BCC Minutes 06/24/2014 R BCC
REGULAR
MEETING
MINUTES
June 24, 2014
June 24, 2014
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, June 24, 2014
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Board of County
Commissioners, in and for the County of Collier, and also acting
as the Board of Zoning Appeals and as the governing board(s) of
such special districts as have been created according to law and
having conducted business herein, met on this date at 9:00 a.m.,
in REGULAR SESSION in Building "F" of the Government
Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following members
present:
CHAIRMAN: Tom Henning
Tim Nance
Donna Fiala
Georgia Hiller
Fred Coyle
ALSO PRESENT:
Leo Ochs, County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Crystal Kinzel, Finance Director
Tim Durham, Executive Manager of Business Operations
Troy Miller, Communications & Customer Relations
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COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Community Redevelopment Agency Board (CRAB)
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AGENDA
Board of County Commission Chambers
Collier County Government Center
3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd Floor
Naples FL 34112
June 24, 2014
9:00 AM
Commissioner Tom Henning, District 3 - BCC Chair
Commissioner Tim Nance, District 5 - BCC Vice-Chair; TDC Chair
Commissioner Donna Fiala, District 1 - CRAB Chair
Commissioner Georgia Hiller, District 2 - Community & Economic Dev. Chair
Commissioner Fred W. Coyle, District 4 - CRAB Vice-Chair
NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST
REGISTER PRIOR TO SPEAKING. SPEAKERS MUST REGISTER WITH THE
EXECUTIVE MANAGER TO THE BCC PRIOR TO PRESENTATION OF THE
AGENDA ITEM TO BE ADDRESSED. ALL REGISTERED SPEAKERS WILL
RECEIVE UP TO THREE (3) MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS ADJUSTED BY
THE CHAIRMAN.
COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 2003-53 AS AMENDED BY
ORDINANCE 2004-05 AND 2007-24, REQUIRES THAT ALL LOBBYISTS
SHALL, BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY LOBBYING ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDRESSING THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS), REGISTER WITH THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AT THE
BOARD MINUTES AND RECORDS DEPARTMENT.
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REQUESTS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON SUBJECTS WHICH ARE NOT ON
THIS AGENDA MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING WITH EXPLANATION
TO THE COUNTY MANAGER AT LEAST 13 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF
THE MEETING AND WILL BE HEARD UNDER "PUBLIC PETITIONS."
PUBLIC PETITIONS ARE LIMITED TO THE PRESENTER, WITH A
MAXIMUM TIME OF TEN MINUTES.
ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD
WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING PERTAINING THERETO,
AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD
OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE
TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
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YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN
ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL,
SUITE 1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380; ASSISTED
LISTENING DEVICES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ARE AVAILABLE IN
THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT.
LUNCH RECESS SCHEDULED FOR 12:00 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
A. Pastor Bob Scudieri - Faith Lutheran Church
2. AGENDA AND MINUTES
A. Approval of today's regular, consent and summary agenda as amended (Ex
Parte Disclosure provided by Commission members for consent agenda.)
B. May 27, 2014 - BCC/Regular Meeting
3. SERVICE AWARDS
A. 20 Year Attendees
1) Pam Callis - Utilities Finance
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2) John Daly - Information Technology
3) Liz Froloff- PUD Operations Support UBCS
4) Denise McMahon - Library
B. 25 Year Attendees
1) Emmanuel Augustin-Road Maintenance,
2) Russell Greer-Water Lab,
3) John Houldsworth-Engineering & Project Review
4. PROCLAMATIONS
A. Proclamation designating Collier County as a Purple Heart County and
designating August 7th of each year as Purple Heart Day. To be accepted by
Jack Wagner Commander of the local chapter of the Military Order of the
Purple Heart. Sponsored by the Board of County Commissioners.
B. Proclamation designating July 1, 2014 as Florida Southwestern State
College Day in Collier County to be accepted by Dr. Robert Jones, Collier
Campus President. Sponsored by Commissioner Henning.
C. Proclamation designating July 2014 as Bladder Cancer Awareness Month to
be accepted by Carla L. Dean, President of Bladder Cancer Foundation of
Florida Inc. Sponsored by Commissioner Coyle.
D. Proclamation recognizing Marco Island restaurants Bistro Soleil and Petit
Soleil for earning the Waste Reduction Awards Program award to be
accepted by Bistro Soleil and Petit Soleil owner Lisa Meurgue. Sponsored
by Commissioner Fiala.
5. PRESENTATIONS
A. Recommendation to recognize John Houldsworth, Senior Site Plans
Reviewer, Engineering Services Department as the Employee of the Month
for May 2014.
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B. Regional Overview Presentation by Margaret Wuerstle, Executive Director,
Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council (Commissioner Hiller).
6. PUBLIC PETITIONS
Item #7 to be heard no sooner than 1:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
7. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE CURRENT
OR FUTURE AGENDA
Item #8 to be heard no sooner than 1:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
8. BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
A. This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are
required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve a Resolution
providing for the establishment of a conditional use to allow Food stores
with greater than 5,000 square feet of gross floor area in the principal
structure (groups 5411-5499); Permitted food service (5812, eating places)
uses with more than 6,000 square feet of gross floor area in the principal
structure; and Permitted personal services, video rental or retail uses
(excluding drug stores - 5912) with more than 5,000 square feet of gross
floor area in the principal structure, within a Commercial Intermediate (C-3)
zoning district pursuant to subsection 2.03.03.C.1.c of the Collier County
Land Development Code for property located on the north side of U.S. 41,
east of the Collier Boulevard (C.R. 951) and U.S. 41 intersection, in Section
3, Township 51 South, Range 26 East, Collier County, Florida (CU-
PL20130001768).
Item #9 to be heard no sooner than 1:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
9. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS
A. Recommendation to consider an Ordinance amending Ordinance number 04-
41, as amended, the Collier County Land Development Code, which
includes the comprehensive land regulations for the unincorporated area of
Collier County, Florida, by providing for: Section One, Recitals; Section
Two, Findings of Fact; Section Three, Adoption of Amendments to the Land
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Development Code, more specifically amending the following: Chapter One
- General Provisions, including Section 1.08.02 Definitions; Chapter Two -
Zoning Districts and Uses, including Section 2.03.01 Agricultural Districts,
Section 2.03.03 Commercial Zoning Districts, Section 2.03.04 Industrial
Zoning Districts, Section 2.03.07 Overlay Zoning Districts; Chapter Three -
Resource Protection, including Section 3.05.02 Exemptions from
Requirements for Vegetation Protection and Preservation, Section 3.05.05
Criteria for Removal of Protected Vegetation, Section 3.05.07 Preservation
Standards; Chapter Four - Site Design and Development Standards,
including Section 4.01.02 Kitchens in Dwelling Units, Section 4.02.01
Dimensional Standards for Principal Uses in Base Zoning Districts, Section
4.02.03 Specific Standards for Location of Accessory Buildings and
Structures, Section 4.02.16 Design Standards for Development in the
Bayshore Gateway Triangle Redevelopment Area, Section 4.06.02 Buffer
Requirements; Chapter Five - Supplemental Standards, including Section
5.03.02 Fences and Walls, Excluding Sound Walls, Section 5.03.03
Guesthouses, Section 5.03.05 Caretaker Residences, 5.04.04 Model Home
and Model Sales Centers, Section 5.04.05 Temporary Events, Section
5.06.00 Sign Regulations and Standards by Land Use Classification, Section
5.06.02 Development Standards for Signs Within Residential Districts,
Section 5.06.04 Development Standards for Signs in Nonresidential
Districts, Section 5.06.05 Exemptions from these Regulations, Section
5.06.06 Prohibited Signs, Section 5.06.09 Nonconforming Signs; Chapter
Six - Infrastructure Improvements and Adequate Public Facilities
Requirements, including Section 6.06.02 Sidewalks, Bike Lane and Pathway
Requirements; Chapter Nine - Variations from Code Requirements,
including Section 9.03.03 Types of Nonconformities; Chapter Ten -
Application, Review, and Decision-Making Procedures, including Section
10.02.08 Requirements for Amendments to the Official Zoning Atlas,
Section 10.02.13 Planned Unit Development (PUD) Procedures, Section
10.03.05 Required Methods of Providing Public Notice, Section 10.03.06
Public Notice and Required Hearings for Land Use Petitions; Section Four,
Adoption of Amendments to the Collier County Zoning Atlas, more
specifically amending the following: Zoning Map number 0502S to rezone
various properties located on the north side of Davis Boulevard (SR-84)
from Airport-Pulling Road (CR-31) west to the Naples city limit, from C-4
General Commercial and C-5 Heavy Commercial to C-4-GTMUD-MXD
and C-5-GTMUD-MXD (Gateway Triangle Mixed Use Overlay District -
Mixed Use Subdistrict); Section Five, Conflict and Severability; Section Six,
Inclusion in the Collier County Land Development Code; and Section
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Seven, Effective Date.
B. This item has been continued from the May 27, 2014 BCC meeting:
This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance amending Ordinance
No. 2001-09, the Pine Ridge Center West Planned Unit Development by
amending Section 3.3, Permitted Uses, to add as a permitted use new and
used car dealerships; and providing an effective date. The subject property,
consisting of 8.87+/- acres, is located south of Pine Ridge Road and east of
Livingston Road in Section 18, Township 49 South, Range 26 East, Collier
County, Florida [PUDA-PL20130001919].
C. Recommendation to approve (Adopt) an Ordinance amending Ordinance
No. 2002-61, which established the Fiddler's Creek Community
Development District No. 2, in order to increase the acreage of the District;
providing for severability; and providing for an effective date.
D. This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance Amending Ordinance
No. 07-71, as amended, the Naples Reserve Golf Club Residential Planned
Unit Development (RPUD), to approve the excavation and off-site hauling
of 1,050,000 cubic yards of fill; to increase the size of the preserve tract and
add permitted uses; to amend the RPUD Master Plan and to provide for
amendments to list of Developer Commitments; and providing an effective
date. The subject property is located one mile north of U.S. 41 and 1-1/2
miles east of Collier Boulevard (CR 951) in Section 1, Township 51 South,
Range 26 East, Collier County, Florida consisting of 688+/- acres (Petition
number PUDA-PL20140000342). This is a companion to Agenda Item
#11B.
10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
A. Recommendation to appoint member(s) to Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board.
B. Recommendation to direct staff to prepare a fiscal analysis and a
recommended straw ballot question concerning the return to the original
intent of the Tourist Development Tax to be presented to the BCC for
approval at the meeting on July 8, 2014. If approved by the BCC, the straw
ballot would be placed on the November 2014 ballot. (Commissioner Coyle)
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11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT
A. Recommendation to authorize advertising an ordinance creating the Platt
Road Improvement Municipal Service Taxing Unit to fund and levy not to
exceed three mils of Ad Valorem Taxes per year to reimburse the County
$10,500 for emergency roadway improvements made to Platt Road.
(Michelle Arnold, Alternative Transportation Modes Director)
B. This item to be heard immediately following Companion Item 9D. This
item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are
required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve the off-site removal
of fill from the Naples Reserve RPUD consistent with the companion PUD
Amendment. This is an amendment to Commercial Excavation Permit PL
20140000342 to allow excess fill to be removed from the site. The excess
fill is a result of previously approved development lake excavations within
Naples Reserve RPUD. This item is a companion item to Naples Reserve
RPUD PL20140000342, Agenda Item #9D. (Jack McKenna, Engineering
Services Manager)
C. Recommendation to approve a conceptual transition plan for the annexation
of the Isles of Capri Fire and Rescue District by the East Naples Fire Control
and Rescue District pending approval by referendum of a majority vote of
electors in the district. (Len Price, Administrative Services Administrator)
D. Recommendation to approve a Resolution establishing the Collier Area
Transit (CAT) Advertising Policy, Standards and Rate Schedule. (Trinity
Scott, Alternative Transportation Modes Public Transit Manager)
12. COUNTY ATTORNEY'S REPORT
13. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
14. AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND/OR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY
A. AIRPORT
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
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1) This item to be heard at 10:40 a.m. Recommendation that the
Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) review an offer to
purchase CRA owned property in the Gateway mini-triangle by
Fortino Construction & Development, LLC and Assignee and provide
staff direction.
15. STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
A. Proposed Future Workshop Schedule
16. CONSENT AGENDA - ALL MATTERS LISTED UNDER THIS ITEM ARE
CONSIDERED TO BE ROUTINE AND ACTION WILL BE TAKEN BY
ONE MOTION WITHOUT SEPARATE DISCUSSION OF EACH ITEM. IF
DISCUSSION IS DESIRED BY A MEMBER OF THE BOARD, THAT
ITEM(S) WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND
CONSIDERED SEPARATELY.
A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DIVISION
1) Recommendation to approve a Resolution repealing and replacing
Resolution No. 96-491, any and all amendments thereto, in order to
update the fee schedule used by the Natural Resources Department for
analytical and professional services and providing for an effective
date of October 1, 2014.
2) Recommendation to approve an easement agreement for the purchase
of a road right-of-way, drainage and utility easement required for the
expansion of Golden Gate Boulevard from east of Wilson Boulevard
to 20th Street East, Project No. 60040; (Fiscal Impact $1,527).
3) Recommendation to approve an easement agreement for the purchase
of a Road Right-of-Way, Drainage and Utility Easement, Parcel
142RDUE, required for the expansion of Golden Gate Boulevard from
East of Wilson Boulevard to 20th Street East. Project No. 60040
(Fiscal Impact: $4,235.50)
4) Recommendation to review the proposed zoning maps changes and
support documentation, and direct the Chair to sign the official zoning
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maps.
5) Recommendation to award Contract No. 14-6268, 28th Ave SE
Bridge to Quality Enterprises USA, Inc., in the amount of$668,777,
Project No. 60123.
6) Recommendation to approve a budget amendment in the amount of
$23,490.94 to recognize revenues received from traffic accident
reimbursements from Insurance Companies in Landscape Project
Fund 112, Project #60076, Traffic Accidents and Turnlanes, and
Landscape Project Fund 112, Project #60075, Landscape Asset
Management.
7) Recommendation to approve Petition VAC-PL20140000680, to
quitclaim and release the County's interest in six (6) 30-foot strips of
land described as easements for public right-of-way as recorded in
Official Record Book 160, page 237, Official Record Book 168, page
843, Official Record Book 164, page 177, Official Record Book 184,
page 858, Official Record Book 164, page 087, and Official Record
Book 164, page 683, of the Public Records of Collier County, Florida,
located in Section 36, Township 48 South, Range 26 East, Collier
County, Florida, being more specifically shown in Exhibit A.
8) Recommendation to award Bid #13-6168 Demolition of Commercial
and Residential Structures to Honc Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a/ Honc
Destruction, as the Primary Contractor and Paragon Construction
Unlimited, Inc., as the Secondary Contractor.
9) Recommendation to approve a release of lien with an accrued value of
$11,154.80 for payment of$1,354.80, in the code enforcement action
entitled Board of County Commissioners v. Neil Forney, Code
Enforcement Special Magistrate Case No. CEPM20110010215,
relating to property located at 5573 Cove Circle, Collier County,
Florida.
10) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release an
Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit No. FGAC-13071 in the amount
of$113,320 which was posted as a guaranty for Excavation Permit
Number 59.917-2, (PL20120002425) for work associated with Bella
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Firenze at Treviso Bay.
11) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the final plat of Maple Ridge at Ave Maria
Phase 3, (Application Number PL20140000067) approval of the
standard form Construction and Maintenance Agreement and approval
of the amount of the performance security.
12) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a
Performance Bond in the amount of$445,000 which was posted as a
development guaranty for an Early Work Authorization (EWA)
(PL20100000306) for work associated with Verona Walk Phase 4C.
13) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation for
approval of an excavation permit to allow offsite removal of up to
100,000 cubic yards of fill from property described in the Lely Resort
PUD as Lely Resort - Signature Club EXP-PL20 1 4000 1 1 1 0. The
excess fill is a result of previously approved development lake
excavation within Lely Resort and the material is also tied to current
and proposed excavations.
14) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a Cash
Bond in the amount of$97,520 which was posted as a guaranty for
Excavation Permit Number 60.082, (PL20120001222) for work
associated with Hacienda Lakes of Naples, Phase 1.
15) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the final plat of Bent Creek Preserve Phase 1 A,
Application Number FP-PL20130002155.
16) Recommendation to approve a Memorandum of Agreement between
Collier County and the Big Cypress National Preserve detailing the
terms of a combined effort designed to restore a more natural surface
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water flow pattern to a section of the Turner River.
17) Recommendation to award Contract No. 14-6228 - Collier County
Beach Renourishment 15-year Permit in the amount of$127,566 to
Coastal Planning and Engineering Inc., authorize the Chairman to
execute the corresponding agreement, authorize the necessary budget
amendment, and make a finding that this item promotes tourism.
(Project #80165)
18) Recommendation to approve the ranked list of design professionals
pursuant to RFP No. 14-6257, "Doctors Pass Jetty", authorize staff to
negotiate a contract with the top ranked firm for subsequent Board
approval, and make a finding that this item promotes tourism (Project
No. 90029).
19) Recommendation to approve a Work Order with Humiston and Moore
Engineers to provide professional engineering services as needed by
the Marco Island Central Beach Re-grade project under Contract No.
13-6164-CZ for a Time and Material amount not to exceed $169,724;
authorize the County Manager or his designee to execute the Work
Order, approve necessary budget amendment, and make a finding that
this item promotes tourism, Project No. 90062.
20) Recommendation to approve a proposed amendment to the Tourist
Development Tax Ordinance No. 92-60, as amended, that would
authorize the reallocation of funds between Tourist Development Tax
categories with a supermajority vote of the Board and direct the
County Attorney to advertise ordinance changes to be approved by the
Board at a future meeting; to allow TDC grant funds previously
awarded to the City of Naples to "carry forward" for expenditure in
FY2015 for a major renovation of the City of Naples Pier; and to
make a finding that this item promotes tourism.
21) Recommendation to approve the consultant rankings by quadrant for
Request for Proposal #14-6190 Golden Gate Stormwater Drainage
Improvement Project Design and authorize staff to negotiate contracts
with the top ranked firms for subsequent Board approval.
22) Recommendation to approve a Work Order with CB&I Coastal
Planning & Engineering, Inc. to assist the County with The Florida
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Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) 2015-2016 Local
Government Funding Request (LGFR) Submittal under Contract No.
13-6164 for a Time and Material amount not to exceed $9,979,
authorize the County Manager or his designee to execute the work
order, and make a finding that this item promotes tourism (Project No.
80165).
23) Recommendation to approve a Developer Agreement between Naples
Associates IV, LLLP (Developer) and Collier County (County) to
provide design and post construction services to intersection
improvements at the intersection of Collier Boulevard and Immokalee
Road.
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
1) Recommendation for the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)
to approve a Commercial Building Improvement Grant Agreement
between the CRA, Sabal Court Restaurant, Inc., and Sabal Court,
LLC, for property located within the Bayshore Gateway Triangle Area
at 3275 Bayshore Drive in the amount of$3,550.
C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DIVISION
1) Recommendation to award Bid #13-6162R, "Chlorinator Equipment
Maintenance," to Water Treatment and Controls Company and
authorize the Chairman to execute the attached contract.
2) Recommendation to approve a work order under Request for
Quotation #08-5011-119 in the amount of$352,447 to Mitchell &
Stark Construction Co., Inc., to replace pumps and motor controls in
Sludge Pump Station No. 4 under North County Water Reclamation
Facility Technical Support Project Number 73968.
3) Recommendation to approve a Utility and Access Easement
Agreement with Kensington Park Master Association, Inc., for the
acquisition of an easement at its appraised value to accommodate the
rehabilitation of a wastewater pumping station, at a total cost not to
exceed $900, Project Number 70046.
4) Recommendation to approve a Purchase and Sale Agreement with
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Designers' Collectibles LLC at a cost not to exceed $308,000 to
purchase property for the construction of a new wastewater master
pump station as part of the Wastewater Basin Program, Project
Number 70050.
5) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid Number 14-6290 in the
amount of$207,850 to Gulfstream Petroleum Services, Inc., for
Project Number 71066, "North County Regional Water Treatment
Plant Diesel Fuel Storage Tank Replacement," and authorize a budget
amendment in the amount of$200,000.
D. PUBLIC SERVICES DIVISION
1) Recommendation to approve a State Housing Initiative Partnership
Subrecipient Agreement with Centro Campesino Farmworker Center,
Inc. for the administration of an Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation
Program for a total contract award of$856,000 and to accept a six-
month extension of the expenditure deadline for SHIP Fiscal Year
2011/2012 program funds granted by the Florida Housing Finance
Corporation.
2) Recommendation to approve a Budget Amendment recognizing
$828,973.79 of State Housing Initiative Partnership Program
allocation and program income for Fiscal Year 2013/2014.
3) Recommendation to authorize staff to advertise an Ordinance that
would repeal and replace Ordinance 94-39, as amended, known as the
Collier County Residential Rehabilitation Program, to adopt a revised
program to be known as the Collier County Owner-Occupied
Rehabilitation Program and bring back the proposed Ordinance for a
Public Hearing.
4) Recommendation to approve Amendment No. 4 to the Subrecipient
Agreement with the Collier County Housing Authority, Inc. for
Tenant Based Rental Assistance to extend the project completion date
to August 31, 2015, modify budget language to be consistent with
other agreements and update department contact information.
5) Recommendation to amend the Neighborhood Stabilization
Administrative Plan and approve Amendment 2 to the Developer
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Agreement with Habitat for Humanity of Collier County, Inc. for the
Neighborhood Stabilization Program 1 and Amendment 5 to the
Developer Agreement with Habitat for Humanity of Collier County,
Inc. for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program 3 to reflect grant
program closeout guidelines and clarify appraisal requirements.
6) Recommendation to approve four satisfactions of mortgage for owner-
occupied affordable housing units that have satisfied the terms of
assistance for Collier County HOME Investment Partnership Program.
7) Recommendation to approve a satisfaction and release of lien for
payment of countywide impact fees.
8) Recommendation to approve the Collier County FY2014-2015 One-
Year HUD Annual Action Plan including the re-programming of
funds from previous years for Community Development Block Grant,
Home Investment Partnerships, and Emergency Solutions Grant
Programs; approve the Resolution, U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) Certifications, and SF 424 Application
for Federal Assistance, and authorize transmittal to the HUD.
9) Recommendation to approve the FY14 Program of Transit system
Operations and Capital Projects and submittal of a grant application
for the Federal Transit Administration, 49 USC § 5307 FY14 grant
funds in the amount of$2,888,127 through the Transportation
Electronic Award Management System.
10) Recommendation to approve the FY14 Program of Transit System
Capital Projects and submittal of a grant application for the Federal
Transit Administration, 49 USC § 5339 FY14 grant funds of$365,428
through Transportation Electronic Award Management System.
11) Recommendation to approve the 2014 Annual Progress Report of the
Collier County Transit Development Plan and authorize its
submission to the Florida Department of Transportation.
12) Recommendation to approve the submittal of a FY 2013/14 grant
application for Federal Highway Administration Flexible Funding in
the amount of$294,000 for additional bus shelters through the Federal
Transit Administration Transportation Electronic Award Management
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System.
13) Recommendation to approve the submittal of a FY 2014/15 grant
application for Federal Highway Administration Flexible Funding in
the amount of$287,124 for the construction of additional bus shelters
through the Federal Transit Administration Transportation Electronic
Award Management System.
14) Recommendation to approve a substantial amendment to the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development Community
Development Block Grant FY2010-2011 HUD Annual Action Plan,
as amended, to redirect funds to the Immokalee CRA First Street
Plaza (aka Zocalo) project in the amount of$34,000.
15) Recommendation to approve a one-time Exhibition and Facility Use
Agreement with the Marco Island Foundation for the Arts to provide
exhibit and an after-hours event reception space at the Marco Island
Historical Museum.
16) Recommendation to adopt a resolution approving the expenditure of
funds not to exceed $2,000 for activities and incentive prizes
associated with the 2014 United Way of Collier County Campaign
and to waive the entrance fees into Sun-N-Fun Lagoon for participants
on the day of the Walk (September 27, 2014).
17) Recommendation to approve Amendments and Attestation Statements
with Area Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida, Inc. for the
Community Care for the Elderly, Alzheimer's Disease Initiative, and
Home Care for the Elderly programs to extend the term of the
agreements and ensure continuous funding for FY 2013/2014.
18) Recommendation to approve Amendments and Attestation Statements
with Area Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida, Inc. for the
Community Care for the Elderly and Alzheimer's Disease Initiative
programs to increase funding for FY 2013/2014 (Net Fiscal Impact
$55,356).
E. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIVISION
1) Recommendation to approve the Collective Bargaining Agreement
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between Collier County and Local Number 4719, Professional Fire
and Marine Rescue of Isles of Capri, International Association of Fire
Fighters.
2) Recommendation to approve an Assumption Agreement with
Intelligent Infrastructure Solutions, LLC as it relates to Contract #12-
5985 Fiber Optic Installation, Repair and Maintenance.
3) Recommendation to authorize the necessary Budget Amendments in
the amount of$185,000 for Americans with Disabilities Act
improvements to the public restrooms on the 3rd floor of the W.
Harmon Turner Administration Building (Building "F").
4) Recommendation to approve and authorize County Attorney to
advertise an amendment to Ordinance No. 83-25, as amended, to
correct the name of the deferred compensation provider to
Nationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc. previously known as National
Association of Counties (NACo) and previously administered by
Public Employees Benefit Services Corporation (PEBSCO), to
approve removal of Section 2 of the Ordinance removing the advisory
committee, and to include Supervisor of Elections (SOE) under the
deferred compensation plans of the Board of County Commissioners.
5) Recommendation to adopt a resolution authorizing the cancellation of
2014 taxes upon a fee-simple interest in land Collier County acquired
by Warranty Deed for Conservation Collier and without monetary
compensation.
6) Recommendation to approve rankings of firms under Request for
Proposal #14-6255R, Architectural, Engineering and Construction
Administrative Services for the Orange Tree Sheriff's Substation and
direct staff to bring a negotiated contract to the Board for subsequent
approval.
F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to accept the fifth annual report on the "Impact Fee
Program for Existing Commercial Redevelopment" and approve a
resolution extending the Program to July 1, 2015, based on the
continuing interest in the Program.
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2) Recommendation to adopt a resolution approving amendments
(appropriating grants, donations, contributions or insurance proceeds)
to the Fiscal Year 2013-14 Adopted Budget.
3) Recommendation to approve Tourist Development Tax Category `B"
funding to support the National FBU Youth Football Championships
in December, 2014 up to $125,000 and make a finding that this
expenditure promotes tourism.
4) Recommendation to approve Tourist Development Tax Category "B"
funding to support the ConnectSPORTS Executive Sports Forum in
November, 2014 up to $15,000 and make a finding that this
expenditure promotes tourism.
5) Recommendation that the Board authorize the Chairman, as a member
of the Southwest Florida Job Training Consortium, to approve the
Southwest Florida Workforce Development Board, Inc., proposed FY
2014/2015 budget as provided for in the Workforce Investment Act
Second Amended and Restated Interlocal Agreement for the
Southwest Florida Job Training Consortium.
6) Recommendation to award Bid #14-6272 in the amount of
$781,924.59 for the Pelican Bay North Berm Restoration to Quality
Enterprises, USA, Inc., and authorize the Chairman to execute the
resulting contract and approve all necessary budget amendments.
G. AIRPORT AUTHORITY
1) Recommendation to approve the conveyance of two Underground
Easements (Business) to Florida Power & Light Company for
electrical service at the Marco Island Executive Airport located at
2001-2005 Mainsail Drive, Naples, Florida.
2) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners approves
and executes a Collier County Airport Authority Standard Form Lease
with Fletcher Flying Services, Inc., for a mobile office at the
Immokalee Airport.
3) Recommendation that the Board approves and executes a Collier
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County Airport Authority Standard Form Lease with Raven Air
Marco Island, LLC, d/b/a Island Hoppers at the Marco Island
Executive Airport.
H. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
1) Recommendation to reappoint three members to the
Bayshore/Gateway Triangle Local Redevelopment Advisory Board.
2) Recommendation to appoint members to the Affordable Housing
Advisory Committee.
3) Commissioner Fiala requests Board approval for reimbursement
regarding attendance at a function serving a Valid Public Purpose.
Attended the East Naples Civic Association Luncheon on May 15,
2014. The sum of$18 to be paid from Commissioner Fiala's travel
budget.
4) Commissioner Fiala requests Board approval for reimbursement
regarding attendance at a function serving a Valid Public Purpose.
Attended the Naples Press Club Luncheon on May 22, 2014. The sum
of$25 to be paid from Commissioner Fiala's travel budget.
I. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
J. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
1) To provide the Board of County Commissioners the Clerk of the
Circuit Court's Office Audit Report 2014-10 Parks and Recreation
Immokalee Sports Complex Follow-Up Cash Review issued on June
18, 2014.
2) To provide the Board of County Commissioners the Clerk of the
Circuit Court's Office Audit Report 2014-11 Parks and Recreation
Immokalee Community Park Cash Review issued on June 18, 2014.
3) To provide the Board of County Commissioners the Clerk of the
Circuit Court's Office Audit Report 2014-12 Parks and Recreation
Beach Parking Cash Review issued on June 18, 2014.
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4) To provide to the Board of County Commissioners the Clerk of the
Circuit Court's Internal Audit Report 2014-9 Job Creation and Job
Retention Agreements: Haynes Corporation, issued on June 18, 2014.
5) Request that the Board of County Commissioners approve the use of
$25,000 from the Confiscated Trust Funds to support the Collier 211
Campaign.
6) Recommendation to approve a budget amendment recognizing
$1,402,500 in revenues and expenditures in the Sheriffs FY2014
General Fund budget.
7) Board declaration of expenditures serving a valid public purpose and
approval of disbursements for the period of June 5, 2014 through June
11, 2014.
8) Board declaration of expenditures serving a valid public purpose and
approval of disbursements for the period of June 12, 2014 through
June 18, 2014.
9) Recommendation to authorize the Chairman to sign a letter
designating the Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers, Inc., a non-profit
agency as the agent for the purpose of applying for and receiving
funds from the Crime Stoppers Trust Fund.
K. COUNTY ATTORNEY
1) Recommendation to approve a Final Judgment in the amount of
$1,200 for Parcels 105TCE and 106TCE, along with statutory
attorneys' fees, in the lawsuit styled Collier County, Florida v.
Modelyne Jean Gilles, et al., Case No. 14-CA-764 for the Collier
Boulevard Expansion Project (Project No. 68056) (Fiscal Impact
$1,008).
2) Recommendation to approve three payments of fees and costs claimed
by the property owners' attorneys and expert witnesses in connection
with the taking of Parcels 116FEE, 116TCE1, 116TCE2, and
116TCE3 in the lawsuit styled Collier County v. RTG, LLC, a
Nebraska limited liability company, et al., Case No. 2013-CA-259
(US-41/Collier Boulevard Intersection Improvement Project #60116).
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(Fiscal Impact: $571,207).
3) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of$3,500 for all costs associated with the taking of Parcel
134TDRE for the construction of Oil Well Road (Project No. 60044)
in the case styled Collier County v. Christopher Link, et al., Case No.
07-4218-CA. (Fiscal Impact: $3,570)
4) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Order of Taking and Final
Judgment in the amount of$5,300 for Parcel 156TCE in the lawsuit
styled Collier County, Florida v. Robert E. Williams, Tr., et al., Case
No. 14-CA-816 for the Collier Boulevard expansion (Project No.
68056). (Fiscal Impact $5,470)
5) Recommendation to approve a Mediated Settlement Agreement and
Stipulated Final Judgment in the amount of$129,278.63 for the
acquisition of Parcel 206DAME in the lawsuit styled Collier County,
Florida v. John D. Lawrence, et al., Case No. 11-3207-CA (Outfalls 3
and 4/LASIP Project #51101). (Fiscal Impact: $122,328.63)
6) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners approve
an after-the-fact filing of a joint Petition with the Florida Association
of Counties ("FAC") and other counties to challenge proposed new
rules related to the billing and collection of the county cost share for
juvenile pre-disposition secured detention. (Potential fiscal impact
$3,500)
17. SUMMARY AGENDA - THIS SECTION IS FOR ADVERTISED PUBLIC
HEARINGS AND MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: 1) A
RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL FROM STAFF; 2) UNANIMOUS
RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL BY THE COLLIER COUNTY
PLANNING COMMISSION OR OTHER AUTHORIZING AGENCIES OF
ALL MEMBERS PRESENT AND VOTING; 3) NO WRITTEN OR ORAL
OBJECTIONS TO THE ITEM RECEIVED BY STAFF, THE COLLIER
COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION, OTHER AUTHORIZING
AGENCIES OR THE BOARD, PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF
THE BCC MEETING ON WHICH THE ITEMS ARE SCHEDULED TO BE
HEARD; AND 4) NO INDIVIDUALS ARE REGISTERED TO SPEAK IN
OPPOSITION TO THE ITEM. FOR THOSE ITEMS WHICH ARE QUASI-
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JUDICIAL IN NATURE, ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST BE SWORN IN.
A. This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are
required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve Petition VAC-
PL20140000611, to disclaim, renounce and vacate the County and the
Public interest in the 60-foot public road right-of-way as described and
recorded in Official Record Book 590, page 1304 of the Public Records of
Collier County, Florida, located in Section 15, Township 49 South, Range
25 East, Collier County, Florida.
B. This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are
required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve Petition VAC-
PL20140000073 to vacate the County and public interest in the Stormwater
Drainage Easement (Exhibit A-2 only) as recorded in Official Record Book
3188, pages 1727 through 1733 of the public records of Collier County,
Florida, located in Section 28, Township 48 South, Range 26 East, Collier
County, Florida, being more specifically shown in Exhibit A.
C. Recommendation to review and consider approving the 2013 Cycle 2
Growth Management Plan Amendment for transmittal to the Florida
Department of Economic Opportunity for Review and Comments response.
(Transmittal Hearing)
D. Recommendation to adopt a resolution approving amendments
(appropriating carry forward, transfers and supplemental revenue) to the
Fiscal Year 2013-14 Adopted Budget.
18. ADJOURN
INQUIRIES CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE BOARD'S AGENDA SHOULD
BE MADE TO THE COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE AT 252-8383
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June 24, 2014
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, you have a live mike.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to the Board of Commissioners' meeting. If you would
either turn off your phones or silence them, it will help us in today's
proceedings.
We're going to start out with the invocation and the Pledge of
Allegiance -- followed by the pledge. The invocation will be given by
Pastor Scudieri of Faith Lutheran Church.
Would you all rise.
Item #1
INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
PASTOR SCUDIERI: Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 11, Cast
your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
Let's pray.
Thank you, Lord, for talented people who serve as county
commissioners. Thank you for people who have been willing to
sacrifices their lives for their country. They lived what your servant
Solomon instructed your people, Cast your bread upon the waters; it
will return to you.
Lord, you've blessed the people in our county with more time,
more talent, more treasure than 99 percent of this world. Save us from
fearful and selfish instincts that would cause us to hoard those
blessings. Save us from simple satisfaction with the way things are
that keeps us from using the blessings we have to bring a better life to
more people.
Save us from complacency and instead enrich us with courage
and boldness and love to face the future with optimism and faith in
your loving presence and guidance. We ask for that presence and
guidance in this place now.
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In your name, oh, Lord, amen.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: County Manager, do we have any
changes to today's preposed agenda?
Item #2A
APPROVAL OF TODAY'S REGULAR CONSENT AND
SUMMARY AGENDA AS AMENDED (EX PARTE DISCLOSURE
PROVIDED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR CONSENT
AGENDA — APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED W/CHANGES
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir, we do.
Good morning, Mr. Chairman, commission members. These are
the proposed agenda changes for the Board of County Commissioners'
meeting of June 24, 2014.
The first proposed change is to continue Item 11A from the
regular agenda and move that item to the July 8, 2014, BCC meeting.
That is a proposal to establish an MSTU for the Platt Road
improvements, and that continuance is made at Commissioner Nance's
request.
The next proposed change is to move Item 16A20 from your
consent agenda to become Item 11E on your regular agenda. That is a
proposed amendment to your Tourist Development Tax Ordinance
that would allow for an advanced funding of a renovation project at
the Naples Pier, and that item is moved to the regular agenda at
Commissioner Henning's request.
We have an agenda note this morning, Commissioners, on Item
16C4. The two folio numbers referenced on the change sheet are
corrections from two folio numbers published in the agenda that had
transposed numbers. These are the correct folio numbers for the
record.
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Commissioners, I also have a -- an item under notes that I wanted
to discuss briefly with the board due to the high level of interest that
the board has had in this item.
This has to do with the letter that the chairman received and the
board members were copied on from Collier Resources Company
dated June the 12th. Let me just zoom in here. Excuse me. The area
that I've underlined is what I wanted to discuss briefly with the board.
This is a matter that I would normally handle administratively,
but due to the high level of interest and involvement that the board has
had in this subject, I wanted to discuss it briefly.
You can see in the letter and in my discussion with Mr. Gable
and Mr. Jones, Collier Resource Company has offered to do
groundwater monitoring and testing in that area around the well, and
they've asked to collaborate with the county staff on the selection of
that engineering firm.
In speaking with those gentlemen, I think we've come up with a
process that hopefully the board will concur, and unless there's an
objection, I would like to proceed in that manner, and that is that they
would submit a name of five different engineering firms that they
believe are qualified to do the modeling and testing.
We would take those five firms and evaluate those similar to
what we do in any other engineering services contract with our experts
on staff and then send the top two firms, at least the ones that we
believe are most qualified, based on our review, back to Collier
Resources Company, and they could choose either of those firms to do
the testing. And then that way we would have some assurance that
there's an arm's length transaction there and that we would be able to
verify the results of the test and, ultimately, give this board and the
community some assurance about the condition of the groundwater in
and around that well.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
MR. OCHS: So, again, procedurally, that's how I would
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recommend we proceed in response to this offer from CRC, unless the
board has some other method that they would prefer me to pursue. So
I'm just looking for some endorsement of that approach, if that's
agreeable to the board.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, I have three commissioners that
want to speak and, including Commissioner Nance, four. Starting
with Commissioner Hiller, then Commissioner Coyle.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yeah. Leo, I'm very happy to see
that the discussion we had at the last board meeting where the
community requested testing and I suggested testing, among other
commissioners, to see Collier Resources so responsive is very
positive, and I think it's absolutely essential that we be part of the
process.
I want to make sure I understand. We are not being asked to pay
for anything; is that correct?
MR. OCHS: No, ma'am. And if you'll see, the last portion of
that underlined paragraph is --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Oh, yeah. I see. The CRC will
pay for testing.
MR. OCHS: -- CRC will pay for the testing.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, I am happy to see that they
are engaging us in the process. I endorse the suggestion, the
recommendation that you're proposing. I think we should absolutely
be involved with who the engineer or the specialist will be who will
do that testing.
And I would hope that Collier Resources would then come back
and give us all the information for our review and for presentation to
the public.
Now, I would like to take it one step further in addition to that
direction, is to say that, quite frankly, at this point I think I would ask
the board's support to direct you to go back to Collier Resources and
not only to do the testing, but to stop drilling using the technique that
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has been used that has raised this issue till Florida's DEP makes a
determination that this type of drilling is either safe or not safe as it
relates to the public.
I don't see any reason to encourage this drilling to continue till
FDEP takes a stand and makes a determination as it is required to do
in the public's interest.
So not only would I like to recommend that you do what you
suggest but that in, addition, you take that message back to them. And
I would like to see a response back to this board by the July meeting.
We have one meeting left, and I would like to -- if they are willing, to
see them stop using this technique.
They've been drilling out there for decades using conventional
drilling techniques. There's no need to engage in this technique at this
time ahead of DEP's determination.
MR. OCHS: I'd be happy to do that, ma'am, if that's the pleasure
of the board.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Well, we'll see if we get a
consensus.
Commissioner Coyle, then Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Yeah. I would like to commend
the Collier corporations for stepping forward. They have been drilling
here safely for over 50 years. And it's this new technique, I think, that
has caused us a lot of difficulty. So I appreciate their help.
But here's the problem. If you're going to drill a test well, you've
got to decide where you're going to drill it and how deep you're going
to drill it.
You can drill a 100-foot deep test well, and it is going to be
inconclusive. The well that has been drilled there is 12,000 feet deep
or more. I don't know how deep you have to drill the well to answer
all of the questions definitively, but I do know that if you are not
aware of the chemicals that have been placed into the current well,
you cannot properly test, because each chemical has a specific test
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requirement.
So those questions have to be answered first. And in order to
accomplish this without spending a lot of time and wasting a lot of
money, there are wells in the area that have been supposedly plugged
that are quite deep.
You might explore the possibility of drilling through the plugs in
those wells and getting very deep very quickly and taking samples
from those. And that way you'd get it done more quickly. You'd get a
deeper sample. You could sample at various depths, of course, in
those deeper wells.
So before we agree to go ahead with a test, let's make sure we're
going to have test results that are definitive; otherwise, we'll produce
them, and the public will find fault with them, and we'll have to do it
again. And we don't want to keep doing this.
MR. OCHS: No.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: So if you -- my problem really is
with the Dan A. Hughes Company. And I agree with Commissioner
Hiller. They should not only be stopped from drilling; they should be
stopped from doing business in Collier County. And if we have the
capability to do that, I think we should do it. I think they are -- they're
bad for the Collier companies, they're bad for us, and they're not
appreciated by the public.
Any time you start a business relationship with someone who lies
to you upfront. It's not going to turn out well, and it's never going to
turn out well, because people who do that will continue do it when
they drill other wells.
So I strongly support Commissioner Hiller's recommendation
that those people just not be allowed to drill in Collier County, end of
story. So there it is.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, sir.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I support the thrust of your
proposal, but we need to make sure we've got a good plan that's going
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to answer all the questions.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir, and that's part of the modeling that goes
along with the testing itself that -- when we model it, we'll make sure
that we get to the proper depths, as you suggested.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Okay. Well, you understand you
have to get the list of chemicals that Dan A. Hughes drilling company
is using. They so far have said those are trade secrets. There are no
trade secrets when it comes to health, safety, and welfare of the people
of Collier County.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: And I'm not going to accept that
excuse.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir, and neither has the chair. I know he's had
some discussions with the secretary about that very thing. I'm sure
he'll elaborate on it.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Okay, good.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. Rather than belabor it, I do
agree with everything that's been said. And if, per chance, the county
staff has a company that they would like to also offer as another
company to be a groundwater expert, I'm sure that the Collier
Resources Company would be happy to receive that. I'm so happy
that they take this step forward. Thank you.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So, Commissioner Fiala, you're in
agreement with Commissioner Hiller's addition to the request?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And Commissioner Coyle's.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, actually, it was two different
things. So we need to get a consensus of-- Commissioner Coyle
wants them, Dan A. Hughes, to stop drilling in Collier County, which
I think is impossible as private property rights.
It's a contract between two private entities. I think what
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Commissioner -- well, I understand what Commissioner Hiller is
saying is request the Collier Resources to talk to the person doing the
well drilling and request them or demand, whatever, not to do any
alternative drilling techniques such as fracking and/or putting
chemicals down the well under high pressure --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yes.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- to disperse more oil.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, of course I agree with that.
Then Commissioner Coyle also said that he wants to know the list of
chemicals that have been used that have so far been hidden from our
viewing.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: And that request was delivered to
DEP via myself and the county manager.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's good. And we just need to
put it on the record right here.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah. I think there's a lot of
information that was given to us as of late last night.
Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. I fully endorse working with
Collier Resources to identify experts on water -- on groundwater and
suitable pollution-related testing.
I will say that I also actually endorse working with Collier
Resources to establish a group of experts on oil exploration and
extraction going forward. I think it's something that the county is
going to absolutely need so that the public can be assured that we have
the best and the brightest people working on this issue.
There's always some contention when people -- when firms and
engineering firms and consultants are brought up that have done, in
the past, work in that industry.
Well, from my view, I think those experts are exactly the people
that we're going to require to have available, the very best in the
world, to determine what's going on here.
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So I'm not so worried about who those people are as long as they
pass muster with some review. And I fully endorse going through our
regularly established process to give the public some comfort that
we're selecting some people at arm's length together with the property
owner.
Regarding what Collier Resources would like to do and their
contractual arrangements, I would -- I commend them for stepping up
and taking the lead on this issue. Certainly no one has more at stake
financially, certainly, than they do. And, you know, the name of their
-- this county is linked to their family, so I'm certain that they do have
concerns, and they have expressed them to me personally.
So I would certainly endorse whatever action they feel is
appropriate and they would like to take. They are the ones that have
contractually engaged with this consultant, and it's apparent to me that
DEP is not going to be forthcoming with information. So I commend
Collier Resources.
So I can endorse any discussion that you would like to have with
them, and I look forward to seeing what -- you know, what they're
willing to do at this point to take the lead on the item, sir.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance, are you
endorsing Commissioner Hiller's suggestion that we request Collier
Resources to go to Dan A. Hughes to stop the alternative methods of
drilling?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I think we should ask them to look
into that. I don't know, you know, what their business contractual
relationship is. Whatever they can do to help us and to stabilize this
situation till we can get our relationship with DEP, absolutely, I will
endorse that, but I don't want to ask them to do something that they
contractually can't do.
So, you know, I'm sure, they -- they're clearly indicating here that
they're taking the lead. So, in principle, yes, whatever they can do, I
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would certainly appreciate.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So we have a majority to support the
county manager's bringing forward of working with Collier Resources
to identify the appropriate professionals to do groundwater testing or
aquifer testing, and also you have a majority to request of Collier
Resources, the Collier families, to ask the driller to refrain/stop any
alternative methods/means of extracting more oil out there -- it doesn't
include horizontal. It includes, but not limited to, putting chemicals
down the well to disperse the layers under there to exact (sic) more oil
until it is proven that it is safe for the citizens of Collier County and its
resources.
COMMISSIONER HILLER By DEP. It's their responsibility.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah, absolutely it's their
responsibility.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And what about the list of
chemicals?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: The list of chemicals is being
addressed by DEP, and that request was sent. I sent also another letter
asking them to respond to our request. There was several requests; not
only the chemicals, but there was a whole myriad of things including
tell us what those footnotes meet on the -- mean on the sealing of
those two older wells, Well 98 and 103, or something like that.
But there's a whole bunch of things, and the county manager and
his staff of experts in the area requested this information. So we're
waiting for that. We'll pass it on to the commissioners.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Mr. Chairman, I would also make
one -- make one other request of the board, and that is to consider that
going forward that -- it seems that this issue is going to continue to be
of interest to the public and of interest to the county and of primary
importance.
I would ask the board to consider having a recurring agenda item
as an update and report in our agenda so that people are aware of
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when these issues are going to be discussed. You know, we've
discussed them under public comment; we've discussed them under
commissioners' comments; we've discussed them all over the board
here.
And I feel like we're not able to give the public full information
about what has occurred over time because of this, and it's unknown
by them from meeting to meeting when these things are going to be
discussed. And, frankly, I would like to be able to make sure that they
receive all the information and some of these disjunct communications
that we have so they can understand exactly what the board is doing in
their behalf and how, frankly, we're being treated by the agencies of
record.
So I would feel very comfortable about having something that we
can regularly count on, and that way people can attend the meetings in
an organized way and give and receive feedback.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: In an organized way?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Well, as organized as we're
capable of doing, sir, at this moment, which is not too, huh?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Hiller, then
Commissioner Coyle.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yeah. I don't disagree that we
have to have a formal process for bringing the information forward,
but it shouldn't be a standing recurring item, because if there is no
information, people shouldn't have to come to the meetings to hear
nothing has changed. But what I would request is that the county
manager, in conjunction with the chair, every time that there is
something material to report, place it on the agenda as an agenda item
to inform; not necessarily for us to vote on, but to inform the board
and the public. And I think that would take care of your concerns,
which I think everybody shares.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Mr. Chairman, you use the term
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that the DEP is addressing the chemical issue. They can address that in
a couple of different ways. One way for them to address it is to send
us a letter saying that they have reviewed the list of chemicals and
they are not harmful.
The other way to address it is for them to give us the list of
chemicals that are being used. And, of course, that is the method I
prefer. And as you continue to work with them, I would ask that we
clearly define that issue.
We want the list of chemicals that are being used for the drilling
operation. And that is a very simple request. They supposedly
required that list from the driller, and I think we should have it, and
the public should be aware of what it is.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah. And let me provide the
commissioners with the letter that was sent over to DEP of the
requested information and talk about it during communication, if need
be, because we definitely want to get this one right for the future of
Collier County. It's very important.
It's a lack of knowledge, and there's a lack of communication.
DEP and, quite frankly, Collier Resources has stepped up to the plate
and said, well, we're going to communicate more to the public and the
Board of Commissioners.
In fact, one -- after this challenge is done, DEP's going to come
to a Board of Commissioners meeting and do a presentation to the
board, and we're going to try to see if we can get some comfort level
on the oversight of the agency and exactly what is being done by this
company.
So with that, County Attorney, do you have any changes to
today's agenda?
MR. KLATZKOW: No, sir.
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, excuse me. Thank you for that
guidance. I do want to mention a couple of time-certains that you
have.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
MR. OCHS: Item 14B1 will be heard at 10:40 a.m. this morning
right after the reporter break. Item 11B, as indicated on your index, is
a companion item to 9D, and that will be heard immediately following
9D. And then, finally, not on your change sheet, sir, but speaking of
your advertised public hearings this afternoon, it might be useful in the
interest of time -- and if any commissioners do have to leave earlier
today -- to hear some of your public hearing items in a certain order.
I would suggest we hear Item 9B at 1 :30. That's the Pine Ridge
West item, followed by your LDC amendments at 9A, then 8A, 9D,
and, finally, 9C if the board is comfortable with that order of hearing.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Could you repeat that order; 9B,
9A?
MR. OCHS: 9B, 9A, then we would go to 8A, 9D, and then
finally 9C. And that would all begin at 1 :30 with 9B.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, sir. That's all the changes I have this
morning.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coyle, do you have
any further changes or ex parte communication on today's consent or
summary?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I have no changes to the agenda,
and I have no ex parte disclosure for the consent or summary agenda.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Same with me; no changes, no
corrections, no ex parte on either consent or summary agendas.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Ditto.
Commissioner Hiller?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I have no changes, but I have quite
a bit of communications.
On 8A I've had calls. On 9B I've had meetings, correspondence,
emails, and calls. On 9D I've had meetings. On 11B I've had
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meetings, and then no disclosures on the balance.
And if I may, Commissioner Henning, could I share my
communications now. Because I will not be here for
communications? It will be very brief.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Sure. Yeah.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: First of all, we have a new
business in town that just opened up, and it's very cool. And, Donna, I
brought this for you. It's called the Air Bar. And I brought one for
Crystal. If you'd pass that down to Crystal.
And, Len, I have one for you. I have it right here. And I have
one for Mary Jo, Leo.
MR. O CH S: Oh, thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: And then I have a whole bunch more
for all the other aides in the commission's office. And, essentially, the
Air Bar is an incredible concept, and what they do -- and, men, you
are not going to be interested at all. I'm just going to say that right
upfront.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Particularly people that don't have
hair.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Exactly. I'm just -- oh, Skip. This
is definitely not for you. I just -- turn all cameras on Skip, okay. Not
for you. Unless you want extensions and maybe a keratin treatment.
So it is an incredible concept, and they're in North Naples by
Tide Cleaners. And what they do is they blow your hair out, and it's
very cool. So it's like you can look like, you know, you're made up
for the prom without having to have everything else done. So, great
concept.
And what I like about this company is -- do you remember the
wounded veteran, Mr. Hernandez, who we helped, you know, get that
house built for in North Naples? Well, they hired his wife. Isn't that a
great story? So she's working there.
So the next thing I want to say is we broke the Guinness world of
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-- world records by having the biggest swimming class ever, and that
was held at North Naples Collier Park.
And our parks and recs. department did an absolutely incredible
job. Steve, kudos to you and your whole team. It was, like, amazing.
Commissioner Fiala and I were there.
And there were how many kids?
MR. CARNELL: Fourteen hundred.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Fourteen hundred kids in the North
Collier pools all at the same time all taking a swimming lesson at the
same time on camera for the entire world to see. So anyone who says
that Collier County doesn't have kids or isn't kid friendly is, like,
extremely wrong. It was an incredible event.
And, lastly, on Sunday I had the honor of making the opening
remarks to a very large group of athletes -- and, actually, Skip was
there with me -- hosting the first ever Thunderdome CrossFit
competition, and it was amazing to see these people. I mean, these are
the new decathletes. I mean, these people were so fit and so strong
and so impressive.
And it was sponsored by a company started by two Barron
Collier graduates called Fit Nation. And they're taking off by storm.
They're working with our sports marketing department, and I hope
they will maybe be considered as one of the first companies to be
housed in our incubator.
And that's it for my comments.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you.
Commissioner Nance, do you have any ex parte on today's
consent or summary or any further changes?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: No furthers changes, Mr.
Chairman, and no ex parte on today's summary or consent agenda.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: I'll entertain a motion to approve
today's agenda as amended.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Motion to approve.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion by Commissioner Hiller,
second by Commissioner Fiala.
All those in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Carries unanimously.
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Proposed Agenda Changes
Board of County Commissioners Meeting
June 24,2014
Continue Item 11A to the July 8,2014 BCC Meeting: Recommendation to authorize advertising an
ordinance creating the Platt Road Improvement Municipal Service Taxing Unit to fund and levy not to
exceed three mils of Ad Valorem Taxes per year to reimburse the County$10,500 for emergency roadway
improvements made to Platt Road. (Commissioner Nance's request)
Move Item 16A20 to Item 11E: Recommendation to approve a proposed amendment to the Tourist
Development Tax Ordinance No. 92-60,as amended,that would authorize the reallocation of funds between
Tourist Development Tax categories with a supermajority vote of the Board and direct the County Attorney
to advertise ordinance changes to be approved by the Board at a future meeting; to allow TDC grant funds
previously awarded to the City of Naples to "carry forward" for expenditure in FY2015 for a major
renovation of the City of Naples Pier; and to make a finding that this item promotes tourism. (Commissioner
Henning's request)
Note:
Item 16C4: Folio Number on the Purchase and Sales Agreement should read: Project: Basin 101
Wastewater System Rehabilitation Vanderbilt Beach/Naples. Folios: 62427800009& 62427840001
Time Certain Items:
Item 14B1 to be heard at 10:40 a.m.
Item 11B to be heard immediately following Item 9D
6/24/2014 8 630 AM
June 24, 2014
Item #2B
MINUTES FROM THE MAY 27, 2014 BCC REGULAR MEETING
— APPROVED AS PRESENTED
CHAIRMAN HENNING: 2B is to approve the May 27, 2014, regular
meeting.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Motion to approve.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion by Commissioner Hiller to
approve, seconded by Commissioner Nance.
All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimously.
Item #3A
SERVICE AWARDS — 20 YEAR ATTENDEES — PRESENTED
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that takes us to service awards.
We have several this morning. If you'd be kind enough to join us in
front of the dais.
Commissioners, we have four employees this morning
celebrating 20 years of service with county government.
Our first awardee, 20 years of service with utilities finance, Pam
Callis. Pam?
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(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: Celebrating 20 years of service with information
technology, John Daly. John?
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: Celebrating 20 years of service with utility billing
and customer service, Liz Froloff. Lis?
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: And celebrating 20 years of service with the library
system, Denise McMahon. Denise?
(Applause.)
Item #3B
SERVICE AWARDS — 25 YEAR ATTENDEES — PRESENTED
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, we're pleased to recognize three of
our colleagues this morning celebrating 25 years of service with the
agency, beginning with Emmanuel Augustin, 25 years with road
maintenance. Emmanuel?
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: Celebrating 25 years of service with the water
laboratory, Russell Greer. Russell?
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: And celebrating 25 years with engineering and
project review, John Houldsworth. John?
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: You've been getting your money's
worth lately. You've been very busy.
John does all the plats, reviews all the plats in Collier County;
has been for years.
MR. HOULDSWORTH: A lot of items lately.
(Applause.)
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MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that concludes our service awards
this morning. Thank you.
Mr. Chairman, that takes us to Item 4 on your agenda this
morning; proclamations.
Item #4
PROCLAMATIONS — ONE MOTION TAKEN TO ADOPT ALL
PROCLAMATIONS — ADOPTED
Item #4A
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING COLLIER COUNTY AS A
PURPLE HEART COUNTY AND DESIGNATING AUGUST 7TH
OF EACH YEAR AS PURPLE HEART DAY. ACCEPTED BY
JACK WAGNER COMMANDER OF THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF
THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART — ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Item 4A is a proclamation designating Collier
County as a Purple Heart County and designating August 7th of each
year as Purple Heart Day. To be accepted by Jack Wagner,
commander of the local chapter of the Military Order of the Purple
Heart. This item is sponsored by the entire Board of Commissioners.
Mr. Wagner, if you'd please step forward and receive your
proclamation.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you for all your service.
COMMANDER WAGNER: And could I -- while I'm up here,
could I bring up Mr. Don Tallan, a Purple Heart recipient from World
War II, also a prisoner of war.
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
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COMMANDER WAGNER: And, Geno, also a Purple Heart
recipient.
(Applause.)
COMMANDER WAGNER: As you can see, we represent in
Southwest Florida not only the World War II veterans, not only the
Korean War veterans and Vietnam veterans, but also our war on
terrorism veterans.
So I'm very proud to be a part with these guys. This is fantastic.
And we do a lot for our Purple Heart recipients and our combat
wounded veterans.
All of us being combat wounded veterans, we know what it's
like. So -- and we thank you so much for this proclamation. It's very
special.
Thank you.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, sir.
COMMANDER WAGNER: Thank you. Thank you all so
much.
MR. OCHS: It's a great honor to have you here, gentlemen.
Thank you.
Item #4B
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING JULY 1, 2014 AS FLORIDA
SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE DAY IN COLLIER
COUNTY ACCEPTED BY DR. ROBERT JONES, COLLIER
CAMPUS PRESIDENT — ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, Item 4B is a proclamation
designating July 1, 2014, as Florida SouthWestern State College Day
in Collier County. To be accepted by Dr. Robert Jones, Collier
campus president. And this item is sponsored by Commissioner
Henning.
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Dr. Jones, good morning.
(Applause.)
DR. JONES: I'm joined by Byron Donalds.
MR. OCHS: Hold on, gentlemen. We've got another photo.
Congratulations, do you want to say a few words?
DR. JONES: Sure.
Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, I just want to say thank you on
behalf of the former Edison State College and the new Florida
SouthWestern State College.
This is still your college, and we hope to have even more impact
on Collier County and on the region with our new name. And, again,
thank you for this resolution. Thank you.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Could I ask him a question?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Sure.
Commissioner Fiala has a question for you.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Just a simple question.
DR. JONES: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I've written to a couple guys over
there, but I haven't received an answer yet.
Our library is located right down the street from the Collier
campus. We were wondering, when you put up your new sign with
your new name, if you could include that down that same street is the
South Regional Library.
DR. JONES: We would love to look into that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Good. Might as well get it in when
you can, right?
DR. JONES: Our beautiful library is truly underrepresented, and
we've talked about that. I'm going to give you my card just so we
make sure we follow up.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, good. Thank you very much.
DR. JONES: You're the first person to get my new card.
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COMMISSIONER HILLER: If I could --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Oh, Commissioner Hiller has a
question or comment.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: First of all, I'd like to congratulate
Byron Donalds for being appointed to your board.
Hi, Byron. Congratulations.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Absolutely.
And, secondly, I'd like to, again, commend you on the name
change. I had the honor of being up at -- in Tallahassee and in the
legislature when the vote was taken. And as far as I remember, I
believe it was unanimous.
So I can't remember absolutely, but I think just about everybody
thought it was a great idea, and I think you're going to have
tremendous success going forward with that name.
To that end, I think it's very important that everybody
understands what a significant contribution you make to our
community in terms of preparing our youth for our local workforce.
And one of the things that we care about here in Collier County
is that people who are educated at the higher educational institutions
in the region find employment in the region.
One of the things I've asked the county manager is if he would
help me organize a meeting between the leadership of the various
higher educational institutions here so that we can make sure
everybody in our community understands what you are doing towards
building our local workforce and how wonderful the students are who
are graduating from your institution and how our local employers
should be hiring your students, because there are tremendous job
opportunities here in Collier County for them.
They don't need to go to New York. They don't need to go to
Los Angeles. They can stay right here and make a lot of money at
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really great companies and have an incredible quality of life and bring
up their families here.
So to that end, I would hope you would participate and help us
get the message out, because the Naples Daily News doesn't seem to
understand how great you and the other higher educational institutions
are and what you are doing for our local business community.
So I'm going to help them make -- you know, get that
understanding in their --
DR. JONES: Wonderful.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: -- editorial brains.
DR. JONES: Wonderful. Thank you, Commissioners. And I
would be delighted to be part of that meeting and take a leadership
role with our colleagues at FGCU, Hodges, and others; all join in
wanting to support all the efforts you just outlined.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's great. And, you know, with
new members on your board like Byron, I can only imagine that
you're going to do even more great things beyond what you've already
done for the community. So I thank you for everything.
DR. JONES: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you.
Next proclamation.
Item #4C
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING JULY 2014 AS BLADDER
CANCER AWARENESS MONTH ACCEPTED BY CARLA L.
DEAN, PRESIDENT OF BLADDER CANCER FOUNDATION OF
FLORIDA, INC. - ADOPTED (BARBARA BERRY ACCEPTED
ON BEHALF OF CARLA DEAN)
MR. OCHS: Item 4C is a proclamation designating July 2014 as
Bladder Cancer Awareness Month. To be accepted by Carla Dean,
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president of Bladder Cancer Foundation of Florida, Incorporated. And
this item is sponsored by Commissioner Henning.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Carla couldn't make it. Barbara Berry
will accept the proclamation in her place.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, sir.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Would you all rise?
Well, let's get a picture first. It's been too long.
(Applause.)
MS. BERRY: Chairman Henning and Commissioners, it's a
pleasure for me to be here today, not necessarily to stand in for Carla,
but to accept this proclamation on behalf of the Bladder Cancer
Foundation of Florida.
You are in good company, because the proclamation was passed
by the Florida Legislature for a third year in row declaring that July
2014 or all years in July will be Bladder Cancer Month.
Bladder Cancer is an insidious disease, and it is not exclusive to
certain groups; however, they have found that people who handle
chemicals and are smokers seem to be those who tend to get cancer of
the bladder.
And they have recently found that Vietnam veterans who were
exposed to Agent Orange, they're seeing more bladder cancer in those
veterans.
So it's one of those things, there has not been a lot of awareness.
It is the fourth most talked about cancer now in people.
And the funding is certainly not what it should be, but they are
doing more and more in this -- for this type of cancer.
And it's through organizations such as the Bladder Cancer
Foundation that is bringing awareness to the public more and more
about this.
Some of you, I know, know Jim Dean. Jim Dean was diagnosed
with bladder cancer in 2010. Jim was a Vietnam vet who had the
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misfortune of being immersed in Agent Orange in Vietnam, and he
was diagnosed.
By all measures, Jim shouldn't probably be here today but
through -- thank you, God, and modern medicine and doctors, Jim, as
of this last week, was cancer free.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's wonderful.
MS. BERRY: So this is certainly something that you're going to
probably, unfortunately, hear more and more about. So hopefully
we'll hear more and more good stories coming out about -- of this by
raising awareness, and certainly early detection is important as well.
So on behalf of Jim and Carla and the Bladder Cancer
Foundation of Florida, I want to thank all of you, particularly
Commissioner Coyle, for bringing this proclamation forward.
Thank you so much.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Hiller -- next?
Item #4D
PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING MARCO ISLAND
RESTAURANTS BISTRO SOLEIL AND PETIT SOLEIL FOR
EARNING THE WASTE REDUCTION AWARDS PROGRAM
AWARD ACCEPTED BY BISTRO SOLEIL AND PETIT SOLEIL
OWNER LISA MEURGUE — ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Item 4D is a proclamation recognizing Marco
Island restaurants Bistro Soleil and Petit Soleil for earning the Waste
Reduction Awards Program award. To be accepted by Bistro Soleil
and Petit Soleil owner, Lisa Meurgue. And this item is sponsored by
Commissioner Fiala. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Congratulations.
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MS. SOLEIL: Thank you very much.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Entertain a motion to accept
today's proclamations.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: So moved.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion by Commissioner Nance,
second by Commissioner Hiller.
All in favor?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimously.
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that takes us to Item 5,
presentations.
Item #5A
RECOGNIZING JOHN HOULDSWORTH, SENIOR SITE PLANS
REVIEWER, ENGINEERING SERVICES DEPARTMENT AS
THE EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR MAY 2014 —
PRESENTED
MR. OCHS: Item 5A is a recommendation to recognize John
Houldsworth, senior site plan reviewer from our engineering service
department, as the Employee of the Month for May 2014.
John, if you'd please step forward.
(Applause.)
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah, a little appreciation for your
service, obviously. A little check for your wife. I don't have any
candy or gift certificates or anything like that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's great.
MR. OCHS: John, stand right there while I tell the board a little
bit more about you.
Commissioners, as you know from earlier this morning, John's
been a member of our organization for 25 years, and his primary
responsibilities as a senior site plan reviewer is to review all
applications which subdivide land in Collier County. And John
always exhibits exemplary customer service and has led by example
all these 25 years.
In fact, when the growth management division established
several new policies and procedures designed to reduce plan review
times, John took an early lead role in that process and, through his
efforts, generated an overall reduction in plan review times for his
entire team.
He's been instrumental in various updates to our Land
Development Code and in creating the administrative code for land
development, which took well over a year to develop, and we used
many of his suggestions, which the board ultimately adopted.
His dedication to the county is obvious in his daily work, his
years of experience, and his tremendous can-do attitude, and his
continuous efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness in his
department make him truly deserving of this award. And it's been a
pleasure to work with John all these years.
And, Commissioners, it's my honor to present to you John
Houldsworth as your Employee of the Month for May 2014.
Congratulations, John.
(Applause.)
Item #5B
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REGIONAL OVERVIEW PRESENTATION BY MARGARET
WUERSTLE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL — PRESENTED
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, Item 5B is a regional overview
presentation by Margaret Wuerstle, the executive director of the
Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council. And this item was
brought to the agenda by Commissioner Hiller in conjunction with
Ms. Wuerstle, and we're glad to have her here this morning.
Margaret?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Good morning, Margaret. Before you
start, Commissioner Hiller would like to say a few words.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: To begin, Margaret, I want to
thank you so much for taking the time to come here and present to the
board.
I had the honor of hearing Margaret's presentation when the
French delegation was here, and she was explaining to the various
French companies what the Regional Planning Council does for the
region and how it assists with economic development.
And it became very clear to me when I saw this presentation
that's going to be put before you today that I think a lot of people in
our community do not understand what the Regional Planning Council
does. And so I thought it would be nice if Margaret presented and
explained what her organization is doing.
MS. WUERSTLE: Thank you.
Good morning, Commissioners, and thank you for this
opportunity to provide you with this update.
I think for those of us who work in the field of planning, we have
a general idea what the Regional Planning Councils do but, for the
most part, people are uncertain. And I don't even think my own board
of commissioners or council people understand the breadth of the
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projects that we are working on and how we have been evolving. So I
welcome this opportunity to update you.
I need to advance.
This is our formal mission. But when people ask me, what is it
that the RPC does, I say we support and we improve the quality of life
for everybody in the Southwest Florida region. It's a short tagline that
helped them understand some of the programs that we're working on.
I think I'm doing this.
Okay. So we still have our regulatory responsibilities that we
must do that include the regional planning and the growth
management, and that's probably what we're known for mostly, but we
also have regulatory responsibilities to do emergency management
planning, and we do that.
On the screen there's a list of our, what I'll call, divisions, for lack
of another term. But it's regional planning, emergency management,
natural resources. We do a lot of programs with the environment.
As a matter of fact, we're just completing a project now for
Collier County on the economic value of your conservation programs.
Jim Beaver is completing the study and will be submitting it shortly.
Of course, we do our information services with GIS and
economic development, which I'm going to get into a little more in the
presentation, but transportation planning also.
Even though we don't have the MPO with the RPC anymore, we
still do Transportation Disadvantaged in Hendry and Glades County.
We are in the process -- this week it will be completed -- a regional
study on veterans' transportation issues in the six-county region.
We've also just submitted a TIGER Grant to implement some of
the recommendations from that veterans' study. So we're doing a lot
more to address the quality of life and economic development in the
region.
This is just a brief overview of some of the programs that we're
working on. A lot of them have been around for years. But if you
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look at the block that's titled "Projects, grants, technical assistance,"
that's the area that is changing on a yearly basis.
These are some of the programs we have been working on in the
last year. But what isn't on there are the programs for broadband that
we just completed or a strategy for the Hendry County Educational
Task Force or the business alliance plan -- business plan that we
completed for the newly created Regional Economic Development
Agency.
When I submitted my last year's budget and work plan, I had
explained to the -- my council that we were going to focus on
economic development and quality of life. Specifically, there were
four areas that I wanted to focus on, and one was our creative
economy, and that is promoting the arts and culture as an economic
driver in this region.
It contributes millions of dollars to government revenues and
other revenues. And I feel that we need to do more to promote it.
So we just completed the pilot project for Lee County through a
grant through the Southwest Florida Community Foundation where
we mapped all of the public assets in the county and developed a field
guide and then an ap. So you can go to the website and you can look
at all the public art in Lee County.
We have a much bigger project pending now for the six-county
region to map all of the public art assets throughout there and then
even expand the ap more so you'll be able to sort by a driving tour or a
walking tour of whatever medium you want, whether it's sculptures or
murals or whatever.
We've submitted a number -- the second category was
agricultural sustainability, and we have submitted a number of grants
and projects in this category.
Farm to schools -- we partnered with the school district in Collier
County, Hendry County, Lee County, and Charlotte County to submit
this application, and we're still waiting to hear.
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We've done a lot of work on food deserts and finding for a
mobile vegetable market so we can get healthy food to some of the
food deserts in the six-county region.
The third category was manufacturing competitiveness. And we
did submit a designation to the federal government. It wasn't a grant
application. It was strictly for a designation for an I-75 medical
manufacturing corridor from Tampa to Miami.
We weren't successful in receiving that designation, but we now
have the strategy written so that we can improve it and apply for the
designation in the next round, which we will be doing and then, of
course, brownfields we have been working on, identifying them and
finding funding to clean them up and get them back into productive
use.
What I do want to point out -- and this is something that not a lot
of people are aware of-- is that the Regional Planning Council is a
federal economic development district. All of the RPCs -- and there
are 11 in the state -- are this federal economic development district.
And as such, we have to write a comprehensive economic
development strategy, or a CEDS, for the region. Every year it's
updated, and every five years we do a major overhaul.
And in 2012 we did the major overhaul, and we focused on
making it consistent with the six pillars in the state economic
development plan. So as we're implementing our projects, we're also
helping the state achieve their goals.
And why is this important? Well, I know this is difficult to see,
but these are just some of the projects that have either been completed
or are ongoing. And in the last 10 years we have had $110 million in
public and private investments because of the CEDS vital projects.
And we are changing the way we compete. I know we all think
of agriculture construction as that three-legged stool, but we're looking
at how can we expand this and diversify the economy.
One of the tools that we have created in conjunction with the
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other 10 RPCs -- the umbrella organization for all 11 RPCs is called
FRCA, or the Florida Regional Council Association.
So FRCA, together with the Florida Chamber Foundation,
created this scorecard. And if you go to FloridaRPCscorecard.com,
this will come up. These are not interactive. I have screen shots so I
can show you examples.
But if you don't include the RPC, you're going to come up to a
different scorecard, so you want Florida RPC scorecard.
And if you go here, you can either select information based on
the region on the Regional Planning Council or on the six pillars. So,
for instance, this is one of the pillars. It's business climate and
competitiveness, and this shows you the stats for the six-county
region, Southwest Florida. You can get that for any region in the state
from this website.
You can see what it includes; employment by industry and
average on employment rate, a number of information that is
interested to site selectors.
Under civics and government systems, these are some of the --
this is some of the information you'll find on millage rates and voter
participation and nonprofits in the region.
We work with FRCA monthly to update information to make
sure it's relevant. This, of course -- this screen shot is for Florida, not
for the six-county. We don't have 19 million -- a population of 19
million. Ours is about 1 .6 million. But you can look at -- use this
website in different ways to look at information that you're interested
in getting.
I would like to show you -- so I just want to give you a sample of
that so that you're -- you can go to it later on and take a look at it. So
these are all the different pillars and the information for our region
there.
What I'd like to show you is -- hopefully this will work. It is --
probably says much more articulately than I have -- what we have
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done in the past year and some of our accomplishments.
So do I rely -- click on it.
MR. MILLER: You just -- we'll see.
(DVD was played as follows:)
"The mission of the Southwest Florida
Regional Planning Council is to work together
across neighboring communities to
consistently protect" --
(Two voices being heard simultaneously.)
"Internally, improvements to our
operations and financial management have
improved transparency and efficiency,
providing a true picture of actual costs.
"We are very proud to say that all
projects for the fiscal year were completed
on time and within budget.
"Now let's take a look at some of the
accomplishments in the individual planning
areas.
"We'll begin with regional planning.
Over 40 reviews on Comprehensive Plan
amendments and developments of regional
impacts have been presented to the council
for approval this year. The planning council
partners with local agencies and governments
on projects and grant submissions.
"This past year, 70 grants were
submitted and 15 were awarded, totaling
$378,633. This added an additional $217,000
of revenue to the 2012/2013 budget.
Consequently, the 2013 fiscal year ended with
a balance of over $100,000.
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"The Regional Planning Council was the
lead agency for the Southwest Florida
Brownfields Coalition in the submission of a
Brownfields grant. In March the RPC
partnered with the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection to conduct the first
annual Southwest Florida Brownfield Symposium
with over 100 individuals attending the
event.
"We also provided technical assistance
on important community projects such as the
City of Bonita Springs' Homeless Shelter
Ordinance, and two farm-to-school grants were
submitted for the Hendry, Glades, Lee, and
Collier County school districts.
"A major emphasis for transportation
planning has been providing services to the
Transportation Disadvantaged. This past year
over 21,000 one-way trips were provided in
both Glades and Hendry Counties. Municipal
partnerships expanded this year to include
Lee Tran on a veterans assistance grant. The
RPC's role was to determine transportation
barriers for veterans and their families
through nontraditional outreach.
"The Southwest Florida Regional Planning
Council is a source of low-cost, high-quality
emergency management and preparedness
planning and training expertise. This past
year, the emergency management team created a
series of storm-tie directional atlases based
on storm strength and direction. This
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valuable new tool creates a more accurate
forecast of potential storm surge helping to
reduce the number of areas that may need to
be evacuated.
"The RPC has a very active local
emergency planning committee for hazardous
materials. Four training and exercise
planning workshops were held this year, along
with three chemical suicide workshops, two
emergency planning and community
right-to-know workshops, and a Florida
interoperable communication workshop.
Fifty-five site visits for hazardous wastes
were conducted.
"The RPC's Natural Resources Program
area had a very successful year as well,
particularly with the Charlotte Harbor
National Estuary Program and the Estero Bay
Agency on bay management. The CHNEP, along
with the two other Florida Gulf Coast
National Estuary Programs adopted the
Southwest Florida Regional Ecosystem
Restoration Plan with a vision-and-priorities
budget.
"In addition, an Oyster Habitat
Restoration Plan was completed, and the CHNEP
updated its Comprehensive Conservation and
Management Plan. The CHNEP also convened
stakeholders this year to provide the U.S.
Corps of Engineers recommendations on the
Area-wide Environmental Impact Statement for
the Central Florida Phosphate District.
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"The Charlotte Harbor NEP water atlas is
a convenient online tool developed this year
that provides up-to-date water resource
information to help people make informed
decisions.
"The Ecosystem Services and Climate
Change Planning project developed a new
method to assess the total ecosystem services
provided by natural and manmade systems,
which will assist in protecting and improving
Southwest Florida's quality of life and
sustainable economy.
"And last, but certainly not least,
let's look at this year's accomplishments of
our Economic Development Program area. The
Federal Comprehensive Economic Development
Strategy has been updated and aligned with
the State of Florida's Economic Development
Plan.
"The 11 Regional Planning Councils
received an award from the Florida League of
Cities for this effort. We worked
extensively to build a team in the six-county
region for the purpose of promoting arts and
cultural venues regionally as a legitimate
industry to unite our region in building
competitive local economies.
"And the Southwest Florida Regional
Planning Council's comprehensive broadband
plan ensures the long-term economic success
of the region in the new digital economy.
The hard work paid off when the SWFRPC and
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the CFRPC received an award from the Florida
Planning and Zoning Association for
outstanding infrastructure plan for the
comprehensive broadband planning project.
"The Southwest Florida Regional Planning
Council, in conjunction with the Florida
Regional Planning Association, recently
conducted an Energy Resiliency Study. The
Florida Energy Assurance Study Report did not
go unrecognized, as the study received an
award from the National Association of
Development Organizations as a 2013
innovation award winner.
"A grant was awarded by the Department
of Economic Opportunity to visions of
community development to provide technical
assistance by identifying regulatory barriers
that impede the economic development in rural
areas of critical economic concern.
"Through partnerships, collaboration,
and regional visioning, the Southwest Florida
Regional Planning Council has promoted
regional strategies and solutions to
strengthen Florida's economic
competitiveness, address problems of
greater-than-local concern, and meet the
needs of the local governments that we serve.
"We are proud of our team's dedication
and accomplishments this past year and look
forward to working together across
neighboring communities to consistently
protect and improve the unique and relatively
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unspoiled character of the physical,
economic, and social worlds we share for the
benefit of our future generation."
(The DVD concluded.)
MS. WLERSTLE: In closing, I just want to say we've surpassed
last year in this nine months of this year. We've already brought in a
million dollars to our local jurisdictions for various projects that they
requested assistance with, and we have another 4.8 million pending
right now for them. So we've been working real hard to address the
needs of our local communities.
And, with that, I'd like to thank you again for this opportunity
and answer any questions you might have.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Hiller?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yes. Thank you very much,
Margaret. That was very informative.
As I said in the beginning, one of the things that was most
interesting to me with respect to your presentation is the Regional
Planning Council's involvement with economic development, and
specifically, to that end, the ability of the council to work with the
federal government to procure grants for economic development.
The county manager and I have been working with our economic
development director, Bruce Register, and we have been looking to
get federal grants to assist with job creation, not only in Collier
County but in the region, and we have projects that are currently
ongoing that are intended to have a regional impact, specifically the
accelerator projects, which will be both in eastern and western Collier,
with the intent of benefiting the region.
So to that end, I would like to ask, Leo, if you could please work
with Margaret while you and Bruce are working on getting these
grants to see what we can do to bring the federal funds in that the
federal government would like to see committed. They've already
allocated the funding. We should be applying for those grants and
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bring those funds back to the community for job creation.
I had -- I haven't spoken to all the transition teams of the
candidates who are going to be -- one of whom will be voted in today
in the District 19 congressional race, but we will have a new
congressman. And to the extend that I have already established a
relationship at least with, you know, one of the team's -- one of the
transition teams, should they win or should any of the other teams be
in place, if they don't win, I would like to share that information with
you.
And I already told them that we want to see job creation and we
want help from the federal government to advance that end here in
Collier County.
So I will share the contact information I have with you if-- and it
was actually Curt Clawson's transition team that I spoke to. If Curt
Clawson should win, I would say, you know, jump on it right away.
Let's get going. Let's, you know, get him working for our district as
soon as possible to help. Not only with this but with everything else
as well, but this was, from my perspective for the position that I'm
currently holding, extremely important.
So I really appreciate you coming and highlighting what you do,
because I don't think people had any idea how extensive your
involvement in our region is.
MS. WUERSTLE: Just a heads up on the EDA grants, federal
grants for infrastructure, and a number of other projects, they will --
once you submit your application, they will kick it back to us for a
review --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Okay.
MS. WLERSTLE: -- and comment. So if we're involved in the
beginning, it will expedite your review and your project. And we can
give you tips on what they want to see and what they're looking for in
the application.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Outstanding. We have a great
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grants department that's very good at drafting. So if we could partner
you with them, along with Bruce and Leo, I think we can do great
things. And, like I said, bring in the transition team of whoever the
next congressman is going to be to carry the torch for us. I think we
can do great things together.
MS. WUERSTLE: We'd be more than happy to assist.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So appreciate it. Thank you so
much for coming.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. Ms. Wuerstle, I'd like to
thank you for coming down. And the public should know what a great
resource the Regional Planning Council is; I've enjoyed serving on it
very much. And having representation from all the boards of county
commission and municipalities across these six counties is a very,
very dynamic thing and can contribute substantially to our effort on
regionalism.
And I think it's something that we should really try to expand on.
Unfortunately, we can't seem to get funding out of the budget in the
State of Florida, which I think we need to work for as a county and try
to get that support and funding back in the state budget for the
Regional Planning Council.
I would encourage anyone to attend the monthly meetings and
see what the projects are like and understand the staff that we have
and the tremendous resource that it is.
So thank you very much.
MS. WUERSTLE: Thank you, Commissioner Nance.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you, Margaret.
Leo, I think we can get maybe a couple items done before our
break.
MR. OCHS: Yes.
Next on your agenda, Mr. Chairman, is Item 10, Board of County
Commissioners.
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Item #1 OA
APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER(S) TO HISPANIC AFFAIRS
ADVISORY BOARD - MOTION DIRECTING STAFF TO BRING
BACK AN ORDINANCE THAT WOULD SUNSET THE
HISPANIC AFFAIRS ADVISORY BOARD — APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Item 10A is a recommendation to appoint members
to the Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Public comments. Are you going to
skip that?
MR. OCHS: That's at 1 p.m., ma'am.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, I'm so sorry. Thank you. Yeah,
it sure is. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. We have a public speaker?
MR. MILLER: Yes, sir, we do, sir; Robert Suarez.
MR. SUAREZ: Good morning, everyone. Good morning,
Chairman. My name is Robert Suarez. I'm here because yesterday I
was reading the news, and I heard that they were considering to either
dismantle, close, or reformat the board. I'm here as a citizen, and I
want to say that I'm present. I would like this board to continue, be
reopened, restructured, and I want to be a participant of that.
I'm new in this. I've never been in these kind of meetings before,
but as a resident of Collier, been here three years, I think I have a lot
to offer to the board and to help this prosper and have a voice for the
Hispanic community.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you.
Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I think there's a public speaker
who didn't understand the sign-up process.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Did you sign up? Did you sign up to
speak, sir?
MR. BERNAL: I didn't.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. So you don't want to speak?
MR. BERNAL: I do.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I'm going to ask him to speak in a
moment, actually.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Okay.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I'm very concerned about the
Board of County Commissioners receiving good guidance regarding
the Hispanic community and their concerns and overarching things
that impact that.
That having been said, having attended a number of meetings of
the Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board, I believe that it became
ineffective because it got focused on individual concerns of citizens
that had many other methods to address those, but also, being
comprised solely of citizens, I think that this advisory board is not able
to accomplish the large job before us.
The Hispanic community makes up over 25 percent of the
population of Collier County and well over 40 percent of our children
and students.
And to that end, I believe that the advice that the board receives
needs to come in a much more comprehensive and broad-based way
than we can achieve from this advisory board.
My concept would be to completely rethink how we gain
information through regarding the Hispanic community and issues of
importance by engaging a multi -- a task force -- a public/private task
force comprised of public and private agencies in order to feed
information and concerns to the board.
Now, the reason I say that is I believe that it's going to take a
much larger group and much -- and many more points of information
in order to get that to us.
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There's been some discussion about great organizations we have
in the community, like the Council of Hispanic Business
Professionals, which I see Mr. Luis Bernal, who's one of the founders
of that organization today, and I'll ask him for his comments in a
moment.
But I believe that public agencies like the Sheriffs Office, code
enforcement, the Collier County School District, who is responsible
for educating many of our Hispanic students that are not only
economically challenged and have -- are learning English as a second
oral language, that these agencies like this that are public can very
well work together with private groups like the Council of Hispanic
Business Professionals, some of our chambers in largely Hispanic
communities like Immokalee, to put together some advice and to be
able to identify problems from the board to act on.
And I would -- I would recommend for the board's consideration
to consider forming a task force rather than renewing this advisory
board so that we can get something much more comprehensive and
usable for the board to work on.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Was that a motion, sir?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I will make a very short motion,
ma'am, but that's just for the consideration. I'd love to hear the
comments from the board and actually from Mr. Bernal at some
appropriate point.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, what's the short motion?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: The motion is to form a task force
and to replace the advisory board with a task force of public and
private organizations.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'll second the motion.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. We have a motion and a
second. Now we're going to have discussion.
Commissioner Hiller?
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COMMISSIONER HILLER Yeah. I think the idea of forming
a partnership with the agencies that I think, from what I've received by
way of email, have answers to concerns among constituents, like, for
example, the schools and law enforcement, is really a good idea,
Commissioner Nance, and to bring in the organizations, the Hispanic
-- the representative Hispanic organizations in the community to be a
part of that.
It's all about working together. It's not one entity addressing one
single set of issues. It's about the totality. And we have to work as a
team. And it doesn't matter whether it's for the Hispanic community or
the Haitian community or the, you know, Eastern European
community or -- it doesn't really matter which community it is. It's the
same approach for everybody. We have to have a cohesive, collective
approach to addressing community concerns.
So I think your idea is a very good one, and it should be a
community-wide partnership between the private agencies, the public
agencies, the businesses, the community at large. That's what you
want. And address the issues. See what we can do to make it as good
as this community can be. So I think it's a great idea.
I want to compliment the Hispanic Council for all it has done for
the community. We have -- I've been very involved in the Hispanic
community for a very long time. My first intern in my office was a
young Hispanic man, and he worked for me all summer. He was in
college, and he was trying to find his way. And I mentored him, and
I'm very proud to say he graduated with outstanding results, and he
just got hired by UBS, so -- and then I knew him when he was, you
know, an early tween.
So, yeah, there are tremendous success stories out there, and I'm
very excited to see you bringing this recommendation forward. I think
it's extremely positive, and I'm happy that -- you know, to see
everyone come to the table.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coyle?
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COMMISSIONER COYLE: You know, these are all good ideas,
but trying to fit them together is almost impossible. We have to keep
in mind the requirements of the Sunshine Law. And if we create an
organization consisting of all these community organizations, what we
essentially do is create difficulties for them in carrying out their own
duties in talking to each other.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: You're right; you're right.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: So I am disappointed and saddened
that the Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board has not flourished, but --
because there are a number of problems that the Hispanic community
had or has, and they involve agencies, in most cases, that are outside
the purview of the Board of County Commissioners.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: So they get frustrated because they
bring something to us that is an important issue concerning the
Sheriffs Department or concerning the schools, and we're powerless
to do anything about it.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Exactly.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: So nothing gets done, they get
frustrated, and we keep doing this year after year.
So I think that if-- if the board wants to do something that is
meaningful and that will not put us and them afoul of the Sunshine
Laws -- and that is to encourage some existing organization, perhaps
the Hispanic Chamber, to work as the organization which focuses the
concerns of the Hispanic community and gets them to the right
governmental agency for resolution, and that could easily be a task
that the Hispanic Chamber might be willing to take on.
There are other such organizations that might wish to take it on,
but if we appoint it, we're right back where we started.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I think you're so right.
Can I respond to Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I'm sorry?
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COMMISSIONER HILLER: Can I respond to you?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Only if it's going to be positive.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It is. I'm going to --
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Then you have 90 seconds.
COMMISSIONER HILLER Okay. Commissioner Coyle is
absolutely correct, and the Sunshine issue is a problem.
And what I would encourage is what he suggested, and that is if,
for example, the Hispanic Council were to create that task force, invite
members of the various governmental agencies, the various
businesses, the various nonprofits, to be part of your task force that we
participate in so you don't have Sunshine issues and that you can have
that open dialogue without, you know, all the limitations that come
about because of how we have to operate.
You know, we have not been able to host meetings of the
advisory board because we haven't been able to achieve quorums
through that membership. And then, of course, it doesn't move
forward if you can't have a quorum. So, you know, you have latitude
in the private sector that we don't have in the government sector.
And I know that all of us have been involved in Hispanic events.
Our staff has spoken to the various Hispanic organizations. I've been
involved in a number of Hispanic events. I've attended, you know,
different Hispanic community organized affairs, and so I know how
active you all are in the community.
If you bring that together, you know, any member of this board,
I'm sure -- we can only have one member of the board sitting as a
representative because of, again, Sunshine issues. We can have a
member of staff sit there. You can call on the Sheriffs Office to send
a representative, call on the school board to send a representative, and
then, at the same time, ask all of us to come and speak to the
community so we can hear what the concerns are, which is what we
do with all the other issues that we address that are out there.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Just call Commissioner Hiller's office,
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and she'll arrange everything.
COMMISSIONER HILLER I will. I'll get it all done. I'm
serious; I will.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. I would like to just get Mr.
Bernal to address the board for a moment and see if he thinks this was
something the Council of Hispanic Business Professionals would like
to take on.
I don't want to necessarily force something on this organization.
I know it has its own mission statement.
But, Mr. Bernal, what do you think about a possibility to work
with others to bring these sorts of things to the board?
MR. BERNAL: We have to have done that for the latest years.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Hold on. State your name for the
record and your address.
MR. BERNAL: My name is Luis Bernal. My address, 2760
Cypress Trace Circle, Naples, Florida, 34119.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you.
MR. BERNAL: I'm the executive director of the Council of
Hispanic Business Professionals and its founder.
The mission of the council is bridging the gap between Hispanics
and non-Hispanics in this community in the areas of business, culture,
entrepreneurship, and the arts.
We've been in place. We were created by an initiative of the
Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce. I was the founder, and we've
been in place for almost eight years working to integrate Hispanics
and -- Hispanics and the rest of the community in these areas.
We are a part of the Partnership for Collier's Economic Future
(sic), and that's a model that could work with this idea. I celebrate that
you want to continue having some advice from the Hispanic
community.
I was part of the Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board a number of
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years ago. Because of the Sunshine Law, because of the impossibility
for the advisory board to have its own agenda to advise the Board of
County Commissioners, I resigned, because there was no reason for
me to be there. There was no -- an advisory board is as good as the
advisee wants to take advice.
So if the government of this county has a -- let's say, an agenda
program that involves the Hispanic community, the different
institutions of the government have their own concern -- concerns, we
can help. In fact, we have done that, especially in the economic area.
We're very, very involved in the economics. We go to those meetings
to contribute with the feedback that we get by our members.
Again, they are not only Hispanics. They are people of all
backgrounds that are interested in what Hispanics bring to the
economy, to business, and to a lot of organizations in health care,
government, education, hospitality. If you go there, all are -- or many
of them are Hispanics, and they are professionals.
So what are the specifics of that partnership between the council
and other organizations and the Board of County Commissioners and
the government is something that we can probably fix with your
authorization in a way that the legal problems are solved, in a way that
you actually take advice, if you'd like to.
And there is no one organization that is good for everything all
the time. But we have done our best integrating some committees and
people of different professional backgrounds to bring solutions,
especially solutions -- that's a different approach -- as opposed to just,
you know, get here to complain about everything.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Mr. Bernal, you can clearly see the
commitment on this board with Commissioner Hiller, and you're well
aware, sir, of my commitment to your organization.
And I would look forward -- I would pledge my cooperation as
well, Commissioner -- with Commissioner Hiller, to schedule, you
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know, times for you to give presentations, if you should form such an
organization, to present to the board as you have something and as you
have something to report, and also to help you with the necessary
contacts that you need to contact.
I will call upon Roy Terry on the school board immediately and
set you up so that you can discuss with the board and Superintendent
Patten regarding the district and any others you might like. So thank
you, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance, does your
motion still stand with all the discussion going on?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I think you need to revise it.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I would make a recommendation
that we consider establishing a contact with the Hispanic business
professionals and other organizations to address their concerns and
work with them to allow them to present information to the board as
such an organization might be formed.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: How do we address the item on the
agenda? That's appointing members to the --
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I'm going to recommend that we
sunset the -- make a motion that we sunset the Hispanic Affairs
Advisory Board as existing.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So your amendment is to direct staff
and the county attorney to bring back a resolution to dissolve the
Hispanic Advisory Board?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes, sir.
MR. KLATZKOW: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Jeff-- Commissioner Hiller -- or
Commissioner Fiala, do you --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- support the amended second?
Commissioner Hiller?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yeah. I would like to volunteer as
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the liaison to the Hispanic Council to help -- if the council is willing to
create this task force within the private sector, to help put the team
together.
I know so many businesses in the Hispanic community. I know
so many individuals in the Hispanic community. I know -- for
example, I'll set up a meeting for you with the sheriff. As
Commissioner Nance said, he would happily set up a meeting with the
School Board and Kamela Patton.
But I would love to put whatever effort you need into creating
this together, and I will pull whatever resources I have to the table to
help develop this task force.
And I think the -- you know, obviously, bringing all -- any and
all concerns that we can do as the Board of County Commissioners to
us is something that I will help set up also with the county manager so
that we have a very good system of communication.
Again, what's important to emphasize is we cannot direct the
school board to do anything. We cannot direct the sheriff to do
anything or any other agency out there. The only thing that we can
address is what we have jurisdiction over.
And we will set up a mechanism so that this task source, if it has
any issues that need to be brought to the board, is able to do it
efficiently, effectively, and timely.
MR. BERNAL: Well, you're most welcome, and thank you, the
whole board, for continuing interest in the Hispanic community.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah. You may sit down now.
Thank you.
You know, we have a motion and a second on the floor, and
we're having a dialogue that can be done individually. But I just want
to say, government does a great jobs of dividing ours Americans by
categorizing them as different ethnic groups. So be it.
Okay. I'm an American. When I fill out a form, I'm an
American.
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So, Commissioner Fiala, you want to speak on the motion or --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: On the motion, no.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I've already seconded it.
I would just like to say that I thank Commissioner Nance,
because he has a great interest in that community, and I think he
should certainly be the liaison.
Secondly, I want to thank Commissioner Coyle for bringing it to
our attention regarding the Sunshine Law. You know, I guess that
escaped us. We wanted -- we were so eager to help that maybe we
overlooked how we could shoot ourselves in the foot instead.
And, of course, I, too, have been very involved with the
community, so I appreciate Commissioner Hiller's efforts, but I would
think that maybe it would be a great thing if Commissioner Nance
would decide, being that he brought this to our attention, who the
liaison should be, or I'll throw my name in the hat as well.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. There's a motion and a second
on the floor.
All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimously.
We have a 10:45 time-certain, so I want to take a short break and
come back at 10:45.
(A brief recess was had.)
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, you have a live mike.
Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Everybody take their seats, please.
Next item, our time-certain.
Item #14B1
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA) REVIEW
AN OFFER TO PURCHASE CRA OWNED PROPERTY IN THE
GATEWAY MINI-TRIANGLE BY FORTINO CONSTRUCTION
& DEVELOPMENT, LLC AND ASSIGNEE AND PROVIDE
STAFF DIRECTION - MOTION FOR STAFF TO PROCEED
WITH A PUBLIC NOTICE FOR SALE OF THE PROPERTY —
APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, that's Item 14B1 on your agenda,
Community Redevelopment Agency. It's a recommendation that the
Community Redevelopment Agency review and offer to purchase
CRA owned property in the Gateway mini-triangle by Fortino
Construction and Development, LLC, and assignee, and provide staff
direction.
Ms. Jean Jourdan will begin the presentation.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Are we acting as the CRA in this?
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
MS. JOURDAN: You should be, yes.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So we are going to recess the BCC
until we finish with the CRA business, and Commissioner Fiala is the
CRA Chairman.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. So may I call this CRA meeting to
order.
MS. JOURDAN: Good morning. For the record, Jean Jourdan,
interim director for the Bayshore Gateway/Triangle CRA.
I'm here before you with an offer to -- from Fortino. This is
basically just to get board direction to see whether or not the board
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desires for the CRA staff to enter into an agreement or begin any
negotiations to sell CRA owned property.
The property comprises of 5.27 acres of commercial land within
the Gateway mini-triangle. The property was purchased in 2009 for
the sole purposes of redevelopment for the amount of$6,386,000.
The Fortino Construction is a company that has been in existence
for 25 years. They've done development in New York, New Jersey;
additionally, they now have offices in Naples.
They're wishing to develop with a mixture of uses. Those uses
are still being considered because it has to be -- they're wanting mixed
use. So it would be what would be allowed per the Land Development
Code.
Currently, the property is being rented. We have leases on each
of the properties. Most of the leases, all except for one, are set to
expire. The tenants are desirous of re-leasing the property; however,
they are all aware that the property is sited and slated for
redevelopment.
If you have any questions, I think it would be easier just to
answer your questions than to read through an executive summary that
you've already read through.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you. I had my button on first, but
somehow it is not on. Being that I'm chairman, I can call on myself
first, which I will do then, and that is, you mention all of the rental
properties.
Now, I realize that what we're doing now is just in allowing this
property to be reviewed with the offer of purchase, but I wanted to
have a couple things clarified.
The people that are renting now, until it is decided and a contract
is actually not only signed but then the property is turned over to the
new owners, would we still be collecting the rents on that?
MS. JOURDAN: No. Once the -- well, once the property is
sold, not -- once the property is sold, then they would assume the
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leases. But the leases will actually transfer, so they will have to honor
those leases. For instance, if there's a duration of one year or two
years, they still have to honor those leases.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: But if the process takes like three months
MS. JOURDAN: We will still be collecting the rent until we
actually close on the properties.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay, fine. And you said some of those
leases are about to expire?
MS. JOURDAN: Yes, they are.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Do they want to extend that --
MS. JOURDAN: They do, and we have discussed this with each
one of the tenants that if we do renew the leases, if it is the so desire of
the CRA board -- because they will come back to you for renewal --
that there will be a clause in there, 180-day clause, which would give
them -- we would notify them once the property was ready to close
180 days -- so that they'd have 180 days to vacate, or that -- well, we
wouldn't actually notify them. The buyer would notify them.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Good.
Commissioner Henning?
COMMISSIONER HENNING: So what is the offer, again?
MS. JOURDAN: The current -- the first initial offer they made
was 5 million. Of course, we haven't gotten anything from the board
as to how much they would like us to advertise.
The property would still have to be advertised in accordance with
Florida Statute 193.6. So, therefore, not only do they have the
opportunity to make an offer, anyone else does. We can't just sell
them the property without giving the whole community -- and
advertising it and letting them also come back and make an offer.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: That's going to be the direction
at the end of the day.
MS. JOURDAN: Right. What would you like the minimum bid
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to be established as?
COMMISSIONER HENNING: And I think by Florida Statutes
it has to be, you know, whatever the market rate is.
MS. JOURDAN: Actually, for redevelopment purposes it can be
what's in the best interest of the county and the people of the county
because you're talking about redevelopment; whereas, this project, for
instance, is planning to be a $55 million project. So what you have on
there now equates to around 4 million. So you'd be generating taxes
from 55 million compared to 4 million. So you don't have to actually
have market value in accordance with the statute.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Right. But any contract
purchase or offer on real estate doesn't mean that anybody has to pay
whatever the asking price is?
MS. JOURDAN: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Right. And asking price could
be -- an offer could be over what the asking price is?
MS. JOURDAN: It could be. But if we advertise a minimum
bid, then they have to make that minimum offer.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: I don't think that we're -- we
don't have to advertise it as --
MS. JOURDAN: Minimum bid.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: You know, we're just saying it's
on the market. We're taking offers. Here's the market value of it.
MS. JOURDAN: Yes, we can, correct.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Just to establish, you know,
ground rules. So that's my opinion. I don't want to see a contract
come back where -- pending on zoning approvals. That is contract
zoning.
You need to work with the county attorney and the county
manager's staff to make sure that we're going to get the best value.
MS. JOURDAN: I agree.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: And make sure that it's lawful
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and legal.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: And, County Attorney, did you have any
comments on that or is that -- I see you nodding.
MR. KLATZKOW: Commissioner Henning is right. This is a
statutory process. We'll put it out pursuant to the statute. We will get
proposals; hopefully multiple proposals. They can be different.
We don't necessarily take the high price. We take what's in the
best interest of the county as far as the redevelopment goes, and we
can make it with no contingencies, which gets rid of the issue on
zoning.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Right. I do want to say -- I
think it's important that I say I'm excited that there are interests in
there, and I would love to see that redeveloped down there, so --
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: That's all I have to say.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you for that.
Commissioner Hiller?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yes. I had the same concerns that
Commissioner Henning expressed, and I'm glad to see that they've
been asked and answered. So good job, Commissioner Henning.
To that end, the motion today should be very different than
what's recommended. First of all, I think staff has to take care of all
the existing leases and how that's going to be handled on a sale, and I
think you have to work with legal to get that done; secondly, put out
an RFP, as the county attorney has described; thirdly, we need a
valuation of the property from real estate to be delivered to the board
so that we can make a determination of, you know, what we would
deem reasonable -- what would be reasonable to sell that property at
once we start getting these offers in.
So I will make a motion to that effect to address -- to have those
three issues --
CHAIRMAN FIALA: We already have that. I'm sorry, go
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ahead.
MS. JOURDAN: I'm sorry. We don't need to do an RFP. An
RFP is different from a public notice in accordance with Florida
Statute 163.
Additionally, we have appraisals done by real property
department, and Roosevelt's in the audience if you'd like to talk to
him.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: But that's not material today.
MS. JOURDAN: We already got them just recently.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I understand, but we need to
evaluate those in the context -- as a board in the context of what will
come in as offers on that property.
Jeff, can you clarify the process? I mean, the bottom line is,
whatever you've done, I want to make sure Jeff agrees with it --
MS. JOURDAN: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: -- and that it is, you know, 100
percent in accordance with whatever the procedures are by way of
statute.
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, Jean's brought you an opportunity
here. Now that we have this opportunity, the board needs to make a
decision: Do you want to consider putting this property up for sale?
All right. And if so, there's a statutory process to do that. My office
will work with the County Manager's Office and Jean, and we will
bring back various proposals to you which you can accept or reject.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Now, in addition to that, we have
-- I mean, this is incumbered property, isn't it? Is it encumbered by
the debt to Fifth/Third?
MR. KLATZKOW: That's an issue we're going to have to work
through, yes.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So we need to make absolutely
sure, because -- that they will be okay with the sale of the property.
MR. KLATZKOW: They don't have to be okay with the sale of
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the property.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: They don't?
MS. JOURDAN: No.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: It's not encumbered, ma'am.
MS. JOURDAN: It's not encumbered.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I understand.
MR. KLATZKOW: The proceeds may have to go to them, but
they don't --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, I understand. But the point
-- so let me just understand. Fifth/Third does not have any sort of say
in the sale. Is it a due-on-sale clause that we have?
MR. KLATZKOW: My recollection -- and I haven't seen it in a
while, ma'am, but my recollection is the proceeds --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Will go automatically.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- of these properties would go to them.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Crystal's shaking her head yes.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: And so then the question -- the
question I also have, then, with respect to that is, you know, how
much of a loss are we going to take if the sales price is, you know,
substantially less than fair market value if we go that route?
MR. KLATZKOW: We don't know. The process is -- really the
question that Jean has for you is do you want to consider the disposal
of this property. If the answer to that is yes --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, I think --
MR. KLATZKOW: -- we'll put out the public notices, and we
will get you offers. And at that point in time, all these other issues
will be part of the executive summary with all of the other
considerations, and you could accept it or reject it.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So you will do a full financial
analysis for us, including the implication with respect to our obligation
to the bank and whatever deficiency there is if we sell at a lower
price?
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MR. KLATZKOW: That will be part -- yes, ma'am, that will be
part of the executive summary.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So that will be brought to the
finance committee and then brought to us?
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Okay. As long as all of that's
included. So then it's up -- so the motion today is strictly whether or
not we want to advertise this property for sale?
MR. KLATZKOW: Do you want to consider the sale of this
property? And if so, you know, the county manager and myself will
work towards that statutory process.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Is that your motion as the attorney --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, first let me ask the question,
does this board want to consider the sale of this property?
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Well, that's what we're -- is that your
motion?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well --
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Oh, okay. Well, then, you would
withdraw until you find out if other board members --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yeah. So if the board does want to
consider that, then I will make a motion to -- that the board would like
to move forward with the sale of this property and direct the county
manager and the county attorney to do what's procedurally necessary
to comply with statute.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. And before I call on you,
Commissioner Coyle, we have speakers.
MR. MILLER: Yes, ma'am. We have three registered speakers
on this item.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: First I will call on Commissioner Coyle,
then Commissioner Nance. Thank you.
Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: All right, thank you.
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You know, it was fortuitous that we were able to pull together
this property by assembling a lot of smaller properties and creating
something much bigger, and our hope always was that something
really, really good would be built there.
So when you ask me a question, whether I would like to sell the
property, the answer has to be qualified. What am I selling the
property for, and how will it benefit the community?
And I don't know how we qualify that sale under the current
regulations, but here's the point of my concern. After all the years we
spent trying to get control of this property so that we could produce
something that was really nice for the redevelopment area, if we make
the wrong decision at this point in time, we have lost it forever. There
is no chance we'll ever get it back and be able to do anything with it.
Now, the CRA redevelopment plan says this is a site for a
catalyst redevelopment project; catalyst redevelopment project. A
5.27-acre automobile repair facility would not be a catalyst
redevelopment project.
So if we sell it to someone, how can we be assured that they're
going to build a catalyst redevelopment project there on this site?
So if I can hear someone tell me that we can make decisions
based upon that, then I have no problem proceeding. But if I just have
to advertise the sale with no control over what goes in there other than
some broad interpretation of zoning language, I'm not happy with that.
I would probably prefer a 100-year lease of the property rather than
sell it.
But, in any event, we -- in closing, we purchased this property.
We put these properties together specifically for the purpose of
creating something important and beneficial to the entire
redevelopment area, and we need to look for a way to achieve that
goal in any sale that we make.
MR. KLATZKOW: We can structure it that way sir, yes.
MS. JOURDAN: Definitely.
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COMMISSIONER COYLE: Okay.
MS. JOURDAN: Definitely.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: I think that's an excellent suggestion.
This is Commissioner Coyle's district, by the way.
MS. JOURDAN: Yes, yes. Yes, we would definitely have that
in the agreement and, you know, conveyed into however the county
attorney wanted, and I know he will be -- make certain that the
county's interests are protected and that we get developed exactly what
we want.
Now, when we bring back any contracts for the board, we're
going to ask for conceptuals, what they're going to build. It's going to
have to be stipulated so that this property cannot just anything be built
on it.
Additionally, there's two key sites that the CRA doesn't own, and
that's the old Burger King property and the tire shop there at the corner
and, unfortunately, we don't have any control over that.
But this developer is actually in negotiations and will have
contracts on those properties very soon. So not only will they control
our piece, they'll control those other two pieces.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: That's very important.
MS. JOURDAN: Yes, it is.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. I do concur with your
concerns, Commissioner Coyle. I think that there's so much water and
so much investment in this property, there's no time to screw it up at
this moment, so I think we need to be diligent.
Additionally, I would like to -- Ms. Jourdan, I would like to
understand all the fiscal ramifications if the board should decide to put
this piece of property for sale, because I see in your executive
summary that there's a substantial rental income of approximately
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$300,000 a year at present in the package.
So realizing that that is the case, I think everybody needs to
understand if this is a cash positive or a cash negative change
regarding the CRA. I realize that we have substantial debt, but I'd like
to understand all the fiscal ramifications of that as well as you go
forward.
But I do endorse -- I do endorse looking into it. I've met with
Mr. Fortino and got a brief introduction to his company and his
proposed development there, and I think it's very exciting, and it's
deserving of consideration.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you very much.
Normally I like to hear from the speakers first before I get into
the comments from the commissioners, but I felt it's important at this
time to hear from the commissioners first and understand their
concerns before we talk with our speakers.
So will you call the first speaker, please.
MR. MILLER: Certainly. Your first public speaker is Anthony
Fortino, and he'll be followed by Deborah Savorsa (phonetic).
MR. FORTINO: Good morning, Commissioners, staff. I
appreciate you taking the time and the opportunity, giving me -- afford
the ability to discuss this project this morning.
I want to say that we are very excited about the property, when
we first saw it, my group and I, and we wanted to put our visions forth
to the commission because we believe in the project. We believe in
the area.
I'm glad that Commissioner Coyle had mentioned that it's not
only price but it is vision, and it's what can be done, best and highest
use for the property, not only in the short term but in the long term and
the long vision for the City of Naples.
And that's why we got involved. And we wanted to put forth our
conceptual drawings and plan, which I had the opportunity to share,
not only in mixed-use ability to do a development there in terms of
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residential, whether it be a rental or a condominium process, retail, a
rooftop restaurant, which was very exciting, got a lot of good feedback
from a lot of different folks in town saying that that would be a great
vision, as well as a hospitality component in the -- on the development
site; not only from the short-term aspect of developing this project
from the construction view, but it also goes into long-term, you know,
jobs.
I am now a full-time resident here for about a year. I've owned a
house here in Naples for five years. I believe in the area. Love the
area. I've got three daughters, a wife, and a mother-in-law, so I'm a
blessed man. I've got women in the house.
And, you know, my daughters are young, and I'd like to see them
have jobs here, you know, in the future, as a lot of others folks here in
Naples. So I believe in creating jobs, sustainability long term, not only
short term.
And while we develop this site, you know, the economics of the
project obviously has to make sense not only for the developer but for
the city as well in terms of generating taxes and all that good stuff.
So I believe it's a team effort to develop this site. Welcome, you
know, a lot of comments, good and bad, because we try and
accommodate, you know -- all, you know, good and positive
comments on the project.
So, you know, if you afford us the opportunity to, you know, do
this project, that's our vision, and we won't disappoint you.
Thank you for the time.
MR. MILLER: Your next public speaker is Deborah Savorsa.
She'll be followed by John Burton.
MR. BURTON: I was going to defer my time.
MS. SAVORSA: Yeah. I'm going to defer my time to him.
MR. MILLER: Oh. Did you have any more to say, sir?
MR. FORTINO: No, I'm okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. So all three speakers were in one,
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right?
Okay, very good. Thank you very much. That was nice and
quick.
And just to comment about what you had said, Commissioner
Coyle, which was right on target, and, of course, Commissioner
Henning was here, too, at the time when they were purchasing these
properties, what they wanted to do is make sure that once the
GatewayTriangle was developed -- oh, yeah, I could speak into a
speaker, yeah.
Once the Gateway/Triangle was developed, it would be one
comprehensive development. It would be the entry into East Naples
or the entry into the City of Naples, whichever, way you're going.
We had visions. There were a group of us that put together a
plan many, many years ago before there was ever even a -- before
there was ever a CRA; actually, before I was ever on the County
Commission. It was back in the '90s.
And what we had envisioned at the time was a hotel with an
outdoor restaurant overlooking the bridge into the City of Naples and
the sunset in the evening. We had envisioned a walking retail center
where you had treeline streets and shops that people can walk through,
then go up and have -- have dinner in the restaurant and maybe be
staying at the hotel that's on the property. Maybe there would be --
just like 5th Avenue, there would be places for people to either have
condominiums or something along that line.
It was -- but it had to be the entire project with all the parking
underneath and in the back. So I don't know where they're going to go
with this. That was our vision at the time back in the middle '90s.
But I'm hoping that our commissioners will at least let the CRA
put this out for sale, and possibly you would want to -- before it
actually goes, I'm sure you will be checking with the county attorney
and the county manager, and it might be nice to check with the
commissioner for that district, Commissioner Coyle, for the wording
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to be correct.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: You're going to have to check
quick.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: They can do it by email or phone, okay.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Yeah. As long as they do it before
November.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Oh, no. They're going to do now.
They're not going to be playing around here.
So, anyway -- and it will be challenging because this is only six
pieces of a 14-piece triangle, and it's going to be challenging to get all
of those pieces assembled.
You're talking about a lot of money when it comes down to it and
-- as far as buying up all of those properties. But then you're talking
about a lot of money, once it's rebuilt, to become something that will
be a very positive thing to the community.
Anyway, do we have a motion on the floor? Commissioner
Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I'll make a motion that the staff be
allowed to proceed to investigate the sale of this property.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Do I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Second.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. I have a second.
Commissioner Hiller?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yeah. Commissioner Coyle just
made a remark, and I think it's a very important one. He said, let's
hurry up and get it done before November.
We have a new incoming commissioner for the district that this
property is situated in that will be seated in November. And while I
think staff can research, I don't think -- I don't think anything should
be done till the -- that commissioner comes in because, as you
properly said, Commissioner Fiala, it's not your district. It is
Commissioner Coyle's district.
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So directing staff to limit itself to do research and maybe sharing
that research with the board ahead of any agenda item coming forward
maybe is the right direction, but I want to emphasize that it is -- that
we are not doing anything else but research. We're not putting out the
advertisement or anything else for sale.
MR. KLATZKOW: No, no, no, no. Maybe I've misunderstood.
I thought the direction of the board was to move forward with the
public notice.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: No.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Right.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: No, that's not -- no.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Right. That was before.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: The motion on the table it to do
research, that staff is to research.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: That's not what I said.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Would you restate?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Yeah. I specifically said that I
authorize the redevelopment agency to proceed with the sale of this
parcel of land. And of course it has to come back to the board for
final review.
And what I would say further to that, in reply to Commissioner
Hiller, is that it makes no sense to artificially delay this merely for an
election of a new commissioner who has had no background
whatsoever in this. The people who are best qualified to make this
decision are the people who have been involved in this for the last 10
to 20 years and who understand the vision that we have for this
redevelopment agency.
So I just don't think we should postpone that for that reason,
because if we get in that mode, we'll be postponing things every two
years because we might have a different commissioner coming in.
That is not a fruitful way to proceed with decision making on the
Board of County Commissioners.
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COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, if I may respond, it's the
future vision that matters, not the past vision, because, you know,
what happened 10 or 20 years ago is not where we are today nor is it
where we're necessarily going. I --
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Commissioner Hiller --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I wouldn't have thought of it.
Commissioner Coyle brought it up, and I have to say, I hadn't thought
of it.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Well, I have somebody's button on first --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Sure, go ahead.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: -- so let --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Sure, go ahead.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: -- me call on Commissioner Nance.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Sure.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes.
County Attorney, if we prepare -- prepare to receive offers on the
property, this does not obligate the board to accept the offer, does it?
MR. KLATZKOW: No. You do not have to accept the offer.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: So we can prepare this property
and make it available for sale and solicit offers and proposals, and
then we can consider the offers and proposals and see if it's in the best
interest of the CRA before we do anything?
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes, and I would recommend that these
multiple -- hopefully multiple proposals go through your advisory
board, you know, before they get to you.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Is that acceptable to your motion,
Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Absolutely.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Then I will amend my second to
include those affirmations.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Very good.
And just as a comment, if we always held any decisions that we
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make to build anything until a new commissioner came on board,
whether it be in two months or a year or maybe somebody in the
future wouldn't like it, we would never move forward.
And I would hate to see that happen, because we're -- right after
this coming election, we're going to have two or three more
commissioners coming up for re-election. Maybe we shouldn't move
forward with anything else either.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Commissioner Fiala?
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Excuse me. Excuse me.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's unreasonable.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: You have to -- you have to give the
commissioners who are sitting the opportunity to perform their job.
That's what they're elected to do.
So with that, I have a motion on the floor and a second.
All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Opposed, like sign?
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: That's 3-2. Thank you. Motion carries.
CRA meeting is adjourned.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. We're going to go to the next
item, which is?
Item #10B
RECOMMENDATION TO DIRECT STAFF TO PREPARE A
FISCAL ANALYSIS AND A RECOMMENDED STRAW
BALLOT QUESTION CONCERNING THE RETURN TO THE
ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX
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TO BE PRESENTED TO THE BCC FOR APPROVAL AT THE
MEETING JULY 8, 2014. IF APPROVED BY THE BCC, THE
STRAW BALLOT WOULD BE PLACED ON THE NOVEMBER
2014 BALLOT - MOTION TO DENY RECOMMENDATION —
APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Is Item 10B, Mr. Chairman. That's a
recommendation to direct staff to prepare a fiscal analysis and a
recommended straw ballot question concerning the return to the
original intent of the tourist development tax to be presented to the
BCC for approval at the meeting on July 8, 2014.
If approved by the BCC, the straw ballot would be placed on the
November 2014 ballot. And Commissioner Coyle has brought this
item onto the agenda.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: This is a relatively simple issue.
The tourist tax was originally implemented over 20 years ago. And
according to Ordinance 95-46, it allocated Category A funds, 60
percent, to finance beach improvement, maintenance, renourishment,
restoration, erosion control, including pass and inlet management
maintenance; and it established Category B funds as 40 percent of the
division with 25 percent of the 40 percent to be allocated to tourism,
advertising, and marketing; and 15 percent of the 40 percent should be
allocated for local projects and/or activities which promote tourism,
and that has become an allocation for museums.
The process and the allocation of funds has been modified by
commissioners to the point where now these categories are essentially
reversed, and the beach renourishment maintenance and improvement
aspects are closer to 40 percent now, and the advertising is almost 60
percent.
It's my belief, as I've said before this board on numerous
occasions, we should never be without a permit to replenish our
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beaches yet we're -- we are confronted with beach renourishment
problems, and staff tells us we need to get a permit. And it takes a
year, year and a half, to get a permit. And during that time our beaches
are not properly renourished or maintained.
It's my belief that the cost of beach maintenance will, by
necessity, be more intensive, and it will be more expensive. And if we
do not maintain our beaches to a very high level, our tourism business
is going to suffer.
And I think that there has been a battle between hoteliers and
others about how the money should be allocated, and I am merely
saying -- asking a simple question, do you want the voters to weigh in
on this and give us some idea about what we should do with this
allocation, or do you want to ignore the voters and just continue to do
it the way we have done it in the past.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Commissioner Coyle, I must
say I looked at the question on the ballot, and it -- back in the '90s. It
never stated a certain allocation of categories for the tourist tax. It
doesn't say that. I'm surprised that you didn't include the ordinance
you're referring to within your executive summary.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Well, I --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Hang on.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: All right.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So I have it, and if any commissioner
wants a copy of it, I have copies here.
And I want to refer to Page 4 of the ordinance and Category A,
approximate cost or expense allocation, which is beaches, inlet passes,
erosion control, et cetera. That was $4.2 million.
Over the course of the years, since this ordinance, we've been
allocating more money towards beach renourishment and inlet passes.
And in tune, I think the upcoming budget they're looking at over
$7 million.
Leo, do you have that spreadsheet that I asked for? Can you put
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that in the overview (sic)?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Do we have percentages on the
figures that you're giving out?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, let me get to the percentage
question.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Can you blow that up?
MR. OCHS: Commissioner, it's kind of a long sheet here. I'll go
to the end if--
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Why don't you kind of fold it in
the middle, Leo, where we can see the categories and then maybe see
the last five or six years. Can you maybe do that?
MR. OCHS: Sure.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: That might be helpful. You can see
the early years and then the later years.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. And you can see it's more than
4 million.
MR. OCHS: No. That 2014 column is year to date. That's not --
we're not completed yet.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No. I do want to say there has been
more money towards promotion. And you want to know why? The
sitting commissioners, myself included, and all the commissioners to
my right voted to add a one-penny tax for promotion in 2005. And
there was no public referendum on that issue.
So -- and, in fact -- and this ordinance, there was a -- an
additional penny. There was -- originally the voters voted on two
cents. So if you're going to ask the voters anything, go ask them, do
you want to stay at two cents, because that's what they voted on. They
didn't vote on percentage.
So that's -- the executive summary that we're looking at today is
misinforming the public and commissioners trying to make decisions
on this.
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That should be the question, if you want to have any question;
however, it's interesting in 2005, all the commissioners voted for an
additional penny for advertising. So you're going to have a disparage
in percentage. Percentage is really not the issue.
The issue of adding another cent is to allow all boats to rise. And
you could see that by the information on the overhead provided to the
-- provided by staff. And, in fact, in January -- this is why I pulled the
item off the agenda for the allocation of monies to the pier. I think it's
-- depending on what the board does, it's -- you know, if we're going
to have a question -- because back in 1992 and 1995 the voters never
voted on funding of the pier maintenance; never voted on that.
They didn't vote on monies to the Collier County museums. It
never was voted on. Never was their understanding. It was added by
the Board of Commissioners over the year prior to, Commissioner
Fiala, you sitting here. It was voted on the board in the mid to late
'90s to add museums to it.
So, I mean, you know, if you want to go back to what the vote
was in 1992, you would remove funding for the pier, you would
remove funding for the museums, and the only category you'd have is
A and B, and that would be beach renourishment and inlet passes,
along with promotion.
So, you know, the understanding of the voters was should the
County Commissioners institute a 2 percent -- two cents tax on every
dollar to the visitors for beach renourishment, inlet pass maintenance,
and advertising. That's the issue.
I mean, unless the board goes back to 2 percent (sic), it's
senseless.
So, anyways, I'll go over to you, Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Wait.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Just a moment. You've spent some
time telling us what it was supposed to be and alleging that the
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executive summary is not correct.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: The executive summary isn't correct.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: And, in fact, most of the things
you've said are not true.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: The voters never voted on the
percent.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Let me give you some facts.
Would you like to hear some facts?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No, I would like to see the facts, not
your opinion.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Okay. Then why don't you pull up
Ordinance No. 92-60. It was filed with the Clerk's Office on August
the 26th of'92.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, where's our copy?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: You constantly pull up copies on
your computer every time there's an issue, so I expect you to do the
same thing here now.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, this is your item. I expect you
to give us information.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: And on Page 4 there is a very clear
breakout of the categories of use of the percentage that is being voted
on at that time.
Category A, 60 percent; Category B, 40 percent; for tourism,
advertising, and direct marketing, it would be 25 percent; and for local
projects and/or activities which promote tourism, it would be 15
percent.
Now, that is --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: What's the ballot question?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: The ballot question wants to know
if they want to put -- institute a TDC tax.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Correct.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: That's right. And here is the
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ordinance which authorizes you to do that which says the ballot
question shall cause to be placed on the ballot at the next regular or
special election to be held in Collier County a question asking,
essentially, to -- for the tourist development tax or against the tourist
development tax.
And in the ordinance is how it is going to be allocated. Now,
there is no referendum that I'm aware of ever in the history of Collier
County or the State of Florida where something appeared on the ballot
that wasn't also accompanied with substantial information to the
public about what it was going to be used for.
It's not in the ballot question. It is included in documents such as
this that tell people what it's going to be used for.
Now, there is no question that it was originally a 60/40 split, and
that's what the voters approved.
Now, you make a big point about the fact that more money has
been allocated. Of course more money's been allocated because more
money is coming in; we get more money, okay. But the percentage
allocations have declined dramatically.
So there is absolutely no question that the change in allocation
has been modified dramatically over the years.
Now, my question is really not debatable. It's a question that
says, do you want to ask the voters for their opinion. End of story.
Let them decide. Or do you just want to continue to manipulate the
allocations to suit your needs?
So the question before you is a simple one. Are you going to
consult the voters on this issue or not?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Tim, can you go back to -- fold that
over and go back to 2002 through 2006. Actually, just leave it there.
Okay. You can see the percentage of monies in 2002 for beaches
is 65 percent; 2003 -- or down to 66.5.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: No. It's the same for both years,
66.5 for 2002 and 2003.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: And 200 --
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Four, five.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- 4 and '5, and you can see the
difference when you voted to institute an additional penny without the
public approving it.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Because the legislators allow
you to do that, and those monies went to advertising. So we did
everything up until you decided to vote for an additional penny. That's
-- I mean, it's very clear that -- you can see that -- and those monies for
promotion actually went to the museums.
So, you know, if anything, you want to do is take the money
from the museums and put it towards promotion. The beaches -- the
beach renourishment and facilities always got what they was asked
for. It was over -- over 60 percent until 2005 when another penny tax
was instituted. So there's your clarity, and there's the facts.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: No, no, no. From the very
beginning, the museum category was included under promotion, from
the very beginning of the process.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, look at your ordinance. It says
-- here, I'll give you a copy of your ordinance you're referring to in
your --
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I've got a copy.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. And it says on Page 4, it's very
clear. It doesn't say anything about museums, okay. That was
instituted afterwards.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: For local projects and/or activities
which promote tourism, 15 percent. That's museums.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: It doesn't say museums.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Okay. It says local projects and
activities which promote tourism, and one of the criteria for a museum
to get the money is that it has got to prove that it promotes tourism.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: And that wasn't on the ballot in 200 --
COMMISSIONER COYLE: We've already covered that.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: 1992.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: This is the ordinance that
authorized the ballot. This is the ordinance that said how you divide
it, and then on the next page it authorized you to advertise it and to put
it on the ballot.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No. What -- you're going back
towards -- you need to go back to 2005; however, that ordinance -- the
public didn't approve that ordinance, okay. It approved a question;
shall the County Commissioners institute a 2 percent (sic) tax on
visitors?
Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. Somewhere along the way -- I
know when we voted in that extra penny tax and we wanted it for
advertising because the tourism industry felt that they were collecting
all of the bed tax, but they weren't benefiting by the collection, and
they wanted more of the original two cents. We said, why don't we
just give you a whole penny that it's just for yourself to be used? And
that's, I think, where we voted in the other cent.
Originally, the hoteliers did not want to have any bed tax. I was
very, very involved in that communication, and it was led by Henry
Watkins. They wanted to stifle any effort to collect a bed tax.
Finally, the reason they came to this agreement is if the 60
percent went to the beach renourishment, they could live with that,
and the 40 percent toward promotion. That's how it all occurred, and
that was before it ever went to a vote by the taxpayers. That was what
they had come up with.
And time went on, and then the hoteliers felt -- now we're getting
late into the 2000s, and they felt that they needed more promotion
money, more advertising dollars, and they tried to find other ways to
tap some of the other sources from that particular bed tax. They did
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not want to increase the bed tax any more than that. They wanted to
find other ways to creatively obtain more advertising dollars from
what we had.
But -- and both of you make very good points. The thing is, the
beaches are the reason the tourists come here. The beaches, the
passes, we really, really need to protect those and we need to be out in
front of them and obtain these permits before we have to wait, and I
think that's good.
So there's got to be a compromise here because both points are
well taken. The advertising dollars are needed. Maybe we should be
able to put some of those advertising dollars that we have usurped into
that account maybe back to the beach renourishment again so that
there's a more even split.
Let's face it, we've taken money from other promotions like
museum and so forth as well because they wanted to use them for
advertising. I think that there's a way we can come up with a good
solution. I don't know if we'll be able to do it today with the emotions
riding high, but there's got to be a solution whereby promotions still
retain.
Of course, all of the first -- that one penny and at least 40 percent
of the other two pennies, and then the allocation for the beach
renourishment facilities and museums and so forth are taken care of
through the rest of that.
So -- but I don't know. Maybe we need to have Jack go back and
discuss it with a few people, not only just the hoteliers, because they're
-- you know, they're hell bent for leather, and I understand that for
advertising, but there must be a way to come up with a compromise
where everyone wins here.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. I cannot endorse establishing
a rigid percentage as a guideline to how we spend this revenue. It is --
it's essential that we have the ability to change it, and it's been changed
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many times.
Beach renourishment has always been accomplished. You know,
when we were in the midst of the BP disaster, the Board of County
Commissioners shifted money to tourism promotion because it was
necessary and it was needed. That's called management.
So I don't believe that we should go out and, by referendum, try
to put ourselves in a box that we're immediately going to find out has
absolutely no practical application of any value.
If we want to discuss what the allocation is, I'm sure that that is
going to be continually taking place on the board, and we're just going
to have to -- we're going to have to do that. That's the purpose of the
Board of County Commission.
But I do believe, that having been said, that, you know, the
beaches and the tourism industry are inextricably linked. You can't
have one without the other. They're not going to work without one
and the other. And we're going to be able to debate this ad nauseam.
But we're also -- at some point down the road the citizens of Collier
County are going to have to determine what other sources of revenue
they're going to have to manage, not only the waterfront, but other
important things like infrastructure.
So, you know, it's very nice to be able to let people opine on how
they want to tax somebody else. The citizens of this county are going
to have to decide how they want to tax themselves in the end. That's
my prediction.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Troy, why don't you call the public
speakers, please.
MR. MILLER: Your registered public speaker for this item is
Bob Krasowski.
MR. KRASOWSKI: Good morning, Commissioners. Bob
Krasowski, for the record.
I think this is a really good discussion. I think, Commissioner
Coyle and Commissioner Henning, you're both wrong. But even more
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importantly is that you're both right to the greater degree;
Commissioner Henning bringing historical memory on the issue
forward and Commissioner Coyle asking for discussion. So you're
both right. So if you get those points that you're together on and move
forward, I think you'd do us all a service.
So the -- I had a couple questions. You've mentioned three cents
of the taxes. There's actually four cents. I'd like to know where that
fourth cent came from. I'm here today because I wanted to understand
better this and didn't remember historically as much as you've brought
up.
And the beaches need more money. And also we have to put
more in reserve. Not too long ago you realigned the finances and took
some money out of the reserve for disaster and beaches and put it on
the backs of the general fund if some catastrophe over $500,000 came
upon us, and that was a bad idea, you know, as far as I'm concerned.
Now, we should -- I think Commissioner Coyle's on the right
track. We should have this evaluated by our finance committee or
finance house and come forward with a presentation that would have a
third party gather your -- both of your ideas and everybody's ideas and
clarify the history and the alignment. But we need more money for
beach renourishment as it gets more expensive and maybe some
innovative thinking on how to do it as well.
And I think we should not not consider an additional penny,
which some people have been talking about, to do the beaches. You're
very top heavy here, the whole government and this community, when
it comes to considering solutions.
The business interests are always strongly protected, and your
TDC is overwhelmingly -- covers -- by the hotel industry and, of
course, they don't want to spend another penny. But they're making
money hand over fist. They charge hundreds of dollars per night in
season. And so they could probably give up a penny to cover these
beaches and maybe build our reserve and not have it on the backs of
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people.
And then one last question. I thought the -- when we did -- when
you did levy the one cent for advertising, it was mostly supposed to be
advertising in the off season, but -- so maybe somebody could speak
to that, so there's two questions. Was the advertising budget supposed
to concentrate on the off season, and the other question I mentioned
earlier that I forgot now.
So thank you for listening to my comments.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Hiller, Commissioner
Coyle, then Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I have to commend Commissioner
Nance. I think the remarks he made are on point. And -- are you
going to make a motion?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I'm going to make a motion to
deny the recommendation, actually.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: And if you do, I'll second it.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion and second on the floor. Is
that it?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's it.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Commissioner Coyle,
Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I don't have any more to say.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. I wanted to know -- and,
Jack, you could help me -- when we transferred that emergency
funding because of the BP problem and then we had other emergency
funding, did we then, the following year, go back to the regular
distribution of the dollars?
MR. WERT: For the record, Jack Wert, your tourism director.
When we did have the BP oil spill, also the downturn in the
economy, one year we took funds from the beach renourishment fund,
and that was primarily for the BP. We also took money from the
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beach park facilities one year for the same reason. We were using
funds from different uses.
So -- and those were approved each time as a one-year change to
the ordinance, and then it sunsetted at the end of each of those uses.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. And we, as a county,
taxpayers actually, have also been helping out in a little way, and that
is initially some of the hoteliers wanted to bring in employees from
Immokalee, and they had their own buses coming in, actually. And
then when we started our bus service, they worked out an agreement a
few years later to bus their people in, and they would just pay -- I
guess they were going to be paying for the employees to bus in, and
then it eventually -- they didn't pay for the employees to be bused in.
Then the employees had to pay for it instead. So I just wanted to point
that out.
We have in -- because then when they only pay a buck, you
know, the county taxpayers kick in to help that along. So I just
wanted to mention that on the record.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion and a second on the floor.
All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries 3-2; Commissioner
Coyle and Commissioner Fiala dissenting.
We have 15 minutes. Actually --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Could we maybe --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: We have some people from the far
East Naples Fire Department on the Isle of Capri issue. Could we get
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to that?
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. Would you like to take that one?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: If it will only take a few minutes for a
presentation.
MR. OCHS: I believe it will, yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Presentation.
Item #1 1 C
A CONCEPTUAL TRANSITION PLAN FOR THE ANNEXATION
OF THE ISLES OF CAPRI FIRE AND RESCUE DISTRICT BY
THE EAST NAPLES FIRE CONTROL AND RESCUE DISTRICT
PENDING APPROVAL BY REFERENDUM OF A MAJORITY
VOTE OF ELECTORS IN THE DISTRICT — APPROVED
MR. OCHS: That's Item 11C on your agenda this morning,
Commissioners. It's a recommendation to approve a conceptual
transition plan for the annexation of the Isle of Capri Fire and Rescue
District by the East Naples Fire Control and Rescue District pending
approval by referendum of a majority vote of the electors in the
district.
Ms. Price will make a brief presentation.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. There's a motion and second
on the floor. Do we have any public speakers?
MR. MILLER: No, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Let me ask you something. On your
presentation to the community, are you really saying that there'll be no
change to the Isle of Capri Fire District if the voters vote no on this
merger?
MS. PRICE: Am I saying there'll be no change to the level of
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service?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: There'll be no change in the fire
district.
MS. PRICE: Well, it will be a different fire district.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No. If they did not merge.
MS. PRICE: If they did not merge? Yes, that things would stay
status quo until such time as the commissioners might make any other
change.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Even though that -- you know, your
revenue stream is different? What about the issue of Fiddler's Creek
continuing wanting to merge with East Naples? Do you think that's
going to stop after this ballot question?
MS. PRICE: That would be up to the Fiddler's Creek people. I
would assume that they're going to -- they would most likely go back
and try one more time.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Right. So with that said, having that
knowledge, do you think there will be no change in the Isle of Capri
district if the voters vote no to merge? The answer is no, there will be
change because you're going to have less money and the same amount
of assets, fire station, firefighters, but you're going to have less money.
MS. PRICE: Commissioner, I never said no change. What I said
was status quo.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No change?
MS. PRICE: Status quo would be exactly as things are today,
which would be --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No change?
MS. PRICE: That the folks in Fiddler's Creek would still want to
leave. And not knowing at this point what the voters are going to say
-- certainly their survey indicated that there was very strong support
for this annexation. I have every reason to believe that this is going to
pass.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Well, this whole issue came
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up because Fiddler's Creek wanted to annex out into East Naples.
MS. PRICE: Correct.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: And we know that that desire hasn't
changed. So when you deliver to the residents within the fire district,
Isle of Capri, can you give a little bit more information on your stance
of no change?
MS. PRICE: Certainly.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. That's great. I understand that
you had a meeting with East Naples on talks about Ochopee merging?
MS. PRICE: No, sir. We have not started really talking about
Ochopee's merger or any consolidation. I would like to speak with
Sammy Hamilton first and get a representative from his group.
I also didn't want to take any actions over the summer since
we've had criticism in the past about doing things over the summer
when so many people aren't here. So as soon as fall comes, I will go
to the city council, ask them for a representative, and start those
conversations.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So the meeting you had yesterday had
to do with Isles of Capri?
MS. PRICE: Isle of Capri and inspections. We were talking
about setting up a plan for East Naples inspections in the Ochopee
district.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: And I understand part of the
conversation that you had that the fire chief of Ochopee's going to
challenge the Board of Commissioners' decision on the whole issue of
the interlocal agreement with East Naples.
MS. PRICE: No, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: He's not going to?
MS. PRICE: He is not going to challenge.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: He's not going to ask for an attorney
general opinion?
MS. PRICE: No, he is not.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
MS. PRICE: No. Apparently there was a misunderstanding. All
we were doing is asking for East Naples to help us put together a plan
so that the fire chief would be in a position to know exactly what's
going to be inspected, you know, in what time frame, and East Naples
said they would absolutely work with us on that.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. But with the inspections,
being that Ochopee has done it very successfully, very quickly, no
waits, and worked very closely with the community -- and I think that
-- I don't know why we would want to take that away from the
Ochopee Fire department. That's a source of income for them.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: You voted on that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: What?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: You voted on that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Voted on what?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: To allow East Naples --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I understand that. It was on a
consent agenda a couple -- like a month ago or so. And I didn't even
realize what actually was all involved, and that was a source of
income.
And I was going to bring that back up anyway. Luckily you
mentioned it now and we're talking about it now, because I don't --
and I talked with Sammy Hamilton about it. He also feels the same
way. You know, they don't care to turn their inspections over to the
East Naples Fire Department. They want to keep them within the
Ochopee Fire Department.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, I think your issue to reconsider
has already passed.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I don't know that. Maybe the
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: Maybe we can -- maybe we can do
something about reconsidering it or talking about it again or putting it
on the agenda or addressing it in a different way.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: You're always allowed to put
anything on -- any commissioner -- anything you want on the agenda.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I've been contacted -- written
to you about this, and I've been asked to wait a little while, so that's
why I haven't brought it up. But I think as long as you've mentioned
that -- that subject, I would like to.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. There's --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'd like to have your support, as a
matter of fact.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: There's a motion on the floor and a
second.
All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: (No verbal response.)
COMMISSIONER FIALA: (No verbal response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: (No verbal response.)
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No opposed? So it's unanimous.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: What was the motion?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. The motion on the floor was to
accept the transition between the Isles of Capri Fire District and East
Naples Fire Control District; is that correct?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Correct.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Now, the motion?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Passed, 5-0. There was no abstention
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(sic) from it; is that correct?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: What's the next item? We've got -- or
do we want to break?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: We're not going to talk about that at
all, right? Okay.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, what you want to talk about is
not on the agenda. You can actually put -- again, put anything on the
agenda you want.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Boy, are you cantankerous today.
Thank you. I will.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No, I'm not. You know, it's the
board's rules, you know. I'm -- we have items on the agenda --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Excuse me. Let's just move on.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: We have items on the agenda --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Let's just move on.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- and we have some people that want
to continue to talk about other things that is not on the agenda.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: You brought it up.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: The duty of the chair is to stay on
task.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. I don't need any lessons
today, thank you. Let's move on to the next subject.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So are you ready to stay on the
subjects?
Do we have anything that we can deal with in two minutes -- or
seven minutes?
MR. OCHS: Well, Commissioners, let me ask you, sir. The item
that you moved onto the regular agenda regarding the pier renovation,
would you like to take that?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yes.
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Item #11E
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT
TAX ORDINANCE NO. 92-60, AS AMENDED, THAT WOULD
AUTHORIZE REALLOCATION OF FUNDS BETWEEN
TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX CATEGORIES WITH A
SUPERMAJORITY VOTE OF THE BOARD AND DIRECT THE
COUNTY ATTORNEY TO ADVERTISE ORDINANCE
CHANGES TO BE APPROVED BY THE BOARD AT A FUTURE
MEETING; TO ALLOW TDC GRANT FUNDS PREVIOUSLY
AWARDED TO CITY OF NAPLES TO "CARRY FORWARD"
FOR EXPENDITURE IN FY2015 FOR A MAJOR RENOVATION
OF THE CITY OF NAPLES PIER; AND TO MAKE A FINDING
THAT THIS ITEM PROMOTES TOURISM — APPROVED
MR. OCHS: And that is Item 11E on the agenda. It was
previously 16A20, and that is a recommendation to approve an
ordinance amendment to your tourist development tax ordinance that
would allow the board, by supermajority vote, to move money
between categories, also allow the City of Naples to carry forward the
$200,000 TDC grant award for the Naples Pier renovation made in
this fiscal year into Fiscal Year '15 and, finally, that would thereby
allow the advanced funding for the full renovation of the Naples Pier
to occur in Fiscal Year 2015, which would be the fall of this year.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: And I pulled this item, and I'm going
to make a motion to approve this item as stated in the executive
summary.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I will second it.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: All in favor of the motion, signify by
saying aye?
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COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Carries unanimously.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, sir.
MR. OCHS: 1 lB is going to be heard after 9D, and I think 11D
would probably be better treated after lunch, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. So why don't we recess for
lunch and be back at 1 o'clock.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
(A luncheon recess was had.)
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, you have a live mike.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Good afternoon. We're going to go to
public speakers until we have our time certain at 1 :30.
Item #7
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA
MR. MILLER: We have 11 registered public speakers. Your
first speaker is Jennifer Hecker. She's been ceded additional time from
Caitlin Weber and Nicole Johnson for a total of nine minutes. She will
be followed by Joe Mule.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Jennifer, I noticed that you were
passing out information; is that correct? Is this yours?
MS. HECKER: Yes. The purple folders are the information that
we'll be referencing in our comments.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Well, the -- this kind of
information has to be voted on by the Board of Commissioners
whether they accept it or not. That's a long-standing rule. So the
pleasure of the board?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Accept it.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: We should accept it.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Accept it.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Is that -- a motion by Commissioner
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- Fiala, second by Commissioner
Coyle.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Yep.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: All in favor of the motion, signify by
saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
MS. HECKER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Go ahead.
MS. HECKER: We have also emailed that electronically, the
identical information as well.
Jennifer Hecker, here today on behalf of the Conservancy of
Southwest Florida and our more than 4,500 members.
We commend the Collier County Commission for filing an
administrative challenge to the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection's deficient enforcement of the fracking-like unauthorized
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activities undertaken by Dan A. Hughes, which has created a potential
contamination risk to Collier County's drinking water.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Jennifer, you have to speak slowly
enough so that the court reporter --
MS. HECKER: Okay. Sorry. I forgot, I have additional time,
too.
The County Commission has repeatedly stated that DEP should
have revoked the Hughes/Hogan Well permit after Hughes willfully
disregarded DEP's directive to not proceed without authorization with
their extreme extraction technique and did not immediately cease their
activities, even after DEP issued a cease and desist order.
The DEP could have and should have revoked the permit as their
enforcement. Instead, they settled with Hughes without Collier
County's knowledge or involvement for a couple of menial provisions
that left Collier County without the minimal financial commitments,
remediation, and groundwater monitoring to safeguard its citizens and
its public water supply.
The county has stated in its petition it filed that it is, indeed,
seeking the revocation of the permit, as well as some specific
additional remedial actions; however, the county should broaden and
strengthen the petition to cover all the bases by including the
additional monitoring, remediation steps, and financial commitments
that we and other groups have repeatedly provided and are, again,
providing you an updated list of today.
The majority of these enforcement terms are necessary to ensure
that proper protection of the county and its citizens is provided with
the enforcement and remediation of this violation.
DEP has said that it is meeting with all of the Collier County's
requests, yet it has not met its primary request to revoke the Dan A.
Hughes permit. Continued drilling activities are being permitting at
this well without the mechanical integrity test to ensure that it has not
been compromised in response to the pressure it was subjected to with
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this unauthorized procedure.
DEP's groundwater testing is not the thorough, effective
groundwater contamination monitoring that Collier County is seeking
because we still don't have a complete list of all the chemicals that
were actually used, regardless of what the company may try to claim
are trade secrets and, therefore, have no way of comparing that against
what DEP is actually testing for to know if they're testing for all of the
potential contaminates of concern.
As you can see from the couple of chemicals that we've been able
to identify from photos taken by the DEP and the corresponding
MSDS sheets we were able to obtain online from the chemical
manufacturer's website, highly toxic cancer causing chemicals were
identified on site.
Moreover, the DEP's proposed testing is way too shallow to
effectively detect the potential contamination from fracking-type
activities undertaken since it would be from the up-welling of
contaminates beneath our drinking water aquifers.
Our hydrogeologist, whose expert opinion I have provided you
today on the DEP groundwater sampling plan, states that these
monitoring wells are only effective at monitoring for potential
surficial contamination, with all but one being only 3 to 13 feet deep.
Since this potential contamination would be coming from below
our public water supply sources, the groundwater monitoring should
be at least right below the defined USDW, the underground source of
drinking water, which Dan A. Hughes' own consultant, Schlumberger,
defined at 1,850 feet deep in this area; otherwise, it would have to
migrate upward and contaminate all of the public water supply source
aquifers to be detected at 13 feet deep.
Additionally, DEP should be sampling as deep as possible within
the boreholes of Well 86 and Well 103 to below the boulder zone at
3,500 feet where detecting contamination from the potential upward
migration of fracking-type fluids would be best detected. Instead,
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DEP has only proposed one deeper well near Borehole 86, and that is
still too shallow at only 400 feet. DEP has proposed no monitoring to
address the Borehole 103.
To strengthen the county's ability to get the safeguards its
seeking, we urge you to include the list of the additional enforcement
terms that we've compiled from experts and file an amended petition
as soon as possible, of which we have provided you an updated list
today of those recommended enforcement terms to include.
We also suggest that the commission might want to consider
hiring outside counsel with specific expertise in these oil extraction
and administrative hearing matters with -- and which does not have
any financial ties to Dan A. Hughes or the Collier Resource Company
to assist the county attorney in this case going forward.
Finally, it is counterproductive to the county's legal action and to
the commission -- there's a stated objective of an open, transparent
resolution to this matter that involves meaningful public engagement
-- for there to be any further private communications with county staff
or individual commissioners outside commission meetings with the
DEP and outside the public administrative hearing process.
Therefore, we urge you, as a board, to publicly affirm that future
discussions related to the resolution of this matter will be limited to
those two forums as you have previously stated you are committed to
doing.
We, again, thank you for taking this necessary legal action on
behalf of Collier County citizens, and we will do everything in our
power to support you in this effort.
And I would add that we just learned that -- Barron Collier
contacted us about a press conference that is happening shortly at
2:30, or was intended to be at 2:30 on the Hogan Island site by the --
hosted by the DEP. We have learned that either that has been
canceled or relocated because the DEP did not get permission from
Collier Resources to have the press conference on that property.
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So they have declined that, and that has been relocated, as well as
the press conference that DEP has announced that will be taking place
tomorrow at 10 a.m.
So I think this, again, evidences the lack of communication and
coordination amongst the parties and, again, gives us pause and
concern about the open, transparent nature, because now the public
does not have information to participate or attend, to hear the press
comments that the DEP staff will be giving.
So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have, and
we've provided supporting documentation for all the things that we
referenced in our folder and have emailed you as well.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Next speaker?
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker Joe Mule. He'll be followed
by Dr. John Dwyer.
MR. MULE: Good afternoon. Thank you very much.
To clarify, as I stepped out a moment ago, the press conference
for tomorrow has officially been canceled, and the one for -- the press
conference, I'm sorry, for today has been canceled, and tomorrow
they've rescheduled it for a different location.
This all just makes me feel like I'm a kid in front of the TV and
I'm watching the Keystone Cops. I hate to say it, but I see people
running around and nothing really being accomplished.
They're not speaking to each other, as Jennifer said. There is no
communication. I understand now that earlier today Collier Resources
said that they want to be involved in the water monitoring. That's
great as long as it is an independent company that is doing it and
someone that is not beholden to Collier Enterprises or Collier
Resources.
The severity of this thing is such that I can't understand why the
DEP is taking the actions that they are. I was perplexed before with
everything that they were doing. I'm even more perplexed right now
because they're doing things -- actions that have no sense whatsoever
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to set press conferences, stop them at the last minute, to say that
they're going to hold this commission hostage that if you-all were to
do what you did, which is to file to stop this, saying that they would
stop enforcement action against Hughes Oil Company. That is wrong.
I don't know how else to say it. I have a lot of things I could say, but
that's just inherently wrong.
These folks are not acting with the best interest of the people of
Collier County. They're acting with the best interest of Hughes Oil
Company and the folks from Collier Resources and Collier
Enterprises.
That's just not what they have been taxed to do, and I'm very
fortunate to have moved to Collier County where I see that you-all do
really take an interest in the community and the people that you
represent that are your neighbors, your friends, and your family as
well.
I ask that you continue to do what you're doing, that you please
hold their feet to the fire, you do not allow them to continue with any
more shenanigans, that if they try, put a stop to it.
They will continue to try to contact you personally and
individually. They will continue to do whatever they feel is in the best
interest of those select individuals that I mentioned, Hughes and
Collier Resources, and there is nothing more that they want than to
keep us all out of the picture, because they know that we have become
a force that represents the community at large.
And the people do not want this to continue. The people have had
enough. We've seen what these people can do. They break the law,
and then they try to get away with it continuously.
Thank you very much. I appreciate your time today and your
consideration. Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Dr. John Dwyer. He'll be
followed by Dr. Karen Dwyer.
DR. JOHN DWYER: Two weeks ago my sternly chastised
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remarks to you were about why we cannot wait.
I exhorted you to stay the course because, as I suggested, there
might be wavering on the part of this commission to stand steadfast in
our challenge to the consent order for Dan Hughes.
However, Mr. Scott was preparing Mr. Vinyard leading a
perfidious and expensive blitz to undermine us with their private
settlements.
The DEP does have one infuriating expertise. Psyops for crowd
control. Today it seems to that the battle is taking place both here and
at the Corkscrew well site, despite Blake Gable's late disinvite.
Our demand for revocation of the permit is brushed aside.
Despite our power of home rule in the Sunshine, four-fifths of the
commission are, likewise, brushed aside.
What can we do? First, we must not believe that the FDEP has
the integrity or even the know-how to test or monitor our waters
adequately. Duke University does.
Second, we must not weaken our petition after what Mr. Vinyard
and his men are doing but should, rather, strengthen it. You allowed
for modifications.
Third, we must not accept the offer of three more public
meetings. They will obscure the dangers of Hughes drilling and their
trucking off-site the flow back materials. Surface fluids
mismanagement might have contaminated the surficial aquifer but also
endangered the lower Sunniland, the Sandstone, and the Hawthorne
aquifers.
Collier County's water is not all on the surface. Tight rock will
not protect us. And neither the state nor DC will protect us. We must
do it ourselves.
Stay the course, Commissioners. Remain steadfast. We cannot
wait. Corkscrew well is the first of many that are now being planned.
Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Dr. Karen Dwyer. She'll be
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followed by Vern Hammett.
DR. KAREN DWYER: Make no mistake, we want a public
hearing, not private settlement.
Imagine our concern when we heard about the private late-night
meeting with Secretary Vinyard followed by a DEP press release
calling, yet again, for private settlement.
The commissioners were right to reject a secret closed-door
settlement with the DEP and file for a public hearing. We need
government transparency and full disclosure, especially because the
DEP kept secret the illegal fracking and criminal noncompliance of
Dan A. Hughes for months through all the key state and federal
hearings.
We need a full and fair and public investigation of Dan A.
Hughes just as United States Senator Bill Nelson ordered and as a
commissioner's legal challenge promises.
The consent order needs to be challenged, overturned, and then
renegotiated. The DEP and we know that the terms failed to safeguard
Collier's drinking water from the potential contamination that resulted.
How dare the DEP accuse the commissioners of thwarting
enforcement action when they were on site during the illegal fracking
and failed to notify the county, failed to call for immediate water tests,
and failed to compel compliance?
It is the DEP and Hughes who have put the public at risk, not the
commissioners. Only a legal challenge will give us the transparency,
full disclosure, verifiable evidence, enforcement terms, and revocation
we need to stop the illegal activity from happening again and again.
The Hogan well is a test case. It will set a standard for the
hundreds of wells to follow on the 450,000 acres targeted for new
extreme Everglades drilling and seismic testing. We cannot let this
grave violation slide for the sake of getting along with the state agency
that has, for six long months, suppressed information.
Even yesterday the DEP talked around questions rather than
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answering them. They refused to answer, is the Hogan well acid
fracked. And why is this a threat to groundwater? And why is the
DEP taking action now rather than six months ago?
The DEP also said the rock is considered tight, contradicting their
previous statement that it's highly fractured and fissured. The point is
we need the clarity and close scrutiny of a public hearing.
Your petition is strong, especially your call for revocation. Stand
by it. It can be made even stronger by adding further stipulations by
county staff and the Conservancy.
Your lawsuit has compelled the DEP to start water testing. That
is good news. The problem is that water tests are complicated.
Without knowing where and what to test for, the DEP could come up
with a false negative, as Commissioner Coyle said.
So concerns remain about the veracity of the DEP test, given the
complexity of accurately testing for 7,000 fracking fluids.
I spoke with Professor Rob Jackson from Duke University
yesterday, and he verified that testing requires geological studies and
sampling schemes that could take up to a year. So we're just asking,
in closure, multiple independent third-party experts as well.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Your time is up.
DR. KAREN DWYER: Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next public speaker is Vern Hammett.
He'll be followed by Jeanie Van Arsdale.
MR. HAMMETT: Good afternoon. My name is Vern Hammett.
I really appreciate the opportunity to speak this afternoon.
I think it goes without saying that development in Collier County
is booming, and that in and of itself is really great news; however,
there's a particular category that I'm really concerned as a Collier
resident, and that's the growth of service stations in our area.
The stations that we're most familiar with are the ones that we see
in our communities. They typically have six to 12 pumps, have a
convenience store that is consistent with that capacity; however,
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there's a trend towards ever larger stations. And the EPA's defined a
large station as one that pumps in the neighborhood of 3.6 million
gallons a year, and that's actually 2 million more than the one that I've
just described.
And, actually, believe it or not, there's a trend towards even
larger stations, and they're called mega-stations, and they pump in the
neighborhood of over 3.6 million up to 20 million.
We typically see these adjacent to highways in service areas.
They typically have 24 pumps, 6,000 square feet of retail space, and
they're situated on two-and-a-half to 3 acres of land.
What's surprising and interesting is that these mega-stations are
migrating into our built-up communities in our towns and cities, and
that's cause for great concern.
The mode of operation for these types of stations is completely
different than the ones that we see in our community, not to mention
the impact on adjacent land use. And, of course, what I'm talking
about is the increase in traffic, the environmental concerns, both from
a water and air-pollution standpoint. Our quality-of-life issues,
particularly if they're located adjacent to residential areas, the increase
in noise and lighting, and not to mention the possible stress on our
smaller local businesses.
I think also what needs to be taken into consideration is the
aesthetic. You know, these things are enormous facilities that can
really dictate the character for the neighboring area.
So with that being said, there are actually mega-stations in the
pipeline in our growth management department. And based on the
conversations that I'm having with our planners, it's become very, very
apparent that our Land Development Code is completely obsolete for
these types of stations.
And so what I'm asking from you guys is to consider a
moratorium on new station applications so that the Land Development
Code can be revisited, revised to consider these mega-stations,
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particularly with restrictions when they're located adjacent to
residential areas.
Thanks for your time.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Jeanie Van Arsdale. She'll
be followed by Eric Donihoo.
MS. VAN ARSDALE: Here are the concerns with a mega gas
station abutting --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Can you speak into the mike?
MS. VAN ARSDALE: Sony.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's okay. Thanks.
MS. VAN ARSDALE: Here are the concerns with a mega gas
station abutting a residential property.
Number one, pumping nine to 10 millions (sic) of gas a year adds
to poor air quality for the neighboring homes, which then becomes a
public health risk.
Mega gas stations require complex traffic management. This is
already visible on Airport Road, and the station hasn't even opened
yet.
Mega gas stations have a greater effect on property values of the
adjacent home. With all of this, eventually -- with all of this, what is
eventually created are legal and regulatory considerations for local
government.
A moratorium among gas stations is a push on the pause button
while the Collier County legal department can redefine, quote, gas
station. The mega gas station is a new entity; not a bad entity, but one
that must be defined within our future zoning.
By placing a moratorium on all gas stations until definitions are
in place, we are looking into the future. According to an article in the
Naples news dated April 11th, one petroleum company plans to build
six or more stations in Collier and Southern Lee in the next year or
two. It already has four stations under construction in Collier and Lee.
Please consider a moratorium on new service station applications
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until the code can be revisited by the legal department.
Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Eric Donihoo. He'll be
followed Alexis Meyer.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Hiller has a question
for Ms. Van Arsdale.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Jeff? No, for Jeff.
Can you legally impose a moratorium on something that's
permitted by the LDC at this time?
MR. KLATZKOW: The problem with this request is it's aimed
at a specific application that's now pending. I'm a little bit leery about
that.
MS. VAN ARSDALE: I would exclude the current application.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Can you -- hang on a second.
MR. KLATZKOW: If we're excluding the current application,
I'd want to come back to you on that. I mean, there's all kinds of issues
on moratoriums.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Could you address that question
and research that question?
MR. KLATZKOW: If I've got three commissioners who want to
consider a moratorium on gas stations, I'd be happy to do it.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I think we need to know whether
or not there's a -- I mean, I'm not -- I don't know whether we should or
shouldn't, and I don't know that much about these mega-stations. I
know that there's a great deal of concern, and we're getting a lot of
emails.
I think we should just -- I think we need to have more
information to find out, you know, what we legally can or can't do.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, we're getting a lot of emails on
one particular site. That's what we're getting, not the issue of
moratorium --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: But I think --
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- on, you know, gas stations or mega
gas stations.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: But I think the issue is is that -- we
may be getting emails right now on a particular site, but there's
reference to another site that has already been developed with a
mega-station.
So, in other words, it appears that this is one of many coming
forward. And it may be that the board wants to accept, you know, that
type of station in this community, or it may be that it doesn't. But I
think we need to know, you know, what our legal rights are and how
we can address it regard -- how we can address this issue regardless of
which path we take.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coyle, Commissioner
Fiala.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: There's another question that,
perhaps, we could answer and provide us with sufficient guidance, and
that's the question, do we have sufficient discretionary authority to
disapprove a gas station that is considered to be incompatible with the
existing neighborhood or community?
MR. KLATZKOW: It's going to depend upon the zoning. You
have far more on a rezoning. That's where one of the criteria come in.
But if you've got straight zoning, and that is a permitted right --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: You can't.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- it never even comes to you.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: And that's, you know, the issue
that we always face with these kind of situations.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Then I think we need some
information on a moratorium.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I totally agree. I've already called
upon Nick; I've put it in writing as well as spoken to him a couple
times, and I've also spoken to the county attorney. We do have an
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aging zone -- we do have aging zoning laws in place right now. They
-- when they were put in place 20, 25 years ago, nobody ever even had
heard of a gargantuan gas station. It was never even in the thought
process, especially when the C4 backs right up to residential.
We need to address that, and we need to address it quickly and
bring our zoning rules into place for the LDC.
So maybe -- you know, if you feel that a moratorium can be put
in place until we get that job done and if it's legally permissible,
maybe we should consider that.
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, it's not just gas stations, though. I
mean, if you're talking about impacts on --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Wal-Mart.
MR. KLATZKOW: Exactly, Wal-Mart. If you're talking about
impacts on residential neighborhoods, it's -- there's a whole galaxy of
intensified uses out there --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's right.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- that your Land Development Code never
thought about 20, 30, 40 years ago.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's exactly right. Some of them
-- for instance, there's one that's being built in an ideal spot right on
Airport Road. It's a great big mega-station, right? It doesn't bother a
soul because it's good for business, it's in a location where
businesses/industries can get to it easily, and it's -- it's in a fine
location.
Whereas, when it's backed right up to -- I mean, at the edge of
their property line are residential neighborhoods, and it will affect
them -- and I'm talking 24 hours a day, sounds, noises, beep, beep,
beeping of the backup delivery trucks all night long, that's a whole
horse of a different color. And we need to address that for them.
This is what we commissioners are here for, to protect our
community, to protect our residents, and at the same time, to work
with businesses. And I think we can do that, and we can put together
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a sensible way of addressing this that will answer the needs in both of
those areas. But we need to get it done quickly.
MR. KLATZKOW: And what you're getting at is your straight
zoning areas, not your rezones.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Right.
MR. KLATZKOW: Your straight zoning areas. And what you're
really saying is that, okay, it used to be for C3 zoning we would allow
these types of uses. Well, instead of that, you're now going to have to
be in C4 for these types of uses. That's really what you're saying.
You're saying -- you've moving permitted uses from one zoning
district into a different zoning district.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Or, alternatively, as a conditional
use.
MR. KLATZKOW: Or alternatively as a conditional use. But
that's going to take your staff a lot of time to go through and analyze.
I mean, there's a difference between six lanes on Pine Ridge Road and,
you know, East Tamiami Trail right now.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No, there is no difference. Both of
them are six-lane.
We have a time-certain at 1 :30.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: We're going to --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: You have somebody.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah, like it was said, we have a
time-certain at 1 :30. We're going to suspend public comments until
after we're done with that, okay.
Leo?
Item #9B
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2001-09, THE
PINE RIDGE CENTER WEST PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT
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BY AMENDING SECTION 3.3, PERMITTED USES, TO ADD AS
A PERMITTED USE NEW AND USED CAR DEALERSHIPS;
AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THE SUBJECT
PROPERTY, CONSISTING OF 8.87+/- ACRES, IS LOCATED
SOUTH OF PINE RIDGE ROAD AND EAST OF LIVINGSTON
ROAD IN SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 26
EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA - WITHDRAWN BY THE
PETITIONER'S AGENT DURING THE MEETING
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, Item 9B requires ex parte disclosure
be provided by commission members, and all participants are required
to be sworn in.
This is a recommendation to approve an ordinance amending
Ordinance No. 2001-09, the Pine Ridge Center West planned unit
development by amending Section 3.3, permitted uses, to add as a
permitted new use -- excuse me -- a permitted use new- and used-car
dealerships, and providing an effective date.
The subject property consisting of 8.87 plus-or-minus acres is
located south of Pine Ridge Road and east of Livingston Road in
Section 18, Township 49 south, Range 26 east, Collier County,
Florida.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Anybody or all wanting to
participate in this discussion, would you please rise, raise your right
hand, and allow the court reporter to swear you in.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Ex parte communication by
board members, starting with Commissioner Nance.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes, Mr. Chairman. I have
reviewed the staff report on this item, I've had meetings with Mr.
Pires, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Richter, and Mr. Pezeshkan on this item.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Commissioner Hiller?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yes. I have had -- I've reviewed
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the staff report, I've had meetings with Mr. Casalanguida, I've had
emails, and I've had calls, I think, with everybody. No, actually I
haven't had any calls with Mr. Pires, but he did send correspondence
to me regarding his client.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: I received an email from Tony, I met
with Mr. Anderson, Mr. Pezeshkan, Junior and Senior, Mr. Richter. I
spoke to staff about this, and I think that's the only correspondence I
have. The rest of it's in my communications file.
Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. I, too, had meetings,
correspondence, emails, and a staff report. I have spoken to staff,
actually, a few times on this. Staff meeting, not only people in growth
management but also our county manager and our county attorney.
I've talked with Fred Pezeshkan and with Garrett Richter, I've also
spoken to Bruce Anderson on a couple of occasions, plus I called him.
I also spoke with Tony Pires and -- gosh, I can't remember who else
was in the room. But, anyway, I did speak with more, but I've got
them all in my file just in case I've forgotten to mention somebody.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Yeah. I met with all those people,
too. They make all the rounds. So I've talked with them, and I read
the staff reports. I have emails and correspondence, and it's all in my
correspondence file.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Can I? I have to restate my
statement, because I thought I spoke to everyone. But based on all the
people you spoke to, I spoke to fewer people than you. So I have to
retract my statement, because I spoke to Bruce Anderson, Garrett
Richter, Fred Pezeshkan, Jane with Agnoli Barber, Rick with Agnoli
Barber, and that's it.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Mr. Anderson, do you have
any ex parte communication you'd like to give?
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MR. ANDERSON: I believe you-all have covered it sufficiently.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: All right.
MR. ANDERSON: Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and
Commissioners. My name is Bruce Anderson from the Roetzel &
Andress law firm.
In 2010 our client, Robert Germane, Germane Real Estate
Company, LLC, purchased Tracts B and E in the Pine Ridge Center
West PUD from the Pine Ridge Investors, LLC, for the sole purpose
of constructing a new-car dealership on the property.
The Pine Ridge Center West PUD is located in an interstate
interchange activity center which is intended to allow for this type of
use. It is a highly sought after location in the industry with easy
access to the highway.
The proposed use of this property as a new-car dealership was
acknowledged by Pine Ridge Investors of Naples, LLC, prior to the
purchase.
In 2011 my client brought the Pine Ridge Center West PUD
amendment application forward. The application went through the
neighborhood information meeting process, the Planning Commission
twice. A second Planning Commission hearing was scheduled after a
meeting with the First National Bank of Gulf Coast Executives on the
east side of the building to work out any issues per the direction of the
Planning Commission. It was then scheduled on the Board of County
Commissioners' agenda.
Due to the auto industry market conditions, our client made a
decision to withdraw the item and wait for market conditions to
improve.
Prior to withdrawal, our team and our client made multiple
attempts to work out any objections with neighboring property owners
to the east, First National Bank of the Gulf Coast. I, personally, was
not involved with the project at that time.
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In April 2011 we received a no-objection letter from Kraft Office
Center, LLC. The Brynwood PUD, which is just west of our site, was
under PUD zoning review at the time that the application was
withdrawn. They had attempted to include new-auto dealerships in
their PUD application submittal and, in fact, it was filed that way.
The Brynwood PUD's use for auto sales was contingent if the
Pine Ridge Center West PUD amendment was approved for an auto
dealership, since the Brynwood PUD is located outside the activity,
unlike my client's property.
During the past few years, the market has improved. In July
2013 my client requested from Pine Ridge Investors of Naples, LLC,
an extension on the time period in which Germane Real Estate
Company, LLC, had to initiate improvements on the property, which
was granted.
Also, in 2013, our client decided to bring the application forward
again since the market seemed to be improving.
We submitted our application, notified all surrounding neighbors,
had the neighborhood information meeting, and received a unanimous
vote of the approval from the Planning Commission.
Our application incorporated all of the concessions from a 2011
PUD amendment submittal along with additional concessions that
came out of the most recent neighborhood information meeting and
the Planning Commission meeting, along with adding additional
buffers along the Brynwood PUD side.
During this submittal, current submittal, we have received
objections from the First National Bank of the Gulf Coast, C12 Bank,
which owns or controls the Brynwood PUD, and Pine Ridge Investors
of Naples, LLC, who sold our client the property with the knowledge
and intention of constructing a new-auto dealership on the site.
Our team has reviewed all of the objections, and we strongly
disagree with all of them. This petition was continued multiple times
not because of our client, but because your staff requested it.
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Our client has been more than patient with bringing his petition
forward for County Commission review. Staff has recommended
approval of this petition consistently.
We have to remember that this property is in an interstate
interchange activity center, not a high-end office park, which was
stated numerous times in previous hearings and meetings.
Our understanding is that the First National Bank of the Gulf
Coast was presented a concept plan of an office park when they
purchased their property, but the Pine Ridge Center West PUD has
many approved commercial uses in the existing approved PUD.
Also, all of the allowed uses stated in the prospectus were
presented to the purchasers of the Pine Ridge Center PUD and Pine
Ridge Center West PUD. For example, in the subject PUD, an auto
parts store, lawn and garden supply, lawnmower repair, contractors'
offices, and tire stores are all uses which are permitted as a matter of
right.
With this said, our client would like to respectfully withdraw this
petition and pursue a development consistent with one or more of the
existing approved PUD uses.
Thank you for your time.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Wait. Are you saying you're
withdrawing this petition?
MR. ANDERSON: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So, really, there's no need for any
more discussion.
MR. ANDERSON: No.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: There's no vote. There's nothing.
MR. ANDERSON: Thank you very much.
MR. MILLER: I do have registered public speakers for the item,
sir.
MR. KLATZKOW: But there's no item.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: We don't have an item.
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MR. MILLER: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: How can we get everybody to do
this? Try to use oil.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Like the barber says, who's next?
Item #9A
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 04-41,
AS AMENDED, THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND
DEVELOPMENT CODE, WHICH INCLUDES THE
COMPREHENSIVE LAND REGULATIONS FOR THE
UNINCORPORATED AREA OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA,
BY PROVIDING FOR: SECTION ONE, RECITALS; SECTION
TWO, FINDINGS OF FACT; SECTION THREE, ADOPTION OF
AMENDMENTS TO THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, MORE
SPECIFICALLY AMENDING THE FOLLOWING: CHAPTER
ONE - GENERAL PROVISIONS, INCLUDING SECTION 1 .08.02
DEFINITIONS; CHAPTER TWO - ZONING DISTRICTS AND
USES, INCLUDING SECTION 2.03.01 AGRICULTURAL
DISTRICTS, SECTION 2.03.03 COMMERCIAL ZONING
DISTRICTS, SECTION 2.03.04 INDUSTRIAL ZONING
DISTRICTS, SECTION 2.03.07 OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICTS;
CHAPTER THREE - RESOURCE PROTECTION, INCLUDING
SECTION 3.05.02 EXEMPTIONS FROM REQUIREMENTS FOR
VEGETATION PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION, SECTION
3.05.05 CRITERIA FOR REMOVAL OF PROTECTED
VEGETATION, SECTION 3.05.07 PRESERVATION
STANDARDS; CHAPTER FOUR - SITE DESIGN AND
DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, INCLUDING SECTION 4.01 .02
KITCHENS IN DWELLING UNITS, SECTION 4.02.01
DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS FOR PRINCIPAL USES IN BASE
ZONING DISTRICTS, SECTION 4.02.03 SPECIFIC STANDARDS
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FOR LOCATION OF ACCESSORY BUILDINGS AND
STRUCTURES, SECTION 4.02. 16 DESIGN STANDARDS FOR
DEVELOPMENT IN THE BAYSHORE GATEWAY TRIANGLE
REDEVELOPMENT AREA, SECTION 4.06.02 BUFFER
REQUIREMENTS; CHAPTER FIVE - SUPPLEMENTAL
STANDARDS, INCLUDING SECTION 5.03.02 FENCES AND
WALLS, EXCLUDING SOUND WALLS, SECTION 5.03.03
GUESTHOUSES, SECTION 5.03.05 CARETAKER RESIDENCES,
5.04.04 MODEL HOME AND MODEL SALES CENTERS,
SECTION 5.04.05 TEMPORARY EVENTS, SECTION 5.06.00
SIGN REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS BY LAND USE
CLASSIFICATION, SECTION 5.06.02 DEVELOPMENT
STANDARDS FOR SIGNS WITHIN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS,
SECTION 5.06.04 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR SIGNS IN
NONRESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS, SECTION 5.06.05
EXEMPTIONS FROM THESE REGULATIONS, SECTION
5.06.06 PROHIBITED SIGNS, SECTION 5.06.09
NONCONFORMING SIGNS; CHAPTER SIX -
INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS AND ADEQUATE
PUBLIC FACILITIES REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING SECTION
6.06.02 SIDEWALKS, BIKE LANE AND PATHWAY
REQUIREMENTS; CHAPTER NINE - VARIATIONS FROM
CODE REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING SECTION 9.03.03 TYPES
OF NONCONFORMITIES; CHAPTER TEN - APPLICATION,
REVIEW, AND DECISION-MAKING PROCEDURES,
INCLUDING SECTION 10.02.08 REQUIREMENTS FOR
AMENDMENTS TO THE OFFICIAL ZONING ATLAS, SECTION
10.02. 13 PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD)
PROCEDURES, SECTION 10.03.05 REQUIRED METHODS OF
PROVIDING PUBLIC NOTICE, SECTION 10.03.06 PUBLIC
NOTICE AND REQUIRED HEARINGS FOR LAND USE
PETITIONS; SECTION FOUR, ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS
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TO THE COLLIER COUNTY ZONING ATLAS, MORE
SPECIFICALLY AMENDING THE FOLLOWING: ZONING MAP
NUMBER 0502S TO REZONE VARIOUS PROPERTIES
LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF DAVIS BOULEVARD
(SR-84) FROM AIRPORT-PULLING ROAD (CR-31) WEST TO
THE NAPLES CITY LIMIT, FROM C-4 GENERAL
COMMERCIAL AND C-5 HEAVY COMMERCIAL TO C-4-
GTMUD-MXD AND C-5-GTMUD-MXD (GATEWAY
TRIANGLE MIXED USE OVERLAY DISTRICT - MIXED USE
SUBDISTRICT); SECTION FIVE, CONFLICT AND
SEVERABILITY; SECTION SIX, INCLUSION IN THE COLLIER
COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE; AND SECTION
SEVEN, EFFECTIVE DATE - MOTION TO CONTINUE
(WITHOUT LDC SECTION 5.04.05 AMENDMENT) TO THE
JULY 8TH BCC MEETING FOR THE SECOND PUBLIC
HEARING — APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Item 9A would be next, Mr. Chairman. That is a
recommendation to consider a series of Cycle 1 amendments to your
Land Development Code.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: What item are we going to, County
Manager?
MR. OCHS: This is 9A, sir.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: 9H?
MR. OCHS: 9A; 9 alpha.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Nine alpha.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Your Land Development Code.
MR. OCHS: These are amendments to your Land Development
Code. Ms. Caroline Cilek will present.
MS. CILEK: Good afternoon. It's so nice to see you so early
this afternoon. Caroline Cilek, land development coordinator with the
growth management division.
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And I'm here to present the 2014 LDC Amendment Cycle Level
1 amendments. Many of these amendments originate from the
prioritized list that was approved by the board last October. Not all of
the amendments identified as Level 1 are ready for adoption today, but
we will be returning in the next amendment cycle.
There is an agenda in your LDC binders, and I will be presenting
amendments by category as listed in the agenda.
At the end of my presentation of the LDC amendments, I do have
a brief PowerPoint that I would like to pull up and talk about
regarding temporary markets.
Because we are proposing changes to the permitted, conditional,
and prohibited uses of several zoning categories, the Land
Development Code requires that amendments are considered at two
board hearing dates. To fulfill this requirement, I will be back on July
8th to present the amendments for the second hearing.
If it pleases the board, I will begin with the agenda and provide a
brief description of each amendment, answer any questions, and then
request a vote for each amendment.
May I proceed?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Can we approve all of them at one
time?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yeah. Well, that's my question.
Do we have to have a discussion on each individual amendment and a
presentation? I mean, everything is clearly documented.
MR. KLATZKOW: No. The primary purpose of having
multiple hearings is for the public to appear.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: For public input?
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes. You could just, in one motion, accept
all of them.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Do we have to have a presentation
on each amendment'?
MR. KLATZKOW: No, ma'am.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Okay. I think it's important that
we allow the public to speak.
MS. CILEK: I can also present the amendments by category and
highlight several, if you have -- and answer any questions if you have
any.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, my concern is I want to hear
from the public.
MS. CILEK: Okay.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So, I mean, I've read the material.
I don't need to hear you repeat what I've read.
MS. CILEK: Okay.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: And it's all in our backup.
MS. CILEK: It is.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I mean, I'd like to hear whatever
the public has to say. That's what the purpose of the hearing is.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance, are you okay
waiting for the public?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Troy?
MR. MILLER: We have two registered speakers. Your first
speaker is Bruce Anderson, and he'll be followed by Anthony Pires.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: They're gone.
MR. ANDERSON: I thought that we might hear from the staff
before you went to the public speakers.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I want to hear from you, because I
didn't get to hear from you. I was expecting to have at least two hours
of the sound of your voice.
MR. ANDERSON: You will have another opportunity this
afternoon.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Okay.
MR. ANDERSON: Let's hold that thought.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Bruce, you want to compose yourself
first?
MR. ANDERSON: No, no. I didn't think you were calling
public speakers already. I'll waive my time.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Are you waiving your time?
MR. ANDERSON: Yeah. I wanted to hear what staff had to say
before I spoke.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. You're waiting till afterwards
to make your decision whether you want to speak?
MR. ANDERSON: Yes, sir; yes, sir. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Is that true with Tony, too?
MR. PIRES: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I never saw a lawyer come up to a
microphone before and say "I'll waive my time for now."
MR. PIRES: And Bruce and I together at the same time.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I see you didn't say you're going to
waive your fee.
MR. ANDERSON: No. I mean, am I going to be given the
opportunity to speak after staff?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Absolutely.
MR. ANDERSON: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Except --
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I have a question.
MR. ANDERSON: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Do you agree or disagree with the
recommendations here? And if you disagree, how are you going to
express that disagreement if you don't do it before we vote?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: We didn't say that.
MR. ANDERSON: Well, I'm hoping that I will have the
opportunity to be sandwiched in somewhere between the end of the
staff presentation and your vote.
MR. KLATZKOW: But if they just make a motion to accept,
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you're done. You're not going to hear from staff.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: And the presentation will be over.
COMMISSIONER HILLER The point being is that what we
had said, Bruce -- what I had said was -- I mean, we have reviewed the
material.
MR. ANDERSON: Okay.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: The purpose of this hearing is to
hear from the public, not to hear from staff to just repeat what's
written, so --
MR. ANDERSON: Okay.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's why I suggested that we do
the public comment, because it's the most important part, which is
why we invited the public speakers to come up and speak at this time.
MR. ANDERSON: Okay. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Would you like to speak?
MR. ANDERSON: No. I waive my -- thank you.
MS. CILEK: If I may, is there any questions that you have about
one of the amendments? And I can provide information.
MR. ANDERSON: Thank you. That will be great. I'll be in
touch.
MS. CILEK: Oh, okay.
MR. PIRES: I have nothing further to add also either. Accept all
the changes.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: I have questions on one of the items,
and that is the special events. Is that what -- I'm probably not saying
that right.
MR. DURHAM: Temporary events.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Temporary events.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Temporary events.
MS. CILEK: Temporary markets?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: You know, in my opinion we need to
separate this issue. We're getting more -- some of them are more like
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a flea market or something that should be an established business
within a commercial zone in a building, and then we've got the issue
of farmers' markets.
MS. CILEK: Sure.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Those issues -- that issue, or that
amendment, all that, I don't agree with the Planning Commission's
recommendations.
MS. CILEK: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: All that, I would like to put it in
abeyance and give staff direction to take a look at, A, what's a farmers'
market, and what's the appropriate places and how many of them and
-- versus a flea market to where they're selling clothes, Avon, trinkets,
so on and so forth, and where should that be permitted and, if we're
going to do it on a temporary use or whatever, that should be
addressed.
So that amendment I would like to move out. And Commissioner
Nance is in favor of that, Commissioner Fiala's in favor. So you have
a majority of that, to do that. Otherwise, I'm okay.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Mr. Chairman, I would make a
motion that we approve the amendments allowing designated ones to
be continued by the board for further discussion and development so
we can move this forward.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yes. And --
COMMISSIONER NANCE: And I would propose that we --
that we remove temporary events, 5.04.05, as an item that I would like
to see removed and maybe brought back under a separate agenda item
for additional consideration as well.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Correct. Separate land development,
whether it be special or the second cycle.
MS. CILEK: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And I have some questions. If
they're answered, I can go along with approving all the rest of them.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. We're going to recognize the
motion, and I'm going to second the motion for discussion and then go
to Commissioner Fiala for questions.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you. Just a few simple
questions, actually.
Commissioner Henning nailed one right on the head, and that is
the flea markets versus the farmers' markets or the combination of the
two, and I totally agree with everything he had to say about that.
But I had some other questions and just one little notation. On
Page 81 over here on one, two, three, four -- the fourth bullet down it
says "vegetation retention requirement of two acres or led," and I think
you mean "or less" from the criteria. You just need to --
MS. CILEK: May I ask what LDC amendment again?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Pardon me?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Which number?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's 3.5.7 -- or 3.05.07, and I just
thought you might want to just make sure that people understand that.
MS. CILEK: Sure.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala's looking at the
summary.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah.
MS. CILEK: Oh, okay. Gotcha.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Preservation standards.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. And it's just two acres or less,
just to correct that.
And then on Item No. 3.05.02, now we're talking about
vegetation requirements for -- rather, requirements for vegetation
protection, and I was just wondering, it says, "add additional
exemptions to vegetation removal permit." And I didn't know what
kind of exemptions, and I wanted to know also, remove the
requirement for replacement with native vegetation. I didn't know --
MS. CILEK: Sure.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: Wouldn't we want to make sure that
there was good vegetation following bad vegetation or what?
MS. CILEK: And I'm going to let Steve Lenberger, with the
natural resources department, answer your questions. He's the author
of the amendment.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you. Okay. I have a couple
more.
MR. LENBERGER: Stephen Lenberger, natural resources
department.
The one criteria for vegetation removal was replacing -- when
you remove nonnative vegetation, replacing it with native vegetation.
The only time we require that is when you're in a preserve, and that's
done through a preserve management plan, to have a homeowner --
for example, out in the Estates, you move an area of Melaleuca and
forcing to plant with vegetation. That's -- we're removing that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Very good. Thank you. That helps
me an awful lot. I appreciate that.
And let's see. That one was already answered by staff.
And here are two that kind of stick with me, and it's a little bit
odd. 2.03.03, commercial zoning districts. And in this particular one
it says, in order to provide -- what they want to do is add uses to
respective commercial zoning in order to provide additional
flexibility, and we're just dealing with some very flexible things right
now that are distasteful in some neighborhoods. And I'm thinking I
don't want to give any more flexibility when -- you know, if this is just
one subject, fine, but with this particular one, we might be giving too
much flexibility so that neighborhoods won't even be able to protect
themselves.
MS. CILEK: Do you have a specific concern about the
amendment regarding a --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm sorry?
MS. CILEK: Do you have a specific concern about a use we're
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proposing to add or a general question about --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I just wanted to -- do we really need
to add additional flexibility?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Didn't you list, like, additional
uses that might be considered?
MS. CILEK: Yes.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So it's not your -- they're not
giving blanket --
MS. CILEK: Correct.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It's just limiting it to certain types
of uses that have been found to be in demand. This was where -- we
had a situation where we're getting the same requests over and over
for changes to certain areas with the same types of uses, so just
incorporating that into those types of zoning segments.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah, but --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It doesn't consider the gas stations.
It would have no impact on that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I want them to tell me that it doesn't
do that.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Can you please state -- can you
please -- excuse me.
MR. OCHS: Yes, go ahead, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Could you please state on the
record that this does not allow for those mega-stations, that this is not
allowing flexibility for those mega-station.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, not only mega-stations, but
anything else also that might -- you know, this is to add uses to
respective commercial zoning districts within the conditional-use
section in order to provide for additional flexibility within zoning
district --
MS. CILEK: Right.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- use categories.
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COMMISSIONER HILLER: But you still have conditional-use
approval requirement of certain types of uses that keep recurring, but
it's not going to create --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Just as long as we're not opening up
another door and then further allowing things -- you know, we have to
also be protective, and I just wanted to make sure -- that then
somebody will say, well, you know, it's already allowed. We don't
even need to ask you for permission.
MS. CILEK: Two important things. We're adding uses to the
conditional-use section. So as Commissioner Hiller noted, these will
go through a public vetting process.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: We have to vote on it.
MS. CILEK: And then second, in addition to adding a use to the
conditional-use section of that category, zoning district category,
we've identified additional standards for the reviewing and the
approving agency to look at. So these are under extra scrutiny, those
that we've added.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Some of these -- some of these, like,
for instance, we'll just mention large gas stations. They don't even
have to go for approval because they're already approved because
there's -- the C-4 would include them. I'm afraid that something like
this will also happen in other categories. Not particularly gas stations;
anything.
MS. CILEK: No. Those are permitted uses by right.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: This is not permitted by right.
MS. CILEK: These are -- we're adding conditional uses, so these
do require the public process.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: And they require a supermajority
vote.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Chairman?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, okay. And then here further
on down, 2.03.03, commercial zoning districts again. It says -- and
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they're talking about C2, C3 permitted use with equal or greater square
footage without the need for a conditional-use application.
I just worry about how -- it's great that we're flexible, but how
much do we give before we start kicking ourselves in the foot?
MR. BOSI: Mike Bosi, the director of planning and zoning.
Last year -- this is -- that particular amendment was directed by
the Board of County Commissioners. It was related to Rex
Electronics' building.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, yeah.
MR. BOSI: It was a square-footage limitation --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That was a good thing.
MR. BOSI: -- for retail within the C3 zoning district. We said
for existing structures it makes no sense. It's already been amortized
at impact to the neighborhood; therefore, existing structures can move
forward beyond those express limitations.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: But that's just for that particular
one?
MR. BOSI: Yeah. That was the use that was directed by the
board.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: But it doesn't -- then doesn't lend
itself to every other same situation?
MR. BOSI: No. It's specifically unique to that situation of
existing structures -- of existing structures with the existing uses that
have the square-foot limitations and exemptions.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Not just for West, but for anybody?
MR. BOSI: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Anything?
MR. BOSI: Yes.
MS. CILEK: Existing structures.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm afraid we're getting ourselves
into a mess.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. You done?
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COMMISSIONER NANCE: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: All right. There's -- any further
discussion on --
MS. CILEK: I just wanted to know -- I did prepare a
presentation on temporary markets, but if you believe your direction
will put forward an LDC amendment, we'll work on that. Just wanted
to let you know --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: It sounds like the majority of the
commissioners have talked to --
MS. CILEK: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- staff.
MS. CILEK: Great.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And this is coming back to us. I've
talked with staff also.
MS. CILEK: Perfect, yes.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And so right now afterwards --
although I've already spoken with staff, two members actually,
different members, I should get to do that again one more time, but it
will come back.
So you'll -- I mean, we talked about it before, but just -- I need
some assurance. Thank you.
MS. CILEK: Sure.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. All in favor of the motion,
signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimously.
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MS. CILEK: Thank you, all.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Next item?
Item#8A
RESOLUTION 2014-140: A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONDITIONAL USE TO ALLOW
FOOD STORES WITH GREATER THAN 5,000 SQUARE FEET
OF GROSS FLOOR AREA IN THE PRINCIPAL STRUCTURE
(GROUPS 5411-5499); PERMITTED FOOD SERVICE (5812,
EATING PLACES) USES WITH MORE THAN 6,000 SQUARE
FEET OF GROSS FLOOR AREA IN THE PRINCIPAL
STRUCTURE; AND PERMITTED PERSONAL SERVICES,
VIDEO RENTAL OR RETAIL USES (EXCLUDING DRUG
STORES - 5912) WITH MORE THAN 5,000 SQUARE FEET OF
GROSS FLOOR AREA IN THE PRINCIPAL STRUCTURE,
WITHIN A COMMERCIAL INTERMEDIATE (C-3) ZONING
DISTRICT PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION 2.03.03.C. 1 .0 OF THE
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR
PROPERTY LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF U.S. 41, EAST
OF THE COLLIER BOULEVARD (C.R. 951) AND U.S. 41
INTERSECTION, IN SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 51 SOUTH,
RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA - ADOPTED
W/STIPULATIONS
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. That takes us to Item 8A. This also is an
item that requires ex parte disclosure and swearing of witnesses. It's a
recommendation to approve a resolution providing for the
establishment of a conditional use to allow food stores with greater
than 5,000 square feet of gross floor area in the principal structure,
permitted food service uses with more than 6,000 square feet of gross
floor area in the principal structure, and permitted personal services,
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video rental or retail uses with more than 5,000 square feet of gross
floor area in the principal structure within a commercial intermediate
C3 zoning district pursuant to Subsection 2.03.03.C.1.c of the Collier
County Land Development Code for property located on the north
side of U.S. 41, east of Collier Boulevard and U.S. 41 intersection.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Ex parte communication by board
members. Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Mr. Chairman, I have read the staff
report.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Hiller?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I read the staff report, I spoke to
Bruce Anderson, and I spoke to Nick Casalanguida.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: I spoke to staff on that.
Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. I've had correspondence, I've
had telephone calls, I've spoken with Bruce Anderson, and I've also
spoken with staff as well as read the staff report.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I met with Bruce Anderson on June
the 23rd, and I've read the May the 15th, 2014, staff report. I've also
received some correspondence concerning this issue. And that's pretty
much it.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Troy, do we have any public
speakers?
MR. MILLER: I do not have any registered speakers for this
item.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioners, this item, the staff is
recommending approval, the Planning Commission unanimously is
recommending approval. The only reason that it's on a regular agenda
is because there was one objection; however, that -- there's no public
speakers on this item.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Mr. Chairman, I move approval.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So I'm going to closing the public
hearing, and Commissioner Nance makes a motion to approve,
seconded by Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I just want to get one thing clearly
on the record, if I may.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yes, you may.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you. I just want to confirm
that what we are doing here is not increasing the intensity. We're just
allowing for a reallocation of the approved intensity within this project
so that they can have units that are larger.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: And that would have to be a question
for staff to answer.
MS. GUNDLACH: Do we need to be sworn in?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: You're going to be sworn in.
(The speaker was duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Don't say a word, Bruce, and we
won't swear you in. You know, I'm doing this because of your
previous item, how kind you were to us.
MS. GUNDLACH: Good afternoon, Commissioners. We are not
increasing the intensity.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you.
MS. GUNDLACH: Just the square footage.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any other questions?
MR. ANDERSON: I do have one item that Commissioner Fiala
had spoken to me about that I need to put on the record.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: For this item?
MR. ANDERSON: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Do you need to be sworn in?
(The speaker was duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
MR. ANDERSON: Commissioner Fiala and fellow
commissioners, there are two other prohibited uses that we are adding.
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We will prohibit pawn shops and, in addition to already prohibiting
the sale of adult merchandise, nor shall we allow any rentals.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Any what?
MR. ANDERSON: Rentals.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Rentals of what kind?
MR. ANDERSON: Of adult merchandise.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: No new- and used-auto sales, sir?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: What adult merchandise do you
rent?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So no -- so, wait a minute. Wait a
minute.
MR. ANDERSON: That's a question for staff.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So, I mean -- Bruce, no new and
used adult merchandise? No new and used adult merchandise.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And they don't mean used. They
possibly mean rental --
MR. ANDERSON: No new or rental.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Rental. Just checking.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: It's a bad crowd.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Commissioner Nance, you
want to include those prohibitions in your motion?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala, do you want to
approve those in your second?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: I think we're going to let that one lie
and just vote on the motion.
All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
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COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Opposed?
(No response.)
COMMISSIONER HILLER: And I actually commend --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimously.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I commend the petitioner for
including those limitations. Thank you.
MR. ANDERSON: Thank you.
Item #9D
ORDINANCE 2014-25: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 07-71, AS AMENDED, THE NAPLES
RESERVE GOLF CLUB RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT
DEVELOPMENT (RPUD), TO APPROVE THE EXCAVATION
AND OFF-SITE HAULING OF 1 ,050,000 CUBIC YARDS OF
FILL; TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE PRESERVE TRACT
AND ADD PERMITTED USES; TO AMEND THE RPUD
MASTER PLAN AND TO PROVIDE FOR AMENDMENTS TO
LIST OF DEVELOPER COMMITMENTS; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED
ONE MILE NORTH OF U.S. 41 AND 1-1/2 MILES EAST OF
COLLIER BOULEVARD (CR 951) IN SECTION 1 , TOWNSHIP
51 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
CONSISTING OF 688+/- ACRES (THIS IS A COMPANION TO
AGENDA ITEM #11B) - MOTION TO APPROVE W/CCPC
RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE STIPULATION THAT 750,000
CUBIC YARDS OF FILL IS HAULED OFF-SITE VIA
GREENWAY ROAD AND REMAINING 350,000 YARDS
REMOVED USING AN ALTERNATIVE ROUTE — ADOPTED
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MR. OCHS: That moves us to Item 9D, Mr. Chairman. This
item also requires ex parte disclosure to be provided, and all
participants are required to be sworn in.
This is a recommendation to approve an ordinance amending
Ordinance No. 07-71, as amended, the Naples Reserve Golf Club
residential planned unit development, to approve the excavation and
off-site hauling of 1,050,000 cubic yards of fill, to increase the size of
the preserve track, and add permitted uses to amend the RPUD master
plan and to provide for amendments to list of developer commitments,
and providing an effective date.
The subject property is located one mile north of U.S. 41 and
one-and-one-half miles east of Collier Boulevard in Section 1,
Township 51 south, Range 26 east, Collier County, Florida, consisting
of 688 plus-or-minus acres. This is a companion item to agenda Item
11B, which will be heard immediately after this item.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. We're going to swear anybody
and all that want to participate in this item. Would you please rise and
raise your right hand.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coyle, do you have
any ex parte on this item?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Just that I've read the staff report
dated May the 14th, 2014.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. I have certainly read the staff
report. I've spoken to staff about it. I've met with Rich Yovanovich
with the gentleman sitting next to him, but I can't remember your
name; I'm so sorry. But I spoke to you anyway. I've had some
correspondence, and I've spoken also to some Planning
Commissioners about this.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: I've spoken to staff on that. That's the
only ex parte I have.
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Commissioner Hiller? I think you gave your ex parte
communication in the beginning.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I did.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. I have read the staff report
and met and talked several times with Mr. Yovanovich on this item.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Mr. Chair?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: I failed to note that I also had met
with the petitioner, Mr. Yovanovich, concerning this item.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Go ahead; proceed.
MR. MULHERE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. For the record,
my name is Bob Mulhere with Hole Montes. I'm here this afternoon
on behalf of the applicant. Also with me this afternoon --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm sorry. I met with you, too;
sorry.
MR. MULHERE: Oh, that's okay. You did meet with me. You
forgot me -- is Don Mears, who's with iStar; and Rich Yovanovich
who's the Land-use Attorney on the project; Emilio Robau, directly
behind me, is the Civil Engineer; and behind him is Norm Trebilcock,
who is our Transportation Consultant.
I'll do a brief presentation, and then I'd like to ask Emilio to come
up and discuss a little bit about the operational aspects that are kind of
part and parcel of this application. They relate more to the excavation
permit, but I think it's all part and parcel; they're companion items.
The primary amendment here -- there were some other changes
to the PUD that were requested by staff which we've made, and they're
textual changes, but the significant change that we've requested is to
increase the amount of fill that could be excavated off site, fill
materials, by 650 cubic yards, for a total of 1,050,000 cubic yards.
Presently, the PUD allows for 400,000 cubic yards to be removed
from the site primarily in support of the U.S. 41 widening project.
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As we recognized that we would have significantly more fill --
and then also realized that there was a market for that fill very close to
our project site -- we achieved a determination that it would be
beneficial not only for the developer, not only for the other projects
that are near us that need the fill, but for the entire community, given
that they are now acquiring that fill or will be acquiring that fill from
some 25, 30, 35 miles away. So this will be very, very close.
And for that reason, one of the conditions we've agreed to was to
limit the circumference of our delivery -- a delivery circumference
limitation of no more than 10 miles from our site, although we believe
most of it will be even closer than that.
We had a neighborhood information meeting, and that was on
April 9th. There were four members of the public in attendance. My
recollection is that they were all from Reflection Lakes, which is the
community that's located very -- just below us.
And this is the subject site here, and this is Reflection Lakes right
here below us. And the primary access to Reflection Lakes is right
here, and our access point is right here. This is referred to as
Reflection Lakes Boulevard. I'm sorry, Naples Reserve Boulevard;
excuse me.
And you can see that there's conservation lands on both sides of
this entry road leading into our project.
The Planning Commission heard this item and recommended
approval by a vote of 6-1 . And the Planning Commission
recommendation has a number of additional conditions that we've
agreed to as it relates to this.
I mentioned a 10-mile radius. That's one of them. I mentioned
the maximum amount of fill being 1,050,000 cubic yards.
We've agreed to a two-year limitation with the ability to ask for
one additional year. If things are going well and we need a little bit
more time, we can come back to the Planning Commission and ask for
an extension of that two-year limitation.
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We've agreed to hours-of-operation limitations for truck hauling
and for operations. We've agreed to improve Greenway Road, which
will be our truck hauling route, both before we begin the excavation
and also after we've completed it, and we will improve that roadway
based on the design input from the staff.
We've agreed to a limit -- a maximum number of fill trucks of
140 exiting trips per day. And the -- from an operational perspective,
there will be no stacking of any trucks either -- on Greenway
Boulevard, so everything will be internalized to our site so there will
be no impacts in that respect on the roadway.
As I said, the Planning Commission heard this petition,
recommended approval by a vote of 6-1 . We don't have any letters of
objection. The staff is also recommending approval subject to the
Planning Commission recommendations.
Before we conclude, I'd like to have Emilio come up and discuss
the operational aspects of the excavation permit, and then we'd
respond to any questions that you might have.
MR. ROBAUGH: Good afternoon. For the record, my name is
Emilio Robau, professional engineer here in Collier County. Let me
put something up here real quick. Great.
What I'm going to speak about is the companion item, which is
the excavation permit that we'd like to get on the same agenda so we
can, you know, work out any of the details.
And what you see there is an 8-and-a-half-by-11 shrink of the
24-by-36 plan set, one of them, that goes with the excavation permit.
Really what you have -- except for the export of fill off site, you
have a standard development excavation permit. Our depth is 20 feet,
which is allowed in accordance with the Land Development Code
right now.
We switched from a golf course community to a more water
centric community, and that increased the size of the lakes, et cetera.
As a result, we have some excess fill. We also believe that it is better
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to dig deeper lakes, which gives you better water quality and clarity.
That's pretty much -- Harvey Harper calculations show you that. So
that's how we ended up with the amount of lake and the depth.
That produced an additional resource in the form of, you know,
dirt that can be shipped off site. I believe there's a significant public
benefit of keeping the trucks off of the roadways of a 39-mile or
25-mile haul, not to mention the bigger public benefits of carbon
footprint reduction, which a lot of people really don't talk about, but
I'm not afraid to say that. I think that's a really good thing. Basically
what we're trying to get is we're trying to get the source of the
resource distributed as close as possible from where we're getting it.
As stated, it's a million fifty (sic) cubic yards, and we'll talk a little bit
about the haul road.
Essentially, we did a little bit of study before we actually
proposed the haul road. I actually had Greenway Road videotaped. It
was on the last day or the next to the last day of school, because we
wanted to make sure that we captured whatever, you know, utilization
is being used by school buses, et cetera.
From my memory, essentially, we saw three bicyclists, but it was
actually two bicyclists. One of them came and went, and another one.
That was the extent of the cycling that we had. And we had video
cameras actually set up. This is before any of the submittals, even
before the first submittal. We had them set up on the very south side
of Greenway, at the intersection of Greenway and 41, and we had
them also set up at the very north side of Greenway where it actually
enters into the property.
The purpose of that was to actually get a videotape record of the
usage on the road and compatibility and who's actually using the road
right now. The only pedestrians that we saw out there -- and I took a
look at the videos -- were people that actually came to the camera to
see what we were doing.
So, essentially, I just want to kind of characterize what we have
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in the form of video is what was being used out there.
We saw a lot of-- I saw a lot of landscaping-type vehicles with
trailers. So, you know, essentially the roadway is already used by
truck traffic and, you know, duallies with the trailers and the type of
landscaping that you see.
Some of our commitments that we wanted to make upfront was
essentially we wanted to do a safety enhancement, what is essentially
a 20-foot-wide pavement section of Greenway Road and some rather
deep drainage ditches on each side which are actually pretty essential
for the area, because the area needs good drainage, the ag operations,
et cetera, so we didn't want to touch that.
On one side of Greenway we have some water lines that are right
up next to the road. The people who had improved Greenway before
us, which was the Habitat for Humanity property, did some drainage
improvements.
We ended up with committing to four additional feet of pavement
and shoulders, although they're minimal; they're 1-foot shoulders.
And that's all allowed because it's an existing condition, and we felt
that it was a safety enhancement.
And we're doing that prior to commencement of the hauling
operation. And, essentially, after the hauling operation, we're also
going to overlay the roadway to leave it in a better condition than we
found it when we are -- here today.
I just wanted to tack something else on that we saw in the
videotape. And I actually was out there myself, not only on the tape,
but I was out there looking for this. I ran out there to see when the
school buses came in and out, especially for the Habitat property.
And I can testify that the bus goes into the Habitat property, it has the
drop off inside the Habitat property, and then it exits. So it goes in on
the south side, and it exits on the north side.
We kind of knew that all this was going to be important, so we
tried to -- you know, to substantiate our position onto Greenway Road.
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We went to a neighborhood information meeting, and I'm sure
you've heard the concerns of the Reflection Lakes folks.
And I don't know if I've left anything out. I'm open to questions.
Oh, a couple of items, just operationally; sorry.
MR. OCHS: Use the hand-held mike, if you'd like. Just turn it
on and speak right into it. Get it close to your mouth.
MR. ROBAU: I got it. Thank you.
There's always been a concern about blasting operations, et
cetera, when you do any mining or any -- even residential, and I'm
pretty happy to say that all these lakes in here have already been
completed, and they're the ones that are closest to, you know, the
neighbors out there.
This area here is our stockpile area, which is sized for
approximately 660,000 cubic yards. We didn't know exactly how
much was being stockpiled at any one time. That's set so that the side
slopes are appropriate consistent with the Land Development Code.
We have a stacking area from here to here for our vehicles. It's
over a thousand feet long, so we know we can get people off of
Greenway Road.
And any crushing operation, which has already been a concern, is
limited to this area in the very northeast corner of the property. So --
and, of course, we have a berm around the entire property, and we're
going to have truck well wash-down areas, et cetera. It's standard
practice.
And that is the end of my presentation unless you have questions.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance, then
Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes, sir.
Could you put the previous illustration up there which shows the
-- kind of the community and the road in questions. Yes.
So we have Reflection -- we have the existing community of
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Reflection Lakes and then your Naples Reserve property, which is
under construction now; is that correct, sir?
MR. ROBAU: I'm sorry. Someone whispered in my ear. Say
that again. I apologize.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Oh, okay. No whispering.
We have the existing community of Reflection Lakes at present,
and then we have the community under construction now, which is
your Naples Reserve property, right?
MR. ROBAU: Yes.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: And your property extended the
road, Naples Reserve Boulevard, from the westernmost entry point at
Reflection Lakes north to your project?
MR. ROBAU: No. That actually already existed. It's an
existing --
COMMISSIONER NANCE: It existed?
MR. ROBAU: Yeah. It's an existing boulevard section, yes.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Okay. But there is an entrance to
Reflection Lakes on Naples Reserve Boulevard, correct? And that's
about in the middle?
MR. ROBAU: Yes.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. And there's another entrance
for Reflection Lakes where? So you have two -- you have two
entrances for that community?
MR. ROBAU: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Okay. So at present it's your
proposal to use Greenway Road for all of the construction traffic for
the Naples Reserve project?
MR. ROBAU: That's correct. Well, the majority of it certainly
for trucking.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Okay. You're using it -- how much
construction traffic is going to be on Naples Reserve Boulevard?
MR. ROBAU: I have not done a transportation study. Norman
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Trebilcock is our Transportation Engineer. But I would kind of
characterize it as, you know, not truck traffic.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Like none?
MR. ROBAU: I can't stand up here and say no.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Commissioner Nance -- for the record,
Rich Yovanovich. As we discussed, there will be minimal
construction traffic on Naples Reserve Boulevard.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: None?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, I can't tell you that there won't be
an occasional electrician that comes up --
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Somebody that's lost?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. It will be minimal.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Okay. You know, as we
discussed, Rich, my concern is the total volume of traffic on
Greenway Road. And, you know, your proposal, although you have
two roads into your project currently, it's my understanding that all the
construction traffic is planned for Greenway Road and, additionally,
all of the excavation material, which is proposed to be a million cubic
yards, is going to be on Greenway Road.
And my question is, you know, what can we do to give the
people on Greenway Road some relief so that they're not experiencing
all this traffic, which could be split or some -- in some other way
reduced to not put so much traffic on a rural residential roadway that's
really not prepared for it?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Okay. A couple of things, if I can; just
take a small step backwards.
And we do have a proposal, but I don't think it's fair to
characterize Greenway as a local residential road. There are some
residences on Greenway, but it's also -- it also serves some pretty
significant agricultural operations, and there are -- and you may have
even farmed in that area at one time.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. I farmed your whole project
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there, sir.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So there already are existing bigger
trucks using Greenway, and we acknowledge that we are putting more
big trucks on Greenway.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Well, that's my point. It seems like
we're putting all the traffic --
MR. YOVANOVICH: We are.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: -- on one road.
MR. YOVANOVICH: And we are. And in exchange for that,
we are giving -- we are increasing the road width to a 25 --
24-foot-wide stabilized road to make it better than it exists today. The
road has already been approved for hauling of roughly 400,000 cubic
yards for the FDOT road. So we're really talking about the delta of
650,000 cubic yards.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Well, it's -- right. I understand.
But it's an incremental use of the road. We started out with
construction traffic -- wait a second, wait a second.
We started out with construction traffic, then we added 400,000
yards of dirt, and now we're talking about another 600,000 yards of
dirt to a road you already acknowledge is a busy road.
So, I mean, when do we get to the point where we're unfairly
utilizing this one entry road?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, I don't think we're unfairly utilizing
it because in exchange for that we are rebuilding the road ahead of
time to a better road. When we're done with the road, we're going to
overlay it again. So we're not just using it and saying we're not going
to take care of those people around us in exchange for using the road.
Be that as it may, we're also providing an overall community
benefit by taking trips off the overall Collier County transportation
network because you're no longer having to haul 40 miles; you're
hauling roughly 10 miles.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Well, you could also do the same
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thing by taking some of it out Naples Reserve Boulevard.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We can. And I will tell you that when
we had our neighborhood information meeting, the people who
showed up are obviously not here today as a result of that
neighborhood meeting was -- their concern was, is Naples Reserve
Boulevard going to be the haul route. And we said to them, no, it's not
going to be the haul route. The haul route is going to be Greenway,
which has already been approved as the haul route for the initial
400,000 cubic yards together with the construction, which was all
discussed when the PUD was originally approved.
So we're saying here, okay, in exchange for that, we would like
to continue to use Greenway for basically an additional year, because
we're already going to use it for about a year anyway for the FDOT
improvements, and I think everybody acknowledged that was a good
thing, you know, to have the fill for FDOT.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: All good things.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I could tell you that -- I feel fairly certain
that if there was something in the staff report or something in our
original request that says we were going to use Naples Reserve
Boulevard for a haul route, there would be some people here from
Reflection Lakes voicing their opinion.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Oh, I'm quite certain.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So we said at the Planning Commission
we were not willing to go back on our commitment to the people of
Naples Reserve -- I'm sorry -- of Reflection Lakes by agreeing to an
imposition -- a required use of Naples Reserve Boulevard as the haul
route. We made a commitment. We were not willing to go back on
that commitment.
If the commission's going to require that we use Naples Reserve
Boulevard, that's a different thing. We would prefer, as a proposal,
regarding the 600,000 cubic yards, let us increase our allocation to
Greenway to 750,000 cubic yards in and outs, okay. The other
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300,000 cubic yards we think we can move between -- we already
have some buyers for this, as you can imagine -- or we're pretty sure
we have some buyers for this; that's why we can agree to the limited
area.
We think one of the buyers is going to be Winding Cypress,
which was just recently approved -- the PUD was just recently
approved.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: You work for them, right?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I do.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Oh, so you know that.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So we think there's --
COMMISSIONER NANCE: You got the word on that, did you?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I think so. I think there's an ability for us
to move fill from this project to this project without having to use
Naples Reserve Boulevard for that to occur.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: So you're willing to limit the entire
volume of rock pulled out on Greenway to 750,000 yards?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Correct, which would be basically
sharing --
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Sharing the pain.
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- the pain.
MR. OCHS: That's kind, sir. And you're willing to put that in
writing?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, I'm willing to accept that as a
revision to the PUD.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Okay. And how are you going to
verify that for us for our comfort?
MR. YOVANOVICH: How am I going to verify it?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yeah.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Just the way we do now; we have to keep
logs of trucks coming and going.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Okay.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I was going to ask the same
things, and Rich had told me yesterday what they intend to do as far as
the Winding Cypress, if they could get their traffic in and out. I, too,
was concerned. I'm also concerned about the fact that after the
thousand -- or, rather, million cubic yards of fill is pulled out, all of
the construction traffic will then be using Greenway Road, all of it, to
build the facility, and I am concerned about that as well.
So can we use some preliminary roads in Winding Cypress to
bring some of that construction traffic in there?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I can't speak for Winding Cypress. I
doubt they're going to allow us to use their development to bring
access to our project.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, before they're built, maybe
they would.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm assuming, timing-wise, there's going
to be -- I'm assuming they're going to start their project soon, clearing,
and once they clear, they're probably going to want fill. At that point I
think it would be difficult for us to coordinate through their project
getting access to our project for construction.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: This Winding Cypress you're
talking about, is that the extension from Verona Walk, or is this a
separate one?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you.
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's a totally separate project; not related
in any way to Naples Preserve.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I know that --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- but yet at the same time -- oh, so
they took that whole piece of property rather than just a section of it?
MR. YOVANOVICH: They -- you know where it ends --
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah.
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- and to the south, they'll be -- that will
be being developed in phases.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes.
MR. YOVANOVICH: With the phases closest to 951 first. So
there won't be an easy road all the way from 951 all the way --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So that whole thing -- they're going
all the way down to U.S. 41 eventually?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I forget where the preserve ends. I didn't
bring that master plan with us.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: The reason I'm asking is if there's
opportunity for us to divert some more of that construction traffic so
we don't put as much pressure on those people. Now I realize -- and
as we talked in my office -- you'd already talked to the Habitat people
and they said that was fine with them, and they probably understood,
or I'm hoping you told them that all the construction traffic would also
go down there, not just the haul traffic, and they were even okay with
that.
And you said there are only about six more homes on Greenway
Road; is that what you said, sir? Don? Six more homes on there?
MR. MEARS: Oh, for the record, Don Mears iStar. I'm sorry.
Along Greenway --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Uh-huh.
MR. MEARS: -- there's approximately eight homes --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Eight?
MR. MITCHELL: -- that are set back off the road on 15- to
20-acre tracts, and I've spoken to four of those landowners.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And they understood that -- how
long did they think it was going to take?
MR. MEARS: I told them that we were supplying material for
the FDOT expansion for 41, and that would probably be about a year,
and then we'd be hauling about another year after that.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: I see.
MR. MEARS: It would be ending about the same time they'd be
completing the six-lane divided roadway expansion on 41.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. And did you -- and how long
do you think it's going to take you to construct your whole project?
Usually that's quite a few years.
MR. MEARS: Our project has three phases, and we're almost
completing the first phase right now. And I would say it's probably a
four- to five-year development cycle.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Eleven hundred fifty-four homes.
That would probably take about that long at least, yeah.
You know, I was very, very apprehensive about it until you told
me that you had been taking videos of the street and of the children,
because I wanted you to lay a sidewalk there, too, so the kids could
get in and out. When you told me you could divert some of that traffic
into Winding Cypress, that gave me a little bit of relief, too.
I just worry about the surrounding neighbors and how they're
impacted. But you say you've gone to visit them, and they do
understand that we're talking about maybe a six- or seven-year project
now, I mean, with all the construction traffic?
MR. MEARS: They knew that our project had a thousand units
and it was probably going to be a four- to five-year buildout project,
yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Well -- and they didn't -- and
they're not here, and so they must be okay with it then.
MR. MEARS: There was three different landowners. There
really was no occupancy in the houses. So it looked like there were
abandoned homes, so I couldn't even talk to a few landowners.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. One other -- you answered my
rock-crushing question and my blasting question. Let me just take a
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fast look at something else just to make sure all my questions are
answered. Thank you for this time.
Yes, I think you've answered everything. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: It used to be called Pickle Patch
Road.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Raspberry's piece.
MR. YOVANOVICH: You-all go way too far back.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah. It's time for some of us to
retire, right? I think so.
What is that -- it used to be Naples Boulevard or something next
to Reflection Lakes. What is that road?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's Naples Reserve Boulevard.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Naples Reserve Boulevard.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Correct.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Is that a public road?
MR. YOVANOVICH: No. It's a private road. That's actually
being maintained by Naples Reserve, so Reflection Lakes basically
has got a free road.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Whoa.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: But the same person developed the
road.
Now, Winding Cypress, it does have a proposed access to U.S.
41 on their property --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Correct.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- correct? And there's no
coordination between -- you know, since it's the same developer
developing Winding Cypress as this Naples Reserve?
MR. YOVANOVICH: No, they're totally different. Totally
different developers. Now, they have a common lawyer.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Pardon me?
MR. YOVANOVICH: They have a common lawyer, but they're
different entities.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Oh, I misunderstood. Yeah, Verona
Walk.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes, finally, Mr. Yovanovich; I
apologize. One other thing I wanted to talk about is you have some
very specific language in your proposal that talks about hours of
operation. I believe it says seven to five. I would ask you to
reconsider that, sir, and base some of your work, early and late-based,
as we discussed, on the bus stops and activities of children that may be
taking place during the daylight hours.
MR. YOVANOVICH: The hauling is eight to five.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: What is seven to five?
MR. YOVANOVICH: That's internal excavation on our
property.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Oh, okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: No, the hauling is eight to five, and that
specifically was with school hours.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Well, you just need to make sure
that that is revolved around the actual bus schedule that takes place on
Greenway Road as observed by -- I'm sure you know about it since
you filmed the whole thing, so you ought to know when they're there.
Just make sure that you don't have operations taking place during
those hours when that's happening.
And that's going to be early and late because you're going to have
-- you know, I don't know how many buses you've got there, but
you've got elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools that
are all on different schedules.
So is it possible for you to coordinate that activity with the buses
to avoid --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, I'd hate to be prohibited from
hauling because, as children -- I don't know if there's a -- you know,
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elementary school starts at 7:50, I think, is what it used to be. I can't
remember -- or early 8 o'clock. I mean, middle school's 9 o'clock.
High school is 7 o'clock.
So that would be three hours of no hauling if we were not
allowed to haul because there might be one bus using that road.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Well, since you have all this data,
you should know when the bus is there or no bus. Maybe there's no
bus. I don't know.
MR. YOVANOVICH: But we would -- obviously we're not
going to put -- this is not a safety-related issue. We have widened the
road --
COMMISSIONER NANCE: This is a safety-related issue, sir.
I'm not worried about the road surface. And it's wonderful that you're
improving the road and all that. This is a safety issue and a human
issue I'm talking about. I'm not talking about the road surface.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I can't tell you today that I know that
there are -- is a middle school kid that lives there or an elementary
school kid that lives there.
If there is an elementary school kid who lives there next school
year and there's a middle school kid that lives there next school year,
that's, effectively, a two-hour block where a bus may come.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I'm just asking you to take this into
consideration when you figure out your schedule. If there is a
problem -- and, like I say, you say you assessed the situation --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: We've got all this construction
traffic and all this haul truck traffic. I just think we need to be
respectful of the little bit of conflict we have between the few
neighbors that are quietly enjoying their neighborhood now and the
ones that are going to be disrupted for the next couple of years. That's
all I'm asking you.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We'll be happy to coordinate, but I just
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can't -- I just can't be having a condition that prohibits.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Okay. Well, when we get a
complaint, what are we going to do?
MR. YOVANOVICH: We'll address it with the school board.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Okay. You'll address it here.
MR. YOVANOVICH: If I need to come address it with you, I
will.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Hiller?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: You know, I mean, I'm listening to
this entire discussion. Why don't we just use the same standards that
we used for the truck haul when we were doing the beach
renourishment? I mean, we're -- we've gone through this before. We
had certain standards. They were deemed to be solid standards by law
enforcement of both jurisdictions. We had no issues whatsoever. It
was, you know, a very safe exercise.
So why doesn't staff just set the same standards that we used for
that truck haul for this one?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I don't know what those are,
Commissioner Hiller.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I don't know what those are, either.
That was set by staff and, you know, reviewed --
MR. YOVANOVICH: The hours of operations were discussed
by the Planning Commission and unanimously agreed to. The only
thing that was not unanimous on the Planning Commission was how
to deal with the 600,000, making that equal. And I thought today by
agreeing to limit 300,000 to Greenway and 300,000 not using
Greenway, we had addressed the one concern, which was a fairness
concern.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes, we have.
MR. YOVANOVICH: But the hours of operation were
unanimously agreed upon.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Well, when you and I talked the
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other day, you --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It seems like we're --
COMMISSIONER NANCE: -- you told me you'd address it.
I'm sorry.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It seems to me that we're
addressing all these details which, again, I think should be addressed
by staff.
Nick, can you come up? I mean, I'm not sure what -- we're going
way beyond the discussion of, you know, splitting the traffic between
two roads, and I'm just wondering why, when staff should be
addressing those safety issues.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Ma'am, for the record, Nick
Casalanguida. Your beach haul was actually from dawn to dusk, so
this is more restrictive.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's fine. So, you know, if
you're providing for something more restrictive and they're fine with it
and you've provided for, you know, consideration of school hours and
traffic like that --
MR. CASALANGUIDA: They're storing the trucks on site.
They're doing that thousand-foot queue so they'll be off Greenway
Road. We didn't really do anything other than the school hours up on
Corkscrew. We kept an eye on it, but we were hauling 20 -- you
know, dawn to dusk.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Right. And I just -- if what you're
-- all you need to tell us is that the standards you're imposing on this
truck haul are even more restrictive.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: They are, as far as I'm concerned.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's fine.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Yeah. They're splitting traffic.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So then there's no reason to have
any concern because the other haul was very successful with the
standards that were applied to that haul. So I think we've solved the
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issue of dividing the road, right?
MR. YOVANOVICH: The traffic.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Dividing it between the traffic?
So is there anything more to discuss? Can we have a vote on it?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Commissioner Hiller, the only
thing I was trying to address -- and I appreciate your concern, but this
road is a very local residential road that doesn't have a sidewalk.
That's all -- I'm just trying to avoid an unhappy circumstance here.
I'm making sure that if there is a known conflict, that we address it.
And I don't know what those conflicts are. I'm not trying to be
adversarial, Mr. Yovanovich. I don't even know if there are buses out
there on a regular basis, but there may be one or two. And I know
there's not a lot of residents. But if there are a couple, I would
appreciate it if you would just avoid them at that time.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We will coordinate.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: If I'm -- can I finish my statement?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah, about a motion?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yeah. The public safety is number
one, and it's imperative that staff ensure that anything that's approved
like this has all the necessary components that, you know, no member
of the public is put at risk.
And I -- it seems to me, Nick, that you have reviewed it to that
end and you've ensured that the standards that you've included or that
your staff has included as part of this project do rise to that level.
That's a yes, for the record, from Nick Casalanguida. I know you
couldn't hear him all the way in the back of the room. So I make a
motion to approve.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I will second it with the stipulation
with there's a maximum of 750,000 yards removed out Greenway
Road and the remaining 300,000 out an alternate route not limited to
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but including Winding Cypress and/or Naples Reserve Boulevard.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I'll amend my motion.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Is your motion including the Planning
Commission's recommendations and staff recommendations?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Does the second agree to that?
Is there any staff report? Do commissioners want to hear a staff
report?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: No.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Is there any public speakers?
MR. MILLER: No.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Is there questions on the motion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: All in favor of the motion, signify by
saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimously.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Thank you.
Item #11B
THE OFF-SITE REMOVAL OF FILL FROM THE NAPLES
RESERVE RPUD CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPANION PUD
AMENDMENT. THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO COMMERCIAL
EXCAVATION PERMIT PL 20140000342 TO ALLOW EXCESS
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FILL TO BE REMOVED FROM THE SITE. THE EXCESS FILL
IS A RESULT OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT
LAKE EXCAVATIONS WITHIN NAPLES RESERVE RPUD.
(THIS IS A COMPANION TO NAPLES RESERVE RPUD
PL20140000342, AGENDA ITEM #9D) — APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, that takes us to Item 11B, which is a
companion to Item 9D.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Time for a break.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Do we have to give our court
reporter a break?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: We forgot our speakers.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: You should not complain. You, of
all people, should not complain. No, I'm sorry. You should not
complain.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Let's dispose of the companion item
then.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Okay. You can start complaining.
MR. OCHS: This is the amendment to the commercial
excavation permit to allow the excess fill to be removed from the site.
Mr. McKenna will present, if the board would like a presentation.
MR. KLATZKOW: I don't know how you say no now.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yeah. I believe we have to give ex
parte communication on this item; do we not?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: It's the same as before. Is there any
additional ex parte communication by commissioners?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: No, sir.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: No.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Same.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. It's the same.
Jack, do you have to -- based upon the board's discussion on the
land-use item, do we need to modify or add or delete?
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MR. McKENNA: No, sir. I don't believe that we -- there's any
need to modify it because the volumes for the excavation permit
would still be consistent.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any public speakers?
Motion by Commissioner Fiala to approve.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Second by Commissioner Nance.
All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: (Absent.)
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries 4-0; Commissioner
Coyle absent.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: We're going to take a 10-minute
break and be back at 2:52.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
(A brief recess was had.)
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, you have a live mike. I'd like to --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Next item is 9 --
MR. OCHS: C.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Last item? Yes.
Item #9C
ORDINANCE 2014-26: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 2002-61 , WHICH ESTABLISHED THE
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FIDDLER'S CREEK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
NO. 2, IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE ACREAGE OF THE
DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE — ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: 9C is a recommendation to approve an ordinance
amending Ordinance No. 2002-61, which established the Fiddler's
Creek Community Development District, No. 2, in order to increase
the acreage of the district.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Is this -- do we have to swear
people in for this?
MR. OCHS: No, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Pardon me?
MR. OCHS: No, sir.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. I talked to everybody
concerned, and I'd like to make a motion to approve.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Motion to approve the
recommendations on Fiddler's Creek, expansion of their CDD, by
Commissioner Fiala, second by Commissioner Nance.
Any public comments, public speakers?
MR. KLATZKOW: No, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Discussion on the motion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: All in favor of the motion, signify by
saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Opposed?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimously.
Item #7 - Continued from earlier in the meeting
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, we'll move back now to Item 7 to
complete our public comments on general topics.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Eric Donihoo. He'll be
followed by Alexis Meyer.
MR. DONIHOO: Thank you for your time. I want to start by
saying I appreciate the comments of Commissioner Fiala where she
specified earlier not only looking out for the interest of local residents
but also of local businesses as we try to move forward.
And what I'm looking at here is I know you've all had several
comments and communications regarding the super gas stations and
things of that nature.
I represent the female small business owner of the station directly
across the street. While I understand that you have to deal with people
that have already applied until you can look at moratoriums and things
of that nature, I would ask you to take a hard look at the ordinance that
you have in place -- I believe it's 5.05.05 -- to talk about your 500-foot
rule, and there should not be any additional service stations located
within the 500-foot rule of an existing one.
I know in this case the -- Mrs. Donihoo used her life's savings to
purchase that 7-Eleven directly across the street with the full
knowledge of 5.05.05 existing.
In listening to recommendations that have come forward from the
mega-superstations, their comments in regards to their average of a
gas station's pumping potential, they say their average station is
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85,000 gallons per week.
I can tell you if they did just their average, which includes their
small Raceways, not just their supercenters -- but if they did just their
average, you would have to triple, to quadruple the gas consumption at
that intersection currently.
The service station directly across the street is only pumping at
25 percent of capacity, and at 25 percent of capacity, I would tell you,
entertaining the possibility of waiving or giving variances to allow a
superstation across the street does not serve a need for the growth of
the community when you're looking at only doing 25 percent capacity
now.
And at the levels they're talking about pumping, you would
basically have to have the station across the street, the Moble in
downtown Naples 1 .2 miles away, and you would also have to have
the other service station, which I believe is Kangaroo Express going
the other direction, you'd have to have them all three pump zero
gallons per week for that to be a possibility.
Now, it doesn't seem rationale. It doesn't seem reasonable. And,
obviously, if the superstation was to come in and pump at the levels
they claim, you would basically be taking a very, very hard stance in
putting existing businesses in the area that are locally owned, in two of
the three cases, out of business.
So my ask is that you continue to stay hard fast in your current
guidelines, which are outlined in 5.05.05. I do understand you have a
major thoroughfare that could give an exception in Tamiami Trail,
which is four lanes or more; however, there's also a stipulation in there
that it may not in any way, shape, or form negatively impact a
residential usage in the adjoining area, which in this case it most
definitely does.
That is outlined on the second page up at the top of 5.05.05, as
we have several homes directly behind said area.
Thank you. I believe I've used my time. I appreciate your
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consideration.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Is there any more public speakers on
this issue?
MR. MILLER: Alexis Meyer. I don't believe she's speaking on
this issue.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Let me just say, this is a future issue,
potential, and this board is sitting as a quasijudicial board. It's taking
in all facts and all opinions, and none of the board members can make
up their mind under public comments. I just want to make sure that
everybody's aware of it. I don't know --
MR. DONIHOO: Absolutely.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- where somebody's getting the idea
to come to the Board of Commissioners under public comments and
try to change things. So it's not going to happen. It's going to be done
at the hearing if the hearing actually happens.
Thank you.
Next public speaker?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Did you say 86,000 gallons a week
or a month? I'm sorry.
MR. DONIHOO: They announced at their meeting held in the --
in you-all's offices that they were -- that their average station, which
includes their small ones, pump 85,000 gallons per week. In doing so,
they also said that would be less than one truck per day, which is bad
information, as a tanker only holds 8,000 gallons. So obviously it's
more than one a day.
MR. MILLER: Your next public speaker is Alexis Meyer. She'll
be followed by Dr. Joseph T. Doyle.
MS. MEYER: For the record, Alexis Meyer. I'm with the
National Sierra Club's Florida Panther Campaign.
Two weeks ago the citizens of Collier County were ecstatic that
you had followed through with a challenge to the DEP's consent order
and demand that all meetings with the DEP be conducted in a public
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manner.
We are discouraged that private meetings with the DEP have
been held and even more disturbed that talks of a settlement have been
discussed.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, you're wrong on that, but go
ahead.
MS. MEYER: Okay. That's not what -- the information that I
was provided. Sorry.
When the DEP issued a direct threat, you rallied to uphold your
vote to file a petition and not cave to the pressure of the DEP's
intimidations. I hope that that is still the case.
We ask that you follow through with the administrative
challenge, which you have been, and hault all private meetings with
the DEP or Dan A. Hughes.
We ask that the petition be revised to include the 11 points that
were drawn up by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. Numerous
issues were identified in their recommendations, and not one was
included in this submitted petition.
The commissioners have the ability to undertake water sampling
in the county immediately. Numerous residents have expressed a
desire to have their wells tested, and you can help them.
We also ask that the DEP should be required to conduct
independent groundwater monitoring done by a third party. How can
we trust an agency that hid fracking from the public for four months to
provide an unbiased water sampling test?
Again, we ask that all future meetings, especially any that could
include settlement talks with the DEP, be conducted in a public forum.
Transparency is something that has been sorely lacking in the oil
drilling talks.
And we look to you as representatives of the residents to uphold
the county's best interest for the people and the environment.
Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Well, I know there's a lot of outside
interests outside of Collier County in this but, you know, I'm very
saddened that the Conservancy's taken this kind of stance. I met with
DEP officials along with the county manager and two of his staff
members.
And, Leo, let me ask you, was there any closed-door settlement
talks on this when we met?
MR. OCHS: No, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: What we tried to obtain is
information and tried to get a dialogue going on with the agency; is
that correct?
MR. OCHS: That is correct.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Is there anything else?
MR. OCHS: Not to my knowledge, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah, I -- you know, this -- you
know, talk about this stuff is just nonsense. And for anybody to think
that we should not talk to a controlling agency in the State of Florida
-- which we don't have control over this issue -- that we shouldn't talk
to these -- the agency is absolutely ludicrous.
We want to do what's in the best interest of the citizens, and at no
time have I stated that I want to change the course of challenging the
consent order.
I think there's a lot of things that need to be answered. I'm trying
to gather information, okay. And, again, shame on the Conservancy
for their tactics.
Next speaker?
MR. MILLER: We have -- yeah, we have one final speaker on
public comment, Dr. Joseph T. Doyle.
DR. DOYLE: Good afternoon, Commissioners. I have a new
topic to talk about.
The nation is facing a new -- actually, I'm Joseph Doyle, a
Collier resident, and I'm board certified in public health and general
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preventative medicine. And I'm here because the nation is facing a
new public health disaster for which we must begin to prepare for here
in Collier County.
As most of us have seen recently in the media, thousands of
illegal aliens and undocumented children from Central and South
America have been overwhelming our southern sovereign border in
Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
In 2012, there were 6,500 children; 2013, 25,000 children; this
year estimated to be about 65,000 children; and next year estimated
100,000 children trying to cross this border.
The federal response has been inadequate from many
perspectives, but it's the public health perspective that I want to
discuss today.
When my grandparents emigrated from Europe at the beginning
of the last century, they were processed through Ellis Island before
entering the country, and this was for infectious disease control
primarily.
Today we have no modern Ellis Island. These illegal,
undocumented children are being relocated by our federal government
today as we speak, from Texas directly to other states such as
Massachusetts by air charter, bus, et cetera.
Some have also been released locally in Texas and told to
reappear at a later date for immigration hearings. Unfortunately,
many of these are lost to follow-up and fail to attend the hearings.
I suspect that many may join their migrant relatives, and several
will eventually make their way here to Florida. As such, these
children may reside in crowded, substandard living conditions which,
is conducive to the spread of diseases.
The media has reported lice, scabies, outbreaks of measles and
chicken pox as well as multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.
It is the multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis that is most concerning
because it requires a long treatment of at least one year and can cost
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$250,000 per person to treat.
These illegal, undocumented children can spread these diseases
directly to their household contacts, as well as to contacts in schools,
daycare centers, emergency rooms, malls, supermarkets, places of
worship, and their household contacts can also spread these diseases to
places of employment.
As such, the epidemic can create a negative impact on our quality
of life here but also a negative impact on lost work productivity, lost
school days, and decreased tourism.
Our highest risk residents are those with debilitative immune
systems, such as the elderly, nursing home residents, diabetics, and
cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.
High-risk occupations include our first responders, EMS, fire,
law enforcement, county workers, code enforcement inspectors,
schoolteachers and staff, healthcare workers, hospitality workers,
retail workers, and transportation workers.
Given the recent retirement of our county health department
director, I'm requesting that there's -- some type of task force be put
together for all the concerned interests of county agencies, et cetera, to
address a contingency plan for this potential problem that could result
in an epidemic right here in Collier County.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yeah, I would like to comment on
this issue.
I agree with this gentleman. I believe we should join together
with the school district, who's, in a lot of situations, likely to encounter
some of these citizens first, or whether they're illegal or legal, and we
should examine through our health department here what we could
possibly do to make sure that the inoculations and things are up to
snuff so that we don't create a problem here for ourselves. I believe
that -- thank you, sir, for bringing it to our attention.
DR. DOYLE: You're welcome. We have to have a high
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vigilance on this. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Hiller?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I'm particularly concerned about
tuberculosis. That is, of what you described, a serious, serious
problem and a real serious public health threat that we do need to
watch for.
DR. DOYLE: Yeah. A lot of people think that it had gone away,
and it really never did. And we closed the A.G. Holley in Lantana
about five years ago.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It is a big problem. And it is also a
big problem where if we do find someone who is infected with
tuberculosis, to ensure that they do take the medication, because
without completing the full cycle of the treatment, it stays --
DR. DOYLE: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: -- and then they're publicly
contagious. In fact, it's my understanding that the State of Florida has
a law on its books that I think criminalizes failure to take the
medication if you are diagnosed with TB, and it's a huge public health
threat.
So I do hope that whoever is the new medical director does look
into what's going on with these issues, because we do need to ensure
that not only those children are protected but that the public is
protected if these children are, in fact, infected.
DR. DOYLE: Right.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: And then do what's necessary to also
ensure that if treatment is given, that that treatment is adhered -- that
whatever the treatment program is is adhered to through completion
and that there is nothing that prevents them from, you know, getting
the meds or getting assistance with, you know, taking those meds if
assistance is needed. It is a big problem.
DR. DOYLE: And that's why, you know, I bring it to your
attention, because we have our emergency rooms, we have our first
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responders who may be coming in contact with these people. They
may think they just have a cold or something, and they're coughing on
them directly.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I actually was in a situation where
my daughter, when she was about two to three years old, was sick.
She had Rotavirus, and she had to be admitted because she was getting
so dehydrated that she had to be put on an IV.
And she was admitted into a ward with -- I think there might
have been eight other children who were sick. And I sat beside a
mother, and she was a very sweet lady. And she was an immigrant,
and she -- we were talking, and just out of the blue she said, you
know, I have TB. I'm like, really?
And she could not get the meds. She could not -- I don't know if
she couldn't obtain them because she couldn't communicate that she
couldn't get them or if she couldn't pay for them or she didn't know
how to continue getting, you know, reissuance of her, whatever you
call that, pharma slip, or whatever; I mean, I don't know the medical
terms -- prescription.
And so, I mean, it -- we had to be quarantined. I mean, the whole
room, all eight or 12 kids had to be quarantined, every single one had
to be isolated, every single one had to be tested. And, fortunately, you
know, we were able to -- I mean, I called the health department and
got help for this woman so she could get the proper level of care.
But, quite frankly, it was a situation where, you know, you
basically had immunocompromised, you know, young children who
all could have been infected with tuberculosis because this poor
woman didn't know what to do and how to protect herself.
So, yes, it is a reality here, and we do need to take very strong
precautions to help these people.
DR. DOYLE: And there's no screening going on, I'll repeat, at
the borders, and they're all just coming here and everywhere across the
country.
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COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, we definitely need to help
them.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. And I think also our parks and
rec department, who handles not only all of the parks, the little
children all playing together, but also they have the pre-K little
schools as well. And we need to be vigilant and work closely with the
health department. I just hope somebody up there is going to lead this
effort.
DR. DOYLE: Well, do you have an ad hoc task force that
periodically meets to discuss interagency issues? Because I think we
can't wait for the health department to get a new director. I think the
task force --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Leo, do we have anything like that
that -- I mean, we have so many advisory committees that we don't
even know exist that are out there doing things, and they have all sorts
of different names, so we'd have to -- and a lot of them -- I mean,
they're supposed to be advisory to the board, but in some respects
they've become advisory to staff.
So what -- do we have something like that?
MR. OCHS: Yes. We have a task force set up as part of our
comprehensive emergency management plan that involved our agency
as well as the public health department and other agencies. So I'll get
with Mr. Summers and Mr. Carnell.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's a great plan.
MR. OCHS: And we'll work that out.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you so much. Thanks for
bringing that to our attention.
DR. DOYLE: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Very important issue.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any more public speakers?
MR. MILLER No, sir.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: We'll go back to our regularly
scheduled agenda item.
Item #11D
RESOLUTION 2014-141 : ESTABLISHING THE COLLIER AREA
TRANSIT (CAT) ADVERTISING POLICY, STANDARDS AND
RATE SCHEDULE - MOTION TO APPROVE THE POLICY FOR
AN INITIAL 2-YEAR PERIOD — ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Sir, that takes us to Item 11D, which is a
recommendation to approve a resolution establishing the Collier Area
Transit advertising policy, standards, and rate schedule. And Michelle
Arnold, your director of alternative transportation modes, will present.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you.
MS. ARNOLD: Good afternoon. For the record, Michelle
Arnold, Alternative Transportation Modes Director.
I'm here to get your authorization for an advertising policy,
standards, and schedule for the Collier Area Transit. This policy will
regulate the types of advertising that would be permitted and
prohibited.
And we worked with the County Attorney's Office to ensure that
this policy would meet within the guidelines of the county.
The policy that's before you will set forth a framework to
generate alternative funding or revenues for the county that we could
use as matching funds for our grant dollars as well as reinvesting it
back into our fixed route system. We estimate the revenues for the
first year will be about $232,000.
The advertising format will take the form of internal trans --
terminal cards, which is -- this is an example, and I've got a couple on
the slide for you. They sit above the buses, inside the buses.
We have interior terminal cards which would be within our
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transportation itself as well as smart cards and audio media.
And this is an example of what the terminal cases would look
like. We've got just regular information displayed in here right now,
but the advertising would be included in these cases.
This is an example of the interior bus cards within our buses.
And I think Trinity provided you all an example of our smart
cards. We have our "Stuff the Bus" smart card logo on there right
now, which is an event that's going to be taking place in September
that we're coordinating with the United Way as well as the Harry
Chapin Food Bank to do an event to encourage folks to purchase food
for the food bank.
And so that's just an example of, you know, the media that we
could sell on our smart cards, which is our bus passes that we sell for
weekly passes, daily passes, as well as the monthly pass.
We also have the capability of doing audible media, and I've got
an example for you so you can hear what one of the --
(A video advertisement was played.)
MS. ARNOLD: So that's an example of the trigger points.
When the bus gets to a certain location, you know, they'll advertise a
restaurant or an apartment complex or something like that.
We also have -- those are the types of advertising that we're
proposing at this point. We do have the potential to do other things in
the future. If we do do anything else, obviously, we're going to be
back before the board to modify the schedule so that you all could
authorize it.
But some examples of what those additional media or advertising
format could be is interior handles or grab bars within the buses and
digital displays or videos.
And this is just an example of a Harley Davidson bike handle that
they have on the racks where the people hold, and they're standing in
the bus.
And an example of what the digital displays would be is nothing
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different than your monitors that you're seeing here that we would
have within our terminals, and we could sell advertising on those
monitors as well as in the buses themselves.
I don't know if you all have been in some of the larger cities, but
they have it in their trains and stuff like that. They sell advertising. It
keeps the public interested in what's going on.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I think we actually buy
advertisements like that. I know that someone -- I can't remember if--
Jack Wert isn't here, but I think we were advertising in the New York
subway, and we had had, like, the snowman, like, melting on the
beach --
MS. ARNOLD: Right.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: -- and we were advertising in the
middle of the winter --
MS. ARNOLD: Right.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: -- to encourage all those poor
people who were suffering.
MS. ARNOLD: To come down here and thaw out a little bit.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, we
absolutely should be doing it, because our competition up in New
York is doing it.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: This is how Barron Collier
acquired the county.
MS. ARNOLD: Exactly, from exactly these cards in the buses.
That's how -- that's one of his first things that he did.
And that's what I wanted to present to you-all today. If you have
any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala, Commissioner
Nance.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, I don't care for it myself. I
think that our buses look pretty classy right now.
And then the next thing that we'll want to do is -- the next people
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that advertise will want to advertise on the benches and in the shelters.
And pretty soon we're going to look like a -- like a cheap
transportation system.
MS. ARNOLD: Well, this is limited to the interior only.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I know. That's just where it starts,
and then it spreads. And then in the future -- and how many people
will like, while they're sitting on a bus, listening to advertising? They
all have to listen to it regardless, and you think they're going to be
pleasantly surprised and happy to hear the advertisements, the
auditory advertisements? I don't think so. I don't think it's a good
idea.
We -- in fact, we never have all of these years. I appreciate the
fact that you're trying to find some other ways to put some new dollars
into the system. I don't care for it.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Nance, then
Commissioner Hiller.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. Ms. Arnold, you -- under
fiscal impact you've listed the revenues. What sort of additional
expenses are going to be -- have to be expended for this program, or
are the advertisers going to pay for everything?
MS. ARNOLD: Well, we are expecting that we're going to
absorb the cost for, you know, either having internal staff do it, or we
have the ability, setting aside dollars, to do an RFP to solicit a
company that would do it for us.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Okay. So we don't really truly
know how much money we're going to make from this thing yet?
MS. ARNOLD: Well, the estimate -- if we were to maximize our
available resources, we estimate about $232,000.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Well, what I'm saying is we don't
know what our expenses are. We know what the revenue is. What are
the expenses that go with the revenue?
MS. SCOTT: With regard to the printing materials -- I'm sorry,
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Trinity Scott, Public Transit Manager.
With regard to the printing materials, as it states in the policy, the
advertising -- or the company that wishes to advertise would have to
provide these items to us with the exception of the smart cards. The
smart cards would be on us to print.
We do already have a printer available to be able to do that, so
they would have to provide us their graphics.
So at this time what we're looking at is it's staff time to be able to
administer the program. As Michelle stated, obviously if this grows
into what we really hope that it can be, to provide some additional
revenues for the system, we may at that time look at being able to hire
a company to manage this for us if it starts taking over our staff time.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: All right. Well, I would like to
make a motion to approve for a period of one year provisional on the
fact that we get an analysis after the end of the first year. We can
assess whether we're actually doing something or we're not.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Is there a second to the
motion?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I would like -- can I comment on
that?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Sure.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I would like to support the motion,
but I'd like to extend it for a little bit longer than a year.
I have not been on any public transportation system that they
don't advertise. And the extent to which we allow advertising is
within our control, so nothing's going to, you know, overtake the
buses unless we have bad taste and we vote to allow bad advertising to
overtake those buses.
So, you know, obviously it's important to have appropriate
standards. And you're absolutely right, there is no cost other than
administering -- you know, collecting the fee and putting up the ad,
taking it down, and replacing it, and collecting the fee again.
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And that is what we do as a county when we advertise in other
jurisdictions. We pay infill to the other jurisdiction. We, you know,
do our own won copying. We have an agency that is responsible for
placing the ad on our behalf. So there is -- you know, we absorb all
the cost when we advertise on the subway in New York, and it would
be no different in this case.
Whatever we do, Leo, like, through Paradise, you know, when
we advertise on the subways in, you know, other cities, we should
model whatever we're doing with them over here because, again, if it's
100 percent our cost going that way, it should be 100 percent their
cost going this way.
And, quite frankly, you know, I do think that people enjoy
looking at some information when they're sitting on the bus or waiting
in the station. When I'm at the airport and I see, you know, the
advertisement for developments or events on the big screen TVs at the
Southwest Florida Airport, I'm not offended by it. In fact, it's a
distraction as I'm sitting there waiting for my luggage. And I -- you
know, we live in a world where advertising is how business is done.
So I don't see anything negative with it, but I would give them a
little more time than a year, like maybe two years. I don't disagree,
but if we give them enough time to get off the ground -- but they need
time to set up the system, sell the product, install the product, you
know, see how it goes, increase the marketing effort. I mean, it's a
great way of getting alternative revenue to an important program.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: If that would bring a second for
discussion, I'll modify my motion and make it two years.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I would love that. I'll second it.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. There's a motion and a second
on the floor.
You know, I don't think this is ripe for a vote, a positive vote
anyways. There needs to be more information on what the costs are
going to be. I have no idea. You know, if you have existing staff that
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can do this, I would like to have that discussion. If you're going to
hire somebody, I would like to know the cost, so I can't support the
motion.
MS. ARNOLD: We don't intend to hire anyone.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: No new staff?
MS. ARNOLD: No, not for this.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Then it's ripe for discussion at the
budget hearing.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well -- but let me -- can I ask a
question based on what you just asked, Commissioner Henning. Let's
be clear, are we going to have additional costs, or are you able to
handle this program with the staffing that you have?
MS. ARNOLD: What is being proposed to you is to handle it
with the existing staff that we currently have.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So there is no additional cost?
You're basically leveraging your staff to produce more revenue?
MS. ARNOLD: Right.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So it's going to be a net positive if
you're not adding any additional costs?
MS. ARNOLD: That's the intent.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So there's no additional cost. So
it's just revenue.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Maybe we have too many -- too much
overhead in this department. If we're trying to create work for existing
staff--
COMMISSIONER HILLER: But we're creating revenue here.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: So there is a cost to that.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, what they're saying is they're
-- are you saying that you've gotten more efficient over the current
year because we created that advisory board that included Mr. Fogle,
my neighbor, the young gentleman who has cerebral palsy who's very
smart who I know has been giving you a lot of good advice?
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MS. ARNOLD: Yes, he has.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So, as a consequence, are you
more efficient this year than last year and, as a result, you're able to
absorb this program that you couldn't have absorbed in the past
because you're that much smarter?
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah, let me get my boots on.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: No. I just -- I really have to
commend them for doing a good job in looking for ways to raise
revenue without increasing costs. And if you've become more
efficient and if you can, with the same level of staffing, generate more
revenue, I don't see how you can be faulted.
MS. ARNOLD: Yeah. We are trying to do things --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Smarter.
MS. ARNOLD: Do more with less. You know, we're trying to
reallocate the staffing that we have to take care of this if so approved
by the board.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: And I'm sure that probably what
happened is when you were going through construction, your staff was
absorbed -- your staff time was absorbed with managing this very
large project, and now that this project is completed and you're
operational, you're deploying the staff to where it was working before,
which is with programs.
MS. ARNOLD: Well, we've got our project management staff
that's still pretty involved with the project that's going to be coming up
over at Radio Road, so that staff is still pretty involved in that.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Okay. So they're still involved in
that. So this is the balance of the administrative staff?
MS. ARNOLD: A lot of this stuff is this lady here working
many hours, you know, in the wee evening.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: So she's working more than 40
hours, and that's why we can do it?
MS. ARNOLD: That's -- a lot of the staff is working more than
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40 hours.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: That's commendable. That is really
awesome. Well, I can't help but support that, and hearing that is, you
know, worthy of applause.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Any more discussion on the
motion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: All in favor of the motion, signify by
saying aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Opposed?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries 4-1 ; Commissioner
Fiala dissenting.
MS. ARNOLD: Thank you.
Item #15
STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that takes us to staff and
commission general communications.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Hiller has already had
her turn.
COMMISSIONER HILLER He won't let me speak anymore. I
shouldn't say "he." Commissioner Henning, Chairman Henning. He
who shall not be named.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Do you have any additional?
MR. OCHS: Just two quick things, sir. Number 1, I wanted to
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thank Commissioner Nance for representing the board this past
Monday when we entertained officials from the state VA nursing
home --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Absolutely.
MR. OCHS: -- out on site, so we're hopeful that, obviously, we'll
come out on top in that competition. We hope to hear something,
we're told, in a matter of a couple weeks through the state VA, so we'll
keep you apprised of that.
And then, finally, on behalf of the staff, all of you know Kady
Arnold who works in the Television Production Studio across the hall.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It's her last day.
MR. OCHS: This is Kady's last week. Her last day is Friday.
This is her last official production of the board's meeting, although she
will be working the budget workshop hearing on Thursday as well.
But I wanted to thank her for all her years of dedicated service on
behalf of the county staff. So thank you, Kady. I know you're out
there.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Kady, thank you.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: I think we need to give her a
certification.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, absolutely. What I was
going to suggest is at the next board meeting, while she won't be
working, we'd like her to come back and present her with a
proclamation and recognize her for all her wonderful service all these
years and for making us look so good. Notwithstanding that, you
know, we're not like --
COMMISSIONER COYLE: She was unsuccessful.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, speak for yourself.
MR. OCHS: We'd be happy to do that.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: She's total rock star.
MR. OCHS: Thank you. Thank you.
That's all I have, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: County Attorney?
MR. KLATZKOW: Nothing, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Nothing.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. I'd just wanted to remind Nick
that we really need to work on upgrading our zoning ordinances,
please.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: George, I have something for you
before you exit. That's all I have.
Commissioner Nance?
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yes. I just like to make a further
comment on the Veterans Homesite Selection Committee activities
which took place Monday morning and Monday afternoon.
We were very well represented by Mr. Carnell and Amanda
Townsend from public services who did all the intel and everything to
make those meetings come off as smooth as they did. I think -- I
thought they went very well.
They were very highly scripted according to the rules of the site
selection committee, but we had Chief Kopka present, we had Dr.
Allen Weiss from Naples Community Hospital Network, we had Mr.
Gable from Barron Collier Companies there, and myself to try to
answer as many questions as we could.
We also had representatives from the community of Ave Maria
that were there to answer some questions. I thought it went very, very
well. I think their decision will hinge on, you know, how they feel
about having the facility in a young and developing community versus
an established community. And, of course, we have no way of
knowing how that's going to turn out.
But I think that we comported ourselves as good as we could
under the circumstances. It was extremely hot, but I thought the
meetings went very well.
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Secondly, the only other thing I would like to mention is that I've
received a lot of comments regarding kayak launching fees in the
county. I've been barraged, and some of the harshest comments were
actually by some members of county staff.
So I would like to ask -- and some of the comments include why
should they have to pay four bucks to put a kayak in when they don't
really have any facilities to launch them, and they were complaining
that the kayak people, in fact, had to use launching ramps that were
damaging their kayaks, and so on and so forth.
So I would ask Mr. Williams and Mr. Carnell to go back and
really take a look at the kayak launching program that we have.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It was Stan Chrzanowski, guys.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Yeah. Stan is in full rebellion.
He's threatening to boycott the county now if we don't --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It's worse than that. He wants to
take each one of us out on a kayak.
MR. OCHS: We're all in favor of that.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Don't go there.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Anyway, I just thought I would
mention that maybe we needed to reassess or at least evaluate what
our kayak launching facilities are really like, and should we be proud
to charge people to use them.
Other than that, no further comments, Mr. Chairman.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: It's not the kayak facilities we're
charging them for. We're charging them a fee to use our water.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Oh, okay. Well, I think we need to
test it and make sure that it's clean enough to use, perhaps,
Commissioner Coyle.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Oh, dear.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Before I entertain a motion to
adjourn, Commissioner Hiller has a burning desire --
COMMISSIONER HILLER: I do.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- to have a conversation.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It is, and it is a very important
conversation to be had, because the next board meeting will be after
July 4th. So you know what that means; Happy July 4th, right?
And, County Attorney, we're constantly getting emails on
fireworks, and I forwarded one to you. And I was wondering if you
could take a minute to address all the tents that have gone up and you
know, what the -- what our local regulations are with respect to
fireworks and how and where they can be shot off.
MR. KLATZKOW: It's all per code. These are temporary
events.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: It's open-mike night.
MR. KLATZKOW: These are temporary events.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: No, if you could just --
MR. KLATZKOW: I thought fireworks were fun.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: It's in those pesky temporary
events, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: We do have some constituents
who do have concerns about how fireworks are sold in the county and
the sale of fireworks. I forwarded the email to you, and if you could
maybe --
MR. KLATZKOW: It's highly regulated by the state. There's
very little we can do.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: If you can just address the
concern, and maybe if we could post something to our county website
that addresses, you know, who has jurisdiction over this issue, you
know, what our local rules are, what the state rules are so everybody
can be mindful of being safe when they do enjoy them.
So Happy July 4th.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Do we have a county Pyrotechnics
Department, sir?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Leo, put that in the budget. Put
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that in the budget.
And one other thing besides July 4th; July 1st is Canada Day,
which I just have to bring that in because we do have a lot of
Canadians here, so we should remember them.
And then July 14th is Bastille Day, but that's after the next board
meeting, so I'll bring that up again next meeting. Just saying.
So Happy July 4th.
MR. OCHS: Same to you, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Multi-national liaison.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Is there a motion to adjourn?
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Motion to adjourn.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Second? Is there a second? I'll
second it.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: (Absent.)
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER NANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: We're adjourned.
*****
**** Commissioner Hiller moved, seconded by Commissioner Fiala
and carried unanimously that the following items under the Consent
and Summary Agendas be approved and/or adopted ****
Item #16A1
RESOLUTION 2014-128: REPEALING AND REPLACING
RESOLUTION NO. 96-491, ANY AND ALL AMENDMENTS
THERETO, IN ORDER TO UPDATE THE FEE SCHEDULE
USED BY THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT FOR
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ANALYTICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF OCTOBER 1, 2014
— FEES THAT ARE CHARGED FOR SAMPLING, TESTING
AND ANALYZING DATA IN DETERMINING WATER
QUALITY IN DRINKING WATER, WASTEWATER,
SWIMMING POOL, AND GROUND/SURFACE WATER FOR
THE GENERAL PUBLIC, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS &
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
Item #16A2
AN EASEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A
ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY, DRAINAGE & UTILITY EASEMENT,
PARCEL 157RDUE, REQUIRED FOR THE EXPANSION OF
GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD FROM EAST OF WILSON
BOULEVARD TO 20TH STREET EAST, PROJECT NO. 60040
(FISCAL IMPACT: $1 ,527) — A 30-FOOT WIDE, 4,500 SQUARE
FOOT PARCEL
Item #16A3
AN EASEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A
ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY, DRAINAGE & UTILITY EASEMENT,
PARCEL 142RDUE, REQUIRED FOR EXPANSION OF GOLDEN
GATE BOULEVARD FROM EAST OF WILSON BOULEVARD
TO 20TH STREET EAST PROJECT NO. 60040 (FISCAL
IMPACT: $4,235.50) — A 6,962 SQ. FOOT ± EASEMENT WITH
A NORTHERN PROPERTY LINE ALONG GOLDEN GATE
BOULEVARD AND EASTERN LINE ALONG 2ND STREET SE
Item #16A4
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PROPOSED ZONING MAP CHANGES AND SUPPORT
DOCUMENTATION AND DIRECTING THE CHAIR TO SIGN
THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAPS — A LIST OF 101 ATLAS MAP
UPDATES RELATED TO BCC AND HEARING EXAMINER
APPROVALS AND MISCELLANEOUS STAFF CHANGES
Item #16A5
CONTRACT #14-6268 IN THE AMOUNT OF $668,777 WITH
QUALITY ENTERPRISES USA, INC. FOR THE 28TH AVE SE
BRIDGE PROJECT NO. 60123 — TO REPLACE THE EXISTING
CROSSING WITH A PILE-SUPPORTED BRIDGE AT THE WEST
END OF 28TH AVENUE SE DUE TO DRAINAGE PROBLEMS,
THE RESULT OF PIPES WITH LOW CAPACITY IN MILLER
CANAL, SOUTHEAST PORTION OF NORTHERN GOLDEN
GATE ESTATES
Item #16A6
BUDGET AMENDMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $23,490.94 TO
RECOGNIZE REVENUE RECEIVED FOR TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENTS IN LANDSCAPE FUND 112,
PROJECTS #60076, TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND TURNLANES,
AND #60075, LANDSCAPE ASSET MANAGEMENT — USED TO
REPLACE DAMAGED PLANTS, BROKEN IRRIGATION PARTS
AND INCIDENTAL LANDSCAPE REPAIRS IN COUNTY
RIGHT-OF-WAYS MADE IN THE SUMMER MONTHS WHEN
THERE IS LESS TRAFFIC
Item #16A7
PETITION VAC-PL20140000680, TO QUITCLAIM AND
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RELEASE THE COUNTY'S INTEREST IN SIX (6) 30-FOOT
STRIPS OF LAND DESCRIBED AS EASEMENTS FOR PUBLIC
RIGHT-OF-WAY AS RECORDED IN OFFICIAL RECORD BOOK
160, PAGE 237, OFFICIAL RECORD BOOK 168, PAGE 843,
OFFICIAL RECORD BOOK 164, PAGE 177, OFFICIAL RECORD
BOOK 184, PAGE 858, OFFICIAL RECORD BOOK 164, PAGE
087, AND OFFICIAL RECORD BOOK 164, PAGE 683, OF THE
PUBLIC RECORDS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA,
LOCATED IN SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RANGE 26
EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, BEING MORE
SPECIFICALLY SHOWN IN EXHIBIT A — TO CLEAR ANY
POSSIBLE "CLOUDS" THAT MAY EXIST ON THE TITLE TO
ALLOW THE OWNER TO DEVELOP THE PROPERTY
Item #16A8
CONTRACT #13-6168 WITH HONC ENTERPRISES, INC.
D/B/A/ HONC DESTRUCTION, AS PRIMARY CONTRACTOR
AND PARAGON CONSTRUCTION UNLIMITED, INC. THE
SECONDARY FOR DEMOLITION OF COMMERCIAL AND
RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES — TO DEMOLISH STRUCTURES
CODE ENFORCEMENT HAS DEEMED ILLEGAL AFTER ALL
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS HAVE BEEN MET AND PROPERTY
OWNERS FAILED TO MEET COMPLIANCE; TWENTY (20)
STRUCTURES ARE ESTIMATED FOR DEMOLITION THIS FY
WITH AN AVERAGE COST OF $3,300 PER STRUCTURE
Item #16A9
RELEASE OF LIEN WITH AN ACCRUED VALUE OF $11,154.80
FOR PAYMENT OF $1,354.80, IN THE CODE ENFORCEMENT
ACTION ENTITLED BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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V. NEIL FORNEY, CODE ENFORCEMENT SPECIAL
MAGISTRATE CASE NO. CEPM20110010215, RELATING TO
PROPERTY LOCATED AT 5573 COVE CIRCLE, COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA — BASED ON 41 DAYS OF ACCRUED
FINES FOR AN UNMAINTAINED POOL BROUGHT INTO
COMPLIANCE BY THE COUNTY IN DECEMBER, 2011 AND
FOLLOWING FORECLOSURE A CERTIFICATE OF TITLE
CONVEYED THE PROPERTY TO NEW OWNER ALEXANDER
OPPLIGER, TRUSTEE OF THE 5573 COVE CIR TRUST
Item #16A10
CLERK OF COURTS RELEASE OF IRREVOCABLE STANDBY
LETTER OF CREDIT NO. FGAC-13071 IN THE AMOUNT OF
$113,320 AND POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION
PERMIT NUMBER 59.917-2, (PL20120002425) FOR WORK
ASSOCIATED WITH BELLA FIRENZE AT TREVISO BAY —
WORK WAS INSPECTED AND DEVELOPER HAS FULFILLED
HIS COMMITMENTS WITH RESPECT TO THE SECURITY
Item #16A11
RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF MAPLE RIDGE AT AVE
MARIA PHASE 3, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20140000067)
APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION
AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE
AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY
W/STIPULATIONS
Item #16Al2
CLERK OF COURTS RELEASE OF A PERFORMANCE BOND
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IN THE AMOUNT OF $445,000 POSTED AS A DEVELOPMENT
GUARANTY FOR AN EARLY WORK AUTHORIZATION
(EWA) (PL20100000306) FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH
VERONA WALK PHASE 4C — CONSTRUCTION PLANS
WERE APPROVED AND PROPERTY HAS BEEN CLEARED
AND STABILIZED SO A BOND IS NO LONGER REQUIRED
FOR THIS PROJECT WITHIN THE WINDING CYPRESS PUD
Item #16A13
EXCAVATION PERMIT NO. EXP-PL20140001110 TO ALLOW
OFFSITE REMOVAL OF UP TO 100,000 CUBIC YARDS OF
EXCESS FILL FROM A PREVIOUSLY APPROVED LAKE
EXCAVATION AND IS ALSO TIED TO CURRENT AND
PROPOSED EXCAVATIONS IN LELY RESORT'S SIGNATURE
CLUB WITHIN THE LELY RESORT PUD — AS DETAILED IN
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16A14
CLERK OF COURTS RELEASE OF A CASH BOND IN THE
AMOUNT OF $97,520 POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR
EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER 60.082, (PL20120001222)
FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH HACIENDA LAKES OF
NAPLES, PHASE 1 — ASSOCIATED WORK HAS BEEN
INSPECTED AND THE DEVELOPER HAS FULFILLED HIS
COMMITMENTS WITH RESPECT TO THE SECURITY
Item #16A15
RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF BENT CREEK PRESERVE
PHASE 1A, APPLICATION NUMBER FP-PL20130002155 —
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ENGINEERING SERVICES HAS COMPLETED THEIR REVIEW
OF THE FINAL PLAT AND ALL FEES HAVE BEEN PAID ON
THE PROJECT WITHIN THE BENT CREEK PRESERVE RPUD
Item #16A16
A MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLLIER
COUNTY AND THE BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE
DETAILING TERMS OF A COMBINED EFFORT DESIGNED TO
RESTORE MORE OF A NATURAL SURFACE WATER FLOW
PATTERN TO A SECTION OF THE TURNER RIVER — USING A
$60,000 SOUTH FLORIDA NATIONAL PARKS TRUST GRANT
BIG CYPRESS RECEIVED THAT WILL BE SPENT OVER A
PERIOD OF 2-YEARS ON MATERIAL NEEDED TO INSTALL
THREE ADDITIONAL SETS OF CULVERTS UNDER TURNER
RIVER ROAD WITH THE COUNTY CONTRIBUTING ALL
LABOR AND EQUIPMENT NEEDED IN AN ATTEMPT TO
DECREASE WASH-OUTS ON THIS LIME ROCK ROAD THAT
HAVE LEAD TO WATER QUALITY ISSUES AND COSTLY
REPAIRS ON THE COUNTY MAINTAINED ROAD THAT'S
APPROXIMATELY 5.5 MILES EAST OF SR29
Item #16A17
CONTRACT #14-6228 WITH COASTAL PLANNING AND
ENGINEERING INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $127,566 FOR
SERVICES RELATED TO SECURING COLLIER COUNTY A
15-YEAR BEACH RENOURISHMENT PERMIT, AUTHORIZE
THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE CORRESPONDING
AGREEMENT, AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENT AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS ITEM
PROMOTES TOURISM. (PROJECT NO. 80165) — AS DETAILED
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IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16A18
A RANKED LIST OF DESIGN PROFESSIONALS PURSUANT
TO RFP #14-6257, "DOCTORS PASS JETTY", AUTHORIZE
STAFF TO NEGOTIATE A CONTRACT WITH THE TOP
RANKED FIRM FOR SUBSEQUENT BOARD APPROVAL, AND
MAKE A FINDING THE ITEM PROMOTES TOURISM
(PROJECT NO. 90029) — FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH
HUMISTON & MOORE; AND IF THAT IS UNSUCCESSFUL
WITH COASTAL PLANNING AND ENGINEERING. THIS IS
FOR SERVICES NEEDED TO SECURE A PERMIT TO REBUILD
THE DOCTORS PASS SOUTH JETTY AND THE DESIGN AND
PERMITTING FOR AN EROSION CONTROL STRUCTURE
Item #16A19
A WORK ORDER UNDER CONTRACT #13-6164-CZ WITH
HUMISTON AND MOORE ENGINEERS FOR PROFESSIONAL
ENGINEERING SERVICES, AS NEEDED, FOR THE MARCO
ISLAND CENTRAL BEACH RE-GRADING PROJECT WITH A
TIME AND MATERIAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $169,724;
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE TO
EXECUTE THE WORK ORDER, APPROVE THE NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENT, AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS
ITEM PROMOTES TOURISM, PROJECT NO. 90062 — FOR
PRELIMINARY DESIGN, STATE & FEDERAL PERMITTING,
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AND BIDDING AND
INSPECTIONS TO IMPROVE THIS AREA JUST SOUTH OF
SAND DOLLAR ISLAND CONTINUING TO THE MARRIOTT
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Item #16A20 — Moved to Item #11E (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
Item #16A21
CONSULTANT RANKING BY QUADRANT FOR RFP #14-6190,
GOLDEN GATE STORMWATER DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT
PROJECT DESIGN AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO NEGOTIATE
CONTRACTS WITH TOP RANKED FIRMS FOR SUBSEQUENT
BOARD APPROVAL — FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH AGNOLI
BARBER AND BRUNDAGE, JOHNSON ENGINEERING,
CH2M HILL AND RWA CONSULTING
Item #16A22
A WORK ORDER UNDER CONTRACT #13-6164 WITH CB&I
COASTAL PLANNING & ENGINEERING, INC., FOR A TIME
AND MATERIAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $9,979 TO
ASSIST WITH SUBMITTING A FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (FDEP) 2015-2016 LOCAL
GOVERNMENT FUNDING REQUEST (LGFR), AUTHORIZE
THE COUNTY MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE
THE WORK ORDER, AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS
ITEM PROMOTES TOURISM (PROJECT NO. 80165) — AS
DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16A23
DEVELOPER AGREEMENT BETWEEN NAPLES ASSOCIATES
IV, LLLP (DEVELOPER) AND COLLIER COUNTY (COUNTY)
TO PROVIDE DESIGN AND POST CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
FOR INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS AT THE COLLIER
BOULEVARD/IMMOKALEE ROAD INTERSECTION — AS
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DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16B1
THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA) TO
APPROVE A COMMERCIAL BUILDING IMPROVEMENT
GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CRA, SABAL COURT
RESTAURANT, INC., AND SABAL COURT, LLC, FOR
PROPERTY LOCATED WITHIN THE BAYSHORE GATEWAY
TRIANGLE AREA AT 3275 BAYSHORE DRIVE IN THE
AMOUNT OF $3,550 — A RE-ROOFING PROJECT AT SABLE
COURT RESTAURANT
Item #16C1
AWARDING BID #13-6162R, "CHLORINATOR EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE" TO WATER TREATMENT AND CONTROLS
COMPANY AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE
THE ATTACHED CONTRACT — TO PROVIDE LABOR AND
PARTS FOR SEMI-ANNUAL INSPECTIONS, CLEANING AND
PREVENTATIVE AND EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE AT THE
NORTH & SOUTH COUNTY REGIONAL WATER TREATMENT
PLANTS AND ASSOCIATED RE-PUMPING STATIONS — A
1-YEAR CONTRACT WITH THREE (3) 1-YEAR RENEWALS
Item #16C2
WORK ORDER UNDER CONTRACT #08-5011-119 FOR THE
AMOUNT OF $352,447 WITH MITCHELL & STARK
CONSTRUCTION TO REPLACE PUMPS & MOTOR CONTROLS
IN SLUDGE PUMP STATION NO. 4 UNDER NORTH COUNTY
WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY PROJECT NO. 73968 —
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EXISTING PUMPS AND MOTOR CONTROLS ARE 12-YEARS
OLD — REACHING END OF USEFUL LIFE STATUS
Item #16C3
UTILITY AND ACCESS EASEMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE
KENSINGTON PARK MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC., FOR THE
ACQUISITION OF AN EASEMENT AT ITS APPRAISED VALUE
TO ACCOMMODATE REHABILITATION OF A WASTEWATER
PUMPING STATION, WITH A TOTAL COST NOT TO EXCEED
$900.00 (PROJECT NO. 70046) — THE EXISTING EASEMENT IS
INSUFFICIENT IN SIZE FOR UPGRADES AND FOR ONGOING
OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE OF PUMP STATION (PS) 147
Item #16C4
A PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT WITH DESIGNER'S
COLLECTIBLES LLC AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $308,000
TO PURCHASE PROPERTY FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW
WASTEWATER MASTER PUMP STATION AS PART OF THE
WASTEWATER BASIN PROGRAM, PROJECT NO. 70050 — FOR
THREE CONTIGUOUS VACANT LOTS AT 788 AND 792 110TH
AVENUE NORTH THAT WILL BE HOME TO A NEW MASTER
PUMP STATION (MPS) IN NAPLES PARK
Item #16C5
INVITATION TO BID #14-6290 IN THE AMOUNT OF $207,850
WITH GULFSTREAM PETROLEUM SERVICES, INC., "NORTH
COUNTY REGIONAL WATER TREATMENT PLANT DIESEL
FUEL STORAGE TANK REPLACEMENT" AND AUTHORIZE A
BUDGET AMENDMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $200,000
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(PROJECT NO. 71066) — TO REPLACE TWO 20,000 GALLON
ABOVE GROUND DIESEL FUEL STORAGE TANKS AT
NCRWTP THAT NO LONGER COMPLY WITH NATIONAL
FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION REGULATIONS
Item #16D1
STATE HOUSING INITIATIVE PARTNERSHIP SUBRECIPIENT
AGREEMENT WITH CENTRO CAMPESINO FARMWORKER
CENTER, INC. FOR ADMINISTRATION OF AN OWNER
OCCUPIED REHABILITATION PROGRAM WITH A TOTAL
CONTRACT AWARD OF $856,000 AND ACCEPT A 6-MONTH
EXTENSION OF THE EXPENDITURE DEADLINE FOR SHIP
FY 2011/2012 PROGRAM FUNDS GRANTED BY THE FLORIDA
HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION — AN AGREEMENT
EFFECTIVE JUNE 24, 2014 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
WITH A NON-PROFIT GROUP WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY
ADMINISTERED SIMILAR PROGRAMS IN HENDRY AND
DESOTO COUNTIES
Item #16D2
A BUDGET AMENDMENT RECOGNIZING $828,973.79 OF
STATE HOUSING INITIATIVE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
ALLOCATION AND PROGRAM INCOME FOR FY 2013/2014 —
WILL BE USED TO PROVIDE PURCHASING ASSISTANCE,
OWNER-OCCUPIED REHABILITATION ASSISTANCE AND
FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
Item #16D3
AUTHORIZING STAFF TO ADVERTISE AN ORDINANCE
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THAT WOULD REPEAL AND REPLACE ORDINANCE 94-39,
AS AMENDED, KNOWN AS THE COLLIER COUNTY
RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM, TO ADOPT A
REVISED PROGRAM TO BE KNOWN AS COLLIER COUNTY
OWNER-OCCUPIED REHABILITATION PROGRAM AND
BRING BACK A PROPOSED ORDINANCE FOR A PUBLIC
HEARING
Item #16D4
AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO A SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT
WITH COLLIER COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY, INC. FOR
TENANT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE TO EXTEND THE
PROJECT COMPLETION DATE TO AUGUST 31, 2015, MODIFY
BUDGET LANGUAGE FOR CONSISTENCY WITH OTHER
AGREEMENTS AND UPDATE DEPARTMENT CONTACT
INFORMATION — AN EXTENSION IS NEEDED TO ALLOW
THE SUBRECIPIENT TIME TO ENTER INTO 12-MONTH
LEASE AGREEMENTS WITH TENANTS, A REQUIREMENT
PER HUD/HOME REGULATIONS
Item #16D5
AMENDING THE NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION
ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN AND APPROVE AMENDMENT
NO. 2 TO THE DEVELOPER AGREEMENT WITH HABITAT
FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY, INC. FOR THE
NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM 1 AND
AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO THE DEVELOPER AGREEMENT
WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY,
INC. FOR NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM 3
TO REFLECT GRANT PROGRAM CLOSEOUT GUIDELINES
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AND CLARIFY APPRAISAL REQUIREMENTS — NEEDED IN
THE ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN AND DEVELOPER
AGREEMENT REGARDING STANDARDS AND THE
TIMEFRAME FOR PROPER APPRAISALS
Item #16D6
FOUR SATISFACTIONS OF MORTGAGE FOR OWNER-
OCCUPIED AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS THAT HAVE
SATISFIED THE TERMS OF ASSISTANCE FOR COLLIER
COUNTY HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM —
FOR PROPERTIES AT 244 PEBBLE BEACH CIRCLE B-201,
103A BOBOLINK WAY AND 940 AUTO RANCH ROAD IN
NAPLES AND 710 NEW MARKET ROAD W. IN IMMOKALEE
Item #16D7
A SATISFACTION AND RELEASE OF LIEN FOR PAYMENT OF
COUNTYWIDE IMPACT FEES — FOR PROPERTY AT 4712
VERITY LANE, NAPLES AND REFUNDING PREMIUM TITLE
SERVICES, INC. AN OVERPAYMENT OF $1,275.00 FOR
MISCALCULATED FEES
Item #16D8
RESOLUTION 2014-129: FORMALLY APPROVING THE
COLLIER COUNTY FY2014-2015 1-YEAR HUD ANNUAL
ACTION PLAN INCLUDING RE-PROGRAMMING FUNDS
FROM PREVIOUS YEARS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK GRANTS, HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS,
AND EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT PROGRAMS;
APPROVE THE RESOLUTION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
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HOUSING URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) CERTIFICATIONS
AND SF-424 APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE,
AND AUTHORIZE TRANSMITTAL TO HUD — AS DETAILED
IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16D9
THE FY14 PROGRAM OF TRANSIT SYSTEM OPERATIONS
AND CAPITAL PROJECTS AND SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT
APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION,
49 USC § 5307 FY14 GRANT FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF
$2,888,127 THROUGH THE TRANSPORTATION ELECTRONIC
AWARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM — FUNDS AWARDED TO
ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION MODES DEPARTMENT
FOR THE COLLIER AREA TRANSIT (CAT) SYSTEM TO BE
USED MAINLY ON CAPITAL PROJECTS INCLUDING BUS
SHELTERS AND SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS, BUS
REPLACEMENT AND MAINTENANCE, ADA SERVICES, AND
OPERATING ASSISTANCE AT THE RADIO ROAD FACILITY
Item #16D10
FY14 PROGRAM OF TRANSIT SYSTEM CAPITAL PROJECTS
AND SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT APPLICATION FOR THE
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION, 49 USC § 5339 FY14
GRANT FUNDS OF $365,428 THROUGH TRANSPORTATION
ELECTRONIC AWARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM — FUNDS
AWARDED WILL BE USED FOR COLLIER AREA TRANSIT
(CAT) PROJECTS THAT MAY INCLUDE RADIO ROAD ADA
AND SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS AND ADMINISTRATION
Item #16D11
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THE 2014 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT OF THE COLLIER
COUNTY TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND AUTHORIZE
ITS SUBMISSION TO THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION — FOR PLANNING PURPOSES AND MUST
BE DONE TO CONTINUE RECEIVING STATE GRANT FUNDS
Item #16D12
SUBMITTING A FY 2013/14 GRANT APPLICATION FOR
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION FLEXIBLE FUNDS
THROUGH THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION'S
TRANSPORTATION ELECTRONIC AWARD MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM IN THE AMOUNT OF $294,000 FOR ADDITIONAL
BUS SHELTERS — FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF
TWELVE (12) BUS SHELTERS AND A REQUEST OF $73,500 IN
TOLL REVENUE CREDITS FROM FDOT FOR A SOFT MATCH
Item #16D13
SUBMITTING A FY 2014/15 GRANT APPLICATION FOR
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION FLEXIBLE FUNDS
IN THE AMOUNT OF $287,124 THROUGH THE FEDERAL
TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION'S TRANSPORTATION
ELECTRONIC AWARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL BUS SHELTERS — FOR
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF TWELVE (12) BUS
SHELTERS AND A REQUEST OF $71,781 IN TOLL REVENUE
CREDITS FROM FDOT FOR THE SOFT MATCH
Item #16D14
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A SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT
OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FY2010-2011 HUD ANNUAL
ACTION PLAN, AS AMENDED, TO REDIRECT FUNDS TO THE
IMMOKALEE CRA FIRST STREET PLAZA (A/K/A ZOCALO)
PROJECT IN THE AMOUNT OF $34,000
Item #16D15
A ONE-TIME EXHIBITION AND FACILITY USE RENTAL
AGREEMENT WITH MARCO ISLAND FOUNDATION FOR
THE ARTS TO PROVIDE EXHIBIT AND AFTER-HOUR EVENT
RECEPTION SPACE AT THE MARCO ISLAND HISTORICAL
MUSEUM — FOR THE COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING EVENT
"PAINTING S.W. FLORIDA HISTORY — CALL TO ARTISTS"
FROM JANUARY 6-MARCH 28, 2015 WITH A PERCENTAGE
OF FUNDS RAISED GOING TO THE COUNTY
Item #16D16
RESOLUTION 2014-130: APPROVING EXPENDITURE OF
FUNDS NOT TO EXCEED $2,000 FOR ACTIVITIES AND
INCENTIVE PRIZES ASSOCIATED WITH THE 2014 UNITED
WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY CAMPAIGN AND WAIVING THE
ENTRANCE FEES INTO THE SUN-N-FUN LAGOON FOR
THOSE PARTICIPATING IN THE UNITED WAY'S WALK ON
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
Item #16D17
AMENDMENTS AND ATTESTATION STATEMENTS WITH
AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, INC.
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FOR COMMUNITY CARE FOR THE ELDERLY, ALZHEIMER'S
DISEASE INITIATIVE, AND HOME CARE FOR THE ELDERLY
PROGRAMS TO EXTEND THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENTS
AND ENSURE CONTINUOUS FUNDING FOR FY 2013/2014 —
AMENDMEN T NO. 8 TO EXTEND CONTRACT ADI 203. 13 TO
AUGUST 30, 2014 UNTIL A TIME FUNDING RENEWAL FROM
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ELDER AFFAIRS IS PRESENTED
Item #16D18
AMENDMENTS AND ATTESTATION STATEMENTS WITH
AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, INC.
FOR THE COMMUNITY CARE FOR THE ELDERLY AND
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE INITIATIVE PROGRAM TO
INCREASE FY 2013/14 FUNDING (FISCAL IMPACT: $55,356) —
AMENDMENT NO. 10 TO CONTRACT CCE 203. 12 TO SHIFT
FUNDS BETWEEN ALLOCATED CATEGORIES AND ADI
203. 12 AMENDMENT NO. 9 TO INCREASE ALLOCATIONS
Item #16E1
A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
COLLIER COUNTY & LOCAL NUMBER 4719, PROFESSIONAL
FIRE AND MARINE RESCUE OF THE ISLES OF CAPRI,
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS — IN
EFFECT JUNE 24, 2014 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 AND
ALLOWS THE COUNTY, WITH NOTICE TO THE UNION, TO
ASSIGN THE AGREEMENT IN THE EVENT ISLES OF CAPRI
FIRE DISTRICT MERGES OR IS CONSOLIDATED, JOINED,
UNITED OR ENTERS INTO CONTRACTUAL MANAGEMENT
WITH ANOTHER AGENCY
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Item #16E2
AN ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT WITH INTELLIGENT
INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS, LLC AS IT RELATES TO
CONTRACT #12-5985, FIBER OPTIC INSTALLATION, REPAIR
AND MAINTENANCE — TO ASSIGN RIGHTS, DUTIES AND
OBLIGATIONS AFTER THE PREVIOUS CONTRACTOR, SPE
UTILITY CONTRACTORS WAS ACQUIRED BY INTELLIGENT
Item #16E3
BUDGET AMENDMENTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $185,000 FOR
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT IMPROVEMENTS TO
PUBLIC RESTROOMS ON THE 3RD FLOOR OF W. HARMON
TURNER ADMINISTRATION BUILDING "F"— TO COMPLY
WITH CURRENT ADA GUIDELINES
Item #16E4
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO ADVERTISE AN
AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE NO. 83-25, AS AMENDED, TO
CORRECT THE NAME OF THE DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PROVIDER TO NATIONWIDE RETIREMENT SOLUTIONS,
INC. PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
COUNTIES (NACO) AND PREVIOUSLY ADMINISTERED BY
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES BENEFIT SERVICES CORPORATION
(PEBSCO), TO APPROVE REMOVAL OF SECTION 2 OF THE
ORDINANCE REMOVING THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND
INCLUDE THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS (SOE) UNDER
DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLANS OF THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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Item 416E5
RESOLUTION 2014-131 : AUTHORIZING CANCELLATION OF
2014 TAXES UPON A FEE-SIMPLE INTEREST IN LAND THAT
THE COUNTY ACQUIRED BY WARRANTY DEED FOR
CONSERVATION COLLIER WITHOUT MONETARY
COMPENSATION
Item 416E6
RANK OF FIRMS UNDER RFP #14-6255R, ARCHITECTURAL,
ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICES FOR THE ORANGE TREE SHERIFF'S SUBSTATION
AND DIRECT STAFF TO BRING A NEGOTIATED CONTRACT
TO THE BOARD FOR SUBSEQUENT APPROVAL — IN THE
RANKED ORDER: BSSW ARCHITECTS INC., HARVARD
JOLLY AND RQAW CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND
ARCHITECTS, FOR SERVICES RELATED TO CONSTRUCTION
OF THE NEW SHERIFF'S SUBSTATION ON THE SAME
PARCEL AS THE CURRENT COLLIER COUNTY EMS-12
STATION AND OCCUPANCY IN THE SECOND HALF OF 2015
Item #16F 1
RESOLUTION 2014-132: ACCEPTING THE FIFTH ANNUAL
REPORT ON THE "IMPACT FEE PROGRAM FOR EXISTING
COMMERCIAL REDEVELOPMENT" AND A RESOLUTION
EXTENDING THE SUNSET DATE OF THE PROGRAM TO
JULY 1 , 2015 BASED ON CONTINUING PROGRAM INTEREST
Item 416F2
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RESOLUTION 2014-133: APPROVING AMENDMENTS
(APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS
OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2013-14
ADOPTED BUDGET
Item #16F3
THE USE OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX CATEGORY "B"
FUNDS TO SUPPORT NATIONAL FBU YOUTH FOOTBALL
CHAMPIONSHIPS IN DECEMBER, 2014 UP TO $125,000 AND
MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS EXPENDITURE PROMOTES
TOURISM — ACTIVITIES INCLUDE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
FOR 6TH, 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS, COACH'S CLINICS, ALL
STAR GAMES AND REGIONAL QUALIFIERS; FINAL GAMES
WILL BE NATIONALLY TELEVISED ON NBC GIVING THE
AREA GREAT EXPOSURE AND AN ESTIMATED $2.5
MILLION IN VISITOR SPENDING
Item #16F4
TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX CATEGORY "B" FUNDING TO
SUPPORT THE CONNECTSPORTS EXECUTIVE SPORTS
FORUM IN NOVEMBER, 2014 UP TO $15,000 AND MAKE A
FINDING THAT THIS EXPENDITURE PROMOTES TOURISM —
THE FORUM IS HELD TO BRING IN SPORTS INDUSTRY
PLANNERS INCLUDING SENIOR PERSONNEL FROM USA
CYCLING, GYMNASTICS, VOLLEYBALL, LACROSSE, ELITE
TOURNAMENTS, THE INTERNATIONAL SENIOR SOFTBALL
ASSOCIATION AND OTHER NATIONAL BODIES WITH
FUNDS USED TO UNDERWRITE EVENT RIGHTS HOLDERS'
AIR FARE, GROUND TRANSPORTATION AND TO SPONSOR
EVENTS RELATED TO THE FORUM
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Item #16F5
AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN, AS A MEMBER OF THE
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA JOB TRAINING CONSORTIUM,
TO APPROVE THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WORKFORCE
DEVELOPMENT BOARD, INC., PROPOSED FY 2014/2015
BUDGET AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE WORKFORCE
INVESTMENT ACT SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
JOB TRAINING CONSORTIUM — AS DETAILED IN THE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16F6
BID #14-6272 IN THE AMOUNT OF $781,924.59 TO QUALITY
ENTERPRISES, USA, INC. FOR THE PELICAN BAY NORTH
BERM RESTORATION AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO
EXECUTE THE CONTRACT AND APPROVE ALL NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENTS — TO MAINTAIN FUNCTIONALITY
AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO THE NORTH BEACH, BERM
SIDE SLOPES WILL BE RESTORED AND SEDIMENT
BARRIERS INSTALLED BETWEEN PELICAN BAY COMMONS
AND THE PELICAN BAY NORTH TRAM STATION
Item #16G1
CONVEYANCE OF TWO UNDERGROUND EASEMENTS
(BUSINESS) TO FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY FOR
ELECTRICAL SERVICE AT MARCO ISLAND EXECUTIVE
AIRPORT ON MAINSAIL DRIVE — PART OF THE RUNWAY
17-25 REHAB TO INSTALL UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC
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INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROVIDE ELECTRICAL SERVICE
FOR THE NEW AIRPORT ROTATING BEACON
Item #16G2
EXECUTING A COLLIER COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY
STANDARD FORM LEASE WITH FLETCHER FLYING
SERVICES, INC., FOR A MOBILE OFFICE AT IMMOKALEE
AIRPORT — A $500 MONTH-TO-MONTH LEASE FOR A
24 X 48-FOOT STRUCTURE OWNED BY THE AUTHORITY
WITH ALL UTILITIES THE TENANT' S RESPONSIBILITY
Item #16G3
EXECUTING A COLLIER COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY
STANDARD FORM LEASE WITH RAVEN AIR MARCO
ISLAND, LLC, D/B/A ISLAND HOPPERS AT THE MARCO
ISLAND EXECUTIVE AIRPORT — TENANT CURRENTLY HAS
A LEASE AND PLANS TO ADD OFFICE AND COUNTER
SPACE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES AND TO SERVE
CUSTOMERS FOR CHARTERED FLIGHTS, AIRPLANE AND
HELICOPTER SIGHTSEEING TOURS, FLIGHT INSTRUCTION
AND AIRCRAFT SALES FOR THE MONTH-TO-MONTH RENT
OF $378.42
Item #16H1
RESOLUTION 2014-134: REAPPOINTING THREE MEMBERS
TO THE BAYSHORE/GATEWAY TRIANGLE LOCAL
REDEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD — REAPPOINTING
SHANE SHADIS (AT-LARGE CATEGORY), LARRY INGRAM
(US41 BUSINESS OWNER) AND STEPHEN MAIN (BAYSHORE
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BUSINESS OWNER) TO 3-YEAR TERMS
Item #16H2
RESOLUTION 2014-135: APPOINTING MEMBERS TO THE
AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE —
APPOINTING MICHAEL P. BOHAYCHYK (CATEGORY OF
EMPLOYERS WITHIN JURISDICTION) TO A TERM EXPIRING
OCTOBER 1 , 2017 AND REAPPOINTING JOHN L. COWAN
(CITY OF NAPLES REPRESENTATIVE) TO A TERM EXPIRING
SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
Item #16H3
COMMISSIONER FIALA'S REIMBURSEMENT REGARDING
ATTENDANCE AT A FUNCTION SERVING A VALID PUBLIC
PURPOSE. SHE ATTENDED THE EAST NAPLES CIVIC
ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON MAY 15, 2014. A SUM OF $18 TO
BE PAID FROM COMMISSIONER FIALA'S TRAVEL BUDGET
— HELD AT THE HAMILTON HARBOR YACHT CLUB, 7065
HAMILTON AVENUE, NAPLES
Item #16H4
COMMISSIONER FIALA'S REIMBURSEMENT REGARDING
ATTENDANCE AT A FUNCTION SERVING A VALID PUBLIC
PURPOSE. SHE ATTENDED A NAPLES PRESS CLUB
LUNCHEON MAY 22, 2014. A SUM OF $25 TO BE PAID FROM
COMMISSIONER FIALA'S TRAVEL BUDGET — HELD AT THE
HILTON NAPLES, 5111 TAMIAMI TAIL NORTH
Item #16J1
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PROVIDING THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT'S INTERNAL AUDIT
REPORT 2014-10, PARKS AND RECREATION IMMOKALEE
SPORTS COMPLEX FOLLOW-UP CASH REVIEW ISSUED
JUNE 18, 2014
Item #16J2
PROVIDING THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT INTERNAL AUDIT REPORT
2014-11, PARKS AND RECREATION IMMOKALEE
COMMUNITY PARK CASH REVIEW ISSUED JUNE 18, 2014
Item #16J3
PROVIDING THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT INTERNAL AUDIT REPORT
2014-12, PARKS AND RECREATION BEACH PARKING CASH
REVIEW ISSUED JUNE 18, 2014
Item #16J4
PROVIDING THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT INTERNAL AUDIT REPORT
2014-9, JOB CREATION & RETENTION AGREEMENT
HAYNES CORPORATION ISSUED JUNE 18, 2014
Item #16J5
A REQUEST THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS USE
$25,000 FROM CONFISCATED TRUST FUNDS TO SUPPORT
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THE COLLIER 211 CAMPAIGN — TO SUPPORT THE UNITED
WAY'S INFORMATION AND REFERRAL SERVICE
Item #16J6
BUDGET AMENDMENT TO RECOGNIZE $1,402,500 IN
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES IN THE SHERIFF'S FY2014
GENERAL FUND BUDGET — FOR UNSPENT COLLECTED
FEES RETURNED TO THE BOARD FOR SERVICES PROVIDED
BY THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT INCLUDING DETAILED
CONTRACTS, SEXUAL PREDATOR COLLECTIONS, INMATE
SUBSISTENCE NEEDS, HOUSING AND INMATE LABOR
Item #16J7
EXPENDITURES SERVING A VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE
AND APPROVAL OF DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD
OF JUNE 5, 2014 THROUGH JUNE 11, 2014
Item #16J8
EXPENDITURES SERVING A VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE
AND APPROVAL OF DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD
OF JUNE 12, 2014 THROUGH JUNE 18, 2014
Item #16J9
AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN A LETTER
DESIGNATING SOUTHWEST FLORIDA CRIME STOPPERS,
INC., A NON-PROFIT AGENCY, THE AGENT FOR THE
PURPOSE OF APPLYING FOR AND RECEIVING FUNDS
FROM THE CRIME STOPPERS TRUST FUND — A PROGRAM
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FUNDED SOLELY WITH DONATIONS AND GRANTS THAT
ASKS COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO HELP FIGHT CRIME BY
SUPPLYING LEADS OR ON-LINE TIPS THAT OFFERS A
REWARD FOR TIPS THAT LEAD TO THE ARREST AND
CONVICTION OF CRIMINALS
Item #16K1
FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,200 FOR PARCEL
105TCE AND 106TCE ALONG WITH STATUTORY ATTORNEY
FEES IN THE LAWSUIT STYLED COLLIER COUNTY FLORIDA
V. MODELYNE JEAN GILLES, ET AL., CASE NO. 14-CA-764 FOR
COLLIER BOULEVARD EXPANSION PROJECT NO. 68056.
(FISCAL IMPACT: $1,008) — FOR TAKING TWO TEMPORARY
CONSTRUCTION EASEMENTS TOTALING 1,650 SQ. FEET
Item #16K2
THREE PAYMENTS FOR FEES AND COSTS CLAIMED BY A
PROPERTY OWNER'S ATTORNEY AND EXPERT WITNESSES
IN CONNECTION WITH THE TAKING OF PARCEL 116FEE,
116TCE 1 , 116TCE2, AND 116TCE3 IN THE LAWSUIT STYLED
COLLIER COUNTY V. RTG, LLC, A NEBRASKA LIMITED
LIABILITY COMPANY, ET AL, CASE NO. 2013-CA-259 FOR
US41/COLLIER BLVD INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT
PROJECT #60116. (FISCAL IMPACT: $571,207) — A TAKING OF
RIGHT-OF-WAYS AND TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION
EASEMENTS FOR INVOICES THAT WERE PRESENTED
AFTER THE JANUARY, 2014 WEEK-LONG TRIAL THE
COUNTY IS CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED TO PAY
Item #16K3
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STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$3,500 FOR ALL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TAKING
OF PARCEL 134TDRE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF OIL WELL
ROAD (PROJECT NO 60044) IN THE CASE STYLED COLLIER
COUNTY V. CHRISTOPHER LINK, ET AL., CASE NO. 07-4218-
CA (FISCAL IMPACT: $3,570) — FEES ASSOCIATED WITH
PLANS THAT WERE MODIFIED TO REBUILD A PROPERTY
OWNER'S DRIVEWAY
Item #161(4
STIPULATED ORDER OF TAKING AND FINAL JUDGMENT IN
THE AMOUNT OF $5,300 FOR PARCEL 156TCE III THE
LAWSUIT STYLED COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA V. ROBERT E.
WILLIAMS, TR., ET AL., CASE NO. 14-CA-816 FOR COLLIER
BOULEVARD EXPANSION PROJECT NO. 68056 (FISCAL
IMPACT: $5,470) — FOR THE CONDEMNATION OF A 3,301
SQUARE FOOT TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT
THAT INCLUDED NEGOTIATED COMPENSATION FOR
ATTORNEY FEES AND THE COUNTY TO TEMPORARILY
USE THE OWNER'S PROPERTY TO STORE EQUIPMENT
Item #161(5
MEDIATED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND STIPULATED
FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $129,278.63 FOR THE
ACQUISITION OF PARCEL 206DAME IN THE LAWSUIT
STYLED COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA V. JOHN D. LAWRENCE,
ET AL., CASE NO. 11-3207-CA. OUTFALLS 3 AND 4/LASIP
PROJECT #51101 . (FISCAL IMPACT: $122,328.63) — AS
DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Item #16K6
AFTER-THE-FACT FILING OF A JOINT PETITION WITH THE
FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES ("FAC") AND OTHER
COUNTIES TO CHALLENGE PROPOSED NEW RULES
RELATED TO BILLING AND COLLECTION OF THE COUNTY
COST SHARE FOR JUVENILE PRE-DISPOSITION SECURED
DETENTION (POTENTIAL FISCAL IMPACT: $3,500) — A
PETITION SEEKING A REFUND IN EXCESS OF $5 MILLION
FROM THE STATE IN REGARDS TO OVERPAYMENTS FROM
THE COUNTY TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE
Item #17A
RESOLUTION 2014-136: PETITION VAC-PL20140000611, TO
DISCLAIM, RENOUNCE AND VACATE COUNTY AND
PUBLIC INTEREST IN A 60-FOOT PUBLIC ROAD RIGHT-OF-
WAY DESCRIBED AND RECORDED IN OFFICIAL RECORD
BOOK 590, PAGE 1304, PUBLIC RECORDS OF COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA, LOCATED IN SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP
49 SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
Item #17B
RESOLUTION 2014-137: PETITION VAC-PL20140000073,
TO VACATE COUNTY AND PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE
STORMWATER DRAINAGE EASEMENT (EXHIBIT A-2 ONLY)
AS RECORDED IN OFFICIAL RECORD BOOK 3188, PAGES
1727 THROUGH 1733 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA, LOCATED IN SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP
48 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA,
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BEING MORE SPECIFICALLY SHOWN IN EXHIBIT A
Item #17C
RESOLUTION 2014-138: A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT
TO THE COLLIER COUNTY GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN,
ORDINANCE 89-05, AS AMENDED, SPECIFICALLY
AMENDING THE IMMOKALEE AREA MASTER PLAN
ELEMENT AND IMMOKALEE AREA FUTURE LAND USE
MAP TO ADD APPROXIMATELY 24.99 ACRES TO THE SR-29
AND JEFFERSON AVENUE COMMERCIAL SUBDISTRICT OF
THE URBAN-COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, TO ALLOW FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF UP TO 162,000 SQUARE FEET OF C-1
(COMMERCIAL PROFESSIONAL AND GENERAL OFFICE
DISTRICT), C-2 (COMMERCIAL CONVENIENCE DISTRICT),
C-3 (COMMERCIAL INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT), AND C-4
(GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT) COMMERCIAL USES
AS DESCRIBED IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE (LDC);
TO EXEMPT DEVELOPMENT ON THE SUBJECT SITE FROM
THE ARCHITECTURAL AND SITE DESIGN STANDARDS OF
LDC SECTION 5.05.08, AND THE SIGN STANDARDS OF LDC
SECTION 5.06.00; AND PROVIDE THAT ARCHITECTURAL,
SITE DESIGN AND SIGN STANDARDS BE ESTABLISHED
THROUGH THE REZONING OF THE SUBJECT SITE, AND
FURTHERMORE RECOMMENDING TRANSMITTAL TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY (DEO). THE
SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST
CORNER OF WESTCLOX STREET AND STATE ROAD 29 IN
SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 46 SOUTH, RANGE 29 EAST,
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA. (CP-2013-8/PL20130001345)
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Item #17D
RESOLUTION 2014-139: APPROVING AMENDMENTS
(APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD, TRANSFERS AND
SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2013-14
ADOPTED BUDGET
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 3:39 p.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL ISTRI/STS UNDER ITS CONTROL
TOM I TNI AIRMAN
ATTEST
DWIGHT E. BROCK, CLERK
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Attest as o Cha i ' s,,w
The** 'J' es O q' 161 roved by the Board on ?jot , as
presented V or as corrected
TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF GREGORY COURT
REPORTING SERVICE, INC., BY TERRI LEWIS, COURT
REPORTER AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
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