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BAYSHORE BEAUTIFICATION MSTU ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES
OF THE MAY 1,2013 MEETING
The meeting of the Bayshore Beautification MSTU Advisory Committee was called to order
by Chairman Maurice Gutierrez at 5:00p.m. at the MSTU Office 4069 Bayshore Drive.
1. Roll Call: Present: Advisory Committee Members: Maurice Gutierrez (Chairman),
Sheila Dugan, Sandra Arafet, Robert Messmer, Victoria Nicklos, Carolyn Cochrane
and Gerry Buck.
MSTU Staff Present: Ashley Caserta (MSTU Project Manager) and Jean Jourdan
(Interim Director) and Ekna Guevara (Operations Coordinator).
2. Adoption of Agenda: Mr. Gutierrez asked for adoption of the agenda. Motion to
approve the minutes as amended by: Sandra Arafet, second: Victoria Nicklos
Approved: 7-0. Amendments included: 1- Item VI.c. was moved to be Vl.a. 2-Add a
letter"g. Office Space" under VI.
3. Approval of Minutes: Mr. Gutierrez asked for approval of the minutes from the April
2013 meeting. Motion: Gerry Buck Second: Sheila Dugan. Approved: 7-0,
4. Projects Report:
MSTU Report
a. Landscape Maintenance Update. Ground Zero performed scheduled landscape
maintenance in the Bayshore MSTU. Repairs were performed as needed. Ground
Zero also removed and replaced two dead foxtail palms along the east sidewalk just
north and south of the bridge.
b. Bavview Drive and Lunar Street Update. The CEI for this project, Atkins, has
completed their constructability review. Ashley met with Atkins and RWA to go over
the review comments. The issues are being considered by the Engineer, RWA and
they are currently preparing their responses. More discussion on this item later in the
meeting.
c. Thomasson Drive Engineering. The RFP is with Purchasing and should be
advertised in May. Ashley and Jean met with Brian Holley, Brian Galligan and
John Flathers from the Naples Botanical Garden to update them on the project.
NBG fully supports the project and will be involved throughout the design phase
by offering landscaping/plant selection assistance.
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d. Danford Street Project Update. To be discussed under new business.
CRA Update
a) CRA's 17+ Acre Property: Staff has ordered an appraisal and it should be completed
April 29, 2013. Once an appraisal is obtained, CAPA plans to make a formal offer on the
property for consideration.
b) Growth Management Plan Amendment. Scheduled for adoption by the BCC on May
28th.
c) CRA Owned Residential Lots. The five CRA owned lots on Van Buren were sold in
April and will have new, single family homes constructed on them.
d) Mini-Triangle Acreage RFP. On hold.
e) Two Vacancies on CRA Advisory Board. The positions continue to be re-advertised.
There is one at-large position and one Davis Boulevard business owner position.
f) FPL Lights on Andrew Drive: Staff will assign new personnel to this matter.
Additional Comments:
1- Jean Jourdan reported that the loan for the CRA was renegotiated successfully.
5. Old Business
a. Request payment of services. Motion: Sandra Arafet. Second: Bob Messmer.
Approved: 7-0.
6. New Business
a. Danford Street Improvements. To date, staff has sent out two letters asking
for input from the Danford Street residents, gone door-to-door once, and held a
public meeting. In addition, two volunteers from the street have also tried to
contact the residents who had not yet responded. A total of 38 properties are
on the street, and 18 votes have been received. 12 votes "yes", 6 votes "no".
Staff has no other means of contacting property owners to gather additional
input. Motion to continue with this program and try to obtain more signatures
w/help from volunteers. Motion: Carolyn Cochrane. Second: Victoria Nicklos.
Sandra Arafet abstained.
Additional Comments:
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1- Gerry Buck suggested we get information on how much money it would take
to have a conceptual plan to present to the residents.
2- Sheila Dugan proposed we provide the conceptual plans from Lunar Street
to the residents of Danford to promote the project and get their signatures. The
plans are available to view upon request. .
3- The volunteers reported that most of the residents are hoping for change but
were concerned of signing without having a map or plan of some sort to give an
idea what the project would look like.
b. Bavview/Lunar Street discussion. At the request of committee member Bob
Messmer there was discussion on this item. Chris Wright from RWA attended
and responded to several members concerns in regards to moving the fire
hydrant. His explanation included safety concern as well as the image of
consistency and intent of the project.
The committee also discussed the addition of ribbon curbing detail. Mr. Wright
explained that the condition of the existing road was evaluated and needs to be
rebuilt because of failing subgrade. This meant that he couldn't justify adding
the ribbon. He also explained that the ribbon curb may require a $50,000
maintenance schedule every 5 to 6 years which is not feasible. Additionally, the
MSTU is meant to beautify the area, not rebuild, so it is not their job to rebuild
the subgrade.Victoria noted that she would rather put the money towards future
street renovations rather than ribbon curbing. There was a motion to drop all
issues as submitted by Bob Messmer. Motion: Gerry Buck. Second: Carolyn
Cochrane. Passed with 1 dissenting vote made by Bob Messmer.
c. FY 2014 Budget. Staff presented our budget and requested a motion for the
taxable value for the oncoming year. Motion to continue to tax Millage Neutral.
Motion: Gerry Buck. Second: Bob Messmer. Approved: 7-0.
d. Summer Meeting Schedule. Motion to break for July and August.
Motion: Gerry Buck. Second: Sandra Arafet. Approved: 7-0.
e. Marketing the CRA, Bayshore MSTU and HC MSTU Brand. Staff requested
the committee's consent to use the Bayshore MSTU Creativity in Bloom logo to
represent the three agencies that are managed under this office.
Motion to allow staff to use the MSTU's logo to represent all three agencies
with the flexibility of using different colors patterns made by: Gerry Buck.
Second: Sandra Arafet. Approved: 7-0.
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f. Marketing mailer—Summer 2013. Staff informed the committee that we have
$5,000 available for summer mailers and would like to know if we are sending
mailers this year. A motion was made to allow staff to spend $5,000 on summer
mailers to be designed, printed and mailed out by a vendor. Motion: Sandra
Arafet. Second: Victoria Nicklos. Approved: 7-0.
Additional Comments:
1-Victoria suggested we look into a new service the Post Office is offering
where they charge 0.16 cents to send flyers to an area based on their zip code.
g. Office Space. Staff informed the committee that we have a few options to
move but only one is located in the Bayshore MSTU area and will be working to
stay within the MSTU area.
Motion to pay the MSTU's portion for the move not to exceed $10,000.
Motion: Gerry Buck. Second: Carolyn Cochrane. Approved: 7-0.
7. Committee Communications.
8. Public Comments:
a. Aaron gave us a brief report regards their landscape work to date.
9. Adjournment. The meeting adjourned at 6:27 PM.
App oved and forwarded by Maurice Gu'M` , MSTU Advisory Committee Chairman
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