BCC Minutes 08/27/2024August 27, 2024
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, August 27, 2024
LET IT BE REMEMBERED that the Board of County
Commissioners, in and for the County of Collier, and also acting as
the Board of Zoning Appeals and as the governing board(s) of such
special districts as have been created according to law and having
conducted business herein, met on this date at 9:00 a.m., in
REGULAR SESSION in Building "F" of the Government Complex,
East Naples, Florida, with the following Board members present:
Chairman: Chris Hall
Rick LoCastro
Dan Kowal
William L. McDaniel, Jr.
Burt L. Saunders
ALSO PRESENT:
Amy Patterson, County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Derek Johnssen, Clerk's Office
Troy Miller, Communications & Customer Relations
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COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Community Redevelopment Agency Board (CRAB)
Airport Authority
AGENDA
Board of County Commission Chambers
Collier County Government Center
3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd Floor
Naples, FL 34112
August 27, 2024
9:00 AM
Commissioner Chris Hall, District 2; – Chair
Commissioner Burt Saunders, District 3; – Vice Chair
Commissioner Rick LoCastro, District 1
Commissioner Dan Kowal, District 4; – CRAB Co-Chair
Commissioner William L. McDaniel, Jr., District 5; – CRAB Co-Chair
NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST
REGISTER PRIOR TO PRESENTATION OF THE AGENDA ITEM TO BE
ADDRESSED. ALL REGISTERED SPEAKERS WILL RECEIVE UP TO THREE
MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS ADJUSTED BY THE CHAIR. ADDITIONAL
MINUTES MAY BE CEDED TO AN IN-PERSON SPEAKER BY OTHER
REGISTERED SPEAKERS WHO MUST BE PRESENT AT THE TIME THE
SPEAKER IS HEARD. NO PUBLIC SPEAKERS WILL BE HEARD FOR
PROCLAMATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC PETITIONS.
SPEAKERS ON PRESENTATIONS ARE LIMITED TO 10 MINUTES, UNLESS
EXTENDED BY THE CHAIR. ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON A
CONSENT ITEM MUST REGISTER PRIOR TO THE BOARD’S APPROVAL
OF THE DAY’S CONSENT AGENDA, WHICH IS HEARD AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE MEETING FOLLOWING THE PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE.
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ANYONE WISHING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON PUBLIC PETITION
MUST SUBMIT THE REQUEST IN WRITING TO THE COUNTY MANAGER
AT LEAST 13 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE MEETING. THE
REQUEST SHALL PROVIDE DETAILED INFORMATION AS TO THE
NATURE OF THE PETITION. THE PUBLIC PETITION MAY NOT INVOLVE
A MATTER ON A FUTURE BOARD AGENDA, AND MUST CONCERN A
MATTER IN WHICH THE BOARD CAN TAKE ACTION. PUBLIC
PETITIONS ARE LIMITED TO A SINGLE PRESENTER, WITH A MAXIMUM
TIME OF TEN MINUTES, UNLESS EXTENDED BY THE CHAIR. SHOULD
THE PETITION BE GRANTED, THE ITEM WILL BE PLACED ON A FUTURE
AGENDA FOR A PUBLIC HEARING.
ANYONE WISHING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT
ON THIS AGENDA OR A FUTURE AGENDA MUST REGISTER TO SPEAK
PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION OF THE AGENDA BEING
CALLED BY THE CHAIR. SPEAKERS WILL BE LIMITED TO THREE
MINUTES, AND NO ADDITIONAL MINUTES MAY BE CEDED TO THE
SPEAKER. AT THE CHAIR’S DISCRETION, THE NUMBER OF PUBLIC
SPEAKERS MAY BE LIMITED TO 5 FOR THAT MEETING.
ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD
WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING PERTAINING THERETO,
AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD
OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE
TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 2003-53 AS AMENDED BY
ORDINANCE 2004-05 AND 2007-24, REQUIRES THAT ALL LOBBYISTS
SHALL, BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY LOBBYING ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDRESSING THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS), REGISTER WITH THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AT THE
BOARD MINUTES AND RECORDS DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY
ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING,
YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN
ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT DIVISION LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL,
SUITE 1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380; ASSISTED
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LISTENING DEVICES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ARE AVAILABLE IN
THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION.
LUNCH RECESS SCHEDULED FOR 12:00 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
A. Invocation by Pastor Brad Taberer – Faith Church Naples
2. AGENDA AND MINUTES
A. Approval of today's regular, consent and summary agenda as amended (Ex
Parte Disclosure provided by Commission members for consent agenda.)
3. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
A. EMPLOYEE
1) 20 YEAR ATTENDEES
2) 25 YEAR ATTENDEES
a) Years Mauro Altamirano - Wastewater
3) 30 YEAR ATTENDEES
a) 30 Years John Plummer - Emergency Medical Services
4) 35 YEAR ATTENDEES
a) 35 Years James Maulden - Solid & Hazardous Waste
Management
B. ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
C. RETIREES
D. EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
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4. PROCLAMATIONS
A. This Item to be heard at 9:15 AM. Proclamation congratulating Kathleen
Passidomo on her impactful tenure as President of the Florida Senate.
5. PRESENTATIONS
6. PUBLIC PETITIONS
7. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE CURRENT
OR FUTURE AGENDA
8. BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
9. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS
10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT
A. Recommendation to hear a presentation regarding the FY 2025 budget and
provide further guidance as we move toward the September public budget
hearings. (Christopher Johnson, Director - Corporate Financial and
Management Services) (All Districts)
B. Recommendation to consider and provide direction relative to Barron Collier
Companies’ property exchange proposal for 439 acres (+/-) at County-
owned Camp Keais for property. (Ed Finn, Deputy County Manager)
(District 3)
12. COUNTY ATTORNEY'S REPORT
13. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
14. AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND/OR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY
A. AIRPORT
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B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
15. STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
A. Public Comments on General Topics Not On The Current Or Future Agenda
By Individuals Not Already Heard During Previous Public Comments In
This Meeting
B. Staff Project Updates
1) Continued from July 23, 2024, BCC Meeting. Recommendation to
accept a project update to NCWRF Pretreatment Facility Project No.
70149 currently under construction with Poole & Kent Company of
Florida under Agreement No. 23-8116. (All Districts)
C. STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
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16. CONSENT AGENDA - All matters listed under this item are considered to be
routine and action will be taken by one motion without separate discussion of
each item. If discussion is desired by a member of the Board, that item(s) will
be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered separately.
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A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve a Resolution for final acceptance of the
private roadway and drainage improvements and acceptance of the
plat dedications for the final plat of Isles of Collier Preserve Phase 12,
Application Number PL20180001783, and authorize the release of the
maintenance security in the amount of $203,216.99. (District 4)
2) Recommendation to approve a Resolution for final acceptance of the
private roadway and drainage improvements and acceptance of the
plat dedications for the final plat of Isles of Collier Preserve Phase 11,
Application Number PL20180001590, and authorize the release of the
maintenance security in the amount of $145,093.83. (District 4)
3) Recommendation to approve a Resolution for final acceptance of the
private roadway and drainage improvements and acceptance of the
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plat dedications for the final plat of Isles of Collier Preserve Phase 13,
Application Number PL20180002844, and authorize the release of the
maintenance security in the amount of $43,772.07. (District 4)
4) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a
Performance Bond in the amount of $814,540, which was posted as a
guaranty for Excavation Permit Number PL20210003043 for work
associated with Del Webb Naples Parcels 301-303 & 311. (District 5)
5) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a
Performance Bond in the amount of $565,601.71, which was posted
as a guaranty for Excavation Permit Number PL20220001473 for
work associated with Del Webb Naples Parcels 307-310. (District 5)
6) This Item requires ex-parte disclosure by Commission members.
Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are
required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve recording the
minor final plat of Vilus, Application Number PL20220000195.
(District 5)
7) Recommendation to approve an Agreement for Sale and Purchase
under the Conservation Collier Land Acquisition Program with
Marvin Andre Ebanks and Qurratul Ain Najwa Ebanks, as Trustees of
the Marvin Andre Ebanks and Qurratul Ain Najwa Ebanks Revocable
Trust dated July 26, 2017, (Ebanks Trust) for a 1.14-acre parcel at a
cost of $31,920, for a total cost not to exceed $33,460, inclusive of
closing costs. (District 5)
8) Recommendation to approve and execute the 2024-2025 Pepper
Ranch Preserve Volunteer Camp Host Volunteer Agreement. (District
5)
9) Recommendation to authorize the Chairman to sign a Memorandum
of Agreement with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission to allow youth hunts at Pepper Ranch Preserve in
November 2024, January 2025, and February 2025. (All Districts)
10) Recommendation to approve an Easement Use Agreement
(Agreement) for Lot 1, Grey Oaks Unit Nineteen, according to the
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plat thereof as recorded at Plat Book 35, Page 47, of the Public
Records of Collier County. (District 4)
11) Recommendation to approve the location of an off-premises
directional sign and associated features for the Paradise Coast Sports
Complex within County Road right-of-way in accordance with the
City Gate Commerce Park PUD and Permit Application Number
PRSG20240310162. (District 3)
12) Recommendation to direct staff to advertise and bring back for a
public hearing an Ordinance amending the Land Development Code
to update the approval of residential building permits and to comply
with 2024 F.S. 177.073. (All Districts)
B. TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve an Agreement for the purchase of a
parcel (Parcel 542FEE) required for the 62nd Ave NE Bridge Project
(Project No. 60212.5). Estimated Fiscal Impact: $112,000. (District
5)
2) Recommendation to approve an Agreement for the purchase of an
unimproved tract of land (Parcel 154FEE) required for the Lake Kelly
Weir Stormwater Project (Project No. 50310). Estimated Fiscal
Impact: $222,000. (District 4)
3) Recommendation to approve Change Order No. 5 under Agreement
No. 19-7494, “Design and Related Services for Vanderbilt Beach
Road Widening from east of U.S. 41 to east of Goodlette-Frank
Road,” with Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., adding 1080 days to the
design contract, and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached
Change Order. (Project 60199). (District 2)
4) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to execute
Amendment No. 2 to Agreement 21CO1 with the Florida Department
of Environmental Protection Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Systems
Beach Management Funding Assistance Program to provide
additional State reimbursement funding in the amount of
$1,063,876.61 for a total of $7,125,699.61 for Collier County Beach
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Renourishment. (District 1)
5) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 24-8244
“Purchases and Rentals of Portable Ground Level Office Containers”
to United Rentals (North America), Inc., Category A (Purchase), and
authorize the Chairman to sign the attached Agreement. (All Districts)
6) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (ITB) No. 24-8208,
"Traffic Operations Signal Components and Hardware," to the
following vendors: Control Technologies, Inc., General Traffic
Equipment Corp, Temple, Inc., Transportation Control Systems, Inc.,
and Transportation Solutions & Lighting, Inc. (All Districts)
7) Recommendation to approve and execute the attached Developer
Agreement with Neal Communities of Southwest Florida, LLC,
(Developer) to coordinate the construction and cost sharing of
transportation improvements at the intersection of Oil Well Road,
Desoto Boulevard, and Vela Boulevard. (District 5)
C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve Agreement No. 24-028-NS, “Teledyne
ISCO Refrigerated Autosampler Products and Services,” with
Accutech Instrumentation, Inc., for a period of five years commencing
on October 1, 2024, under a sole source waiver, authorize the
Chairman to sign the attached Agreement, and authorize expenditures
in an estimated amount of $150,000 per Fiscal Year, for an estimated
total amount of $750,000 for the entire duration of the Agreement.
(All Districts)
2) Recommendation to authorize a Budget Amendment in the amount of
$350,000 to maintain compliance and continue funding daily
operations within the Water/Sewer Operating budget (Fund 4008).
(All Districts)
3) Recommendation that the Board award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No.
24-8216, “South County Regional Water Treatment Plant (SCRWTP)
Membrane Element Replacement,” to RF Environmental Services,
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Inc., in the amount of $2,763,000, approve an Owner’s Allowance of
$340,000, authorize the Chairman to sign the attached Agreement, and
approve the necessary Budget Amendment. (Project Number 71057)
(All Districts)
4) Recommendation to approve Agreement No. 24-036-NS with Fluid
Control Specialties, LLC (“FCS”), and authorize expenditures from
FCS as a single source provider of standardized specialized
proprietary equipment and services with an estimated $250,000
annual spending on Rotork Controls, Inc., products/services, and
$100,000 estimated spending on Rosemount Inc., measurement and
analytical products/services for a five-year period, and authorize the
Chairman to sign the attached Agreement. (All Districts)
5) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as ex-
officio the Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer
District, ratify administratively approved Change Order Nos. 1 and 2
at a total cost of $109,140.14, utilizing the Owner’s Allowance, and
adding a total of 22 days to Construction Agreement No. 23-8116,
with Poole & Kent Company of Florida, for the NCWRF Pretreatment
Facility and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached Change
Orders. (Project No. 70149) (District 2)
6) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as ex-
officio the Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer
District, approve the award of Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 24-8230,
“NCWRF EQ Odor Control Improvements - Phase II,” to Douglas N.
Higgins, Inc., in the amount of $3,343,000, approve Owner’s
Allowance of $334,300, and authorize the Chairman to sign the
attached Agreement. (Project 70148) (District 2)
7) Recommendation to ratify administratively approved Change Orders
#1 and #2 and waive liquidated damages in the amount of $9,600
pertaining to the “Master Pump Station 305 Access Improvements”
project with Douglas N. Higgins, Inc., under Agreement No. 20-7800.
(Project No. 70145) (District 4)
8) Recommendation that Board of County Commissioners, as ex-officio
the Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer District, to
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approve Change Order No. 8 to Agreement No. 19-7637, “Golden
Gate City Transmission Water Main Improvements” with Johnson
Engineering Inc., to increase the contract amount by $318,417.28,
from $1,781,251.06 to $2,099,668.34, to add essential additional
administrative construction and public involvement services.
(Projects 51029, 70253, and 70243). (District 3)
9) Recommendation to approve Agreement No. 24-032-NS, “Odor
Control Products and Services,” with Evoqua Water Technologies
LLC, and authorize expenditures under Board approved
standardization of specialized proprietary equipment and services in
an estimated amount of $2,500,000 per Fiscal Year for an estimated
total amount of $12,500,000 for the duration of the Agreement. (All
Districts)
D. PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve and authorize a Budget Amendment to
recognize interest earned, in the amount of $5,925.54, for the period
of October 2023 through May 2024. The interest was earned on
advanced library funding received from the Florida Department of
State to support library services for the use of Collier County
residents. (Fiscal Impact $5,925.54 Public Service Match Fund
(1840)) (All Districts)
2) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign the
First Amendment to the Community Development Block Grant
Mitigation subrecipient agreement between Collier County and
Collier Health Services, Inc., dba Healthcare Network, for the
hardening of the Marion E. Fether Medical Clinic in Immokalee to
amend grant language as required by the grantor agency, the State of
Florida Department of Commerce. (Housing Grant Fund 1835) (All
Districts)
3) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign fifty-
four (54) mortgage satisfactions for the State Housing Initiatives
Partnership loan program in the total amount of $668,236, accept
repayment amount totaling $47,700, and approve the expenditure in
the amount of $500 in recording fees. (SHIP Grant Fund 1053) (All
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Districts)
4) Recommendation to accept the FY23-24 State Aid to Libraries Grant
funding, in the amount of $134,977 to support Library operations and
authorize the necessary Budget Amendment. (Public Services Grant
Fund (1839), Project 33916) (All Districts)
5) Recommendation to approve and authorize the chairman to sign one
Release of Lien for full payment in the amount of $25,214.31
pursuant to the Agreement for Deferral of 100% of Collier County
Impact Fees for owner-occupied Affordable Housing Dwellings. (All
Districts)
6) Recommendation to authorize a Budget Amendment recognizing
$14,008.45 in program income from interest earned in the Home
Investment Partnership Program. (Housing Grant Fund 1835) (All
Districts)
7) Recommendation to authorize a Budget Amendment to recognize
$738,509.08 ($487,472.58 from Overnight and Investment Interest
and $251,036.50 from program income generated from loan
repayments) for the State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program
Fiscal Year 2022-2023 & 2023-2024. (SHIP Grant Fund 1053) (All
Districts)
E. CORPORATE BUSINESS OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to approve the purchase of flood insurance for
Fiscal Year 2025 in the estimated amount of $713,130. (All Districts)
2) Recommendation to accept the report for sale of 62 items and approve
the disbursement of funds in the amount of $181,435 allocated to the
corresponding revenue fund associated with the County surplus
auction held on April 19, 2024. (All Districts)
F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to approve Change Order No. 2, adding 180 days to
the project time for Purchase Order No. 4500227467 under
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Agreement No. 19-7525 with EBL Partners, LLC, for repairs to the
“Growth Management Community Development Department Front
and Walkway Canopy” project, and authorize the Chairman to sign
the attached change order. (District 4)
2) Recommendation to approve the purchase of Aircraft and Airport
Insurance for FY 2025 from the Chubb/ACE Property & Casualty
Insurance Company in the annual amount of $252,406. (All Districts)
3) Recommendation to approve Change Order No. 13 under Agreement
No. 17-7199, “Design Services for Collier County Sports Complex,”
by adding a time extension of 365 days, and additional funds in the
amount of $48,500, consisting of new Task 13-PUDA for $40,000,
new Task 14-General Consulting and Coordination for $6,000, and
increasing Task-6 Reimbursables by $2,500 under Phase 3 of the
project. (Project No. 50156) (District 3)
4) Recommendation to adopt a Resolution approving amendments
(appropriating grants, donations, contributions, or insurance proceeds)
to the Fiscal Year 2023-24 Adopted Budget. (The budget amendments
in the attached Resolution have been reviewed and approved by the
Board of County Commissioners via separate Executive Summaries.)
(All Districts)
5) Recommendation to approve a Budget Amendment in the amount of
$357,750 within the Disaster Recovery Fund (1813) to cover recovery
costs related to Hurricane Debby by reallocating funding between
existing cost centers. (All Districts)
G. AIRPORT AUTHORITY
1) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, acting as
the Collier County Airport Authority, approve a request from the
Collier Mosquito Control District to terminate the existing Land Lease
Agreement for Hangar Construction at the Immokalee Regional
Airport (IMM) and approve the assessment of damages incurred by
the Airport Authority. (District 5)
2) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid No. 24-8206, “Mangrove
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Restoration for Marco Island Executive Airport” to Freedom
Environmental, LLC, in the amount of $54,178.50, and authorize the
Chairman to sign the attached Agreement. (District 1)
H. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
1) Proclamation designating September 2024 as Southwest Florida
Crime Stoppers Month in Collier County. The proclamation will be
mailed to Lillian Canfield, Board Member, Southwest Florida Crime
Stoppers.
I. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
1) Miscellaneous Correspondence August 27, 2024 (All Districts)
J. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
1) Report to the Board regarding the investment of County funds as of
the quarter ended June 30, 2024. (All Districts)
2) Request that the Board approve and determine valid public purpose
for invoices payable and purchasing card transactions as of August 21,
2024. (All Districts)
3) To record in the minutes of the Board of County Commissioners, the
check number (or other payment method), amount, payee, and
purpose for which the referenced disbursements in the amount of
$41,288,309.12 were drawn for the periods between August 1, 2024,
and August 14, 2024, pursuant to Florida Statute 136.06. (All
Districts)
K. COUNTY ATTORNEY
1) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners approve
and authorize the Chairman to sign a Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) with the District School Board of Collier County and the
Collier County Sheriff’s Office concerning School Resource Officers
within Collier County schools. (All Districts)
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2) Recommendation to appoint Jonathan Foerster to the Animal Services
Advisory Board. (All Districts)
3) Recommendation to appoint two members to the Emergency Medical
Authority. (All Districts)
L. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
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17. SUMMARY AGENDA - This section is for advertised public hearings and
must meet the following criteria: 1) A recommendation for approval from
staff; 2) Unanimous recommendation for approval by the Collier County
Planning Commission or other authorizing agencies of all members present
and voting; 3) No written or oral objections to the item received by staff, the
Collier County Planning Commission, other authorizing agencies or the
Board, prior to the commencement of the BCC meeting on which the items
are scheduled to be heard; and 4) No individuals are registered to speak in
opposition to the item. For those items which are quasi-judicial in nature, all
participants must be sworn in.
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A. Recommendation to adopt an Ordinance amending Chapter 74 of the Collier
County Code of Laws and Ordinances, which is the Collier County
Consolidated Impact Fee Ordinance, providing for the incorporation by
reference the “Water and Wastewater Impact Fee Study for the Collier
County Water-Sewer District”, amending the water and wastewater system
impact fee rate schedule, which is Schedule Two of Appendix A, as set forth
in the impact fee update study; providing for updated definitions; providing
for required changes to the provisions related to the adoption of Impact Fee
studies in accordance with new statutory provisions; providing for conflict
and severability; providing for inclusion in the Collier County Code of Laws
and Ordinances; and providing for a delayed effective date of December 1,
2024, for Phase One, December 1, 2025, for Phase Two, and December 1,
2026, for Phase Three, in accordance with the 90-day notice requirements
set forth in Section 163.31801(4)(d), Florida Statutes. (All Districts)
B. Recommendation to adopt a Resolution approving amendments
(appropriating carry forward, transfers, and supplemental revenue) to the
FY23-24 Adopted Budget. (The Budget Amendments in the attached
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Resolution have been reviewed and approved by the Board of County
Commissioners via separate Executive Summaries.) (All Districts)
18. ADJOURN
INQUIRIES CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE BOARD’S AGENDA SHOULD
BE MADE TO THE COUNTY MANAGER’S OFFICE AT 252-8383.
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MS. PATTERSON: Chair, you have a live mic.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I got to get it over here.
Good morning, everybody.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Good morning, sir.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Good morning, Mrs. McDaniel. I think
William's going to behave himself today. I think he's going to do
good.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Is my halo crooked? And
it's Ms. Brown, by the way.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Ms. Brown.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: She quit the McDaniel thing.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Okay. Well, Ms. Brown, we know
you're there, and we love you. Thanks for being here.
And, you know, we all are in black except Father Time -- I mean
Commissioner Saunders. But he can wear what he wants.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: He missed the memo.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: When I bought this suit, it
was black, but it's faded over the years.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Florida sun will do that.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Yeah, I thought that.
Commissioner Kowal looks great all the way down to his
flip-flops.
No. We want to have a good meeting today, and we have a lot
of important things to talk about. And I do want to give a shout-out
to Lois Bolin. You know, it's important for me that we say a good
Pledge of Allegiance to begin our meetings and that -- I wanted
veterans to be here, and she does a great job of making sure that we
have honored vets to say our pledge, that we can give the highest
honor to the country that we live in.
And so with that, I just wanted to remind you to turn your cell
phones off. It's kind of embarrassing when it goes off and you can't
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find it and everybody's looking at you. So we'll just save you the
trouble with that.
And with that, County Manager, let's get the Lord in on this
meeting.
Item #1A
INVOCATION BY PASTOR BRAD TABERER – FAITH CHURCH
NAPLES – INVOCATION GIVEN
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. We have our invocation by
Pastor Brad Taberer from Faith Church Naples, followed by the
Pledge of Allegiance by Isaac Roland Thompson, Army -- Army
Guard, Chief Warrant Officer 4.
PASTOR TABERER: Let's pray.
Father, we thank you as we come into your courts today and into
your presence. We thank you that we come with thanksgiving in our
hearts. We thank you that we come with praise. And, Father, I
thank you for every leader here at Collier County. I thank you for
the commissioners that are here, for all leaders and the great men and
women who are here. I thank you that we're blessed to stay in a
great state, the State of Florida.
And, Father, we thank you for this county. We ask for your
guidance regarding decisions made today. I thank you that you
would lead us like you led David and Joshua, like you led Deborah
and Esther. And, Father, I thank you for wisdom regarding pressing
matters and high-level executive decisions.
We speak it over today. We thank you that you would lead us,
you would give us divine wisdom like you gave Joseph and Solomon,
like you gave Abigail and Ruth.
And, Father, today I thank you for Commissioner Chris Hall as
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he leads this meeting with all the directors, executives, with all the
leaders. Father, I thank you, supernatural strength upon them today
in Jesus' name.
Like the strength of Samson, like the strength of Moses, I thank
you that at the age of 120, even when he climbed Mount Nebo, I
thank you that his strength never diminished, neither did his eyesight
grow dim. I thank you that strength comes upon every leader, every
person in this room today, every person watching online in the name
of Jesus.
And, Father, I thank you, your peace that grants us all
understanding, your peace that surpasses all understanding, that it
guard our hearts and minds today as we make decisions, I pray in
Jesus' name.
I thank you that those who trust in the Lord and those who
believe in you, I thank you that they'll be strong and do great exploits.
I thank you for great exploits to be done here in Collier County.
I thank you for decisions to be made; that the best days are
ahead of this county, of this state, of this nation, in the name of Jesus.
Father, I thank you that your eyes are upon their actions, that
your eyes are upon here today and your ears are open to our prayers.
As we open up this meeting with praise today, I thank you, you give
us blueprints, you give us visions and dreams, you show us the way
forward. I thank you, you make every crooked path straight in Jesus'
name. You create rivers to flow in the desert.
And, Father, I thank you, wherever there was an impossible
situation, today, with these leaders meeting together, as this board
meeting goes forth, I thank you that ways that seemed impossible are
made possible. Where there seemed to be no way, you make a way
in Jesus' name. We thank you for light to shine across our path, in
the name of Jesus.
And, Father, I thank you today that as we lift up your name, that
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you draw men into yourself. Today I thank you that you would lead
us and guide us by your truth, by your word. In the name of Jesus
we pray, amen.
MR. THOMPSON: I would like everyone to help me in -- I'm
91 years old. I can't remember what happened earlier this morning,
so if I screw up the Pledge, I'm sorry. I'll do the best I can. And I
would like everyone to help me with it.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
MR. THOMPSON: Thank you, and thank you all for inviting
me. It was a real pleasure. Appreciate it. And I thank my good
friend Verna for bringing me up here, because if she didn't, I wouldn't
have made it, because if you see me behind the wheel, you better get
out of the way.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: What'd he say?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: He said, "If you see me
behind the wheel, you better get out of the way."
MR. THOMPSON: Have a good day, everyone.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Thank you. It just got better.
Item #2A
APPROVAL OF TODAY'S REGULAR, CONSENT AND
SUMMARY AGENDA AS AMENDED (EX PARTE DISCLOSURE
PROVIDED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR CONSENT
AGENDA.) - MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER
MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS –
APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED W/CHANGES
(WITH EXCEPTION OF ITEM #16A10; COMMISSION KOWAL
RECUSED HIMSELF)
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, agenda changes for
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August 27th, 2024. First is move Item 16G1. On the change sheet
it says 11C. The actual correct placement, pointed out by Ms. Scott,
is 14A1. We're going to hear it at the same time anyway, but we like
things to get into the right spots.
This is a recommendation that the Board of County
Commissioners, acting as the Collier County Airport Authority,
approve a request from the Collier Mosquito Control District to
terminate the existing land lease agreement for hangar construction at
the Immokalee Regional Airport and approve the assessment of
damages incurred by the Airport Authority. This item is being
brought to the regular agenda at the separate requests of each of the
commissioners.
Next item, continue Item 16B2 to the September 10th, 2024,
BCC meeting. This is a recommendation to approve an agreement
for the purchase of an unimproved tract of land required for the Lake
Kelly Weir Stormwater Project. The estimated fiscal impact of
$222,000. This is being moved to the next agenda at Commissioner
Kowal's request.
Agenda note: The commission district listed for Item 11B
should be District 5.
We do have a time-certain, Item 4A, to be heard at 9:15 a.m.
This is a proclamation congratulating Kathleen Passidomo on her
impactful tenure as President of the Florida Senate.
And we do have court reporter breaks scheduled for 10:30 and
2:50.
With that, County Attorney.
MR. KLATZKOW: No changes. Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, ex parte on the summary
and consent and any further changes.
CHAIRMAN HALL: County Manager, I think we have one
public comment on K2.
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MR. MILLER: 16K2. You have public comment from Ewa
Front.
MS. FRONT: Good morning, Commissioners.
I’m wondering if you could please wait in your opinion on
appointing Mr. Jonathan Forester, CEO of Children's Museum, to the
Domestic Animal Services Board for Humane Society seat, as in
agreement with Ordinance No. 2004-06 on Animal Services
Advisory Board.
This appointment is on today's consent agenda as an Item 16K2.
Mr. Forester is currently not an employee of Humane Society, but to
my understanding, at this time, is associated with children's museum.
I guess the question is, what was the intention of our commissioners
20 years ago when using the word "representative." For example,
law enforcement representative. Does it mean we include the
representative from the Sheriff's Department, or our sheriff has the
right to yield this seat to anyone, even if not involved in law
enforcement.
If we are going to set the precedent today, would that mean that
the makeup of DAS Advisory Board is meaningless, that the
commission 20 years ago, instead of offering all seats as at large,
delegated the power to private organizations to further dilute
taxpayers' power in taxpayers' supported service department. We
will have to decide today.
My understanding is that for 20 years, the interpretation of the
composition of the DAS board was very straightforward. And from
the public perspective, as per recent tax filing, Humane Society
employs 123 people. Out of so many individuals, there is no will to
serve and support on DAS Board.
I am not an attorney, so I would really appreciate your feedback,
because you are dealing with these situations very often.
This decision will have significant effect on how advisory board
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appointments are understood in the present and in the future. Thank
you.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner Kowal, ex parte, changes.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: I have no changes to the consent
agenda, but I would like to just bring attention to one item on there.
It's 16A10. It's an easement-use agreement. I just want to -- I don't
know if I have to, but I'm going to recuse myself just from that one
item due to the fact that that's my neighbor, and he lives in my
neighborhood, so -- and I know him personally, so -- but other than
that, I have no other changes.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you. A couple
things, Mr. Chairman.
I have no changes and no ex parte.
Ms. Front raised a legal issue on an item that's on the consent
agenda, I believe, dealing with an appointment. So I think before we
take a vote on the consent agenda, we need to just address that legal
issue, the issue being what is meant by a representative of the
Humane Society. I don't have any issues with the appointment, but I
think we just need to make sure from the County Attorney's
perspective that we're not doing something that would be improper.
So that's a question for Mr. Klatzkow before we vote on that.
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, there was an endorsement letter
from the Humane Society.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I couldn't hear you. I'm
sorry.
MR. KLATZKOW: There was an -- there was an endorsement
letter from the Humane Society for this applicant. And I don't know
what else you need.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. So we're not -- if we
make that appointment, we're not violating --
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MR. KLATZKOW: Absolutely not.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- the ordinance? Okay.
That's all -- I just needed that for the record, Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Thank you.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Good morning, sir.
I have no ex parte nor any changes, just a suggestion. We have
several items on today's agenda that are -- have people that are going
to be talking to us that are paid salaried employees of the government
and such, and I just -- I would like -- of course, it's your
discretion -- but to move things around. So if we get into an
in-depth discussion on our budget or something along those lines, and
we have the folks from the Airport Authority sitting here waiting for
us to move on that agenda item that got popped down to 14, that we
jump and take care of those things. That's my only request on the
actual agenda itself, sir.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Gotcha.
Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I have no changes or ex
parte.
Not to belabor the point, but on 16K2 where the young lady just
spoke, I asked the exact question -- and not to put the County
Manager on the spot. But when we met yesterday, I asked that
question because a couple citizens had sent me some e-mail, and I
wanted a little more depth, and I was satisfied with her answer. So I
don't know if you want to give us a short version just for the record to
sort of wrap this up. It's your call. But I appreciated the depth of
your answer, and it satisfied my concern.
MS. PATTERSON: So he is -- Mr. Forester is coming as a
recommendation from the Humane Society so, obviously, they
wouldn't be recommending something that they didn't want. They
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do have a specific seat designated for them. He is a former
employee of the Humane Society, so he is familiar with their mission,
and he does bring a depth of expertise, obviously, from the
not-for-profit side of the house, even with his affiliation with the
children's museum. So it may provide a different perspective than
some of the other expertise that is currently sitting on the board.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I have no changes, no ex parte, and with
that can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Moved and seconded. All in favor, say
aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HALL: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HALL: So moved.
Proposed Agenda Changes
Board of County Commissioners Meeting
August 27, 2024
Move item 16G1 to 11C: Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, acting as the Collier County
Airport Authority, approve a request from the Collier Mosquito Control District to terminate the existing Land
Lease Agreement for Hangar Construction at the Immokalee Regional Airport (IMM) and approve the assessment
of damages incurred by the Airport Authority. (Commissioners McDaniel, LoCastro, Kowal, Saunders, and Hall
Separate Requests)
Continue Item 16132 to the September 10, 2024, BCC Meeting: Recommendation to approve an Agreement for
the purchase of an unimproved tract of land (Parcel 154FEE) required for the Lake Kelly Weir Stormwater Project
(Project No. 50310). Estimated Fiscal Impact: $222,000. (Commissioner Kowal's Request)
Notes: The Commissioner District listed for item 1113 should be District 5.
TIME CERTAIN ITEMS:
4A to be heard at 9:15 AM: Proclamation congratulating Kathleen Passidomo on her impactful tenure as
President of the Florida Senate.
9/12/2024 4:33 PM
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Item #4A
PROCLAMATION CONGRATULATING KATHLEEN
PASSIDOMO ON HER IMPACTFUL TENURE AS PRESIDENT
OF THE FLORIDA SENATE - PRESENTED – ALSO,
PRESENTED THE “WE ARE PROUD OF U” AWARD FROM THE
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, I believe we can take our
9:15 time-certain two minutes early. That is Item 4A. This is a
proclamation congratulating Kathleen Passidomo on her impactful
tenure as President of the Florida Senate.
Congratulations.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Speech.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, before we go too far
with this, I do want to read the proclamation because this is -- it's
unusual for someone to accomplish some of the things that Senator
Passidomo has accomplished.
And I have a second award for her, a much more significant one
for her, subsequent to that.
So let me just quickly read the proclamation. Whereas, in
recognition of Collier County resident Kathleen Passidomo's tenure
as Florida Senate President, this honorable body would like to
recognize her accomplishments and thank her for championing issues
important to all Florida residents. She has led with integrity, respect,
compassion, resilience, and strength; and,
Whereas, Governor Ron DeSantis, through the recommendation
of the Florida Commission on the Status of Women selected Senate
President Kathleen Passidomo to be honored in the 2022 Florida
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Women's Hall of Fame. This honor is bestowed upon women whose
lives and efforts are dedicated to making significant contributions to
the improvement of life for women and for all Florida citizens; and,
Whereas, as the third woman in state history to lead the Florida
Senate as president, she championed what she has called the pinnacle
of her legislative career, the Live Local, the Live Healthy, and to
Learn Local legislative packages; and,
Whereas, through her tireless, tenacious, and compassionate
leadership, the issue of affordable housing, healthcare, and education
had been overhauled to improve the quality of life for all Floridians;
and,
Whereas, during the 2024 legislative session alone, she secured
more than $85 million in state funding for various life-safety,
environmental, educational, cultural, and community service
initiatives in Collier County including $10 million for the Collier
County State Veterans Nursing Home.
Now, therefore, the Board of County Commissioners of Collier
County, Florida, wishes to congratulate Senate President Kathleen
Passidomo on her impactful tenure as Senate President and her
induction to the Florida Women's Hall of Fame and express gratitude
for championing the Live Local, Live Healthy, and Learn Local
legislation to improve the quality of life for all Florida residents.
Done and ordered this 27th day of August, Board of Collier County
Commissioners, Collier County, Florida, Chris Hall, Chairman.
So, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion to approve -- accept
that proclamation.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Second.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Moved and seconded. All in favor, say
aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
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COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And I'm assuming that
Senator Passidomo would like to say a few words. But if not, I do
have another special award for her that was presented to her in the
fall -- in the spring, but this is the first opportunity to present it.
It says, "We are Proud of U Award," which is -- the U is the
University of Miami. "We are Proud of U Award, UM Law Alumni
Association, Senator Kathleen Passidomo, President Florida State
Senate, District 28, April 25, 2024." So we have two items for you
this morning.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And she does want to say a
few words. We want to hear a few words.
CHAIRMAN HALL: And we do want to take a few photos. I
know you've got staff behind you that may want to be in some photos
as well.
SENATE PRESIDENT PASSIDOMO: Good morning,
Mr. Chairman and Commissioners.
You know, I'm really touched and honored by the proclamation.
You know, it's been a really tough year for me, and I could not do
what I do without the support of my family, my husband John who's
no longer with us, my staff, both here and in Tallahassee. And I
want to make sure you-all know that everything that I did and do as
Senate President as the State Senator, I always have my heart in my
district, and I'm always thinking about ways to help Collier County
and that portion of Lee and Hendry County.
And it's truly been an honor and a privilege to serve. I still
have two more years to serve under my successor, Senator Albitton,
so I'll continue to keep you all in my thoughts for the next two years.
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Thank you.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Can I -- I have a few words
to say after we do our pictures.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Sure.
SENATE PRESIDENT PASSIDOMO: I'd shake your hands,
but now I can't.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Do you want your staff up
here with you for a picture?
SENATE PRESIDENT PASSIDOMO: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Come on up here, young
man.
SENATE PRESIDENT PASSIDOMO: Come on, Kevin.
Paul. Where's Paul? He ran away already.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: He was heading to the door but
didn't make it.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Paul's in the back. Put the
rose between two thorns.
(Applause.)
SENATE PRESIDENT PASSIDOMO: I'll shake your hand.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And I just want to echo the words of the proclamation. I mean,
Kathleen, you and John have been friends of mine for as long as I can
remember.
Your advice to me once I became an elected official was
immeasurable, immeasurable. I've watched how you do what you
do. I've watched how you legislate.
During the COVID adventure was a very, very tenuous time,
and she literally talked me off the ledge two or three different times
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while I was going nuts with the barrage of media that was coming at
us.
People get all caught up on implicit agreement, whether or not
you're a good legislator because I don't agree with one of your votes
along the way, and that's -- it's something that I'd like to ultimately
see an adjustment.
The overall good that you have done for our community is
immeasurable. It's no secret that the Governor's Moving Florida
Forward initiative was a billion dollars of direly needed infrastructure
for Collier County. Eight-laning of I-75 from 951 up to Corkscrew.
The diverging diamond at 951, the diverging diamond at Pine Ridge
right at 100 -- almost $200 million. For our little Immokalee for the
round -- for the loop road and the four-laning of State Road 29.
So big thank you. I can't say enough just how much -- how
immeasurable your guidance has been for me on a personal level and
for all of the residents of Collier County. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HALL: And I would like -- I would like to end
with a big thank you. We all passed a resolution here about a month
ago to say no to Amendment 4, and your efforts to get the language
changed and to make them disclose what the real -- the real truth
behind that amendment is, I applaud you for that. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: All right.
Item #3A2
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS – 25 YEAR - MAURO
ALTAMIRANO, WASTEWATER – PRESENTED
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us back to
Item 3, awards and recognitions.
Item 3A2, our 25-year attendees, and we have one. That is 25
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years, Mauro Altamirano from wastewater. Congratulations.
(Applause.)
Item #3A3
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS – 30 YEAR - JOHN PLUMMER,
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PRESENTED
MS. PATTERSON: Item 3A3, 30-year attendees, Mr. John
Plummer, Emergency Medical Services. Congratulations.
(Applause.)
MR. PLUMMER: I need one with my son here.
(Applause.)
MR. PLUMMER: Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Mr. Plummer and Plummer, let's get the
chiefs up here with you. Thirty years is a big deal.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Yeah, it is a big deal.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I just got a text from your
mom. She said, "Wake my son up." Tell him that, you know, the
meeting's still going on.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, our 35-year attendee was
unable to attend, so we'll get him rescheduled for another board
meeting. Solid Waste. He's probably doing something important.
Item #7
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA
Item 7, public comments -- that brings us to Item 7, public
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comments on topics not on the current or future agenda.
MR. MILLER: Good morning, Mr. Chair. We have five
registered speakers on this topic today. Your first speaker is James
Reese. He will be followed by Jim Rich.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Pick a podium.
MR. REESE: I appreciate your time, and I'll try to make this
quick because I've got three minutes, right?
Back in May, I contacted your office, Mr. Saunders, about -- I
live across from where you're going to put in, you know, the new
subsidized housing across from where the Golden Gate Golf Course
is.
So at any rate, I was sent on to four different people. And my
only request was that there be some -- some amount of privacy that
I'm going to lose. This is what I had bought about a year ago
thinking I had a lot of privacy, and this is what I have to look forward
to.
I've really not gotten any response. Sorry I get emotional about
it, but -- you know, I moved down here, and it's just a matter of
privacy. I've served the VA over the course of years. I'm happy
what you're doing. I've served for, you know, low-income housing
units in Cincinnati where I came from. I have no problem with any
of that, but I do have a problem with being ignored when it's -- my
entire privacy of what I just purchased is gone.
So all I'm asking is for just a little bit of help from you guys.
My comment's in my e-mail, and I'll end it at that.
You have all these trees that line that boulevard that you're
going to destroy, shred up, and probably send to some landfill.
Repurpose them, put it in my lot between the road and the 70 feet you
have between that and the canal.
I'm just asking that I leave here with some action
item -- actionable item that we can move forward with, and I
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appreciate your time.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: If you would get ahold of my
office. I'm not sure what type of buffering there's going to be. And
there's a lot of work that's going to be done in that area with the
widening of 951, and so we'll have a conversation about what those
buildings are going to look like and how that's going to affect your
property. But you'll have to get ahold of me.
MR. REESE: I did, but I will try again.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Jim Rich. He will be
followed by Danielle Cassette.
MR. RICH: Good afternoon, Commissioners. Thanks for
your time.
As you are aware, although our organization, For the Love of
Cats, offers several programs to the public, our primary mission has
always focused on TNR, trap, neuter, and return, trying to cut down
on the number of unsterilized cats in our county.
There is a large and nationally respected animal welfare
organization in California called Maddie's Fund. Their focus is
animal behavior, community outreach, community law enforcement
and laws, live outcomes, organizational management, veterinary and
behavior management, and grants.
They just came out with a new community cat calculator based
on the human population of the county -- community, I should say,
which estimates how many stray cats would have to be sterilized each
year to even begin to make a difference. That number for our county
is approximately 900.
Ten days ago, For the Love of Cats conducted its second Cat
Nip Clinic Spay Day using the facilities at DAS with 73 cats being
trapped, vaccinated, and sterilized. We consider this a tremendous
success; however, there is still a far cry from the goal that is required
to get ahead of the problem. Now, without a surgical vet at DAS to
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accommodate the owned and stray cats brought in by the public, this
situation has become even worse.
Commissioners, our animal community is in a crisis mode.
Since DAS's cat intake closing, we have been inundated with calls
from the public desperate with what to do with the stray, friendly,
even pregnant cats and kittens they are coming across. If they are
feral, we can still help them by trapping the cats, sterilizing them, and
returning them to their habitats. However, what about the friendly
adoptable cats and kittens or those cats who are ready to give birth?
If the public has nowhere to go with them, these cats and kittens will
remain on the street, adding to the already enormous cat
overpopulation.
At the last DAS advisory board meeting on Tuesday, several
board members and members of the public inquired as to why DAS
couldn't rent a couple of air-conditioned trailers to house the sick cats
rather than entirely closing intake.
The answer by Jamie French is that the fire department would
deem this illegal. However, I have been involved with Humane
Society and DAS long enough to know that both organizations at one
time or another did bring trailers onto their property when there were
outbreaks of ringworm. I'm not questioning Jamie's knowledge.
I'm just saying that this was done before so that there must be a way
of making it happen now.
Beginning next year, For the Love of Cats would like to become
even more aggressive in its TNR efforts. Unfortunately, this
requires considerable time and funding.
Should I stop or -- okay, sorry. I'll make this very quick.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You've got thirty seconds.
MR. REESE: And funding, basically, runs us about $7,800
per -- every time you do a surgery. Currently DAS is overwhelmed
with cats and kittens whose overcrowding has led to highly
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contagious panleukopenia or distemper virus.
By financially supporting the efforts of non-profit organizations
such as SNIP Collier, For the Love of Cats, Camp Many Paws, and
Paradise Gardens, we have the ability to hire vets independently and
do large-scale trapping and sterilization. This would also reduce the
number of cats and kittens coming into DAS. It would certainly help
the county.
So I know you're working on something, and we would
appreciate -- we appreciate everything you're trying to do to help us
financially with this.
We do have a small film, which I'm not going to show --
CHAIRMAN HALL: Thank you, Mr. Rich.
MR. RICH: -- because I ran out of time.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Thank you.
MR. RICH: Thank you very much.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Danielle Cassette. She'll
be followed by Ewa Front.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: While the speaker's coming
up, Mr. Chairman, I wanted to make just a quick comment, because it
might help some of the speakers here.
When we got into our budget issue -- I've handed out some
material for you dealing with pet overpopulation that was presented
to me. And we have a fund in our budget for spay and neutering cats
and dogs. What I'm going to ask the Board to do is to give our staff
real total discretion on how to spend those dollars. Right now they
can only be spent on spay and neutering in our DAS facility.
And so we're going to try to -- I'm going to ask the Board to
build into the budget flexibility so staff can do a voucher program
where people can get a ticket to take to a vet or another organization
for spay and neutering, mobile spay and neutering, just giving staff
real flexibility so we can get our arms around this problem. That
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will be coming up later this morning, Mr. Chairman. But I wanted
the speakers to understand that that's going to be an issue that's going
to be raised.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Danielle Cassette. She'll
be followed by Ewa Front.
MR. CASSETTE: Hello. Good morning. I'm Danielle
Cassette. I'm the creative content specialist with For the Love of
Cats.
So we just wanted to show you our video from our most recent
Cat Nip Spay and Neutering Clinic Day just showing how much hard
work that we are putting in for helping the cat overpopulation
problem. Thank you.
(A video was played.)
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Ewa Front. She'll be
followed by Lynn Dierksmeier.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Did you see how the kitten
was trying to warn the adult cat not to go into the crate? And then
the adult cat's like, "Hey, I know what I'm doing." Right? Right?
It's like the story of our lives, right?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: "Mom, don't go in. Don't go
in."
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Don't go in there. He's like,
"Hey, I know what I'm doing." I don't think the Florida Weekly also
liked the advertisement of their newspaper being used to, you know,
collect the -- you might want to, you know, blur that out a little.
MS. FRONT: Good morning, again.
Commissioners, I'm asking for your feedback today in
considering introducing emergency contracts with local veterinarians
as well as permanent contracts, given our shelter does not have a
surgical veterinarian on staff, sadly, again.
I brought just an example from the daily past on our local
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Naples or Collier County pages among others, whether it's moms or
community pages. You see it's just an overwhelming amount of
animals living outside that are just breeding senselessly.
We have a disease outbreak at our shelter. And I'm not an
expert in veterinary fields, so to bring you the most reliable
information, I have reached out and consulted with Dr. Cynda
Crawford. She is a professor -- she holds professorship chair in
shelter medicine at the College of Veterinarian Medicine, University
of Florida. Dr. Crawford was consulted in a recent decision about
suspending the cat intake and is familiar with Collier County shelter
operation by helping with our shelter assessment last year.
Currently, DAS is closed for cat intake without providing an
alternative service to our community due to feline parvovirus.
Plea to our leadership for transparency. Please do not leave our
community guessing by not providing specifics for reopening.
According to the standard-of-care guidelines for reopenings, our
shelter can be safely reopened if for 10 days there are no new cases,
or other options are seven days at the earliest and 14 days at the
latest. Transparency matters. Can the Collier County please make
these guidelines public and communicate the amount of infected
animals, new cases daily so we can rely on actual data and not vague
language on Facebook posts for reopening?
The tsunami of kittens during the summer months contributes to
the shelter being beyond capacity for care and subsequent disease
outbreaks such as panleukopenia, leaving community without Plan B
for rescue of injured and pregnant cats at this moment leads to the
vicious cycle and contributes to the emergency that we are having at
hand.
Closing the shelter for cat intake creates the self-perpetuating
cycle. More cats left outside will breed, leading to overcrowding,
and then increased risk of disease outbreak.
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Solution: Please do enter into emergency agreement with
handful of veterinarians short-term to perform lifesaving procedures,
serve taxpayers, solicit bids from all veterinary offices in Collier
County, ensuring a competitive process for establishing long-term
partnership.
I was able to go into a couple of veterinarians and ask for special
dates -- ask special rates because, you know, the situation at DAS,
and it wasn't difficult.
CHAIRMAN HALL: All right. Thank you, miss.
MS. FRONT: Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your final registered speaker for Item 7 is
Lynn Dierksmeier.
MS. DIERKSMEIER: Good morning, again, everyone. I'm
Lynn Dierksmeier. I was previously the founder and operator of a
small shelter in Miami before I moved to Naples.
And I'm coming to you this morning really with an aching heart.
And I appeal to you on a heart-to-heart connection because of what's
going on. DSA [sic] has -- as everyone has stated, has closed their
intake because of a panleukopenia outbreak. Hearsay has it, and
apparently it's been confirmed, that the vet who was hired from out of
state, whose moving costs were covered, has already put in their
notice. That may or may not be true.
Spay and neuter -- but what is true is spay and neuters are not
being performed. Domestic animals that are in need of surrender
cannot be taken in. Ferals will be left in their colonies to reproduce.
One cat can produce 144 kittens in its lifetime. Families who want
to adopt have to look elsewhere. DSA [sic] did not offer adoption
alternatives. They did offer adoption alternatives to the public in
their announcement release -- their outbreak release, but nothing else.
FVP is not a new disease. All shelters have dealt with this
since the formation of animal shelters. Consequently, there should
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be safeguards in place to contain and manage an outbreak or to
prevent the actual cessation of feline intake with -- you know, to
prevent this.
The primary cause of FVP outbreaks are overcrowding and
malnourishment, which brings about a suppressed immune system,
which ferals often suffer from.
In addition to proper procedures being in place, there has to be
oversight and trained personnel to see that this contagious disease is
halted or eliminated or at least contained. But it happens. It
happens in -- it's what happens.
So now because it does happen in shelters all over, there should
have been a Plan B in place. Now there's no intake at DAS, and
there should have been something to refer people who need to
surrender their pets or ferals in need of spay and neutering.
So I'm also for a TNR program. I thank you very much,
Representative Saunders -- or Commissioner Saunders, for saying
that we can do TNR elsewhere. On Saturday I went to PetSmart,
and I got a voucher from VAS Volunteer Animal Services so I could
get free spay and neuters, and there were five listed, but only three of
those are viable, because the other charges 210. They have -- they
do an exam prior to surgery to make sure that the cat can survive the
surgery, and it's $210.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Thank you very much.
MS. DIERKSMEIER: All right.
CHAIRMAN HALL: County Manager, I'd like to make a little
move on the fly here, and let's do 14A1 and then 11B, and then we'll
finish up with the budget talks, if that's –
MS. PATTERSON: Absolutely, of course.
Item #14A1
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THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, ACTING AS THE
COLLIER COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY, APPROVE A
REQUEST FROM THE COLLIER MOSQUITO CONTROL
DISTRICT TO TERMINATE THE EXISTING LAND LEASE
AGREEMENT FOR HANGAR CONSTRUCTION AT THE
IMMOKALEE REGIONAL AIRPORT (IMM) AND APPROVE
THE ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES INCURRED BY THE
AIRPORT AUTHORITY. (DISTRICT 5) - MOTION TO APPROVE
WITH WAIVER OF DAMAGES BY COMMISSIONER
MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER KOWAL –
APPROVED
We are going, then, to Item 14A1. This is a recommendation
that the Board of County Commissioners, acting as the Collier
County Airport Authority, approve a request from the Mosquito
Control District -- Collier Mosquito Control District to terminate the
existing land lease agreement for hangar construction at the
Immokalee airport and approve the assessment of damages incurred
by the Airport Authority.
Ms. Trinity Scott is here to present.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Or answer questions.
MS. PATTERSON: Or answer questions.
MS. SCOTT: Yes, however it may be.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Do you want to present?
MS. SCOTT: Not much to present. The executive summary
really speaks for itself.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And I was pleased to
see that everybody -- sorry, Mr. Chair.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I just -- I saw No. 1 pop up,
so I just remembered that I was.
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CHAIRMAN HALL: Do it.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I was pleased that everybody
actually pulled this. I have to say out loud we're sad to hear that the
Mosquito Control is changing their plans and aren't going to be
relocating, at least in the immediate term, their headquarters over in
Immokalee. We all thought that was a really good idea for a whole
bunch of things, but it's not going to come to fruition.
So I'm -- I would like to make a motion for approval of the
cancellation of the lease and a waiver of the liquidated damages. It
makes no sense to me to take a pot from one taxpayer money -- same
taxpayer to another taxpayer's money. So I'd like to waive
the -- whatever it is -- that 18,000 or so that's theoretically
accumulated rent that we wouldn't have gotten. So that's my motion,
sir.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: I'll second it.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I just wanted to peel back the
onion a little bit before we act like we're rubber stamping
$14,000-and-change excusal.
I understand it's -- you know, it's county to county, but it is a
little -- two different colors of money. When I talked with the staff,
there's certainly some discussion to have -- I also like to be consistent
in my vote. So when we have citizens sitting here that incur a
penalty, and we've changed our policy to not just go from, you know,
a $100,000 penalty to zero -- I realize this one is 14-.
I'm not -- I'm not sitting here falling on my sword over waiving
it, but I want -- I pulled it because I wanted to have discussion on it
before we just say, okay, you know, the contract is more expensive.
They want to terminate the lease and also be excused of any penalty.
Because as I said, the staff in my office actually made some good
points that you could support to not excuse the amount or lessen the
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amount and find somewhere sort of in the middle so we're being
consistent not only with citizens but with our own county staff.
I asked if there were things that Mosquito Control could have
done that might have minimized the penalty, might have tightened
the timeline a little bit, and maybe they wouldn't be sitting on a
$14,000 penalty. And I heard things that definitely had merit.
So, you know, I don't know if anybody else has any other
questions or if Ms. Scott, you know, you can chime in. I'm not
looking for you to necessarily steer the vote, but it's easy for us to just
say, oh, you know, it's the county, so let them off. It's taxpayer
money, but it is different pots, and so, you know, I don't want to
just -- I wanted to have discussion on the penalty.
The termination of the lease is obvious. But give a little deeper
dive similar to what we talked about in my office as to why that,
necessarily, just an automatic excusal of the 14-, you know, might not
hold 100 percent water possibly.
MS. SCOTT: If I may, the Mosquito Control, they did meet the
time frames noted in their lease with the exception of commencing
construction. They did go out to bid. Their bids came in higher,
and then they kind of took a step back to evaluate those bids. I
mean, we've all been kind of experiencing that.
From a staff perspective, we don't waive fees. That's not part of
our authority. We would bring that to the Board, and that's certainly
the Board's pleasure. What we have put into place with the new
lease policy is we shouldn't get into this situation again because our
new lease policy requires that someone would start paying within 90
days. So we wouldn't have this long time frame. Certainly, in the
last few years, we have been coordinating with the Florida
Department of Transportation for access to Mosquito Control for the
loop road that we just talked about with Senator Passidomo. We're
very appreciative of that new project. So these were damages that
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were calculated based on if the rent would have started based on the
construction commencement date.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Were there -- were there
things that they could have done in retrospect that would have
lessened this fine or would have sped up things that would have
prevented them from being in arrears, you know, 14,000-plus,
looking back on it that they were, you know, possibly aware of and
maybe moving a little slower or other things that could have done
that -- could have prevented them from having this bill to pay?
MS. SCOTT: Well, as I said, they met all of the marks within
the -- within the lease agreement as far as their -- getting their plans
to us in a timely fashion, and that includes an FAA review, Federal
Aviation Administration review. So they -- they did the best that
they could and, like I said, with the bid situation, they took that step
back and evaluated that bid, which is what we would have done as
well, so...
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Sure.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Let me help you. There's
hardly --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I don't need help, but go
ahead.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Are you going to vote for it?
And then I don't have to give my spiel.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: No. Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: If you want to hear -- there's
hardly anybody who knows more about what's going on at the
Immokalee airport than myself.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I would hope so.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And there's a whole
bunch of important factors here.
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We have redone the lease terms, the circumstances. We have a
new airport director now that actually has his finger on the button as
to what's, in fact, going on out there.
The original lease that they -- that we entered into with the
Airport Authority was at 11 cents a square foot. Our new square
footage now is up to 22 cents a square foot.
We've instituted the time frames with regard to the rental
commencement so that we're not having people tie up pieces of
property that we own that we can collect revenue from without
paying us. We're landowners, and we deserve the rent that's, in fact,
paid.
So the rationale there -- I appreciate your questions, and I
certainly don't mean any disrespect to those questions. It's just
there's a whole -- whole bunch of things that are going on behind this.
And my motion was -- again, we're all the same taxpayers that
are out there, and moving money from one pot to another to
compensate for something that just circumstantially transpired didn't
wash with me, and that was the premise of my motion.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: The way I see this, it's
$14,000 more for Mosquito Control to go out and kill more
mosquitoes. So I'll support the motion.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Well, my goal is met. I
didn't want this to be on the consent agenda, and it sounded like none
of us did. I don't think we all pulled it just to say -- to vote for it in
10 seconds, but also, too, I want to make sure that we send the
message to the public that if Mr. and Mr. Jones comes up here to the
podium and they owe us $14,000 and we grill them for 15 minutes
and then we lower it to 8- -- and I realize every circumstance is
different -- but that we talk just as much about things that are within
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the county.
And if there's a special circumstance for a county agency or a
citizen, that we take those into consideration and that -- you know,
that's why I didn't want it to look like it was just buried on the
consent agenda with an automatic approval. I didn't have a strong
sense that I was here to fight it, but I wanted to have what just
happened now, which was the discussion. And I hope they take
Commissioner Saunders' advice, and we kill $14,000 worth more of
mosquitoes. So I don't know Mosquito Control -- oh, there's -- is
that Patrick back there?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It is.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Okay. So 14,000 kills a lot
of mosquitoes. But certainly understand the extenuating and unique
circumstance and, you know, I think the motion's already been made
and seconded, but I appreciate the discussion, so we didn't just sort of
pass over this one.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Great. We have a motion and a second.
All in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HALL: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HALL: Done deal.
Item #11B
TO CONSIDER AND PROVIDE DIRECTION RELATIVE TO
BARRON COLLIER COMPANIES’ PROPERTY EXCHANGE
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PROPOSAL FOR 439 ACRES (+/-) AT COUNTY-OWNED CAMP
KEAIS FOR PROPERTY. (ED FINN, DEPUTY COUNTY
MANAGER) (DISTRICT 5) - MOTION TO APPROVE STAFF’S
RECOMMENDATIONS AND TO BRING BACK A LOT OF
DETAILS FOR THIS PROPOSAL BY COMMISSIONER
MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO –
APPROVED (COMMISSIONER HALL OPPOSED)
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, Item 11B is a
recommendation to consider and provide direction relative to Barron
Collier Companies property change proposal for 439 acres
plus/minus at county-owned Camp Keais.
Mr. Ed Finn is here to present.
MR. FINN: Thank you, Ms. Patterson.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
In June we received a letter from Barron Collier Companies
desirous of achieving a land exchange. This little photo on this page
shows the combined Camp Keais property, which is the property to
the left-hand side, and then the Barron Collier Companies' property is
to the right.
If I may, I'll just quickly go through this. I simply want the
Board to consider -- I'm sorry.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No. I was asking Nick to
come sit next to Amy.
MS. PATTERSON: Take his old seat.
MR. FINN: Simply, this is our objective today is to get some
direction from the Board on how they want to proceed. And if I
may, just a location map. Towards the top, we have the proposed
Silver Strand swap parcel. In the middle, just for reference, is Ave
Maria identified, and then the Camp Keais parcel is towards the
bottom of this photo.
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Letters of intent. Barron Collier Companies provided a letter of
intent to do a land swap with the Silver Strand 3 grove for
approximately 439 acres of Camp Keais. Over the years, we have
received -- and we have been working with the fair board and the
swamp buggy recently. They both provided letters of intent to
acquire property at Camp Keais, and both of them are essentially at
100 acres of developable property.
Just a little background on the purchase. It was purchased in
March of '21, about 13,000 an acre. At the time it was noted that the
property would provide for the relocation of the fairgrounds, swamp
buggy facility, potentially opportunities for parks, public safety,
hurricane debris management, horticultural processing, and
potentially workforce housing. We have been working on some
programming efforts there. We've looked at some additional uses,
including a public safety, Sheriff's Office training center, Domestic
Animal Services facility, and commercial and potentially industrial
uses.
This is another shot of the Camp Keais property itself.
Just to bring you into the vicinity of the Silver Strand swap
parcel, you'll see noted above there is the Seminole Casino. The
roads splitting -- the road kind of going down the middle. I'm sorry.
These properties to the north is Stockade Road. And the county
owns in excess of 100 acres there that's used presently.
And Barron Collier Companies provided this as a mockup of
how this Silver Strand property may be used for our uses: Future
CCSO site, in the middle is a sense of the swamp buggy and
fairground site, and towards the bottom is low-intensity, low-impact
uses.
Again, we started off with this shot, and this gives you a sense,
again, of the Camp Keais, the Barron Collier parcel. And the orange
or tan area identified as 439 acres, that's the proposed acquisition or
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swap from Camp Keais to Barron Collier Companies.
Some considerations that staff would like you to think about, the
Board may want to consider a cash option. We, of course, would
want to go through appropriate due diligence to ensure -- if we go
forward, to ensure that we get the proper value, so appraisals and
other due diligence, and we would recommend, as this was
unsolicited, that Barron Collier Companies be responsible for the cost
of the due diligence and the appraisals.
With that, that's our recommendation, and I'll be happy to
answer any questions or relinquish the microphone as the Board sees
fit.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Are we going to hear from
Mr. Casalanguida?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: If you want to. We can keep
him quiet, if you want to, too, sir. It's your will.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No. I -- he won't speak
unless we have questions for him.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Okay. Commissioner McDaniel, go
ahead.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Do we have public speakers,
Troy?
MR. MILLER: We do not.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Let's just rally this all
in.
If you would put the site map up, Ed. There you go.
When Mr. Casalanguida was our Deputy County Manager, he
helped orchestrate the acquisition of this piece of property. It was
always intended to be the location -- relocation of our Collier County
Fair. That was the original intent. We were going to put it in the
southeast corner down there. And then when Mr. Casalanguida left
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and his now new boss, who isn't new at all -- I won't say his name.
He gets mad at me when I say his name on TV -- realized that there
was about to be a carnival next door to their fancy Rod N Gun Club,
they didn't think that was such a great idea.
So they came up with this compromise, which I have to say out
loud I love the compromise. I love the thought process. It still
gives us 500 acres or so over to the west side of the Camp Keais
piece, as we've all dubbed this in the past. The new location -- if
you would show that picture again, on the north piece -- that piece
right there, we already own land going up to the stockade, and we'll
facilitate access for our sheriff.
We all know we've talked about relocating the public gun range
that the Sheriff operates off of Camp Keais Road. We all know
we've talked about a location for horticultural debris reception, and
especially during hurricane cleanup times. We all know that we
talked about relocation of the forever swamp buggy and the legacy
that travels along with our swamp buggy in the home of Naples,
Florida, and, of course, our relocation of our Collier County Fair.
So I certainly am not asking us to do anything out of Hoyle.
We want to follow the necessary procedures. This was an
unsolicited request. Barron Collier has offered up to reimburse for
the appraisal. We'll go through the appraisal process. We'll have a
look at those appraisals. Those appraisals will come back to this
board for the ultimate determination as to -- as to what we do.
Whether or not we proceed with the transaction or not, we're
still able to use the western portion of the Camp Keais piece. We
can still locate the swamp buggy and the fairgrounds down there on
the southwest corner of that piece of property. This piece of
property that is being proposed for the exchange is a portion of -- or
included in the Immokalee Area Water and Sewer District. So we
have the capacity of moving utilities down there to help support any
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future developments. I mean, it's -- it just checks a lot of boxes.
Of course, it has to work on a financial basis, and I think just the
relationship that our county has had with Barron Collier since the
beginning of time, I'm going to make a recommendation to move
forward as, in fact, is recommended by our staff to move forward
with the transaction, get the appraisals, have a discussion, and then
we can flip our coin as to whether or not financial renumeration is
necessary or an increase in the size of the exchange is necessary and
the valuations are all in line.
Did I miss anything?
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I just heard from
Commissioner McDaniel some of the missing pieces that I didn't
have. I mean, I knew this was your district, so I wanted to hear if it
was something that maybe you had received feedback from citizens
that weren't happy, or you personally. Like, you have a lot of time
invested and seniority into this -- you know, these land deals.
The only piece -- and I echoed this in a meeting in my office
yesterday. A lot of times when we're swapping, you know, land for
land, it's not always apples to apples. Sometimes it's a better deal for
us and a worse deal for, you know, the others, but in this particular
case, I think, as you said, this is an unsolicited proposal that has come
to us.
As you bring forward the deal, as you start to peel back the
details -- and I said this in the office, I just want to make sure
that -- or I'd be very impressed if the Collier family picked up the
expenses along the way that make this deal possible and that we don't
pass it on to the taxpayers. In the end, I think this is 51 percent good
for the Collier family and 51 percent good for us. You know, if you
count like -- it's not a horrible thing, but maybe it's 51 for them and
49 for us.
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So just as we -- as we get details on this deal, I know
there's -- there are expenses that are inherently buried in, you know,
making this happen, the cost of the appraisal and some other things
that we'll find out about when this comes back to us.
And I would just say to Mr. Casalanguida, be as generous as
possible, because we're here supporting the taxpayer, and if we're
getting something great out of this, awesome. But it would be very
favorable, if it was a fair exchange of -- on the financial side,
especially, you know, for the county and for the taxpayers, and then I
would -- I would have no issue with it unless there was some
unforeseen detail that came forward. But that's my position.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I see this a little differently. I see this as
a great benefit to the Collier family for wanting to get the fairgrounds
and the swamp buggy away from the Rod N Gun Club, and they can
still accomplish that. I just look at it as a little bit different.
They could sell the fairgrounds a portion of the Silver Strand to
get them to move over there. The fairgrounds have had -- have
expressed interest in purchasing their own property. Swamp buggy
people, it's optional for them. They could take it or leave it. But
they could do that directly into the Silver Strand, and we could
maintain Camp Keais as it is right now.
As far as an appraisal, I don't see that one's needed. I don't see
why we should be either limited or subject to an opinion of a third
party. If they want the property, they can simply make an offer, and
we could accept or reject it.
An appraisal shouldn't even be considered. It's just a matter of
market value, its worth to them, and whether it's worth it to us to sell
or not.
I don't -- I see -- I can see some benefit to what you said about
benefit to the swap for the county, but I see mainly the benefit for the
other party. It's really beneficial for them to get -- to get their
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neighbors quiet. And whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, I
don't -- I don't think it's good or bad. It's just a matter of what would
be more beneficial to them.
They could sell outright to the fairgrounds and the swamp buggy
people, and they could purchase outright from us what they need to
expand. So whether it needs to be a swap with an appraisal and all
that, I don't necessarily see it that way.
Commissioner Kowal.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Thank you, Chairman.
Well, I'm really going to go outside the box on what I'm going to
say here, so...
You know, this is unsolicited. They came to us. Evidently,
you know, they feel a need to, you know, come to us and -- for their
benefit in some way for their project.
But if I'm going to do any land swaps or anything like that, I
want to make sure it's something that we're not just moving
fairgrounds or things like that. I mean, if the Collier family's serious
and if we want to sit down and really negotiate some land swaps, if
they can look at possibly some properties that -- because, you know,
they -- at one point with the park, Paradise Sports Park, we took
300 acres away from our landfill to build that park, and that's
300 acres we're not going to have in the future for our landfill and our
waste management.
And we're running out of space in this county to expand that,
that piece of property. And our children, our grandchildren in the
future are going to have to be leasing property in another county just
to take our garbage. And if you want to start adding up price tags,
that's going to be a big price tag we're going to leave on our children
if we don't start getting ahead of this because of the property that we
diminished away from the ability for the landfill to expand over there.
So I'm trying to think, if it's unsolicited, let's all sit down and
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really think of something that can work for everybody, and if they
have other property in mind, maybe a 300-, 400-acre parcel
somewhere that we can say, all right, we can -- be a future landfill for
us and a partial to maybe put, you know, the other part of the Silver
Strand. We might not need all of it for the fairgrounds or the swamp
buggy.
But, you know, this is actually sitting down at the table and
doing something for the future of the county and not just
saying -- you know, we already have a fairground. We already have
a swamp buggy park. We're just talking about relocating it.
But, you know, if we really want to be serious and do
something, I think it's a legacy thing that will really live long and
save us money over a long period of time. That might be an angle to
go at, and sit down with the, you know, organization and maybe go in
that direction.
But like I said, I'm just throwing this out, outside-of-the-box
type deal, and something to think about, so...
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Let's circle the wagons
again here. We've owned this piece of property for close to five
years-ish. Plus or minus? Am I correct with that assumption?
MR. FINN: March of '21.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Over three years we've
owned this piece of property. We just initiated -- the Camp Keais
piece. We just initiated the consultant to do the rezone for the uses
of that Camp Keais piece of property, which is astounding to me that
we owned a piece of property for three years and didn't even start to
do the rezoning process.
We are, in fact, doing that. We are not, in that rezoning
process, taking away any of the potential uses of the lands that are, in
fact, left. We're going to have multiple bites at this apple if, in fact,
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this transaction, in fact, goes forward.
There are benefits to both Collier County and to Barron Collier
Company by effectuating this exchange. I'm totally in support of
protecting the taxpayers. Always have been, always will be. It has
to be a fair transaction for all parties concerned.
The one thing I do want to address today and actually bring up is
as we move forward, we have debt on this piece of property. We
borrowed money. The county borrowed money to buy this piece of
property, and we have to be careful with the associated debt that
securitizes the loan that was utilized for this acquisition. So we have
to -- the due diligence needs to go through.
I have had long, long, long conversations with both the swamp
buggy board and the fair board with regard to their MOUs and their
potential utilization of the Camp Keais piece of property. They're
both aware of the potential of this exchange, and the ultimate goal is
to go through the exchange process. This board makes a
determination as to whether or not we want to do it. And then offer
up both pieces of property, the west 500 or so of the Camp Keais
piece and this north piece, as I'm designating it, up along Immokalee
Road south of town, as alternatives for the swamp buggy and the fair
boards to choose from to buy their 100 acres.
And you're not wrong in your statements, Mr. Chair, with regard
to BCB and Barron Collier being able to sell them a piece of
property. That's certainly well within their rights.
But I -- we have an affordable housing issue. We have -- we
have a lot of circumstances that that north 500 could be a benefit to
our sheriff with the relocation and a facility for the new gun range, an
indoor gun range right up by the stockade and on property that we
already, in fact, own. There's a lot of benefits, I think, to this -- to at
least proceeding forward with the semantics of the transaction.
The appraisals, Mr. Chair, I don't agree with you. I think that's
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an imperative process for us to be able to make a determination on
valuations. We bought this piece of property for 13,000 an acre.
We have expended money in zoning and the upkeep and so ons and
so forth. And now we've gone into contract on another piece of
property within three, four miles from this at -- how much, 22,000 an
acre for the Williams Farm?
MR. FINN: Order of magnitude --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah, plus or minus. It's
north of $20,000 an acre. So there is a shift in value. So having the
appraisals accomplished will delineate all that, bring it all to light,
and then we'll all be able to look at it and make a discussion.
And, Commissioner Kowal, with regard to the landfill, we're not
done with that. We're not done with that by any stretch of the
imagination.
If you'll recall, one of the things -- and I know staff's working on
it. We had discussions -- first of all, siting a new landfill in a new
location is literally an act of Congress, period. So expansion,
utilization, better utilization of the available lands by the existing
landfill, that's a discussion that we're, in fact, going to have going
forward.
One of my goals in this next term of tenure as your county
commissioner is for us to -- for us to come away with longevity
added. I think the lifespan currently for the landfill is like '65, 2065,
plus or minus. And I want to take that out another 40 or 50 years in
these next four years.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I think we're getting close to
a vote, but I just wanted to read what we're voting on.
"Recommendation to consider and provide direction relative to
Barron Collier Companies." So my direction, I'm not a real estate
agent, but I often hear this term from people who are, "Bring me an
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offer I can't refuse" or -- like they said in the Godfather, right?
So I would just say to Mr. Casalanguida but also to you,
Mr. Finn, is bring us an offer we shouldn't refuse when you start
peeling back the onion or bring us something that makes the most
sense for the county and the taxpayer.
And I do see this as more of a benefit. I think everybody
would, like the Chairman said to the Collier family, that's why they
came to us. I mean, it's not a secret, but there's also some benefit,
you know, to the county. So bring us something, you know, that
makes sense. And that's all we're voting on today, to have you move
forward and come back with a lot more detail, and I would hope that
detail would be so overwhelming in a positive way for both sides, but
certainly for us --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: -- for the taxpayer, that the
discussion would be, you know, I don't want to say minimal, but
would be, you know, obvious. And so having said that -- I don't
know, did somebody make a motion?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I made a motion to move
forward as recommended.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Okay. I'll second it, unless
there's somebody else lit up. I'm sorry.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Just real quickly, I think
whenever we're buying, selling, or exchanging property, we need to
have appraisals to make sure that we're doing the right thing in terms
of values.
And I think, Mr. Casalanguida, you've heard the discussion. It
sounds like you need to kind of sharpen your pencil a little bit, along
with staff, to come back with some proposal that we can see the real
benefit.
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I don't have any problem with what's being proposed at all, but
I'm just suggesting that there is some -- some bit of resistance, so you
may want to sharpen your pencil a little bit and come back with a
proposal that, as Commissioner LoCastro said, it would be
impossible for us to say no to.
CHAIRMAN HALL: And I'll just follow up before we vote,
before I call for it.
As far as the appraisal, I made the comment "I don't feel like we
should be limited or subject to a third party." We know what we
paid for the property. That's nobody else's business. So if we want
to exchange it or if we want to sell it, whenever the offer comes in,
then we can determine whether that's going to be worth it or not. If
we wanted to buy an appraisal then, we could. But if the appraisal
came back at 20,000 an acre and it was valuable enough to the other
party where they were willing to pay $24,000 an acre, then why
should we be limited to the appraisal? That was my point.
The debt on the property is another -- is another consideration
and -- to be fair to the taxpayers.
I guess my hesitation in the whole deal to move forward is I
don't want to set the train a rolling. I don't want -- I don't want it to
appear like this is a good deal, and we're going to do this, and we're
moving forward at all.
So with that, we've got a motion and a second to approve it as
it's written. All in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HALL: All opposed?
Aye.
MR. FINN: Very nice. Thank you.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And there we go.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, we could take Item 15B1,
which is staff report on the headworks project, and then take our
10:30 court reporter break, and then start the budget item, if that
makes sense.
CHAIRMAN HALL: That would be great.
Item #15B1
PROJECT UPDATE TO NCWRF PRETREATMENT FACILITY
PROJECT NO. 70149 CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
WITH POOLE & KENT COMPANY OF FLORIDA UNDER
AGREEMENT NO. 23-8116. (ALL DISTRICTS) - PRESENTED
AND DISCUSSED
MS. PATTERSON: All right. Item 15B1 is a staff project
update. This was continued from the July 23rd, 2024, meeting. It's
a recommendation to accept a project update to NCWRF
pretreatment facility, Project No. 70149, currently under construction
with Poole & Kent Company of Florida under Agreement NO.
23-8116.
Mr. Matt McLean, your director of Public Utilities Engineering
and Project Management, is here to present.
MR. McLEAN: Excellent.
Good morning, Commissioners. For the record, Matt McLean,
your division director for Engineering and Project Management.
I am pleased to report that this mission-critical project at our
north county water reclamation facility is on schedule and within the
approved Board construction budget.
Since we were last before you here in March with a project
update, our team continues to focus on the long lead time equipment
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submittal approvals, underground pipeline installation, and
significant rebar and concrete construction of the building.
We thank you for your approval earlier today to address some
unforeseen conditions on the project that our team will continue to
manage throughout the course of the construction project.
The aerial on the top right shows the active construction area of
the pretreatment building, and we have a series of updated
construction photos that we're going to go over to show the
construction progress since our last Board update.
Since we were last before you, the project delivery team was
able to take advantage of some late spring dry conditions before the
rainy season to get some of the significant underground infrastructure
installed under the building footprint as well as a new pump station
which you can see in the right -- top right corner adjacent to the
pretreatment building.
Timing was good for us to get that done early before the rain
started. That included some large wastewater influent, effluent,
power, and communications pipelines to get out from underneath the
building footprint and adjacent building infrastructure.
As we led into rainy season, the remaining sections of the major
pipeline work are set up to be later on in the project schedule, later in
the year. The good news here on that -- under continuation of the
underground infrastructure, presently none of the remaining pipeline
work is on the critical path of the schedule, so we continued to focus
on the building itself.
These next set of photos depict the complexity of the
underground communication and power network that will serve the
pretreatment facility. We like to compare this electrical building
much like a brain and heart that feed and operate the rest of the
facility.
The project delivery team utilized a three-dimensional model in
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planning and preparation for the installation of all of this
underground communication and electrical conduit. These
additional control steps within the overall project allowed for some
early identification of potential conflict areas which are able to be
resolved prior to the installation of the building foundation.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Hey, Matt, what is the size of that
conduit coming in?
MR. McLEAN: Those conduits are all about 2-inch. Yeah,
we've got hundreds and hundreds of them that are coming within this
electrical building.
CHAIRMAN HALL: That's a lot of stuff.
MR. McLEAN: Yeah, it's really impressive.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Can I ask a quick question?
CHAIRMAN HALL: Sure.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Are these the -- are these the
information technologies that we utilize for all of the big screens that
we look at and we see what everything's doing with the individual
pump stations, levels --
MR. McLEAN: Absolutely.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
MR. McLEAN: All of our SCADA controls, instrumentation,
and communication.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right.
MR. McLEAN: Electrical, all of the above.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And just for the world,
because you neglected -- we all pretty much know where this is.
Where is this facility located?
MR. McLEAN: This facility is at our north county water
reclamation facility on Goodlette Road.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Just south Immokalee.
MR. McLEAN: Just south of Immokalee Road.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: On the east side.
MR. McLEAN: Yes, sir.
And so here's some additional views showing that power and
communications conduit for the electrical building. It is critical to
get this infrastructure in right the first time up front. Once it was
installed, flowable fill was added, as you can see in the top right and
the lower right-hand corner of this slide, placed over that conduit to
solidify and protect the installation of all these important conduits
that will future provide all of the ability for us to pull the wires and
have the communications all operate correctly.
Steel and rebar concrete wall pours have dominated the last
several months of work. There is a tremendous focus on safety and
quality. The project delivery team is on site every day conducting
inspections and project oversight demanding and assuring such
quality.
We're holding weekly on-site project delivery team meetings
and coordinations, positioning the project for continued success.
The concrete work that you see here in these photos is on the
critical path of the schedule. Pursuant to the schedule, it's projected
that the building topping off will be at the end of this calendar year.
While that concrete work continues, all of the major long lead time
equipment submittal packages have already been approved. The
equipment is ordered and under manufacturing.
These major equipment deliveries for our processes are expected
to begin at the end of 2025, leading into midyear 2025, so that we
have planned the project out that these major process equipment
packages, when they hit the ground at the construction site, can be
installed directly upon delivery on the site, streamlining the overall
schedule.
Quality assurance and quality control testing continues with
each concrete pour, followed up with report result validation of the
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contract specification requirements.
Over the course of the next several months, we will continue
with steel rebar, formwork, and concrete installation of the building.
We're typically pouring at least once a week out on the project site.
Oftentimes those are early-morning pours that lead on into the
daylight hours.
And I would be remiss if I don't take this opportunity to thank
the overall project delivery team for their commitment to stay on
schedule, demanding contract performance and focus on this
mission-critical project. It is a true effort of our project managers,
the contractor, the engineers, our procurement clerk, attorney teams,
county staff, leadership, and you, ultimately, the Board, for your
continued support on the project.
We welcome you for a tour at any time, and I'm happy to answer
any questions that you-all may have.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You could have corrected me
and said, "Well, sir, it's at the last slide. Everybody will know where
it is."
MR. McLEAN: That's okay. I should have led in with that
one. I'll remember that for our next project update. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I do have one quick question.
And, again, you know, there are so many life-sustaining critical
infrastructure programs going on within Collier County. I think
Dr. George shared with me yesterday we're running 44-, 45,000 trash
pickups a day, and our phones don't ring with complaints, with
concerns, and it has to do with the stellar job you folks are doing.
How are we with noise pollution, odor pollution, and overall
complaints with -- this facility's been here forever. And so how are
we doing with the residents that are in close proximity to this facility?
MR. McLEAN: I appreciate that question. And in fact, today,
you, the Board, also approved the next significant infrastructure
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project focused on odor control at this exact facility. We continue
the demands, no offsite odors, no offsite light pollution, managing
dust control, et cetera.
We are certainly, like with lots of major utility plant projects,
when we first start construction there, there usually isn't anything
around us, and by the time we continue to operate over decades, we
get built in around us, and we have neighbors. So we do from time
to time get questions and clarifications on our operations, but we are
happy to report that we are able to continue to manage those and stay
within compliance and continue to deliver best-value utilities to the
community.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I was just looking, and our
community was wise enough to put a park in to the east of the
facility, then the next subdivision down has a golf course with
fairways to help line, and then -- but the ones that are on our
southeast side or right over the fence kind of, so -- and that was the
reason and the rationale for my question as to how we're managing
those things.
So thank you very much.
MR. McLEAN: Certainly.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I was wondering if anybody ever hit a
home run over there into the --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Into the pond?
CHAIRMAN HALL: Into the facility.
MR. McLEAN: There are from time to time where we do get a
few things that come in from the park. Oftentimes, a lot of it's
sometimes trash but, I mean, you name it. Things fly around with
the wind, too, and we help clean up that, too.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I mean, I've seen Commissioner
McDaniel play golf, and I could see where he could hit a golf ball
across the road over there.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Quit, quit, quit. I have a
nice draw.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Thank you, Matt.
MR. McLEAN: Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: All right. With that, let's take a court
reporter break. It's 10:24. Let's come back at 10:35.
(A brief recess was had from 10:24 a.m. to 10:37 a.m.)
MS. PATTERSON: Chair, you have a live mic. Apologies.
CHAIRMAN HALL: No worries. Thanks.
All right. Let's roll with this budget discussion.
Item #11A
A PRESENTATION REGARDING THE FY 2025 BUDGET AND
PROVIDE FURTHER GUIDANCE AS WE MOVE TOWARD THE
SEPTEMBER PUBLIC BUDGET HEARINGS. (CHRISTOPHER
JOHNSON, DIRECTOR - CORPORATE FINANCIAL AND
MANAGEMENT SERVICES) (ALL DISTRICTS) - PRESENTED
AND DISCUSSED
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. That brings us to Item 11A,
which is a recommendation to hear a presentation regarding the FY
2025 budget and provide further guidance as we move towards the
September budget hearings.
Mr. Chris Johnson, your director of Corporate Financial and
Management Services, is here to begin the presentation, and I believe
we have Chris Fabian joining via phone.
MR. JOHNSON: Via Zoom.
MS. PATTERSON: Via Zoom.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Via Zoom. Good.
Before we start -- hello, Chris, how are you?
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MR. FABIAN: I'm doing great.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Great, thanks.
MR. FABIAN: Can you hear me okay?
CHAIRMAN HALL: Yes. Thanks for joining us.
MR. FABIAN: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HALL: You know, one year ago, almost a year
ago, we made the decision to do the hard work and to take a look -- a
good hard look and a deep dive into this budget and to curb our
appetite for taxpayer dollars. So I just want to encourage all of us,
let's keep that in mind as we move -- as we listen and we have a
discussion today and as we -- as we take the measures needed to
steward well what the taxpayers are offering up.
So with that, Mr. Johnson.
MR. JOHNSON: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning,
Commissioners. For the record, Christopher Johnson, your
department of Corporate Financial and Management Services and, as
Ms. Patterson stated, I'm joined on the phone or Zoom with
Mr. Fabian from ResourceX.
Today we're going to have a presentation for you on the FY '25
budget and look forward to your guidance as we move into the
September budget hearing, which is scheduled for next Thursday.
Today's discussion, I'll briefly go over the budget timeline.
Then I'll turn it over to Mr. Fabian for a ResourceX presentation and
organizational structure review that was provided in conjunction with
ResourceX, followed by a brief overview of the TRIM notice. Then
I'll discuss what we're going to be doing at our first public budget
hearing next week, followed by kind of a refresher on the taxable
value and millage rates that we currently have set, and then any
discussion we want -- any further discussion we want to have after
that.
So with that, I'll dive right in. Everyone's familiar with this.
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I'm sure you're probably getting sick of me going over this, but I'm
going to do it a couple more times before the end of the year. I just
wanted to kind of reiterate where we're at and how we got here.
As you can see here, the peach-colored boxes are the boxes that
we've already accomplished, the yellow one there on the bottom is
what we're doing today, and the blue ones are what we're going to be
doing moving forward. And if you-all can remember that long ago
in February, we started with our strategy plan, AUIR, and budget
policy workshop. That is where we discussed our methodology this
year of moving to the priority-based budgeting approach and also had
discussions on preliminary budget policy decisions.
Followed by, in March there, the Board adopted the FY '25
budget policy. That included a 3.5 percent departmental guidance
for increases within the departments and utilizing net new taxable
value or, essentially, the rolled-back rate for overall millage
compliance.
Moving on from there, in June -- on June 20th, we had the BCC
budget workshop where the County Manager presented her
recommended budget which was built around the rolled-back millage
rates. We also had a discussion then on the progress with
ResourceX and the priority-based budgeting procedure.
From there, we received the certified taxable value from the
Property Appraiser on July 1st, and on July 9th the Board adopted the
maximum millage rates. Again, the maximum millage rates were
adopted at millage neutral for the countywide taxable -- taxing
districts and the unincorporated area taxing district.
On I think it was August 19th, according to my TRIM notice,
the Property Appraiser sent out the TRIM notices to all the property
owners, and today we're going to have this budget discussion,
followed by our next big meeting, which is the 5th of September,
which will be our first public budget hearing. And then finally, on
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9/19, or Thursday the 19th, we will have our final budget hearing
where we adopt the final budget.
Any questions on the schedule at all?
(No response.)
MR. JOHNSON: All right. With that, I'll hand it over to
Mr. Fabian on Zoom, Troy, and he'll be discussing ResourceX and
the organizational structure.
MR. FABIAN: Okay. Troy, are you able to see my screen as I
share the Zoom?
MR. MILLER: Hold on a minute. We're having trouble
bringing up our Zoom. Hold on just a second.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Your mic's not on, Troy.
One minute, Chris. I'm having a little bit of technical issues here.
MR. FABIAN: Okay. No problem. While the screen fires
up, thank you, Chris, thank you Commissioners, executive leadership
and staff and members of the public for allowing me to join you
remotely for a component of this presentation.
Troy, just give me the cue when we're --
MR. MILLER: I am having all kinds of difficulties here, Chris.
Give me just a second. My Zoom is not working.
MR. JOHNSON: Troy, I have the presentation, if you want me
just to pull it up, and then, Chris, you can just tell me when to flip
slides, if that works for you.
MR. MILLER: Yeah, why don't we -- why don't we do that at
this point. I'm having some real issues here. Let me give you back
control, Chris.
MR. JOHNSON: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Under pressure.
MR. JOHNSON: All right.
MR. MILLER: All right. Chris, can you see the slides now?
MR. FABIAN: I can.
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MR. MILLER: Thank you, sir.
MR. FABIAN: Okay, great. Always good to have a Plan B.
MR. JOHNSON: All right.
MR. FABIAN: Well, again, thank you, everyone. My name is
Chris Fabian. I'm from ResourceX, which is a Tyler Technology's
company, and I've had the privilege of working with staff and the
Board on your priority-based budgeting approach for this year. And
for today, this is just the opportunity to keep priority-based budgeting
front and center in the midst of your budget discussions.
Chris, you can go ahead and go to the next slide.
And I have a series of animations I'll start to go through here.
So in June, I was on site to deliver one of the first major deliverables
of priority-based budgeting, which is what we call a return on
investment or ROI report. It is the first step after creating the basic
priority-based budgeting data which consists of identifying all of the
various programs and services offered by your departments,
allocating your line-item budget toward those programs, so we have
full cost for providing each and every program and service, and
scoring those programs relative to county priorities as well as other
key attributes that make programs relevant. And with that base data,
we could, for the very first time, begin to differentiate programs
based on their alignment with county priorities and key relevance
criteria. So high impact meaning high degree of alignment with the
criteria that make a program valuable and relevant -- most relevant in
the county, as well as sorting programs on the degree of spend or
investment.
Programs could further be differentiated based on how they
scored on degree of mandate. We have highly mandated programs
that we really must adhere to those regulations versus programs that
have a lesser degree of mandate overall, as well as degree of -- or
opportunity for partnership. Is there a heavy reliance from our
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residents for us to provide a specific program versus programs where
there are potential partnerships?
And that was very key to set up a conversation of where
program opportunities could exist for resource reallocation as well as
new revenue generation for compensating appropriately for providing
services.
The very first ROI report contained options, that is program
insights, is what we call them, for every possible program and
different ways to fund it, different business models. And in sum
total, Chris, as you click the "down" button to move the animation,
we can see that the very first ROI report contained upwards of
$100 million in resource reallocation opportunities to consider those
program insights as well as new revenue generation.
And that's really important, because as a living document, the
ROI, or return on investment report, is a playbook. It's a set of
options that you may be able to turn to in order to discover ways to
free up and reallocate the current budget and generate new revenue.
But what staff did next -- and this is exactly how priority-based
budgeting works textbook style from the City of Fort Worth, Texas,
who's an exemplary priority-based budgeting organization, to the
City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is that the staff has to react so these
insights to sift through with which are most actionable as opposed to
some of the insights that may already be in progress, and we
discovered many of those, as Chris Johnson presented in our last
presentation together, as well as some program insights that just don't
apply.
Those program insights come from case studies from other
organizations who have taken a similar path to look for resource
reallocation and new revenue opportunities. And, again, some of
them are key and most actionable, and that's what we were looking
for.
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And so in July, heading into August was that very first review,
and you heard Chris Johnson present back to you-all just about two
weeks ago -- Chris, next animation, please -- on the first list of
potential insights that seem most actionable in the county, and that
whittled the list down, appropriately, from $100 million and then
some of potential insights into the most actionable potential insights,
which was closer to 40 million. And, again, that is a natural
progression in priority-based budgeting is to start from a vast list and
narrow it down to those that seem more appropriate.
Chris, as you hit the button one more time -- and from here,
what takes place next as far as the ROI report? Again, I continue to
try to remind us that it is a living document. Even for those program
insights where it seemed that there isn't really an opportunity or it's
not applicable at this time for the county, ResourceX then goes back
to find other insights for those particular programs. That's the next
step we have in motion.
But in addition, as you see in this particular picture, from the
$40 million in programmatic opportunities, we set in motion an
implementation phase, a process to understand what it's going to take
to execute on these program insights and actually reap the savings or
generate the new revenue, and that process can take -- for some of
those insights, as you can imagine, it's very practical. Some of the
insights are simpler and less complex than others, so maybe it's the
next three to six months or before the end of the year. There is more
information about how to move forward and execute on those
insights, whereas some of the others might be a year or two in the
making. That is -- that's exactly where we are in the path to take
insights from potential energy. Here are impressive
recommendations that the staff can act upon towards actually
executing on those insights and being able to reap the savings overall.
So that's what happens next with the return on investment report.
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CHAIRMAN HALL: Hey, Chris, can I interrupt for a second?
MR. FABIAN: Oh, yes.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I don't want to lose focus from what
you're saying from me sitting here straining trying to read these -- the
screen. Is there a way that we can enlarge the screen so that we can
actually read it? I catch myself drifting from what you're saying
trying to read, and I can't, so -- if there's a way we can, great. If not,
we'll just listen.
MR. JOHNSON: Commissioner, I have these slides separate,
and I can provide them to you guys later on.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Okay.
MR. JOHNSON: If that works. They're from our last
presentation, so...
CHAIRMAN HALL: All right.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I can recommend a good
ophthalmologist to fix your glasses.
MR. FABIAN: Thank you, Chris Johnson.
Commissioner Hall, I apologize for the --
CHAIRMAN HALL: No worries.
MR. FABIAN: -- small nature of these, but these are snapshots
from previous presentations. So illusions [sic] to information just to
jog our minds on what had been presented over the course of June,
July, and August.
CHAIRMAN HALL: That helps knowing that I should have
already seen these.
MR. FABIAN: Okay. So before we move on to the next slide,
I think we had a breakthrough in the last meeting when I was on site
to really understand that where ResourceX starts really diving into
where savings could exist and where the staff dives into this is
programmatic analysis in terms of relevancy. Are these programs
the right businesses for us to be in? And if we choose to remain in
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these businesses, what are different business models? How can we
fund these programs differently? And, again, I want to state from
the best-practice communities like Fort Worth, Texas, this is -- this is
where to start, but it's not the only deliverable. It's not the only area
of focus.
And so, Chris, if you wouldn't mind advancing the slide.
We introduced at the last meeting when I was in town about two
weeks ago the fact that as we start to dive into the ROI report and
look at that first $40 million worth of opportunities, we then start to
also entertain program efficiency conversations.
So it's relevance first. We're studying the key question. If you
picture Maslow's hierarchy. We need to grapple with the programs
that we want to provide and the business models and the revenue
models, and then we begin to advance towards, okay, if we're happy
with the program offering and we're considering how we might
provide this particular program differently from a funding
perspective, it's okay to begin to transition towards now streamlining
or making that program more efficient.
And our approach, as we've begun, if you remember, there was a
priority-based budgeting blueprint that described how we tackle
relevance, and that looks at sourcing programs and programs
efficiency and service-level tradeoffs and revenue ideas to
appropriately compensate for work provided by way of fees for
service and entrepreneurial revenue opportunities.
In the efficiency analysis, we tackle positions, so we're looking
at staffing for programs overall, looking for everything from
cross-training and workforce flexibility, opportunities looking at
common goals across the departments, looking for workforce pooling
and flexible staffing. That's the analysis of positions, which we have
that data, and every position is now allocated to programs.
We look at process analysis. Where do we have key programs
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where we have representative processes where it's potentially
advantageous to centralize programs that are offering similar
functions? And then we look at program performance by way of
benchmarking. In other words, how does Collier County's
investment into specific programs match up to other communities of
your size? If we can normalize and look at benchmarks, we can
begin to compare programs that you decide we're going to remain in
the business and look for efficiencies there.
So the simple way to remember it is it's alliteration by way of
P's. Efficiency comes to us through position analysis, process
analysis, and program performance analysis, and benchmarking.
Chris, next slide, please.
And I simply wanted to introduce that we are now underway.
We introduced this about two weeks ago, that in addition to now
working our way through the return on investment report to look at
that first 40 million in opportunities, we have officially started to shift
our own gears towards exploring these efficiency opportunities as
well.
Staff, as made mention of by Chris Johnson approximately two
weeks ago, has already brought forward in that presentation some of
those initial wins, perhaps the first wins in the efficiency analysis by
way of positions, the workforce prioritization pool, centralized
financial operations, as well as real property and right-of-way
functions, seeing common positions and the opportunity for merger.
We see process analysis, everything that we're starting to look at
by way of who's involved in processes like cybersecurity
management from public safety to finance to HR, beaches,
enforcement, and maintenance, and we're underway to start to
compile the data for program performance management, that first
effort towards benchmarking. And, again, as we start to see
benchmarking by way of costs, we're also looking at benchmarking
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by way of fees, compensation that is for services rendered and the
revenue equation overall.
During our last discussion approximately two weeks ago,
Commissioner McDaniel, you appropriately made mention that at
this point in the efficiency analysis when we're really diving into
positions, opportunities for streamlining, processes and program
benchmarking, that this is the most appropriate time to start to invite
meetings with staff to get some more of their insights, and that will
certainly be part of the efficiency approach in priority-based
budgeting.
And, furthermore, for Commissioner LoCastro, Commissioner
Kowal, you invited more specific invitation to begin to look deeper
into this data to see a deep dive. Commissioner LoCastro, as you
observed from the ROI report, we're looking at every single program
and different ways to consider funding it first rather than focusing on
program and service-level reductions first, and that is the -- very
much the next step on the ROI report side.
So, Chris, one more slide, please.
So to bring it on home, again, it's important that in the midst of
these budget hearings and budget discussions that we all have that
priority-based budgeting data at the forefront of our minds and how
we can begin to use it.
Commissioner Hall, two weeks ago you mentioned you're
starting to see the breakthrough, the "method to the madness" moving
from the data that we collect to first studying program relevancy.
We don't study efficiency first, because if we study efficiency first,
we're assuming the program will be delivered the same way. So we
back up and study, should we be in this business? How did it score
relative to impact? Are there other business models that other
communities like Fort Worth and Pittsburgh, among hundreds of
others, are challenging themselves to re-think revenue recovery,
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partnerships? And then once we're settled there, which we're right in
the midst of that, and that's enormous kudos to staff for drilling down
into that first 40 million of opportunities to discover. Then we move
into that efficiency analysis for service delivery.
And so, as I turn it back over to Chris and also entertain
questions at this point, the purpose of my report and joining you
today was just to keep priority-based budgeting at the forefront of
your minds, the data that you have that you can question, that you can
explore further for those opportunities. But I also always want to
take the opportunity to just solidify this is the process that we go
through: Data, ROI report, program relevancy, followed by
streamlining efficiency, positions, processes, program benchmarking,
which we're heading into next.
And that concludes my portion of the presentation.
MR. JOHNSON: Thank you, Chris.
And I'm going to pull up the other slide show here. Did you
guys have any questions for Mr. Fabian while I'm doing this?
CHAIRMAN HALL: No. Well presented. Thanks,
Mr. Fabian.
MR. FABIAN: Thank you.
MR. JOHNSON: Thank you, Chris.
All right. And this slide here just kind of sums up some of the
initiatives that Chris has discussed, our resource alignment through
the organizational realignment workforce prioritization pool.
Fee right-sizing and fees for service, the Board has implemented
credit card fees be paid by the users. We've also recently -- the
water/sewer impact fees were approved, positioning the Collier
County Water/Sewer District for the future expansion that we have
going out to the east.
Privatization and partnerships, the INT, I believe, has been
received for the aquatics facility, so we're going through that process.
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And, again, you'll be hearing level-of-service considerations moving
forward.
I wanted to briefly just kind of show you-all a number related
with one of these. So here we have our -- the page out of the budget
book for the workforce prioritization pool. As you can see, this pool
currently -- and, again, we're going to assess this one more time at the
end of the month -- has 31 allocated positions for a total balance of
$3,017,300. And what we've done here is we've created cost centers
for these positions to go into from the General Fund and the
Unincorporated Area General Fund, and as we move forward, we'll
utilize these positions for priorities as they pop up in critical needs.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Mr. Johnson, we've had the privilege of
asking the questions and getting the explanations, but can you just
real briefly summarize what the workforce prioritization pool means
to the public?
MR. JOHNSON: Certainly, certainly.
So just to kind of step back one step to kind of the history of
this, during the budget process, the County Manager's Office
identified positions that had been vacant for an extended period of
time placed on hold that were no longer utilized by the departments,
and we transferred them into this cost center. So, essentially, they're
vacant positions in a cost center that we'll utilize moving forward to
enable us to respond quickly to the changing priorities, address
critical projects, and swiftly tackle unforeseen challenges. In other
words, it will be like a strike team pool. We can go into these, we
can dive into this pool, pull positions out, reclassify them to the job
titles that we need to address our priorities, provide them to the
department to hire quickly and utilize those positions for those
specific needs.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Thank you.
MR. JOHNSON: And with that said, Commissioner, moving
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forward, what we'll do, probably quarterly, monthly, we'll review the
vacancies and determine if there are any others positions that can go
back into that pool. So it will kind of be like a resolving pool of
resources, if you will, human resources. Is that a good explanation
for you? Does that work?
CHAIRMAN HALL: Oh, yeah. Yes.
MR. JOHNSON: All right. Any other questions on the
workforce prioritization pool before I move on?
(No response.)
MR. JOHNSON: Okay. So as a stated, everybody received
their -- property owners received their TRIM notice that was mailed
out on August 19th, 2024. I just wanted to do a quick overview of
this just for everyone's benefit. I know you look at this -- some
people look at this -- I remember the first time I did, and there's a lot
of numbers on there.
So just real briefly, I'll kind of go through some of the important
numbers when you're reading your TRIM notice. I'll start at the top
over here -- and I believe I can use the mouse. Your market value
here by the No. 1 on your TRIM notice is the just value of the
property as of January 1st of the current year.
Now, to get to your assessed value, which is right over here,
under No. 2, the market value is reduced by any of these assessment
reductions here. Common -- the common assessment reductions are
the Save Our Homes benefit, which you can see on this TRIM notice
is $608,000, and the 10 percent non-homestead cap. That's related to
the constitutional cap on property tax increases, which, for
homesteaded properties, is 3 percent per year, and for
non-homesteaded properties, it's 10 percent a year.
So as we've had great growth in the recent years in property
value, as you can see here, this taxpayer has a $608,000 credit to their
market value to get to their assessed value on their property. And
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from there, the taxable value over here, No. 3, this assessed value is
further reduced by any exemptions, including your homesteaded
exemption, disabled veterans, et cetera.
And then on the bottom here in Column 1, you're going to have
your last year's tax rates and tax, Column 2 is the rolled-back tax
rates and tax, and Column 3 is your proposed or, in this case, our
maximum millage tax rate and tax. So I just wanted to go over that
briefly. And your tax is calculated based on a millage rate, which is
the rate per thousand dollars. The formula is your taxable value,
which is No. 3, multiplied by your millage rate, which would be
No. 4 in these columns, and divided by a thousand will get you your
tax.
Any questions on that before I move forward?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HALL: All right. So the next thing I wanted to
discuss briefly was the first public budget hearing. Again, it's going
to be September 5th, 2024, at 5:05 p.m. in this building here in this
room.
What are we going to be doing at that hearing? The first thing
we're going to be doing is Mr. Dorrill and Mr. Coleman will be here
to present the Pelican Bay budget where the Board will adopt a
resolution approving the special assessment roll that levies the special
assessment against those properties in Pelican Bay.
Then we'll dive into the overall county budget. We'll discuss
the tentative millage rates. We'll review and discuss the changes to
the tentative budget. Any changes we make from July until that
meeting will be discussed. And then the thing that everybody loves,
I'm -- it's probably going to be me. I'll be announcing the millage
rates one by one as we go down the list, followed by the adoption of
the tentative millage rates via resolution, and then finally the adopted
amended tentative budget via resolution.
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Once we complete those tasks, we're required to advertise for
our second public hearing, which will be on September 19th, 2024.
The notice will include the tentative millage rates and the tentative
budget, and it -- I guess it would be good to note that those tentative
millage rates, again, create a new maximum millage rate moving
forward. So -- and this ad will be published in the Naples Daily
News.
Any questions on what we're going to be accomplishing next
Thursday?
(No response.)
MR. JOHNSON: You guys are all pros at it now. We went
through it last year, so...
All right. I just wanted to kind of go back to taxable value and
millage rates. I know we discussed this in July, but I wanted to
refresh everyone on where we're at and what will be our most critical
decisions moving forward into the September hearings.
So here's the chart on certified taxable value. If you'll recall,
the prior-year taxable value was about $138 billion. It increased
$14.3 billion countywide, to $152 billion. Of that increase,
4.6 billion is related to net new taxable value, meaning it is included
in the rolled-back rate, the increase -- the tax associated with that
increase in taxable value.
In the unincorporated area, there was a $9.2 billion
taxable-value increase; 3.2 of that net new taxable value was
attributed to -- I'm sorry -- was attributed to net new taxable value,
3.2 billion.
This slide kind of shows the 21-year history of the county's
taxable value increases by percentage. You can kind of see the up
and the down in the recession, and then we're kind of in an up again
and slowing heading down. The blue lines there represent the State's
estimates for the upcoming years of 10.2 for 2026 and 7.1 percent
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increase for 2027.
Now, when you looked at that TRIM notice, you saw that
amount under the Save Our Homes value there. Regardless of -- if
taxable value stays flat, we still get 3 percent out of that -- out of that
bank moving forward, so that's why you see these numbers kind of
flat over the next couple years.
All right. And I'll move into the millage rates. These are the
countywide millage rates and the unincorporated area millage rates.
The blue column there is the millage-neutral rate, which is what we
currently have set as our maximum millage rate. The green column
is the rolled-back millage rate.
For the General Fund, the rolled-back millage rate is 3.0107, and
the millage-neutral is 3.2043, a difference of .1936.
Water Pollution, 0.0246 for rolled-back rate; 0.0263 for the
millage-neutral rate.
Conservation Collier, 0.2096 for the rolled-back; 0.2242 for
millage-neutral.
And unincorporated is 0.6844 for the rolled-back, and 0.7280.
And that's all fun and games, but I'm sure you want to know
what the dollars are associated with that. So this is kind of the
important slide here. Same concept there. You see in the green you
have the rolled-back -- I'm sorry. You have the difference between
the rolled-back in the prior year, so that's the increase in funding
levied, and then in the blue you have the increase versus the prior
year for the millage-neutral rates, and then in the yellow there is the
variance between the two.
So, essentially, we'll be working between the rolled-back rate,
the millage-neutral rate, and the variance there is in the yellow. So
for the General Fund, that would be around 29.5 million; for water
pollution it's about 250,000; Conservation Collier, 2.2 million; and
the Unincorporated Area General Fund is $4.2 million. Overall,
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you're looking at about $36 million.
Any questions on that at all?
CHAIRMAN HALL: Yes.
MR. JOHNSON: All right.
CHAIRMAN HALL: So I get the millage-neutral rate. I see
that. That's based on current values. You said the variance between
the rolled-back from the prior year, so that was the amount of taxes
that we collected.
MR. JOHNSON: So if you look at the green column there,
Commissioner, that 14 million would be an increase over last year's
tax dollars collected related to the net new taxable value. So on the
other slide, I showed you there was that 4.6 related to growth. That
number there, that 14 million is what you would collect based on that.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Oh, at the same rate from last year?
MR. JOHNSON: No. That would be at -- that would be the
rolled-back rate.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Rolling it back?
MR. JOHNSON: Yes, correct.
CHAIRMAN HALL: We would have a $15 million increase?
MR. JOHNSON: In dollars collected, tax dollars collected.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Okay. That helps me.
MR. JOHNSON: No problem.
Any other questions?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Mr. Chairman --
CHAIRMAN HALL: Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- just if I might --
CHAIRMAN HALL: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Just one quick one. The
Sheriff's budget, just to put this in some perspective, the proposed
increase in the Sheriff's budget is how much?
MR. JOHNSON: I've got that right here, if you give me just
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one second.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: I think it's 11 million.
MR. JOHNSON: 6.5 percent; right around $16 million.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So the Sheriff's budget
increase will be 16 million. That's the request.
MR. JOHNSON: Correct.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And if we go to the
rolled-back millage rate, the new revenue, over and above last
year's --
MR. JOHNSON: Fourteen million.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: It will be 14 million. Thank
you.
MR. JOHNSON: You're welcome.
All right. Any other questions?
(No response.)
MR. JOHNSON: Moving on from there, we have the
maximum millage rates for the MSTUs listed here. Those were
based on the operating needs and any capital allocations for the
upcoming fiscal year.
Of note here, we reinstated the Radio Road Beautification
MSTU at .1 mills and, again, that's the maximum millage rate, and
then the new private road emergency repair MSTU, the maximum
millage rate was set at the maximum allowable per ordinance of 1
mill.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Can I -- just on that, since
we're on that.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Sure.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I have a note that I'd like to
move that to zero for this upcoming year. We had that agenda item
pop up, and I'm still in the process of reviewing the RFP and all of
the specifications that went into that, the inordinate amount of
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expense associated with that. I'd like to hold that at zero until we
work those things out. And we'll take formal votes on that. I just
wanted to let you folks know that that's --
CHAIRMAN HALL: Sure. And if we can get a nod for that, I
can provide that with the data in our meeting next week.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HALL: That would be great.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll be nodding in the
affirmative. We all are.
MR. JOHNSON: All right. And any other questions on the
MSTUs before I get into the voting requirements?
(No response.)
MR. JOHNSON: All right. So millage-rate voting
requirements, the majority of our taxing districts are simple majority
to move at the millage rates we currently have, including the -- all the
countywide and the unincorporated area.
You'll see there's a few that require supermajority votes:
Victoria Park, Forest Lakes, Bayshore Beautification, Vanderbilt
Waterways, and Pelican Bay. Those are all millage-neutral MSTUs
that had a little larger tax increases, and then the unanimous vote,
Haldeman Creek Dredging, and the private road being a new one,
requires a unanimous vote as well.
So any questions on any of the votes?
(No response.)
MR. JOHNSON: All right. And with that, I'm here to answer
any questions or help in any discussions you guys may have.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If you would, please, reiterate the guidance that we put forth
with regard to year-over-year increases for budget expenses.
MR. JOHNSON: Certainly. It was -- it was 3 and a half
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percent on the department level.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: On a department level?
MR. JOHNSON: Correct.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. I'd like that to be
exemplified as we're moving through these last steps in this budget
just how many departments actually met that requisite that was put
out and both -- including the constitutionals as well.
MR. JOHNSON: All right.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: One of the things I think it's
important -- forgive me for jumping around, but I'll endeavor to stay
on track. But one of the things that I'd like for us to do as we're
moving forward with the initiatives that are being proposed by
ResourceX, by staff-generated savings, if you will -- it's very difficult
for our general public, in my perception, to perceive a tax savings.
We can all say that we did a rollback last year, and it was a
$62 million savings, but as you have shown, that it actually works out
to be 40, $50 a household depending on whether they're a
homesteaded property or not.
What I want to see going forward, when we do delineate a
savings, wherever it's delineated, I would like for discussion for this
board to have to begin the process of fencing off those savings of
those revenues that are generated in the savings, fencing them off and
designating them for specific needed projects, and that's just a
philosophy that I think would help our community grasp the
generated savings and see the validity in how we're reallocating
funding and actually effectuating a savings and what they're, in fact,
going to be used for.
Also, with ResourceX, they tend to treat our county as one. We
know we have multiple funds. We have two different enterprise
funds. So savings that are generated over in wastewater/water can't
be blended in with general funds, and general funds can
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sometimes -- it takes Board approval with the unincorporated fund.
And so segregation of the individual funds and then the adjustments
to processes, procedures, and whatever the third P is that Chris talked
about.
When those reallocations are actually effectuated, they need to
be delineated and shown in those individual funds so that our
community knows and understands that, yes, in theory, money's
fungible, but it's not fungible necessarily without a major board
action from one fund to another.
Third, I haven't heard anything about this yet -- and this is
something that we talked about at the last budget cycle, and I said it
out loud. I'll say it again. The best people within Collier County's
system to make adjustments in how we're doing what we're doing are
our staff. And I know that we have begun the process of a merit pay
program. I really want to see that risen to the top as soon as -- as we
can efficiently and effectively do that.
Our staff, the people that work for Collier County, need to be
rewarded when we save taxpayer money -- when they save taxpayer
money. Then a merit pay process needs to be implemented.
I think that pretty well covers my initial comments. I have a
couple more before we've done, but I think that will cover for
what -- what I have to say now.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, Chairman.
I really like how things are headed in a direction. You know, I
really feel like we're building acceleration, and we're not just
willy-nilly picking things and slicing and dicing and all that. Having
said that, the one thing -- and this is an overall budget meeting.
We're still at maybe the 50,000-foot level, but we're quickly, you
know, coming down into the details.
You know, I want to make sure that reimbursing Conservation
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Collier doesn't fall through the crack. And so, you know, there's
many ways -- we've talked about promises and how to do it and
making sure that, you know, everything gets funded properly.
First of all, they have to have properties for us to come buy. So
I'm not a supporter of just dumping 60 million into an account and
then letting it sit there, and we took five steps forward and then we
just took six steps back. But just to make sure it continues to be in
the discussion -- because we get to the finer points of now taking
action, that is one thing hanging out there that I want to make sure we
take action on, because I've been very impressed with what the team
and the new process and our focus has done on Conservation Collier.
I've said it before, in my district we've bought more property in
the past 10 months than probably the past 10 years. But we still
have that loose end out there of reimbursement, the proper funding.
So that all works into this discussion here.
It should be a line item somewhere so it doesn't sort of get
glossed over, and it won't, but I just -- you know, when we get to
those slides where it needs to be on there, let's make sure we just
don't forget it. But I'm really encouraged with the -- with the
direction and the deep dive that's being done.
MR. JOHNSON: Appreciate that. We'll be sure to provide
options.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yes, sir. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: If I can add one proviso on
that, because that was one of my notes, but that is we need to specify
the amount that was utilized out of Conservation Collier. The
original proposition was that the entire refund, if you will, to the
rolled-back rate. But there
were some legal issues that only -- I think we ended up with 28-,
29 million, not the full 62 million coming out of Conservation
Collier. We just -- we just need to delineate -- there you go.
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MR. JOHNSON: 29.6- was --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. There you go; 28-,
29-.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I'm going to go ahead and chime in on
that. We never, ever talked about paying Conservation Collier back
in last year's discussions. We took that money because that money
was basically sitting dormant and not usable. And we -- and then, in
addition to that, we made provisions within that Collier County
ordinance that we can't use that money anymore unless we declare an
emergency so that money's protected. We have funded more stuff
with Conservation Collier. That fund is as healthy as it's ever been.
And so for us to take money to charge the taxpayers to put
money back into basically a dormant account, because there's already
money to fund it, I don't think that makes good fiscal sense, and I'm
going to be loud about it, and I'm going to be red-faced about it, not
because I'm all red in the face, but because I'm red in the face.
Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I'll just -- I'll package my
words a little bit better, I guess. First of all, it's premature to decide
what we're putting back in the Conservation Collier, if anything.
I just want to make sure that discussion doesn't get lost. We
might all decide here that it's healthy right where it is, but it's
certainly something that absorbs money.
I am a big proponent of -- and a positive supporter of what we
did to it, even though some people don't understand it. And so it's
just a matter of I want to make sure we have that discussion. In the
end, it might be that all five of us think it's healthy where it is.
So I'm not proposing, like, when are we dumping in the money,
but that it definitely needs to be part of the discussion, and then we'll
see what -- at that point what we're all comfortable with. I don't
know what my exact position is on Conservation Collier because I
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haven't heard the details of where money is, where it should be, how
healthy the account is.
So, you know, if I need to be red in the face if something comes
forward, oh, trust me, there'll be two people up here red in the face.
The only reason for my comment was that -- to talk about the
topic of it, to make sure that it doesn't get lost. Thank you.
MR. JOHNSON: We'll be sure to bring that to --
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And there'll be three of
us red-faced. Getting a red face is tricky for you with your
complexion. He and I --
CHAIRMAN HALL: Mine's natural.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: He and I will go like that
(indicating) whenever it comes forward.
I want to say this: I was really happy with what transpired last
year when we were able to, for the first time, effectuate a savings for
our community. I also made commitments to our folks in the
environmental community, during the break while we were talking,
that efforts would be made to replace those funds that were utilized to
support the budget as what was proposed by our staff when that came
forward.
How that gets accomplished, as Commissioner LoCastro has
adeptly said, is really immaterial. I just want it to be a discussion
point and for us to -- there are a multitude of ways -- and we don't
need to beat the horse right now -- literally. We don't need to beat
that right now with regard to how to get there from here. I feel
obligated to replace those funds.
I told our folks in the environmental community that that was
going to transpire in some form or fashion. How we get three, we
can all flip a coin and figure out. We don't need to beat it right now,
but I would like to -- I'm pleased to see that it's a topic of discussion.
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CHAIRMAN HALL: All right.
MR. JOHNSON: Any other questions or discussion?
(No response.)
MR. JOHNSON: All right. Troy, do we have any public
speakers on this?
MR. MILLER: No.
MR. JOHNSON: That's it. Thank you, gentlemen.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thanks. Outstanding.
Item #15C
STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to -- back
to Item 15C. This is staff and commission general communications.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Did we not have any
speakers on the budget? We do not.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: No.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. Can I -- I thought
there was -- if I might go back for just a second, I apologize to the
Board.
CHAIRMAN HALL: No, go ahead.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I thought there was going to
be a speaker or two, potentially.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We got away without you
saying anything. Now we've got to go back?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Just real quick. I'm going to
reiterate something I said earlier. In terms of the spay/neutering
budget item, we have about $770,000 in the budget for the spay and
neutering programs, but they're very restrictive in how we can use
those funds. And what I'm going to ask the Board to do is to give
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staff maximum flexibility in spending those funds to reduce the
number of cats and dogs that are ultimately winding up in our shelter.
I handed out to you a document that was prepared by -- is it Ewa or --
MS. FRONT: Ewa.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. By Ewa. I want to
make sure I pronounce your name properly -- that really kind of
addresses that issue and how we can be more flexible in the use of
those dollars that will ultimately save us money in the long run.
And so I just want to again reiterate that there will be some
discussion of that and would like for staff to prepare some language
in the budget that gives you that flexibility and would like for staff
also to provide an amendment to Resolution 2017-04, I believe, that
provides that flexibility for staff to spend those dollars in more
creative ways.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I totally agree with the more
spay and neuter that we can accomplish, the longer-term positive
effects we're going to have.
My question, though, is -- and, again, I'm in support of the
rationale. My question is, we've just hired a new director for DAS.
We -- has this proposition been vetted before the advisory board for
DAS yet?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I believe the answer is yes,
and the new administrator was a member of the advisory board until
she became the administrator of the department and is, to my
knowledge, fully aware of making sure that we provide flexibility.
There are a couple folks that might be able to expand on that. I
know, Laurie Harris, you're a member of DAS advisory board. Am I
incorrect or am I correct that the board does know about these
proposals?
MS. HARRIS: Correct.
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COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Let the record reflect that
they're acknowledging that the board is aware of this and is
supportive of this.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I understand. I just would
like it to be verified that it has been brought to the DAS advisory
board and the new executive director has ratified the discussion.
There are a lot of organizations that are out there that do perform
these services, and I want to make sure that it is publicly vetted and
appropriated accordingly. So I'm totally in favor of increasing those
efforts, the long term. That's the answer to a lot of our
circumstances.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Absolutely. Why should we limit
ourselves to our efforts when we can provide vouchers and get it all
done?
MR. JOHNSON: All right. Thank you, gentlemen.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you. I just want the
record to reflect that Johnson heard me talk about adjusting the Board
schedule today, and he didn't leave and go work. He sat right back
there and didn't do anything until we got to him anyways. So have a
look at that.
MR. JOHNSON: Practice makes perfect.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that does bring us back to
Item 15C, staff and commission general communications. Since we
just were talking about -- I have two things. Since we were just
talking about DAS, I will give you a quick update.
We are continuing to work on the property, physically, on the
buildings, both Building 5, which you're all aware of, which is
undergoing some significant repairs and renovations, as well as the
property in total, from the grounds, to the insides of the buildings,
how we have things organized.
I have to continue to remind you that it is a 25ish-year-old
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building, and the thought process under which it was constructed is
not what we would build today. Part of this discussion about the
panleukopenia would be handled differently if we had proper
isolation space. So we are doing the best that we can as far as that
goes as well as identifying other areas of the building that potentially
could be used for isolation space for those animals, because the last
thing you want to do is bring healthy animals in and turn them into
sick animals at the shelter.
I was just speaking with our -- our interested animal people here,
Laurie and Ewa, about getting the cat groups together and let's talk
about where we all can work together while we're getting through this
panleukopenia. I'm sure that there's ideas that others have. They've
been doing this a long time. And we'd get a little working group
together to explore options of how we do this and how we do it
differently in the future, because this won't be the last time that we
have panleukopenia. It's just you're hearing about it now as part of
that added transparency that we're trying to provide both to this board
but also to the public. So we'll get that group together and bring
some options forward.
We are actively working this spay/neuter idea as well as being
able to partner with folks like Jim Rich and with SNIP Collier with
their mobile unit to be able to do some additional spaying and
neutering and potentially help with some of our community cat
programs. So all those things are ongoing.
The new director will be starting on Tuesday. We'll get on your
calendars to bring her out to meet you, either to your offices or if
you're interested in a visit to DAS, and so we'll get that going as well.
So that's all I have on DAS. We do have a horse there if
anybody is, you know, interested in making a visit to a horse. I've
been there twice a day now every day for the last two weeks with the
horse, so that's kind of exciting.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: How's the horse doing?
MS. PATTERSON: Much better. He actually spoke to me -- I
know that sounds weird, but he was the quietest horse that I really
have ever encountered. He's by himself, which is not something that
horses generally like, but the other day I brought his bucket of hay in,
and he greeted me with, like, a small little nicker, and he did it again
today. So he's starting to get a little bit more lively, which is good.
He's doing well. Thank you for asking.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I was going to ask if he spoke English.
MS. PATTERSON: He speaks horse.
Okay. Moving on, we do have a request from the Naples
Airport Authority board to hold a workshop with the Board of
County Commissioners regarding the airport relocation study. So I
agreed that I would bring that to you-all for you to say yes or no.
We typically hold the first Tuesday of each month workshops. We
haven't had one for a while, but we do have availability on the
calendar going forward, or not, depending on the will of this board.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Can I just say something to that?
CHAIRMAN HALL: Sure.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Because I attended their last
meeting, and it was -- you know, I guess we had all received -- at
some point finally got a copy of this report. It was hidden in a
newsletter. That's how I found it. It was the strangest way for it to
get delivered to us.
But once we got some clarity, and I did find it, then I had the
opportunity -- but I did go to the board and kind of listen to what
their discussion was and -- the people that actually did the study, and
I just felt -- you know, because the airport is in my district, I have an
interest in it, and those are my constituents that live in the City of
Naples. And, you know, they're using a lot of their tax dollars to do
these studies.
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And, you know -- and to me, I feel like when they talked about
wanting to bring forth and have a conversation with us -- and I
brought it towards the County Manager and the City Manager to
maybe get together and have this sit-down and -- because in the
stages of this report, if you guys remember, there's, like, one or two
front-end stages of this thing, but this thing goes on for 20 years. I
mean, this airport would take 20 years to be built and open.
I don't want to see any more wasted tax dollars if this really
doesn't have any traction. And I think this first or second phase of
this thing is coming before us.
So I think we -- you know, it would behoove us to have
them -- hear their side of their -- you know, whatever their comments
are and bring it to us, and then -- you know, in the Sunshine as a form
of a meeting. So I feel it's probably important because if it doesn't
require to go any further than that -- I mean, I can't say it will or it
won't, but that would definitely save the taxpayers a lot of money
moving forward, so...
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: On that note, I have two
suggestions. Number one, don't have the workshop at all. I don't
think it's requisite. It's an inordinate expense for us to be giving
consideration to a report that was done without any communication.
I mean, the five proposed locations that they suggested, four of them
are in District 5, and they didn't -- they never even called me.
And so I don't have any interest in pursuing relocating that
airport. That airport is a separate authority. They have the right to
do whatever they want to do when they want to do it. And if they
require us to give permission for that at some stage, we can give
permission to it. I don't -- if you do decide to have a workshop, have
it in the second or third week of November. Just in case you decide
to have a workshop, that's my suggestion.
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CHAIRMAN HALL: That's a great time.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's a great time.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: That must be right about antler
season.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm not saying anything.
There is an environmental wildlife survey going to be conducted
during that time.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: And the only reason I think
some light should be shed on it from our opinion on this is because I
think in Stage 2, it falls back on us to do -- you know, rezoning these
possible properties in the future. And if that's not even an option or
nobody has the desire to do this, this stops there.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Let's just stop it now.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Stop it now.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm okay stopping now.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I'm in the Sunshine, and I can say no
now like I could say no in a workshop. So no now is better.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah. I was going to say, if
this was about the Marco Island Executive Airport, I'd be your
representation. And so, you know, Commissioner Kowal, going to
the meetings and being our representation, I think for this point in
time, is sufficient.
I'm not against meeting with anybody, but not -- but pulling us
into this discussion what I think is prematurely, having a workshop
here all of a sudden makes us sort of part of this discussion, and I
don't think that's advantageous, unless somebody can convince me it
is. But, you know, it's a controversial topic. It's in the city.
You know, I say this sometimes about Marco Island because it's
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my municipality. Everything that's good, you know, sometimes the
municipality wants to own. Then when it's something that's
controversial, it's like, hey, county, you know, we want to sort of
have a workshop and pull you into this discussion.
This is something that's in their municipality. It's obviously in
your district. If there was some value to having a discussion -- but I
think without a workshop, people can meet with us, which they
haven't done. But I think, you know, lining everybody up here then
gives -- I'm trying to think of the right word -- validity or -- there's
probably a better word -- that the county is now, you know, involved.
And, you know, I've gotten the answers to my questions by
shooting e-mails to the, you know, airport director, Chris, and the
CFO, Ken Warner, with a couple of questions I had, and then I've
seen the things that you've said. And so to me, you know, that's
sufficient. If down the road the timing's right where we think that a
workshop's required -- but I don't want to prematurely have one to
sort of send the wrong message that all of a sudden, you know, the
county's taking over the discussion.
If we've got some questions, you could get them answered for us
and then give us a rundown at one of these BCC meetings. If it
comes to a point in time where you say, "Wow, guys, this is way
above, you know, just me. I think, you know, we need to do
something in here," then I would follow your recommendation. But
I think, you know, for --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Did you just make -- did you
just make a motion to nominate Commissioner Kowal to be our
spokesman in that regard?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Do I have a second?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: That's actually a good idea to
have a liaison to the --
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: I don't have a problem. I'm
already kind of doing it.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: You're the guy anyway, yeah.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Already kind of doing it.
Go ahead, Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: But there was a comment made
by one of their members. "Well, he's only one commissioner."
Well, I gave my opinion that day, and I guess he didn't like it.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I was just going to say, now
being designated as "Father Time," I can tell you I don't really have
much of an interest in discussing the airport removal. I don't think
there's anybody on this board that's young enough to see that happen.
So I think it's an interesting discussion, but I'm not sure why we
would start having a workshop on that at this point.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: If they were -- if they were
making a proposal and saying, "We've picked a parcel of land. We
want to talk to the county about possibly acquiring that land and
having it rezoned," if there was some action item, but just sort of to
kibitz a bit in this room, and now all of a sudden to give it sort of
more attention than I think it needs, I think -- you know, I echo what
we've all said.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: I think you answered -- you all
up here kind of spoke an answer of the direction we want to go.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Carry on.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: I figured I'd put it before you
guys, you know, and get your opinion.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Carry on.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: And I will carry on, and I will
advise them to watch the end of this meeting.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Perfect.
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County Manager.
MS. PATTERSON: That's all I have.
County Attorney Klatzkow?
MR. KLATZKOW: I'm good. Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have one small request. And we're working on it. We had a
lady, a resident in Collier County, who lost her home in the big fires,
'17, '18, lost her home. Was then living -- and through a myriad of
circumstances, living in a camper/trailer, and it recently -- it recently
burnt down, and she lost two of her kitties in the fire.
And she didn't call me until the day the dumpsters were showing
up to tote her personal life away, and I'd like to get a head nod to be
able to reimburse her from an appropriate fund. We have -- we have
funds available for disaster relief and so on and so forth. The known
amount is less than $500. So if that meets with your approval, I'd
like to give direction to staff to help her get that reimbursed. She's
got the -- I saw two of the receipts, so -- and it's about -- it's less than
500.
CHAIRMAN HALL: I have no problem with that.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I've got a couple things.
And, Ms. Harris, you don't need to come to the podium, but I just
wanted to say a couple things about DAS. First of all, I appreciate
the overview by the County Manager. We're all very interested and
involved in DAS moving forward. And under your leadership -- you
know, you and I met yesterday in my office, and I'm sure you've
talked with other commissioners. I feel really encouraged by your
involvement.
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The fact that you're sitting, you know, here and representing the
board and then will be, I think, communicating with county staff,
county leadership -- and even as we said yesterday in my office, if
you need to communicate with commissioners, then this is the
meeting to do it, or get on our calendars, and I don't think anybody
would turn you away.
The discussion about the board member that Ewa had concerns
with -- but you and I even talked about this in my office. Even
though that was approved today, at any time if you as the board chair
feel like there's somebody on the board that's not the right person,
then that should be a discussion that you have as a board, but if it's
something that needs to come to the County Manager's level, I'm sure
Ms. Patterson would be all ears. If it was something where there
was a disconnect and you all agreed to disagree and you thought it
needed to, you know, go up the chain of command, you know, we're
all ears as well.
So, you know, if it -- if any board member looks like they're not
pulling their weight or isn't the right fit, what was the quote we said
in my office that we both agree with: I'd rather see no one on the
board than the wrong person.
And so, you know, obviously, that's the, you know, sort
of -- you've got that authority. Like, don't miss that opportunity, you
know, to keep us posted.
And on a variety of things, but as I had said yesterday, you
know, there's so many DAS staff, senior leadership, Mr. French,
Ms. Patterson that are in between DAS and us, that utilizing that
chain of command, especially for things where you can get a much
faster answer, or they're the subject-matter experts. You are as well,
so I appreciate, you know, your involvement and keeping all of them
informed. And then if at some point you feel like you're not getting
the air speed that you need, that's what we're here for. But I think
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we've already seen really positive things down there, and thank you
for stepping forward.
A couple of other quick things. So, you know, just for the
record, another great quote that I heard, "No one knows more about
the Immokalee airport than Commissioner Bill McDaniel," right?
And nobody knows more about the Naples Airport than
Commissioner Dan Kowal, right? Do we all agree?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The word you were looking
for before was legitimacy.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Legitimacy. Ah, that's
exactly what I was looking for, Terri. Legitimacy. I couldn't get
that word. It makes -- it legitimizes, exactly.
For Ms. Patterson, so it was mentioned just sort of briefly about
the vet departing so quickly after hire. If we paid that vet moving
expenses, is there something in the fine print that says, "Hey, if you
don't work for us for a year, you've got to reimburse us with that
money"? We didn't just move that person here from Whippenger
(phonetic) Falls, Idaho, for free and then they left us after a short
amount of time, did we?
MS. PATTERSON: No, sir. There is clawback provisions on
relocation expenses, so we'll --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: And we're chasing those.
MS. PATTERSON: -- work -- we'll work with HR to deal with
that. That's something that the applicants also -- or the hires are
aware of when they accept relocation expenses.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Right. Okay. I just wanted
to make sure of that.
And, lastly, I just wanted to thank -- a host of people had two
major water main breaks yesterday within a few hours of each other
at Lely Resort, and so immediately the staff, you know, jumped on it.
It just so happened I had Mr. French, Dr. George, and Trinity Scott in
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my office when I got the text saying, "Guess what just happened five
minutes ago?"
But I want to thank Dr. George, you and your team, and the
constant communication you had with me all day yesterday, and then
when we had the second break at 4 p.m., you know, you and your
team were really on it.
I got nothing but positive notes from key Lely Resort citizens
saying how impressed they were with the reaction, sense of urgency,
the amount of people that were out there, you know, trying to do
good. I had asked you for a couple names that maybe are
behind-the-scenes people that I wanted to recognize that I weren't
[sic] aware of, and you said Ms. Libby. I obviously want to thank
Trinity Scott, Howard Brockman.
And I also want to thank the Sheriff's Office. When we had a
lot of water out there and the road partially collapsing and there was a
lot of safety issues, I immediately shot a note to our team, and then,
obviously, within minutes, you know, you contacted the right people.
And I was getting texts immediately saying, "Oh, my, gosh.
You know, it's like the whole SWAT team's out here," and that was a
good thing for safety reasons.
So I know we still have a lot of work to do to repair the road,
but, you know, the permanent fixes that you made on the two water
main breaks at light speed were impressive, and, you know, now we
have some cleanup work. So I just wanted to thank you for that on
behalf of all the citizens of Lely.
Denise Murphy, who's the senior manager of the Players Club
and the spa, you know, she was in constant contact with me with all
positive comments, as was their HOA president, Susan, and a few
others. So, you know, thank you, you know, for that, and
we'll -- you know, make sure we finish the cleanup out there.
And also, the way you got out the word so people didn't panic
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about -- that they needed to boil water. That's always the first
question. You know, you were able to confirm quickly that there
wasn't a boil-water notice needed, and we got out that word, you
know, much faster and more efficiently than we had in the past as
well. So kudos to you, you know, Dr. George and your team and
everybody that was involved, Ms. Patterson. I really appreciate it.
So thank you.
That's all I have.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I don't have anything,
Mr. Chairman.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Really?
CHAIRMAN HALL: Would you say it again?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Mr. Chairman, I don't have
anything.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Thanks.
Commissioner Kowal.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: Thank you, Chairman.
I just wanted to just shed a little light on why I had that 16B3
from the consent agenda pulled from this particular -- I just wanted to
kind of have it moved or have some more input from staff for some
reasons, because we own the property on the other side of the weir,
and then we want to buy a piece of property just to work on the weir,
so I'd like to get a little deeper dive on that, so...
Other than that, good meeting. I did go to DAS. I made a
surprise visit there last week. I dropped off two dozen doughnuts for
the volunteers. The only problem, it started raining, and they all
started going home, so I don't know who ate the doughnuts, but -- I
paid for out of my own money so anybody could have ate it, so -- ate
the doughnuts. I believe that's the right thing to do.
But, no -- yeah, I guess, I didn't see the actual horse, but I saw
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the pictures of what -- they brought the horse in when the Sheriff's
Department, you know, removed it from the owner and brought it in.
It was pretty -- pretty -- it looked like a skeleton with skin on it,
basically. It was not the greatest image of what you'd expect to see
what a horse looked like.
But I think -- I got a chance to see Building 5. They're doing a
lot of the work in there. You know, they're in there really mitigating
that thing, getting it down to the bare bones, down to the metal inside,
getting all the contaminates from -- it may have been from some of
our rodent issue in there.
And I think everybody's moving in the right direction. I mean,
just -- initially, you just walk in, you know, unannounced like that
somewhere, and you go into some of the buildings, you know, they
don't have time to clean up, or they don't have time to put things
away or make it look pretty, and I was impressed. The smell,
everything was right on spot, so I think we're moving in the right
direction. Kudos to everybody that's been really rolling up their
sleeves and, you know, getting down to the nitty-gritty to get that
place in the right direction, so...
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Agreed.
COMMISSIONER KOWAL: But other than that, that's all I've
got.
CHAIRMAN HALL: Thank you.
I just -- I want to end with -- you know, the public, when they're
in opposition of something, they make a lot of assumptive statements,
and they make a lot of -- you know, they make a lot of things -- you
know, like just take the -- we had the discussion on Tract 10, oh,
several months ago where Soave Development, we traded them for
some extra height for three acres, and some of the public comment
came in and said, "You know, this golf course that they're building,
they're going to flood our homes." And I just want to let the public
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know that sometimes those assumptive statements are false.
In this last storm that we had, we had a lot of rain before
Tropical Storm Debby, and then when we had Debby, there is a swale
that is between Tarpon Cove and the new golf course, and I just
wanted to report that that -- that that swale handled every
amount -- every bit of amount of water, and there wasn't even water
standing in it, and the homes were not even close to being flooded.
So a shout-out to Soave Development for a great job in doing
what they said they were going to do, and also to the Tarpon Cove
people, that you're in safe hands.
So with that, I have no other comments. Meeting adjourned.
*******
****Commissioner McDaniel moved, seconded by Commissioner
Saunders and carried that the following items under the consent and
summary agendas be approved and/or adopted****
Item #16A1
RESOLUTION 2024-150: RESOLUTION FOR FINAL
ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVATE ROADWAY AND
DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE
PLAT DEDICATIONS FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF ISLES OF
COLLIER PRESERVE PHASE 12, APPLICATION NUMBER
PL20180001783, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE
MAINTENANCE SECURITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $203,216.99.
(DISTRICT 4)
Item #16A2
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RESOLUTION 2024-151: RESOLUTION FOR FINAL
ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVATE ROADWAY AND
DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE
PLAT DEDICATIONS FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF ISLES OF
COLLIER PRESERVE PHASE 11, APPLICATION NUMBER
PL20180001590, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE
MAINTENANCE SECURITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $145,093.83.
(DISTRICT 4)
Item #16A3
RESOLUTION 2024-152: RESOLUTION FOR FINAL
ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVATE ROADWAY AND
DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE
PLAT DEDICATIONS FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF ISLES OF
COLLIER PRESERVE PHASE 13, APPLICATION NUMBER
PL20180002844, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE
MAINTENANCE SECURITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $43,772.07.
(DISTRICT 4)
Item #16A4
THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE
BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $814,540, WHICH WAS POSTED
AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER
PL20210003043 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH DEL WEBB
NAPLES PARCELS 301-303 & 311. (DISTRICT 5)
Item #16A5
THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE
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BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $565,601.71, WHICH WAS
POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT
NUMBER PL20220001473 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH
DEL WEBB NAPLES PARCELS 307-310. (DISTRICT 5)
Item #16A6
RECORDING THE MINOR FINAL PLAT OF VILUS,
APPLICATION NUMBER PL20220000195. (DISTRICT 5)
Item #16A7
AGREEMENT FOR SALE AND PURCHASE UNDER THE
THE CONSERVATION COLLIER LAND ACQUISITION
PROGRAM WITH MARVIN ANDRE EBANKS AND
QURRATUL AIN NAJWA EBANKS, AS TRUSTEES OF THE
MARVIN ANDRE EBANKS AND QURRATUL AIN NAJWA
EBANKS REVOCABLE TRUST DATED JULY 26, 2017,
(EBANKS TRUST) FOR A 1.14-ACRE PARCEL AT A COST OF
$31,920, FOR A TOTAL COST NOT TO EXCEED $33,460,
INCLUSIVE OF CLOSING COSTS. (DISTRICT 5)
Item #16A8
THE 2024-2025 PEPPER RANCH PRESERVE VOLUNTEER
CAMP HOST VOLUNTEER AGREEMENT. (DISTRICT 5)
Item #16A9
THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN A MEMORANDUM OF
AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE
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CONSERVATION COMMISSION TO ALLOW YOUTH HUNTS
AT PEPPER RANCH PRESERVE IN NOVEMBER 2024,
JANUARY 2025, AND FEBRUARY 2025. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16A10
EASEMENT USE AGREEMENT (AGREEMENT) FOR LOT 1,
GREY OAKS UNIT NINETEEN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT
THEREOF AS RECORDED AT PLAT BOOK 35, PAGE 47, OF
THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF COLLIER COUNTY. (DISTRICT
4)
Item #16A11
THE LOCATION OF AN OFF-PREMISES DIRECTIONAL SIGN
AND ASSOCIATED FEATURES FOR THE PARADISE COAST
SPORTS COMPLEX WITHIN COUNTY ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY GATE COMMERCE PARK
PUD AND PERMIT APPLICATION NUMBER
PRSG20240310162. (DISTRICT 3)
Item #16A12
ADVERTISE AND BRING BACK FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AN
ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
TO UPDATE THE APPROVAL OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
PERMITS AND TO COMPLY WITH 2024 F.S. 177.073. (ALL
DISTRICTS)
Item #16B1
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AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A PARCEL (PARCEL
542FEE) REQUIRED FOR THE 62ND AVE NE BRIDGE
PROJECT (PROJECT NO. 60212.5). ESTIMATED FISCAL
IMPACT: $112,000. (DISTRICT 5)
Item #16B2 (Continued to the September 10, 2024, BCC Meeting)
Change Sheet)
Item #16B3
CHANGE ORDER NO. 5 UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 19-7494,
“DESIGN AND RELATED SERVICES FOR VANDERBILT
BEACH ROAD WIDENING FROM EAST OF U.S. 41 TO EAST
OF GOODLETTE-FRANK ROAD,” WITH JACOBS
ENGINEERING GROUP INC., ADDING 1080 DAYS TO THE
DESIGN CONTRACT, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO
SIGN THE ATTACHED CHANGE ORDER. (PROJECT NO.
60199). (DISTRICT 2)
Item #16B4
THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO
AGREEMENT 21CO1 WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION BUREAU OF BEACHES
AND COASTAL SYSTEMS BEACH MANAGEMENT FUNDING
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL STATE
REIMBURSEMENT FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF
$1,063,876.61 FOR A TOTAL OF $7,125,699.61 FOR COLLIER
COUNTY BEACH RENOURISHMENT. (DISTRICT 1)
Item #16B5
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AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 24-8244
“PURCHASES AND RENTALS OF PORTABLE GROUND
LEVEL OFFICE CONTAINERS” TO UNITED RENTALS
(NORTH AMERICA), INC., CATEGORY A (PURCHASE), AND
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
AGREEMENT. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16B6
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (ITB) NO. 24-8208, "TRAFFIC
OPERATIONS SIGNAL COMPONENTS AND HARDWARE," TO
THE FOLLOWING VENDORS: CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES,
INC., GENERAL TRAFFIC EQUIPMENT CORP, TEMPLE, INC.,
TRANSPORTATION CONTROL SYSTEMS, INC., AND
TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS & LIGHTING, INC. (ALL
DISTRICTS)
Item #16B7
DEVELOPER AGREEMENT WITH NEAL COMMUNITIES OF
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, LLC, (DEVELOPER) TO
COORDINATE THE CONSTRUCTION AND COST SHARING
OF TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS AT THE
INTERSECTION OF OIL WELL ROAD, DESOTO BOULEVARD,
AND VELA BOULEVARD. (DISTRICT 5)
Item #16C1
AGREEMENT NO. 24-028-NS, “TELEDYNE ISCO
REFRIGERATED AUTOSAMPLER PRODUCTS AND
SERVICES,” WITH ACCUTECH INSTRUMENTATION, INC.,
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FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS COMMENCING ON
OCTOBER 1, 2024, UNDER A SOLE SOURCE WAIVER,
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
AGREEMENT, AND AUTHORIZE EXPENDITURES IN AN
ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $150,000 PER FISCAL YEAR, FOR
AN ESTIMATED TOTAL AMOUNT OF $750,000 FOR THE
ENTIRE DURATION OF THE AGREEMENT. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16C2
BUDGET AMENDMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $350,000 TO
MAINTAIN COMPLIANCE AND CONTINUE FUNDING DAILY
OPERATIONS WITHIN THE WATER/SEWER OPERATING
BUDGET (FUND 4008). (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16C3
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 24-8216, “SOUTH
COUNTY REGIONAL WATER TREATMENT PLANT
(SCRWTP) MEMBRANE ELEMENT REPLACEMENT,” TO RF
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF
$2,763,000, APPROVE AN OWNER’S ALLOWANCE OF
$340,000, AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE
ATTACHED AGREEMENT, AND APPROVE THE NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENT. (PROJECT NO. 71057) (ALL
DISTRICTS)
Item #16C4
AGREEMENT NO. 24-036-NS WITH FLUID CONTROL
SPECIALTIES, LLC (“FCS”), AND AUTHORIZE
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EXPENDITURES FROM FCS AS A SINGLE SOURCE
PROVIDER OF STANDARDIZED SPECIALIZED
PROPRIETARY EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES WITH AN
ESTIMATED $250,000 ANNUAL SPENDING ON ROTORK
CONTROLS, INC., PRODUCTS/SERVICES, AND $100,000
ESTIMATED SPENDING ON ROSEMOUNT INC.,
MEASUREMENT AND ANALYTICAL PRODUCTS/SERVICES
FOR A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT. (ALL
DISTRICTS)
Item #16C5
CHANGE ORDER NOS. 1 AND 2 AT A TOTAL COST OF
$109,140.14, UTILIZING THE OWNER’S ALLOWANCE, AND
ADDING A TOTAL OF 22 DAYS TO CONSTRUCTION
AGREEMENT NO. 23-8116, WITH POOLE & KENT COMPANY
OF FLORIDA, FOR THE NCWRF PRETREATMENT FACILITY
AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE
ATTACHED CHANGE ORDERS. (PROJECT NO. 70149)
(DISTRICT 2)
Item #16C6
AWARD OF INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 24-8230,
“NCWRF EQ ODOR CONTROL IMPROVEMENTS - PHASE II,”
TO DOUGLAS N. HIGGINS, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF
$3,343,000, APPROVE OWNER’S ALLOWANCE OF $334,300,
AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE
ATTACHED AGREEMENT. (PROJECT NO. 70148) (DISTRICT
2)
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Item #16C7
CHANGE ORDERS#1 AND #2 AND WAIVE LIQUIDATED
DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNT OF $9,600 PERTAINING TO THE
“MASTER PUMP STATION 305 ACCESS IMPROVEMENTS”
PROJECT WITH DOUGLAS N. HIGGINS, INC., UNDER
AGREEMENT NO. 20-7800. (PROJECT NO. 70145) (DISTRICT
4)
Item #16C8
CHANGE ORDER NO. 8 TO AGREEMENT NO. 19-7637,
“GOLDEN GATE CITY TRANSMISSION WATER MAIN
IMPROVEMENTS” WITH JOHNSON ENGINEERING INC., TO
INCREASE THE CONTRACT AMOUNT BY $318,417.28, FROM
$1,781,251.06 TO $2,099,668.34, TO ADD ESSENTIAL
ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT SERVICES. (PROJECTS NO. 51029,
70253, AND 70243). (DISTRICT 3)
Item #16C9
AGREEMENT NO. 24-032-NS, “ODOR CONTROL
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES,” WITH EVOQUA WATER
TECHNOLOGIES LLC, AND AUTHORIZE EXPENDITURES
UNDER BOARD APPROVED STANDARDIZATION OF
SPECIALIZED PROPRIETARY EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES
IN AN ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $2,500,000 PER FISCAL
YEAR FOR AN ESTIMATED TOTAL AMOUNT OF $12,500,000
FOR THE DURATION OF THE AGREEMENT. (ALL
DISTRICTS)
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Item #16D1
BUDGET AMENDMENT TORECOGNIZE INTEREST EARNED,
IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,925.54, FOR THE PERIOD OF
OCTOBER 2023 THROUGH MAY 2024. THE INTEREST WAS
EARNED ON ADVANCED LIBRARY FUNDING RECEIVED
FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO SUPPORT
LIBRARY SERVICES FOR THE USE OF COLLIER COUNTY
RESIDENTS. (FISCAL IMPACT $5,925.54 PUBLIC SERVICE
MATCH FUND (1840) (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16D2
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT MITIGATION
SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY
AND COLLIER HEALTH SERVICES, INC., DBA HEALTHCARE
NETWORK, FOR THE HARDENING OF THE MARION E.
FETHER MEDICAL CLINIC IN IMMOKALEE TO AMEND
GRANT LANGUAGE AS REQUIRED BY THE GRANTOR
AGENCY, THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
COMMERCE. (HOUSING GRANT FUND 1835) (ALL
DISTRICTS)
Item #16D3
CHAIRMAN TO SIGNFIFTY-FOUR (54) MORTGAGE
SATISFACTIONS FOR THESTATE HOUSING INITIATIVES
PARTNERSHIP LOANPROGRAM IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF
$668,236, ACCEPT REPAYMENT AMOUNT TOTALING $47,700
AND APPROVE THE EXPENDITURE IN THE AMOUNT OF
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$500 IN RECORDING FEES. (SHIP GRANT FUND 1053) (ALL
DISTRICTS)
Item #16D4
THE FY23-24 STATE AID TO LIBRARIES GRANT FUNDING,
IN THE AMOUNT OF $134,977 TO SUPPORT LIBRARY
OPERATIONS AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENT. (PUBLIC SERVICES GRANT FUND (1839),
PROJECT NO. 33916) (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16D5
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN ONE RELEASE OF LIEN FOR FULL
PAYMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,214.31 PURSUANT TO
THE AGREEMENT FOR DEFERRAL OF 100% OF COLLIER
COUNTY IMPACT FEES FOR OWNER-OCCUPIED
AFFORDABLE HOUSING DWELLINGS. (ALL
DISTRICTS)
Item #16D6
BUDGET AMENDMENT RECOGNIZING $14,008.45 IN
PROGRAM INCOME FROM INTEREST EARNED IN THE
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM. (HOUSING
GRANT FUND 1835) (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16D7
BUDGET AMENDMENT TO RECOGNIZE $738,509.08
($487,472.58 FROM OVERNIGHT AND INVESTMENT
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INTEREST AND $251,036.50 FROM PROGRAM INCOME
GENERATED FROM LOAN REPAYMENTS) FOR THE STATE
HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM FISCAL
YEAR 2022-2023 & 2023-2024. (SHIP GRANT FUND 1053) (ALL
DISTRICTS)
Item #16E1
THE PURCHASE OF FLOOD INSURANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR
2025 IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $713,130. (ALL
DISTRICTS)
Item #16E2
REPORT FOR SALE OF 62 ITEMS AND APPROVE THE
DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $181,435
ALLOCATED TO THE CORRESPONDING REVENUE FUND
ASSOCIATED WITH THE COUNTY SURPLUS AUCTION HELD
ON APRIL 19, 2024. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16F1
CHANGE ORDER NO. 2, ADDING 180 DAYS TO THE
PROJECT TIME FOR PURCHASE ORDER NO. 4500227467
UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 19-7525 WITH EBL PARTNERS,
LLC, FOR REPAIRS TO THE “GROWTH MANAGEMENT
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT FRONT AND
WALKWAY CANOPY” PROJECT AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED CHANGE ORDER.
(DISTRICT 4)
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Item #16F2
THE PURCHASE OF AIRCRAFT AND AIRPORT INSURANCE
FOR FY 2025 FROM THE CHUBB/ACE PROPERTY &
CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE ANNUAL
AMOUNT OF $252,406. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16F3
CHANGE ORDER NO. 13 UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 17-7199,
“DESIGN SERVICES FOR COLLIER COUNTY SPORTS
COMPLEX,” BY ADDING A TIME EXTENSION OF 365 DAYS,
AND ADDITIONAL FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $48,500,
CONSISTING OF NEW TASK 13-PUDA FOR $40,000, NEW
TASK 14-GENERAL CONSULTING AND COORDINATION
FOR $6,000, AND INCREASING TASK-6 REIMBURSABLES BY
$2,500 UNDER PHASE 3 OF THE PROJECT. (PROJECT NO.
50156) (DISTRICT 3)
Item #16F4
RESOLUTION 2024-153: A RESOLUTION APPROVING
AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS,
CONTRIBUTIONS, OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE
FISCAL YEAR 2023-24 ADOPTED BUDGET. (THE BUDGET
AMENDMENTS IN THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION HAVE
BEEN REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS VIA SEPARATE EXECUTIVE
SUMMARIES.) (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16F5
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BUDGET AMENDMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $357,750
WITHIN THE DISASTER RECOVERY FUND (1813) TO COVER
RECOVERY COSTS RELATED TO HURRICANE DEBBY BY
REALLOCATING FUNDING BETWEEN EXISTING COST
CENTERS. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16G1 (Moved to Item #11C Per Change Sheet)
Item #16G2
AWARD INVITATION TO BID NO. 24-8206, “MANGROVE
RESTORATION FOR MARCO ISLAND EXECUTIVE AIRPORT”
TO FREEDOM ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC, IN THE AMOUNT OF
$54,178.50, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE
ATTACHED AGREEMENT. (DISTRICT 1)
Item #16H1
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 2024 AS
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA CRIME STOPPERS MONTH IN
COLLIER COUNTY. THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE
MAILED TO LILLIAN CANFIELD, BOARD MEMBER,
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA CRIME STOPPERS
Item #16I1
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE AUGUST 27, 2024
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Item #16J1
REPORT TO THE BOARD REGARDING THE INVESTMENT OF
COUNTY FUNDS AS OF THE QUARTER ENDED JUNE 30,
2024. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16J2
VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND
PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF AUGUST 21,
2024. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16J3
TO RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER
PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR
WHICH THE REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $41,288,309.12 WERE DRAWN FOR THE
PERIODS BETWEEN AUGUST 1, 2024, AND AUGUST 14, 2024,
PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #16K1
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN A MEMORANDUM OF
UNDERSTANDING (MOU) WITH THE DISTRICT SCHOOL
BOARD OF COLLIER COUNTY AND THE COLLIER COUNTY
SHERIFF’S OFFICE CONCERNING SCHOOL RESOURCE
OFFICERS WITHIN COLLIER COUNTY SCHOOLS. (ALL
DISTRICTS)
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Item #16K2
RESOLUTION 2024-154: APPOINTING JONATHAN FOERSTER
TO THE ANIMAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD. (ALL
DISTRICTS) – TERM EXPIRING ON APRIL 13, 2028
Item #16K3
RESOLUTION 2024-155: APPOINTING TWO MEMBERS TO
THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL AUTHORITY. (ALL DISTRICTS)
– APPOINTING THOMAS DAGNEY AND MICHAEL HAZEL W/
TERM EXPIRING ON DECEMBER 31, 2027
Item #17A
ORDINANCE 2024-30: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
CHAPTER 74 OF THE COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS
AND ORDINANCES, WHICH IS THE COLLIER COUNTY
CONSOLIDATED IMPACT FEE ORDINANCE, PROVIDING
FOR THE INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE THE “WATER
AND WASTEWATER IMPACT FEE STUDY FOR THE COLLIER
COUNTY WATER-SEWER DISTRICT”, AMENDING THE
WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEM IMPACT FEE RATE
SCHEDULE, WHICH IS SCHEDULE TWO OF APPENDIX A, AS
SET FORTH IN THE IMPACT FEE UPDATE STUDY;
PROVIDING FOR UPDATED DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING FOR
REQUIRED CHANGES TO THE PROVISIONS RELATED TO
THE ADOPTION OF IMPACT FEE STUDIES IN ACCORDANCE
WITH NEW STATUTORY PROVISIONS; PROVIDING FOR
CONFLICT AND SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR
INCLUSION IN THE COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS AND
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ORDINANCES; AND PROVIDING FOR A DELAYED
EFFECTIVE DATE OF DECEMBER 1, 2024, FOR PHASE ONE,
DECEMBER 1, 2025, FOR PHASE TWO, AND DECEMBER 1,
2026, FOR PHASE THREE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 90-
DAY NOTICE REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN SECTION
163.31801(4)(D), FLORIDA STATUTES. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Item #17B
RESOLUTION 2024-156: A RESOLUTION APPROVING
AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD,
TRANSFERS, AND SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE) TO THE
FY23-24 ADOPTED BUDGET. (THE BUDGET AMENDMENTS
IN THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION HAVE BEEN REVIEWED
AND APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS VIA SEPARATE EXECUTIVE
SUMMARIES.) (ALL DISTRICTS)
*****
August 27, 2024
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 11 :50 a.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL
CHRIS H LL, CHAIRM N
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CRYSTAL K. KINZEL, CLERK
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These minutes appr ved by the Board on 4- �14
as presented or as corrected
TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF FORT MYERS
COURT REPORTING BY TERRI L. LEWIS, REGISTERED
PROFESSIONAL COURT REPORTER, FPR-C, AND NOTARY
PUBLIC.
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