City of Port St. Lucie

Don’t miss an opportunity to learn how the City of Port St. Lucie is taking a proactive approach to meeting its future water demands while also providing an environmentally friendly, passive recreational area for the City and assisting in regional efforts to implement water quality and quantity improvements in the C-23 and St. Lucie River basins. ➡️ What: Exploring Sustainable Growth: McCarty Ranch Extension and Preserve Mobile Workshop 📅 When: 8:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21 📍 Where: Bus meeting location, Tradition Town Hall, 10799 SW Civic Lane, Port St. Lucie This mobile workshop will include a combination of presentations by Planning & Zoning, Economic Development and Utility Systems staff on the bus and at the site of the McCarty Ranch Extension and Preserve. Staff will discuss the City’s extraordinary growth and the resulting challenges and opportunities it faces and provide a detailed presentation on how the on-site water storage and treatment facility will meet future water demands and regional water quality and quantity objectives in addition to providing a major recreational amenity for the City. A continental breakfast, snacks and beverages are included. The workshop is sponsored by the Treasure Coast section of the American Planning Association; the Palm Beach County Planning Congress; the City of Port St. Lucie; and CMA (Chen Moore & Associates). To register, click here: https://lnkd.in/esA65wUS RSVP by Monday, Feb. 17. Cost is $10 for Treasure Coast section of the American Planning Association and Palm Beach County Planning Congress members; $20 for nonmembers.

The City of Port St. Lucie recently launched a new webpage dedicated to providing U.S. military veterans with access to helpful information and resources in one location. 🇺🇸 The Veterans Connection page underscores the City’s commitment to supporting those who have served our country in the armed forces. The page features information tailored to veterans and their families, including resources, community events, newsletters and connections to local veterans organizations. It also features a list of veteran-owned businesses, highlights parks with memorials and offers insights about veterans programs. Access the page here ➡ https://lnkd.in/g-VdWAGa

Kudos are in order! 👏 The City of Port St. Lucie has earned the Government Finance Officers Association Distinguished Budget Award Presentation for Fiscal Year 2024-25. This marks the 36th consecutive year the City has received this award – recognition of its commitment to meeting the highest principles of governmental budgeting. To achieve the award, a government entity must publish a budget document that meets program criteria as a policy document, as a financial plan, as an operations guide and as a communications tool for the public. In addition to receiving the award, the City's budget earned two additional recognitions: ➡️ Special Strategic Goals and Strategies Recognition: Awarded for receiving “outstanding” ratings for providing a coherent statement of organization-wide strategic goals and strategies addressing long-term concerns and issues. ➡️ Special Capital Program Recognition: Given for receiving “outstanding” ratings for the presentation of capital expenditures, projects and a multiyear capital plan. “Our team is proud to work with City Council and staff to continue our long tradition of high-quality budget presentations,” said Port St. Lucie Director of Office of Management and Budget Caroline Sturgis, CPFO, CGFO. “This budget represents a collaborative, multi-departmental effort that provides detailed information about the City’s objectives, initiatives and commitment to our residents.” Click here to review the Fiscal Year 2025-25 Budget document: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://lnkd.in/eiCHJ279

Are you heading out to our special Love Your Block Valentine's Day ❤️ Neighborhood Skate Party this Friday? 🛼 If so, make sure to stop by the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Lucie County Mobile Club! 🤩 Youth ages 6-18 can participate in life-enriching life-enriching programs such as science and math-themed activities 🧬 healthy lifestyle activities 🤸 financial responsibility programs 💵 and even tutoring! This program, funded by the City of Port St. Lucie's Community Development Block Grant Program, allows the Club to reach young people who might not be exposed to its traditional brick-and-mortar facilities. 📆 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14 📍 Skate City at Whispering Pines Park, 800 SW Darwin Blvd. Boys & Girls Clubs ➡️ www.bgcofslc.org Love Your Block ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g-kHTjkW

Keep Port St. Lucie Beautiful wants to welcome Southport Middle School to the Adopt-a-Street team! 👏 Students from Ms. Mas' and Ms. Ayala’s classes meet once a month for their service project and clean up assigned streets outside of their school along Morningside Boulevard! Their first cleanup was Jan. 28, and they collected five bags of trash, along with a few 5-gallon buckets! Read more about this awesome Club here: https://lnkd.in/e3Y774-p Way to go, Southport Middle, and thank you for helping to keep Port St. Lucie beautiful! 🥰 St. Lucie Public Schools #kpslb #litterfree #keepportstluciebeautiful #safecleanandbeautiful #portstlucie #adoptastreet

Grab your skates 🛼🛼 and meet us at Whispering Pines Park this Friday as the City launches the Love Your Block initiative with a Valentine's Day Neighborhood Skate Party. 🗓 Friday, Feb. 14 ⏰ 4-7 p.m. 📍 Skate City at Whispering Pines Park, 800 SW Darwin Blvd. The new program will provide residents of the Whispering Pines neighborhood with mini-grants that can create large-scale impacts. The program is a collaboration between the City of Port St. Lucie and the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University. Eligible applicants can apply for mini-grants of up to $1,500 for projects like creating community gardens🌷, creating shaded areas, landscaping 🌿, performing minor 🔨 repairs 🔧 or painting. For more info on the program visit https://lnkd.in/eQe9FxmZ.

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A comprehensive plan sets forth a vision for a city's future and provides a roadmap of how to get there. From growth and development to infrastructure and recreational amenities, it's arguably one of our City's most important documents. The City of Port St. Lucie is in the process of updating its Comp Plan, and on Episode 43 of PSL On The Mic 🎙 we chat with Planning & Zoning Director Mary Savage-Dunham and Pat Tyjeski, a consultant with Inspire Placemaking Collective, who break down the process and tell us how resident input is an integral part of the update. Listen ➡ www.cityofpsl.com/podcast Watch ➡ https://lnkd.in/eEMUT64j

Let's roll it back to the Skate City grand opening! 🛼 Check out these photos from the Jan. 29 grand opening at Whispering Pines Park! See a friend in our photos? Tag them! 😎 Browse more photos here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eHHA64FH #ThrowbackThursday

For the past eight years, the City of Port St. Lucie has used the National Community Survey™ to gather insights from residents that help guide the City’s strategic planning, prioritization of programs and projects, as well as development of new services.   Conducted by the National Research Center (NRC) and Polco, the surveys are being mailed to a statistically valid sample of residents. Recipients are encouraged to complete and return the surveys as the information gathered will play a critical role in updating the City's strategic plan and goals.   For those who do not receive a survey by mail, an online version is available to all residents at https://lnkd.in/eXQnqcCg. The online survey will be open until March 5.