Resolution 2017-082 PROCLAMATION/RESOLUTION NO. 2017- 82
PROCLAMATION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY
TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR ALL TERRITORY WITHIN THE GENERAL
NEIGHBORHOODS IN AND AROUND I-75 AND WHITE BOULEVARD, EAST OF COLLIER
BOULEVARD SO DESCRIBED BELOW AND OTHER AREAS SO DESIGNATED BY THE
COLLIER COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
WHEREAS, brush fires in the Golden Gate Estates have burned nearly 3,000 acres, has caused
the evacuation of an estimated 2,000 homes, and has the further potential to cause extensive damage to
public utilities, public buildings, public communication systems, public streets and roads, public drainage
systems, commercial and residential buildings and areas; and
WHEREAS, Collier County Emergency Management officials are recommending that a "State of
Local Emergency"be declared due to the immediate danger of life and property in the affected area; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 252.38 (3) (a) 5, Fla. Stat., and Collier County Ordinance Nos. 84-37,
2001-45, 2002-50, and 2007-49 (codified at Sections 38-56 through 38-71 in the Collier County Code of
Laws and Ordinances) provide for a political subdivision such as Collier County to declare a State of
Local Emergency and to waive the procedures and formalities otherwise required of political subdivisions
by law pertaining to:
1. Performance of public work and taking whatever prudent action is necessary to ensure the
health, safety and welfare of the community;
2. Entering into contracts;
3. Incurring obligations;
4. Employment of permanent and temporary workers;
5. Rental of equipment;
6. Utilization of volunteer workers;
7. Acquisition and distribution, with or without compensation, of supplies, materials and
facilities;
8. Appropriation and expenditure of public funds; and
WHEREAS, Ord. No. 02-50, § 1 provides as follows:
"Pursuant to F.S. ch. 252, which authorizes the waiver of procedures and formalities otherwise
required of political subdivisions to take whatever prudent action is necessary to ensure the health,
safety and welfare of the community in the event of a state of emergency, when a quorum of the board
of county commission is unable to meet, the chairman of the board of county commissioners, or the
vice-chairman in his or her absence, and in the absence of the chairman and vice-chairman; the next
county commissioner in order of seniority, or if two or more were appointed on the same date, then in
alphabetical order among them; and in the absence of any commissioner; the county manager, in the
absence of the county manager; the clerk of courts; and in the clerk's absence the deputy county
manager are hereby designated and empowered to declare a local state of emergency whenever the
designated person, according to the above order of preference shall determine that a natural or
manmade disaster has occurred or that the occurrence or threat of one is imminent and requires
immediate and expeditious action"; and
WHEREAS, because of the immediacy of the threat, and the time required to convene a Special
Meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, it is prudent that the Chair act in accordance with Ord.
No. 02-50.
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, by and through its Chairman, that the
brush fires in the Golden Gate Estates, with high winds today, poses an immediate and serious threat to
the lives and property of those residents of Collier County within the affected area, that voluntary
evacuation is encouraged and that a State of Local Emergency be declared, effective immediately, for the
affected area.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman, on behalf of the Board of County
Commissioners, hereby exercises its authority pursuant to Collier County Ordinance Nos. 84-37, 2001-45,
2002-50 and 2007-49 and waives the procedures and formalities required by law of a political
subdivision, as provided in Chapter 252.38 (3) (a) 5, Fla. Stat. including authorization for Purchasing
Director to waive existing purchasing card limitations during the declared emergency.
DATED: April 21, 2017
ATTEST: Dwight E. Brock,Clerk BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
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Penny Taylor, rman
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Approve. I a ,.nn and legal sufficiency:
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Jeffrey A. ��,°, , County Attorney
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