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BCC Minutes 09/05/2004 E (Hurricane Frances) September 5, 2004 TRANSCRIPT OF THE EMERGENCY MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Naples, Florida, September 5, 2004 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 3:30 p.m. in EMERGENCY SESSION in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following members present: CHAIRMAN: Donna Fiala Jim Coletta Tom Henning Frank Halas Fred Coyle (absent) ALSO PRESENT: Jim Mudd, County Administrator David C. Weigel, County Attorney 1 COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ~ EMERGENCY AGENDA September 5, 2004 3 :30 p.m. Donna Fiala, Chairman, District 1 Fred W. Coyle, Vice-Chair, District 4 (absent) Frank Halas, Commissioner, District 2 Tom Henning, Commissioner, District 3 Jim Coletta, Commissioner, District 5 NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON ANY AGENDA ITEM MUST REGISTER PRIOR TO SPEAKING. SPEAKERS MUST REGISTER WITH THE COUNTY MANAGER PRIOR TO THE PRESENTATION OF THE AGENDA ITEM TO BE ADDRESSED. COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 2003-53, AS AMENDED, REQUIRES THAT ALL LOBBYISTS SHALL, BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY LOBBYING ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDRESSING THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS), REGISTER WITH THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AT THE BOARD MINUTES AND RECORDS DEPARTMENT. REQUESTS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON SUBJECTS WHICH ARE NOT ON THIS AGENDA MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING WITH EXPLANATION TO THE COUNTY MANAGER AT LEAST 13 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE MEETING AND WILL BE HEARD UNDER "PUBLIC PETITIONS". ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS PERTAINING THERETO, AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED. 1 September 5, 2004 ALL REGISTERED PUBLIC SPEAKERS WILL RECEIVE UP TO FIVE (5) MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS ADJUSTED BY THE CHAIRMAN. IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING, YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, TO THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT LOCATED AT 3301 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112, (239) 774-8380; ASSISTED LISTENING DEVICES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ARE A V AILABLE IN THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE. Reconvened Meeting from Friday, September 3, 2004 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Update on Hurricane Frances and its affect on Collier County - Dan Summers, Collier County Emergency Management Director 3. Public Utilities Update - Jim DeLony, Public Utilities Administrator 4. Emergency Procedures - David Weigel, County Attorney 5. Adjourn 2 September 5, 2004 September 5,2004 MR. MUDD: Will everyone please take their seats. Ladies and gentlemen, if -- ladies and gentlemen, if you'd please take your seats. Madam Chair, you have a hot mike. CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you very much. CHAIRMAN FIALA: And first of all, as we reconvene our recessed meeting, I'd like you all to stand and say the pledge of allegiance with me. (Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.) CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you. And let me turn this meeting over to you right away, Mr. Summers. Item # 1 UPDATE ON HURRICANE FRANCES BY DAN SUMMERS, MR. SUMMERS: Commissioners, good afternoon. Dan Summers, Director for the Bureau of Emergency Services and your Emergency Management Director of record. I wish I had some light words of wisdom for you, only to tell you that this has been a long haul for the citizens of Collier County and it's been a very long haul for the emergency responders of Collier County, and just to tell you that we've been very, very fortunate in this event. I'm feeling a little bit lucky as well in terms of some of the tracking and some of the planning assumptions that we made. And I want to emphasize the word luck there as much as I can. Let me take a few minutes, and I think the best way for me to brief you today is go ahead and talk a little bit about weather. And let's see if I can bring this image up on the screen for you just a little bit. Bear with me as I work the mouse. This is the current water vapor loop from the National Hurricane Center. And as you see, just about 33 miles or so east of Tampa is the 2 September 5, 2004 remnant -- I would -- I hope the remnants of this hurricane event. We have seen significant change with this storm. We had a period last night and this morning where over an eight-and-a-halfhour period the storm only moved 40 miles. So it -- you know, again, we just -- I was kind of hoping to be plus or minus four hours. I think we gained plus or minus about 28 hours in this process when the storm came over the peninsula and just absolutely slowed to a snail's pace. We're at the back side of this storm now and we are going to continue to see some wind, and we're going to continue to see a little bit of some intermittent rain showers. Rainfall precip. totals for us in this event, we were blessed all the way along in this radar loops that you see with some dry sockets -- some dry pockets of air. So our rainfall, we may have a couple of isolated locations less than three or four inches. Weather service was telling us to be prepared for five or less as they updated the forecast today, but we have not heard any problems of rain -- of precip. problems so far. The hurricane center has told us that they're going to drop the tropical storm force winds warning most likely at 11 :00. That's their official position. The forecaster has told us that if things -- if this storm continues to move forward in its track, they may even drop that wind advisory by 5 :00 p.m. We sort of hope they do that, but on the same vein, you don't want to rush that too much. You want to -- we don't want to give any all clear or total all clear signals until the hurricane center and the weather service tell us that that's the case. So let me go -- that's kind of the update for the weather. I hesitate to ask you to look at the bottom right-hand corner. MR. MUDD: But Commissioner, I will go -- instead of Dan doing that, that's our next weekend event, okay, that we'll -- we call that Ivan the Terrible, it's already a Category 3; is that correct? MR. SUMMERS: Category 3. MR. MUDD: Okay. And it's done that, it's moving at about over 20 miles per hour to the west. It's supposed to be a Caribbean event. 3 September 5, 2004 CHAIRMAN FIALA: When is the Caribbean event? Does that mean it comes -- MR. MUDD: Next weekend, ma'am. CHAIRMAN FIALA: No, does that mean it then comes on to visit us over here on the west coast? MR. MUDD: Yes, ma'am, I consider ourselves a Caribbean event. CHAIRMAN FIALA: I see. MR. SUMMERS: Okay. Moving right along. I mean, it just -- it's just -- it's mind boggling, it really is, to see the fact that we're looking at three here over a 30 or 45-day period, so we'll -- COMMISSIONER HENNING: You're going to have to take your self a day. MR. SUMMERS: Say again, sir? COMMISSIONER HENNING: You're going to have to take a day off. MR. SUMMERS: We're going to let everybody take a couple of hours off between now and the weekend, I think. Okay, let me change gears and talk a little bit about our accomplishments and where we stand so far. This is what I'm most proudest of: We have no reports of death or significant injury as a direct correlation to the storm. We went through the evacuation of almost 2,700 people. We managed traffic control situations, EMS calls, no injuries that we have been -- have been reported to us at the shelters. And when I -- I can't tell you that -- the accolades go to the teams out in the field who did that kind of work, who were safety conscious and worked very, very hard. So at this hour no loss of life, no injury. No preliminary -- nothing to report in terms of significant damages in Immokalee. Fire chief up there has been riding the roads consistently. He has found one property that had a tarp on the roof. 4 September 5, 2004 He's not sure if that was from a Charley event as opposed to a Frances event. And there's one property with a tree leaning up against the house with some limbs on the roof. And no debris in the roadway, just a few shingles here or there. And his report to -- preliminary report to us in surveying the district up there is that things look real good, as we understand. Power outages. FP&L reports to us that 10,000 are without power in Collier County. And that is from FP &L customers, that is sporadic. The bulk of that is in the East Naples area. But we feel that these are not reconstruction repairs, this is simply re-energizing lines or maybe a couple of places where limbs have hit power lines, those kind of things. But as soon as these winds die down enough to where the crews can operate safely in their bucket trucks, they'll be right out ready to work. And we have a liaison with FP&L in the EOC at this time. We -- City of Naples had a fire this morning with the improper use of a gasoline generator. So we very quickly this morning put some safety messages back out. There was not significant real property loss, as I understand, and no injury, but there was a pretty good little fire there. FP &L is working with our utilities division, traffic services and emergency responders to address down lines and address the outages associated with our infrastructure. But Mr. DeLony reported to me just before the meeting, I'll have him come up and give a full update later, but basically they're back to normal, normal operations there. Anything they can -- anything that they have right now they can handle with existing resources. Hospitals have no significant problems, had no loss of power, and all facilities have reserve bed capacity. Our shelter population peaked out today around 27,2,800 individuals. We do have folks that are exiting the shelter, and that's fine. A lot of folks that are at Gulf Coast were from the east coast and they'ret 5 September 5, 2004 in the process of trying to make communication and find out the status of their property. We will do everything reasonably within our power to assist them, but we are working very hard to make sure we can have schools open on Tuesday, and so we're going to address that shelter situation. It's going to take us many hours and a lot of teamwork to get all of those supplies and materials out of the schools, get them packed and get the schools time to service the buildings. So we have asked a number of county departments and a number of volunteer agencies to help us get all of those cots repacked, put back in the trailers, and get the -- let the school system and maybe even our housekeeping services get over there and help get these schools ready for Tuesday opening. But we have a huge job, a huge task to get that done, and we're going to give it 110 percent. Commissioner, did you have a question? COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Yes, I did. The Immokalee shelters, as we're well aware, these people have been in these shelters for a number of days, and I want to make sure that we lessen the impact as much as possible. If it's possible for them to go home now to their trailers, I would like to know if we could provide the CAT buses to get them out of the shelters tonight. Because if this becomes too much of a negative experience, it might be that much more difficult the next time to get them back into it. It's been very successful in Immokalee. The trailer parks did empty out. MR. SUMMERS: We'll go back to the EOC and take a look. You know, this wind -- these wind gusts are what's made it difficult for the larger vehicles. We'll go back and do some reassessment and we'll get a handle on that, see what we can make available. I do know that there's been a large exodus on their own from there. And I believe the last report, we had about 400 had left. So if we need to make additional transportation resources available, we'll -- I'll -- we'll get on that. 6 September 5, 2004 COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Thank you, Mr. Summers. MR. SUMMERS: We did operate, again, as I mentioned, 10 shelter facilities. All buildings reported stable conditions with only minor fluctuations in power and some air handling, but we got -- the school system was Johnny-on-the-spot and helped us out. Around 12:00 today Sprint -- Sprint's Florida network experienced a problem with fiber optic, and -- what was suspected to be fiber optic, and they were able to isolate that to a commercial power problem. It did throw all of the phone and internet connections into a little frightening period of time there, about 30 or 45 minutes. They were able through their network center to reroute some of the resources on fiber, made sure -- helped us get 9-1-1 calls back up and moving. And once they got commercial power back to these key sites -- and again, this was an area pretty much near the eye of the storm, so they couldn't get in -- it took a while before they could get in there. They were able to get some generators on board, get that fiber optic repeaters back up and running. And we got a phone call and said your phones are back up. And we picked up and sure enough, we had dial tone, we were back up and running. Lynn is here from Sprint. Lynn, would you like to come -- is there anything you would like to mention with the board briefly, just a little summary on that? They've been with us throughout this event and they've been great team players, and we appreciate their help. Lynn Dafronn. MR. DAFRONN: Lynn Dafronn, Sprint representative, for the record. MR. WYNKOOP: Steve Wynkoop, Sprint representative, for the record. MR. DAFRONN: Yes, as Dan mentioned, you may have experienced some problems with dialing out. There was a little humor in the EOC. Any time Dan would ask me how things were going, I'd explain to him that the dial tone pump was working well and we were 7 September 5, 2004 pumping out dial tone. I'm happy to report that did not fail. The dial tone pump continued to work. Unfortunately, the problem was based in the trunking or in the network trunking between here and Orlando, so to speak -- or, let's say, in general, Apopka. And of course naturally when that happened it created a backlog, because it is part -- the network is all part of the trunking system. It created a real problem here. You may have experienced problems down between cell phones. Reason being is that requires trunking from one cell phone to another, from one company to another company. But likewise, if you tried any long distance, that's all trunking. Or if you even tried EAS calls from here to Fort Myers, that's all trunking. So that was the nature of the problem, and I'm going to let Steve explain, he's our -- one of our engineers with Sprint and he'll give you the dynamics of it and what we had to do to repair that. Steve? MR. WYNKOOP: We were dealing with a power outage on two different regeneration sites. One site was very remote, about 30 miles north of Avon Park, and the other site was south of Apopka. And unfortunately they both -- power went down in both sites simultaneously. But we were able to get some people and some generators out there rather quickly. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Thank you. MR. MUDD: Keep going, Dan. MR. SUMMERS: Thank you, gentlemen. Our fire service has been in contact with a lot of the organizations in the region, our dependent and independent fire districts. There was some preliminary requests for some large mutual aid contingencies. It looks like now as they polled the counties in the southern central region of the state, that most of those counties right now, including Charlotte, are able to manage with their existing resources. So we'll be on standby if they need other assistance, but as it stands right now, the equipment and personnel we had mustered to 8 September 5, 2004 go up there, we're going to put them into a staging area as well. Our National Guard contingent that is here to go to the east coast, they've been given instructions to hold here another day, but they will no doubt be departing for the east coast tomorrow. This was a group that was set up from Charlotte County, came here to stage, cross the alley and they'll head to the east coast. They were going to deploy today, but they gained so much time with the slow movement of the storm they'll head out tomorrow. We have been in touch with the state on the conference calls regarding the disaster declaration for the county . We got a verbal that Collier, Charlotte, Lee, Hillsborough and Sarasota counties would be added to that request for the Presidential disaster declaration. We've not seen that in writing yet, but that doesn't surprise me, the EOC in Tallahassee's been a little busy. So we'll monitor that. But I fully expect to receive the full benefit of the Presidential disaster declaration. Just moving on to a few things: Fuel. We still see a lot of people on the road. There is a fuel shortage, and we want to stress to the public to limit their travel except for essential travel needs. It is going to take some time to get fuel inventories back up to where they should be. And we're (sic) also want to make sure that we have ample fuel on hand for emergency vehicles. We're working very closely with Dan Croft and we seem to be monitoring that pretty well. So we have given you a list of stations that we have polled. We continue to make that information available in the Collier information center, as well as our news releases. But again, we want to stress to folks essential transportation only. Let me just see if the -- couple other little things here. Mr. DeLony, would you like to add anything else? While he's coming up, I just want to tell you that the health department here folks have really had the leadership for our special needs shelter. And I can't begin to tell you how much manpower 9 September 5,2004 staffing, nurses, are required to be successful and safe in that special needs shelter. Dr. Joan Colfer is here and she has always been nothing more than about this far from the EOC at all times. And her team has done a wonderful job, because I don't get any requests for anything, and so I know they're managing and being creative, doing a very, very good job. And I hope that you'll be sure and recognize her, along with other the volunteers and the other team for the work that they've done. CHAIRMAN FIALA: They were even volunteering at the phone bank. MR. SUMMERS: Yes, they were, very helpful. Mr. DeLony? Item #2 PUBLIC UTILITIES UPDATE BY JIM DELONY, PUBLIC MR. DeLONY: For the record, Jim DeLony, public utilities administrator. It's been a challenging day but a normal day . We've had upwards of 20 to 40 lift stations out throughout the day with the ups and downs of the FP&L problem. But the assets we have in hand is some excellent management by Joe Cheatham and his staff. We've kept up with it, no spills. And we'll continue to do that throughout the next 24 hours till the grid is stabilized. The challenge -- with telemetry, we know about a lot of them, but some of them we don't have under telemetry or with feedback in our central station, so we'll continue to rely on on-site and feedback from customers and so on with regard to that. But we're under control there with regard to our sewage system and I'm very proud of where we stand today with regard to that. Solid waste operations tomorrow will be normal, meaning you will have a normal Monday pick-up for your recyclables and your 10 September 5, 2004 household garbage. It's a normal day, you can put your cans out, put your recyclables out. Waste Management and Immokalee Disposal both are ready to go and prepared to begin operations tomorrow. With regard to yard waste and debris, I'm requesting that our customers and with the board's approval, that we do not waive today, starting tomorrow, our nonconforming -- or conforming requirements, meaning no more than four inches, no more than four feet, no more than 10 bundles or bags, and no more than one 32-gallon canister. And the reason for that is that it'll -- we can reassess that later in the week, but with what we know right now, that's the best recommendation I can give you, particularly the fact that we haven't been given the authority for disaster relief from the federal government, FEMA. We'd like to minimize the cost to the solid waste account, as well as provide great service. And if it turns out that that won't work here after a couple of days as people recover, then I can always come back to the board with a second recommendation. But that's my recommendation today so we can be -- again, really get back to a normal solid waste schedule, and a normal solid waste pick-up and configuration of the yard waste. We did get everything up that was identified for Charley. We got the last 29 piles up Friday afternoon before the winds got too bad for us. We recovered, in my mind, everything that had to be -- come from Charley. We made several sweeps through neighborhoods. If there's something out there from Charley and somehow we didn't get it, we'll make a special arrangement. But I believe we took care of all of those as were identified to us throughout all of last week. And so I believe this is a solid recommendation, and obviously we can come back to make another one, should the situation be not as I described. And really, that's it from solid waste. No issues with regard to the water system whatsoever, and the landfill operations are normal. And that's my report, other than your questions. Sir? COMMISSIONER HALAS: Yes. As I came in today, I noticeda 11 September 5, 2004 that we had very little bit of -- we had very little vegetation down, so I understand where you're coming from, as I drove down through the area. MR. DeLONY: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: The -- I assume that probably you have taken care of it by now, but I had a number of calls from the Estates and the rural areas. MR. DeLONY: Yes, sir, that's all been closed out. All those ones that were highlighted to you, I think there were two or three, as I recall. We made those pickups, we closed out with those customers one on one. We were able to do that before close of business on Friday. So essentially we were able to close the books -- as I mentioned, we closed the book on Charley on Friday, which is exactly what Mr. Mudd told me to do. And we were able to get that done with some great help from some super contractors working in some hot and humid conditions all last week and the week before, as well as some wonderful cooperation by our customers in getting that to the curb. And I think we're in good shape. And that was certainly to our advantage, as we did not have a lot -- that debris would have been around to fly around had this been a worse event. But where we are today, I think that we're -- this is a solid recommendation. And as I said, we can certainly come back to the board if it turns out that's a bad call or we have to make other arrangements this week. Other than your questions, that completes the update. MR. MUDD: We have the Charley -- just for the record, Jim Mudd. The Charley debris haul cost the county over $3 million, over and above what budget had and whatnot. Now, that's FEMA reimbursable because we were declared an emergency for Charley, and we'll go after that reimbursement. The thing about not being on the state hard copy and not being on 12 September 5, 2004 the federal for state of emergency for Frances means right now dollars that are going to come from above aren't going to be there. So that's -- one of the reasons is we haven't been hit very hard with vegetation. We have a couple of fronds flopping around on the streets, whatnot. And until people come in and tell us that they've had major tree falls or whatnot on their particular residential lots -- we don't know right now, but we've had people all over the county look, and even out in Immokalee and Estates and whatnot, to see if there are debris from the storm, and we're not finding anything more severe than a good -- what a good thundershower would have given the county. CHAIRMAN FIALA: We were blessed, weren't we? MR. DeLONY: Yes, ma'am, we were. Anything else for me? CHAIRMAN FIALA: No, sir. MR. DeLONY: Thank you, ma'am. MR. SUMMERS: Commissioners, as I close for your questions, Diane Flagg has been kind enough and she can get a bus running and the Immokalee shuttle running around 6:00 this evening, so that should work out real well for us. And thanks, Diane, for pulling that together. I've skimmed over my notes here a little bit. I think we've hit all of the high points, and we've talked a little bit about the decreasing winds. And I'll see if there are any other questions or concerns you might have. CHAIRMAN FIALA: I think Commissioner Henning would like to ask you something. COMMISSIONER HENNING: When are you going to start breakdown in the schools? MR. SUMMERS: We're going -- we have a couple of school locations now where actually they're empty. Caloosa is one. Jim, can you help me with another? 13 September 5, 2004 MR. MUDD: Immokalee. MR. SUMMERS: And Immokalee High now reports to be empty. So we're going to start breaking those supplies down. We expect once we put the word out here around 5:00 that it's safe to travel for the winds, we'll see what else that we have. What -- the folks that can self-mobilize, that have their own transportation, that will bring those numbers down. That will be a dynamic picture all evening. And if we get to one building where there's a few folks left, we may transport them to another so that we can prep another school. So we will work very hard. I mean, we really don't have a choice. We've got to get all of these situations taken care of in time for school. We know we're going to need a full day to out-process our persons with special needs. We don't want to send them to a home that doesn't have power. We don't want to put them in a situation where even transportation challenges are there if the weather -- if we do have another thunderstorm or something like that. So we're going to start on that process and it will be fluid all the way through tomorrow, tomorrow evening. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Well, I'll be happy to assist. MR. SUMMERS: So noted. We would welcome -- we would welcome the help. If we had the luxury of doing a quick call with those things, we would. But we're afraid we better put those trailers back in fairly short order. I appreciate that. Jim and Joe Frazier in our office are leading that effort. Thank you. CHAIRMAN FIALA: I'd like to just mention, you -- Commissioner Henning was just volunteering, which made me think of the volunteers that were working here. And although you've mentioned them a number of times, I was so impressed with not only volunteer citizens that were here, but also volunteer employees, that we had employees from public health unit and from the library and 14 September 5,2004 from different departments within the county, like they didn't have anything better to do? But they were here, sitting there on those telephones and helping out in the EOC. And I was just so proud of them. And I was hoping to suggest to the Daily News that maybe if we ever have another event like this, they might want to send somebody over. And not only over to watch what we're doing, because I think those employees are -- and those volunteers are wonderful, it would be also interesting to watch their own Naples Daily News newsroom. I bet that's a beehive of activity as well when they're trying to get all the pictures in and process. I think that would be interesting reading. So I'm just suggesting that, Liz. MR. SUMMERS: Thank you very much. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: And I was wondering, Mr. Summers, do we want to put out an appeal to people in the community to help break down the shelters? MR. SUMMERS: Ifwe have -- let me see how our manpower is going today. Guys? MR. DeLONY : We have secured some j ail trustees, as well as the possibility of some drill academy, as well as some of our own volunteers. Part of the challenge is making sure we have supervision so it gets put back right, but I think we have a -- COMMISSIONER HENNING: I'm not a supervisor. MR. SUMMERS: Okay. We have -- we're using lots of available manpower resources, we'll put it that way. And I think our parks department and many others have also brought some additional labor and technical personnel to help us get that done, so I think we'll get there. We'll do our best. CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you. Any other comments, Commissioners? Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER HENNING: I just want to tell the commissioners that transportation operations has been out there 15 September 5, 2004 making sure the lights are working, and I'm very proud of our transportation department. CHAIRMAN FIALA: Boy, I'll chime in on that. I was going down Radio Road this morning about 8:00, just kind of assessing what was going on. And there was this gal out there in her Collier County vehicle and there was another vehicle there and the lights weren't working, and she's out there in her shorts and in her top and with one of those reflector shirts, and the wind is, you know, whipping away at her and the rain is coming on her, and she's out there directing traffic to make sure everybody was okay. So I agree, I saw it in action. Thank you. MR. SUMMERS: Very good. That concludes my report. Thank you, Commissioners. CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you. Anything, Mr. Mudd? MR. MUDD: No, ma'am. Mr. Weigel, did we forget anything? Item #3 OVERVIEW OF EMERGENCY PROCEDURES BY COUNTY MR. WEIGEL: I don't think so. I'll remind the board and the public that the declaration of emergency entered into two days ago did not have a finite time limit to it, so in the natural course of things, it runs for seven days. And so that all of those procedures that were noted and waivers of procedures to allow for efficient government activity will continue even beyond today. CHAIRMAN FIALA: Sir? MR. MUDD: That's all we have, Madam Chair. CHAIRMAN FIALA: That's it. So at this point in time I will 16 September 5, 2004 adjourn this meeting. Thank you all for being here. ***** There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 3:58 p.m. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD (S) OF SPECIA =RI1~DER ITS CONTROL. DONNA FIALA, Chairman ATTEST: DWIGHT ~IBROCK, CLERK . . 'tll~'''' ~,_r';"t.' ~;", '~'4~ @' .".~J."~' ';~~,_~'s~.~'~:~ J.":",,,,,~::~...:. ,"!i- II ",j , -"'~'~-'~:'. .' " 't. )'... <!. ~..~~ ~~v':_.,- Must acti', ~'''F''': ~'. ',f;~~, s 19natur~'~i~~n~'c';::';:);,. ,:;~~': '~A.. 1'.1: .", j....... , ,~~ .........\ .' 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