BCC Minutes 09/11/2004 E (Hurricane Ivan)
September 11, 2004
TRANSCRIPT OF THE EMERGENCY MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
SEPTEMBER 11, 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: 3 3 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
Fred Coyle
Tom Henning
Frank Halas
ALSO PRESENT: Jim Mudd, County Administrator
David C. Weigel, County Attorney
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COLLIER COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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EMERGENCY
AGENDA
September 11, 2004
3:30 p.m.
Donna Fiala, Chairman, District 1
Fred W. Coyle, Vice-Chair, District 4
Frank Halas, Commissioner, District 2
Tom Henning, Commissioner, District 3
Jim Coletta, Commissioner, District 5
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Reconvened Meeting from Friday, September 10,2004
1. Pledge of Allegiance
2. Update on Hurricane Ivan and its affect on Collier County - Dan Summers, Collier
County Emergency Management Director
Presented
3. Golden Gate Parkway! Airport Road Grade Separated Overpass
Mediation/Litigation
Resolution 2004-257 - Adopted 5/0
4. Adjourn
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MR. MUDD: Madam Chair, you have a hot mike.
Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you.
At 3:33 on Saturday, September 11 th, I am calling this special meeting
to order, and we are going to be addressing hurricane issues. Weare
continuing the meeting from yesterday, September 10th.
Would you all please rise and say the pledge of allegiance with me.
(Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Thank you. And with that, Jim Mudd,
would you like to give us a brief update?
MR. MUDD: Ma'am, today what we're going to talk about is
we're going to get an update on hurricane preparations and hurricane
status with the latest projections, and then we've got a second issue
that talks about a resolution for conflict negotiations with the City of
Naples, which will be the second issue after we're done with your
questions on this emergency Hurricane Ivan.
Mr. Dan Summers will give you that update.
Item #2
UPDATE ON HURRICANE IVAN AND ITS AFFECT ON
COLLIER COUNTY - DAN SUMMERS, COLLIER COUNTY
MR. SUMMERS: Thank you, Mr. Mudd.
Commissioners, good afternoon. Dan Summers, for the record,
director of the Bureau of Emergency Services and your Emergency
Management Director of record.
This continues to be just an incredible ongoing saga with
Hurricane Ivan. When we briefed you yesterday, we had a relatively
certain time line associated with the forward speed of Hurricane Ivan.
Overnight that storm maintained its intensity, but again fell back to a
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snail's pace in terms of forward motion. It remains a very dangerous
hurricane event. However, with the time line that is now posed or has
now been developed, and I'll go through that with you in just a few
minutes, essentially we've gained 24 hours. We went through this
with the other hurricane events as well. This particular slowdown was
not part of the forecast discussion 24 hours ago from the National
Hurricane Center. You need to be aware of that. This type of
slowdown was not formally forecasted. There were some variations in
the forecast track, obviously, but not to the extent in which the storm
has reduced its forward motion.
Let me make sure I get this on the screen for you for discussion.
Here we go. Very good.
Let me go through the timeline with you with HURREV AC from
the National Hurricane Center. The current blue line identifies your
current forecast position as of 3 :00 today. I will go ahead and do a
manual advance. The circle that you see on the southern peninsula of
Florida is what we refer to as the decision arc. And that dot right there
is the closest point in Collier County in which the storm could
potentially affect, based on -- again this is map work, not the storm's
track. So as I advance the storm forward, you will notice from
yesterday that we have seen a westward jog in the storm's current
track. And I want to emphasize, the storm's current track.
I'll move this forward a little bit. You'll see the time, the time
hacks in the right-hand corner. The -- we've seen very little
degradation in the storm, still holding 155 miles per hour. Crossing
western Cuba, only a five mile per hour drop, with current movement
around 12 miles per hour. Current forecasts right now are oscillating
between eight and 12 miles per hour forward motion, which is why
we've gained some time. Then you see we start to -- the 39 mile per
hour winds start to approach, and I'll blow this up for you a little bit to
give you some idea of its proximity to Collier County and its
timelines. There you see at 3 :00 p.m. Monday afternoon -- let me back
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up just a couple of hours here. Or let's say 12:00 noon on Monday
afternoon, the 13th, the storm force winds, 39 miles an hour, are
probably once again just 20 miles away from the Collier coast.
Now, undoubtedly, prior to the arrival of this storm, as we all
have learned from Charley and Frances, we'll get the advancing bands.
So we'll have this period again of some wind, some thunderstorm
activity, possible tornado watches and warnings, and then it will go
away. And then the next feeder band will come around as it begins to
-- we get the leading edge of the storm.
I will tell you that the Hurricane Center continues to tell us to be
on guard. This is a track again that can provide some storm surge.
This current track, our storm surge may be only one to three feet. We
can tolerate with no problem, generally speaking, one to three feet in
storm surge. That may bring it to the top of a seawall. It may have
some very minimal roadway flooding, but it will go away in just a few
hours. So on this track storm surge is minimal. Rain impacts again
could vary. And again, the forecast for rain -- for precipe that we now
have today will vary between three to five or five to eight inches of
raIn.
Again, because we're in fairly good shape from the other storms,
pre-event rainfall precipitation does not appear to be a big problem in
today's forecast.
I think the other thing to realize that --
MR. MUDD: Can you stop -- slow down just a little bit. Go
back just a tad. Stop.
What we're having on this particular part of Collier County is the
coastal areas get hit with above -- and Mr. Summers always talks
about that band as 39 miles an hour. It's above 39 mile an hour winds.
And we start picking those things up. If you go back down a couple
more clicks down?
MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir.
MR. MUDD: Come on. Stop. Go up just one. Now we're at the
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Naples Pier. That's at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. And that's when we start
having those bands start roll into the coastal areas with the high winds,
kind of something that we kind of saw with Charley a little bit.
Keep going through it now. Stop. So around 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday,
we're clear with that from Collier County. And this model is -- its
movement at this particular juncture is 13 miles per hour. We don't
know what that's going to be.
Keep going. All right. And by work day on Tuesday we're
pretty clear. You know, we're going to have some bands that are
coming, but we don't have a hurricane that's off to our side. Now, if--
and Dan can play this so that it comes closer to our coast, okay. I
asked Dan not to play that, okay, because it isn't pretty. But what
happens to the time line, instead of picking things up at 5 :00 p.m. on
Monday, we start getting them -- if it switches over, we start picking
those up in the morning of Monday, where that blue line starts to
touch Collier County. So Monday is kind of an if day, and I'll talk
about that a little bit more as we move along.
Go ahead, Dan.
MR. SUMMERS: To help you digest this a little bit, let's go to
the vapor imagery, and you will see -- you will see where the
hurricane has really been hitting Jamaica all day. I've tried to pull
some images off the Internet. There's nothing significant coming in --
that has come in yet from Jamaica. We have some information --
some pictures from you from Grenada.
You see once again that slight -- the pinwheel there making a
slight west jog. The forecasters are still adamant that we watch this
storm for any north or north by northeast change in course. And if
you'll -- and to put that in perspective for you, you look at just one or
two longitude -- latitudinal points here, and again, the only distance
that we have to play with could be 60, maybe even 80 miles east or
west.
So once again, we're straddling the line between a wind and rain
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event versus potentially a serious hurricane event.
I have never seen anything like this, this consistent, with three
storms before ever. Just have not seen it. It just hasn't been in our play
book. It hasn't been part of the predictive guidance over the years
from the Hurricane Center. This is just -- this is writing new models, a
new -- a new play book has been written this hurricane season.
Take you back to the vapor imagery. Again, any -- if you can
note my cursor there, just a few points, as Mr. Mudd has alluded to,
east or west here of Cuba will have a dramatic effect on the peninsula
of Florida and southwest Florida.
Just some of the pictures, the early pictures that are in here from
Ivan: St. Georges and Grenada. Again, knowing that certainly not
dealing with the same type of construction as we have here, but yet a
powerful storm.
Let me stop right there and let me bring you some EOC updates.
This morning -- or yesterday at the close of business after we
concluded, we were in communication with the state EOC. Every
community right now that was impacted by Charley and Frances are
wrestling with the management of their persons with special needs.
As of 8:00 last night, the state emergency operations center had
planned or was developing a mass migration airlift plan for persons
with special needs. That consisted of about four stops for the persons
with special needs. It was transporting by the county to a local airport.
I requested that Naples Airport be included as a possible pickup site
for persons with special needs. That request was declined. Page Field
was considered in Fort Myers. That was declined. And Southwest
Florida was considered as a transportation point, first pickup point for
persons with special needs.
If we were to disseminate a person with special needs, we would
have had to transport them to Fort Myers where their situation would
have been reassessed, placed on military aircraft, flown to Orlando,
offloaded to the Orlando Convention Center triage, put back on
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aircraft and sent to VA hospitals in the southeast region of the United
States.
I declined that process on behalf of Collier County because we
had Palmetto Ridge or other schools in which we would have been
better off to shelter in place.
I requested federal assets for a disaster medical assistance team to
augment our health department folks who have been doing a
phenomenal job for a phenomenal number of events. That resource
request at the federal level was declined.
I asked for additional emergency medical services personnel
from outside of our impacted area to augment our health department
staff. That resource request is currently being reviewed. I felt that it
was -- having worked with the special needs population throughout
my career in coastal North Carolina, I felt that we could have done a
much better job of taking care of local individuals locally than have
them wind up three days from now in a V A Hospital in North or South
Carolina or Georgia, whose ultimate transportation resources and trip
home could have been very traumatic.
So I wanted to let you know that that was the decision and the
call that we made. And currently, based on the change in the weather
forecast, that was probably a good call at this point.
Our second aspect was to continue to assist those residents in
Charlotte County who are in fact relocating. We've been reported, we
have about two busloads of folks coming from Charlotte County into
Palmetto. Red Cross is managing that. We're going to make sure that
they get a hot meal tonight, a good place to rest, some entertainment,
possibly even some transportation resources to a grocery store, a
pharmacy or even the mall, just so that those folks can take a little
break. That's very inexpensive for us to do. So we're doing our best
to help give those folks a little respite. And they're inbound as we
speak. And I have two EM staff members on-site assessing that
situation, as well as EMS to do a general assessment of those folks as
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they get off the bus. That seems to be working well at this point.
We have pushed all of our shelter activity, and any mandatory
evacuation discussions are not on the action plan for today. The
Emergency Operations Center will reconvene tomorrow morning at
6:00 a.m. and reevaluate the time line for any mandatory evacuation
discussions.
It's my preference, however, because of again fluctuations in the
storm that are out there, the potential is high that we continue to
support our voluntary precautionary evacuation statements that we've
been running all day.
I don't like the fact that this has drawn out for several days, but I
don't want to be -- I don't want to make a mistake at this juncture and
be scrambling in the event that this storm crosses Cuba and hits the
high octane fuel of the warm Gulf waters and we very quickly
collapse our time window to take precautionary actions. We're
sensitive to the cost; we're sensitive to the impacts on the community.
Many organizations have lost productivity time. This has been
expensive and we know that. We don't know any other way in which
to be safe and to allow the time necessary to give everybody an ample
opportunity for personal protective action.
The Emergency Operations Center will close today at 5 :00 p.m.
Again, I want to make sure that we are not utilizing personnel around
the clock if we don't have to. That's a big strain on personnel. Rest
assured that we're going to provide continuous support to Palmetto
Ridge, the school, the Red Cross folks who are hosting Charlotte
County there tonight.
The Emergency Operations Center will reopen tomorrow
morning at 6:00 a.m, again, just in case we get a dramatic change in
the storm's forecast, its track and forward movement.
Our public information news writers will be released after this
briefing today at 4:00, but our Collier information call center will
remain open until 11 :00 p.m. tonight.
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Again, let me just restate, mandatory evacuation actions and
discussions have been postponed possibly until Sunday afternoon, or
possibly Monday morning, if we see a change, if we see a change in
the forward motion. So we have no choice -- we can't make plans
farther than 12 hours out. The forecast just won't let us do it. So
again, we need to manage, be efficient, rest our personnel and be fresh
in the morning to take a new look at the forecast, come up with a new
action plan.
The good news is, in Collier County everything is ready to go
that we have. I can push buttons, activate our team and we can do
things with four hours or less. That's a great position to be in and to
start a day off fresh should we have to respond rapidly to this
hurricane.
General actions: It's imperative that we continue to monitor this
storm closely and again conserve personnel, conserve resources,
conserve fuel and be ready to act efficiently Sunday midday, Sunday
evening and into Monday morning.
I would like to read to you just two or three sentences that sum
up the current forecast discussion I think very well. And this is
coming from the Commercial Weather Service that is in general
agreement with the National Hurricane Center.
We do not have a high confidence in the forecast out beyond two
to three days. Ivan could easily take a jog to the north sooner than
expected and make landfall on the western Florida peninsula. There is
also a chance that Ivan may move inland farther to the west, perhaps
between Pensacola and Panama City, Florida. But we think that there
is a greater chance that Ivan's track would deviate to the right rather
than to the left.
So their concern again with any of the troughs that may be
coming across the continental U. S. or northern Gulf, because this
thing is running into some interference, both generated by the Atlantic
and interference generated by the Gulf, that if they were betting men,
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they would go towards a shift to the right, which again could make the
Gulf coast of Florida much more vulnerable, as opposed to going to
the Panhandle.
So I'll leave that summary comment with you, and that's from a
meteorologist in charge at Impact Weather, Chris Herbert. They do a
fine job there and they're in general agreement. I think that's a very
good synopsis of what I have for you.
So let me stop right there and see what questions or comments
that you might have and see if you concur with our revising our action
plan tomorrow morning.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Commissioner Halas?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Yes. I think you've answered part
of my questions that I had and that was do you -- does the Weather
Center foresee any patterns that could cause any drastic change in the
direction that the storm is taking? And I think that statement that you
just read pretty much covered it.
The other question I have is does the Gulf water temperatures, as
you get closer to shore and those temperatures become warmer than
out farther, does that possibly attract storms closer to shore?
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioner, I'll take the first part of that.
And I think the National Hurricane Center has a great deal of
uncertainty with the hurricane's track, depending on its impact and
compass point it takes at Cuba. I think it is -- we have seen, since it
skirted the southern end of Jamaica, virtually no degradation in the
storm. Now we're going to have to wait and see how that land mass
affects the storm as it crosses Cuba.
Just north of Cuba we ran some sea surface models.
Temperatures there, we're seeing anything from 84 to 88 and a half
degrees. Anything 85 and above is that high octane fuel that Mr.
Maxwell referred to -- Mr. Mayfield referred to at the National
Hurricane Center. So there is a great deal of that water out there.
That water can serve two purposes: One, it's the heat engine in
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which the storm may intensify, and that further intensification will
have an impact on its ultimate course bearing and its forward motion,
as well as the steering currents at the upper atmosphere. So I think the
models still give a gray area, if you will, to the Hurricane Center once
it crosses Cuba.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: And one last question. What is
your timeline -- if you're going to wait until Monday to reestablish
bringing EOC back up in full operation, what's your time line as far as
the 24-hour phone service?
MR. SUMMERS: We -- that's a good question. And I will tell
you, my days have been running together. This is Saturday.
Tomorrow is Sunday. So the EOC will activate at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow
morning. The Collier Information Center will be either on that hour or
shortly behind us. I don't anticipate the Collier Information Center
running 24 hours unless the Emergency Operations Center is running
24 hours. And obviously, if we get into the mandatory evacuation
discussion, Collier CIC is an integral part of that.
But I think what we're doing, we're getting good information out,
we're talking to folks, we're getting an enormous amount of calls
wanting to know what to do. And we can't give them a definite yet,
and we wouldn't, but we can't give them a definite because this storm
is meandering out there to the point that it's making it very difficult to
make good recommendations this morning, mid afternoon. There
won't be any change in that this evening. Tomorrow morning, again,
through our news releases, our Collier Information Center, we can
assist the folks with their personal decisions, and that's up to them to
make that decision.
But the advantage here, we bought some time for the community
to stabilize, to be ready. We've also gotten an extra day for the retail
establishments in Collier County to gain inventory. We're doing
pretty well in fuel. Some areas, spotty areas around southwest Florida
are not doing well with fuel. But it makes a big difference if we can
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get another day in the retail establishments to get their supplies in. It
may be needed as well.
Sir, I hope I answered your question there.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Sure did, thank you.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Commissioner Coletta?
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Mr. Summers, now that the
event is moving closer to us and the cone of probability is shrinking
slightly, would you have any recommendations as far as evacuation
goes? Would the east coast be a logical alternative at this point in
time? Or am I putting you in a bad position?
MR. SUMMERS: No, sir, I have -- I'm only at the 50 percent
mark with an east coast evacuation as a certainty. The reason is that if
we see this storm cross Cuba, its pattern and behavior is liable to be
very erratic. We could go back to that zig-zag motion coming across,
we could potentially, if we see a hard right turn just north of the Keys,
then we will have done a disservice to move people to the east coast.
I will tell you that generally we're not hearing of any
overwhelming delays in north and south as well as east and west
traffic. The interstates are doing pretty well. Reports this morning,
actually from Collier staff who were headed out this morning, maybe
an extra hour from here to Tampa, but north of Tampa doing pretty
well. We're not hearing of any problems on the Alley. Tomorrow that
may be -- that situation with an east coast evacuation, we'll have a
better handle on that recommendation tomorrow.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: So then the recommendation, if
somebody is going to evacuate, is to leave the state?
MR. SUMMERS: It's still leave the state.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: And to allow plenty of travel
time and to leave as early as possible?
MR. SUMMERS: That's correct, sir.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Any other questions?
(No response.)
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CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay.
MR. SUMMERS: That's all I have. We'll proceed the course.
We'll maintain that timeline. Many of you called and checked in with
us periodically. I hope we're getting you the information that you
need. And we'll continue to maintain our readiness posture.
Thank you.
MR. MUDD: Commissioner, before we leave this subject
matter, I need to talk about are we open or closed on Monday, from
the manager's perspective, as far as the government organization. We
haven't made that decision. All we did was take our BCC meeting and
move it off of Tuesday, because you have petitioners that bring in
their folks from all over the place, and you've got people that are
evacuated, and then to try to jerk them around because Monday is
kind of a limbo day, what do you do? Well, we've got employees that
have evacuated and moved out with their folks and gone to other
places, and we're pulling and pushing at this particular juncture, and
this thing's slowing down.
One of the things I try to do with Dan is to see worst case, if it
came in based on the projection, what time would it hit us if it made a
right-hand turn and did that movement that was described to
Commissioner Coletta in response to his question about is the east
coast a good place to evacuate. That starts hitting us at 5:00 a.m. in
the morning on Monday.
If it stays on its present course, we get rain bands, nasty weather,
probably some -- because we're on the east quadrant of this hurricane,
that's where all the bad weather is, it makes for a rather bad weather
day on Monday and then it's out of here, based on current projection,
sometime in the early morning of Tuesday. Unless it just stalls, and I
don't see that happening with a Category 4, Category 5 hurricane.
Now, Mr. Summers probably has more experience with that than I do,
but I don't see a Frances either, because there's an awful lot of --
there's an awful lot of juice out there as far as the water temperatures
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are concerned. And when it came across the Bahamas, and I'm talking
about Frances now, that same juice didn't exist, so it kind of lingered.
My recommendation is Monday not be a work day. And I'd like the
board's concurrence with that particular decision.
Now, I even asked the question is, are we going to have a
hurricane warning area in Collier County. And they were supposed to
make that call, I'm talking they, the National Weather Service was
supposed to make that call this morning. And now they've postponed
that until 11 :00 tonight. I mean, I think there's some -- there's some
hesitation on their part because they've been pretty -- they haven't
been really good about where this stuffs supposed to end up at, okay,
in the last two hurricanes. So they don't want to call the ball until the
last minute.
But I think we do a real disservice to our employees and the
people in the county and everything else. And I understand
mandatory evacuation, we don't want to do that, okay. And that's the
last possible decision you ever want to make and you want to give
yourself some daylight hours in order to do that. And I believe that
Mr. Summers' recommendation to take a look at it tomorrow during
the day light hours is a good one.
But I don't think Monday is going to be a very good day for
anybody. Even if it slows down, I've got to undo all the equipment
that we've basically got stacked all over the place, all over Collier
County, unbutton all the IT equipment, which takes a couple hours to
get everything back in service, and then the rest of the day
everybody's going to be "what's going on outside" as they watch the
wind blow by their window. And so you're not going to get a lot of
productive time either. And it just adds to the stress.
I mean, I don't know if you've seen it or not -- I did see it in
Commissioner Fiala's office here on Wednesday when we, when we
had somebody got a little -- one of our employees got a little tight with
some comments that were made. I call that a meltdown, ma'am. And
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everybody's feeling that stress. And I think Monday not coming to
work would alleviate some of that and get that information out.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Commissioner Henning?
COMMISSIONER HENNING: If the board leaves that Monday
as a work day, how would you get ahold of the employees?
MR. MUDD: Well, ma'am -- sir, I've got -- as soon as we make
a decision here today, everybody is set for a decision to be made one
way or the other, and they're going to disseminate that information
vis-a-vis the press releases. And everybody's got their own phone tree
set up, so everybody's going to hit the phones and basically let
everybody know and, you know, Johnny Sue will call Phil and Phil
will call two other people and we'll get that information out to
everybody.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: If I understand the reasons your
request -- it's more related -- that is declaring Monday not to be a work
day -- it's more related to giving the staff an opportunity to continue
mobilization or to demobilize if it is appropriate to do so. And that
makes a lot of sense to me.
I would like to draw the distinction, however, that if you -- if you
decide that Monday is a no work day, I think the public should
understand that that doesn't necessarily mean that you expect the
hurricane to hit here Monday. As an example, tomorrow you might
make the decision that we are out of the primary cone of impact of this
hurricane, or that there's a good likelihood that we might be outside.
But you still might want to declare Monday a -- not a work day, a
regular work day for government, because the staff has had to
mobilize and demobilize now three times for hurricanes in a very short
period of time. And I think it puts undue stress on the staff to try to do
the ongoing job of government while they're also trying to deal with
mobilization and demobilization for a hurricane.
So I would tend to agree with you, as long as we can do so in a
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way that does not create undue concern that we're declaring a holiday.
Because as I said, it could be that tomorrow afternoon you might have
sufficient information to make the decision that we're out of the cone
of primary influence of this hurricane, but you still want to have that
day off so that you can get the staff demobilized, get the equipment
back and give them a little time to rest. And I would agree with that.
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir. And that's only for non-essential
personnel. I mean, everybody else, I've got -- you know, got all the
water/sewer folks geared up ready to go. They're on call, they're on
the roads doing that kind of stuff. And the only time they get out is
when the winds go over 40. And as soon as that passes, they're back
out on the road again working lift stations and making sure the water
and everything else is on, so it's not -- and the same thing with solid
waste, as soon as it goes past, we're out there trying to make sure that
the roads are clear what whatnot, so those people are all on standby.
It's just for folks that are non-essential, and there's a list of essential
and non-essential people that we have. And a lot of them have already
__ have already deployed and got out of the area with their families,
and it gives them time to get back again.
Now, I'm going to tell you, I'm talking about Monday. If we look
tomorrow and it looks like something isn't as favorable as what we see
today is on the thing, then I have to make a decision with your
blessings that talks about Tuesday as a day to recover Collier County
so that we can open up stuff, versus having people all trying to get
someplace where they're not going to be able to do it. So--
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Commissioner Halas?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Yes, I think you covered the details
pretty well. I feel the same way, that most of the people that are
non-essential personnel basically left the area. I know some people
flew all the way up to Minnesota and Boston and so on just to get out
of the area. So the people that are going to be here are the essential
people, and they're here today and they'll be here tomorrow. And if
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things change with the storm, we'll just be geared up and ready to go.
So like you said, instead of starting to unbutton things and then all of a
sudden to have to make a turnaround in 24 hours time, that's way too
much stress and we've gone through enough already. So I concur that
we ought to have Monday as a weather day.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. So it looks like -- do you need a
vote from us, an official vote?
MR. MUDD: Ma'am, I'd just like to get all the heads nodding
one way or another, okay?
CHAIRMAN FIALA: You got them all nodding.
MR. MUDD: That's enough, ma'am.
The other thing I'd like then to discuss is do we want to meet together
or do you want to leave me as the person that calls it -- we'll set a time
and I can either tell you it's going to happen or not going to happen,
based on what we see as far as the projection is concerned for
tomorrow, or do you want to -- do you want -- Dan, what time do you
need for them, if it turns bad for us, to make a decision on mandatory
evacuation?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Just give us a call.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Call us.
MR. SUMMERS: We could do that. I would like to go through
the 6:00 a.m. advisory and the 11 :00 a.m. advisory and then we will --
we'll come up with our best estimate after the 11 :00.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: We'll all be -- you can reach all of us
anyway. We're easy to find.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: We're all going to be here, I think.
And we've already given you the emergency authorization you need,
so -- but if you need us, give us a call. We'll be here. But otherwise, I
think you have the authority to make the decisions you need to make.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Would 11 :00 a.m. be soon enough
for you for a mandatory evacuation, if it needed?
MR. MUDD: Ifwe need to have a mandatory evacuation, then
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I'm -- and we look at the 11 :00, what I will do is, if he says we've got
to mandatory evacuate, then we're going to have to get the sheriff in
here to talk about curfew, okay? I will call each of you and we will
have a meeting soon after. So I'm talking about between noon and
1 :00, I'll make the call to you and try to get it set for 1 :00 if we have to
talk about those two issues, because it's important.
Curfew, I don't like to talk about that, even though I have the
emergency, because it really gets dicey, and people start talking about
individual rights and whatnot. So I want to make sure that we're
locked in and everybody's in agreement with that, so --
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Very good. Well, we'll all stand by and
wait to hear -- hope not to hear from you.
MR. SUMMERS: And let me say, Commissioners, that I think
you are comfortable that if we -- between 6:00 and 11 :00, if I take
mobilization to the next level, short of our formal, you're comfortable
with that, if I need to pre-stage, and get ready, go from the get ready,
get set, and you'll be my go button.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Yes.
MR. SUMMERS: Okay?
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Very good. Thank you very
much, Dan. We really appreciate all your hard work, you and your
staff.
MR. SUMMERS: Thank you, ma'am. It's a great team.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: While we're waiting a minute, I just need
to say hello to Alex and Naomi. I know you guys don't know them,
but I do. Hi Alex. Hi Naomi.
MR. MUDD: Hey David, do we need to vote on Monday being
that weather day?
MR. WEIGEL: No, you don't need to vote. The information you
received from the commissioners is just fine. In fact, I think you can
make that determination on your own.
But in regard to the update of events tomorrow with Dan and
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County Manager to you all, as Jim indicated, if there were to be
particular actions required deemed to be necessary, such as a
mandatory evacuation declaration, by virtue of the fact that
commissioners are here and therefore are physically able to meet, I
believe that the better course is -- and particularly in light of Sunshine
Law -- is that the commissioners do in fact meet to take any action
whatsoever.
It sounds as if we're about to leave this a little bit indeterminate
without a meeting time. And if -- as Jim indicated, if it is necessary to
have a meeting, the board can't meet, we're under a state of emergency
locally here anyway. But I always feel better if in fact for purposes of
notice, to the extent that notice could be given, we'd want to give it
ahead of time and as much ahead of time as we could so that the
interested public and media, et cetera, could participate in one form or
another.
But as I understand it right now, it sounds like there might be a
meeting tomorrow, if things seem more dire. But if they don't seem
that way, that you, Jim, with the assistance of Dan Summers, will be
communicating with the board members individually just to update
them on how things are, and that you would continue with the
prerogatives and responsibilities that have already been afforded you
through the declaration that the board took yesterday.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Commissioner Halas?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: County Attorney, how much time
would you need, since we're under a declaration of emergency? How
much time would you need to notify the public of a meeting? In our
case, the County Manager is going to call each one of us and have a
prescribed time. Would it be possible then to broadcast this out on our
television and radio stations with an hour advance notice that there's
going to be a meeting held?
MR. WEIGEL: Well, I think physically and logistically that can
be done. Ultimately it becomes kind of the eye of the beholder, which
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would be someone other than you or me, if someone were to lodge a
complaint claiming the commissioners had come together and -- under
inappropriate circumstances had met and without adequate notice,
which of course is one of the three legs of the Sunshine Law. Even
our discussion we're having right now assists us toward any issue that
may come up later, because we're trying to afford the public as much
understanding and knowledge as to how a meeting may come to be.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Would an hour be enough?
MR. WEIGEL: I think an hour is short, but if an hour is all we
have, an hour is what we do and we defend it later. But I would hope
for maybe a little more time than that.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Commissioner Coyle?
COMMISSIONER COYLE: David, I understand your concern,
and I'm wondering if we might not be able to address it merely by
saying that we will adjourn this meeting to meet again tomorrow at a
specified period of time unless the County Manager and Mr. Summers
contacts us to let us know that there is no need to meet? Could we not
deal with it in that way? That way we have provided the notice that
we will meet if necessary --
MR. WEIGEL: You're -- I think--
COMMISSIONER COYLE: -- it's a continuation of this
meeting. And it will only be canceled if it's not necessary.
MR. WEIGEL: You know, that's -- that is kind of sharp like a
fox, because you'd be adjourning this meeting to a time certain. We
put out the physical notice, working with John Torre anyway, if it gets
to all the media and beyond. And any time that you have less than a
quorum, or less than two persons coming together in any event, a
meeting is not held. So by virtue of the fact that you don't come
together, you're not running into a problem that way either. So you're
right on target there, Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Then I make a motion that we do it
that way.
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MR. MUDD: And I would make a recommendation that that
time be at 1 :00 p.m.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Okay.
MR. MUDD: And if it's declared -- if I make the decision that
it's not necessary, Mr. Summers will be here in this room to give a
briefing, to basically go over the situation, and we'll play that live on
the air without having to have an official board meeting.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Fair enough. 1 :00.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Good suggestion.
Commissioner Coletta?
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: So what we're going to do, if we
don't have a meeting, there will still be a briefing taking place within
this room. I plan to be here, regardless.
MR. MUDD: Fine.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Very good.
MR. WEIGEL: I think a motion was made in regards --
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Did you make a motion? I'll second that
motion.
All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Aye.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Aye.
Opposed, like sign.
(N 0 response.)
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Unanimous.
MR. WEIGEL: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Very good. So at the end of this
meeting, then, I just adjourn it till 1 :00 p.m. tomorrow.
MR. WEIGEL: I think that's -- or you can restate that, but the
action's already been taken by the board for that to occur.
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CHAIRMAN FIALA: Oh, great. Okay. Thank you.
MR. WEIGEL: And there is a second item, as Mr. Mudd
indicated, for your discussion today.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Right.
MR. WEIGEL: If you're ready, I'll lead into it.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Sure.
Item #3
RESOLUTION 2004-257: GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY/AIRPORT
ROAD GRADE SEPARATED OVERPASS MEDIATION /
UIIGAlJON - AEEROVED
MR. WEIGEL: I mentioned yesterday briefly that the City of
Naples had availed itself of a statutory process for conflict dispute
resolution under Chapter 164 of the Florida Statutes. And by their
adopting a resolution at their most recent City Council meeting, they
have initiated the process, and by law it indicates that before a city or
county can at least run into a litigation situation between themselves,
they need to go through this more civil process outside of the courts to
see if they can resolve any conflict that may exist, or at least come to a
better understanding and reduce conflict.
And so by filing a resolution and transmitting it to Mr. Mudd this
past week, they initiated a time frame whereupon statutorily the board
needs to respond -- our board needs to respond as well.
And so what we provided you yesterday was a draft, an alternative
draft response document, which provided three options of response to
the city relating to the process which they have initiated and to which
we will either be a player or not a player and/or become a bigger
player than just a responsive player.
And if I may, I would have Jacqueline Hubbard address any
questions you may have upon the material you have read. And she
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may want to give a little more detail to what I have just indicated as
well.
Again, this is all related to the Golden Gate overpass project and
the city's concerns with that project.
MS. HUBBARD: Good afternoon, Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Good afternoon.
MS. HUBBARD: Do you have any questions or do you want me
to give you a little more detail about it?
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Commissioner Henning?
COMMISSIONER HENNING: In the conflict resolution, is
there any -- I had the word, but I lost it -- fact finding?
MS. HUBBARD: Not really. It's a -- it's a mandatory obligation
on a sister or adjacent local government before they can file a lawsuit,
or before they could proceed to litigate a lawsuit that they had filed,
that they contact the adjacent local government that they're getting
ready to sue and sit down and talk about it and see if it can be
resolved, short of litigation. And any litigation will be stayed,
pending the outcome of that negotiation. So if the City of Naples
desires to sue Collier County, they have to go through this process
firs t.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Okay. Well, motion to approve.
MR. MUDD: Commissioner, one piece that she needs to add is
that conflict -- the conflict resolution proclamation we received from
the city that basically says they're basically going to use the process.
When they do that, the initiator and the receiver -- we're the receiver
in this particular juncture -- the receiver can come back and initiate
also and add parties to the negotiation. And in our particular case,
we're asking that we add the parties of the regional planning
commission, and we also add members of the metropolitan planning
organization.
Both parties have to in good faith try to resolve the dispute. If a
party does not in good faith try to resolve the dispute in good faith,
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and it goes to court, the party that has (sic) not a good faith party as far
as the resolution in trying to come up with it, suffers the legal costs of
both parties, okay, and court costs. And that's how the statute is
written. I think I have it --
MS. HUBBARD: In the event they prevail in the litigation,
correct.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay, I have a question. In the resolution
itself, in Section 6, it says the county manager is authorized and
directed to send a letter by certified mail, return receipt requested,
along with the certified copy of the resolution to the county manager. I
bet you really mean to the city manager?
MS. HUBBARD: City manager. Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: And is it -- is this how you really spell
Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council; is it all one word or is
it two separate words? I don't know if that -- you know.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: It's the abbreviations.
MS. HUBBARD: The abbreviation has a capital W, but I'm not
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Oh, does it? Okay, fine. Then it must be.
Okay. Thank you.
MS. HUBBARD: Okay. Well, we were--
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Commissioner Halas?
Oh, I'm sorry.
MS. HUBBARD: No, go ahead.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: I was just calling on Commissioner Halas.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: How does this affect the time line
that we have for starting construction? Does this put this on hold?
MS. HUBBARD: No, it doesn't have any effect on our ability to
proceed to construct the overpass.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Okay.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: That brings up another question.
MS. HUBBARD: Yes.
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COMMISSIONER COYLE: Ifwe sign a contract and we let a
contract to do the construction --
MS. HUBBARD: Correct.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: -- and the litigation in some way
delays the construction, are we liable in any way to the contractor for
any cost of delay?
MR. WEIGEL: Allow me to respond quickly.
MS. HUBBARD: Oh, okay. Go ahead.
MR. WEIGEL: And I'll just mention that the scenario that you
described would be one where we have let the contract, it is going
forward at this point, notice to proceed is issued from the county and
we expect that the contractor is mobilizing with its subcontractors to
go forward in the orderly way pursuant to the term and time of the
contract.
The only way for that to stop would be for a court of law to tell
us, the county, that we cannot go forward, and that could not occur
until this dispute resolution process is over and litigation has filed and
has the legal ability to go forward and have a hearing before the court,
either for a temporary injunction or some other kind of special relief
prior to the ultimate outcome of the lawsuit. And we know from some
of our recent lawsuits that we've all been interested in, that it often
takes a while initially before someone files in court and you ultimately
-- and you have the ultimate trial.
So in this particular case, if someone such as the City of Naples
were in litigation, subsequently to the dispute resolution process we're
talking about today, were in litigation with us, and went for the early
extraordinary relief, injunctive relief to get the court to tell us to stop,
they have to convince the court under law, the precepts are that they
have a fairly high likelihood of winning on the ultimate merits of the
case.
Another thing that would come into play -- we would tend to
think that wouldn't be the case, quite frankly. Another thing that may
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come into play at that point is a question of whether a city, in this case
city government, have to put up a bond relative to the damages or
losses that would be sustained if they didn't win the ultimate case.
So I would tend to think that an injunction would not be granted
lightly and easily. They purportedly aren't ever granted lightly or
easily. And that seems to be the experience I've had in the court
system here, on both sides, either looking -- facing them, or attempting
to get them, in private practice or in my practice with the county.
So that's the scenario that we would see right now. And so the
question, Mr. Coyle, is the likelihood of a contractor being told to stop
is not very high initially, and if it should occur, it would be a very
significant thing to occur, being forced upon us by the court. And it
may be a situation where ultimately the county is not the ultimate
liable party, either if in fact the stoppage was a mistake -- an early
mistake of law in fact.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Any other questions by board
members?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Do you want to continue?
MS. HUBBARD: No. I mean, we're obviously in agreement --
MR. WEIGEL: Well, they need to make a choice.
MS. HUBBARD: Pardon?
MR. WEIGEL: They need to make a choice as the kind of
response --
MS. HUBBARD: Yes. We need -- well, the resolution basically
sets forth in Section 2 the issues that the county thinks are the
important issues for the negotiation. And I'd like to point those out to
you, because they are important.
One we -- the first one is that we agree that the issues of the
conflict include the necessity for the county to construct the overpass.
If you didn't think it was necessary, we wouldn't be constructing it.
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There are other issues, however, that need to come to the table.
One is whether there is preemption by the state legislature to the
county for the planning of county roads. We think that the county has
the right to plan county roads. In this particular instance, I'd like to
remind the board that the county also owns the right-of-way in which
the overpass will be constructed; even the right-of-way that's within
the city limits of the City of Naples.
Third, whether or not the city is willing to concede that the
county is vested in the Golden Gate overpass. We have interlocal
agreements and DRIs that date from 1989 in which the City of Naples
willingly participated in agreeing that an overpass should be built.
Fourth, whether there's any lack of -- whether there's a lack of any
need for the county to examine any further alternatives. Since the
county has engaged the consulting firms on four different occasions,
and all of them have agreed that the overpass needs to be built, that is
the only logical, rational and feasible solution to the traffic problem
that's going to worsen every year at that intersection.
And finally, we would like to put on the table whether there
exists any lawful authority at all for the city to try to halt or delay the
construction of the overpass. And by sending the resolution back to
the city, using the same process, we're letting the city know that we
wish to invoke the negotiation process on these issues, in addition to
the issues that they've already stated.
Additionally, our office was able to secure, through the
cooperation of the county courts, a neutral place to hold the
negotiation, and that will be -- we will suggest to them that Courtroom
3C, which is Judge Brousseau's courtroom, be utilized for the
negotiation. There's room for the attorneys, there's room for people to
come and observe it, and it's away from the county commission
chambers and it's away from the city council chambers.
And the court administrator has been -- he's willing to set forth
the October 5th, which is the date that our staff is suggesting for the
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first session; whereas, the City of Naples is suggesting the 29th.
We moved it to the 5th because the City of Naples has obviously
engaged a new consultant. We have not seen the results of that
consultant's work. It's anticipated that that consultant will have his
report prepared by the end of this month. We'd like to have an
opportunity to review it and have our consultants take a look at it.
Obviously, if their consultant comes back and says we agree, the
overpass needs to be built, we don't need to have a negotiation session.
And so we're suggesting to the city that we postpone it until the 5th of
October, which still falls within that 30-day time line that the statute
requires, and it also allows our issues hopefully to get to the floor also.
So if we're going to negotiate, let's bring all the issues to the table and
see if we can resolve it.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Sure. Commissioner Henning?
COMMISSIONER HENNING: It's my understanding when
local government in the State of Florida changes their laws, the growth
management plan, in our case even the land development code, it
doesn't affect things that are in progress. And I don't know if we
should put that into the resolution?
MS. HUBBARD: Well, if you will look at the -- I think it's the
third suggestion where we say the city will concede that the county is
vested in the Golden Gate overpass, that's --
COMMISSIONER HENNING: That's what you're talking about.
MS. HUBBARD: That's the same issue. We can certainly make
it clearer, though.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Well, it's just that when you said
it was vested because that we had the right-of-way and things of that
nature, but if that's your understanding --
MS. HUBBARD: But also the interlocal agreements and it's
been in process for all of these years, and we have equitable
arguments and estoppel arguments that we can make.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: And if that's your
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understanding, I'm fine.
MS. HUBBARD: Yes. We'll make -- that's definitely intended
to be included in that provision.
MR. WEIGEL: We can tweak that.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. Commissioner Coletta?
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: It's hard to understand how we
get to these situations. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been
spent on consultants, including one from the City of Naples.
MS. HUBBARD: Correct.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: There's been untold amount of
meetings that have taken place, time and hours. Their own con -- their
own legal advisors have told them that they couldn't win this. They
have a split vote with their council on this. The only thing that's
happening now is that we're wasting time and resources that belong
the taxpayers of this county and the City of Naples.
When this is over with and we got this thing behind this, can we
go back and sue the City of Naples for the costs that we have
incurred? Somebody has to bear the cost of this, and the people that
are making these decisions have to bear the responsibility and the
outcome that's going to take place from it.
MS. HUBBARD: I'll defer to David on that one.
MR. WEIGEL: Okay. First blush answer is no, unless litigation,
which hasn't been filed yet, ultimately would appear to be and a court
would agree is frivolous at that point in time. So we'd have to see how
that evolves before I can provide any further thought in that regard.
But the answer is probably no, occasionally can be yes. And we
would have to see how that develops.
Additionally, part of the general information of this dispute
resolution methodology that comes into play, you probably noticed
from the materials we provided you is that although ultimately there is
part of the procedure where the Board of County Commissioners
would be meeting with the City Council itself. That is not the first
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meeting that would occur. And first a phalanx of county staff people,
through the county manager, in conjunction with the county manager
and the city staff persons, whomever they determine to send forward,
meet in a general assessment meeting, it's called, prior to the
respective legislative bodies coming together.
And we had noted from the transmittal we received from the city
that they were looking to work rather quickly and go, I think, to the
meeting of the board, the workshop scheduled for October 4th on a
Monday with the board and city council to be the meeting between the
city council and the board related to this dispute resolution process.
And again, as Jackie indicated and Jim also stated, there are some
things to be done before we get to the point of the board and the
council meeting. And notwithstanding that you are physically
together at that time in a workshop for other purposes heretofore
established, we did not think that it was productive or really prudent
for us to try to work very quickly through the conditions precedent
before so that you could meet with the council at that point in time,
particularly since, as we're reading in the newspapers, they've hired
this consultant who's supposed to have a report finished approximately
September 29th.
And they've indicated again, according to the newspaper report,
that if their consultant comes and indicates that the county's position is
the position, then they have no further dispute to follow up with in any
event.
So from that standpoint, we've tried to be careful with our time
and your time in establishing the dates and time frames of going
forward, because in the meantime our project is our project and we'll
continue to go forward anyhow.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: I understand. There's just one
thing I have left to say. And I'd like to make an information request to
both the county and the City of Naples for all the costs that have been
extended to get to this point in time so that we can have it in front of
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the taxpayers so they know what exactly -- this folly and how it's
leading.
I'm extremely disappointed in the City of Naples for pursuing this
in the way that they're pursuing it. They know what the outcome's
going to be and they know that the cost is just going to be a burden to
the taxpayers to both the City of Naples and Collier County residents.
MS. HUBBARD: There's one last point, if I may, and that is that
our office feels that we can facilitate this matter better if we have not
only a neutral place to hold the conversations, but also attempt to
secure the services of a facilitator. The cost of the facilitator would be
split 50/50 with the city and the county.
We've been -- we have -- we've contacted one person from Ocala
who apparently participated in a 164 proceeding recently on the east
coast that was resolved amiably by the parties. And that person was
available for the 29th. And now we have to contact him to see ifhe's
available for the 5th.
And that completes, you know, our report in terms of what we
hope to be able to accomplish and how we hope to accomplish it.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Motion to approve with the
wordsmithing and changes to the resolution.
MS. HUBBARD: All right.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Second.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. I have a motion on the floor by
Commissioner Henning to approve with the amendments, and a
second by Commissioner Coletta. Any further discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN FIALA: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER COYLE: Aye.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Aye.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Aye.
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Opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Okay. That's--
MS. HUBBARD: Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: -- that's unanimously. Thank you for all
your hard work.
And with that, Mr. Mudd, do you have any other further -- any other
comments?
MR. MUDD: Ma'am, there was one item that I didn't cover for
the hurricane part of this. And I would like to suspend garbage pickup
for Monday, and we'll get the appropriate notices out to folks that
garbage will not be picked up on Monday.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: It's already in the paper this morning.
MR. MUDD: But I want to make sure we do it verbally and I
want to make sure that you know it, because it's going to be a windy
day, and you don't need to have trash all over the place too to add
insult to injury.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: How about also possibly
suspending it for Tuesday, too?
MR. MUDD: Sir, we'll do this day by day. If tomorrow looks
bad for Tuesday, we'll do it again on Tuesday.
That's all I have, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Do you need a motion from us or --
MR. MUDD: No, ma'am. I just let you know that we're going to
have --
CHAIRMAN FIALA: Very good. Okay.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: Recess until further notice?
CHAIRMAN FIALA: I will recess until tomorrow at 1 :00 p.m.
Thank you very much.
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There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 4:36 p.m.
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