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Agenda 07/12/2022 Item # 2B (BCC Joint BCC Meeting Workshop Minutes 06/07/2022)2.B 07/12/2022 COLLIER COUNTY Board of County Commissioners Item Number: 2.B Item Summary: June 7, 2022 BCC Joint Workshop Minutes Meeting Date: 07/12/2022 Prepared by: Title: Sr. Operations Analyst — County Manager's Office Name: Geoffrey Willig 06/27/2022 11:45 AM Submitted by: Title: Deputy County Manager — County Manager's Office Name: Amy Patterson 06/27/2022 11:45 AM Approved By: Review: County Manager's Office Geoffrey Willig County Manager Review Board of County Commissioners Geoffrey Willig Meeting Pending Completed 06/27/2022 11:45 AM 07/12/2022 9:00 AM Packet Pg. 17 MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Naples, Florida, June 7, 2022 LET IT BE REMEMBERED, the Collier County Board of County Commissioners and the Marco Island City Council, in and for the of Collier, having conducted business herein, met on this da a a.m. in REGULAR SESSION at Administrative Building "F," d loor, Collier County Government Complex, Naples, Florida, following members present: BCC Chaira iam L. McDaniel Jr. Andy Solis Rick LoCastro Burt Saunders Penny Taylor Naples City Council -4, Teresa Heitmann, Mayor Michael McCabe, Vice -Mayor Ted Blankenship, C cil Member Raymond Christ cil Member Terry Hutchiso ncil Member Paul Perry C cil, ember Beth Petruno,�uncil Member anty Manager attorney :ity Manager Tanya Williams, County Public Services, Director Trinity Scott, Transportation Management Services, Department Head Bob Middleton, Naples Utilities Director Andy Holland, City Streets & Stormwater Department, Interim Director Jake LaRow, CHS Operations Manager Maggie Lopez, Financial Operations Manager, CHS 1 Any persons in need of the verbatim record of the meeting may request a copy of the video recording from the Collier County Communications and Customer Relations Department, or view it online. Call to Order BCC Chairman BCC Chairman McDaniel called the meeting to order at 9 a.m. 1. Pledge of Allegiance The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 2. WORKSHOP TOPICS 2.A. 2008 Interlocal Agreement, Set To Expire Sept. 30, 2022 — Tanya Willi s,1�6unty Public Services Director BCC Chairman McDaniel told the Board and Council they could ask st n nd make comments during presentations. Ms. Williams presented a PowerPoint presentation: and said t Ki rant, Director of Operations & Veterans Services, and Jeff Newman, Operational Servi ager for Public Services, helped her put together a brief presentation. The current, ale a tended City -County Beach Parking Interlocal Agreement is set to expire on p 0, 2022. As part of the Interlocal Agreement that started in 2003, the City and Co o ate beach patrols and maintenance programs. The City provides at least 1,048 pa ' ces for those with valid parking stickers and the County provides 1,527 parking spaces. ' inal agreement was set for five years and expired in 2008, when a new agreem t s blished. The term was expanded from five years to 10 years, with an expiration dat�p ber 30, 2018. Both the City and the County wan ed tdextend the agreement, so it was extended another five years. At that time, the C ty ageed to a $1 million annual payment to the City, with an annual adjustment beginning ' 1. The City agreed to expand access to the City's parks, recreational facilities and pro2At s to re ents of unincorporated Collier County. On December 17, 2017, the agreement was a to include an increased $1.5 million annual payment to the City, with no adjustment fac time, the County agreed that beach stickers would no longer be sold to non -Collier Co idents and that agreement was extended and amended through September 2022. A tim Collier County staff recommends maintaining the existing, amended Interlocal Agree m for another four years. y in ining the existing amended Interlocal Agreement, several benefits continue: • t distributes the cost of beach patrols and maintenance programs to the respective entity. • The County's $1.5 million remittance to the City equals over 53% of all beach and water revenue being permitted. • It provides the best value and quality beach access to Collier County residents. Vice Mayor McCabe asked what does 53.3% of all beach and water revenues from all sources mean? 2 Ms. Williams said it means that of all revenues generated, $1.5 million equals 53% of those revenues, so you're getting back 53% of the revenues as part of your $1.5 million. Vice Mayor McCabe said that to him, it doesn't equate, 53.3% of the general revenues? Ms. Williams said they are just for beach and water revenue, just for your parking revenue and your beach access. Ms. Williams asked Mr. Newman to explain further. Mr. Newman said that if you look at what we took in during FY2021 for beaches0par ing, the overwhelming share of beach and water revenues come from parking. There ark other minor streams. For instance, if we rent something out on the beach, like a marriag ony. But overwhelmingly, it's parking. If you take all revenues that we generate in k for our beach and water at County parks, $1.5 million in FY21 was about 53.50%. Vice Mayor McCabe said that's what he thought, but why is that Mr. Newman said he included that information to show th though we charge out-of-towners who don't have beach parking stickers at our parks, it s that $1.5 million works into the parks' revenue stream. Vice Mayor McCabe said it's saying it's 53.3% f parking revenues that the County takes in Y Y g p g tY but it's for the City's beach parking in parks does that equate? Commissioner Saunders said he #�od, as well. He thought we were talking about what is the gross revenue from this of the ty in terms of your parking, so he assumed this number reflected 53.3% of the City's gross rev ue. The relevant question is what is your gross revenue? And what perce ge oAat gross revenue is this $1.5 million? What is the City's gross revenue from parking o ations that are subject to this agreement? For example, if that number is $3 million, then that /o nt of that would be our payment. That's what he assumed it was. Vice Mayor cCab 'd the more relevant comparison for the City's parking and Parks would be what doe $ on represent to the cost of the City, the beaches, renourishment, parking, to maintaXah7atnumber king of the beaches and parks, to our fulfillment? When he saw 53.3%, he didn't was there. Ch i tan McDaniel said we're here to discuss that and to move forward. Com issioner Taylor agreed. The issue is what's the cost to maintain our beaches today, what is your cost and what is our cost and what is the revenue? Because more needs to be done. We need more oversight on the beaches. We need to figure out that number and go from there. Vice Mayor McCabe said he doesn't see why the County's cost is relevant because we're talking about County residents using City facilities and the County's cost is covered by the City's residents paying the ad valorem tax, the same as any other County residents. So, the question should be what is the City's cost, and then looking at the share of the County residents, what that would represent. Then make sure the costs we have are being borne by the County's residents. BCC Chairman McDaniel said having this discourse will be very instrumental in coming up with a palatable agreement. Heitman asked to clarify "all sources." BCC Chairman McDaniel said County staff is taking notes to get answers to all the quest n Vice Mayor McCabe said there are 156,218 beach parking stickers. Of that, 151,00 e County, so 96.66% of the parking stickers for our beach ends and only 5,210 are tty, so as we're looking at this and understanding what the percentage of access is, we'll e able to get down to the percentage of actual use. When we're saying roughly 97% of t stickers are the County, that needs to be weighed into this conversation. _ Commissioner Saunders said he suspected that was substantiallj he finds objectionable. He has four beach stickers and rarely goes mean anything. BCC Chairman McDaniel said this discussion is so and reach a consensus. • . Council Member Hutchison said we're discussion is about identifying costs. His also include projected costs over any per a definition for "water revenue." -1 Commissioner LoCastro said it 1.5 million, which so 96% doesn't an open and honest discourse )t Interlocal Agreement, and currently the d be that as we look at costs today, we should in a proposed extension. Also, please provide we don't have an argument over the agreement itself, but we need a deeper dive ' to tl*ttatistics, the money, the revenue, the sourcing and all that as we come up to the Steperr 30 timeline. Is there anything in the agreement that anyone takes exception to, other ly7n wa ' g a breakout with statistics? Council Mem]Ler PAW asked how the extension was set for four years, not five or 10. Ms. Willj,?Ws sJT ifwas just decided to extend it for four years. McDaniel said the number is irrelevant now. They could determine a time for an they approve an Interlocal Agreement. Comifiissioner Taylor said that prior to the agreement, the City and County were butting heads a lot. The City strongly suggested asking for $1 million a year for parking and the County agreed. That had to do with the parking passes, etc. Prior to that, it was loggerheads. She didn't know why there wasn't another 10-year agreement. It makes no sense, unless the County decides they don't want to use the City's beaches. How many accesses are in the City right now? Ms. Williams said 40. N Commissioner Taylor said she doesn't think the City or County wants to give up access to 40 beach accesses because the County has about five, so it behooves us all to come together to understand that the beach is a shared resource, and it's very important to keep it up and to keep our quality of life. Our quality of life is dependent on how people use the beaches and it's not to have glass on the beach, dogs on the beach, barbecues or tents on the beach. This can't happen. Council Member Blankenship said they can come to a reasonable agreement on cost-shaA We've had significant cost increases since the pandemic. We increased the beach patrol, p c patrols, increased cleaning on the Pier, and increased cleaning and trash pick-up at Low Park and all the beach ends, so we can factor that into the budget and come up with onable approach. The real issue we need to think about is long-term parking. We've got to ous growth in our area and only so many beach parking spaces. That's where we'r o need creative help, either from us, from City and County staff, on how we're goi dress providing access to the beach for all our residents when there's not enough parking ie rea. BCC Chairman McDaniel said he liked the statement he made t tlbeing "all of our beaches." If we approach this discussion with that as a premise wi e 1 to come to a consensus. Commissioner Saunders said he understood. Where thpmQi7Wncil seems to be going on this is all those maintenance costs they have. Whether eli i a eement or not, you're going to have those costs, so he wanted to find out what t i gross revenue is from parking meters and see what that $1.5 million, what that percent e, ould be. As staff is evaluating this, please come back with what our alternatives are in ' c g our parking facilities on the beach because we do have several facilities and maybe o increase those. Clam Pass Park is an example of an area we've talked about, so weZgo in that direction. He'd like to see the City's gross revenue for parking, which iswhat's relevant here. How much you're spending, how much revenue you have, and how mis $1.5 million reflects that because your costs are going to remain. Your costs are Wt goiyt to change. There shouldn't be a ONce that the County is a cash cow here. We have to be very careful about how we spe o mo ey, as well. This $1.5 million was a very fair agreement and he'd like to see that rate contin ut he understands the City needs to look at its numbers. Council nChristman said he recognizes they have Interlocal Agreements for Parks and Recreail, pwJj&larly the beaches, which is the most visible Interlocal Agreement we have and is in t ,*f all. Is this the only Interlocal Agreement we have between the City and ty? e didn't believe it was. When we planned for this joint workshop, some of the diseYeto by Council was to take a look at all the Interlocal Agreements we had with the County, or talk about Interlocal Agreements that don't exist that maybe should for issues such as affordable housing. It would be useful for staff to provide a full summary of Interlocal Agreements that are in place so we have an understanding of that. Ms. Patterson said they're in the process of putting that together. Mayor Heitmann said she set the tone. She doesn't think this is an adversarial meeting It's a great 5 opportunity to discuss, to work on and solve issues. We're not coming against you and wanting, but seeking information to solve some issues. BCC Chairman McDaniel said they all concur. This meeting is long past due to have an open discussion and discourse with our community at large. You're a part of ours, we're a part of yours. Commissioner LoCastro said he wanted to get back to something Council Member Perry said. It's extremely important how frequently we look at these agreements. When we've been to ' g at accounting agreements, some get looked at every 10 years and then a 10-year point hits a nobody looks at it and then we're at the 17-year point. The County is so dynamic and g o quickly and money is changing hands so fast. One minute we have a marina that's baabeing used and producing no revenue, and now it's a huge cash cow. They're looking at^e more frequently, even if it's just to look at it and say, "You know what, it's perfectly, way it is" and then we go another four years. We really need to nail that down in an a t. We've been remiss here in the County a few times where we missed a few and when thlRement came to us, it was pretty dusty. Even by our own admission, we've sat here and said, "We would we'd really attacked it at the 10-year point when we're suppo ed nailing down that term, what's the magic number, four or f V< because you're dealing with real dollars here and things said, this area is growing so quickly that in four yelr i t e sooner if we're watching it. We might want to ha ergenc, this, or any other agreement. e ettTr served the County if o r maybe sooner." So really e need something definite :ranging very quickly. As you d a total overhaul, maybe even meeting and really take a look at Vice Mayor McCabe said is the agreem as it's structured today, sound and should we move forward? Yes, but with one cng the last go around, they took out an escalator clause. The escalator clause or somng similar should be put back in because that would capture the kind of conversations that we're ha*fig today. It's important because if you look at the escalator clause, if it was i therend you project it into 2023, to this next fiscal year we're going to make an agreement f and you compared the metrics, we would have had an 84.6% increase. Instead of $Jo , we'd be talking about $2,769,292, so it's not a small deal. It is a big deal. >, As Mr. Commirake Saunders touched on, we're not talking about hoarding County money, but we just n toure we really understand what we're talking about. In the City of Naples, our resi he County, just like any other County residents. Then City of Naples resi dditional taxes for the services and all that we have. County residents don't, so what e to ng about is making sure that County residents share in paying for what the City resi ave, in addition to what the County has. We're not drawing a line and saying, "Give us more ounty money." We're literally saying, "For the residents of City of Naples, give us the money we've already given for the additional services that we have for the City." It's no more complicated than that. BCC Chairman McDaniel said we're all entitled to our opinions. Commissioner Saunders has an opinion that he doesn't disagree with. You're certainly entitled to spend as much money as you want, but in order to do it, and if you have a discretionary expense that you're putting out as a C1 maintenance expense with a theoretical escalator clause that you want to put in here and it's not a ratified expense, then we need to have a discussion about that. With our carte blanche, there's more money, but at the same token, he wants it to be equitable. Vice Mayor McCabe said absolutely, so this is a good conversation to set up, What will take place post -meeting? Commissioner Taylor said it might be advisable to have an ad hoc committee work out d s and bring something back to each of our boards, because that is something that she doesn' i we've ever done. She doesn't think it's in the ordinance. It's clear that the beaches aZyk County's interests, everyone's interests. Rather than getting into the nitty gritty, we one and you pick one and bring staffs together and really go into it, understanding�i�tenor of what you've heard here. I v BCC Chairman McDaniel agreed, saying he liked the idea, the holistic BCC Vice Chair BCC Vice Chair Solis asked if they could revenue is for parking. Mr. Boodheshwar said in about three months, he'll be don't have anyone here today from finance. But as we I assessment, we'll have that piece of information._ • & A Ms. Williams said the last benefit is that the with access to South Marco Beach, Tiger Ta, Clam Pass, North Gulfshore Beach access The discussion has already started WON6%j. Council Member Blankenship said City's total that question and others. We data, that is important in our [oZW Agreement would provide City residents Barefoot Beach Preserve, Barefoot access, aderbilt Beach, a total of seven County beaches. been taken, so she awaits the Board's directive. other element of data that would be helpful to look at is parks utilization. We've to ed aA about the beaches, but not so much about the parks. We have data that show a lot of my residents continue to use City parks. Even though you have invested tremendous amounts ' o t parks, we're still seeing the utilization and it would be interesting to see if you have a at s ows how many City residents are using County parks. That would be helpful to know so w a factor that into this Interlocal Agreement because the $1.5 million, or whatever the n ds up being, is supposed to cover some shared park costs and beach costs. BCC (A~IcDaniel said we've had discussions about the Seagate parking garage and so on.Wo a co explore an inland parking garage to digitize all our beach accesses, so the people wa t come to a beach can look at a screen to see if there's parking available. He wants the e able to go to a parking garage, pay, get in, get in a van and go to a City or County beach. twill reduce infrastructure impacts and reduce parking in the City of Naples. Council Member Blankenship said we talked about the same thing because Lowdermilk Park, for instance, fills up and people drive around or sit in line trying to find a parking space. BCC Chairman McDaniel said they've had people parking in private yards or rights -of -way and they've had very serious circumstances. 7 Vice Mayor McCabe said he doesn't agree with factoring in what share of City residents use County parks. City residents are paying County taxes and, therefore, should have access to County parks. It's the opposite that's not taking place, so City residents are already paying for County facilities, services, etc., in their ad valorem taxes, so we shouldn't be factoring that in. It's when County residents come to the City, that's the conversation. Council Member Hutchison said for staff, the "ask" would be to share the variables the C&Vty uses to arrive at its net expense and beach costs. Let's compare what we're using. You mW�- Sn opportunity there. And let's look at what reasonable access to the beach really looks I on the beach ends and near -shore parking lots. What's the impact on people parking r rigt ins - of -way, front of the residences and what's that expense? O f Should we discuss solutions with shared -costs and providing mobility? He ure if that's ever been discussed, beach parking enforcement and numerous other beacl el ed variables. Outside our world, what are the best practices? There are a lot of beac s the country. We can look at best practices and adopt those to come up with a goo or our residents and visitors well into the future. Mayor Heitmann said we also should look at boat ramp f nd how many spaces we actually have. The pandemic showed us that our access for boat eased. We might want to look at that to make sure we have enough. • BCC Chairman McDaniel said they'd looked a th ount ramps a lot and would be ha to Y Y p happy share what the County is doing. Commissioner Taylor asked the C 1 had the consensus of both boards to appoint an ad hoc committee to come back with s information that can be disseminated. If we're on break, it can be disseminated through e-mail, so a can prepare for the Interlocal Agreement in September. Mayor Heitmann said could be the liaison for the City Council and the BCC chair when they go on summer break•. L � BCC Chairman Mclj.iel said he'd be happy to be a liaison and be on the ad hoc committee. BCC Ch a cDaniel said no decision making is coming from this. We're just gathering inform g it all together, and then we'll bring it back to our individual boards. asked what the time frame was. Taylor said the agreement would be voted on during the second BCC meeting in September. BCC Chairman McDaniel said it would be September 13 and our last meeting before break will be July 12. 2.B. Septic To Sewer Initiative - [Bob Middleton, Naples Utilities Director] Mr. Middleton presented a PowerPoint presentation said he's presenting an update to the City's septic sewer program, a good program for eliminating the potential for septic tank overflows that contaminate our waterways. In 2006, the City completed a study of the unsewered areas within the City's sanitary sewer system service area. The shaded area is the City's sanitary sewer service area. A lot of that area is outside the City limits, in Collier County. The plan identified seven areas that did not have sanitary sewer and were on septic tanks. The first project that we took on was Area 7, the Bemberry Drive area, which was constru 2015. The next project was Areas 4 and 5, within the unsewered area. Construction oft ry sewer system there is complete. The County stormwater system is almost complete, t or some punch -list items. So far, connections to that system are about 95% complete t e connections from the homes to the sanitary -sewer system. We've got four areas remaining. Areas 1-6, which are bounded on the no i y Pine Ridge Road, the southern end is the green area known as Area 6, Creech Roa a ounded by U.S. 41 and Goodlette Road. Area 7, the first project we completed in 5,1 hind the post office on Goodlette Road, north and west of the post office. It cost $852,00ct 50 properties there. These are paid for by assessments, so Area 7 residents wer a essed the construction cost for the sanitary sewer system with no grant help, just City resi is 1 g about $15,000 per connection. Residents also were responsible fort0iisi^ar Ie onnection and abandonment of the septic tank, so we're learning how that worked t t first process, and we're a bit better on Areas 4 and 5. Hopefully, we'll continue to get e uring this process. BCC Chairman McDaniel asked if the any struggles financially and had issues due to that. Mr. Middleton said yes, sir, that's the ain reason for this discussion, because he wants to make everybody aware of it. In t e areoke called Phase 1, the west Goodlette Frank Road project, or Gulf Acres -Rosemary P ect. It was to provide sanitary sewer systems in Areas 4 and 5. In November 2017, the fei a ounty entered into an Interlocal Agreement in which the City would construct a itkty s er system to eliminate septic tanks and replace the water - distribution sy tem. 1% ity provides drinking water to residents of this area, so the water system needed to be re the same time because it couldn't withstand the construction activities for to installing* swater system and the sanitary sewer system. AnN1t t, the County was going to upgrade and replace the stormwater system in this area, prone to massive flooding, especially during Hurricane Irma. It was a good move to repla upgrade the stormwater system to get that water off those properties during a storm. He likes t e Interlocal Agreement, where the City and the County work together, because there are several benefits to doing that construction at the same time. When two different entities own utilities, if they can get together and do that work all at one time, that minimizes the construction agony, and there was a lot of agony doing this construction, not only for the residents there, but for City and County staff. When they dig up that right-of-way, which was 60 feet, we went down through those streets and 0 dug it up to install and replace all the utilities. The cost -sharing is an advantage for both sides. Under this agreement, the County took the lead on procurement. They took care of hiring the design consultant and bidding the project out, and this project was done through a three -parry construction agreement. The City and the County had an agreement with the contractor where the City paid for their cost and the County paid for their cost for the improvements. The total project cost for Areas 4 and 5, which includes the construction of the sanitary sewer system, the water system and the stormwater system, was $13.7 million for the County. Th sanitary sewer was assessed to the residents and when we went into this, the construction t just sanitary sewer was $5.7 million to connect 331 properties. As we got into meeting i 1 residents, several were not happy about getting hit with a $25,000 assessment for thoA, sts and that number of connections. That assessment includes not only the construction bdesign cost, engineering cost, and any other fees associated with setting up that assessmentz1vtdas all charged back to the residents. There was so much public outcry on this whe Npt into the public hearings to set the assessment, that the City Council said, "Let's stop, we d find money to help these residents out." That's when we joined together with the Co y, agreed to pay for the $313,000 design cost. The City and County had grants with the Water Management istri for this project. The City had $800,000 in grants and the County had $875,000 in grants. County said it would give up its grant request and give it to the City, which was $1.67 7eycoullld with those two offsets, we were able to reduce the assessment from $25 000 dow tb h was much more palatable to the residents. Plus, we gave them several options, pay off the assessment. We still had a few that were not happy with W'' pay that. But they had the option of paying that off upfront, $13,300, with no interesttpay it off; or they could have it attached to their ad valorem taxes over a 20-ye )rvvith interest; or they didn't have to pay it off at all, but at the end of the 20-year asses gt, they would have to pay that plus the interest, about $50,000 at the end. Commissioner Taylor . they didn't have to pay it off if they sold their house. If they homeowner wanted o t ut they saw an appreciation on their house and wanted to realize that appreciation t t de t was carried to the new owners. asked what most residents did. Mr. M1741#aarglaid they paid it off. There was a silent majority out there because the septic tanks we ely bad shape. For the cost they were going to have to pay, the payment option was at van ge to some. Plus, to replace the septic tank was about $15,000. So, either you pay the City e to connect to the system and eliminate the septic tank or have the recurring costs of replacing the septic tank every 20 years, so there was an advantage. Then the City applied through the State Legislature for a line -item appropriation. This project got a lot of attention with the help of the County and our lobbyist in Tallahassee and we were granted a $1.2 million line -item appropriation from the Legislature to offset the cost of the sanitary sewer system. The City also applied for a DEP grant, a 319 Grant that pays to offset the cost of the abandonment of the septic tanks in connection to the system and the City threw in $400,000 to 10 match that. We were able to combine those three sums of money, which is about $2.1 million. We hired a contractor to do the actual connection work to abandon the septic tanks and make the house connection to the sanitary sewer system. The residents didn't pay anything out of pocket and it's their responsibility to make the connection because it's on private property. Today, of the 331 properties, we're about 95% complete. We've got 11-15 remaining connections to be made, and that's going to be on Ridge Street, so we hope within the next two months to have that project completed and move on to the next one. If you didn't have the opportunity to ride through this area before construction and ride H c�h it now, it looks very nice. The right-of-way is opened up and the road is brand new. T itary sewer system runs down the middle of the road and you can see the difference in a es on the side of the road for the stormwater system. Everything stonnwater in this area he east, to the canal along the road, so everything is pitched that way to move the watey+ A water line is on the north side of Ridge Street. To the west, you can e eNprovements of the stormwater system, the roadway, the driveways were replaced. d a enomenal job on restoration. There is still some more work to do, some line -item th ut t was a pretty successful project. For Phase 2, we've got four more areas to do. In 2019, t CIValld the County agreed to another interlocal agreement to do the design and construczi t f r remaining areas. In March of 2021, the City Council awarded a contract to the . We're at 60% design right now and we should be at 100% by this August. We've 90401NO tentative amounts based on that engineer's estimate on what the cost would be. The des' e sanitary sewer system for the entire area is $806,157 and this will be a special assess e will charge residents for the design and the construction through the assessme ffigiz This area represents 869 total connections and the City has budgeted $32 million over next five years. We've got it spaced out because we estimated it'll be about a year to two y s to construct and do all the improvements in that area. That includes replace ent 4ethe water system, a new sanitary sewer system and the County's improvements to the sto water system. We've broken thi o t d n into three projects in Phase 2. Project 1 is to work in Areas 3 and 6, based on the unse a master plan. The construction cost for the sanitary sewer system alone is $10.7 million and 6 and represent 285 connections. To give a cost comparison, the constructof t e sanitary sewer system for Areas 4 and 5 was $5.7 million for 331 connections and di t, e $2 million for the connection cost. What we're doing differently on this one is we c ng in the construction costs the abandonment of the septic tanks and connection to t ste hat represents $2 million out of that $10.7 million. BCC ice Chair Solis asked what exactly does abandonment mean? Mr. Middleton said there's a procedure that you have to go through that's identified by the State Health Department and now DEP. You have to crush the tank, pump out the contents and fill it with suitable material. In some cases, that's select soil and others, we may pump it full of flowable fill or concrete. The cost for that is anywhere from $2,00045000 per property. 11 If you remove the cost of the connection, $2,000 from the $10.7 million, you're at $8.7 million for 285 connections versus $5.7 million, which we just completed. It's $2 million-$3 million more for doing the work now so that's an increased cost the residents are going to have to absorb, and hopefully our engineer is way off on his estimates, but we know what prices are doing right now. Based on that cost with no grants applied, it's $40,000 per connection per resident, and that's at the 60% design drawings. We're hoping that will be reduced, but I am not looking forward to that discussion with the residents. Grants are available, but they're not guaranteed for this project. We've applied for a line-i appropriation through the Legislature and that has been approved. It's in the State budg t or $500,000. They've changed the rules on how we can apply for State funding and willbn provide funding for work done within their fiscal year, which is July through June. When pied for this, we were assuming that we would start construction in early 2023, but that my give us six months of construction within that fiscal year, so we would probably ha illion worth of work done by then, so it's typically a 50% grant. They provided $500,OOOA e ink we'll be successful in future grants. Congressman Byron Daniels has applied for a Federal Communi m roject grant on the City's behalf and we've requested $5 million. We have receiv d co ents back from the federal level asking questions about the how to justify this. He doeInN know where they are with it, but if we could get a $5 million grant, we've just cut that: 40 OO:SI aJf to $20,000. Plus, with other grant opportunities, we've been i o cations with the Big Cypress Basin through the Water Management District and will o han likely get grant funding there. But it's going to be around $500,000-$800,000. We';� nything. We also applied for a 319 Grant through DEP to cover the connection cosVW think we'll get about $500,000. We will send out public notification residents this summer, including costs, and will probably set up some public meetings with City d the County staff to represent the project and have plans and drawings set out for re ident�o see their properties and how it's going to be connected or affected. Those will pro ly be good meetings, except for the discussion about what their costs will be. The design o e ct will be completed this fall, probably August. The initial and final assessment hearin w be n later this year, but for the final assessment, we've got to have a pretty good nu ber t ve the maximum assessment included in that final assessment. If we don't have the final a t high enough and the project costs exceed that amount, the City's on the hook for tlat co , so we want to be accurate on our cost. Taylor asked if you could go the other way. Mr.lVdleton said yes, and that's what typically happens after a project is constructed. We know the true construction cost and then the assessment is recalculated. If people paid a higher amount, then they're reimbursed. Council Member Petrunoff said the prime rate is going up and it's going to go up again. The way these are priced, are they variable or is it a fixed rate that's applied to residents? Mr. Middleton said it's a fixed rate. 12 Council Member Petrunoff asked if we have any sense of how much it costs, or have we done any calculations on reduction in pollution to explain this? What is the benefit of this project? What are the failed septic systems doing to waterways? Mr. Middleton said that's done through water -quality monitoring. We've got a good area to do water -quality monitoring. One of the tasks in the Big Cypress Basin's grant agreement with the City is that we have to do water -quality monitoring. We've already started monitoring oft ater coming out of the system prior to the septic tanks being online, so we have the history on tbat. Now that the septic tanks are going away, then we're required to monitor for an additio(a years to see what the impact reduction is going to be. Council Member Petrunoff asked when they will get our first reads on this, Ot you're 95% done with Phase 1. Mr. Middleton said we have to sample again in September. AC) Council Member Petrunoff asked if they'll get a reading in Octo%K-1V'NTvember on this. Mr. Middleton said yes. For construction, the City will bi roject and we're going to change the way we did it from the previous time. We did not pr u contractor. We're going through a contractor pre -qualification process to rf- contractors that will be eligible to bid on this job and you know why we're doing t anticipating construction to begin in early 2023. In Area 3, the northern boundary is S la oad, the southern boundary, including the boundary on the south side, is Cypress Woo W . We've just completed the septic sewer at Hollygate Lane, so we're moving north a ounded by U.S. 41 and Goodlette Road. This represents 260 connections. Area 6 is Creech Road. The north half Creech Road is in the County and they are not on sanitary sewer. They're on septic t s, sVAhey represent 25 connections. For Project 2, to the north, Area 2 represents 305 conned ' s. The estimated construction cost for the sanitary sewer is $10.8 million and includes co e tion cost. Grant funding is anticipated, but not guaranteed. This area is south of G Bo evard and includes Morningside Drive on the south side and it represents 305 conne ' s. The last area to the north is Area 1, which is $10.4 million based on this year's doll s 279 connections. That's a $40,000 per -connection cost without any grants no t in udes the connection cost. The area in the middle is not shaded because at some time b e istence at the City, somebody installed sanitary sewer in that area, so they are luc 'aries to be living there right now. This shaded area represents 279 connections and out ine Ridge Road, north of Granada Boulevard between U.S. 41 and Goodlette Road. Mayo Heitmann thanked Mr. Middleton, his staff and County staff. This is really a fine example of a City -County partnership in taking care of the necessary infrastructure that was missing for a very long time and it is protecting our impaired waterbodies for the future. That's what the City has been working on with our Lakes Management Program. It's extremely important that we are also a partnership in State appropriations and are lobbying the federal government for our water management. It took a team to do this and she's very proud of this project because she has hope that we can clean up some of our water bodies that are impaired. 13 Commissioner LoCastro said he hopes that Isles of Capri residents watched this because in his district, that's a huge footprint now. That's pretty much all septic and it's been postponed for so many years. We all appreciate the timeline it takes from the idea to actually flushing the toilet and having it being connected to sewer, and it's big. We would have benefited on Isles of Capri by having this discussion in the very early stages of talking to Isles of Capri residents. You were saying there's misinformation, the minute they hear that there's a possible assessment, forget it. But the rebuttal is if your septic tank explodes tomorrow, you're going to pay regardless how many grants there are. And when it comes to water, you've raised a great question, but it' a NP about prevention. It's about making sure that doesn't happen because it has happened 'If s communities. Some preliminary work that we've done to get our notes together was aft reminder for him when he talked to residents and own staff. We want to learn fro st practices. The one thing that we have found out is grant money was much mor 1 a while ago. That train may have left the station. That's an exact quote from a con llahassee who works on this. If you're up against issues with septic tanks, you might not a e to wait for the grant money and we have more than a few septic tanks that are having ' s in Isles of Capri. Right now, we're trying to at least do the homework. Very littleJA at ever been done. It was started and then when a lot of pushback came from residents, nob n-a Wt d to take a bite of that apple and it was just like, "Oh we'll talk about it in 10 years' nd t septic tanks aren't any cheaper and the connection isn't any cheaper now. _ We also have the added complexity of Marco Isl&Oreat ��aNa partial responsibility with sewer connections, a complicated partnership in trying verybody to the table. My takeaways here are exactly what the mayor has said: It's a 1 work and we want to learn from this. There will be other areas in our community, of Capri is a big footprint with a lot of connections, a big project. We're in the ve stages of trying to educate the community that they really shouldn't push back anKIthe a�Ais. We're having a lot of success doing that by giving them the right information, negative is when they ask about the assessment. He's glad to hear some grant money is avail*'le. But nothing is guaranteed. It's a lot less guaranteed now than it was when money waAowing more freely and it was less of a challenge to get, when environmental help was�sier to get. Council Member t noTasked if the new developments being built in the County are required to hook into th ubli tic system. BCC China c aniel said not at all, but the higher -density projects, yes. Co it Saunders said he believes it's State law that if you have access to a municipal an sewer system in a new development, you have to hook up, so as the Chairman said, we' t areas where we don't have that service. If it's available, they have to hook up. BCC Chairman McDaniel said one of the things we've been working hard on is capital -asset replacement and maintenance out of revenue streams we currently have. If you haven't implemented those practices yet, start. It will certainly help your process when you're taking care of your own house and not looking to somebody else talking about free money falling from the sky. We hadn't had those practices in place for a long, long time in Collier County because we're close to $2 billion in assets that need to be managed, both subsurface and surface. 14 So if you haven't really looked into those things yet, add that to your repertoire. Start talking about your user fees, how you're managed. We have experience in Everglades City with what's going on down there. With regard to the necessity and the want for grant monies, the folks that have access to larger pots of money, if they see that you're taking care of your own house upfront, there's a greater propensity for help along the way. BCC Vice Chair Solis said he was glad to hear that staff has been working so well togeth . North Naples, in North Collier County, we've had one of these projects going on for year Naples Park has to be switched and we're doing all of that at the same time, so he hope t�. a lot of communication because when that process started five or six years ago, the w�re going about the work has changed significantly. The staff has done so much to work wi residents and how to minimize the pain of digging up the roads and living with unpaved specially in the rainy season, so he's glad to hear that that's working well. He hopes Co T ff is sharing all of that experience because from Naples Park we have to go to Palm River ve to go to Bonita Shores and southeast, as well. It's going to Golden Gate City, right? S p ess is continually being refined and he hopes we're sharing what we can share with` �Q BCC Chairman McDaniel said when he first became CommyissiorVr in 2016, we were 50% developed. You asked about new growth and development. were 50% developed in Golden Gate Estates and still utilizing the normal septic system urrently used today, and we all know there's highest and best technology availe Ift ' t d en. He looks for data -driven decision making, so he deployed County Pollutio o to get data in eastern Collier County and 50% build out. The other 50% is coming an e e good even with the new construction that's coming all the way to 951, from the h uent hitting the water system with the existing septic systems that we have. So, t e who are listening who live in Golden Gate Estates, unless the municipality pu e sewer up the front of your street where you have the option of connecting, you don't e to. There isn't going to be a septic -to -sewer move in Golden Gate Estates. There's no econo y for it. The density is so low at one unit per 2'/a acres, Mother Earth does her job,.,That'#/ ust for information purposes going forward. Council Member. H hisNaid you went over various areas and that in spring of 2023, construction is go' t tart in one of those areas. Can you summarize from now until when the project work wLI1 be leted for all areas? Mr. Mid yl1qon Vidif we start in 2023, it'll be 1'/2 years, maybe longer. Area 1 would probably be comple -2028. If we weren't able to maintain the schedule, late 2029. C cil 716mber Hutchison asked if he'd identified what the greatest or most likely threats are to cost ases during that timeframe. Mr. Middleton said materials, delivery of materials and staff. Council Member Hutchison said, And a delta of what? Mr. Middleton said just on this project right now, what we've completed and what we're going into, is a $2 million increase. 15 BCC Chairman McDaniel asked if it was the equivalent number of connections. Mr. Middleton said not really. The one we just completed was 331 and what we're going to is 285, but it's a little bit less and it's $2 million up. Council Member Hutchison said that for those participating in this meeting, as well as for the public watching, we're going through these septic -to -sewer conversions for a reason. It's Ar, quality. The City properties are all sewer. Are there County residential properties that are within the area described in your presentation, yet they remain on septic systems and th contributing to water -quality issues in and around the City of Naples? Mr. Middleton said we have a section off Airport Road, north of Golden they're fairly large lots, and he believes they're still on septic tanks. The c Chairman mentioned, these are large areas of property with a septic tank to be contaminating surface water there is a lot less. This area we're to ii tanks 20 feet apart. It's just one large septic tank. The density is g"ugh other area off Airport Road, but they're really not even on our rad i Commissioner LoCastro said it's the same as we have in unbelievable, and we're already seeing an indication of citizens and they say, "When I flush my toilet, I oil' seeing little characteristics of septic tanks, not nec a " get to their life expectancy and that's a bad sign. Mr. Middleton said it depends on Commissioner LoCastro said e.?a%k,,yAy, but ikl%W is, as the ielpotential for them �Vzt, these are septic compared to this tMVsles of Capri. The density is v blems. You can talk to some me sort of suction I got." We're contaminating the water, but starting to BCC Chairman McDani said ee key is density. If you've got a spatial differential, Mother Nature can do her job. Commissioner Taskedif it also depends on lot coverage, of impermeable structures. Mr. Middleto ' gure does. That's how a drainfield works. You have to have room for that. Onc e Twte eaves the tank, it overflows into the drainfield and that's what dissipates the treated t the earth. C mis over Taylor said it's dependent upon the moisture from above, which is inhibited when they d mega houses and cover lots, no matter how big they are, like they're doing in Pine Ridge. Pine Ridge is going from very modest to major mansions and that whole area is on septic. Vice Mayor McCabe said as everybody says, this is an extremely important project to address the water quality for everyone. Given you're looking at Phase 1 and now we're talking about Phase 2. If you look at what happened in Phase 1, Collier County really jumped in and helped out with it. They did the design cost, they did the bidding and then they did the construction contracting costs. But in Phase 2, it's not represented as such, as yet. It's not formalized or finalized, so an 16 "ask" is for the County to jump in and do this, as well. And as Council Member Hutchison said, this is for County residents. This is not the City. This is what the City's sewer map includes, but these are not City residents. The second "ask," when we're doing this, we're tying it into what you're doing, as far as your stormwater, etc., construction improvements in this area for your residents. When we look at the right-of-way restoration, Bob showed some excellent pictures, how it looks post versus pre looks fantastic. When you're tearing up the roads, if you did your project alone, you would bear Avost for right-of-way reconstruction. When we're doing it in conjunction with you to replace t? sewer lines, we're doing a cost -sharing. SeN This would be another way that the City could help out. With this $32 million projffllt�he ity is taking on for County residents, instead of cost -sharing for replacement of the r ay, the County takes on responsibility to replace the County road, given they we iNo take it up anyway. That would be a benefit to County residents, but it will also hel the out with this project going forward. It could also help out in some of the numbers tl lking about County residents getting hit with, the assessments for this. The m tha e look at this project very specifically for its goal, the positive nature of it for all reside p sitive nature with which your County residents will be benefiting from it, and t en to ing and trying to make sure that we as the City, which is taking it on, taking on what w d or have to do, but also have the County helping us out and ensuring that the County resiJenTM 19- etting the benefits. So that would be a pushback or an "ask" that I have, to 1 Aa ,nd for the County to come to the table, do the designing, the engineering, the con ti nd contracting. And look at when we say right-of-way replacement, that the County does t t cause it is a County road for County residents and you'd be tearing it up, so that an answer. Commissioner Taylor said she di �n f everyone was aware of this, but the City does make a premium on the service that they sply to County residents and the City could decide to abandon it, and we could take that ovei, he believes the County would be happy to do that. BCC Chairman McD 1 said so again, there's another way of getting to where we need to go. : e Vice Mayor Mceid t is is a good conversation, to be available. Commissioner said that on the first go -around, the County applied for and received the grant and ica d it to the City, so this has always been a partnership. As we approach this, becaus e les are so great with the construction costs and inflation, etc., it's important to kialogue as we go forward, understanding that it is a huge cost for both entities, but it iee ece a cost. BCC Chairman McDaniel said and it goes back to what he was saying at the beginning. With regards to your Capital -Asset- Replacement maintenance, you've got asbestosis water lines that are running everywhere and what's our plan for those replacements? It's not yours, it's ours. So how are we budgeting for those known replacements that are coming, are we communicating at the same time, so departmentally, we're not fixing rights -of -way and doing the storm water and then saying, "Oh, wait a second." 17 Commissioner LoCastro said Amy Patterson has so much historical data and knowledge. If you have some comments to make that would be beneficial to this group, we know you have background historical info. He believes she has something to add, correct? Ms. Patterson said absolutely. To clarify, we would not be doing this project without the City. It would be irresponsible, specifically for water quality, for us to go improve the stormwater, to move polluted stormwater more quickly. That was almost the genesis of our first partnership. We had catastrophic flooding in the area. Residents were distraught because of the level of fun , even before Hurricane Irma. But we had to keep telling them we had done as many small PqeN we could to the stormwater, and without a significant change with septic to sewer, ther nothing more we could do, so the restoration cost became a negotiation point. We'reAk4ysw looking for ways to improve. Secondly, on funding, we've already had conversations about how the C specifically how we can partner better and be more successful. We were first round of grants. But where else can we go? Septic -sewer is a very the State. We know that septic doesn't work well in areas like thi d challenge in Golden Gate City, but we will be partnering to the gr already agreed that it is counterproductive for us to compete a ains a stormwater will stand alone and we will fund as we do our water our efforts to a joint pursuit of grants to the benefit of rem essn • Al � C•: p, more sfiil in the now all over ' e facing the same Kx nt possible and have ch other for grants. So, projects while we dedicate [A break was taken between 10:26 and 10: 40 a.m 2.C. STAFF GENERAL COMMUNICATION 2.C.1. Affordable Housing — JakeV anager, Housing, Grant Development & Operations Mr. LaRow presented a PowerPosentation: said that he wanted to acknowledge Maggie Lopez, Financial Operatio Ma40ger with CHS. She is here in case he gets a question and doesn't have the numbers. She' r guru and he thanks her for helping with this. And Joe Trachtenberg, chairman of the Am ble sing Advisory Committee (AHAC), is here. At the conclusion, he wants to invite Job * saedk a little bit. This is collecti7been mber of programs that we have rolled up into Collier County assistance programs e'resentedto the Board a number of times over the last couple of months, related r Emergency Rental Assistance Program, most recently on May 24. Eftygenjv Rental Assistance Program: Through the month of May, for the first time ever, Co ity Human Services, in conjunction with the Clerk's Office, dispersed more than $500, 00 in rental assistance to qualified needy families in the community. As of yesterday, we stand at approximately $5.8 million disbursed. The number in front of you is the amount remaining that isn't already dispersed or encumbered. What that means is families that have already qualified for future rental assistance, we're counting that money in terms of future expenditures. Household Assistance Local Fiscal Recovery: This is commonly known as the American Rescue Plan. The County received about $75 million and we will be taking another amendment to the FU Board shortly. Of that $75 million, approximately 10%, about $7 million, has been set aside for rental and mortgage assistance. Those familiar with the CARES Act funds that were implemented and administered in 2020 and 2021, the income targeting largely mirrors that in terms of we're trying to make assistance available at higher income ranges than is allowed under Treasury rules under the ERA program. Emergency Solutions Grants: This is an entitlement program we receive grants for annually. Under the CARES Act, we received a supplemental allocation of approximately $3 million. Of th we have $568,000 remaining for rental assistance for households at risk of homelessness or t a homeless. ESG funds typically target households at 30% AMI or below, but with this par tranche of funds, we're able to assist households up to 50% of AMI. The Emergency Home Energy Assistance Program: This is pretty self-explana for households with someone age 60 or older that have past -due electricity bills Vice Mayor McCabe said when it says funding available, she though e i ese numbers include what's already encumbered, or is this not unencumbered. Mr. LaRow said this is not encumbered. Vice Mayor McCabe said so the $8.7 million for Emerges e tal Assistance is not encumbered, correct? • ��' v Mr. LaRow said yes, and that's inclusive of bot � and the ERA 2. Vice Mayor McCabe asked if there was e it on when that funding expires. Mr. LaRow said yes, ERA 1 is Se' pber 30, 2022, and ERA 2 is December 30, 2025. Vice Mayor McCabe ask�l wh�j/Ehe division was between ERA 1 and ERA 2. Mr. LaRow said we,*eLeRWAabout $9 million for ERA 1 and $11 million for ERA 2. Vice Mayor NLcCabl%ilid it's potentially expiring and he wanted the public to understand. Ms. Lop maid KLer6 was a big number that was put out there to the public, $6 million was the unexp n of ERA 1. Out of that $6 million, there were funds that are encumbered, so wha;q*6,n er is reflective of is unencumbered ERA 1 and ERA 2 funds McCabe said with the ERA 1 does the not spent go away on September 30? Ms. Lopez said that's correct. Out of those funds, that's about $2 million. We have been seeing a major reduction in that because, as Jake explained, we spent over half a million in expenditures last month, so that will shrink. BCC Chairman McDaniel said we're real close to consuming that entire amount. 19 Vice Mayor McCabe said that's his point because we've heard this on the radio and the news. There's been a major push and we really don't want that to go away. He's glad to hear that. For those out there listening, make sure that you hear that. Commissioner LoCastro said we're more than chipping away at that $2 million, which is obviously the goal. BCC Chairman McDaniel said we've even had discussions about encumbering and still it. Council Member Petrunoff said given that it's an emergency, what is the turnaround? re your metrics around turnaround? These families are often in crisis. How quickly is it r as reviewing the application, or getting the dollars in their hands? O f Ms. Lopez said we're moving as fast as we can. Fortunately, our Board has ' ZNed us using additional personnel to dedicate to that. We've been using volunteers, we' be n continuing to do outreach events. We have one that I'm scheduling for next week. She' e in tails worked out. We're constantly putting that effort in to review those applicatio d em processed as quickly as possible. When we first initiated the program, 120 days ur oal turnaround time. Now it's seven to 10 days. We have incorporated a pre-screA 'ng p cess, so an application gets reviewed as soon as it is submitted. We really are trying to for our metric to be within 48 hours to return all the documents required to move their appli o o ard. • Council Member Petrunoff said so it's no lon2es, it is now seven to 10? Ms. Lopez said that is the standard, but yes,AVZferstand that it's an emergency and it needs a quicker turn around than that, especiallyVso many families that we're seeing needing assistance are getting three-day evi e , 120 days is not helpful to those households. Commissioner Saunders said our ClCrystal Kinzel, audits all of these in this program. Her turnaround is very, very q 'ck. Sj#t's dedicated some staff to make sure that within a very short period of time, a few da om the date that they get a completed application, they can approve the funding. So, we' or ' in that direction to get it as fast as possible. Ms. Lopez sai we t weekly with Clerk of Courts staff to review all the documentation and answer any que ey may have. Vice M0WAQpCabe asked if other funds were expiring. a w said the Emergency Solutions Grants ends September 30, 2022. The ERP funds have a Ion helf life. That's expended by 2024 or encumbered by 2024. Commissioner LoCastro said that we have an AHAC meeting once a month, which was yesterday. He was on a Zoom call with all the elected officials that are on AHACs statewide. One of the things we talked about is the misinformation out there. There's a lot floating around, but folks that say, "Wow, I applied on this date and then I got paid on this date and it was about 190 days." We count when we get an actual valid application. Some people apply and we say we need these three documents now and we never hear back from them. 20 One of the things we're doing with additional staff is being much more aggressive calling applicants back to say, "We need a copy of your lease." We just can't give you free money based on you writing a number on a document. Where the clock starts is to help them as aggressively as possible get a completed, valid application and quickly process payment. Elected officials who represent AHACS statewide are all having a very similar challenge. He likes what Collier County has been doing, which is using many different resources to speed up t clock, but it's really to get that valid application and then have it get paid. People on socia e are complaining that they applied in January and never heard back. Well, you did hear a you were missing four documents, so we can't give you $5,000 just because you put name on the back of a postcard. O f That Zoom call provided a lot of good information that made him feel even " t%about what we're doing here. He wants to give them some of that feedback. A lot of it s immg. We've been really working hard to tighten it. Mr. LaRow said these are the individual assistance programs we highlight because they're the ones that are quickly turning out to help folks in need. In r latio to the interlocal discussions and agreements that were mentioned previously, we do hav ual entitlement grants, two of which are between the City and the County. One of the a t recently approved by the City at its April 6, 2022, meeting, the Local Housing AA * , LHAP. The SHIP Program/Local Housing Assistance Pl AP: This is a three-year agreement. There was a lot of great discussion and some feedba the Council at that meeting, so we're going to revisit it and take those notes into cons dera for future discussions. Now we can improve that process with the collaboration ihfg d with Council Member Blankenship's presence at the AHAC meeting yesterday. LHQeecomes effective July 1, 2022. Urban Coun1y Consorti This is another interlocal agreement. The Urban County Consortium is our CDBG programat' ther entitlement grant we receive and that agreement was effective last year. The Zarticii les participated and we also go to the City of Marco Island because they are a potentialwith their Urban Consortium. That's a three-year agreement and we have a couple of yeat comes up again. Here a ck numbers in terms of the sharing resources that go to the County versus those tha d in the City of Naples. From 2001, the historical figures we've received for the ty s ow there is approximately $50 million in CDBG funds. Of that, just a little over $3.3 milli as been distributed within the City of Naples. The bulk of that comes through public infras ructure projects. The most recent one was for street lighting, which was almost $700,000 of our allocation last year that went for that project. About $100,000 went to some down -payment assistance homeowner rehab programs for several years. SHIP: We recently received our money, the allocation that we're going to receive for this next year, which is down $564,000 from what we anticipated and we had distributed previously for planning purposes. Of that, approximately 95% is the County share. That share is determined by 21 the State and it's purely population -based. Over the last 10 years, approximately $200,000 of SHIP funds have been distributed to assist households within the City of Naples. Likewise, those through down -payment assistance programs, home owner rehab and new construction systems, eight households total. A quick overview on the SHIP program and strategies: • Homeowners looking to repair their homes to make them more livable. • Some are looking to purchase a home through down -payment assistance programs A4ew construction. • Demolition and replacement of manufactured homes. lz� We have two years to commit and three years to expend. The State does have pre lit timelines, so we have to be flexible and nimble when we develop our plan. We,�a ceed income limits per household size. The BCC approved the Urban Land Insti IV y and adopted the Community Housing plan in the fall of 2017. Those items in green were actions that were taken independently, s of the original considerations, such as government wages and minimum wages. ar did act on some wages for County staff at the beginning of this year, and State actin on th minimum wage. Those in red are actions recommended through the Community Housin but at the time were either considered and not pursued by the Board or declined o i t Re _ug latory-Relief Initiatives: These focus on housing, density a key component to make pi recently heard by the Planning Commission moving those to the Board and it's sched^ i housing, specifically affordable and feasible. These initiatives were most �y 19, 2022, and they voted to recommend a hearing on June 28, 2022, for transmittal. Land Development Code: The correMlLnding Land Development Code amendments will likely be heard by the Development Services A&Fisory Committee mid -summer or late summer and those will be paired up in the fa;j►as coopanion items for Board's consideration and potential adoption. The other four boxe it�that were discussed and the Board provided direction to staff at that meeting on the 22 A AC met over several months and in their advisory role to the Board, they wanted to ake rmanent source of financing, either through the Local Housing Trust Fund or some o chanics to support affordable housing. One of the directions from the Board at the ti as t irect staff to evaluate a mileage equivalency to bring back to the Board. The Board' orkshops on June 16 and 17 may contain that discussion. ati of County -owned or publicly owned land was another direction from the Board on June 28th, at is currently going through staff with real property management in Growth Management trying to identify properties that are the most viable for potential development for affordable housing. That is slated for discussion on June 28, as well. The infrastructure sales tax has been in place for some time. He believes it was approved in 2018. The Board on the 22nd approved a budget amendment, essentially putting that $20 million for the Affordable Housing Workforce Land Trust in a separate account. The next step here is that on June 28, staff will be bringing that item to the Board with suggestions on how to move forward to 22 identify potential uses for the $20 million. The only potential use for that is acquisition of land, so we can't finance construction or any type of other related cost. That is one of the major restrictions that we have to acknowledge when we develop recommendations to consider. Vice Mayor McCabe said when you say acquisition of land, does that mean barren, no structures, just acquisition of property, period? Mr. LaRow believed the Legislature said acquisition of land, only land. Attorney Klatzkow confirmed that. lz� Vice Mayor McCabe said so if you purchase a piece of property, but you only g o hat the estimated land value is, can that be used? Attorney Klatzkow said yes, it could. Vice Mayor McCabe asked if you have a piece of property wort m . n, but the land itself is assessed at $8 million or $10 million, it could be used for this p o , f r the land portion of it? Attorney Klatzkow said yes. BCC Chairman McDaniel sai Vice Mayor McCabe said he j Mr. LaRow said the blue box is ide linkage and an affordable housingA AHAC subcommittee that was nresf to bring back a recommendation for proposals that were submiAed. *** These are a number potential was. D X a consultant to complete a Nexus study for That was a recommendation that came out of the ► the Board on the 22°d. The direction was for the Board tant. As that currently stands, staff is still evaluating that are coming online, already leasing up, and some that have had some iml�eady. Allura: The de nt has affordable housing commitments that were entered into and agreed to through oa He worked with the Collier County Public School Systems on marketing and adverti r school district employees because of the location, which is adjacent to or near No ap iddle School. They're doing an incremental lease up, with the last of the six b 'ngs being fully leased by August 15, 2022. The Harmony on Santa Barbara (the Bembrid_e�): The developer was at our last AHAC meeting, Chris Shear with McDowell Housing Partners. He indicated that the project is currently 40% constructed, so they are on track to be occupied in November or December of this year and that just broke ground in early March of this year. That one has a long-term ground lease, so the County owns the land underneath. We also have a developer agreement. That project was initiated through an invitation to negotiate in 2019. As a result, through that partnership with removing the cost of land from that development, they were able to secure other financing through the State, 23 low-income housing tax credits, etc., to successfully construct that project. Cadenza and Allegro at Hacienda Lakes: Those also are being constructed by the same developer, McDowell Housing Partners from Miami. Those are sister properties and are slated for completion the first half of next year. One still must close on financing, but we anticipate that to occur shortly. BCC Chairman McDaniel questioned whether Cadenza and Allegro were on County owned land. Mr. LaRow said they were not on County owned land. BCC Chairman McDaniel asked what AMI stands for. ,lz� Mr. LaRow said it stands for Area Median Income, which is $96,800 here.egetting BCC Chairman McDaniel said he wanted him to specify that because th a lot of phone calls because housing is based on AMI and the public doesn't k AMI or that amount is. Mr. LaRow said they'll have flyers translated into SpanishA— Council Mr. LaRow said that was correct and it's aIJjf3§0TntiI the end of September, $2 million of it is unencumbered and that was inclusive of ZI 1 and ERA 2 programs. Council Member Hutchison aske ny of the funds are at risk of expiring and not being used. Mr. LaRow said $2 milli o is unAcumbered. We haven't spent it. Council Member H hi aid that's a significant amount of money. Commissioner LoC p said that's a significant amount of money. We still have applications waiting and we ved more applications. We've been doing a lot of education. We feel strongly tJ4 $2 ilhon is being chipped away at every time we get an application. Co ber Hutchison said he hopes there's an opportunity for us to collaborate moving f Vardmake sure we effectively communicate the opportunity we have for these funds. Many pe to his 7-Eleven stores and tell him they need this type of assistance. If there is messaging we can do on gas receipts, clothing receipts, etc., we should do it. The City is willing to collaborate with messaging and to do our fair share. BCC Chairman McDaniel said the flyers are a wonderful way to disburse that information. Of that money that's there, $2 million, the burn rate is $500,000 a year. Council Member Hutchison said that's real help going to the community. 24 Commissioner LoCastro said your offer is an extremely valid one. We're going to be putting some fliers in utility bills in July and August. NCH has been providing information in a weekly newsletter, how to apply, etc. We're asking Arthrex and others to disseminate this information. We've been trying to flood smaller organizations. We even had TV ads. Council Member Hutchison said people are consumed with how they're going to make these payments, if they can get mortgage assistance. Consider messaging boards, something eas :eed mortgage assistance, etc.? Those are ways we can effectively communicate. Commissioner Taylor said to sum it up, we're in a crisis. There's no question. At thA 4in , the State is not helping us as a County. We're just reacting. That's all we had, a time ft!Mke to react. Kristi Sonntag's office has increased its employees by 12 as of our last meeting& ,}Aire getting volunteers from Leadership Collier. Everyone is in high gear. No one Brea e would be so much need out there. Commissioner Saunders said 450 units will be going online qui about the 400 plus units at the Golden Gate Golf Course? Mr. LaRow said we've been working with Jennifer Belpe o. We're 99% into that with the long- term ground lease. There are other elements of the proje e go infrastructures or transportation items that have been raised. • BCC Chairman McDaniel said it's an imI private developments, with a percentage of Course projects are County -owned projects 'friction, that Allura, Cadenza and Allegra are ty added in and The Harmony and Golf ity and they don't really. We lengthened the whole period from the previous 15- tN400-year because of what we were seeing transpiring. We changed the entire ROI on that a development criterion, these projects with our County - owned land and to purchase land there. e other will be held in perpetuity. Does it need changes? Mr. Trachtenberg sai Ke poke to Steve Kirk last week, the CEO of Rural Neighborhoods. He hoped to break gro 2023. Right now, a lot of this is in the hands of staff, who are resolving several ' ei),►,Tha s the developer's projected timetable and he's building between 350 and 400 houses. TheTkal number is to be resolved. Vice May &MclCab'e said that given $2 million expires in September, what is the average award? S. d it was $9,000 and last month, it went up to $10,000. That's the average initial r est. ERA can pay up to 18 months of assistance, so they'll come in averaging that off the bat. can pay up to $10,000 initially and we're hoping that the additional 259 applications come n at the average that we previously saw, $9,000 for initial requests. That would get us to that $2 million. Since our last Board meeting two weeks ago, we've already received over 100, so we're well on our way to meeting that target to reduce that $2 million. Vice Mayor McCabe said he wants to make sure the public understands the average award and the $2 million available. You're talking about a little over 200 individuals or families and making sure that we're using that money. At your rate of applications, it sounds like we are going to be 25 there. But let's make sure we overachieve and start using not just the money that's expiring in September, let's make sure we're using ERA, too. Ms. Lopez agreed. One of the things that we want to make sure and educate the public on is that when we talk about COVID impact, it's not just having COVID yourself or a family member. It's having housing instability during the COVID pandemic. A lot of people would be very surprised that they fit into that category. An increased cost in housing with not getting an increase in household income puts you in financial instability and housing instability. e Commissioner LoCastro said the biggest misconception is when they come in at have COVID, so I didn't even apply." We're trying to educate the public. He putnewsletter. We all have. We're trying to get it out by saying, even if you're unsur, this is significant money. It might be worth filling out the paperwork to makes have a COVID impact. It's not the same as if you were in the ICU or the ho r COVID. That's probably the biggest misconception. Our education process is why r seeing more applications. People are realizing they could have applied, but the sca hat this money is not in perpetuity. Some people have been paid for well over a ye nd been benefiting from these programs, but they have a shelf life at some point, so that be''t scary thing. Vice Mayor McCabe said as Commissioner Taylor said, a in'a serious crisis. This money could expire and we might not spend it. We need to ram . nformation. This is very encouraging, that what is being done has acceleratdd i e ill be on a path to use it. For those who are listening or those who know someone, e sure that you get out and if you have the need, apply because the money is there. Ther 's one sitting at these tables or sitting in this room who wants that money to not be spent. BCC Chairman McDaniel said th ered money is at risk of a clawback from the federal government. He even asked if there clawback if we encumber it. He doesn't want to obligate our taxpayers on $6 million. It was a h a million or some lower amount that would be worth taking the risk to ensure th t the �Aney doesn't go away and goes to the people who need it. Vice Mayor McCab rai everyone for doing a great job and accelerating it. Mayor Heitmann a d Mr. LaRow where we are in the conversation with the school board, as far as acquirin and affordable housing. Are we partnering with them? Mr. L i e attended a very long school board meeting two weeks ago and spoke about thes c ool Board Chair Jennifer Mitchell, who also sits on the AHAC, has been having t e dis ions with Superintendent Patton. They're discussing it at an upcoming board meeting on 4. BCC Chairman McDaniel said he spoke with her yesterday. Mr. Trachtenberg, Chairman of the AHAC, said he applauds Jennifer Mitchell, AHAC member and chairman of the school board, for aggressively pursuing an attempt to free up some excess land that the school board has and that they've been extremely reticent in the past to even consider utilizing for possible affordable housing. He's very hopeful that Jen is going to have success. For 26 the record, we're not suggesting that they give up future schools, but there are several 4- to 6-acre excess plots available that could be utilized where schools already have been built. There are areas where schools aren't contemplated and we really think this is a very smart thing to do. He agrees with everything you said. Commissioners, and Commissioner LoCastro especially, have done a tremendous job helping to get the word out on the money that's available, but we need to keep in mind this is 18-month money. That's the maximum. Let's not confuse this with solving the affordable housing crisis. This is going to provide relief for some people that are in deep p but it does nothing in terms of helping us get to where we ultimately need to be. In his job, it gives him great hope to see this group meeting today, with this body of 14t� rs present. It's really an acknowledgement that we do have shared problems and he meetings like this will lead to shared and combined solutions. He believes they already ile the geographic lines that define the City and the County are clear to the people ' oom, it's curious how mystifying this is to a significant portion of our population. t Its in the County get their mail delivered to Naples. I guess it's natural that they think t s they live. The interdependency between our City and our County goes far beyo am e share many wonderful assets and we equally share many vexing problems. Ou s ith water quality are always at the top of the list. What's happening in the Gulf, N les y, Gordon River, all of our tributaries, will likely have more impact on the commercia e of this region and our wellbeing than any other single area. We share common problems t c s our region grows and so many sought-after resources are located in the City. • We've to of better address the movement of e le the less populous areas into the City and g p p p Y back out again. We share responsibility for t ing crisis of lack of affordable housing. In this respect, we're not unique, and that's actu od thing. Cities and counties like ours all over Florida and all over the United Stagy g the same problems. Land and building costs are rising, interest rates are going up an je people we need to provide essential services can no longer afford to live within reasonable )Smmuting distance to their jobs. Ignoring these problems is a bad decision by goverWent Aders. We must be cogniza at t brings people to want to live here requires availability of the support required t a tain ese desired lifestyles. This doesn't just include our policemen, our firemen and E Ts. I of just our teachers. It's not just our health-care workers. The majority of people who per se diverse but vital jobs that we require make about $15 an hour. That's well and 0% ercent of our newly announced AMI. They staff our stores, they clean our pools, they m s, they collect our trash, they prepare and serve our food, they repair our cars, etc. Noe people who work with you every day in the City and County offices fit in that Vcat ry. Try to imagine life without them. He can't. So, the good news, as he mentioned befo we're not alone facing these problems. The playbook on what we collectively must do is really clear. In a nutshell, it's about spending money to help acquire land. It's about changing fees and zoning and density rules to allow the finances of these projects to actually work. It's about being more creative with new approaches to buildings in terms of size and shapes and multiple uses. It's about speeding up the processes. We can't afford to spend four to five years from inception to groundbreaking or moving, so we're playing catch-up and the hole is getting deeper. It's also 27 working together to resolve traffic issues because these things go hand in hand. Most everyone recognizes the need for this kind of housing. They just don't want it near them. So it's also about us all standing up and explaining to the people who live in the County why we must proceed to build affordable housing, sometimes near them. He's pleased to be able to report today that we are making progress. These Commissioners are doing good. There are a lot of new ideas coming up and more to come. There's more awareness that there are other things that we need to do, so he's here on behalf of AHAC to thank you for your commitment to assure that Napl �nd Collier County remain at the top of the list of where people want to live. BCC Chairman McDaniel said we appreciate your assistance. It's nice having that o leadership. O Mr. Trachtenberg said it's a joy for him. Commissioner LoCastro said if you saw Joe Trachtenberg's resume, Uve sitting in a lot bigger jobs elsewhere, doing a lot of other things, but he's really 46dicafthimself. He applied to be a member and then we had the AHAC Chairman job open. An s his hand and got a unanimous vote. He has added so much acceleration to our A AC ard. Maybe every day hasn't been a joy, but we're dealing with a tough topic here. YestRee we had our monthly AHAC meeting and one of the things we've talked about at AH.gs, which started a year ago, was beefing up the attendance. It's not just about d'b hquorum, but who's really in the room, so we've worked hard to invite citizens an e s. We had a guest speaker yesterday who was a senior official from the Florida Housi alition, the group that he had a Zoom meeting with just a couple of hours after our , so it was timely. We're adding a lot more meat to those AHAC meetings, getting a eat ideas and hearing from disgruntled citizens and business leaders who think the s advertise things. A lot is coming out of those meetings. Not only did we have one our Council members attend, but we also have added permanently to our meetings, when pos�ible, somebody from our Planning Commission. We have several more attendees no fronVur County staff, so it's not just the housing team, it's the folks who work in Growth M gement, the folks who are talking to these contractors on a regular basis, Mike Bosi, Ja Fr , Trinity Scott. These are key folks that add to our AHAC meetings, which has lengthe intings, but the meat that's coming out of those meetings is significant. He didn't reali e ho ificant and how valuable the meetings have been until the Zoom meeting that included e ted official on AHACs statewide. It was run by the Florida Housing Coalition vi al y every county, with a few exceptions, attended. Some of the things that came eeting are not so much what we're doing, but what some counties aren't doing. We c aring notes. We ways do better, but it was amazing how many significant counties, counties the size of ours, imed in when we all got a chance to speak. One of the questions by the moderator from the Florida Housing Coalition was, "How many AHAC meetings have you had?' It was great to be able to say the first Monday of every month, without fail, and we've even had a couple of additional discussions. Other counties said they'd had one this year. This is critical. Some of his takeaways are that we are doing a few of the right things, but we definitely can do better. There were some counties that asked basic questions about the ERA program, how much is left and when it had to be turned back, yet here at our meetings, this is a topic of common discussion. We talked about best practices and some of the things that have come out of our ad hoc meetings, such as putting flyers in the utility bills, TV commercials and how some of our main companies, such as NCH, have been advertising aggressively. Those weren't things he heard from other counties, such as using County land for affordable housing. So that's where the whole conversation stopped and everybody chimed in. The County doesn't own land, taxpayers do, so when you make it sound like, "I wonder what we're going to do with our land," somebody who lives 10 miles away that helped buy that land through their taxes might not be so excited a t building affordable housing. When he spoke about one of the initiatives we're proud of, is t, a when we see these developments being built, we always ask the question, "Should a c4e lt��_ percentage of these units include affordability, whether it's 10-30%?" It varies. Whe lked about that, few counties chimed in and said they were doing that. Everyone is loo�for the 20 acres to build the giant high-rise with 600 units for the working class. When someone cited that as an example, another County representative tal d out what we always call NIMBY, Not In My Backyard. A colleague from another n they don't use that term anymore. They use the term CAVE, Citizens Against V all erything. So when he talked about how we're trying to find more of a balance and how ry g to take smaller or medium bites out of the apple by spreading it out and making .t pa*f what we talk to a contractor about, he was really surprised that ohers didn't say, "Oh ye 11, e're doing that as well." It was sort of a silence. We can do more. On June 28, we've g u rdable Housing Advisory Committee making a presentation to the Board o Co issioners, so there will be a lot of information. Anything that you can push in our direction, o Jake, Joe or myself, we're all on the same team and we're really working hard to br ' t . One of the things that that came out of the final conclusion of the Zoom meeting wjj'lbkefficials statewide is there is no one solution. There are going to be more than a few cou5n�6s that wind up returning some money. You could just tell by what little they talked about, that th()rre not trying to make their program much more aggressive. They're still 'ng tglgure out a few things. It was a good overview for me to talk with others in a similar t to see if we were doing everything possible. We are open to anything. but f you had been at the AHAC meeting yesterday, it was almost standing -room only. 11ve are sometimes three-hour meetings that Joe runs and a lot of great information co 16f them. The senior official from the Florida Housing Coalition who was our guest ake yesterday talked about things we're already doing. He also talked about counties of equ hat they're doing or not doing. There was no epiphany of, "Oh, we've got to rea this one particular thing we missed the ball on." We're open to any ideas that you h . Th e are no borders. It's all Collier County to the average citizen. His worry is exactly what Joe s ' that there are some people that have benefited for well over a year and have gotten funds from ese programs, but if they haven't been putting money away or the housing market stays the same and more federal dollars don't come, the big explosion will be when checks stop coming. Some of the negative feedback we get from folks living here is that units are expensive. But some of the checks we were cutting were for some people that live above affordability. He wants to give a shout out to our Clerk of Courts, Jake and Kristi Sonntag. We're working very hard to make sure that money just doesn't fly out of this building. Anytime you apply for federal dollars, it should be 29 a little difficult. It shouldn't just be that we cut you a $10,000 check for the next 18 months. So we figured out a lot of ways to speed up the process with more people, but some of those suggestions have been to make the application process easier or shave steps out of it. This is a federal program that we're executing and we want to make sure we're doing it properly. Thanks to Joe and his team, we're wide open to anything he might hear from citizens, people who want to attend our meetings, whether it's a landlord or somebody in the business community who could give us some feedback or help us in any way. We certainly would be open to it. BCC Chairman McDaniel said he's a huge proponent of data, and transparency forces accountability. One of the first things Commissioner LoCastro did was go through all t o is we've approved. Virtually every single project, multifamily, both ownership and ren a a affordability component built into them and he went back through and brought fb^ w th transparency, those that are being held, those that aren't and what was being d use there's a lot of missing information. That's one of the first things that he did with h' C involvement. It's allowed our Board to look at and see the efficacy of what we're puttin o ard. We're approving units with a percentage of affordability. How many are actu n ground now? How many are actually being held in affordable status? How ma re a lly being put forward to be utilized? So, thank you. That's really helping my decision- g forward here. John Harney, of AHAC and Habitat for Humanity, saideNvIe been talking about apartments this morning, and that's what this is about. The Nationa s on of Realtors reported today that with the increase in mortgage payments, comprise crease of housing prices and the increase in the rates, the average payment is goi 600 on a new home mortgage. That's going to drive a lot of people to apartments who a een looking at houses. We need more apartments. That's what this whole problem ' . . This isn't going to be about buildinVyV44dos or building more luxury homes or building homes, single-family homes. It's goip* to be about apartments. That's how we're going to solve this problem because that's where the *nbers are needed. We're way behind, we're thousands of apartments behind right now. If V add up all the numbers that Jake was talking about and some other numbers that I do 'think he mentioned, there are about 2,000 apartments in the pipeline. That's not h en you need more like 10,000 right now. Apartments are largely going to be on ma' s ets, nd we always talk about traffic costs of infrastructure. These major streets already have er lines, they have sewer lines, they have electric. Streets are built up. People are g so much anymore. Uber is used instead of cars all the time. No car if you live i ci so a lot of these infill developments that we do with apartment buildings are really e a big difference on traffic. T traf t�iat we have out there, the cost of infrastructure that we have out there, they're all emb . We've already paid for those, so it's not going to add to our overall cost. If you look at overal affordability for somebody, the cost of using a car is very substantial, about $9,500 a year. For people struggling to meet their monthly rent payment, not having to use a car by building infill and by building smaller buildings, lower then 3-, 4- ,5- stories, and scattering them around the City, instead of concentrating, that will keep people out of cars and in the City, where they're going to their jobs. There was some mention about the number of people in the County who are making $15 an hour. 30 It's actually more like 60% of our residents are making less than $30,000 a year. It's a huge number and it's all those categories that Joe was talking about. The part Habitat can help with is we can build single-family houses. We can build duplex -type villa houses, triplexes, quads, townhouses, condos. We've done all these or we have plans for every one of these right now, so Habitat exists in a very small part of this because we're selling homes. But we have current plans to work with a market -rate apartment builder on the same property we will be building those condos on their property, so what's going to happen there is that ... Council Member Blankenship said he didn't want to repeat any ideas, but he has a coup have a unique opportunity in the County and the City to significantly increase our funde coming year. From what he's heard, our property taxable values are going up by do igi s this year, so he knows the County and the City have other needs that we all have to m ug decisions on and balance out. But we have a really good opportunity to set asi significant funding on an ongoing basis to tackle the affordable -housing crisis, so hope our budget discussions and your budget discussions over the summer we can make th p iority. The second idea is syncing up our bike plans across the County f*aLlan:9NIfatfon. The public - transit plans have been recently updated and we're in the process ti g the City's pedestrian and bicycle plan. To the extent we can look for gaps to close, hat ' 1 help. As Mr. Harney said, a lot of people can't afford cars or want to give up cars. May e e bus schedule doesn't work for them, but biking could. For people biking in from East Naples to work, there are some challenges. One is the Gordon River Bridge and e mg discussions with FDOT on ways to improve that. Maybe there are some othe es like that we could work on together that cross the lines between the City and the Co u t improve bike trails and build better networks moving forward. So hopefully we AEf�`J dower our staff to work together on that to see where we can cooperate and build better for our citizens. Mayor Heitmann asked if they cou onsider changing the day of the AHAC meetings because it conflicts with City Council meetings a workshops. Council Member Blankenship and others would like to attend. BCC Chairman Mc nie id her concerns are noted. Mayor Heitm nn as What mechanisms are in place now to ensure that future commissioners don't change th goork that we put into place until we accomplish these goals? How do we make sure so di v this? BC an McDaniel said needs are going to change. One of the maneuvers he put in place i ex ion of the period from 15 years to 30, to be held in perpetuity for government expense, Ian d , government facilities projects and subdivisions. They are held in perpetuity because the need xisted in 1981, when he came here and it changed again and again for the last 40 years. And it will change again in 10 more years, so there has to be latitude by elected officials that are coming forward to be able to adjust and meet the community's need based on the prevalent circumstances. John talked about transportation changes and people working more from home and with the advent of Al and AV, the transportation requisites are going to shift in the next 20 or 30 year, so we need 31 to provide for as much of the need as possible. Is it perfect? No. Are we making moves in the right direction? Absolutely, and having the flexibility for those adjustments in the future are there. Mayor Heitmann said absolutely, and she supports that. There should be something in the comp plans that can't be changed so we achieve these goals. But as we know, these positions will come and go. To have those mechanisms in place would be very important. BCC Chairman McDaniel said we had a discussion with the folks from ULI when they c and talked to us in 2017. They talked about a supply -demand ratio, our population growth issu n said we needed to be putting 2,000 units a year into the system. Since he became a co 1 er, he's approved 9,500 units and shortly after we had our first meeting back in April a�y, amie elk shared with him that we will approve 9,500 units and only 1,600 are on the groun^ere s a 36- month timeframe from a developer that has a pre-app meeting until they get a re are far more in the inventory process than what John shared, so there are 10,000 u ' ,000 units that have yet to hit the ground, and a lot of this has to do with supply and demand. en you have that voluminous of a reduction in the supply, it puts a lot of pressure on, ant add in the population increases and such, which is exacerbating the circumsl; eA Council Member Christman said some people offer ideas a out h�v the County might be able to provide greater financial contributions to the City for thingtINe beaches and septic to sewer. Let me turn it around. We obviously have a tremendous pro affordable housing, especially affordable rental housing. There's more we can o T t C ut there are some really practical limits because of the geography that is the City, ility of land and the cost of land. We can do some things, but there are practical limits. W ecently commissioned and received an affordable housing study that showed that 6°/ o e people that work in the City live in the City. That's everyone from lawyers, to d rr health-care workers. The reality is that there will be more opportunities to find sites f woMe housing outside the City than inside the City. Within a certain geographic aarpeople who might live in those affordable housing projects may well work in the City, so there's aalue in at least remaining open to partnerships between the City and the County where develoment could occur outside the City, but within a certain radius, three miles, five miles, City could be a financial partner in that development. We should remain open to that b us f the benefits it would provide to the community at large. It's the kind of thinking w Id r main open to and find out whether there could be some opportunities for those kinds -Of na rships. Commis ' er Itmiders said he appreciated him saying that. These projects work much more efficie ere was a partnership for the 400 units at Golden Gate Golf course. It's a pa aples Community Hospital is looking to do a partnership to try to develop more h ing r nurses and that's working, so any kind of a partnership with the City would be appr ' ed. But that becomes a funding issue. He'd love to have more conversations with you about hat. That type of partnership will work and will make things move much more quickly. Council Member Petrunoff said you mentioned GMP and density. Can you talk more about density, where we're headed? Commissioner Taylor said it's where a developer wants to take us. Density is in the Growth Management Plan under affordable housing, so when they want to exceed the density 32 requirements, say 12 units per acre, you would say, "OK, you can exceed it if you do 20 per unit and you set aside X percentage toward affordable housing. A discussion ensued and the following points were made: • Hold periods for affordable -housing unit set asides were extended from 15 to 30 years. • PUDs with affordable housing have been successful. • There were negotiations on the percentage of units, AMI and grades of affordability- that's becoming more of a conversation as zoning applications come forward. • One of the changes to the RLSA, the far eastern lands, was that the land owners amlwd lip, put into the Growth Management Plan for that area, that a certain percentage of 11gXt be set aside for affordable housing. " *4 • The County and citizens are checking to ensure that nurses, EMTs, fire fi to and others are living in the affordable units that were approved to ensure those reC*re is are met. • The County had a similar meeting with the Marco Island City Cou *hey agreed they should continue the conversations. • Density bonuses, if developers provide affordable housin , are w t % for workforce affordable housing and developers have agreed to that. • Density bonuses will generate a lot of workforce affordabl ousing over the years. • Developers don't want to lose money on a develop t, bu density bonuses also make it harder for a developer to get the prices they origina ded to make it profitable. • The Conservancy is concerned the rules could a the eastern lands. • The RLSA is a voluntary program that in clustering housing and increasing density to reduce the impacts on the over • One developer agreed to go set aside affordable housing due to the market we have, but that's going to change. • The County needs to ensure n' accept a plan that doesn't belong in a neighborhood just because it has an affor component. Attorney Klatzkow said that bet.Veen your comp plan and zoning, you've got vested rights for a certain number of units. et s say it's 18 units per acre. If you wanted to say, "If you want additional units on th a centage of those have to be affordable housing." This is a pure policy decision. A develo r n al ays say, "No. I know what my vested rights are." But if they want to put on greater densi an is allowed, we can certainly ask for a proportion of that density to be affordable houl r that, as BCC Chairman McDaniels noted, it's become a numbers game with the d�yelo r a to the price points, and given today's construction costs, what they could Taylor asked him to opine on the State's position on affordable housing Attorney Klatzkow said you've got vested rights for a certain number of units. The State's position is that you have to make a developer whole, which is no policy at all, so they put the onus on local governments. If we're going to require development, do inclusionary zoning, etc., then whatever the developer's loss and profit is, you've got to make it up to him. That's what the Legislature has done, so we can no longer dictate to a developer that you've got to put in X number of affordable housing units. We can do it as an incentive: We'll give you extra units if you 33 do this. But you cannot dictate anymore. Commissioner Taylor said there was no real affordable housing component required in the rural villages. BCC Chairman McDaniel said that's not true. (The following was added from the affordable housing discussion during 2. C.2.) We have approved three rural villages that then got converted to a town in eastern Collier County and there is a housing -affordability component within tha . Commissioner Saunders said he doesn't disagree with what you just said, but the req may be somewhat illusory. For example, the Conservancy has said that there's langu4 w at we've approved for those villages dealing with workforce housing that may soun d on the surface, but it may be illusory in terms of whether it will actually be workforce . He plans to discuss that language at our June 14 meeting, so you are right that there i ge there, but it may need to be strengthened. Commissioner Taylor said there is no requirement. 2.C.2. Water/Quality Resiliency — [Trinity Scott, deputy dep rtme'�t head, County Growth Management Department/Andy Holland, Interim Director, CN Streets & Stormwater Department] Ms. Scott said Jerry Kurtz, our Road and Storm Johnson, our Capital Project Planning, Impact F To quote our County Manager: Stormwater is w stormwater management system. We have t S. personal properties, as well as to ensure opfporQo welfare. Stormwater management i ifo to our water quality. rate ll%�ntn`Mce Director, as well as Beth raynctwork ogram Management Director, are here. at. The County has a very large lace to protect our individual and is available for health, safety and us to protect our natural environment with regard The County has regulatory equ.Vhents. We must follow the Clean Water Act and perform stormwater manageme tivities in compliance with our stormwater-discharge permit. We have a very diverse system, fe e system. We have over 370 miles of storm -sewer pipes that must be cleaned and m ' a' d, 7 miles of roadside swales, 648 centerline curb miles of streets to be swept. We coll ct lot storm control structur debris annually, as well as cleaning inlets, and we have major The fo sample of projects being undertaken by our Capital Project Planning Impact Fee ram Management Group. Some of the projects that we're looking at not only look at c truc b' ity (can it be constructed?), but how do we maintain it in the long-term. We have a lot of in cture in the ground that unfortunately, 40-50 years ago, when that was put in place, no one really thought about whether we have an access road to be able to get to clean out a maintenance area. So those are things that we're taking into consideration now, so that we're not being penny wise and pound foolish. The Freedom Park Bypass Ditch: The project is substantially complete. Freedom Park is an extensive water -quality area that the County looked for the water quality performance of the Gordon River. Along the northern end of Freedom Park is a bypass ditch that was taking water 34 directly into the Gordon River. What we have done with our Freedom Park Bypass Ditch Project is increase the conveyance channel to allow more water to flow through it, but those flows are now redirected to a spreader swale, thereby severing that direct connection. So now this water is going to flow through those wetlands and be able to enhance the water quality before it's ultimately discharged into the Gordon River, so we're really excited about this project. The Golden Gate City Master Plan: Golden Gate City is very diverse. Some folks are on water and sewer, some of are just on water, while some are on sewer and some are on septic. It's like the patchwork quilt. We have survived the Governor's line -item veto into the State budget andwe 'll receive a $500,000 Legislative appropriation that will be matched, $500,000 by the Co develop a master plan, phasing and funding strategy to be able to look at stormwater Pingthe outfalls, water, septic -to -sewer, roads, sidewalks system, lighting, perhaps even lq 4 g a FPL. v Essentially what we've done with the Goodlette projects, where we've kind n this holistic approach for the project management, we're going to be doing the same t i Golden Gate City and really figuring out a master plan to be able to convert that. AtIN Mr. Holland said the City's Stormwater Management is governe S�ormwater Master Plan, which was last updated in 2018. It's updated every 10 years. 's o uiding document for stormwater programs, projects and policies. Most recently, of the great things that came out of that master plan update was our stormwater ordinance c c es, where we increased the retention requirements for all developments in thg it' c d g single-family homes. The Beach Outfall Project: This has not been an 44sjofoject. Nothing about this project has been inexpensive, but it is a very important proje een called the most important water -quality project in the City, so the goals there are VAvie storm resiliency and reduce flooding. He drove along Gulfshore Boulevar Saturday morning after the storm and there were several feet of water on the road. That's a co on occurrence on Gulfshore Boulevard related to these pipes discharging directly' to th*/Gulf of Mexico. This is the condition of the beach outfalls. There are nine existing es on the beach that directly discharge stormwater into the Gulf of Mexico. This is wha oo 'ke after a rain event. You can see soil runoff discharging into the Gulf in the shore 's a of of tannins and leaf debris that is broken down and other pollutants from the City sLorm system. These pipaWlsolauk beach erosion, so as that water is flowing, it's scouring the sand and then the dry'f behind fills that scour in. Water quality has been a huge component of this pro' o R Oay one. There are extensive water -quality improvement components planned for this p ct, s chi as improving the sea turtle habitat. We've lost turtle hatchlings inside the wood pilin a need improved beach access for beachgoers. We've had injuries, cuts, and scrapes and things from kids playing on the pipes and the boards. The City Lake Management Plan: It covers approximately 30 lakes citywide. About 20 of them receive runoff from the public right-of-way. That 30 lakes don't include golf course lakes, like Bears Paw Estuary. Our Lakes Management Plan prioritizes which lakes to improve. There is a ranking of priorities based on a combination of different water -quality parameters, bacteria, nutrients, total suspended solids. Currently in that high priority list is Swan Lake. These three 35 green stars are actively under construction and are wrapping up. Red stars show where we'll be going out for design this year. Commissioner LoCastro asked if the water is filtered. Does a can go through the pipes? Mr. Holland said there is no filtering. Some grates do catch debris, and our crews scrape them after every rainstorm, but finer mesh filters would cause flooding. The Swan Lake Water -Quality Study pilot program is a very comprehensive look at water quality in Swan Lake, which is Parkshore. The Venetian Village shopping area is just off to the left on the other side of t bridge. This is a large drainage basin that includes areas of U.S. 41. The Park Shore PI a, Ore Burlington Coat Factory and Fresh Market are, discharges into Swan Lake. We belieat a portion of the gray area, of the County area, Momingside, also discharges into Sw ake. This is a really close look at pre- and post -storm water quality treatment or water -qua ling, pre - and post -treatment water -quality sampling. We're currently applying a bacterial product that's supposed to eat the u e bottom of the lake. This is to avoid dredging, but another thing we're doing is s ' en sting because that biological doesn't address heavy metals in the sediment. That's on in , a d we have a lot of preliminary data that we're sorting through now. 1 This is another lake that's active that was just graded. A lot of ou recreating that slope and putting a new pervious trail there. up. That's a littoral shelf eery steep, so by ality benefit. There's also Swales: We don't have ditches in the Ci� ounty has a lot of deep drainage ditches, three - and four -feet deep. The City relies hat are roughly six inches deep. We're installing a lot of inlet filter baskets. That's wha e're proposing for that Beach Outfall Project to capture the debris, garbage and dead animals that d up in the stormwater system. Vegetation maintenance is a really effective means o educeg nutrients, so cattails, as they grow, they're taking up nutrients. If we harvest them, and can do it all over again, that's a way to reduce nutrients in these ponds. Street Swee�i� , w purchased a brand new second street sweeper. Sweeping is well known to be o of th ost effective best management practices for removing nutrients and bacteria from s er systems. The City also has a fertilizer ordinance and the blackout period went into WiLect June 1 st. Re 'ke City conducts basin assessments. All the red circles are completed or ongoing bi ass F ssments. In this project, we're taking a look at the City's existing level of service and the exist tormwater infrastructure in these drainage basins and modeling that to see how we're doing and then applying sea -level rise and applying a higher level of service, a higher stormwater event and seeing what we need to do to address those flooding concerns in the future. This is one of the results/deliverables of those basic assessments. All the red areas are flooding areas during a 25-year, three-day storm event. A lot of these areas are also very low lying. We have roadway elevations in the threes and fours, so they're very impacted by tides and sea -level rise. The device you see on the right is a backflow preventer. They're actually simple, but pretty 36 ingenious devices that prevent the tide from backing up into the stormwater system. The picture on the bottom right is an actual installation of one of those. It's inside the pipe. He's joining with Natalie Hardman, the City's new natural resources manager. She started in April and came from the DER She's going to help with a lot of natural resources issues. This is one of her projects, the Oyster Reef Restoration. We have three sites. Two are complete and we're planning on doing the middle one in 2023 at Site 2 in Naples Bay. There are actually three manatees in the photo. Vulnerability Assessment and Climate -Adaptation Plan: The City completed its vulner assessment in 2020 and we're working on starting our adaptation plan, how to addrezScerns related to sea -level rise. 0- Commissioner Taylor asked how this solves the problem of not polluting t of Mexico, when the pipes that you're constructing, the stormwater is still dumped int e ulf of Mexico, but just a different distance. Mr. Holland said we are installing 100 or more inlet filter basket e owed you in the miscellaneous improvements slide. The pump station has a n nent parating baffle box, which is a series of baffles that won't let things into the pumps. An 're increasing the retention of the three -lake system — North Lake, South Lake and Alliga a , hich all flow to one of the bigger outfalls, so we are doing a lot of things up t% ove water quality prior to it reaching the pump station and getting pumped farrr BCC Chairman McDaniel asked if they'd —luck on the bioreactor we visited. Council Member Blankenship sa' JQoing to bring that up as an example of where we could work together on improving r quality. We all want to improve the quality of the Gordon River in Naples Bay. He and BCC Cha an McDaniel and others had the opportunity to see what Bonita Springs is doing w' its lAreactor. That might be an opportunity for us to collaborate, if we get our staff to wor ether on deciding where or how it might work, so we could have a pilot project to improve t ate ality of Naples. He'd love to do that. BCC Chairm Mc Niel the preliminary data coming out of that bioreactor that the City of Bonita Springs a assist in the stormwater management was off the charts for the nutrient- reductio po nt. They actually found that they build it as a free-standing unit and it requires contin so they're in the second phase of installing a pump to pump out of the Imperial Riv a that continuous flow when there isn't rain, in order to keep the efficiency of the p ct a% ally working. He'd love to do that. We talked before about the septic -to -sewer and west of 9 at canal is a direct feed into the Gordon River to Naples Bay, so anywhere along those lines if our staffs are listening in, he'd love to see us explore that and have a look at a joint venture on a couple of those just to help with the effluents that are in that canal system. Council Member Blankenship said we have a new Natural Resources Manager and City Manager, so the time is right to take on that important initiative. BCC Chairman McDaniel said that relatively speaking, it's not expensive. The total project cost 37 was $1.5 million, even with the pump at $750,000 to build and another $750,000 for the pump to move water in and out of the Imperial River. There was an enormous amount of reduction in nutrients. It was off the charts. Any other questions on stormwater-water quality? Council Member Christman said that a couple of years ago, the State passed the Clean Waterways Act, a big piece of water -quality legislation that's still going through implementation. They're finally getting around to developing a new stormwater-management rule. He's sure County and the City staff are aware of this. It just went through a technical advisory comm e process and now it's going to go through a public process. The last time the State tried to something like this was over 10 years ago and it never got to the finish line then, so it's es since we've had an updated stormwater management regulations and it's truly impo or e whole State, including Collier County and the City of Naples. He wanted to flag t ecause at the Commission level and on the City Council level, we ought to be learning abou ngaging in it to make sure that it comes out in a way we'd like to see. Vice Mayor McCabe said that as Andy said, we in the City of Naples as tormwater ordinance requiring property owners to retain the first inch of wa n t roperty. Does the County have anything like that. He asks because, as development s the City of Naples, it's not new development, it's redevelopment. You're tearing own house that is at 25% lot coverage. You're putting up a house at 60% lot coverage. means there's not as much going to be absorbed, so it runs off, which means you're increasi t o me of stormwater continually and exacerbating the problem that's already ther . f Naples took a look at it and said we'd take it to the next level to make sure that as are being developed, retention happens onsite, so that we're being proactive about not c ti ng the increase. BCC Chairman McDaniel said the shorts is yes. Vice Mayor McCabe said that's an ortant component of making sure that we are using the land for what it is, the filter system tha was designed to do, so that as the water runs off into our gulfs, etc., it is done right., Mayor Heitmann a*d i�e,County has a fertilizer ordinance. Commissioner,,SauriMp said yes, we have one that's different from the City's. We don't have a blackout perio ught in fertilizer experts from the University of Florida and their recomme tion was not to have a blackout period. He spoke to a Marco Island City Council memb nd t4gilhave a blackout period. That council member had listened to the testimony we had aihat he wished that they had not done that, so we may need to take another look at it. hat as the basis of ours. We brought down some well-known nationally known experts to tell u w best to draft that and that was their recommendation. 2.C.3. Army Corps of Engineers Update — [Amy Patterson, County Manager] Ms. Patterson said that about a year ago, we were having a discussion about the Army Corps Project, which is three years and $3 million in the making. There was a lot of controversy involved in that, some mixed feelings from the community, particularly related to the walls, floodgates and things like that. As we all know, the Army Corps has asked for more time. They had a number of OR issues, including some environmental concerns, the feasibility and cost of the project, and wants to take this up their chain of command to look at options and then have a chance to come back to Collier County as a whole, the Cities and the County and all of our constituents, to see if there is a different way to approach this. So as of now, the Army Corps is still evaluating options. Many of you have probably seen the October letter that laid out four different options. The most attractive to all is probably the beaches only, higher, wider beaches and some flood -proofing of structures and some protection of critical infrastructure, but much less impactful, as far as t footprint on infrastructure and the hardened structures. We believe that the Corps is leaninAh They are continuing to work this through their channels, so I'm here today to tell you w continuing those conversations with the Corps. .� We're nowhere near ready to commit to anything with the Corps, including co on. They need to figure out if this is something they're even interested in pursuing, a dly, what does that look like, timewise, and what does it look like moneywise? At that po in ime, when they come forward with a proposal, that will be the time we begin public e . That includes with our Commissioners, with you, as City Council, Marco Islan ver es City and all the interested stakeholders. F We have very significant takeaways from the last process, ' ding how we engage with the public, so reassurances to all of you sitting here, as well a the viewing public, that this is not going to be done in isolation or in the dark. ear i Pappear and say, "We're engaged with the Corps and just deal with it." There will open and public process that we go through and as soon as we have additional info ti , we'll begin that engagement with you as the elected officials. Commissioner LoCastro said that * ilitary commander days and being a base commander, he worked with the AA Corps a lot. Here are a couple of takeaways. They always recommend crazy, outlandish things w*n money is no object. We heard from the public, "Oh my God, you know these big 'ant cgcrete steel walls on the beach?" The Army Corps recommends, we decide. But here's o hing to keep in mind. If we give them too much pushback and say we're not interesteZ>", cr nd outlandish, the Army Corps is in popular demand across the country. Maybe we don fie funds because they're sometimes tied to federal funds or all kinds of things. B ha e the option and to say "no" to an Army Corps of Engineers report, even with the outlan ' , your chance of getting the federal dollars or even a discussion is almost zero. Yo t the misinformation from the past report is and we've gotten them to sort of tone d tha p ge because they're wasting time on these crazy, giant things. In the end, you cherry pick ings you want to do, or you do nothing. He had big reports coming out of the bases he commanded, and we thought nothing in this report is doable now or affordable now, but at least we have it. And then you stick it up on the shelf, and at least it was good analysis. A lot of times buried in the reports aren't crazy projects, but really good research. The takeaway is we're not going to build a 20-foot wall, but what they just identified for us was an area of our community that is fragile and vulnerable, so you do want to embrace their science and their help and not necessarily put a bad taste in their mouth. Most importantly, we 39 need to make sure the public understands that even if we get a report this thick with things that are a billion dollars, the Army Corps just recommends and we decide. They don't force feed anything. Getting that information out, he hopes this second draft of the report is a bit more palatable and much more presentable to the public than the last ideas that were floating around. You want to be really careful about kicking the Army Corps to the curb because we may need them for all kinds of things, and we don't want to be on that list where they say they came down to Collier County, spent years and millions of dollars and man hours and were on the front pa but the County didn't even want our report. That doesn't help any community. BCC Chairman McDaniel said that's a long way of saying that we're going to eng it the Corps. We're going to take as much of the information and data that we can get fr Whe orps and then make the decisions accordingly for what's best for our citizens. Council Member Christman said he has the pleasure of representing Ci o cil on the County Coastal Advisory Committee, so he brings that perspective to this. It's ' t s that we ended and began the meeting at the same place, talking about beaches . orps study is broader than just beaches. It talks about sea -level rise and resiliency and c a c nge, but ultimately it impacts the beaches. What people aren't aware of is that Funj 195, e money that comes from the Tourist Development Council for beach renourishment eac ar goes into Fund 195. Today, there is $46 million in unexpended money in that accou built up over the years because the annual contribution to it has not been fully spgiii.,� This year, we are not contemplating any beach-r o 'shment projects anywhere in the County, including the City. If that ultimately holds,Wathere's no hurricane disaster this summer, that money has to be used. We'll have over $Weeding n that fund. He's bringing this up because of the beach-renourishment issue. The of our beaches is really such an important issue for us to continue to try to wo';f ether on because you've got some money sitting in the County -administered account, butpublicly accessible beaches in the County are in the City, so we have a mutual A tergAn finding a way to work together on this in terms of what we need to do and how mo that are already within our hands might be used over a period of years to make sure that we' de with beach nourishment and inlet management. The Doctor's Pass project is an exa that. e need to try to work together to do the right thing in that area. 3. PUBLIC TS Nancy L 's sa she wanted to add a point of clarification regarding the villages. The Affordable Housi lly Bel Village and Longwater Village, 80 or 88 acres were set aside to ac9afordable affordable housing. Up to 880 units for either the County to purchase or an a eveloper to come in and build on at $22,300 per acre and the developer was exempted frmpact fees. The other affordable components are from 12 to 16 units per acre. Most of thunits have been given 25 units per acre. Commissioner Saunders said that's why he called the commitment illusory because we have to have someone buy that property and develop it and that may not happen, so we might want to tweak that language. He'll be bringing it up to the Board. BCC Vice Chair Solis said one of the big components and driving forces of the Mental Health and Addiction Strategic Plan was NCH. They announced last week that they were closing their psychiatric facility, so we will no longer have that as a resource in Collier County. They're just going to push the folks that they would have taken in and treated to the David Lawrence Center. That's going to stress the system even more on what we've been working so hard to do. That caught me by surprise and it caught Scott Burgess by surprise, as well. We have committed to building the central -receiving facility, which is the place where all the mental health and addiction services will start, and take that function out of the jail and bui ome capacity for the future. Part of the discussion has been whether that can be a mental-healt s 1 facility, as opposed to just a central -receiving facility. It seems that issue has become g A w because of this decision by NCH. He'd like to come and speak to City Council. We' he middle of the budgeting process, but more so now than ever, we need to get the e ommunity, the City included, to help us build the facility that we need to build. The Count ls,�Ammitted $25 million of its surtax funds to help us do that. It's going to cost more thagefikA,,Construction costs are going through the roof, so we're going to far exceed that. _kl IF It's going to be a facility that serves everyone. It's good fiscal po�_!, itodfor public safety and this has thrown a curveball into what we've been trying to dos g icant because now we won't have a hospital facility. Physicians Regional doesn't pr vidose services and now NCH announced they're not going to do it, either. That's a signif t issue, especially for seniors. We had The Willow come in and they're trying to changes e it facility. They are licensed and it was certified as a psychiatric hospital. But they, A �'o er certifications. They're working on that, so he's not going to say that they we wo a ome capability in that regard for people who need psychiatric care and medical care. Thi 'ss really affects seniors because up until now, it's been predominantly seniors who are on e e who need psychiatric and medical care. We've been sending them to Park�1 spital in Lee County. That's how we've handled that. This is going to create a bigge X4&i he hopes to engage the City in helping us solve it because there really is no answer, of than a total community buy -in and dealing with it, a commitment. Commissioner LoCast aid the $25 million facility is now about $6 million more to build the same size facility, so ea nswer always is that we'll just build a smaller facility for $25 million. It was a 5 0 qu e-foot facility and now it goes down to 40,000 square feet. A lot was packed in at 5 000 s e feet and now with NCH's announcement, 56,000 square feet is more important than don't want to address it down the road. This central receiving facility is so critical. T uil t smaller when the need has grown? We want to act before we start and put a shovel d incorrectly. C mis over Saunders said there are a lot of things that we're working with the City on. When we plVout to the voters, the 1-cent sales tax, we generate $490 million over a seven-year period Once that $490 million is reached, the sales tax sunsets, so it could be six years instead of seven. About $70 million of that is distributed to the three cities. He doesn't know how much the City of Naples gets. Vice Mayor McCabe said $25.5 million. Commissioner Saunders said that's money that maybe in 2017 would not have been anticipated. 41 The tax was approved in 2018. There may be a way. Commissioner LoCastro, to move money around a little bit in that fund, not the City fund, but the County fund. There is some flexibility there, and that's a County Attorney question, but we may have some projects that we can change. He mentions that because he (Saunders) got a bit testy saying you don't want to look at the County as a cash cow. Beach parking, for example, is a small -ticket item when you start looking at everything we're doing. He appreciates the ability to work with the City. In years past, it wasn't always that way. The City was not getting treated properly by the County. We changed tha ong time ago and the working relationship has been extremely good. He wants to thank you fo� ability to continue that good working relationship and emphasize that there are some bi items that we're involved in and the mental -health issue may be one where maybe thsome flexibility on your part with that $25 million plus that you're getting. We have a lO t we're involved in together. � Commissioner Taylor thanked the mayor and the Council because there' e marked change and a very positive way with her leadership on the Council to foster a n hese kinds of relationships, which is so critical to our future. Mayor Heitmann said that on behalf of Council, our manage and aff, we thank you for making this efficient, and for your partnership in many programs a moving forward. It's necessary and important to our residents that the City and County her. We look forward to continuing the conversations. 0 ^� BCC Chairman McDaniel agreed for his colleaZ�4nd County staff and said they should not wait too long before meeting together again. 4. ADJOURN There being no further business for a good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chairman a 2:S1*.m. COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WILLIAM L. MCDANIEL, CHAIRMAN ,CLERK These minutes were approved by the Commission/Council on as presented , or as amended 42