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Agenda 04/28/2020 Item # 2D (BCC Minutes 03/24/2020)04/28/2020 COLLIER COUNTY Board of County Commissioners Item Number: 2.D Item Summary: March 24, 2020 BCC Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: 04/28/2020 Prepared by: Title: Executive Secretary to County Manager – County Manager's Office Name: MaryJo Brock 04/01/2020 1:14 PM Submitted by: Title: County Manager – County Manager's Office Name: Leo E. Ochs 04/01/2020 1:14 PM Approved By: Review: County Manager's Office MaryJo Brock County Manager Review Completed 04/01/2020 1:14 PM Board of County Commissioners MaryJo Brock Meeting Pending 04/28/2020 9:00 AM 2.D Packet Pg. 19 March 24, 2020 Page 1 TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Naples, Florida, March 24, 2020 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 9:00 a.m., in REGULAR SESSION in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following members present: CHAIRMAN: Burt L. Saunders (via speakerphone) Andy Solis (via speakerphone) William L. McDaniel, Jr. Donna Fiala (via speakerphone) Penny Taylor ALSO PRESENT: Leo Ochs, County Manager Nick Casalanguida, Deputy County Manager Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney Crystal K. Kinzel, Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller Troy Miller, Communications & Customer Relations March 24, 2020 Page 2 MR. OCHS: Chairman Saunders, are you on the line, sir? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yes, sir, I am. MR. OCHS: It's 9:01. Mr. Chairman, we're ready to go at your request. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We will call the meeting to order. The March 24 BCC meeting will come to order. Let's go ahead and call the roll, and then we'll do the normal pledge and that sort of thing. But let's see who's on the phone and who's in the room and if we have a quorum. MR. OCHS: Okay. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala, you're on the phone? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, I am. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis, you're on the phone? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel, I believe you're in the room. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I are -- I am in the room, yes, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. And, Commissioner Taylor, I believe you're in the room as well. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I am, sir. Thank you very much for your patience. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Well, let's have our standard procedure of an invocation and a pledge. We're living in some times when people are nervous, and rightfully so, and I think having an invocation is most important and, Mr. Ochs, if you would lead us in the invocation and the pledge to the flag. MR. OCHS: I'd be happy to. Commissioner, Commissioner March 24, 2020 Page 3 McDaniel's been gracious enough to offer to do the invocation this morning. I think that would -- that would be very welcomed, and then I'd follow on with the pledge if that's okay with you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's great news. Commissioner McDaniel. Item #1 INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Good morning, everybody. And if you would, please, bow your heads with me. Heavenly Father, as we have said before in the past, we ask for your blessings upon these proceedings. As has already been me ntioned, these are very, very special times that are going on within humanity and our world. We ask for your care. We ask for your guidance. We ask for your grace, Father, with these difficult times that are upon humanity as we travel this path together. We ask that you bless those who are making the decisions to guide all. We ask that you protect our families, our friends, and our neighbors and, as always, Father, we ask that you give special guidance and special protection for those first responders and the military who provide us with the freedoms that we enjoy every day. In thy name I pray, amen. MR. OCHS: Amen. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And if you would, ladies and gentlemen -- ladies and gentlemen, with me. (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you, Commissioner McDaniel. That was very well said. As we get into this meeting, let me make a couple observations and suggestions. With three of us March 24, 2020 Page 4 being on the phone, there is a slight delay in the communications, and so everyone's going to have to be very patient. So, for example, if Commissioner Fiala wants to ask some questions or make some comments, she's going to have to announce her name so that the record reflects who is making the request, and everyone will have a full opportunity. We can't talk over each other. We just have to be very careful. So if someone is speaking, make sure that before you jump in, that person has completed their question or has gotten a complete answer, and then we'll move on to the next person. Now, if that doesn't work out too well, then I'll just call each person's name and we proceed that way as well. But we'll try to be a little bit less formal initially to see how that works out. MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, this is the manager. If I could, before we go too much further, just remind those that are attending remotely that if you would please mute your phones when you're not speaking, that will help us avoid any background noise and echoing, and, of course, then un-mute them when you wish to speak. So if the three of you would practice that, it would help us with the sound system. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. And also, I want to thank the Commission and our staff. We're making every effort to keep our staff safe, keep the public safe, by using the authority granted by the governor to have telephonic meetings to keep the attendance in the room at a minimum. I think that that's a procedure that will work well. Also, during this conversation we're going to be talking about our next meetings and things dealing with the virus issue. Those will be the main topics of this meeting. Before we get into those, we're on the next item on the agenda, which is the approval of today's regular, consent, and summary agenda as amended, and I understand that March 24, 2020 Page 5 there are some changes to the agenda. So, Mr. Ochs, if you would go through those changes, and then we can get on to the approval of the consent agenda. Item #2A APPROVAL OF TODAY'S REGULAR, CONSENT AND SUMMARY AGENDA AS AMENDED (EX PARTE DISCLOSURE PROVIDED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR CONSENT AGENDA.) - APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED W/CHANGES – (MOVED ITEM #17E TO ITEM #8A) MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. Commissioners, these are the proposed agenda changes for the Board of County Commissioners' meeting of March 24th, 2020. The first proposed change is to withdraw Item 16F5. This is a proposed management and operating agreement with Sports Fields Incorporated for the operation and management of the new Collier County sports and events complex. That withdrawal is made at the staff's request. We're still working on some refinements to that agreement, and we'll have that ready to go shortly. The next requested change was a request by Commissioner Fiala to move Item 17E from the summary agenda to the regular agenda for discussion. This is an item having to do with a resolution of the Board of Zoning Appeals providing for a conditional use to allow an enclosed self-storage warehouse within a general commercial C-4 zoning district located at the southeast corner of Valley Stream Drive and Tamiami Trail East. We have the petitioners in the room, Mr. Chairman. The staff is available. So it's the Board's pleasure on whether you would wish to hear this item today or continue it to a subsequent meeting or -- we March 24, 2020 Page 6 have not heard specifically from Commissioner Fiala about her specific questions on this. So that may be in order before the Board decides what they want to do. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Let's do this: Let's hear from Commissioner Fiala as to the reasons to delay this. We do have the petitioners in the room, and perhaps between the conversation between Commissioner Fiala and the petitioners, her concerns can be addressed, and we can proceed with that. If not, obviously we will take up the consideration. Commissioner Fiala, if that's okay with you. What are your concerns about that particular item? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. I've got a few concerns, and so thank you. Let me just pull out all my notes here. Hold on just a second. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And while we're waiting for Commissioner Fiala, in terms of the petitioner, perhaps the petitioner should be at the microphone to try to address these questions. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, fine. MR. OCHS: Commissioner, the applicant is at the microphone. Please state your name for the record. MR. DAVIES: Good morning, Commissioners. Noel Davies with the law firm of Quarles & Brady on behalf of the applicant for Item 17E. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let's see how -- if we can get through this one. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Good. Here are a couple of my concerns. This thing is 122,556 square feet of storage facility. I understand there will be 1,000 units in it. And it's on 2.52 acres. That's pretty well squished in, and it's four stories, and it's surrounded in a neighborhood. And I think that that's going to be very difficult for the neighborhood. March 24, 2020 Page 7 The neighborhood has approached them and talked to them about this thing. They're very, very nervous, and I don't blame th em. And so they wanted to find out more about it. I've seen pictures of it. The pictures sound -- look very nice. I don't know how they're going to get all of that stuff on just two-and-a-half acres. But, anyway, my biggest concern is as these storag e units keep coming in -- and I know that -- I think all other commissioners get some. I haven't heard of many. But in ours they come into our areas, and they quickly come in, buy the land that's cheap, and it's right along major thoroughfares. And we don't have a place, then, as we try and encourage community -- commercial business, excuse me, to come in, that all of the commercial space along the coast -- well, along the drive, along U.S. 41, are now taken. And so then you can't locate your restaurant behind a four-story building or any other commercial building that you do want to bring in. So I'm asking -- I asked the gentlemen, and I said, you know, could you give part of your first-floor space to commercial to work with our community? Because I think that this is really important, because it looks like we've got quite a few more coming in yet. And I'm going to ask the same question of each one. I feel that it's important for us to be able to conduct business rather than be shut out because of a storage unit which doesn't -- you know, there's no place to shop in a storage unit nor a place to eat in a storage unit. So I asked him, and I didn't notice it on this agenda at all. I read the thing, and I was surprised that there was nothing. I guess the people had asked them also, would you please fix the road? They said they'll fix the road in front of their two-and-a-half acres, and that's it. And there's -- it's a terrible road because so many people drive March 24, 2020 Page 8 down there, and it's all torn up. It's a tiny -- the community is -- I hate to say it; it's a retirement community type. And not everybody there is retired, but it's a very small community, and they have no place to even run up to the store, you know, to get anything. So I'm hoping that these people would work with us to be a good neighbor, and that's what I'm -- I'm here for. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have the -- and I'm sorry. The gentleman that's at the microphone, I didn't make note of your name. What is your name, sir, again? MR. DAVIES: It's Noel Davies. Good morning. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Good morning. Mr. Davies, if you could respond. And then, Mr. Ochs, I don't know if we have anybody from our planning staff that is there or can discuss the current underlying zoning and what can go there under existing zoning. So, Mr. Davies -- MR. OCHS: Yeah. Mr. Chairman, before the applicant speaks -- this is the manager. I'm looking to our County Attorney for some guidance here. But, you know, this item is an item that requires ex parte, and we have to swear witnesses. So if we're going to get too far into this as a hearing, we probably ought to move it onto the agenda for discussion or continue it. Mr. Klatzkow, your view? MR. KLATZKOW: At this point in time, you need to acquire a vote by the Board, three votes, whether or not to put it on the agenda or to continue. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I would -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'm sorry. This is Penny Taylor, Mr. Chairman. I think it -- considering this is business, and business March 24, 2020 Page 9 has got to be something that we're all very concerned of at this point, I would agree to put it on the regular agenda right now for a hearing. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'd like to make that motion. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I have no objection to putting it on the regular agenda. Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No objection. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. And, Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No, I have no objection either. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Fiala, I assume you have no objection at this point. So we'll put that on our regular agenda and get back to it momentarily. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you very much. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. Commissioners, that will be Item 8A under your Board of Zoning Appeals, and we'll hear that after we have our remarks this morning from Ms. Vick and Mr. Summers. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. MR. DAVIES: Thank you, Commissioners. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Then we need a motion to approve today's regular, consent, and the summary agenda has been postponed to later in the meeting. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. This is the agenda as amended. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Commissioner Saunders? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: This is Andy Solis. I have an ex parte on one of the other summary items that I needed to make before March 24, 2020 Page 10 we vote. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. If you could go ahead and do that, then we'll take the vote. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: All right. I just needed to disclose that I had a meeting with Roger Rice on matters 17A and B. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Any other commissioners with any other disclosures? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, yeah. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. You know, I better say that I spoke with these people. I know I said it when I was -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: No, you'll get an opportunity to do that when the item comes up on the regular agenda. COMMISSIONER FIALA: It's a matter of ex parte. Okay, fine. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And this is Penny -- Commissioner Penny Taylor. I do have an ex parte on 17A and 17B. Meetings with private individuals and also phone calls and also with staff. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. All right. If there's no other disclosures -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Commissioner Saunders? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah, you know what, if that's the case, I went for a ride around the Sports Park with Nick Casalanguida and a few other people to take a look at how it's shaping up and getting facts. So I better put that on the record as ex parte. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, I do have disclosures as well, sir. Now it's only on 16A6, near as I can tell. Yes, 16A6. And other than that, I have no others. March 24, 2020 Page 11 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. If there are no other comments or disclosures, all in favor of approval of the regular/consent agenda as amended, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye. And I believe that passes unanimously. Is that -- any objections? (No response.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously, then. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It does. March 24, 2020 Page 12 Item #2B FEBRUARY 25, 2020 BCC MEETING MINUTES - APPROVED AS PRESENTED CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Next on the agenda is Item 2B. That's the approval of the minutes from February 25. We need a motion and a second to approve the minutes. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: This is Commissioner Penny Taylor. So move. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. MR. OCHS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Item #5A COVID-19 UPDATES – DAN SUMMERS, DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STEPHANIE VICK, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE COLLIER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT MR. OCHS: At this time we're going to have a presentation and update on the COVID-19 preparedness and response strategies from Collier County staff and from the Collier County Department of Public Health. March 24, 2020 Page 13 Mr. Dan Summers and Ms. Stephanie Vick are here to make that presentation. Mr. Summers. MR. SUMMERS: Good morning, Commissioners. For the record -- MR. OCHS: Hold on, Dan. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Hang on just one second. I know we're going to have a lot of discussion in reference to the COVID-19. What I would suggest is let's let Dan Summers complete his presentation, then we'll see if there are any questions, and then have Stephanie Vick complete her presentation, as opposed to interrupting with questions. It's a little bit cumbersome, because -- but you'll have to just make notes of your questions, but I think that will be a more expeditious way to proceed if there's no objection to doing it that way. So, Mr. Summers. MR. SUMMERS: Good morning, sir. For the record, Dan Summers, Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management, and joining me is Stephanie Vick. We're providing Update No. 3 for you this morning regarding our COVID preparedness and response strategies. And let's jump right into our traditional Department of Health update. So, Stephanie, if you'll come forward. MS. VICK: Good morning, Commissioners, Stephanie Vick, Administrator for the Florida Department of Health in Collie r County. So I want to start out with the current situation as far as cases in Florida and then in Collier County. The numbers that you have before you have changed since last night, and so I'm going to give you the current numbers. So the March 24, 2020 Page 14 positive cases in Florida, as of this morning, are 1,227 cases, of which 80 of those people are nonresident, and the number of deaths that we have had are now 17 as opposed to 14. The positive cases in Collier County now are 39 cases, of which seven of those are nonresidents from the county. In Collier, 22 of those cases that we have are travel related either from out of the country or from the high-risk states like New York, California, Connecticut, the Tri-State area. Ten of them are for sure community acquired, so that's double from last week, and then we have seven that are still under investigation and they're unknown. We're not able to track exactly where it was acquired from. They will probably end up under community acquired and so, therefore, you can see that community acquired is approaching the numbers that we have for travel acquired. And I just want to point out to you last week I told you that we had 12 cases in Collier County. We've more than tripled our cases in Collier County. Albeit, they're smaller numbers, but you can see that it's growing. And that's not a surprise. I'm sure that it's been out there for a little while, so... Okay. So our current strategy is still to slow the spread of the virus and to test the highest-risk individuals -- that's from the Health Department's end -- but to test more people in the community with the private sector and to continue social distancing among our population. The social behavior guidelines are still the same. We want individuals to stay six feet apart, be in groups less than 10. And I have to say, I see it on Facebook. I even saw it from my niece in Pennsylvania. Just because you have a group of nine doesn't mean that you're social distancing if you're all packed together taking a picture of yourselves or packed together inside of a boat or around a table. You need to be smaller groups and you need to be spaced at March 24, 2020 Page 15 least six feet apart. Do frequent washing of your hands, use soap and water. But if soap and water is not available, then you need to use han d sanitizer 68 percent alcohol or more. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue for coughs and sneezes, and then immediately discard, or if you don't have that, you can use the bend of your elbow in your sleeve. And avoid shaking hands. And I was really proud of the group this morning. I didn't see people shaking hands. I saw elbow bumps. And we are doing a good job in modeling behavior. So thank you. Okay. Still, the most at risk are individuals 60 or more with also other health issues: Heart disease, COPD, kidney disease, or other immunocompromised individuals. If we have youngsters that have kidney disease and they're on dialysis, they're just as much at risk as the people that are 60 and over. Our plan is to do continued testing with -- with the help of our community partners, the hospitals, private providers, private labs. This is a rapid test that has been approved by FDA, and we expect it somewhere in one to two weeks, but that's not for the health departments. That's to be given to the private sector. If it comes to fruition that we do get some, the results can be done in about 15 minutes. So that's hope. But given the supply situation right now, it may take much longer than two weeks. We are continuing education of the community. So our challenges still end up being personnel protective equipment supply. That has improved some over this past week because we got a shipment. And the Health Department itself, at the very last minute, we received testing kits, because we were out. And so we got a shipment of 600, but then we had to give 150 of them to Lee County. So we have 450. That will probably last three, maybe four weeks. It's not enough to do more broad testing. And the referrals that I talked about last week about we were March 24, 2020 Page 16 getting overloaded with referrals from the medical community has eased up greatly. So that -- with NCH doing their drive-through testing for physicians from their hospital has helped a whole lot. We still have a contact investigation overload. Every time there's someone that's positive, we need to check their contacts so we can also have them quarantine and try to prevent the spread. We had requested epidemiology assistance from the state of two epidemiologists. They were sent to the places that have the greatest need like Broward, Miami-Dade, Duval County. Our local phone bank for medical providers and then people who are symptomatic had expanded, and that's getting better. But we're still -- we're getting a lot of calls from the worried well, and not happy calls, people not enjoying the restrictions. So we continue with our education whenever people call. Still having rumors that are going out there, getting calls about Marshal Law coming into effect and us making people take tests, and so we're trying to correct these things as they come up. Okay. And still there's a lot of community fear and people wanting to be tested right away when they think that they've come in contact with someone who is positive for coronavirus. So, I want to point out to everybody that if you come into contact with someone that is positive today with coronavirus, it will take at least -- at least two days before that will show up as a positive test, and it could take as long as 14 days till it shows up. Hence, that is why you're quarantined for two to 14 days. Okay. Let's talk a little bit more about testing. NCH's downtown drive-through is continuing but is only by prescription from a physician, but it has increased greatly the number of people that are being tested and help taken a load off of other resources. Physicians Regional has been testing, but they're also looking at doing something like NCH. March 24, 2020 Page 17 We are expecting other private labs to ramp up more in our area, especially if we get those rapid testing kits, but that's going to be a process. And then responder testing. The federal government has set up in the high-risk areas, like in Broward County, in Duval, and either Hillsborough or Orange -- I need to double-check on that. But they've set up, and they're doing across-the-board testing for first responders and healthcare workers. When they first started the plan, it was only going to be those people that were symptomatic, and they were only going to do 250 a day, but in Broward they did 750 people in just one day when they started. So, they are going to be doing testing of all of the first responders that come to them. But I want to stress that that is a pilot in those areas of the state, and we've been told by ESF8 in Tallahassee not to ask for more kits right now because they have zip, zero, is what they said. Zip, zero. They're actually trying to put together makeshift tests for those areas that are really running out. Just one other thing. I borrowed from St. Louis Department of Health a graphic explaining to the public about what is the difference between social distancing and quarantine and isolation, because they're hearing all these three come out from us, and sometimes it's not clear what that means. But social distancing, you want to reduce face-to-fact contact with individuals, and that helps prevent the spread of disease. So you should stay at home as much as possible. We don't have a stay-at-home order in the state. You want to give six feet of space from others, and you want to work to minimize close contact with people; therefore, the guideline of groups of 10 or less. It would be better if you're just talking about your family, staying with them. Quarantine has a person separate themselves in their living March 24, 2020 Page 18 quarters, also keep six feet away, and have their food and necessities delivered. But the whole purpose of quarantine is that you're not sick yet, but we're keeping you in one place so, in case you become sick, you do not infect others. Isolation is even more stringent. You should be in one specific area and stay away from everybody. Have your own room, if possible, your own bathroom, if possible. And we know that you have the disease, and we're trying to protect others from you. For the worried well, CDC has implemented a symptom checker, and you can go onto the Florida Health site for COVID-19, FloridaHealthCOVID-19.gov and do "review symptoms." And so you can put in your symptoms, and then there can be a recommendation of whether you should have further medical attention. And that's all I have. Do you have questions? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. In terms of going through questions, let me just kind of call the roll of the Commission, and we'll see if there are questions. Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, I have none. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. I have a couple of questions. I've had an inquiry from a -- I guess a nurse who works at a senior facility that needs to be tested in order to go back to w ork and is having some difficulty actually getting the test performed. She has a script but I guess is finding it difficult to have the test done. Is there anything that's been set up for the testing for healthcare professionals in an expedited way or anything like that? That's my first question. MS. VICK: Well, she has a script. Has she tried to schedule or go through the hospital for the testing? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: She has, apparently, and, I guess, has been unable to because they're -- you know, they're booked up March 24, 2020 Page 19 every day. She's had a hard time doing that. Is that something that she can contact your office about or -- MS. VICK: She certainly can contact us so we can try to help her find a way to get tested and, if not, we can probably help wit h the test. But, in general, we are only doing the highest risk people that have been exposed. So we'll have to ask her questions and see what her risk factors are. So -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think the concern is is that it's a requirement to go back to work in the senior living facility, and I guess she can't get back to work until that gets done. So I just -- really in a general sense, she's asking whether or not there's -- there's anything in particular that healthcare workers of some kind need to do to get tested on an expedited basis. MS. VICK: At this time, no, there's not. Also, the nursing homes have been requiring the hospitals to test people to make sure that they're negative for COVID before they transfer them from the hospitals back to the nursing homes. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right. MS. VICK: And that's those who don't even -- weren't there for COVID-19. So, no, there is not a special setup for healthcare workers right now. I can take it back and work with our community and see what we can do to help. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. MS. VICK: Okay. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Nothing. Thank you very much. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No. I'm fine as well. Thank you. March 24, 2020 Page 20 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I do have a couple of quick questions. I read in the newspaper this morning that NCH has 180 employees that now are separated. I'm not sure if they had a positive test or if they just simply came in contact, but they do have 180 people that are quarantined. What is the prognosis in terms of our healthcare providers? Are we looking at having a shortage here in the very near future because of this, or are things pretty well in hand in terms of our hospitals? MS. VICK: Oh, the prognosis is that it's probably going to get much worse. Those people that are isolated are there for, as you heard me talking earlier, two to 14 days because of contact. We don't have 180 positive cases anywhere in the county. So that would be contact. And we have to see if they end up being sick. So we can't take the chance on the fact that they were infected and have them around other patients. It's not only hospitals that are going to be affected by this. It's probably first responders as well. And we have had some situations where people are off, and we need to get them back to work, but we have to wait for the prescribed amount of time. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, that was going to be my next question was in terms of our first responders and whether or not we've had any of them in isolation. I guess that's more of a question for Mr. Ochs. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. Commissioners, we've had, I believe, seven of our first responders do some self-isolation. None of those are positive tests at this time. We're able to cover those shortages with our temporary EMS employee bank. So we're full service right now, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I have no other questions. Thank you. I think we have -- Mr. Summers, you have a presentation as March 24, 2020 Page 21 well? MR. OCHS: Commissioners, good morning. Just a couple of updates, let me run through real quick. There's a couple of things I do want to highlight. As you would imagine, we continue to have day-to-day very close communication and coordination with the Florida Division of Emergency Management as well as our surrounding counties. The state has stood up its strategy logistical supply center in Orlando. That's now an around-the-clock operation. The Florida Division of Emergency Management ordered very, very heavy, and just like everybody else, we're finding some contractors who are not delivering and some loads coming in late, but they're managing that. The Guard is subsequently managing that distribution and shipment out to the counties. Because of the volume of requests, our Emergency Services Center will be the central supply depot when these items come in, and we'll get those out to our neighbors and partners when those items do come in. The National Guard, as I mentioned, is doing that heavy movement. One of the things that I just want to highlight to you is that we plan to move forward later this afternoon with a text notification only in the Immokalee community just to heighten hand sanitation -- hand sanitizing efforts. We're going to do that with a text message. We can do that in three languages, and we have roughly about 1,000 to 2,000 contact points in Immokalee, and we just want to do that. It's not a fear thing. It's just a reminder, because we're not seeing that level of social distancing necessarily in Immokalee that we have seen elsewhere, or there might be some information challenges. The Health Department's done a phenomenal job in putting handouts at the laundromat in different languages. Our health department has resources. We've had video conferences. We've March 24, 2020 Page 22 talked to our partner agencies up there, but we would like to take our Alert Collier tools, put a little text message out there. We've been -- and just to try to remind folks a little bit about hand washing in particular. So, we think that will go well. We've worked on that with all of our agency partners. It gives us a nice tool and puts a reminder out in Immokalee. Our work here continues with just an abundance of traffic, if you will, for the Emergency Operations Center. These efforts remain the same. These goals and objectives remain the same. The last one, on the Stafford Act. Remember FEMA's in this now in terms of logistics and also in terms of financial support. If you didn't catch it yesterday, late yesterday afternoon Governor DeSantis did make a request to FEMA for individual assistance funding. Now, we don't know what that's going to look like, if it's something like the FEMA registration individual a nd family grant after a hurricane. Again, we don't know what that's going to look like. There's also been a request for an expanded SBA program, Small Business Administration programming. There's also been a request for expanded to the State Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, what we commonly refer to as food stamps. So the governor has asked FEMA region for those additional Stafford Act provisions that went in late yesterday. I don't have any information on it, but certainly that will be -- if that is approved by FEMA as an expanded level of FEMA resources in individual and family resources, we'll get that out. So that's one we're monitoring closely. We continue to work with local healthcare providers and PPE. We have some inventory locally that we have been pushing out. We've put out, out of our supply and with joint efforts with the Health Department, about 26,000 masks in Collier County to those March 24, 2020 Page 23 hospitals, first responders, nursing homes, while we're continuously backfilling and making requests to the state. But we've not had any acute PPE shortages with the exception of the secondary component of that PPE, which is goggles or a face mask and gowns, as well as gloves. So the state's working on those, but at least what we had, we have put out there with a reasonable level of allocation, not held anything back, but putting those out because the guidance is to monitor the burn rate, monitor the consumption rate so that we don't let this sit idle; that we're actually moving this product based on demand. We've had good conversations with retail at the state level, wholesalers; doing a really good job, I think. We're trying to remind our friends that are shopping that you don't need to buy seven months’ worth of commodities in one trip. We all know that's the case. It's still going on. And we just remind folks, if you'll be a little bit patient, slow down on the demand, excess demand a little bit, the wholesale and retail supply will continue. Dr. Patton and her team at the superintendent of schools has just been awesome. The 27 meal sites are going to continue. She's looking into some options down range for those services, and is -- I don't want to speak for her but, obviously, she's doing a ton of great things to keep the school -- keep the educational efforts moving forward. Just some general and accounting operations. I don't want to read all of these to you, but just to let you know that we've posted here a couple of -- a couple of interesting things here are Collier County EMS working with Dr. Tober, working with our fire districts and our law enforcement folks, looking at all types of things to reduce exposure during patient contact, even use -- utilize resources probably in the final implementation of some telemedicine, which is March 24, 2020 Page 24 great, and it's an opportunity to put the paramedic or the responder and a physician in direct contact quickly for additional discussions. The bus routes and the fares that are being suspended. And we want to thank Sean Callahan and his folks for putting a lot of emphasis on small business resources that might be necessary. They're doing a great job of posting and circulating that information to our small businesses. Cancellations are listed here as well -- we'll leave that up on the screen just for a minute -- but things that you're already familiar with, things that we've already posted, but we just wanted to consolidate that listing for you. Some business operation impacts. This was shared from the County Manager's Office yesterday in terms of our ridership being down. We have also maintained contact with the dialysis centers. Everybody's doing okay in the dialysis operations where our para transit provides a lot of support there. County airport fuel sales are up. And we've -- again, you're seeing the current occupancy rate as it stands right now and some permitting statistics there as well. We continue -- I just want to emphasize, too, we've also done interviews at the low-power FM radio stations in Immokalee. Our partners up there have been great. We've had a couple of conferences with Immokalee working groups as well to continue to work on strategy and tactics. And, Sheriff, his team's been awesome with the message boards. I plan to expand some of those message boards particularly in th ose areas where the message boards are limited with -- not necessarily for drivers but maybe for pedestrians where we can put multiple language messages in. Sometimes that translation takes more characters to get that message across, so we're going to lea n into some additional messaging. March 24, 2020 Page 25 I'll leave the -- this is just a reminder to everyone of the phone numbers and resources that are available, and I'll stop and take your questions at this point. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We'll see if there are any questions. We'll begin -- pardon me. Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm sorry I didn't un-mute in time. No, no questions right now. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, no questions for Dan. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Taylor? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes, I do. Good morning, Mr. Summers. You know, it's the rumor mill, but have you heard anything about tanks moving across this state closing down the state? That's my number one question. And then I have another one after that. MR. SUMMERS: Yes, ma'am. Thank you. And we've been struggling with that ourselves. The National Guard is deployed with trucks that move supplies and equipment. In some cases the guardsmen are using rental trucks to move supplies and equipment. The State Emergency Operations Center continues to stress that there are no military assets that are being moved that would give the impression of security. There's no tanks. There's no heavy armament. We've been reminded of that constantly. But it is very common that we might be using some of their large vehicles just to move pallets of material as well as guardsmen driving rental trucks. So, again, that's just not the case. We have learned that a lot of cases, if you'll right click on a video or right click on a picture that comes up, you might be able to find the date and time where that was recorded and -- for some exercise or some other activities. So, again, we're running into that March 24, 2020 Page 26 messaging ourselves and trying to curb that. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. And my second question is, understanding it could change, but there seems to be a statewide -- not a statewide, but certain individuals on the state level of administrators or in the cabinet are calling for a complete shutdown, shelter in place. Have you -- do you have any sense on whether that's going to happen? I've heard our governor's response, but I'm just curious what you've learned. MR. SUMMERS: Well, from our state staff, our state partners, and our coordination efforts at the state EOC, the governor's aide is in those calls. We have, again, been told no immediate plans, no future plans. We don't know of anything on the table. And this is a fluid event. But we don't see anything on the table for a shelter-in-place order from the governor. That's -- we ask that question every day, and the question [sic] is no. We're monitoring that. There are -- I am aware of one county that did it yesterday, and that was Alachua County -- did it yesterday, and that certainly is a local government option, but there is no direction or no mandate that we are aware of at this hour from the governor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you very much. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. Just one quick question. Dan, you mentioned early on in your slide about a text messaging program in Immokalee. Could you further explain those parameters, and what groups, what organizations are you actually moving that information through? MR. SUMMERS: Right, correct. We -- first of all, the text messaging option was discussed at great length with Department of Health, our staff, and partners in Immokalee. And through our Alert Collier system, through our Everbridge system, we can send both a voice message and a text message. March 24, 2020 Page 27 In this particular case, because we are not asking for callbacks, we're not polling them for information, we are going to send a text that will -- both in -- it will be a very brief text in English, Spanish, and Creole to say "monitor health conditions. Wash your hands." In other words, something very, very simple to remind everyone to pay attention to the info graphics that we've put at laundromats and stores, the information being passed out by our nonprofits out there. So what we're trying to do is just -- in that Immokalee community where information we think is a little harder to get the understanding, a little harder to get the penetration of that information, we think a text message will be very appropriate later this afternoon as a lot of the community returns from the fields, et cetera. Just to raise that awareness. Not fear. Just to raise awareness. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I think it's extremely prudent. And is it going to be similar to the silver or Amber alerts that pop up on our phones every once in a while? Are you going to be able to force it to everybody, or is it through organizations? MR. SUMMERS: No. Very good. We are able to force it in this case on the cellular device because of the database that the state bought, all mobile devices, about three months ago. Now, I will say this: In this particular dataset it is assigned to the ZIP code. So there might be some bleed in that -- messages around Immokalee, but that's okay. We're going to focus on that ZIP code with a text message in three languages just to bring awareness. And, again -- we think we're going to let our radio station partners know. We've talked to our 911 center, our 311 folks, just to keep everybody appraised if there's any subsequent call demand. But we don't think that's going to be the case at all. And, again, the goal here is a gentle nudge to raise awareness. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Absolutely. Well -- and put March 24, 2020 Page 28 forth information just to keep the information track coming from a consistent source as opposed to a lot of the things that we're all seeing and experiencing. MR. SUMMERS: We've been very judicious in using this system. We used it for the Everglades Boulevard detour construction work the other day, and our phone starting ringing and people said "thank you." And so that was a good-news item. So I think as -- with a judicious use of this kind of horsepower in this notification, I think it will be helpful. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Very good. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel, anything else? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No. I'm fine, sir. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. I do have a couple questions. First, you mentioned Alachua County. Could you reiterate what you -- what Alachua County has done? I missed part of what you were saying. MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir. Alachua County did issue a shelter-in-place local resolution. We saw it late yesterday. We have shared that here. It is about 11 pages long. It has a lot of exemptions there for essential emergency travel, essential worker travel, those kinds of things. It is very comprehensive. I do not know the lay of the land, so to speak, around Alachua and why they chose to do that. I'm not familiar with their caseload. It was just shared as an information sharing as we do with all 67 counties during these events. So we have -- if it is considered by the governor or if it is considered at some later date by this board, at least we have a model that we could take a look at possibly. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. I have a few more questions for Dan Summers, but let me ask the County Attorney. In his view, do counties have that legal authority? I don't know if Alachua March 24, 2020 Page 29 County is a charter county that has more authority than non -charter counties. And, perhaps -- if you don't know the answer to that, perhaps you could have someone on your staff taking a look at how Alachua County made that order. MR. KLATZKOW: Well, Monroe County issued a similar order. Look, it's -- you would issue it under your home rule powers since it's none of your enumerated powers, and then have a constitutional battle later if anybody challenged it. There's simply no case law on this. This issue's never come up before. You know, people are just taking matters in their own hands being frustrated by what they perceive to be inaction by the governor. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Okay. I think that answers my question in terms of the legal issue. Then I had a couple other questions for Mr. Summers. You indicated that our airport occupancy has increased. What is the cause of that? Is that folks that are leaving areas there are -- leaving areas that are heavily impacted and coming to Collier County, or is it just normal flow of traffic? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: With due respect, Mr. Chairman, I think I could answer that, because I did get a call from Chris Rozansky. Now, I don't know anything about Lee, RSW. But Chris Rozansky's the executive director at the Naples Airport, and he indicated that it was folks that were leaving. And so it's the fuel sales that are gone up because they're buying fuel. More folks are leaving to go back home. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Dan, is that consistent as well in terms of what you understand? MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir. That's my understanding, cor rect. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Next question I had was we've done a lot of -- and I've had this conversation with Mr. Ochs. We have closed everything that we can legally close. We do have March 24, 2020 Page 30 our parks open, not for any organized play or anything, but just so families could go out and have some recreation, have some place to walk and that sort of thing. Do we need to take any further action -- and this is, I guess, a question for Mr. Ochs and Mr. Summers -- to just shut down those parks? MR. OCHS: Commissioner, we have two challenges in the parks right now in terms of mass gatherings of more than 10 people or social distancing, and it's not a regular event, but it occurs from time to time, and that's on your athletic fields where we are seeing quite a few people wanting to play pickup games of soccer, and also on your hard courts where we have groups of people playing pickup basketball games. So, we're continuing monitoring that. We don't consider it significant enough to warrant closing those right now. We have the capability of closing off the athletic fields and/or the hard courts without shutting down the parks totally. So that would allow walking trails and other open space still available to the public. But those are the two areas that we are continuing to monitor currently. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. And then, Mr. Summers, in terms of supply chains, my understanding is that supply chains to our grocery stores are fully operational. And you mentioned this, but I just want to reiterate it; get some clarification. Supply chains for our grocery stores have not been interrupted, and in this country and in this state there is plenty of food that is being distributed to grocery stores and other outlets that distribute food. Is that an accurate statement? MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir, it is. Based on all of our conversations, the Florida Retail Wholesale Groceries Federation is represented in the state EOC. We tracked down a concern for some of the smaller grocers over the weekend, and it wound up just being a computer glitch. March 24, 2020 Page 31 So we have all indications that every -- all hands on deck, all wheels are rolling, and that those supply chains are moving and working to address the additional demand. Demand, particularly for certain products, continues to outstrip the supply, but the supply chain itself, all indications are it is solid and continues to move forward. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Are we able to communicate that to -- and I realize that we can put stuff on our web page, and I assume that we are. Are we able to communicate this to people so there's less panic buying? MR. SUMMERS: Well, we're trying. I know that the Sheriff's Office public information folks, we've talked about it, we've talked about it on broadcast opportunities. We can certainly continue to try to stress that. It's been a common message on social media as well. We'll do our best to try to curb that. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Thank you. Are there any other questions from commissioners? (No response.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, this is the manager. If there's no other questions for Mr. Summers, Sheriff Rambosk is here this morning and would like an opportunity to address the Board and respond to any questions you may have from a law enf orcement standpoint, if that would be in order at this point. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Absolutely. And, again, for members of the Commission, let's hear the presentation, and then I'll go through the -- kind of roll call and call questions and comments. SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Good morning. Kevin Rambosk, Collier County Sheriff. I've just got a couple of points of information I think that might March 24, 2020 Page 32 help you in the street that we're dealing with. One of the things that you had asked was about first responder impacts. We actually did a survey late yesterday, and we find that throughout the entire county, fire rescue, EMS, and law enforcement, there are about 80 of their agency members who are not at work because they are awaiting some portion of a test result, and I'm going to get into that in a minute. This has nothing to do with our public Health Department or our EM Department. We have a lot of prevention efforts ongoing, as Dan Summers had indicated. Our calls for service are normal for March. Our accidents are down, and that is something that you would expect. Domestic violence calls are up by 30 percent in the last week. I mentioned last week that disturbances were rising over the weekend. That is still occurring, but more so domestic violence. So we're going to be addressing that as best that we can. Like all over, we've had to address some of the governor's orders. We have a plan in place specifically on how to address each of them, over the weekend and over the last week, with regard to restaurants that were closing or bars that were supposed to be closed. We have a process where we either identify the location or we get a complaint. We respond. We provide the governor's order. We prepare a report. I ask the public to remember, though, most of these restrictions are based on licensing, not on law enforcement. So we prepare the information, we provide that information to the DBPR at the state, who does their licensing. We also had with us last week ABT, who is alcohol and beverage control, that were in that were helping us with the few sites that were open. At this point, as of this morning, we have no further complaints or sites that we have observed with regard to that. Regarding our box stores and our public food stores, we have rearranged hours of law enforcement to ensure that particularly the March 24, 2020 Page 33 early hours with our at-risk populations who are now authorized to go in and purchase food, we want to make sure that we're helping the stores. And at this point, for example, we have 19 P ublixes in the county, so we are at as many or all of them as we can in particularly making sure the people that are authorized to be in are in. I spoke with Mr. Rozansky also yesterday from the Naples Municipal Airport where they had gotten the direction of people flying in from out of state and how that affects private aircraft. We're still getting legals on that. We will be working with him. Again, the question is how would you identify and then how would you enforce any kind of a -- even a self-isolation for two weeks, so -- but we will look at it. Each and every day we fly drones up the beach. I will tell you that since the weekend everyone is pretty compliant with regard to social distancing. The weekend we anticipate, particularly in the south end by Keewaydin Island, that that will be busy. We're already posting on our social medias throughout each of our organizations that we will be out to ensure that nobody makes contact in a way they should not. There has been some media that has actually advocated for boating during this time. Boating is fine if you're limiting the number of people and you're separating. But you can't tie 100 boats up together and, you know, have your normal weekend. So we're continuing with that. I will tell you, though, that most of the community is very supportive. They're very compliant. Those few that are not, we're trying to inform and educate as best we can. We will continue to do that. We're also working -- for Keewaydin Island, we're working with FWC, because they have state authority there, and we're going to be out there with them this weekend. March 24, 2020 Page 34 I think that's it for most of the update. So I'm going to go off a little out of the law enforcement, and this is probably where I get in trouble. But this past weekend we believe that there needed to be more testing of doctors, nurses, first responders than we have test kits for. And, again, this has nothing to do with our public Health Department here. It has to do with the inability to get test kits. We started making contact with our legislators and identify the fact that, you know, while we don't have the density of population that the East Coast had, if you looked at our numbers per capita last week, we were extremely high even though we had a lesser n umber of cases. So the second thing is our doctors, our nurses, our first responders cannot help people if we're not cautious with them. So, you know, we're asking, listen, if you call 911 or you go to the hospital, any one of these professionals will help you without question, but please don't call, or when you call, if you let us know that you have some kind of symptoms, then we can address it correctly. For example, we try not to go in a building or a house. We ask that the party come out, out into open air. Very simple things. Don't get to the point where we're sitting in a home and saying, oh, yeah, and, by the way, I think I'm infected, you know, because my brother-in-law was tested, and I was with him on a cruise, you know, in Malaysia last week. We need the help of people for all of us to do that. We need to continue to press the state and national government for test kits. And, you know, the health director and I, even last night, had conversations with how do we turn around our kits and our people once they've passed that threshold? Because, again, you know, you could test the next day if we think we've had a contact, but we're not going to get a result. So we're trying to ensure that, but we can't have a seven- to 10-day turnaround at a commercial lab out in March 24, 2020 Page 35 California, because that's what is putting these 80 people out of work, and hopefully they will come back negative. So we've not been able to use much of them. So from that perspective, I'll just leave it with I want to recognize and thank the doctors, nurses, and medical staff, fire rescue, EMS, and all of law enforcement who are going into these situations at their own risk for all of this. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Let me go through the -- see if there are any questions. And you'll notice there's a little bit of a pattern to this. I always start out of with Commissioner Fiala with District 1. So, Commissioner Fiala. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. I have no questions. I thought that was very interesting, though, to hear all th at he has to say and also how it compares with and extends from Dan Summers. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Nothing for the Sheriff, thank you, but I have one question for the County Manager. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Why don't we go through the Sheriff first, and we'll get back to general questions. Commissioner Taylor? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes. No questions. Thank you very much, though, Sheriff Rambosk, for those final words. I think they're very important. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner McDaniel? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No questions, and I just want to also thank our sheriff for the above and beyond the call of duty. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. And I just have one question in terms of, is there anything that you -- and you would have done this, I'm assuming. But is there anything that you want from the March 24, 2020 Page 36 County Commission in terms of helping your operations at this point? SHERIFF RAMBOSK: No, there's nothing here. I think I would, though, be remiss if I didn't recognize Dan Summers, Emergency Management, and our Health Director, Stephanie Vick. That was it. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Solis, you had a question for the manager. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. Mr. Manager, I got an email that the city has now physically closed all of its parks. I was just wondering if that would, you know, create any other concern in terms of having our parks open. I guess my concern is, like we experienced with the beaches, as Lee County closed their beaches and Naples closed their beaches, then we had -- at least it's my understanding we had more people showing up at Vanderbilt Beach, for example. And so I'm just wondering if that's going to be a concern, or are we going to monitor that to make sure that if it does become a concern and it becomes an issue that we can take action? Thank you. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. I just saw that same post, and you are correct. The obvious concern is that the people will -- from the city will begin to migrate into the county parks and create numbers that are outside of the guidance from the CDC and the state health department. So we're going to monitor that, and if we need to take action, I'll do that in consultation with our public health director and with the Chairman, and that goes for our public boat ramps as well. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Solis, any other questions for the manager at this point? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, that's all I have. March 24, 2020 Page 37 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Mr. Ochs, I believe we have some additional presentations, or does that conclude -- oh, I think you wanted to go through some of the economics issue. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. I've asked Mr. Isackson to step forward and spend just a couple minutes to speak briefly about impacts to date and projected impacts on your budget and financial operations. Mark? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Commissioner Saunders, do you think that -- is the Sheriff still in the building right there? MR. OCHS: Yes. He's here, Commissioner. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah, I'd love to ask a question that I didn't ask at the time about his statistic about 30 percent of domestic violence just in this past week, has risen 30 percent, and, of course, the more people that are hemmed up there, I guess, they take their anger out on somebody in the house. And is there something that we can do about that? SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Commissioner, this is Kevin Rambosk. We are actually looking at our internal functions to do some more prevention work. I'm going to be contacting the Shelter and Linda Oberhaus today and see what opportunities there might be between law enforcement and the shelter. But what we really ought to do is just engage the community and tell everybody to relax and, before they lose it, to engage in something else. Pick up a book. Think about something else. But we are going to look at what we can do without making direct contact. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you very much. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right, Commissioner. Okay. Mr. Ochs, if Mr. Isackson could begin his presentation. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. MR. ISACKSON: Good morning, Commissioners. For the March 24, 2020 Page 38 record, Mark Isackson. The County Manager asked me to talk a few minutes about where we're at financially in the midst of this COVID-19 virus. For 15-and-a-half years, our financial structure has been evolving and has hardened to the point where I sleep pretty good at night when we -- we're asked to take on these types of situations, whether it's a hurricane or something more specific like this COVID-19. There are two key cornerstones of that. The first is liquidity, and the second is budget flexibility, both of which are of paramount importance and both of which are solid right now in the organization. The key thing right now is to predict what type of tail we're going to have with this thing. Is it going to be three months? Six months? A year? I have no idea. On a liquidity standpoint, the General Fund is solid with about 210 million in cash in the bank, 51.2 million in reserves. So I feel very confident from a general governmental standpoint that we'll be able to deal with this and deal with it fairly expeditiously if the need arises. Of course, we're also trying to protect our year-end cash, and we will do that by various mechanisms. These aren't new to this virus. They do -- we do this on a regular basis, which is monitor our operating expenses, specifically things like fuel and travel, and things of that nature. And we also take a look at our capital expenditures and claw back where necessary and prudent and, certainly, based on our level of expenditures, the privatization that we're doing and our execution patterns. Just for some historical reference, during the Great Recession or the four-year period between '9 and -- '08/'09 and '11/'12, we lost, on a sales tax basis annualized, about 24 percent during that four-year period; 6 percent annualized. Same thing with state-shared revenues. March 24, 2020 Page 39 And those are the two areas where we think will be some degradation over the course of the next few months. But, again, given our liquidity and our budget flexibility, I feel very confident that we'll handle any type of downturn. Gas taxes are another issue. Tourist taxes are another issue. And I've got a couple of slides that I'll throw up that deal with that. First, Mr. Ochs, on the local option infrastructure sales tax, we have cash to date of about 93 million. That's offset by about 88 million in invalidated projects. You can see the projects that are started or ready to start on the second bullet point and, of course, the third one, out of an abundance of caution, it's probably wise not to submit any new projects to the advisory committee until we get a little bit clearer picture on the economic and fiscal landscape. On a tourist development tax side, if I can, the -- talking with folks in my office, with Mr. Callahan, that deal directly here, we're trending right now above budget by 1.8 million, but that's going to buffer a downturn over the next couple of months, if not more. Right now -- you're going to know a lot in April and in May when we get the receipts for March and April of the prior months of where we're at. But we're going to probably have a year-end forecast of about 22 million. That's on a budget of 27 million. That's about 80 percent of the budget. It probably will go lower than that. But I want to mention to the Board that we have a -- we have a family of TDC funds. There's eight or nine funds that -- combined that make up our tourist development tax funds. The Capital Fund cash in those two big funds, they're 65.3 million, and you've got reserves of 46.9 million. If you remember back when the oil spill hit, this board took action by resolution and moved money from the Capital Funds to the marketing aspect of it by -- and that dollar value was about one-and-a-half million dollars. The Board would have that same flexibility if it deemed March 24, 2020 Page 40 necessary, and those recommendations will be brought forth, if it's required, down the road to see where we're at on the -- on the operating side. But I know Mr. Callahan has been talking with Mr. Wert about shutting down some of the operations on the operating side, so some of that may be necessary, but some of it may not be. But the Board should be -- should take great comfort in knowing that they have flexibility. You'll be able to move the money where it's necessary. And that not only goes for our tourist development taxes, our other family of funds, our general governmental side and on the utilities side. Again, I think we're positioned smartly and nicely to handle this type of a situation. We think it's going to be short term, but if it's not, it's not, and we'll deal with it as best we can. Those are my remarks. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Fiala, do you have any questions or comments? COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, I don't. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No questions. Thanks. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. And, Commissioner Taylor? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No questions. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And, Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Nor I. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, this is the manager. I will just mention while we're talking about finances -- and the Board had asked us at the last Board meeting to share the emergency compensation measures that our agency put in place with the other constitutional officers, which we did last Wednesday. They've all March 24, 2020 Page 41 received that. Ms. Kinzel and I have talked about that a little bit. And subsequent to those local measures, of course, the Congress passed and the President signed the Family First Coronavirus Response Act recently that goes into effect April 2nd. So we will be layering those requirements and benefits on top of our local compensation rules to make sure that we're keeping our workforce as whole as we can. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I've got just a couple questions or issues with Mr. Isackson in terms of his presentation, and this is really kind of a question for the -- for you, Mr. Ochs, and the County Attorney and Mr. Isackson. There was a suggestion that there would be no authorization of new projects going forward. I would agree with that completely. I don't think we need any action from the Board. I would assume that the commission members would agree with that and, if necessary, we can take a vote on that. But do you need any action from us on issues such as no new projects to be explored on -- obviously, our advisory board's not going to be meeting anyway, so that might be difficult even if we wanted to do a new project, but no new projects with the one -cent sales tax until further notice. Is that something that you would need official action from the Board on? MR. OCHS: No, sir, I don't. We're just expressing that that's our intention not to bring any new projects forward to the committee, which is the first step towards authorizing budget allocation of those projects. So we will follow that directive until further directives come from the Board. But I don't need anything further at this point. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Does anyone on the Commission have any comment or feel -- does everyone feel comfortable with no new projects and have the manager make that determination down the road? Is that okay with everybody? March 24, 2020 Page 42 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yep. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay here. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. So I think the manager has the authority to do as outlined, and there will be no new projects at least for the short term. And, Mr. Isackson, in terms of the ongoing project that we have at the Sports Complex, we bonded about 60 percent of that one-cent number. And, from what you've said, we have no problem in terms of making all of our debt payments and moving forward with those types of projects that are in the pipeline from what you explained; is that accurate? Is that correct? MR. ISACKSON: That's correct, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Is there anything that you need from us at this point, or have you got all the authority you need? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's an open-ended question. MR. ISACKSON: I'll resist. No. Sir, we're good on my shop. We're in close contact with the County Manager's side. So we're -- I think we're good to go. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Mr. Ochs, anything else in terms of a presentation? MR. OCHS: No, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Let's -- I think at this point, let's open it up to the Commission in terms of general comments, requests, or suggestions as we go forward. Commissioner Fiala, do you have any comments in terms of the COVID-19 issue and the positions that the county has taken at this March 24, 2020 Page 43 point? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: What about the hearing? COMMISSIONER FIALA: No. No, I don't. I think we need to do all this stuff, and I just -- I worry about what's going to happen with people as they get angrier and angrier, but at least they don't have the COVID. And so, you know, one kind of wipes out the other. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, no real comments other than just to urge everybody to take it seriously, and everyone, I mean by the general public, just to take this seriously and think of your neighbors first. I mean, that seems to be the biggest concern I have just seeing people that don't appear to be taking this seriously and don't seem to have much regard for not necessarily them getting it but transmitting it to somebody that is in the high-risk zone. So I would just urge the public to take it seriously. And we each have to do our part. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Taylor? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No, no comments. Well said, Commissioner Solis. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner McDaniel? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Just as a -- if we're going to go along these, I just -- you know, from an informational standpoint, I caution folks to be aware of your datasets and your information input as to where you get it and make sure that you get it from those of authority. I'm seeing all kinds of organizations popping up with all kinds of information that's causing a significant amount of discourse, and I think, irrespective of who you are, where you feel -- what you feel, March 24, 2020 Page 44 there's no argument that we just don't have enough data. Our sheriff specified that today with the test results, and I think without data, we're into a long period of supposition. I do have one Publix -- Publix service announcement. My aide Sue traveled to a Publix yesterday or the day before and found what she perceived to be as price gouging going on at a Publix store, and I'm quite close friends with a manager. And I asked -- at a different store. I ascertained that the individual stores do not -- the managers do not have their own pricing capacity. So I urge folks, while you're doing your shopping, if you see something that's extraordinary or out of the ordinary with regard to pricing, ask -- get a store official and ask about that. My friend, who is a manager of a Publix store, says the shipments are coming. It's very difficult sometimes for them to get the proper item behind the right sign and shared several instances. So if you see something that's out of the ordinary -- out of the ordinary, please ask an official there just to ratify that that's, in fact, the case. And, of course, if you do see instances of price gouging -- because there's a lot of people taking advantage of circumstances -- let us know as well. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I want to open up a bit of a controversial discussion, and let me preface it by saying I'm very concerned about the infection rate that Sheriff Rambosk mentioned. We had a -- we don't have a large number, but in terms of the rate itself, it's rather high. I'm also concerned that we have 180 healthcare providers at NCH, at Naples hospital, that are awaiting test results, and we know we're going to have more of our healthcare providers that are going to have to be sequestered for the 14-day period. And so I want to raise the issue of whether or not we should consider -- not necessarily the same type of action that was taken by Alachua County, because, you know, that's a county operating on its March 24, 2020 Page 45 own, but whether or not we should have conversations with our neighboring county, with Lee County, and request from the governor that we be given the same authority that was given to Dade and Broward County, an executive order, I believe it was 70-20, dealing with giving Broward and Dade County the ability to close nonessential businesses. And there's a whole list of businesses that are considered essential. So, I want to raise that question with the Commission. It would be a very drastic step for us to take, but at the same time I think that we're living in times where drastic measures are necessary. And if we do the right things I think we'd look back and feel comfortable that we did what we could to protect our citizens. So, what they did in Dade and Broward Counties is the two counties came together and asked the governor for authority to essentially close nonessential businesses. What they did in Alachua County is they simply, under their home rule powers, took that action. So, my question to the Commission is your feelings concerning taking one of these two actions at this point. If there's any comments from the commissioners, I think this would be a good time to engage in this conversation. Commissioner Fiala. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm thinking a lot about this, and I don't -- I don't know. I don't think it's -- our numbers have increased, yes, but not exponentially, and maybe we should just hold tight for another week and see how it goes rather than just jump off the deep end. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah, okay. Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I have the same concerns, Commissioner Saunders. I think that at least starting the March 24, 2020 Page 46 conversation in the event that the numbers go up exponentially that we at least have prepared and we can take that action if we need to very quickly, and I think it's just like the situation with the spring breakers and the beach. We really need to do this regionally, I think, to make it make sense, or else everybody will be going to Lee County or vice versa for whatever things they need or they think they need. So, I would be in favor of at least starting that conversation with our neighbors and then maybe bringing that final decision when we see what happens in another week or so. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. So just so I understand, Commissioner Solis, you would support having our manager or having me talk directly to the Chairman of the Lee County Commission to get their read on proceeding as they did in Dade and Broward Counties, get that authority to close our nonessential businesses potentially, but then in one week come back, or at some point in time come back to the Commission for authority to pull the trigger and ask for the opinion or the authorization; is that accurate? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes, that's correct. Thanks. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Taylor? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I will agree with Commissioner Solis. I don't have any problem opening the door and talking to the other -- to Lee County. I have a great, great concern about the economic toll of this virus on the community. And so I would -- I would caution my colleagues to move very carefully and slowly in this. At some point -- at some point personal responsibility has to play into this. And so given that, I would agree that you could start the conversation, but I do want the public to know that at no point are we even voting on this at this point. This is an important topic we have to explore, but at this point we're not moving forward. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner March 24, 2020 Page 47 McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I would concur along the lines of what Commissioner Taylor said. The -- as I stated earlier, we -- having these discussions to find out from a regional basis what is prudent or not is fine. But we just don't have enough data irrespective of what your -- what your personal opinion is, the information that is available to date, we are already seeing -- as Stephanie shared, we're seeing an increase in the amount of positive cases, and that's almost virtually in direct connection with the amount of test kits that have been made available, and we know that there is, in fact, a shortage test kits. So, I'm cautious as well. Having communications is a fine thing to do. But without further data, I'm hesitant on pursuing anything without having the necessary information. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. So let me kind of summarize, make sure that I understand what I think the majority of the Board is saying and maybe everybody on the Board is saying. We're going to authorize the manager and also authorize the Chairman of the Collier County Commission, myself, to have conversations with the Chairman of the Lee County Commission and the Lee manager to at least begin the discussion of whether or not having a regional shutdown of nonessential businesses makes sense at some point based on data, and that would come back to both the Lee County Commission, if they work with us on this, and would come back to our commission to make that decision going forward. We could have that decision made when we have sufficient data to justify any further action. Is that -- is that pretty accurate as to what I think we're saying? And I'll go down the list here. Commissioner Fiala, is that essentially -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: Pretty accurate, except I love the words that Penny Taylor said, and that was we have to take personal March 24, 2020 Page 48 responsibility as well. And, you know, I don't think we're seeing enough of that. People do take a lot of personal responsibility. And I think if we're doing that, we're also conscientious about other people, and that's an important thing. I think if people did more of that, taking personal responsibility and staying in when they can and so forth -- but not being forced to, because that leaves a bad impression, mentally, to people, and then they want to fight that. So "personal responsibility" was good wording. So that's all my comments are. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Solis, was that a fairly accurate presentation in terms of where you are in terms of some additional communications here and potentially moving forward if necessary? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes, it is. And I share Commissioner Taylor and Commissioner McDaniel's concerns, obviously, with the economy. But I think we need to be prepared. So at least preparing ourselves if it's required is, I think, a prudent thing to do. So, yes, I'm in agreement with the way you described it. Thanks. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Taylor and Commissioner McDaniel, I think both of you have pretty much said the same thing. Commissioner Taylor, is that correct? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes. Yes, it is. And I think if we're going to put any kind of statement on the record, sir -- and I would ask that you do this at the very end. I would ask you word to -- use the word "explore" rather than, you know, talk to them about a shutdown. Explore. I think it's very important that we keep our public messaging consistent and not to alarm businesses who basically are watching their customer numbers dwindle as we are sitting here. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. And, Commissioner March 24, 2020 Page 49 McDaniel -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I agree with that as well. Commissioner Fiala and Commissioner Taylor brought it up earlier. There's an enormous amount of personal responsibility that travels along with these discussions. And you heard our sheriff speak earlier about things that are going on in the boating community and parties on the beach and off access areas that people can't just walk to. Folks need to really, really pay attention to the CDC recommendations and our health department recommendations to the social distancing and the proper behavioral actions that will help lower the curve. It's the end goal with this whole process. So it's a -- it is a personal responsibility. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I'm going to make a motion, and I'll try to articulate this as clearly as possible. And the rationale for me making the motion, quite frankly, is that -- some of the statistics that are coming out in Florida's total infection rate, Collier County's infection rate, and the fact that we're not able to do all the testing that's necessary with the numbers of people, 180 healthcare providers in isolation, and 80 of our first responders already awaiting test results, I'd like to make a motion that the County Manager and the Chairman of the County Commission explore with our neighbors the issue of a potential regional request to the governor for authority to shut down nonessential businesses, if our county commission at a future meeting determines that it is necessary to do that based on data. As part of that motion, the County Manager would be directed to prepare the necessary documentation for this so he would have it in hand and could release it as requested by the County Commission in a future vote to do this; that we're not making a decision other than to be prepared if the data supports that type of an action. So I would make that motion. March 24, 2020 Page 50 COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have a second. I believe that was Commissioner Solis. Let me just kind of call the roll. This is an important issue, and I want to make sure that everybody provides votes on the record. Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, I'll agree. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Solis -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- seconded the motion. Commissioner Taylor? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And, Commissioner McDaniel? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I obviously support it. So that motion passes unanimously. So, Mr. Ochs, you and I will have additional conversations about moving forward with our conversations and exploration with Lee County. County Attorney has some direction to prepare documentation that would be necessary for immediate passage if the County Commission elects to move forward with this in a future meeting. Anything else on COVID-19 before we move to the regular agenda? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I think I would like Ms. Vick to come up again and reiterate the most vulnerable age of the population for fatality, please. MS. VICK: Okay. We're talking about those who are most at risk are those that are age 60 and over with comorbid conditions such as heart disease, kidney disease, lung disease, COPD, and then other individuals who have immunocompromising conditions, same March 24, 2020 Page 51 conditions that I just talked about, but then there are other things that young children may have that put them at greater risk. And just -- I did not cover that when I was up here, but I just wanted you to know that the range of cases in Collier County range from age 17 up to 90. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you very much. Thank you. MS. VICK: Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Anything else from the Commission on this topic? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Our sheriff is -- would like to speak, with all due respect, Mr. Chairman. SHERIFF RAMBOSK: I just thought it would be important to add something after the discussion. I completely concur with the direction that you are headed. There is certainly a balance for the sustainability of our community moving forward with regard to business and health. And, you know, we've had a long history of good public engagement to lower the crime rate. So we are working on re-messaging right now and reengaging, and I think it goes right to, Commissioner Taylor, what you indicate about public responsibility. Between now and the next meeting that we have, I will let you know what we've been able to do to engage the community to make sure that they're protecting themselves and, therefore, protecting the community and your first responders as well as maintaining as much of the stability of our community as we can. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Thank you, Sheriff. In terms of the next meeting and that sort of thing, we can have a discussion of that as we conclude our meeting under commission communication. But I just want everybody to be aware that we may March 24, 2020 Page 52 have to call emergency meetings, frankly, at a day's notice if necessary or even quicker -- more quickly than that. Since all of us are here in town and no one's traveling overseas here, I'm sure we can get a quorum over the phone and in person if necessary as needed. So just everybody be aware that we may need to call a quick meeting if the data begins to justify that. With that, let's move on to the regular agenda. Mr. Manager, I believe we only have that one item, and Mr. Davies was about to make a presentation. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. Before we go to that, I just want to make sure we don't have anyone registered under Item 7, which is public comments on general topics not on the current or future agenda. Mr. Miller, anyone registered? MR. MILLER: I have no registered speakers, Mr. Ochs. MR. OCHS: Thank you, sir. Item #8A RESOLUTION 2020-64: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONDITIONAL USE TO ALLOW ENCLOSED SELF-STORAGE WAREHOUSING WITHIN A GENERAL COMMERCIAL (C-4) ZONING DISTRICT PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.03.03.D.1.C.24 OF THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR A 2.52+/- ACRE PROPERTY LOCATED ON THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF VALLEY STREAM DRIVE AND TAMIAMI TRAIL E., IN SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 50 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA. [PL20190000563] – ADOPTED MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that moves us, then, to Item 8A, which was previously Item 17E on your summary agenda. This item March 24, 2020 Page 53 does require ex parte disclosure be provided by commission members, and all participants are required to be sworn in. This is a recommendation to approve a resolution of the Board of County -- excuse me -- of Zoning Appeals of Collier County, Florida, providing for the establishment of a conditional use to allow enclosed self-storage warehousing within a general commercial C-4 zoning district pursuant to the Collier County Land Development Code for a 2.52-plus-or-minus acre property located on the southeast corner of Valley Stream Drive and Tamiami Trail East. Mr. Chairman, ex parte disclosure by commission members would be in order at this time. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We'll go through the list. Commissioner Fiala, ex parte disclosures? MR. OCHS: Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh. Did you -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. We're just on ex parte disclosures on this item. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. That's what I'm trying to tell you. I'm sorry. The people that are -- the petitioners came into my office and talked to me about this, so that would be one. I don't remember their names, to be perfectly honest with you. I've also talked with the East Naples Civic Association about it. I've talked with some friends in this area who live right around there also. So that's -- that's about all. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Solis. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. I had a meeting with Mr. Davies and Mr. Vanasse on behalf of the applicant. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No, no contact. I'm familiar with the site, but no contact. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. March 24, 2020 Page 54 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. I've had emails and meetings regarding the project. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I've had nothing but emails in reference to the project. That would be my total disclosure. Mr. Ochs, we're ready to proceed with the swearing in of the witnesses and taking testimony. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. We have a notary in the room to swear the witnesses, if she'd do that, please. MR. KLATZKOW: Yes, it's Jessica Hayes, H-a-y-e-s, for the record. (The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.) MR. OCHS: We'll proceed with the applicant at this point. MR. DAVIES: Thank you, Mr. Ochs. Good morning again, Commissioners. Noel Davies with the law firm of Quarles & Brady. I represent the applicant, 5135 Developers, LLC. We do appreciate the opportunity to address the Commission today, as our client and transportation engineer have traveled from the East Coast this morning. We welcome Commissioner Fiala's questions and comments and are happy to answer them. A bit of background first. This is a conditional-use application for a self-storage facility in the C-4 zoning district. I have on the visualizer an aerial of the subject property. It is a currently vacant two-and-a-half-acre site at the southeast corner of the East Trail and Valley Stream Drive just down the Trail past Rattlesnake. We did hold our neighborhood information meeting. There were no objections. We have very minimal impacts on our neighbors. We received a unanimous recommendation of approval from the Planning Commission, and staff is also recommending approval. March 24, 2020 Page 55 I've placed on the visualizer a rendering of the proposed building. As you can see, it is a very aesthetically pleasing architectural design. The building is designed to look like a Class A office building. It really is a much nicer, higher-end look than some of the other self-storage facilities. I have with me today Patrick Vanasse, our Certified Planner with RWA Engineering; Susan O'Rourke, our Transportation Engineer; and also our client representative, Mr. Zurita. We do believe we have met all of the conditional-use criteria in your Land Development Code and are respectfully requesting your vote of approval. With respect to Commissioner Fiala's specific questions, we have asked our clients to consider a retail or restaurant use on the first floor. The client respectfully declines to do that. The client is a self-storage developer. They're not in the retail or restaurant business, and they do see the market demand for the self -storage use at this particular site. Also, we are not located within any of the self-storage clusters along the East Trail. There is plenty of additional commercial opportunity as well on the East Trail. And at this time I'd like to invite Patrick Vanasse to tell you a little bit more about that piece of this. Patrick. MR. VANASSE: Good morning. For the record, Patrick Vanasse, Certified Planner with RWA. I'm going to keep this sort. I'm going to address some of the comments that were brought up by Commissioner Fiala, and I'm going to talk about compatibility issues, which is the crux of a conditional-use review and approval. So, with regards to the location of the property, the property is located within C-4 zoning district and also within an activity center. March 24, 2020 Page 56 So as you know, the activity centers are areas where we've identified the potential for multiple diverse uses and also higher density and intensity of uses in those areas. So from a site location standpoint, we believe this is an appropriate site, a good site for this proposed use. With regards to height, the building as you can see on the illustrator, is designed to look like a three-story building. It is four stories. It's -- the architects have played some visual tricks to make it look smaller, and they -- you know, our client puts effort and money into making their buildings very attractive. The allowed height in that zoning district is 75 feet, and the proposed zone height is 46 feet. With regards to adjacent properties, we are surrounded by commercial uses to the north of us. To the west we have U.S. 41. Beyond that, all commercial zoning. Most of it is vacant currently. To the south of us we have a 100-foot canal and an assisted living facility, and to the east of us we have a condo building called El Capistrano. We reached out to the association very early in the process. We met with representatives of the association. They support our project. They also understand that alternative uses that could come in by right within C-4. And, as you know, C-4 is an intensive commercial zoning district. Some of the uses that could go in there by right today are fast-food restaurants, a gym, a pharmacy. So those are all high -traffic type of uses with a lot more of an impact. They do like the fact that this is very low impact; very low trips are generated from this site. We've also made efforts to design the site in such a way where there won't be any light intrusion. We're committed to using Dark Skies lighting fixtures. Our buffer to the east where we have the residential, we voluntarily committed to put a masonry wall on top of the landscaping that's required by code. We meet all code requirements. We are asking for no March 24, 2020 Page 57 deviations. We meet all Comp Plan requirements. Also, there was a question with regards to the fit of the building on this property. As I said, we meet all development standards, all dimensional standards. We have room for our water management system that will be maintained and retained on site and treated on site. There was also mention of the roadway. The site is designed where the majority of the traffic is entering off of U.S. 41. We have a circular driveway where people enter at the easternmost point and can circle back around. We don't anticipate that. We think that only very, very few people will actually use the roadway beyond our facility. We think that people will access it via 41 and will exit via 41. And I think that touches upon most of the issues with regards to some of the comments that were brought up. Also, what I'd like to touch upon is some of these meetings that we've had. We had our neighborhood information meeting. It was attended. We didn't have much of a crowd. I think we probably had 20 to 30 people at the most. We had some questions. We had no opposition. Again, we had some people voice support for the project. We also have received no calls from any of the residents. My understanding is that staff has not received any objection also, either emails or phone calls, and we have also made an effort to reach out to the civic association. We met with their president, and what he relayed to us was he would -- if he had any concerns, he would voice those and bring those forward. Lastly, with regards to issues regarding the use in the corridor, I have two exhibits that I'd like to put on the illustrator. The first exhibit comes from the 2018 study that was done by Johnson Engineering. It was associated with certain types of uses along this corridor. And what we've done is we've taken that exhibit produce d March 24, 2020 Page 58 by Johnson. We annotated that. We identified our subject property in blue where we've got the blue star. There's been discussion of possibly limiting and creating a buffer between these facilities and avoiding clusters. The separation that was brought up was a quarter of a mile. And what we show here that -- we show that the closest facility similar to ours is 1.6 miles, and that most of them are several miles away. Also, we demonstrate that while there are a few clusters of self-storage uses, we are not in close vicinity to any of those clusters. This exhibit is also taken from the Johnson report. What you see here is all the properties in red are zoned commercial, and all the properties with yellow outlines are vacant commercial zoning properties. So with regards to potentially displacing other commercial uses or minimizing opportunities for other commercial uses, as you can see from this map there is a lot of vacant commercial in the area. There is not only vacant commercial on smaller lots, but across the street from us we have the Sabal Bay PUD where most of that commercial is currently vacant. And also, just at the corner of Rattlesnake Hammock, for example, is an existing commercial site where the Sears used to be. So that's a large box type of commercial opportunity where it's underutilized and looking for tenants right now. So from the standpoint of that commercial opportunity, we don't think we're impeding upon any other potential businesses. We think there's plenty of commercial in the area. So with that said, we'll take on any questions you may have. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Let's see if there are any questions from the Commission. Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. Just one quick one. Patrick, thank you for your presentation. I know that we have a March 24, 2020 Page 59 commercial district there, but it's -- well, it's not bringing much of anything in. In the parts that you say that are empty, are there any of those in the yellow that are already being planned or going throu gh the movement of more self-storage units? MR. VANASSE: We are probably halfway through our application cycle, which is probably a few months ago. We looked at all existing and pending, and that's when we came up with this exhibit. And what was pending at the time we identified. So if there's anything else close by, I'm not aware of it. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. And, secondly, I don't mind your place. It's very, very nice looking and everything. I think it will be tough -- you forgot to mention how many homes are in that area. But I think it will be tough for the people because now it's a four-story. There's nothing else four stories in that area, as you well know, and it's going to be a little tough for them. And not that they just -- they didn't want to eliminate it. They just felt that they could use your help. They figured as long as you're building something and so forth, could you help them with the road? They're worried about people taking a shortcut out the back road and -- the road. And you well know yourself, that road is just cinders and broken up terribly. And they thought maybe the developer would want to do something to help their road, because they're going to be located on it. They're going to stop their part, though, and the rest of it's going to be bad. And they're just feeling that people -- you know, what about the shortcuts people want to take so that they don't have to go out the road, out to U.S. 41? MR. DAVIES: If I may, Commissioner Fiala, Noel Davies. With respect to the roadway, this is a private road. It's not a county-maintained roadway. This issue did come up. Our topic did March 24, 2020 Page 60 come up at the Planning Commission. The developer is more than happy to contribute its pro rata share of maintenance and improvements on that roadway in the event that a Municipal Service Taxing Unit is created. Again, the developer would be happy to participate in that and would comply with any MSTU obligations. There is a proposed condition, that's Condition 4 from the executive summary, which is a recommendation from your Planning Commission that states exactly that, and that's something that my client is more than happy to participate in. With respect to the intended use by the users of these storage units, access to and from is nearly always anticipated to come from the Trail and not -- and not from Rattlesnake. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Ah, but we're good at taking back roads. (No response.) COMMISSIONER FIALA: Did you hear me? MR. DAVIES: Yes, Commissioner Fiala. Yep, I understand. The intent still, again, is to access from Tamiami Trail. And with respect to maintenance and improvements of the road, the developer is more than willing to contribute its fair share to that. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Well, we were sure hoping that you would be one of these developers, and not that many are, but would be wanting to help the people that live in that area as your neighbors. And we were just counting on something like that, but apparently we're not going to get that. And, by the way, as far as the commercial space goes, our people down there in Growth Management also are going to be suggesting to everybody building any storage units that they should reserve the bottom floor -- but this came after you came -- reserve the bottom floor for commercial if, indeed, commercial is needed. And, of course, all they do is build a shell, and then they would March 24, 2020 Page 61 rent that out to somebody or lease it out or let them buy that particular area. We were just hoping that you would want to do that. It's -- we've seen many reports from people. And I know how you tell me we have a lot of commercial, but our commercial is going all to self-storage and gas stations and, on top of that, now dentists' offices. So we don't have many things that we can use to keep a neighborhood alive and survive without having to travel to other parts of the town. So that's all my comments. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I want to make sure our court reporter is surviving okay. Is the court reporter okay? We've been at this for about two hours. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: She's not here. MR. OCHS: She's transcribing remotely, Commissioner. I'm sure she'd be ready for a break if you're ready to give one. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Oh, all right. Well, I think we're going to wrap this up fairly quickly. And maybe we'll take a break as soon as we finish this before we get into council communications. Let's see where this goes real quickly. Commissioner Solis, do you have any questions or comments? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No questions. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Taylor? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No questions. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Just one. If you don't mind, Noel, please put up the original map that shows the location and Valley Stream and the like, if you can come up with that. I think it's one of the original -- there you are, okay. I just wanted to -- I learned something -- I wasn't aware -- after I was reading this that Valley Stream was, in fact, that a -- was a private road. And so, you know, Commissioner Fiala, maybe -- and I March 24, 2020 Page 62 happen to personally live on a private road. And one of the difficulties of those folks who utilize private roads is having an equitable methodology for repair and maintenance and ongoi ng upkeep. And maybe we could work together to establish an MSTU over in that area so that everybody that has access on and off of Valley Stream. Though Valley Stream comes from two public roads, maybe we could work to establish some kind of a better improvement model to allow for the condition of that road to be improved and not burden any one particular property owner along it. MR. DAVIES: Thank you, Commissioner. And, again, the client would be more than happy to participate in any such MSTU. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And, sir -- Commissioner -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I was going to say, that is a good suggestion and one that will come at a future date. Commissioner Fiala, do you need anything else on that issue? COMMISSIONER FIALA: I just wanted to say thank you to Commissioner McDaniel for looking at it so clearly. Thank you. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And, Mr. Chair, this is Penny Taylor. I wondered if I could ask the applicant one thing. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yes. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. Any chance of -- egress is off of -- is off of 41. So no left-in, no right-out? MR. DAVIES: Go ahead, Patrick. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So that would -- that would dissuade folks coming -- even if the folks living along Valley Stream would be using it, they would not be able to access it that readily. They'd have to go out Rattlesnake. That might -- but certainly when they're leaving, there would be no exit onto Valley Stream, and to cut -- that's a pretty explicit map when you see the connection of a private road to two. And I can respect the concerns of the neighbors. March 24, 2020 Page 63 Is there any opportunity for that? MR. VANASSE: Well, let me just address the movements in general. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. MR. VANASSE: And we have our transportation consultant here that can maybe address this in a little more detail. But if you look at the driveway, it's a right-in at the easternmost -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Could -- thank you. MR. VANASSE: So, Noel, the easternmost access point. So that's a right-in. And you can do a left-in, but it's only -- you can't exit from that side. So we're directing all the traffic to come around and exit towards the west. So already we believe that this circular driveway will take -- and I don't know what the percentage is, but a very high percentage of the trips towards 41. Also, our understanding from the neighbors is some people may want to utilize this storage facility -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah. MR. VANASSE: -- and they're going to be coming from the east, and they're going to want to make a left-in. We think that just with the general layout that we have currently, we're not going to have a whole lot of left-ins, but we think it's practical. It's good to have it. Some of the customers will, indeed, be some of those condo units that are close by. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So at 4:00 on an afternoon during the season when the traffic is bumper to bumper on 41 going into -- a lot of times it's the morning going into the town, and then certainly coming back, can we just say that you would be willing to look at -- it's a private drive. You'd be willing to adjust that kind of exit? I think more exit than enter. MR. VANASSE: I think that's something we could answer. I'll turn that over to our transportation expert. That's really not my area March 24, 2020 Page 64 of expertise. MS. O'ROURKE: I just wanted to put something -- a little bit maybe in perspective that -- MR. OCHS: Could you identify yourself. MS. O'ROURKE: Oh, I'm sorry. Susan O'Rourke, O'Rourke Engineering and Planning, traffic engineer. I just wanted you to keep in mind when we're talking about these numbers that this is probably one of the absolute lowest traffic generators you can have. It's a very passive use. People come in. And once they've moved their things in, you're not going to see them again. So we're talking about, in the morning 12 is the worst case and 21 in the afternoon. Those are -- So we had estimated talking to the DOT about 85 percent to come in from the Trail. So we're saying about 15 percent. Now, that's not to say there might be people who come in. It's not absolute. But the numbers are so small to begin with that if we have a shift to the east, it would not be a significant impact on the community. And right now, with all of our traffic, what we've counted out there is about 60 at the worst hour on Valley Stream. So it's a very low travel. You're not getting a lot of cut-through today, so we don't anticipate that that would continue, that that would -- we would expect that trend to continue and not draw a lot to this use. So if that's helpful. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: But you would be willing to address it if it does become an issue? Because I believe Valley Stream was the road where the gentleman or the lady was killed, correct? Isn't that -- is that the street that had the cut-through traffic? I believe it was, was it not? Or it was not? MR. OCHS: I don't know, ma'am. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I don't remember. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala would March 24, 2020 Page 65 know. Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: This is -- was Valley Stream the one where -- the unfortunate accident where someone jumped the curb? COMMISSIONER FIALA: No. That was really on St. Andrews. She was walking along and somebody jumped the curb and mowed her down, yep. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: My mistake, thank you. And that's it, Mr. Chair. MR. VANASSE: If I may just add one little comment. When we went to our NIM -- and this is completely anecdotal, and it was from a few of the residents. The concern was really about the condition of the road. We did talk to them just one on one if there was a lot of traffic on the road, and we didn't have these concerns over the traffic expressed to us. It was really the condition of the road more so than anything else. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I assume we have no registered speakers; is that correct? MR. MILLER: We do not have any registered speakers, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. I'll close the public hearing. I don't know if there are any comments at this point on the Commission. I think we're ready for a motion one way or the other. Are there any other comments from the Commission before we take a motion? Commissioner Fiala, do you have any other additional comments? COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, I don't. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Commissioner Solis? March 24, 2020 Page 66 COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Nope. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: He went out of order. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I know. I skipped over Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's not intentional. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You caught me sleeping at the last meeting. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: No other additional comments, then we're ready for a motion on the item. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll make a motion for approval. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'll second that. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have a motion and a second for approval. Let me just call the roll here like we've done. Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: No. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I'm voting yes. And Commissioner Taylor and Commissioner McDaniel made the motion and second. It passes 4-1. MS. DAVIS: Thank you, Commissioners. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Now, we're going to get into -- I think our next item is going to be just constitutional officers and other communications. Why don't we take just a 10-minute break here for our court reporter. It is 11:16. Let's come back at 11:25. So we've got about nine minutes for a break, and then we'll get into our additional communications. MR. OCHS: Very good. Thank you, sir. March 24, 2020 Page 67 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We'll reconvene at 11:25. (A brief recess was had from 11:16 a.m. to 11:25 a.m.) Item #15 STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS MR. OCHS: We're on to staff and commission communications at this point. I have no other comments outside of the staff reports that we went through earlier today. Again, the continuing area of monitoring for me at this point is our parks and, to a lesser extent, our boat ramps, which we'll be continuing to monitor. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. And then in terms of your authority to handle general county business, you've got all the authority you need. So you don't need anything from us, from the Commission, to keep all of our operations going? MR. OCHS: That's correct, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Mr. Klatzkow? MR. KLATZKOW: Nothing sir. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. And, Mr. Klatzkow, just as a reminder, I'll be working with you on taking some action pursuant to the County Commission direction to, you know, be prepared as we explore these issues with the COVID-19. Does the Clerk have any? THE CLERK: Thank you, Commissioner. I just wanted to add, our offices are staffed, but we're closed to public traffic for the interactions. We still do a lot of the transactions online. You can pay your fines. You can e-file, e-record. So the services are still available to the public. And, in particular, when the Sheriff mentioned the domestic March 24, 2020 Page 68 violence, we are still issuing and handling any of those essential services of the courts. So we're attending the court proceedings or monitoring and doing our job with the court system, and that would include the preparation of the domestic violence injunctions for judges. So those services are available, and I wanted to make the public aware of that. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you. Let's go down the list of commissioners. Commissioner Fiala? COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, nothing more except you did a great job trying to lead us all by phone, and you did an excellent job doing it. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, thank you. Everybody was working together, so it seemed to work pretty well. I was pleasantly surprised that it worked so well. Thank you. Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Nothing other than to thank the County Manager and everyone for all their hard work in these trying times, and I hope everybody stays safe and healthy. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Taylor? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes, just a couple of things. First of all -- and I'm not sure how we would word this, but I do think it might be an idea, sir, that -- if the County Commission agrees to this, that we write the governor and -- or maybe it's the federal government, as the county, just asking that testing equipment be moved ahead as quickly as possible, especially for our first responders and our folks on the front line of this. To me, what you brought up is -- just doesn't work for me. So it might be an idea. Not that -- it may be a letter that would be put aside, but I think our voice needs to be heard in this. And, March 24, 2020 Page 69 again, I'll bow to my colleagues on that. And then the second thing is, we have an issue that was moved forward to a time that we don't know when it's going to be heard based on what we're facing as a community with this COVID virus infection, but I think it's something that we can hear as a commission, and I'd like to bring it to everyone's attention, that is to decide who would be the developer for the housing part of Golden Gate Golf Course. Zoom is a wonderful, wonderful device we have. We can zoom in the applicants, and we have found, based on your leader ship, sir, that we can actually hold a commission meeting like this. So I would strongly urge us to have this at our next meeting in two weeks and ask the applicants to prepare and make sure that Troy is ready, and I know he is, because we've done it before. So that's all I have to say right now. MR. OCHS: Commissioners -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's a very good point, and I've spoken with the manager as well as the folks that are going to be assisting with the financing from the Foundation, and they ne ed a decision by the County Commission on a contractor prior to the end of April. So whenever we have our next meeting, which could be in two weeks, or it could be the four-week -- I'll leave that up to the manager -- we will have them available to partic ipate via Skype or some other way to make their presentations. But we will be hearing that issue and making a decision before the end of April. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: All right. Thank you. I understood -- and I'll -- I will confirm it, sir, or you can, that it was the end of this month, beginning of April, they're going to go to the other entity who is looking for the same kind of funding. So I think if you don't mind, sir, if you'd like to confirm it, or I will, let's make sure that we hear this and it is expeditiously as possible. March 24, 2020 Page 70 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Let's have the manager make that confirmation. I'm confident that it was by the end of April based on my conversations just yesterday. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: But we'll confirm that and we'll make sure that we have a meeting to consider that item in a timely fashion. If that's two weeks, if it's four weeks, whatever the number is, we'll leave that up to the manager. But, yes, we'll confirm that it's going to be by the end of April. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. MR. OCHS: Commissioners, and just for the public's benefit here, the reference here is to the impending proposals from developers who have submitted proposals in response to the county solicitation for essential service housing at the Golden Gate Golf Course location. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. And, Commissioner McDaniel, do you have anything to add before we adjourn? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, I just would like to express my -- and, again, I don't know whether it would fall on deaf ears or not, Commissioner Taylor, but, you know, we -- I think it would be prudent for us as a board to send a letter to the governor, to the federal government for requisite. I've been asking for mass testing. And having that data for clarity, sir, with regard to the future decisions that are going to be put upon us is imperative. And I don't -- I think it would be good of us as a group or as the Board to have you -- have you send that letter off. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We'll have the manager prepare a letter to the governor to -- and to FEMA to supply us with the necessary personal protection equipment as well as testing and particular testing so we can make rational decisions. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Absolutely. March 24, 2020 Page 71 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I don't think anybody would object to having that letter go out. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: If anybody does object, just let me know. But I'm assuming that we're okay with that. So we'll prepare a letter and get something out. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I can actually feel Commissioner Fiala and Commissioner Solis shaking their heads in a positive manner, so... CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think I saw that, too. COMMISSIONER FIALA: You're pretty good at seeing that. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Let me see. I had just one or two quick things. In terms of county operations and interacting directly with the public, I believe we're just about shut down permitting and that sort of thing; is that correct, Mr. Ochs? MR. OCHS: In terms of direct customer interaction, yes, sir. We're doing all of our permitting work remotely. Most of it online, some drop off outside of the -- immediately outside the building where then we take the permit applications inside and process those. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Then in terms of our next meeting, in terms of just general business, I'll concur with the manager in terms of when we need to meet again. We clearly need to meet sometime in April. I don't know whether we need to meet twice, as we normally do, but we'll figure that out going forward. But in terms of any emergency meeting, I'm sure we can get in touch with everybody on a fairly short notice because we may need to take some emergency action that will be necessary going forward, and we'll make sure everybody's aware of that, and we'll try to schedule a meeting so that people are able to attend either in person or via phone. Mr. Ochs, I want to thank you for the social distancing that March 24, 2020 Page 72 we're exercising. I think today's meeting was a perfect example of being able to conduct business this way. Is there anything else for the good of the order from the manager or from any commissioners? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: There is -- there is one thing -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: -- and that is from our -- the defense. The defense. The names of the folks in that piece of literature that -- MR. MILLER: I had it ready but then -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I forgot it, but it's so important, because we've had great successes on the state level for legislation protecting our water. We've had wonderful -- just a very positive look at what happened. And here are the people in our government that are on defense. So I'm going to leave this to you, sir, to talk about this. MR. OCHS: Yeah. Commissioners, what Commissioner Taylor is referring to is the after-action 2020 Florida Legislative Report prepared by Mr. Mullins and our lobbyist. It's on your consent agenda on today's meeting. But specifically what she's pointing out is one of the slides in the PowerPoint stack that talked about defense, and what was meant by that was -- that was Mr. Mullins' way of thanking the -- what we call our internal legislative strike team composed of Ian Barnwell from Growth Management; Diane DiPascale from Public Utilities; Josh Thomas from Public Services; and Lee Willer Spector from our Administrative Services Department. Those four individuals had some training done earlier in the year with Mr. Mullins and our lobbyist and were really trained to be the conduit between our internal staff and what was going on with our lobbyist and Mr. Mullins up in Tallahassee. So we were able to stay March 24, 2020 Page 73 on top of every bill as it came, quickly respond to any challenges that those proposed bills were creating, and it worked very well for us. In fact, on the impact fee legislation, Amy Patterson was able to go to Tallahassee based on the recon work from this internal strike team and go up there and beat down some onerous legislative proposals on impact fees, and really what were resulted from that was a bill that came out of the legislature that mirrored, in many respects, your own impact fee ordinance and did no harm, so to speak, in terms of your current program. So those are the kind of examples of good internal staff work and coordination that led to some good outcomes in Tallahassee. I appreciate you bringing that up, Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Well, as Coach Kramer, our lovely and now retired Naples football coach, has said to me and everyone on more than one occasion, "Offense doesn't win the game, Penny. Defense does." So congratulations to everyone. MR. OCHS: Thank you. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Mr. Chair? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I'm glad you brought that up, and I want to congratulate our staff as well on that. It was a difficult session, and things worked out very well, especially on the project. So all good news. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Mr. Chair? MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, Commissioner McDaniel has a comment. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Just as a -- as a point of clarification, you made a comment that I would ask our county manager or deputy county manager. You made a statement with regard, we've all but -- I heard you say we've all but shut down our permitting department, and I would like, if our deputy county manager could -- I know we talked about a 30 percent reduction in March 24, 2020 Page 74 permit requests, but we haven't shut down that department, and if you would -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: No, no. I think what they've said is they've shut down the direct interpersonal contact with the public. But, yeah, that's a good point. The permitting is still going on. Maybe the manager can explain how that works. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That was what I had asked. I'd asked that, sir; yes, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Good point. MR. OCHS: Yeah. We're open for business in our permitting shop. No change. We're -- our methods have changed, but our hours of operation have actually increased. Our e-permitting service is running 24/7 every day, and we also are handling all the direct applications from runners and other applicants through the process that I described earlier where we take those outside the building, and they're dropped off, and then we process those and get them back out expeditiously. So that's a good clarification, Commissioner McDaniel. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Before we adjourn, anything else? MR. OCHS: No, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We are adjourned. Thank you. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you, sir. **** Commissioner Taylor moved, seconded by Commissioner Saunders and carried unanimously that the following items under the Consent and Summary Agendas be approved and/or adopted **** Item #16A1 March 24, 2020 Page 75 FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER FACILITIES FOR ORANGE BLOSSOM GARDENS SALES CENTER, PL20180002395, ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE POTABLE WATER FACILITIES, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $11,323.31 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT (DISTRICT 2) – LOCATED IN SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST Item #16A2 FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE WATER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR GASPAR STATION HOTEL, PL20190002575 (DISTRICT 2) – LOCATED AT 5425 JULIET BLVD., NAPLES Item #16A3 RESOLUTION 2020-51: A RESOLUTION FOR FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVATE ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF ANTHEM PARKWAY PHASE ONE, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20150001931, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE MAINTENANCE SECURITY (DISTRICT 5) Item #16A4 March 24, 2020 Page 76 RESOLUTION 2020-52: A RESOLUTION FOR FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVATE ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF ANTHEM PARKWAY PHASE TWO, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20160001096, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE MAINTENANCE SECURITY (DISTRICT 5) Item #16A5 RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF AZURE AT HACIENDA LAKES - PHASE 3, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20190002283) APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY (DISTRICT 1) – W/STIPULATIONS Item #16A6 RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF ENBROOK, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20180002742) APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY (DISTRICT 1) – W/STIPULATIONS Item #16A7 RECORDING THE MINOR FINAL PLAT OF MAPLE RIDGE AT AVE MARIA PHASE 5B, SECOND REPLAT, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20190002843 (DISTRICT 5) – LOCATED IN SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RANGE 29 EAST March 24, 2020 Page 77 Item #16A8 CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $764,820 WHICH WAS POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER 59.720-1, PL20160001369 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH PANTHER ISLAND MITIGATION BANK EXPANSION (DISTRICT 5) – THE WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SECURITY HAS BEEN INSPECTED AND THE DEVELOPER HAS FULFILLED HIS COMMITMENTS IN RESPECT TO THIS SECURITY Item #16A9 CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $60,000 WHICH WAS POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER PL20170004178 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THE SPRINGS AT HAMMOCK COVE (DISTRICT 4) - THE WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SECURITY HAS BEEN INSPECTED AND THE DEVELOPER HAS FULFILLED HIS COMMITMENTS IN RESPECT TO THIS SECURITY Item #16A10 CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $43,240 WHICH WAS POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER PL20180001017 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH ESPLANADE AT HACIENDA LAKES - PHASE 4 (DISTRICT 1) - THE WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SECURITY HAS BEEN INSPECTED AND THE DEVELOPER HAS FULFILLED HIS COMMITMENTS March 24, 2020 Page 78 IN RESPECT TO THIS SECURITY Item #16A11 SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING FOR REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 19-7663, “NAPLES MANOR STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING STUDY,” AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOP-RANKED FIRM, Q. GRADY MINOR & ASSOCIATES, P.A., SO THAT STAFF CAN BRING A PROPOSED AGREEMENT BACK FOR THE BOARD’S CONSIDERATION AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING (DISTRICT 1) Item #16A12 RESOLUTION 2020-53: LOCAL AREA PROGRAM (LAP) AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FDOT) WHERE, COLLIER COUNTY WOULD RECEIVE REIMBURSEMENT UP TO $1,108,409 TO UPDATE AND STANDARDIZE THE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (ITS) NETWORK COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LOCAL AGENCIES (COLLIER COUNTY AND CITY OF NAPLES) AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FDOT); TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF NETWORK EQUIPMENT, REQUISITE ACCESSORIES, LICENSING, MAINTENANCE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT, LISTED IN THE LAP AGREEMENT; TO EXECUTE A RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE BOARD'S ACTION AND AUTHORIZE ALL NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS (PROJECT NO. March 24, 2020 Page 79 FPN 435013-1-98-01) (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16B1 COLLIER COUNTY COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS REVIEW AND ACCEPT THE 2019 ANNUAL REPORTS FOR THE TWO COMPONENT AREAS: BAYSHORE GATEWAY TRIANGLE AND IMMOKALEE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREAS (CRA) AND PUBLISH THE REPORTS (ALL DISTRICTS) – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16C1 EXEMPTION FROM THE COMPETITIVE PROCESS AND ENTER INTO AGREEMENT NO. 19-057-NS WITH FERGUSON ENTERPRISES, LLC D/B/A FERGUSON WATERWORKS (“FERGUSON”) TO SUPPLY MUELLER SYSTEMS, LLC (“MUELLER”) SMALL RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL METERS, AUTOMATIC METER READING COMPONENTS, AND AN OPTION TO PURCHASE ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16C2 EASEMENT TO FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. FOR INSTALLATION OF ELECTRICAL SERVICE FOR THE LANDFILL DEEP INJECTION WELL PRODUCTION AND OPERATION, AT THE COLLIER COUNTY RESOURCE RECOVERY PARK AT 3959 CITY GATE BOULEVARD NORTH March 24, 2020 Page 80 (DISTRICT 5) – FOLIO #00289720004 Item #16C3 CONVEY AN EASEMENT TO FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO., AT THE EAST NAPLES COMMUNITY PARK, 3500 THOMASSON DRIVE, TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY TRANSFORMER AT THAT LOCATION (DISTRICT 1) – FOLIO #00395680009 Item #16C4 PURCHASE ORDER AGREEMENT WITH SUNSTATE METER & SUPPLY, INC., UNDER THE PRIOR AWARD OF INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) #15-6507, “PURCHASE OF LARGE METERS & COMPONENTS” FOR AN ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF SIX (6) MONTHS, OR UNTIL A NEW CONTRACT IS AWARDED, WHICHEVER IS SOONER (ALL DISTRICTS) – AS CURRENT AGREEMENT WILL TERMINATE ON APRIL 11, 2020, THIS EXTENSION WILL REVISE THE EXTENSION DATE TO OCTOBER 8, 2020 Item #16C5 AWARD OF INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) #20-7696-ST, “COLLIER COUNTY JAIL (J1) KITCHEN REPLACEMENT AND SAFETY UPGRADES” TO SDP, INC. D/B/A SDP- CONSULTANTS CORP., IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,763,302, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT (ALL DISTRICTS) March 24, 2020 Page 81 Item #16C6 THIRD AMENDMENT TO REAL ESTATE SALES AGREEMENT WITH RICHARD D. YOVANOVICH, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE (AND NOT INDIVIDUALLY) FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE DUE DILIGENCE PERIOD FOR THE SALE OF THE 47 +/- ACRE PARCEL KNOWN AS THE RANDALL CURVE PROPERTY (DISTRICT 5) – EXTENDING THE DUE DILIGENCE PERIOD TO MAY 29, 2020 Item #16D1 COLLIER COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY TO SUSPEND THE FIVE-DOLLAR FEE FOR COMPUTER USAGE WITHOUT A COLLIER COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY CARD DURING THE 2020 FIRST DIGITAL CENSUS (ALL DISTRICTS) – FROM MARCH 12, 2020 THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2020 Item #16D2 LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD OF COLLIER COUNTY (SCHOOL BOARD) FOR THE CONTINUED USE OF THE PROPERTY AT CORKSCREW ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOLS (DISTRICT 5) – THE NEW LEASE WILL COMMENCE ON APRIL 11, 2020 THROUGH APRIL 10, 2025 Item #16D3 INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WHICH PROVIDES FOR SERVICES AND EDUCATION VIA MULTI-COUNTY March 24, 2020 Page 82 AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES EXTENSION AND AUTHORIZE $33,980.24 AS COLLIER COUNTY’S PROPORTIONATE SHARE OF THIS AGREEMENT (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16D4 BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN JAILS AND COMMUNITY- BASED TREATMENT FOR OPIOID USE DISORDERS GRANT AWARD FROM THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERGOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH FUNDED BY THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT (ALL DISTRICTS) – FOR THE GRANT AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $93,750 WITH NO MATCH REQUIRED Item #16D5 RESOLUTION 2020-54: COMMUNITY AESTHETIC FEATURE AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR COLLIER AREA TRANSIT TO PLACE IDENTIFICATION MARKERS AT BUS STOPS ON FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OWNED RIGHT-OF-WAYS AND APPROVE A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER TO SIGN THE AGREEMENT (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16E1 March 24, 2020 Page 83 PURCHASE OF PROPERTY INSURANCE EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 2020 IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $4,195,687 (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16E2 ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT ASSIGNING ALL RIGHTS, DUTIES AND BENEFITS, AND OBLIGATIONS TO HERITAGE UTILITIES, LLC UNDER AGREEMENT #16-7021 “HAMMERHEAD AND DESIGNATED DRIVEWAY CONSTRUCTION” (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16E3 INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY AND THE GREATER NAPLES FIRE RESCUE DISTRICT FOR MANAGEMENT OF THE OCHOPEE FIRE DISTRICT UNTIL CONSOLIDATION, TERMS OF PAYMENT DURING THE MANAGEMENT PERIOD, AND POST CONSOLIDATION SUPPORT FOR UP TO TEN YEARS (ALL DISTRICTS) – TERMINATING ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2033 Item #16E4 INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) #20-7688, AUTOMOTIVE & HEAVY EQUIPMENT BATTERIES, TO BATTERY USA, INC., AS PRIMARY VENDOR, AND IEH AUTO PARTS LLC D/B/A AS AUTO PLUS AUTO PARTS, CONTINENTAL BATTERY COMPANY, AND TAYLOR & CROWE BATTERY COMPANY, INC., AS SECONDARY VENDORS (ALL DISTRICTS) March 24, 2020 Page 84 Item #16E5 SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING OF REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-EV, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY - ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CATEGORY,” AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOP NINE RANKED FIRMS, SO THAT PROPOSED AGREEMENTS MAY BE BROUGHT BACK FOR THE BOARD’S CONSIDERATION AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16E6 SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING OF REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-AQ, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY – AQUATICS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN SERVICES CATEGORY,” AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOP THREE RANKED FIRMS, SO THAT PROPOSED AGREEMENTS MAY BE BROUGHT BACK FOR THE BOARD’S CONSIDERATION AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16E7 SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING OF REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-TE, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY - TESTING CATEGORY,” AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOP FOUR RANKED FIRMS, SO THAT PROPOSED AGREEMENTS MAY BE March 24, 2020 Page 85 BROUGHT BACK FOR THE BOARD’S CONSIDERATION AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16E8 SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING OF REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-SM, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY - SURVEY AND MAPPING CATEGORY,” AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOP TEN RANKED FIRMS, SO THAT PROPOSED AGREEMENTS MAY BE BROUGHT BACK FOR THE BOARD’S CONSIDERATION AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16E9 SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING OF REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-RB, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY - ROAD & BRIDGE STUDY, PLANNING AND DESIGN CATEGORY,” AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOP TWELVE RANKED FIRMS, SO THAT PROPOSED AGREEMENTS MAY BE BROUGHT BACK FOR THE BOARD’S CONSIDERATION AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16E10 ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PREPARED BY THE PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY AND NOTIFICATION OF REVENUE March 24, 2020 Page 86 DISBURSEMENT (ALL DISTRICTS) – THERE WERE ON-LINE SALES IN THE AMOUNT OF 3,563.50 AND $315.57 OF DISPOSED ITEMS FOR THIS PERIOD Item #16E11 ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY THE PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS AND OTHER CONTRACTUAL MODIFICATIONS REQUIRING BOARD APPROVAL (ALL DISTRICTS) – THERE WERE THREE CHANGE ORDERS THAT ADDED 76 DAYS TO COMPLETION PERIODS, ZERO AMENDMENTS FOR THIS PERIOD, AND TWO AFTER-THE-FACT MEMOS WITH FISCAL IMPACT OF $6,234.32 Item #16E12 ELECTRONIC SUBMITTAL OF A REQUEST FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE TO SECURE THE COUNTY AS AN ELIGIBLE APPLICANT FOR FEMA REIMBURSEMENT OF RELATED EXPENDITURES TIED TO COVID-19 (ALL DISTRICTS) – THE APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED BY APRIL 12, 2020 Item #16F1 ARTS & CULTURE STRATEGIC PLAN AS PREPARED BY CULTURAL PLANNING GROUP AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS ACTION PROMOTES TOURISM (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16F2 March 24, 2020 Page 87 RESOLUTION 2020-55: A RESOLUTION APPROVING AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2019-20 ADOPTED BUDGET (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16F3 REPORT COVERING TWO BUDGET AMENDMENTS IMPACTING RESERVES AND MOVING FUNDS IN AN AMOUNT UP TO AND INCLUDING $25,000 AND $50,000, RESPECTIVELY (ALL DISTRICTS) – FUNDS NEEDED TO COVER SERVICES FOR SENIORS’ EXPENSES Item #16F4 AFTER-ACTION REPORT FOR THE 2020 FLORIDA LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND PROVIDE GUIDANCE AS PRELIMINARY PLANNING BEGINS FOR THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE CYCLE (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16F5 – Withdrawn (Per Agenda Change Sheet) RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT #18-7404, COLLIER COUNTY SPORTS COMPLEX MARKETING AND SUPPORT, TO SPORTS FIELDS, INC., OF GA D/B/A SPORTS FIELDS, INC., (“SFI”), FOR MANAGEMENT, OPERATION, ADVERTISING AND MARKETING OF THE PARADISE COAST SPORTS AND SPECIAL EVENTS COMPLEX, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AMENDMENT (ALL March 24, 2020 Page 88 DISTRICTS) – THIS AGREEMENT WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 Item #16H1 PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING APRIL 2, 2020 AS HEALTHCARE NETWORK DAY IN COLLIER COUNTY. THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE MAILED TO MATTHEW HOLLIDAY, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT - HEALTHCARE NETWORK Item #16H2 PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING APRIL 7, 2020 AS NATIONAL SERVICE RECOGNITION DAY IN COLLIER COUNTY. THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE DELIVERED TO TAMI BAILEY, FEDERAL & STATE GRANTS MANAGER, COLLIER COUNTY COMMUNITY AND HUMAN SERVICES DIVISION Item #16H3 CHAIRMAN TO SIGN A LETTER DESIGNATING THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA CRIME STOPPERS, INC., A NON- PROFIT AGENCY, AS THE AGENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF APPLYING FOR AND RECEIVING FUNDS FROM THE CRIME STOPPERS TRUST FUND (ALL DISTRICTS) – THE LETTER MUST BE UPDATED EVERY THREE YEARS Item #16J1 March 24, 2020 Page 89 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SERVE AS THE LOCAL COORDINATING UNIT OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT’S FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 2019 EDWARD BYRNE MEMORIAL, JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT (JAG) COUNTYWIDE PROGRAM AND (1) AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE CERTIFICATION OF PARTICIPATION; (2) DESIGNATE THE SHERIFF AS THE OFFICIAL APPLICANT AND THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE STAFF AS GRANT FINANCIAL AND PROGRAM MANAGERS; (3) AUTHORIZE THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE GRANT IF AND WHEN AWARDED; AND (4) APPROVE ASSOCIATED BUDGET AMENDMENTS AND APPROVE THE COLLIER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE TO RECEIVE AND EXPEND THE GRANT FUNDS (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16J2 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PROVIDE APPROVAL FOR THE STATE OF FLORIDA E911 BOARD/E911 STATE GRANT PROGRAM (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16J3 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PROVIDE APPROVAL TO DESIGNATE THE SHERIFF AS THE OFFICIAL APPLICANT AND POINT OF CONTACT FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, COPS SCHOOL VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM GRANT (SVPP) FY2020. AUTHORIZE THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE GRANT WHEN AWARDED, APPROVE ASSOCIATED BUDGET March 24, 2020 Page 90 AMENDMENTS AND APPROVE THE COLLIER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE TO RECEIVE AND EXPEND 2020 SVPP GRANT FUNDS (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16J4 BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF MARCH 18, 2020 (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16J5 TO RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS WERE DRAWN FOR THE PERIODS BETWEEN FEBRUARY 27, 2020 AND MARCH 11, 2020 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06 (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16K1 RESOLUTION 2020-56: APPOINT AN ALTERNATE MEMBER TO THE COLLIER COUNTY CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD (ALL DISTRICTS) – APPOINTING DANNY BLANCO WITH TERM EXPIRING ON FEBRUARY 14, 2021 Item #16K2 RESOLUTION 2020-57: COLLIER COUNTY INDUSTRIAL March 24, 2020 Page 91 DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY FOR APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE AUTHORITY TO ISSUE REVENUE BONDS FOR FACILITIES AT NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL'S BAKER (DOWNTOWN) AND NORTH NAPLES CAMPUSES, AND THE REFUNDING OF CERTAIN BONDS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN 2011 (ALL DISTRICTS) Item #16K3 RESOLUTION 2020-58: APPOINT A MEMBER TO THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT PRODUCTIVITY COMMITTEE (ALL DISTRICTS) – APPOINTING JILL ROSENFELD WITH TERM EXPIRING ON FEBRUARY 27, 2022 Item #17A DEVELOPMENT ORDER 2020-01/RESOLUTION 2020-59: AFFIRM THE DECISION OF THE COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION AND APPROVE A RESOLUTION AMENDING DEVELOPMENT ORDER 88-02, AS AMENDED, THE CITYGATE COMMERCE PARK DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL IMPACT, PROVIDING FOR SECTION ONE: AMENDMENTS TO ADD THE 128.05-ACRE SPORTS COMPLEX EXTENSION TO THE DRI AND REVISE THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION; AMENDMENT TO THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN; AND EXTENSION OF TERMINATION DATE; SECTION TWO: FINDINGS OF FACT INCLUDING REVISED LEGAL DESCRIPTION AND INCREASE IN ACREAGE; SECTION THREE: CONCLUSIONS OF LAW; SECTION FOUR: EFFECT OF PREVIOUSLY ISSUED March 24, 2020 Page 92 DEVELOPMENT ORDER, TRANSMITTAL TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY CONSISTING OF 419.60 ACRES IS LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST QUADRANT OF THE INTERSECTION OF I-75 AND COLLIER BOULEVARD (CR 951) IN SECTIONS 35 AND 36, TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, IN COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA (THIS IS A COMPANION ITEM TO PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT AMENDMENT PETITION PUDA-PL20190001494, AGENDA ITEM #17B) [PL20190001497] (DISTRICT 5) Item #17B ORDINANCE 2020-13: ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 88-93, THE CITY GATE COMMERCE PARK PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT, AS AMENDED, TO ADD THE SPORTS COMPLEX EXTENSION TO THE PUD AND REVISE THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION; BY AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 2004-41, THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, BY AMENDING THE APPROPRIATE ZONING ATLAS MAP OR MAPS BY CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF AN ADDITIONAL 128.05± ACRES OF LAND ZONED RURAL AGRICULTURAL (A) TO THE CITY GATE COMMERCE PARK PUD; TO UPDATE THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN INCLUDING THE ADDITION OF THE COUNTY SPORTS COMPLEX EXTENSION; TO ALLOW ADDITIONAL HOTEL AND MOTEL UNITS; TO INCREASE THE BUILDOUT TRAFFIC; TO PROVIDE DEVIATIONS FOR PRESERVES, LANDSCAPE BUFFERS, AND PARKING AREAS; TO ADD PERMITTED ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND ADD March 24, 2020 Page 93 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR THE SPORTS COMPLEX EXTENSION; TO AMEND EXHIBIT A-3 PERMITTED USES-SIC CODES TO ADD USES; TO AMEND EXHIBIT A-4 CROSS SECTIONS- NORTH BUFFER, AND EXHIBIT A-6 REQUIRED YARD PLAN; AND PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT AND SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY CONSISTING OF 419.60± ACRES IS LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST QUADRANT OF THE INTERSECTION OF I-75 AND COLLIER BOULEVARD (CR 951) IN SECTIONS 35 AND 36, TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, IN COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA (THIS IS A COMPANION ITEM TO DEVELOPMENT ORDER AMENDMENT PETITION DOA-PL20190001497, AGENDA ITEM #17A) [PL20190001494] (DISTRICT 5) Item #17C RESOLUTION 2020-60: RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, RELATING TO PETITION NUMBER VA-PL20190001940, FOR A VARIANCE FROM SECTION 4.02.01.A., TABLE 2.1 OF THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE TO REDUCE THE MINIMUM FRONT YARD SETBACK FROM 25 FEET TO 24.99 FEET, AND TO REDUCE THE MINIMUM REAR YARD SETBACK FROM 20 FEET TO 14.61 FEET FOR AN EXISTING SINGLE FAMILY HOME, AND A VARIANCE FROM SECTION 4.02.01.D.8 OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE ROOF OVERHANG FROM 3 FEET TO 3.51 FEET. THE PROPERTY IS DESCRIBED AS LOT 3, BLOCK 6, AVALON ESTATES UNIT NO. 1, ALSO DESCRIBED AS 4704 ACADIA LANE, IN March 24, 2020 Page 94 SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 50 SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA (PL20190001940) (DISTRICT 1) Item #17D RESOLUTION 2020-61: RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, RELATING TO A VARIANCE REQUEST FROM FROM SECTION 4.02.01 A., TABLE 2.1 OF THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE TO REDUCE THE MINIMUM SIDE YARD SETBACK ON THE WEST SIDE FROM 7.5 FEET TO 4.71 FEET FOR AN EXISTING POOL. THE PROPERTY IS DESCRIBED AS LOT 1 AND THE EAST HALF OF LOT 2, BLOCK 28, NAPLES PARK UNIT NO. 3, ALSO DESCRIBED AS 699 99TH AVE. N., IN SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA [PL20180003748] (DISTRICT 2) Item #17E – Moved to Item #8A (Per Commissioners During Agenda Changes) Item #17F RESOLUTION 2020-62: RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, GRANTING A PARKING EXEMPTION UNDER LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE SECTION 4.05.02.K.3 TO ALLOW OFF- SITE PARKING FOR A FAST-FOOD RESTAURANT ON A CONTIGUOUS LOT ZONED RESIDENTIAL-SINGLE-FAMILY-5 (RSF-5). THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF IMMOKALEE DRIVE AND STATE March 24, 2020 Page 95 ROAD 29 IN IMMOKALEE, IN SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 47 SOUTH, RANGE 29 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA (PL20180003276) (DISTRICT 5) Item #17G RESOLUTION 2020-63: RESOLUTION APPROVING AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD, TRANSFERS AND SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2019-20 ADOPTED BUDGET (ALL DISTRICTS) March 24, 2020 Page 96 ***** There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 11:40 a.m. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL ___________________________________ BURT SAUNDERS, CHAIRMAN ATTEST: CRYSTAL K. KINZEL, CLERK ________________________________ These minutes approved by the Board on ____________________, as presented ______________ or as corrected ______________. TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF FORT MYERS COURT REPORTING BY TERRI LEWIS, FPR, COURT REPORTER AND NOTARY PUBLIC.