Agenda 06/08/2021 Item # 2B (BCC Meeting Minutes 05/11/2021)2.B
06/08/2021
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 2.B
Item Summary: May 11, 2021 BCC Meeting Minutes
Meeting Date: 06/08/2021
Prepared by:
Title: Sr. Operations Analyst — County Manager's Office
Name: Geoffrey Willig
05/26/2021 12:36 PM
Submitted by:
Title: Division Director - Corp Fin & Mgmt Svc — County Manager's Office
Name: Mark Isackson
05/26/2021 12:36 PM
Approved By:
Review:
County Manager's Office Geoffrey Willig County Manager Review
Board of County Commissioners Geoffrey Willig Meeting Pending
Completed 05/26/2021 12:37 PM
06/08/2021 9:00 AM
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May 11, 2021
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, May 11, 2021
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Board of County
Commissioners, in and for the County of Collier, and also atg as
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the Board of Zoning Appeals and as the governing b ) of such
special districts as have been created accordin o nd having
conducted business herein, met on this da t :00 a.m., in
REGULAR SESSION in Buildin the Government Complex,
East Naples, Florida, with the ing members present:
C rman:
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sackson, County Manager
Penny Taylor
William L. McDaniel, Jr.
Rick LoCastro
Burt L. Saunders
Andy Solis
S'Van Callahan, Deputy County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Derek Johnssen, Clerk and Comptroller's Office
Troy Miller, Communications & Customer Relations
MR. ISACKSON: Madam Chair, Commissioners, you have a
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COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Community Redevelopment Agency Board (CRAB)
Airport Authority
AGENDA
Board of County Commission Chambers
Collier County Government Center
3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd Floor
Naples, FL 34112
May 11, 2021
9:00 AM
Commissioner Penny Taylor, District 4 — Chair — CRAB Co -Chair
Commissioner William L. McDaniel, Jr., District 5 - Vice Chair - CRAB Co -Chair
Commissioner Rick LoCastro, District 1
Commissioner Andy Solis, District 2
Commissioner Burt Saunders, District 3
NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST
REGISTER PRIOR TO PRESENTATION OF THE AGENDA ITEM TO BE
ADDRESSED. ALL REGISTERED SPEAKERS WILL RECEIVE UP TO THREE
(3) MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS ADJUSTED BY THE CHAIRMAN.
REQUESTS TO PETITION THE BOARD ON SUBJECTS WHICH ARE NOT ON
THIS AGENDA MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING WITH EXPLANATION
TO THE COUNTY MANAGER AT LEAST 13 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF
THE MEETING AND WILL BE HEARD UNDER "PUBLIC PETITIONS."
PUBLIC PETITIONS ARE LIMITED TO THE PRESENTER, WITH A
MAXIMUM TIME OF TEN MINUTES.
ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD
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WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING PERTAINING THERETO,
AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD
OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE
TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO.2003-53 AS AMENDED BY
ORDINANCE 2004-05 AND 2007-249 REQUIRES THAT ALL LOBBYISTS
SHALL, BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY LOBBYING ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDRESSING THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS), REGISTER WITH THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AT THE
BOARD MINUTES AND RECORDS DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY
ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING,
YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN
ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT DIVISION LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL,
SUITE 1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380; ASSISTED
LISTENING DEVICES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ARE AVAILABLE IN
THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION.
LUNCH RECESS SCHEDULED FOR 12:00 NOON TO 1:00 P.M
1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
A. Reverend Beverly Duncan, Member of the Naples United Church of Christ
2. AGENDA AND MINUTES
A. Approval of today's regular, consent and summary agenda as amended (ex
parte disclosure provided by commission members for consent agenda.)
B. April 13, 2021 BCC Meeting Minutes
3. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
A. EMPLOYEE
B. ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
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C. RETIREES
D. EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
4. PROCLAMATIONS
5. PRESENTATIONS
A. Presentation of the Collier County Business of the Month for May 2021 to
Vernon Litigation Group.
6. PUBLIC PETITIONS
7. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE CURRENT
OR FUTURE AGENDA
8. BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
9. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS
10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
A. Recommendation to appoint two Commissioners as regular members, and
three Commissioners as alternate members, for a one-year period on the
Value Adjustment Board. (All Districts)
11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT
A. Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners endorse and
approve the County Manager's new senior leadership corporate
organizational structure, staffing complement, approach, and responsibilities
to take effect immediately, and approve all necessary budget amendments.
(Mark Isackson, County Manager) (All Districts)
B. This Item to be heard no sooner than 1:00 p.m. Recommendation to
accept the after -action report for the 2021 Florida legislative session and
provide guidance as preliminary planning begins for the next legislative
cycle. (John Mullins, County Manager's Office & Lisa Hurley, Smith, Bryan
& Myers) (All Districts)
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C. Recommendation to approve the award of Invitation to Bid ("ITB") No. 21-
7849-ST, "Bridge Replacement -Bridge Package A-2 Bridges-Immokalee
Road," to Thomas Marine Construction, Inc. in the amount of
$4,423,258.99, authorize the Chair to sign the attached agreement related to
Project #66066 — "Eleven Bridge Replacements east of SR 29", and approve
all necessary budget amendments. (Presenter, Marlene Messam, Principal
Project Manager, Transportation Engineering) (District 5)
D. Recommendation to approve the award of Invitation to Bid ("ITB") No. 21-
7850-ST, "Bridge Package B — 4 Bridges — Immokalee and County Line
Roads," to Zep Construction, Inc., in the amount of $9,285,476.43, and
authorize the Chair to sign the attached agreement pertaining to Project
#66066, "Eleven Bridge Replacements east of SR 29," and approve all
necessary budget amendments. (Marlene Messam, Principal Project
Manager, Transportation Engineering) (District 5)
E. Recommendation to approve the award of Invitation to Bid ("ITB") No. 21-
7851-ST, "Bridge Replacement - Bridge Package C — 4 Bridges — Oil Well
Rd," to Zep Construction, Inc., in the amount of $12,992,442.90 and
authorize the Chair to sign the attached agreement pertaining to Project
#66066, "Eleven Bridge Replacements east of SR 29," and approve all
necessary budget amendment. (Marlene Messam, Principal Project Manager,
Transportation Engineering) (District 5)
F. Recommendation to approve the fall truck haul beach renourishment project
for the Vanderbilt Beach and Naples Beach scheduled for November 2021
with an estimated cost of $7,302,924.50 and make a finding that this item
promotes tourism (Projects #90066 and #90068) and authorize all necessary
budget amendments. (This is a companion to agenda Item # 11 G) (Andrew
Miller, Principal Project Manager, Coastal Zone Management) (All
Districts)
G. Recommendation to award an agreement to Coastal Protection Engineering,
LLC for Request for Professional Services ("RPS") No. 21-7828, "Design,
Engineering and Permitting Services for Beach Re -Nourishment Projects,"
in the amount of $524,595.50 (Projects #90066, #90068 & #50126),
authorize any necessary budget amendments, and make a finding that these
expenditures promote tourism. (This item is companion to Item # 11 F)
(Andrew Miller, Principal Project Manager, Coastal Zone Management) (All
Districts)
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H. Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid ("ITB") No. 21-7827 "Beach
Compatible Sand Supply" for beach re -nourishment to Stewart Materials,
LLC, and make a finding that this project and expenditure promotes tourism
and authorize all necessary budget amendments. (Andrew Miller, Principal
Project Manager, Coastal Zone Management) (All Districts)
I. Recommendation to approve a Work Order to Q. Grady Minor &
Associates, P.A., under professional services Agreement Number # 15-6450,
for the 98th, 99th, 105th and 106th Avenues Public Utility Renewal Project
(Project Numbers 60139 and 70120) in the amount of $1,405,660, authorize
the Chair to sign the attached Work Order, and authorize the necessary
budget amendments. (Tom Chmelik, Public Utilities Engineering and
Project Management Division Director) (District 2)
J. This item was continued from the April 27, 2021 BCC meeting.
Recommendation to accept an update on COVID-19 related relief funding
and ongoing community assistance programs, and to authorize the County
Manager or designee to execute any funding agreements necessary for the
American Rescue Plan Act Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery
Fund. (Sean Callahan, Executive Director, Corporate Business Operations)
(All Districts)
12. COUNTY ATTORNEY'S REPORT
13. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
A. This Item to be heard at 10:00 a.m. Presentation of the Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020 and
authorization to file the related State of Florida Annual Local Government
Financial Report with the Department of Financial Services. (All Districts)
14. AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND/OR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY
I. Ilwl
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
15. STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
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16. CONSENT AGENDA - All matters listed under this item are considered to be
routine and action will be taken by one motion without separate discussion of
each item. If discussion is desired by a member of the Board, that item(s) will
be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered separately.
A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and accept the
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for
Esplanade Golf & Country Club of Naples — Phase 5, Parcel I,
PL20190000442 and authorize the County Manager, or his designee,
to release the Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $4,000 to
the Project Engineer or the Developer's designated agent. (District 3)
2) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for Bradford Square, PL20150001521, accept the
conveyance of a portion of the potable water and sewer facilities, and
authorize the County Manager, or his designee, to release the Utilities
Performance Security (UPS) and Final Obligation Bond in the total
amount of $34,922.18 to the Project Engineer or the Developer's
designated agent. (District 2)
3) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and accept the
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for Estilo
Acres (aka Sapphire Cove), PL20190001136 and authorize the
County Manager, or his designee, to release the Final Obligation Bond
in the total amount of $4,000 to the Project Engineer or the
Developer's designated agent. (District 1)
4) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and accept the
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for
Esplanade at Hacienda Lakes Phases 4B 1 & 4B2, PL20190001708
and authorize the County Manager, or his designee, to release the
Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $4,000 to the Project
Engineer or the Developer's designated agent. (District 1)
5) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and accept the
conveyance of the potable water facilities for Ferrari of Naples
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(OFFSITE) - Phase 1, PL20200000218 and authorize the County
Manager, or his designee, to release the Utilities Performance Security
(UPS) and Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $15,504.70 to
the Project Engineer or the Developer's designated agent. (District 2)
6) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the sewer utility
facilities for Heritage Bay Golf & Country Club - Clubhouse
Expansion Phase 2, PL20210000539. (District 3)
7) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer utility facilities for Big Cypress Market Place Phase 3,
PL20210000302. (District 1)
8) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the minor final plat of City Gate Commerce
Park Phase Three Replat No. 5, Application Number PL20210000402.
(District 5)
9) Recommendation to hear Land Development Code Amendments at
two regularly scheduled daytime hearings and waive the nighttime
hearing requirement. (District 1, District 3)
10) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a
Performance Bond in the amount of $81,736.39 which was posted as a
guaranty for Excavation Permit Number PL20190002445 for work
associated with Allura. (District 2)
11) Recommendation to authorize expenditures through an exemption
from the competitive process for Florida International University for
sampling, analysis and assessment of sediment and water quality. (All
Districts)
12) Recommendation to approve an Agreement for the purchase of land
(Parcel 330FEE) and easements (Parcels 330TDRE1 & 330TDRE2)
required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension (Project No.
60168). (District 5)
13) Recommendation to approve Change Order No. 1 to Contract Number
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19-7494, "Design and Related Services for Vanderbilt Beach Road
Widening from east of U.S. 41 to east of Goodlette-Frank Road," with
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Project Number 60199), to increase
the budget in the amount of $256,296, to extend the length of the
design contract by 90 days. (District 2)
14) Recommendation to authorize a budget amendment, in the amount of
$186,475, within Stormwater Operating Fund 103, Stormwater
Maintenance Cost Center 172929 to acquire mowing equipment. (All
Districts)
15) Recommendation to direct staff to advertise an amendment to Section
130-3 of the Collier County Code of Laws and Ordinances, relating to
prohibiting the operation of trucks and other commercial vehicles with
a rated load -carrying capacity in excess of five (5) tons from through
movements on designated public roads and streets in Collier County.
(All Districts)
16) Recommendation to approve a work order with APTIM
Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc., to provide professional
engineering services for Doctors and Wiggins Pass Dredging under
Contract No. 18-7432-CZ for time and material not to exceed
$114,188.48, authorize the necessary budget amendment, authorize
the Chairman to execute the work order, and make a finding that this
item promotes tourism. (All Districts)
17) Recommendation to approve the selection committee's ranking for
Request for Professional Services (RPS) No. 21-7847, "Goodlette-
Frank Road Ditch Improvements Design Services," and authorize
staff to begin contract negotiations with the top -ranked firm, Water
Resources Management Associates, Inc., so that staff can bring a
proposed agreement back for the Board's consideration at a
subsequent meeting. (District 4)
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
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C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve a Construction Easement Agreement,
and Temporary Construction Easement with Beachwalk Residents
Association, Inc., for the purpose of constructing a wall around an
existing wastewater pump station, at a cost of $100. (District 2)
2) Recommendation to extend and execute the proposed Seventh
Amendment to the Landfill Operating Agreement renewing the
Disposal Capacity Agreement with Okeechobee Landfill, Inc., a
Florida Corporation (a subsidiary of Waste Management Inc., of
Florida) as is, for a term of one year ending July 1, 2022, with (2) one
year renewal options providing the transfer and disposal of biosolids,
and to reserve airspace for storm generated debris from a natural
disaster. (All Districts)
D. PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to terminate Agreement No. 18-7300, "Services for
Seniors Program," with Golden Care Home Health, Inc., authorize
and direct the County Manager or his designee to sign and forward the
attached termination letter to the vendor. (All Districts)
2) Recommendation to approve an "After -the -Fact" amendment and an
attestation statement with the Area Agency on Aging for Southwest
Florida, Inc., for the Emergency Home Energy Assistance Program to
decrease funding in the amount of $14,920 and authorize the
supporting Budget Amendment. (All Districts)
3) Recommendation to approve a loan agreement with the University of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology allowing
the Collier County Museums and the Marco Island Historical Society
to borrow sixteen (16) artifacts from the 1896 Pepper -Hearst
Archaeological Expedition for display at the Marco Island Historical
Museum. (District 1)
4) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairperson to sign the
Florida Department of Emergency Management Hazard Mitigation
Grant No. H0390 agreement modification to decrease funding in the
amount of $249,204 for one (1) generator at North Collier Regional
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Park, with a twenty-five percent (25%) match obligation decrease in
the amount of $83,038 and authorize all necessary Budget
Amendments. (All Districts)
5) Recommendation to accept the annual Retired and Senior Volunteer
Program grant award from the Corporation for National and
Community Service in the amount of $75,000 and authorize the
necessary Budget Amendment. (All Districts)
E. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to ratify Property, Casualty, Workers'
Compensation, and Subrogation claim files settled and/or closed by
the Risk Management Division Director pursuant to Resolution 2004-
15 for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2021 (All Districts)
2) Recommendation to approve the administrative reports prepared by
the Procurement Services Division for change orders and other
contractual modifications requiring Board approval. (All Districts)
3) Recommendation to approve the administrative report prepared by the
Procurement Services Division for disposal of property and
notification of revenue disbursement. (All Districts)
F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to adopt a resolution, approving amendments
(appropriating grants, donations, contributions or insurance proceeds)
to the FY20-21 Adopted Budget. (All Districts)
2) Recommendation to approve a report covering budget amendments
impacting reserves and moving funds in an amount up to and
including $25,000 and $50,000, respectively. (All Districts)
3) Recommendation to award Request for Professional Services ("RPS")
No. 20-7817, "CEI Services for Pelican Bay Sidewalk
Improvements," to Johnson Engineering Inc. in the amount of
$772,971, and to approve the attached Agreement. (District 2)
4) Recommendation to approve the award of Invitation to Bid ("ITB")
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No. 21-7869, "Pelican Bay Sidewalk Replacement - Phase 1," to
Coastal Concrete Products, Inc. d/b/a Coastal Site Development, in
the amount of $649,263.75, and authorize the Chair to sign the
attached construction services Agreement. (District 2)
5) Recommendation to recognize Lisa Nuccio, Public Services
Department, Library Division as the April 2021 Employee of the
Month. (All Districts)
6) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners terminate
a lease with Kraft Office Center, LLC, and send notice to the
Landlord. (All Districts)
G. AIRPORT AUTHORITY
1) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, acting as
the Airport Authority, award Invitation to Negotiate No. 19-7664,
"Immokalee Regional Airport Hangar/Commercial Aeronautical
Development," and authorize its Chairman to sign the attached Collier
County Airport Authority Leasehold Agreement for Hangar
Construction with Global Flight Training Solutions, Inc., for the
construction of hangars at the Immokalee Regional Airport. (District
5)
H. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
1) Proclamation designating May 2021, as Drowning Prevention Month
in Collier County. The proclamation will be mailed to Paula
DiGrigoli, Executive Director, NCH Safe & Healthy Children's
Coalition of Collier County.
2) Proclamation designating May 22 - 28, 2021, as National Safe
Boating Week in Collier County. The proclamation will be mailed to
Keith Wohltman, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 95,
Marco Island, Florida.
3) Proclamation designating May 2021, as Trauma Awareness Month in
Collier County. The proclamation will be mailed to Lauren Ware,
Community Programs Coordinator, Lee Memorial Health System, Ft.
Myers, Florida.
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4) Proclamation designating May 16 - 22, 2021, as Emergency Medical
Services Week in Collier County. The proclamation will be delivered
to Tabatha Butcher, Chief, Collier County Emergency Medical
Services.
5) Proclamation designating May 16 - 22, 2021, as Water Reuse Week in
Collier County. The proclamation will be delivered to Dr. George
Yilmaz, Public Utilities Department Head.
I. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
J. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
1) 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 April 15, 2021 and April 28, 2021 pursuant to
Florida Statute 136.06. (All Districts)
2) Request that the Board approve and determine valid public purpose
for invoices payable and purchasing card transactions as of May 5,
2021. (All Districts)
K. COUNTY ATTORNEY
1) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute a
Settlement Agreement in the lawsuit styled Margaret Heller v. Collier
County Board of Commissioners, (Case No. 20-CA-3608), now
pending in the Circuit Court of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit in and
for Collier County, Florida, for the sum of $22,500. (All Districts)
2) This item was continued from the April 27, 2021 BCC meeting.
Recommendation to take no further action with respect to a public
petition requesting that Collier County enact an ordinance to protect
firearm owners from federal or state government intrusion. (All
Districts)
3) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the total
amount of $50,993.00 including statutory attorneys' fees and costs,
for the taking of Parcel 187FEE, required for the Vanderbilt Beach
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Road Extension Project, Project No., 60168. (Fiscal Impact:
$51,163.00, which includes the statutory $170 Clerk's fee) (All
Districts)
4) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Order of Taking in the total
amount of $600,000.00 for the taking of Parcel 138FEE, required for
the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project, Project No., 60168.
(Fiscal Impact: $600,170.00, which includes the statutory $170
Clerk's fee) (All Districts)
5) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the total
amount of $110,000.00 plus statutory attorney's fees and costs of
$24,727.00, and $170 Clerk's Fee for the taking of Parcel 1226FEE,
required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project, Project
No., 60168. (All Districts)
6) Recommendation to reappoint two members to the Coastal Advisory
Committee. (All Districts)
7) Recommendation to appoint a member to the Historic/Archaeological
Preservation Board. (All Districts)
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17. SUMMARY AGENDA - This section is for advertised public hearings and
must meet the following criteria: 1) A recommendation for approval from
staff; 2) Unanimous recommendation for approval by the Collier County
Planning Commission or other authorizing agencies of all members present
and voting; 3) No written or oral objections to the item received by staff, the
Collier County Planning Commission, other authorizing agencies or the
Board, prior to the commencement of the BCC meeting on which the items
are scheduled to be heard; and 4) No individuals are registered to speak in
opposition to the item. For those items which are quasi-judicial in nature, all
participants must be sworn in.
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18. ADJOURN
INQUIRIES CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE BOARD'S AGENDA SHOULD
BE MADE TO THE COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE AT 252-8383.
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May 11, 2021
live mic.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good morning. We are here today.
It's a beautiful first meeting in May, May the 11 th. And we have
Reverend Beverly Duncan who's going to give our invocation, and
then I'd like to ask Commissioner Saunders to lead us in the ple
please. L ��+
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Item # 1 A O
INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIAN
INVOCATION GIVEN BY REVEREND DLL(
REVEREND DUNCAN: Good mo Let us be together
in one mind.
Spirit of life, be with and wo g this body this morning,
guide our commissioners in their dui erations, give them wisdom in
the questions they ask and the �ons they make. We are thankful
for their service and espe s a blessing on the transition of
County Managers.
Grant that the way.,khey all work today in ordering the life in
Collier County ht be an example to the rest of us to be ever more
effective citi s wing love and caring for our communities, our
neighbors, an use of our many beautiful resources.
It's be amazing and stressful year that has called on us to be
the b t an be, even more than back in normal times. Now grant
these'o missioners the life-giving spirit that looks for blessings in
the business items, seeks new ways of hearing, thinking, and seeing,
and leans toward life.
So shine on them this day; may it be one of satisfaction and even
a little joy.
Amen and Shalom.
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(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
Item # 1 B
PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING FORMER COUNTY
MANAGER LEO OCHS' SERVICES —PRESENTED
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County Manager, members of the Board, I'd like -to , -gress a
little bit this morning and read a proclamation.
Mr. Ochs, I am going to do this to you. u come up here,
please.
MR. OCHS: Right here?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: What o everyone, right?
Whereas, Leo Ochs.
MR. OOHS: Good mornin .
COMMISSIONER McD L: Good morning, by the way.
CHAIRMAN TAY ood morning.
Whereas, Leo Ochs, has a bachelor's degree in political
science and governme4from Illinois Benedictine University and a
master's degree in Public Administration from northern Illinois
University, h' ofczsional affiliations include both the International
and Florid Ci nd County Manager Associations;
Wher eo Ochs is a 40-year veteran of a local government
man who was hired by the Collier County Government in
19 'rect the personnel department after having served for eight
ye Joliet, Illinois, as assistant to the city manager, community
affairs administrator, risk management director, and human resources
director;
Whereas, Mr. Ochs was promoted to the position of Collier
County administrative services administrator in 1987 where he
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managed the county's internal management and support functions,
including human resources, budget procurement, information
technology, and facility management;
Whereas, in 1995, Mr. Ochs assumed additional responsibilities
for the county's emergency service operation and, in 2000, was
appointed to direct the county's public services division respo
for parks, libraries, social and veteran services, museums a
Domestic Animal Services -- and it goes on; and, 0
Whereas, after serving as assistant county managAn deputy
county manager beginning in 2001, Mr. Ochs waOin
nted to
Collier County Manager on September 29th,d,
Whereas, Mr. Ochs has been an active lea ehe community
serving as board member and presidenia*tion
nited Way of Collier
County, graduating from the Leaders hr Class of 1999, was a
director on the Leadership Collier 4trBoard, and served on
the College of Business and Publiolministration Advisory Board at
Hodges University; and,
Whereas, Mr. Ochs r 'ded vision and leadership as the
County Manager for more n a decade establishing priorities and
driving countless succe�sfu projects, transformative initiatives,
which have ma ollier County the world -class community it is
today;
Wher as, en it was needed most during the Great Recession,
Hurricane , and the global coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Ochs
dem exemplary leadership and steady direction;
Nreas, Mr. Ochs' character, his integrity, and compassion are
a ;� 'r d and respected and will be impactful for years to come.
Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, that it is with great honor
that we recognize Collier County Manager Leo Ochs, Jr., for his
leadership and his long distinguished career with Collier County
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Government and that May 1 lth, 2021, be designated as Leo Ochs
Day in Collier County.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Nice job, Junior.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So we need you to stay here, sir. We
need you to take your eyes to the screen. �+
(A video was played as follows:) 1
COMMISSIONER FIALA: County Manager, wi o lead us
through the changes, please?
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. These are the a hanges for
the Board of County Commissioners' meeting o er 13th, 2009.
Commissioners let's take a look at our pr o e agenda changes
for the Board of County Commissioners' eti g of April 27th, 2021.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: He �s ng man who survived
five bosses year after year and, mi �o , not always the same
bosses. That is a feat in itself.
COMMISSIONER McL: You have been participatory
in creating the community t&e llknow and love.
COMMISSIONER S8 NDERS: I've really enjoyed working
with you. I certainly appreciate all the professionalism that you've
brought to the position of County Manager, and you've brought
stability to the county for decades, and that's something to be very
proud o
CONER LoCASTRO: What you've been a part of
hereunty will, you know, last for many, many years.
�Qe
many people here. I'm sure that we could pack
thm with people that would consider you a mentor, you know, a
friend. And in the military we always say your j ob as a leader is to
make more leaders, and I'm sure the county is full of folks that have
been touched by, you know, your excellence, you know, your
experience.
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: You know, I'm always seeing
things in terms of winning football seasons, right? So, you know,
Leo versus hurricanes, 3 and 0, right?
MR.00HS: Right.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Leo versus recessions, at leas
and 0, right? And �►+
Leo versus a pandemic. You're --
MR. OCHS: Jury's still out. 0
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, no. I think y inning
that one, too.
So undefeated in so many ways.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: One of the
g great thi tthat I enjoyed
g y
about Leo Ochs over the years, that he wqAery cool, calm, and
collected. Not only was he a great le great support in
anything that we did. �,
And one story in particular w ght after Irma. Hours after the
storm had hit, our contractor t s responsible for collecting the
debris came to us and sa, ow, I can't bring you any trucks.
Everybody's being scatter hroughout the state. And we were in
Leo's office, and he wanted to raise his rates, and it was kind of doom
and gloom.
And Le $eep
df like the Jedi mind trick, waved his hand and
basically s iout there and get the trucks you can, get the debris
collected Y our rates the same. This will all work out.
member getting up from the table and talking with the
c , and he looked at me, we looked at -- I go, well, you heard
it; get to work.
MR. WERT: We were approached several years ago by the
Chicago Cubs to build a spring training facility here in Collier
County for them. Leo's from Chicago, so is he a Cubs fan or is he a
White Sox fan? And as it turned out, he's a White Sox fan, right?
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So it was an interesting discussion, and we didn't know for sure
if this really would happen or not. He really stayed on the side of
being very neutral on the whole discussion. And as it turned out,
they didn't choose us, and it was probably a little sigh of relief for
him, I would guess.
But, yeah, I really -- that was a great insight into how go
was in handling difficult situations.
MR. ISACKSON: Twelve, 13 years ago he came ' o y
office and he says, look it, I need your help. I'd like run our
financial operations.
I thought about it for a while, and I said, ri e'll do
this -- we'll do a series of one-year deals, so 12 e r later we're still
on the series of one-year deals.
He kind of pulled one over on T e ng me that, and -- but I
think it's worked out well for him �, ty Manager alongside
certainly myself and a number of good people in the
organization that have been b im to see him over these 12 years
as County Manager. It'CIleen my pleasure, and I wish him the
best in his retirement com up.
MR. FRENCH: ,00u know, when I first met Leo, I did not have
any expectation d when I first saw him, I was outside the County
Manager's O c Was fairly new to the organization, working
myself up hro the ranks and didn't know what to expect. And he
was ve f ' y, and -- but he called me Steve. And I would have
never that my predecessor, Steve Carrell, I would be sitting in
h' nd we've joked about it since, but I think some of -- some
0 ost favorite moments with Leo is being able to witness him
as a leader and as a community member.
MR. KLATZKOW: God bless in having a great career. God
bless the work you've done for Collier County. I know how much
love you have for the county deep in your heart and how much work
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you've done for the county. You are a true public servant. There's
not a lot of us like that, and I truly appreciated working with you all
these years.
MS. PRICE: Leo, you've been my rock since I've been here,
and when I decide how to operate, how to do something, I really *11
always think to myself, what would Leo say? What would L .
You've earned your retirement after 35 years, and I ho ou
have nothing but joy and fun, and I know that there's at Yt one
grandchild, probably some more to come. En j oy th use, in
fact, that's what life is really all about.
SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Over the years e t e pleasure of
working with you on a regular basis. We've c 1 orated on
everything from natural disasters, like Hu ane Irma, to important
budget meetings. But whether county v ent was working to
accept the Sheriffs Office budget scal year or moving
forward with emergency assets an ing them available for
hurricane relief, you've alway he best interest of our citizens in
mind.
Keeping Collier Cou a great place and a safe place is
something that doesn't }happen by accident, and our agency owes you
a great deal of t s, and it has been our top priority.
You've ys een there to support our advancements in
technolog an ergency communications for the public. Even
before you Count Manager, you worked closely with us to
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ensure that we were able to obtain cutting -edge radios and top-notch
e.21NNA to keep our deputies safe along with the community. For
th e thank you and we wish you the best in your retirement.
Congratulations, Leo.
MR. STAROS: Thank you, Leo, and all the best in your
retirement. I hope you find something on the side, as I just
mentioned, that's just right for you, and to bestow your knowledge
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that you've gained over the years to the up-and-coming young talent
that Collier County has. All the best. Let's keep in touch. I'm -- I
support you 100 percent, and I hope you enjoy retirement as much as
I do.
MS. PATTON: Hey, Leo. Thanks for all you've done to help
make Collier a great place to live. The county's been and co is
to be a valuable partner with the school district, especially it
comes to public safety. We're grateful for your service ti's
community. I know we're really going to miss you. oing to
miss you both personally and professionally.
Really, really, really enjoy your retireme u eserve it.
Thanks for everything, Leo.
MR. MARTIN: Thank you for wh out e done for helping us
be involved in the accelerator, thank y e education you've
provided me as a new president a itizen of Southwest
Florida, and thank you for what o in the future, because I
know you're too energetic just s by the pool and have a drink.
Good luck, Leo. T a Zd ot.
MR. SCHMIEDIN i, it's Reinhold. I wish you the very
best. If you get tired, you ow, look me up. We'll put you to work
here at Arthrex.Ae've got plenty of jobs for great people like you.
I wish y 11 t e best. Thank you for everything you've done
for us and or community to make this a great place to live. We
really a pr everything you've done. You've been a true
gentl d a support of our community and for Arthrex, and I
whe best.
S. FORESTER: Thank you, Leo, for your support and your
leadership. We will miss you, and we wish you the very best in your
new adventure.
MR. WYNN: Thank you, Leo. Best of luck and success in
your retirement.
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MR. HILTZ: Hey, Leo. Thanks so much, best of luck, and
have a great retirement.
MR. KEEPS: Well, Leo, we want to thank you tremendously,
and a lot of luck in your retirement. This is the best place to retire.
So, please, stay around. Hang in there. N
MR. WEEKS: Well, I guess this is -- I hope it isn't gooil�
Maybe I get a chance to see you -- what is it South Street there, on --
MR. KEEPS: Yeah. Yes.
MR. WEEKS: Yeah, I might see you hanging av&dthere
sometime. Every once in a while I'll let you buy I ttle taste of
something. And hey, good buddy, you know is it. I'll see you
around the campus.
MR. DALBY: On behalf maybe, li 10 Chamber executives
that you worked with during the time t ve worked with the
county dating back to Methuselah, ou so much for all the
things that you've done for the Ch r, all the work together that
we've had. I know that there..'ouldn't ask for a better person to
work with than Leo Och (,''older County.
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MR. GOODLETTE: wish you well, I wish Debbie well, and
I'm sure that we will continue to be in contact as we move forward in
our next lives.
Thank y ve uch, Leo.
MR. E KAN: Leo, I wish you best of luck and
happiness ur retirement or whatever you're going to do from
here R
ture. Thank you.
tTOR RICHTER: Leo, you've been a significant asset to
ou munity. Your values, your honesty, your humility, your
patience, and your leadership have all blended together to enhance
the quality of our lives here in Collier County.
And it's with respect and pride that I recall our conversations
over the years addressing county issues and the county's priorities.
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You actually made it easy to understand and to support those
initiatives that you and the Board of County Commissioners wanted
to advance in Tallahassee.
I especially enjoyed those discussions that required a more
in-depth discussion than a simple telephone call. Those were th
issues that we took more time to dissect. Those were the issu t
demanded more time and attention and thought and thought t44t was
provoked by the cold beers that we would share togethe Ohula's.
God bless. Best wishes. Leo, enjoy your retir You've
earned it.
(The video concluded.)
MR. OCHS: That was very nice.
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: That's enough of t
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Wt Ahv request.
COMMISSIONER l
MR. OCHS: Oh, ok
COMMISSIONER)
of something else.
CHAIRMAN TAYL
One more photo.
One more photo, till I think
z know he's retired when his
badge wouldn't �vo�k this morning when he tried to get in the parking
lot.
COMMI NER SOLIS: How quickly they forget.
MR. You know you're gone when you can't pull into
top2of anymore.
MISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, you tried to come in
tl spot.
MR. OCHS: No, just get through the gate.
Can I get one with my lovely wife. Come on, Deb.
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: Thank you all very much.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So, Mr. Callahan, can you give us the
details of what's going on tomorrow afternoon, please.
MR. CALLAHAN: Sure, Madam Chair. Tomorrow afternoon
at the Collier County Museum there will be a reception for Mr. Ochs
thanking him for his service. There will be cake and punch an
everything like that. So for everybody watching, if you'd lik,t p
by, you're more than welcome to and say your goodbye to Nfi chs.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. O
County Manager? 6
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Madam Chai .
Item #2A
APPROVAL OF TODAY' S Vo,,XTNSENT AND
SUMMARY AGENDA AS AME EX PARTE
DISCLOSURE PROVIDED BY ISSION MEMBERS FOR
CONSENT AGENDA.) — AP ED AND/OR ADOPTED
W/CHANGES
I N
MR. ISACKSON:..* This brings us to Item 2, your agenda and
your minutes. is an approval of today's regular, consent, and
summary age as ended, ex parte disclosure to be provided by
commissi in bers for the consent and summary agenda.
I do h few agenda changes for the Board to consider. The
first 's add on Item 5B, which is a presentation by county staff
at e est of Commissioner Saunders providing an update on the
ro shing activity on Davis Boulevard and Santa Barbara
B ou evard.
At the request of Commissioner LoCastro, we're adding on a
proclamation, 16H6, which designates May 9th through the 15th as
Police Week in Collier County. To be accepted by the Fallen
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Officers Association. I think you can see several law enforcement
officers. I think the Sheriffs in the back there, also.
The next item, Commissioners, is at staffs request. It's to
continue Item 16C 1 to the May 25th, 2021, meeting. A
recommendation to approve a construction easement agreement
temporary construction easement with Beachwalk Residents 1z,
Association, Inc. That's for the purpose of constructing waft ound
an existing wastewater pump station. That's at staffs r est again.
Finally, Commissioners, we have -- at the reque
Commissioner McDaniel, it's to continue Item 16K e June 8th
meeting. That's a recommendation to take n rt action with
respect to a public petition requesting that Col ' r unty enact an
ordinance to protect firearm owners from er 1 or state government
intrusion.
A couple of notes, Commissi Ago. tem 11 B on your agenda,
to be heard no sooner than 1:001 t t e legislative after -action
report which will be presente r. Mullen.
And then Item 13A 's our Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report, that's to ,heard at 10:00.
Commissioners, that's all the changes I have.
CHAIRM TAYLOR: Thank you very much. At this time
we're going t s e i nyone has a change, an addition to the agenda,
or any mo ific n and any ex parte to disclose.
Co_m ner Solis.
COM SSIONER SOLIS: No changes and nothing to disclose
o consent or summary agenda.
AIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Same here; no changes,
nothing to disclose on the consent or summary agenda.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: No changes and nothing to
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disclose.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No changes and nothing to
disclose.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And I don't have any changes, b
do have one disclosure on 16A8. I spoke with Josh Fruth ab s
property.
All right. So do we have a motion to accept the t s as
stated?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in fa r, s y aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO:
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: A
COMMISSIONER SAUND Aye.
COMMISSIONER McD
CHAIRMAN TA
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TA-jL,
Aye.
ose opposed, like sign.
: Good. It carries unanimously.
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Proposed Agenda Changes
Board of County Commissioners Meeting
May 11, 2021
Add -On Item 5B: Presentation by County staff, at the request of Commissioner Saunders,
providing an update on the rock crushing activity on Davis Boulevard and Santa Barbara
Boulevard.
Add on Item 16116: Proclamation that May 9-15, 2021, be designated as Police Week in Collier
County. To be accepted by the Fallen Officers Association. (Commissioner LoCastro's request)
Continue Item 16C1 to the May 25, 2021 BCC Meeting: Recommendation to approve a
Construction Easement Agreement, and Temporary Construction Easement with Beachwalk
Residents Association, Inc., for the purpose of constructing a wall around an existing wastewater
pump station, at a cost of $100. (Staffs Request)
Continue Item 16K2 to the June 8, 2021 BCC Meeting: Recommendation to take no further action
with respect to a public petition requesting that Collier County enact an ordinance to protect firearm
owners from federal or state government intrusion. (Commissioner McDaniel's Request)
Time Certain Items:
Item 11B to be heard no sooner than 1:00 p.m. (Staffs Request) — Legislative After -Action Report
Item 13A to be heard at 10:00 a.m. (Clerk's Office Request) — 2020 Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report
5/24/2021 4:19 PM
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Item #2B
BCC MEETING MINUTES FROM APRIL 13, 2021
APPROVED AS PRESENTED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners,
together? I'm sorry, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, yes.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you.
Item #3
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR
COLLIER COUNTY PUBLIC LIB
INTO THE RECORD �%
was that 2A and 2B �+
'V
4%C — LISA NUCCIO,
M #16F5 READ
v
MR. ISACKSON: Comm sCners, under awards and
recognitions, Item 3 on your agenda, the Employee of the Month,
which Mr. Rodriguez has told me that Lisa Nuccio is not in
attendance, but I'd like ro at least read the Employee of the Month
information that we have for Lisa, if I can, at this point.
Lisa NuAcio br**gs to Collier County Public Library the skills
that are needed to meet and exceed the information needs of
technology mills of our community, her efforts on community
awar e d critical information while providing excellent
c ervice with life issues rather than passive interactions.
Lim. has developed many video tutorials for staff training and that are
also perfectly suited for patrons' informational needs.
Lisa emphasizes the core value of librarianship on a daily basis
ensuring that all individuals can seek opportunities and success
through information.
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Lisa regularly leads projects and people in order to provide vital
information to the public. Lisa is also helpful in other branches
remaining -- remain staffed during shortages, helping build
relationships among branches in the county's library system.
As a team player, Lisa often helps out different departments ' e
our circulation department. She never hesitates to answer ph r
aid patrons at the front desk. She is the main go -to for an
technology asset, including online databases, assisting pao s with
borrowing e-books, or helping teach our senior populatiog how to use
their tablet computers.
Lisa regularly offers to cover shifts whe - k rs are out
sick. She's very much a team player and an a et to the Collier
County Public Library system.
Please join me in thanking Lisj f e an active hands-on
team member while the communit in the community and
library system.
(Applause.)
MR. ISACKSON: AQr. Rodriguez will make sure
that -- thank you, Dan.
I
Item #4
PROCLA A NS —ITEMS # 16H 1, # 16H2, # 16H3, # 16H4,
# 16H5 A 16116 READ INTO THE RECORD
�rISACKSON: Commissioners, Item 4 is your standard
;4C procla ations. That's detailed on Item 16H, and there are 1 through
6. There have been several -- and as has been our custom, we kind
of call out the proclamations, and I will read them, Commissioners, if
you don't mind.
At the end, we have another proclamation that I'd like to read
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publicly in detail, and it, essentially, is designating this week as
Police Week in Collier County.
The first proclamation is designating May 2021 as Drowning
Prevention Month in Collier County. The proclamation will be
mailed to Paula DiGrigoli, Executive Director, NCH Safe and
Healthy Children's Coalition of Collier County.
The second proclamation designates May 22 through t1�8,
2021, as National Safe Boating Week in Collier County(De
proclamation will be mailed to Keith Wohltman, Uni ates Coast
Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 95, Marco Island, Florida
The third proclamation designates May N auma
Awareness Month in Collier County. The pro a anon will be
mailed to Lauren Ware, Community Prog s Coordinator, Lee
Memorial Health System, Fort Myers, r
The next proclamation, Com 's ers, designates May 16th
through the 22nd as Emergency W&al Services Week in Collier
County. The proclamation w' delivered to Tabatha Butcher,
Chief, Collier County E y Medical Services.
The next proclamatio Commissioners, designates May 16th
through the 22nd as Woier euse Week in Collier County, and that
proclamation w�l e delivered to Dr. George Yilmaz, Department
Head of the P is ilities Department.
Final missioners, if I may, there's the proclamation,
again, desi g May 9 through the 15th, 2021 as Police Week in
Collier nty, and that's to be accepted by the Fallen Officers
AQ, ociation.
If I may, Commissioners, let me read the proclamation.
Whereas, the Congress and President of the United States have
designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in
which May 15th falls as National Police Week; and,
Whereas, the members of the law enforcement agency of Collier
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County, including the Collier County Sheriffs Office, the Naples
Police Department, and the Marco Island Police Department play an
essential role in safeguarding the rights and freedoms of Collier
County; and,
Whereas, it is important that all citizens know and understa
the duties, responsibilities, hazards, and sacrifices of their law �+
enforcement agencies, and that members of our law enforces t
agencies recognize their duty to serve the people by ing life
and property by protecting them against violence ;aenand by
protecting the innocent against deception and thet
oppression; and, ��..
Whereas the men and women of the lawtitbr�cement agencies
of Collier County unceasingly provide a v' 1 hlic service.
Now, therefore, the Board of Cou missioners calls upon
all citizens of Collier County and civic and educational
organizations to observe the weekVL
y9 through 15, 2021 as
Police Week, with appropriate onies and observances in which
all of our people may j of memorating the law enforcement
officers, past and present, o, by their faithful and loyal devotion to
their responsibilities, have rendered a dedicated service to their
communities an , ' doing so, have established for themselves an
enviable and uri g reputation for preserving the rights and
security o all ens.
Now, fore, we do hereby proclaim the week of May 9
thro 021, as Police Week and call upon all citizens of Collier
CoilNy observe the 15th day of May 2021 as Peace Officers
Memorial Day in honor of those law enforcement officers who,
through their courageous deeds, have made the ultimate sacrifice and
service to their community or have become disabled in the
performance of duty, and let us recognize and pay respect to the
survivors of our fallen heroes.
May 11, 2021
Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, that May 9 through 15,
2021, be designated as Police Week in Collier County.
Done and ordered this 1 lth day of May 2021, the Board of
County Commissioners, Penny Taylor, Chairman.
(Applause.) lz�
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Let's do a photograph. Twws.
Vertically challenged in the front row. O
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Rosemary, gMike's
shoulders.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: What about u u need us to
come in?
PHOTOGRAPHER: If you guys ca&o e in a little bit closer,
I'D appreciate it. Now, do you all feZ5$,e.
f you can't see me, that
means you're not going to be in th
(Applause.)
MS. ZORE: A hero reffennedy
ed never dies.
In 1962, President J declared May 15th as
National Peace Officers Norial Day and the week in which it falls
National Police Week. ,*
This is the k that law enforcement honors officers who died
protecting th et f others.
Goo o g. My name is Rosemary Zore, and I'm the
founder of allen Officers which supports the Robert L. Zore
Fou t My father, Robert L. Zore, a Miami -Dade police
o N s killed on December 25th, 1983, when I was just seven
ye ld. I remember that day, and I will never forget.
This is why I started this foundation with its mission statement
to always remember our fallen officers/heroes sacrifice, honor their
families, and to unite everyone to gain respect back for law
enforcement.
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Our campaign, "Paint the Town Blue," May 9th through the
15th, is to honor Police Week 2021. We need everyone in Collier
County to participate and paint the town blue. Our law enforcement
needs us more now than ever. To show them that we are here and
that we respect them, let's make May 9th through the 15th some g
special. I encourage your family, friends, coworkers, and e es
to get involved.
The Fallen Officers, which supports the Robert L.
Foundation will deliver anyone blue lined flags to di at their
home, business, or in their cars.
Here are some things we all can do. Li u o r business or
your home blue. Wear blue throughout the w k and encourage
your staff to wear blue as well. Offer sp 1 is
or services
for law enforcement officers. Sham y ort on social media or
signage through your home or bus' e e want everyone to
participate for this event. Post o ctures, discounts, what you're
wearing, and what you will do bnor the blue.
We will share this o me page at fallenofficers.com, and
all pictures, videos, busin discounts, services for our blue will be
posted. Let's make this go viral our blue.
We will al s remember our fallen officers' sacrifices, honor
their families d u 'te everyone to gain respect back for law
enforceme t.
At thi e I will read our fallen officers of Collier County.
Colli y Sheriffs Office: W.R. Richardson; William Irwin;
W. Hutto; Maurice E. Anglin; Arthur Allen Almos;
A cus Q. Howell, III; Marc C. Caperton; Roy Arthur Williams;
Joseph Nathan Jones, Jr.; Raul Dimas; Steven James Dodson.
Naples Police Department: Carl Strickland and Louie Colin
Collins.
A hero remembered never dies. God bless our blue.
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(Applause.)
SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Good morning, Chair, members of the
Board of County Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good morning.
SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Collier County Sheriff Kevin
Rambosk. lz�
On behalf of the men and women of the Collier Count eriff s
Office, I just wanted to thank you for the proclamation i e gnition
of this week. Thank you to the public for all of their ort but,
most importantly, recognize and thank the 11 dep at gave their
lives to keep Collier County safe. Thank you
u h.
(Applause.)
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, t brings us to Item 5
under presentations.
Item #5A
PRESENTATION OF T IER COUNTY BUSINESS
OF THE MONTH FOR Y 2021 TO VERNON LITIGATION
GROUP — PRESENTED
t
MR. IS�S�K: The first is a presentation of the Collier
County Busine*yf the Month for May 2021 presented to the Vernon
Litigation Group. I don't know if Chris Vernon is here or not.
LLER: Mr. -- County Manager, we have a video.
ISACKSON: Oh, okay, I'm sorry.
R. MILLER: My apologies. Well, I thought we did. Hold
on a minute. I'm not sure why we're not up on the screen. Oh, there
It is.
(A video was played as follows:)
MR. VERNON: Hi, I'm Chris Vernon with Vernon Litigation
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Group.
I just want to thank the Chamber and the Commissioners for this
award. It means a lot to us. We've been in business here since
2008. I've lived here since 1993. I love this place. It means a lot
to me.
And, you know, to talk about our business for just a min
2008 everybody knows we had the financial crisis, so we're
proud of the fact that we kept everything going right aftwostarted
the firm during the financial crisis, and this COVID so fav, we've
weathered that storm beautifully, I think, so we're proud of that
fact.
And I think part of it is the culture we've i into this firm.
And the culture of this firm is, based in a r4atively small town of
Naples, we've taken on some of the bi^Yuompanies and some of
the biggest law firms in the count An e enjoy that.
We ascribe to what I call the alcolm Gladwell versus Goliath.
And I think, honestly, part of lture is the town of Naples,
because there are a lot o p who sort of think that way. We
may be small, but we pla . And sitting on many boards through
the years like the Chan1pions for Learning, David Lawrence Center,
it's just amazin kinds of people -- and the Chamber, too -- the
kinds of peo at e here in Naples, that are here to -- and on
these boards to ake a difference and they believe they can make a
difference e have the talent and the skill set to make a
diffe o they're not here just to sit on a board. And I think
t e is really -- I think our culture is really part of the
So est Florida, the Naples culture.
So I do want to thank the Board again, and I want to thank the
Chairman for this award. Like I said, it means a lot to us.
(The video concluded.)
(Applause.)
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Item #513 — Add on (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
PRESENTATION BY COUNTY STAFF AT THE REQUEST OF
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS, PROVIDING AN UPDATE f�
THE ROCK CRUSHING ACTIVITY ON DAMS BOULEV�y
AND SANTA BARBARA BOULEVARD —UPDATE GI�T���
v
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, Item 5B is_a-p entation
by staff on behalf of Commissioner Saunders prow' an update on
the rock crushing activity at Davis Boulevard t Barbara
Boulevard. Mr. Ossorio from the Code Enfor e t Board;
Mr. French, the deputy department head; &Wjstaff are here to make a
presentation and address any question rd may have.
MR. OSSORIO: Good mo mmissioners.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: G orning.
MR. OSSORIO: Forth c d, Mike Ossorio, Director of
Code Enforcement.
Just a quick update. e do have a representative of Highland
Properties. Mr. Caden>ea , did you want to come up to the podium,
too, as well? we also have Matt McLean and Anita Jenkins,
too, as well, t s any of your questions.
This ' 'u quick update from our last BCC meeting
April 13th. d you can see, this is a continuation of the PUD that's
been ' and the site plan will be expired on March 2022. Staff
continu to monitor the site providing reoccurring updates with the
County Manager agency's AIMS issue.
Highland Properties did come in for a building permit, they did
pull a building permit, and the fence has been issued and installed.
You can see this is Santa Barbara view from the north side.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: This is new.
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MR. OSSORIO: Very new. I think these pictures were taken
yesterday, and the permit has been issued.
This is the Davis Boulevard view from the west side, and this is
the Boys and Girls Club viewing from the north, and this would be
Davis Boulevard looking north from there as well.
This is actually a bit of a change from the last meeting w
on the 13th. I believe Mr. Cadenhead and Highland Prope ad
no intentions of doing any kind of improvement to the s nd Girls
Club on this side, but there was some issues of safety erns, so the
permit was issued to include 410 feet of this as we
And then this is the last slide, and you ca e e ellow is the
permitted fence that has been installed, and the r e is the backside
of the Boys and Girls Club. And there's Attle bit of retention ditch
area, buffer zone, along that one side.
With that, Commissioner Sa ny more questions we can
help you with or -- v
COMMISSIONER SA S: Yeah. Let me explain,
especially to Mr. Caden y I put this on the agenda.
There's also a gentle in the audience, Scott Nyquist. And
we don't generally let people speak during these presentations, but I
had intended th_ /%be on the regular agenda. It was not on the
regular agen st by accident, and so I want to ask the Board to
permit Mr Ny ' t to make his comments, because he is here.
But th son I put this on the agenda initially was about two
wee ur hearing on April 13th, I rode around there, and there
wn ange. There was some poles stuck in the ground, but there
was no fencing up. And I thought, well, it's been a couple weeks;
let's put this on the agenda and get a report and make sure that the
fencing goes in. And I appreciate that that has occurred.
But what also prompted me, after the fencing went in, to keep
this on the agenda is that I went over there by the Boys and Girls
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Club, and there's fencing that goes to the parking lot, not quite
through -- past the parking lot, as you can tell from the aerial here.
But I believe the fencing should go further, and I wanted to explain
why.
Just from a dangerous standpoint, those types of constructio
sites are attractive nuances. It would be very easy for a kid
out of the Boys and Girls Club just beyond that yellow line e to
step over the little fence or the little fences there, and I too from
your liability potential, your insurance carrier, I thin safest thing
to do would be to extend that fence. I'd like to se ended all the
way to the end of that green line where the ba ie s, ut we
certainly, I think, need to have that fence exten rt er to the south
there to make sure that this isn't an area wji4re kids could just step on
that -- over that little 2- or 3-foot-high c d get hurt. There's a
lot of dangerous material there, a 1 ngerous equipment. So
that's why I wanted to continue th c versation.
I know Commissioner L s o has been very active in dealing
with this issue as well. st felt that I'd like to hear from the
Board as to whether or no at's something the Board would want to
consider. But I think tat t at's important.
And I'll tur? Commissioner LoCastro. I don't know if you
have any add* gpal omments. I know you've been working on this
issue as w ii.
COM IONER LoCASTRO: No, I would concur. It also
not o safety issue, but the fence and the screening really cuts
d he dust. And, you know, I think we've all heard from the
Bo nd Girls Club and that area around there that anything that can
keep the dust from sort of blowing over. I mean, I know it's not
100 percent coverage, but it's better than nothing. So I would
strongly agree with Commissioner Saunders on that area.
The one question I did have is a month ago, sir, you know, you
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were here, and when we said, how long will this project take, you
said about five months. So now we're a month past it. So my
question would be, are we at four months? I mean, are you on a
timeline that we're marching towards completion?
MR. CADENHEAD: No. We agreed with Code and wit
Growth Management with the county engineer that we would
operation within a six-month period, and months are count o
we're still -- we're still on schedule with that. Our deal mi r deal is
basically with the extra -- we agreed to start with --
one side and 500 the other. Then the Code come a
fence on the other side.
So we're going to
whatever Code wants us to do.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO:
MR. CADENHEAD :
They'v w
p 500 feet
ked us to put
ode to do
th us, so we'll work
with them.
COMMISSIONER SAUND All right. And our Code
folks are here, so I would ask de folks, through the County
Manager -- understanding th County Manager ordinance, I can't
direct the staff to do anything. But I would ask our County Manager
to talk to the Code folks and have them talk to Mr. Cadenhead about
extending that fence down to -- down to that ball field.
MR. ISACKS�K: Consider it done, sir.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Mr. Cadenhead, that's my
concern. I don't know if you're willing to agree.
DENHEAD: Going to the ball field, there is a fence
o e other side that comes from the ball field back up to the
A�
fro . There's, like, a little red line up there, and there's probably
about another couple hundred feet of fence that needs to be put up in
there to secure everything, so...
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And the reason I mentioned
the ball field, I understand that that's something that's used
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intermittently. But my real concern about the ball field is just the
appearance, and that screening will block your construction site from
the kids that are playing, the parents that would be out there
watching, and that's why I would like to see that.
MR. CADENHEAD: Okay. Well, we'll definitely take ca of
your wants. t
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I appreciate that. 'V
And, again, Mr. Nyquist is here. I know he wante Oave a
few words.
MR. NYQUIST: I'm here. Do I get to com ere or just
stand here?
MR. MILLER: Come up to the microph , sir.
MR. NYQUIST: Good morning. 1A name is Scott Nyquist.
I'm President of the Firano at Naples iLVners Association.
We're a group of 112 single-famili located just east of Santa
Barbara and just south of Davis.
On behalf of the homeo ssociation, we would like to
thank the commissioners especially Commissioner Saunders and
the Code Enforcement pie le, for all of their efforts in obtaining a
deadline for this concrete pulverization process and for getting the
fencing put up q.� t, you know, Davis and Santa Barbara corner
there. ,
As fa a$
homeowners are concerned, the noise and the dust
and the a can't end soon enough. We are aware that all of the
g g
activ* e at are taking place there are legal and properly permitted,
a e uld just like to ask the commissioners to review those
re ions that pertain to this type of activity and consider some
modifications to prevent this undesirable activity from taking place in
the future anywhere else in the city.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Mr. Cadenhead, I'd like to ask just a
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question. Can you tell me -- you've explained where we are now.
What is the next step?
MR. CADENHEAD: The next step is for us to sell this piece
of property to somebody that wants to do a development like a
Mercado. We have 262,000 square feet of commercial space plus
128- on the front piece, and we have another 600 units in the 2 +
So our deal is to add to the county's tax roll over probably a t
three-quarters of a billion dollars in the next four to five a
This piece of property is a very unique piece of rty in
Naples, and the opportunities are great to do it. at there, and
we've held onto this piece of property for the - n e 2'09 waiting
on the right timing. Timing is here. People a e oving. There's
still sand on the beach, water in the gulf, it still snows up north.
So people are still coming. And that ht there for East
Naples will be a gem when it's fin
A lot of people don't realize - n , I'm a native of Naples. I've
lived here 76 years. And the ss has come and the progress has
gone. And we've alway stop progress. But progress can't
be stopped.
And it's the same thing with putting sand on the beach. I was
the first one why kured out how to put the sand on the beach.
Well, everyb co plained, but now everybody sees the trucks
coming, a d th all applaud the trucks coming to the beach to have
more sand e beach.
' few things. I figured out this here, due to costs, that
w to do this for about a third of the cost of importing fill.
ow, the same -- same identical trucks would be dumping fill
out t ere on the property with tailgates banging and the other. So it's
filling up the property, getting the property ready to be developed.
And we appreciate the county working with us. Code has
been -- has come out and worked with us. And, Jack, your county
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engineer, has been right on top of it with Growth Management.
So our deal is to work with the county and do whatever we have
to do to keep everybody happy, so to speak. And same to you, Burt.
I mean, we definitely don't -- you know, complaints are complaints,
and people are going to complain if you hang them with a new ro
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, I appreciate yo g
here and working with our code folks and look forward --
MR. CADENHEAD: Well, we'll take -- 0
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: As Commis t
LoCastro
said, looking forward to the end.
MR. CADENHEAD: Code has asked u o do, and we've
been doing exactly what code has asked us, an e ill continue to
get through here.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS A. & ht. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR:
MR. CADENHEAD :
CHAIRMAN TAYLO
MR. OSSORIO:
We've already asked the
Cadenhead.
§ioners, just one final thought.
enhead to do a revision on the
building permit, and he'll come in. We'll modify the building permit
to go more on t1lNoys and Girls Club as well. And we're out there
on Saturday adeSu ays making sure that this property stays in
complianc Aid the complaints have -- since the -- you know, the
fence has p, you know, I believe the complaints have
som me down in numbers a little bit.
SSIONER SAUNDERS: Let me ask Mr. Cadenhead a
stion. On the lower fence, the one that's --
MR. CADENHEAD: That's a silt fence.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- being replaced, yeah,
could you pull that up and just have the grass cut there so it looks --
MR. CADENHEAD: We can pull that up if you want, in other
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words. But a little bit of the problem that -- when you rode out there
and just saw -- we had to get no cuts, and we had to get a county
permit through code. And to get a fence permit and the other -- now,
they helped expedite it as we went along, but getting a permit was a
little bit of the holdup.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: The little lower fend
about two feet high really has no function.
MR. CADENHEAD: No. We can pull iijt
y 'ke.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I think pull it up
and then just have the grass cut there so it lookser.
MR. CADENHEAD: We will do that.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Mike,ad a quick
question for you.I thought one of the re 'rements, too, was as
they're crushing the rocks, to keep dow dust, they have to wet
it down. Is that being done? Is t t�, quirement, first off, and if it
is, is it being done?
MR. OSSORIO: It is a ement through DEP to go ahead
and keep the dust down. is our requirement, too, as well, that
there's water on site for th activities. And to my -- best of my
knowledge, there is waVr on site, and DEP has visited several times.
MR. CAD EAD: DEP's been on the site. They gave us all
their criterias wh little puff of dust we can have, and we're fixing
the roads her ey're wet all the time.
COM IONER LoCASTRO: All right.
DENHEAD: So we're -- the main thing is just look at
t Val of Naples and East Naples, and we're going to have it
de 1d you're going to like it.
MR. OSSORIO: And one last thought, Commissioners, on this
backside where the green is by the ball field, there's a little bit of a
drainage ditch, Commissioner, that kind of sinks in a little bit, so I'm
going to see if we can get the fence a little higher, and I'll talk to
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Matt --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, that's fine.
MR. OSSORIO: -- and we'll get that. At least you can maybe
go above the drainage area as well, so...
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Mr. Cadenhead -- and if you'd co e
back to the podium, Commissioner McDaniel has a question. k
you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Mike, will you b ck to the
picture that shows the fence along that side.
And I just -- the caution statement for Comm' r Saunders is
that little orange fence is a requisite of -- the e oys and
Girls Club, sir. I think that's the one.
MR. OSSORIO: This is the Boys a Gi s Club.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: the one you were
talking about, Commissioner Saunte,
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS! Well, the aerial was what I
was talking about, to bring th r fence further to the south.
COMMISSIONER EL: Okay. I wanted to just
caution about the silt fenc moval and mowing grass and all those
sort of things, because �kose are permitted requisites to keep potential
offsite flow of c aminates and things that might particularly come
,!
along.
MR. CA HEAD: We understand exactly what -- in areas
where we grass meets grass, in other words, the criteria of the
DEP th Florida is once you're in -- grass meets the other
g , ' ther words, the silt fence can come down. So the areas
th wants, we can meet the other agency's criteria, we will be
hap y to take it down for you.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. And I'm glad this
picture is up there, because the part of the lower fence that I was
talking about taking down is the part that's to the north of that little
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opening there. Where the arrow is, that fence going north there has
no -- doesn't appear to have any function anymore. It just looks bad.
MR. CADENHEAD: And one other thing --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's a silt fence.
MR. CADENHEAD: If you notice, we put --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's buried.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. Well, if it LIS o
stay, I mean, that's -- 0
MR. CADENHEAD: In other words, Burt, we pS n higher
fence posts and dug them down deeper just on acc f hurricane
season coming, and didn't want the fence blo o s Santa
Barbara, and didn't want the fence blowing acr ss vis Boulevard.
So that's one of the reasons for the great o es that went in.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: . Well, in terms of the
lower fence, you understand my c6net as just the way it looks.
If it has to stay, that's fine. I'll un er tand.
lqo
MR. McLEAN: If I mad missioner Saunders, related to
that particular issue, in the picture you can see just right behind
that -- Matt McLean, yourSirector of Development Review.
Right behind the sik fence is -- you can see the dirt area with
some weeds gro g, et cetera. When rainy season starts, that silt
fence is reall ritical, important piece of the development pattern
when you' e d new development, because that helps protect the
runoff fro ing off site back into the county's network system.
So t nce is very important when you've got areas that are not
stabiliz There may be some areas within the overall development
that do' have grass behind the silt fence, if we could probably get that
removed, but along this section it would be important to keep that
there.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. So not a big deal,
but if you could just make it look a little better, that's all.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Well, I was just going to mention
that as well, that the silt fence is -- it's actually buried, and I think
it's -- part of the building code requires those things, too, so...
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Our perception of
functionality is different than how it actually looks and what i '+
supposed to be doing.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you, Mr. Cadenh JO
MR. CADENHEAD: Thank you, ma'am.
Item #7
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TAPJ S NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA .^
MR. ISACKSON: CommisZors, let's -- if we can on the
agenda, before we get to the t' - rtain -- Troy, how many speakers
do we have for Item 7?
MR. MILLER: We e only one speaker for Item 7, public
comment.
MR. ISACK<ON: Madam Chair, if we can handle that before
we go to --
CH A TAYLOR: Absolutely.
MR. I SON: At your pleasure. Thank you.
MILLER: Madam Chair, your one speaker is Jacqalene
K
n.
S. KEAY: Good morning.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good morning.
MS. KEAY: I recently -- thank you. I recently read an article
titled, "How Chicago's affordable housing system perpetuates the
city's long history of segregation."
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I would like to share some findings of this self -conducted racial
equity impact assessment and corrective initiatives. One can see that
the same issues are also occurring in Collier County and other
communities. Antiblack racism is the gorilla in the room.
Issues: Government -backed affordable housing have large
been confined to a majority black neighborhood with high
concentration of poverty, a design that has perpetuated the cft's ong
history of segregation. Lack of affordable housing to o r arts of
the city restricted many people of color from leaving.
Infamously, one of the most segregated cities ce and
income, there is a disproportionate number of o le housing
community -- affordable housing units in ma t ack spaces
because the biggest source of racism is a lac racism. There was
this fear that racism of -- not letting bl le expand into other
parts of the city.
While opposing groups will e easons like safety and property
value, what it really comes do is race, said Ann Lott. They see
affordable housing as e t using for low-income black people,
and that's what they're fig g against. They may argue that it's not,
but when we see readings with social media posts, it's typically
loaded with raci�ppndertones. i Local leOe'rs have tried stopping inclusive housing initiative n
the past, s 'd Area Jurcek. There is just this legacy in our city of
unspoken r But it's great to see at a city level that there is
com
in hearts and mind is one thing, but it's systematic
chXds that need to be made. This seems to be the start of it.
Here are some of their solutions: Aggressively pushing for
more affordable homes in high -income, well -resource areas which
housing experts say will unlock unavailable -- previously unavailable
opportunities for communities of colors. Working on access to
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affordable housing opportunities by ensuring that marginalized
residents are not unfairly screened out of the process.
If state or local governments are looking to reduce segregation
using tax credit housing, as Chicago does, is a great start. The city
said it will use this sobering data to restructure the low-income to
housing credit program to reflect racial segregation by pushin
development in highly resource amenity -rich areas giving r ents
more choices and mobility. Thank you. O
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. �•
Item # 13A
PRESENTATION OF THE COMPREHFNI ANNUAL
FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE FIS EAR ENDED
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 AND AU4ZQIVZATION TO FILE THE
RELATED SATE OF FLORIDA JKUAL LOCAL
Ift
GOVERNMENT FINANCIA ORT WITH THE
DEPARMENT OF FIN SERVICES — MOTION TO
ACCEPT THE REPORT PPROVED
I
MR. ISAC ON: Commissioners, if I may, your time -certain
item at 10:00 ese ation of the annual financial report for the fiscal
year endin Se tuber 30, 2020, and authorization to file the related
State of Fl Annual Local Government Financial Report with the
Dep f Financial Services.
,A0 erek Johnssen will provide an introduction of the item.
R. JOHNSSEN: Thank you, Mr. Isackson.
Good morning, Commissioners. Derek Johnssen, Finance
Director for the Clerk and Comptroller's Office.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good morning.
MR. JOHNSSEN: This morning we are pleased to present you
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the FY 2020 audit report. This report is a result of many hours of
work by both county and clerk staff. Also noteworthy is the support
we get from county administration, your Budget Office, the County
Attorney and other constitutional offices in the production.
This document is a consolidated report and contains audit re Its
for the Board and all five constitutional offices.
The county received an unmodified audit opinion this ,
which is the best that you can receive. With me today r fly
summarize the results -- again, I promise briefly sum e the
results -- of the 2020 audit is Mr. Chris Kessler frcus& firm of
Clifton, Larson, Allen.
MR. KESSLER: Good morning, Comm si n rs. I hope you
all are doing well.
So, as Derek said, we're here to t the results of the
September 30th, 2020, financial st audit and compliance
audit. I have a brief presentation we'll just kind of walk through
here.
So first of all, what 4Zalking about today? The first is the
audit of the financial state ts. So as we said, September 30th,
2020, year end, the Corppre ensive Annual Financial Report. It also
includes the federal compliance. So that's also known as the single
audit, which is a test and audit of the county's compliance with
federal grant rules and regulations for the funds that you expended
this year using federal dollars.
AOLSlien, of course, state compliance. So there's also state
gr j ects, as well as certain rules that the Auditor General and
th artment of Financial Services puts out there that we have to
audi as well regarding E911 funds and your investment holdings.
So the reports that we've delivered that are included within the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report that you -all have in front of
you, these haven't changed year to year. So as you think about
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presentations in the past that you've heard from our firm or from
others, you know, it's the same. So we have the Independent
Auditor's Report; we have the yellow book report, which is also
referred to as our report on internal controls; we have the
Independent Auditor's Report on compliance of each major feder
program and state project, which is your Single Audit Report
grant compliance; we have the management letter as requir the
Auditor General which covers improvements, suggestio Ortain
rules and regulations that we have in place; the Inde t
Auditor -- Accountant's Report on compliance; an , of course,
governance communication. And that gove c munication is
a letter for you -all summarizing the results of r u it procedures.
I'm going to talk through a little bit of tha is orning, but that
letter is really -- if we had any major i q, at would be included in
there. There were no major issue s't letter is pretty standard.
So a little bit that I want to to out is you think about 2020,
and, you know, I say the repo the financial statements are
similar as to how they've the past. 2020 was a different year,
as we all know and had to erate under. It did not -- it wasn't any
different from a financial reporting standpoint or from an auditing
standpoint. Wei o had to do things differently, and county staff
and clerk stafAid t do things differently in preparing the financial
statement.
So a c e highlights. The Federal Office of Management and
Bud did extend single audit deadlines this year. GASB, the
G ntal Accounting Standards Board, they delayed
im eAentation of all new accounting standards that were to be
implemented by one year.
OMB -- so as you think about all these federal funds that were
coming out this year that impacted the financial statements, OMB did
not issue the rules for the auditors to use in auditing those funds until
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December 2020. So typically we'd be out here in the summertime
performing preliminary work, interim work. We couldn't do that
without those rules being issued by OMB. So a lot of things rippling
through the timelines that impacted the final statement audit and the
work that the county had to do as it relates to this.
So, you know, you think about the rules that are out ther .�
There was significant funding that was coming through that r all's
staff and then the Clerk's Office had to deal with and in and
process as -- you know, as well as close out the book records for
us to come in and audit. So there was a lot goin
The processes and procedures at year en e if erent, and
they were impacted; whether folks were worki yg emotely, whether
they were dealing with other things, whet there were other tasks
that took a priority, all of this had to b ed and managed
throughout the year as it related t,
And then, of course, from ou dpoint as auditors, we had to
change our risk assessment in a e were doing. Different -- you
know, internal controls 1 i erent, processes looked different,
and things that we had to oncerned about were different this year
than they had been in the past.
So what happ ;ned? What was the response to that? So I said
our procedur adlook different. So as you look at internal
controls o the ' trict -- or, I'm sorry, of the county, we had to dive
into what anging. You know, were folks working remotely?
Wer res looking different? Were multiple people doing
d* asks? We had to change our structure at the county level
in at we were looking at. We had to use technology in a
different manner. You know, gone were the days where we would
bring eight people on site and sit in a conference room and, you
know, crank through papers. You know, we had to change and pivot
and utilize technology.
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The Clerk's Office moved forward -- so I said the GASB's
delayed on standards by one year. The Clerk moved forward with
early implementation of GASB 87, which changed the way leases are
reporting. So this was a big undertaking in a non -pandemic year. It
was an even bigger undertaking this year. So the fact that that
added into everything is really great that you -all were able to t.
And then, of course, the Coronavirus Relief Fund was or
program this year that we had to audit the county's com Qe and,
you know, the county and the Clerk staff had to wor gh a
difficult year to get everything done on time. An e fact that
we're sitting here in May having this presentaV
•i t stament to the
hard work and the effort that everybody put iat the county and
the Clerk's Office to get that done.
So the results of the procedures y ,you take all that into
consideration, it was an unmodifi •on, which is a clean opinion
on the financial statements, the hi e level of opinion you can
receive. There was an emph a matter paragraph in that
opinion to reflect the im tion of the new standards this year.
There was one finding rep ed as it relates to internal control related
to an accrual in 2021 that was recorded in 2020 and had to be a
correction that we noted in the audit.
The single audit had an unmodified opinion, which was clean.
No findin • no
issues there.
Ma nt letter, no suggestions for improvement, and then
the I e ent Accountant's Report was unmarked for
id c`tion, clean opinion as well.
some of the required communications -- you know, I have on
here some significant estimates just so you all are aware, you know,
these exist within the financial statements. They could change year
to year because they're significant estimates. But the two takeaways
on here that are key are that there were not difficulties encountered
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and there were no disagreements with management throughout the
audit, and that's really important.
So, as always, it was a pleasure to work with everyone here at
the county and the Clerk's Office to get this done. You know,
everyone always is so helpful to get us in and out effectively,
efficiently to get our procedures done, so we appreciated it as S.
And then, of course, just quickly talking about 2021. want
to just highlight this, because, you know, we talk about _wo of these
things that happened in 2020. 2021's going to be no different.
There's additional funding coming out. It's goin ry It in
additional scrutiny, additional audit procedur 'u d itional work
by all parties in handling this.
So this will be a continuing process hings change, as the
funding comes down, additional augiti tional work. So just
something to think about as you -a Ndbr hrough this going into
2021 and beyond. This is the -- t 's 's the hot topic and things
everyone has to work with. e here to help the county through
this, and whatever's nee &'e re for questions, guidance,
whatever it may be.
So with that said, again, I appreciate everyone that was involved
with the audit, a�* I'll pause for questions, comments, concerns at
this point.
CHAI TAYLOR: Well, thank you very much for this.
This is an exS61rdinary feat after a year like we had to have such a
clean -- Aso much praise put on our department, our financial
dVa ant, so thank you very, very much --
R. KESSLER: You're welcome.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- budgetary department. The
Clerk's department, I would assume, is the one that is the final
arbitrator of all of this, so thank you again.
MR. JOHNSSEN: Madam Chair, you're very welcome. And I
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would like to add one thing. There was a lot of county staff input on
the implementation of GASB 87. We could not have done it without
them.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I would thank our County Manager
for that.
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, if we could have ju t4�►+
motion to accept the financial report, please.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So moved. O
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second. �•
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I have a motion o oor and a
second to accept the financial report. All tho in or, say aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: (Absent.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO:
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Ay
COMMISSIONER SAUND ye.
COMMISSIONER McDANI Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: se opposed, like sig
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYL It carries unanimously.
Thank you again. A look forward to you giving such a great
report next year 'm sure it's going to happen. Thank you.
MR. KEZLE Thank you.
CHA N TAYLOR: Congratulations.
Item
R UTION 2021-94: APPOINTING TWO COMMISSIONERS
AS GULAR MEMBERS, AND THREE COMMISSIONER AS
ALTERNATE MEMBERS, FOR A ONE-YEAR PERIOD ON THE
VALUE ADJUSTMENT BOARD — RE -APPOINTING
COMMISSIONER SOLIS AND COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS,
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WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE BOARD AS ALTERNATES —
ADOPTED
MR. ISACKSON: If Mr. Johnssen could stay up here, we will
move to Item 10A, Commissioners, which is a recommendation
appoint two commissioners as regular members and three
commissioners as alternate members for a one-year period 04 e
Value Adjustment Board. 0
MR. JOHNSSEN: Thank you, Mr. Isackson. of to
change my hat now to Clerk to the Value Adjustm ard.
What we're looking for today, Commissi r n
appointment of two commissioners to serve fo h 2 21 VAB cycle.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The two m ssioners that are on it,
I believe, it's Commissioner Saunders missioner Solis, are
you still willing to serve?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: '1 , sure.
COMMISSIONER SA S: I certainly will.
CHAIRMAN TAY h, that's great. So maybe it just
remains as it was last yea . Commissioner McDaniel?
COMMISSIONEI.�#McDANIEL: I make a motion that the two
commissioners currently serving continue on.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
COM ISSIONER McDANIEL: I was going to do that while
Commissio olis was gone so he couldn't participate.
AN TAYLOR: Okay. And I think there was a
re t it's coming to us late, a little bit late this year. I think we
to about that, Mr. Johnssen, yesterday.
MR. JOHNSSEN: Yes, ma'am. Usually we bring it to you in
March, early March, and it did lag until May this year. The meeting
was -- the final Value Adjustment Board meeting was a little later
than usual.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. And then the first meeting
will be in July.
MR. JOHNSSEN: It's tentatively scheduled for July 9th.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Wonderful. Thank you
Mr. Johnssen.
MR. JOHNSSEN: Thank you so much.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the flow a
second to reappoint the two volunteers from our board, O
Commissioner Saunders and Commissioner Solis, an ave the
balance of the Board as alternates. All those in f ay aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS-.
COMMISSIONER McDANI I ye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: T1 s opposed, like sign.
(No response.) A ;
CHAIRMAN TAYI,� carries unanimously. Thank you.
Item # 11 A
ENDORSING TH COUNTY MANAGER'S NEW SENIOR
LEADER HI RPORATE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE,
STAFFIN PLEMENT, APPROACH, AND
RESPQy4hILITIES TO TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY, AND
APPRNf ALL NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS —
APUbVED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, if we can, we move to
Item 11A, which is a recommendation that the Board of County
Commissioners endorse and approve the County Manager's new
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senior leadership corporate organizational structure staffing
complement, approach, and responsibilities to take effect
immediately, and approve all necessary budget amendments.
Commissioners, the executive summary lays out the new
leadership team. Let me identify: Sean Callahan, Deputy Cou
Manager; Amy Patterson, Deputy County Manager; Dan Rod 4 ,
Public Services Department Head; Jamie French, Growth
Management Deputy Department Head; and Trinity Sco t0owth
Management Department Head; with Dr. Yilmaz con ' 'gin his
capacity as the Department Head down at the Pub ' ' ities
Department.
The executive summary is self-explanato o issioners, and
I would appreciate your endorsement of tl6e particular assignments.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Com McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANI �, ' going to make a motion
for approval and say thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER Lo 9 RO: Second.
COMMISSIONER S IS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TA' jLO : Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISS� ka
R SAUNDERS: All I was going to say is I've
gone through tI've had conversations with the Manager, and I
want to co ra to you and those folks that are moving up and
around in t ganization. I think you've made some great
selections re, and I'm fully supportive of all that you've done on
t Nant to, again, congratulate all of those individuals that are
in rd in those movements.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And I would echo Commissioner
Saunders' remarks. I'm very impressed with your selection, and I
look forward to the future here. Thank you.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Commissioners.
May 11, 2021
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Me as well.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. There's a motion on the floor
and a second to accept the new leadership corporate organizational
structure. All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. �+
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye. 0
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. _^�•
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those oppose i i n.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries rani ously, County
Manager. Thank you. 0
MR. ISACKSON: Thank y Aa , Commissioners.
Item # 11 C
AWARD OF INVITATI TO BID ("ITB") NO. 21-7849-ST,
"BRIDGE REPLACEME -BRIDGE PACKAGE A-2 BRIDGES-
IMMOKALEE
CONSTRUCT')
AUTHORIZE
" TO THOMAS MARINE
`INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,423,258.99,
? CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
LATED TO PROJECT #66066 — "ELEVEN
'PLACEMENTS EAST OF SR 2911, AND APPROVE
ESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS — APPROVED
Item # 11 D
AWARD OF INVITATION TO BID ("ITB") NO. 21-7850-ST,
"BRIDGE PACKAGE B — 4 BRIDGES — IMMOKALEE AND
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COUNTY LINE ROADS," TO ZEP CONSTRUCTION, INC., IN
THE AMOUNT OF $9,285,476.43, AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT PERTAINING
TO PROJECT #66066, "ELEVEN BRIDGE REPLACEMENTS
EAST OF SR 29," AND APPROVE ALL NECESSARY BUDG
AMENDMENTS — APPROVED 4 �N
Item # 11 E O
AWARD OF INVITATION TO BID ("ITB") NO. 51-ST,
"BRIDGE REPLACEMENT - BRIDGE PA C — 4
BRIDGES — OIL WELL RD," TO ZEP CON TION, INC., IN
THE AMOUNT OF $121992,442.90 AN U HORIZE THE
CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED MENT PERTAINING
TO PROJECT #66066, "ELEVEN E REPLACEMENTS
EAST OF SR 29," AND APPRO L NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENT — APPROVE
-49 �� 7
MR. ISACKSON: missioners, Item 11 C is a
recommendation to -- iyfact, Item 11 C through E, Commissioners,
are all replacem bridges. There are 10 of the 11 replacement
bridges that a ei funded by the local option infrastructure sales
tax.
Marle essam from our Transportation Department, the
engi oing to present.
latzkow, can I take all these at once, or do you want
to s ould we do them separately?
MR. KLATZKOW: No, you can take them at once.
MR. ISACKSON: Okay. All three of those, Commissioners,
11 C, D and E, relate to replacement bridges. Again, 26 million and
change as the amount; 33 million has been allocated within the
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infrastructure sales tax for funding of these projects, and Ms. Messam
can provide you some introductory remarks, if she may, or it's the
Commissioners pleasure about approving them.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think -- just for the sake of the
public, I think it would be nice just to do an overview of what thi
entails, and I would compliment you on your writing skills.i
a -- these agenda items were easy to read. They were not -- �h y
were complicated, but I really want to compliment you w you
put this together.
MS. MESSAM: Thank you, Commissioner od morning.
Marlene Messam, for the record. I can't take t r dit, of course.
Usually when an executive summary comes to o ,it's a
collaboration of many, many people, but Alik ou so much.
Yes. So to begin, you've seenh ges many times.
We've brought several things befo t oncerning the bridges, and
so these 11 bridge replacements, f a the design is over, and we are
now launching the constructi Se of this project. Happy to do
so.
And as you can see o our screen now are the location of all
these 11 bridges, and tore are six bridges along Immokalee Road
CR846, there is bridge on County Line Road, and there are four
other bridges - 'm sorry. My throat; I have a lozenge. Sorry -- on
Oil Well.
So *usive you a brief overview of the project, we had some
conc ut how we were going to facilitate the construction of all
Of the 1 bridges. We looked at ways to really efficiently provide
th t construction options during the 30-month duration that we
have selected for the delivery of this project. We want to make sure
that we had a very safe maintenance of traffic phase -in system. We
want to make sure that our transportation and fabrication of these
bridge elements was efficient, so we had some goals to meet.
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And the best way we thought about getting all of that done was
to divide the whole project into discrete packages. So we had four
discrete packages. You're only seeing three packages before you
today. We're hoping to bring the last one to you at a later date,
because it's a little bit different being a grant -funded project.
So just to advance here, the first package, which is two to
first two bridges east of State Route 29 on Immokalee Road,4 put
that package out, and we had six firms that participated ' h
bid -- the bidding, and you will see the same similar on the
other packages.
But Thomas Marine, they were the firm t t e lowest and
most responsive and responsible bid presented o s. And so we
looked at their bid package; everything wjAfln . And they are -- the
wonderful thing about this was our jn - our design engineer,
they really did a good job in estie value of
these -- construction of these brid s. And this is -- this bid came in
at 0.03 percent higher than th eer's estimate of probable
construction costs. So t very good for the county.
And so what we're to 'ng at for this package is the construction
cost is $4,423,258.99. .We re estimating a year and a half for the
construction dur n. It translates to about 548 days. And so we're
recommendi at is -- the Board approve this award to Thomas
Marine C St ' on.
The n x ackage, Package B, of course, now there are four
brid .n this Package B, and three are on Immokalee Road and
o unty Line Road. We had seven bidders here. Zep
Co t ction, they proved to be the lowest and most responsive
bidder here, and their estimate came in at 5.7 percent higher than the
engineer's estimate of probable construction cost. And so for this
package the construction cost is $9,285,476.43. We're estimating a
two -and -a -half year construction on this package, and that's about
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912 days from start to finish. We're also recommending that the
Board accepts this award.
Okay. The last package, Package C, Oil Well Road. There are
four bridges here, and all these bridges are sequential. And this bid
was awarded -- also Zep came in, and they provided a bid that w
1.9 percent lower than the engineer's estimate of probable
construction cost, and so their final bid was $12,992,442.9gain,
there's a two -and -a -half year construction duration alloc o this,
and -- which translates again, to 912 days.
g � s. Y
So there you have it, Commissioners, the ove ckages for
these 11 bridges. It's called 11-bridge proj ec u e know we're
only talking about 10 of them at this time.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank yo ery much.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANI�, es. Thank you. First off,
I want to make an approval in a rite to accept all these proposals,
and then I have a comment.
CHAIRMAN TA Y ere's a motion on the floor to
approve. Do I hear a sec ?
COMMISSIONERS LIS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Please go ahead.
COMMISSJONER McDANIEL: I just -- a quick question.
And, by t w there's been an enormous amount of public
meetin s a put and discussion for years. Since I became
com r, this has been going on. We're direly in deficit in
to c e of these bridges. Some of these bridges, if you don't
kn still have wood pilings holding the road up.
MS. MESSAM: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Forty and 50 years old. So
I'm really pleased to see these coming forward.
There was some discussion about management of the
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construction and physical road closures at any particular time. Has
the coordination with regard to this construction not -- because some
of these things go on for -- you know, you're saying two years right
here, and there's an enormous amount of agricultural businessmen,
commercial motor vehicle traffic that needs to transact these roa to
go to the packinghouses and stuff. Has the construction bee �►+
coordinated so that we're not going to negatively impact th
industries? 01%
MS. MESSAM: Absolutely, Commissioner. one of
the -- I know that was a concern that you had.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes.
MS. MESSAM: And we did follow thro during the design
phase to coordinate with the growers and eople who would
be -- the trucking who would be involy , who would be
impacted.
So we did hold two separate lit meetings. We also
produced a public informatio . We talked to -- personally
talked with the industrie re east of there that uses this route.
And so we ordered the ma ce of traffic in such a way that it
would be less impactfuLto Kern.t
One of the gs we're going to be using out here -- because
these bridges ul , e stage constructed. That means we're going to
demolish if e time, build the proposed bridge, and then switch.
COM IONER McDANIEL: Right.
SSAM: One of the things we are using are temporary
si Vna
ach of these bridge locations, we're going to be able to
m tod flow of traffic, safe flow of traffic by the
maintenance scheme that we have.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay, good. Outstanding.
That was a major concern during the public hearings brought up on a
regular basis, and I just wanted to ensure -- I wanted to ensure that
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that was going forward. So, thank you.
MS. MESSAM: That was coordinated.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you, Madam Chair.
A couple of questions for the County Manager, for
Mr. Isackson. The funding for this is the sales tax. Is that �+
100 percent of the funding for this? 'V
MR. ISACKSON: Yes. O
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: The sales tax�A one cent
we're talking about, what percentage of that do yo �cipate is
being paid by tourists?
MR. ISACKSON: Oh, I'd probably hav o ge that for you, sir.
I don't have that off the top of my head. od question.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: eard 30 to 35 percent is
typical.
MR. ISACKSON: Sean, do o ave anything to add?
MR. CALLAHAN: It's 30 to 35 percent.
COMMISSIONER RS: Thirty to 35 percent.
If we had not put tha the ballot and if the voters had not
approved it, what would have been -- what would have been the
funding source for these bridges?
MR. IS SV Well, I said all along, especially before the
1 percent ca tion sales tax was ever considered, that debt would
have to be strument that we would use to finance these types of
projects td more than likely what you would be seeing is the
g al governmental projects like the bridges, like the Vanderbilt
BeNlRoad, like your facilities enhancements that are all contained
in that pot of money that we're using it for, those would be -- those
would be prioritized through the course of a debt issuance, and most
likely your community projects, the mental health facility probably
would not have been funded, or they would have been delayed
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substantially, so...
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So getting back to the
funding, because I knew the funding source would probably be debt.
What percentage, generally, would debt for these projects add to the
overall cost? We've got about $30 million, I think.
MS. MESSAM: Thirty-three.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thirty-three milliorfi! t e
sales tax. If we didn't have that, how much more woul le e
projects cost?
MR. ISACKSON: Well, your interest cOber
cent, you
probably be adding, over the life of a 20-year 'nding on the
debt issue, anywhere between 10, 12, $13 mille life of the
issue. A
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: ACAe reason I wanted to
ask those questions is there are thr on the board that voted for
putting this on the ballot. Commi ter LoCastro, of course, was
not here at the time. And I ju ted him to hear what the
rationale was for putting t t e ballot. Because there was some
criticism of the Board for oing that, but it was the right thing to do,
and I just wanted the public to hear that.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, sir.
CHAI N TAYLOR: Thank you for that, Commissioner
Saunders. It's portant. One thing about this county and the
leadership t11is county, past and present, is that we understand that
we have to eep up with growth. There is no question. We heard,
Mr. C d�nhead said that, you know, people are against progress and,
you kJow I've fought progress, but progress is here and I think we
Y � g p g M p g
as a County Commission and certainly under the leadership of our
staff understands that we have to respond to the reality of what we're
facing, and that is everybody wants to live here, and either we
pretend that they don't or we address the issues at hand, and certainly
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the 1 percent sales tax was addressing the future. And we were very
fortunate in the fact that we were supported by the community,
because it went to a vote, a referendum.
Thank you very much. I think we have a motion on the floor.
Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I just had a question, more
historical background. Zep Construction, have they done a lo4 for
us? I mean, you know, we typically go to the lowest bidc) And
just -- I don't have the historical background on that company. Have
they, you know, done these types of things and ha ..good
reputation?
MS. MESSAM: Zep has one of the best e t tions in the
entire state of Florida.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRQ: t.
MS. MESSAM: And they h 6AZF several bridges for us.
The most recent one is the Palm R ridge that is just north of
Airport Road.
COMMISSIONER 9 RO: Fantastic.
MS. MESSAM: Ye
COMMISSIONEI.�#LoCASTRO: Thank you, ma'am.
MS. MESS You're welcome.
CHAI N YLOR: All right. There's a motion on the
floor and sec to accept Item 11 C, 1 I D, and 11 E, which is the
choice of t nstruction of these bridges, of 10 of the I 1 bridges.
e in favor, say aye.
MISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
MMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
Thank you.
MS. MESSAM: Thank you.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Commissioners.
Looking at the clock, I think Terri's about ready, possibl
Madam Chair, for the court reporter break, so...
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good catch. Thank yoie y much.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: This is your ay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well done.
MR. ISACKSON: Your call, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think we can ki 15 minutes this
morning. Thank you.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank ykipin
(A brief recess was had from. to 10:45 a.m.)
MR. ISACKSON: Commis�Qders, you have a live mic.
Item # 11 F -4,Ze
THE FALL TRUCK HAUL BEACH RENOURISHMENT
PROJECT FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH AND NAPLES
BEACH SCITQULED FOR NOVEMBER 2021 WITH AN
ESTIMAT D NJST OF $7,302,924.50 AND MAKE A FINDING
THAT THM PROMOTES TOURISM (PROJECTS #90066
ANDoQL90 AND AUTHORIZE ALL NECESSARY BUDGET
ANTVDMENTS —APPROVED
SMR. ISACKSON: We're moving to Itom 11 F That's
s a
recommendation to approve the fall truck haul beach renourishment
project for the Vanderbilt Beach Road and Naples Beach scheduled
for November 2021 with an estimated cost of $7,302,924.50, make a
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finding that this item promotes tourism, and authorize all necessary
budget amendments.
Commissioners, presenting is Mr. Andrew Miller, Principal
Project Manager in our Coastal Zone Management Division.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
MR. MILLER: Good morning, Commissioners. For t
record, Andy Miller with Collier County Coastal Zone. I'
Principal Project Manager. O
And Items 11 F, G, and H are kind of interrelate �jhe F and G
items are companion items. Item 11F is basically ajor
renourishment project for the fall that we're g o in November,
December, and probably leak into January. T e o d news on that
item is that we had initially estimated a pr ct in the order of 10 to
$12 million; 125,000 yards at both ya and Naples Beach.
And our survey information came Aq tly, and the good news is
that we're looking at a lot smaller o ct.
And so Item 11 F is all
renourishment project
ditures related to that beach
the design.
And the reason the
amount is to the penny is Tecause as we were putting this item
together, we would typically round to the nearest million or so. But
we actually got �qdesign proposal in, and so the items for -- in the
bullet list are 16k -- nstruction surveys and design are actually
coming fr t roposal, so they're to the penny.
And �ise it's a fairl sim le ro*ect. Two different
y p p J
locatibut it's also going to include an operation at Pelican Bay.
W agreed, as we typically do, to work with Pelican Bay and do
th ach. And so we'll, all likelihood, do Naples in November,
Vanderbilt in December, and then Pelican Bay will probably leak into
January.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And they will reimburse -- Pelican
Bay will reimburse the county for that?
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MR. MILLER: Yes, Commissioner.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
MR. MILLER: And I'm open for questions on that item.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Move for approval.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Hear a motion on the floor is
approval and a second. I don't think we have any other e tions.
All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS:
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL:
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: T o osed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: rries unanimously.
Thank you.
Item # 11 G
w
AN AGREEUfNT7rO COASTAL PROTECTION
ENGINEFNG
LLC FOR REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL
SERVICS") NO. 21-7828, "DESIGN, ENGINEERING
AND P SERVICES FOR BEACH RE-
NOU l)�HMENT PROJECTS," IN THE AMOUNT OF $524,595.50
(PROJOtCTS #90066, #90068 & #50126), AUTHORIZE ANY
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS, AND MAKE A
FINDING THAT THESE EXPENDITURES PROMOTE TOURISM
— APPROVED
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Item # 11 H
AWARD INVITATION TO BID ("ITB") NO. 21-7827 "BEACH
COMPATIBLE SAND SUPPLY" FOR BEACH RE -
NOURISHMENT TO STEWART MATERIALS, LLC, AND
MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS PROJECT AND EXPEND
PROMOTES TOURISM AND AUTHORIZE ALL NECE R
BUDGET AMENDMENTS — APPROVED , n
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, 11 G, w a companion
to 11 F, is a recommendation to award an agre e o oastal
Protection Engineering, LLC, for requests for o essional services
for design engineering and permitting for beach renourishment
projects in the amount of $524,595.50, ze any necessary
budget amendments, and make a f at these expenditure's
promote tourism.
Once again, Mr. Miller,
MR. MILLER: Co ners, 11 G is for the design for our
fall beach project, and we Coastal Zone are blessed with some of
the best coastal engineeys. There are not many, but they're all very
good. CP&E has done work for us before and, as a matter of fact,
they have been on teams of our other consultants. They all work
very well to ether, but we really need to get them started as quickly
as we can se we've got to get a design package and bid package
toge r t on the streets in August/September so that we can go
t e process of getting the bids and the award and get to work
in ember. So I'm open for any questions on this item as well.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Madam Chair?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Just -- I'd move for approval, but
I'd also just -- the Item H is just the contract for the sand itself,
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correct?
MR. ISACKSON: That's correct, sir.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So if it's -- with your permission,
I'd like to make a motion to go ahead and approve both G and H
together since they're companion items.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Hearing no objection. �+
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Are they companiori4 ms?
Because one has to do with the actual supplier, and the Qhas to
do with a project for the beaches.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's the supplier sand for the
beach, right?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I kno a .
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Beach ris ment.
MR. MILLER: Commissioner, i e sand supply contract
that's going to last into -- for the nth e to five years. We'll have
a two-year renewal. So it's for thiear, next year, and the following
two to three years.
COMMISSIONER Okay. Well, I mean, I don't have
any problem doing them s ra
Dtely. I was trying to --
COMMISSIONER McANIEL: I'm okay with doing them
both. I just wa ing the County Attorney because, to me, they're
similar but t epa to issues.
MR. L KOW: Either way; you get to the same point.
COM IONER McDANIEL: Second.
RMAN TAYLOR: Okay. We're going to hear both 11 G
and t the same time, and we have a motion to accept these two
ag items and a second. Do you want to briefly just describe
11 H for us and what that entails, please.
MR. MILLER: I'd be happy to, Commissioner. 11 H --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And the public needs to know we
have read our agenda. We know what it is, but it's just more for
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public consumption that --
MR. MILLER: Sure.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Just give us an overview, please.
MR. MILLER: The sand suppliers are limited in this area, and
mainly because they have to be FDEP certified as a producer of
beach -quality sand.
So this year we had Stewart Materials, Vulcan MateriaN'and
Cemex. The two responsive bidders were Stewart and_y�can.
And the long story short is that Stewart is closer, 50 mile's or so,
where Vulcan Materials is about 80 miles. And d the mileage
calculations at 20 cents a mile to build the p ri o nand delivered
to the beach, and Stewart came out on top mai yy ue to their
distance.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL:
MR. MILLER: That's corre0L
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR
again, long hauling sand thro
cents a mile per ton.
Y have a question. We are,
e County. What are we -- what
are we doing to facilitate hat? '
MR. MILLER: Well, we'll come up with -- our designer will
help us put together truck route maps that we hold our contractor to.
If a trucker goes route more than once, he's off the job, and they
know that go' in. And so we'll work with the City of Naples and
the Sherif 0�e to use the routes that we typically use so that it's
not a surpri anyone. And, like I said, we'll work with the city
clos ke sure that they're on board and aware of where the
truMVa going and when.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good. So I'm glad to hear that close
coordination.
It's gone well in the past much to the surprise of everyone, and
so you're to be, you know, certainly applauded for that. It was -- it
was a very effective truck haul, and everyone was very concerned,
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and they complimented -- I received lots of compliments to staff
about this last time, so thank you for that.
MR. MILLER: Great, thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We have a motion on the floor and a
second. If there are no other questions, we are going to have thi
both on 11 G and 11 H. �►+
All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. 0
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye. �•
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those op ed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It e nanimously.
MR.ISACKSON: Thank ommissioners.
Item # 11I
A WORK ORDER TOA. RADY MINOR & ASSOCIATES, P.A.,
UNDER PROF IONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT NUMBER
#15-6450, FN—'-Y-,
98TH, 99TH, lOSTH AND 106TH AVENUES
PUBLIC TRENEWAL PROJECT (PROJECT NUMBERS
60139RANDTAUTHORIZE
IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,405,660,
AUTHE CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED WORK
4OR THE NECESSARY BUDGET
AWNDMENTS — APPROVED
MR. ISACKSON: Item 11I is a recommendation to approve a
work order to Q. Grady Minor & Associates under professional
services agreement No. 156450 for the 98th, 99th, 105th, 106th
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Avenues Public Utility renewal project in the amount of $1,405,660,
and authorize the Chair to sign the attached work order, and authorize
any necessary budget amendments.
Mr. Tom Chmelik, your Public Utilities and Engineer Project
Management Division Director, will present.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And just before you begin, �►+
Commissioner Solis, do you want to start this off as the
commissioner that was elected to endure the wrath of y
neighborhood?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: The never-endi 'lic Utilities
renewal project.
Well, I would just say, this is just another e ion of the Naples
Park renewal.
I will commend staff. You knew 1 s been as disruptive
for an area as anything, I think, ha een, and the staff has done
a really good job, you know, wok ith the owners, working with
the contractors to coordinate things. I think they've come up with a
great system. 10 *a) 3F
So I would go ahead and move for approval of this item.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. We have a motion on the
floor and a se o d. Would you like a short presentation,
Commissi ner lis, on this, or --
COM IONER SOLIS: Everybody in Naples Park knows
whari...
MAN TAYLOR: Oh, no, they're here.
ISSIONER SOLIS: But if you could just, real quickly,
justgive us an idea of from where to where.
MR. CHMELIK: Absolutely. Tom Chmelik for the record.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And while he's pulling that up, I
will say that coordinating the stormwater drainage and the
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replacement of the water lines and the sewer lines has really worked
out phenomenally as well. That's been some great coordination on
the staffs part and has made it, I think, more endurable for the poor
folks that end up having to live through dirt roads for a year.
MR. CHMELIK: Well, thank you. As you said, we're
renewing water, wastewater, and stormwater assets at the sa
They're all in the right-of-way. Instead of doing these pro'
separately, we are disrupting the neighborhood once, al ith a lot
of disruption, but we're getting it done and renewing ' new
asphalt when we're done, new right-of-way, grass ed
driveways, et cetera. So it's a coordinated of t o rough the
neighborhood.
Here you can see, this is design. It' oken up into two streets
to the north, 105 and 106th, and to the 8 and 99th Avenues
North. And these streets are sele 6 ed on where the greatest
amount of water main failures occ o in this case these are our
worst area and the next area w going to.
COMMISSIONER Each one of those roads is a mile
long, right?
MR. CHMELIK: Each is a mile.
COMMISY1 NER SOLIS: From Vanderbilt Drive to 41, that's
a mile. ,
MR. CH IK: That's correct.
CHAI N TAYLOR: Oh, wow.
MELIK: And what we've learned is to go in
d -- ce the water main first, because that's the least intrusive,
an water mains that are there are 50 years old and very fragile.
So i we don't do that, they start breaking anyway. So it really has
been the best way to do it, and then go and do the sewer and
stormwater one block at a time after that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And fascinating that the costs are
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going down --
MR. CHMELIK: Well, and --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- right?
MR. CHMELIK: -- these are engineering costs. But we
attribute that to the fact that we have a contract for this entire are
And as we do these projects, we learn more. It starts to be a
routine, and there's less and less of a learning curve or actuAno
learning curve as we're going forward. So that's what c n see
from 110th. One of the first streets we did starting in 5, 2016 to
now, the engineering costs keep going down beca have a better
handle on what we're doing.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And for tho t at don't know, the
sewer lines are made out of clay pipe. T44s.how old they are, clay
pipe. And the water lines, these area w in asbestos as well.
MR. CHMELIK: Well, it's cement. It's a composite,
and it's fine.
COMMISSIONER SOL ou still want to get it out of there.
MR. CHMELIK: .t but when it breaks, it can become
friable, so there's very spe handling and disposal that's involved
with that as well in moi�itoring. And here we can see the costs that
the Chair descri 4'
decreasing, and then as a percentage of
construction r
also has gone down, and it's well below the
10 percen 'nd y standard.
CHA N TAYLOR: That's great.
MELIK: And then this gives you the big picture.
E ly e had done water main replacement in the south, 91 st
th 94th, so that's all complete but for water main only. We did
some stormwater work at that time as well, and then 95th, 96th9
107th, and 110th are complete. And we just recently started
construction on 108th and 109th. And then you can see in yellow
are the four streets that we're talking about today, and then the
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remaining are not highlighted.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: In between.
So just in a perfect world, when do you think we're going to get
the whole thing done? It's a horrible question, but I have to ask
because that's the first thing people ask me.
MR. CHMELIK: Right, right. �+
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Is it over yet?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, is it over yet? e e done
yet?
MR. CHMELIK: We envision six more yea ever that's
based on current funding. And just as a side e ' h any
additional funding like COVID Relief Act fun , e could accelerate
the program and get this done in, say, thr o four years.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'd %ay,,tk,Vplug.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: e1%Li;Xf is. And, yeah, stay tuned.
There's -- this could be coming to n ghborhood near you. They re
all over the place, yeah.
Thank you.
COMMISSIONER )cD IELCore local government that
we're actually doin here. This is -- this is infrastructure that
supports the res' is that are here and supports the quality of life.
It's why we'r e. s it a pain while you're going through the
constructi ? solutely. But it's core. It's core.
COM IONER SOLIS: It's ugly.
AN TAYLOR: Okay. So do we have a motion?
MISSIONER SOLIS: There's a motion.
MMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR:
comments?
And a second, okay. No other
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign. �+
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. O
Thank you, congratulations. �•
MR. CHMELIK: Thank you, Commissione
Item # 11 J
AN UPDATE ON COVID-19 RELA
ONGOING COMMUNITY
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY
EXECUTE ANY FUNDING
THE AMERICAN RE
AND LOCAL FISCAL
I
IEF FUNDING AND
a PROGRAMS, AND TO
ER OR DESIGNEE TO
MENTS NECESSARY FOR
ACT CORONAVIRUS STATE
VERY FUND — APPROVED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, Item 11 J is a
recommenda W*11 to accept an update on our COVID-related relief
funding a on 'ng Community Assistance Program and to
authorize t unty Manager or designee to execute any funding
agree ecessary for the American Rescue Plan Act, the
c s state and local fund.
an Callahan, your Deputy County Manager, will present.
Now, this item was continued from your April 27th, 2021, meeting.
MR. CALLAHAN: Good morning, Commissioners. For the
record, Sean Callahan, Deputy County Manager.
I'm going to give you a brief update here on COVID-relief
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funding. Just to set the stage, we have satisfied, to the best of our
ability, the CARES Act grantor, and there are two other grantor
requirements. There are two other tranches of funding that have
come in since that we'll give an update.
But what we're looking for today is, one, just to give you an
update on those programs and then your authorization for the y
Manager or his designee to actually execute the documents
should be available later this week to accept funding fro h
American Rescue Plan Act and the Fiscal Recovery F hat's being
doled out directly to municipalities and cities.
So just a real brief recap. Last April the ct passed
Congress. We were allocated, because of the - t of the corona
relief virus about $67 million that we've e loyed many different
programs and have, to the best of otir atisfied those grantor
requirements, as was reflected in t earlier today.
Due to some of the moves th ve made around that at
different meetings, we were a t establish an ongoing Community
Assistance Program at y ary 9th meeting earlier this year
that's ongoing. We'll giv update on that.
And then we will receive, sometime this week or next, the first
payment of the - about $75 million that we're going to receive
from the Fisc ec ery Fund from the American Rescue Plan.
Oout
action dates over on the right. We've made
contiments to the programs to ensure that we can get as
muc into the community, per your direction, as possible.
Nreal briefly, we've gotten about $50 million out into the
co nity through those different programs that you've employed
along the way.
Just a reminder, these were the allocations that you made for that
ongoing assistance program back in February. That program
launched on March 29th. There's considerable interest. We've
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continued to get applications that we're in the process of putting more
assistance out into the community. That individual assistance
supplemented other funds that were made available through the
Emergency Rental Assistance Program to actually expand the
eligibility for people due to their average median incomes and th
again, employ some other programs along the way.
So as I mentioned, that program opened March 29th.
ongoing. You can go to our website, CollierCountyFL,g(a At the
top of the website, there is a banner that you can click that -will take
you directly to that assistance. We have stood up sistance
center that has staff live that's available to hel e t%rou h
g
applications, to check status of applications th v been filed or
come in for an in -person appointment or (18t virtually as well.
They're currently employing that, or y
ry ial Collier 311 and be
directed to those resources.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: AAdNxcuse me. This is for the
personal assistance? This for,nal, individual?
MR. CALLAHAN: 'f►l�s for personal and business assistance
that was established in tha going Community Assistance Program.
CHAIRMAN TA�jLO : Okay.
MR. CAAcwa
N: So the big thing at hand, the American
Rescue Plan signed into law back in March. It included a
$350 billi stNand local Fiscal Recovery Fund. Those
allocations, er than -- so it's things such as the CARES Act that
were rough the states based on the size of counties and
'p ities. This money is coming directly split between cities
an counties.
Again, Collier County is expected to receive about $75 million.
Our municipalities are also receiving direct aid. Just for your
knowledge, the City of Naples is going to receive about $9.3 million,
Marco Island is 2.13 million, and then the City of Everglades is going
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to receive about $180,000. Those allocations, per the formula, are
based on the population of those municipalities and counties.
So yesterday -- we did actually, yesterday late afternoon, receive
a funding announcement that the funds would be available to direct
appropriations later sometime this week, and we did receive a fa
sheet that outlined some more uses towards the program. Z***P"
With that, there's a 151-page interim rule. Again, we*tt
got
that last night, so staff is still going through it. I'll talk e bit
about some of the uses that have been outlined just to �;he palate,
but we would like to review that in depth and then back with a
recommendation at a later meeting for the us tRe unds. But,
again, approval of this item would allow us to o orward with any
documentation and acceptance of that fun
So allowable uses that are outl ine bill include, but they're
not limited to -- so the same thing e've been employing.
Supporting the public health res s So things like vaccine sites,
enhanced testing, community ch programs for health. They've
expanded it significantly e mental health and substance use.
Again, all the details aren ear around how those funds are to be
used. Those will comeofrom regulations that come from the
Treasury at a later ate, but we are currently looking at that.
The sec is dressing negative economic impacts from
public hea the rgencies. So that includes things like rental
assistance, eowners assistance, small business assistance.
AN TAYLOR: Business closures.
CALLAHAN: Business closures, support of the
ho i lity industry, things like that.
I will go back to the fact that we have put a significant amount
of money out into the community, so we'd like you to take that into
consideration before we outline programs coming forward.
Serving the hardest hit communities. So based on census tract,
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there's a variety of different programs that we're currently reviewing
for lower income areas that can be employed with this funding.
Replacing lost public -sector revenue. So the idea behind that is that
local governments would not have to reduce services due to revenue
losses that they've seen through some of their programs.
Providing premium pay for essential workers. So that T3e
making grants to private organizations who have had empl s that
have had to work throughout the pandemic to provide e ijay to
them through that time. And then different from oth ding,
there's infrastructure funding that's available for w d sewer and
the broadband.
So those are largely the uses. There's a p o sion in it that says
you can't use it to overall set up some red ion of tax loss -- overall
general tax revenue that we said wed a n. So we'll supplant
that, and you can't make any depo ' pension funds, but we are
currently reviewing it.
The difference with the an Rescue Plan from some of the
other tranches of fundin ve seen is that that bill is inclusive.
It's a $1.9 trillion bill. So ere's all kinds of funding pots elsewhere.
The small businesshas about $22 billion worth of aid that's
coming to them.,
he restaurants effectively lobbied to establish a
$25 billion f sep ate and apart from the money that we're getting.
There is move r schools, childcare, tax credits, rental assistance,
arts. You it, it's in there.
ant to make sure that we're reviewing that and we're
c ck to the Commission with a holistic recommendation that
to at into account so that we're not duplicating any of the
benefits that are included in this bill.
So with that, I think that's all I've got. This is, again, what
we're asking for today, and if the Board has any questions, I'd be
happy to answer them the best that I can.
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I would say, again, I just thank the Clerk's staff and then our
county staff that -- those audit findings that we got earlier today, that
was an ever -changing situation that everybody really had to work
really hard to make sure that we were cleanly disbursing this money.
I think we did a really good job of doing that, so... N
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel. lbw
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Two questions. If
would flip back to the CARES funding, the original CA funding
in its current disbursal. I just -- I want to commend aff for
taking -- utilizing the Board's direction to deploy t nds back
into our community. And I just -- I'd like tha p just for a
little bit while we go on.
It was the Board's wish way back w th t this money not
come to supplement government fa Dili ' et be interjected back
into the community, and I want to ent you on your efforts in
how that's been managed. It's not n without strife. I mean,
we've all had folks who have ficulty working through
sometimes -- I'm lookin ie. She's sitting back
there -- sometimes by the r changes from the federal government
that were applicable to being qualified to receive these funds.
And on a quick note, two questions. Number 1, we've got
allocated 67 1xiltion and deployed almost 50-. How are we coming
on the bal ce . ave you got an estimate of applied for and
available s can help manage that, and will you report on that?
LLAHAN: So we're currently cataloging that. Again,
w ing through a lot of processing of these applications. So
in t een the last time you received an update when we established
the uture program, we paid out another $15 million. So it's been
clearing out that backlog of information and then working forward to
process these. What we'd like to do is continue to work that, get a
little bit better feel of what that is, and then when we come forward
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with the American Rescue Plan recommendation, make some
different changes to the allocations of that funding that currently
exists, sir.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So blending the two with the
second tranche of money, there's still allowances for some of the�sl�
categories to be continued to backfill, because you've got de
over here that isn't taken care with the supply of the origina it
MR. CALLAHAN: Just to answer your question Oe bit
better with we currently have sufficient funding to sa ' he
applications that have been filed under that curren am. And,
again, we're going to look at the best way, on y the use of
those funds to set up. We don't want to blenwm. We've of to
p g
keep them separate. We'll make sure we' of the best community
program that we can have possible &oi ard.
COMMISSIONER McDANI nd my next question may
be premature, and it's just the con Nat I've been looking at, and
that is the claw -back requisite ese monies. And I'm assuming
that might be included i -page document that you just got
last night about this -- eve ody talks about the strings, and that will
come, I'm assumin , before we start accepting money on the
American Resc Ian Act?
MR. C N: That will definitely be reviewed. And,
again, if y u th back to some of the internal items that we were
able to ro , the CARES Act, I believe we've satisfied, to the best
of o . , our grantor requirements on that funding, and we'll
c mploy the same care and cautiousness on this as well.
MMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you.
Looking at the slide that's on the screen right now, I just want to
make sure I understood. We were appropriated 67 million, and
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we've spent the 50 million, and we still -- so we still have the
additional 17 million to go, is that correct, or --
MR. CALLAHAN: We've appropriate 67 million, and we
spent the 67 million through some backouts of General Fund transfers
that we were able to satisfy those grant requirements. It allowe ur
funding to be able to move forward. This is just to demonstr
of that initial allocation that we got how much has actually into
the community, sir.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. Wh nted to
ask -- make a couple comments and a couple ques ' n reference to
the next tranche, which is the 74 million thatvQ1 o ing down.
All of us on this board on this initial allocation r the first program
made it very clear we wanted to make sur 11 t ose dollars got into
the community, got into the hands of t e that needed those
dollars, and I congratulate staff on i, sure that that happened,
and I think we were very success f th that.
This next set of dollars c in, on your list of allowable uses,
I'm probably going to be for investments in the community
that are long lasting. So, example, No. 6, investing in water and
sewer infrastructure. We have probably several thousands of septic
tanks, if not ten thousands of septic tanks in Collier County, and
this may be a d portunity to look at some of those funds going
into septic st s into our sewer, converting those from septic to
sewer, and, nurse, there are also state grants that will be available
for t
/moo is may be a little bit -- I'll be looking for some different
uses for these funds. I think our unemployment rate is -- I'm not
sure what the rate is in Collier County, but I know it's come down.
Our tourist tax collections are on a par with 2019, I guess, at this
point. I see the manager's shaking his head in the affirmative. Our
sales taxes are probably on a par with 2019 as well.
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MR. ISACKSON: Commissioner, our revenue streams
are -- have stabilized and, in fact, are projected to grow above our
forecast, so...
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So we're a little bit different
than a lot of other communities in that we haven't suffered quitez*,,,,
much from an economic standpoint. So there may be some o l
opportunities to do some lasting infrastructure work with at t a
portion of those funds. So I just wanted to plant that se
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I like it.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, I would agr you. And
there's something, too, I'd like everyone to co e I s not -- it's
not something that you'd readily think about. u I now that
I've -- I've heard a lot of feedback like, w in his county, all they
did is they give $5,000 to all these b) s' no questions asked.
They gave grants. I don't think w '�' g to do that. But I know
the small business folks -- you kn m not talking about a business
that has 20 employees.
I'm talking about a b�f0s� that might have three employees or
the little restaurant that's ttl ed into a shopping center. They're
having a hard time of just navigating the system. And I don't know
how we change t, but I'd like maybe better minds than mine to
think about h we an reach out to them.
And so with the arts organizations in this community.
They've to on the chin, and a lot of times profit and loss and,
you the things that go into producing arts are there, but
p ps t to the degree that they need to be. So I'd like -- I'm not
as 'ng for any kind of -- anything that puts the county in jeopardy of
having to refund the money to the government because we did it
wrong, but maybe there's some kind of way we can address those two
entities, the small businesses and certainly the arts and culture.
MR. CALLAHAN: Sure. And we've been discussing that.
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Again, you know, in this bill there's a few billion dollars for shuttered
venue vendor operators, right?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. CALLAHAN: So we need to watch how those programs
come forward because, again, you can't duplicate benefits. But
give you an example. We've got very creative staff here. W
took -- we had an emergency rental assistance program that on y
included payments for only rent, so no homeowners ass' Qce, and
only included up to 80 percent area median income. - that
doesn't necessarily work well in Collier County, t ber. So we
used supplemental funding to expand the Poo e took it
from 80 percent to 140 percent. We also incl e mortgage
assistance as well.
So, again, it's looking at what the s in funding that's
coming through the legislation alrftd�, once those Treasury regs are
published, and then how can we smlement that to better reach folks
in the community? And we'r g to do that again for small
businesses, for individua is as well as looking at discussions,
as Commissioner Saunde entioned, around how can we makenfrastructure in
lasting iy►estments.
So we'll co back with a recommendation. It might take us,
you know, a le"Weeks eeks to get through that, but we'll definitely try
to bring y u so thing back that keeps that spirit in mind.
CHA N TAYLOR: And this is going to kind of -- this is
farfe t it's something on my mind. I've talked to the County
elyabout it.
Commissioner McDaniel's district, there is a spot that all of
the uck from Lake Trafford was put when they dredged Lake
Trafford, and that is the reason we never had an ATV course because
of the potential -- the degradation of the land and the potential harm
to people who use it.
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I'd like to see what -- when we look at that, what we possibly
could do to right that wrong. We didn't have anywhere to put it, and
we put it on the land, and that was the right thing to do. We cleaned
up Lake Trafford. I think Director Yilmaz can attest to that, and he's
here in the room if you want to hear from him.
But I've read about it, and I think this might be a possibility
where we maybe use it in a way that perhaps is not on eve on.Q's list
in front of them, but it's something that's always left -- i ' o stuck
with me.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Coun y, are you
going to say the real reason why we don't have n A V park here?
And it's not because of a piece of propert at we utilized to store
the sludge that was pumped out of La rd. It's got nothing to
do with that. SV
MR. KLATZKOW: We do ' ve an ATV park in Collier
County because the environm roups just vigorously oppose it.
We had numerous sites ave used, and no site was -- I
mean, no site was ever de ed to be satisfactory, and it was just,
from that standpoint, politically difficult.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Not that we don't need
to have an address of the circumstances for the site that was utilized
for the slud4e ty was pumped out of Lake Trafford, but that has
nothing -- o don't have anything to do with one another. It
was r ed location that the ATV committee actually suggested
at offoff
i e, but those two -- those two circumstances are not
interre ated at all.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: But do you think the
environmentalists complained about it and said it wasn't appropriate
because there was sludge on the land?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No.
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MR. KLATZKOW: No, I'm telling you, we --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
MR. KLATZKOW: Every single site that was proposed, there
was a reason against it. It just was. It just --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: In that regard, the two uses
from an environmental perspective, from habitat's perspective,
two uses don't commingle. The ATV ridership and habitat and
environmental concerns do not commingle. O
MR. KLATZKOW: We were talking with Mia ade about
using the abandoned jetport. It was going to be a rship with us
and Miami -Dade. And that's highly disturbe n n that one was
shot down by the environmental groups, and a t oint in time I
spoke with then Commissioner Coletta, aild1there was just -- he threw
up his hands because, if not there, i%heke�;�
COMMISSIONER McDANI Nw*nd then we have the
liability issue and then -- there's a e rmous amount of reasons why
that can't be facilitated at this Owt time. I just wanted to clarify
the point, though, that tlhat'pa ular site and its cleanup have
nothing -- there -- have nothing to do with whether or not we have an
ATV park in this town -- in this community.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMM O1+ER McDANIEL: Just --
CHA TAYLOR: Yes, Commissioners Saunders.
COM TONER SAUNDERS: Just on that point because
you an interesting issue there. And I did a lot of reading on
t ago, so I'm probably totally foggy on all of it, but I thought
pa o the problem with the Lake Trafford area that we were talking
about was that there's arsenic in the way -- in the material that was
dropped on that property and that it would be -- remediation of that
would be problematic. But I didn't think it was totally because of
environmentalist concerns. I thought it was more because of the
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potential health issues associated with that. If that is the case, then
remediation of that may be possible. So I don't think we should just
close the door on the discussion unless it's -- you know, unless it's
something that's -- historically we just have no opportunity to do it,
because I know it's been a big issue for a long time. N
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It's a sleeping giant there. It' 174�1
a -- it's the -- what is it? The gorilla in the room. It's som g that
at some point we're going to have to address, and mayb i is the
time to start addressing it.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, in r o what
Commissioner Saunders said, I concur with t o e investment
of these funds, making sure that we've met the yc 1 eeds of the
community that was the Board's priority, investments that we can,
in fact, do. And before we go too ipu r down hypothecation
on the toxicities that are coming f property, maybe we ought
to ask Dr. Yilmaz, who was partic a ry in that judging process,
knows what's there, and get a 1 presentation from someone who
actually has a clue about ' . I d suggest that we do that.
MR. CALLAHAN: 'll keep all that in mind as we look at
the eligible water infras)ructure investments, and we can certainly
have that on a fut rre agenda if it's --
CHAI N TrkYLOR: Commissioner Solis.
COMMINJONER SOLIS: I was just going to say that we
have some riorities that we've been working on. I mean, one of
the ow, is housing for veterans, housing for homeless
vjtMN he mental health initiative, and I think the pandemic is
go o have some long-lasting effects on all this, certainly on the
mental health and addiction side. We're already seeing it from what
I understand from the numbers from David Lawrence Center.
So, you know, I would say I'd like to see us look at what we've
been trying to work on, and if there's ways to allocate some of those
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funds to get at those already identified needs that we have, we know
we're going to have a gap in terms of the mental health receiving
facility on the operations side and, you know, anything that we can
do to further address the things that we've already identified, I think,
would be helpful.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Sean, concerning the,
municipalities, you know, I attend pretty much all of th a co
Island City Council meetings. At the recent one, the ught up the
issue that they thought -- you know, they were ap ive of the
two point something million that they got, but e ere questioning
the balance compared to the City of Naples, an o know, they
were sort of running the algorithm.
I guess my question is, have wi g ' ormal response from
them with their questions, their o,ns, why they think that?
Because it was a big point of disc s n at their City Council
meeting, and then I talked t
oRvnff-line, and I said, reach out to us
and let us know where ywe've missed something or maybe
we haven't. Did we hearhe City of Marco?
MR. CALLAHAN: not heard anything from the City
of Marco with r d to that. I'd be happy to follow up on it. Just
in terms of t a loc ions that were made, it was based on a
percentag fo a due to population, so...
COM IONER LoCASTRO: That was their question; they
thou t lgorithm or the numbers or what have you were off. So
I ' u know, it might behoove us to be -- I mean, I think the
on on them to reach out to the county and say, hey, we have a
question. But I just thought I would put that, you know, thought in
your mind that they obviously have -- it was a big point of discussion
that they thought that the population numbers that were being used,
whether they were our numbers or we got them from the state, were
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not representative correctly of the City of Marco and that their
number would have been a lot higher if, you know, their numbers
were used, I guess. So we just want to separate rumor from fact.
So I'll burn the candle at that end and make them aware that if
they have a significant issue, they should reach out to us. But,
know, I'm sure you converse with the municipalities on a reg
basis. You might want to just drop them a note and say, h f you
have some sort of issue, let us know. We're here to hel , know,
but --
MR. CALLAHAN: I'd be happy to follow u at,
Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank o .
MR. CALLAHAN: I just want to c hat the Treasury was
the one that made the allocation. SO I' ing that they -- we
can review how they did it in the !�, e just got this last night.
So we knew what we were expects ut it wasn't even confirmed
till last night. I believe they nsus data to make distribution.
So we'd be happy to be as Itte fA as we can to the city as well.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TA) jLOR: And just as a follow-up to the
municipalities, I -- as you know, I speak in front of City of
Naples, and I i en urage them, if there was any kind of projects
that we co Id ner in that have to do with county and city, this
would bet e to address it. And they agreed by a consensus for
our s ontact the City of Naples and to go forward. I don't
k_ ere are, but there it is. We share the Gordon River.
1 nAvyou.
MR. CALLAHAN: Yes, ma'am.
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, thank you, and good
discussion.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Before we leave that --
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Do you want a motion?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- County Manager, if we could have
a presentation by Dr. Yilmaz on Lake Trafford sooner than later --
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- I think it would be very, very
helpful. �+
MR. ISACKSON: We'll make that happen.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. O
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, your next t' ertain is
not till after 1:00. You have Item 15, under gener
communications, if you want to go to that, an e o sibly take an
early lunch. That's your call, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: An early a ong lunch. This
would be lovely considering the last I had was half an hour.
COMMISSIONER McDANI . hink we --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: B e pizza, that's right.
MR. ISACKSON: I'm s Ma'am, I'm reminded that on 11 J
Mr. Callahan would like 1a I n on that to allow the County
Manager's Office to accep�tv:
at funding.
CHAIRMAN TA) LThank you.
Do I hear a motion.
COMM O1+ER McDANIEL: So moved.
CHA TAYLOR: Second?
COM IONER SOLIS: Second.
C AN TAYLOR: Motion and a second to accept the
funding om the Treasury -- the U.S. Treasury Department. All
thoS, rn favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Commissioners. N
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Accepting the money
accepting the review?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR:
Item # 15
No, accepting the mone .0
)0
STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL CO11QIMUNICATIONS
MR.ISACKSON: Commissi
pleasure, but maybe we can knoc
general communications, before 1
item on the legislative update,
ertainly the Board's
m 15, staff and commission
for lunch and then hear our
. Mullen and Ms. Hurley
afterwards.
I've got one item, Co issioners, and it's the Mosquito Control
District. You know, they've been asking about a presentation before
the Board to tall aout their boundary and possibly expansion of the
boundary. ,
We'v be 'n contact with the district officials, and their
suggestion now is June 22nd. If that works for everybody's
calen would put that on as a presentation. They would talk
abo desires for a boundary expansion at that point. So if
th no objection to that, we'll go ahead and make those
arrangements.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: No objection, but one of the
things I just wanted to mention, I've been getting a lot of input from
citizens that are reading things in the state of Florida about different
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mosquito control areas across the state using genetically altered
mosquitoes and whatnot. We're not doing that in Collier County, to
the best of my knowledge. But if we could just remind them to
maybe work that into their presentation so we can really separate
rumor from fact of what we're doing here in Collier County and at
we're not doing. �►+
MR. ISACKSON: We'll make that suggestion.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Definitely some Picle
sion
out there amongst some of our citizens who read a little and
then go, oh, my gosh, I can't believe we're doing t rare we doing
it?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So we have so e e enders of
mosquitoes?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRQ:
MR. ISACKSON: And, aga#n,�h my other comment, thank
you for your indulgence in my firs�Weeting. Hopefully it went as
smooth as the Board normally, ts. So thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN TAY kay.
MR. KLATZKOW: thing, ma'am.
Good first meeting, Mark.
CHAIRM NI*SVT
YLOR: Mr. Miller, thank you very much for
your work oeo that was presented today, you and Tom, and
I think it W ent 1. You worked hard on it and thank you for the
work you'r ddi`ng for the mock commission meeting which, of
course, i ` a mock commission meeting this year. But we were
a o answer the questions of the students -- the civic students
th out the county, and I think it went really well. Thank you so
muc . Because it was a lot of push at the end.
MR. MILLER: Thank you, Madam Chair.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Including your TDC meeting at the
Sports Park. I mean, all that was at one time. So well done.
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MR. MILLER: I couldn't have done it without Eble. Great
addition to the staff.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you.
Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Nothing. No comments other an
to just suggest that we continue to bring Leo back and torture
publicly for his many years of service, because I think we'v ' 1 got
a couple of weeks left of him being around. O
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Nothing on the Tourip6S�velopment
Council, nothing about tourism?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Not today.
we're a
little early, so I don't have materials with me. Nluitlfe good news, as
I said last time, is that the revenues are ba up to almost the 2019
levels, which was a very good year., 9ookings are up. Even
the group meetings business is staitir� o come back.
So the revenues are good. Ynow, we continue -- actually,
Leo and Mark and I were at eciat
meeting a couple weeks ago of
the Restaurant and Lodg'ion. The employment situation
is really dire trying to get f
hback to the hotels and to the
restaurants. I don't know ow we solve that. But some hotels, you
know, they have t close down periodically because they don't have
enough staff.
So I on't w if there's ways to use some of these additional
funds to in 1lrvize people to come back to work. I don't know.
But it' ere's anything that's holding us back, I think, from
really etoff and getting back or maybe exceeding where we were
in , it seems to be that, the inability to operate at full capacity.
It's a conundrum.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It speaks volumes, doesn't it? I
wonder -- I wonder, if you would agree -- I wonder if this wouldn't be
something that we would reach out to -- and really get this out in the
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community, and you would be the lead, Commissioner Solis,
to -- with hoteliers to talk about the difficulty they have in hiring but
really put it out maybe in the general media, either with -- I mean,
we're talking about water as a forum. But this is critical. This is the
foundation of our economics here.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I can reach out to t+
FRLA and see if they'd want to come and give us a present on
the struggles they're having some time. I know our age Doming
up is going to be pretty -- _^
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- pretty ful a sure that they
would appreciate the opportunity to do someth g i e that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: But I was en thinking about you
reaching out to perhaps a WGCU ors I
e new stations, I
mean, actually going very viral wi ' o, you know, hone in the
issues and just put it out there. I a something --and I'm
speaking to this because I hea ething on the radio this morning
that said, they don't unde ou know, people want to work if
they want to work. Wha t e problem? There was this big
discussion here.
And I see - en you see the pancake house offering a $750
bonus, just c an work for us, you know we've got some trouble.
CO I NER SOLIS: Yeah. And the -- I mean, what we
hear is that ' 1 of the additional unemployment that's available and
som unds -- pandemic -related funds that are out there that is
so disincentivizing people from working. That's what I hear.
AIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'd like to see the data on that, and
if that's the case, I don't know what we can do about that, because we
don't control those funds. But it is problematic for the business
owners. I mean, especially the restaurants. Restaurants cannot get
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enough staff to open up fully. It's unheard of.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: But I will -- I will bring that up at
the next MPO -- I mean TDC meeting as well and see if there isn't
something that the staff can help with in terms of marketing and
getting that message out as well. �►+
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Can I make a sug An on
that?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, yes, of course. �•
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Because t lly is a
function of the Chamber of Commerce, I wou t
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: That's true.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: they have the ability to
do a lot of advertising and get the wpr by don't you have
them make a presentation, and we hi p get the word out.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: h.
COMMISSIONER SA S: But I really think that's really
a Chamber of Commerc a function. There might be other
organizations that would imilar to that. But to ask
Commissioner Solis to make this thing go viral, I think that's a bit of
a difficult task. now if you were asking me to do it, I would say I
can't, but I th' the hamber of Commerce probably could.
CO IF
NER SOLIS: Yeah. I'm not sure what I could
do, but ce asking the Chamber -- getting the FRLA to work
with t4e epossibly and get some -- get the word out, or just
h ' cussion as to how to address it.
ou know, I'm curious as to whether -- is it really the
une ployment benefits, or have a lot of these people that were filling
those jobs left town? Because if you're going to be unemployed and
it's very expensive to live in an area, why would you continue to live
there? Would you go somewhere else? So I'd like to see the data
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on that. Is it -- are they -- have they left town like they did during
the recession? A lot of people left down. And then contractors
were having difficulty finding staff.
So I'd like some more data on that so we could understand
exactly what the situation is.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think FGCU would be very
in that area.
Okay. Commissioner LoCastro. 0
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Are we sort ping
forward for our, sort of, closing comments --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: -- in th i to est of time?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRQ: Just a couple of
things I wanted to mention. I waon behalf of really all of us,
thank Parks and Rec for all they'v, e for the US Open Pickleball
Championship. I mean, we�qzll team out there. I know
Commissioner Taylor an 6 out there and even Commissioner
Fiala accepted an award a you know, we had tens of thousands of
people out there, and our parks look great. The county looked
awesome, you know, to folks that came from all 50 states, a dozen
different countries, and it was a great event for all.
And we've recently had a few concerts in Sugden Park. And, I
mean, seeing our county staff out there picking up trash, directing
traffi courteous and kind and whatnot. I got nothing but
gr t response. And hats off to Jamie French and Barry
s who really led the charge out there with our whole staff
who were there from start to finish doing everything from, like I said,
directing traffic to picking up garbage. And it didn't go unnoticed.
And the county, I think, we really came out of both those events
looking like, you know, shining stars for great, great causes.
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And then I just wanted to give a thank you to Keith Wallace and
his -- our county security guards and our sheriffs who take care of us
here during Police Week. So, you know, we recognize everything
up here on sort of a greater scale, but closer to home right in this
building it's been a tough time during the pandemic, I'm sure.
all are the front line, folks at the doors, you know, getting push
from people on masks and, you know, trying to be courteous -aQakind
and those sort of things. And it doesn't go unnoticed ei r hat
you -all do.
And, you know, Keith is the guy behind the s that manages
and leads you all, and Sheriff Rambosk and h' ea o viously, do a
great job. So I just wanted to publicly, on beh of, really, all of us,
recognize what our county team does her si e of all of our
buildings.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Tibtyou. Commissioner
Saunders.
COMMISSIONER RS: A couple of things. We just
terminated the lease on th celerator on our consent agenda. I'm
assuming that their regVst -- the request for funding for the
accelerator this ing budget cycle will be substantially less. I
know we've e t g to work towards that, and we may need a
little bit of kin an update as to what's the plan for the accelerator.
You may know -that right now. But that's kind of a question for staff
in teAAfwhat's next for the accelerator.
' M CALLAHAN: Sure. So we -- we're working through the
budget' process to significantly reduce those operations at the Naples
accelerator and working with FGCU to transition that program into
something that might be effectively less -- far less cost and more
effective.
So the physical space has, obviously, had some limitations
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because of the pandemic. It's been tough to get folks in there, so we
see that going away, and we're currently working that program. So
we'd like to bring that back as part of the budget process,
Commissioner, to give you a better update, but we will be moving
away from that physical space.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. And then
that our budget staff, they're all aware of this but, obviousl 't the
new elections bill that was just signed into law, there's V.0 to be, I
suspect, a fairly substantial increase in cost in terms entee
ballots and all of those issues that are addressed b
I don't know if that's going to have any s' i t impact on the
elections supervisor's budget, but I just want to e d a message that
the Board is fully supportive of making sb th t whatever she needs
to implement the new law, she has tho e rces available, so she's
going to have a substantially larg t, I would guess.
MR. ISACKSON: We'll ma e ure. We actually received her
budget already as part of the deadline, but we'll make sure that
they're well aware of any ents that need to be made.
COMMISSIONER DERS: And that may not have
included the new law.
MR. ISACKSON: That's correct.
COMM ONER SAUNDERS: And then I wanted to give a
little bit o an ate. The Productivity Committee that we
constituted ple months ago has had several meetings. At their
last e , the Productivity Committee pretty much unanimously
d take a look at the county's purchasing policies. The
ar nt or the discussion was that in any organization, purchasing
is an area where there can be substantial savings over time if things
are done properly, and that's not an allegation that things aren't being
done properly, but that was an area that they felt that they could work
on.
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Ed Staros is a member of that committee, and he pointed out that
in the Marriott, the Ritz -Carlton chain --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's Marriott.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- owned by the Marriott, by
the way -- but they got into looking at the different purchasing
policies, and he said as an example, by making some changes, they
saved 50 cents per lightbulb that he purchased in the Ritz chain. He
said they generally purchased 160,000 lightbulbs a year 4&tat 50
cents savings went straight to the bottom line. The eing that
purchasing is an area where they can get their arm end it and
pp suggestions. perhaps make some su estions. So I wante Nhcr Board know
that committee is moving along very effective a d also just to let
staff know that that's an area that they wa o ocus on.
And I have nothing else.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: T
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McD L: Yeah, just two comments.
Actually, Commissioner STru s, you and I are -- I was at that
Productivity Committee. And I talked to staff yesterday. I really
like Ed's suggestion with regard to -- oh, I've got notes on it
somewhere. I had notes on it --
COMMISSJON, ER SAUNDERS: There was an award that
they recei ed.
COM IONER McDANIEL: Correct. What was the name
of th m; do you remember?
Z'N1%,-CALLAHAN: It was the Malcolm Baldridge award.
MMISSIONER McDANIEL: Baldridge study that was
done and implemented that Ed did and actually was hugely successful
and suggest that maybe we have a look at that to maybe utilize that as
a model for what we're doing.
Commissioner Taylor, you brought up an agenda item or a
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suggestion a couple of weeks ago with regard to the Mosquito
Control and workshopping that. Are you -- I like this idea of
actually bringing it forward as a presentation and not a workshop,
because we can get more done, I think, effectively by having it as an
actual agenda item, not a workshop.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, no. That's fine. I'm ve �+
comfortable with that.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. And th 'Qa I have.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's it?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, ma'a
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Our n ti g I think we
have our COVID-19 update, and it does appea t e State of
Florida is moving in a direction where thqeimay not even be a state
of emergency, I think it's after June pr nd I don't want to
anticipate what the Governor's goi �, But after doing some
reading, it does appear that we're a d that way, and the
papers -- the headline of the p day is that the numbers are going
down even though last w were going up.
So I don't want us to 'cuss this today, but I want us to think.
We do things because of this pandemic. We've done things
extremely differ y. We don't bring employees in here. When we
have a procla ion - I think this is the first time that we've
had -- and wa Blighted to see it -- you know, our law enforcement
in here. O sines of the month, we can continue it as we do,
whic effective because it's kind of in the environs of the
p t owns the business.
ere's a lot of things that we have changed because of this
under your leadership and under the decision of this board. Just be
thinking -- because I'd like to discuss it at our next meeting -- what
are your ideas? What are your thoughts on it? And that's pretty
much all I want to say on that.
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And other than that, I think, County Manager, great first
meeting. We do have -- we will come back at 1:00 to learn what
happened up in Tallahassee, and I almost think it's a drumroll
because there's nothing printed because it has been changing up to
this point. So at this point I think we will recess for lunch and c e
back at 1:00.
(A luncheon recess was had from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 .1
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, good afternoo adam
Chair, you have a live mic.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very
Mr. Mullens.
Item # 11 B
ACCEPTANCE OF THE AFTER N REPORT FOR THE
2021 FLORIDA LEGISLATIVE ION AND PROVIDE
GUIDANCE AS PRELIMIN LANNING BEGINS FOR THE
NEXT LEGISLATIVE - REPORT PRESENTED
MR. MULLENS: Thank you, Commissioners. For the record,
John Mullens, ernment Affairs Manager, and it is certainly time
for the legisl v a r-action report. And to start us off today, we
are very p 'vil to have Lisa Hurley, who does all of our heavy
lifting in T assee, to speak first to talk about the atmosphere up in
Tall is year which was a little different than it's been in the
p lot of obstacles that we're not used to seeing placed in the
wa o advocates or opponents to certain legislation, and I think Lisa
will give you a very good overview as to what that was like on the
front lines, and then after that we'll get into a slide presentation of
some of the highlights of the session and then, certainly, we will be
open to answer any questions that you may have.
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But with that, Lisa.
MS. HURLEY: Thank you so much, John.
Madam Chair, Commissioners, Lisa Hurley with the lobbying
firm of Smith, Brian, and Meyer in Tallahassee.
Let me just first start and say, it feels so good to be down he in
Collier County and be here in person for the first time in well
year.
I want to thank each one of you for giving John an 10 much
time over the past day and a half to discuss the 2021 ative
session, where we ended, and already with an eye ds the next
legislative session, since it starts early this ye
But to pick up where John left off, you kn w, it s not going to
come to a surprise of any of you who hav ep erded your county
through this pandemic over the pastye ings looked very, very
different in Tallahassee this year., ow, every legislative
session has its own challenges. T e -- the ones we saw this year
were ones we have never enco d before.
And so, you know, the ago we thought the culmination
of session and the end of ion was going to look very different
than what it ended up, Void 'm happy to report that Collier County
ended up very we, ricoming out of the legislative session despite the
obstacles.
Four on ago when we started the process with the interim
committee s, we were heading into what we thought was a
prof e get deficit of $3 billion. So we were bracing for very
Sibudget cuts. That outlook didn't change until we were
un� ay in the legislative session and the economic forecast started
getting better and our recovery in Florida was better than anyone had
anticipated on top of that.
We also got a massive influx of federal funds and so, to the
legislators' credit, it was quite remarkable. They began building a
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budget that had very significant cuts to the healthcare industry, to the
education industry, and then in a matter of weeks they were able to
pivot and to build a budget that contemplated $10 billion more than
anyone could have anticipated, so which -- allowed the legislature to
ultimately pass a $101.5 billion budget, which is a record budget.
But, you know, much like you, the legislature had to put ' ce
COVID protocols, and those COVID protocols stayed in pl the
way through the end of the legislative session, which w ®Friday,
April 30th, and what that looked like was essentially pitol was
closed. You know, people -- not only to the publ' eople like
myself, lobbyists, who, during the legislative si e live in the
capitol, and -- but we adapted as best we coul
Like you, there were, you know, re testifying opportunities.
We were brought three blocks off the omplex over at the
civic center to testify. There was, istancing. But entry into
the capitol was by invitation onl d you had to have a staff
member meet you at the front you were escorted to a member's
chambers, and then as so e meeting was done, you were
escorted out. So very li access.
Again, the county and our priorities this session, we ended up
well, but I think ere those protocols and the restrictions really
impacted wa al vernments on a statewide basis. And with
regard to s me the preemption bills that were filed this session, we
know we s m every year. And this year I think our strength
with c vernments is staying together in their strength in
n I�P' And without the lobbying core being able to get into the
bu di g and stay in front of the members, there were some
preemption bills that passed that I think probably wouldn't have given
normal circumstances. So we look for the opportunity in future
sessions, hopefully, to come back and fix those bills.
But, you know, I think the county, you were very sensitive to the
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atmosphere in which we were operating with the pandemic, the
forecast for the budget, and you were very strategic in your priorities
this session. And I believe that that paid off, and John will talk
about those in a minute.
But, you know, of course, it doesn't happen without your
legislative delegation. They are very strong. Senator Kathleen
Passidomo -- I mean, cannot say enough about her. Really, truly one
of the hardest working legislators in that capitol. With f il, she is
in the capitol before 7:00 a.m. every day. I don't know., she does
it. But every decision she makes up there, she dPSndra
e the
community -- this community in mind and inerest. And,
of course, she has wonderful staff with Becky holding the
fort down here and Sherry up in Tallahas
And then also Representative Ro e d Representative
Lauren Melo, her freshman year t ar. Both of those members
carried your appropriations reques is year, and we were successful
in obtaining those.
And just a sidenote esentative Melo, freshman year.
She had a really impressi ear, and she passed a lot of -- a lot of
bills. She probably goes up there with probably one of the MVP of
her freshman class. And so she will be a strong advocate for the
county going forward.
And so w8.that, it's probably the right time to actually, you
know, et i e meat of what did and did not happen this session,
and n it over to the best emcee in the county, Mr. Mullens.
IRMAN TAYLOR: Before you leave --
S. HURLEY: Yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- could you please on the record put
your experience -- your experience of having that -- when you had to
give or when you wanted to give public testimony and what
happened when you went to the convention center.
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MS. HURLEY: Happy to do that. And so to complicate
things a little bit further, the Senate had different protocol -- protocols
than the House did. And so with regard to the Senate, you couldn't
get into Senate committee meetings at all. So all testimony was
done at the civic center, which is about three, four blocks away
the capitol. You -- and then there was limited seating there. - ,
you know, there was one time that I stood for three hours outsle of
the civic center waiting to get in to testify and, you knov4,aause
there was such limited seating -- and it's limited seati like this, like
what you had to put in place, but, you know -- and of the
opportunities that we had when we were able tie t e mic, we
were verylimited maybe a minute per person i6 t�stif and so that
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was very restricting.
The House was a little different. e use allowed you to
preregister. You were allowed to-geti the committee room, but
you had to register at least three hcWr,* in advance to get into the
committee meeting, and then as limited seating. And once
that filled up, 20, 25 seat sorhething, then there was no
opportunity for remote tes ying. You had to submit your testimony
via written statements. ;
So, you kn everyone -- everyone had their own protocols in
place. But, a'n, i as -- it was restrictive. And I'm happy to
report that he itol is now fully reopened. And I know everyone's
aware we h pecial session next week, and, you know, certainly
what next week is going to affect Collier County and
re e reams coming to you, all for the positive. But happy to
re e'll be back in the capitol next week for the first time in over
a year.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you.
MS. HURLEY: Sure thing.
MR. MULLENS: Okay. And with that, knowing that we are
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between you and the door, which there's no pressure there at all, we
will go ahead and get through the slide presentation.
And we'll start that off with some statistics. Over 3,000 bills
were filed during this legislative session and over 2,600 amendments
were filed to those bills. And 275 bills passed during the sessio
which you can see, compared to last year, is quite an uptick, a+
think the atmosphere that Lisa just described to you is a pri eason
why it happened: Not enough people in the halls talki ®m out of
doing things.
Governor DeSantis now has 15 days from th t of a bill to
sign it, veto it; otherwise it becomes law with i nature. And
there were nearly 600 bills on the county track g is this year.
We'll start out with some budget hig hit and with the usual
caveat that the Governor does have lin eto authority, and
where we don't expect him to real `D 0 that much this year, it's
still a possibility, so we have to o ad and prepare you for it.
With that said, with the a t n of federal relief dollars, it was a
' banner budget year, espe 1 r the environment. There was $10
million for both water-quaNymonitoring and innovative
technologies to protect water quality.
There's oveA460 million for Everglades projects, both north
and south of J aAe Okeechobee, and over $600 million for wastewater
grants. B t, ol�purse, for most communities, that's going to require
a 50 erce �4 Zh unless you're a rural area of opportunity, in which
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case 144 n probably waive that.
o , there's $150 million for beaches and inlets management
an 0 million for coastal resiliency planning and projects. And,
once again, you'll have to have a 50 percent match unless you are
a -- whether you're a -- unless you're a financially disadvantaged
small community, which was a special definition provided for in that
legislation this year.
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There's 40 million for water resource development and
$400 million for Florida Forever land acquisition and habitat
protection.
Some other budget highlights, there's $2 billion, as Lisa
mentioned, in federal funds, and that's going to the Transportatio
Trust Fund to offset revenue losses from the pandemic. There o
1 billion to the Governor's new emergency preparedness a
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response fund and over $200 million for a one-time $1, anus for
first responders.
Visit Florida will have $75 million to boost t post
pandemic and, for the first time, affordable h 'n it now have a
set percentage of the documentary stamp tax f Vt at cannot be
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swept to general revenue, and they're gett' about $209 million this
year. 0 �v
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: S set percentage year after
year after year after year?
MR. MULLENS: Yes. ss changed in the statute, that is a
set percentage.
CHAIRMAN TAYL R: Okay. Thank you.
MR. MULLENS: The actual total of money may fluctuate
depending on h uch revenues are brought in, but it will be a set
percentage o t ding.
As Lia ed to, it was a good year for our project funding
requests an e she said, when we had submitted our project
fund' ests last fall, we kept them modest because of the dire
ec forecast and at that time no surety of federal assistance.
Well, at forecast improved dramatically. And, again, subject to
veto, both Lake Park and Golden Gate Senior Center projects will
now see split design and planning costs with the state at $250,000
apiece.
And this last one here, this is something -- when I was a kid, you
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had two types of Christmas presents. You had the Christmas
presents that were wrapped before the holiday under the tree, and if
you were a kid worth your salt, you had a pretty good idea what was
in those boxes. This last one is one that shows up under the tree on
Christmas morning unwrapped that Santa Claus has brought you.
And Santa Claus in this case would be our local delegation, t
adjutant general, the Governor, and potentially a legislative 'sperer
potentially on that dais that may have helped out with s f that.
But we will be getting $25 million for the constructio new
National Guard readiness center in Immokalee, an was
something that just came to pass during the b e n eree meetings
at the end of session.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: t w en do we start
working on that, Lisa?
MR. MULLENS: Well, wh ve to do now is we have to
go back and kind of revisit the pas 1 se that was had with the
National Guard when it fell thrXN back in -- I think it was between
2012 and 2014, get them down here to look at what the planning may
include at this point, because at that point it was about a 26-acre site
that they were looking at, and then find out what the timeline is for
construction. of course, we have to await the federal funds
delivery befo ny this can take place.
CO I NER McDANIEL: It was 2018 when I was in
Mario Dia art's office working with those folks to start this ball a
rolli .t was -- that was what I was looking for. And it's
ju - reference purposes, it's just -- one of the frustrations that a
to s in the private sector actually get to when we come to
government is how long things take, and here's a perfect example of
efforts from three years ago coming to fruition to be a benefit to our
community.
MR. MULLENS: To your point, this was a federal priority that
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you adopted a couple years ago that we tried to pursue at the federal
level via the unfunded requirements list that kind of runs parallel to
the military construction budget, and Gainesville was always ahead
of Immokalee at that point in funding consideration, but with
this -- and this isn't the only one. Zephyrhills is also getting a
$25 million readiness center as well.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Amazing stuff.
MR. MULLENS: Okay. And as Lisa mentioned QUe's a flip
side to the coin, and this year was a bad year in the n.r of
preemption bills passed, and we'll briefly highligh Starting
with House Bill 735, which has been an annu e at've battle over
local occupational licensing, this year with the Vallis empty, it passed
and now phases local licensing for a list o ccupations; however, it
is important to note that local journey sing is not covered in
the preemption, and that covers pl , pipe fitting, mechanical,
HVAC, electrical, and alarm syste ades, but you can see that there
are several other specialty ite will be phased out over the next
couple of years.
Senate Bill 430 targe as pump skimmer protections directed
by us and some of our neighbors. That is now preempted to the state
and must be appyi!Ced by the Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Se 1' es�and House Bill 839, also fuel related, is a
preemptev mo by the state to prevent local governments from
prohibiting stations. Apparently, some other states are seeing
this al level as a means to push people towards electric
v Now, it's important to point out, though, that the bill does
no r empt any action consistent with zoning and land use as long as
it does not result in a de facto prohibition.
House Bill 403 prevents local governments from licensing or
regulating home -based businesses which can operate from a
residence as long as it's primarily a residential dwelling. Now, the
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business must comply with local regulations for things such as
signage, noise, dust, smoke, fumes, and the like, but the local
regulations can't be more stringent than those applied to the residence
where no business is conducted, and it does not supersede a
declaration of condominium cooperative document or covenant,
your HOA rules will still apply.
Similarly, House Bill 663 prohibits any local regulation
cottage food operations in the home. O
And that's another bill, 403, that we have seen o`erer�ie last
several years that this year, with the halls empty, i ale it through.
House Bill 53 defines a public works pr t n�a"ctivity
exceeding1 million and uses an amount of ssKt*a ro riated funds
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opening bidding to contractors, subcontra rs, and material suppliers
regardless of geographic location if an nds are used in the
project, and it prohibits any ordin �, egulation that prevents that
participation.
CHAIRMAN TAYLORnn o priority for local contractors?
MR. MULLENS: Ydu`7ah still have a local preference, but you
can't prevent someone from out of town based upon where their home
office is or where their employees may reside from being a bidder if
you're using state funds in that public -works project.
Now, sogie4hing extraneous that this bill does is it requires
counties tcLcre a 20-year needs analysis for wastewater and
stormwate Then update it every five years for delivery to the
state t was just another provision that was inserted into that
biR:1
Now, another high -profile bill that impacts local governments
signed by the Governor last week was Senate Bill 2006, and where I
don't like to read slides to people, there are a few provisions in here
that I think need to be kind of clarified. For one, it requires a
political subdivision imposing an ordinance that deprives a person of
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a right, a liberty, or property to prove that the measure is narrowly
tailored and serves a compelling public health or safety purpose.
And local emergency orders will expire after seven days and may be
extended by a majority vote of the subdivision's governing body and
orders may not exceed 42 days and may not be substantially simi
upon renewal and, most popularly in the press, it prohibits va+
passports from many public and private entities.
Now, to be clear, these limitations do not apply to i anes or
weather -related emergencies. It only applies if we s have
another resurgence of a pandemic or some other h elated
emergency.
But to flip the coin back to the positive si ne of the county's
priorities exempting personal informationALlected via registering at
an emergency shelter during an evert QCNN
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third time was the charm. In the ve passed it through the
House without a dissenting vote. her year we passed it through
the Senate without a dissentin This time we managed to get it
through both because we d to get a good sponsorship lineup
at the same time to get it t ough.
Now, a few more yoteworthy items to bring this presentation in
for a landing. The tax package, which is always very popular, this
time it exten t Adays the back -to -school and
disaster-pr ar ess tax holidays, and it creates a new seven-day
recreation �olida for certain events and outdoor activities and
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supp s ne thing that it does not include, which was of interest to
s r county staff and members, was it does not provide for
th ional use of tourist development tax monies for flood
mitigation projects. That was something that kind of held on to the
last minute but didn't make it into the final compromise document.
Vacation rentals, what can I say? Watch our presentations for
about the last three years, and they always end the same way. It's
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kind of like Groundhog Day. It died yet again. There were a few
iterations this time, both good and bad, but at the end of the day, they
couldn't get agreement from all the parties involved, and they pulled
the plug.
Senate Bill 72 provides civil liability protections for COVI 9
claims against governmental entities, among others, which w
good outcome. And the elections bill, which does not forc ive
of you to run right after the upcoming redistricting, that age was
never considered in the Senate and was pulled from t use
version in about the 11 th hour.
And with the change in Senate leadershi n -CORES
repeal that was nearly unanimous, so that has g ne by the
wayside.
And last, but not least, the Big Cy s asin was withdrawn
from consideration by the bill spo inthe active calendar -- it
was on second reading on both sid hen both Senator Rodriguez
and Representative Botana as t the bill be temporarily
postponed thereby endin he session.
And you can read ab t all of these and other bills in the Bills of
Potential Impact Report hVA will be hitting your in -box this week,
and that will co * a summary of the bills passed that may impact
the county, t ote , the effective dates, and an indexed budget
summary he ou get through a long budget bill to find the
particular of interest.
course, we would be remiss if we did not recognize the
w e internal legislative strike force, which I did not give them
th e. That was something that Leo coined here about this time
last year, and I think I was watching remotely during the pandemic at
that point, and I thought, with a name like that, you should have an
arm patch. So in my pandemic isolation, I created one. But we
want to thank Ian, Diane, Josh, and Lee who did yeoman's work in
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making sure the information flow between the front-line staff and the
lobbying team was always moving. It's invaluable.
And, of course, we want to thank our legislative teams: Lisa,
up in Tallahassee with Smith, Brian, and Myers; and Amanda Wood
and Omar Franco of Becker Law in D.C.; we want to thank the
county staff, many of whom are in this room that also provide lz�'
guidance throughout the session; and our legislative delegation and
their staff, without whom we would not be successful; and, of course,
we want to thank you, the commissioners, for your advocacy and
your guidance through this entire process. And h ly you will
be thinking about some of the things that nee n our next
radar, which will be coming soon. There's an a y start to session
next year, and the committee weeks shou tart up very early this
fall.
And with that, we'll be looki j ects and other changes and
tweaks to statute that you may dee uable, and we may be
looking at some oversight fro 1 that passed this session that need
to be addressed.
And with that, Lisa and I are both ready to attempt to answer
any questions that ou may have.
CHAIRM TAYLOR: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMM O R LoCASTRO: John, so just for the record,
when it co es Big Cypress Basin, so, obviously, you did great
work for a esenting our position. As we discussed yesterday,
you d e a crystal ball to know that it's going to be pushed by
t ide, so it was, you know, basically, you know, a nonevent.
B ing said that, do you anticipate, you know, our peers from the
nort making contact with us and still trying to keep that
conversation going or everything just stays as it is, you know, for
right now as it always has been?
MR. MULLENS: Well, I have not seen the document, but my
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understanding is there may be a new memorandum of understanding
between the Water Management District and Lee County, and if that
is the case, it may be status quo for a while. But if there isn't
satisfaction with that agreement, we could be possibly revisiting that
bill again in the future. N
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Any other questions? No. -4,
Commissioner Saunders. O
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Not a questi Ak;�l just want
to thank the whole lobbying team, both our Tallah eam and the
Washington, D.C., team and our local Collier u t am for a job
well done. Getting any money at all was pret a azing for that to
happen. So I think we're on the right pat ith our lobbying teams,
and I just want to congratulate you p ou for that.
MR. MULLENS: Well, we i y don't work in a vacuum.
It is a team effort and, like I said t e s a lot of people that make
that success possible, and a to e credit should definitely go to
you and to the county staff h ive us all the information and
direction we need to be effective.
CHAIRMAN TA' jLOR: I don't know. We didn't have to wait
of a room and speak for one minute. At least
three hours outsA
we're not doiQ ghat Mere in Naples, Florida, in Collier County.
i nan o
MR. I SON: For the record, Commissioners, that was
Item ce I failed to mention that at the beginning of the report.
MISSIONER McDANIEL: It is your first day.
R. ISACKSON: And with this, that concludes staffs portion
of the agenda; certainly anything else the commissioners would like
before we adjourn.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: A small housekeeping item.
Commissioner Solis, go ahead.
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Before -- I was -- I had something
for John, I'm sorry.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. Commissioner Solis' name is
up here. I ignored him. Sorry.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So short-term rentals -- so
short-term rentals, it died again? �+
MR. MULLENS: Yes, sir. 'V
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Is there any reason tqA ve that
next year whatever's introduced isn't going to die ag a' well?
Because -- the reason I'm asking this is that we ha dinance that
was coming forward. We kind of put it on h i g what
seemed to be some action that the legislature s o ng to take, but it
seems to me, it -- we have a chicken and egg problem.
And if it's agreeable, I mean, I thi eed to go ahead, and
we need to discuss an ordinance. 1st bring forward what staff
had prepared that we put on hold e use it doesn't seem like we're
going to get any clearer in the
CHAIRMAN TAY I would agree.
Commissioner McV.
COMMISSIONEF.,eMcDANIEL: I would suggest we talk to
the County Atto . My recollection of all of that was we're
preempted. i ho an existing ordinance in advance of anything,
we can't b 'ng rward.
COM IONER SOLIS: We can't regulate the time, but
what•4f d worked on before was ways to require registrations
and things to deal with it in terms of code enforcement and things
lik t. That's what staff had prepared, was going to bring it
forward, but we kept putting it off, as I recall, right, John?
MR. MULLENS: Yeah. And, actually, one of the iterations of
the bill this session actually provided for that local registration but,
once again, it didn't make it.
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So I'm just -- my point is is that
we've done this a couple years now, and it doesn't seem like that's
going to change any. For better or for worse, I think, at least the
folks that I talked to, you know, it's time that we should decide or not
decide to do something, because we just keep pushing it off. An I
think there are probably things that we can do to make this bet
My concern is that -- is that based upon what we've sew at t e
TDC and the numbers in terms of hotel units and vacati e tal
units, the vacation rental units are exploding. And it m be a
function of the pandemic and people feeling more rtable being,
you know, in a condo or a single-family hom t h n a hotel with
a lot of other people around.
So I'm just expecting that the issues t e have that affect
neighborhoods is not going to get any e . It's probably going to
get worse, and we should just deci er or not we can -- we can
address it in a way that is meanin or neighborhoods and the
people that, you know, have v t n rentals and live off of that.
MR. ISACKSON: With o objection, we'll dust off what we
have and place it on a schedule for the Board to consider it.
CHAIRMAN TA' jLOR: That's right.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
CHAIRIVA,N T�AYLOR: Good. Is that it, sir?
COMMINJONER SOLIS: That's it. Thank you.
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S AND COMMISION GENERAL COMMUNICSTION —
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. A small housekeeping item,
and I want to discuss -- in fact, I was talking to some of the aides
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before, and it's about 311. And those of you who weren't here at the
time, and not all of us were, Colonel Mudd who was our County
Manager and West Point graduate established 311, and he did it so
that staff would not get duplication of items. He did it to streamline
and to organize the requests for help from staff, because staff wa
being -- I'm going to use my words -- pilloried by one commis r
talking about it and then another commissioner. Maybe it'AU�tt
commissioner's district, and they get the e-mail and the so oh, staff
has to have that, and then another commissioner does ame thing,
and suddenly staff not only has to deal with a pro b t they have
to deal with answering three commissioners o u o missioners or
five commissioners.
So this 3 11 , we have gotten sort of t a on the shoulder in our
office to please use it because oftenti happens is a letter will
come in, it will be addressed to all It might be a certain
commissioner's district, and that is h commissioner that responds to
it with 311.
Now, I know some es acknowledged the letters and
say, thank you for your le I'm referring it to the commissioner of
this district, and that's fine. But the person responsible for what's
going on in thei ' trict is the one that is responsible for putting it
through 311. d at's not every issue, but that's a lot of issues that
come befo e u .
So I'nApw seeing if there is consensus up here that we can direct
our a' e ry to follow a protocol that has worked for a long time.
A ay with that?
MMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I mean, Angela -- yeah, I
have Angela put virtually everything --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's the way I've always
done it.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- through 311.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay, great.
And then another minor thing is, I wonder if we could -- and I
kind of go back to my days on the City Council of the City of Naples
when I was rather new there and decided that I was going to ask staff
to actually research everything that I wanted them to research, an at
some point the Mayor said, ma'am, staff only has so much ti
there's six other people up here, could you please, please na it
down, and I kind of bristled at it and -- yeah. And so t Onally
made a resolution that anything that was to be resear ad to
come to the Board for their agreement.
So whatever commissioner, whatever Ci o �ci person
wanted to discuss and get researched by staff, at was time of staff
and that it had to be a consensus up here. o , I'm not suggesting
that, but what I am suggesting is that 1 very busy, the
economy's booming, we've got sta g to town halls, we've got
staff coming to your Saturdays. s a lot of activity, but there's
only one staff, and there's five
So I would just like we -- and I don't expect you to
come to an answer today. ut I do -- I would like to do it maybe by
the next meeting or maybe he meeting after that, to see if we can
come to some k' of an understanding that staff needs time, they
need time off ey ed time to work, and they've got all of us plus
the Count Ma er to answer to and to somehow come to some kind
of agreeme consensus about how we use our staff.
ow, I don't think -- you know, and I'm not saying
a doing it here, but to have a town hall every week, as a
co ssioner, after I did that, that, to me, is an abuse of staff.
There's no way in the world that staff can handle that, do their daily
jobs and respond to the rest -- the four of you.
So I just want you to kind of be thinking about it, maybe
weighing it, and see if we can come up with some kind of guidance
May 11, 2021
so that we continue to ask our staff and depend on our staff for
answers but at the same time don't abuse our staff by asking too much
of them.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. Well, I have a
thought. I mean, we already -- we have a County Manager's �+
ordinance, and we're supposed to, in theory, not give directi o staff
on an individual basis. And if we all just herd our re 0 the
County Manager's Office, that direction can be given to us as to
whether it's a valid request and valuable of our sta lization of
time. That's kind of sort of the way this is al e to go. And
I think adhering to that is just -- is a fine -- I ce a 1 don't see any
reason for us to go into all of our individ priorities and me have to
express an opinion about what you phi ortant --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: R'
COMMISSIONER McDANI -- in order to give direction to
staff. So I would like to just - 're getting ready to say
something.
CHAIRMAN TAYL Empower.
MR. ISACKSON ..,e I am.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Take note, please.
MR. ISACKSON: Let me -- and I do appreciate the Chair's
sentiment 11:5Nayou know, the town halls are fine. Some of the
town halls of staffed by staff, some of them are solo by
com rs. Part of my job is to ferret that out. And the
re ormally come to staff. I generally have visibility with
th So we can direct the appropriate staff. We can shuffle it
around a little bit so that just -- the burden is not falling on one
particular individual. I'd like to see how that plays out, if you don't
mind, ma'am --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Sure.
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MR. ISACKSON: -- and then we'll -- if I think it's a problem,
then we'll address it. I'll address it under communications at future
meetings if I think it's necessary.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good. I think that's important.
Excuse me. I don't think you need to -- you know, it's awkwar r
you because there's five of us up here and, you know, you're -
guess it's "at will" it's called, your employment at will in soiy
ways. So, you know, I don't want you to feel intimidat saying,
no, that's too much.
MR. ISACKSON: No. That -- you'll never at
intimidation from me.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Forgiv e or laughing. I
don't think he's intimidated by any of us.
MR. ISACKSON: But I do appr e sentiment, the
thought. I understand it. Let me wo at item, if you don't mind,
ma'am, and we'll see how it goes Ong forward, please.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: y. Anything else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYL All right. Having -- we are
adjourned.
* * * *Commis er cDaniel moved, seconded by Commissioner
Solis and Wffinhat the following items under the Consent and
Summaryas be approved and/or adopted****
�—a:i6
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR ESPLANADE GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB OF NAPLES —
PHASE 5, PARCEL I, PL20190000442 AND AUTHORIZE THE
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COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE
FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF
$41000 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER'S
DESIGNATED AGENT — FINAL INSPECTION WAS
CONDUCTED ON APRIL 2, 2021, AND FOUND THE
FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A2 �O
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WA AND
SEWER FACILITIES FOR BRADFORD SQUA
PL20150001521, ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE A PORTION
OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEW FACILITIES, AND
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MAN R HIS DESIGNEE,
TO RELEASE THE UTILITIE lIku MANCE SECURITY
(UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATIOND IN THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $34,922.18 T �E PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE
DEVELOPER'S DESIGT�� AGENT —FINAL INSPECTION
WAS CONDUCTED O ARCH 23, 2021, AND FOUND THE
FACILITIES TO BE SBcTISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item # 16A3
FINAL A ANCE AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE LE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FORE ILO ACRES (AKA SAPPHIRE COVE), PL20190001136
AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS
DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN
THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $400 TO THE PROJECT
ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER'S DESIGNATED AGENT —
FINAL INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED ON MARCH 31, 2021,
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AND FOUND THE FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY AND
ACCEPTABLE
Item # 16A4
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILfI'IES
FOR ESPLANADE AT HACIENDA LAKES PHASE
PL20190001708 AND AUTHORIZE THE CO
OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE FIN.
BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $410
ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER'S DESI
FINAL INSPECTION WAS CONDUCT
AND FOUND THE FACILITIES TO
ACCEPTABLE
Item # 16A5
GATION
PROJECT
1 MARCH 24, 2021,
SFACTORY AND
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AWD ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE
NAPLES (OFF
AUTHORIZ
TO RELEAS
f�
(UPS),
AMOL
DE
ATW FACILITIES FOR FERRARI OF
E) - PHASE 1, PL20200000218 AND
'�'OUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE,
UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY
AL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL
LOF $15,504.70 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR TI
PER' S DESIGNATED AGENT — FINAL INSPECTION
WAS CONDUCTED ON MARCH 26, 2021, AND FOUND THE
FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item # 16A6
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FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR HERITAGE BAY GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB —
CLUBHOUSE EXPANSION PHASE 2, PL20210000539 — FINAL
INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED ON MARCH 25, 20211 AND
FOUND THE FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY AND
ACCEPTABLE
.l
Item #16A7 �O
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WeCTION
ND
SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR BIG CARKET
PLACE PHASE 3, PL20210000302 -FINAL WAS
CONDUCTED ON MARCH 10, 2021, A,Np FOUND THE
FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACT
ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A8
RECORD THE MINOR LAT OF CITY GATE
COMMERCE PARK PH THREE REPEAT NO. 51
APPLICATION NUMBER PL20210000402 -LOCATED IN
TION 35, TAYNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST
Item # 16
TO
DEVELOPMENT CODE AMENDMENTS AT
ULARLY SCHEDULED DAYTIME HEARINGS AND
WNIYE THE NIGHTTIME HEARING REQUIREMENT - CCPC
WILL REVIEW THE AMENDMENTS ON WEDNESDAY, MAY
26, 2021 AT 5:05 P.M. AND WILL BE HEARD BY THE BCC ON
JUNE 22, 2021 AND AGAIN ON JULY 13, 2021
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CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND
IN THE AMOUNT OF $81,73639 WHICH WAS POSTED AS A
GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER
PL20190002445 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH ALLUqAbo
THE AS -BUILT LAKE CROSS SECTIONS WERE REC
AND THE LAKE WAS INSPECTED ON APRIL 6, 2
Item #16A11
EXPENDITURES THROUGH AN EXEMPT � �OM THE
COMPETITIVE PROCESS FOR FLORI INTERNATIONAL
UNIVERSITY FOR SAMPLING, 4NZAND
ASSESSMENT OF SEDIMENT AVlijATER QUALITY
Item #16Al2 n�`v
AN AGREEMENT FOR I E PURCHASE OF LAND (PARCEL
330FEE) AND EASEMEN S (PARCELS 330TDRE1 &
330TDRE2) RE IRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
EXTENSIO R CT NO. 60168) -LOCATED ON THE EAST
SIDE OF A Y STREET AND NORTH OF VANDERBILT
BEACH RUAV
CHANGE ORDER NO. 1 TO CONTRACT NUMBER 19-7494,
"DESIGN AND RELATED SERVICES FOR VANDERBILT
BEACH ROAD WIDENING FROM EAST OF U.S. 41 TO EAST
OF GOODLETTE- FRANK ROAD," WITH JACOB S
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ENGINEERING GROUP INC. (PROJECT NUMBER 60199), TO
INCREASE THE BUDGET IN THE AMOUNT OF $256,2961 TO
EXTEND THE LENGTH OF THE DESIGN CONTRACT BY 90
DAYS
Item #16A14
A BUDGET AMENDMENT, IN THE AMOUNT OF $j0751
WITHIN STORMWATER OPERATING FUND 10
STORMWATER MAINTENANCE COST CENT2929 TO
ACQUIRE MOWING EQUIPMENT — L�ON
REQi���O MAINTAIN
A PROPER STORMWATER SWALE DRAINY COUNTY
MAINTAINED RIGHT-OF-WAYS �
Item #16A15 0��'"�
ADVERTISE AN AMENDM TO SECTION 130-3 OF THE
COLLIER COUNTY CAWS AND ORDINANCES,
RELATING TO PROHI NG THE OPERATION OF TRUCKS
AND OTHER COMMER AL VEHICLES WITH A RATED
LOAD-CARR
FROM THRO
ROADS A
CAPACITY IN EXCESS OF FIVE (5) TONS
✓IOVEMENTS ON DESIGNATED PUBLIC
TS IN COLLIER COUNTY
Item
iORDER WITH APTIM ENVIRONMENTAL &
INFRASTRUCTURE, INC., TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL
ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR DOCTORS AND WIGGINS
PASS DREDGING UNDER CONTRACT NO. 18-7432-CZ FOR
TIME AND MATERIAL NOT TO EXCEED $114,188.481
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AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT,
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE WORK
ORDER, AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS ITEM
PROMOTES TOURISM
Item # 16A 17 [�+y
'V
SELECTION COMMITTEE'S RANKING FOR REQU FOR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (RPS) NO. 21-7847, " DLETTE-
FRANK ROAD DITCH IMPROVEMENTS DES ERVICES,"
AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CO
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOP-RANKEWFTRM. WATER
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ASSOC TE'S, INC., SO THAT
STAFF CAN BRING A PROPOSED MENT BACK FOR
THE BOARD'S CONSIDERATI4VSj A SUBSEQUENT
MEETING
Item # 16C 1 - Continued4ay 25, 2021 BCC Meeting
(Per AgendNlange Sheet)
I
RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE A CONSTRUCTION
EASEMENT RMENT, AND TEMPORARY
CONSTR C EASEMENT WITH BEACHWALK
RESIDEN SOCIATION, INC., FOR THE PURPOSE OF
CO TING A WALL AROUND AN EXISTING
W VATE NR PUMP STATION, AT A COST OF $100 —_
LOCA ED ON 91 sT AVENUE NORTH IN NAPLES PARK
Item # 16C2
EXTEND AND EXECUTE THE PROPOSED SEVENTH
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AMENDMENT TO THE LANDFILL OPERATING AGREEMENT
RENEWING THE DISPOSAL CAPACITY AGREEMENT WITH
OKEECHOBEE LANDFILL, INC., A FLORIDA CORPORATION
(A SUBSIDIARY OF WASTE MANAGEMENT INC., OF
FLORIDA) AS IS, FOR A TERM OF ONE YEAR ENDING J
1, 2022, WITH (2) ONE YEAR RENEWAL OPTIONS
PROVIDING THE TRANSFER AND DISPOSAL OF BI� DS,
AND TO RESERVE AIRSPACE FOR STORM GENE1 D
DEBRIS FROM A NATURAL DISASTER — EXTEN OWG THE
AMENDMENT THROUGH DULY 11 2022 WIT HL OPTION
FOR TWO SUCCESSIVE ONE-YEAR RENPtRIODS
Item # 16D 1
TERMINATE AGREEMENT N
SENIORS PROGRAM," WITH
INC., AUTHORIZE AND DI
OR HIS DESIGNEE TO
ATTACHED TERMINA
DETAILED IN THE EXE
'(47 71
4rlSERVICES FOR
EN CARE HOME HEALTH,
THE COUNTY MANAGER
FORWARD THE
,N LETTER TO THE VENDOR - AS
SUMMARY
Item # 16D2
AN "AFT - E-FACT" AMENDMENT AND AN
ATTIO ON STATEMENT WITH THE AREA AGENCY ON
A OR SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, INC., FOR THE
E"Z GENCY HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM TO
DECREASE FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $14,920 AND
AUTHORIZE THE SUPPORTING BUDGET AMENDMENT
Item # 16D3
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LOAN AGREEMENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND
ANTHROPOLOGY ALLOWING THE COLLIER COUNTY
MUSEUMS AND THE MARCO ISLAND HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TO BORROW SIXTEEN (16) ARTIFACTS FRO
1896 PEPPER-HEARST ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDIT OR
DISPLAY AT THE MARCO ISLAND HISTORICAL N�J EUM
Item #16D4
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EMER�
MANAGEMENT HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT NO. H0390
AGREEMENT MODIFICATION TO
SE FUNDING IN
THE AMOUNT OF $2491204 FO "(1) GENERATOR AT
NORTH COLLIER REGIONALQ�l, WITH A TWENTY-FIVE
PERCENT (25%) MATCH OBO ATION DECREASE IN THE
AMOUNT OF $ 83103 8 ADD AUTHORIZE ALL NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENTS
Item # 16D5
THE
PROG
NATI ]
Off' ,
TIRED AND SENIOR VOLUNTEER
AWARD FROM THE CORPORATION FOR
AND COMMUNITY SERVICE IN THE AMOUNT
0 AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET
MENT — FOR THE ONE YEAR GRANT PERIOD OF
JULY 1, 2021 TO JUNE 30, 2022
Item # 16E 1
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RATIFY PROPERTY, CASUALTY, WORKERS'
COMPENSATION, AND SUBROGATION CLAIM FILES
SETTLED AND/OR CLOSED BY THE RISK MANAGEMENT
DIVISION DIRECTOR PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION 2004-15
FOR THE SE
TARTER OF FI
-AL YEAR 2021
Item #16E2 O� v
s
ADMINISTRATNE REPORTS PREPARED BY T
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR C E ORDERS
AND OTHER CONTRACTUAL MODIFIC� EQUIRING
BOARD APPROVAL
Item # 16E3
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
PROCUREMENT SERVICE
PROPERTY AND NO
DISBURSEMENT — ONEi
WITH ATRADE-IN V`1L
VALUE OF DISkSED A
Item #16F1
V '
I��RED BY THE
�iISION FOR DISPOSAL OF
N OF REVENUE
RED ITEMS WERE TRADED -IN
OF $5000 AND THE TOTAL BOOK
ETS ON THE LIST IS $453.1
RESN 2021-91: AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING
G DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS OR INSURANCE
PR�Q EDS) TO THE FY20-21 ADOPTED BUDGET
Item # 16F2
REPORT COVERING BUDGET AMENDMENTS IMPACTING
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RESERVES AND MOVING FUNDS IN AN AMOUNT UP TO
AND INCLUDING $25,000 AND $50,000, RESPECTIVELY
Item #16F3
AWARD REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ("
NO. 20-7817, "CEI SERVICES FOR PELICAN BAY SID K
IMPROVEMENTS," TO JOHNSON ENGINEERING II�IN THE
AMOUNT OF $772,971, AND TO APPROVE THE ATTPACHED
AGREEMENT
Item # 16F4
AWARD OF INVITATION TO BIDtlNC.FD/B/A
NO. 21-7869,
"PELICAN BAY SIDEWALK R INT - PHASE 1," TO
COASTAL CONCRETE PROD
U COASTAL
SITE DEVELOPMENT, IN el"N
MOUNT OF $649,263.75, AND
AUTHORIZE THE CH THE ATTACHED
CONSTRUCTION SER ES AGREEMENT
I
Item # 16F5
RECOGN I LISA NUCCIO, PUBLIC SERVICES
DEPART , LIBRARY DIVISION AS THE APRIL 2021
EMOF THE MONTH
IteTn #16F6
TERMINATING A LEASE WITH KRAFT OFFICE CENTER,
LLC, AND SEND NOTICE TO THE LANDLORD
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Item # 16G 1
AWARD INVITATION TO NEGOTIATE NO. 19-76641
"IMMOKALEE REGIONAL AIRPORT HANGAR/
COMMERCIAL AERONAUTICAL DEVELOPMENT," AND
AUTHORIZE ITS CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHE �y
COLLIER COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY LEASEHO
AGREEMENT FOR HANGAR CONSTRUCTION WI
GLOBAL FLIGHT TRAINING SOLUTIONS, INC. THE
CONSTRUCTION OF HANGARS AT THE IMMAI LEE
REGIONAL AIRPORT
Item # 16H 1 '
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATI 20211 AS DROWNING
PREVENTION MONTH IN COL COUNTY. THE
PROCLAMATION WILL B - LED TO PAULA DIGRIGOLI,
EXECUTIVE DIRECT�I�i SAFE &HEALTHY
CHILDREN'S COALITI OF COLLIER COUNTY -ADOPTED
I
Item # 16H2
PROCLA A N DESIGNATING MAY 22 - 28, 2021, AS
NATIONA FE BOATING WEEK IN COLLIER COUNTY.
THE AMATION WILL BE MAILED TO KEITH
W AN, UNITED STATES COAST GUARD AUXILIARY,
FLQT LLA 95, MARCO ISLAND, FLORIDA — ADOPTED
Item # 16H3
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PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MAY 2021, AS TRAUMA
AWARENESS MONTH IN COLLIER COUNTY. THE
PROCLAMATION WILL BE MAILED TO LAUREN WARE,
COMMUNITY PROGRAMS COORDINATOR, LEE MEMORIAL
HEALTH SYSTEM, FT. MYERS, FLORIDA — ADOPTED
Item # 16H4
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MAY 16 - 221
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WEEK IN.4
COUNTY. THE PROCLAMATION WILL
TABATHA BUTCHER, CHIEF, COLLIER
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
o�
K AS
LIER
RED TO
Item #161-15 0��'"�
PROCLAMATION DESIGN MAY 16 - 22, 2021, AS
WATER REUSE WEE LIER COUNTY. THE
PROCLAMATION WIL DELIVERED TO DR. GEORGE
YILMAZ, PUBLIC UT;LI IES DEPARTMENT HEAD
ADOPTED -C
Item # 16H,�_— ceded on (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
PRO�TION THAT MAY 9-15, 2021, BE DESIGNATED AS
POEEK IN COLLIER COUNTY. ACCEPTED BY THE
F N OFFICERS ASSOCIATION —ADOPTED
Item # 16J 1
RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
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COMMISSIONERS, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER
PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR
WHICH THE REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS WERE DRAWN
FOR THE PERIODS BETWEEN APRIL 15, 2021 AND APRIL 28,
2021 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06
Item # 16J2
REQUEST THAT THE BOARD APPROVE AND RMINE
VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PA E AND
PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS A A 5 2021
Item #16K1 IF
THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE A SC���ij2ENT AGREEMENT IN
THE LAWSUIT STYLED MARMT HEELER V. COLLIER
v
COUNTY BOARD OF COM IONERS, (CASE NO. 20-CA-
3608), NOW PENDING IN CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
TWENTIETH JUDICIAL RCUIT IN AND FOR COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA40THE SUM OF $22.500
Item # 16K2 — nti ed to the June 8, 2021 BCC Meeting
r Agenda Change Sheet)
THIS ITENMAS CONTINUED FROM THE APRIL 27. 2021 BCC
MEETING. RECOMMENDATION TO TAKE NO FURTHER
ACTION WITH RESPECT TO A PUBLIC PETITION
REQUESTING THAT COLLIER COUNTY ENACT AN
ORDINANCE TO PROTECT FIREARM OWNERS FROM
FEDERAL OR STATE GOVERNMENT INTRUSION
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Item # 16K3
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT
OF $50,993.00 INCLUDING STATUTORY ATTORNEYS' FEES
AND COSTS, FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL 187FEE,
REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD �+
EXTENSION PROJECT (PROJECT NO., 60168) (FISCAL
IMPACT: $51,163.00, WHICH INCLUDES THE STA 11 JRY
$170 CLERK'S FEE)ow
Item # 16K4
A STIPULATED ORDER OF TAKING
OF $60000.00 FOR THE TAKING Qi
REQUIRED FOR THE VANDI
EXTENSION PROJECT, (PRO
IMPACT: $600,170.00, WHI #
$170 CLERK'S FEE
THE TOTAL AMOUNT
DCEL 13 8FEE,
ACH ROAD
� �vo. 60168> (FISCAL
CLUDES THE STATUTORY
Item # 16K5
I
A STIPULA F AL JUDGMENT IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT
OF $110,0 0. LUS STATUTORY ATTORNEY' S FEES AND
COSTS O ,727.001 AND $170 CLERK'S FEE FOR THE
TA K PARCEL 1226FEE, REQUIRED FOR THE
VAT BILT BEACH ROAD EXTENSION PROJECT
CT NO. 60168
Item # 16K6
RESOLUTION 2021-92: REAPPOINTING STEPHEN KOZIAR
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AND JOSEPH BURKE TO THE COASTAL ADVISORY
COMMITTEE WITH TERMS EXPIRING ON MAY 22. 2025
Item #16K7
RESOLUTION 2021-93: APPOINTING JAMES BENNET
THE HISTORIC/ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRESERVATIONRD
WITH TERM EXPIRING ON OCTOBER 1, 2024 _F 0
There beingno further business for the good oi►eehounty,the
g Y
meeting was adjourned by order of the Cl*at 1' 36 p.m.
0 ��v
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL
.\rt4l
PENNY TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN
ATTEST
CRYSTAL K. KINZEL, CLERK
�y.
These minutes approved t e Board on
as presented or as corrected
TRANSCILIPW16,REPARED ON BEHALF OF FORT MYERS
COURT R TING BY TERRI LEWIS, FPR, COURT
REP AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
-4� N�
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