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BCC Minutes 04/30/1985 W - - - Naple., Florida, April 30, 1985 LET IT BB REMEMBERED, that the Board of County Com.i.sioners in and for the County of Collier, and also acting as the Board of Zoning Appeals ~nd as the governing beard(e) of such special district. as have been created according to law and having conducted busines. herein, ~et on this date at 9.05 A.M. in Special Workshop S..sion in Building "F" of the Courthouse Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following .e~bers present. CHAIRMAN I Frederick J. Voss VICE CIIAIRMMI. Anne Goodnight Max Ha..e C. C. "Red" Holland ABSENT. John A. Pistor ALSO PRESENT. Elinor M. 5kinner, Deputy Clerk, Kenneth Cuyler, Assistant County Attorney, Donald B. Lusk, County Managerl Vickie Mullins, Acting Community Uevelopment Administratorl John Boldt, Water Manage.ent Director: and Nancy Israelson, Administrative Aasistant to the Board. AGENDA Discussion of the Policy Concerning Advisory Boards OD'B1tAL DISCOBSIOII Commissioner Voss explained the purpose of this Workshop is to discuss the Advisory Board Policy. He stated there are 18 boards, not all of which are strictly advisory boards, for example the Contractors' Licensing Board, the Marco Island Code Establishment Review Board, and the Collier County Utility Rate and Regulation Board, which still exists even though the regulatory powers for utilities have been relloved. He said, recently, the Board of County COlllmissioners adopted a policy which changed the terms so a member can serve only two consecutive ter..s, unless there is no other qualified applicant to s.rve. Mrs. Jeannette Boucher, Co-I:esident of the League of Women Voters of Collier County, commended Commissioner Voss for scheduling this workshop and recognized Mrs. Israelson for the important role she plays in i.ple~enting the Advisory Board Policy. She said that citizen advisory boards have been a subject of League study for the past two ye.rs and that the League f.els they are important to Collier County aø~~ 08f) PAr,t 717 Page 1 _J_~_..A- ........~r........"...~ ........ IN. ... ~ .., 08(h~r,t 71S April 30, 1985 .ince they provide a ..dium for extensive participation in government, .erve as chann.ls to bring citizens' points of view to the County Co.-ission and the Ad.inistration, and reduce the workload of elected officials. Sh. .aid caution must be exc.rised eo they do not dilute the authority of the el.cted Co~ission and the Administration. She .aid the Leagu. hop.. this workshop will lead to a thorough airing of vi.ws and the creation of a suitable ordinance for consideration by the Co..is.ion. Sh. stre.sed ordinance, rather than resolution, and .tr....d the L.ague believe. t.hat this i. a better instrument .ince it carr i.. with it dutie. of enforcement. Sh~ .aid the League'. main conc.rns are focu..d in several areas, the fir.t being the i~portance of clearly .tating the .tandards under which new board. will be created and that the existing Board. will be reviewed. She said new citizen board. .hould be e.tabli.hed by ordinance only when there i. a direct n..d and .videnc. that i~proved efficiency in government will re.ult from citizen input. She referred to membership and .aid it ~u.t be op.n to all .eg.ents of the community and should reflect the intere.ts and concerns of the community, as much a. po.sible. She said limiting ter.. of the lIemb.rs is iaportant a. every board need. the invigorating influence of fresh ideas and new ways of solving problems, and pointed out that the vaJu~ of experience, gained by long ter.., i. outweighed by the value of bringing in new people. She .aid, pre.ently, there are no review provi.ions and added that the League would like to see the Board of County Commis.ion.rs e.tabli.h one. She .ugg.sted on. beginning in this regard could be that each board .ubmit an annual r.port which could .arve a. a tool for planning, budgeting and evaluating board performance. She said provi.ions .hould be made to abolish boards no longer effective and .tated the League lupports the concept of making the public aware of the existence of citizen board. and the opportunities to serve on them by adverti.ing vacancies, which i. currently done. She .aid that proc.dures could be improved which would re.ult in greater public awareness and understanding of the requirement. of .ervice. She said the League'. .pecific recom- mendations are contained in the League's study conclusion entitled LWVCC propo.ed Advi.ory Board Criteria, a copy of which has be.n given to each Commissioner, the County Manager and County Attorney and i. available to the public. She thanked the Commi..ionere for the oppor- tunity to participate in the workshop and .aid the League looked forward to hearing the proposal. of other individuals and group.. lOOK Page 2 L:=J .---, L--.I t:=J -- .. ... .. April 30, 1985 Hr. G.orge Keller, pr.sid.nt of the Colli.r County Civic F.dera- tion. .xpr....d hi. opinion that Advisory Board. should r.pr..ent .ore peopl., adding h. was r.ferring to the Coa.tal Are. Planning Commi..ion (CApe) which i. h.avily .anned by realtor., bankers and per.on. who have a direct interest in the deci.ions, and added that not enough ..abers of the general public are repr~..nted on the CApe. He said the requir.m.nt that a Board m.~ber b. r.li.v.d of his duties if he mi.... more than two meetings deprives ~any intellig.nt people from .erving on thes. Boards. H. ref.rr.d to those people who go north for two or three .onths in the summer and .tat. this requirement denies them the chance to .erve on Advisory Boards. He said ~ost Advisory Boards have alt.rnate. and suggested including a provision allowing a member to .ak. arrange~ents with an alternate to serve in his place when he left COlli.r County for the sumlller. He said this procedure would not l.ave the Board. with too few people to handle busin.ss and would allow a broad.r sp.ctrum of people to serv. on Advi.ory Board.. Commi.sioner Vo.s pointed out that the abs.nce policy pertain. to thr.e, unexcus.d abs.nc.s of a a.mber. and agreed with Mr. Keller'. point r~arding using an alternate if a member leaves the County, for a length of tim.. During the discussion that followed, Acting Coamunity Development Adainistrator Mullins said that alternates do not vote unless one of the regular a..bers is absent, and added that Staff appreciate. and ~w.ds the input of the alternates. Mr. Keller said that an alternate should be appointed a. a reg~lar member when a vacancy occur.. H. d.scribed a situation when one alternate was appointed as a regular m.mber .ven though there was another alt.rnate who had served longer. which h. said ultimately resulted in the resignation of the person not appointed. Commissioner Holland explained this occurred because one district was not served at all, at that tiMe. He said the current CApe m.ab.rship consists of two repre.entatives fro. District ): one, from District 4: two, froa District 2 and two, from District l. Mr. K~ller said he did not think there had ever been anyone who served frOll Golden Gate. Comai.sioner Holland said that Arnold Glas., Ed Oates and Fred Key.s r.pres.nt Golden Gate. Commissioner Voss said the primary point i. that the alt.rnate .hould asc.nd to .embership if there i. a vacancy on an Advi.ory Board and then an alternate would be appointed by the Commis.ioner whose turn it is to appoint one. Commi.sioner Holland a.ked if that would not create the possibility of having a majority of people from one district a~~K 086 PN 719 Page 3 "" 1 ... - Jl_ . "~.~~*",,,.~~,.,_....._.. "',"-~-~" ... .. aoOK 0861'Ar.t 720 Apr il 30, 1985 and Co..i..loner Voss agreed. He .uggested, if SOmeone i. appointed a. a ...ber froe an alternate position, a solution might be to allow a co..i.sloner to appoint the alternate, if it was his turn to appoint an the alternate. Co..i.sioner Holland said this workshop ls an excellent idea and sai~, with regard to the CAPC, he has felt strongly there i. not a lot of involve.ent from District 4, at this point, because it is all the City of Naples. He suggested there could be two representatives from Districts 1, 2 and 3 and 1 froa District 4, as there currently are, and then have three alternate., in.tead of one. He said when the term for a .ember from one district expires, the alternate from that district could be appointed and this would keep representation .pread out and would be fair. Mr. Keller referred to the past practice of elected offical. who mOve into an area before running for office because of that require.ent and said it is easy for any group, that wants to control the .ituation, tu suggest that prospective candidates move into certain areas. He said the fact that a man lives in a district does not necessarily .ean he represent. that district. He suggested whether a candidate has been active in the locality where he lives and has an interest in that area should be considered. Commissioner Voss pointed out no decisions can be .ade at this wor~shop, but he suggested that indications could be given to the County Attorney, who will draft the ordinance. He asked if it WQS the general t..ling of those pre.ent that the ordinance should include soae statement that one of the qualifications to be con- sidered for any appointment is the activity of the person in his par- ticular area? Mr.. Mullins responded that one of the .ost important things to realize is that the CAPC and CCPA are not policy-making board. anð that their purpose is to review the petitions that come before them, look at good planning practices, look at whether a develo~ent will be co.- patible with the rezone, or whatever is requested, and to lilten to the public. She said that the Board of County Commis.ioners set policy and, therefore, she did not see why ð mujor requirement should be that a particular number of people come from Golden Gate or North Naples. She said people who live in Collier County, fulltime, are needed because a person who leaves during the summer will miss some of the petitions. Co.missioner Hasse expressed his opinion that th~ background of a Page 4 t:::J t=:J ~ - - - April 30, 1985 person ia important and what that peraon has done for his co..unity. Com.issioner Voss said the CAPC was set up by Special Act and he asked if that Act deter.ine. the numbe: of members and alternate. and A.aiatant County Attorney Cuyler said it doe.. Mra. Charlotte Weatman, representing the League of Women Voter., thanked tte Board for this workshop. She ref~rred to the subject of alternates and me.ber.hip and said the League understands that the la.t work.hop held on this subject was in January of 1982. She said, when she reviewed that meeting's minute., she found there was a discussion of alternates and, as a consequenck of that meeting, the only alternates presently allowed, within the ordinance, are two for the CAPC. She said the controlling ordinance, with regard to the CAPC and CCPA, states that there shall be a minimum of five .ember., no les., and no more than ten. She said the present membership is seven and the IAPC has five mellbers. She explained that Steve Martin, Chairman of the lAC at that time, raised the subject of alternates and added the EAC had five members and there were occasions when conflicts of inter- est occurred. ing ...bership by law to file She said another subject that should be included regard- is that members of active Advisory Boards are required Form 4 if there is a conflict. She said those members must not leave tho room, according to the current law, ~ut they do not vote and within 15 days they must file Form 4. She clarified this is not Form 1, the P'in!lIIcial Report, which sOlie Boards require. She said there were occasions when the EAC had absences and during the delibera- tions on a subject, if one person cannot vote, 00 meeting can be held on that subject. She explained that the Commission, at that time, decided that alternate. would be removed from all Boards except the CAPC. She said the subject of one person not serving on more than on. Advisory Board at the same tim. was discuss.d at the January, 1982 Bce m.eting and said she did not know if that policy has been reviewed. Commissioner Voss said that the CCPA i. co_pos.d of mellber. from the CAPC, and Mrs. West_an responded that the Chairman of the CAPC and three m.llbers plus the Chairman of the IAPC, or his designee, form the official CCPA. Mrs. Westman read froll a Dade County Code, Section 2-1138 which .tated that all members of County Boards shall be permanent and elec- tors of Dade County, unless the Board of County Commissioners by a 2/3rd vote of its membership waives this requirement, that the .embers should have reputations for integrity and cOllllunity .ervice: and each &OOK 08f) PAr,( 721 Page 5 , .., 086 722 AprU 30, 1985 ,ao( ,~r,t Board shall include one parson whose livelihood d~es not depend on the area regulated, ad.inist.r.d or d.alt with by the Board. Sh. .aid a good .xample of this is the Food Establishm.nt Control Board which requir.. two .emb.rs not connect.d with the food .stabliahment industry and three who are food industry ori.nted. She continued reading fro. the Dad. COunty Cod. which stated that any .ember of a County Board who ceas.s to be . r.sid.nt of Dad. COunty, during the t.r. of his or her offic., shall i.medi~tely advise the Clerk of the Board of COunty COMaission.rs and, upon b.ing advis.d by the Cl.rk of such circum- stanc.., the Board of County Com.issioners shall declare said position to be vacant and shall promptly fill sa.e, pursuant to the provisionø of this Section. She said the Code states t~at the primary conaideration in appointing Board .embera shall be to provide the Board with the needed technical, professional, financial, business or admin- istrative expertise and the .e.b.rship of .ach Board should b. repr.- s.ntative of the co..unity at-large and ahould reflect the racial, ethnic and cultural .akeup of the com.unity. She said the Cod. con- tinu.s by atating that no me_ber of any County Board ehall beco.. a candidat. for .l.cted political offic. during hie or her term and should any .emb.r qualify aa a candidate, such qualificationa ehall b. d....d a t.nd.r of resignation and that no peraon ehall serve on two or lIor. County Boards, simultaneoualy. She said that the League of Women Vot.r. .ndorsee all o{ the above ele.ents. Mrs. West.an aaid that the EAC and WMAß have been working toward unifying to be called the Natural Resourc.s Advisory Council and, at the last ..eting, a draft was pre.ented r~garding this .atter. She said that Mr. Kant was preaent, .uch discuesion was held and more work is to be done on this eubject. She said it is the League's estimation that the propos.d ordinance for this unification is exemplary and sh. said it lists the purpose, establishment, powers and dutiea of the m..berahip. She said .even .e.bere are propoeed because it is considered that there should be five member. with local experti.. distributed among biology, ecology, hydrology, geology, environm.ntal science, that is, pollution, chemistry, air and water quality, engineering, and marine estaurine science. She sa\d two members of the Council are proposed to be lay people. She r.viewed the ordinance as it pertains to r.quirements of meetings, definitions, and administrative concepts. She stated the League has aupport.d the unification of the two Advisory Boards, and said it i. the League's Page 6 t::::1 t.=J :::J - - - April 30, 1985 opinion that seven members would be preferable because of the disciplines involved in the new combination of advisory bodies. Responding to Commissioner VOIS' request, Mra. Westman explained that the League has a statement with specific recolllmendations regarding .embershi~ and Assistant County Attorney Cuyler said he had a copy of that statement. Mrs. Westman listed the following recommendations. a .e.ber should be a residentl a voter I should reflect the intereat and concerns of the communitYI membership should be open to all seg.ents of the communitYI members should be knowledgeable of the needs and desire. of the publicI must maintain their primary reaidence in registered voting districts: the standard application should elicit information concerning life experience, as well as education and employment I per- spective appointees should be informed of the necessary qualifications, duties and time involved within the Board for which they are applying: iniormation on qualifications and demography of candidates of present Board mellbers should be provided to the elected officials before they vote on candidates I membership should be representative by district and/or at-large I meabers seeking elective office should resign I no person should be allowed to serve on two or more boards aimultaneouslYI and the length of term of office: and that the number of terms a member may serve should be limited, which is currently done. Commissioner Voss suggested that Mr. Cuyler should make a list of thes. recommendations and, individually, they could be brought to the attention of the Board of County Commissioners to make a decision with respect to each item. He said those items should be summarized so that the Commission can vote one way or another, at a given Board meeting. Commissioner Holland referred to the Daðe County Ordinance and asked for clarification and Mrs. Westman said that it states that a member could not serve on two boards, simultaneously. She said the League prefers the Dade County Ordinance because it is an ordinance and the Orange COunty document is a resolution. Mr. Cuyler requested clarification on the point of serving only one board and Mrs. Westman said that it has been built into the CAPC Ordinance that the CCPA comes from the CAPC æembership. Mrs. Sloane RObbins, Co-President of the League of Women Voters, thanked the Board of County Commissioners for holding this workshop. She said the League is concerned with the subject of review of Advisory Boards. She referred to the Dade County Ordinance and said that SOme of the elementa include prov:,ion for sunset review of Advisory Board. aøOK 08f) PAr,r 723 Page 7 .. , ., 086 72' Aprp 30, 1985 'DDK 'A~t ~ and that the League reco.mends that provisions for systeaatic review be incluðod in the proposed ordinance for Advisory Boards on a basi. deter.ined by the number of current board., the functions of those Board. and the .ethod by which they have been .andated. She suggested the review should include the following questions I Has the Board .erved the purpose for which it was created? Is it serving current community needs? Is there any other Board, public or private, which .ight serve better the function. of that Board? What have been the Board's major accomplishment? Should the Board's mellbership require- .ent. be .odified? Mr.. Robbins .aid the Commi.sion should further address the cost of indirectly and directly maintaining a Board and if the Board is justified by its accomplishments. She said the Advisory 80ard Chair should .ake a pre.entation to the COunty Commission during the year of the Board's review, with commentary by the COunty Manager. She said that the Commission or Sub-commi.sion, thereof, should review all pertinent material and the (".e.mi.sion should determine whether a Board should continue until its next review, be modified or abolished. Mr. Keller said he knew the Advisory Boards work hard compiling information and he asked how much this information was used by the Commis.ioner.? Com.i.sioner Voss responded that he reads the material, carefully. Commi.sioner Ha.s. .aid he not only reads the material but attends many of the Advisory Board .eetings. Mr. Keller suggested it would be worthwhile for Commissioner. to attend Advisory Board meetings when large PUD'., such a. the Vineyards, are reviewed. Commissioner Voss .aid the function of the Advisory Boards is to relieve the workload of the Commissioners and pointed out, if the Com.issioners were to sit through all the meetings, the Advisory Boards might as well be abolished. Commis.ioner Holland said, with regard to some of tho meetings, he would have to di.agree with Mr. Keller. He said he understood that the City of Naples pa.sed a re.olution whereby certain advisory groups could not appear before the COuncil, either for or against an item. He said he had observed occasions when a Commissioner or a Councilman was in attendance and was drawn into the discussion, which creates a problem. Mr. Keller said that should not occur. Commissioner Holland co~.ented that the Advisory Boárds have excellent reports which are quite detailed in their recommendations. H2 said he is able to form a more unbiased opinion than he would have been able to do if he had Page 8 =:2 ~'l t::::J ....- "";'~'" .*,~..," "~""""""-~~~~"~"'---"-"'-""""""" .. - - April 30, 1985 att.nd.d the Advi.ory Board .eeting.. Mr.. W.stman agr.ed with Mr. Kell.r'. point.. She .aid the League f.el. that the importance of e.tablishing the Advi.ory Boarðs by ordi- nanc. .hould be a factor. She pointed out there are no recorda regard- ing th~ EAC a. to whether it was .ver being establi.hed by ordinance which put. them in An awkward po.ition. She commented that the Staff k.eps .xcell.nt record. in the Cl.rk of the Board Minute. and RMcord. Section, adding .he had ju.t reviewed a li.t of every ordinance ever approv.d in Colli.r County from 8/l5/69 to 3/14/85. Sh. said the Commi..ion'. action on 4/2/85 with regard to amendment. to the exi.ting ordinanc. was don. by a re.olution and the League con.iders that a weakn.... She referred to the li.t of ordinances and .aid she had r.view.d everyone that involve. the .ubject under discus.ion and found it intere.ting that the Fire District. Wdre e.tablish.d, with r.gard to budg.tary procedure, in 1969. She lilte~ the ordinance. and number. which apply to the various Fire Control District., a. w.ll a. ordi- nanc.. that e.tablished various Adviftory Board.. She repeated the Leagu.'. contention that every Advisory Board .hould be cr.ated by an ordinance and that the duties .hould be spelled out within that ordi- nance. Mr.. We.tman pointed out the all Advisory Board member. .erve without pay, .0 tho.. people who apply to becoae meabers, if they Know anything about what the Board involve., would not apply unle.. they w.r. .inc.re. She said the mi.sion of the League, this date, is not to drive people away from an interest in Advi.ory Boards but to make the Boards a. prof...ional in concept a. po.sible. Commissioner Voss .aid it was his opinion that the County n..d. one overall ordinanc. that .et. policy anù then individual ordinances are needed with regard to each of the Advisory Boards, to which Mrs. W.stman agreed. Commis.ioner Voss .aid a problem with re.pect to some Advi.ory Boards is that there i. no provi.ion to provide expenses when the ..aber. go .omewhere and he mentioned the Solid Waste Advisory Committ.. for an example. He .aid he did not know if the Commiesion could over-ride the State'. per diem require.ent. Mrs. Westman .aid the structure of Board. should be .uch that th.re would not be conflict of intere.t on the part of the memb.r. .0 that th.y are unable to vote on a giv.n petition. Commi.sioner Has.. r.qu..ted a copy of the li~t of ordinanc.. and Admini.trative As.istant ðOOK 086 PA(;( 725 pag. 9 .~--...-..............,..... '. ... ._.....-,... I 1 J ... aDOK 08Bmt 726 April 30, 1985 Israelson .aid .he would g.t copies for the Commis.ioners. Mrs. Marion DeFore.t, of the League, .aid during a Leagu. meeting Mr.. We.t.an had said that so.etim.. the .ummari.. given to the .co..i.- .ion are not compl.t. and that Mr.. Westman did not f..l they were ade- quate. Mr.. W..t.~n .aid this so..ti... happ.n. and referred to occa- sion. When controver.ial subjects have occurr.d at various Advisory Board ...ting. and .aid .h. not think the public Is aware the m..ting. are record.d, as are the Board of County Commi..ion ...ting.. She .xpr....d h.r opinion that it i. b.neficial to r.view the minute. and h.ar the tap.. of the m..ting.. Sh. referred to an in.tanc. when ..mber. of the League went to the Planning Department ta review the tapes of the d.liberation. on a ,ubject and di.covared that area. of that tape, from a particular witne.., had been delet.d. Sh. .aid this could have be.n an accident. Responding to Commi..ioner Vo.., Mr.. W..t.an .aid that the minutes of the m..ting briefly ref.rred to the comNent. of the witn.... She .aid people .peaking for or again.t an it.m ar. li.ted but no content i. included, a. to what th.y .aid. She said the quality of the tape., occasionally, can b. rough which may be the tape or the fact that people do not u.. the microphone.. Commi..ioner Goodnight stated that the Commi..ion has already addr...ed that matter in the new recordinq .ystem that the Commis.ion has propo.ed and which should be installed by the end of July. Dr. Floyd pet.r.on, Solid Waste Advi.ory Committee ..mber, said all of the committ..s .hould be required to have an agenda, a notice of the ~..ting, and date. on all chart. and tabl... Commis.ion.r Voss a.~ed Mr. Cuyler to include this suqgestion in the general ordinance. * * * There beinq no further busines., the workshop was adjourned by Order of the Chair - Timel 10.10 A.M. Page lO I:J l- 'J CJ