BCC Minutes 08/25/2005 E (Tropical Storm/Hurricane Katrina)
August 25, 2005
EMERGENCY MEETING
OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
NAPLES, FL
AUGUST 25, 2005
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 1 :00 p.m. in
EMERGENCY SESSION in Building "F" of the Government
Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following members present:
ACTING CHAIRMAN: Tom Henning
Jim Coletta (Telephonically)
Donna Fiala (Telephonically)
Frank Halas (Telephonically)
Fred Coy Ie - absent
ALSO PRESENT:
Jim Mudd, County Manager
David Weigel, County Attorney
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COLLIER COUNTY
BOARD OF-COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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EMERGENCY AGENDA
TROPICAL STORMJHURRICANE KATRINA
August 25, 2005
1:00 p.m.
Fred W. Coyle, Chairman, District 4
Frank Halas, Vice-Chairman, District 2
Donna Fiala, Commissioner, District 1
Tom Henning, Commissioner, District 3
Jim Coletta, Commissioner, District 5
NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISillNG TO SPEAK ON ANY AGENDA ITEM
. MUST REGISTER PRIOR TO SPEAKING. SPEAKERS MUST REGISTER
WITH THE COUNTY MANAGER PRIOR TO THE PRESENTATION OF THE
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COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 2004-05, 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 TillS BOARD
WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS PERTAINING THERETO,
AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBA TIM RECORD
OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE
TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEA.L IS TO BE BASED.
ALL REGISTERED PUBLIC SPEAKERS WILL RECEIVE UP TO FIVE (5)
MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS ADJUSTED BY THE CHAIRMAN.
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IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY
ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN TillS 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 IMP AIRED ARE AVAILABLE IN
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE.
1. Call to Order
2. Updated track information for Tropical Storm/Hurricane Katrina and its effects on
the citizens of Collier County, Florida
(Presented by Emergency Management Director, Dan Summers)
3. Determination of Necessity of Declaring a State of Emergency
4. Discuss any appropriate action for the Board to take
5. Comments
6. Adjourn
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MR. MUDD: Ladies and gentlemen, if you'd please take your
seats.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Is Kady ready in there?
Any commissioners with us?
(No response.)
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: All right, looks like I'm it.
Item # 1
CALL TO ORDER - COMMISSIONER HENNING WAS ACTING
CHAIRMAN AS HE WAS THE ONLY COMMISSIONER
PRESENT IN THE BCC CHAMBERS; COMMISSIONER HALAS,
COMMISSIONER FIALA, AND COMMISSIONER COLETTA
WERE PARTICIPATING BY PHONE; COMMISSIONER COYLE
- ABSENT
Call the emergency meeting to order of the Board of
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, in the great State of
Florida, August 25th, 2005.
Dan Summers, our emergency manager, is -- give us a
presentation on the weather.
Item #2
UPDATED TRACK INFORMATION FOR TROPICAL
STORM/HURRICANE KATRINA AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE
CITIZENS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA (PRESENTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR, DAN SUMMERS)
-PRESENTED; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDE: TO DECLARE A STATE OF
EMERGENCY, TO CLOSE COLLIER COUNTY SCHOOLS ON
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2005, TO SUSPEND GARBAGE PICKUP
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ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2005, AND TO ESTABLISH A
FUNDING SOURCE TO COVER EXPENSES
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioner, good afternoon. Dan
Summers, director of the bureau of emergency services, and your
emergency management director of record.
I would like to give you a verbal briefing if I could about where
we are with Tropical Storm, soon to be Hurricane Katrina.
I have a number of recommendations to go through and also have
some visuals I'd like to present to you. Following that briefing, and a
couple of other comments, just to report to you on state actions, I'll
turn the floor back over to the county attorney for a recommendation
for a state of emergency declaration.
Just a couple of critical points, if I can. Let's start off with a
weather summary. Tropical Storm Katrina soon to be Hurricane
Katrina this afternoon is expected to intensify upon landfall in
Broward and Dade County to a Category 1. The National Hurricane
Center as of 11 :00 has not ruled out the possibility that that storm
could go to a borderline Category 2 and may continue some
intensification even as it crosses land.
The big concern is that Collier County, particularly North Naples
and Immokalee, are almost in the center of the cone of uncertainty
associated with that path, with that storm's track, and of course Katrina
coming back out to the Gulf, reinforcing and reinstating as a
hurricane, and unfortunately -- and I stress very unfortunately --
headed to the Panhandle as possibly a Category 2 hurricane.
We expect in Collier County to receive tropical storm force
winds just about throughout the entire period. That may put us at
winds that may peak around 55 miles per hour. This storm continues
to gather moisture, has a great deal of convection with that. The
Hurricane Center has revised its precipitation estimates that we may
see between six to 10 inches of rain, and it's not unlikely that we might
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see 12 to 16 inches of rain in certain areas associated with this storm.
Again, besides the wind, the fact that the storm will come over
Broward, Dade and Collier County, and its forward motion may slow
substantially. We could see in some cases two to three inches of rain
per hour, depending on the storm's progression.
We do expect some storm surge associated with the exiting of
Hurricane Katrina in that we may see something -- a storm surge tide
around one to four feet. As it stands right now, the storm is planned to
exit Collier County around 8:00 p.m., which just happens to be our
high tide.
Bands of wind and rain will begin affecting Collier County this
afternoon, as we've seen just by the rainfall that started in the last
couple of minutes or so.
Some protective action strategies I'd like to discuss with you right
now with the following recommendations:
First of all, to tell you that we do recommend a state of
emergency declaration with no prohibitions and no curfews at this
time. I have been in touch with Ray Baker, our superintendent of
schools. We have coordinated with him in confirmation of closing
Collier County schools for tomorrow. However, the district will
subsequently release that information after our briefing today.
And we also are recommending, and the superintendent has
advised us, that any church services held on the Collier County
schools property, and there are a number of those services that will be
held on Sunday morning on school property, that those services also
be canceled in the event of -- they would also be canceled, again,
anticipating some intermittent power outages, as well as staff logistics.
Another recommendation I have for you, and I'll come back to
the weather discussion on the view graph here in just a minute.
Garbage collection on Friday; emergency management would
recommend that that be suspended on Friday. We don't want the
residential cans out that may be subj ect to these wind speeds and may
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also be spilled or become debris.
There's a distinct possibility in this storm event of some
microburst activity, heavy thunderstorm activity and certainly tornado
activity .
We have no evacuations that we're ordering with this event at this
time. Residents in low-lying areas should carefully monitor storm
conditions and be prepared to seek safe refuge, if Tropical Storm
Katrina generates tornadic activity. So listening to local radio and
television, N.O.A.A. Weather Radio, is essential, because again we're
going to have a very fluid weather pattern between now and Sunday.
Immokalee Friendship House --
MS. FILSON: Are you there? I'm sorry, three of them are
connected, but they aren't coming through.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Can they hear?
MS. FILSON: I don't think so. Can they hear us?
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Is there an IT person in the
room?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: There we are.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Yeah, here we are.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: We have Commissioner
Fiala and Commissioner Coletta on the line?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: And Commissioner Halas.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Halas.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay, let's -- Mr. Summers,
I hate for you to be repetitive --
MR. SUMMERS: That's fine, I'll be glad to do it.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: -- but I think it's important
that we get in this case.
MR. SUMMERS: Okay.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Can we start all over,
please?
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MR. SUMMERS: I'll be glad to.
Commissioners that have joined us on the telephone, good
afternoon. Dan Summers, director of emergency services and your
emergency management director of record.
Just to recap for you that have joined us telephonically, I wanted
to let you know that Collier County is certainly concerned about what
is soon to be Hurricane Katrina. The National Hurricane Center has
expressed concern that this storm may continue to intensify as it
approaches Dade and Broward County at a Category I level.
Approaching Category 2 is not unlikely, as we see very warm waters
off of Dade and Broward County and even some additional
regeneration of that storm as it comes across land.
The big concern for Collier County is twofold: First of all,
there's rainfall accumulation. We've seen estimates that may put six to
10 inches in certain areas; maybe even up to 15 inches might be
isolated rainfall in certain locations, 15 to 16 inches. Again, all of
these rough estimates from the Hurricane Center.
We expect winds to peak in Collier County around 55 miles per
hour. The center of this storm is expected to track along a line
between Immokalee and North Naples; however, all of Collier County
is in the cone of uncertainty with this hurricane track as it comes
across Southwest Florida.
We do anticipate some storm tidal surge or storm surge tide,
maybe up to four feet as the tropical storm exits Collier County,
happens to coincide with high tide. So there might be up to four feet
tidal surge, particularly -- well, anywhere -- excuse me, anywhere
along the Collier County coastline.
Some protective action recommendations that we have for you at
this time: They are that we do recommend a state of emergency
declaration, as I mentioned, with no curfews or prohibitions at this
particular time. We have been in concert with Ray Baker and his staff
at the Collier County district schools. They concur with us to close
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school for Friday. They are also reminding us to help them advertise
the word that any church services held on -- any church services held
on school campus will also be canceled on Sunday, due to staff
logistics and maybe any intermittent power interruptions that we
might have.
Garbage collection services: Emergency Management would
recommend no garbage collection services on Friday. That is due to
the fact of the possibility for wind-blown debris. This also puts a
situation to close the landfill on Friday and close any recycling
operations as well on Friday.
As I -- also, I would like to mention that we're not recommending
any mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders at this time. Residents
in low-lying areas should carefully monitor stormwater conditions and
be prepared to seek safe refuge, in the event that this storm generates
some tornadic activity. We just have come across a cell right now as
we speak with heavy thunderstorms and heavy rain. So this is going to
be our type of activity through Sunday.
Residents are encouraged to take appropriate measures to protect
their home from flooding. Special care should be given for parents
not to allow their children to play in flooded streets or drainages.
Immokalee Friendship House, in cooperation with Emergency
Management, has agreed to be the first storm refuge in Immokalee.
They do have some capacity up there to approximately 80 or possibly
100 folks for shelter.
Collier County district schools, Collier County Emergency
Management and the American Red Cross will be in a position to
announce the opening of Immokalee High School, if and when that
becomes necessary for additional shelter capacity in the Immokalee
area.
We do not see the need at this time for a persons with special
needs shelter. Persons with special needs should activate their
individual preparedness plan and plan on sheltering in place. The
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Public Health Department, Collier County Emergency Management
will assist persons with special needs on a case-by-case basis.
And again, the portal or the linkage for getting in touch with
folks who can assist you is our Collier Information Center at
774-8444.
Residents are encouraged to shelter in place throughout this
storm event and minimize their driving to essential trips only.
Remember, weather conditions may deteriorate quickly and signalized
intersections without power should be treated as a four-way stop
intersection.
Don Scott is here. Don, if you'd like to come up now, or at the
conclusion, if you have any other transportation discussion items?
And then have I a few points to resume. Don?
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you.
MR. SCOTT: Thanks. Big Cypress Basin, the weirs are open.
All of our Collier County weirs are also open to establish as much
capacity as possible.
Maintenance crews are out today clearing debris from drainage
facilities in anticipation of more water.
Mentioning the signals, we have generators ready for what
signals go out. And we're securing all the construction sites
throughout the county in anticipation of the storm. Thank you.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Mr. Summers?
MR. SUMMERS: Also, as another precautionary statement,
during heavy rains, private septic systems, residential septic systems,
private wells, individuals should use a great deal of caution with these
systems to avoid utilizing wells if they have surface water infiltration.
Monitor their septic tank appropriately. And if there's any doubt
about your private well, your drinking well, again, be sure and use
bottled water if you have any doubt. Listen again to local radio and
television in the event that we have any boil water orders that take
place.
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We do not anticipate the need for the court system to change their
schedule as it stands right now for Friday. Typically Friday is a fairly
light day within the court systems, so hopefully they'll be able to work
through that appropriately.
If I could, now I have a couple of visuals I'd like to review with
you.
What I have on the screen right now currently is the infrared
satellite loop that is showing in literally real time.
Where we are with Tropical Storm Katrina that as you see is
fairly well defined in terms of its pinwheel and as it's making its
approach to Broward County. Its path here is relatively consistent,
again, coming right across Collier County, and is anticipated to go out
into the Gulf, gain momentum and head towards the Panhandle.
This is our evacuation -- or what would have been our evacuation
scenario timing model. But this really depicts what we expect to
happen with the storm.
The blue line there -- the blue circle indicates the 34 mile per
hour or the storm force winds. The yellow is the 50 mile per hour
winds. And as you will see as I advance this forward, we get just
barely to hurricane strength upon arrival here at Broward County.
MR. MUDD: Before you keep going, could you stop for a
section? I want to make a correction. The blue line is 34 knots, and
it's a 40 miles per hour. The yellow line indication is 50 knots, which
is about 58 miles per hour.
MR. SUMMERS: Right, thank you, sir. Appreciate that.
And again, I'll just advance the storm here with the timing model.
We start to see this enter Collier County. Again, the 40 mile per
hour winds, if you will, will reach Collier County around 9:00 p.m.
tonight. I'll advance forward and we'll put the 50 mile per hour winds
around 4:00 or 5:00 a.m. on Friday morning, early, based on the
current models.
Please understand that, you know, the models are not very -- the
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models have a lot of room for change as the hurricane gets over land.
But the Hurricane Center has got good model data on this. So this is
the best assumption that we have and we're going to run with that.
As we move forward just a little bit, what we want to watch is
that outer blue line. That really does not clear Collier County. Here I
have it at 6:00 p.m. Friday, just with the center of the core of the storm
just coming off Collier County at 6:00 p.m. on Friday.
And as you can see, we're going to have -- the bulk of the rain is
on the back side of this storm. So again, just a very, very soupy
condition for us all the way through, even the bulk of Saturday, until
this storm really clears, and then you see the storm gaining momentum
again Saturday morning. Sorry, readjust the frame here. You see the
storm -- you see the storm again gaining momentum early Saturday
morning. Just a tremendous amount of moisture will still be behind
this storm.
So that's pretty much a quick rundown of what we're looking at
and the prognosis that we have for the forecast.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
MR. SUMMERS: I'll be glad to stop right now and see if there
are any questions or comments from the county manager or from the
board.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any questions from the
commissioners?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I have a couple.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. Will the government center be
closed on Friday?
MR. MUDD: No, ma'am. We're going to continue to do normal
operations. And I'll put a liberal leave policy in effect in case there
are parents that need to be home with their children. So that -- what a
liberal leave policy means is that the supervisors won't ask why they're
going on leave, they just let them go.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: I see.
Second question: Are there sandbags available for the areas that,
you know, especially that will be flooding?
MR. SUMMERS: Ma'am, we do not -- Commissioner, we do
not have a sandbag program in Collier County. We have found that to
be less than effective for a lot of reasons. But we recommend in a
very good way to work on any flood proofing is to go to the hardware
store, the home improvement store and acquire bags of potting soil.
Those plastic bags are a good weight, an adequate ballast to secure
your plastic paper, polyethylene paper, for any small flood barrier that
you would like to use. And then of course there's the advantage of
recycling that potting soil well is.
So we do not offer sandbags, a sandbag program, but that is an
excellent alternative that a lot of homeowners have had success with
in the past.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you.
My last question is, is the east coast preparing to evacuate to
Collier County?
MR. SUMMERS: The east coast counties, both Broward and
Dade, were doing what they call their Zone 1 or Zone A evacuation.
Primarily their coastal -- primary coastal community. All of their
evacuation orders were within county, so they are evacuating in
county. That has not stopped anyone who just wanted to come to the
east coast (sic) out of convenience; however, Collier County is not a
good track right not for a lot of folks evacuating from the east coast.
We do anticipate, however, some campers and mobile homes --
motor homes, motor coaches that may come to our area for the
weekend, just because they were coastal residents. I think we've
typically worked with those individuals for temporary parking, but we
have no formal request and no host shelter requirements from the state
or from Dade or Broward County.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you.
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COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Mr. Summers?
MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coletta?
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Commissioner Coletta.
Mr. Summers, I've been reviewing the capacity for -- that's left in
the canals and the ground capacity, and I don't think you've got a
tremendous problem, from what I can see as far as flooding goes,
unless something happens that we can't predict at this time.
My biggest concern is Immokalee, with the substandard
dwellings that are there. And even a wind of 50 to 60 miles an hour
could prove to be disastrous for people living in the substandard
mobile homes. You may want to reevaluate that very closely and
possibly consider opening the high school and error on the side of
caution. I'm quite concerned about the residents in Immokalee. That's
my biggest concern at this time.
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioner, thank you. And I think when
we started the briefing the second time, I overlooked that.
Let me restate that. I do have that as part of our action plan. And
let me restate that for the record. Immokalee Friendship House, in
cooperation with Collier County Emergency Management, has agreed
to provide storm refuge until their capacity is met. And they have
right now space for 80, possibly 100. Collier County and American
Red Cross will announce the opening of Immokalee High School
when conditions warrant.
I do have -- the superintendent of schools has offered his plant
staff to help us with Immokalee High School and having that in a
standby so that we can activate that very quickly. We have our
disaster trailers enroute up there now to stage.
So sir, I may have overlooked that earlier, but we do have -- we
are ready to act quickly on Immokalee High School for shelter.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: You did state it just that way
earlier. My concern was is that 80 to 90 people that can go into
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Friendship House is only a small number compared to what is in
Immokalee. And I'm concerned about any kind of delay to the last
minute to try to reach out to the public that doesn't really have an
effective means of communication within the community.
So I'm sure you're going to take that all into consideration when
you make your decision.
MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir, we will. We'll monitor all of that
very, very closely. And we are in a good position to address those
needs, either with advanced notice or be able to respond very quickly.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Thank you, Mr. Summers.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Dan Summers, Commissioner
Halas here.
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioner?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: I was looking at some of the storm
surge forecasts. Are we looking at a four-foot storm surge?
MR. SUMMERS: The Hurricane Center this afternoon -- we had
considerable discussion on that. The -- first of all, the storm surge
models that we're used to seeing with the Gulf are being formulated at
this time.
The Hurricane Center forecasters are posing this as what they call
a tidal peak rather than a hurricane storm surge. And I would tell you
that we might frame that in a fashion of an extremely high lunar tide.
So we are seeing one to four feet, and because the storm would
be exiting right around high tide, we would see that storm surge
inundation. But they're really referring to that as tidal versus storm
surge in the pure form of the word if we had a Gulf active hurricane.
So yes, we're going to see that, but we're (sic) also would see that
tidal surge fall very quickly, once the tide begins to recede.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Okay, in your best estimation, what
would you say would be the peak time that the winds will be coming
to the North Naples area?
MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir, I do have that information. We do
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see with -- around 9:00 a.m. Friday, 9:00 a.m. Friday. And again, we
are on -- our estimates in that model are 48 to 60 miles per hour
between 9:00 a.m. Friday and 7:00 a.m. Saturday.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Okay. Are you -- what is the
projected rainfall for most of Collier County? Is it around seven
inches or more?
MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir, it is. I think you've got my script in
front of you. Exactly seven and three quarters inches is what our
models are estimating right now for North Naples. But again, that's all
based on that storm having a relatively consistent forward movement.
And if we have -- the reason we're giving you the high numbers
related to rainfall is if the storm comes over Collier County, comes
over South Florida and basically loses its momentum, and of course
the longer it stays here, the more rain it's going to drop.
MR. MUDD: What are those high numbers, Mr. Summers?
MR. SUMMERS: Sixteen inches of rain.
MR. MUDD: Is the high number?
MR. SUMMERS: Is the high number.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any further questions?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Thank you very much.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: County Manager?
MR. MUDD: Commissioner, I'd like to turn this over to Mr.
Weigel, the county attorney, to talk about the proclamation, and then
we'll talk about some administrative things after that, so --
MR. WEIGEL: Thank you, Jim. And thank you, Commissioner
Henning. David Weigel, County Attorney.
And hello Commissioners, telephonically.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Hello.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Hi.
Item #3
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RESOLUTION 2005-284 -DETERMINATION OF NECESSITY OF
DECLARING A STATE OF EMERGENCY -ADOPTED
MR. WEIGEL: I have before me the draft proclamation
resolution, typical to these kinds of events. And as has been the
custom in the past, these have been read into the record. And with the
permission of Commissioner Henning, I will do so, and you will then
obviously have an opportunity to discuss and comment on this.
Just in terms of the official protocol by virtue of the fact that
Commissioner Henning is here and is the only Commissioner
physically present, it actually is a committee of one as far as a vote to
be had, although you will be noted as participating and the resolution
(sic) will so indicate your participation telephonically.
With that, I'll start with the resolution.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Please.
MR. WEIGEL: It's titled Proclamation of the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, To Declare a State of
Emergency For All Territory Within the Legal Boundaries of Collier
County, Including All Incorporated and Unincorporated Areas.
And it reads as follows:
WHEREAS, Tropical Storm/Hurricane Katrina has the potential
for causing extensive damage to public utilities, public buildings,
public communications systems, public streets and roads, public
drainage systems, commercial and residential buildings and areas; and
WHEREAS, Collier County Emergency Management officials
are recommending that a state of local emergency be declared due to
the current and predicted path of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Katrina;
and
WHEREAS, Section 252.38(3)(a)5, Florida Statutes, and Collier
County Ordinance No. 84-37, 2001-45 and 2002-50, also codified as
Sections 38-56 through 38-70 in the Collier County Code of Laws and
Ordinances, provide for a political subdivision such as Collier County
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to declare a state of local emergency and to waive the procedures and
formalities otherwise required of political subdivisions by law
pertaining to -- and I list the following eight items:
1. Performance of public work and taking whatever prudent
action is necessary to ensure the health, safety and welfare of the
community;
2. Entering into contracts;
3. Incurring obligations;
4. Employment of permanent and temporary workers;
5. Rental of equipment;
6. Utilization of volunteer workers;
7. The acquisition and distribution, with or without
compensation, of supplies, materials and facilities;
8. Appropriation and expenditure of public funds.
NOW THEREFORE, it is revolved by the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, in special session this 25th
day of August, 2005, that Tropical Storm/Hurricane Katrina poses a
serious threat to the lives and property of residents of Collier County,
and that a state of local emergency be declared effective immediately
for all territory in the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Collier
County .
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of County
Commissioners hereby exercises its authority pursuant to Collier
County Ordinance Nos. 84-37,2001-45 and 2002-50, and waives the
procedures and formalities required by law of a political subdivision,
as provided in Section 252.38(3)(a)(5), Florida Statutes, including
authorization for purchasing director to waive existing purchasing card
limitations during the declared emergency.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of County
Commissioners hereby declares that during an emergency, it shall be
unlawful and an offense against the county for any person operating
within the county to charge more than the normal average retail price
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for any merchandise, goods or services sold during the emergency.
The average retail price as used herein is defined to be that price at
which similar merchandise, goods or services were being sold during
the 30 days immediately preceding the emergency or at a mark-up
which is a larger percentage over wholesale cost than was being added
to wholesale cost prior to the emergency.
This proclamation/resolution, adopted after motion, second -- it
says here motion, second and majority vote -- favoring same this 25th
day of August, 2005.
And as I noted, the majority vote in this case pursuant to Chapter
252 of Florida Statutes and Collier County Ordinance No. 84-37,
amended puts Commissioner Henning as the acting chairman and
actually the only ultimate vote of record in consideration and adoption
of this resolution proclamation.
I further add that unless the board specifies anything to the
contrary, it has been the standard in the past and will continue to be
that the state of emergency would last for seven days, but no longer
than seven days without further calling for additional emergency time.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any questions by the board
members?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Just one. When you say majority
vote, could you say majority vote of those present? Because there's
one present.
MR. WEIGEL: Well, this ordinance -- pardon me, this
resolution/proclamation will be modified to indicate that this is a vote
of the board, but the board at this point constitutes Commissioner
Henning as acting chairman, as well as the sole voting member.
The rest of the commissioners will show up as either telephonic
participants or not.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I see.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Mr. Summers, do you have
any input?
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MR. SUMMERS: No, sir, nothing additional. A few other
administrative items after your resolution.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Do you think it's
appropriate to act a -- have a state of emergency for seven days?
MR. SUMMERS: Sir, I do. That allows us to work many, many
issues if they come up in an emergency situations. With all this rain,
we're going to continue to accumulate water. Our surrounding
counties have also declared a state of emergency, and so has the
Governor.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. All right. Then as
chair of the -- the acting chair of the Board of Commissioners, I am
going to move to adopt this proclamation resolution.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'll second that.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: I'm voting on it. Whether
you like it or not.
MR. MUDD: For the record, though, could we please get the
votes of the commissioners that are on the phone, as far as this
resolution is concerned?
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Call for a vote.
Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Present, and yes.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Affirmative.
Commissioner Halas?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Affirmative.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coletta?
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Affirmative.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: And we also have another
resolution?
MR. WEIGEL: That is correct.
Item #4
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RESOLUTION 2005-285 ALLOWING A BUDGET
AMENDMENT FOR FUNDING OF EXPENSES BY OPENING
AN APPROPRIATION FUND, FROM RESERVES, IN A
STARTING AMOUNT OF $50~000 -ADOPTED
A second resolution, not as long as the first one, thank goodness,
is a resolution pertaining to funding. It's titled as this: Resolution of
the Board of County Commissioners Following Its Declaration of a
State of Local Emergency For All Territory in Collier County Further
Providing For Opening New Appropriation Fund For Emergency
Services During Tropical Storm/Hurricane Katrina.
The whereas clauses I will just synopsize here in a sense that it
indicates that WHEREAS, the board has adopted its
resolution/declaration and special session, which you have just done,
and having met in chambers today concerning the conditions and
being informed of conditions and the dangers that exist there, you then
go on to adopt this additional resolution, which reads here in the
operative language:
NOW THEREFORE, it is resolved by the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, in special session this 25th
day of August, 2005 that:
1. The board authorizes the opening of a new appropriation fund
from reserves with $50,000 starting base for emergency services
during Tropical Storm/Hurricane Katrina.
And that's really the ultimate -- that is the operative part.
This resolution reads as adopted after motion, second and
majority vote. Again with the same precepts as the prior one that
Commissioner Henning is actually the only voting member present
and he is in charge of the show.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, now, when he makes a
motion, doesn't somebody need to second that, even though we're not
present there?
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MR. WEIGEL: Well, that's a good question. But under our
emergency procedures ordinance, when there is a failure for there to
be two or more board members present, he can act alone. And
essentially by making the motion he has, as well as approved his
desire pertinent to the issue before him --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Mr. Summers, do you have
anything to add to this resolution?
MR. SUMMERS: No, sir, I do not. There is an accompanying
budget amendment paperwork that's necessary that will accompany
this resolution, and that has been prepared and reviewed by our OMB.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. As acting chair of
the Board of Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, I move this
resolution.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: I'll second it.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Mr. Summers, do you have
anything further?
MR. SUMMERS: Sir, I do not have any further. There are a
couple of agencies in the office -- in the audience, excuse me. I don't
know if they have any other announcements or any other real-time
information that they need to distribute.
I'm looking in the audience here. I see nothing additional at this
time.
I thank you and I'll turn it back over to the County Manager for
any closing remarks.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Mr. Summers, is there any
reason for the commissioners, the board, to reconvene at a later date?
MR. SUMMERS: Mr. Mudd has that.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: County Manager's going to
handle that? Thank you.
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir. Commissioner, I would recommend that
on Saturday at 1 :00 that we put a marker down to reconvene. We
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have heavy rains, we could get some isolated tornados and those
particular things, and we could lose power. And if we do and it's
extended, we might have to talk about curfew.
So I would suggest that Saturday at 1: 00 would be a good time to
reconvene this meeting and at that time we'll give you an update and
give you -- there might not be any decision to make. We might not
have lost power or we've got it back on again and everything's okay,
but I'd like to have that date open for Saturday at 1: 00.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Very good.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: And I think Commissioner
Halas should be back by then. He's at a Florida Association of
Counties work group in the Tampa region.
And am I correct, Commissioner Halas, you'll be back on
Saturday?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Yes, Commissioner Henning, we
should be back by Saturday.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: I know you're doing
important work up there, so we appreciate that.
MR. MUDD: So I just want to make -- the other piece I'd like to
be able to talk about is to make sure that everybody knows that again,
to go over that schools are not in session tomorrow. Are not in session
tomorrow. So schools are closed tomorrow.
The government is open tomorrow.
There is no trash pickup, recycling pickup tomorrow. The solid
waste department will make a decision tomorrow afternoon if that is
going to extend into Saturday.
I will tell everybody, based on what we've seen so far from the
models, our heavy winds start tomorrow around 7:30 in the morning,
and last through Saturday, you know, as that big circle exited Collier
County till about 7:00 on Saturday morning.
I would ask the folks, if we do have garbage collection on
Saturday, and right now we're planning to do that, please do not put
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your bins out at 6:00 Friday night, okay, because we still have high
winds at that time. It will be Saturday morning, put your trash out in
that particular case.
That's all I have, sir.
Dan, do you have anything else?
MR. SUMMERS: Sir, just as a reminder, to let you know that
the Emergency Operation Center for Collier County will go live at
around 7:00 tonight and be on a 24-hour basis throughout the event, as
well as our Collier Information hotline. And again, that number is
774-8444.
The Emergency Management staff will in fact go to a split shift
scenario later on this evening to make sure that we've got the
appropriate staff for after hours activity or during the peak part of the
storm event. That's all.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Mr. Weigel?
MR. WEIGEL: Yes, one final thing and that is if the chairman
would like for the board members telephonically to indicate their
affirmation of the budget resolution that was just passed?
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioners, do you
agree that we allocate a reserve of $50,000, starting the base for this
emergency event?
Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I do.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Halas?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Yes.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Coletta?
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Yes.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay.
MR. WEIGEL: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I have one last question, if I may.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, will the airport in Fort Myers
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be open tomorrow?
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioner, we will check the status of
that. I do know that we are in concert again this afternoon with Lee
County, and their activities, I'm sure that they will announce those
delays or closures later today as they become necessary. So we'll do
our best to follow up on that. But we do not have a confirmation yet
of a closing time. We do know that there are delays and ground
delays from Florida to Atlanta.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, thank you.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Even if they stay open, it's
up to the individual airlines whether they cancel a certain flight.
MR. SUMMERS: That is correct. Even though the port
authority at Lee will make some general announcements, our standing
recommendation again is to check your ticket status on-line or to call
your airline and check on your specific flight.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I was just thinking, maybe I
should fly back in, just to be there. And I was just checking to see if
the airport would be open. Okay.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you. Any further
questions?
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Not a question. Just a comment,
if I may. I -- for some reason our video stream -- the ability to be able
to watch meetings like this is down at this particular time, and it's of
concern that it would fail us at a time of an emergency. And I hope
that county manager's office will look into that.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Anything else,
Commissioners?
(No response.)
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: Are we okay?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: We're okay.
ACTING CHAIRMAN HENNING: I'm going to recess this
emergency meeting until August 27th, Saturday, at 1 :00 p.m.
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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 1 :40 p.m.
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