CAC Minutes 05/29/2001 RMay 29, 2001
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
COLLIER COUNTY COASTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
May 29, 2001
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Coastal Advisory
Committee, in and for the County of Collier, having conducted
business herein, met on this date at 5:30 p.m. in REGULAR
SESSION in Building "F" of the Government Complex, Naples,
Florida, with the following members present:
CHAIRPERSON:
Gary Gallenberg
Anthony P. Pires, Jr.
David Roellig
John P. Strapponi
Ashley D. Lupo
Robert B. Stakich
William Kroeschell
Robert Gray
NOT PRESENT: James L. Snediker
ALSO PRESENT:
James Mudd, Public Utilities Administrator
Jon C. Staiger, Ph.D., City of Naples
Natural Resources Manager
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MR. MUDD: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. It's kind of
interesting to see everybody up here -- up here on the dais. I
hope I never have to sit in this chair for real life. It's a hot seat.
I'm Jim Mudd. I'm the Public Utilities Administrator for
Collier County. I'm -- I'm making an assumption now that
everybody has received this packet in the mail (indicating}. Has
anybody not received the packet? MR. GRAY: I got it today.
MR. MUDD: You got it today. You speed read, sir? I'm sorry
it didn't make it sooner than that.
Harry Huber, the guy that sent it out, is in the hospital in
Gainesville. He normally runs the program management side of
the house for beach and beach renourishment for -- for Collier
County. Hopefully he'll be back on his feet. He had some
intestinal problems. He had an operation about a year ago, and it
kicked up over the Memorial Day Weekend and put him in the
hospital. So we're hoping for a speedy recovery, and I'm so glad
that Jon's here with me -- Dr. Jon Staiger is with me from the City
of Naples, who's also the subject-matter expert. The two of them
are almost like the dynamic duo. And so we will try and get
through that process.
But this is the Coastal Advisory Committee, and it has a
brand-new charter. The charter was part of that packet. It,
hopefully, will take a fresh look -- and not that anything in the
past was bad -- but a fresh look in the fact that we start taking a
look at the out years about how the beach and beach
renourishment, beach access; those things need to be looked at,
so that we have a game plan that looks out there five to ten
years out.
Part of your packet was also a ten-year budget. You'll say
"Well, what happened there?" Well, we tried to do the best we
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could with the ten-year budget because there is also a move
afoot to talk about how the dollars get disbursed in that 3 cents
tax. And there is a special TDC meeting on the 4th of June that's
going to take place where they are going to talk about changing
that ordinance. So what we tried to do with that ten-year plan
was make sure there was enough money in the coffer in order to
take care of our beach and -- and the beach on Marco Island, the
City of Naples and in Collier County in general to make sure that
it is a world-class beach.
Some of the things in that document for beach
renourishment I had Harry Huber, the project manager, put in
some place where this 50,000 cubic yards of upland sands that
goes on the beach that it would be increased every year to a -- to
a bigger quantity, so when we get to some of those issues where
for five years we really haven't put a lot of sand on the beach
since the rocks-on-the-beach incident and to try and catch up a
little bit to -- to get those quantities and put it in the budget so
that there was enough there in order to do it. We'll talk about
that in just a little bit.
I guess the first thing we should do is a roll call. Or, ma'am,
did you already do a roll call?
COURT REPORTER: I did a roll call.
MR. MUDD: Okay. The roll call is done. And then we can
discuss some procedural matters with the ordinance. But while
we are here, just as an introduction in case everybody doesn't
know each other, if we can start with you, sir, and introduce
yourself to the rest of the members of the committee.
MR. GRAY: My name is Bob Gray. I'm representing the City
of Naples.
MR. PIRES: My name is Tony Pires. I'm the representative
of the unincorporated area of Collier County.
MR. STRAPPONI: My name is Jack Strapponi. I'm with
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Collier County.
MR. STAKICH: Bob Stakich. Marco Island.
MR. GALLENBERG: I'm Gary Gallenberg, one of the City of
Naples seats.
MR. ROELLIG: David Roellig, Collier County.
MS. LUPO: Ashley Lupo, City of Marco.
MR. KROESCHELL: Bill Kroeschell, City of Naples.
MR. MUDD: And we have one -- one person that is absent; is
that correct?
MR. GALLENBERG: There should be--
MR. MUDD: Mr. Snediker is the one --
MR. STAKICH: He's absent. He's out of town.
MR. MUDD: Okay.
MR. GALLENBERG: Is he a Marco rep?
MR. STAKICH: He's a Marco rep.
MR. MUDD: Okay. The next thing that we need -- we need to
do and it's what you always do -- when I was joking with the
councilmen, I said, "Sitting in the center seat doesn't necessarily
mean you are going to be chair." But if you get in the middle of
this dais, you never know what's going to happen. But we are
going to have to elect a chair and vice chair of the committee;
that's -- that's appropriate. And then I think we -- we probably
want to take a look at the ordinance real fast to make sure that
everybody is up to speed with it, to make sure that everybody
knows what it says, knows what the charter is. And I would --
and I would postpone -- there's a -- there's a thing in the charter
that talks about different tenures for different members based on
a year, two years, three year. I would like to put that off until --
until the next meeting and let everybody make sure that they are
familiar with that process, and then we can figure out who's
going to be on for a year, who's going to be two, who's going to
be four; that kind -- that kind of process. Because they want to
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make sure that there's continuity in the -- in the committee as
the years go on.
So without further ado, do I have a nomination for chair?
MR. PIRES: Tony Pires, for the record. I will nominate Gary
Gallenberg as chair.
MR. MUDD.' Do I have a second?
MR. KROESCHELL.' I will second that motion.
MR. MUDD: I guess, do you want -- you know, I don't want to
put you in a spot. But from a voluntary standpoint, is that okay
with you, sir?
MR. GALLENBERG: I'll do it. Yes, I can do it.
MR. MUDD: Okay. Now, let's take a vote. All in favor.
(Unanimous response.)
MR. MUDD: Opposed?
(No response.)
MR. MUDD: Unanimous. And one absent. I need a
nomination for vice chair.
MR. PIRES: I will pipe up again, if it's okay. Tony Pires, for
the record. David Roellig.
MR. MUDD: Do I have a second?
MR. GALLENBERG: I'll second.
MR. MUDD: Mr. Roellig.
MR. ROELLIG: I -- I will accept that.
MR. MUDD: Okay. Do I have any other nomination? Okay. A
vote. All in favor.
(Unanimous response.)
MR. MUDD: Opposed.
(No response.)
MR. MUDD.' And -- and one is not here. So by unanimous --
If I can get you to turn in your packet to -- to the charter.
It's to the rear of the packet.
MR. GALLENBERG: When you say "charter, "you are
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referring to the ordinance?
MR. MUDD: The ordinance, I'm sorry, 2001-03. And then
right behind it is 2001-14, which is the amendment to the
ordinance. No sooner than it was out, we had an amendment.
The amendment has to do with -- with how the candidates
come from the City of Naples and the City -- and the City of Marco
Island. The -- we can go -- we can start on page 1, if you like.
Chair, do you want to take this down? Or do you want to
take us through this, or do you want me to keep working through
this process?
MR. GALLENBERG: I'd -- I'd like for you to keep going. As
with Mr. Gray, I -- I have the packet. I just received it.
MR. MUDD: Certainly. That's fine. This is basically the
ordinance that established the Coastal Advisory Committee.
There are three members from Marco Island, from the City of
Naples, and from the unincorporated part of Collier County that
are part of -- that are part of this committee.
This -- this committee is to advise the Board of County
Commissioners and the Tourist Development Council of project
priorities with respect to funding sources that are available to
Collier County for restoration and protection of its shoreline.
The functions, powers, and duties of the committee shall be
to advise and make recommendations to the Board of County
Commissioners and TDC on matters pertaining to the following:
And then it goes A through E; the development and
implementation of long-term beach erosion control program
within Collier County to include identification of peach -- of beach
segments with common erosion and -- and acretion histories,
recommendation of beach management strategies for each
segment and the development of long-term strategies for areas
of chronic erosion.
And -- and this is just in my mind's eye is that identification,
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as you identify those projects and you become the sounding
board for the residents of the county with -- with good ideas for
programs, once you determine you want that in your -- in your
plan or that it is an applicable project, we'll go out at that
process and we'll contract out and get the -- an engineering firm
to -- to develop a plan, take a look at the feasibility, take a look
at the cost benefits, so that you'll have that information so that
you -- it -- it won't be just one of these, "Well, here's the project,
and here's what we think the estimate is." We'll basically come
back to you with that -- that program and share that information,
and then it's basically up to the committee at that juncture if it's
a -- if it's an appropriate project or not.
Planning and prioritization of capital improvement programs
related to coastal issues including recommending alternative
funding sources for the development and implementation of
coastal management and erosion control projects. We'll look at
grants from the State of Florida, the beach erosion control
program, and federal navigation and coastal management
project.
And then C, coordinating with regional and statewide groups
that may be necessary to further the goals and policies of Collier
County.
Outlining the coastal zone management policies and
construction procedures for beach renourishment, sediment
borrow-site identification~ inlet management plans, inlet
improvement projects, dredging -- dredge disposal and -- excuse
me -- dredge spoiled disposal site identification, coastal erosion
trend evaluation, coastal and estuarine habitat protection and
restoration and other similar activities. And then, finally,
reporting on innovative proposals by the public and staff.
And then that's what I talked about Section 3, I asked that --
that we defer that part that -- that identification of who and how
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long the tenures are going to be for the different members until
the next meeting. Really, the -- the -- that's something that we
can talk about. We've got some time in that process to figure
out, if that's all right with you.
Then I turn to Section 4 then. Let's turn to Section 5. I will
talk about removals. We're just starting. I don't think we want to
go there. It's not a good thing to do, but -- but officers and.
Quorums, rules of procedures. We've elected a chair and the
vice chair.
Officers terms shall be for a period of one year with
eligibility for reelection. The presence of five or more members
shall constitute a quorum so that they can take action in
necessary action.
The committee shall by majority vote of the entire
membership adopt rules and procedures for the transaction of
business and shall keep a written record of meetings,
resolutions, findings, and determinations -- that's why we have a
court reporter here with us today.
Copies of all committee minutes, resolutions, reports, and
exhibits shall be submitted to the Board of County
Commissioners.
Section 6, this committee shall be reviewed once every four
years in accordance with the procedures contained in the
Ordinance 86-41 as amended or its successor ordinance.
In the event this ordinance conflicts with any other
ordinance of Collier County or other applicable law, the more
restrictive shall apply. If any phase or portion of the ordinance is
held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent
jurisdiction, such portions shall be deemed a separate distinct an
independent provision, and such holdings shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portion. And it goes on and basically
says the effective date.
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I think the real key is -- is on page 2 where it talks about A
through E, which is basically the charter, the charter of the
committee.
Do I have any questions on the ordinance at all? Okay. The
other -- the other issue we need to talk about is -- and we can
talk about this at the end or at the beginning is when do we --
how often do we want to meet as a committee as we run through
this process. And I know it's new for many folks that are sitting
on the dais right now. Something that had come across would be
on a monthly basis, and if you want to have it sooner because
you want to get a couple of -- a couple of meetings so that we've
got a good feel for where we're going in the projects and -- and
part of the project review, we'll figure out if we have lots of
questions and if we have to come back and review those
particular issues, we might want to have a more frequent
meeting than once a month. But I throw that at you, and as we
finish this meeting, we'll come back to that issue to figure out
when our next meeting will be -- when you would like that to
happen and what times you'd like it to happen and things like
that.
MR. GALLENBERG: How often -- I know we have at least two
members here that were on the Beach Renourishment
Committee. How often did that meeting meet?
MR. GRAY: Once a month --
MR. ROELLIG: Once a month we met --
COURT REPORTER: Okay. Wait. I'm going to need for
everyone to identify themselves -- MR. ROELLIG: Sorry.
COURT REPORTER: -- and speak one at a time. Okay.
MR. GALLENBERG: I was, and still am.
Gary Gallenberg, asking the question.
MR. ROELLIG: David Roellig. We met once a month, the first
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Thursday of the month virtually always at 9 a.m., and
occasionally we had an afternoon meeting that first Thursday.
MR. GALLENBERG: And while the committees aren't exactly
the same -- there's substantial overlap -- did you find that that
was -- that you have enough to do and not too much to do?
MR. ROELLIG: I think it worked out very well. We got our
packages a week or so ahead of time, and everyone seemed to
be able to get up to speed and cover the agenda.
MR. GRAY: Bob Gray. I would like to add that there toward
the end we were meeting at one o'clock in the afternoon. I felt
like that was more satisfactory. It seemed like when we met at
nine o'clock in the morning we were running way past lunchtime.
And it just wasn't too workable.
MR. GALLENBERG: Is there a feeling including -- including
staff advisors, whether -- whether we ought to try for a daytime
schedule or whether something like this is more convenient to
people?
MR. KROESCHELL.' I would prefer a daytime schedule
myself. Bill Kroeschell. I would definitely prefer a daytime
schedule.
MR. STAKICH: If we meet around one -- because of things
we have to do at Marco at -- from noon on -- usually meetings, I
would say 1:30 would be a much -- fine time, as far as I'm
concerned.
MR. GALLENBERG: Any others? Tony, I know you have
daytime --
MR. PIRES: Daytime is fine, 1:30. Generally, I have--four
times a month, at least, on CDDs that I represent and otherwise.
Daytime is fine, as far as -- and Tuesday is county commissioner
meetings, so I guess we --
MR. GALLENBERG: I think daytime consensus then. Does
Thursday work, generally speaking, for everyone?
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MR. GRAY: Thursday would be great, as far as I'm
concerned.
MR. STAKICH: Same here.
MR. GALLENBERG: So that we'll at least initially -- provided
we -- I guess we'll need a motion and a vote proposing
Thursdays. And then at I or 1:30, how do we feel about that?
MR. GRAY: Either one is okay with me.
MR. STAKICH: Ashley and I go to Rotary at twelve. We get
out at one. It takes a half hour to get up here.
MR. GALLENBERG: Okay. Well, then, if someone wants to
make a motion that we'll initially schedule meetings for the first
Thursday of each month, and that would commence June 7th. I
think that probably works out well timewise. MR. GRAY: I so move.
MR. ROELLIG: I will second that.
MR. GALLENBERG: All in favor.
(Unanimous response.)
MR. GALLENBERG: Opposed.
(No response.)
MR. GALLENBERG: Passes unanimously. One member
absent.
MR.
MR.
MUDD: Okay--
GALLENBERG: Colonel Mudd, did -- is it your -- do you
think we should go through these -- the various applications this
evening, or were they intended more for review?
MR. MUDD: I think we need to go through those projects
because we went in front of the -- went in front of the TDC, and
when we got to this -- to this portion, we laid out the program,
and it was all subject to your approval, so I got their approval
subject to your approval. I really only asked them for 4.5 million,
but if you look at the minutes they gave us up to 8. Maybe it was
a slip, but I smiled and looked at everybody else and said, "Now,
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what are you-guys going to do, okay, during that meeting?"
But -- but really they want to know what your
recommendation is for next year's packet. And I -- and I know
this is -- this is a short period of time. But if you feel -- if you feel
more comfortable with coming back to us on the 7th after you
have read these, then we can postpone it until then. Or if-- if you
would like to get at it this evening, I have got -- I have got our
consultant here that can talk about that process. We can lay out
those projects. You might not want to approve them tonight, but
you might want to hear the description of the project and what it
entails. So that on the seventh you can -- then you can vote on
the program.
MR. PIRES: Mr. Chairman, just a question for the Chairman,
in going through the materials -- and I'm new to this process, so
I'll apologize for -- if anyone else has been through the process is
much more familiar. I noticed during the questionnaires and the
form of the application referenced whether or not the project
would further the missions statement. I think that would be
helpful to have the missions statement and also possibly to have
the TDC guidelines. I understand they have written guidelines for
various categories of the tourist development tax. MR. GALLENBERG: Uh-huh.
MR. PIRES: And possibly even the tourist development
ordinance, even though as Mr. Mudd indicated, it's going to be
revamped. I just think that would be helpful and the suggestion
of Mr. Mudd that they have a description tonight and a vote at the
next meeting, so if it's not time-sensitive projects --
MR. GALLENBERG: Well, I will agree with that and -- and
ultimately the Board of County Commissioners has the final say,
but if we're not hamstringing their timing process, I -- I would
agree. If we could have -- have a relatively brief overview of the
different projects tonight, including, perhaps, some of the bigger-
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picture items, as Tony just mentioned. And I was thinking, too,
briefly the -- if you think it applies, the settlement that has
occurred or at least is in the process regarding the beach
renourishment -- and the money, I assume, comes back to TDC,
or does it go for the general --
MR. MUDD: It goes on -- it goes back to TDC.
MR. GALLENBERG: One could go on forever about that
depending how technical one wants to get. But I would propose
just briefly what impact that has for the funds available for beach
renourishment related.
MR. MUDD: What -- I would ask you to take a look at the
back of your packet real quick, is go to a sheet that looks like
this (indicating). Okay. We did -- we did this ten-year budget to --
to make sure as they were -- as people were talking about doing
museums and other things that didn't have a whole lot to do with
beach, I wanted to make sure that -- that Harry and crew had --
had done -- had done their homework to make sure that we
wouldn't get shorted, okay, in our funds in order to do beach
renourishment or Category A type -- type of projects. So I had
him lay out this process, and what -- what this entails -- the
assumption behind it, it's a 5 percent -- a 5 percent increase in
revenues and 5 percent increase in -- in cost of project. Just to
make it -- 5 percent was a good number at the time, and -- and
some folks talked about revenues being a different percentage
and projects being another. I said, "Time out. Let's not confuse
this system. Let's just keep it one number of revenues and -- and
project costs."
So we basically laid out the expenses that we have had for --
for the different inlets, and there are six of them that are put
down at the time or -- or on the left-hand side under "Expenses."
And -- and some of those projects change in quantity based
on the historical applications when we had to go -- go in and
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dredge that particular pass or that inlet in order to do it, or when
we just had to maintain it or monitor it.
So you will see things like Wiggins Pass in 2001 only being
$70,000, but then in '02 Wiggins Pass has a huge increase of
$472,000. And then you can see over the totals at the far end.
Tried to concentrate on that to give you some kind of
prospective.
That $1.3 million will go back into -- will go back into the
revenues of-- of the particular fund, to the best of my knowledge.
Now, one of the things I'm going to check for sure is I'm going to
check with Mr. Weigel, the county attorney, to make sure that I
haven't misspoken. But -- but from what I understand, those
dollars will come back into the tourist development tax. And
that would be a source of revenue and -- and on reserve that
would be there for future applications.
What I would say to you is you're not hamstrung by this list.
Okay. That's another thing that I want to make sure that you
know as you sit there. You say, "Why do we need" -- if I took a
look at this list and I was sitting in your chair, I'd say, "Okay, why
do we need to have a committee? You've got everything laid
out." Don't be hamstrung by this list.
There are some things that have been habitual that we've
had to take a look at, but there is enough flux in this -- in this --
there is enough wiggle room in this project or sheet to just put
anything that you need to put in there in order to get into the
process. And I think Jon Staiger, Dr. Jon Staiger, will back me
up on that. I don't think we've been hamstrung in the past. I just
asked him -- asked Harry to put together a sheet to make sure
that we weren't going to get shorted as they were talking about
changing the tourist development tax and the application in
dollars.
MR. GALLENBERG: So this is a beginning point from county
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staff?
MR. MUDD: Absolutely.
MR. GALLENBERG: Didn't have input from the former
committee or anything like that?
MR. MUDD: No. It's just a -- it is a strawman for you to mark
out as you're laying out the grandiose plan for the county for
beach renourishment. This -- this could become your working
document, and we -- we can make changes as we go along into
this -- into this process.
MR. GALLENBERG: What happens in years -- you know,
understanding that naturally it's the county commission that
actually sets the budget, but what happens in years where the
projected revenues are different than the projected expenses, if,
indeed, that happens? I guess it doesn't happen.
MR. MUDD: It -- it doesn't happen. If -- if you take a look at --
if-- if you take a look -- let's take a look at that shaded area at
the bottom. And this bottom part is the shaded area (indicating),
and that is pretty much the way the new tourist development tax
ordinance is going to look. And take -- take a look at the carry
forward, and I think the only year, at least that I could see, in this
projection is 2007 we get a little close -- MR. GALLENBERG: Uh-huh.
MR. MUDD: -- by a half million dollars. One of the things that
I -- that I -- that's kind of disturbed me a little bit is they always
talk about the catastrophe money in case we have the really bad
hurricane. In order to get that -- one of the things -- reserves for
catastrophe on F -- I had Harry put in $500,000 a year into that
fund so that -- that -- that money could -- could start to build up.
Right now I think it's about 150,000, in that ballpark. There is
not a whole lot there. If we had a -- a significant event, we would
have to go out and find 1.5 someplace from reserves, and then
leverage that in order to come up with that hypothetical $10
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million that people throw around as far as the figure is
concerned.
MR. GRAY: In effect that "carry forward" gives you a
reserve?
MR. MUDD.' Yes, sir. That carry forward is that reserve
that's moving; that's just a good way to keep your eye on it. If
you keep a look under the carry forward above it in a different
scheme as far as the allocation of funds are concerned, you can
see that there are some hefty chunks of money that are being
carried forward in the tourist development tax. And that was one
of the reasons that they -- they wanted -- they, the Board of
County Commissioners and the county manager, wanted to take
a look at the funds to see how we could allocate it better to
some projects that would bring tourist into -- into the -- into
Collier County.
DR. STAIGER: Jim?
MR. MUDD: Sir.
DR. STAIGER: Jon Staiger. One of the things that some of
you may be aware of and some may not, the State of Florida has
a beach management fund that is supposed to have about $30
million a year in it. We have applied annually for support from
that fund for the last probably 12 or 14 years. It's only been the
last few years that they actually had a dedicated fund with this
fixed amount of money in it. But occasionally the state will
spring loose with some funds for various projects, and Harry has
been very active in applying for that funding support.
Part of the process is a -- is a ten-year rolling forward budget
that the State wants to see from all of the eligible counties on an
annual basis. So -- so they want something with a fair amount of
detail for about three or four years, and then in the out years they
just want a rather lump-sum type of thing. But it's important for
the continued effort to get state.
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Funding support that this kind of a spreadsheet is -- is
updated and -- and kept as accurate as possible. Because the --
the state has a workshop every spring or early summer when
they are putting the Department of Environment Protection
beaches and coastal systems people are putting their budget
together to go to the legislature the following year, and so Harry
has been pretty careful in trying to keep this sort of thing as -- as
updated as he can.
There are some expenses on here that I -- that I just may
talk about a little bit. If you look at, for example, under A, "Inlets
Clam Pass," you see the -- you have got fifty-some thousand
every couple of years on alternating and then two-hundred-and-
some thousand; that's the inlet management plan they're trying
to keep maintaining there, causes -- calls for that inlet to be
dredged every couple of years, and in the intervening period
you've got money in there for monitoring and -- and either -- you
know, either monitoring and/or modest dredging events.
Doctor's Pass -- similarly, we dredge Doctor's Pass on about
a four-year cycle, so that's what the four hundred to five hundred
thousand dollar cost estimates are, is the actual dredging. And
in between it's the cost of the -- the monitoring that is necessary.
Gordon Pass, we're still trying to convince the Corps of
Engineers to dredge it, and they might. And if they do, then some
of that expense will not have to be undertaken. But the -- as we -
- as we progress through discussing these things, presumably
when Harry gets back, some of the details of some of these
projects can be elaborated. But --
MR. GALLENBERG: Also in your judgment in fundamental --
let's just take Wiggins and Clam, if we might, that -- because of
water flows or whatever causes the need to dredge -- that
Wiggins -- you know, to keep on equal footing, more or less --
Wiggins does need every two years and Clam Pass, for example,
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simply needs every four, is that
from a technical basis --
DR. STAIGER: No.
MR. GALLENBERG:
DR. STAIGER: No.
-- are those generated sort of
-- or from a political basis?
They have -- they actually have inlet
management plans that were worked out. And for Wiggins, for
example, was having -- used to have to dredge it almost on an
annual basis, and they finally got a permit in the last year or two
to remove rock that was in the throe of the inlet that keep the --
the dredging contractors from being able to get a deep enough
cut, so they have -- they have got that impediment out of the
way, so now it should be every two years. And Clam Pass is a
very small one that silts shuts very readily so that it has to be
dredged more often. It doesn't have any kind of navigation
problems with it. It's basically just so that the estuary in there
behind the Pelican Bay/Clam Bay preserve area gets reasonable
water circulation through it, and they -- this big mangrove die-off
that they had up there doesn't get bigger.
But all of those inlets; Wiggins, Doctor's, Gordon, Capri, Big
Marco, and Caxambas all have formal inlet management plans
which have been prepared by consultants and call for certain
steps to be done including periodic dredging.
At -- at Caxambas they -- they talked about putting in some
offshore breakwaters, and that's -- I think there is going to be
some more of that done in the next year. Bret or Carl may --
MR. GRAY: Dr. Jon, I would like to ask you a question. You
have been involved in these things for many years. Back in
March I cut an article out of the paper that alluded to the fact
that if a community would come up with 35 percent of the
monies required to maintain their beaches, the Corp of Engineers
would pay the other 65 percent. Does that ring a bell with you at
all?
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DR. STAIGER: Yeah. Yeah. We -- we have -- we had, in fact,
in the City of Naples a -- an authorized Corps of Engineers Beach
Restoration Project, and it was deauthorized because it was
never undertaken. It was authorized back in the early '70s.
We had the opportunity when this beach management plan
was being worked on for the restoration of the Vanderbilt and
Park Shore and Naples beaches to ask the Corps of Engineers to
participate and, in fact, with Porter Goss's help we had a -- a
reconnaissance study done by the Corps, which they paid for.
And they concluded that we did need a beach restoration project
and that -- that it was something that was doable.
The next step in the thing was a feasibility study which cost
about a million dollars and has to be cost shared between the
Corp and the sponsor, which would have been the Board of
County Commissioners. And their time schedule was such that --
this was, I think, about 19 -- 1992 maybe, and it would have been
'98 or '99 before they got the project underway. And the -- the
beaches in Naples and in Vanderbilt were in such desperate
shape that the decision was made by the beach committee and
recommended to the Board, and they then endorsed it, to not
pursue the Corps project because it would just take too long.
And rather than spend $500,000 on a reconnaissance they would
rather spend the money on -- on furthering the permitting effort
that was underway at the time.
About the same time that that all went on, Clinton got
elected president, and he pulled the plug on all the Corps of
Engineers beach projects for a period of some years. So that the
-- the -- their whole effort at being major beach restorations was
sort of stymied.
The Corps was anxious to continue doing some of them, and
they have kept up with -- with the maintenance of the ones that
they built some years ago, but they haven't undertaken very
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many new projects.
They're now talking about instead of being a -- a 65 percent,
35 percent split making it 50/50. And there is some maneuvering
between the Corps and Congress over that sort of thing.
But we could always go back to the Corps and try to get
them interested in helping us maintain the beach. I don't think
that's an impossibility. The difficulty we had in the past was that
there -- their program stretches this whole decision-making
process out over so many years that we just didn't want to wait.
And we were lucky because basically all the projects that were
in the hopper got put on hold while the Clinton administration
was in power.
MR. GRAY: So it would be possible that we could in effect,
run into a stumbling block because of having to wait for
bureaucracy to work?
DR. STAIGER: Yeah. Well, the thing is, though, the -- the
state monies -- and much of what the legislature is concerned
about in -- in having the state funds granted to -- to a thing like.
Collier County is they want to see it matched with some
federal money. So if we could get some federal participation --
participation, that gives us a step up in getting some state
support as well, which then reduces the local government's
piece of it; so that's something that I think there's -- should be
pursued.
MR. MUDD: Jon, if I can interject real quick -- I'm Jim Mudd,
for the record -- I have a little bit of experience with the Corps of
Engineers. The recon studies done in six months, it's 100
percent federally funded. If you say you want a project, they will
take that process on -- normally takes them a year to get it on
their program.
Now, I want you to take a look at - under FY-2006 on -- on
your sheet. I want you to go down to B-2 on the left-hand side
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where it says "Construction." Collier County, City of Naples, six
million -- 6.1 million dollars; that's the next big dredge -- hydraulic
dredge event to put -- put sand on a large portions of-- of-- large
portions of the beach that we have.
If you wanted to start now, we could call it ticklers or
whatever you want -- you could send -- I can call Greg May, who
is a good friend up in Jacksonville, and say, "Greg, they want --
they want to start looking at a recon for a project in 2006." He
could get that on his schedule. Do the recon -- recon looks for
two things -- two results from a reconnaissance study; do you
have a cost-share partner, and does it have -- does the benefits
exceed the cost, okay, for the project; that's what they're --
they're basically looking for. Is there a federal interest in the
project? And if the benefits exceed the cost, then there is. Then
you go into a feasibility study. It's a 50/50 cost share with the
partner.
Now, you can -- you can get that 50/50 with in-kind service if
you want. In other words, if you have a firm or you have in-house
engineers that you want to put on that, you can get some credit
in order to do that process as they do their study. But, again, it's
50 percent federal and 50 percent cost-share partner. The
reason they want to know if they've got a cost share partner is
when you go to the feasibility study you have to figure out whose
going to pay half the bill -- pretty smart group of folks; either that
or they have been stiffed before, okay. So at the end of the
feasibility study, you get preliminary engineering and design. It's
not full up, but you have an inkling about what the project is
going to cost, where it's going to go, what the -- start with the
permit requirements in that process and Ron -- or Jon is right; it
can be upwards of a million dollars in that feasibility.
Then when you get to execution it's 65/35 right now.
There's been talk on the hill that it go 50/50. President Bush has
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said "We want it to flip. We want it to be 35 federal, 65 local."
What -- what I would say if it goes that way -- if you start
getting 50/50 or you get the inverted cost share where it's 35
federal and 65 -- the feds don't like beach renourishment, okay,
for some strange reason. It keeps getting into tourism, okay, and
they have real problems with that. They don't have the picture of
the -- the poor family sitting there flooded out, okay, with all of
their belongings washed away. You just don't get that kind of
mental image, so it's tough for them to leverage the -- the federal
dollars in order to do that.
But if you get the cost share switched, timing is right for
Collier County to get on that bandwagon. At this juncture we're
going to get nothing in the past. If we can get 35 percent of six
million dollars, that's -- that's not a bad exchange for us. And
what you'll get are you'll get other communities along the coast
that will balk at the new cost share, and that -- they'll bump
themselves off the list, so then those monies get freed up. So I
would say to you is -- as that conversation transpires on the Hill,
our opportunities get more abundant -- and if they do switch it.
But to do the recon, we can ask the question, and if you get to
the recon part and they start giving you some information and
you don't like the way it's going, you can bow out because that's
100 percent federally funded. So that's no -- that's no -- it doesn't
really cost us anything to have --
MR. GALLENBERG: In very basic terms in your numbers, the
county would -- would be betting in round figures half a million
dollars in cash or in kind in order to get shared funding of two to
three --
MR. MUDD: Only if you want --
MR. GALLENBERG: -- of the project.
MR. MUDD: -- to go to feasibility with them. If you go to
recon and they -- they say there is no federal interest --
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MR. GALLENBERG: Then it dies there.
MR. MUDD: -- it dies.
MR. GALLENBERG: If you go to the next step, you still don't
have the funding, but you have got to put out in effect, using
these numbers, half a million to get your shot at two or three
million?
MR. MUDD: That's right.
MR. ROELLIG: Well, I might add also, from my perspective
as a retired Corps of Engineers, the other thing that is a
possibility and has happened a number of times -- I think we call
it a section number in the law -- obviously, the reimbursement by
the federal government as authorized by Congress -- some years
they don't authorize as much money, but there is a possibility of
getting reimbursed. If you spend your money for the construction
up-front, in accordance with the plan, then you can apply for
reimbursement at a later date. So if for some reason you don't
make 2006 if we spent the money in 2006, possibly get
reimbursed in 2007 or whenever Congress appropriates the
sufficient money to cover these type of projects.
MR. MUDD: Make -- make sure you have got an authorized
project that has been authorized by the Water Resource -- they
call it, Word of the Water Resources Development Act -- they
normally come on even years, and that your project has been
authorized in that process, and if it has been and it's through the
feasibility, then your chances are a whole lot better to be
reimbursed --
MR. ROELLIG: Right.
MR. MUDD: -- for your share if, for instance, the
appropriation dries up that year.
The other -- the other program the Corps has in beach
renourishment and maintenance and things like that it's -- it's
one of the chiefs continuing authorities. And now you're asking
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me for a number which I didn't have. I said that I would bring my
briefcase because I --
MR. ROELLIG: Because it--
MR. MUDD: -- keep their little cheat sheet in there. But --
but the continuing authorities process is a whole lot slicker, and
it's a lot quicker than the long-term fees -- or the recon feasibility
and then the project. This one you basically cut your.
Time periods down to two years from the time they look at it
until the time that it actually gets constructed. And it -- it's a
65/35 cost share. They do a -- a quick-and-dirty recon -- they call
it something else. It's a DRP, which is the final design report, for
-- for plan or whatever it is, and then they get into the
construction, and -- and they can leverage a million bucks. Their
federal share on -- on continuing authorities for a beach
renourishment project under that is -- is a thousand federal -- and
if they're bringing in 65; so you're having a project that is about
1.4 to 1.6 million dollars in total to be constructed, and you can
get at those kind of dollars too. And, basically, that is, you get
yourself on a list, and they go down the list and you're next. But
there are some opportunities there and -- in 2003 to leverage
some of that, if we need to -- or any project. It could be a
habitual maintenance project that you want to get them to -- to
look at. It's a way to leverage your dollars to spread them out to
get more projects that you want. And I don't think it really hurts
us to try, and I'll -- I'll see what I can do.
MR. KROESCHELL: Well, I'm in agreement with that. The
other point that I can make that they made decide to break up
the coastline of Collier County -- the segments where some will
be congressionally authorized, the big projects, and the small
independent projects, maybe there would be something on Marco
Island that wouldn't impact the general Collier County coastline
that could go under the so-called small project authority so that
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we can work that out with the Jacksonville district. MR. MUDD: Sure.
MR. GRAY: Mr. Chairman, I -- I just brought that up because
it did come to my attention. I really don't think at this meeting
we probably should go in to depth on it. I think -- I just wanted to
get it on the table. It is something for this committee to look at
because there is a -- you know, a tremendous amount of money
here that we could tap into.
MR. GALLENBERG: I think that's right. And this kind of gets
back a little bit to Mr. Pires' point, at the next meeting, perhaps,
we can have -- while the function of this meeting is -- is technical
in nature, as we get started, maybe staff can give us a
presentation, as you said earlier, about, you know, what are TD
funds exactly, what can they be used for, and some other funding
sources, such as what we've just been discussing.
MR. MUDD.' Yes, sir. Without further ado, let's see if we
can't get into some of these project descriptions for you. As we -
- so that you will have something to ponder here over the next
week or so.
The first thing on the -- in your packet is for $213,000, and
that basically pays the salaries of a Project Manager III, which
Harry Huber is sitting in right now; a Project Manager I, which we
are out advertising in Collier County; a Construction Inspector
that goes out and looks at the projects to make sure that we're
getting what we paid for and -- and I can't tell you the history of
the construction inspector -- and maybe Dr. Staiger can help us a
little bit on this one. I don't know if this was as a result of the
rocks on the beach or--
DR. STAIGER: Yeah. The -- I think that was the genesis of
it. The construction inspector right now is Al Madson, and he's
sitting back there in the back of the room. But the gentleman
goes out on a very frequent basis and runs the length of the
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beach in a vehicle looking for problem areas, whether they are
rock outcrops or escarpments or whatever needs to be dealt with
so that the county's beach cleaning equipment can address
these problems and then, of course, during something like the
more recent episode where we trucked thirty-thousand yards of
sand onto.
The Park Shore Beach and about, I think, fifteen or twenty
thousand down to Hideaway. His -- his role includes bouncing
back and forth between those two projects and making sure
they're being done properly. And I think -- I don't think we had
that position until this rock issue became to the forum. I'm not
sure how long. I think it has been the last couple of years.
MR. MUDD: I would -- I would say from a construction
aspect it's well worth the cost of that individual to make sure
that you're getting what the heck that you paid for. We have --
we've got some experience -- bad experience. And it is one of
those -- it's one of those issues, "You can pay me now or you can
have -- pay me later. But when you pay me later, you are going to
pay me a whole heck of a lot more than you would if you took
that ounce of prevention."
There is the construction inspector and there is overtime in
there and overhead. I've got a figure on the -- on the sheet that
says it's $213,300. When I talked to Harry before, he's got some -
- he took a look at the salary aspect, and it's up to 280,200. But
I'm going to wait until Harry gets back so he can define what
those increases are, okay. I just noticed there was a difference
as I was going through the numbers. So he's got to tell you what
the $66, 900 are in the difference in that process.
But this is Exhibit A, which we represented to the TDC as a
strawman in the process, and I just wanted to talk about what
the -- what those figures are so you have an idea. And in the last
page of that packet normally breaks down what those dollars are
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used for kind of in a short summary, in case you just got this
packet today.
The Project Manager I position was added last year to be --
to be -- to be filled this year. What's that all about? It's more
eyes on target, more people watching the project, okay, because
you've got 30-some-odd miles of beach. You can't be everywhere
at one time. And so you've got another person out there
watching the projects that are going on and making sure that
you've got monitoring. And another -- another piece to that is,
maybe we can contract less out in particular areas and -- and
have this person to take a look at some cross-sections and
things like that, so we can cut some cost on that side of the
house and still have enough folks to make sure we've got a good
program that -- that works out.
I would tell you from -- if it wasn't for Dr. Staiger and the
help from the City of Naples in this process and the help from the
City of Marco Island with their -- with their other committee, we
would have been strapped in years past, because we have been
doing this on a shoestring. And so we're feeling it out a little bit
better to make sure that we've got good execution.
And one of the things that Dr. Staiger mentioned, yes, we
put -- we put 41 tons -- excuse me -- 41,000 cubic yards of
material out on -- out on those beaches, and -- and there wasn't a
word heard, nor were there rocks, nor were there any lawsuits,
and that's good news. There is another nine -- 9,000 cubic yards
that we have on hold in case we have some severe erosion
during this hurricane season that we can bring to bear in order to
take care of that. But we plan to have multiple contractors with
sand that's been approved by the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection that you've had the opportunity to
sample -- hopefully, not taste -- and -- that you've seen and it
meets all the specs and -- and that they're waiting, and then we --
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instead of having one source and do it in a hurry -- I always
chuckle the -- the reason -- the reason that this is here is
because of sunshine, sand, and surf; that's why tourists come.
And you have to do beach renourishment around the three
Ts, which are tourist, tarpons, and turtles, and so that gives us
about a 90-day window of a 360-day year to put sand on the
beach or do any major construction. And you get a little bit of
time in the fall and a little bit of time in the spring in order to do
that, so it's limited. So you really have got to have your projects
ready to go, permits in hand, in order to get at that stuff in those
short periods of time. And then you do need those -- those eyes
that are watching to make sure we are getting our monies worth
and somebody isn't taking a shortcut.
MR. GRAY: Is that 9,000 that's in reserve, did that come
from the $50,000 that was bought?
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir.
MR. GRAY: Okay.
MR. MUDD: And that's -- that's paid for. All we have to do is
say when we want it.
DR. STAIGER: Jim, one -- one additional point, on this first
item, which is the staff management fees, for the first five or six
years of use of this tourist tax, these -- these fees were charged
on each individual project as a -- as a percentage, and the beach
committee asked Harry to just put it into basically one -- one
application because it's -- it's essentially a full-time job for
several people and to try to allocate it, you know, little bits and
pieces through all of the projects seemed awful awkward; so it's
-- it's essentially the staff support that the county needs to get
these projects managed. And it -- it just made more sense to the
committee five or six years ago or so to stop putting it in as a
line item in each one of the projects and just have a separate
budget for that staff support because it is essentially a couple of
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full-time staff members. And it just -- it just seemed a lot cleaner
to do that, so that's why you have this one application for -- for
that item.
MR. GALLENBERG: It's not--
MR. ROELLIG: It's not the first time, as you indicated --
DR. STAIGER: Yeah, it's--
MR. ROELLIG: -- it's ongoing. And I don't recall the dollars
last year, but --
DR. STAIGER: Yeah. Last three or four years, I think.
MR. ROELLIG: Right. Right.
MR. MUDD: Any questions on that -- on that first -- that first
sheet.
Then we will go to the second case which is Wiggins Pass
Inlet Management. It's for $472,000.
MR. GRAY: I have a question. On the fiscal years that were
shown on the big ten-year chart, is that October through
September?
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir.
MR. GRAY: Okay.
MR. MUDD: Based on the fiscal year.
MR. GRAY: That's the county's fiscal year, October through
September?
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir.
MR. PIRES: Mr. Mudd, maybe I won't have these questions
once we go over the other materials, but part of one of the
questions indicates on page 3 of the application -- and all the
applications -- is that the proposed project required by regulatory
agency as a condition for approval/funding the Collier County
Beach Restoration Project. As to this one as to Wiggins Pass, it
says "Yes," without any further detail or back-up described.
Would that be provided at some point?
I'm not sure what that "yes" means in the context of the
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professional services and construction activities for Wiggins
Pass and the management plan. Some of the projects I think I
can sort of ferret it out. This one I'm not sure that I understand.
DR. STAIGER: It's -- it's called for by the Wiggins Pass Inlet
Management Plan. And -- and that question is, is it part of the
ongoing beach restoration project or past maintenance/dredging
management project; that's the thing. All of these inlet
management projects have a -- an inlet management plan that
they are implementing and -- and so that's -- they're all
essentially called for in the inlet management plan, either --
either out-year monitoring or periodic actual dredging and the
engineering work that goes with the dredging. And that's what
this one -- this one is for, is actually maintenance dredging of
Wiggins Pass and the engineering that goes with that.
MR. PIRES: And the inlet management plan is part of a
permit that was issued by regulatory agency -- DR. STAIGER: Yeah.
MR. PIRES: -- or governmental agency?
DR. STAIGER: Yeah. The DEP some years ago indicated
that they wanted to have these inlet management plans done for
all the inlets they were going to permit periodic dredging for, and
the -- the -- the sword hanging over everybody's head was, if you
didn't have an approved plan, you had a lot harder time getting a
permit to do -- to do the dredging.
All the plan really did was say, "Okay, this is how much sand
that is going into the inlet, and this is how much sand we have to
take out of it." And there is a state law called the Swim Bill that
says you have to bypass as much sand down drift as normally
would do it if you didn't have the inlet there. So that's -- the
whole thing is to make sure that the sand keeps moving in the
system. And those plans are all in place.
Humiston & Moore did one or two of them, Coastal
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Engineering Consultants did a couple of them, SubOceanic
Consultants they have -- they have been done by various groups
of consultants around this area. But we have an active inlet
management plan for every one of those inlets.
MR. PIRES: And, again, you know, I don't mean to be
redundant; the inlet management plan becomes part of the
actual permit is a condition of the permits --
DR. STAIGER: Well, they're -- they're --
MR. PIRES: -- that is issued by the agency?
DR. STAIGER: I think they're referred to in the permits, or
the permit application itself refers to whatever the -- the sand
budget is what it's referred to as. But what the sand budget calls
for in bypassing is what the permit applicant is talking about
satisfying in the dredging activity.
MR. MUDD: Okay. Now, we can get -- we can get the
members of the -- of the committee copies of the plans, if you -- if
you so desire. And I -- anybody from -- how big are they? Carl, can you help me? A couple of inches thick?
MR. GALLENBERG: I think we have enough papers as it is.
MR. ROELLIG: Yeah. One for each --
MR. MUDD: If you -- if you have an interest, we can -- we
can get those for you, okay. I'm not going to say that we're going
to deliver them for you, but we can bring them out or wherever
you would like to -- to put those and -- and take a look at the
process. Just maybe it -- maybe it would be good to just have
one or two of them at the next meeting so you can thumb
through them and kind of see what they are. If you don't have
experience with them, we can bring a couple of them in, this one
in particular so that you have an idea of -- of what they consist of
and how detailed they are.
MR. GALLENBERG: I think that would be good as part of --
with maybe start calling it our general orientation --
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MR. MUDD.' Sure.
MR. GALLENBERG: -- that we can address next time.
MR. STRAPPONI: Mr. Chairman. Jack Strapponi.
Apparently these strand applications are pretty much a
standard form. As I looked at them, they all have the same
questions. And my question was -- and on the last page -- the
second-to-the-last page prior to the project budget breakdown it
says -- the last line it says, "Has the project been reviewed and
recommended by the Beach Renourishment Maintenance
Advisory Committee?" Is it my understanding that that
committee no longer exists and was replaced by this committee.
MR. GALLENBERG: That's my understanding, yes.
MR. STRAPPONI.' Is that correct?
MR. MUDD: And the way that he answered -- yes, sir. And
the way that he answered him is "Yes, this application will be
considered by the Coastal Advisory Committee upon
implementation of their regularly scheduled meeting." They
haven't changed the -- the form to bring the Coastal Advisory
Committee, so -- so Harry put this -- put this process in, and the
recommendation would come under separate cover. So --
MR. STRAPPONI: I take it in the future this application will
actually change?
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir.
MR. GALLENBERG: And in the changeover of one committee
to the next these were or were not reviewed by the former
committee?
MR. MUDD.' These were not reviewed.
MR. GALLENBERG: Were not -- were not. So it's just a typo,
a matter of --
MR. MUDD: That's right. Well, this -- this basically was
submitted before -- these things have a submittal time a lot -- a
lot sooner than this meeting. And the TDC that looked at this
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process happened in the first part of April, so it would have been
the February/March time frame when they would have been
reviewed.
One of the -- one of the reasons -- and -- and Harry Huber
asked me, he said, "Do you want to take this in front of the
Beach Renourishment Committee?" I said, "Well, you know, it
would be a -- be a shame to get a Coastal Advisory Committee
that comes up -- you get them organized, you get them sitting
there, and then they all look at each other for a year because
somebody else approved their program." I said, "That wouldn't
be fair to them either. So why don't we just" -- it was a little
cumbersome with the TDC to say, "Hey, it hasn't been approved,
but here it is. I want you to see it as part of the overall package
for the $9 million."
I wanted to make sure we had a placeholder there, that we
didn't lose those dollars. But I didn't want to do a disservice to
this committee and not give you the opportunity to review that
application and -- and if there are any changes to be made or any
additions to be made, that we could do that.
MR. ROELLIG: I believe some of the applications from the
City of Naples were approved by the former committee.
DR. STAIGER: Yeah. The -- the two applications in there
were. They were approved by the committee in March, but the
rest of these were in prep at the time.
MR. MUDD: This project maybe Humiston & Moore your rep -
- do you -- do you have anything to say about Wiggins Pass Inlet
Management?
MR. MOORE: No, not right now.
MR. MUDD: Okay. Basically what I'm gathering from the
last page, professional services are coming into the tune of
$72,000; and that's an estimate, and then construction of the
maintenance dredging is 400,000. This price isn't -- isn't
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necessarily set in concrete because you haven't awarded the
contracts yet. So we can -- we can get underbids, but this is a
budgeted amount. We're in the ballpark.
Next project is Sea Turtle Monitoring, and there was -- there
was a question in -- and -- and I'd ask our -- I will call you the Sea
Turtle specialist. Could you please come forward.
There was some questions at the TDC meeting, why do we
do sea turtle monitoring? And it was -- it was a pretty good
exchange that was transpiring. Some folks on -- on -- on this
committee know why there is sea turtle monitoring and some
don't. And I'd ask you to be so very kind to -- to give them the
specifics of why this program exists.
MS. KRAUSE: I'm Myra Krause, Senior Enviromental
Specialist for the Collier County Natural Resource Development.
And I did bring a letter with me that I have prepared for the
tourist development committee, and it does explain why we need
sea turtle monitoring. And it also has a -- I have got a copy for
everyone -- it has a chart in the back that goes over every -- that
goes over the different projects of beach.
Nourishment, inlet management plans, et cetera. And the
sea turtle permit requirements seem like they're getting a -- more
and more intricate every year. There's different beach
compaction studies that have to be done, including the normal
sea turtle monitoring and quite a bit of reporting to the state and
the federal government.
And the chart pretty much goes through the major projects,
and the -- the date of permit expiration on them. So sea turtle
monitoring is required by -- they are protected. They are a
protected species under the Endangered Species Act and also
under the state acts. And if you-all would like I will prepare a
formal presentation for you at one of your future meetings
explaining more about the program and -- and we'll also take
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someone out -- if you-all would like to come out with us one
morning monitoring, just let us know, and we can take you out
and show you exactly what we do. Any questions?
MR. STRAPPONI: I have a question. In your program I guess
the nesting period is predictable season-wise. And this was
probably obvious, but when we do get into renourishment, that's
planned around that season so it doesn't interfere with? And
what impact does that have after the fact -- after we've
replenished, turtles come back to a -- to a new environment?
Does it seem to have any impact?
MS. KRAUSE: Well, we've done a lot of different types of
beach renourishment. In the past we have used upland sands --
several sources of upland sand, hydraulic renourishment. In the
beginning with the 1996, the major renourishment -- and also the
1999 Marco Island renourishment -- the nesting on the
renourished beaches did go down for the first year, and
incrementally we see the nesting coming back to normal. The
sand that we just used on the Park Shore Beach, we have seven
nests already -- on Park Shore and Hideaway. We are hoping that
this new sand source will have less impact than some of the
other ways we have done beach renourishment in the past.
MR. STRAPPONI: Was that hydraulic or was that upland
sand?
MS. KRAUSE: No. This is our new upland sand.
It's brand new. We have never been -- used this type of sand
before, and sea turtles really seem to like it, so we are quite
excited about that.
And there are certain projects that do occur during sea
turtle nesting, and they require -- we have Hideaway Beach going
on right now -- a dredging project and a renourishment project,
and it required additional monitoring and incidental tape permit
from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, biological opinions -- and
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there's -- there is quite a lot involved when do you do a project
during sea turtle season. But it's been -- the county's experience
in the past is that if you do it outside of season, there's a lot less
permitting requirements, and it's easier to get a job permitted.
MR. STRAPPONI: How long is the season?
MS. KRAUSE: The season is officially from May 1st to
October 31st. However, depending on the project if we're done
early -- we know when the sea turtles nest, et cetera, et cetera,
then the state and feds do give us a little bit of leeway in the
October part of it.
Many projects have also extended beyond the May 1st, and
we start monitoring a month early -- beach and nourishment
projects we start monitoring a month early, and the state usually
gives us a permit extension to work the first couple of weeks in
the nesting season.
MR. MUDD: You get about 30 days wiggle room in the
beginning and the end.
MR. STRAPPONI: Have you ever had a situation where we
are in the middle of a replenishment and the contractor was
running behind schedule? What do you do? Stop the project?
MS. KRAUSE: If you don't get -- don't get that permit
extension, yes. But in the past we -- the permit -- you know, you
contract with the contractors, and they have to have everything
off the beach by April 30th or April 15th. I think the state is
trying to open their windows up for sea turtles a little bit, and
one month to finish the project has been enough in the past.
MR. STRAPPONI: Typically, Jim, do those contracts have
penalty clauses in them if they don't -- MR. MUDD: Yes.
MR. STRAPPONI: -- complete by a certain time?
MR. MUDD: Yes. And one of the things we need to look at
as a county-wide in our organization, not only beach -- beach
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contracts and all the other contracts -- is make sure they are stiff
enough in order to get their attention. When it's only $2,000 a
day, and it's a multi-million dollar project, you know, that doesn't
really get your attention. It's "So -- so charge me, okay, I will
catch you on something else." I'm just telling you the way they
work. And so -- then there is enough site-condition changes out
there that they'll get the days back.
You just need to get their attention a little bit with a -- with a
bigger hammer. It's just one of the things we're doing in all of
our contracts are looking at the penalty issues.
At the same time you look at penalties, you should have
some incentives in there too, incentive clauses to get them done
early, especially if you want to get through that process.
MR. GRAY: Usually the courts will hold that if you have a
penalty clause you have to have a clause up front for rewarding.
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir.
MR. ROELLIG: I might also add that Myra does a very
nice annual report on the entire county beaches, so this funds
also the end report. And I might also add, on beach
renourishment there are cases like the Park Shore where there
probably would not have been turtle nests in certain locations
because during high tides the water went up to the vertical
seawall. So with the added sands, you actually provided nesting
opportunities which wouldn't have been there otherwise.
MS. KRAUSE: A couple of those nests are in areas that did
not have a beach several months ago.
MR. ROELLIG: Right.
MS. KRAUSE: Yeah.
MR. KROESCHELL: Bill Kroeschell. I have a question for
Myra. You're -- you're a full-time employee of the county; is that
right?
MS. KRAUSE: Yes, I am, sir.
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MR. KROESCHELL: Do you have any help in this project?
MS. KRAUSE: Actually, my -- my funding of me is not
included in this application.
MR. KROESCHELL: Oh.
MS. KRAUSE: It funds -- we have two permanent staff, and
we also have two temporary part-time staff. We have some
volunteers and we also have an intern that helps us with data
entry. But we have a lot of data entry. It also includes all of our
equipment and --just everything; administration of the project.
MR. KROESCHELL: And your salary is not included?
MS. KRAUSE: No, it is not, sir.
MR. KROESCHELL: Do you have any -- any other
responsibilities for the county other than the sea turtle project?
MS. KRAUSE: Sea turtles, beach renourishment. We do do
beach-legging compliance that is not part of this application;
public awareness, budget, and just regular administrative duties.
MR. KROESCHELL: Okay.
MR. PIRES: Mr. Mudd, as far as the $134,400 requested,
does it show or not show up on the spreadsheet in the back? I
think I missed it. Or is it part of some other aspect?
MR. MUDD: I think it's part of the beach maintenance, the
incremental beach maintenance, the dune structure
miscellaneous, and the -- the beach raking. MR. PIRES: Okay.
MR. MUDD: He's got it in -- he's got it sitting in there, but I --
I -- let me draw your attention to -- I think -- let me -- let me go
back on that. Take a look at Section D. You remember I said I
had a difference in -- in this submission of two-thirteen and two-
eighty and change, and I said Harry will have to talk to you about
that process when he get's back; that's where it's sitting right
there, okay, in his estimate. So it's sitting on D-l, project
maintenance fees, administration.
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DR. STAIGER.' The program that Collier County has had
working on sea turtles is been underway for quite a few years,
and it has received a lot of applause and praise from the
environmental community, which -- which I know -- in some cases
I know some people on the TDC don't particularly enjoy that. But
the fact is that it's an outstanding program, and it has produced
a lot of very, very useful data, among other things, because a lot
of people assume that if you renourish a beach you automatically
destroy its usefulness for turtle nesting, and the fact is that our
beach renourishments have demonstrated that the turtles will
come back to the renourished beach and over time nest again.
And so Myra -- the report that she produces every year,
which summarizes all the data on nesting and false crawls and
numbers of eggs that hatch versus didn't and all of that kind of
stuff is -- is data that is very, very reliable data and data that is
used by a lot of people who do turtle research because it's hard
to find a lot of those -- those data that are reliable with a good
amount of credibility behind them. So the program has been very
well received. And the permitting agency is just -- you know,
they don't want you to do anything on the beach without knowing
what's going on with the turtles, and it isn't -- it isn't going to get
any better. It's going to be that -- they're going to be that strict,
if not more so.
MS. KRAUSE: Any other questions? Thank you.
MR. GALLENBERG: Colonel Mudd, one thing if the -- if the
other members think this might be a good idea, we've got 22
projects listed here, and maybe we don't need to spend a lot of
time on -- on each one of them this evening since we'll have the
opportunity to June 7. Maybe of these there are some that are --
one might regard as routine and recurring in nature, last year the
budget was X, this year it's X plus 2 percent. And then if
members have specific questions tonight about some of the
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projects, or conversely, since we're just getting geared up, if
there are certain things that either you or Dr. Staiger feel that
should be pointed out, then we'll be able to take that knowledge
home --
MR. MUDD: Okay.
MR. GALLENBERG: -- and deal with it again on what I would
call our first regular meeting on June 7th.
MR. GALLENBERG: Incremental beach maintenance is a
million dollars. That's pretty much what we've been doing. In
the process we've spent in the $900,000 range this last year. It
has got the 5 percent in it. It's basically planned to put 50,000
cubic yards on the beach again this year. And -- and I can't tell
you right now if the specifics on where it's going to be put have
been -- have been delineated yet.
Dr. Staiger, I don't think so. I think the money has just been
budgeted. It's -- it's a habitual process and -- and that's one of
the things that is up -- up to this committee to -- to point out
where it's needed the most on the beach. And we need to give
you some staff input on that and whatever your -- your
constituents supply to you.
Beach cleaning operations is for -- the next one is $210,000.
It -- we basically have three rakes now, three operators; one on
Marco, one in the City of Naples, and one in the unincorporated
part of the county. And they go out on a daily basis and rake the
beach, clean the beach. There is a program with the City of
Naples now. If Dr. Staiger gets word from one of his scouts out
on the beach that he sees rocks, he'll report that in. And we'll
get it to the beach-cleaning folks, and they'll go out there and
pick 'em up and get them out of the way in case they get washed
up where they appear -- in that process. So that -- that seems to
be working quite well and -- and by getting the -- by getting the
three dedicated tractors and rakes and things like that seems to
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work a lot better. They only used to have two, and they had to
switch them back and forth, and having them located in those --
in those positions seems to work out a lot better.
Dr. Staiger, can you add anything to that?
DR. STAIGER: Uh, well, one thing the -- the part of the -- uh,
I don't know if you would call it a settlement or conclusion of the
-- of the discussions between the county and the -- the state on
the rock-on-the-beach issue is that we have this equipment
available to deal with the rock issue and -- and that is the
conclusion that the state came to, I believe, was that you have
done enough excavation and -- and shifting, and now what little
rock shows up, when and if it does, you can deal with this -- this
equipment.
So there is one piece of equipment that actually sits at the
city's public workyard. And if there is any kind of a problem on
the beach at Vanderbilt or -- or the city those -- those machines
are used, and that's part of our arrangement with the State to
kind of settle this -- this whole permit-violation business of the
rocks on the beach.
MR. MUDD: The next piece on beach-cleaning equipment,
it's basically a new rake that is needed on one of the tractors;
that's the majority of it, and there are some incidentals like a
compressor and whatnot.
Number 7, beach inlet maintenance -- maintenance
activities. I would ask you to just draw your attention to page 5
of the application. It's a series of -- it's a series of maintenance
activities to -- to take a look at -- at two events for post-storm,
beach grading, beach tailoring, dune maintenance, repairing T-
groins, channel markers, and breakwaters. It's pretty much a
routine process that transpires every year.
The next issue is a -- is $471,000 for annual monitoring;
that's -- that's a normal process that transpires every year. One
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of the things that we want to look at in the out years is to see if
we can't use the folks that go out there and do sea turtle
monitoring to see if we can't teach them how to do some cross-
sections and provide them with some training so they can get
some eyes and ears out there. We can start reducing some of
the contracted amounts that we have there and -- and see if we
can't get the maximum amount of efficiencies out of the people
that we have that are already under -- on the county payroll to
make sure that they're doing a little bit more into that issue. And
I have had some conversations with natural resources here in
Collier County to see if we can't train those sea turtle folks -- I
mean, for -- for a good seven to eight months of the year they are
out intensely looking at turtles and turtles nesting and things like
that. If there is some erosion or whatnot that transpires out
there, then they can report those and hopefully give some of
those measurements so we don't have to contract and put a
contractor out doing the same things. There are some ways we
can gain some efficiencies to do that process. Seems like to me
-- seems like a lot of money to be paying for monitoring, and
maybe we can take some dollars out of -- out of that pot in the
future.
Next application is for Hideaway Beach Renourishment.
We did a little bit this year. This is a more robust project -- how
much, Mr. Moore? Any help with this one?
MR. MOORE: For the record, Brent Moore with Humiston &
Moore Engineers. This is the area where we have two T-groin
fields that have been installed on.
Hideaway Beach, and we have been monitoring those.
They're constructed out of sandbags because that's -- that was
the first installation, and they wanted to review that
performance.
So through the years it's been truck hauling operations, and
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there has been some of these temporary structures placed in the
area where we have the highest erosion stress. Um, it's a very
diagnostic system.
Coconut Island has been migrating substantially. And we
are trying to look at what's -- what's going to be the future for
Hideaway Beach. Now, if we don't do anything and the
temporary structures come out, then what are the property
owners going to do? They are probably going to just erect
seawalls along the whole length, and there goes the beach. So
we are looking at and recommending to the county that they look
at a larger-scale maintenance project or renourishment project
to really add some sand to the system. And the other projects
that we have been working on the state has acknowledged that
there will be the need for some structures in the higher erosion
areas to try to work in conjunction with the nourishment. So this
is a step to kind of look at the Hideaway Beach along.
Big Marco Pass as a whole, which really needs to be done so
MR. MUDD: I draw your attention to the last page again.
This isn't basically putting any sand on the beach; this is
basically making sure that we have a plan so that when we're
ready to put sand on the beach we are able to do it.
As he mentioned before, this is a complicated issue.
Because if you have got -- you've got a migration of an island that
is moving. When you have an island that is moving down the
channel, then it makes it very difficult to figure out if the T-groins
are working because the one that you used to have there that
was protecting it is now exposed, and it's not doing the job that
you had.
There's things that people can talk about chevrons in the
middle of the channel where they hold -- hold the sand in that
process. They did -- on this island they did some exotic species
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removal, and it -- it has caused the island to move even quicker
as far as its erosion pattern is concerned. So there's -- it's a
complicated issue. It's just not something easy to do and, "Oh,
by the way, we're just going to go out there and -- and put the
sand on the beach." You can put it there, but is it going to stay
there? So they're taking a good hard look at this complicated
problem because it has a lot to do with The Conservacy and
some -- and some other folks and what they are trying to protect.
MR. GALLENBERG: What is sand search for $130,0007
MR. MUDD: What they are going to do is go find -- out there
in the offshore, they're going to take a look and -- and survey a
place that has sand that meets the specification that can be
hydraulically dredged and put on the beach, sir.
MR. STRAPPONI: Excuse me. You talked about removal
from these -- this pine removal here. Is that the Australian pines
that were removed? Why were they removed? Because they are
foreign?
MR. MUDD: Exotic species. Somebody -- I don't know the
history. Dr. Staiger, I'm talking out of turn.
DR. STAIGER: That island belongs to the -- it's part of the
Rookery Bay Reserve. And the -- they had a ma]or program over
the last few years to remove all the exotics from Key Island, and
they -- they also took the all the Australian pines off of Cannon
Island and -- and there was an awful lot of vegetation there that
seemed to be stabilizing that if it's gone -- they have planted
other things; seagrapes and stuff like that in its place, but that
was done by the -- by the Rookery Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve did it. And there was an awful lot of concern
raised from Hideaway Beach and other areas on Marco Island
about it because it -- it was -- seemed to be providing a certain
amount of storm protection to Hideaway Beach, and if the island
keeps maneuvering around in that inlet, the storm protection
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shifts.
So it's -- Mr. Steniker, I think is the -- who lives in Hideaway,
and he's very familiar with all of that stuff. But that was not
something that was undertaken by the county. It was
undertaken by the research reserve.
MR. STRAPPONI: Jon, was the county consulted or brought
into the loop what their intentions were?
DR. STAIGER: I think there was -- I think there was a certain
amount of information transferred. I'm not sure whether there
was any permission asked or anything like that. I mean, I know
that they did -- they let us know they were going to be a bunch of
tree removal on Key Island, and then they went ahead and did it.
I don't -- don't remember. It has been several years ago. But it
was in -- in some ways a public relations disaster for the reserve
because a lot of people were unhappy about it.
MR. STRAPPONI: I understand. I would be.
MR. GRAY: In connection with this particular one, I would
like to point out within the year -- with the old committee, the old
beach renourishment committee, there was a considerable
amount of money spent, I think, with Coastal Engineering in
studding sand sources offshore. And I don't know -- you know,
this is kind of a ticklish subject because of what has happened
with Coastal Engineering and the lawsuit and all of that. But I
don't know if we -- if staff or this committee still has available to
it those studies that were made, because I know it was either
our last meeting or the meeting before the last meeting when
they presented a pretty detailed report of their sand search and
brought some specimens in, Dr. Jon. DR. STAIGER: Yes.
MR. GRAY: I don't know how to -- I'm trying to figure out a
way to bring this into this new committee's province, if at all we
can do it.
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DR. STAIGER: Well, that was -- that was a formal report on a
project to -- to the -- to the county, and so Harry has that
information, and I'm sure that the -- you know, when this project
goes forward they will be able to -- to base some of their
searching on that. The sand that did the original renourishment
on Marco came from the shoal system off of Big Marco Pass and
the shoal system off of Caxambas, and the logical place for the
sand to come to do this work on Hideaway would be somewhere
out there in the shoal system off of Capri, Big Marco Pass Area.
The search is going to have to be to make sure that -- that the
sand is available out there and that taking it away doesn't create
some kind of a change in the way the waves impact the
northwest corner of Marco, because that was -- when we were
looking for sand for the Naples beach, we looked at that area.
But there was considerable question about whether taking a
million cubic yards of sand out of that shoal system would create
something that would then impact the beaches on Marco
adversely, and -- and it was one of those things. There were a
couple of different engineering opinions out there as to whether
it would or would not have an affect. And rather than get into a
big court fight over this thing, we just opted to forget about that
thing. But if you are looking at -- at a lesser volume of sand and
you get far enough away from the beach -- and this is something
that Brad Moore is very familiar with -- that there is sand out
there. It's whether or not it is suitable material.
The stuff that Coastal found, I think, that would be suitable
for just about any beach in the county is down off of Cape
Ramono where it's just going and sitting down there in a huge --
ever increasing shoal.
MR. MOORE: Just to help you a little further in that, there is
a lot of sand out there, but everybody seems to be trying to
protect a different interest. And there is a lot of concerns about
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potential impact to Sand Dollar Island and shore bird nesting
activities that occur out there.
One of the things that we're doing right now is we are doing
a feasibility -- brief feasibility study to look at the different areas
and contact the state, and these are the areas that we would like
-- the county would like to look at. The county has not selected a
consultant to do this project yet, but one of the first things that
I'm sure would naturally occur would be to look at any other
reports in the areas that have been evaluated so as not to
duplicate it so that you can make good use of your reports --
MR. GRAY: That's my concern.
MR. MOORE: Yeah. Absolutely. That should be a concern.
That shouldn't be a problem, I suspect. MR. GRAY: Okay.
MR. MUDD: Without further questions, the breakwater
modifications that Marco Island -- if you look at the beach, you
see the breakwaters out there. I scratched my head the first
time I looked, and I said, "What the heck are those doing out
there? ' I came back and talked a little bit, and then as I talked
with Harry -- what they are basically going to do, they are going
to extend the breakwaters that are out there right now. They're
doing the ]ob, but they are not doing the fully intended job as
they got put in. And so they're going to bring them a little bit
closer together and -- and spread them out just a little bit in order
to -- to have a breakwater stop the erosion that is occurring and
hopefully leave some sand in its -- in its wake; that's what that
process is all about.
The engineering and design is 60,000. There is the MODS to
submerge land easements for $10,000, and the construction is
estimated at five-seventy-one and there is a contingency of
64,000 or 10 percent as far as that total is concerned; and this is
a relatively new project, as the Chair would like to have us bring
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out,
Gaxambas Pass permits and dredging is pretty much
standard -- done -- done in the past. It's time for this particular
project on its -- on its cycle to -- I guess it's on a four-year cycle
based on -- it's more like a seven-year cycle, And this is its -- this
is its year to take a look at that.
Now~ you've taken a look at the hydraulic survey in order to
find out if the shoaling is there to make sure there's time in order
to do the dredging. It isn't just that every seven years you go out
there and everything -- you are just going to do it whether it
needs it or not; that is not the case. You make sure the hydraulic
survey is out there and it basically shows you that there is
enough shoaling that requires a dredge event to transpire; so
that part is there.
The next one is Hideaway Beach Access Improvement. This
is a new project and -- and probably the last one we'll talk about
tonight unless there is -- unless there is any comment, On
Hideaway Beach to get from Tiger Tail to Hideaway you normally
have to wade in water in order to get there, There's two
alternatives that I've seen in this process; one is to put a
renourishment of sand between the two so that you can walk
over~ and the other alternative I've seen is a boardwalk that goes
some -- I'm really out of turn here~ okay~ because I have seen it
briefly -- I think it was eighteen hundred feet. Don't quote me on
it -- in that ballpark. And I think it's about a four-foot width, And
I think it's negotiable of how wide you want it to be~ and is there
places that you can dismount the boardwalk in case you want to
go out there and wade in the water? Those are all discussions
that -- that need to take place and -- and pending your approval
once we get some feasibility of the project and something a little
bit more concrete as we go along, But that's been brought
forward a couple of times that -- that I've seen it at least, It's
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something that we might want to discuss a little further.
I think we have some -- some interests in the -- out there in
the audience, I think, on this particular project; is that correct?
Do you have -- if you could just kind of give me a brief overview or
show somebody a picture so they have a better idea, I would
appreciate it. Is that okay?
MR. KROESCHELL: We have a picture in this handout that
you gave us, in case nobody has looked at it. It's near the end.
COURT REPORTER: Excuse me. I'm going to need a break
to change my paper. I'm out.
MR. MUDD: Mr. Chairman, is it okay if we take a five-minute
break?
MR. GALLENBERG: Absolutely.
MR. MUDD: Does everyone know where the facilities are on
this -- on this hallway? They are down at the end of the hall. The
ladies room and the men's room are both in the same location,
not necessarily the same doors, though. (A short break was held.)
MR. GALLENBERG.' Colonel Mudd, are we ready to start
again?
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir. If I can get your attention again, we
can start the meeting again. I have been told in your packet
there is -- there is a display of Hideaway Beach. The first one
that has the blue outline -- that's -- that's the walkway, the
pedestrian walkway. Yeah, the four feet was right, and it's about
1,440 feet. I said about sixteen.
And if you turn to the next page you will see that outline, the
blue, the small walkway is still there that basically covers that
outlet. But then you will see the median line of where the beach
renourishment and sand would go behind so that you would have
a walkway to Tiger Tail and Hideaway. Those are the two
alternatives that we have seen so far that is part of that project.
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There has been a small report, fact sheet, that has been
prepared. We need to get that to you before the next meeting.
What we tried to do with this packet was to give you a visual of
what some of the projects look like and -- and what transpires
during them so that you have an idea as we came to this.
As I said before, Harry was out. I found out about it, okay,
this morning when I came to work. I said, "This isn't good." I
said, "Make sure Jon -- Jon Staiger comes to the meeting. There
is the institutional knowledge, please. So I had them put
together as many visuals as we possibly could to give you an
idea, depending on what your experiences were.
What I would like to do is -- is stop at that juncture, as far as
the projects are concerned, because those are the $4.5 million
that -- that we -- basically we're going to put in front of the
board that had to have your approval or your recommendation on.
The Pelican Bay Service Division came up and -- and
defended their $205,000 for Clam Pass monitoring and dredging.
The parks and recs department, I have Barefoot Beach access
parking lots, rennovations of parking lots, redecking boardwalks
at Barefoot Beach, Barefoot Preserves, South Marco Beach
access, and a refurbishment of Gulf Shore Boulevard North
access. And then the City of Naples defended their projects to
the tune of $94,000 in front of -- in front of the TDC at their
meeting in March or April.
And so what I would like to do at -- at this juncture is if you
have any additional questions, I would like to take them and take
some notes and see if I can get you those answers before the
next meeting on the projects.
MR. PIRES: Mr. Chairman, if I may, maybe just a couple of
procedural things that might help at the next meeting. If it's the
desire of the committee, possibly, the minutes of the TDC, as
opposed to have a rehash of all the presentation. If they are that
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detailed presentations before the TDC that they were verbatim
transcripts, such as this proceeding, I think that might be helpful.
And if it's possible, once again, from the committee's
perspective, if there is someone from the county attorney's office
to help advise the committee as a whole or a primer, a real quick
primer, on Sunshine Law and conflict-of-interest issues to make
sure that we don't run afoul of any of those issues. Just a
suggestion, I'm not sure what the committee's thoughts would be
on that.
MR. GRAY: Our -- I'm sure some people are familiar with the
rules of Sunshine. Is there anyone not familiar with that, which
says, in essence, when you serve together on a public body, you
can't -- we can't speak with each other about matters that are
before us or could come before us unless we're in a public
meeting, such as this; that's Sunshine in a nutshell.
MR. MUDD: And what I will do is have the county attorney or
his representative show up at the meeting and give you that
short primer. I will also check out and make sure that we didn't -
- didn't mess up and not have somebody swear in, okay. That is
another issue that I will -- that I -- work for the next process. So
there are a couple of unanswered questions that I had prior to
coming to this meeting today as we went on, one of which is, do
we have a recorder, okay, and we made sure that that was on
track and tried to stay out of as much trouble as we possibly
could. So I will answer -- at least get those questions answered
and have somebody here from the county's attorney office. If
there -- if there has to be a swearing in or signing of particular
documents, I will make sure they are available at the -- at the
June 7th meeting too.
MR. GRAY: Back to the projects. I just had one -- one
overriding question and that is the total funds for the projects we
discussed is about 5.3 million, and the spreadsheet anticipates
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revenues without even any carry forward of about six-eight -- if I
have done my math right -- six-seven, six-eight. It also shows
anticipated expenses of about 7.4 million. Even if we take away
the five hundred catastrophe -- I would like to bridge the gap
between the 5.3 million and the numbers on the spreadsheet.
MR. MUDD: Okay.
MR. GALLENBERG: To explain that do we leave some
leeway for other proposals, or do we anticipate other proposals
coming in?
MR. MUDD: There's some -- there's some room in this
budget.
MR. GALLENBERG: We don't need to discuss that tonight,
but I would like to, perhaps, discuss at our next meeting. Do we
have any other questions or comments?
MR. ROELLIG: I would like to make a comment. We do have
projects that were approved -- that was by the prior years, but
the funds weren't expended, such as the -- the Naples project on
the sand net --
DR. STAIGER: The Parker--
MR. ROELLIG: -- the sandtrap. So we -- those funds would
presumably start being expended in the year 2002, so does that --
I don't see it on the spreadsheet. I mean, they may have been
previously approved. Apparently the monies have already been
set aside for the Parker Sandweb Project and other projects; that
probably should be on this sheet somewhere as an expenditure.
DR. STAIGER: Yeah. I think it's --
MR. ROELLIG: The revenues have been set aside, as I
understand it, but the expenditure has not been approved yet.
MR. MUDD: Yes. What I need to do --
MR. ROELLIG: Right.
MR. MUDD: -- it's got Parkers Sandweb on it. I need to have
Harry explain the previous part -- part of the things that we'll do
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from a staff perspective is to give you an explanation of
expenditures previous versus projects that were done, not done
for some strange reason, whether it's been carried forward in --
in, for instance, the Parkers Web, and lay that process out for
you.
MS. LUPO: Is there a procedure for asking staff questions
between meetings, and to whom do we direct those?
MR. MUDD: I would say that you would direct them to Harry
Huber, okay, the project manager. And then he'll try and get
those answered for you. You can either give him a call, or you
can get them on e-mail. But if you have a burning desire, use my
phone number right now, okay, and it's 732-2540, and I can get
that information for you.
MR. GRAY: As I understand it, under the Sunshine Law, we
can correspond, however, with Harry-- MR. MUDD: Absolutely.
MR. GRAY: -- e-mail, phone --
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir.
MR. GRAY: -- letter, what have you. It's okay to do that. We
just can't do that amongst ourselves? MR. MUDD: Right.
MR. GALLENBERG: One housekeeping item, if there's
nothing else that anyone has, is that each of us probably knows
some of the other members here, but I doubt that anyone knows
all the other members. So maybe in our next packet, while we'll
get to know each other soon enough, that if we can have a
contact sheet, so to speak, even though we can't contact each
other; name, affiliation, perhaps a number or address or
something like that.
MR. GRAY: Yeah. That will be good.
MR. MUDD: I will give you Harry's e-mail, things like that,
certainly.
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MR. GALLENBERG: And then is there anything else from any
of the members? We have some members of the public here.
MR. MUDD: Yeah, we have public input.
MR. GALLENBERG: If there is public input, we would be
ready to take that now.
MR. MUDD: Anybody? Nobody basically gave me a written
sheet.
MR. GALLENBERG: Everyone is nodding no. So if there is
nothing else then, pending final confirmation that we have this
room for Thursday morning, we'll meet next on June 7th at 1:30
p.m. And for tonight, then, we're adjourned. Thank you.
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 7:30 p.m.
COASTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
GARY GALLENBERG, CHAIRMAN
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