Ex-parte - Taylor 10/09/2018 Ex parte Items - Commissioner Penny Taylor
COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGENDA
October 9, 2018
CONSENT AGENDA
16.A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
16.A.7. This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission members.
Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are required to be sworn in.
Recommendation to approve for recording the final plat of Abaco Pointe,
(Application Number PL20180001040) approval of the standard form Construction
and Maintenance Agreement and approval of the amount of the performance
security.
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LATEST FISH KILLS PUZZLING
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Thousands of rotting fish the Beacon House Club and
carcasses washed into Moorings Marina in Naples.
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areas that experienced fish kills ,'"LUSill I(IU ,d^d.nh
over the weekend,Naples' TOP: Moorings Bay is littered
Natural Resources Manager with dead fish, but no one
Stephanie Molloy said. seems to know why, or for
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LATEST FISH KILLS want people to think badly of along the northeastern Florida
PUZZLING your area, but on the other hand coast Wednesday—may help
you have to make people aware dissipate it, Malloy said.
Dead fish of how bad it is," she said. "It's
tragic." "The storm may break it up a
Continued from Page 1 A little bit, and the colder weather
The smell of the rotting fish is may also help it die off," Malloy
"We've had dead fish wash up so strong it permeates through said.
on a few beaches, and then the closed car windows, and some
tides and currents push them residents don gas masks to "It's been a really rough
into the canals," she said. throw their trash in the summer for beachgoers," she
dumpster, which is near the added.
A bloom of a diatom, called water.
Cylindrotheca, is one possible "It's really bad, and it's
cause of the dead fish, Molloy Ramsey said her neighbor getting worse because they're
said. ventured out to take pictures of rotting and they're not going
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"It's complex, and we don't the fish Monday but that after away. It's a terrible situation, -
know the exact cause," she said. just a few minutes, the smell and we'v e got to get it under
"It could be related to the started making her sick. control."
diatom."
"It's really bad, and it's getting Cissy Ramsey
Cylindrotheca first appeared last worse because they're rotting
week,turning the water a deep and they're not going away," Seasonal resident
murky brown. Although the she said. "It's a terrible
bloom is nontoxic, it can still situation, and we've got to get it
cause fish kills, according to a under control."
city of Naples news release.
Collier County has deployed its
"Cylindrotheca can cause low contractor CrowderGulf,
dissolved oxygen waters, which responsible for interior canal
cause fish die off,"the release cleanups throughout the county, fir
states. "This diatom is also including Naples. Molloy said
mucilage-producing, causing she doesn't know whether the
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clogging of fish gills, a direct contractor has scheduled a
cause of fish die off." cleanup for Moorings Bay.
The fish kills could also be the Meanwhile, the city is sampling
result of red tide, Molloy said. Moorings Bay for low dissolved
Ail
Although recent water samples oxygen levels and the presence
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indicate the toxic red tide algae of Cylindrotheca, accordingto
has all but vanished from Naples the news release. The city will '
shores, patches of the bloom send the samples to the county
farther out in the Gulf could still and to the state's Fish and
have an impact. Wildlife Research Institute for
testing.
"It's possible that red tide out in
the Gulf is still causing dead Molloy said algal blooms Dead fish float in the water
fish to wash up," she said. "Or it similar to Cylindrotheca have Monday at the Beacon House
could be a combination, so the happened in the past; last year a Club and Marina in Naples.
red tide sickens the fish and then type of blue-green algae called ALEX DRIEHAUS/NAPLES
the diatom kills it. We don't Trichodesmium turned the water DAILY NEWS
know." brown, and another type of
algae also turned the water Tuesday, 10/09/2018 Pag.A01
Cissy Ramsey has seasonally murky in 2012. (c)Naples Daily News
lived at Beacon House condos
for four years and has visited the As for the current bloom,
area for decades. She said she's Hurricane Michael—which is
never seen anything like this. predicted to make landfall
"On one hand you don't
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EVENT HAPPENINGS IN COLLIER COUNTY
1. Naples Botanical Gardens Events
• Reflections on Glass: Frabel in the Garden, October 1, 2018 — March 31, 2019
• Fall Walk in the Garden, October 26 - 28, 2018
• Music in the Garden — Paradise Coastmen Barbershop Chorus, December 02, 2018
• Night Lights in the Garden, December 2018
• Music in the Garden, January 2019
• Tai Chi in the Garden, October—April 2019
• Yoga in the Garden, October—April 2019
2. Naples Opera Events
• Annual benefit gala - An Egyptian Fantasy, Opera Naples, December 11, 2018
• Opera Naples Presents Giuseppe Verdi's Aida — December 2018
• New this season: A Toast to Opera, November 2018, January 2019 & March 2019
• The Opera Stars Concert Series, begins November 2018
• Opera Naples Academy Concert, October 2018 —April 2019
3. Naples Zoo Events
• Zoo Gala in the Garden of Eden, November 9, 2018
• Safari Squad: Animal Yoga, October 2018
• Boo at the Zoo, October 2018
• Florida Panther Festival, November 3, 2018
• Zoobilee, February 8, 2019
4. Artis-Naples Events
• Star Wars Live in Concert film with orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, October 2018
• 2018 Naples International Film Festival Ten Year Anniversary, October 2018
• The Sound of Music, December 2018
• Fiddler on the Roof, March 2019
• Dance Theatre of Harlem with the Naples Philharmonic, February 2019
5. Swamp Buggy Races, November 3-4, 2018
6. YogaCAN, April 2019
7. Stay in May Festival, April — May 2019
8. Gulfshore Playhouse Events
• The 14th Annual Charity Golf Tournament, October 22, 2018
• Gulfshore Playhouse Gala, March 18, 2019
• Share the Love an intimate concert under the stars, February 13, 2019
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, November— December 2018