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Agenda 11/14/2017 Item # 2B111/14/2017 COLLIER COUNTY Board of County Commissioners Item Number: 2.B Item Summary: October 10, 2017 BCC/Regular Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: 11/14/2017 Prepared by: Title: Executive Secretary to County Manager – County Manager's Office Name: MaryJo Brock 10/26/2017 9:14 AM Submitted by: Title: County Manager – County Manager's Office Name: Leo E. Ochs 10/26/2017 9:14 AM Approved By: Review: County Manager's Office MaryJo Brock County Manager Review Completed 10/26/2017 9:14 AM Board of County Commissioners MaryJo Brock Meeting Pending 11/14/2017 9:00 AM October 10, 2017 Page 1 TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Naples, Florida, October 10, 2017 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: Penny Taylor Andrew Solis Donna Fiala William L. McDaniel, Jr. Burt L. Saunders ALSO PRESENT: Leo Ochs, County Manager Nick Casalanguida, Deputy County Manager Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney Crystal Kinzel, Director of Finance & Accounting Troy Miller, Communications & Customer Relations October 10, 2017 Page 2 MR. OCHS: Ladies and gentlemen, if you'd please take your seats. Madam Chair, you have a live mic. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good morning. Good morning, everyone. So nice to see so many people here. We have a very special event where we award and honor our employees here, and it's wonderful. This is always a great day. But on that I'd like to stand and hear Reverend Beverly Duncan give the invocation and, Commissioner Saunders, would you lead us in the Pledge afterwards, please. Item #1A INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE REVEREND DUNCAN: Let us pray. Creator God, in times such as these, one month to the day since Hurricane Irma, it's important that we pray for the needs that are great and even overwhelming in Collier County, for the courage and strength to address those needs, and for the resources to be there for the cleaning up and the hauling away. And we pray to be able to help the people who are suffering great losses. We pray to keep our vision and compassion in the midst of exhaustion. We pray to hang on to hope and to be wise when we'd rather just get it done however, and most of all we pray for an end to the violence of people against people. We pray for respite from the violence of weather, and we pray for calm in the chaos of human events. We pray with gratitude for the blessings we have and enjoy and for the good we are able to do with breath and hands. In peace, we pray all these things. Amen. October 10, 2017 Page 3 (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you, Reverend Duncan. That was quite beautiful and very, very timely. Thank you. Item #2A APPROVAL OF TODAY'S REGULAR, CONSENT AND SUMMARY AGENDA AS AMENDED (EX PARTE DISCLOSURE PROVIDED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR CONSENT AND SUMMARY AGENDAS) – APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED W/CHANGES MR. OCHS: Good morning, Madam Chair and Commissioners. These are the proposed agenda changes for the Board of County Commissioners meeting of October 10th, 2017. The first proposed change is to withdraw Item 9B from the public hearing agenda. This withdrawal is made at the petitioner's request. This was the Cirrus Pointe RPUD amendment. Again, withdrawn at the petitioner's request. The next proposed change is to move Item 16A12 from the consent agenda to become Item 11J on the regular agenda. This move is made at Commissioner Taylor's request. The next proposed change is to withdraw Item 16D3. That withdrawal is at staff's request so we can rework that item and bring it back at a subsequent meeting. The next three proposed changes are to continue Items 16F15, F16, and F17 from your consent agenda. These are the three economic development partnership agreements you have between the Board and local and regional economic development organizations. Those are continued till the next meeting at Commissioner McDaniel's request. The next proposed change is to move Item 16H2 from your October 10, 2017 Page 4 consent agenda to become Item 10A under Board of County Commissioners. This is a recommendation to re-establish the productivity committee. That move is made at Commissioner Fiala's request. We have one time-certain item this morning, Commissioners. That's Item 5D. It's a presentation item. It will be heard at 11 a.m. That's the presentation from Dr. Michael Savarese and Dr. Peter Shang on the sea level rise and modeling program that they've been awarded a national grant for. We're excited about that presentation. And those are all the changes that I have this morning, Madam Chair. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. So we'll start with ex parte and any changes. Commissioner Saunders. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I don't have any changes or ex parte. I'm curious on the three economic development items. The request is to continue those? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: What would be the reason for that? I'm just -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: More clarity, more specificity. I have a few notes if you want to hear them. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: No, just does that create any problems for the -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, I asked the County Manager yesterday for that. I don't want to create a problem, but I would like to see more specificity in those agreements. Just to be clear, the deliverables were rather vague. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I don't have a problem. I just want to make sure it doesn't create a problem for anybody. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's a short answer. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. These are reimbursable contracts typically October 10, 2017 Page 5 on a quarterly basis. So if we can get these squared away by the next meeting, I don't think it creates any payment problems. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I did a little double time in review of those agreements just in case it got to be brought up to be a discussion point so I could make specific requests, so... That's all I had. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: That's fine. I just wanted -- again, just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to create some problems. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, no. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No changes and no ex parte to disclose. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. I have no changes. You know, I -- Leo, did you pull that one that we were talking about in my office yesterday? Goodness me. Let me see if I can find it real quickly. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: While she's looking, I'll go. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Go ahead. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No changes and no ex parte. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And I have no changes, and I do have one ex parte which is a -- two, rather: An email regarding Hadley Place West and then correspondence with Marquesa Isles. COMMISSIONER FIALA: What's the productivity committee? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, the productivity? It's there. It's been pulled. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, it's been pulled to the regular agenda? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, it has. COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's the one I wanted. MR. OCHS: It's on the change. October 10, 2017 Page 6 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So -- and do you have any ex parte, ma'am? COMMISSIONER FIALA: My ex parte -- yes. I -- let's see. The regular agenda -- I don't think I have anything on the consent. No, no. Oh, on 16A2, which is the Marquesa Isles, I got a letter from Unity Church on that, and that's the only disclosure I have. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Very good. All right. So do I hear a motion to set the agenda as described just a minute ago with all those changes, which I won't go into again? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Motion by Commissioner Fiala and, Commissioner McDaniel, you second that? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That will be fine, yes. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you. October 10, 2017 Page 7 Item #2B SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 - BCC/EMERGENCY MEETING MINUTES – APPROVED AS PRESENTED MR. OCHS: Ma'am, Item 2B is a motion to approve the minutes from the September 6th, 2017, emergency meeting of the Board regarding Hurricane Irma. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a second? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second -- third. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you. Item #2C SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 - BCC/BUDGET MEETING MINUTES – APPROVED AS PRESENTED MR. OCHS: Item 2C is approval of the meeting minutes from the September 7th, 2017, budget adoption public hearing. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve. October 10, 2017 Page 8 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Is there a second? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Second by Commissioner Solis. All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) Item #3 AWARDS AND RECOGNITION CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you. MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that takes us to Item 3 on this morning's agenda, awards and recognition. If you'd be kind enough to join us in front of the dais for our awards presentation. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, you can't stand next to Commissioner Fiala. You have stripes, she has polka dots. I'm kidding. I'm kidding; I'm kidding. MR. OCHS: Commissioners, we're pleased to recognize several of our teammates this morning celebrating many years of dedicated service to county government. We'll start this morning with those receiving their 20-year service awards. First awardee from our Zoning Division, 20 years, John Kelly. (Applause.) COMMISSIONER FIALA: That means you stuck with us through thick and thin. October 10, 2017 Page 9 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Amen; 20 years, my goodness. MR. OCHS: Step back a little bit. There you go. Get right in between them. There you go. MR. OCHS: Congratulations. (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Celebrating 20 years of service with Parks and Recreation, Mike Toolan. Mike? (Applause.) COMMISSIONER FIALA: I've known Mike since he was a little boy. MR. TOOLAN: The speech is coming. (Applause.) MR. TOOLAN: Thank you. MR. OCHS: Celebrating 20 years also with Parks and Recreation, Kathy Topoleski. Kathy? (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Our final 20-year awardee this morning from our Office in Management and Budget, 20 years of service, Susan Usher. Susan? (Applause.) (Applause.) MR. OCHS: We have two employees this morning celebrating 25 years of service with county government. The first from our Parks and Recreation Division, Edwin Barroso. Edwin? (Applause.) COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Twenty-five years, you've got to smile. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Which park? MR. BARROSO: Parks and rec irrigation. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: What are you going to do with those turf fields? October 10, 2017 Page 10 MR. BARROSO: I've got job security. (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Celebrating 25 years of service with Building Review and Permitting, Tim Stick. Tim? (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Commissioners, we're honored this morning to recognize four employees with 30 years of service in county government. It's outstanding. Our first recipient from Road Maintenance, Ramiro Ponce. (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Celebrating 30 years of service with our Transportation Engineering Operation, Steve Ritter. Steve? (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Celebrating 30 years of service with our Water Division, Dave Streit. Dave? (Applause.) COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thanks for all your good work. Well done, Dave. (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Our final 30-year awardee this morning, from our Facilities Management Division, Pat Webb. (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that concludes our service awards this morning. Thank you very much. Commissioners, that takes us to Item 3D on your agenda this morning, and that is a recommendation to recognize Andres Santamaria, our maintenance specialist in the Growth Management Department, as the August 2017 Employee of the Month. Andres, if you could come up, please. (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Stand right in there; in front of the chair there. This October 10, 2017 Page 11 embarrassment won't last too long. All right. Stand right there, though. It is going to last a little longer. I have to tell the Board and the public a little bit more about this guy. Andres has been with our Traffic Operations Division for over 11 years working in our locates division, and oftentimes those locates are difficult to find, and Andres makes every effort to find each and every one of them. He's one of the team's best locators in an emergency and has become an integral part of our rapid response personnel team. He always makes time, even while completing his regular locates, to meet with excavators who need clarification on utility locates or have questions about their projects that require his expertise. These are just some of the reasons that he is so deserving of this award this morning. And, Commissioners, it's my honor to present Andres Santamaria as your Employee of the Month for August 2017. Congratulations, Andres. (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that moves us to Item 4, proclamations. Item #4 PROCLAMATIONS – ONE MOTION TAKEN TO ADOPT ALL PROCLAMATIONS Item #4A PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING OCTOBER 2017 AS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH IN COLLIER COUNTY. ACCEPTED BY LINDA OBERHAUS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN October 10, 2017 Page 12 & CHILDREN – ADOPTED Item 4A is a proclamation designating October 2017 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Collier County. To be accepted by Linda Oberhaus, chief executive officer of the Shelter for Abused Women and Children. Linda? (Applause.) MS. OBERHAUS: Good morning. So I just want to thank Madam Chair and the commissioners for acknowledging October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month here in Collier County. This year marks the 30th year of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and we've really made great strides here in Collier County. What most of the community probably doesn't know is that the Shelter for Abused Women and Children has been selected to be part of a PBS television series called Visionaries. And so what this group does is they try to locate nonprofits around the country who are making great strides in accomplishing their mission. And so this -- it will be airing this year. I'll make sure that I get the information to the County Commission so you'll have an opportunity to see it as well. As part of the Visionaries program, they have really focused on leadership in Collier County, and they believe that what we're doing here in Collier County to address domestic violence is a replicable model. So you'll see interviews with the Sheriff of Collier County, the Mayor of Naples, also our school superintendent, Dr. Kamela Patton, and others talking about what we're doing here in Collier County to address the issue. So I just want to mention, many of you probably know that domestic violence is still a national epidemic in our country and in our community. Sadly, there were over 1,600 reports of domestic violence October 10, 2017 Page 13 right here in Collier County. We know that law enforcement is spending about 29 percent of their on-duty police time responding to domestic violence calls. And so, although we're making great strides, we still have a lot of work to do. Some of you may know, especially Commissioner McDaniel, that the shelter is embarking on a capital campaign to build a second shelter in Immokalee. So we're really excited about that project. We're going to be serving both victims of domestic violence and human trafficking at that location. I just really want to thank our partners, all of our law enforcement partners, the Collier County Sheriff's Office, the Naples police, the Marco Island Police, for coming together and really supporting the shelter, identifying victims in our community, and helping them to get to a safe place. I also want to mention there are several more events happening this month in order to raise awareness about the issue of domestic violence. We have our purple party happening at Cavo on October 19th. We're doing a flash mob, and we're inviting the community to join us. You can go online at -- on our website at NaplesShelter.org if you want to learn the Justin Timberlake song and come out to Mercato October 20th, and then we have an Immokalee children's fair happening on October 23rd. So I just want to invite the community to come out and join us for some of the activities we'll be doing for National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Thank you. (Applause.) COMMISSIONER FIALA: Linda, of course, I just love all the work that you do within our community, and I could never tackle the job you do, I tell you. And I was just saying up here; I don't know how you do it. But thank heavens we have you and that you do such a great job. October 10, 2017 Page 14 Have you told anybody about Little Cottages yet? I think people ought to know. That's an outstanding idea to keep the people safe once they're back to regular life again, and keep them still in a sheltered area. MS. OBERHAUS: Sure, I'd be happy to. So a lot of times, when people think about domestic violence centers or shelters, they think of them as just shelters where women and children and some men come for safety. But the shelter -- we have a whole continuum of programs and services. And what Commissioner Fiala is talking about is we have seven three-bedroom, two-bath cottages. So when families leave our emergency shelter they can stay in those cottages for up to two years learning about economic empowerment, trying to increase their Collier County income, get jobs so they can support their families, improve their credit scores and so forth. So we work very, very closely with those families, again, for up to two years. And so just keep in mind we have a 24-hour crisis hotline, a 60-bed emergency shelter, staff available 24 hours a day to assist victims in need. So if anyone in the community is in need, I would just encourage them to reach out to us. Thanks again. (Applause.) Item #4B PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING OCTOBER 9 - 13, 2017, AS ACCOUNTS PAYABLE RECOGNITION WEEK IN COLLIER COUNTY. ACCEPTED BY ROBIN SHELEY, OPERATIONS MANAGER FOR THE CLERK OF COURTS AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE STAFF – ADOPTED October 10, 2017 Page 15 MR. OCHS: Item 4B is a proclamation designating October 9th through the 13th, 2017, as Accounts Payable Recognition Week in Collier County. To be accepted by Robin Sheley, operations manager for the Clerk of Courts, and the accounts payable staff. Please step forward. (Applause.) MR. OCHS: But you've got to get them organized for a picture, Robin. Could we get two lines, ladies. Thanks. Two rows. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I need to stand on a stool. Oh, there's a hole. You just go ahead. I'll work around you. You stand there. (Applause.) COMMISSIONER FIALA: Look at Haris out there. Isn't he something? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You actually woke him from his nap. MR. DOMOND: I'll leave now. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, we'd like a report, please. And the very -- you know, let's have a report on the traffic, please; just for a moment, please. MR. DOMOND: Are you serious? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I mean it. Yeah, I'm serious about it. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The signalization and all that. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Just give a real cool report. MR. DOMOND: State my name for the record. My name is Haris Domond. I'm with Traffic Management or Traffic Operation Management Center. The status for Collier County traffic is phenomenal; phenomenal. MR. OCHS: All right. All clear. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Madam Chair, can I tell a quick story? October 10, 2017 Page 16 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I have my staff meetings on Monday, and I was running a little bit late; imagine that. So just for fun -- and I was meeting with Leo as my 9:00. I said, Sue, do you want to have a little fun? Call Haris and tell him the commissioner's on his way in, give him my route of travel, and tell him I want the lights to be green the whole way. And she was really serious, and then he was kind of taken back. And, of course, a minute later my phone rings, and he was like, "uh, Commissioner, no." MR. OCHS: Thanks, Haris. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Have you ever seen a greater smile, huh? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you, sir. (Applause.) MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, if I could get a motion to approve this morning's proclamations, please. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve this morning's proclamations. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Seconded by Commissioner McDaniel. Any discussion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. October 10, 2017 Page 17 MR. OCHS: Thank you. Item #5A PRESENTATION OF THE COLLIER COUNTY BUSINESS OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2017 TO NAPLES HARLEY- DAVIDSON. ACCEPTED BY JOHN GREENE, BUSINESS PARTNER AND BETHANY SAWYER WITH THE NAPLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE – PRESENTED Item 5A is a presentation of the Collier County Business of the Month for October 2017 to Naples Harley Davidson. To be accepted by John Greene, business partner, and Bethany Sawyer with the Naples Chamber of Commerce. (Applause.) COMMISSIONER FIALA: My daughter works there; details the motorcycles. Sherry; that's my daughter. MR. GREENE: Very nice. MR. OCHS: Congratulations. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. MR. GREENE: Can I say a word? Very brief. Good morning, everybody. First of all, thank you for myself, John Greene, but also on behalf of my partner, Scott Fisher, and certainly all the customers and staff at Naples Harley Davidson. And it's an honor to receive accolades and recognitions and so forth, but on a morning like this when you've got so many years of public service, it's a bit humbling to sit in the same room with people who've dedicated that kind of time for so long. So appreciation to them and certainly to you guys for the work that goes on. And we have some core values and core purpose and things like that inside of all of our stores, and our core purpose is to make people's October 10, 2017 Page 18 lives better, and whether that's an employee or the community or a customer, somehow we strive to do that. And in light of what's happened here in this community in the last, you know, 30 days, 45 days, sometimes making people's lives better is about putting them on a brand new motorcycle, and that would kind of be the pinnacle of what we'd like to do. But sometimes it's -- sometimes it's raising money for charity and people in need. And after the storm, where we were really able to make some impact is when we got power back, we were actually able to give people showers and water and food and some air-conditioning. So it's great to be able to give back to communities that always support us. So thank you again very much. Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. (Applause.) Item #5B PRESENTATION OF THE DISTINGUISHED BUDGET PRESENTATION AWARD FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 FROM THE GOVERNMENT FINANCE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (GFOA) PRESENTED TO THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET. ACCEPTED BY MARK ISACKSON, CORPORATE FINANCIAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR – PRESENTED MR. OCHS: Item 5B is a presentation of the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for Fiscal Year 2017 from the Government Finance Officers Association presented to the Office of Management and Budget. To be accepted by Mark Isackson, corporate financial planning and management services director, and his budget staff. (Applause.) October 10, 2017 Page 19 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: If anyone doubts the purpose of this, just pick up that plaque. It weighs a lot. (Applause.) MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, good morning. Mark Isackson with the Office of Management and Budget. A couple of acknowledgments. Certainly, the staff of OMB, they're small in number, but they're certainly large in talent and experience. I was looking at some resumes the other day. I think we've got over a hundred years of experience in that office combined. So certainly more than capable of handling challenges that come up financially in the organization. We also have a cadre of financial experts in the County Manager's agency and each of the departments that go a long way toward assisting in our efforts to prepare a budget and financial management. And on the constitutional officers' side, you've got a number of financial professionals there. We work very closely with the Clerk of Courts' finance section. We do it every day. It's truly an honor to work with the financial people in this organization. We're truly blessed in this agency to have them, and my interactions with them on a daily basis represents a privilege, so thank you very much. (Applause.) Item #5C HURRICANE IRMA STATUS REPORT WITH DAN SUMMERS, BUREAU OF EMERGENCY SERVICES DIVISION DIRECTOR – PRESENTED; MOTION THAT THE CHAIR SEND LETTER TO FEMA REGARDING HOUSING – APPROVED; LETTER READ INTO THE RECORD FROM REP. BOB ROMMEL REGARDING DEBRIS October 10, 2017 Page 20 MR. OCHS: Item 5C is a presentation from Dan Summers, your Bureau of Emergency Services division director, on the status of our response and recovery efforts for Hurricane Irma. Dan? MR. SMITH: Commissioners, good morning. Dan Summers, director of the Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management. Thank you for the opportunity to be with you. I, too, am in a bit of a time warp, I guess you would say, for the last 35 days or so knowing where we are and which direction. We have kind of a saying in Emergency Management: Response is hard; recovery is harder. And that's certainly where we are today as we're trying to put the community back together, match the pieces and the parts that need to be done to try to make people's lives whole again. And let me start off by giving you a -- I have a lot of information. So some of these visuals are going to be a little bit of an eye chart, but I think it's important to give you some perception in terms of what's going on with recovery. I'd like to go over these areas with you briefly, just talk a little bit about survivor and neighbor assistance, debris removal, temporary housing, the fiscal monitoring aspects, mitigation opportunities, and the corrective actions that we go through. And, again, some of these slides are a little bit lengthy, so bear with me. I think it's important to realize that, you know, when we said we went through a major hurricane event, there's no question that we did. You have 65,898 people that registered for FEMA assistance throughout. That says two things, one. Number one, about the need that's out there, whether it's a small need for replacement of an appliance for, say, a refrigerator for medications, as opposed to those that have been through the housing challenges. Twenty-one million dollars by FEMA has been committed to Collier County in individual assistance. And those -- that is an October 10, 2017 Page 21 ongoing process, meaning that there is a dialogue between FEMA and the applicant, but not all 21 million has been disbursed yet. Twenty-one million has been obligated. Forty-two thousand people have been referred to an Individual Housing Assistance Program. Now, that is not temporary housing. That's a different component. So we always have trouble with FEMA's terminology and acronyms. So individual housing assistance could have been a rent subsidy, a rent adjustment, or it could have been the transitional shelter assistance that we mentioned where we go from shelter to hotel. Some of the highlights of the assistance -- so these numbers are not going to match the 21 million obligated, but just a little bit of a component here to give you some idea: $11 million has been provided in rental assistance; 27.6 million has been provided in emergency repairs; 386,000 has been provided for essential replacements. That may be -- typically that's medically related; and 381,000 has been provided in personal property replacement funding through FEMA's Individual Assistance Program. I want to stress again there are only 30 days left to apply for FEMA assistance. That window will close in 30 days. You can do it through the 800 number. You can go to one of the disaster recovery center sites, and you can go to DisasterAssistance.gov. Now, what seems to be a message that we want to continue to stress is that in many of these packages or many of these reimbursement activities with FEMA, you'll receive an SBA loan package, okay. That doesn't necessarily mean that that's the only form of relief, but it's the SBA loan package that can carry you through the next step of FEMA relief, which may include temporary housing. So, again, part of this is the -- if you will, the FEMA boost to help you to get back on your feet, but not -- you have to go through that entire process for the large dollars of individual assistance or even October 10, 2017 Page 22 temporary housing to take place. So if you get a package in the mail -- we tell the disaster survivor, you get a package in the mail, stay with it. Don't give up on the paperwork. That's just the necessary process that FEMA has within the Stafford Act to continue some of those relief efforts. And, by all means, if you need assistance, go to one of the disaster recovery center sites and have a FEMA agent help you with some of that information. You certainly are going to hear additional follow-up from FEMA. We're hearing where folks may not be answering the phone. They may not be responding to some of the paperwork that takes place. So, again, to get some of that assistance, work through the process, meet with the FEMA agents at the disaster recovery center, and know that there are resources here. These folks are here to help you, but it does take a little bit of information in order to move forward. Quickly, let's talk about debris removal. In my reports, Dan Rodriguez's team has just done an awesome job. They have ongoing reports. I wanted to put this together over the weekend, so my "close of business" report on Sunday 334,000 cubic yards of debris. I know that number's higher today, obviously. One of the things I wanted to mention, an obligation we wanted to make sure that everybody understood that there were debris removal sites that are just for our trucks, that's part of our processing, as well as some other sites that are available for drop-off. So the locations, rather, that we're operating -- and, again, that's for the safety of the public there where we've got the big trucks coming in and out and the debris monitoring taking place as part of the FEMA reimbursement. Those location are located there: Wiggins Pass, the Resource Recovery Park; the Northeast Park; Everglades City; Immokalee Peninsula is a debris management site; and the Manatee Park. So that gives you some idea just of the depth of the operation that Dan and his team have done an awesome job with with the ongoing work. October 10, 2017 Page 23 The drop-off sites, as I mentioned, I wanted to get that back out again. The Immokalee Transfer Site, the Naples Airport, Carnestown Recycling, and the Santa Barbara site. Two of those, of course, are mentioned as closed on Sunday, and I believe we have all of that information posted on our website as well. We want to remind the public of what's going on with the debris removal, and I did watch some of those operations yesterday. Obviously, it needs to be in the right-of-way. Our focus is that on horticultural debris and trying to remind folks, again, that construction debris and bulky items need to be separated. That's very important for the horticultural waste haulers to have a clean drag, if you will, a clean snag at their load. And conforming piles will be -- up to 10 will be collected by the Waste Management group, and Dan can give you more information about what needs to be conforming, but that's certainly smaller and lighter debris. Sir? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Dan, just a quick question. Bulky items, that would be non-horticultural bulky items. MR. SUMMERS: Well, we're talking about maybe a refrigerator, a mattress, or some other type of item like that that's not part of our horticultural. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Not necessarily a giant stump or something? MR. SUMMERS: No, no. Well -- and those stumps -- the stumps that have -- there are various levels of stumps that can be picked up. If we've got a root ball and still attached to the sidewalk, they're obviously not going to lift that because you could do more damage. But there is a process here under the first and second pass. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Just one other quick question. I was messing with computers. Is the fee still waived at the transfer sites for private? October 10, 2017 Page 24 MR. SUMMERS: I believe that's correct. Dan? MR. RODRIGUEZ: Good morning, Commissioners. For the record, Dan Rodriguez, your deputy department head, Public Utilities. The fees are waived at the drop-off haul sites that Dan mentioned earlier. At our transfer site and at the landfill, those are not waived because it's such a small facility, we couldn't handle the deluge of material here. In addition to that, we have to pay for that to be processed and disposed of. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So for private delivery of your own debris, we're not allowed to go to the designated sites that we're using as a county? MR. RODRIGUEZ: That's correct, the ones that are operated by our contractor, but we do have designated drop-off sites for the residents at no charge. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Thank you, sir. MR. OCHS: Right there on the screen. MR. SUMMERS: Let's talk about temporary housing because, to be honest with you, I'm pretty frustrated at this point with our federal and state partners. So let me give you a little bit of information and a couple of suggestions here of a way to move forward. A couple things for clarity. And I think -- I went into detail because I think it's important for the public to understand that a temporary housing mission is typically that of a travel trailer or a mobile home unit and there are, again, acronyms. FEMA refers to that as an MHU or a TTU, a travel trailer unit. And when FEMA owns and operates this mission, it is theirs. Under privacy acts, they do not share with us client information. They're not going to disclose to us deployments, although we'll probably be involved in some type of permitting process. But when FEMA and the Corps operates this, this is exclusively their operation. October 10, 2017 Page 25 Again, to get temporary housing, you must go through the FEMA registration process in its entirety. There may be a situation, as I mentioned earlier, that as part of that application process an SBA loan package might be considered an alternative. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're not eligible when you receive that SBA package. A lot of that has to do with the information that you provide during the registration. Are you a homeowner? Are you a mobile home owner? Are you a renter? And those type of things are so very important. There is a phased process, and I think this is one of the things that has been frustrating for all of us is to understand that a temporary housing mission with FEMA has several phases. First of all, it's to evaluate commercially available mobile home parks and RV parks where units can be set up quickly. This also requires that the Corps do some site evaluation and as well as the National Flood Insurance Program also is engaged in this assessment. What is intended to do is to usually get renters who may be a little more mobile into something quickly. That's the intention. Now, we have about 42, 44 mobile home and RV parks in Collier County, and the U.S. Corps of Engineers -- Army Corps of Engineers has surveyed those sites. The good news is we've certainly identified those locations. The bad news is, with season coming, there's just not spare pad space available. The last report that I saw on Wednesday was only nine pads were available or -- and very few parks had an interest in negotiating with FEMA and the Corps for mid-term leases. So we have a situation where the market just doesn't fit the need here in Collier County. And, again, I think part of that's due to season coming with folks coming with their RVs, or maybe just a general interest in not participating in the program. The second thing that I think I want to make sure that everyone October 10, 2017 Page 26 understands, that for FEMA to get involved in the replacement of a mobile home, the mobile home, according to the Stafford Act, must have a fair market -- verified loss value that must exceed $16,800. So in other words, if that mobile home is less than $16,800, FEMA is not going to make a substitution for that unit. And again, that's in the law, and I'm sure that's related to some cost-benefit analysis. If FEMA does provide a mobile home unit, they will require that the mobile home be elevated. Now, that's not -- that is up to a manufacturer's approval elevation. This is on concrete blocks, not concrete stilts, okay. And that can be 42 to 58 inches, according to the manufacturer standard, and there is a base flood elevation review that has to take place in that. That may, in fact, also -- that base flood elevation may be a waiver that Growth Management Division would have to review. If a mobile home is placed, the intention is it can be used for six months or longer. If a travel trailer is placed, it is up to six months. Again, that's a quality-of-life issue. We know a lot of folks want travel trailers in their driveways so that they can repair their homes, and the goal there for FEMA and for the occupant is to have that home completed and repairs completed less than six months. Two hundred fifty-six applicants have been approved for temporary housing as of the 7th. We know that that number will increase. Then once those applicants are approved, FEMA and the Corps get together and look at the occupancy in terms of they look at the family, they look at the location options, they look at the -- whether it's -- a travel trailer is desirable because it's going to go on a residential homesite during repair, or is it going to an RV park. And we are due a FEMA housing specialist that's to be assigned to Collier County that's due here tomorrow. We're anxious to work with their staff and get some details and some finite information going on with the mobilization. October 10, 2017 Page 27 I'm not defending FEMA or the State. I think they have been working very hard, but I'm not satisfied with the progress, and I have a couple of suggestions. First of all, I think it's appropriate at this juncture to ask the Chair to draft a letter to Administrator Long at FEMA as well as the governor to see if we can't get this temporary housing mission expedited. I think that while these sites have been identified, we've had Everglades City put in a resolution to allow travel trailers in the driveways as well as temporary hookup. I think all of that really just -- we're ready for -- we're ready for travel trailers and we're ready for connectivity, and we've been ready for that for some time. There was some discussion that some other emergency grants for temporary-type repairs in the homes might be eligible. I looked at that grant program. It was just not executable, in my opinion, and it did not address the mold and mildew issues that some folks had. So I think the basic construction issues are easily handled by insurance and the homeowner in many cases, but the absence of any support funding for mold or mildew remediation didn't make this effort worthwhile. I would like to -- assuming that this FEMA representative shows up in our EOC tomorrow, I'd like to give an update to the County Manager for one-way communications to you on Thursday to see how we're moving forward with the mission, if things are not moving, at least to my satisfaction, in terms of placement coordination and activity. I am aware that this is a complicated process in terms of the siting. The federal engagement here, the procurement, et cetera. Now, there's a little bit of good news in all of this in that FEMA and the Corps are not waiting on FEMA-produced temporary housing. They're actually buying off the retail shelf, so to speak, or buying off the lot, RVs and mobile homes from existing inventory in Florida. October 10, 2017 Page 28 There was a big concern last week with the media that while -- had had a primary parking area for these travel trailers that we were expecting to be staged here -- doesn't mean they were going at the Immokalee airport. They were just parking there for deployment, and all over Collier County, but FEMA said, we're not going to move them twice. We can get these from the central part of the state where they're being purchased. The order can go in, and they committed an overnight delivery of those items followed by setup, and there is a setup process, a commissioning process. The -- FEMA has hired the National RV Association to do quality control on these RVs, make sure everything is working safe, make sure the propane connections are proper and so there is a vetting process or a commissioning process that takes a day or so once these RVs arrive, or travel trailers, excuse me, arrive. So, again, those are my recommendations as it relates to temporary housing. I've got a few more points, or we can answer questions now. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, thank you. I have two questions, actually. You've mentioned about filling out the forms and don't get frustrated and it's very long, but you have to keep up and, you know, don't just put it aside. Is there a place that people can go to seek help to fill them out? I mean, sometimes you see some of this paperwork, and it's overwhelming and people just throw in the towel and say, I can't do this. MR. SUMMERS: Yes, ma'am, absolutely. You can circle right back to the Disaster Recover Center where they register. We're continuing to, right -- today we've moved the Mobile Disaster Recovery Center back to Everglades City. So just because you registered and you got a package doesn't mean you can't go back to that location and ask some additional questions and get that October 10, 2017 Page 29 information processed. As you know, we have been moving that Disaster Recovery Center. And, again, that has not been quite the full service that I've wanted, but they're out of those resources; they're out of that capability. So we've been moving that from Golden Gate City to Immokalee and Everglades City being on location two or three days at each site, moving that, allowing the folks to not only register but also, once they get a packet, they can go back and ask information and get some help filling information out. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Do you ever get into East Naples where all of the mobile home parks were affected? MR. SUMMERS: Well, we have not -- the geographical locations have been the Golden Gate City location and, again, based on the numbers we're seeing, that seems to be fairly accommodating. The parking is good. That seems to be a good layout between what FEMA brings, the satellite connectivity for their laptops, and a place for those folks to get in the air-conditioning and work with FEMA staff. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Where is it in Golden Gate City? MR. SUMMERS: Pardon me? At the recreation center; pardon me. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, good. Okay. And the second question I had was, would it be a good idea for us, as the County Commission, to work with staff to see if we couldn't put something together for the Land Development Code that asks all mobile home parks to -- not require. Just asks them or encourages them to harden their community centers or their clubhouses so that in case people can't leave the mobile home park for some reason or another, they have a safe place to go? MR. SUMMERS: Yes, ma'am. I would say that's a great topic of conversation for our after-action board work session coming up to take a look at that. Let the Growth Management staff talk to you. Most of October 10, 2017 Page 30 the situations right now, as I understand it, is we don't have any new parks in development. So with the absence of any new parks to my knowledge, the challenge is, do you force that burden of retrofit on the existing parks? And I'm not sure how they are set up to do that. But I would say that might be a great topic for the work session coming up. COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's good. And not force, just encourage them. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's called incentivization. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, good. Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Two things. First of all, I make the motion to direct the Chairman to send the letter that was described by Mr. Summers. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So you'll have that authorization. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Okay. So there's a motion on the floor to direct the Chairman to send a letter to FEMA regarding housing, and there's a second. All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Then just a couple questions. Is there going to be more of a description of the debris removal October 10, 2017 Page 31 process, or is your report completed? MR. SUMMERS: Certainly. Dan Rodriguez is here for any questions. I was hitting the highlights this morning. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. I do have a couple questions on debris removal. I noticed in the most recent report that there were 109 trucks operating yesterday, and I think it was like 90-some-odd trucks the day before. So, obviously, a few more trucks have arrived. Are you anticipating more trucks? What's the status of getting more trucks here? MR. RODRIGUEZ: Absolutely, Commissioner. For the record, Dan Rodriguez, your deputy department head, Public Utilities. We are expecting more trucks from our contractor. As you know, with the demand for collection vehicles throughout the state of Florida, they were disbursed throughout the state. Now what you're seeing is some of the contractors are completing their work in different areas that weren't as hard hit, but also some of those contractors, like our own, have done a good job in collecting and clearing the areas that they were responsible, and they'll be moving those resources to us. And we anticipate this week, next week to see a better surge of vehicles, collection vehicles. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Do you have any guesstimate as to the numbers of vehicles we might -- MR. RODRIGUEZ: Just in the last day we saw 10 come to our county, and anticipate probably at least another 40 by the end of the week. MR. OCHS: You might introduce our -- MR. RODRIGUEZ: Sure. If I may, I'd like to introduce our -- this is the owner of AshBritt. Randy, come on up. MR. PERKINS: Dan, thank you. October 10, 2017 Page 32 Commissioners, Randy Perkins, Chairman of AshBritt, for the record. Can I -- I'll answer your question directly in a couple seconds. We had our first contract here at the Collier County Landfill processing debris and vegetative waste back in 1997. We've been your contractor since 2000. I've worked with staff since then. I want to comment first on leadership. Mr. Manager, Leo, Nick, Dan, your staff, we've handled over 250 recovery missions in this country, the entire state of Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina: The entire State of New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy. And I've never seen the leadership that I've seen, starting with you, Mr. Manager, and also your counterparts in the City of Naples and the City of Marco Island. And, Dan, your calmness, your decisiveness, your ability to make quick decisions has made our job much easier. We plan and we train with this county for the last 15, 20 years. We have a plan. We're going to execute that plan. We know -- I understand, as the chairman of this company, the gravity of the situation here for the residents of Collier County, and that includes every residence in Collier County. I understand the impact of economic recovery. I understand that the residents and seasonal residents are going to be coming back into this community starting in November, mainly in December 15th through Christmas. I'm sorry, Collier County, I understand that. There's nothing about recovery that I don't understand, the gravity of the challenges that this contractor and the chairman of this company has in front of him. But to answer the question that was asked directly, we have over 150 units working today. The county next door, as of this morning, has 72. That's not knocking the contractor next door. There are challenges throughout this state. We expect to be moving between 75- and 80,000 cubic yards of debris sometime around this time next week. October 10, 2017 Page 33 We're working daily. We plan daily with staff and also the manager and Nick, the assistant manager, on how we're going to continue to ramp up resources. More trucks doesn't necessarily mean more debris being removed. I think that's very important to understand. There's 59 zones that were laid out in the county. You've got to be -- you have to manage the amount of equipment you put into these areas. You've got traffic issues, you've got congestion, you've got dead-end streets, you've got children, you've got school. You've got lots of activities going on. So we have a plan to finish the majority of this -- the recovery and the debris removal in this county laid out based on the time frame of residents coming back, and we intend to meet that. Now, not everything's always fluid. We're not perfect. We take everything we do well at any given day, and we improve on those, and we have a whole list of things we didn't do so well, and we're going to fix those on a day-to-day basis. But I would -- I implore you and I would encourage you to allow us to continue to work with staff, one of the best staffs we've ever worked with in the entire country, and meet the needs of the residents. So we are going to ramp up the equipment as it takes, whatever's needed, and that will be phased in today, tomorrow, the next day, and I expect to see a significant amount more equipment on a day-to-day basis up until the point where we reach -- where we reach saturation on the equipment that's needed in this county. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I want to thank you for your comments concerning our staff. We share those views. We feel that we have an excellent staff, and it's certainly reassuring to hear that from -- someone from the outside saying that. So I hope that the community appreciates how good a job our staff is doing. The only criticisms we're starting to hear now for the most part October 10, 2017 Page 34 are debris removal, obviously. It affects everybody. And I really appreciate your being here today. That gives me a lot of reinsurance that the job will get done, so I just want to thank you publicly for your comments. MR. PERKINS: Thank you. And, listen, again, sometimes you better zip it and move on. But, listen, we understand that the residents want the debris moved from in front of the house, there's no question. We will get it done, and we'll manage that on a day-to-day basis with staff, which we've done from day one. And the last thing I want to say is the recovery in this community is as important to me as any community we've ever worked in in this entire country and actually internationally with the state department, USA ID. I understand what needs to be done. We plan to accomplish that. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you very much. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Just a quick question. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Could I -- and just to help a lot of residents understand the process -- I keep getting asked this question. Is this just a random thing? And I'm assuming is it not just a random thing, that there's a process for determining where you're going to go in, how to get to each street and all that. That's all analyzed, right? I mean, that's the system? MR. RODRIGUEZ: It is. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I mean -- MR. PERKINS: I'm going to turn it over to -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'm asking a question that I know the answer to, but I think it's important to hear that, because that's -- a lot of frustration relates to that. You know, we don't see the trucks, and we don't see anything happening, and I keep trying to reassure people that this is not a random activity that they're just running around October 10, 2017 Page 35 picking up, you know, piles of debris in just random places. MR. RODRIGUEZ: Again, for the record, Dan Rodriguez, your deputy department head, Public Utilities. Actually, we've a pair of dice. We roll them out. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right. Perfect. MR. RODRIGUEZ: As you know, with the beginning of the storm, we had priorities laid out, those most hardest hit. Especially with the tidal surge, we were able to get those pretty quick thanks to AshBritt and their work, and then we had the schools were a priority, the main thoroughfares, working with road and bridge, so we've got a lot of that completed, that first pass in those areas. So now we're moving into the urban areas where you have, you know, areas that have a lot of debris and whatnot, and then to get to the Estates and some of those outlying as well. But as we bring on more and more equipment, we plan to have equipment in every zone, the 59, and then look at each zone independently and say, well, this one or six or 10 pieces of equipment are not going to do it within the time frame we need, and then we'll add up and ramp down as we successfully complete those. So there is a method to our madness. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: There is a method? MR. RODRIGUEZ: We'll get it done, absolutely. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: That's what I want to hear. MR. RODRIGUEZ: And if I could just -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, go ahead. MR. RODRIGUEZ: I just want to take one minute to recognize an individual, Matt Gierden with AshBritt. If you could stand up. Even prior to the storm, Matt is the -- one of the vice presidents for AshBritt, but he's been with us for over 13 years. He was responsible for bringing those pumper trucks, 120 generators, which Matt tells me October 10, 2017 Page 36 that was one of the largest generator deployments they've ever worked on, including Katrina or Sandy. So that was a huge, monumental feat, and he's been there from day one bringing the resources and priorities. He actually is just a wonderful individual and a great project manager, so I just want to recognize him. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Great job. (Applause.) MR. MILLER: Madam Chair, at this time I want to alert you that Priscilla Grannis from representative Bob Rommel's office is here. She wanted to read a communique from Representative Rommel on this subject. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay, that's fine. This is a good time to do it. Thank you very much. MR. MILLER: Right here is fine. MS. GRANT: Good morning. My name is Priscilla Grannis, for the record, and I am here on behalf of Representative Bob Rommel of District 106, as he is in Tallahassee at the interim committee meetings. Currently -- and this is -- I have to say this has to be adjusted based upon the numbers that have just been presented and due to the increased number of trucks. The numbers that I have here are not completely accurate, so I recognize that. They are as up to speed as they were at 9:00 this morning. Currently, the county was removing about 25,000 cubic yards of debris per day. This is now increasing due to the increased number of trucks. Thus far about 340,000 cubic yards of debris have been picked up since September 22nd, leaving about 3.86 million cubic yards yet to be picked up of debris. Using these numbers as a foundation and, again, I recognize that they are somewhat off based upon the ever-increasing number of trucks, under the current plan we're talking about 154 days or 31 weeks October 10, 2017 Page 37 or 7.7 months to complete the debris removal process. Again, I understand that these numbers are not quite correct based upon today's announcements. The expeditious removal of the remaining debris is of paramount importance to Naples and to Collier County. Tourism and real estate are prime sources for Collier County's economy. Many small businesses may not survive without the dollars that tourism and property sales bring into the area because of the ugly appearance and the potential hazards of the remaining debris and because access to these businesses may be limited. Questions: Has the county considered hiring additional companies even at a higher rate to expedite the debris removal? Has the county considered spending less money in other areas and then using those monies to expedite the debris removal process, rather than raising taxes to pay for the expeditious removal of this debris? Has the county considered using its reserves to expedite removal? And, finally, does the county have plans to update the public on the removal process? That is, is there a plan that will show on a daily basis the progress that is made -- being made on the debris removal? Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. All right. MR. OCHS: You want to wrap up, Dan? Just a couple more slides, I think. MR. SUMMERS: Thank you. Briefly, we have worked -- the fiscal monitoring has just been extensive work ongoing, and understand that FEMA has new regulations. We won't spend a lot of time on that. I couldn't be more proud of the team that's working together on the fiscal aspect of all of this. And make no mistake, remember that all the FEMA reimbursement is a grant activity, so it is very cumbersome, and it's an awful lot of detail to put together. October 10, 2017 Page 38 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Dan, I'll just interrupt you. MR. SUMMERS: Yes, ma'am. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We had a FEMA truck in our neighborhood, and there was a car following that FEMA truck. And every time that FEMA truck stopped, a woman got out to monitor what was going on. It was marked FEMA relief. That's how strict FEMA is. MR. SUMMERS: Yes, ma'am, that's correct, and that takes place not only in our emergency response activities but our ongoing recovery activities. I won't spend too much time, but understand that we'll be looking at mitigation opportunities, and there's two facets to that. One might be an opportunity where we're doing an emergency repair, and FEMA may authorize some small additional monies to make that particular physical location more disaster resilient, and then there will be some long-term monies probably available in the next 18 to 24 months for other natural hazard grant -- mitigation grant opportunities. Finally, we know we're going to meet with you, I believe, on November the 10th or 11th for an after-action review, and staff is going through their after-action reports. We're going to -- we hope to bring you a consolidated after-action report working with Hagerty Consulting Firm to bring that to you for your read on or about November the 1st to give you ample time to review that so we can have an effective discussion for the after action. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Mr. Ochs, regarding this after action, maybe to consolidate it, in the course of this month I've asked different communities, for instance, Immokalee, to contribute to this, maybe to direct it to your office, certainly Everglades City, what did we do right, what did we do wrong, so that we have a meeting that consolidates and spearheads this. And I'm wondering, if my colleagues agree, I think we should do October 10, 2017 Page 39 the same. I think if we could submit -- I mean, I'm hearing comments all the time -- I'm tabulating them -- of concerns that we can direct to your office so that it can all be consolidated and there's no surprises at the meeting. MR. OCHS: Yeah, that would be great, ma'am. Actually, we're going to use this tool and get that distributed to each of you as well to be able to enter any comments or suggestion or critiques so we'll have it all gathered in the same place, and we can compile that document and get it out in report format well before the workshop. So, yes, I would certainly encourage that. If you don't want to use this form, just send it to me any way that's convenient for any of you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We have some friends from Immokalee in here, so I just wanted to direct it to them also to really get it in to us so that we can -- so we can really address the concerns and make it an effective meeting not just, well, there's a problem here. Well, I didn't hear, but we can go into next meeting. Let's make this focused and clear. Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Are we going to try and answer Representative Rommel's questions today? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Not today, no. COMMISSIONER FIALA: No? Okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And if I might just on that. I mean, you know, with all due respect, the information that was provided was calculated upon information that was old and tired and not necessarily accurate. There was a time frame alleged there -- alleged there that's really not fit -- could fit in in real life depending on, in fact, how the work is, in fact, performed. But the statements that he made are very valid questions. And I think I've been assured that our staff and our people are doing as much as is feasibly possible to engage with our contractor and October 10, 2017 Page 40 get the work done. I know I personally have been in constant communication with staff with issues as they arise and letting them know. And on another note, Madam Chair, with regard to the Immokalee and Everglades City, I'm all over that. We're working with the CRA, the MSTU, the agencies, the organization of the agencies in Immokalee, as well as the City of Everglades, so... CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So that it comes in well before. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, ma'am. I got a list. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: On the flip side to the debris pickup, I can't tell you how many people have called and emailed me and said, thank you, we know this is tremendous, we know you're doing as -- working as hard as you can. Even in one gated community we've started to pick up the debris, but we can't take it to the county's drop-off. What do we do? Or, no, we can't take it to the private. And I said, well, is there a sign on your truck such and such landscaping? Oh, yes, there is. You can't drop it off. There's a cost to this. You know what, I understand. We'll play by the rules. You know, this is what's going on out there. And we know that this is a great concern to everyone, but I think there is a level of understanding of the enormity of this task that has touched our community, and we are working together. So I just wanted to add that right now. MR. SUMMERS: Thank you, ma'am. Well said. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And just a couple of things. One, going back to Representative Rommel's questions, I mean, there was a question regarding whether or not we're going to raise taxes for this. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, I know. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I mean -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: The answer is no. We just said it right out loud. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I was under the impression that we October 10, 2017 Page 41 just adopted a millage-neutral budget, so I'm not sure -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. Where does that come from? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Maybe I'm confused as to what that question was about. But, anyway, I just wanted to point that out that we are not raising taxes. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. MR. OCHS: No, sir. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Not today. I'm teasing, I'm teasing, I'm teasing. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I just want to make sure. And secondly -- and, again, just in the effort to try to dispel as many rumors as we can because they're rampant, one of the questions I've gotten on more than one occasion is, is it true that there's plans to locate trailers at the Wiggins Pass staging facility? MR. OCHS: No, there's no plans. That's not true. In fact, I sent a response to that constituent this morning advising them of that. No uncertain terms. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. I just wanted to put that out there on television that that is -- MR. OCHS: No way, no how. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It is just a rumor. MR. OCHS: It's not even a rumor. It's not happening. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's not happening. Okay. Thank you. That's all I had, thanks. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. MR. SUMMERS: Finally, Commissioners, thank you. Thank you very much. And, again, as I mentioned earlier, recovery is hard. We all are seeing this from different perspectives, different operational viewpoints. There are always areas for improvements, and I think it's also important to recognize the successes that took place by all of the October 10, 2017 Page 42 local government units, and especially our private non-profit partners as well that did such a phenomenal job. And I'm always afraid to list any agency because I'm going to leave somebody out. But there were a ton of heros in this community, and I'm certainly grateful. Thank you. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Just one last thing, if you don't mind. I don't mean to belabor this. First of all, you guys have done a yeoman's job. You've done better than we could have ever hoped for or expected. And I'm so proud of everything you do and what we are trying; we, as a commission. Yes, we have to answer all of these questions and so forth. But one of the things I always insert in my notes to people is the storm was 400 miles wide, and it went all around Florida. Everybody wants their debris removed, just as we do. We're the last guys down so those trucks get picked off as they're coming down, and yet you guys are there pulling the stuff out, and all we can do is ask for patience from -- with everybody. We've gotten the hospitals taken care of. We've gotten the schools taken care; the most important sites where people could get injured easily. And now we're trying to pick away at the neighborhoods. And, of course, we've had to apply a lot of extra care to places like Everglades City, for goodness sake. So, I mean, we're doing all we can to do the best job we can. And I, for one -- and I can see all of the Commission, we're all so proud of what you've done. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. MR. SUMMERS: Thank you to the entire team. Thank you, ma'am. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I do have a question, Madam Chair. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It was in the question and October 10, 2017 Page 43 comments, and I hit my light, so... If you wouldn't mind repeating -- I think I heard you say when you were talking about the temporary housing initiative that you had FEMA representatives coming tomorrow? MR. SUMMERS: Tomorrow. I want to -- I have been told I will have FEMA representatives tomorrow. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We've been told things, and that was where one of the concerns came last week because we were told certain things that where -- and I don't want to put you on the spot, but is there any kind of a time frame as to when we're going to start seeing assets? MR. SUMMERS: Sir, I have begged the answer to that question since last Thursday, and I've been on the phone continuously. I've been assured that the wheels are turning, and the advantage was that the units themselves were in Florida, so that helps a little bit. They're not coming from Kansas or something like that in terms of shipping. So I'm optimistic, but I would like to see it move forward faster. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And you will keep us up to date -- MR. SUMMERS: Absolutely. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- as much as you are given information -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- so we can put it out? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The letter will go out today, Dan. MR. SUMMERS: We are still doing -- we're still in recovery, and we will be for some time, and rest assured we're going to push hard. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. MR. SUMMERS: Thank you. October 10, 2017 Page 44 Item #10A RECOMMENDATION TO DIRECT THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO ADVERTISE AND BRING BACK FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AN ORDINANCE REESTABLISHING THE PRODUCTIVITY COMMITTEE – MOTION TO CONTINUE TO THE NOVEMBER BCC MEETING – APPROVED MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, that takes us to Item 10A. This was previously Item 16H2 and was moved at Commissioner Fiala's request. This is a recommendation to direct the County Attorney to advertise and bring back for a public hearing an ordinance re-establishing the productivity committee. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. I'll just jump right in and say that we had a great productivity committee before, and their efforts are -- and, Commissioner McDaniel, you are the one that brought this all up. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, I did. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Anyway, their effort was to encourage -- to take a look at each of the departments. And I have to tell you that departments do -- they strive to do their very best, but every once in a while they could even do better. Like, for instance, if you've moved this widget one notch over, you can probably save so much time, but maybe when you've done it all along, you didn't see that that widget could be moved. Something like this, productivity. The committee in the beginning did exactly that, but then as time went on, they turned more into the budget and less into the productivity. And with that, there was some of the commissioners that were unhappy with that performance. And so they -- and there's a long story but, anyway, the committee was October 10, 2017 Page 45 abolished. So what I wanted to do was ask Commissioner McDaniel, but I can't ask him in private, so I have to ask him here. Is that what you were hoping to do is bring back the productivity committee to see if we can't function -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Better. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: See, I think that's a wonderful idea, but I hated to see it buried down here so that people can't see what we're doing, and it's very -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I was actually kind of hoping to sneak it through buried down there. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, that's not true at all. You didn't ask for that. Anyway, and also it's -- there's seven members on there, and it's going to be one from each commission district. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: With two at large. COMMISSIONER FIALA: We have to make sure that we select people -- and the two at large -- select people who have business background in productivity so that we can -- not our cronies, you know, but -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I don't have any cronies. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I didn't say you did. I do. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, okay. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Anyway, so that we could have the best performing committee ever. And so I would -- with that, if I get an agreement with everybody that they would like to move forward with that, then I would make a motion to approve. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I'll second for discussion, if I might, just to add a moment. October 10, 2017 Page 46 COMMISSIONER FIALA: Sure. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Hang on for a second. Commissioner Saunders is next, and then you, sir. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, I was first. I want to just commend Commissioner McDaniel for bringing this forward. I actually brought this to the county commission about a half -- about a century ago, and it worked -- I thought it worked very well for many, many years, and so looking forward to -- I'll have to dig out my old file. I still have some of the old -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I bet you do. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- news articles about that, because at that point in time the manager was not particularly supportive. And I don't know if the new manager, different manager, is supportive of this one. But it worked well, and I really appreciate you taking the lead and bringing this back. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: For the record, he was supportive. That was the reason it was buried down on the consent agenda so that we could slip it through. What I wanted to say is thank you for bringing it up for discussion. Thank you for the compliment, Commissioner Saunders, with regard to that. If you -- I would like for -- because you know we all have to vote on these things multiple times as it gets through the system. I would like for you to -- I made some initial -- I pulled the original ordinance that created the productivity committee, and then it was amended, and then it was amended, and then it evolved into whatever it was that ultimately dismissed. I went through and made adjustments all the way through, and that's where I moved it. I had suggested -- and, again, it's not carved in stone. If you have a better mousetrap, speak up. You know, I reduced the size of the committee from 13 down to October 10, 2017 Page 47 seven, five appointed from each district and two at large, and left the vice-chair of the Board as the chairman of that committee as it's going on. So go through that ordinance if you have a moment before we vote on it again, make your suggestion. I'd be -- I'm more than interested to hear anything that we can do to add to the productivity of the productivity committee. Did that all get through, Commissioner Saunders? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yes. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I look forward to seeing the ordinance. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's in there. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'm going through it. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, sir. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner, anyone? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: A couple of things. We are in recovery from a storm that has been described as the storm of the last 100 years. We have a lot on our plate, and staff does, too. So I'm questioning the timing of this at this point. I'm not suggesting that we don't do this. I'm suggesting that perhaps we maybe revisit this in January or February of the year when we are well out of recovery, because I'm optimistic that our staff is doing an extraordinary job and we will be out of recovery. The debris will be picked up, and it will be business as usual. But right now we're sitting up here as business of usual, but let me assure you on the staff level it is not. They are -- for instance, over the two weeks that the EOC was open, there were 22,000 calls to our staff members for help, for advice, for guidance; 22,000. Those are staff members that left their job to go and volunteer at the EOC. October 10, 2017 Page 48 We've got, still, issues out there with traffic lights. We've got a lot of things we have to manage. And I think the timing is probably maybe a little premature, not that it shouldn't happen, but I'd like to see this brought back for discussion, certainly, at our next meeting but then advertised for -- to start in January, February. The other thing I would like to do, because I have experience of this on my City Council days where we created a Blue Ribbon Committee at my request, and each of our City Council people got to pick a person that would sit on this Blue Ribbon Committee. It became very political. In fact, one of the members of this Blue Ribbon Committee, unfortunately, was the spouse of one of my colleagues on the Council, and it was clear that that was probably what he had to do at that time. So I'd like to see if we could nominate folks with very clear criteria. You know, very strong government management operational experience. Have those criteria before us before we go pick them and advertise for it. And who knows, there might be six from Commissioner McDaniel's district and none from mine. I don't -- it doesn't matter. It's more to get the level of experience that we need to create a productivity committee. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I agree with a lot of what you said in terms of who should be on this and how this -- obviously, we just have a first draft. And I don't have any issue with this draft being advertised and brought back in a few weeks, but it's going to be changed, and those are the types of changes you're talking about. So I think we can move forward with this today in terms of directing staff to advertise an ordinance, bring it back in a few weeks, give us a chance to mark it up and make changes. And I'm sure it will be continued, but I don't think we need to delay this for any particular reason, but it will change, or at least there will be some suggestions from some of us to make some changes. October 10, 2017 Page 49 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Remember, when you do have a committee like this, there's an education level that has to be -- it's required by staff. Sunshine issues, minutes taken, there's a cadre of staff involvement. So that was my thought that maybe -- not that we should not go forward with it, no, no, no, but it's more that when it starts, let us get through this recovery phase, and that was the issue. Are you -- is that all right? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I don't have any problems going forward or delaying for a few weeks. It doesn't make any difference to me. So whatever the preference of the Board is. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: There's no urgency, so it's -- we can delay this for a while. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Usually to start anything like this, if I may jump in, is it usually takes a while. By the time you get the ordinance written, and then we approve that, and then by the time you have the criteria set so that people have to think, I mean, it's probably going to take six months before we even get there anyway because it's -- government doesn't move real quickly sometimes. Okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I put my light on. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Just as a point -- and I concur with Commissioner Fiala. I don't see any need to delay the process. We all know this is an evolutionary process. I brought this initiative forward just to start the ball rolling. Everybody's going to have some input. As I suggested earlier, if you have a better mousetrap, speak up, add to the ordinance, make suggestions. Your discussion with regard to the criterion for the committee members being vetted and approved by us in advance, all great ideas. It's going to take time just because of the input that we all have. I think we all singularly want a productive productivity October 10, 2017 Page 50 committee, not a political animal. That's not the rationale behind this. This is a -- that, as Commissioner Fiala said early on when she brought this forward, was, you know, we want the widgets to be viewed, so... CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good. All right. All right. So there's a motion on the floor and a second, but so we're going to have it -- so the idea -- excuse me. I'm going to interrupt myself. We're going to have a -- at our next -- when the ordinance is brought back, you're going to draft something, and then we're going to start fleshing it out, or should we have another meeting to start forming it before you advertise the ordinance, County Attorney? What's your preference? MR. KLATZKOW: The better process is if you would go through the ordinance now and advise of any changes you would want. This way we could advertise it and bring back a mostly finished product for the public. If you want time to look this over, we could continue this particular item. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No. MR. KLATZKOW: But before we advertise, we should have a largely final draft. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And there will be changes, so that -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's absolutely expected. And, again, my suggestion was the ordinance is part of the backup documentation. You'll be able to see the line-throughs that I proposed as suggested changes to the ordinance, make your own, send them to the County Attorney in whatever time frame. I mean, had this issue not been pulled from the consent agenda, how long would it have October 10, 2017 Page 51 taken to get to second reading? MR. KLATZKOW: I would have probably had it to you at the next meeting. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So -- and then we're moving into one meeting a month for November and December. So just by attrition, it's going to take some time. I really didn't personally envision this committee's formation until after the first of the year and certainly after my colleagues had an opportunity to change, as Commissioner Saunders says. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Madam Chair, why don't we consider doing this: Let's not advertise this, because really the only thing you're advertising is the title, and we may make changes that may even change the title. And if that's the case, then we'd have to readvertise. Why don't we just put this on an agenda in November for discussion purposes, and then in November we can direct the advertisement? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good. I like that. And, meanwhile, we can develop some -- maybe the County Manager's Office can develop some criteria/ideas. Let's just start working on this and thinking about it. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I think you've got a good point because it will take a little bit of time. So I would suggest that as well. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Good. All right. Good. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: But you do have a motion and a second. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Now, we had a motion on. Do you want to -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do you want to amend the motion to have -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Withdraw the second and then withdraw the motion, then direct staff to bring it back for further October 10, 2017 Page 52 conversation. Commissioner McDaniel doesn't seem to want to do that. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm just wondering about the process. I think we're ending up in the same place. I don't see the necessity to continue it. I don't see the necessity to -- I mean, we don't necessarily need to advertise it for our next meeting, but we can certainly have it on the agenda for the next meeting if you want to advertise it as an actual topic and devote an hour or so to those suggested changes. I just -- again, I don't see the necessity to take it all the way to a straight advertised ordinance until we've all had a shot at making adjustments to it. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's exactly what Commissioner Saunders said. COMMISSIONER FIALA: So, in other words, just like Commissioner Taylor suggested, just delay it for a while? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Right. Just put it on the agenda for our November meeting -- MR. KLATZKOW: Just continue this item to our next -- another meeting. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- and then we'll bring out changes and discuss -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Right. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- and then go from there. COMMISSIONER FIALA: It's changed a lot since we first started. So I'm going to withdraw my motion because it isn't the same anymore. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's why we wanted it on the consent agenda. I'll make a motion as -- well, you make the motion, Commissioner Saunders, since you did it. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll make the motion just to continue this until our November meeting for consideration by the October 10, 2017 Page 53 Board. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. There's a motion on the floor and a second. Any discussion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you. MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, it would be appropriate for a court reporter break. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, court reporter break. I was looking. She was looking at me fondly saying, please, please. Thank you very much. MR. OCHS: Ten minutes, ma'am? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Ten minutes. (A brief recess was had.) MR. OCHS: Ladies and gentlemen, if you'd please take your seats. Madam Chair, you're back with a live mic. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. I guess we are now -- I'm just looking here, sir. MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. Item #11A October 10, 2017 Page 54 RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED COLLIER COUNTY STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR 2018 AND ADOPT THE ATTACHED RESOLUTIONS – MOTION TO APPROVE LIST AS PRESENTED WITH THE ADDITION OF THE LAND ACQUISTION TRUST FUND: RESOLUTION 2017-194 (IMMOKALEE POST IRMA RECOVERY); RESOLUTION 2017-195 (VETERANS NURSING HOME); RESOLUTION 2017-196 (TAX EXEMPT MUNICIPAL BONDS); AND RESOLUTION 2017-197 (PICAYUNE STRAND) – ADOPTED CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, the legislative priorities; is that correct? MR. OCHS: Yes. We've got 15 minutes to get through that. I'm hopeful that we can, unless the Board thinks they need more time, we'll try to jumble this -- move to some other items. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Jumble it? Did you say jumble it? MR. OCHS: Well, I just said jump around. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I was just checking. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And note he was looking at me when he said "jumble it." CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, one of the things I wanted to talk to my colleague here, Commissioner Saunders, who's actually been on the other side and listened to, I think we need to narrow this down, do you not, sir? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, I think in terms of -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: How do we present this? I mean, how do you present all of these things? And I bow to you on this one. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, the document -- and I assume that this is the proposed state and federal legislative priorities. You, obviously, need to have a state priorities separate document, October 10, 2017 Page 55 which I assume the staff would be presenting, because you don't want to mix that in with -- the federal in with the state there. MR. MULLINS: John Mullins, government affairs manager. What we did is we put together the state and the federal into one package just to list all of our issues for the upcoming year. As it is approved, as you make your edits and suggestions, we can change that into separate documents to give to our different lobbying teams, and we expect that you may want to pare some of this down. We were just trying to give you the laundry list. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And, again, if I may, Madam Chair, this is going to be brought back again to us with specificity. MR. OCHS: Whatever the Board wants. You know, this is our attempt to capture your state and legislative priorities for the next year. Obviously, the state will come sooner than some of the federal issues, but we can bring this back if you'd like, or we could just move through it and you can pare it down or whatever the pleasure of the Board. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I believe that this has to be presented before our next meeting. MR. OCHS: Well, we have -- you know, your state delegation meeting is coming up -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Next Thursday. MR. OCHS: -- next Thursday, so we certainly want the state priorities determined if we could today, Commissioners. If you want to delay some of the federal issues, that's certainly fine. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We could do that. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And these priorities will change at over time. But I would ask the question, have you spoken to our lobby firm, Smith -- MR. MULLINS: Yes, Commissioner. We have actually consulted not only the county staff and the applicable departments, but October 10, 2017 Page 56 we've also consulted the new state lobbying team as well as our current federal lobbying team, so everybody has had a look at this. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And in terms of the delegation meeting, really the only thing that's critical in terms of presentation is if you've got projects that you want funded, then it's a good idea to -- it's not required, but it's a good idea to present those to the delegation. That would be a strong recommendation. And then, obviously, if there's local bills, they have to be presented. MR. OCHS: Right. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: But in terms of our legislative priorities, they don't have to be presented at the delegation. They certainly need to be presented to the individual members at some point in time, but we could do that individually. It doesn't have -- so we don't really have that time constraint in terms of developing our priorities. MR. MULLINS: Actually, by my estimation, I think, aside from the projects that you mentioned, there are only probably two pieces of legislation on the state level that would have to be written. One would apply statewide, and the other one would probably be considered a local bill. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The EMS station? MR. MULLINS: Yes, ma'am. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And then the workman's comp? MR. MULLINS: That one actually is existing legislation from the prior session that may or may not be reintroduced in this session. Based on some of the events of the last week with the Insurance Commission, it's not even anticipated that they will move forward with that bill this year now because rates are projected to be lowered in the next couple of weeks by the insurance commissioner. That doesn't resolve the problem, but it may temporarily take the wind out of its sails. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Commissioner McDaniel? October 10, 2017 Page 57 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. Well, I would -- I'd like to make a motion that we approve the legislative initiatives as presented. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second the motion. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And could I ask one question? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Of course. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: You mentioned the EMS station at Mile Marker 63. MR. MULLINS: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And you indicated that that might require a local bill. It looks like, from what you've got here, that it's amending a section of Florida Statutes, which maybe -- I'm assuming that's a general law and you can amend that. If it's a local bill, then we've got a bit of a time problem. MR. MULLINS: Right. No, you probably could do it generally with DOT language in the statute. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. Because I think that's the only way you're going to be able to do it at this point. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Should this come through the MPO? MR. OCHS: No, it's not an MPO issue. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: This is ours. Okay. MR. MULLINS: And we actually have a meeting set up with Senator Passidomo at the end of the month to discuss the specific issue and try to provide a path forward. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. I do think that -- funding streams. I mean, when I look at the Everglades City Utility rehabilitation, I mean, that's got to be priority. It's got to be. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It already is, Madam Chair. MR. MULLINS: Yeah. And I will point out, too, that the numbering used in this was just to separate the items. It is not to convey any sort of priority from a staff's point of view. October 10, 2017 Page 58 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All right. So that's -- so what I'm hearing, Commissioner Saunders, because I'm confused about this, so that we can present -- we can separate the state -- well, we wouldn't do it in the Everglades City Utility rehab, but we can present our issues and just deliver it as such and let them decide which -- what they wanted to do, or shouldn't we narrow it down to one, two, and three priorities? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I think when you get down to the final weeks of the session and you're trying to get a couple projects funded, that sort of thing, then you really have to narrow your list down, but for purposes of starting, there's no need to narrow this down. But I want to make sure you're working with our lobbying firm -- MR. MULLINS: Sure. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- because there are some time periods -- the House has special forms, the Senate has forms, and those things have to be filed. MR. MULLINS: Yes. And they are our frontline offense and defense, so they'll be consulted every step of the way. And as things either start to move through the committee process or flounder in the committee process, we may even have to come back to you with certain items that need a little bit of a push. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So you file all of them. At some point in time Senator Passidomo and the House members are going to say, what are your real priorities here? We have to have them ranked in some form, and then we have to do that to get it through. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Then we have to do that. So we don't have to do that right now. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: You don't need to do that today. MR. OCHS: No. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. October 10, 2017 Page 59 COMMISSIONER FIALA: I have a question. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, of course. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you. One of the things I find on here -- I can't find it right this very minute, but I have it underlined someplace or another, and that is the veterans housing. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Number one is veterans. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, is it? And that, to me, is extremely important. We lost it before through -- at the 11th hour, and it wasn't a good loss, and our veterans here -- we have a lot of veterans in this community, and I think we need to think of them. I don't know how much effort needs to be put in that, but I hope that that's on the very top of the list, because it's extremely important to our community. MR. MULLINS: Yes, ma'am. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I wondered if we could -- because I'm delivering. I wonder if we could individually just rate our top four and give it to the County Manager and then -- you know, not right now, but really study this, and you mentioned one, and then we can deliver it as such, but these are the priorities? I'm -- again, I'm concerned this is way too broad. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'd have to ask the County Attorney, if we put down on a piece of paper our top four and hand it to the Manager, that's kind of polling the Board and coming to a decision, and I'm not sure we can do that. MR. KLATZKOW: I think it would be appropriate if you would each tell the other commissioners what your top four would be at this public hearing. MR. OCHS: Well, Madam Chair, if I might, before you do that, I know we have some speakers as well, I believe on this item, so you may want to hear speakers. You also have an 11 time-certain. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Eleven. Okay, thank you very much. October 10, 2017 Page 60 All right. Let's hear from our speakers. MR. MILLER: We have three registered speakers for this item. Your first speaker is Nicole Johnson, and she will be followed by Brad Cornell. MS. JOHNSON: Good morning. For the record, Nicole Johnson, here on behalf of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. We really enjoyed looking through your list of legislative priorities, and we look forward to working with your new lobbying firm in Tallahassee. We have shared with you our Conservancy top priorities for the 2018 legislative session. We emailed that out to you this morning. No surprise, banning fracking and fracking-like activities statewide is the Conservancy's remaining top priority. We are very happen to see that that is on your watch list. One suggestion could be the language for watching that item addresses only high pressure fracking and, in fact, in Florida, you have not only high pressure, but matrix acidizing and other forms of well stimulation, so you may want to just add that caveat into your watch list. And also to reiterate that any bills -- and there actually are two ban bills that have been already introduced this session. They do not restrict conventional oil well drilling. And we would ask to maybe add to your very long list of state legislative priorities one more, and that is if you would consider including in your priority support for the state Amendment I funding to be dedicated to conservation land programs. As you recall, the 2014 water and land conservation amendment, what we call Amendment I, which Florida voters overwhelmingly supported, fund the Land Acquisition Trust Fund which historically supports programs such as Florida Forever, Florida Communities Trust, and the Rural and Family Lands Program. Each year those programs have to vie for those legislative dollars generated through October 10, 2017 Page 61 Amendment I. Collier County continues to benefit from these programs. Florida Forever has been used to purchase land in the CREW area; very important for wetlands and flood storage. Florida Communities Trust has benefited the county in a number of ways, including helping to acquire the Gordon River Greenway, and the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program provides funding for conservation easements so that active agricultural and ranching areas can continue with farming while having those development rights removed through willing sellers and the property put into conservation in perpetuity. So these are dollars from Amendment I. This isn't a new tax. It isn't any increase in fees being collected, but this would be a request that those monies from Amendment I that voters overwhelmingly supported go to the very important Land Acquisition Trust Fund projects: Florida Forever, Florida Communities Trust, and Rural and Family Lands. And we had provided the County Manager with some language in support of that, and we would ask that you consider amending your motion and including this as one of your priority items. Thank you. MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Brad Cornell. He'll be followed by Pam Brown. MR. CORNELL: Good morning, Commissioners. I'm Brad Cornell, and I'm here on behalf of Audubon of the Western Everglades, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. I want to support what Nicole Johnson had just advocated in the way of Florida Forever programs, but if I may suggest that you have the ability to focus in on what projects we have right here, and those would be the CREW project which is absolutely vital for watershed management flood protection the natural way, not developing it, and holding those waters in the upper watershed rather than shunting them October 10, 2017 Page 62 off through canals and flooding the downstream communities. So CREW, you know, decades ago, was seen as a vital way to address these kinds of issues, and post Irma, this is a very logical project that we should be supporting. Another project that's here locally is the JB Ranch. It's been -- about 6,000 acres of that in the Okaloacoochee Slough are proposed for Rural and Family Lands Protection Program funding. That's an easement. It keeps the ranch in business as a ranch. And it's not, you know, condemning it. It's not putting it in public ownership, but it does cap -- help them capitalize it and keep it in ranching. And that's true across the state. That program needs funding. So we would urge you to support that knowing that we have our own ranch here in Collier County that would benefit. And the third one is, of course, Half Circle L Ranch also in the Okaloacoochee Slough. So I would support that. Audubon supports adding that as one of your legislative priorities. The other one that I want to highlight for you -- I appreciate very much the inclusion of Picayune Strand, one of the biggest CERP projects for Everglades restoration right here in Collier County. It's going to restore the old south Golden Gate Estates. It's already 89 percent done. But having spent $500 million, we're only seeing a quarter of the benefits. So there's another $71 million that's needed. 40 million of that is from the state, and you don't -- you haven't identified that state funding. And the immediate request for Fiscal Year '19 for this legislative session would be $19.8 million for the southwest protection feature. That's the partial levy that protects the Littman Farms from flooding as the waters flow across the landscape and towards U.S. 41. So that $19.8 million in Fiscal Year '19 would be something I would suggest you add as the state initiative for advocacy for Collier County benefits in that project. October 10, 2017 Page 63 Thanks very much. MR. MILLER: Your final registered speaker for this item is Pam Brown. MS. BROWN: Good morning, Commissioners. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: By the way, it's her birthday. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Really? Happy Birthday. MS. BROWN: Oh, Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Do you want us to sing? MS. BROWN: No. I appreciate it, though. Thank you. I was looking briefly at the legislative priorities also this morning, and I saw the 5.75 million for the incubator accelerator at the airport, and I think this might be a pretty good endeavor here. And I also looked at mobilization opportunities. And I would like to see if maybe you all would entertain promoting 29 north of Immokalee, 82, to facilitate with additional funding to make sure that that's going to be a priority in the future. We do have a lot of accidents, a lot of fatalities there, and I would like to see that -- I don't know if that would be under mobilization opportunity that's in the legislative priorities. And I am really endorsing Lake Trafford sidewalks. It's really been a dilemma since the storm. There's debris all over the place. People are actually having -- kids can't even walk on the sidewalk in certain areas when they go to school, and I really appreciate you all looking at this. Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. MR. MULLINS: Commissioners, in regard to the Land Acquisition Trust Fund, number one under our state and federal funding request is advocacy for full funding of grants and continued appropriations for program funds applicable to Collier County as well as opposing actions that devote monies to other purposes than originally intended. October 10, 2017 Page 64 The list of funds states "including, but not limited to, and then mentions several grants and appropriations." You could specify including the LATF as part of that, given it funds the programs that have been mentioned by the Conservancy. That fund, for your information, also provides money for the Everglades, Lake O and, if passed, 50 million for Senator Latvala's beach nourishment bill that is being fast-tracked this session in hopes of passage. FAC and eight individual counties expressed support for that bill at yesterday's Environmental and Conservation Committee where it passed unanimously. As the Conservancy mentions, there are many worthwhile programs that the LATF funds. I would recommend supporting full funding of the LATF as the individual programs advocate and compete with their share of the monies. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Question. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Did I understand you to say that the request that came from Nicole is basically already included in our initiative; it just doesn't specify? MR. MILLER: The list -- there were some initiatives that were spelled out dealing with housing and other things, but the LATF was not specifically mentioned. But it did say "including but not limited to." Technically, it's already caught; however, if you want to spell it out, you can without much problem, because it is something that Collier is already benefiting from. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Is there a number on this that we have that we can look at? MR. MULLINS: In the priority list, it's number one under state and federal funding. It deals with protecting all of the county funding streams. MR. OCHS: We can just add that into the list. October 10, 2017 Page 65 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's already there. MR. OCHS: Well -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Not with specificity that Nicole suggested, but it's already included in the initiative. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Can you put it up? MR. MULLINS: Sure. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Somebody needs to show her how to run a computer. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Right here. I got it. I got it. Okay. All right. So recommendation of staff is to include and to spell out full funding of the LATF under title one. Is there an agreement that this would be one of our priorities? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It's on Page 3. MR. MULLINS: Yeah. It's not reflected in the PowerPoint; I apologize. It's only in the long document. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So it is already in there? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, it's not named specifically in there. Okay. It is named -- it is part of our legislative requests, but it's not specifically named in there, and I don't -- Commissioner Saunders, is there a detraction from specifying that language in there, or is there an enhancement to adding it? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I think, if there's any clarification that's needed, it best to have it in the document. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And we're not detracting from any other initiatives or any other participants that weren't able to get here or didn't have an -- because we are a little bit behind in this preparation of these initiatives. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: As I said before, we can always add to this at a meeting. And so I think that will just provide October 10, 2017 Page 66 some clarity. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll adjust my motion to reflect that language change just to add them in. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Do I hear a second? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All right. So spell out what we're adding in, the -- MR. MULLINS: Land Acquisition Trust Fund will be the language. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Perfect. COMMISSIONER FIALA: What did you say? I'm sorry. MR. MULLINS: Land Acquisition Trust Fund. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: LATP. MR. MULLINS: F. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: F. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So all those in favor of adding this into the priorities, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. So are we going to make this a priority? Commissioner Saunders, is this a priority for you? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Are we -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, I think we need to short -- I think -- I just can't -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: In terms of the four top October 10, 2017 Page 67 priorities? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, four or five. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: What I started to do -- and this may be a process we all want to go through. I went through all -- there's 11 -- I believe it's 11 projects -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- that are listed in here, or 12 projects. And so I'm kind of going through and picking four out of those 12. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Right. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: But if we start doing individual ones, then we're going to get confused. I thought just listing our top four, then we can talk about whether there's overlap here. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. That's what I -- okay. So -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I mean, personally, I understood that we were going to adopt this as our legislative agenda as a whole. It's a list of everything that we want to focus on for the coming year. I can't even say that I'm prepared to pick my top four. I mean, that would require some more time on my part if we're going to do that. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. I just -- to deliver it, I mean, it's just -- it's overwhelming to deliver this to say these are our priorities and sit down if we don't have some kind of ideas. Commissioner Fiala, you've done this before. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. One question we haven't spoken of yet, and that's the FEMA remapping. Wasn't that the remapping we started to -- then would address all of the insurance and it would -- actually, with remapping, our flood insurance would drop down in many areas, but we've never been able to get that, and that stopped quite a few years ago. And nobody's mentioned that, but I think that's a real important part of this thing as well. October 10, 2017 Page 68 MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. That's one of our federal legislative priorities, not our state one. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. So we're just addressing state. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: State. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. MR. OCHS: I think Commissioner Saunders is going to make a thoughtful comment here. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'm not sure if it's thoughtful, but just -- we could approve this -- the entire list. I assume that information will be presented to the delegation in terms of what these projects are. MR. MULLINS: Yes. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And then either today or sometime in the future we can pick our top four as we go forward. But in terms of the delegation meeting, I don't think it's necessary. First of all, it's going to be a long day. No one's going to be paying attention anyway, and they're going to support your request because that's the easy thing to do, and -- but at some point they're going to ask for -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Specificity. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- some priorities. So I don't think you have to go in there -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. It will be a first pass, right? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All right. Good. MR. MULLINS: Yeah. I think as of Friday there are 33 RSVP'd speakers at the delegation meeting next Thursday, and there are a number of people with a number of requests that will be there. MR. OCHS: Commissioner, I think, as has been suggested, we present the whole document -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Whole thing. October 10, 2017 Page 69 MR. OCHS: -- as recommended, and then you just simply tell the delegation, look forward to working with them through the session with your board to identify specific priorities as we move forward. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. That's fine. Okay. MR. MULLINS: And I would also point out, too, that, you know, this list may be called a priorities list, but I can tell you as of this morning, there are over 100 bills filed for the 2018 session that is currently on our bill track. These either have positive or negative impacts upon the county depending on which way you look at them. But we'll be looking at everything. And as issues emerge that become concerning, we'll be back before the Board to get your input on those. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good. Thank you. I'm a little more comfortable. Sorry I took you down that road, but I just -- okay. So do I hear a motion to approve the priorities? MR. OCHS: I think you already have one, ma'am. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We already voted. Have we voted? COMMISSIONER FIALA: We have a motion and second. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Motion and second, yes. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We do. Okay. So there's a motion and a second. Any other discussion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. October 10, 2017 Page 70 MR. OCHS: Thank you, Commissioners. Time-certain. Item #5D PRESENTATION BY DRS. MICHAEL SAVARESE, PROFESSOR OF MARINE SCIENCE, FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY (FGCU), AND PETER SHENG, PROFESSOR OF COASTAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (UF) ON A WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE DECISION-SUPPORT TOOL FOR ADAPTATION OF COASTAL URBAN AND NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AND PRESENTATION OF SEA LEVEL RISE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COLLIER COUNTY BY DR. BENJAMIN STRAUSS, VICE PRESIDENT FOR SEA LEVEL AND CLIMATE IMPACTS, CLIMATE CENTRAL – PRESENTED That moves us to our 11 a.m. time-certain hearing this morning; that is Item 5D. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Madam Chair, if I may interrupt a second, I was remiss during the proclamations. If I could make our 11 certain two minutes later. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Probably -- could we do it after lunch, sir? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, ma'am. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Proceed. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. MS. PATTERSON: Good morning. Amy Patterson, for the record, division director, Capital Project Planning Impact Fees and Program Management. I'm here today and pleased to introduce Dr. Mike Savarese of October 10, 2017 Page 71 Florida Gulf Coast University, Dr. Peter Shang of the University of Florida, and Dr. Ben Strauss of Climate Central, who have been working together and will be making presentations today. We're going to kick it off with Dr. Strauss speaking about the rate-of-rise recommendations, and he'll provide a basis at board direction to begin the process to update our floodplain management plan. Dr. Strauss will then hand it off to Dr. Savarese and Dr. Shang to discuss their work on their project on sea level rise and storm surge scenarios for Collier County that's being funded by a NOAA grant. With that, I'm going to hand it over to Dr. Strauss. DR. STRAUSS: Thank you so much, Amy. Thank you to the commissioners, all of your time here. And I also need to understand how I advance the slides. Great, great. I think I got it. All right. So just as a -- I'm going to give a brief introduction and explainer around sea level rise broadly and then get into the recommendations I'm making for sea level rise rates for the county. As a piece of context, my title slide shows you land that is less than four feet above the high tide line right here in the Naples area. The area shaded in blue is land that's less than four feet above the high tide line and connected to ocean water. The green represents low lying areas that are not connected to the ocean. But that just gives you a picture of four feet to put this in context when I'm giving numbers later. Obviously, we're living in a very low and flat area here. So first a little primer on sea level rise. We have been tracking -- we have been -- basically with sticks in the water, like the tide gauge pictured here, we've been measuring the steady increase of sea levels with these instruments globally for more than a century now. And, in fact, the orange dots represent tide gauges globally where we've been making these measurements over different periods. And coming up with this picture of sea level rise, it translates to October 10, 2017 Page 72 around eight inches between the late 1880s and 2000 as measured in tide gauges. The tide gauge here at Naples, which started service in the mid 1960s, shows sea level rise rate averaging a little bit more than an inch per decade since the 1960s. We have another means since the early '90s for tracking sea level rise, which is satellites that measure the whole global surface very precisely, a series of four satellites that have been launched by NASA European Space Agency. And so since the '90s we've actually seen a rather steeper rate of rise, more like an inch and a half per decade. So there's been a global acceleration that we very clearly observed. Sea level rise is happening at different rates in different places. This map shows the results of satellite measurements of sea level rise. The reds are the most rapid sea level rise regions, and the blues actually show places where sea level has been dropping. If you look carefully, you can see around Florida with her pretty close to the global average, around three to four millimeters per year. And the orange is there, and you can see Florida is surrounded by orange. Stepping back a little bit further, there's evidence for sea level rise over many centuries. And if you compare the 20th century against the 20 centuries that came before it, like you see in this graph, you see a very sharp departure. So something very different is going on over the last 100 years. And we understand historic sea levels by taking cores and measuring where salt-marshes, their elevations have been over the many -- last hundreds of years and dating those salt cores. So where is the sea level rise coming from? It's something -- this is something the scientists have been working hard to do the accounting for over the last couple of decades, and the largest source of the sea level rise that we have seen so far is the warming of the oceans. When water gets warmer, it actually grows in volume, and October 10, 2017 Page 73 that is the main effect that has been leading sea levels to rise. This map shows a pattern of sea surface temperature warming since 1900, and that is based simply on thermometers from ships and also most recently thousands of floating temperature sensors. Here's an Argo float deployed by NOAA. The second factor that's leading to sea level rise over the last century has been the melting of glaciers. Here's some simple photographic evidence, a change in one glacier system in Alaska over 60 years, a very dramatic retreat, and there has been photographic and survey evidence of the retreat of almost pretty much every glacier system in the world, and that is the second factor contributing to the sea level rise that we see. And, third, we've been losing ice from the ice sheets of Greenland and, to some degree, Antarctica, and that rate of loss has been very much accelerating since we've been observing it since the early '90s. We really -- these are remote, harsh environments. We have some overflight surveys, and we also have a remarkable new pair of satellite sensors which can detect that gravitational attraction, the gravitational field of any patch of land on earth, and they've literally seen the gravity decreasing over Greenland so they measure the mass loss. All right. So where do we go? So there is a wide -- there are many different streams of advents that the sea level is rising and what is accounting for it, and the budget adds up for the sea level rise that we're observing now. Where do we go from here? If we understand those processes and model them forward, what are the projections for the future? So the recommendations I'm going to give are based on the top science that exists at this time in sea level protections. First and foremost, it's based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change most recent physical science report that was published in 2013. The IPCC is a collection of thousands of scientists globally who align October 10, 2017 Page 74 together to develop a consensus around what we can say concerning climate change and its related symptoms, such as sea level rise. The second document that is the basis of the projections that I'm recommending is a technical report accomplished as recently as this January by NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency Administration. And the third document is an April update to sea level rise scenarios published by the state of California, which has been very forward-looking in this respect. Both the NOAA technical report and the California report use as a foundational study a paper published in 2014 that presents sea level projections based on the IPCC but extending the IPCC projections with a little update of the science to account for the possibility of more significant ice loss from the ice sheets, something which recent science supports. So to cut to the chase, apparently we had a little formating glitch in computer transition, but here is my recommendation: Basically the projection's represented by three red lines. The central red line is the central or main projection, and the dotted line at the top and the solid red line at the bottom represent upper and lower range limits that I'm recommending. The blue line contrasts the guidance given in the 2015 flood plan -- Flood Management Plan for Collier County. So a little bit more on where these came from. Here is an excerpt from the NOAA technical report. Now, one thing I'd like to emphasize is that the scenarios in the rainbow colors here are global sea level rise scenarios. They have not been localized to Collier County, although Collier County is not far off from the global average. And NOAA's approach was to simply take a series of round numbers spanning a full range of possibility that they see in the future; .3, .5, 1, 1.5, 2, and 2.5 meters, okay. Instead of choosing one of those round numbers, the approach that I'm recommending is to take a look at this red bar. That represents October 10, 2017 Page 75 the range of most of the likely outcomes by 2100 under a business-as-usual carbon dioxide emission scenario, okay. So that is the range of the most likely. And if we draw a line to the middle of that range, that is basically the projection that I am recommending. Those bars showing what is most likely to occur under different emission scenarios, those come from the top research that I was just describing, which is, in fact, heavily used and cited in the NOAA report to give context to their round numbers. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And on the left-hand side, .0 -- 0.50, 0.5, what is that; meters? DR. STRAUSS: Yes, those are meters. So I'm going to translate that to feet. I'm not -- I've gone with feet, but the scientific literature tends to be -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It's always meters. DR. STRAUSS: -- in meters. So it creates some difference in the numbers but things line up. This is just below one meter, so around three feet, okay. Now, something else you'll notice is that the highest line goes all the way up to 2.5 meters, which is about eight feet. It's what NOAA calls the extreme scenario. I'll touch on that more in a little bit. Here are the different but similar projections in the California report. Again, we're looking at global mean sea level. Instead of using round numbers, California directly adopts what they view to be most likely, which is what I'm recommending, and the red line corresponds to a business-as-usual emissions and, again, it's ending up just a little below three feet on the right-hand side and a little below 100 centimeters on the left-hand side. But the purple line at the top, again, is this extreme scenario above eight feet. And the reason for the introduction of that extreme scenario in both cases is recent science that suggests that Antarctic ice sheet -- West Antarctic ice sheet. This Amundsen Sea sector in October 10, 2017 Page 76 particular may be a great deal less stable than we had hoped. May deteriorate sooner and faster than previous science had imagined. But I want to emphasize this is a plaus -- this is something that is scientifically plausible, but we do not, cannot right now assign a likelihood. So I'm going to show you my main recommendation and also what the extreme scenario is. The extreme scenario is something -- I do not recommend planning based on the extreme scenario, I do not, but I do think it is something that's important to keep revisiting every several years to understand how the science is evolving. It really only comes to play in the second half of the century, if it comes into play at all. So I just want to flag that. Here's a table of numbers that corresponds to the figure that I first gave you. So the main projections, the main rate that I'm recommending is the line that's bolded. It's the central or kind of most likely mid range sea level projections based on the science updated from the IPCC. It corresponds to about .6 feet of sea level rise from 1992 as a baseline by 2030; 1.4 feet by 2060, 2.8 feet or just under 3 feet, like I explained, by 2100. And for the benefit of the scientists here, I have a column with meters in the far right just for 2100. A kind of wider range would be around one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half feet of possibility by 2100. The 99th percentile is another standard you might consider, all right. There's a basis in looking at floodplain management. We care very much about the 100-year floodplain; in other words, the one percent risk. And the sea level equivalent of that, to the best of our ability to estimate it, is around 5.7 feet by the end of the century; 2.4 by 2060 and, finally, the extreme scenario for Collier County specifically -- and all of these projections have been localized to Collier County -- is 10.4 feet. And there's not a lot of -- it's not really worth modeling or thinking about that. Again, I think for near-term October 10, 2017 Page 77 planning, the focus needs to be 2030, 2060 time frames and the main range of protections, but keep that unlikely but scientifically plausible extreme in the back of your the mind. My final message would be if we kind of froze time right now and we have the concentration of carbon dioxide that's already in the atmosphere, published scientific research in the top journal says that we would eventually see about five or six more feet of sea level rise than we already have today. There is not a time frame on that. That could take centuries to unfold, but it's as certain as if I dumped a pile of ice in this room that it would all melt. It would be harder to tell you exactly how quickly it melts, right, and that's what the science is constantly working on is to understand decade by decade. That's really hard. But it's much easier to tell you the ice is going to melt and we're going to see five or six feet of sea level rise. Chances are we're going to see a great deal more than that. If the planet warms as projected, we probably will see 20 feet or more over many centuries. So not your concern. But the point -- the main point is when we transitioned from a stable sea level to one that is continually rising, no number on this chart is the right number. No number that anyone will ever tell you is the right number, but what is true is that we have gone from stability to constant change. And so any plan that you adopt is one where whatever you decide to do, it's the first step in a longer journey, and that change in mind frame, I think, is something that's very valuable. We've seen that the sea level has been rising for the last 100 years, we've seen that that rise has accelerated over the last 20 years, and we know with great confidence that we will see continuing sea level rise for the rest of the century and likely centuries to come. So I'll transition it now. My colleagues here -- I've given you a really broad brush kind of global perspective. Dr. Savarese and Shang October 10, 2017 Page 78 have great expertise on the local conditions here in Florida and detailed modeling about what that's going to mean -- how it interacts with the natural ecosystems, the flood risks, and other features that are local to southwest. So I hope you'll give them a great deal of your attention. DR. SAVARESE: Good morning. Give me a second to find the right -- or someone else is doing this. Is this you, Troy? MR. MILLER: Yes. DR. SAVARESE: Wow. You're magical. MR. MILLER: Is that it? DR. SAVARESE: Yeah, but let's start at the beginning. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, come on. DR. SAVARESE: Good morning. Thank you, Commissioners. I'm Mike Savarese from Florida Gulf Coast University, and with me in person this time, unlike last April, is Dr. Peter Shang from the University of Florida. Thanks for taking the time to let us speak. I feel like I need to just make one sort of segue statement from Ben's presentation into ours. The numbers that Ben is providing you is really where we start, the numbers that go into the modeling. And I should let -- I can see -- when I listen to that and I think of myself not as a scientist but as maybe an elected official like yourselves, I can see how frustrating this can be because everyone expects science to provide certainty, and this isn't the kind of science that provides you with certainty. So what I would like to say before we start, is I want to assure you that whatever numbers we decide to use in these simulations that Peter and his colleagues are going to do, and Peter will describe in a few minutes, are going to be decisions that you're comfortable with as the end users. So one of the purposes of this is not for us to work in isolation but to work with you as decision makers, and we'll talk about the team structure of this project a little bit later. We want to make sure that October 10, 2017 Page 79 you're comfortable with the numbers that we're going to use so that you're willing -- what risks or what levels of confidence are you willing to accept to make your jobs easier and to decide how to invest resources in the future. So don't let the uncertainty frustrate you too much. Don't let it scare you too much, and everything will be fine. So anyway, with that, we're here today to talk about this project. We were here back in April, and we were sort of -- we had learned back in April that this project was going to be funded by NOAA, but we weren't allowed to talk about it yet and the details simply because we didn't have a contract in hand. We're now allowed to talk about the details, so we've very excited about that. And we're here today to describe this project in that kind of detail. And this is really about preparing Collier County for a stainable and economically healthy future, not only in the urban realm, but also in the natural realm so that Collier County remains a wonderful place to live without any suffering. The project was funded through a program of NOAA through their NCCOS office. This is the actual project title. Hopefully people can read this. It was the title that went on the proposal. It's maybe less informative for the layperson. But suffice it to say, this is a three-year project. It's almost a million dollars coming to Collier County to help you deal with this issue, and will span over three years. The monies come from the RESTORE Act, and so this was part of the Deepwater Horizon British Petroleum settlement. The good news about this is because this is a legislated fund, it's not subjected to budget cuts. So the federal government can go about its business and make decisions about what dollars go where, but our money is secure. So this project is secure for the county, which is great news. There's nothing worse than having the rug pulled out from under you when you're partly through a project. October 10, 2017 Page 80 This is not your typical science award. Peter and I, Ben probably as well, are used to the kinds of awards made by the federal government that have us going out and doing science. This is less about doing science and it's more about providing tools to you as decision makers. So rather than investing a lot of money and doing new science, it's taking existing science, creating valuable tools that then you can use to make decisions about how to deal with the problems of sea level rise and storminess as things begin to change as we move forward in this century. The proposal success. We'd mentioned this last time we were here. It's really a function of two things. It's the robust science. Peter has assembled a team of extraordinary people, and we'll talk a little bit about those people in a bit. But it was also the strong collaboration with urban and natural resource planners and elected officials. It was this county commission's resolution, for example, that helped so much in having our proposal being favorably reviewed. So we'd like, at the onset here, to thank the County Commission, thank the city councils and manager of the City of Naples and Marco Island. There's also a suite of federal and public lands or state land managers that have been part of this that have been supportive, and then probably our greatest advocate in terms of building consensus is Collier's League of Women Voters. So we thank all of them on behalf of the county for making this happen. The way this project should work, it's really a project that involves three phases. The first phase, which is really our phase, is to use the best available science to generate possible scenarios of what the environment is likely to look like at various times in the future as sea level rises and as storms continue to influence us. The second part that this project can inform but not do completely is to then employ the best actionable science to develop viable plans for adaptation, okay. So our work will help decision makers develop October 10, 2017 Page 81 those plans so that you can move ahead into the future. And then the third phase would be to eventually engineer a plan in anticipation of those changes. I've been very outspoken about this before. We'd like to be outspoken about this again. We're here to provide to you the best science, but like I mentioned in April, if that best science doesn't do anything, if it just sits on a shelf, it really is money squandered. So we want to stress the importance of Phase 2, that this science should be employed in the planning, okay, and that the county take on a genuine effort to build those plans, and then we would argue that engineering requires a forethoughtful plan. So before you invest money in engineering and improving or changing the infrastructure, you should have some plan in mind. So with that as a beginning, let me first note -- well, this is a point that I wanted to mention and just kind of lost my train of thought. The plan that you develop, too, as you've recognized, given the uncertainties particularly further out, like in 2100, like Ben had noted, the plan itself needs to be adaptable and change as the actual effects are realized, so that adds a little difficulty to what the county has to do as you move forward. Our respective roles, Peter and myself, I'm the -- I guess I'm the person here on the ground. I'm the communications person. I'm the person that's supposed to do a great job in getting information from us to you so that people are informed and you're involved in the process all along the way, and then Peter and his intellectual capabilities and the team assigned and associated with us then are the people that produce the tools that are going to best inform you. So with that, let me turn it over to Peter, then I'll be back later for part two. DR. SHENG: Thank you, Mike, and thank you, Ben, for setting the stage for my presentation. October 10, 2017 Page 82 So this information on top, that's the complete title of the project. The name, it's called a Web-Based Interactive Decision-Support Tool for Adaptation of Coastal Urban and Natural Ecosystems in Southwest Florida, and that includes the current climate and future climate. And on the diagram you can see on the left I highlight the mangrove -- mangroves in Southwest Florida. This is one of the most important assets in this region, the largest mangrove forest in Gulf of Mexico region. As we know, mangroves are moving further north. And whatever we learn from this project will benefit people in the Gulf region. Maybe, who knows, mangroves will go up to New York. On the right is the study domain that we will focus on in Collier County, including Marco Island, Naples, and also Everglades City and Chokoloskee Island. And there you see on the fringe, and other agencies involved, universities, and stakeholders, we work as a team on this project. Again, thank you for your strong support of this project. Without that, we couldn't have had this success. And here I give you a quick overview of this region. We have Florida is the hurricane capital, and a lot of hurricanes go through Florida. Even Katrina had to go through Florida, check in first before they hit New Orleans. And so we have a high risk of hurricane-induced storm surge. And on the right you see the storm surge. Storm comes in with high tide and generates a lot of high water and inundates the coastal region. So I've given you a list of all the mechanisms that contribute to coastal flooding in this region. Storm surge, it could go from one to 28 feet. This is the real number that happened in Mississippi during Katrina. It could happen. I'm not saying that it happen in Naples area. Tide anywhere between zero and six feet. But, again, this is something that could happen in the gulf region or a little further north and, again, tide is a little lower here. But the letters' size indicate the relative magnitude of these factors. October 10, 2017 Page 83 Wave setup could be up to 5 feet. Precipitation is becoming more. It could go up to 0 to 4.5 feet. And sea level rise, I put some approximate numbers for 2030, 2060, and 2100. These will correspond to the high-end numbers that Ben presented. And so all those factors contribute to create high water level in -- on the coast, but they create inundation over land. So the important message is, high water on the water is not equal to the inundation over land, all right. And when you talk about the water level on land, you talk about NAVD88. You don't talk mean sea level or mean low, low water or mean high, high water. And FEMA maps are probabilistic maps. They're based on historic storms, but they do not include climate change, future storms, or sea level rise. So the one in the middle, the map in the middle is an example of the current climate 100-year flood map also known as 1 percent annual exceedance for the inundation map for Collier County and Lee County. This is produced by us, which is very similar to the FEMA base flood elevation map. So we're building upon a lot of experience on coastal flooding and coastal flood mapping. On the left you see two reports produced by National Academy's Committees, one on improving flood map accuracy. The other one on the New Orleans hurricane protection system, which was formed right after Katrina. These committee members were assembled by National Academies to produce information that will help FEMA and other federal agencies and local agencies to make their -- more flood resilient. And I was involved on both committees, and I actually wrote the chapter on coastal flooding in the map and the zone report, and those -- both books can be downloaded free from National Academy Press, okay. October 10, 2017 Page 84 So on the right this is the basis of flood mapping. When we look at coastal flooding, we look at this flood elevation. The blue line on top, this is the 100-year flood elevation going from the ocean on the left to the land on the east. And you can see this flood elevation becomes less and less as it goes towards England because of the structures, houses, and mangroves, marshes. They provide buffering function. And on the ocean side you have V zone, and then you have A zone and X zone. So this is the 1 percent annual exceedance base flood elevation map. And these are produced with coastal models and historic storm data, and this, together with the zoning map, are the bases for FEMA to collect flood insurance dollars for the National Flood Insurance Program, which is, unfortunately, broke. So this 1 percent annual exceedance flood elevation is often exceeded during storms. As we know in Harvey, 100-year plan was flooded very badly, and the worst part was Harris County actually allowed 66,000 properties to be built under 100-year flood plan, and that's the cause of the damage. Now, to ensure resilience, 100-year flood map is not sufficient. In a Dutch government case, they used 1,000- to 10,000-year return period flood map to ensure coastal resilience. And the other thing you see is this base flood elevation changes with spatial location because of these land use features. So this coastal plan is not a bad top (sic), all right. Unfortunately, FEMA map does not include climate change effect, future storms, and sea level rise. So this is something that we will address in this project. Now, the sea level rise, where sea level rise comes in, that's on the open boundary on the ocean side. It's provided as a boundary condition. So whatever value that Ben recommends, along with other folks in NOAA, we can use them to specify the boundary condition of October 10, 2017 Page 85 our coastal model when we do this flood mapping. And so the map has to be done with coastal models that are robust. So in this case we use a very robust coastal model called Advanced Coastal Modeling System. It has been used to simulate numerous storms, including Andrew, Isabel, Charley, Ivan, Katrina, Wilma, Ike, Sandy, Irma, Maria, and more to come. And results are evaluated with extensive water level data and high water marks throughout different regions of the nation. So during each study we gain experience; we make the model more reliable. In this case, we show in the case of Hurricane Sandy, superstorm Sandy hit New York area 2012. You were still probably in New York. And we got 3.4 meters high surge tide at the Battery was about 11 feet. So that was not a very pleasant scenario because all the subways got flooded; 3.44 meters. And so we produced a rapid forecasting system. This one can produce a forecast during an approaching hurricane in three minutes. Once we have the hurricane track from National Hurricane Center, we produce this coastal inundation map. We did this for two advisories. One is Advisory 38, the top two, and the bottom one, Advisory 46. And Collier County really lucked out, because if you had the one on Advisory 46, you would see surge level on the left, lower left would be more than 11 feet. Inundation would be more than nine feet, all right, in most of the county. And, in fact, the real case is more close to Advisory 38, okay. So on the left is surge, on the right is inundation. You can see there's a difference. Inundation, again, is inundation over the land. So then -- now we have the best track. It's the real track that actually happened during Irma. We took that. We run through this rapid forecasting system. And we got our inundation map. Maximum inundation on the lower left, which we then compared with the USGS high water mark stations on the upper right. They were very quick, October 10, 2017 Page 86 and we were able to download those numbers. Unfortunately, some are not QAQC yet, but we did a quick comparison, and they look pretty good. The tran looks pretty good. Our square could be a little higher, and we're trying to check with the USGS to make those numbers more believable. But the bottom line is this rapid forecasting system is something that's available. We actually trained six coastal communities in South Florida in August, which Mike went to, and along with some other people from this area. So it's a tool that we can use to supplement the forecast of National Hurricane Center; give you more detail. Since Ben already talked about the CRIs, I don't need to say much about this. But basically when we start doing these sort of future inundation maps, we start looking at NOAA 2012 report, and at that time they're saying there's a 90 percent chance that sea level will never -- not exceed two meters by 2100. This is for the global mean sea level. And in 2017 the NOAA report included the results of Kopp, et al, 2014, and it gives slightly different numbers; 99 percentile. Numbers are a little higher if you include the local effect, and NOAA give the extreme number that Ben mentioned. But -- so the point is, you look at the bottom. The Kopp recommendation there, results, 99th percent is 1 foot, 2.4 feet, 5.94 feet in the three time periods in 21st century. Now, certainly those are very high numbers, and they did not include the local effect, and they need to be adjusted slightly. But we are not just interested in looking at the high case. We can look at the 50 percentile case for the three time periods. They come to be about half feet and 1.5 feet and 3 feet. These are very close to what Ben would recommend. This is following the report of 2017. Following their procedure, we produced those numbers, and so we can start from those 50 percentile numbers and perhaps doing some 99 percentile numbers just to show what could happen. October 10, 2017 Page 87 And this is taken out from the 2017 NOAA report. On the top, other authors. And I've spoken -- I know quite a few authors on this report. Bill Sweet at NOAA and Obeysekera with South Florida Water Management District. He's also on the Compact, Southeast Florida. One of the case studies they showed in appendix of the report, and look at Miami as example, and you see those solid curves are the local sea level rise for Miami region all the way to 2100. And on top of that, they took the tidal data at Virginia Key and did 100-year extreme water level assessment. They added that to the regional sea level and to produce their projection. In this case, they try to tell you how to design an infrastructure for 2070, and looking -- if you look at the table down there, they look at three cases: Intermediate, intermediate-high, extreme case. So some similar can be done in Collier County. We can look at three different possibilities and for each of those RCP scenarios. There is only one thing I want to comment shortly on the report, and they added this number. Together they call that 100-year annual chance flood. And I spoke to two authors on the report. They agreed that word "flood" probably should be changed because flood is on land, not on water. So it's really a 1 percent annual chance water level, okay. So how do you do flood? And that's what we're here to tell you about. So this is what we're able to do, the science stuff we're going to do in this project in a nutshell. I'm going to spend the next 40 minutes going through every one of them. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Then we'll see you a little -- DR. SHENG: In fact, we'll spend -- I'll spend less than one minute. I'll just tell you what are the tools that we're using, what are the information we're using, what are the products, what are the most important elements. I want to point out the most important elements in this diagram are the green boxes; those are the urban system and the October 10, 2017 Page 88 national system of Collier County. That's what we are here for. The centerpiece of this project is you guys here, and then the goal, the final product is the one all the way at the lower right corner, is resilient coastal, urban, and natural ecosystems. That's what the goal is. How are we going to get there? We are going to be very broad. We're going to be very compressive. We're going to drill down very deep. We actually start from those global climate scenarios for those three time periods. In 21st century we use those scenarios. We use the results of global climate atmospheric models that predict future storms that are becoming more intense. The intense storms are going to become more frequent. The less intense storms are becoming less frequent. But at the end of the day, that means the impact of the storms is going to be somewhat higher than now. But those are global storms, and we need to scale it to the region using downscaling technique and so it works for the Florida region, and those have been done. So we have regional representative storms because if we have to represent all the possible storms based on these predictions, we would have to run about 40,000 possible storms, which is a tremendous task with dynamic model. So we decided to follow the example of the U.S. Congress; we elect representatives. We select -- we select representative storms. We get it down to about 150. We're more efficient. We can't afford 450 representatives. We want to go with 150 representatives. We run those storms with the coastal model. We create an inundation map for each of those, and then from there we can get inundation of any possible storm. But most important thing, we can produce inundation maps of any return period from 10 year all the way to a million years. I'll tell you, at the end I'm going to show you an inundation curve for Naples -- for Collier County government, Naples City government, from 10-year to a million year, the elevation, based on our preliminary prediction. We're not done get yet. This is just a warmup. October 10, 2017 Page 89 So after that, we're going to do -- we're going to see -- we're going to put the urban system and natural system into the model and look at the impact from these extreme events, and then we start thinking about adaptation, protection, using green infrastructure. I believe nobody wants to build high seawalls and accommodation, raising houses in some area if they insist on living right next to the water or retreat. We're not recommending everybody going to Gainesville. That's not an option. So after adaptation, now, we check to see if it's resilient. Now, if it's not resilient, we go through this exercise again to see what additional impact is and what additional adaptation needs to be. And we do the same with the ecosystem. We're going to talk to the ecosystem folks tomorrow afternoon for our meeting. But on the left side, this is what Ben talked about, the sea level science is very pioneering, emergent science. They've done great work in the last few years. They went from scenarios to probabilistic. Except sometimes you try to read all of those probabilistic papers, you get a headache like me. But those are good work. And we can benefit from their scenario selection and help us to decide the boundary conditions for our coastal model. So that's in a nutshell. I'm almost done. DR. SAVARESE: This is where the intermission should be if we had an intermission. Anyway, so Peter gave you sort of an overview of the kinds of products, and he'll talk a little bit more about products in a little bit. But let me talk to you a little bit about the communications and how the science team, the project investigatory team interacts with people in the community. Our science team, the co-principal investigators on this project, is an interesting cast of characters representing a variety of institutions. You can see our mugshots there. October 10, 2017 Page 90 It includes people from University of Florida, from Florida Gulf Coast University, it includes people from University of Miami for the U.S. Geological Survey. Every person comes onboard with a particular specialty. So this is half of them, and then this is the other half. And so we are the group that then produces the tools that are then shared with the end users, the people in the community that are affected by all of this. We have an interesting structure. We've taken all the end users, the stewards, the people that are responsible for managing either the natural system or the urban system, and we've created these teams. This is what we're calling the Natural Resource Management Team. This is a collection of those team members, and they represent all kinds of public, state, and federal lands with various responsibilities. And these are the people that have agreed to serve as discussants, decision makers that are going to help with the management of those -- of those public natural lands. Kevin Godsea. I don't know if you know him. He's the manager at the 10,000 Islands and Florida panther wildlife refuges. He's agreed to serve as the team leader for this group. And then a group that's of greater interest to this organization, the Board of Commissioners, this is the Urban Resilience and Planning Team. You can see people here represent the City of Naples, the City of Marco Island, Collier County, some private interests, and some NGO interests, and you can see the names here. Some of them are in the room. Linda Penniman, the vice mayor of Naples, has agreed to be the team leader for this group. And you can see you've a couple of county commissioners that are on here: Commissioner Taylor and Commissioner Fiala. So I should point out that these teams change every day, and the size -- there is no limit to how big these teams can be. These are not October 10, 2017 Page 91 meant to be exclusionary by any stretch of the imagination. We just need to find the right people that are responsible for the right kinds of elements that are important. Let me talk just briefly about the process of how we connect the tools to the community. How does the collaboration and communication work? First I should say that many of those team members that you saw on those lists were actually involved in the development of the proposal. So one of the wonderful things about this is from the very beginning you've been involved. The Natural Resource and Urban people have been involved. So, again, I think that added strength to the proposal. So we started out well involving the end users from the very beginning. Again, the products are developed and they're shared over a three-year period. So the way our timeline works is at the end of every year -- and our year ends on May 31st. That's the end of our fiscal year for this award. In May of every year, the new products from this project will be generated, and those products will be presented to the end-user teams. The process is at the beginning of every year, in the fall, we host a series of workshops for both teams, and at those workshops we provide an opportunity for those teams to give us feedback on how the tools shall be developed, what should the starting conditions be. So, for example, we are hosting two kickoff workshops this week. Peter mentioned we've got one tomorrow hosted by Rookery Bay, National Estuarine Research Reserve for the Natural Resource Management Team, and we have one hosted here by the county on the fifth floor conference room for the Urban Resilience Team. And at that meeting we're going to have some very serious conversations about what kinds of levels, what kinds of magnitudes would people like to see in those models so that your interests are best represented. October 10, 2017 Page 92 Those workshops in the fall also provide sort of an overview of what the tools are going to look like and what they're likely to do and generate, and then, most importantly, we will facilitate a conversation and ask those team members what they perceive as the critical and most important questions that the tools can help with, okay. So maybe someone from Coastal Zone Management, like Gary McAlpin, might say, oh, well, the county is considering fortifying dunes in our region. We'd like to know what regions of our coast where the dune's most vulnerable. Those are questions the tools can address. So those are the kinds of things we're hoping that heuristically come forward in those conversations with people representing those two teams. That's what makes this powerful. You're asking the questions that are important, and we're employing the tools to help you get those answers. Then in the spring when the products are ready, we host another serious of workshops. The tools are introduced. The data, the simulations are shared. People will be trained on how to use those tools so that you can use them -- rather than sleeping at night, you can sit at home and be obsessive on your computer and, you know, play with simulations. And it's also, most importantly, an opportunity to revisit those critical questions. The question that Gary McAlpin asked about dunes can be answered with advisory simulations. So it's an opportunity to provide real insight as to how you might invest your resources and how -- here at the bottom bullet, how the county might pursue the planning effort. For this to be most successful, for this to be of greatest help, we envision during Year 2 that the county pursue a companion planning effort. We've talked -- I've talked with many of you. I know commissioners have talked and the county managers have talked about October 10, 2017 Page 93 maybe crafting an RFP to hire some team that would come in and take on the onerous role of doing planning. This body's considered in the past the Harvard project. That kind of team, a team that would be competitively bidding for that -- for that role, would then take this to the next level. So that's how we envision this working. I think I'm now passing it back to Peter. I am. DR. SHENG: Thank you. All right. Since I'm standing between you and lunch, I'm going to try to rush in about one minute; try to finish this whole thing. Okay. So let me just go through, what tools are we developing? We came up with this cool name. It's A-C-U-N-E, ACUNE, and this is Adaptation of Coastal Urban and Natural Ecosystem. This tool with -- the goal is enable end users to develop coastal resilience plan for flood protection, estuarine preservation, and mangrove restoration. This tool will include these parts and the tropical cyclones for future climates. This we pretty much have them done already. And the sea level rise scenarios, we're in the process of soliciting input, and we'll make those up this year, hopefully. And probabilistic coastal inundation maps for current and future climates. So we're doing four scenarios; current and three future scenarios, future years. Beach impact maps, mangrove distribution maps. We have USGS folks working on mangrove distribution, how they evolve over the future climate with more storms and sea level rise. Then we'll have probabilistic inundation maps and economic impact maps with various adaptation plan in place. Like, for example, Mangrove Restoration Plan where we'll change the buffering capacity; therefore, the flood map will be different. So we'll be doing more and more maps. So how do we develop probabilistic coastal inundation maps? Let me just go through this quickly. As I said, we can't rely on just current climate. Yes, we do historic storms like the FEMA maps, and October 10, 2017 Page 94 we need to develop a storm ensemble. The lesson we learned from Katrina is we can't do coastal planning based on a single storm, single design storm, okay. That doesn't work. And they learned that. That's the biggest lesson they learned from that academy report. So we need to develop a storm ensemble which represents all possible storms using something called joint probability method. Then we develop coastal inundation maps for the storm ensemble, then we can generate coastal inundation maps of any return periods. Let's do the same thing for the future climate. A future storm ensemble needs to be predicted from dynamic climate models. They're not -- they're not made up. They are not historic storms. So that's the main difference. So let's show some example of how we've done this coastal flood risk study for Southwest Florida. So we had actually done the study in 2012 in natural hazards with Andrew Condon, my former student. We studied -- the domain is a little bit larger than what we hoped to do for this study, because it includes south of Tampa Bay all the way down to the south of this current model domain. It goes off shore. So on the offshore boundary, we actually couple to a large model, which includes the entire Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. So on this inside boundary on the right, we have very high resolution, 30 to 500 meters resolution. On land is 30, 50 meters, not centimeters. On the open boundary we would use the sea level rise scenarios. So let me just show you one case. We run a Category 5 hurricane. So we do this with -- without sea level rise on the left, with level sea level rise -- 1.5 meters sea level rise on the right. This is to show two purposes. One is to show just how does the Category 5 hurricane do in terms of the inundation it creates; the other one to show what the effect of sea level rise -- how much more inundation does sea level add to it. And, as you can see, zero rise; 1.5 meter adds a little bit, October 10, 2017 Page 95 but because the hurricane Category 5 already generate a lot of inundation. Those are scary numbers that hopefully it will never happen here. But then the message is, we cannot do planning based on this one map. Unfortunately, somebody in Tampa Bay region is banking on planning using a Category 5 hurricane hitting Tampa area. Hopefully they learn not to do that. So, again, we have to do this joint probability method. This is a very mature method used by FEMA -- used by FEMA. And so what I'm showing here is for Southwest Florida. Those are the historic storms in the middle that the present climate -- this is an interesting way of showing the vulnerability we see. Regions influenced by 10-year flooding all the way to the blue area. Those are 500-year flooding. And those -- for the current climate on the right is the worst case, 2100, with 1.5-meter sea level rise with more -- slightly more intense storms. Again, those are extreme case which may never happen, but those are just shown as our sensitivity study. One problem with this joint probability method, it requires many, many storms, more than 20,000, sometimes 40,000 storm to represent all the storms; computationally, very intensive. In our study, 2012, we developed an optimal sampling method. Basically decided to elect representatives to Congress, and we end up with 150 optimal storms. And so we can now quickly produce these maps. The maps shown here are actually done with those representative storms. One of the important message is that not only we can get the 100-year inundation or 500-year inundation, we can actually get the 100-year surge. Shown here is the 100-year surge, okay. The water level along the coast of Collier County. As you can see, the Naples area has a value of 2.74 meters, but there is quite a bit of a variation spatially. So if you're trying to define the possible flooding for Collier County, where do you pick that single value of the 100-year surge? October 10, 2017 Page 96 Naples, of course. That gives you a very high number. If you pick some number on Marco Island, the number is much lower. By the way, that 2.74 meters agrees well with the analysis of Chibaldi (phonetic) using the extreme value analysis. So the power of this coastal dynamic model is you can get 100-year flood, 100-year inundation, you can get 100-year surge. So these are the results based on the prediction of Tim LaRow 2014, and they're also consistent with what Knutson and Princeton had produced, and these are based on climate -- global climate in SREG (phonetic) models, all right, and downscale regionally to this region. So we have shown here several different climate scenarios. On the left we have RCP 4.5 and 8.5. We didn't do the 2.6 because it's not a scenario which is likely to occur. And we do 20-year period for early and late 21st Century. We look at -- DR. SAVARESE: Sorry to interrupt. The chairperson said we have to wrap it up. DR. SHENG: Okay. I'm almost done. Different Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, la Nino, el Nino. Sea level rise I've used 30 centimeters, one meter, and two meters. So those numbers are -- they are not based on probabilistic numbers because this was before the report came out. But these are compatible with the 2012 scenarios, okay. So based on this, we produced inundation maps. Current climate on the left; 4.5, 2030, 30-centimeter sea level rise in the middle; 8.5, 2100, 2 meter sea level rise on the right. They are very different. The other thing is they are spatially varying. They're not constant numbers throughout the basin. So here -- one question. Some people suggest that by 2100 sea level rise may be so high that we don't need to worry about storm effect. So we run with one meter sea level rise, with two meter sea level rise, with different return for the 50 years, 500 years. We look at October 10, 2017 Page 97 the percent of storm inundation due to sea level rise alone. The purple value is 100 percent. The red value is over 80 percent. You see in the inland area, sea level rise dominance. But in the coastal area, sea level rise constitute only about 20, 30 percent of the effect. Storms still dominant. So even in 2100, we cannot ignore storms. And here is one comparison using the dynamic model versus bathtub model. So if we take 2-meter sea level rise with the 2.74-meter surge, okay, based on extreme value analysis applied with a bathtub model over this entire region, we see in unrealistic -- unrealistically high values of inundation: 7 meters in large areas. The dynamic model shows more reasonable distribution of the flood pattern. So here is the end. Naples City Hall, we have the value going from 10 years to a million years return periods. The water level. Okay, the top four curves, those are late 21st century. Those are really not hyperbole case. But if you look at the green and red case, those are early 21st Century. Those are likely to occur, okay. So the same thing here for Marco Island City Hall; the numbers are a little higher. So the question comes down to, the stakeholders, where do you want to pick? You can say I want to prepare against 100-year flood elevation or a million (sic) flood elevation. That's something we need to know from you. I'm not going to tell you to protect against a million return period flood elevation because that would be too much. One last thing is you have lots of mangroves. Mangroves can protect people from massive flooding. This is a paper just published in Hydrobiologia. This is a biological paper. It shows during Hurricane Andrew the mangroves behind Biscayne Bay prevented people from massive flooding. The one on the left is with the vegetation in place. The one on the right, we removed the vegetation in the model. You see it creates massive flooding for those Collier Countiers. October 10, 2017 Page 98 So there's a lot of potential here to use the mangroves to help you to become more resilient against flooding. So we are starting sampling. These are the sample stations we have surveyed. We plan to put real instruments in there. So the storm come by, it will trigger, will measure the storm surge, all right. And we know at the Chokoloskee Island we have over 11 feet inundation, and model predicted that. And we'll look at the vegetation, how they change with sea level and storms and beach, how they are impacted by storm and sea level. And these are the things we need to do, and I'll let you read them. There's the timeline. We're going to complete everything right on time. Any questions? I assume everybody's hungry. Thank you very much. (Applause.) DR. SAVARESE: Do we have time for questions? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Probably not. Let's save our questions individually upstairs, if we could ask you, and I think -- because our dear court reporter is probably ready for a break. Thank you very much. We'll adjourn and reconvene at 1:15. (A luncheon recess was had.) MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, you have a live mic. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. I think we'll continue with our meeting, and I assume it's Stormwater Utility Program. MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. Item #11B RECOMMENDATION TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE OF THE October 10, 2017 Page 99 CURRENT ANALYSIS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STORMWATER UTILITY AND GATHER ANY COMMISSIONER OR PUBLIC COMMENTS – MOTION TO ACCEPT REPORT AND CONTINUE WITH ESTABLISHING A FUTURE STORMWATER UTILITY AND PROPOSED FEE STRUCTURE – APPROVED MR. OCHS: Natural segue from the sea level rise stormwater planning. Mr. Cohen, your department head for Growth Management, will kick off this presentation. MR. COHEN: Madam Chair, Commissioners, Manager, yes, I'm here to talk about more water. And as the Manager said, it's a good segue from where we were. I'd like to kind of tie in this presentation that I'm going to introduce with what you just heard. There's some themes, I think, that we can carry through. One is to be comfortable with the numbers, and that's one of the things our conversation's going to be about is having you feel comfortable with the methodology. Invest resources in the future; clearly, as we look at our stormwater, I'm approaching -- I just finished 60 days here at the county. It's been very eventful. And as I'm looking at a lot of the issues that face this county, being able to have a methodology that works well with our stormwater process is something that's going to be a key. A stable economy is what the last group talked about. So, clearly, if we're able to move the water effectively, that helps with our economy particularly during regular rain events and storms. And pioneering science. Well, you're not going to hear pioneering science. What you're going to hear more about is what's nuts and bolts, what we actually do on the ground and how it is that you're able to help move that process forward. Back in November of 2015, you had an integrated water resource October 10, 2017 Page 100 management strategy workshop -- kind of feels like deja vu. I think you're kind of doing that again today -- in which you were looking at a stormwater utility feasibility study to take a detailed look at the current and future stormwater surface management needs and evaluate what system would work best to be able to meet the needs of this community; that the system that we have now is not adequate in order for us to move forward. So with that, I'd like to introduce Tim Hancock. He's with Stantec. He's the team leader on this process, and he'll walk you through the update as to where we are currently and the other team members that will have important components to talk to you about how we can get from where we are to where we need to be. Tim. MR. HANCOCK: Good afternoon, Commissioners. Tim Hancock with Stantec. And I was able to witness Mr. Cohen's trial by fire in the Emergency Operations Center in the days following Irma, along with the rest of your staff. And he's handled himself extremely well, and it's a pleasure to be working with him and a lot of the growth management staff and groups on this project. I'll briefly introduce our presentation team for you today. You'll be happy to know we've pared this down from the two hours we originally planned to something more in the area of about 20 minutes and, with your permission, if you'll allow us to kind of move through the presentation and do your best to hold any questions, we may be tapping on some things you're thinking along the way throughout the presentation, and that may be the best use of your time. But, Madam Chair, I certainly leave that to you as well. Along with me, a principal with our financial services group, Mr. David Hyder is here. He is also with Stantec. Also you're going to be hearing from Mr. Jerry Kurtz. You've seen Jerry once or twice. He's your stormwater principal project manager. And then there's a guy that October 10, 2017 Page 101 nobody has a bad word to say about, Mr. Travis Gossard, your division director with Road Maintenance. He's also got a few items that he's going to bring to your attention today as well. Mr. Cohen hit on a brief history there, and I'll just simply say that this is an effort that commenced in about 2014 and has been taking graduated steps since then with milestone deliveries in December of 2015 and again September of 2016 of last year. Because of some of the newer members of the Board, but certainly not new to our community, we are going to backtrack a tiny bit to make sure we kind of have everybody on the same page moving forward, at least from an informational standpoint. But you see today is really the next step in several years' worth of work and effort on this project. This is what I call Stormwater 101, and it's probably more for the benefit of anyone who may be monitoring this as opposed to you folks. But why do we manage stormwater? First, and simply most, flood protection, protection of private property rights. That's what the primary function of a stormwater management system is there for. Second to that, and equally important, particularly on the heels of Irma, is to ensure that roadways are accessible. It's one thing to protect private property rights. It's another thing when you cannot get emergency apparatus down a roadway to address someone's health and safety conditions. So I look at stormwater. It's a bigger issue than just having some water in my front yard or in the ditch in front of my house. Along with this, water quality. A major component of any stormwater system as required by our current permits is to ensure that we do a better job in the future than we have in the past. And we, of course, have regulatory requirements. The Clean Water Act, I believe is 1972, set that in motion. And we are required to perform certain stormwater management activities to comply with October 10, 2017 Page 102 what is called our stormwater discharge permit. So that's a little bit of background. And you probably sum it up best, believe it or not, in your own Growth Management Plan. There's a very simple statement as a policy, and it states that the objective of stormwater management is to develop a combination of techniques which provide for adequate pollutant removal and flood protection in the most economical manner. Those are your words, your policy, and they could not be more succinct. So it's not a question of do we have a stormwater management program. You have one. The question is, what does that program look like? And the question today we're really hitting on is, how is it best funded? A quick overview of your system. You currently manage and maintain over 122 miles of canals. You are in partnership with the Big Cypress Basin of the South Florida Water Management District who also manages another 170-plus miles of canals. You have 372 miles of storm sewer pipes that must be cleaned and maintained; 687 miles of roadside swale. To put that in perspective, that's a straight shot from Everglades City to Atlanta, Georgia. You have 648 centerline curb miles of streets to be swept; 50,000 tons of storms debris collected annually. The Irma exception goes in there; 6,000 curb inlets; 53 hydrodynamic separators. If you want to get into what that is, let's do that afterwards; 65 major stormwater control structures; and you also have aquatic weed control. You have vegetation removal, weir maintenance, and mowing. And so when you look at this as a total body of work, we haven't even gotten into any capital projects. These are the things that your staff has to handle every day, day in and day out. Who pays for all this? It's simple; Collier County taxpayers; $1 million from the Big Cypress Basin. That source is an ad valorem tax; and $7 million from General Fund revenues plus grant funds where October 10, 2017 Page 103 available. To kind of give you a little more of a boots-on-the-ground look, I'd like to introduce your stormwater principal project manager to give you a little more information. Mr. Jerry Kurtz. MR. KURTZ: Thank you, Tim. Jerry Kurtz, your stormwater principal project manager. Good afternoon. We have many challenges; we have many great challenges. One of our biggest challenges, we have a substantial amount of aging infrastructure out there that needs attention. We have multiple control structures today, weirs, that need replacement, and those are substantial projects and require a lot of planning and take time to do. To be a resilient storm-ready community, it's important that we have an aggressive structure, maintenance, and replacement program. Structure failures during a storm event can result in catastrophic conditions. Example of our latest weir replacement project is about two weeks before we were ready to start the new construction project on the weir nearby here at the Haldeman Creek, half -- or a major structural component of half the weir basically crumbled right in the middle of the day. It was a big structural failure, so that one we kind of prioritized right, and we're in there replacing it now; but to give you an example of how our structures are in great need. Water quality, as Tim alluded to, is always a concern. Stormwater runoff needs to be treated before it reaches our sensitive receiving waters. Water quality projects are necessary and typically come with significant capital costs. Keeping up with the county's public renewal -- public utility renewal project is very challenging for us. When an aging neighborhood is targeted to get new potable water, sewer facilities, stormwater prefers to partner with Public Utilities so that we can get October 10, 2017 Page 104 the job done right, come in and fix everything at once, only tear up the neighborhood once. These projects are very expensive. Two projects are currently underway, but those two projects alone are utilizing most of our budget in stormwater. That would be Naples Park and Vanderbilt area, Vanderbilt Drive area. Replacing the aging infrastructure in Golden Gate City is a big challenge. We're getting ready to kick off our first phase of replacement there, but we're looking at over $25 million worth of work there and possibly up to 10 years to complete. We have many existing neighborhoods in Collier County that need significant stormwater upgrades such as Poinciana Village, Country Club of Naples, Palm River, and Pine Ridge Estates. Immokalee -- the needs are significant in the Immokalee area; huge stormwater needs. Current funding levels allow for principally a reactive effort only. You're going to hear from Travis Gossard next on the maintenance side of stormwater. Deferring maintenance sometimes results in emergency replacements that can cost two or three times more than a planned project. On September 10th, 2013, I came before you to assist with a stormwater declaration of emergency along Ridge Drive in Pine Ridge. We had a well-documented aged-out pipe there that failed during a rain event, destroyed a major portion of the roadway and caused predictable flooding that could have been avoided. We spent $96,000 replacing six feet of pipe under the emergency and spent $30,000 on pump rentals trying to reduce the flooding. So wrapping up, this slide is -- we can be proactive and not reactive, and that will allow us to better use the money and be better stewards of taxpayers' dollars. Mr. Travis Gossard. MR. GOSSARD: Thank you, Jerry. October 10, 2017 Page 105 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And we all want to clap for him. (Applause.) COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I would just give him a hug. MR. GOSSARD: Thank you very much. Travis Gossard, your Road Maintenance director. And so we do have some system challenges and we have some maintenance challenges, but I'm going to tell you one thing we don't have; that's a lack of leadership. The support that I've got from the county commissioners, Leo, and Nick, everybody was just excellent during the storm, and I want to tell you very much "thank you." It was awesome. I've talked to many of you over the phone, and I was really appreciative during the storm the support that you gave us and backed us during the storm. I really appreciate that. Thank you very much. So I'll jump into some of the maintenance challenges we're facing. I think all of you are aware we're unable to keep up with the demand for services for Collier County as a total. Not one specific area, not one commissioner's district alone, but this is globally all throughout Collier County. Our current program is extremely reactive instead of proactive, and we really want to get to the proactive state. I give you one example. Commissioner Solis, we dealt with email after email after email for Mockingbird Lake up in the Pine Ridge Estates area. That is basically confined by one 30-inch outfall. The water cannot get removed fast enough. We've got to do something to be proactive in the neighborhood. And we have these little instances all over the county. Better maintenance equals faster recovery. I believe we all agree that a stormwater utility is not going to fix what Invest 92L or Hurricane Irma did, but what it will do is give the community October 10, 2017 Page 106 members a much faster recovery rate, which that's what they're asking for. They understand they're going to have water, but they don't want to have water for weeks. And, again, the residents -- every phone call I'm on, they seem to be asking for a much higher level of service, and I think we can definitely provide that. The next slide, these are some typical industry sustained numbers. And I don't want it to shock anybody. Basically, these are just what we call typical. They're not a one-size-shoe fits all. These can be adjusted for Collier County. They don't have to mirror that image. But basically what you're seeing right now is storm sewer vacuuming. It's taking us -- if we continue on the same pace, it would take us 27 years to clean the entire county. Curb inlet cleaning. If we stay on the same funding mechanism and the same pace, 25 years. Catch basin cleaning, same thing, 37 years to do all of Collier County. And then the one that hurts me the most, roadside swale cleaning, 57 years. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Travis, does this take -- I'm sorry if you said this. But I want to put this in perspective. Does this take into consideration what the storm did, or is this just where we were before the storm? MR. GOSSARD: This is where we were before the storm. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Oh, my God, okay. MR. GOSSARD: Okay. COMMISSIONER FIALA: What does cleaning mean? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The swales will get garbage in them. MR. GOSSARD: So when we go in and we clean out the swales to put them back to their original invert so that everybody can get the flow. And the most important thing to think about this it's not just one driveway culvert pipe or one inlet box that makes an issue here. It's when you have hundreds of them or miles of them. And this is a October 10, 2017 Page 107 system issue. It's not just one little thing out there. And, again, I thank you very much. I'll be available for questions, and we're going to move on. Thank you very much. Tim? MR. HANCOCK: And I'd like to reiterate what Travis said. What you see up here is it's a simple math function. You look at what you're capable to do on an annual basis, you look at the total roadside miles, and you do the math. That doesn't mean if there's a problem, Travis doesn't do what he's always done, which is get his crews out there and get it taken care of. But if you look at one where you don't have a demonstrated problem or a complaint, he may not get to that particular customer in a reasonable period of time. And I think that's the focus here. Not so much to shock anybody, but to say, there is a demonstrated problem. And we don't want to focus so much on that as much as what is the best path moving forward, and the best person I can provide you to talk about what your options are and what may give you the right footing heading forward is our principal financial services, who's going to get into -- more into what a stormwater utility looks like. Mr. Hyder has completed and adopted numerous stormwater utilities all over the United States. He's been doing this more than 15 years. And I hope that what he has to share with you today will help give you that path going forward. But I'd like to give you Mr. Hyder. MR. HYDER: Good afternoon, Commissioners. It's really a pleasure to be here. I did want to comment on this in terms of the typical industry standard. And that essentially does provide a range of where, you know, ideally you'd want to be. And I did want to mention that in terms of the work that Travis and his group are able to do, given the resources they have, is just phenomenal, so I didn't want that to go unnoticed. And this, October 10, 2017 Page 108 necessarily, shouldn't reflect on their capabilities. The ability they have to stretch a dollar is pretty darn impressive, so -- but there are clearly some issues in terms of the maintenance levels in the current system. So I want to step back a little bit and just talk about -- provide a little bit of background on what a stormwater utility is. And just -- this is a definition that we've come up with, and I just want to read through it for you. It's really an approach to organizing and funding stormwater management with dedicated revenues, and those revenues are generated from user fees based on the use of the stormwater system. So that may sound familiar to you in terms of that type of approach, because that's what you use right now for your water, your sewer, and your solid waste systems. You provide those services, and you have a dedicated funding stream that's a user fee based upon the use of the system. And so what we're essentially talking about with the stormwater system is transitioning your stormwater program to that same type of approach. You essentially manage the stormwater program as a utility. Instead of using property taxes to fund the stormwater system, you'd use stormwater fees, and it's really analogous to your other utilities. So there's 180 stormwater utilities in the state of Florida. It's the second most in the country. And there's a number of reasons why communities have adopted stormwater utilities, and I have some of the benefits listed here. And I'm going to go through some of those benefits on the next few slides. The first one is that it provides that dedicated and stable funding stream. That may sound simple and pretty basic, but it's extremely important when you're managing a utility. It allows you to have less costly reactive repairs -- I'm sorry -- less costly proactive repairs; October 10, 2017 Page 109 you're not in the reactive mode because you know you have those funds. It allows you to do the long-term strategic planning, coordinated planning with other utilities, generally increases your ability to get state, federal, and local grants because you have those matching funds and, as Jerry alluded to earlier, it allows you to coordinate efforts with other utilities. Right now you have two projects on the water and sewer side that you're coordinating with. When you're going in and replacing the water and sewer lines, you're able to do the stormwater at the same time. That's very effective, minimizes the disruptions within the community. But the challenges going forward -- there's so many additional projects that have been identified, my understanding is that water and sewer is ready to move forward with their projects, and the challenge is going to be keeping up and the concern is, without a dedicated funding source, it will be difficult to keep up. Worst-case scenario, you're not able to do the stormwater projects at the same time and, therefore, you have very costly projects in the future and more disruption within the community. So that dedicated funding source is extremely important. Closely related to that is that it provides a fair and equitable revenue stream. The stormwater fee reflects the cost of providing a service in a fair and equitable manner, and the reason for that is because the fees are proportionate to the use of and the contributions to the system. And I'll talk about that more in a minute. But it does reflect, essentially, the intensity of development and how much a property is using the stormwater system. Also, another key benefit is that it allows you the ability to recognize on-site stormwater management, which is a key component because that encourages properties to be proactive in their management of the stormwater. Currently, there's very limited ability to encourage that type of October 10, 2017 Page 110 development, but if you have a stormwater fee, you can essentially give a credit or reduction in their fee if they do on-site stormwater management. So to drive this home a little bit further, I wanted to talk about comparison of your current funding approach, and then also in terms of the use of the system. So what I have here on the slide is an example. These are two properties in the county. Property A is a single-family home. Property B is an industrial parcel within the county. The impervious area on the parcels is obviously very different. So Parcel A has about 1. -- I'm sorry -- .15 acres of impervious area, and that's just essentially the portion of the property that doesn't drain, so it's going to run off. And Parcel B has an acre of impervious area. So when you have a one-inch rain event, Parcel A is going to generate about 4,000 gallons of water whereas Parcel B is going to generate 26,000 gallons of water. It's a tremendous difference in the use of the system. So, obviously, this is an impervious area on those two and, obviously, as you have increased impervious surface, you also have increased runoff generation. So that's the equity issue, the contribution, the use of the system. And the reality is right now, under the current funding approach, since these two properties have the same taxable value, they're both contributing the same amount to stormwater management. A couple other benefits is that the stormwater utility provides a transparent and accountable way of accounting for the service, and it's needs based. So it's important to note that every dollar that would be collected in stormwater fees would only be able to be used exclusively for stormwater management. You can't divert those funds anywhere else. So, again, just like your water and sewer utility, those funds would stay within stormwater management. This provides for transparency within the community. They know where their dollars October 10, 2017 Page 111 are going. It allows you to evaluate the performance of the stormwater program. And also, again, similar to water and sewer, the level of the fees are based on the needs of the system. So on an annual basis, you would have the ability to adjust the fees based on that budget process and as the needs change in the system. So those are some of the key benefits. What I wanted to talk about next would be potentially what the stormwater utility might look like and just some common questions here. The stormwater utility would apply to parcels in the unincorporated areas of the county. It would not apply to the incorporated areas. The fee would be based on impervious area as identified in the Property Appraiser's database in terms of how it would be billed or proposing that it would be a non-ad valorem fee on the property tax bill, just like your solid waste fee. And then if it is approved, it would on the tax bill in 2019, is the plan. So a little bit more in terms of what it would look like in terms of the fee structure. So when we look at stormwater fee structures, we have a number of goals in mind. One is we want the fee structure to be simple and easy to understand within the community so that people can understand what they're being charged for and how it's structured. We also want to be able to administer it. But closely related to that, we also want to continue to have those equity components that I talked about earlier. So one way to do that is to essentially use impervious area with some simplifying assumptions. And what we're looking at initially, and this is a preliminary, would be to essentially group -- for single-family parcels, to group the impervious area for the various parcels into three tiers or more. You could do two or you could do four tiers, but essentially, tiers of impervious, and then that would be the basis for assessing the stormwater fee. October 10, 2017 Page 112 So, for an example here, if the fee was $10 a year, one year your one equivalent residential unit would pay $10, that's your average impervious. If you're above that average, you'd pay $15. And if you're below that average, you'd pay $5. So it's essentially just scales based upon the number of ERUs. And then the same concept -- and, again, this is purely an example. We're still developing this, and I want to emphasize that it is just an example. In terms of the non-single-family parcels, what you traditionally do is just do that as multiples of a single-family ERU. So if you're a non-single-family commercial property and you're 10 ERUs, you'd pay 10 times the stormwater fee, and that represents then, again, the use of and the contribution to the stormwater system. So that's the fee structure. We think the utility also should consider property exemptions, potential properties that should be exempted from the stormwater fee for advisory reasons. I also believe that the stormwater utility should have credits and incentives and that essentially recognizes on-site stormwater management, so that can be an ongoing reduction in the fee if you have a detention pond or if you put in pervious pavement or things of that sort. So, again, and it recognizes and encourages that positive behavior and management of the system. I just wanted to provide a little bit of a comparison. These are just some communities that have stormwater fees in coastal communities, what they charge annually, their population, their revenues they generate with a fee, and then their per capita revenues. So just informational there. And the final slide I have, before I turn it back over to Tim, is just to talk about what we believe the estimated range of the stormwater fee could be. And this is -- I can't emphasize enough that this is preliminary, but you can see that, depending upon the level of service October 10, 2017 Page 113 that's decided for the community -- and this is where you'd come in and have the ability to pick that level of service -- the range of the fee could be anywhere from $45 a year up to $125 a year. The 125 is certainly the premium. That would be doing all of your current level of service plus improved maintenance plus all of your capital projects that you could ever wish for, so that's the -- you know, the Cadillac version. But, essentially, you have the ability there to look at what level of service you want to provide. And this just gives you a range and an idea of what the fee would be. So we're not talking a huge fee. Again, this is an annual -- an annual fee, and then you can also see the revenues that would be generated. And just to put that you into a monthly -- again, this is going to be on the property tax bill, so it would be an annual fee. But this gives you a sense of what that fee would look like per month, just to give you a sense, from a budgeting standpoint, as people are typically used to budgeting on a monthly basis. So I'm going to turn it back over to Tim to talk about our schedule. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Can I just ask you, what is your name? I'm guessing you work for Stantec because that's what it says on here. MR. HYDER: Yes. My name's Dave Hyder. I'm a principal with Stantec. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you. MR. HYDER: Yes. MR. HANCOCK: I was just going to stay, Commissioner Fiala, if you'd like his presentation, yes, he works with Stantec, and if you didn't, I could make up another company. I like this slide in particular because I remember when I had the pleasure of serving on this body. We had a drainage problem in October 10, 2017 Page 114 Naples Park. And there was no money in the county funds to address it. And so the people of Naples Park decided, okay, let's do an MSTU and let's address our drainage problems. So we hired a consultant, the consultant came in, gave us a big program. It was too expensive. There was just no way. So what we did is, instead of going for the Cadillac, the community decided, hey, do you have a Chevy behind Curtain No. 2 that we can afford? And we came up with what we called the "pizza a month" program. If we could scale it down to where they could address the big issues for less than $10 a month, that was bearable. Now, again, that was at that time for that community. But when I look at this and we start looking at the overall scope of this program being at this level, it begins to sharpen and focus a little bit. And so the thing I want to answer for you going forward is, we're here giving you an update today, and the question is, where do we go from here? This is our project schedule that we have put forward, and we are on time and on budget, very pleased to say. And so sitting in the middle of October, what we're going to continue doing is going and completing our review of your billing and collection alternatives. So everything you got is an update. Nothing you've seen is written in stone or cast in stone in any way but as an update of where we feel we are at this point and where we may be heading. Secondly, we want to initiate and finish our public engagement program. By "initiate and finish," I mean by the end of December we will have completed a stakeholder reach-out program with 10 to 15 meetings with HOAs, government -- nongovernmental organizations, civic groups, and so forth. On top of that, we're going to have community meetings publicly noticed in each of your districts. Commissioner McDaniel, you get two because you're geographically larger, so we're going to eat up two nights on your calendar. October 10, 2017 Page 115 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Did he say I was -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, he did say you were large. MR. HANCOCK: But we're going to have public engagement sessions, and they're not just going to be we're going to come out and tell you what we're thinking. We're actually going to look to gather and glean information from the public; where are there issues and hot spots and things that maybe we're not aware of. Who's not calling Travis? And that's a short list. But who's not calling Travis and saying I've got a problem, okay. So we hope to gather more information and be more responsive to the public in that process. Part of that also will be the creation of a project website, and we will host a community survey on that website as well. As you've heard in a couple of projects we've done with you lately, we've been very successful in getting -- at times I think the library survey was over 1,400 respondents, which is almost unheard of, and I think for parks we had over 800. So we hope to have that similar success level in getting input through a community survey on our website platform. We then will complete the detailed rate study by mid January, and in February we'll have the ability to come back to you with a lot more details, a lot more specificity, and, of course, be able to answer and address any questions that may have cropped up in that time. So these are the things that we're going to see you in February with, and we just kind of went over all of them, but our goal is to develop a rate structure here that first and foremost is fair and equitable. And I think we've seen from the examples provided today, basing stormwater contribution on your property value may not be the most fair, equitable approach in addressing future funding needs of this utility. So we want to come back to you, and I'll tell you now, if we can't come back to you and convince you that what we're proposing is more fair and more equitable than the current system, then we have failed, October 10, 2017 Page 116 and I'll tell you, we're not going to fail. There is a better way to go about this. As to what level of service the community receives from their stormwater utility, that is and always will be a determination by this body, not by us as consultants and not by your stormwater staff. So you will have the full breadth of options available to you to determine the level of service you think is most appropriate, not just from a "can we get it done" standpoint, but can your constituents, you know, bear that. So those are all the tough decisions you're going to have in February, but we're going to do our best to make it as easy and as simple and as fair as we can for you. And with that, I'm happy to make our team available to answer any questions you may have. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Mr. Miller, how many speakers do we have? MR. MILLER: We have five registered public speakers on this item. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No questions at this point, Mr. Hancock. Let's hear from our speakers, please. MR. MILLER: Your first public speaker is Gary Kluckhohn. I hope I'm pronouncing that close to right. He'll be followed by Nancy Payton. MR. KLUCKHOHN: Good afternoon. It's been a very, very educational morning, as the topic on the storm and where the water went and where it's going to go. This is -- my name is Gary Kluckhohn, for the record. I live at 2180 Sandpiper Street. And yesterday in this room your Conservation Collier Committee unanimously purchased the 27-acre mangrove forest on Sandpiper Street. Are you all aware of that that took place? October 10, 2017 Page 117 You know, the stormwater management that we have in Collier County under Jerry Kurtz, from my experience as a builder, and living in a swamp, I'm very grateful for everything it is right now. But we need to coordinate the stormwater management with the City of Naples, you know. It's happening. And I've met a few people on that list this morning, the man that spoke about our pollution control, our stormwater management. We've got some wonderful people. The awards you guys gave today. And this district, this whole purpose of this particular agenda -- I don't want to introduce anything else -- is for the stormwater district to be implemented and whatever you guys needed to do to move it forward. Because I'm very grateful my house did not flood. And you start taking away any of that wetland, and it will flood. The aquifer's already bad, and we need to talk about that once you get this district funded. But I'm not going to burden your time. I would like to thank you guys for -- this happens to be a picture of Haldeman Creek headwaters, you know, and I showed that to Mr. Saunders some months ago. And he said, well, what's that copper color? Well, that's copper. Copper sulfate's dumped in it under the license and permit of Florida Department of Environmental Protection agency to control algae in golf courses. That's what that creek looks like when it's coming in before it meets the copper; that's what it looks like. So Naples Bay and all what we're doing here to make this community what it is and the resources -- you know, I'm from Chesapeake Bay. Save the bay. My time's up. But I just want to applaud you for what you guys are doing and the experts that you've engaged. Thank you. It's been quite an education. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. MR. MILLER: Madam Chairman, your next speaker is Meredith Barnard. She's been ceded additional time from Nancy Payton and from Brad Cornell for a total of nine minutes. October 10, 2017 Page 118 MS. BARNARD: Thank you. Meredith Barnard on behalf of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. My comments today reflect the collective position of the Conservancy, Audubon of the Western Everglades, Florida Wildlife Federation, and Ellin Goetz, who is the chair of the Vote Conservation Collier campaign in 2002 and 2006. I know I've been ceded time, but I promise to keep it to just about three minutes. The stormwater utility agenda item today is extremely timely. Collier County was heavily impacted by Hurricane Irma which reinforces the fact that stormwater infrastructure projects should be key components for a global strategy to manage the county's watersheds. For this strategy we encourage that the county continue to evaluate this stormwater utility, and your consultants have already reached out to us, and we look forward to working with them on this concept. The protection, restoration, and enhancement of our natural watershed systems is an essential component of stormwater management, water quality, and flood control, all things that have been elevated in importance in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The county has an existing Watershed Management Plan that was approved back in December of 2011, and at that time the estimated cost of implementation for that was estimated at about 24 million, and it's certainly going to be much more than that today. Each year some of the funding for the Watershed Management Plan projects are allocated within the county's budget. But your discussion about a stormwater utility actually provides a great opportunity, connects both the stormwater and Watershed Management Plan projects. From your presentation today, you anticipate the stormwater utility funding to be through a tax, but there's also an opportunity to expedite projects within the Watershed Management Plan through October 10, 2017 Page 119 another funding source, that being the Chamber of Commerce's proposed infrastructure sales tax. This is a very logical source of money for the clearly defined projects that are within the Watershed Management Plan. But a distinction must be understood between these green infrastructure projects and Conservation Collier. Although conservation lands do play a very important role for naturally storing rainwater, Conservation Collier and the stormwater utility program must be separately funded and guided programs. For example, urban green spaces like abandoned or failing golf courses, they could remain green by being re-purposed into natural stormwater systems. These engineered watershed infrastructure projects and open space acquisitions that address flood control but have relatively little wildlife habitat value are not the mission of Conservation Collier. Most important today, we want to reiterate, our collective position remains that Conservation Collier must be a stand-alone ballot initiative and is not appropriate for commingling with the infrastructure sales tax. Watershed infrastructure projects that address flood control are critical, and tying them into an infrastructure sales tax to expedite the Watershed Management Plan is extremely timely. We look forward to discussing further the wisdom of pursuing Watershed Management Plan projects and not Conservation Collier as a part of the upcoming November 7th sales tax discussion. Thank you. MR. MILLER: Madam Chair, our final and only other speaker has decided not to speak. So that concludes our public speakers. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Madam Chair, unless there are a lot of questions, I'll make a motion to get the item on the floor, and that is -- I think the staff request is that we accept the report and tell October 10, 2017 Page 120 them continue proceeding with the process, so I'll make that motion. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'll second that. MR. HANCOCK: Madam Chair, if I may very quickly. I just want to address one comment. And I think it was just a slip of verbiage. But currently your program is funded via taxes. What we're talking about is a move to an equitable fee. So I just want to make sure we don't -- it's not a new tax. That's the way it sometimes gets characterized. But it would be moving to a fee structure. That's the only offer -- only additional item I have. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right. This isn't part of the sales tax. This is creating its own fee structure like we do for solid waste. MR. HANCOCK: That's correct, sir, and that's the primary focus of what we have right now is to establish that structure. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: One thing that the city did is enact, the City of Naples, a stormwater tax. I've lived in my neighborhood probably for about 25 years, and at one point a good rain, and you better not drive down the street because the depth of the water would cause the water to go into folks' homes. And they divided the city into basins, and I can tell you it's been a huge and positive change. It has made a big, big difference. I don't think anybody in the City of Naples regrets a stormwater utility fee, and we've all seen the benefits of it. So I just kind of want to put that out there. COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's a good word. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. Thank you. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I've got one question; actually a couple questions. There was a reference to determining which properties would be exempt. Just can you give me an idea of what kind of properties we'd talk about as being exempt? October 10, 2017 Page 121 MR. HANCOCK: I think those that are typical of that discussion would be, first and foremost, agricultural lands. There are rules and regulations in the state of Florida that may govern whether or not a fee could or should apply to an agricultural operation, as long as it's a valid, licensed agricultural operation. Another one that's very consistently debated, and it's handled in a multitude of ways, are vacant parcels. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Vacant. MR. HANCOCK: Vacant parcels. Do you assign a base fee? Do you not assign a base fee? We really are not in that position to have that overall discussion today, but I will tell you the general numbers you saw today assumes that vacant parcels are not assessed a fee. So that's -- it's not a supposition of which direction you wish to take; merely, we went conservative so that the numbers would -- if anything, maybe they get a tiny bit better. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you for that. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And my other question is, if we're moving forward with this, is there going to be some -- and maybe this is a question for Travis or somebody else, but is there going to be some consideration given to areas -- for example, one of the areas in my district which there are some issues with, not only Mockingbird Lake, but there's a portion of Palm River, and how that relates to stormwater drainage is probably beyond my understanding. But, you know, the drainage there is obviously -- you can see it. It's an issue. And hopefully part of this process will be looking at that proactively and maybe expanding what we're -- the whole thing. Okay. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. MR. OCHS: Did you vote? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I don't think we have. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do we need to vote? Should we vote? October 10, 2017 Page 122 MR. OCHS: There was a motion to accept the report. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. There was a motion. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And a second. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, I'm sorry. I was asleep on that. COMMISSIONER FIALA: You seconded it. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I did. Id second. I didn't remember. Okay. So there's a motion on the floor and a second. All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Sorry about that, everyone. Item #11C RECOMMENDATION TO REJECT OFFER FROM WINCHESTER LAKES CORPORATION AND FRANCIS AND MARY HUSSEY TO ENTER INTO A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COUNTY FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED IN SECTIONS 29 AND 32, TOWNSHIP 49S, RANGE 27E – MOTION TO ACCEPT STAFF’S RECOMMENDATION – APPROVED MR. OCHS: Item 11C is a recommendation to reject the offer from Winchester Lakes Corporation and Francis and Mary Hussey to enter into a public/private partnership with the county for property located in Sections 29 and 32, Township 49S, Range 27E, and Ms. October 10, 2017 Page 123 Toni Mott, your Property Acquisition and Construction Management Division manager, will make the presentation. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Madam Chair? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Let me ask. Is there anyone on the Board interested in doing anything other than rejecting the offer? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Are you polling the Board before we vote? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, no, before I make a motion. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm joking. You made that motion. I'm with you. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I make a motion just to accept the staff recommendation to reject the offer. I don't know that we need a lot of conversation about it. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'll second it. Any other discussion? MR. MILLER: Madam Chair, I do have four registered public speakers. Your first speaker is Meredith Barnard. She'll be followed by Joe Bonness. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Are you going to talk us out of it? MS. BARNARD: I was just going to be supportive. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. That's fine. MR. OCHS: I'd waive. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well done. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Why don't you come on the record and -- MS. BARNARD: Sure. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- say who you represent -- MS. BARNARD: I apologize. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- and tell us how you feel about it. October 10, 2017 Page 124 MS. BARNARD: I apologize for that. Meredith Barnard, for the record, on behalf of the Conservation of Southwest Florida. Just in support of you guys accepting the staff's recommendation today. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. MR. BARROSO: Thank you. MR. MILLER: Joe Bonness will be followed by Nancy Payton. MR. BONNESS: Good afternoon. Joe Bonness speaking for the petitioner here. Commissioners, I would like to thank you for having dedicated the resources to analyze the proposal there. My effort has been to provide a funding mechanism to acquire this very valuable resource for the county. The property is in the path of development and will, left to the market, become a future development. The opportunity here is to reserve land that is vital to the link -- vital link to stormwater control and to aquifer recharge. It provides protection for wildlife, preservation of natural lands, while acquiring the future land for any of the various needs of the county in the future. This is a future transportation corridor, and the proposed funding mechanism will help fill the gaps of the road system. The ranch has already provided benefits to the rural Collier County. These horticultural operations provided truckloads of needed materials for both plywood and for particle board, while the clearing place to -- barrier that provided a battleground to stop the North Belle Meade fire that happened earlier this year. And the ranch openings provided a barrier for the North Belle Meade fire that would have marched continuously on to the county landfill, and it would have wiped out residences, nurseries, and the RCW cluster. As it was, the fire did wipe out the RCW cluster on the east side of the ranch. Again, well -- and I'd also like to bring up, you know, like the Picayune Forest that was to the south this year also was -- our Willow October 10, 2017 Page 125 Run Quarry provided a fire -- actually, let me start over again. The Picayune fire harvested on into a virtual fire storm that was only stopped because it was squelched in the Willow Run Quarry, making it possible that they could halt that fire at 951. It would have marched on probably down to Crown Pointe development. I would ask future negotiations to tailor our proposal to the county's desire. Thank you. MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Nancy Payton. She'll be followed by Billy Rollins. MS. PAYTON: Good afternoon. Nancy Payton with the Florida Wildlife Federation here to support staff's recommendation to reject the mining partnership. We do advocate the county continue to look at the Triple H ranch for its eco-services. Many of them were outlined by the previous speaker. And I remind you that it is under evaluation by Conservation Collier for the purchase of the entire ranch. It has opportunities for stormwater -- natural stormwater control, water-quality improvements, watershed management opportunities, mitigation for impacts elsewhere by infrastructure, wildlife mitigation or compensation, and natural resource-based recreational opportunities. So we do urge the county to continue to look at this property but through a green lens and for its eco values. Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. MR. MILLER: Your final registered speaker for this item is Billy Rollins. MR. ROLLINS: Good afternoon, Commissioners. My name, for the record, is Billy Rollins. I'm the senior broker at Land Solutions, and I have the task of selling this piece of property. The county engaged a couple of -- actually two appraisers, then I think you had your own appraiser also do an appraisal on the property. October 10, 2017 Page 126 I'm sure that you didn't go down that avenue if you didn't have intentions to purchase the property. I'm here today, and what I'd like to do is I would like to start some negotiations with whoever from the county and see if there is a number that will work for the county to acquire the property. Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. We have a -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Madam Chair, I made the motion to accept the staff recommendation. I think there is -- there may be some merit in having further conversations down the road here, but in terms of the offer that's on the table, I would stick with that motion and would suggest that if the property owner wants to discuss other scenarios, then so be it. We do have the Conservation Collier program that hopefully will be renewed, and so there may be some opportunities there, but this was just too much. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All right. So there's a motion on the floor and a second. Any other discussion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor of the motion, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you. Item #11D October 10, 2017 Page 127 RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE FISCAL YEAR 2017- 18 STRATEGIC MARKETING PLAN FOR THE NAPLES, MARCO ISLAND, EVERGLADES CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU (CVB) AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS PLAN PROMOTES TOURISM – APPROVED MR. OCHS: Commissioners, Item 11D is a recommendation to approve the 2017/2018 strategic marketing plan for the Naples, Marco Island, Everglades Convention and Visitors Bureau. Jack Wert, your division director, will make the presentation. MR. WERT: Thank you, County Manager. Good afternoon, Commissioners. For the record, Jack Wert, your tourism director. I'll try to get through this presentation as quickly as I can. I've really summarized a 200-page document that we provided you a link to and a longer PowerPoint, so let me get through this as quickly and give you an overview of what we're really trying to do here. For our marketing plan for '17/'18, the overall goals are to obviously increase our brand and our destination awareness year-round, differentiate our destination from our competition, and we want to build up our upscale, our luxury, and our brand positioning but avoiding imagery that might say we're unaffordable. That's kind of a fine line that you run, but that is what we've been doing for several years, and that continues to be our goal. Our target audiences are looking for vacation and getaway opportunities, kind of that escape from the day-to-day grind, while experiencing what their definition of paradise is all about. We want to stress our luxury and our quality, but we want to reinforce our superior experiences and the good value that we have in the slower times of the year. We want to demonstrate our promises October 10, 2017 Page 128 that we're going to pamper you, that we're going to entertain you, that we're going to educate you. People like to learn while they're vacationing, and to really energize each of our visitors. And reinforce our destination value during those slower seasons, as I mentioned, spring, summer, and fall primarily, and that is a primary concentration on bringing families to our area. The marketing plan development really is a year-round process. We have monthly meetings that our sales staff has with the sales staffs of our hotels and attractions, so we get one-on-one face-to-face input from them; they know what we're doing to market the destination, so we learn from those. Quarterly we have a roundtable where we have between 80 and 100 of our hotel, attraction, shopping, restaurant partners. We bring them together, and we talk about strategic things we might be able to do, things that they're doing. This marketplace changes very, very quickly, so we need to know what they're doing as well as they need to know what we're doing. In addition to that we get monthly reports from our contracted research company, Research Data Services, and our international reps really help us a lot as well by giving us a pulse of Europe, of the UK, and of South America. We also then have a day-long marketing summit where we bring together everyone from the tourism industry. Everyone's invited, just as they are to all of our quarterly roundtables. This year on June 30th we had over a hundred people, and we talked about virtually every aspect of the plan that you're about to see. And we got input from salespeople, from public relations, those people on various -- in various businesses that work with the international market; our sports council so we could really see what kind of projects we should be going after in the sports world; and the lodging association we have here in Collier County to really help us understand where they're going and, more October 10, 2017 Page 129 importantly, where, together, we can go. The next couple of slides just really summarize what's in the table of contents in the written plan, and I'm just highlighting, really, all of the sections to just show you this is a very complete plan. It integrates all the various disciplines that you have to market a destination, and we use each and every one of them. We've got marketing goals and objectives, we've got strategies and tactics. There's a media plan that shows how we implement those strategies and how we communicate them to our customers. There are marketing plans then for each and every one of our disciplines within the tourism division. So we have a sales team, we've got a public relations team, we have a sports team, film and television team. All of them have their own plan of how they integrate the various aspects of the plan and how we get to the various objectives that they have. They adopt a number of those themselves. There's also a crisis communications plan. It's actually a separate document, but we do have a summary in the marketing plan, and I can tell you that that plan got an awful lot of use over the last 30 days. We really used it to its maximum. I mentioned our international reps. We get information from them every month, but they also build plans so that we know how we're going to market this destination in the UK and Ireland, throughout Europe, and in Brazil and Latin America as well. We've got some specialized plans as well within the plan. Nature tourism plan, that shows how we're going to market our ecotourism fishing, our artificial reefs. There is a plan for how we market arts, culture, and heritage. And then we have an air service marketing program as well that helps us to attract new direct air service to Southwest Florida. So currently we're working with new service coming from Germany. It's going to be coming into Fort Myers in the spring of the year. Those October 10, 2017 Page 130 things require co-op marketing to sell tickets, so we need to be a part of that early-on equation to make sure that those flights are successful. And, finally, a section on how we measure results, how we use the various research tools that we have to know, are we delivering to our customers. What kind of response are we getting? Are we getting good spending from them? Are we filling our hotel? There are implementation schedules as well. We've got a whole series of e-newsletters, and they are all themed and timed throughout the year so that we are delivering a consistent message but on different themes targeted to different types of travelers. And then, finally, we've got a social media calendar that really ties very well with those e-newsletters, similar themes that we use there. And then a whole section on our budgets, both the media and production budget, how we actually are going to promote the destination, and then budgets for each and every one of those marketing disciplines that I mentioned earlier: Sports and sales and PR and so forth. Every plan needs a mission statement and a vision statement, and we're certainly in that mode. Our Convention and Visitors Bureau mission statement, that's our marketing arm of tourism, a Convention and Visitors Bureau, and we use that term because, worldwide, that term is known as that's the go-to place to get visitor information. That's where you get information on meetings and so forth. So our mission is to promote year-round distinctive world-class vacation and group meeting experiences -- and this is really the important part -- which result in positive economic growth and stability for Collier County. We bring people here; they spend their money; they support jobs in the community. Our customer missions statement, a little different than what the organization mission statement is, is to be the trusted source of visitor information. Destination amenities and activities to vacationers, October 10, 2017 Page 131 meeting attendees, sports event participants, and the news media. Our vision statement. You've got to know where you're going in the future. You may never quite get to a vision, but we think we're really on our way, and that is to be recognized as the most desirable year-round tourism destination in the world. The values that we aspire to are the same as all county employees. We are part of Collier County Government, and so those same values that all of our employees aspire to we do as well. And, finally, our commitment to the traveling public is we're -- we are dedicated to attracting high-value visitors to the area encouraging them to spend their travel dollars in our area businesses. And by encouraging that year-round visitation, what we get is full-time employment year-round for those people in our community. Some 37,000 people in our community are employed directly or indirectly in the hospitality and tourism industry. The more visitors we bring, the more jobs that we are able to create and support. Our brand -- this is something that we developed several years ago, and it is something that virtually all of our businesses in the tourism industry have adopted. Naples, Marco Island, and the Everglades, Florida's paradise coast, and that brand promise that we make to our visitors is they're going to love what they discover in paradise. We advocate all the time for our brand. It's something we really believe in because we want to empower our visitors to enjoy that vacation experience that they have with us. That word "paradise" that's in our brand is very important. That's not something that I came up with or the ad agency or the PR firm. It came directly out of the researching our customers. We went all over, and we talked to people in focus groups. We asked them, what do you -- what comes to mind when you think about our area? That word "paradise" came out time and time and time again. October 10, 2017 Page 132 And so if it's in the customer's mind, it better be in your advertising and marketing messages as well. So that's why you see that paradise and Florida's paradise coast used throughout. We want to grow the visitor yield in the coming year, and that's spending. Continue to grow the amount of money that our visitors are spending throughout our community. It's not just hotels and restaurants. It's virtually every business you can think of that a visitor touches in some way or other. And then, of course, finally, to grow jobs. We've got some specific objectives we want to do, and these are measurable. These are things that we will hold ourselves to accomplish during the next year. We want to grow the tourist development tax revenue overall from all the different -- where we get that from all the different payers of the tax, to $26 million. Yes, that includes the fifth percent of tax and, yes, we're going to look at tracking the incremental growth that we see from that each and every month. We think 26 million is attainable this year. We want to grow the number of people that are coming to our website to get information. Virtually everything we do in advertising and promotion drives people to that website. That's where we want them to learn more about our destination. So we want to see that -- the number of inquiries grows by 2 percent. We still have a printed visitor guide. It's primarily because we have a lot of baby boomers that are still our customer, and they want a printed piece. They want something to hold in their hands. They come into our visitor centers with it in hand. They got it through the mail, and they come to really see what else they can do in the area. We want to grow our occupancy levels by 1 percent. We've been flat the last couple of years, and it's primarily due to we have a lot of our rooms that are still under renovation. Our largest property on October 10, 2017 Page 133 Marco Island is still under renovation. The Marco Island -- or the J.W. Marriott is probably not going to fully re-open until the first of the year. So that's a long time those rooms -- up to 400-some rooms. The Hilton on Marco Island has also been closed and probably will be till February. So we're going to grow occupancy, but it's going to be on the conservative side. And, finally, in our objectives, the return on investment we want to see from our tourism investment. That's the spending that we get from visitors that we attract. So we measure the dollars we invest, and for every dollar that we invest, currently we're getting $100 in spending from visitors. We want to try grow that an additional $10 this year and in coming years as well. You've got to target your audience very, very carefully. Who is our typical client? It's adults 35 to 64. It includes those baby boomers, but it also includes Generation X. We target household incomes over $150,000. Why? Because we're a luxury destination. We cost a little more than other places, so people need to be able to afford what we're offering here. So that's the household income we target, and it's skewed toward women. Why do we do that? Because women make the majority of the buying decisions on virtually everything, but certainly in the travel segment. Baby boomers continue to be important. And that's also skewed toward women. Families and couples, because we get all of that type of travel, and that's the $150,000 household income. Generation X, a little bit young folks, but they really do represent the first 19 years of our total sweet spot demographic for our visitors. So we're going to go after those in both couples and families in that as well. Seniors is an interesting demographic. They probably don't have quite the income they had before, but a good thing about them is they October 10, 2017 Page 134 can travel midweek. Families have a difficult time doing that. So if we target seniors 65-plus, they've got the time, they like to travel, they're avid travelers. They also bring the grandkids often when they travel. So it's kind of family travel; grand travel is what we call that. And then Millennials. We've talked so much about, how do we get the Millennials here? Well, it's not easy because a lot of them can't afford all of the things that we have to offer, but there is an upper end of the Millennial segment, that 100,000-plus household income, we're able to target that, and we will go after that because, frankly, that is the future of Collier County visitors. That's where they need to come from, because the boomers aren't going to be around forever. Those Millennials are the ones that are going to have to take their place. I put these next two slides in here just because -- just to give you a sense of it's not just that demographic we're after. We're also after some really specific types of activities that people like to do. So if you've got travel enthusiasts, like those seniors, they love to travel. We got experiential travelers who like the active kind of tourism, the stuff that you do in the Everglades, for instance. Nature explorers who like to get a little more involved with nature. Golf enthusiasts, sports warriors. Wedding seekers, and that includes honeymoons and second honeymoons and second weddings and that kind of thing as well. Reunion gatherers. Lots of reunion business, especially in the summer months. Wellness gurus. That is really what we think -- a very strong growth market for the future. People are looking for active travel where they can enjoy working out, eat healthy foods, so the whole Blue Zone concept that's coming to our community, we think, fits in very well with really making this a wellness tourism destination. Gender travelers, the girlfriend groups, the guys' getaways, those kind of things. The LGBT community has high income and we really October 10, 2017 Page 135 think is an opportunity for us to get some new visitors to our area. The romance lovers. This is a romantic destination, and people like what they find here, so we need to really get a good message to them. And then the business travelers who come for a variety of different reasons either for business or many of the group meetings that come to our area. In the group meeting area, the types of meetings we're after, corporate meetings, board retreats, and the incentivize market is really big and important to us, bringing salespeople who have done a great job during the year, bring them to a place like Naples/Marco Island and give them the first-class luxury treatment. State and national associations are important to us because they like to meet in the spring and summer where you've got a little more value; they can find more meetings that are to their budget liking. The types of meeting planners we go after, again, they're the corporate planners. Third-party people, these are people that represent multiple clients. HelmsBriscoe is perfect example of that who -- their different salespeople may have 20 or 30 different companies that they represent. If we can make friends with one or more of those HelmsBriscoe salespeople, we've got the opportunity to really attract a lot more meetings through less contacts. And, finally, geographically, Northeast, Midwest, and Florida is where we primarily target our group meeting promotion tactics. We're about to bring you a contract with a Midwest sales representative. This is an opportunity to really get somebody in the Midwest, Chicago area who lives there and understands who the prospects are so we don't have to travel there consistently. That is a hotbed of new group meeting business, but we don't have the staff to do it. So we think bringing this sales rep on will really help us a lot. We use e-newsletters a lot to talk to meeting planners. They like that approach. They aren't so much reading ads anymore, but they October 10, 2017 Page 136 definitely will read a very targeted e-newsletter that brings them information about something new, our destination. I mentioned wellness tourism. We have a whole initiative that our group sales folks are really moving toward. We have a request for proposal enhancement program that has been in place for several years now, and it has proved extremely successful. What this is, is you've got a meeting planner, and they want to bring a meeting here, and they give us the RFP, and there are various things they ask for. To sweeten that proposal that goes back to that meeting planner, our organization can put some money toward that and say we will sponsor an opening reception, for instance, an opportunity for us to talk to the group, to welcome them, and to get recognition that we are a sponsor of their meeting there. That plan has worked well. We've budgeted 150,000 for 2018 and 2019, and I'll just give you a little heads-up: Next year's budget I'm going to ask the Board to look at looking three years out, because that's how meeting planners work. They actually work five years out. But I think if we can get this same kind of a program with three years with an amount budgeted for each year, we can really help bring a lot more group meeting business to the area. We're going to be launching a new meetings market website. Meet In Paradise is the URL, and we'll be completing that in the next couple of months. We do a lot of face-to-face selling. Twenty-two different planner shows Debi DeBenedetto, our group sales manager, will be doing, plus three sales missions we have currently planned for Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Indianapolis where we will go out with the sales team from the group hotels, and we will meet with meeting planners in their town and try to convince them to bring their meetings to our area. Sports: We've all heard so much about sports and how much it's October 10, 2017 Page 137 growing. Our primary concentration will continue to be amateur sports. We think that's the right place for us to be. Training events are really getting to be popular, though, to bring wintertime training to -- let's say lacrosse from some of the colleges up East, bring them down here where it's a warmer spring training environment. We're going to go after the things that really we do well at: Soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, football. The growth sports like pickleball are really worth looking at, and there are more of them out there that we just need to keep our eye on: Softball, Little League baseball. We're a water-based destination. Let's get some more water- and beach-related sports here. There's some second- and third-tier sports also like cheerleading, volleyball, basketball, karate. These can often go indoors. They can be in a gymnasium or they could be in a ballroom of a hotel. You don't need necessarily a field to do these. Virtually, we're going to look at anything new activity-wise that fits our sports venues here in Collier County. The big thing we'll be doing with sports this coming year and obviously for several years to come, the new amateur sports complex that all of you supported and helped put that plan in place, we're going to hit the ground running early in 2018, first of all, educating our own community what this means to, let's say, the different soccer clubs and the lacrosse clubs here; that this is going to be good future business for you. And then we're going to start making the circuit as we get into the summer and fall of the year. This is when we go to trade shows and meet with sports organizers, and we're going to start talking about that new complex, because when it opens, we want that place full. We're going to presell that whole facility. You see some of the other things we're doing. We want to bring October 10, 2017 Page 138 two new watersports to places like Sugden, and we've got that Pro Watercross event that's coming up in just a couple weeks here. I think if you can get out to Sugden and see that, it is truly exciting entertainment. Special markets. We're dedicating, at least part time, one of our sales team to look at the weddings market and really try to attract more wedding and honeymoon market to the area. Virtually any weekend you will see weddings out on the beach and other places around the community. There's a lot more out there. There's a huge demand for destination weddings where you bring the whole wedding party and everybody that's coming. They all get on an airplane and they fly here. That is huge business for our destination, and we want to definitely grow that. Also, I mentioned the LGBT market before. We think this person can also help us in that market. There are some -- some of the destinations in Florida have done a tremendously good job of bringing this business. It's high-end business. It's high household income. They are spenders. They are Millennials. We think that we've got a great growth opportunity there. In PR and communications, the big thing we're going to do this year -- I'm going to show you just a brief look at what a new brand campaign is going to look like this coming year. What we're going to do with public relations and social media is we're going to be out way ahead of running any media, any paid media. It will already be getting into newspapers and people talking about this and getting on talk shows and really preselling what this new brand message is going to be. That's really the role of public relations, along with bringing travel writers here throughout the year. We do groups of travel writers; we do individuals as well. May do up to 40 different writers coming to the area. October 10, 2017 Page 139 What's good about that is they write a story through their eyes. Their readers read it. That's even more believable than an ad I might run right next to that story. So that's really powerful ways to get our message across. I mentioned the crisis communications plan, and it did get a lot of use. We're part of the ESF18 in the Emergency Operations Center; we were there. Saw most all of you there as well. We spent a lot of time there. But our whole role there is business, industry, and tourism. We need to know where everybody is. If we have an evacuation, how many people do we need to evacuate? If people are coming from other areas and we're a receiver area, we need to know how many hotel rooms we have available. And it was a challenge after the storm, because communications were out. We found that text message really worked the best. We were able to get through that way on a number of the hotels. So we learned a lot, and the communications plan has already got some tweaks that we're putting into it. We think we need some additional Zika messaging this year. We hope it doesn't come back, but it certainly might, and we want to be prepared for it. And digital and social. A lot of how destinations market themselves has gone this way now. We do very little print these days. Frankly, we don't do a lot of television either, because you can get the same message across through digital and social for a lesser amount, so you get much more reach for your dollar. And one of the things we're looking at is -- and actually we're going to finish next month the complete redesign of our website, ParadiseCoast.com. We're going to work with our local partners as well to do some workshops on how to better manage the listings they have on our tourism website and also how to better manage their social media accounts so we can all be working together and really get a similar message out. October 10, 2017 Page 140 We're doing a lot of live broadcasts. We actually did three Facebook live posts this week related to post Irma, and so we're using more and more of that. It gives you an immediate opportunity to show what the destination looks like or get a message across. Film and television continues to be an important part of what we do. Not a lot of feature films done here anymore, but a lot of ad agencies from New York and Chicago use this place to shoot their own television commercials for their clients. So we're out looking for that actively. There's a lot of film scouts that are out there, and a lot of independent producers are looking for places to shoot their movies, and this is a great place because we've got virtually anything that a producer might be looking for; they can find it here in Collier County. I won't spend a lot of time on this, but I want you to see that our UK/Ireland representatives have a very solid marketing plan for the year. They're going to do a lot in social media as well. The UK was a little slow in the uptake with social media. They're now catching up very, very quickly, so we're going to concentrate on that and training travel agents and tour operators on how to book travel to our area. The European folks, similar. They have been doing very well with Facebook. We've had our German Facebook page up now for, I guess, four years, and we continue to grow that with a lot of followers in the German language, so that really has worked very, very well for us. And we'll be bringing one luxury tour operator from Europe here on a familiarization trip in 2018. And in Latin America, again, the training is very, very important. We're also using some interesting tactics. One idea that they've come up with that I think is pretty interesting is bringing -- running is a big sport in South America. Bring a marathon runner here to run in the Naples Marathon February of next year. Keep them here a few extra days, let him really start posting what he's seeing, what his experiences October 10, 2017 Page 141 have been in the area. Again, that kind of a third party endorsement can really help us in that Brazilian market. I wanted to just spend a couple of minutes and tell you a little bit about what we've been doing post Irma. The 25th of September we had our Tourist Development Council meeting and, virtually, that morning we had finalized what was open. We were really able at that point to get a national message out as to the paradise coast is open, and we're -- and our beaches are clear. We kept updating that message every few days. If you look on our website, ParadiseCoast.com, today, on the home page one of the pictures that you click on is post Irma. It will list all of the hotels and businesses that are open and ones that are still not open for business due to various reasons. October 2nd, just last week, we launched a nationwide digital social media campaign, and we timed that because that's when the majority of our hotels indicated to us that they would be open again. So it really gave us a great platform to say, really, we are open; we absolutely are. We've been, as I said, doing social media posts on Facebook. We just completed some television -- excuse me -- some digital and social media spots that we'll be using out on the beach. One down by the pier, one on -- up on -- I guess it was Vanderbilt Beach, and then also on Marco Island. We used the spokesperson Jen Stacy, who's a former WINKTV news anchor here, very well-respected newscaster, also currently works as the PR director for Pincher's Crab Shack here at Tin City. So it worked out very well. She did some great stuff. That is now up and running in social channels, and we continue to negotiate trying to get a celebrity spokesperson. I got a couple things that are pretty close to being ready to go; don't have it at the point I can announce it quite yet. October 10, 2017 Page 142 We also are shooting some aerial photography all the way up and down the beaches. That will go into a video that will be in social media as well. One of the things that you approved for us today in the consent agenda was moving $250,000 from our emergency advertising reserve into a line that we could help spend. Some of these dollars will come from that. But I want to assure you that that is in addition to what we already would have been running in the fall of the year, and I'm going to show you a couple of those in a minute. But when you put it all together, it's about a million dollars that we're investing between now and the end of the year to drive that same message home that, contrary to what you heard in the news media, Naples is up and running, Marco Island is up and running, and hopefully Everglades City will be the same very, very soon. Here's just a couple of the banner ads that we've been running. These would click through online. So our hotels are ready. Our beaches are open. The coast is clear. Reserve your place in paradise. So you click there. It goes right to our booking engine on our website. It gives people an opportunity to really get here and see what -- for themselves that we are open and ready for business. A couple of other things we're going to do related to Irma recovery is stone crab season, obviously, starts on the 15th. We have a wonderful opportunity to tell a wonderful story of getting those fishermen back to work, getting them out, collecting the stone crab, taking the claws off, bringing them back onshore. It also helps our restaurants because the restaurants now will also have new reasons to hire staff back to get more staff because we've got people coming back to the destination. So we'll use the Stone Crab Festival at the end of the month, the 27th through the 29th, in Tin City. And we did have the official opening. Thank you, Commissioner Taylor, for helping put that October 10, 2017 Page 143 together and getting the governor here. It really was a great statement that here's an icon here in our community that got hit very, very hard, and that was all over the news. They're open. That's a great statement for our destination. After the Stone Crab Festival, we've got two weeks coming up in late November and December of Naples Restaurant Week. Over 40 restaurants get together and promote a pre-set menu that people can come into. They don't even have to make a reservation to come in, but to sample food from lots of different restaurants that they may never have gone into before. So we think that's a great opportunity to get people out to the community, get people downtown and all over where our dining establishments are. Then starting mid November and running through late December, we've got three nationally televised professional and amateur sports events. Gives us a great opportunity to talk to the networks, give them video to show the nation that we are open and ready for business. We've already talked to the event organizers. They are willing to do that. We'll work with the networks to get that put together. So for the CME group tour classic at Tiburon, the QBE shootout, which is the Greg Norman tournament in December, also at Tiburon, and then our football university event that happens in December. It's going to be all over our community for about a week and a half. All of those, national television coverage. A great opportunity to really tell our message. All right. So that's -- I just want to go through very quickly what the new stuff is for this coming year. This is the exciting part of a new plan is new creative, a new look. So this new platform is going to help us really speak to a lot of different interests that we have. I showed you all the different types of activities that people are interested in doing. New photography, new video, and a new really creative voice using, in that new photography and videos, diverse talent so that we can really talk better to the Hispanic market, the African-American October 10, 2017 Page 144 market, that LGBT market. In addition to that, what I want to just show you is this is how this new brand voice is going to work. Dear visitor -- this is a letter to our potential visitor -- there's something special about our destination. Something that beckons you to explore stunning white sand beaches, pristine turquoise waters, and glorious natural settings, something that calls you to indulge in your passions for fine dining, upscale shopping, and all things luxurious, something that speaks to you in an intensely personal way promising one-of-a-kind experiences and moments never to be forgotten. This is our invitation to you and yours, an invitation to enjoy a Florida vacation -- and it's dropping down. I can't show you this. Yes, I can. I'm going to show you this, because the end of this is, we can't wait for you to accept our invitation, Love Paradise. This is going to be our signature that we have in each and every one of our ads. And I'll show you some ways that we're going to execute this. Let me get through this quickly. All right. There we go. So this little note will be down in the corner. There's something to be said for following your heart instead of an itinerary, Love Paradise. Lots of different images of people enjoying our destination. Feel free to put the real world on hold for a few days, Love Paradise. Follow your heart; not an itinerary, Love Paradise. This would be a digital ad. Ecotourism; in our humble opinion, the best part about spending an afternoon in Florida's Everglades isn't experiencing a world few people ever do, it's telling them about it over a lovely dinner afterwards. It's that part of the experience that a lot of people don't understand; that you can do the Everglades and you can go to a spa in the afternoon and have a great dinner the night before and stay at a October 10, 2017 Page 145 fabulous hotel that night. So -- Okay. Let me -- MR. OCHS: Wrap it up. MR. WERT: -- just go through -- I want to just quickly show you, these are the active adventure strategies that we've got. They're all outlined in the plan. Separate arts and culture strategies to call attention to the great art and culture that we have -- this is a small town, but we've got symphony, orchestras, and an opera and ballet and all that kind of stuff that most towns our size don't have. Heritage tourism; we're going to continue with our earmarking 100,000 of our budget for heritage marketing, and we're going to help the museums market their major events. I mentioned air service marketing before. And, finally, the plan has all of the different budgets that we're going to do with comparisons with previous years as well. And that's the end of my presentation. Glad to answer any questions that you might have. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, I had two. And first off, it had to do -- in the executive summary under the fiscal impacts. It talked about this budget reflects the one cent increase in the TDT. I thought that was fenced off revenues. MR. WERT: Part of it, yes. The majority of the fifth cent is earmarked for the -- for all of the debt service that we'll have in the future. There is -- we didn't need all of the fifth cent. Some of it went back into the destination marketing so that we could maintain the marketing budget we had before, which is what -- everyone said, let's find a way to keep the budget the same. That's how we did that this year. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. And because that was my understanding, that that additional one cent was fenced off for the amateur sports park and then for beach renourishment was October 10, 2017 Page 146 predominantly the utilization of those funds. MR. WERT: Beach renourishment actually is in the first 3 percent, and we did get a sizable increase as well. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And we got an additional amount over there. MR. WERT: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Then the second thing -- I actually have three. I said two, but there is one more. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's quite all right. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Under measurable and milestones -- and this is a portion -- and maybe you gave a more detailed report to the TDC than what you gave to us. This was kind of the plan. I don't recall seeing in any of the backup data what you did last year. MR. WERT: There is a section in there. It's got 2016 results that are about -- several pages of those, and then also to date in '17. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And that was in my -- MR. WERT: It should be in the printed -- both the printed -- yeah, the printed plan. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, I didn't get the printed plan. MR. WERT: The one that -- the 200-page one. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I have the digital one. If you would be happy -- or kind enough to supply me with that. As I'm looking, I like to see what we've done in the past and then measure those against our measurables and milestones, which is the last question I have, I promise, and that is, you estimated you wanted to generate up to 26 million -- MR. WERT: Twenty-six million. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- in tax. What was last year's amount? October 10, 2017 Page 147 MR. WERT: Twenty-two. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And we are, by the increase, increasing that by five point -- $5.5 million -- MR. WERT: About 5 -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- so your $26 million estimate is -- MR. WERT: Maybe a little low. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Uh-huh. Okay. MR. WERT: But we're conservative, and we work with the budget office. And so we -- and there is -- the other thing I should always -- and you'll hear Mark Isackson tell you this, too. We always do hold back 5 percent of that revenue and don't spend it, and we don't budget it at all. So that does come off the top. So that's kind of the net amount that we think we'll generate. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you, sir. MR. WERT: Yes, sir. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. A couple things. I was excited to read that you're going to have a Red Bull paddleboard -- MR. WERT: Yes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- event this year. First time ever -- MR. WERT: Correct. COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- on Marco -- MR. WERT: It's in Marco Island, yeah, Caxambas. COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- and Cape Romano. Okay. MR. WERT: Yes, correct. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And is that standing up on a board -- MR. WERT: Yes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- and paddling? MR. WERT: Yes. October 10, 2017 Page 148 COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Good. That's just coming up next month, isn't it? MR. WERT: And you need a lot of Red Bull to do that. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And then it shows watercross. Now I know -- that's over here at Sugden, right? MR. WERT: Sugden, correct. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And tell me what the date is and what actually is a watercross, because I think a lot of people are confused with that. MR. WERT: Okay. Let's -- take a jet ski and put it on steroids. It's more like a snowmobile on water. So they are very souped up, very powerful. They not only race, but they do tricks, they do flips; they do amazing things. There are three or four other different contests that are going on also at the same time. They've got a guy that does flips and turns with a jetpack that he does. And so there are a lot of different things, but the big attraction and that will be nationally televised is -- and let's see. I believe it runs October -- it's the end of October, first week of November. Kind of that same weekend as Stone Crab Festival. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Yeah. Just a couple of questions, Jack. MR. WERT: Yes. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think this is a very thorough presentation. And I've read your marketing plan and, certainly, the content. It looks very good. So I think you've done a lot of work on that. I was very pleased to see that your post Irma recovery is extending through December. MR. WERT: Yes, ma'am. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: How are we doing about contacting October 10, 2017 Page 149 local celebrities to go on social media? MR. WERT: We have not only -- we used the local celebrity because Jen Stacy is a very well-known local gal. She did a great job. She was there yesterday at the event at Tin City as well. But we've got two other people that we are talking to right now. Haven't got a commitment yet, so I don't want to spill it but, yes, we definitely have at least one more we'll have, and we'll do a whole series of spots with them on the beach in various parts of the community. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And then there was another one that we had talked about that was very close to Commissioner Fiala's heart -- MR. WERT: Oh, yeah. No, we did that one already. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Simone. MR. WERT: Oh, yeah, we already did Simone. She's already done, absolutely. Yeah, we did it at the pickleball courts, and that's running on social media already. Sorry, yes, absolutely. Thank you for reminding me of that. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good. Now, I was just looking just briefly in the marketing plan itself, and on Page 12 you talk about employee requirements and you were talking about what you thought you might do, and it was incentive pay for sales staff for meeting or exceeding goals. One of the things I just wanted to bring up, as chair of the TDC for two years, I never ever remember -- I remember your people coming forward and saying they visited things. I never saw goals. So before we start giving them incentive pay, there needs to be some tabulation of, you know, if Michael goes to an event, well, how many -- what did he secure at that event. MR. WERT: Right. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The other one is you say that you have challenges with the county IT department to adequately support our tourism industry. October 10, 2017 Page 150 MR. WERT: It's something that Mike Barrios and I have -- we've had several talks about, and it's just -- it's social media. It's texting, as I mentioned before, that are so important to us, and although we are able to use that, it's not all the time. And we get cut off at the darndest times. And also in our own office, we've got some challenges with just enough capacity to really do -- for instance, we try to do video conferencing, and it just falls apart. It just -- we don't have everything we need. So we're working with them to get that up to speed. I was just pointing that out that was a need this year. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay, great. And then the other thing, under your destination brand platform brand voice, I'm not going to say it again, there's something special about our destination, and there is, but please don't forget the Everglades. MR. WERT: Oh, no. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We're really at the doorstep of the Everglades, and no other county in Florida is like us. MR. WERT: You'll see in the section about active tourism a whole segment of how we're doing that, and we've been doing that all along, but we're going to intensify it this year. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I was just thinking about incorporating it into that brand. MR. WERT: Yeah. And that one piece that I showed about actually being in the Everglades and telling the story about you still can do -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. MR. WERT: -- a spa at night. That's pretty power -- people just don't know about that, that they can do that here, and we've got to tell that story. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Amazing. COMMISSIONER FIALA: More orchids than anything else, right -- October 10, 2017 Page 151 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- over in the Fakahatchee. MR. WERT: Yeah, absolutely. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And then, finally, your advertising budget, your apportionment to digital, how does that compare to traditional, like social media, Facebook? What's your proportion to your standard, you know, print advertising? MR. WERT: I would say that print is probably less than 5 percent of the budget right now. Television is, where we use it, maybe 10 percent. The rest of it is digital and social. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. MR. WERT: That's where the customer is, so that's where our money needs to be. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It's word of mouth. MR. WERT: Absolutely is. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Thank you very much. MR. WERT: Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. MR. CASALANGUIDA: Ma'am, I think Terri needs a finger break. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You do need a break. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Do we have to make -- MR. WERT: I think we would like a vote, just an approval, if we could. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I make a motion that we approve the Fiscal Year 2017/18 Strategic Marketing Plan for the Naples/Marco Island/Everglades Convention and Visitors Bureau and make a finding that the plan promotes tourism. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the floor and a second. All those in favor, say aye. October 10, 2017 Page 152 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. MR. WERT: Thank you so much, Commissioners. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Terri, rest your fingers. MR. WERT: All right. You can rest now. (A brief recess was had.) MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, you have a live mic. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. County Manager? MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. Item #11E RESOLUTION 2017-198: RECOMMENDATION TO IMPLEMENT THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVE PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) DISASTER STRATEGY AND APPROVE ASSOCIATED TECHNICAL REVISIONS, APPROVE A FY2016 - 2019 LOCAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE PLAN (LHAP) AMENDMENT 3 TO ADD A NEW DEMOLITION AND/OR REPLACEMENT OF SITE BUILT MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOUSING STRATEGY, APPROVE A SPENDING PLAN FOR ALL UNENCUMBERED FUNDS TO BE USED FOR DISASTER RECOVERY ACTIVITIES, AND APPROVE HIRING OF ADDITIONAL STAFF TO ADMINISTER THE ACCELERATED SPENDING PLAN – ADOPTED; STAFF TO RETURN WITH DETAILED REPORT October 10, 2017 Page 153 Okay. That takes us to Item 11E. This is a recommendation to implement the State Housing Initiative Partnership disaster strategy and approve associated technical revisions and plan amendments, and Ms. Kim Grant, your director of Community and Human Services, will present. Kim? MS. GRANT: Good afternoon, Commissioners. Kim Grant, director of Community and Human Services. And I don't know about you all, but I am booking the next ticket to Naples because it sounds like a fabulous place to have a vacation. Thank you for giving us a few minutes to talk about this really great-news item. I mentioned at the last meeting that we were going to bring forth a spending plan for our SHIP funding, and I'd like to take you just briefly through that. This chart was in your executive summary, and what we're bringing forth, Commissioners, is a package of strategies allocating all the unencumbered funds to disaster-related activity. The first item on the list is a program you already approved back in June, but we put it on here because it could apply to people who have had issues. That's the owner-occupied rehab program. One of the things that you'll see consistently here is that we have modified our strategies to also be applicable for folks who own mobile homes or manufactured homes. So the owner-occupied rehab is for health, safety, welfare repairs. Another common denominator you'll see here is that these funds will pay only if FEMA or insurance has not paid. The second strategy, disaster mitigation, this has been in our LHAP, our Local Housing Assistance Plan, for some time. It was already approved, but we only enact this in times of disaster. And this strategy is the one that has a time-limited period on it, and we're only October 10, 2017 Page 154 allowed to take applications for disaster mitigation during the period of the declared disaster, which is currently scheduled to end November 9th. It may be extended. Under disaster mitigation, what we're looking for -- to do here is reimburse homeowners for smaller expenses that they may have already incurred or they're hiring a contractor to pay for, and they will bring us their receipts for those -- for those activities. We also can pay for insurance deductible under this strategy if you income qualify. The next one is a new strategy we're asking for your approval on today. Clearly, one of the biggest issues in our community has been the impact to the mobile and manufactured homes based on Hurricane Irma. So we offer for you a new strategy where we would be able to demolish or remove and replace a mobile or manufactured home that has had damage beyond what could reasonably be repaired. So that's a new strategy we ask for your approval on today. And the last one: You've also previously approved construction assistance, and the program here is that we would be able to construct 12 new homes with this assistance for people who have been displaced by Hurricane Irma. I can go through things in more detail but, in a nutshell, this is the package of programs we're recommending. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: How do folks -- how are you marketing this with the folks in need? Because I can tell you that if they're busy trying to figure out where they're going to wash their clothes, they're not paying attention to what we're doing right now. MS. GRANT: Okay. Several things. First of all, we're going to open up satellite sites in Everglades City and Immokalee, and we also will take applications here on the campus for anybody in the urban area or -- from anywhere. You can go to any of the sites. We are going to do outreach. We're going to do a press release October 10, 2017 Page 155 that's ready to go if you folks approve. We'll put it on our division website. We're preparing fliers that are going to go to all the libraries, and we're going to make sure that they get brought to the East Naples Civic Association, the Bayshore CRA, and out in the Immokalee and Everglades City my team is also looking for places to bring the fliers to where people will be coming in or where the not-for-profit or the agency knows of people and can get the word out. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: What about the NAACP? Can you let them know? MS. GRANT: Sure, absolutely. We are also intending -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: What about the Red Cross -- the Red Cross, the Salvation Army? MS. GRANT: Salvation Army, certainly. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: They were on the front line. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The agencies of Immokalee. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, that -- I think she mentioned that. MS. GRANT: Yeah. And I was about to say that we have a distribution list, an email distribution list of all of these types of organizations, so we'll send it out as well to them. I just saw Ashley Jones here today, talked with her about it. We'll also put it on the county's Facebook page. We can do a Twitter or a Tweet. I don't do that, so I might be old-fashioned, using the wrong terminology. So we're attempting to use a number of mechanisms to get the word out. We're going to have a concentrated effort over the next five or six business days out in these sites. We always take applications here at the county. If we're getting a lot of interest and we need to stay longer, then we'll advertise and we'll stay longer. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So this is income restricted; is that correct? MS. GRANT: That's correct. October 10, 2017 Page 156 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And what is the income restriction? 20-, 25,000 one person? What is it? MS. GRANT: Did I put that in here, Kristi? It's in our material. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: About? MS. GRANT: Let me just get the information for you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: While you're looking for that, if there's any way we can get the word out also in North Naples, if you recall that chart that Jamie French provided, the largest number, actually, of structure with major damage was in North Naples in District 2. There's a lot of manufactured homes and mobile homes just off of 41 and Wiggins Pass and Old 41; a huge, huge number of mobile homes there. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And just a thought that if there's any way that we could -- and they're all really concentrated in that one area, so maybe we can get some information to the management offices or something -- MS. GRANT: Sure. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- I'd appreciate that as well. MS. GRANT: Okay. No problem. As you will -- back to your income question. As you know, we have to spend a certain amount of these funds at people who are below 60 percent AMI, below 80 percent AMI, and at 120. But I'll just give you the upper limit for purposes of this discussion. For people who are at 120 percent AMI, that means for a family of three, you'd be earning $75,360. Let me just -- on the other extreme, if you're earning 50 percent of the AMI, three-person family, 31,400. Okay. And it goes by household, and it goes by our need to spend at various levels. But we are going to maximum all the levels like we October 10, 2017 Page 157 always do and you've asked us to do. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think the rest -- the humanitarian groups, the Red Cross, you know, the Salvation Army, the folks that have been on the frontline from the beginning and the agencies, as you mentioned, in Immokalee, they're -- they know these areas because they've visited them again and again and again and again. So they've got to be your first place to do this. MS. GRANT: Very good. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. Do we need to -- yes. Recommendation, yes. MR. OCHS: Yes. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a motion to -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'd like to ask a question. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Sure, of course. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Would the income restricted affect this program for, like, the seniors, like, in Commissioner Solis' area or in mine? I've got so many mobile home parks -- you all saw the Governor there and the President there -- that are obliterated. Would that -- but if they don't qualify, but they still have lost their homes, will you be able to help them? MS. GRANT: Well, we have to stick with the income restrictions. Within that, any age group, anyone who comes and applies, anybody who's a resident of the county is eligible, but I cannot go above those income levels. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I see. Who will be the contractor for this? MS. GRANT: It's different for each of the programs. So the disaster mitigation, which is our strategy that we're turning on, people will hire their own contractor. They either already have or will. So if they have a tree down -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: Let me stop you there for just one October 10, 2017 Page 158 second. MS. GRANT: Sure. COMMISSIONER FIALA: So I own a mobile home and there's not much of it left anymore. So then I would go out and find my contractor -- MS. GRANT: No. COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- and bring them to you, and then you qualify me, or how does that work? I don't know. MS. GRANT: Okay, great. Let's take that as an example. So that would fall under our -- most likely the demolition and replacement strategy. So you would come to us, explain what happened, you'd give us your income information, we'd qualify you. For the demo and replacement mobile home strategy, the county will do an RFP to select one or more mobile home entities that will do the transportation and bring the mobile homes in and to fix them. So that has not been yet been determined, and it will come back to you, the contract or contracts, if we recommend more than one, will come back to the Board for approval. COMMISSIONER FIALA: So you haven't identified any contracts yet? MS. GRANT: Not for that strategy. This is a brand new strategy. If you approve it today as a commission, we are going to fast track this through the state approval process, and once we've done that, we will then advertise for, again, one or more contracts. COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's what I was going to ask next. You go out to bid then for people that will do this? MS. GRANT: Correct. COMMISSIONER FIALA: It's not just going to one or two organizations, but you will go out to bid? MS. GRANT: Not for that strategy, that's correct; we'll go out to bid. October 10, 2017 Page 159 COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. So you keep saying "not for that strategy." Tell me what that means. MS. GRANT: So let me go back to this -- let me go back to this. So each of these on the left-hand side, these four boxes, owner-occupied disaster mitigation, et cetera, are, in our vernacular in the SHIP program, called strategies. They're buckets of money we're spending for Purpose A, B, C, D. A, B, C, D have different implementation approaches. The example you gave me fits into the third one, demo and replacement. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. But in the other ones -- I'm really concerned about the mobile homes because I think those have been affected a lot; not that they haven't been affected even worse than Everglades City, because nothing is affected worse than Everglades City, but that's then another thing. But on the mobile homes, those are the first two things, right? MS. GRANT: Three. Three of the four impact mobile homes. Did you want me to -- MR. OCHS: Yeah. MS. GRANT: So the first strategy, owner-occupied rehabilitation. What that means is I'm a mobile home owner, I've had substantial damage to my structure, but it's repairable. In that circumstance they come to Collier County; collier County would approve them for the funding. And then we already have two firms on contract who essentially act as general contractors to go out and perform the repairs or hire the subcontractors to do the repairs. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Who are they? MS. GRANT: They are Rural Neighborhoods and Habitat for Humanity. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Rural Neighborhoods, is that the one in Immokalee? MS. GRANT: Correct. October 10, 2017 Page 160 COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Next? MR. OCHS: Previously approved by the Board. MS. GRANT: And those agreements were previously approved by the Board in June before the storm even hit. Okay. Now, going down the list, the disaster mitigation for owner -- et cetera. If I'm a mobile home owner under the disaster mitigation, if I have, I'm just going to call it, more minor damage, I have a tree down or maybe even a tree fell on my roof, but it's only 2- or 3- or $5,000 to repair, that's what the disaster mitigation is for; they get their own contractor, and we reimburse them. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Which one is that one? MS. GRANT: The second one, disaster mitigation. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. That's number two there. MS. GRANT: That's number two. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. And then -- okay. So -- and number three? MS. GRANT: Number 3 is the one we talked about before. We have not yet selected a contractor or contractors, partner. We'll go out for bid, essentially, to find a partner to do that work for us. COMMISSIONER FIALA: But then we're still having all those mobile homes that don't qualify under this income restriction, right? Are we going to be able to help them at all? MS. GRANT: Well, the -- I only have at my disposal the programs available. So if they -- if their income exceeds 120 percent AMI, or those numbers read before, no, we will not be able to help them. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, but it's up to 120 percent of AMI? MS. GRANT: Correct, remembering that about a third of our funds can go for that income level, because we have to also serve the lower tiers. October 10, 2017 Page 161 COMMISSIONER FIALA: So a third can go up to 120, did you say? MS. GRANT: Right. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And then a third can go -- MS. GRANT: It's approximately a third -- I'll go from the bottom up. It's approximately a third from zero to 60 percent, a third from 60 to 80, and a third from 80 to 120. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I see. Uh-huh. MR. OCHS: Commissioners, those that don't income qualify may be eligible through FEMA for assistance for replacement of those mobile homes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm still concerned about them, you know. There's so much damage. MR. OCHS: Sure. COMMISSIONER FIALA: You know, this is a little pot -- three million is a lot of -- a big pot, really, but when you come right down to it, it's really -- MR. OCHS: Well, you know, it's limited to a certain segment. COMMISSIONER FIALA: It's a great start, and I realize Habitat rehabs homes. I don't know if they rehab trailers or not, mobile homes, but -- MS. GRANT: Well, they will find an appropriate contractor to do the work. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: One other source of marketing would be Dr. Jacqueline Faffer -- MS. GRANT: Sure. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- the Center for -- the Jewish Center for the seniors. She will have her finger on the pulse of the senior community for sure. MS. GRANT: She absolutely does. And she's on our list, but October 10, 2017 Page 162 we'll make a special outreach. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you so much. MS. GRANT: No problem. COMMISSIONER FIALA: She is wonderful. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So do I have a -- do we have a motion and a second? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Bill has his thing on. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Bill -- yeah, he had his light on. And I can make a motion for approval. I just have a -- I would like to make a point of clarification. And underneath -- in our -- the executive summary underneath the box that was in there, there's a delineation that says FS requirements, and it talks about where these monies are, in fact, going to be divided by how much is going to admin, how much is going to the individual -- individual -- different types of housing brackets based upon the percentages of -- the percentage of the AMI. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Will we get regular reports on this so that we know where the money's going? MS. GRANT: Sure. I can bring a report back. I suspect that if the word gets out effectively, which is our goal, we're going to know -- in relative short order, we're going to have more people than we have money, and we'll have -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We hope that you do. MS. GRANT: So do I. Certainly, Commissioner, we can bring a report back. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So there's a motion made to accept the recommendation to go forward. Do I hear a second? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll second that. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Any other discussion? MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, before you vote, on this report would you like that in a memorandum format to all the board members, or do October 10, 2017 Page 163 you want it back on the agenda on a regular basis? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Memorandum. MR. OCHS: I think a memorandum would give you all the data that you're looking for, then if -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Give us -- MR. OCHS: -- you have a question or you want -- any of you individually want to make that an agenda item in the future, certainly you could do that. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And this is just me. If we were going to have it on -- if we got it on the consent agenda, it would make it available to the public at the same time for those that are, in fact, interested, and it's the same dissemination of information. MR. OCHS: Your -- pleasure of the board. I'm just trying for clarification here. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Commissioner McDaniel -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- did you finish what you were going to say about the executive summary? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: You did? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I did. I just wanted to bring -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I just -- there was -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: You probably looked away and you couldn't hear -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I thought I lost something, but okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I just wanted to bring attention -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: Make sure he knows what you said so -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Are you -- I mean, did you -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. No, I thought you were going October 10, 2017 Page 164 to say something about the way that it was describing -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, no. It was more almost an explanation of what Commissioner Fiala was asking with regard to these funds and how it's being appropriated, and there was delineation in there. Just more clarification on what she was already talking about and asking Kim for. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I was just kind of surprised that the contractor was -- well, that some people can pick their own contractor, but we don't know which ones could, and how do they find them, and we had assigned one for Habitat for Humanity as a contractor for others, and I was surprised at that because I didn't know they knew anything about mobile homes. And so I was just trying to kind of figure out who was doing what. That's $3 million. And I would like to see it do a good job for these people. I worry about what's happening to them. Okay. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Any other discussion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Motion on the floor and a second. All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: (No verbal response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. It carries unanimously. Item #11F October 10, 2017 Page 165 RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE A SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENT WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY FOR AN ACTIVITY PREVIOUSLY APPROVED IN THE FY2017-18 ACTION PLAN FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM – MOTION TO APPROVE STAFF’S RECOMMENDATIONS – APPROVED MR. OCHS: Commissioners, Item 11F is a recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a sub-recipient agreement with Habitat for Humanity of Collier County for an activity previously approved in your FY17/18 action plan. Ms. Grant will present. MS. GRANT: Commissioners, I realize this is a challenge. We've just spoken about putting money into the community for disaster. We know that it's not going to cover everything; however, it's my job to provide recommendations to you to the best of my understanding, working with my team and with the funder, as to how we do allocate our funds. And we were asked to come back to consider alternatives for the previously agreed to or previously approved Habitat for Humanity agreement. Just a couple of things to clarify here. Here we're talking about Community Development Block Grant funds. These are federal funds. We've just been talking about SHIP, which are state funds. I do have a brief presentation I'd like to take you through, and I will be quick. We are not recommending that we change the recommendation we previously had, but the BCC absolutely has the authority to direct funds. And for disaster you can award funds to any eligible activity. We don't recommend that for three reasons. The first is that I'll call it October 10, 2017 Page 166 the regular, the annual cycle funding that comes out from CDBG has a lot of restrictions, and it does not allow us to quickly switch gears and make a shift. We are going to -- for example, we -- the normal CDBG funds are not usually allowed for construction of new units or replacement of mobile homes, just as an example. But we could use it for any eligible activity. To make a change is problematic and complex for us, and we want to clarify that in disaster, similar to what we just talked about with SHIP, any funds are only going to be available after FEMA and after insurance. To change course at this time, we're going to lose around six to nine months. What we have to do is we have to understand what the Board would want to do, we have to make sure it's consistent with our action plan, which it probably would be. I'd have to take new applications and then make awards, have to go through a scoring process, we'd amend the action plan, we could do something called an environmental review. It's not that it can't be done, but it's problematic, and that's a lot of steps. Now, the good news is that HUD has offered some potential relief if you want to switch to disaster strategy. But we emphasize that everything that they offer as potential relief is a request to them and an approval, so there's nothing guaranteed here. We may get it, but we have to make the request, we have to wait for a response, and then we have to do whatever the steps are thereafter. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: One moment. MS. GRANT: Sure. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: If we're adding -- if we're changing it and adding it to what it's already been approved here, it's the same process? So we take 600,000 and we just say, let's put it at Anthony Park. I'm not suggesting that. I'm just -- I'm looking here at the October 10, 2017 Page 167 approval. MS. GRANT: Yes. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It's the same process? You have to start at the beginning and go through six to nine months to increase the amount you're already giving to an entity? MS. GRANT: Okay. If you want to, one of the options that I've offered later on is redirecting the funds to a project that's already been scored and rated. And we can do that faster, but we still do have to do an amendment to the action plan, and we have to bring it back to the Board, so we'll probably lose 60 days or so in that funding. But that is an option to you, to any project that's already been ranked. Just to continue on here. Oh, go ahead. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And each time we talk about CDBG funds. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And every time I bring up -- if I don't first, you do or, if not, I do. Anyway, I bring up the Immokalee sidewalks. And you said so often, well, it can't go for that. You know, it has to go for so and so. It has to go for whatever housing. But here we had a request for Immokalee CRA sidewalks, and they only got half the funning. MS. GRANT: That's correct. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And they need it so badly there. Let's face it, things are underwater and everything. We've got a few other things here also that really, really need -- well, there's a Bayshore sidewalk as well, which wasn't funded at all. And I don't know why we're giving it away when there's so many needs that we're overlooking entirely. I just think that's wrong. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And I'm having a little problem with the Bayshore CRA fire supression which we've been asking for for four years. October 10, 2017 Page 168 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah, that's over two million, isn't it? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's about hydrants and safety and all those things. MS. GRANT: So, Commissioners, you do have the option to award additional funds to either projects that have already been ranked or already been awarded, and I'd like to come back to that, if you don't mind. I want to just put one more point on the record, that we are anticipating CDBG disaster funding coming to our community. So far the President of the United States has already allocated $7.4 billion not just for Irma but for storms this year. My experience in the past -- and I'm reading articles about it again -- is that there's often an initial allocation and then subsequent allocations as the breadth and depth of the disaster is understood and the needs are better defined. Secretary Carson has said that he expects those funds to be flowing by November, and that's consistent with what I'm hearing. Nobody will tell you officially, but that's consistent with the word I'm hearing through HUD. And, in fact, Commissioner -- sorry, Secretary Carson is planning a visit to Collier County and Miami-Dade County tentatively the 17th. And the Miami field office director has already been over and taken a look at Everglades City and Immokalee. So they are certainly interested, and it appears to me that they want to get on-the-ground information. Disaster recovery funding is a better match for disaster needs, to meet disaster needs. Why? Because they build in some congressional waivers to take out some of the restrictions. It doesn't come easy. We still have a lot of work in my division to make sure it happens, but they -- they do that. They also have a better idea of what specifically is needed and try to make sure that those types of projects are allowed. October 10, 2017 Page 169 As I mentioned, we have historically received disaster funding. Just in the last year we closed out disaster funding that we'd gotten over several years. It was about 14 or $15 million for storms years ago. It's hard to know whether people's estimates are accurate or not, but we're hearing all kinds of numbers from $15 million and up that Collier County may be receiving. But I would not rely upon that until we get official word. Also in the short-term we've just awarded, you know, a great deal of SHIP funds to disaster recovery. They're a littler easier to spend. There's still some red tape but not as much as the federal funds. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Could I ask, when we awarded the SHIP funds disaster recovery, or was that just the last subject? MS. GRANT: The last subject. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, the last subject. So we hadn't done that before this meeting? MS. GRANT: That's right. COMMISSIONER FIALA: It implied that we had already done that, but I just wanted to make sure that we understood that we hadn't. MS. GRANT: I'm sorry. Let me be clear. I'm talking about two things -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: The one just passed by -- MS. GRANT: -- Collier County, yeah. COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- where it said three million. Next one. MS. GRANT: The next one. So -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: There. Already has allocated. MS. GRANT: This is what we just talked about, but in the past, the slide before, Collier County has received CDBG federal disaster money as well. I just want to be super clear. Now, let's get to where some of you were going a few minutes October 10, 2017 Page 170 ago. I just briefly want to remind you of the process before we even bring a project to you for your review. We send out an application cycle, usually in January. We get applications in, we go through a review and ranking, those are scored, packaged up, brought to you in an action plan in June. So we've got six months just to get you an action plan. Then later on we bring you the agreements, which we did last meeting. This is -- the ranking and review is all done in a public forum. Every applicant comes in and gives a presentation. The review committee is -- it's publicly noticed. Anybody from the public can attend, and it's overseen by myself to ensure consistency and integrity of the process. And the Habitat for Humanity application, which is up for discussion here, just happened to earn the highest points. And I know you've all seen the listing. I want to point out, which we did not make a point of last time, that when Habitat applied for these funds, what's highlighted here, this grant funding would allow Habitat to explore other areas as well while we seek to locate affordable housing throughout the residential areas of the county, okay. Their intent is to do things in other areas of the county. They have also told us that they'd be willing to focus on those who have been displaced by the disaster. Now, to the list that you all were looking at. What you're looking at here is what came out of the Ranking and Review Committee work. You see the scores, you see the amount they requested, and the proposed award amounts. The proposed award amounts might have changed a little bit as we finalized things and we brought it back to you for the action plan. Certainly, a moderate stance here is to, if you do not want to award Habitat the funding, the highest ranging of the committee's work, you could consider allocating that 600,000 to projects that October 10, 2017 Page 171 already got approved. That would require an amendment to the action plan, an amendment to the contracts, and we'd have to bring all that back to you, but that's shorter than taking out a new project. It's a shorter duration. And we can get going with the funds that they have already been awarded. You technically, of course, could also select a project that was lower on the list. This is where the Board's discretion comes into play. My job and we did with the action plan was brought back the public process which, by the way, the action plan is advertised for, I think, 30 days to make sure that the public has an opportunity to comment. So that's what we -- but that's an option for you if you want to look at doing that. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. So -- MS. GRANT: In summary, our recommendation is that you stay the course. Habitat receives the funds that they were initially awarded, we focus on spending the SHIP funds for the immediate term disaster response, and then we focus on the disaster recovery funds coming from the federal government, we anticipate, as they become available and try to fill more of the need in the community. That's the end of my presentation. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I was just going to finish what I said before. First of all, I didn't vote on the last thing. I was thinking about it, and we already were finished with it. I just want you to know it was a four nothing vote because I didn't vote one way or another, and we could come back to that one a little bit later. I just wanted to put that on the record in case somebody calls it afterwards. Secondly, on this list, some of the things, like, in Immokalee and on Bayshore, I've been asking for a couple years now to please put in streetlights because those are high crime areas that are just dangerous for people to walk. We've never done that, but we give the money October 10, 2017 Page 172 away to others. I think we should start tackling some of these really serious and important projects that are left standing, and I'd like to see that happen. I don't care if -- I don't care where it is as long as we can see that we're making something happen to eliminate some of the problems that we have instead of just giving the money away. So that's what I wanted to say. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, let's tackle this problem first, and then we'll address -- you can't none vote. You've got to vote. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah, I know. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So we'll worry about that in a minute. Okay. So, Commissioner McDaniel? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And I would like to say this: You know, staff's recommending that we stay the course. I don't like the course, to tell you the truth. We're being asked to make a decision for an appropriation for a budget year in -- starting in January, February, March, April, May, June for a budget cycle that doesn't start for '17/'18. We're asking -- these recommendations are being made to us and approved by you -- by us, ultimately, for an ensuing budget year, and I don't like the course. MS. GRANT: Commissioner -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's my personal opinion. I'm entitled to do it. You don't have to defend the course. I understand that it is an arduous course. It's an arduous process. It's not -- it doesn't certainly have the fluidity of our own budget of Collier County where we have the capacity to move and do things that are necessarily at will. So it's the process as much as anything that's distressing me. I don't see -- I certainly don't have anything against Habitat for Humanity and what they do for the community and so on. But you speak of Immokalee -- and I understand that there is October 10, 2017 Page 173 buckets of money that have to be spent in certain areas for, in fact, certain things but, you know, our Collier County Housing Authority over in Immokalee at Farm Workers Village, we have 260-some-odd units that need HVAC that don't have it, and that's a -- that's a nyon (sic) 7-, $800,000 project in and of itself. So -- and I know, Ms. Kim -- MS. GRANT: They were awarded $300,000 of HOME funds. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I spoke to Oscar yesterday, yes, ma'am. MS. GRANT: Or was that 150,000? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, ma'am, I did. I spoke to the executive director yesterday when I was reviewing some other -- the shift in the 20-year requisite with the lien and that sort -- you know, with the Boys and Girls Club that got pulled from this agenda. That -- I let them know, because that was -- one of the detriments of filing for CDBG funding was there was a 20-year requisite for reporting, an extremely arduous requisite for reporting for -- that traveled with the entire 20-year process, and that was -- I remember when I was chairman of that organization. It was an impetus for us to no longer seek the utilization of the CDBG funding just because of the arduous filing and reporting that was a requisite after the fact. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The City of Naples would be more than happy to take what should go to Immokalee, and we will take it in the City of Naples because we do not mind that rigorous filing. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I understand that, Madam Chair. The bottom line is, it's the process that I'm distressed with here, as much as anything. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: But that's something the federal government -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And that process has been adjusted now. We now know that that 20 years doesn't travel along. October 10, 2017 Page 174 And we did -- the Housing Authority did receive funding for some of those HVAC units. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, good. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. MR. OCHS: So the reference to the fiscal cycle, I wasn't sure I was following your statement. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, from what I understand, we were approving the plan for the layout of those funds back in April and -- from April through June, I think is what Ms. Grant said. MS. GRANT: In June you approved the action plan for funds that are available for spending October 1st. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. That's for the fiscal year coming up in October. MS. GRANT: Right. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And then have to -- and then need to be spent in the following year. So in the Fiscal Year 17/18, we're approving it for -- we're approving it in a prior cycle. MS. GRANT: And that is -- you're probably aware of this, because I know you're very familiar with our process. That is a time frame established by HUD that the action plan needs to be submitted timely for their review prior to the beginning of the -- our spending fiscal year. MR. OCHS: It's not unlike you do for your own budget. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. MS. GRANT: Yeah. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I understand. I didn't say I like that process either. MR. OCHS: Oh, okay. MS. GRANT: And I will -- it is an absolute challenge -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. MS. GRANT: -- and it's something we look at periodically, is October 10, 2017 Page 175 there anything we can do to shorten, make it better, et cetera, but -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Do we have any registered speakers on this? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Mr. Miller? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Because I'd like to hear from the speaker, and then I had -- MR. MILLER: I have just one registered public speaker on this item. Reverend Lisa Lefkow. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Then, Madam Chair, I'd like to make a couple comments when she's finished. MR. MILLER: I hope I said that right. REVEREND LEFKOW: Good afternoon, Commissioners. For the record, Lisa Lefkow, CEO of Habitat for Humanity. Let me tell that you, first of all, I'm both appalled and disappointed to have to be here today, while the work of county government is so important and truly fascinating to watch. What I'm missing at my office is the fact that we have volunteers from the United Way, FEMA, Job Link, Goodwill all available to assist both Habitat for Humanity homeowners in post-storm recovery and members of the greater East Naples community. In and out of this day, more than 200 people have been into our office while I'm sitting here to defend a $600,000 grant application which, as you saw, was the highest scoring application, went through the same process as everybody else has gone through, was determined by staff and this board to be advisable and, yet, of the 13 grants that were recommended for your approval, it is the only one that has been pulled. So my understanding is that there is a clear message to Habitat for Humanity that there is no longer support from this commission for the work that we do. Out of our $31 million budget for the coming fiscal year, the October 10, 2017 Page 176 fiscal year that we have just -- our fiscal year begins July 1st -- $31 million in expenses, of that about $500,000 will come from the county. Additional money that comes from the county in the form of down payment assistance goes directly to homebuyers, does not come to our office, neither does funding like you talked about before in owner-occupied rehab work where we simply serve as the project manager. So I want you to be aware that though there is certainly a very large budget for the work that we do, the need here, as you well know, is absolutely tremendous and, post storm, it is only more important. More than 2,000 Habitat homes, none of them, none of them suffered any structural damage. So while you're talking about the kinds of housing that was inhabited by folks that was destroyed, they could have been in Habitat homes. Thank you. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I might have misunderstood something, but I had thought we asked before, when we give, you know -- oh, I'm sorry. I thought we'd asked before. When we give them $30,000 down payment assistance, right, or 50,000, or whatever we vote on, sometimes it's 20-, 30-, 50-, I thought we -- well, anyway, Reverend Lefkow said that it never goes to Habitat. It goes to them. I didn't know -- because I know we were kind of concerned with giving somebody $30,000 and just letting them walk away with it, you know. REVEREND LEFKOW: May I clarify? Is it all right for me to clarify that? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Of course, yes. REVEREND LEFKOW: We are the lender, and so in the down payment assistance program, just as if it were a buyer working with a bank, the down payment assistance goes to that homebuyer to pay down the mortgage. It is down payment assistance, and so it does pay down the mortgage. It is to the benefit of the homeowner. We remain October 10, 2017 Page 177 whole no matter what. The homeowner pays the entire mortgage. You are assisting the homeowner in paying the mortgage. It is just as it would be with any other lender. COMMISSIONER FIALA: So you make it out to -- we make it out to the bank then? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well -- and they are the bank. Habitat is the bank. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, you are the bank. Oh, okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Habitat is the bank in their instance. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. Commissioner Saunders? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I guess a couple things. First of all, I want to thank Habitat for Humanity for what you do. REVEREND LEFKOW: Thank you. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I didn't realize you had built that many homes in Collier County, and hopefully you'll be building a whole lot more because, as you noted, the need is tremendous. And I think what I would say to the Commission, we have competing needs. I mean, we have disaster relief needs, and we have lower income workforce housing needs. And I think the process that was developed for this was the process that this board should continue to follow. I don't think we should make a U-turn here on this $600,000. I think this $600,000 will help Habitat for Humanity develop workforce-type housing, affordable housing in other areas of the county other than district -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: They've got land. They've got $11 million worth of land, you know. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I understand. I'm not arguing with you. I'm just trying to make a statement. October 10, 2017 Page 178 I believe that this will help Habitat for Humanity develop homes in other parts of the county other than District 1, which is, you know, the East Naples area. I understand you've got a lot of this type of housing there, and we need it in District 3, and I'm sure you need it in District 5, and I don't know if you need it in District 2 or not. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: District 4 could use it. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: But I'm going to make a motion to approve the staff recommendation, and I'm going to do that for a couple of reasons. I think that the staff went through a very thorough analysis. I think that there's some other issues here other than just moving money to disaster recovery. There was an interesting article in the newspaper this morning about the competing needs here and the issues of does this board support Habitat, and I think we need to send the right message. So I'm going to make that motion and would urge the commission to support this. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So there's a motion to stay the course and continue with the recommended awardees. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. The staff recommendation, which is to continue the award of the $600,000 to Habitat for Humanity. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a second? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'll second it. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Any other discussion? All right. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I was just going to comment that, you know -- and maybe the issue isn't -- well, we have a selection process, and so if we have a selection process that we use and, you know, the funds are awarded to the best applicant, and that's what our selection process says, then maybe the issue is with our selection process. It's not necessarily Habitat or something. I'm just trying to focus this more on -- is it an issue of -- and this is really a question. Is October 10, 2017 Page 179 it an issue of who's receiving the funds, what entity, or is it a process issue? I mean, we have a process. We've gone through it. They scored the highest. That's what the process is for. It's for selecting the best applicant. So I'm going to support the motion, and if we need to revisit how the selections are made, that's one thing, if we can. I mean, the selection's probably dictated by the federal government, right, or how they're scored? MS. GRANT: The federal government does not give us a matrix for the exact scoring. They give us guidance, and so we have created very specific criteria, award points, and how you get the minimum or the maximum points. And I'd be happy to review that with the Commission before we do next year's if you'd like to. MR. OCHS: If you want to review them personally and have them apply and petition you, you can do that. You can listen to every one and score them all. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'm not suggesting that. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's just a process. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, I'm not suggesting that. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think it would be helpful, not to maybe bring it for discussion, but to understand the rating. I think that would be very helpful. MS. GRANT: I'd be happy to send a memo to the Commission. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So we have a motion on the floor and a second. Any other discussion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. October 10, 2017 Page 180 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries 4-1. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I still hate to see that money going not helping people. Item #11G RECOMMENDATION TO DIRECT THE COUNTY MANAGER TO DENY THE REQUEST FOR REFUNDS FOR THE PERMITTING FEES PAID BY TWO WILDLAND FIRE VICTIMS, TOTALING $4,772.27, FROM THE GENERAL FUND – MOTION TO APPROVE STAFF’S RECOMMENDATION – APPROVED MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that takes you to Item 11G, which is a recommendation to direct the County Manager to deny the request for refunds for the permitting fees paid by two wildlands fire victims totaling $4,772.27, and Mr. French, your deputy department head for Growth Management, will present. MR. FRENCH: Good afternoon, Commissioners. For the record, Jamie French. I'm here to answer any questions you might have regarding the public petition at the last board meeting for the request. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, I think we are at a point now where, when this request was filed, it was before Irma. And the question we have as a board, is this precedent-setting, and I would dare say it probably is. I would agree to the staff's recommendation to deny it. Not to be cold and turn a blind eye to the suffering that the fire victims had, but to understand that we have a whole heap of folks out there that are suffering right now. Some of them don't have homes to live in. And I October 10, 2017 Page 181 think we have to be on the unfortunate and unenvious position to make these hard decisions. And I'd like to make a motion that we support staff's position on this. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll second that. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Is there any other discussion? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Don't agree. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Pardon me? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Don't agree. I believe that it can be accomplished through and should be accomplished through a designation of a natural disaster. There are multiple forms of natural disasters. Fire is one of them. Hurricane's another, and so on. And I can think that it's a small -- it's a small request for a relief. I wouldn't be opposed to setting a precedent with regard to offering relief to residents who suffer from a natural disaster in some form or fashion. Whether we can do it legally or not has to be -- has yet to be determined. MR. KLATZKOW: No, you can do it. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. So I would like to see us move in that regard, and I can't support staff's recommendation to deny these folks these permit-fee refunds. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Any other discussion? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I would just say that the next item relates to what we're talking about, I think. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah, we're going to get there. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And maybe this is something that will be considered in that process. So we can deal with it proactively across the board, not on an individual basis or something. Because I'm sensitive to the issue; obviously, I think we all are. But how we deal with it overall, I think, is important, and especially now that we have so many people that will be in the same situation. So I'm going to have to support the motion. October 10, 2017 Page 182 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Any other discussion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the floor to support staff's recommendation to deny the petition, and there's a second. All those in favor, say aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Carries 3-2. Thank you. Item #11H RECOMMENDATION TO DIRECT STAFF TO MEET WITH THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE (DSAC) AND THE COLLIER BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (CBIA) TO EXPLORE POTENTIAL EMERGENCY PERMITTING PROCESSES AND BUILDING PERMIT FEE CONSIDERATIONS DURING DECLARED DISASTERS AND PROVIDE SUBSEQUENT RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD – MOTION TO APPROVE STAFF’S RECOMMENDATIONS AS AMENDED – APPROVED MR. OCHS: Commissioners, 11H is, again, a related recommendation resulting from prior board direction to ask the staff to meet with the Development Services Advisory Committee and the Collier Building Industry Association to explore potential emergency permitting processes and building permit fee considerations during declared disasters and then to bring those subsequent recommendations October 10, 2017 Page 183 back to the Board. Mr. French, anything to add? MR. FRENCH: No, sir, just as the executive summary says -- and, again, Jamie French, for the record. Commissioners, I don't need to remind you, this is 100 percent enterprise funded operation. Fees are not refundable to local government from any of the disaster funds that may be out there; however, what we'd like to do based off of conversations with you individually as well as with Commissioner McDaniel is we'd like to work with the Collier Building Industry Association as well as your Development Services Advisory Committee, primarily because they represent the paying customers for the services we provide. So in other words, all of the damage assessment, the hours that your Building Department or Land Development Services spent on disaster recovery and assessment, those are all absorbed within our operations anyway. So we look at that, and we budget for that accordingly, but those are -- we don't come back to you or try to seek any type of reimbursement for those services. But when it does get down into looking at the individual homesites, business sites, we want to make sure that whatever precedent we set will move forward into the future for all declared disasters versus a wildfire or a hurricane. And so you also know is that the last item that the Board just supported staff on, they would also be included in that with whatever decision we make going forward and present to you for consideration. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So they would be considered? MR. OCHS: Well, you would have that latitude as a Board to apply some policy -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Retroactively. MR. OCHS: -- directive you may enact retroactively if you so choose. MR. FRENCH: Thank you. October 10, 2017 Page 184 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I like this way of going forward a lot better. I think this is measured, and I think that's what we need is a measured response, but a prompt measured response, of course. MR. FRENCH: Yes, ma'am. And we -- and I apologize. We intend to work with even the agencies that were here today. We'll reach out to them to find out what other funding sources might be available to help offset some of those costs to our residents and property owners. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good. MR. OCHS: Speaker? MR. MILLER: Yes. We have two registered speakers for this item. Your first speaker is Pam Brown. She'll be followed by Kathy Curatolo. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Happy birthday. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, happy birthday. MS. BROWN: You remembered again. Good afternoon, Commissioners. I know this is a little controversial, and I love Jamie, but there are nine communities in the state that have declared this a disaster area, and they're waiving permitting fees. And I sent a copy of this to you. And it has to be Irma related. It just cannot be, you know, flim-flam. It would have to be within a 60- or 90-day time frame, and they are Fort Myers, Bonita, Cooper City, Jackson, Port Orange, West Cocoa, Sarasota/Brevard County, and the City of Palm Coast, and I would just like for you to review this for consideration maybe for another meeting. Thank you. MR. MILLER: Your next and final speaker on this item is Kathy Curatolo. MS. CURATOLO: Good afternoon, Commissioners. It's been a pleasure to be here with you today. I've learned a lot. On this particular note, you know, we -- the Board just approved October 10, 2017 Page 185 1.6 million in permit and inspection reductions. I have to say at this very moment my leadership team at CBIA has concerns about further reductions in specific arenas and how that might affect the Enterprise Fund. But, as always, we are certainly willing to work with the county and with DSAC to explore the issues and come up with some suggested solutions. So thank you very much. COMMISSIONER FIALA: So what is your -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'm sorry. So you agree to our measured report -- our measured but prompt response to this? MS. CURATOLO: Measured, yes. Hopefully it could be prompt. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. MS. CURATOLO: Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So do I hear a motion? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, I'll make the motion. COMMISSIONER FIALA: To? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Approve the recommendations of staff and work with the CBIA and DSAC to determine the appropriate fee reductions for disaster relief for our residents. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. I'll second that motion. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And, Madam Chair, just for clarification, the item that we discussed just before that in terms of the fire victims, those will be included in that evaluation so that if there is a fee reduction or elimination, that those folks would be entitled to that? MR. OCHS: We'll give you that option, yes, sir. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, I would ask that as part of the motion that they be included so that everybody's treated the same. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So that we can look retroactively at the October 10, 2017 Page 186 disasters that affect -- MR. OCHS: We'll look for all declared disasters, including fires and hurricanes. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Tornadoes. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's sounds biblical this year. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Locust. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Locust. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, no, don't talk about the locust. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Locust are next. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And if you want that part, I'd be happy -- if you want that clarity added to the motion, I'd be happy to add that in. It was my understanding if we did it by declaring from a disaster declaration, that they would be included. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I just wanted to make sure, because everybody should be treated the same. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So -- and do we have a second? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, Commissioner Fiala did. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. And you're agreeing to the amendment? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Uh-huh. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: As long as it's timely. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: She doesn't even laugh when I October 10, 2017 Page 187 say that. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Before we go to 11I, I think we need to revisit 11E, point of order. We had one of our commissioners that did not vote. She -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: I was still thinking, and they just counted it as a -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Vote. COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- vote, so I just vote no on that. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So what I'd like to do is maybe just -- can I reconsider it? I can reconsider it in the same meeting because I voted in the affirmative, and then we can have a -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I think we can just register her as a no vote, can't we? Do you have to go through the reconsideration and all that? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. How do we do this? MR. KLATZKOW: Register her as a no vote. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. As a no vote. MR. KLATZKOW: If the majority of the Board agrees, register her as a no vote. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So the vote on 11E was 4-1. MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Thank you. Item #11I RECOMMENDATION TO COMPLETE THE ANNUAL PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL FOR THE COUNTY MANAGER – MOTION TO ACCEPT APPRAISAL – APPROVED MR. OCHS: 11I is a recommendation to complete the Annual Performance Appraisal for the County Manager. October 10, 2017 Page 188 Commissioners, as you know, my employment agreement with you requires an annual submission of a self-appraisal to you and then a subsequent annual review by the Board. Thank you all for completing that on a timely basis, given the hurricane, and I certainly appreciate the feedback and the constructive criticism and, more importantly, the support that you've provided to me and, by extension, the staff, and I look forward to a productive year in the next evaluation period. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. Do we need to take a vote on that? No. MR. OCHS: No, it's just a completion of the process. Jeff, is there an action required or -- MR. KLATZKOW: Motion to approve, and you're done, I guess. MR. OCHS: Okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll make a motion to approve. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Second. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And for discussion purposes, I just would like to also remind everyone that, you know, I'm -- when I was filling those -- when I was filling out that review, I forgot that everything we do is a matter of public record, and so -- I said nice things, and I actually said the truth along the way, but I have to note here to myself when I was reviewing this, I said, next time remind me that this -- everything we do here -- and I'll be a little more gentle next time when I'm going through. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And the practical effect of your announcement is that everybody in the world's going to go get a copy now and see what you said. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, yeah. And I hit the panic button when I saw the evaluation, Commissioner McDaniel. I'm like, oh. So, it's okay. MR. OCHS: It's all good. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, it is. And I just also October 10, 2017 Page 189 wanted to call note that our leader is staying, although he has contractual abilities to receive higher bonus pay or incentive pay, if you will, or increase other than staff, he has elected to stay with the team and not go that route. So that's just a worthy note as well. MR. OCHS: Thank you, sir. Okay. We're moving on then to Item -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion -- I think there's a motion on the floor and a second. MR. OCHS: Oh, I'm sorry. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Right? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor to accept the County Manager's appraisal report, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Item #11J RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT OF APPROXIMATELY $114,208, FOR THE INSTALLATION OF TWO (2) BEACH TRACTOR SHELTERS TO BE INSTALLED AT THE TIGERTAIL BEACH PARK AND THE VANDERBILT BEACH PARKING GARAGE TO FACILITATE ADEQUATE EQUIPMENT PROTECTION AND CLEANING OPERATIONS TO PROLONG THE OPERATIONAL October 10, 2017 Page 190 LIFE OF BEACH CLEANING EQUIPMENT AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS ITEM PROMOTES TOURISM. MOTION TO CONTINUE TO A FUTURE BCC MEETING – APPROVED MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that takes us to Item 11J. This was previously Item 16A12 moved to the regular agenda at Commissioner Taylor's request. It's a recommendation to approve a capital improvement project of approximately $114,208 for the installation of two beach tractor shelters to be installed, one at Tiger Tail Beach Park and one at Vanderbilt Beach parking garage to provide shelter and protection for our beach cleaning equipment to extend the operational life of that equipment. Ms. Patterson is here to either make a presentation or respond to questions. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'll just be very quick. I have no doubt that it's much better to bring this equipment in from the elements. But, you know, golly gee, we've got structures on the beach, we've got two hotels, or more than, hotels on Marco Island. We've got the Ritz on Vanderbilt -- sorry, Ed. You know, why can't we see if we can negotiate some kind of sheltering there before we go and spend $112,000 of TDC money, of tourist tax money? And that's all I would like to ask. Not to say you have to do it, but let's look and see where else we could put these. MS. PATTERSON: Amy Patterson again, for the record. If that is what the Board would like us to do, we are certainly happy and willing to go and talk with our partners on the beach and see if that's a possibility. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So just continue this for a couple weeks? October 10, 2017 Page 191 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. We can continue this, yes. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Sure. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So do I hear a motion to continue? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: If you want to make the motion since you brought it up, and I'll second it. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'll make the motion to continue until Ms. Patterson can come back -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: For a portion of discussion. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- with either good or bad news. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I do have a question of -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Are you seconding? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I had seconded your motion -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- for discussion, if I may. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Do we have an issue with putting public assets on a private piece of property? MR. KLATZKOW: No. We rent all the time. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. That was my only concern, so -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: What about as a gift? MR. KLATZKOW: As a gift? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. They allow us to use it. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, there would be a lease agreement for no fee or a dollar or something. MR. OCHS: It's usually a nominal -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. MR. OCHS: -- lease agreement for -- MR. KLATZKOW: We do that all the time. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Like a penny -- like a penny -- a dollar October 10, 2017 Page 192 a year at Naples Airport. COMMISSIONER FIALA: You ought to negotiate the deal here. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'm going to call them up. We need the TDC money for our beaches. Thank you very much. MS. PATTERSON: I understand. We'll report back. Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. Thank you. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: All in favor? MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that takes us to 12A under County Attorney's report. This is the Annual Performance Appraisal for the county attorney. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We didn't vote on the last one. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Did we vote on that last one? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: There was a motion and a second and no vote. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: To continue. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: To continue. Okay. All those in favor of continuing -- poor Terri -- say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's great. Thank you. Item #12A THE ANNUAL PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL FOR THE COUNTY ATTORNEY – MOTION TO ACCEPT APPRAISAL – APPROVED October 10, 2017 Page 193 MR. OCHS: Now 12A. Mr. County Attorney? MR. KLATZKOW: Well, like Leo, our contracts are substantially similar, and I have also the annual requirement for a review. It is a privilege being your county attorney. Having spent the first half of my career in private practice in the corporate world, I can assure you that the satisfaction that I get working as your county attorney, it is just worth every moment of my time. It's just phenomenal. To actually be able to work for -- everything I do is for a public purpose by definition. It's just -- I couldn't ask for a better career than doing what I'm doing. I couldn't ask for better people in my office and without whom, you know, my performance would be horrible, as they do much work behind the scenes, and I just -- I just appreciate being here at the end of the day. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. Well, you run a tight ship, sir. We appreciate that. All right. Motion -- MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, that moves us to -- did we vote on that? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We should probably make a motion to accept the -- MR. OCHS: Yeah. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. October 10, 2017 Page 194 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Item #15 STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS MR. OCHS: Now, that moves us to Item 15, staff and commission general communications. I just have one quick reminder, Commissioners, and that is the reminder of your next workshop, which is on November 7th. At 9 a.m. you'll have a public infrastructure sales tax/surtax workshop, and then in the afternoon beginning at 1 p.m. on that same day, November 7th, we will have the after-action workshop on Hurricane Irma. So I think those are all on everyone's calendars, but just a reminder. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. MR. OCHS: And that's all I have, Madam Chair. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. County Attorney? MR. KLATZKOW: I have nothing, ma'am. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Ms. Kinzel. MS. KINZEL: Thank you, Commissioners. I would just like to thank the Commission for supporting the legislative agenda that included some support of the Clerk's Office and our budget. We're working really, really well with the county staff and working with the State to make sure that Collier County's still served well by the courts, and we appreciate it. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Absolutely. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, three items. October 10, 2017 Page 195 First of all, I would like to apologize. During the process of proclamations, I did not realize that the foundation -- the Tzu Chi Foundation had not been moved to the regular agenda, so I'm happily over here going along waiting for it to be called out as a proclamation. I would like, if I may, to read this proclamation briefly, because it typifies what I have said quite regularly about the duality of our job and how we are all elected from individual geographic bounds and electorate, but yet while we're here we serve the entire county. And Madam Chair has been extremely involved with this organization, and it does say a little bit about what they have done for our community. So if I may, if you'll indulge for a moment: The Tzu Chi Foundation is an international humanitarian organization which has been devoted to spreading the great love of Buddhism through its work in the fields of charity, medicine, education, and culture. The Tzu Chi foundation is volunteer based and headquartered in Hualien, Taiwan -- and forgive me if I'm not pronouncing this properly -- and funded through donations from the public since its founding by Dharma Master Cheng Yen in 1966. Due to the severe suffering by Hurricane Irma over the course of September 13th -- or through September 13th at the Bethel Ministries International Church in Immokalee with 66 Tzu Chi Foundation volunteers and 15 volunteers from the RCMA, Redlands Christian Migrant Association, and October 1st at Everglades City in Ochopee, Florida, with 69 Tzu Chi volunteers and 21 volunteers from the Pickleball Forever Foundation, they distributed in excess of $256,000 to 591 households and a total of 2,100 residents in Collier County. It is also scheduled, and I believe it already has transpired, on October 8th the Tzu Chi Foundation volunteers will again distribute and did distribute in excess of $100,000 to 328 households in need from the Gordon River Apartments and Southwind Village in Collier October 10, 2017 Page 196 County. These relief efforts provided by the Tzu Chi served as a way for the people of Taiwan to demonstrate their appreciation to the people of government of the United States of America for the support they provide to Taiwan during her time of need. Recognizing the efforts of the Tzu Chi Foundation to help the citizens of Collier County from the suffering caused by Hurricane Irma with our admiration and appreciation. Therefore -- now, therefore, on auspicious occasion when people and friends of the Republic of China, Taiwan, around the world are celebrating her 106th national day, and volunteers of the Tzu Chi Foundation from Florida continue their efforts to help our suffering residents from the Gordon River Apartments, Southwind Village -- and I did an editorial adjustment to include Immokalee and Everglades City -- be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, that October 10th, 2017, be designated as the Tzu Chi Foundation Day in Collier County. And that was one of those slip-through on the consent agendas, and I didn't realize it as we were going through, so... (Applause.) COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I want to thank Madam Chair again. I said this before, but our effort while we're here as commissioners are for all of the residents of Collier County, and her work with this foundation in getting those contributions to the folks that were truly hit hard by Hurricane Irma were a monumental effort. Madam Chair, thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think it's very important to note I was over there -- asked to go over there on October the 3rd, which was Tuesday, today, for their national day, and on the stage there were two flags, the Taiwanese flag and the American flag, and they sang two anthems, and the first anthem they sang was the United States anthem. October 10, 2017 Page 197 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Nice. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And at every closing ceremony of the three -- when they gave out these debit cards on the three occasions, at the end of it they sang God Bless America. So I think it speaks volumes. They are great friends of America, and they made it very clear by action, and I think we need to do some business with them. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Wonderful stuff. On two other points, and I'll be brief. And this has to do -- you know, Jack kind of stole my thunder. But, you know, everybody's talking to me about relief efforts and what we can do, what can I do to help the community and so on and so forth. Go shopping. Take your family to Immokalee. Go to the vegetable market over on New Market Road or one of those vegetable markets and buy your fresh vegetables and then go to a restaurant in Immokalee and eat. That's the number one thing we can do to help our folks. And as far as Everglades City goes, as Jack shared, stone crab season comes in starting on October 15th. Go buy them all. Go down there, take your family. If you don't have a family, get one and go fishing. Go hire a fishing guide in Everglades City to have them take you fishing. That's -- those are the two things that we can really do to help our folks that were negatively impacted by the storm. The economy needs a burst, and they're kind of fun things. So that's my -- that's my -- Jack, as I said, stole my thunder on that. Last, but not least, and this is a little bit of -- I would like to hear what your thoughts are, especially from my colleagues on the end down there. Oftentimes our county attorney reviews our information for its legal sufficiency, but he doesn't oftentimes offer legal advice with regard to our exposure on the contracts and that sort of thing. And I would like to see if we could maybe have an adjustment to October 10, 2017 Page 198 that. Jeff and I talked about this yesterday, and I would like to get some more of a legal opinion as to what our exposure is when we're looking at contracts and we're entering into agreements. Not just have it reviewed for legal sufficiency but actually have an opinion from our county attorney as to potential exposures, though they are somewhat limitless. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: On each contract? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Wow. That's -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: What else does he have to do? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- a lot of work. MR. KLATZKOW: Well, no. You're referring to exposure to the county? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. MR. KLATZKOW: All right. I could do that if that's the majority of the Board. I would hesitate only in that -- MR. OCHS: Business exposure? MR. KLATZKOW: -- it's really the County Manager's purview. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's enforceability of the agreements, Leo. And it's -- well, perfect example is some of the deliverables in the contracts that we -- that I asked to be continued for two weeks to be reviewed for EII and the Alliance and the other thing. I have questions as to the enforceability of those documents as to whether or not -- and, again, you all are the lawyers. I'm just reading this from a layman's perspective, but the enforceability of those agreements, I think, are somewhat in question. MR. OCHS: Okay. Those are renewals of prior years' agreement, essentially the same agreements that were previously -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, sir. And it's the first time I've got to look at them. MR. OCHS: Okay. October 10, 2017 Page 199 COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Can I -- let me ask a question. I mean, are you -- enforceability by the county or by these other parties? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: If there's a contract and it's been executed, I would think it's -- I mean, contracts are enforceable by either party unless it says -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm looking more for along the lines of exposure or deficiencies in the agreement, legal opinions from our county attorney of theoretical deficiencies in the agreement. I had perceptions of deficiencies in these agreements, which is why I asked for them to be continued so I had another shot at them to put more specificity in there and have better clarity for my understanding of those agreements, and that was -- and when I was speaking to the County Attorney yesterday, I said, how come you're not telling me about these things. MR. OCHS: Well, he -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Can I make a -- MR. KLATZKOW: And what I said to you is that I review for legality. I'm not telling you whether it's a good deal or a bad deal. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct. MR. KLATZKOW: That's up to the County Manager. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: My suggestion would be -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm stirring up a rats nest. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- just the preparation of a legal opinion, like a full one, is a lot of work. And I don't know that we would want that happen or need that on every single contractor for, like -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's why I asked you-alls opinion. Again, you're the lawyers that look at these things, and I saw deficiencies in those agreements, and I asked the County Attorney why those deficiencies weren't being pointed out. And, again -- his words to October 10, 2017 Page 200 me were he reviews our contractual arrangements for legal sufficiency, not necessarily deficiencies. MR. OCHS: Well -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I think that the County Attorney does review for legal sufficiency, and when he signs that off, it's a legally binding agreement, it meets all the requirement for public records -- MR. KLATZKOW: Yes. It may not be, in my opinion, a good deal, but at the end of the day -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Exactly. MR. KLATZKOW: -- that's the County Manager's recommendation. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Right. And so if there's an issue of the substance of a provision, for example, we might think the price is too high or the term is too long or those types of things, we really need to turn to the County Manager and the Purchasing Department to raise those issues. In terms of our exposure, I didn't know if you were talking about what our exposure is personally. We don't have any. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, it wasn't our personal -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Just on the county? But I think those are issues that you have to raise with the County Manager. If the County Attorney's tasked with trying to justify substantive terms in a contract, then you're going to have a real fight between the County Attorney and the County Manager over contracts, and you don't want to do that. MR. KLATZKOW: No. And quietly I'll work with the County Manager's Office. If I see a contract that I'm not entirely comfortable with, then we'll go back and forth on it. But, ultimately, at the end of the day, it's the County Manager's Office who makes the recommendation. October 10, 2017 Page 201 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And then I'll tell you what my city attorney told me for years. He said, Penny, anyone can sue anybody for anything -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And we know that. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- and there's no way to get around that. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I -- actually, I wasn't looking to avoid litigation, because the litigious society within which we live, as you said, Madam Chair, anybody can sue anybody. I just -- it was a thought that I had. I wanted to bring it up. Thank you for clarifying it for me, and we'll let it go. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And, ultimately, if there is a contract that one of us would like a legal opinion on, we just contact the County Attorney. MR. KLATZKOW: You don't see a contract unless I think it's a legally enforceable contract. You won't see it. And there are times when something won't be taken to you because I'll tell staff I'm not signing off on this. You just don't see those. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And in defense of -- and not that the County Manager needs any defense. When I questioned those agreements, he pulled them for further discussion, and we'll see what we can do. MR. OCHS: I thought we were going to talk about them. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We are, sir. MR. OCHS: Okay. I look forward to them. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, me, too. MR. OCHS: Thank you. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. I would just like to ask the County Manager to please send me -- to please send all of us -- I don't want to just say me -- the names of the people that serve on the Ranking and Review Committee, please. October 10, 2017 Page 202 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: For? COMMISSIONER FIALA: For affordable housing. MR. OCHS: For the CDBG awards that we talked about today? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. MR. OCHS: I think that's what you're talking about, ma'am. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. MR. OCHS: You'll have it before five. Thank you. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: You think you're going to be finished by five so you can do that? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Optimistic. MR. OCHS: Someone just heard me say that, so it will be in your boxes by five o'clock. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: By the end of the -- just after the end of this meeting. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So I have a good-news item. Hurricane Irma legal clinic -- legal aid, it is this Saturday from 10 to 2. It's -- they do a great job. I just got the notice this morning. I'd like to see if we could put it on our social media and make sure that everybody gets this. It's so important because it talks about legal issues affecting businesses and self-employed individuals, insurance claims, and disputes. It's a wonderful opportunity for folks to get questions answered. And hopefully they'll do it another day, but the first day is October -- this Saturday from 10 to 2. And then another good-news item, if my commission will allow me to pursue this. There is an interest of creating a three-day entertainment event in Collier County, probably we're talking maybe December, maybe even January, to not only bring the community together for a good time but also to announce to hopefully the nation if we can get the entertainment, that we are open for business, and I'd like to have your blessing to be able to work. October 10, 2017 Page 203 I'm not going to commit any of you to anything and even -- you know, anything that involves the county will be brought back to you, for instance, perhaps parking, you know, and shuttle and things like that; that we would like to move that forward. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Are you going to work with Jack on that? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Not with Jack. With Pincher's. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Oh, okay. I think it's a great idea. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And we wanted to do it for the Stone Crab Festival but, unfortunately, the window got too small. But the governor has -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, great idea. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- involved -- his office is involved and then, of course, Jack. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And if you have a dunk tank or anything, I think our tallest commissioner should be -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I think I'll be busy that day. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So if I've got your blessing, thank you very much. And that's it. And, Commissioner Solis. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Party's always good. A couple things. I had a question, and I keep getting asked this by people that are emailing me about one of the -- and I know we're going to do a triage, you know, an assessment of the response and everything to the hurricane. But just for my own education, the Emergency Broadcasting System, what is that, and was that operating -- and I bring this up because I'm sure a lot of us have heard that for people that didn't have cable TV or anything, many are -- were disappointed on the coverage by the radio stations, you know, of disaster recovery information. So -- and one of the questions was, well, what about the October 10, 2017 Page 204 Emergency Broadcasting System? You know, we've all heard the thing when we're listening to the radio when it's being tested. Was that -- what is that other than a test? Is this a test? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It was a test. MR. OCHS: Well, it goes out over the television, so -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's over the television. MR. OCHS: Yeah. If you don't have power, you're -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: But it comes over the radio -- the radio as well, right? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, you have to have battery-powered radios, which a lot of folks didn't have. MR. OCHS: You're talking about the NOAA weather radio? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, just a battery-powered radio, you know, the old boom boxes that we all got rid of because we like our phones so much. MR. OCHS: Commissioner, why don't -- I'll make sure that that's a component of our workshop. MR. MILLER: If I can, the Emergency Broadcast System is a federal program. It's a federal government program. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's a federal government program. MR. MILLER: Yeah. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. Well, I mean, this is -- MR. OCHS: It's still a good point. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, I'd like to know what it is so I can respond to people. The other thing I would like to say is I had the pleasure of spending an hour with a district -- well, now I'm not even sure she was a District 2 resident. In fact, I don't think she is. But a Ms. Jilda Rimondo (phonetic) -- MR. CASALANGUIDA: Reamonde (phonetic). COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- who -- I think she describes herself October 10, 2017 Page 205 as relentless -- MR. OCHS: That would be her. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- and she is clearly that -- has been asking for years, my predecessor and my predecessor's predecessor, about raking -- about having the beach raked on Sundays, which has never occurred, apparently. But in talking to her, something came up that I think maybe we should think about, and I think it was a recommendation or at least a suggestion from staff, somewhere, was -- about looking into a Mobi-Mat, which -- does anybody know what those are? I mean, they are -- it's -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: (Inaudible.) COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, no, it's a mat system for providing access over the sand for people with disabilities. And it's from -- apparently, I looked at the website, and they're from, you know, pedestrian ones to -- for military vehicles and heavy machinery over terrain that they would otherwise get stuck in. And, you know, I don't know if -- I don't think we have any, but I thought it might be worth looking at because I -- in talking to my almost 90-year-old mother, you know, the reason she doesn't go to the beach is because she can't walk across the sand, you know. But it might just be something to look at because we have so many elderly folks that maybe can't get to the beach anymore because of a disability. So just a thought if anybody would -- MR. OCHS: Happy to do it. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Don't we have those beach -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Speak into the mic, please. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh. Don't we have those beach things with the great big, fat wheels on them? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, we do. October 10, 2017 Page 206 COMMISSIONER FIALA: I just -- we were at a wedding on Marco Island on the beach, and the one gentleman just can't walk there, and so they used that thing that the county has with the big, fat wheels that took him out there. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We have wheelchairs, those wonderful wheel buggies. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah, wheel buggies, yeah. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Grandma's not doing that. She's not going in a wheelchair. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I've seen different access points for the handicap where they have some type of trail, cement or something, which is not a good thing to put on the beach -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, these roll up. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- but that sounds like a great idea. No, that sounds like a great idea. We are -- we rotate our chairmanship on an annual basis, and there are a lot of communities that do that. I think probably most communities that have a chair that's not elected, like one that's selected from the commission, they tend to rotate those. They certainly do that in Lee County. And I'd like to bring back a resolution that sets out a system for rotation so that there's no politics associated with it. There's no intrigue, because in past commissions, from what I understand, there was some circumstances where the selection of the chairman created a lot of angst. I think Commissioner Taylor was on the Board during some of those times. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala, certainly. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Or Commissioner Fiala, certainly. And I'd like to -- assuming that the Board would have an interest in having a formal rotation so that there's never really any issue about it. You know, there's just a rotation. October 10, 2017 Page 207 CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: But I do think it's a tall order to ask someone who's newly elected to be chairman. I think that's a tall order. So then -- I would agree to this, just we need to craft it accordingly, newly elected I'm talking about. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, the problem with that is that then you really don't have any kind of a rotation. I mean, for example, the three of us, newly elected, and that would change everything. So let me come back with something. If you run for the County Commission and you are elected, theoretically, you've studied the issues in front of the county and you've got other county commissioners that certainly are up to speed on things. So I think the running of the meeting itself would not be a difficult task for a newly elected person, assuming that, you know, that person has gone through the election process. So that's just a thought to -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: May I ask a question? Do we -- with this rotation -- because the way I understand it now is if there's -- the chairman serves at the pleasure of the Board and can be removed at the pleasure of the Board, and I'm assuming that that -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: That would always be the case. This would be simply by a resolution, and you can -- at any point in time if the Board felt that the chairman wasn't operating properly, then you could certainly make that at any meeting. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Except if the Board is stacked, right? CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. We had a situation where we had a new board, and it was well known that the new board had three people and they were taking over the county government, and they were going to run it their way. The first thing they did, they were one meeting old, and they nominated somebody to be the chairman, and, of October 10, 2017 Page 208 course, they seconded it and so forth. And my comment was, well, that person's only been here one meeting. They don't even know how we run things or what's happening with the staff or anything. I don't think that that's the right thing to do. And so I think maybe that's what you're referring to is they should at least have maybe a year under their belt. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. There's a way we can do that and still keep the rotation. You know, the rotation -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: Right. I'm just saying -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, if you're rotating by number and that numbered person that's up next is newly elected, you just skip that number and go to the next. So there's a way to do it, and -- but I just wanted to make sure that there was some agreement that that would make sense. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, that's fine. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. We'll come back with something over the next -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: To have some structure, that would be fine, instead of having it a beauty contest or a popularity contest. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, geez. We'd be -- CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Political contest. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And the tall guy on the end -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: None of us would ever make it, right? COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm years without it. Guess what -- guess who didn't have the beauty contest. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It should be a facial hair contest is what it should be. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Is that it? COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, that was it. CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Boy, he drops it at the end, right? October 10, 2017 Page 209 Well, any other comments? (No response.) CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much, Terri, for your hard, hard work and, Mr. Miller, for your technical expertise. And with that, the meeting is adjourned. **** Commissioner Fiala moved, seconded by Commissioner McDaniel and carried that the following items under the Consent and Summary Agendas be approved and/or adopted **** Item #16A1 RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF HADLEY PLACE WEST, (APPLICATION NUMBER 20160002629) APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/STIPULATIONS Item #16A2 RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF MARQUESA ISLES OF NAPLES, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20160002811) APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/STIPULATIONS Item #16A3 RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF AZURE AT HACIENDA LAKES – PHASE 2, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20170001741) October 10, 2017 Page 210 APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/STIPULATIONS Item #16A4 FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR ISLES OF COLLIER PRESERVE, PHASE 6, PL20160000742, AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – LOCATED OFF US41 AND RATTLESNAKE HAMMOCK ROAD Item #16A5 FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR ISLES OF COLLIER PRESERVE PHASE 2E, PL20160000960, AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – A FINAL INSPECTION ON AUGUST 10, 2017 DETERMINED THE FACILITIES WERE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE Item #16A6 FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES October 10, 2017 Page 211 FOR MERIDIAN VILLAGE (A/K/A BEACH HOUSE), PL20160000399, AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $9,380.65 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – LOCATED ON AIRPORT PULLING ROAD BETWEEN DAVIS BOULEVARD AND RADIO ROAD Item #16A7 FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE OF THE SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR COLLIER AREA TRANSIT TRANSFER FACILITY, PL20150000969 – FOR CAT’S MAIN FACILITY OFF DAVIS BOULEVARD AND RADIO ROAD Item #16A8 AUTHORIZING THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A CASH BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000 TO FORTRESS VENTURES, LLC WHICH WAS POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER 60.149, PL20160002746 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THRIVE NAPLES – A PROJECT LOCATED OFF PINE RIDGE AND LIVINGSTON ROADS Item #16A9 AUTHORIZING THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $245,829.60 October 10, 2017 Page 212 THAT WAS POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER 60.080-9, PL20160000520 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH ISLES OF COLLIER PRESERVE, PHASE 8 – ASSOCIATED WORK HAS BEEN INSPECTED AND THE DEVELOPER HAS FULFILLED HIS COMMITMENTS Item #16A10 RELEASE OF A CODE ENFORCEMENT LIEN WITH AN ACCRUED VALUE OF $21,600 FOR A PAYMENT OF $1,000 IN THE CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTION ENTITLED BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS V. ORI & BHNV LLC, CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD CASE NO. CEPM20150018950 RELATING TO PROPERTY LOCATED AT 4201 ROSE AVENUE, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA – THE PROPERTY WAS BROUGHT INTO COMPLIANCE ON AUGUST 17, 2016 AND IS UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP Item #16A11 AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE UTILITY FACILITIES QUIT-CLAIM DEED AND BILL OF SALE BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY AND VANDERBILT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC., IN ORDER TO RECONVEY TO VANDERBILT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC, ALL FIRE LINES UTILITY FACILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AT VANDERBILT FITNESS CENTER, PL 20140000162, THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY AND ERRONEOUSLY CONVEYED TO THE COUNTY – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY October 10, 2017 Page 213 Item #16A12 – Moved to Item #11J (Per Agenda Change Sheet) Item #16A13 REVIEW AND APPROVE THE FISCAL YEAR 2018 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN OF THE BIG CYPRESS BASIN, A PART OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT (SFWMD) – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16A14 RESOLUTION 2017-183: APPROVING THE COLLIER COUNTY/ROOKERY BAY NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE COMPREHENSIVE MULTI-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO TRANSMIT THE PLAN TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL IN ORDER TO DRAW DOWN APPROXIMATELY $1.5 MILLION IN FUNDING ALLOCATED TO COLLIER COUNTY FROM THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL Item #16A15 RESOLUTION 2017-184: AMENDING RESOLUTION 2014-186, RELATED TO THE STEWARDSHIP SENDING AREA WITH A DESIGNATION AS “CLH SSA 14”; APPROVING THE EXTENSION OF CERTAIN DATES TO NOVEMBER 18, 2020 IN THE STEWARDSHIP SENDING AREA CREDIT AGREEMENT FOR CLH SSA 14 AND THE ESCROW AGREEMENT FOR CLH SSA 14 October 10, 2017 Page 214 Item #16A16 RESOLUTION 2017-185: AMENDING RESOLUTION 2014-187, RELATED TO THE STEWARDSHIP SENDING AREA WITH A DESIGNATION AS “CLH AND CDC SSA 15”; APPROVING THE EXTENSION OF CERTAIN DATES TO NOVEMBER 18, 2020 IN THE STEWARDSHIP SENDING AREA CREDIT AGREEMENT FOR CLH AND CDC SSA 15 AND THE ESCROW AGREEMENT FOR CLH AND CDC SSA 15 Item #16A17 RESOLUTION 2017-186: AMENDING RESOLUTION 2014-188, RELATED TO THE STEWARDSHIP SENDING AREA WITH A DESIGNATION AS “CLH AND CDC SSA 16”; APPROVING THE EXTENSION OF CERTAIN DATES TO NOVEMBER 18, 2020 IN THE STEWARDSHIP SENDING AREA CREDIT AGREEMENT FOR CLH AND CDC SSA 16 AND THE ESCROW AGREEMENT FOR CLH AND CDC SSA 16 Item #16A18 INVITATION TO BID #17-7054, BEACH MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES, AWARDED TO EASTMAN AGGREGATE ENTERPRISES, LLC FOR AN AS-NEEDED CONTRACT FOR EMERGENCY BEACH MAINTENANCE SERVICES, AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED CONTRACT, AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS ACTIVITY PROMOTES TOURISM – A 3-YEAR AGREEMENT WITH TWO ADDITIONAL 1-YEAR RENEWALS October 10, 2017 Page 215 Item #16A19 RESOLUTION 2017-187: AUTHORIZING A LOCAL AREA PROGRAM (LAP) AGREEMENT (FPN 436971-1-58-01) WITH FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FDOT) IN WHICH COLLIER COUNTY WILL RECEIVE REIMBURSEMENT UP TO THE AMOUNT OF $340,000 TO AUTOMATE AND EXPAND TRAFFIC COUNT STATIONS AND ASSOCIATED COMPONENTS, THROUGHOUT COLLIER COUNTY; AND EXECUTE A RESOLUTION AND AUTHORIZE A NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT (PROJECT NO. 33537) Item #16A20 AWARDING CONTRACT #16-7016 TO KISINGER CAMPO & ASSOCIATES, CORPORATION FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT PEER REVIEW OF BRIDGE REPLACEMENT OR REHAB PROJECTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $202,442, PURSUANT TO RFP #16-7016, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE ATTACHED CONTRACT (PROJECT NO. 66066) – FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES TO REVIEW THE DESIGNS OF FOURTEEN (14) BRIDGES CONTAINED IN FOUR COUNTY BRIDGE REPLACEMENT OR REHABILITATION PROJECTS Item #16A21 EXTENDING CONTRACT #13-6140 “PURCHASE OF LIME ROCK AND FILL” FOR AN ADDITIONAL ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY (180) DAYS OR UNTIL A NEW CONTRACT IS AWARDED, WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST October 10, 2017 Page 216 Item #16A22 STAFF INITIATED RECOVERY PRACTICES FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE CAUSED BY HURRICANE IRMA WHICH PROMOTE STREAMLINED AND SAFE BUILD-BACK EFFORTS. IN ADDITION, TO APPROVE SEVERAL TEMPORARY MEASURES TO EASE RECOVERY EFFORTS FOR A PERIOD OF 180 DAYS OR AS EXTENDED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BOARD) – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16B1 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BCC), ACTING IN ITS CAPACITY AS THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA), APPROVE THE ATTENDANCE OF TWO IMMOKALEE LOCAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS AT THE FLORIDA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE; AUTHORIZE PAYMENT OF ATTENDEES’ REGISTRATION, LODGING, TRAVEL AND PER DIEM FROM THE IMMOKALEE CRA TRUST FUND (FUND 186) TRAVEL BUDGET; AND DECLARE THE TRAINING RECEIVED AS SERVING A VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE – WILL BE HELD OCTOBER 18 - 20, 2017 IN DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA WITH COSTS OF APPROXIMATELY $790 Item #16C1 A WORK ORDER UNDER CONTRACT #14-6213-104 IN THE AMOUNT OF $336,562.45 TO QUALITY ENTERPRISES USA, INC., UNDER PROJECT NO. 70198, “MPS 302 DIESEL BYPASS October 10, 2017 Page 217 PIPING;” AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT Item #16D1 A COLLIER COUNTY TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (TDC) CATEGORY “A” GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF NAPLES FOR $200,000 FOR THE CITY OF NAPLES’ 8TH AVENUE SOUTH BEACH PARK IMPROVEMENTS AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THE PROJECT PROMOTES TOURISM – WORK INCLUDES REPLACING A RETAINING WALL AT THE PARK’S ENTRANCE, RECONSTRUCTING A PORTION OF AN EXISTING WHEELCHAIR RAMP TO MEET ADA SPECIFICATIONS, AND CONSTRUCTING AN ADA- COMPLIANT WHEELCHAIR RAMP ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE PARK Item #16D2 EIGHT (8) MORTGAGE SATISFACTIONS FOR THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) LOAN PROGRAM IN THE COMBINED AMOUNT OF $96,050 – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16D3 – Withdrawn (Per Agenda Change Sheet) RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) RELEASE OF A 20-YEAR LIEN FOR THE ASSOCIATED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY LAND ACQUISITION PROJECT CONSISTENT WITH CDBG REQUIREMENTS October 10, 2017 Page 218 Item #16D4 COMBINING THE RELEASE OF THREE (3) SEPARATE LIENS WITH ONE DEVELOPER IN THE AMOUNT OF $23,096.46 FOR PROPERTIES DEVELOPED BY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY, INC. THAT HAVE REMAINED AFFORDABLE FOR THE REQUIRED 15-YEAR PERIOD SET FORTH IN THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) IMPACT FEE PROGRAM DEFERRAL AGREEMENTS – RELEASING LIENS ON NAPLES MANOR LOTS 7, 8 & 11 PROPERTIES; UNIT ONE, BLOCK 14 Item #16D5 COMBINING THE RELEASE OF 29 SEPARATE LIENS WITH ONE DEVELOPER FOR A COMBINED AMOUNT OF $197,636.92 FOR PROPERTIES DEVELOPED BY IMMOKALEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, INC AND ALSO KNOWN AS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY, INC. THAT HAVE REMAINED AFFORDABLE FOR THE REQUIRED 15-YEAR PERIOD SET FORTH IN THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) IMPACT FEE PROGRAM DEFERRAL AGREEMENTS – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16D6 THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN A VENDOR CERTIFICATION REGARDING A SCRUTINIZED COMPANIES LIST TO COMPLY WITH A REQUIREMENT OF THE GRANT AWARD FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND October 10, 2017 Page 219 FAMILIES (DCF) FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE (CJMHSA) REINVESTMENT GRANT – THIS CERTIFICATION AFFIRMS THE COUNTY HAS NOT ENTERED INTO A CONTRACT FOR GOODS OR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF $1 MILLION THAT ARE EITHER ON THE SCRUTINIZED COMPANIES LIST WITH ACTIVITIES IN SUDAN OR THE SCRUTINIZED COMPANIES WITH ACTIVITIES IN THE IRAN PETROLEUM ENERGY SECTOR LIST Item #16D7 ACCEPTING THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT EXTENSION REPORT FOR THE THIRD QUARTER 2017 – TO COMPLY WITH REQUIREMENTS IN FY16/17 CDBG AGREEMENTS Item #16D8 ACCEPT AND RATIFY FEE WAIVERS GRANTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF DOMESTIC ANIMAL SERVICES FOR THE PERIOD OF APRIL 1, 2017 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2017 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCESS ESTABLISHED BY RESOLUTION NO. 2016-125 IN THE AMOUNT OF $520 Item #16D9 A DONATION OF $17,114 AS OFF-SITE PRESERVATION FOR 808 WIGGINS PASS ROAD SDP (PL2016001111) TO SATISFY THE NATIVE VEGETATION RETENTION REQUIREMENT October 10, 2017 Page 220 Item #16D10 AFTER THE FACT SUBMITTAL OF A 2017 FTA 5339 BUS AND BUS FACILITIES GRANT APPLICATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $368,000 FOR THE PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC FAN COOLING SYSTEMS ON SIXTEEN FIXED- ROUTE VEHICLES – THE COUNTY HAS REQUESTED THE USE OF TOLL REVENUE CREDITS IN THE AMOUNT OF $92,000 FOR THE 20% GRANT MATCH REQUIREMENT Item #16D11 A COLLIER COUNTY TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (TDC) CATEGORY “A” GRANT APPLICATION FOR BEACH PARK FACILITIES IN THE AMOUNT OF $67,000 TO INSTALL THE T-2 FLEX AUTOCOUNT SYSTEM AT DELNOR-WIGGINS PASS STATE PARK AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THE PROJECT EXPENDITURE PROMOTES TOURISM Item #16D12 CONTINUED FROM SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 BCC MEETING. EXECUTION OF A SOLAR LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY (FPL) FOR NORTH COLLIER REGIONAL PARK (NCRP) Item #16D13 October 10, 2017 Page 221 PROPOSED ROUTE MODIFICATIONS TO ROUTES 22 AND 23 SERVING IMMOKALEE WITHIN THE COLLIER AREA TRANSIT (CAT) SYSTEM – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16D14 AMENDMENT NO. 8 TO THE SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT WITH BIG CYPRESS HOUSING CORPORATION AND COLLIER COUNTY TO DECREASE FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $60,000 TO ELIMINATE FENCING FOR A PROJECT KNOWN AS HATCHER’S PRESERVE – TO ENSURE THE PROJECT AGREEMENT END DATE IS ACHIEVED Item #16E1 RESOLUTION 2017-188: A FLORIDA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COUNTY GRANT APPLICATION, REQUEST FOR GRANT FUND DISTRIBUTION FORM IN THE AMOUNT OF $68,984 FOR TRAINING AND MEDICAL/RESCUE EQUIPMENT AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT Item #16E2 AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO AGREEMENT #14-6293 WITH MILLENNIUM PHYSICIAN GROUP, LLC TO ADD LIMITED PHARMACY SERVICES THROUGH THE MEDCENTER – WILL INCLUDE COMMONLY PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS SUCH AS ANTIBIOTICS AND FLU VACCINES – NARCOTICS WILL NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAM October 10, 2017 Page 222 Item #16E3 A REVISED AGREEMENT WITH HODGES UNIVERSITY TO ALLOW HODGES EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN (EMT) AND PARAMEDIC STUDENTS TO OBTAIN STATE- REQUIRED FIELD INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING UNDER THE APPROPRIATE SUPERVISION OF THE COLLIER COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DIVISION; THIS WAS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED BY THE BOARD ON APRIL 25, 2017 AND HODGES SUBSEQUENTLY REQUESTED ADDITIONAL EDITS TO THE AGREEMENT Item #16E4 AN “AFTER-THE-FACT” REQUEST FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE TO THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES INCURRED DURING HURRICANE IRMA – ONCE APPROVED, THE COUNTY WILL SEEK REIMBURSEMENT FOR ALL ELIGIBLE EXPENSES INCLUDING LABOR, EQUIPMENT, AND MATERIALS IN SUPPORT OF THE EMERGENCY Item #16E5 ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS AND OTHER CONTRACTUAL MODIFICATIONS REQUIRING BOARD APPROVAL – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16E6 October 10, 2017 Page 223 ROUTINE AND CUSTOMARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $6,062,082.56 FOR APPROVED OPEN PURCHASE ORDERS INTO FISCAL YEAR 2018 – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16F1 CONTINUED FROM THE SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 BCC MEETING BOARD RATIFICATION OF SUMMARY, CONSENT AND REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS APPROVED BY THE COUNTY MANAGER DURING THE BOARD'S SCHEDULED RECESS. (IN ABSENTIA MEETING(S) DATED JULY 25, 2017; AUGUST 8, 2017 AND AUGUST 22, 2017 – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY JULY 25, 2017 A. RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE A CREDIT ADJUSTMENT TO TIARA REAL ESTATE, CO., LLC WITH RESPECT TO UTILITIES ACCOUNT #03902380000 FOR SEWER SERVICES AT 13325 TAMIAMI TRAIL N., DUE TO ONSITE REDEVELOPMENT IN APRIL 2012 BY TIARA REAL ESTATE, CO., LLC. B. RECOMMENDATION TO ACCEPT THE AFTER-THE- FACT GRANT OFFER TO THE FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION (FWC) FOR FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,529 FOR THE PURCHASE AND DELIVERY OF THREE (3) October 10, 2017 Page 224 BEARSAVER TRASH RECEPTACLES FOR THREE (3) COLLIER COUNTY PARK/PRESERVE SITES. C. RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PREPARED BY THE PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY AND NOTIFICATION OF ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR SURPLUS. D. RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY THE PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS AND OTHER ITEMS AS IDENTIFIED. E. REQUEST THAT THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF JULY 19, 2017. F. TO RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS WERE DRAWN FOR THE PERIODS BETWEEN JUNE 29 AND JULY 12, 2017, PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06. AUGUST 8, 2017 A. TO PROVIDE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT October 10, 2017 Page 225 COURT’S INTERNAL AUDIT REPORT 2017-8 FEE PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: ARTHREX, INC., ARTHREX MANUFACTURING, INC., AND RES COLLIER HOLDINGS, LLC, ISSUED JULY 26, 2017. B. RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY THE PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS AND OTHER ITEMS AS IDENTIFIED. C. RECOMMENDATION TO TERMINATE FOR CONVENIENCE THE AWARD FORITB #16-70019 FOR “PRINTING OF TOURISM GUIDES” AWARDED TO GRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS, INC., OF TITUSVILLE FL D/B/A GRAPHIC PRESS. D. TO RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS WERE DRAWN FOR THE PERIODS BETWEEN JULY 13 AND JULY 26, 2017, PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06. E. REQUEST THAT THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF AUGUST 2, 2017. F. REPORT TO THE BOARD REGARDING THE INVESTMENT OF COUNTY FUNDS AS OF THE October 10, 2017 Page 226 QUARTER ENDED JUNE 30, 2017. AUGUST 22, 2017 A. RECOMMENDATION TO AWARD ITB NO. 17-7180 COLLIER COUNTY LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFICATION MASTER PLAN – SANTA BARBARA BOULEVARD (DAVIS BOULEVARD TO I-75 BRIDGE) LANDSCAPE AND IRRIGATION INSTALLATION CONSTRUCTION PROJECT TO HANNULA LANDSCAPING AND IRRIGATION, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $449,937.60 (PROJECT NO. 60207) AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT. B. RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE SUBMITTAL OF A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF DECONTAMINATION EQUIPMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $15,438. C. RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PREPARED BY THE PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY AND NOTIFICATION OF ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR SURPLUS. D. RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY THE PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS AND OTHER ITEMS AS IDENTIFIED. October 10, 2017 Page 227 E. TO RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS WERE DRAWN FOR THE PERIODS BETWEEN JULY 27 AND AUGUST 9, 2047, PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06. F. REQUEST THAT THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF AUGUST 16, 2017. Item #16F2 WAIVING FORMAL COMPETITION AND AUTHORIZING THE CONTINUAL USE OF GOVMAX BUDGET SOFTWARE AS A SINGLE SOURCE AND APPROVE A 5-YEAR CONTRACT WITH A 1-YEAR RENEWAL OPTION WITH SARASOTA COUNTY FOR GOVERNMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (GOVMAX) HOSTED APPLICATION SERVICE AND LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT AND ENHANCEMENTS TO THE GOVMAX BUDGET SOFTWARE – A STATE OF THE ART BUDGET SOFTWARE PACKAGE DESIGNED AND HOSTED BY SARASOTA COUNTY Item #16F3 HIRING 3 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES IN PLACE OF FULL TIME TEMPORARY LABORERS CURRENTLY USED BY PELICAN October 10, 2017 Page 228 BAY SERVICES DIVISION TO SUPPLEMENT THE LABOR NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN THE COMMUNITY AND TO AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT TO TRANSFER FUNDS FROM THE TEMPORARY LABOR COST CENTER TO PERSONNEL SERVICES – TO TRANSITION TO A MORE STABLE AND PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE IN LIEU OF TEMPORARY LABORERS WITH A HIGH TURNOVER RATE Item #16F4 TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX PROMOTION AND MARKETING FUNDINGTO SUPPORT FOUR UPCOMING NOVEMBER 2017 SPORTS TOURISM EVENTS UP TO $27,700 AND MAKE A FINDING THESE EXPENDITURES PROMOTE TOURISM – FOR THE WINTER NATIONALS SENIOR SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT NOVEMBER 7-12, 2017; THE PARADISE SHOOTOUT LACROSSE TOURNAMENT NOVEMBER 11-12, 2017; THE RED BULL PRIVATEERS PADDLE BOARD COMPETITION NOVEMBER 17-18, 2017 AND THE PARADISE COAST FASTPITCH SOFTBALL INVITATIONAL NOVEMBER 17-19, 2017 Item #16F5 USING EVENT & ATHLETIC APPLICATION FOR SPORTS TOURISM IN AN EFFORT TO ASSIST IN THE SPORTS TOURISM PROMOTION FOR COLLIER COUNTY STAFF AND EVENT ORGANIZERS ALIKE AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE THE APPLICATION – WILL AID IN THE PROCESS OF COLLECTING DATA, FORECASTING PERFORMANCE, AND October 10, 2017 Page 229 IMPROVE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY STAFF AND EVENT ORGANIZERS Item #16F6 THE 2017 FOOTBALL UNIVERSITY (FBU) EVENT OPERATING AND PROMOTIONAL EXPENSES SUPPORT BUDGET OF $372,000 AND $140,000 FOR MEDIA EXPENSES USING TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX PROMOTION FUNDS, APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT WITH ALL AMERICAN GAMES, AND MAKE A FINDING THIS EVENT PROMOTES TOURISM – A NATIONAL EVENT SHOWCASING THE BEST SIXTH, SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE FOOTBALL TEAMS AND STARS FROM AROUND THE NATION THAT WILL TAKE PLACE DECEMBER 17-21, 2017 Item #16F7 TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $34,500 FOR CONTRACT #17-7229-WV – SPORTS FACILITIES ASSESSMENT WITH HUNDEN STRATEGIC PARTNERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW AMATEUR SPORTS COMPLEX AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THESE EXPENDITURES PROMOTE TOURISM – HUNDEN WILL PERFORM TASKS WITHIN AN AGREED UPON SCOPE AND WILL PRESENT ITS FINDINGS MONTHLY TO COUNTY STAFF, WHO WILL IN TURN REPORT THOSE FINDINGS TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION QUARTERLY Item #16F8 October 10, 2017 Page 230 THE FORM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOARD AND APPLICANTS PARTICIPATING IN THE IMMOKALEE IMPACT FEE INSTALLMENT PAYMENT PILOT PROGRAM (PROGRAM) ADOPTED BY THE BOARD ON JULY 11, 2017, ALLOWING FOR PAYMENT OF IMPACT FEES BY AN INSTALLMENT PROGRAM, AND TO ESTABLISH AN INTEREST RATE, TERM LENGTH AND ADMINISTRATIVE FEES FOR THE PROGRAM – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16F9 THE USE OF $250,000 IN TOURISM DIVISION EMERGENCY ADVERTISING RESERVES FOR A POST HURRICANE IRMA ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS RECOVERY PLAN, AUTHORIZE ANY RELATED BUDGET AMENDMENTS, AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS PLAN PROMOTES TOURISM Item #16F10 AN AGREEMENT WITH FRIENDS OF THE FAKAHATCHEE FOR A WAYFINDING PROJECT THAT INCLUDES TRAIL SIGNAGE, PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS, ADVERTISING, PR, DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION OF THE TRAILS NETWORK AT THE FAKAHATCHEE STRAND IN THE AMOUNT OF $46,720 AND MAKE A FINDING THIS EXPENDITURE PROMOTES TOURISM – THE PROJECT SUPPORTS ONGOING EFFORTS TO PROMOTE ECOTOURISM ACTIVITIES FOR VISITORS TO THE COUNTY Item #16F11 October 10, 2017 Page 231 CONTINUED FROM SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 BCC MEETING. AN UPDATED REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY (COPCN), FOR JUST LIKE FAMILY CONCIERGE MEDICAL TRANSPORT SERVICES, LLC., D/B/A CONCIERGE MEDICAL TRANSPORT (CMT), TO PROVIDE CLASS 2 ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT (ALS) INTER- FACILITY TRANSPORT AMBULANCE SERVICE FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR – THIS ITEM WAS DEFERRED TO A LATER BOARD MEETING DUE TO THE DEATH OF OWNER ELISABETH NASSBERG; ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100%) OF THE OWNERSHIP OF CMT WAS TRANSFERRED TO JACOB NASSBERG ON JULY 14, 2017 Item #16F12 RESOLUTION 2017-189: APPROVING AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2017-18 ADOPTED BUDGET Item #16F13 ADDITIONAL FY 2018 BUDGET AMENDMENTS COVERING POST HURRICANE IRMA CLEAN UP AND RECOVERY FOR THE COUNTY- WIDE DEBRIS REMOVAL MISSION, FUNDING FOR EVERGLADES CITY PURSUANT TO THE RECENTLY APPROVED INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT AND CERTAIN CASH FLOW REQUIREMENTS IN EMERGENCY DISASTER FUND (003) – THREE ADDITIONAL BUDGET AMENDMENTS: $30,000,000 TO CONTINUE FUNDING THE DEBRIS REMOVAL MISSION; $250,000 ESTABLISHING BUDGET FOR October 10, 2017 Page 232 EVERGLADES CITY ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO THE INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT; $50,000 TRANSFER FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO EMERGENCY DISASTER FUND (003) FOR CASH FLOW PURPOSES Item #16F14 A FY2018 BUDGET AMENDMENT IN EMERGENCY DISASTER FUND (003) IN THE AMOUNT OF $400,000 INTENDED TO PROVIDE BUDGET TO PAY FOR GOODS AND SERVICES INCURRED PRIOR TO AND IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE IRMA. FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $500,000 WERE PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED BY THE BOARD ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 BUT THESE FY17 FUNDS WERE NOT ENCUMBERED BY FISCAL YEAR END AND THUS THIS BUDGET DID NOT ROLL FORWARD BECAUSE FUND (003) IS NOT A CAPITAL FUND Item #16F15 – Continued to the October 24, 2017 BCC Meeting (Per Agenda Change Sheet) RECOMMENDATION TO RENEW AND APPROVE THE ANNUAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE, INC. AND COLLIER COUNTY IN CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE ESTABLISHED PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP DESIGNED TO ADVANCE THE COUNTY’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS Item #16F16– Continued to the October 24, 2017 BCC Meeting (Per Agenda Change Sheet) October 10, 2017 Page 233 RECOMMENDATION TO RENEW AND APPROVE THE ANNUAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTNERSHIP FOR COLLIER’S FUTURE ECONOMY, INC. (“PARTNERSHIP”) AND COLLIER COUNTY IN CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE ESTABLISHED PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP DESIGNED TO ADVANCE THE COUNTY’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS Item #16F17 – Continued to the October 24, 2017 BCC Meeting (Per Agenda Change Sheet) RECOMMENDATION TO RENEW AND APPROVE THE ANNUAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN ECONOMIC INCUBATORS, INC. AND THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE ESTABLISHED PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP DESIGNED TO ADVANCE THE COUNTY’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS Item #16H1 PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING OCTOBER 10, 2017 AS TZU CHI FOUNDATION DAY IN COLLIER COUNTY. THIS PROCLAMATION WILL BE HAND DELIVERED BY CHAIRMAN TAYLOR Item #16H2 – Moved to Item #10A (Per Agenda Change Sheet) Item #16H3 PROVIDING A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR A GRANT October 10, 2017 Page 234 APPLICATION FROM THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL TO THE U.S. EDA TO FUND A DISASTER RECOVERY COORDINATOR POSITION – SWFRPC HOPES TO FUND THE POSITION THROUGH A $250,000 GRANT; THE COORDINATOR WILL ASSIST IN ONGOING EFFORTS TO FULLY RECOVER FROM HURRICANE IRMA, PARTICULARLY TO IMPROVE REGIONAL COMMUNICATION, AND IDENTIFY STATE AND FEDERAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE RESOURCES Item #16J1 EXTENDING THE 2017 TAX ROLL AT THE REQUEST OF TAX COLLECTOR LARRY RAY – DUE TO THE VOLUME OF VALUE ADJUSTMENT BOARD PETITIONS Item #16J2 AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR ELECTION SERVICES FOR THE FEBRUARY 6, 2018, CITY OF NAPLES MUNICIPAL ELECTION – AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BCC, AS OWNER OF THE VOTING AND BALLOT TABULATION EQUIPMENT, SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS, AS CUSTODIAN OF VOTING AND BALLOT TABULATION EQUIPMENT, AND THE CITY OF NAPLES, AS THE PARTY HOLDING AND PAYING FOR THE ELECTION SERVICES Item #16J3 TAX COLLECTOR REQUEST FOR ADVANCE COMMISSIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTE 192.102(1) FOR October 10, 2017 Page 235 FY 2018 – REQUESTING 1/12TH OF THE TAX COLLECTOR’S COMMISSION IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,230,375.83 Item #16J4 TO RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR WHICH REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS WERE DRAWN FOR THE PERIOD BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 14 AND SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06 Item #16J5 REQUEST THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE & PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF OCTOBER 4, 2017 Item #16K1 RESOLUTION 2017-190: APPOINTING JOHN D. JENKINS AND KERRU DERA TO THE PUBLIC TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND TO TERMS EXPIRING MARCH 22, 2020 Item #16K2 A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND MUTUAL RELEASE IN THE LAWSUIT STYLED SHARON AND LEE RUBENSTEIN V. HANNULA LANDSCAPING AND IRRIGATION, INC. AND COLLIER COUNTY (CASE NO. 16-CA-2045), NOW PENDING IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL October 10, 2017 Page 236 CIRCUIT IN AND FOR COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, FOR $75,000, WITH PAYMENT TO BE MADE BY HANNULA’S INSURANCE CARRIER AND NO CONTRIBUTION BY COLLIER COUNTY Item #16K3 A JOINT MOTION FOR STIPULATED ORDER OF TAKING AND FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $9,000 FOR PARCEL 427RDUE, IN THE LAWSUIT CAPTIONED COLLIER COUNTY V. LEONDESE BICHOTTE, ET AL, CASE NO. 17-CA- 1443, REQUIRED FOR THE GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD EXPANSION PROJECT NO. 60145. (FISCAL IMPACT: $9,170) Item #17A RESOLUTION 2017-191: PETITION VAC-PL20170001877 TO DISCLAIM, RENOUNCE AND VACATE THE CONSERVATION EASEMENT DESCRIBED IN O.R. BOOK 5079, PAGE 1855 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ELSA STREET, APPROXIMATELY ONE-QUARTER MILE EAST OF SHIRLEY STREET, IN SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA Item #17B RESOLUTION 2017-192: APPROVING AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD, TRANSFERS AND SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2016-17 ADOPTED BUDGET October 10, 2017 Page 237 Item #17C RESOLUTION 2017-193: APPROVING AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD, TRANSFERS AND SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2017-18 ADOPTED BUDGET ***** October 10, 2017 Page 238 There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 4:38 p.m. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL ________________________________________ PENNY TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN ATTEST DWIGHT E. BROCK, CLERK __________________________ These minutes approved by the Board on ________________, as presented ______________ or as corrected _____________. TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF U.S. LEGAL SUPPORT, INC., BY TERRI LEWIS, COURT REPORTER AND NOTARY PUBLIC.