BCC Minutes 08/28/2023 EAugust 28, 2023
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, August 28, 2023
LET IT BE REMEMBERED that the Board of County
Commissioners, in and for the County of Collier, and also acting as
the Board of Zoning Appeals and as the governing board(s) of such
special districts as have been created according to law and having
conducted business herein, met on this date at 4:00 p.m., in SPECIAL
SESSION in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples,
Florida, with the following Board members present:
Chairman: Rick LoCastro
Chris Hall
Dan Kowal
William L. McDaniel, Jr. (via zoom)
Burt L. Saunders
ALSO PRESENT:
Amy Patterson, County Manager
Daniel Rodriguez, Deputy County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Crystal K. Kinzel, Clerk
Robert Eble, Communications & Customer Relations
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P R O C E E D I N G S
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: County Manager.
MS. PATTERSON: Chair, you have a live mic.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay. I see the room is
filled with all the usual suspects, so here we go. Back at it
again.
All right. Ms. Patterson, I'll turn it over to you and
Mr. Summers and whoever else.
MS. PATTERSON: So, Commissioner, this is a
special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners here
August 28th, 2023, at 4:00 p.m.
Let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, we have
Commissioner McDaniel joining by phone. We just need a
motion for him to be able to participate.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Do I have a motion?
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Second.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay. I've got a motion
from me and a second from Commissioner Kowal. All in
favor?
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay. Approve.
MS. PATTERSON: Is he all set, Tom?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: He is all.
MS. PATTERSON: Very good.
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Item #2A
PRESENTATION: UPDATE ON STATUS OF TROPICAL
STORM IDALIA AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT ON
COLLIER COUNTY
We're going to move right into business. Item 2
is -- Item 2A is a presentation and update on the status of
Tropical Storm Idalia and its potential impact on Collier
County.
Mr. Dan Summers, your Emergency Management
director, is here to give you his presentation.
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioners, good afternoon.
Dan Summers, director of your Bureau of Emergency
Services and Emergency Management. And I wanted to
bring you an update and recommendation here as we go into
this particular storm event. However, if you would give me
the liberty, I really would like to just ask everyone to keep in
their prayers Broward County Sheriff's Office Fire Rescue
who had a helicopter crash fatality this morning and ask you
to keep our response partners over there in your prayers and
certainly those folks north of us, who -- who have had the
trauma of Hurricane Ian but what may be in store for those
folks up the road in the days to come. So I ask you to keep
them in your special thoughts.
Let me move forward quickly. Let's see. Tom, will
this advance now?
Just to give you a little bit of a quick little narrative,
and I will show you some of the tracking graphics that are
available to us today.
This hurricane right now is a Category 1 storm event.
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We've all been watching this over the last several days.
Our forecasters continue to remind us of several things.
Number one is that there is an awful lot of good agreement
with the tracking models, and I feel pretty good about
maintaining a high degree of confidence in those models.
We've seen storms wobble in the gulf. We've also
seen storms kind of surprise us at the last minute, but I feel
pretty good about these particular tracking models at this
point.
Also, certainly the other fear right now is the incredible
surface temperatures of the gulf, which are really
counting -- the forecasters are looking at this as, you know,
certainly going to contribute to the fuel for the escalation of
this storm.
A little bit of good news here that I'm hoping we see is
pretty quick forward motion, and that's going to help
minimize some of the storm surge inundation concerns that
we have for our coast.
Some of the models, I've been running these models
with what information was available since Saturday, that
some of the tropical storm force winds on average look like
they're going to stay about 100 miles offshore. But it
doesn't mean that as the bands come through, we're not
going to get those gusts, and we are certainly going to be
impacted to some degree. And, again, that's a little hard to
determine at this point with some onshore flow, maybe some
localized short -- what I hope is localized short-duration
storm surge flooding.
Been in close contact with the state EOC now for days,
and Collier County is now included in the executive order.
We were not part of that executive order, which is basically
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the Governor's way of declaring a local state of emergency.
Collier County has now been included in that at our request
and also the White House, I believe, is approving or has
approved a pre-disaster landfall declaration, and Collier
County hopefully will be added to that in the days to come.
The storm surge, as I mentioned, this is nothing like an
Ian event but by stretch of the imagination; however, we're
on the fringe of what -- of these tropical storm-force winds
where we see those southern-facing beaches or
southern-facing coasts that may capture a little bit of water.
I've had three calls with the National Weather Service
over in Miami. Certainly, some of the concerns right now
could be a 1- to 3-foot storm surge or a 1- to 4-foot -- or 2 to
4 feet. But those, again, are extremely conservative
numbers, and that is not anything at this point in the forecast
that I deem requires an action by local government other
than to remind the public to be very careful, be very
watchful in the days to come with the possibility of some
local roadway flooding.
Rainfall events. Rainfall estimates for us surprisingly
are very low; one to two inches. I know Lisa Koehler is
here from the Basin, so she can address that, but we really
don't see this as a significant rainfall maker and having any
substantial impact in Collier County at this point in the
forecast; however -- and this was always a little bothersome
during Hurricane Ian when. We have these bands come
through the unstable atmosphere, you might get a lot of
tornado watches and warnings that are radar indicated, so
just want to be prepared for that, that we might have some of
that activity in the days to come.
We want to remind our residents and guests to closely
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monitor local media. We want to continue to recommend
our public register with Alert Collier for the mass
notifications to go to their devices. We have no plans, no
recommendations from the EOC to open evacuation shelters.
This is a great time that make sure that your hurricane
preparedness kit is fully stocked. We're still in the
hurricane sales tax holiday going on right now.
And also be prepared for some gusty winds that may
cause some intermittent power outages over the next few
days. So, again, we have certainly seen that with some
severe thunderstorms and those type of activities but, again,
we remain on the fringe of all of this as it goes so far today.
Our Emergency Operations Center, we've been fully
staged with all of our supplies and equipment in place now
for several weeks. The Emergency Operations Center, we
continue to reach out with all of our partner agencies. We
continue to populate social media. Again, we remind folks
not to dial 911 for general information or hours of operation
or the status of your cable. It seems to be a popular call.
Do not dial 911 unless it is a life-threatening emergency
situation. 311 can get you general government information,
and for your carriers, FPL, Lee Co-op, Comcast, et cetera,
call them directly.
We continue close coordination with the state EOC and
FEMA as needed. And, presently, we're going to
recommend a partial activation of the EOC at 7:00 a.m.
tomorrow morning. We'll see how those hours go. I'm
hopeful that we could be winding down the EOC by
midnight tomorrow if the storm track and forward speed
holds, but we can certainly go around the clock if needed.
And, again, I'm doing a partial activation. So my
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operations team is set up already, the agencies that we feel
like need to be there tomorrow, because I don't think we're
going to lose communication. So any other partner
agencies that are not seated in the EOC floor, we'll have
contact with them.
Lots of information out there. Again, I want to stress,
you know, if it can be blown away, pick it up. If it can't be
picked up, tie it down. So, again, we've got an opportunity
here for some gusts of winds coming through. We want to
avoid any windblown items if at all possible.
Let me switch gears here, and I'll give you a little quick
overview of the modeling and then a couple other comments
I'll share with you, and open it up for questions.
So just to kind of go through this modeling scenario
with you here -- and I'll give you some of the projected wind
field activity here. So as you can see -- as you can see in
our Collier County probabilistic forecast models here, we're
looking at some 34- to 39-mile-per-hour winds that would
be north of Naples.
Now, what I think -- and the reason I want to go ahead
and proceed with this declaration is that we have learned
over many years to be prepared for the wobble; however, I
don't see this wobble doing something too significant and,
again, we're a good 100 miles or so, 115 miles away from
the storm-force winds. But I don't want to play games with
that particular wind field. And also knowing this is going
to -- I'm sorry -- that this is going to generate -- this is going
to generate some onshore flow.
So -- I'm sorry. I've got -- clicked ahead of myself
here. There we go.
So, again, you've got two different types of model
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fields there. But we're in really pretty good shape. We
don't see anything that's going to generate hurricane-force
winds, and I fully anticipate us to be in that tropical storm
wind field if it becomes necessary.
These timing marks have been consistent for a good
while now and so, again, I have a great deal of confidence in
the modeling as it stands today. And if you'll notice, that
track has only shifted just a little bit as it approaches the big
bend of Florida.
And then, finally, back to the presentation. Again, I
mentioned the model guidance. Again, this is kind of an
average of what you've seen through the last several days.
This remains pretty consistent. The intensity model there, a
couple of runs up to barely hitting the Category 3 run and,
again, that intensification is likely to occur as it approaches
the big bend of Florida.
And then, finally -- aren't I having great success today
here?
Again, some of the tropical outlook. Tropical wind
field is around 39 miles per hour on the five-day outlook
and, still, Collier County remains fairly clear of that but,
again, the bands, the periphery of this storm is something
that we want to be very careful and watch out for.
In this local state of emergency declaration that we're
recommending, there are no mandatory nor voluntary
evacuations being called for, any curfews or prohibitions.
The County Manager and the Sheriff can address those as
they see fit. We'll continue our close coordinating with
Collier schools, municipalities, and response agencies, and
we remind all of our partner agencies to work with us
consistently in our Joint Information Center so we can send
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out unified messaging on various channels through our
partner agencies.
We want to make sure that we're well-positioned for
any last-minute track changes. I really hope that doesn't
occur, but I want to err on the side of safety.
And, finally, schools and courts -- I know Collier
schools is going to make their announcements, I believe, at
6:00 p.m. today, and I'll defer to Crystal on any activities
related to the court system.
And that's all I have at this particular point other than
anything that the partner agencies would like to share, and I
believe -- Sheriff Rambosk, would you like to come up
now?
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Dan, when did you say
schools were going to make their announcement? I missed
that. What time?
MR. SUMMERS: Six p.m.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Six, okay. Thanks.
SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Good afternoon. Kevin
Rambosk, Collier County Sheriff.
We're doing a lot of the same things that the
Emergency Management Division here is. We met first
thing this morning, and we did an initial opening of our
continuity of operations plan. We have also been tracking
in coordination with EM here, the storm tracks and
predictions.
What we're really looking at now is having response
teams ready in the event that the storm stays on the track
that its on, that we are impacted no more than what we
believe we will be impacted with, and we will be ready to go
with communications crews, with law enforcement staff, all
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self-contained for a period of 10 days.
So, for example, the Citrus County Sheriff's Office,
where this storm is headed right now, they came right down
and they supported us one year ago, so we want to make
sure and return that favor if they need it, and we will
certainly go through emergency management.
I want to recognize the County Manager. We have
had a great coordinating effort along this entire time, and
EM. We're also working with state emergency
management, so we are ready to go in the event that we are
needed. Other than that, we're ready to help those who
might need it outside of Collier County.
MS. PATTERSON: Thank you, Sheriff.
Clerk of Courts.
MS. KINZEL: Hello. Good afternoon. Crystal
Kinzel, Clerk of Courts.
As you may or may not be aware, the 20th judicial has
closed the courthouses for Charlotte, Lee, and Collier. We
plan on being open at the annex portion and also at satellites,
but for this campus, to the public, the court and the annex
would be closed, because we would not have the availability
of security and other elements.
So since the judiciary has canceled in those three
courthouses -- Hendry and Glades at this point in time are
remaining open, and we're going to remain open, internal
processing. We always have work to do.
We also -- I have been in contact with the Tax
Collector, and we have agreed, at least for right now, unless
something dramatically changes and we get additional
notices, our satellite operations will be available to the
public. So there should be no drop in service. And I also
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want to compliment -- our communications are awesome
with county staff, and we'll continue to do that should
anything else change. We talk frequently about what's
going on. So thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: So, Crystal, the
courthouse will be closed tomorrow and Wednesday or --
MS. KINZEL: Well, they're going to make a decision
about Wednesday after they see what tomorrow does. But I
think because of the school not making an announcement in
this time and also our neighbors to the north with Charlotte
and Lee, they are still suffering from Ian, so I think they're a
little more cautious there and, because we're coastal, they
decided to close our courthouse.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay. So for sure
Collier courthouse is closed tomorrow?
MS. KINZEL: Yes, and the annex building. So that
entire building of the annex and the courthouse. Clerk, for
our employees, will be open in the courthouse annex
because we will be doing work, and the Clerk's satellites
will be open for the public services. But we still caution,
obviously, the public. Be careful. And many of our
services are available online, so you can do them from your
home safely.
So we appreciate that opportunity to talk to the public.
Thanks.
MS. PATTERSON: Big Cypress Basin. Lisa.
MS. KOEHLER: Good afternoon. Lisa Koehler,
South Florida Water Management District.
As Dan had said previously, conditions are really dry,
so this should not have a huge impact on us. We have
made some changes to our coastal structures, because that is
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where most of the rainfall is anticipated to fall, and we have
also coordinated very closely with County staff on making
changes in the secondary system as well. So I think we're
well prepared. We're going to continue to monitor, and I
think we're in good shape.
Any questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay.
MS. KOEHLER: Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Thank you.
Commissioners, we are fully coordinated with the City
of Naples, City of Marco Island, and Everglades City.
They'll be following on with their own state of emergency
declarations following ours. I spoke with the city managers
this morning.
So with that, unless you have questions on this
particular piece, we'll talk a little bit about county operations
tomorrow after we get through the resolution and
proclamation for the state of emergency.
Item #2B
DECLARATION OF A LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENCY
That is the next item on our agenda is the declaration of
a local state of emergency. The item is in your packet.
And I can put it up on the -- it's a couple of pages, but I can
put the front page up on the visualizer if that's helpful.
And as Dan said, there are no restrictions or
prohibitions, no evacuations at this time. We'll continue to
monitor the situation as the storm moves forward into the
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gulf. And should we need to adjust, of course, we'll be in
touch with you on that.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So you just need a
motion?
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And the County
Attorney has reviewed this, I assume?
MS. PATTERSON: He prepared it.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Then I'll make a
motion to approve the proclamation.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Second.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: I've got a motion from
Commissioner Saunders and a second from Commissioner
Hall. All in favor?
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Opposed?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye (delayed).
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: It passes unanimously. I
know that was a little delay.
Is there a second page to this, or this is it?
MS. PATTERSON: Yep. Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Just curious.
MS. PATTERSON: There's multiple pages. That's
just the front page, if you flip through your packet. This is
the second page, and then --
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: I mean -- and as we've
said before, the big takeaway here is this allows us to
streamline services that might be needed, and we can make
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command decisions without having a meeting every time we
need to do something that's obvious.
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. And one of the big
concerns, obviously, with this storm, as it brushes by us, is
the potential for storm surge, and most specifically on our
mind this morning was that we've recently completed over
$20 million in emergency berm work on the beaches.
Obviously, we are hoping that it will stay far enough off
shore that it doesn't cause any problems with that newly
placed berm, which is also not planted yet; however, if we
sustain damage to the berm, of course, we want to be best
positioned to be able to make repairs to that berm.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay.
MR. KLATZKOW: Could you put up the first page of
that resolution?
MS. PATTERSON: Sure.
MR. KLATZKOW: And so we've got language there
that voluntary evacuation is encouraged. I take it that we're
simply striking that. That's what's in your backup. I'm just
looking for clarity.
MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir. I think you can --
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, it's your recommendation,
but it's up to the Board.
MR. SUMMERS: I understand.
MR. KLATZKOW: It's the last paragraph on Page 1.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Yeah. So that really
shouldn't -- I mean, that really shouldn't be in there, right?
COMMISSIONER HALL: Encouraged.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: We're not encouraging
voluntary evacuation. So can we just strike that?
MR. KLATZKOW: We will strike that, yes.
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CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: What's after that? And
that a state -- what's the next sentence, just so we have
clarity. State of local emergency has been declared
effective -- so that part's true. So, yeah, let's just strike that
and --
COMMISSIONER HALL: Good call, Jeff.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay.
MS. PATTERSON: Do you need a new motion, Jeff?
MR. KLATZKOW: No, I think we've got clarity.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay.
MS. PATTERSON: Okay. All right. Thank you.
If there's no more questions on the declaration of a
local state of emergency, we can talk briefly about the
county operations for tomorrow.
So the 311 nonemergency call center will activate at
the EOC at 7:00 tomorrow morning and will be staffed to
operate until midnight or as long as conditions warrant.
The Joint Information Center, otherwise known as the
JIC, will also being operational through the day and evening
tomorrow for press release assistance, social media alerts,
and to facilitate any press conferences should they become
necessary.
We also will be open -- at this point in time we're
recommending being open for regular business tomorrow.
We are working with the staff because of the school
closures. Lee County has already closed schools, so
making sure that we can accommodate any of those
childcare needs, so the directors and department heads have
been working on that scheduling, and we'll continue to work
that as Collier County decides on what they're doing with
schools.
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Should conditions deteriorate or we feel we need to
modify operations, then, of course, we'll be in touch with
you to explain that. But, otherwise, it's probably going to
be a messy, rainy day, but we'll be here and operating.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: So just for clarity and
summary. This building will remain open, all department
staff that's not essential personnel only or anything like that,
unless something changes. But as of right now, although
the courthouses have decided that they're going to close on
Tuesday, this building and surrounding associated buildings
would remain open and fully functional?
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. The other thing we're
considering is that as we move through the day, if the
weather conditions are deteriorating -- and we do have a
number of staff people that do commute -- that we may
phase letting them go home to be able to make that travel
easier. So we'll continue to monitor that as the weather
presents itself.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Do we have -- I know we
don't have a crystal ball, but do we have an expectation of
what is going to be announced at 6:00? Or I might be
premature. I don't want to preempt the schools. But that's
going to be a totally separate announcement, and then, you
know, we'll get that out through the county as well.
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. And they've
been -- they've been posting on social media. So no later
than 6:00 was what they've put up as a decision point,
probably having to do a lot with the probable wind speeds
because of the buses and having kids at school and needing
to move them around if weather is deteriorating.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: That's fair.
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MS. PATTERSON: So that is all we have unless you
have any other questions and, perhaps, Commissioner
McDaniel, we may just want to check with him to see if he
has any questions before we adjourn.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Commissioner McDaniel,
do you have anything on your end, sir?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, sir. I really
appreciate you inviting me to come in and allowing me to
participate.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay. All right. And,
Amy, I mean, you'll obviously keep us posted if we need to
sort of circle back tomorrow in this room again or do
something on the phone or what have you.
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. We'll continue to push
out information as the advisories come out. If it remains a
status quo, of course we'll provide that information as well.
But should anything change in a negative way, most
certainly we will either reconvene or take the necessary
steps that we need to to change our course of action.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Did I see that we just
recently posted something about sand and sandbags? So
what's the -- what's the latest? And that stuff usually runs
out quickly. Do we have a -- when it's gone, it's gone, or is
there a second load or anything that anybody can tell us?
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Usually that's Trinity's,
you know, bailiwick, because she's the --
MS. PATTERSON: I can see her moving around.
We've been talking about sandbagging all day. It's actually
one of my favorite emergency topics.
Trinity.
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MS. SCOTT: Good afternoon, Trinity Scott,
department head, Transportation Management Services.
Yes, sir, we have announced one sandbag location,
which is the North Collier Regional Park softball complex at
15000 Livingston Road.
We currently have sand in that location. I believe we
have 40 tons there. We do have another load that we can
deploy if necessary. We plan on having sandbagging
operations until 7:00 p.m. tonight, and then it would reopen
tomorrow morning at 8:30.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Mr. Chairman, I
have a quick question.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: You said if
conditions deteriorate that we may need to have another
meeting or -- my understanding is that this order gives you
what you need. If that storm all of a sudden was making a
bull's-eye to Collier County, you would have the authority to
do the things you need to do in response to it without us
having to come back. I don't have any problem coming
back, but --
MS. PATTERSON: No, sir.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- I just want to
make sure that if something happens that you do have that
authority pursuant to this.
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. Thank you for that
clarification. If this storm changes course, we have the
authority that we need at this point to do what we need to
do, and then we will put the pieces together after that.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Right. Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: And I probably should
have asked you this, Trinity, and you can probably just give
me a hand wave. So if we reopen the sand at 8:30
tomorrow, is it, you know, until it's all gone, or is there a
second load coming? I just know that that's always sort of a
sore point. I mean, I expect that most of the sand will be
gone by 7:00 p.m. because people sort of tend to race over
there and fill up. So if it's gone tonight at 7:00, would we
not open at 8:30, or we have got a second load coming?
MS. SCOTT: Once again, Trinity Scott.
We do have additional sand available. We're
monitoring it and can bring it as necessary. We'll also
continue to monitor the storm on if we need to continue
those operations, you know --
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Tomorrow would be --
MS. SCOTT: -- or if we need to shut them down.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: -- 8:30 till exhaustion
probably, right?
MS. SCOTT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Till the inventory is
exhausted?
MS. SCOTT: Yes, and we'll make sure that we get a
press release out on that.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay. Got it.
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioner, I just want to
mention, just thank you and, again, this local state of
emergency certainly gives us the flexibility. Just in case we
have a fast-breaking event, we feel good about moving
forward.
And just one plug on the sandbags, just remember a
bag of potting soil or a bag of mulch can also serve the same
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purpose. So keep that in mind as a backup.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Do you know, Dan, if we
have bags where the sand is, or is it just a pile of sand?
Because I thought I remember -- we have bags?
Okay. So just if anybody's listening, bags and sand. I
think, you know, during Ian there was a time where I think
maybe we were, like, bring your own bag, and there's sand
or -- okay, so there's bags and sand, and it will be there until
it's exhausted.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: I read -- I read what
went out. It said make sure you bring your own shovel --
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Shovel.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: -- to fill the bags. Ten
bags per person, I think, is what it was, right?
MS. SCOTT: (Thumbs up.)
MR. SUMMERS: Correct.
And I want to put just one more comment on the
record, please, for our fire, EMS, and law enforcement, if
we do have traffic signals that go dark because of the storm,
we want to remember that -- treat those intersections as
four-way stops. So we have to remind folks to be patient.
So I wanted to get that plug in. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay.
MS. PATTERSON: Mr. Rodriguez had -- one more
point is we're planning on waste collections as usual on the
schedule; however, again, should we have a change in
weather, we will make an adjustment should that need be.
We don't want to have trash containers blowing around if
we're going to have stronger-than-expected winds.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay. Anybody else
have anything?
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COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: No.
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Go around the room.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: Okay. Anything else on
your end?
MS. PATTERSON: That's all for us. Thank you.
County Attorney?
CHAIRMAN LoCASTRO: We're adjourned. Thank
you.
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There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 4:29 p.m.
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