty
twenty six, because we're starting a new fire department. But
if the three union trialisk your union candidates get elected,
they would have the majority, and then they could say,
(11:17):
you know what, let's go back in contract with the county.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So what would happen then? What happened?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Will we have?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
What would happen then? With the two depart fire stations
that are being.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Built, they would have to source through that interesting you know, hey,
you could imagine. Okay, first of all, the equipment we're buying,
they could repurpose. They buy equipment all the time, so
that's an easy thing for them to try to sell
the stations. You know, they could make their claim to
t the one in Burt Reynols Park was really aged
(11:50):
and we'll go ahead and buy from the town, you know,
the one they built across the street. And so you know,
there's a whole bunch of rationalization that could go on.
But the impact it would be a quarter billion dollars
and ten years of extra taxes.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
All right, Let's talk about Sunny Sands and this is
this is something that a lot of folks are talking about.
Where do we stand with Sunny Sands and what are
your thoughts on it?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well, in Sunny Sands, you know, and that's another one
that between my councilor may and myself, we are in
off different camps. They have a property owner, you know, again,
I've had the strongest growth management record in the town,
second to none by a large degree. And you know,
I say no and something's not a fit, so we're
(12:38):
not going to allow it, just anything to happen there.
We were hearing under a special situation. They had to
apply for a statisticate to dig cam and one other
council member had agreed with a Historic Resource Board that
the property owner his ten acres of property he would
(12:59):
know longerould be allowed to put a shovel in the
ground on his property. And three of us went ahead
and said, that's crazy, that's not justified. We were acting
under a special appeal process, which is the only time
I think it's happening in the history of the town.
We had actors judges. I had to go through one
thousand pages of testimony to look at the prior hearing,
(13:24):
and we ruled that four acres had to be preserved,
but the rest of it would be subject to a
certificate to dig. The property owner has pursued a mediation process,
which is entitled to legally, and we've been in confidential
mediation to try to see if we couldn't reach to
(13:45):
reach a settlement on that property. But once again that property.
If Cam had his way and he had one more
person voting with him, and they would have denied the
property under the right to put a shovel in the ground.
The next step the property owner would have delightfully taken
(14:05):
was to go to a court and saying, my property
has been taken by the government, give me my money,
and we would have been un hooked for about one
hundred million dollars crazy Exus of Jupiter.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
If re elected to a second term as mayor, Are
there a couple of things that you have in mind
that you'd like to get, you know, get done or improve?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Oh? Absolutely, Number one, I want to see our far
recipe department to continue moving forward and be ready for
full service operation on October first, twenty twenty six. I'd
like to settle you know, we've just celebrated on February ninth,
our one hundred year birthday for the town, I believe,
(14:53):
and we added a strategic item on this that we
did to collaboratively work with the Semi Sans property and
to respect and preserve you know, unique and archaeological history
of portions of that site. And so I've always I
was the first number on council that was trying to
acquire portions of the property. But to buy property or
to acquire property, you have to have a willing property owner,
(15:18):
willing to talk and considered either giving it to you
or selling it to you. So we'd like to we'd
like to close settle that matter sometime in the next
year or so, but we'll see what happens there. I
want to make sure that traffic mitigation solutions that are
in progress happen to reduce traffic on Indian Town Road.
(15:41):
And you know, I can go on and on, but
I think that's enough to give you a feel for
the things I hoped to accomplished in the next three
year term.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
All right, and you've covered some of this, but you know,
as you run for reelection, ultimately, in a nutshell, why
should folks vote for Jim Kretzky for mayor?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, I think I have a you know, one thing.
One advantage of being an incumbent is I have a
track record. It's amazing how candidates can say a lot
of things in their campaign literature. I've always been good
to my word. Everything that I've pledged in fire elections,
I've delivered upon. So if they don't want huge tax increases.
(16:27):
If they support our decision that we made fiscally response
to what on the far Rescue Department, if they resport,
if they support the fact that we're not going to
take people's property, and then the fact that we want
to implement traffic mitigation solutions I need me in town road,
then they'll decide to vote for me to elect re
(16:49):
elect me as mayor for another three year term.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
All right, well, I appreciate you taking the time speak
with the voters of the Town of Jupiter again. Mayor
Jim Koretzky running for re election in the Town of
Jupiter here on wj and O dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Thank you very much,
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