BCC Minutes 01/28/2025 RJanuary 28, 2025
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, January 28, 2025
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: Dan Kowal
Chris Hall
Rick LoCastro
William L. McDaniel, Jr.
Burt L. Saunders (Absent)
ALSO PRESENT:
Amy Patterson, County Manager
Ed Finn, Deputy County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Crystal K. Kinzel, Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller
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
January 28, 2025
9:00 AM
Commissioner Burt Saunders, District 3; – Chair (Absent)
Commissioner Dan Kowal, District 4; – Vice Chair
Commissioner Rick LoCastro, District 1
Commissioner Chris Hall, District 2;
Commissioner William L. McDaniel, Jr., District 5
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
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HEARD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING FOLLOWING THE PLEDGE
OF ALLEGIANCE.
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
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MANAGEMENT DIVISION LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL, SUITE
1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380.
LUNCH RECESS SCHEDULED FOR 12:00 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
A. Invocation by Pastor David Wildman - Grow Church Estates, the Pledge of
Allegiance by Marina Berkovich, Jewish Historical Society of SWFL.
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
a. Angel Tarpley- Building Plan Review & Inspection
2) 25 Year Attendees
a. David Engelhart- Building Plan Review & Inspection
b. Alfredo Arcia- Parks & Recreation
3) 30 Year Attendees
4) 35 Year Attendees
B. Advisory Board Members
C. Retirees
D. Employee of the Month
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4. PROCLAMATIONS
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
A. This item has been continued from the December 10, 2024, BCC
Meeting. This item requires that ex-parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve a
Resolution designating Plot N of the Rosemary Cemetery as historically
significant, pursuant to the historic/archaeological preservation regulations
as provided in Section 2.03.07.E of the Collier County Land Development
Code. The subject property, approximately .02± acres, is located in the
southwest corner of Pine Ridge Road and Goodlette Frank Road, in Section
15, Township 49 South, Range 25 East, Collier County, Florida,
PL20240009511 (This Item is a companion to Item #9B)
B. This item has been continued from the December 10, 2024, BCC
Meeting. This item requires that ex-parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve a
Resolution designating Plot W of the Rosemary Cemetery as historically
significant, pursuant to the historic/archaeological preservation regulations
as provided in Section 2.03.07.E of the Collier County Land Development
Code. The subject property, approximately .04± acres, is located south of
Pine Ridge Road, approximately 592 feet east of US 41, in Section 15,
Township 49 South, Range 25 East, Collier County, Florida,
PL20240009512. (This Item is a companion to Item #9A)
C. This item has been continued from the December 10, 2024, BCC
Meeting. Recommendation to review and approve the 2024 combined
Annual Update and Inventory Report on Public Facilities and Schedule of
Capital Improvements as provided for in Section 6.02.02 of the Collier
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County Land Development Code and Section 163.3177(3)(b), Florida
Statutes and adopt a Resolution that updates the 5-Year Capital Improvement
Schedule. (PL20240010770)
10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT
A. Recommendation to approve and accept Quit Claim Deeds for two outlying
parcels of land which were originally part of Rosemary Cemetery, located
south of Pine Ridge Road between US 41 and Goodlette-Frank Road, at a
cost not to exceed $62.50 for recording of the Deeds. (This Item is a
companion to Items #9A & #9B; continued from the December 10, 2024,
BCC Meeting)
12. COUNTY ATTORNEY'S REPORT
13. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
14. AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND/OR 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
C. Staff and Commission General Communications
Added (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
1) Juvenile Justice Circuit 20 Advisory Board County Representative –
Commissioner or their designee (Commissioner LoCastro’ s Request)
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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
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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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Approved and/or Adopted w/changes – 4/0 (Commissioner Saunders absent)
A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer utility facilities and accept the conveyance of the potable water
and sewer utility facilities and appurtenant utility easement for
Caymas Phase One – Phase 1E & 1F, PL20240006738.
2) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water
utility facilities for NCH Business Center Sterile Processing
Department, PL20240012598.
3) 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 Greyhawk at Golf Club of the
Everglades Phase 3, Application Number PL20180001192, and
authorize the release of the maintenance security in the amount of
$119,996.59.
4) 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 14,
Application Number PL20190002012, and authorize the release of the
maintenance security in the amount of $739,407.70.
5) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a
Performance Bond in the amount of $10,520, which was posted as a
development guarantee for an Early Work Authorization (EWA) for
work associated with Prima Auto Condos, PL20240009535.
6) This item requires that Commission members provide ex-parte
disclosure. Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants
are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve for
recording the plat of Santa Barbara Place Villas, approval of the
standard form Construction and Maintenance Agreement, and
approval of the performance security in the amount of $995,967.50.
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(Application Number PL20240002384)
7) Recommendation for the Board of County Commissioners to review
and approve the proposed Temporary Use (Special Event) Permit for
the Country Jam Concert proposed for the Paradise Coast Sports
Complex on March 1, 2025, located at 3865 City Gate Blvd S.,
Naples, FL 34117, in Section 35, Township 49 South, Range 26 East,
Collier County, Florida.
8) Recommendation to approve ArborX Inc., as a qualified applicant to
the Collier County Basic Industry Growth Promotion Incentive
Program and authorize the Chairman to execute the attached
agreement for Project “CARBO” and approve all necessary Budget
Amendments.
9) Recommendation to approve a Special Event Permit and the road
closures that are necessary for the Annual Everglades Seafood Festival
to be held February 5 – 10, 2024, in Everglades City, in order to fulfill
Collier County’s special event permit requirements for road closures.
B. TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve an Agreement for the purchase of a
drainage easement (Parcel 148DE) required for the West Goodlette-
Frank Road Area Stormwater Improvement Project Phase 2 (Project
No. 60142). Estimated Fiscal Impact: $46,328.
2) Recommendation to approve an Agreement for the purchase of right
of way (Parcel 1364FEE) required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Ext.
– Phase 2 Project (Project No. 60249). Estimated Fiscal Impact:
$82,483.
Continued to the February 11, 2025, BCC Meeting (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
3) Recommendation to approve and execute a Purchase and Sales
Agreement with Joseph D. Stewart, P.A. for the purchase of unit 105,
which is the last remaining available unit to purchase out of 18
condominium office units within the Court Plaza III building situated
on 1.17 improved acres on Airport Road South, adjacent to the
Government Center, for the Community & Human Services Division.
(This Item is a companion to Item #16B4)
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Continued to the February 11, 2025, BCC Meeting (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
4) Recommendation to approve and execute a Purchase and Sales
Agreement and Addendum with Bigi & Bigi, LLC, the purchase of 14
out of 18 condominium office units within the Court Plaza III building
situated on 1.17 improved acres on Airport Road South, adjacent to
the Government Center, for the Community & Human Services
Division, and authorize any associated Budget Amendments. (This
Item is a companion to Item #16B3)
5) Recommendation to award a Work/Purchase Order for a Request for
Quotation (“RFQ”) for the 17th Street SW at Keane Avenue
Stormwater Improvement project under Agreement No. 20-7800,
“Underground Contractor Services,” to Mitchell & Stark
Construction, Co, Inc., in the total amount of $824,068.44, which
includes a base bid amount of $749,153.13 and an Owner’s Allowance
of $74,915.31, approve the necessary Budget Amendment, and
authorize the Chairman to sign the attached Work/Purchase
Order. (Project Number 50238)
6) Recommendation to approve the Resolution authorizing the Chairman
to execute Section 5311 Public Transit Grant Agreement (FPN
410120-1-84-43) with the Florida Department of Transportation to
accept Federal Transit Administration grant funding in the total
amount of $1,568,510 to provide transit service to the rural area of
Collier County, and to authorize the necessary Budget Amendments.
(CAT Grant Fund 4031)
7) Recommendation to accept a donation of sand from Stewart Materials
received by Collier County in advance of Hurricane Helene and
Milton's landfalls in the amount of $25,968.
8) Recommendation to approve a Resolution and District Office Lease
Amendment with Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart for additional
County-owned office space.
9) Recommendation to award a Work/Purchase Order for a Request for
Quotation (“RFQ”) for the 23rd Street SW at Keane Avenue
Stormwater Improvement project under Agreement No. 20-7800,
"Underground Contractor Services," to Mitchell & Stark Construction,
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Co., Inc., in the total amount of $879,811.90, which includes a base
bid amount of $799.829.00 and an Owner’s Allowance of $79,982.90,
approve the necessary Budget Amendment, and authorize the
Chairman to sign the attached Purchase Order. (Project Number
50238)
10) Recommendation to approve a work order with Humiston & Moore
Engineers to provide professional support services for the application
of a modification to USACE Permit No. AJ-2004-07621(IP-MJD) to
allow dredged sand to be placed on Delnor-Wiggins State Park beach,
under the current library services contract #18-7432-CZ for time and
material estimated at $21,245; authorize the Chairman to execute the
work order; and make a finding that this item promotes tourism.
11) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 24-8325,
“Concrete: Sidewalks, Curbs & Gutters, and Related Items,” to
Pavement Maintenance, LLC (Primary), National Traffic Solution,
Inc. (Secondary), and Coastal Concrete Products, LLC, d/b/a Coastal
Site Development (Tertiary), and authorize the Chairman to sign the
attached Agreements.
12) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 24-8290
“Irrigation Pump Station Maintenance, Repairs, and Services” to
Agricultural Services International, LLC, and authorize the Chairman
to sign the Agreement.
C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as ex-
officio the Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer
District (CCWSD), award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) #24-8228, “Crane
Rental Services,” to Maxim Crane Works, L.P., and authorize the
Chairman to sign the attached Agreement.
D. PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 24-8294,
“Senior Meal Program,” to G.A. Food Services of Pinellas County,
LLC, and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached Agreement.
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2) Recommendation to approve technical revisions and clarifying
language to the Collier County State Housing Initiatives Partnership
Local Housing Assistance Plan for Fiscal Years 2022-2023, 2023-
2024, and 2024-2025 Disaster Assistance and Rental Development
strategies; and a SHIP FY 2021/2022 expenditure extension to June
30, 2025. (SHIP Grant Fund 1053)
3) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign a
State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between Collier County and MHP FL VII,
LLLP to further affordable housing initiatives through a
$1,246,600.80 impact fee loan for new construction of rental housing
units at the Ekos Cadenza development and authorize the County
Manager or designee to execute any and all SHIP-related
subordination agreements for this property in accordance with the
MOU. (SHIP Grant Fund 1053)
E. CORPORATE BUSINESS OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to approve a Third Amendment to Agreement No.
15-6474R, “Medical Director for Collier County and Employment
Physicals and Drug Testing,” with Advance Medical of Naples, LLC.
2) Recommendation to approve the administrative report prepared by the
Procurement Services Division for various County Divisions’ after-
the-fact purchases requiring Board approval in accordance with
Procurement Ordinance 2017-08, as amended, and the Procurement
Manual, in the amount of $49,613.51.
3) Recommendation to approve the administrative report prepared by the
Procurement Services Division for various County Divisions’ after-
the-fact purchases requiring Board approval in accordance with
Procurement Ordinance 2017-08, as amended, and the Procurement
Manual, in the amount of $18,129.87.
4) Recommendation to ratify Property, Casualty, Workers’ Compensation
and Subrogation claim files settled and/or closed by the Risk
Management Division Director pursuant to Resolution No. 04-15 for
the first quarter of FY 25.
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5) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to execute
the Third Extension and Amendment to the Service-Learning
Agreement between the Florida Gulf Coast University Board of
Trustees and the Collier County Board of County Commissioners
through January 24, 2029.
6) Recommendation to approve an Assumption Agreement assigning all
rights, duties, benefits, and obligations to Integrity Environmental
Solutions, LLC, concerning Agreement No. 18-7432-SW,
“Professional Services Library Solid and Hazardous Waste
Management Engineering Category.”
7) Recommendation to approve modifications to the 2025 Fiscal Year
Pay & Classification Plan which consists of two new classifications,
two reclassifications, and removal of one obsolete classification from
October 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024.
F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to approve the expenditure of up to $10,000 of
Tourism Development Tax (TDT) Promotion funds to support the
upcoming March 2025 Trilogy Lacrosse event and make a finding that
these expenditures promote tourism.
2) Recommendation to approve the use of the Paradise Coast Sports
Complex for the purpose of a civilian landing site by the United States
Armed Forces for a lacrosse game and authorize the Chairman to sign
the attached Hold Harmless agreement.
3) Recommendation to renew the annual Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity (COPCN) for Just Like Family Concierge
Medical Transport Services, d/b/a Brewster Ambulance Service, to
provide Class 2 Advanced Life Support (ALS) inter-facility transport
ambulance service for a period of one year.
4) Recommendation to adopt a Resolution approving amendments
(appropriating grants, donations, contributions or insurance proceeds)
to the Fiscal Year 2024-25 Adopted Budget. (The Budget
Amendments in the attached Resolution have been reviewed and
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approved by the Board of County Commissioners via separate
Executive Summaries.)
5) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 24-8314,
construction of the Big Corkscrew Island Regional Park Phase 2A
Signalized Intersection on Oil Well Road at Big Corkscrew Drive, to
Quality Enterprises USA, Inc., in the amount of $2,442,394.00,
approve a $200,000.00 Owner’s Allowance, and authorize the
Chairman to sign the attached Agreement. (Project No. 80039)
Continued to a Future BCC Meeting (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
6) Recommendation to approve Change Order No. 1, adding 180 days to
the project time under Agreement No. 22-7951 with Chris -Tel
Company of Southwest Florida, Inc., d/b/a Chris-Tel Construction, to
support the remaining pre-construction services for the Courthouse
Multi-Project Execution contract and authorize the Chairman to sign
the attached Change Order. (Project No. 50235)
7) Recommendation to ratify administratively approved Change Order
No. 6, adding $98,582.08 to the contract amount under Agreement
No. 22-7960 with Waypoint Contracting, Inc., for the Collier County
Emergency Service Center East Bay Enclosure, and authorize the
Chairman to sign the attached Change Order. (Project No. 50390)
G. AIRPORT AUTHORITY
1) Recommendation to ratify administratively approved Change Order
No. 2, adding four days to the contract time and use $12,626.46 from
the Owner's Allowance for Work Directive #2 under Agreement No.
23-8120 (Purchase Order 4500229417) with DEC Contracting Group,
Inc., for the “Bulk Aircraft Hangar at Marco Island Executive
Airport,” and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached Change
Order. (Project No. 33822)
H. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
I. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
J. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
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1) To record in the minutes of the Board of County Commissioners, the
check number (or other payment method), amount, payee, and
purpose for which the referenced disbursements in the amount of
$48,183,993.95 were drawn for the periods between January 2, 2025,
and January 15, 2025, pursuant to Florida Statute 136.06.
2) Request that the Board approve and determine valid public purpose
for invoices payable and purchasing card transactions as of January
22, 2025.
K. COUNTY ATTORNEY
1) Recommendation to authorize the County Attorney to make a
settlement offer of $15,000, as a nuisance threshold for litigation
strategy purposes, in the matter styled Terri Hohmann Dakan et al. v.
Collier County Board of County Commissioners, Case No. 23-CA-
2715, pending in the Circuit Court of Collier County, Florida.
2) Recommendation to approve an insurance settlement whereby the
County will receive $9,157.44 to settle and release the County’s claim
against Evangelina Sierra Havran for costs incurred to replace a
damaged light pole, and to authorize the County Manager or designee
to execute the release.
3) Recommendation to reappoint two members to the Land Acquisition
Advisory Committee.
4) Recommendation to approve an Amendment to a mediated Partial
Settlement Agreement with Quality Enterprises USA, Inc., concerning
Design-Build Agreement No. 20-7708, pertaining to the construction
of the Veteran’s Memorial Boulevard Extension Phase I project, and to
authorize the Chairman to sign the attached amended Partial
Settlement Agreement.
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
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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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Adopted – 4/0 (Commissioner Saunders absent)
A. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance amending the Collier County
Growth Management Plan to create the Tamiami Trail Greenway Road
Mixed Use Subdistrict, to allow construction of 300 multi-family rental units
with affordable housing and up to 64,000 square feet of gross floor area of
Commercial Intermediate, C-3 Zoning District Uses, and furthermore
directing transmittal of the adopted amendment to the Florida Department of
Commerce. The subject property is located north of Tamiami Trail East,
approximately 441 feet west of intersection of Tamiami Trail East and
Greenway Road, in Section 12, Township 51 South, Range 26 East, Collier
County, Florida, consisting of 24.41± acres. PL20230008643-(GMPA) (This
Item is a companion to Item #17B)
B. Recommendation to approve an ordinance rezoning property from a Rural
Agricultural (A) Zoning District partly with an Airport Zoning Overlay to a
Mixed Use Planned Unit Development (MPUD) Zoning District partly with
an Airport Zoning Overlay for a project to be known as Tamiami Trail
Greenway Road MPUD to allow development of up to 300 multi-family
rental units with affordable housing, and up to 64,000 square feet of gross
floor area of commercial intermediate (C-3) zoning district uses on property
located north of Tamiami Trail East, approximately 441 feet west of
intersection of Tamiami Trail East and Greenway Road, in Section 12,
Township 51 South, Range 26 East; consisting of 24.41± acres. (This Item is
a companion to Item #17A)
C. Recommendation to adopt a Resolution approving amendments
(appropriating carry forward, transfers and supplemental revenue) to the
Fiscal Year 2024-25 Adopted Budget. (The budget amendments in the
attached Resolution have been reviewed and approved by the Board of
County Commissioners via separate Executive Summaries.)
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D. This item has been Continued to the February 11, 2025, BCC Meeting.
Recommendation to adopt an Ordinance amending the Collier County Land
Development Code to establish provisions for Food Truck Parks and Mobile
Food Dispensing Vehicles. (Second of two hearings) (This Item is a
companion to Item #17E)
E. This has been Continued to the February 11, 2025, BCC Meeting.
Recommendation to approve a Resolution of the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, amending the Administrative
Code for Land Development, which was created by Ordinance No. 2013-57,
by amending the administrative procedures to create an application for
Mobile Food Dispensing Vehicles, Permanent, Permit. (This Item is a
companion to Item #17D)
F. This item has been Continued from the January 14, 2025, BCC Meeting
and has been further continued and will be readvertised.
Recommendation to repeal and replace Procurement Ordinance No. 2013-
69, as amended, with the attached updated Procurement Ordinance.
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 KOWAL: Thank you. Well, good morning,
everyone. Welcome to the Board of County Commissioners meeting
on the 28th of January 2025.
Just a few things real quick, some housekeeping rules. If you
would, please silence your cell phones, especially because
somebody's up here saying something important, we want to hear
what's going on. We don't want to really hear your ringtone,
whatever that may be.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I was going to say, something
important today?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah, maybe. I'm hoping. I'm
hoping. I'm hoping -- I think we always say something important, to
somebody at least.
But that being said...
Item #1A
INVOCATION BY PASTOR DAVID WILDMAN - GROW
CHURCH ESTATES, THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BY
MARINA BERKOVICH, JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF
SWFL.
MS. PATTERSON: We'll begin with the invocation and the
Pledge of Allegiance. Our invocation will be led by Pastor David
Wildman, Grow Church Estates, and our Pledge of Allegiance will be
led by Marina Berkovich, Jewish Historical Society of Southwest
Florida.
PASTOR WILDMAN: Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we
gather here today with gratitude in our hearts for the privilege to
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serve and lead this incredible community of Collier County.
Thank you for the beauty and the abundance that surrounds us
and for the opportunity to work together to ensure it thrives for
generations to come. Lord, I lift up each leader in this room: The
Commissioners, the staff, and all those who support the work of
guiding this county. Grant them wisdom and discernment as they
make decisions that impact the lives of so many. Strengthen their
resolve to act with integrity, compassion, and courage, always
seeking what is best for those they serve.
As Proverbs 11:14 reminds us, people lose their way without
wise leadership, but the nation succeeds and stands in victory when it
has many good counselors to guide it. May this spirit of
collaboration and shared wisdom guide today's discussions.
We pray for the residents of Collier County, our families,
educators, business owners, first responders, and every individual
who contributes to the strength of our community. Protect those
who protect us. Comfort those who are hurting, and grant peace to
all who call this place home.
As this meeting begins today, we ask your presence to fill this
room. May the word spoken and decisions made reflect -- may
reflect grace, humility, and a commitment to the common good.
Help us to be wise stewards of the resources and opportunities you've
entrusted to us, mindful of our responsibility to serve both this
community and your greater purpose.
In all these things, may we seek to reflect your love and truth
building a county where every person can flourish, and we ask all
these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Lead us in the Pledge of
Allegiance, please.
MS. BERKOVICH: Good morning, everybody. It is my
honor and privilege for the first time in 40 years since I became a
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naturalized U.S. Citizen to give the Pledge of Allegiance.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: How'd that feel?
MS. BERKOVICH: That feels great, and this is Jewish History
Month.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: From what I understand, you want to
say a few words since yesterday was Holocaust Recognition Day
and --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Here, go ahead --
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Go ahead to the podium, please, and
say your name, introduce yourself to everybody here in the room, and
then go ahead and --
MS. BERKOVICH: My name is Marina Berkovich. I am
president of the Jewish Historical Society of Southwest Florida.
Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the most
notorious concentration camp that was used for exterminating the
Jews in Europe, Auschwitz, and the president of Israel was precluded
from attending the ceremony because of extreme anti-Semitism and
the warrant for his arrest that is active by the International Court.
I want to say that in Florida, since 2003, by Governor Jeb Bush
at that time, there is a statute, 6.8 -- 6.3 -- no, 683.195 which actually
declares January as the Jewish History Month, and we're always
proud to celebrate it at the Jewish Historical Society, and I wish there
was more publicity to it so everybody knows that this month is
Jewish History Month in Southwest Florida.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: County Manager.
Item #2
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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 LOCASTRO -
APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED W/CHANGES – 4/0
(COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS ABSENT)
MS. PATTERSON: We'll begin with the agenda changes for
January 28th, 2025. First, we have an add-on staff report, Item 15C1.
This is relative to the Juvenile Justice Circuit 20 Advisory Board
County representative commissioner or their designee. This item is
brought to the agenda at Commissioner LoCastro's request.
Next is to continue Item 16F6 to a future meeting. This is a
recommendation to approve Change Order No. 1 adding 180 days to
the project time under Agreement No. 22-7951 with Chris-Tel
Company of Southwest Florida, Inc., doing business as Chris-Tel
Construction, to support the remaining preconstruction services for
the courthouse multi-project execution contract, and authorize the
chairman to sign the attached change order. This is being moved at
staff's request.
Continue Item 16B3 to the February 11th BCC meeting. This
is a recommendation to approve and execute a purchase and sales
agreement with Joseph D. Stewart, P.A., for the purchase of
Unit 105, which is the last remaining available unit to purchase out of
18 condominium office units within the Court Plaza III building
situated on 1.17 improved acres on Airport Road South adjacent to
the government center for the Community and Human Services
division. It's a companion item to 16B4, which is also being moved,
which is a recommendation to approve and execute a purchase and
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sales agreement and addendum with Bigi & Bigi, LLC, for the
purchase of 14 out of 18 condominium office units within the Court
Plaza III building situated on 1.17 improved acres on Airport Road
South adjacent to the government center for the Community and
Human Services division and authorize any associated budget
amendments. These items both are being moved at staff's request.
We do have court reporter breaks scheduled for 10:30 and again
at 2:50, if necessary.
And with that, County Attorney.
MR. KLATZKOW: No changes, thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, any changes, and ex
parte -- ex parte on the summary and consent agenda.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Hall, how about --
COMMISSIONER HALL: No changes and no ex parte.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: On the consent -- no changes.
On the consent agenda, 16A6, I had some e-mails.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Good morning, sir. No
changes and no ex parte.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Myself, no changes, and I did have
meetings on 9A and 9B -- oh, I'm sorry, on the summary and ex
parte, no. I jumped ahead, sorry.
All right. With that, do I have a motion to approve?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Second.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I have a motion and second. All in
favor, signify by aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: The ayes have it.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Very good.
Item #3A1
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS – 20 YEAR ATTENDEES
MS. PATTERSON: That brings us to Item 3, awards and
recognitions.
First up, our 20-year attendees, Angel Tarpley, Building Plan
Review and Inspections. Congratulations.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Go ahead and make your rounds.
Item #3A2
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS – 25 YEAR ATTENDEES
MS. PATTERSON: That brings us to our 25-year attendees.
Mr. Engelhart will be attending in February to receive his award.
So next up we have Alfredo Arcia, Parks and Recreation.
(Applause.)
Item #7
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA
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MS. PATTERSON: Troy, that brings us all the way to Item 7,
public comments on general topics not on the current or future
agenda.
MR. MILLER: I have one registered speaker on this item, Tom
Despard.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I'd just remind everyone, when you
come up to the podium, you get three minutes to -- either podium's
fine, you can queue up at, and you'll see a little light come on when
you have about 30 seconds left. And go ahead and bring your point
to a close at that point.
MR. DESPARD: Is this working? Okay. Ready?
Thank you, Commissioners. I'm a biker and a civil engineer in
the East Naples area.
I have two quick comments. The -- there's a connection -- a
future connection between Bayshore Drive and Sugden Park that I
understand is a boardwalk. Fortunately, East Naples Park is already
connected to Bayshore Drive. There are just a couple of
improvements I would suggest, and I'll give this to the township
manager.
A need to extend the bike lane from the Botanical Garden down
to Republic Street [sic]. It's about 300 feet. Because you're riding
your bike down, the bike lane ends, and you have to go the cartway
[sic], which is -- there's no shoulder -- or the sidewalk.
When you get down to Republic Street, you make a left to get
into East Naples Park. There's no signage there. It would be good
to have some signage.
And then at the end of Republic Drive that goes into the west
Naples Park, there's a small pedestrian wooden bridge that needs to
be replaced. It's about ready to fall down, actually.
The culvert -- or a new bridge, and I'm suggesting it's wide
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enough for maintenance vehicles to get into the park from the west
side, and also some signage there would be helpful.
Secondly, I was riding my bike yesterday on Danford Street,
again, and this connects Thomasson, all that beautiful work on
Thomasson Drive, and the beautiful Bayside Park. There's no
sidewalk. People walk in the street. There's parking out here for
boats and trailers and trucks, but you can't -- you can't get to the park,
and so you have people walking in the street, and you have pickup
trucks with trailers and boats. I'm suggesting that the sidewalk be
extended from the park. There's a piece of sidewalk there that could
be extended out to Thomasson Drive, and also a bike lane on the
south side of Danford Street. I know staff is working on this. I just
would urge these two things to become a priority for safety of the
community.
There also, on Danford Street, needs an overlay because there's
a lot of driveways that come in that cut into the shoulder. It's not a
good situation. So I know staff's looking at it, and I just would
appreciate some work done on that. So thank you very much.
MR. MILLER: Mr. Chair, right as he began speaking, I was
handed one additional slip for this item.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. That's fine.
MR. MILLER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, sir.
MR. MILLER: Cathy Lueers.
MR. DESPART: Is the township manager here?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: The County Manager's right there.
MS. PATTERSON: Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Please start with stating your name.
MS. LUEERS: Good morning. I'm Cathy Lueers. I live at
1653 tarpon Bay Drive South in North Naples. Tarpon Bay is a
community that intersects with Immokalee Road. And I'm a
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full-time resident.
In 2001, the community was built by Lennar. My
understanding is that the developer was WCI. The -- currently,
Tarpon Bay pays for the maintenance of the 41 streetlights and all the
irrigation and the landscaping. My understanding is that that was
because at the time that it was built, it was a private road. That was
our way to get out onto Immokalee Road.
Since that time, about 10 years ago, if you're going down -- if
you're going down Oakes -- and I have a picture here. I don't know
if I'm allowed to pass this around, but if you're going down Oakes,
you cannot turn left on Immokalee. You have to turn right on
Immokalee and then do a U-turn at Logan to go back left.
Subsequently, what that has created is it's become really a public
road. What was initially designed as a private road is now a public
road. So hundreds of cars a day are using it as a cut-through, yet
Tarpon Bay continues to maintain it as a -- as a private road.
So I'm not a lawyer or anything like that, but I was just -- I was
just reading about the possibility of it being redesignated. It says
here, "Any transportation facility, when so located and designated,
shall become the property of the state." So I mean, it just -- I'm just
wondering, do you ever reassess things or reassign them from a
private road to a public road?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Trinity might have that answer.
MS. SCOTT: Trinity Scott, department head for Transportation
Management Services.
Commissioner, we're working with the HOA association with
regard to this issue. It's been a long-standing issue. So we'll
continue those discussions, and I'll make sure that I meet her out in
the hallway and give her my card.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah, if you could do that; meet up
with Trinity, and she'll keep you in touch, and then you can pass on
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any information you might have.
MS. LUEERS: So, Trinity, you said you've been working on it
for a long time with the HOA community?
MS. SCOTT: Not for a turnover, but we'll discuss, and I'll
catch you in the hallway.
MS. LUEERS: Thank you, all.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Let me just chime in. This
isn't -- you know, this isn't normally normal. You have your three
minutes. But I have so many private roads in my district, and every
single one of those communities -- because I'm working it with
Trinity -- has the same request.
MS. LUEERS: Okay.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I guess I'll be the first one to
say it, No. 1 is Trinity's the expert, so she's been my advisor. It's not
as easy as you think to just say -- wave a magic wand. Way back
when, that road was -- I have this Championship Drive which is a
private road that four different communities use. Even though it's
more heavily used now, it doesn't magically make it a private [sic]
road.
So they want a turn lane as well. Trinity and I had a meeting
with all of the HOA senior leaderships, which is where she's leading
you. It's a discussion. But in my particular case, a turn lane can be
put in. It has to be paid for by the four different communities who
use that private road.
Your situation might be different. Because they also wanted a
stoplight and this and that. And, you know, it's one of the deals, way
back when, like you said, when your community -- but one of the
things I've told my constituents when they say, "Oh, the county, to
take it over and do this and that," the county doesn't take it over.
Taxpayers do.
So if we all of a sudden took it over and then took care of all the
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maintenance and everything -- not impossible, but she is the guru,
and she has helped me immensely. But at least in my cases, the
citizens were disappointed thinking that it was just, you know, we put
in a resolution or an ordinance or something, and then all of a sudden
the county takes over. But you're talking to definitely the right
person. And I've been dealing with this in six different areas of
my -- and I'm sure the other commissioners as well.
But thanks for bringing it up. And now you've at least
connected, you can separate rumor from fact.
MS. LUEERS: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yes, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER HALL: On the other hand, I say it's
Commissioner Saunders' district. Just ask for whatever you want.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I make a motion to make the
public road private -- or the private road public. All in favor?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Where is he at?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: That's a good one.
I was wondering why today just felt so much more efficient,
right? Everything's just running great and everything.
Commissioner Kowal, hats off to you, sir.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: He's in an undisclosed location. He
can't phone in.
County Manager.
Item #9A
RESOLUTION 2025-29: A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING PLOT
N OF THE ROSEMARY CEMETERY AS HISTORICALLY
SIGNIFICANT, PURSUANT TO THE
HISTORIC/ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRESERVATION
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REGULATIONS AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 2.03.07.E OF THE
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE. THE
SUBJECT PROPERTY, APPROXIMATELY .02± ACRES, IS
LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF PINE RIDGE
ROAD AND GOODLETTE FRANK ROAD, IN SECTION 15,
TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY,
FLORIDA, PL20240009511 (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO
ITEM #9B) - MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER
MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO -
ADOPTED 4/0 (COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS ABSENT)
Item #9B
RESOLUTION 2025-30: A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING PLOT
W OF THE ROSEMARY CEMETERY AS HISTORICALLY
SIGNIFICANT, PURSUANT TO THE
HISTORIC/ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRESERVATION
REGULATIONS AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 2.03.07.E OF THE
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE. THE
SUBJECT PROPERTY, APPROXIMATELY .04± ACRES, IS
LOCATED SOUTH OF PINE RIDGE ROAD, APPROXIMATELY
592 FEET EAST OF US 41, IN SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 49
SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA,
PL20240009512. (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO ITEM #9A) -
MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL;
SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO - ADOPTED 4/0
(COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS ABSENT)
Item #11A
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QUIT CLAIM DEEDS FOR TWO OUTLYING PARCELS OF
LAND WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY PART OF ROSEMARY
CEMETERY, LOCATED SOUTH OF PINE RIDGE ROAD
BETWEEN US 41 AND GOODLETTE-FRANK ROAD, AT A
COST NOT TO EXCEED $62.50 FOR RECORDING OF THE
DEEDS. (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO ITEMS #9A & #9B;
CONTINUED FROM THE DECEMBER 10, 2024, BCC
MEETING) - MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER
MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO -
APPROVED 4/0 (COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS ABSENT)
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to
items -- our advertised public hearings, Items 9A, 9B, and then 11A
is a companion item. I will read these quickly into the record.
Item 9A has been continued from the December 10th, 2024,
BCC meeting. This item requires that ex parte disclosure be
provided by commission members. This is a recommendation to
approve a resolution designating Plot N of the Rosemary Cemetery as
historically significant pursuant to the historic/archeological
preservation regulations as provided in Section 2.03.07.E of the
Collier County Land Development Code.
The subject property, approximately .02 plus/minus acres, is
located at the southwest corner of Pine Ridge Road and
Goodlette-Frank Road in Section 15, Township 49 South, Range 25
East, Collier County, Florida.
It's a companion item to 9B, which was also continued
December 10th, 2024. This is a recommendation to approve a
resolution designating Plot W of the Rosemary Cemetery as
historically significant pursuant to the historic/archaeological
preservation regulations as provided in Section 2.03.07.E of the
Collier County Land Development Code.
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And finally, its other -- its last companion is Item 11A, which is
a recommendation to approve and accept quit claim deeds for two
outlying parcels of the land which were originally part of Rosemary
Cemetery located south of Pine Ridge Road between U.S. 41 and
Goodland-Frank Road at a cost not to exceed the $62.50 for
recording of the deeds.
With that, we need to swear everybody in, correct, Court
Reporter?
So those that are going to be -- and then we'll do ex parte.
Those that are going to be participating, could you please stand to be
sworn in? That would be anybody that wants to speak as well.
THE COURT REPORTER: Do you swear or affirm the
testimony you will give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth?
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
MS. PATTERSON: And with that, we'll do the ex parte.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Commissioner Hall, do
you have anything on these two items?
COMMISSIONER HALL: I have no ex parte.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah, I have no ex parte. I
haven't heard anything about this.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: How about Commissioner McDaniel?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No ex parte.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Well, I actually do. I have -- 9A and
9B, I have meetings. Believe it or not, this was -- this was brought
to my attention about a year and a half ago by the young gentleman in
the Boy Scout uniform down there in the second row, and he had
asked to come see me in my office, and he filled me in, enlightened
me. I didn't even know this actually existed. I knew there was the
one cemetery that was closer to 41 on Pine Ridge Road next to the
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CVS there, and it was fenced in with the two markers there. But I
was not aware of the other parcel that was used, I guess, that was
further east of that intersection. And this is the one in question, I
believe, we're talking about today. So he kind of enlightened me,
but that particular meeting is the one I had with him. So I think we'll
hear from him today.
So if you go ahead. I guess, staff, go ahead and go first.
MS. PATTERSON: Yeah. We have Mr. Bosi, Director of
Planning and Zoning, will begin the presentation.
MR. BOSI: Good morning. Mike Bosi, Planning and Zoning
director.
I was going to introduce the item. County Manager did an
extremely efficient job. So I won't repeat that. This was heard by
the Historical Archaeological Preservation board in October of 2024.
Recommendation of 5-0 to designate the two plots historically
significant.
It qualifies under Criteria No. 3 within the Land Development
Code specifically related to ceremonial burial type of remnants of
places has been cited. As we said, this qualifies for it. And
specifically, I want to turn this over to Ms. Amanda Townsend, your
director of Museums, who's going to give you a little more specificity
of the history of these two plots.
MS. TOWNSEND: Good morning, Commissioners. Amanda
Townsend, the director of your Collier County Museums, for the
record.
I want to orient you a little bit to Rosemary Cemetery. This is a
good-news item, we hope. And I apologize that this is difficult to
read, but it is the best historical record we have of Rosemary
Cemetery. And it is a survey completed by City Engineer Cambier
in 1944. So age hasn't been kind to it. But we'll do our best to walk
through it.
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This page is divided in half, and on the top half, you'll see the
platting of the entire cemetery. So when the cemetery was platted, it
was 30 acres, and Pine Ridge Road was its northern edge, U.S. 41
was its western edge, and the railroad tracks, because
Goodlette-Frank Road didn't exist at the time, were its eastern
boundary.
You'll see in the -- on the far left-hand corner, there are some
other little bubbles there. Those translate to, on the bottom half of
the page, the sort of rounded corner parcel that you see. That's the
Unit B of Rosemary Cemetery that most of us, if we're familiar with
it at all, are familiar with, and that's the portion that is in front of the
CVS at the corner of 41 and Pine Ridge.
However, there were two -- according to the engineer, Cambier's
records, there were two other parcels of the cemetery that did have
burials in them, and those are a tee-tiny little L-shaped parcel about a
quarter of the way across, and then a tee-tiny little rectangular parcel
all the way over by the railroad tracks, and those are known on the
survey as Plots W and Plots N. Those were never made into county
property and have never truly been recognized as burial sites,
although they were all part of the original cemetery.
We know many of the people who are buried in Plot B. And let
me give you -- real quickly here. There is an aerial of what Plot W
looks like and a few photographs. It's there in front of a shopping
plaza, and there's an aerial of what Rosemary Plot N looks like. It's
just inside the right-of-way at the corner of Pine Ridge and
Goodlette-Frank.
We know a little bit about who's buried in most of the plots
except for Plot N. Unit B reads like a who's who of early Naples
residents. You'll recognize last names of Weeks and Leonard and
Kirkland and Hatcher, all families that were very, very early settles
here -- early settlers here.
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Plot W, we also know who many of those folks are, not all of
them, though. Some of their -- some of what's on the survey is really
just illegible.
And then what the surveyor put on Plot W is that there are eight
unknown African-Americans buried there.
We'd like to see -- move forward and recognize all of those
people, and so we would ask for your consideration to accept the
historic designations and the quit claim deeds on these properties.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
Any questions from the Board?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No question. I do have a
comment.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: You have a comment.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I do. I do. And if you'd go
back to the previous map for me, please, if you would, or that --
MS. TOWNSEND: W or N or the whole thing?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The aerial photo that you
have there. And in the description, Unit B is the actual cemetery
that's over by the CVS now?
MS. TOWNSEND: Uh-huh.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. All right. And this
is just a little -- a little addition to the -- to the history of this
particular site. And I hope that that is the young man that actually
went through, did the research, and designated the grave plots that are
there.
Your favorite County Commissioner, back in the late '80s, early
'90s, was the developer of this corner right here where -- there was an
Eckert's store that was coming in there, and I proposed to relocate
this cemetery to the museum site here on campus.
That was, unbeknownst to me, a very contentious suggestion. I
actually got -- this was way, way before I was a commish. But I
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actually got death threats on the premise of relocating great
granddaddy's remains to the shadow of the jail.
We then learned -- after I found out that a relocation was not
even going to become possible, we then learned that it was a county
cemetery. And so we had it designated as a historical site. There
was an Eagle Scout that came and marked -- or searched the
gravesites and marked the gravesites. And then the county actually
spent some money on it, finally, because it was a terrible cemetery.
It was just terrible.
And, you know of course, me, I didn't think that being next to a
six-lane highway was a nice place to go visit the remains of your
loved ones, and I thought maybe a quieter place here at the museum
was a better location, but it certainly didn't transpire that way. So
we ended up leaving the cemeteries where they were.
I didn't realize that the plots that are over along Goodlette were
not included in that acquisition and fenced off and marked as well.
So are both -- my question is, are both of the cemeteries now
historically designated?
MS. TOWNSEND: With your approval today, all three parcels
will be historically designated and become private -- or public
property, excuse me.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Good. I know we have
public comment coming, but I'll be happy to support that.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: They probably didn't like the idea,
because, you know, those words "final resting place" is usually used.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. Well, you know --
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: You know, I don't want to say
anything.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Was the Weeks -- the Weeks
family that were really upset. Madison Weeks is one of the named
ones in Unit B, and he was originally buried in the 1800s next to St.
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Ann's Church, and when they expanded St. Ann's Church -- and, of
course, if you'll remember, in the 1800s you were lucky to get a pine
box.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Burt would remember.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Well, Burt's not here.
Burt's not here, so...
In the 1800s, you were lucky to get a pine box. Most people
were wrapped in rags and placed in the ground, and so there he was
next to St. Ann's Church downtown.
Well, when they expanded St. Ann's Church and built the annex,
they went to get him and relocate him up here to this site -- because
Pine Ridge was -- everybody went quail hunting in what is now Pine
Ridge Estates.
And they went to get Madison Weeks, and he wasn't there, of
course. So they took a ceremonial full -- I actually read the
newspaper article where they took a ceremonial shovelful of dirt and
put it in a box, here he lies, and they brought him up and put him in
this particular cemetery.
So it was -- it was a rather interesting experience to go through
that whole process. So I'm really, really happy that we're actually
acknowledging these additional sites that are over on what is now
Goodlette. Because back when this was all transpiring, you know,
Goodlette Road wasn't even there. It was the old railroad tracks.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Any other questions for staff?
Comments?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. We'll go ahead and listen to
the public speakers.
Troy.
MR. MILLER: Mr. Chair, we have three registered speakers
for this item. Your first speaker is Lois Bolin, and she'll be followed
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by Jonathan Rodriguez.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning.
MS. BOLIN: Good morning. Lois Bolin. Do you want my
address?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: No.
MS. BOLIN: Lois Bolin, okay, fine. Dan's my commissioner.
District 4.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Everybody knows you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah, we know you.
MS. BOLIN: I am really delighted to have -- No. 1, to have
invited Marina Berkovich to give the Pledge because of International
Holocaust Day. I was doubly excited to see this on the
Commissioners' agenda. For the past roughly 10 years I've
been -- every Christmas I put up wreaths on all of the gravesites and
on the gates into Rosemary Cemetery at 41, and I also put wreaths on
all of the four markers that are there.
I didn't realize it wasn't part of -- and I'm going to call
Ms. Amanda. I'd like to do my next article on this -- wasn't part of
it, so I'm delighted to see that it's going to be, and I think when it
does, maybe we could have, like, a little celebration and do some
really good picture to bring some -- bring some notoriety to it. And I
wish I'd been around when you made that suggestion. I'm sorry I
laughed out loud because I was thinking, "Oh, Lord, have mercy" that
you would even try to think about moving -- because they'd already
been moved once. They wouldn't want to be moved again, and we
know how those pioneers used to be, God love them.
Anyway, thank you for bringing this up. Congratulations.
Congratulations, young man, and thank you for all -- thank you for all
you do.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Jonathan Rodriguez, and
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he will be followed by Vincent Keeys.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning. Whoop. You broke
our mic.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Good morning, County Commissioners.
My name is Jonathan Rodriguez. I am a junior at Lorenzo Walker
Technical High School. I am also in the HVAC program of their
college, and I'm also a freshman at Florida Southwestern State
College.
I am also a proud Boy Scout in Troop 2 -- these are some of my
troop leaders right here -- and trying to earn my Eagle Scout.
Now, the Eagle Scout rank is the highest attainable rank in the
Scouts VSA program. It is achieved by less than 5 percent of Scouts
nationwide. To earn this prestigious rank, Scouts must complete at
least 21 merit badges, including 14 mandatory merit badges. While
demonstrating leadership service and Scout spirit, reciprocants [sic]
of the rank are awarded a badge and a metal with opportunities to
earn additional recognition through Eagle Palms.
The first Eagle Scout badge was awarded in 1912 to Arthur
Eldred of Brooklyn, New York. Notable Eagle Scouts include Neil
Armstrong, who was the first person to walk on the moon. The rank
represents a commitment to community service, leadership, and
character development.
I am honored to stand here before you and present to you my
Eagle Scout project, Project Reverence. In the early 1920s, a parcel
of land was donated to Collier County by Mr. Crayton for the
establishment of the Collier County second cemetery named
Rosemary Cemetery. Reflecting the social norms at the time,
segregation extended even to burial grounds. Along the railroad
tracks in the intersection now known as Pine Ridge and
Goodlette-Frank Road, the first African-Americans were interned.
For my Eagle Scout project, I have chosen to bring attention to
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Plot N of the Rosemary Cemetery. For years, Ms. Amanda
Townsend of the Collier County Museum, along with Mr. Keeys, the
president of the NAACP, have been trying to bring attention to this
abandoned hallowed ground. I have joined in their efforts to bring
attention to this abandoned hallowed ground, and I have also raised
over $18,000 to go towards this project of mine, with the help of
people who are willing to give up money.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Nice.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Restoring the abandoned segregated
cemeteries is an essential act of justice, dignity, and historical
preservation, which is the American way. These cemeteries, often
neglected and forgotten, serve as a silent witness to the deep racial
divisions and equalities [sic] of the past. By restoring them, we
acknowledge the lives and legacies of those who were marginalized
and denied equal treatment in life. Such restoration not only honors
their memory but also helps to heal and educate communities,
providing an opportunity for reflection, understanding, and
reconciliation.
It is a crucial step in addressing the historical wounds of
segregation and ensuring that all individuals, regardless of race, are
remembered with respect and reverence.
Thank you, all.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you.
(Applause.)
MR. MILLER: Your next and final speaker --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Mr. Chair, can I just say, why
don't all the commissioners come down here and we take a picture.
This young man, talk about eloquence at the podium. We have
meetings here every two weeks, and you have people that come up
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here that, you know, they're not a young -- young man like this.
They've done so many things. I've got to just commend you for just
how eloquent and mature and impressive you've been. Let's take a
picture with you down here.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: That's my grandson.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Oh, wait. Absolutely not.
Just us.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Future president of the United
States.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Might be. Might be.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Crystal, do we need to audit
his books, 18,000? Is there anything we need to do it legally?
MS. KINZEL: Transactional.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Okay, okay. That's what I
thought, too.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. I believe Mr. Keeys still
wants --
MR. KEEYS: Good morning, County Commissioners,
Ms. Patterson, staff. It's an honor to be back here in front of you
today. I promise not to be so eloquent.
Jonathan has done a fantastic job. We are here in support of his
efforts. I want to really stand in and thank you, the County
Commissioners, for your hard work, but especially I want to thank
the museum and the Historical Archaeological Review Board.
We've come together with another great public/private
partnership. I think a lot of the hard work has already been done.
And we are here to hear your acceptance in going forth with this
resolution.
Our recommendation for this county: To become the greatest
county ever throughout the United States, and we want to be that
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model county. So I'm really here just to thank you, thank the Collier
County Museums, and especially that young man, Jonathan
Rodriguez.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Amen.
MR. KEEYS: Thank you so very much. Have a great day.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, Mr. Keeys.
I'd just like to make a quick comment. You know, several of us
up here, like I said -- you know, early on I knew the one cemetery
that was closer to 41 and Pine Ridge, not thinking that, you know, the
other one existed, and then when it was brought to my attention and
not realizing that it wasn't even part of the original cemetery and was
not preserved.
And just by the young gentleman coming to my office working
on his Eagle Scout badge brought that attention upon us. You know,
as a governing body, sometimes we overlook some of these things or
don't even realize they're not even already taken care of.
So, you know, this is what's so important about our public being
involved with our local government, being aware, bringing things to
our attention. Because we move very fast. We have a lot of
things -- today's not going to be a very, very heavy agenda. Maybe
they did that on purpose because it was my fill-in day. But these
type of things, you know, sometimes gets lost in our busy, busy days
every day of running this county.
So it helps to have the public bring some of these things forward
so we can take a deeper dive and make sure, that, you know, if it's
something that needs to be done, we get it done, and especially a
feel-good item like this to recognize the people that sacrificed their
lives early on in the building of this county and this nation and
that -- you know, that died in -- I believe some of these people, from
what I understand, were helping build the railroad at the time?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's right.
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: And, you know, their sacrifice, you
know, led to their demise even though they were trying to do
something to benefit, you know, the area that we all live in now that
brought forth and, you know, became what we are today.
So I just -- with that being said -- I don't know. Do I have any
other comments or -- it looks like Mr. McDaniel lit up again.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I have just one little thing.
And, you know, on the other side of the equation, I actually
developed that plaza that's there as well. You see how far off it's set
off of Goodlette Road? We had to acknowledge that those
gravesites were, in fact, there and set that plaza back with all the
landscaping and parking and everything as well, and it never dawned
on me that it wasn't included in the original designation for what
Amanda designated as Unit B. It never dawned on me that these
gravesites weren't actually included in that.
So I couldn't be happier -- couldn't be happier that you're doing
what you're doing. And we are, hopefully -- and with that, I'll make
a motion for approval, unless you want to do it.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Well, Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I have a question for you,
really, just to understand the history of this, because I don't go back,
you know, as far as you or are as plugged in in this.
The idea you had way back when that caught so many spears
and rocks -- and this is more of an opinionated answer. But I'm just
kind of curious, you know, as this area's developed, would that have
been the right thing to do? It was just bad timing and nobody could
see -- sort of see the future, and now you're sitting here with a
cemetery that's surrounded by all this commercial and, you know -- I
mean -- you know, if my grandfather was buried there and it was an
empty piece of land that was wide open, that's exactly where I'd want
to keep him way back then, but I'm not sure I want him to be next
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door to a, you know, commercial strip mall. What's your thought
now as you leap into the future? Would that have been something
that you wish you -- that people would have understood more?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You know -- and,
Commissioner, you're asking it for an opinionated answer here, and
everyone, as has been stated, has a different opinion.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It certainly wouldn't be my
wish to have my loved one's remains next to a six-lane highway.
But be that as it may, they are. And the fact that we're actually
designating this as a historical site, it accomplishes the goal and
provides for proper -- or proper designation.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I wasn't trying to put you on
the spot --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, no.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: -- but these kind of things
pop up where sometimes we get all this pushback but it's like -- you
know, sometimes our position is we're trying to have people sort of
look into a crystal ball and see what we're trying to sort of see, and it
just seemed like a very similar example to some other things that
sometimes fall on a deaf ear, and then our replacements 20 years
from now are sitting up here saying, "Who were those idiots 20 years
ago that weren't smart enough to" -- but, you know, I realize there's
more things. Like I said, I wasn't putting you on the spot. But
we've already had things that have been presented that seemed
ridiculous. But then we kind of go behind the wall and go, "You
know what, in 20 years our replacements are going to say, 'Why
didn't these guys sort of do it?'" But like you said, we're doing all
the things now.
Thank you. I was just curious of your perspective.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Thank you.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Motion to approve. Do we
want to do them in bulk, 9A, 9B, and 11A?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Ask Jeff.
MS. PATTERSON: Jeff? County Attorney.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: 11 also?
MS. PATTERSON: 9A, 9B and 11A.
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I'll second.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. So I have a motion, I have
a second. All in favor, signify by aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: It passes unanimously. Well, four.
(Applause.)
Item #9C
RESOLUTION 2025-31: THE 2024 COMBINED ANNUAL
UPDATE AND INVENTORY REPORT ON PUBLIC FACILITIES
AND SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AS
PROVIDED FOR IN SECTION 6.02.02 OF THE COLLIER
COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AND SECTION
163.3177(3)(B), FLORIDA STATUTES AND ADOPT A
RESOLUTION THAT UPDATES THE 5-YEAR CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT SCHEDULE. (PL20240010770)
RESOLUTION 2025-31: MOTION TO APPROVE AND ACCEPT
THE AUIR AND CIE PRESENTATIONS W/DISCUSSION
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REGARDING CIGM (COLLIER INTERACTIVE GROWTH
MODEL) FOR INCLUSION IN THE FUTURE BY
COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER HALL – ADOPTED 4/0 (COMMISSIONER
SAUNDERS ABSENT)
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to 9C.
This item was also continued from the December 10th, 2024, BCC
meeting. This is a recommendation to review and approve the 2024
combined Annual Update and Inventory Report on Public Facilities
and Schedule of Capital Improvements as provided for in Section
6.02.02 of the Collier County Land Development Code, and
Section 163.3177(3)(b), Florida Statutes, and adopt a resolution that
updates the 5-year capital improvement schedule.
Mr. Bosi, your Director of Planning and Zoning, is here to
present.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Troy, do we have any public speakers
on this?
MR. MILLER: We do not, sir.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
MR. BOSI: Thank you, County Manager. Mike Bosi, director
of Planning and Zoning.
Tough following such feel-good agenda items that we just had,
but what I would say is this is another feel-good item that doesn't get
a lot of attention amongst the public but most certainly affects the
public most directly on a daily basis. And what am I talking about?
I'm talking about the AUIR/CIE.
AUIR is the Annual Update and Inventory Report, and the CIE
is our Capital Improvement Element. And why do I say that this is
something that affects our population, or citizens, on a daily basis?
Because these are the new roads, these are the utility projects, these
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are the new parks, these are the new police stations, these are the
new -- these are your new EMS stations, your new government
buildings, your libraries to be able to handle the projected demand
that we expect over the next five and 10 years.
So when we get the public who comes in during a rezoning
process and asks, "Well, do we -- do we make sure that we have
enough capacity to be able to handle the loads that we are?" and we
can tell them with an honest face that we do, that we administer a
Concurrency Management System that requires before a plat is
issued, before a Site Development Plan is approved that we can
ensure that we have the capacity from our infrastructure providers to
be able to accommodate the additional demands that that project's
going to be demanding from our infrastructure providers.
So the AUIR, it's an annual one-year snapshot in time of
projected needs and required capital improvements for the next five
years based upon the projected population increases against the
adopted level of service that the Board of County Commissioners has
designated. It should be noted that this snapshot changes as changes
in the demand equation evolve.
It's a constantly changing equation, but what we do is every year
we give you your annual look at what we need to -- what we need to
build to be able to handle those additional demands as I was speaking
about.
And what's included within it? The concurrency management
facilities, that's roads, drainage, potable water, wastewater, solid
waste, parks and recreation, and schools. And then we have our
Category B facilities: Jails, law enforcement, libraries, EMS, and
government buildings. And then finally C, which is our beaches and
inlets.
Concurrency, and that's facilities and services necessary to
maintain the adopted level of service are available when the impacts
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of development occur, which are contained within the CIE policy and
the Land Development Code. This is what I was talking about.
That's where we -- before we issue an approval of a development
order of a plat or an SDP, we ensure that we have the capacity within
our Category A facilities to be able to handle those additional
demands.
And how do we project what those demands are going to be?
We coordinate with the University of Florida Bureau of Economic
and Business Research, affectionately known as BEBR. Per
the -- per the direction of BEBR, we utilize the medium-range
projections for the population. You've got a high, a medium, and a
low. For the early part of the aughts, we were at the high level.
About 2008, right when the Great Recession was starting to hit, we
switched down to a medium. We've been medium population ever
since.
But we also know that we've got -- we're in January. We know
it's seasonal population. That seasonal population is an additional
demand that's going to be placed against our infrastructure. So we
have to be able to handle that additional demand utilizing traffic
counts, utilizing water usage, wastewater usage, garbage collections.
What we've been able to determine, our seasonal population is a
20 percent increase. So when we -- when we gauge the expected
demand, we have to factor in an additional 20 percent for our
seasonal population.
And then how much do we build? We always utilize the
libraries because it's pretty straightforward. It's new population
times your level of service, and that's your capital improvement
project.
So for this five-year period, BEBR's projecting that we have
30,131 people. The level of service that's adopted for libraries is .33
square feet per person. So that's 30,131 times .33 square feet, and
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that -- we need 9,943 additional square footage of libraries to be able
to handle those demands.
Now, that's one of the more -- I don't want to say simplistic, but
direct. There's some more factors that we utilize when we get to the
transportation, utilities. I'll hit on that.
Right before that, I wanted to talk about our permanent
populations. What we've been receiving from the state over the past
six years in terms of what's the consistency that we've been dealing
with. And if you look at it, look at the third column to the -- to the
right, the five-year growth total. And I think most people would be
surprised, but what the University of Florida's population projections
have provided for is we are slowing down in our population.
You look in 2019, they expected 36,000 people for that five-year
period. 2023, that was down to 28,000. For 2024, it's at 30,000.
And if you look all the way on the right, which is your growth
percent annualized, you can see in the past three years we've dropped
down below that -- that one point -- one and a half percent annual
growth rate.
It doesn't mean we're not growing. It just means that the pace
of our growth has changed a little bit. And what -- I think a lot of
why that is is because of where we're at within our buildout. The
urbanized area is not built out, but it is closer to buildout than it is to
just starting.
And because of that, the opportunities for large-scale
development in your urbanized areas are limited. Where you have
those opportunities for large subdivisions and larger projects are out
in your eastern lands and within your Rural Fringe Mixed-Use
District further removed from your urbanized area, and what we've
found is those towns and villages that are associated with those
subdistricts are on a much slower pace in terms of what their
absorption is in terms of reaching their full buildout. But what it
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does do, it allows us every year to take this same snapshot to make
sure how are we doing, how are we -- how are we providing for the
necessary growth that we need to harness, and also how are we going
to plan for it and make sure that we have the revenue to be able to
pay for all of the expenditures.
As I said, not only was it population, but levels of service is also
based upon other areas. Roads and bridges utilize traffic counts at
multiple times per year and also a trip bank for your reserved
capacity. So it's not only the -- it's not only the population
projections, but it's your -- it's your traffic counts that we're getting at
the various stations, but also what's being banked within in terms of
already approved projects that will dictate, you know, what that level
of service is and what your demand is.
For your wastewater and your water, we use historical demand
usage and population projections plus an additional capacity reserve.
There was an issue in 2001 of overcapacity on -- overutilization of
our wastewater system. Because of that, we were instructed to be a
little bit more cautious and conservative, meaning have a higher
percentage of the facilities available than what we are projecting so
we would not have a failure.
It's one thing to have -- to wait in line for a swing at the
playground in terms of making sure you have adequate facilities, but
if you're -- if your wastewater or your water facilities aren't working
when your citizens need them, it's a much bigger problem. So the
wastewater and water are an influence and gauged in a little bit
different capacity.
Within your stormwater, it's your basin studies of the water
management -- of the water management plan. Solid waste is your
landfill disposable [sic] capacity. And your coastal zone is your
adopted plans and sustainability standards.
For this CIE, we have over $2.6 billion worth of improvements
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planned. On the right, you can see that between our Transportation
Department and our Stormwater Department, we have just over
$624 million worth of unidentified funding that is what shows up
more on your four and five year of your CIE.
The projects that we have moving forward that are banking our
capacity, such as Vanderbilt Beach Road extension, those are fully
funded. It's the projects in years 4 and 5 that we haven't identified
those fundings for.
So the CIE that we have provided for you gives you the capacity
to continue issuing building permits and COs over the next 12
months, and this -- this slide is to help inform you as you transition to
February -- as you transition to February and your budgetary
discussions, recognizing that there is a shortfall within your capital
improvements, and those will help inform and fill in some of the
details of your overall budget program that you're going to be
reviewing in February, ultimately, in making decisions in January
and September of this year as well.
In the recommendations that are in your executive summary, to
accept and recommend approval of the attached document as the
2024 Annual Update and Inventory Report on public facilities, to
accept and recommend approval of the Category A, B, C facilities
related to projects and revenue sources. And within your Category
A, set forth inclusion within the Schedule of Capital Improvement
Elements of your annual CIE update and amendment.
What we do with that is send that to the Department of
Commerce. They don't provide a -- they don't provide a
commentary. We provide it as a courtesy. But like I said, it's an
important step in the sense of adopting your capital improvement
program that's going to allow for us to issue those building permits
and COs over the 12-month period until we hear the AUIR again next
year.
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And with that, any questions you may have for the overview.
We have representatives of the divisions here if you have any
questions on any one specific area. However the Board would like
to proceed further, staff will adjust.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Good morning. Good
morning, Mr. Bosi.
MR. BOSI: Good morning.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: My question is, not once did
you mention the CIGM in this process, and that's Collier Interactive
Growth Model that we have adopted and been utilizing as an
additional tool. But what has led us down a rabbit hole of lacking in
infrastructure is not properly estimating the population and then, in
fact, its dispersal throughout the community. As you mentioned
earlier, you know, growth comes and goes in different waves.
Do we need to amend our policies to bring in the model as a
more primary utilization for a planning tool?
MR. BOSI: And -- Mike Bosi, Planning and Zoning director,
again.
I would say that is a contemplation. We've had discussion over
the past five to six to seven years as to whether we wanted to propose
to the Department of Commerce an alternative to the BEBR medium
population growth, for instance.
The CIGM is recognized by the Department of Commerce, prior
the Department of Economic Opportunity, as an acceptable
alternative for population. So they've given us an indication that we
can move in that direction. We've just never had that specific
directive from the Board of County Commissioners to take that -- to
take the next step.
What I would say is, the CIGM, where we utilize the CIGM
most for our planning processes is within our master planning, within
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our LRTP, within our parks master plan, within our jails master
plans, within all the master plans of our individual infrastructure
providers, because we'll get a 5- and 10-year lookout from BEBR, but
that's it.
Mr. Farmer and Metro Forecasting can provide all the way to
buildout, and the distribution of that population is the most valuable
aspect that we find. Where is -- in 25 years, where do we expect
those hot spots, so we start identifying and acquiring property for
infrastructure and set asides in those regards.
So that's a long answer to say, if the Board directed us to make
that transition, I think that there would be a positive receptivity
from -- from the Department of Commerce. But the utilization
primarily from our planning purposes for the CIGM has more been
on the long range.
The way that we do our allocations for our 5- and our 10-year
population is we use regression analysis. So we look at the last three
years of COs that have been issued every year that we get our
population, and for these -- for the 30,131 people that we expect over
five years, we look at that pattern of COs, where have they occurred,
and that gives us clues as to how we distribute the population in the
short term.
The CIGM is a little bit different. They utilize -- they utilize
the land-use designation from the Future Land Use Element, zoning
designation, as well as current trends and trend analysis in terms of
retail, commercial, industrial development.
So I would say in, I guess, a long way, is we can make that
decision, but what -- where staff has really utilized the CIGM has
been more on the long-range side of the shop, and on the
short-term -- because really when you get down to the CIE, it's your
first two years. It's your first two years that are really giving you the
capacity. And staff is comfortable with the past 25 years of utilizing
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that regression analysis to kind of dictate where the future growth is
going to be in a five-year period, but we do rely upon the CIE when it
gets -- you know, when it gets five years and beyond.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, just so we don't mess
with what we're doing today, I would suggest that maybe we have
another agenda item at some stage, bring in Metro Forecasting and
have a look at their data.
Of the things -- because I'm extremely intimate with the CIGM.
It was -- it was founded back when I chaired the East of 951 Horizon
Study back in 2008, and we utilized the specific land uses and
house -- rooftops as we were actually designating and determining
populations and then the dispersal.
The second portion of why I really like the CIGM, the Collier
Interactive Growth Model, is its modeling component, because we
have been able to utilize that apparatus to do forecasting for
properties that already exist that have a land designation of green on
the map, which is one unit per five or one unit per 10, and we can
pretend turn it to pink, which is one per one, or a higher density, and
then it flows out with dispersals of population.
So let's -- with -- and I'll make a motion for approval and
acceptance of the -- of the AUIR and the CIE presentation. And
then maybe someday we'll have a -- at a later date we'll have another
discussion and actually have a hard look at the CIGM and see if we
can actually implement it into some of our shorter-term plans.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: So I have a motion, Commissioner
McDaniel, for what's before us right now.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: But, Commissioner Hall, you have a
comment?
COMMISSIONER HALL: Yes, I do. Thank you, Chairman.
Taking a look at this, this is my third AUIR, and I understand
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the process. I understand what the purpose of it is, but when I read
through this thing, I get an overwhelming -- just an overwhelming
feeling of I don't know enough.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You need to read more.
COMMISSIONER HALL: I mean, it's -- I don't want to
belabor it. I don't want to stop our process. But going forward,
maybe include the CIGM. If we have to do a workshop, if we have
to bring in the division directors to get specific -- what the
specific -- I mean, we're looking at zero to five years. We can't even
turn around in five years with -- in government. I mean, we've got
roads. You've got transportation needs. You've got stormwater
needs.
I don't even -- you know, what are the transportation needs in
four or five years at a $625 million deficit? I mean, those are the
specifics that I would like to get into. Instead of just saying, "We
have these needs, and we're going to go into debt for them," I'd really
like to know what they are.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER HALL: And, you know, the BEBR reports,
I'm sure that they're accurate to some extent, but I call BS on them
because they're calling for a decrease in our population. But since
COVID, I mean, we've seen extraordinary growth, not just -- I mean
20 percent in season? I live on 41. It's -- it's a bigger increase than
20 percent. I mean, I could live with just an extra car out of -- you
know, an extra two cars out of 10, but there's not an extra two cars
out of 10. There's -- it's over doubled in the amount of traffic that
comes through here. I don't think anybody's going to argue with me
on that.
You know, you've got -- in the AUIR, you've got Category B,
you know, the jails. There's still not specific information for the
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increase in mental health beds at the jail. I'm not talking about
David Lawrence Center; that's a separate issue.
But there's -- you know, we don't even have specifics about male
and female care. There's, you know, jury rooms that the Clerk
brought up yesterday that are not even included. You know, we're
going to add a judge, but we have no place to put anybody.
So those are the kind of specifics that I would like to see us -- if
we're going to be approving the future of Collier County, I would
kind of like to -- need to know those type of things.
The levels of service, I get it. You know, you have to
have -- you have to have something to throw a dart at. So I get the
level-of-service, you know, calculation. But to say we're going to
add 30,000 people in Collier County and we need another 10,000
square feet of libraries, I call BS. We're underutilized in the libraries
that we have.
So those are just some of the things I'd like to be able to sit
down and talk about and bring to an awareness of and get a solid plan
going forward, because four and five years is not very far at all. I
mean, it takes us that long to do a study, which gets on my nerves.
But I'm not going to belabor the point, but I just want to make
those comments because I'd like to see us going forward, get specific,
and do something smart.
And with that, I'll second the motion.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. I have a second.
Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, Chairman.
My comment's specific to this, but the comment's a little bit
more generic. I agree with Commissioner Hall, there's times where I
look at the agenda -- and you guys know this, and we all do -- and I
read the paragraph on here, and sometimes I drill down, you know,
often, you know, to get more info, but then I'll reach out to staff with
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an e-mail or "please come by my office," and you do it for all of us.
But that educates us on a complicated topic like this and others, but
not the general public. They don't have the benefit of that, like,
private meeting in our office or that drill-down. And in here in a
public forum, just like Commissioner Hall is saying, we're about to
say yay or nay to something that's this big.
So my comment is just a little bit more generic, not specifically
towards this, but using this as an example, that when we see things
that are on the agenda that are sort of bigger than a breadbox, that
even though it seems like a fast vote because we've all had
behind-the-scenes meetings -- and it's like, "Hey, remember that thing
we all talked about? All in favor? Aye." You know, to put a little
thought and say, if this was briefed to a stranger at this public
meeting, and by a "stranger" I mean citizens, is there a little more we
can add? Not a three-hour presentation, but an extra slide, a little
drill-down. Like Commissioner Hall was saying, "Hey, educate me
a little more as if I didn't know anything and I didn't have a meeting."
One of the things we've promised the citizens is that these
meetings would be more transparent, you know, more informative.
And so I'm not trying to make the meeting an 11-hour meeting,
but there are many things that pop up that I knew nothing about, I had
a meeting with you-all, now I'm fully educated, but then we're about
to vote on it, and the masses and even, you know, we have journalists
that are Zoomed in right now listening to what we're voting on, and
then we get, you know, half a dozen e-mails going, "That thing you
voted on, what was all that about?"
So I'm just saying in the future that if something sort of jumps
out that -- a little extra line or something -- and this is part of my
generic comment -- in the agenda or, more importantly, in the
presentation here, even if we're hearing it for the second time,
chances are the masses aren't.
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You know, the Clerk of Court sends us a -- sends us the agenda
with her comments as she does a deeper dive, and that sort of
educates us more, but the masses don't see that. So it's more of
generic comment because, you know, like the acronym that you just
used, yeah, we've heard it, but the public, you know, doesn't know
what that means. So just to give it some thought a little bit.
And, Mr. Bosi, all that knowledge is right up here in your brain,
you know, not in ours. And so you, Mr. French, Trinity, you guys
are the perfect people to say, "You know, maybe it could have
behooved maybe just one more slide saying, 'hey, what we're trying
to do here'" in common, you know, terms.
And I really think it would be helpful for the public, because
these are big -- some of these big muscle movements that we vote on
quickly because we've done the deep dive, but the average person
goes, "What the hell did they just do?" And we need to minimize
that a little bit.
So you'll know the things that require that. So it's just more of
a -- just a generic statement so that we can improve these meetings as
we go forward, and we've been doing a lot to do that already. Thank
you.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, if I may, just before
you-all vote, we'll look at the calendar and look at the timing for
getting a workshop, because there are several important things that
are going to be coming up that tie directly to the AUIR and will be
time for you-all to get visibility.
As Commissioner Hall noted, one of those is level of service and
looking at what the implications are, because there's a direct tie to
funding sources, and so there's a method to some of this madness
with the level of service, but we also have a major update to our
impact fee program coming up as well, and that ties straight into the
AUIR.
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This is one of the most important things that you-all do but
probably the most underrated as far as public involvement. And
every time that we go out to speak to the public, we talk about the
AUIR and encourage the public's involvement. We've not been
successful since I don't think anybody but our staff is here today to
talk about the AUIR. But it is -- it is how we figure out what we're
going to do in the five years and the 10 years. So Trinity doesn't just
wake up one day and decide to build a road. It's all of this that goes
to that.
So we're taking your comments seriously, and we'll find a time
that we can get a workshop format so we can really dig into this and
look at where those improvements might be able to be made and
where -- frankly, where our hands are tied.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
Well, I would like to make a quick comment. I would
definitely -- it would definitely benefit me, you know -- and I don't
know the appetite of the rest of the Board -- but having a workshop
moving forward every year leading up to this day like today, because,
you know, we are all adults. We like visual learning. I'm not one
who wants to sit down and read a thousand pages of something when
I have staff that are already specialists or experts in the field that can
bring it to our attention prior to today's date and when we're sitting
here and actually taking a vote on it.
So I definitely would strongly recommend moving forward from
this day on and setting some sort of -- some process up that we have a
workshop prior to -- like today.
Just back to a couple of the slides. Mr. Bosi, you had -- you
know, you were talking about the BEBR, which is the formula that
UF uses and we adopt to make these calculations looking at the
future. And Commissioner Hall touched on it.
You know, I can almost guarantee that if you look at '19, '20,
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and '21, that uptick was due to COVID epidemic. And the fact is
that the rest of the country was pretty much closed down, and South
Florida was open for business. And, you know, in the real estate
business, and the -- it did. It was one of the busiest three years in the
county's recent history for sales and transactions of properties.
And that's because of what was going on outside of the state of
Florida, and that's called motive. A lot of people, their motives to
move -- this was -- in that period of time, we had more people move
from California to Florida than ever before, which is unheard of, and
it's because of what was going on in the nation around us. And don't
let us forget the fact that we just -- devastation in southern California
is happening right now. Thousands and thousands and thousands of
people are displaced, destroyed -- their homes are destroyed. They
may never build them again.
So I don't want to just depend on UF not giving me factual
reasons why things happen but just crunching numbers. I think
we're going to see an uptick again starting real soon from the West
coming this way again, because where else are you going to go?
You're not going to move somewhere cold. You want to move
somewhere warm. That's what they're used to. Southern
Californians like the ocean, they like warm, and they have deep
pockets. They will show up, and we're going to see it again. So we
have to be conscious of that and be prepared for this.
You know, even though one university might say we're in a
downfall, but the reality is we're probably going to have another
uptick here real soon. So just keep that in mind.
So we have a motion. We have a second.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: One more comment.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Oh, I'm sorry, Commissioner
McDaniel, I didn't see you pop up there.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's your first day. I'll keep
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you on track.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I just -- and it has to do with
what Commissioner Hall was talking about, and it was one of my
early learning experiences when I came in. We had an issue where
the level-of-service designation for parks was equal -- or was higher
on regional parks than it was on community parks. And so it then
allowed for money to be moved around and spent in regional parks,
and then some of our community parks and maintenance and upkeep
were upgraded. And we changed that level of service. So I think
having that review, as has been suggested, that we have a workshop
and have some discussions with regard to these level of services with
regard to libraries and traffic and so on is extremely prudent.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. I see nobody else lit up.
We have a motion; we have a second. All in favor, signify by aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: The ayes have it. It passed.
Item #15A
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA BY INDIVIDUALS NOT
ALREADY HEARD DURING PREVIOUS PUBLIC COMMENTS
IN THIS MEETING
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us all the way
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to Item 15, staff and commission general communications.
Item 15A is public comments on general topics not on the
current or future agenda by individuals not already heard during
previous comments in this meeting.
MR. MILLER: We have none.
Item #15C1
JUVENILE JUSTICE CIRCUIT 20 ADVISORY BOARD COUNTY
REPRESENTATIVE – COMMISSIONER OR THEIR DESIGNEE
(COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO’ S REQUEST) - MOTION TO
APPOINT COMMISSIONER KOWAL BY COMMISSIONER
MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO -
APPROVED 4/0 (COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS ABSENT)
MS. PATTERSON: All right. That brings us to our add-on
item. This is under staff communications. This is the add-on of the
Juvenile Justice Circuit 20 Advisory Board County representative
request. This is brought to the agenda by Commissioner LoCastro.
If you can -- Troy, if you can give me the overhead.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: While you're doing that, can
I --
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner LoCastro, if you want
to go ahead.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I'll set the table here a little
bit.
Whether you-all know it or not, we all got e-mails from
somebody who works with this advisory board looking for a
commissioner to volunteer to sit on the advisory board, and although
I have no doubt this advisory board has great value and they'd benefit
from having a commissioner, the pushback I gave on the e-mail that I
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replied to -- and I don't know if any of you, you know, replied to it
all -- and I cc'ed Amy Patterson and Mr. Klatzkow -- is I said, "That's
great saying you need a commissioner, but that's not how our process
works."
Mr. Klatzkow and his office does a formal job going through all
of the advisory boards and different things that we sit on. We vote
on it, we decide who would be the better pick. We get details on the
requirements for this board and things.
So it was great that they shot out an e-mail looking for a quick
volunteer, but I just didn't think that was the way to do it, you know,
first come, first serve, especially with very little info. It just said,
you know, can you sit on the Board. So that's the only reason why I
pulled it.
And then between when I added it, I guess I should say, and
now I had asked if somebody can dig up a little bit more information,
and that's what -- it looks like it's here.
And then we all have a chance to think about it, see if we think
we're a fit, if we know how often the meetings are, does it fit into our
schedules, and, you know, we decide who's the best commissioner to
fit, not just sort of first come, first serve off of a two-line e-mail.
So that's why I put it on there. I don't know if you recall getting
that e-mail. It was a very basic, you know, generic, you know, "Will
you serve, yes or no?" and that's it, and that's not how we do it.
So, Ms. Patterson, do you want to take it from here?
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. So the County Attorney did help
me and found the statute as well as how this new advisory board
would work. It does allow for a county commissioner or their
designee.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: So it is new. It's not that
we've been missing all these meetings --
MS. PATTERSON: No.
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COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: -- all of a sudden they're,
like, where the heck's the commissioner?
MS. PATTERSON: It's new.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Okay.
MS. PATTERSON: So at this point in time, I think the
conversation for the Board is, if there's a Board member that's
interested in sitting on this, then that's fine, or if you want to
designate somebody.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Commissioner Saunders.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: It's always the guy that's not here.
MS. PATTERSON: He'll appreciate that. Or if you want
to -- if you want to have a designee, and so that's kind of the first
order of business. If a commissioner is interested in taking the
seat -- now, I don't have information on how frequently they're going
to meet or where. I'm not sure if the County Attorney knows.
MR. KLATZKOW: I went to their website. It looks like they
meet three or four times a year.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: A year?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: What do you-all think?
Does this require a commissioner? And not that we're trying to
downgrade it and just send a person. You know, sometimes
it's -- you can make an argument either way that we send a
commissioner to the first meeting -- and I know I've gone to meetings
where I've left and said, "It was at the wrong level. It was more of a
county staff," and then we made the -- and they didn't disagree. But
I wanted to just have some open discussion here. I mean, you know,
we all serve -- we all serve on different boards now, so it's a matter
of, "Hey, do you just want to say yes to this and see what it's like, or
do we want a designee?" Do we think this is at the level -- and also,
too, the right person, not just somebody to go to the meeting and, you
know, this is something that's very specific, so --
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I have a question for the County
Attorney. If -- let's say if one of us did sit on it, does that -- does that
set a precedence moving on to a commissioner always hold that, or
we can always back off and have a designee do it? Like, let's say if I
volunteered to do it because I'm kind of in the justice background and
stuff like that, and did it over this next year one, the one or two or
three meetings left, would that set a precedence then the next would
have to be a County Commissioner, or would it -- we can actually
designate somebody else we feel that might have interest in doing it
or have the ability to do it?
MR. KLATZKOW: You can always designate somebody.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Because you can report back
to us and say, "Hey, I went to three meetings. I gave them the
benefit of my expertise."
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: "And now I -- you know, I
talked with Ms. Patterson, and we're going to -- we're going to send a
designee."
I sort of am almost about to do that on a board that I sit on
because, like you said, I went to three or four meetings, digested it
well, and then, you know, am about to give some feedback to county
staff saying a staff member actually might be more effective because
of what this different board requires. But I mean, I think even if you
went to the meeting, you know, Commissioner Kowal, and then
reported back to us and said -- you know, I don't think you have to go
for a year unless you go, "Wow, they really need a commissioner
to" -- because I don't know who the other board members are. None
of us do.
MS. PATTERSON: I have a list.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Oh, you do. Okay.
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MS. PATTERSON: If you'd like to see this, it's two pages.
But I'll put the first page up, and then we can flip.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I nominate Commissioner
Kowal.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah. Yeah. So there's a
lot of designees in there, so we don't really know if it's, you know,
Sheriff Rambosk or somebody from his staff. But, yeah, I expected
to see sort of a list like this where it was, like, state attorney or his or
her designee. I doubt the state attorney's sitting on it, but maybe.
It's possible.
MS. PATTERSON: And most of the positions do have the
person or their designee. So it's -- it will be interesting to see how
that -- and if you'd like, I'll put the second page up, and you can see
it. It's a wide range of people. Even community members.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I just think Commissioner
Kowal, with his law enforcement background -- and I'd be happy to
sit on this board if you came back and said, "Hey, I digested
everything. It doesn't really fit into my schedule" -- but I think you
having -- you know, going to the first meeting and giving us your,
you know, educated digestion of what they're doing, who they need,
and either come back and say, "Hey, guys, it really needs to be me"
or here's the feedback, I think that would be really valuable to all of
us. I don't know when the next meeting is, but --
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Instead of belaboring it any longer,
then I'll step up. I'll volunteer, and I'll see if it does warrant a
commissioner being there or not. And who knows? You know,
juvenile is the -- they are our future, you know. So maybe we need
to have some, you know, good eyes on what they're doing or what
they're not doing over there in the organization with the probation
and the other things they do.
So with that being said, I don't know if we have to nominate.
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MR. KLATZKOW: Pleasure of the Board.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Pleasure of the Board.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So I already moved to put
you on.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I've got a motion and a second. All
in favor of appointing me to the board to do an -- explore a mental
health --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Exploratory.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Exploratory dive into
it -- assessment -- so signify by saying aye, in favor.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
COMMISSIONER HALL: You the man.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. I'm the man. The ayes
have it. Give me three more days to work.
Item #15C2
CHRISTOPHER MASON – MEETING W/ARMY CORP FOR THE
COASTAL STORM WATER ADVISORY COMMITTEE; WILL
BE PAUSING WORK DUE TO LACK OF FUNDING;
ADVISORY COMMITTEE NOT TO FILL THE VACANT SEATS
UNTIL FUNDING IS AVAILABLE; BOARD TO PROVIDE
LETTERS TO THE ARMY CORP FOR CONTINUED
PARTNERSHIP AND TO REQUEST AN INTERIM REPORT
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MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, next up is staff
communications. We do have Mr. Mason here to give a brief update
on what is going on with our coastal resilience efforts by the Army
Corps.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning, Chris.
MR. MASON: Good morning, Commissioners. Christopher
Mason, for the record, your director of Community Planning and
Resiliency.
About -- so to give you a little background, I've been staff
liaison to this initiative since April of 2023.
We have weekly meetings with the Army Corps, and there's also
monthly meetings for the public and the Army Corps and staff to
attend. Earlier this month we were informed in one of our weekly
meetings that there was a pause coming to this study. And so the
pause -- what has initiated the pause or precipitated that pause is a
lack of funding.
So essentially, the Army Corps folks at this point have -- they're
on dwindling funds and would not be able to make certain milestones
that were associated with this project. And those -- there were two
milestones. One called a tentatively selected plan and then the
second milestone was the draft Environmental Impact Statement,
which is the overall large report that comes out with all the modeling
results and all the data that has been put into the study.
So we, like I said, have been informed that there was a pause.
Last week there was a public meeting in which the Corps informed
the public at large as well.
So this pause is looking at six to 12 months, but we believe,
potentially, it may run anywhere -- anywhere up to 18 months. But
we would be at a pause to restart this study looking, you know,
somewhere between 12 and 18 months from now.
So there has not been an official statement or document released
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to the Board, obviously. I would assume something will come in
writing, but we do have, you know, e-mail evidence of
back-and-forth of this pause. But I would assume something would
probably be issued to the Board stating such, not just in e-mail form.
So I wanted to update you on that today.
We do also have a matter of our advisory committee that
oversees this for your service. So staff would take any type of
direction or guidance on where you would like to -- where the Board
would like to go with that committee as far as the pause goes.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. I know we had discussion
yesterday, and I told you that, you know, I feel we'll have this
discussion with the rest of the Board members on what direction they
want to go with the committee that represents us, because there's
going to be a long period that we're probably going to be idle. We're
not going to have anything going on eight -- 18 months possibly,
from what I understand.
MR. MASON: Potentially.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Potentially. So I know they had
asked questions like, "What do we do? Do we fill our two remaining
spots? Do we just sit here in limbo, or" -- but I think -- what I pose
to my fellow commissioners is that we either just send them a letter
saying they're just going to be frozen in time for now as the way they
are, and then we'll reevaluate it a few months out if we foresee down
the road that -- some light at the end of the tunnel that this is going to
start back up, because, you know, with the conversation we had that
sometimes people move, they move out of district, so they might not
be able to represent, you know, 18 months later. We don't know
what -- the nature of what's going on.
So I recommend -- but it's totally going to be up to the Board
what they feel that -- you know, we send a letter to the chairman of
that board and just advise them that they're going to kind of be in a
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frozen state, in limbo the way they are, not fill those two remaining
positions until we get to a closer time and period that we know that
we're going to actually have something to send them to, so -- and
then we'll reevaluate. If we have to elect different people or appoint
different people to different positions, we'll do that at that time.
But I've got Commissioner LoCastro lit up.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Okay. Thank you,
Chairman.
So we spoke yesterday as well, just -- here's some of my
comments, and some of these are just representative from what we
talked about yesterday.
The Army Corps provides a valuable service, and even if we get
a final report that has some crazy things in it that we're not going to
do, they don't direct us to do anything. Also, we can't influence their
funding, obviously. So when they come to us and say, "We have a
significant funding issue," then we just have to, you know, accept it.
But I think, you know, it's all in the wording. So if they've
got -- if they've gotten to the point they are now and they've actually
done an awful lot, I don't look at it as a freeze, but we're taking
it -- they're telling us they're taking a pause.
And I've worked with the Army Corps a lot in my previous
military life, and I have never had a freeze happen. But I think when
they come back, they don't -- you know, I use the word "restart," and
maybe that's just semantics. You're talking -- I don't believe they
restart. I think they pick up where they left off. So we don't want to
lose the value of what they've done.
The only thing that I would say in whatever letter that gets
drafted from the county that says -- and it should be something that
we reiterate that we know that everything they're telling us isn't
anything we have control over. So we understand what you're
telling us. We value what you've done up to this one point. We
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will stand by and wait until, you know, you get additional funding to
then pick up where you left off. I don't know if we can be -- you
know, this is really a question for John Mullins, but if we can
be -- and not to come up to the podium, but just if we can be
influential in letting the Army Corps' financial leadership know that
what we do here is a priority.
I know the leadership of the City of Naples just sent several
letters to the Army Corps, who they're working with to fix the pier,
and they basically said, "Hey, we know that you're in limbo right now
on the funding and helping us and things like that," but all the letters
said, if you -- "Here's why we hope you're making us a priority
because the Naples Pier is a landmark, and it controls tourism and
things like that." So something proactive. We don't want to scare
them off.
And in the last paragraph -- this is just a suggestion, because I've
done it before -- ask them for an interim report that gives a summary
of what they've done up to this point so maybe we can see a little
something. Maybe it won't be all inclusive, and they'll hold some
stuff close to their chest because there's a few things that they haven't
finished, but something that at least gives us an interim report where
we can pause, and we have something on the shelf so that when they
come back to us in six, 12, or 18 months, we're both pulling
something off the shelf and picking up where we left off. That
would just be some thoughts just based on, you know, the dealing
that I've had with the Army Corps.
But I would say, you know, they're in great demand by a lot of
places, and the fact that we've had them here this long and they've
spent so many funds, even though, you know, there were some that
were saying, "Kick them to the curb," or "We don't need them," or
anything. They're just giving us their suggestions and their advice,
and it is valuable info. And the key thing we've talked about in this
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meeting before is, if we don't get their final report, it makes it
impossible to chase grant money in certain areas, because having
worked with the Army Corps or the county all the way to the finish
line gives us real strength then to go to the next step.
And so that's why I'm saying even the interim report could get
us a little more prepared and sort of caught up a bit if they agreed to
that. They may or may not, so it's just a thought. But, you know,
those are my thoughts. And I know they've done a lot of work to
this time. I don't think we want to send them a letter that gives the
impression, "Thanks, you know, we know you're frozen. See you
when we see you." You know, something more of "We want to
continue to be a team partner. We understand funding drives
everything." We don't have the leverage to provide additional
funding to them, but we hope that they're continuing to make us a
priority to finish what they started before they maybe move on to
other places where they haven't even done anything.
So those are just some thoughts that I had that we didn't get to
talk about yesterday.
MR. MASON: Thank you. Duly noted.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: It sounds like we're going to have two
letters, because the only one I was referring to, Commissioner, was
just to our civilian board, just to give them an idea of where they're
at.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Right. That, hey, they're on
a pause.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: You're on pause, not so much the
Corps, the letter. But that was what I was referring to when I made
the mention of a letter.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I think a letter to the Corps
would be something to consider. I think they'd -- they would
appreciate the professionalism of it.
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MR. MASON: Understood. Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And then -- and a letter
to the Corps is a good idea, I mean, because they've been here for
eight years. I mean, you remember the adventure we had when they
were here the first time, and then we established -- and this is -- what
this subject matter's about is us managing the committee that this
board has appointed. And I concur wholeheartedly with
Commissioner Kowal, don't appoint two new members.
One of the things that the County Attorney's Office has done has
continued to accept applications for membership onto basically all of
our advisory committees. So whatever we do, freeze the committee,
set it, put it in its current -- leave it in its current status, and then if, in
fact, the Corps comes back with additional information and an
interim report, as you suggested, Commissioner LoCastro, then we
can go back and touch the individual five members, make sure they're
still interested in serving, and then go to the alternates and do that
thing.
We just don't want to extinguish the committee in case funding
becomes available and we get something that we need to -- I want to
make sure that there is a community liaison with the Corps and the
public and then communicating back with our board. So I think your
suggestion is perfect with regard to that, and a second letter to the
Corps for that interim report, if they have one. They're probably not
going to have one, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
MR. MASON: Certainly.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: So you have your marching orders.
MR. MASON: I do, sir.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. I think that's a good idea,
Commissioner LoCastro, to, you know, at least let them know that,
you know, we acknowledge the work they've done, you know, and be
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good partners in this. And if they want to -- more than willing to
show us what they've already done, then that would be even greater
for us, too, because then we can start looking at it, see if it's even
things we can do or can't do or even have an appetite to do. So we'll
get ahead of it.
MR. MASON: I'll speak with the -- I'll speak with the project
lead from the team for the Corps and see where we can go with this.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, Chris.
MR. MASON: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: We don't have to vote anything on
this? No. Okay. Thank you.
MR. MASON: Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: One last update under staff
communications is regarding the Naples Pier. I just wanted to give
the Board some visibility. We've been having conversations and
meetings with the City of Naples regarding the pier rebuild, and
they're looking for some assistance from the county on a launch and
staging site, particularly relative to the large pilings that will have to
be installed to rebuild the pier.
So before this conversation gets any further and we're out
talking to the public, one of the sites that they're considering is
Bayview Park. So obviously, that's going to generate some
community interest and concerns as that conversation evolves. The
city is gathering some more information before we start talking more
to the CRA and to the community about time frames and how long
they would need to utilize it, what does that look like. Lay-down
areas, particularly if we can find someplace where they may be able
to stage, staging of parking of employees and things like that.
So more to come on this, but we didn't want to get out to the
public and start having these conversations without first giving this
board visibility on that matter. It's obviously a very important
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project not only to the City of Naples, but to Collier County.
It's a landmark of our community, and we want to do what we
can. The City of Naples is also going to look at the use. Maybe we
can share the use of their launch site for some of this work as well,
and some of the work will be able to be done by access to the pier by
landside. But there are certain things that are going to be required to
be done by barge.
So with that, if you have any questions regarding the pier; if not,
I am -- I have no more updates.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Hall.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Well, it's my understanding that the
rock-crushing site is clear.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Here we go. Full circle. That's
funny. But I did -- I did express my concerns that I don't want this
to turn into, you know, the park down there being a lay-down site, a
parking facility for workers that are -- they're traversing back and
forth on these barges. That I feel like, once again -- and I hate to say
it, but Del's is a piece of property that already has a parking lot, has a
large area of grassy area that -- if we do need to stage things in
cooperation with this. And the pier is just as important to the county
as it is to the city.
I wish we had more control over it to get the job done, but we
really don't other than some help. And we've already provided some
financial help through our tourism board. I think up to a
$2.9 million grant to get them moving in the right direction. You
know, it is a tourism driver, and, you know, our citizens use it just as
much as anybody else.
So I'd like to be a good partner in it. I'd like to have the ability
to do more, but we don't because it's in their jurisdiction.
But if that's something we do -- but I don't want our park to look
like a construction site. I don't want -- you know, I want minimal
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amount of impact on it. So if we can have a designated area to stage
things and their workers and their vehicles in and out type deal, so --
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Moving forward. Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: That's all I have.
County Attorney.
MR. KLATZKOW: Nothing, thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Commissioners.
Commissioner Hall, do you have anything?
COMMISSIONER HALL: I'm good to go. Thank you.
Good job today.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: It's not over.
Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yes. I wanted to just use
this time to clarify a couple of things that have been in the headlines
in my district that are significant, and I want to, you know, separate
rumor from fact just briefly.
But recently there's been some -- what I call sensational
headlines on two topics to basically, you know, incite a reaction from
citizens, and often these headlines are improper or filled with
misinformation. And I shot out a note yesterday to several of those
journalists and people who were doing that on social media, and the
two topics are Hideaway Beach/Tigertail and Costco.
So there's a lot of -- and the reason why I'm talking about this
now -- it has nothing to do with anybody in this room, but maybe
there's somebody on Zoom who is going to write another article to try
to, you know, pump up the masses with incorrect information. And
I'm using my newsletter. I responded to every citizen e-mail. I've
been all over social media. But, you know, I want to do the max to
correct the record so citizens know what's happening and what's not.
So when you see headlines that say, "Tigertail Beach under
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massive reconstruction again. County wasting tons of money.
What do you think?" The fact is, there's nothing happening out at
Tigertail that the county is doing. All the work's happening north of
Tigertail off of the coast of Hideaway Beach, and it's paid for
primarily by the Hideaway Beach tax district, which is money that
their residents put into a kitty and pay for on their own.
Now, they -- that tax district did come to us. I think late last
year or maybe early this year they came to the TDC to ask for a small
amount of money to augment their multi -- or their
multi-million-dollar investment on their own to complete a couple of
small components to basically do the job right because costs had
increased.
Why did we say yes to that at the TDC? Because everything
that Hideaway Beach is doing on their own and they've gotten the
permits, they've gotten the permission, whether we hate it or not, this
is their project. But the things that they've done to move some sand
around and make some repairs due to recent hurricanes and storms,
Tigertail Lagoon gets a positive residual effect, because anything
they can do to flow water in front of Hideaway Beach better -- water
flows downhill, and the downhill is Tigertail Lagoon. So the work's
being done at Hideaway. It's not being paid for by the county, but
we're getting some positive residual effects in Tigertail Lagoon,
which has been a mud puddle for many years because the water
hasn't been flowing and because sand has moved around.
But the other separating rumor from fact is, you know, a lot
of -- a lot of stones and spears have been thrown by journalists who
are uninformed and citizens who say, "Oh, my God, every year
they're doing something out on Tigertail," and it's really Hideaway
Beach and Sand Dollar Island, and how stupid that what they did last
year, it all got deteriorated and whatnot.
Is Andrew Miller here, or did he leave? So Andrew Miller is in
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charge of Coastal Zone Management for Collier County and does a
great job. One of the things I said to the journalist is, "Andrew and
his team are doing something on every beach every day all year
round whether we've had a hurricane or just a king tide. So we're
always adding sand. We're always restoring the beaches." It's not
that it happened -- we do it every 10 years when a Katrina or an Irma
or an Ian hits.
Even sometimes when we just have really bad rainstorms and
high tides and a lot of erosion, they're out there around the clock
keeping our beaches looking the way that they do. So it's really
irresponsible to say, "Oh, all this money is being wasted at Tigertail,
the county taxpayer dollars," where it's not. It's at Hideaway, and it's
their residents who are paying for it, and they're doing what's going to
probably happen every year, which is regular maintenance every time
sand moves.
Now, some people have chimed in and said, "Stupid county,
why don't they put, you know, rocks out there or seawall or this or
that?" And trust me, we're not sitting on our hands and we're not
stupid and neither is Hideaway. Turtles have a hard time climbing
rocks to lay eggs. All kinds of other things are negative effects by
environmental agencies that Hideaway Beach is working with to get
their permits approved.
So a lot of great ideas by people that know nothing about what
Hideaway Beach residents have worked so hard to do to their
community that they feel is right. Whether we do or not is
immaterial because the county isn't part of it. But we have seen the
residual positive effects of what they've done, so I wanted to mention
that.
The second thing is Costco. So when I see headlines that say,
"Costco aggressively moving forward and making progress" -- and
that's, of course, to incite the people who don't want a Costco in East
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Naples to go, "My God, stupid county. Don't they realize the traffic
and this and that and all that?"
And the reality is -- and I'm going to -- I'm going to read the
latest, hot off the presses, from our county staff. And I blasted it out
in e-mails yesterday. First, Costco hasn't even purchased the
property, okay. That's number one. Number two, they have to
submit a site development plan to the county staff that gets accepted.
They did submit one, and it was turned back, basically, to use citizen
terms, "disapproved" with lots of issues and whatnot, so it wasn't
something that's allowing them to move forward. So that's not true.
So, you know, like Commissioner Saunders says, words matter.
So when the headline makes it sound like they're aggressively in
overdrive -- I mean, I got e-mails from citizens that said, "Wow,
Commissioner, let me get you up to date, because obviously you're
disconnected on what's going on with Costco" -- and I think I
mentioned this here before. A cashier at the current Costco off Pine
Ridge said that everything's approved, they're putting shovels in the
ground, and it will be open next spring.
Wow, a whole bunch of people from Costco are going to jail
because they have no permits, haven't bought the property, haven't
brought us a Site Development Plan. And if any of us get questions
on how you feel about Costco, my answer always is, "I don't know
because I don't know what they're asking for." Yeah, I know what a
Costco looks like, but the Site Development Plan is much more
detailed, and it talks about all kinds of specifics that really give you
an educated view on, "Hey, does this thing really fit?"
And even some of the articles -- some of the misinformation
about, "Wow, don't they know it will increase traffic," and this and
that, all those -- the traffic analysis and fire and all those things we
look at for safety, those all come afterwards when we get a Site
Development Plan where we say, "Wow, this thing looks possible,"
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and we haven't gotten that.
So I don't know. None of us up here know what the traffic
numbers are. We need the experts to analyze it. And it might kill
the project if it's over and above what the roads can fit, or it might
help it move forward.
But right now Costco is in the exploratory phase. They're
talking with our county staff. Developers do that all the time, and
unbeknownst to citizens a lot of projects die on the vine.
Let me just read you -- to conclude here so hopefully journalists
that might being Zooming in -- and Mr. Jamie French is the person
you want to talk to because he owns the department that has all of the
components.
So rather than quote a commissioner and take all my words out
of context and make me sound like, you know, I'm uneducated and,
you know -- the second e-mail I got is, "You should join our bridge
club, Commissioner, because everyone at my bridge club knows
everything about Costco and when they're cutting the ribbon."
And I said, "Wow, that's some bridge club. I haven't seen them
in any of the discussions. Neither have I seen the cashiers."
But here's what I got from our staff just, you know, minutes ago.
Costco has submitted documents to the current Site Development
Plan, but it was marked as an incomplete submittal, okay.
The property is still listed under the ownership of Hacienda
Lakes. It has not been purchased. So you can't build anything or
put shovels in the ground or cut a ribbon if you don't own the
property, or you go to jail.
They were required to apply for a fueling facility -- basically a
gas station -- distance waiver that will go to an advertised public
hearing with the Hearing Examiner. The application and review
process has not been completed yet. The meeting will be scheduled
and advertised afterwards.
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They have informed us that they are planning on a neighborhood
information meeting on 2/18, February 18th. Those of you out there
that say, "Oh, my God, an information meeting, that's the final step,"
it's not. A NIM is so citizens can give their praise, their negativity,
their concerns. They will also hear from the Costco folks as to
what -- their request or what they're looking at.
And a lot of times the NIM does several things. It makes the
developer totally change their project because they got so much
valuable info from the community. It also can have them continue to
move forward and then finally give us a Site Development Plan that
has a much more educated design because of the neighborhood
information meeting, or at the NIM they could decide, "Wow, the
juice isn't worth the squeeze. We'll look somewhere else."
A lot of projects have died on the vine from NIMs that gave the
developer negative pushback that either slowed, stalled, or ended the
project.
So the NIM isn't just a -- or it just isn't a ceremonial step before
shovels go in the ground.
But it says here, "So a NIM on February 18th for only the
architectural deviations they are seeking that is not currently
supported by the PUD. The land use is already commercial."
So I've gotten so many e-mails that say, "Please don't rezone this
property so that Costco can build." A rezoning will never come to
this commission because that property is already zoned commercial.
And several, quote, journalists that have written articles with such
specificity need to understand that.
The use they are seeking is allowed. This is a -- is a PUD or an
insubstantial change to the PUD. This will go to the Hearing
Examiner as a public meeting as well.
And like I say, that just concerns the fuel stations. Many other
things we haven't even gotten. They're just trying to get a feel of is
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the fuel -- are the fuel stations a deal breaker or not? Are they in the
wrong spot under county code? Are they too close to other gas
stations?
And then finally it says, "No building permits have been
submitted." So not that no building permits haven't been approved,
haven't been submitted.
So it really does get my goat when, you know, I had a three-hour
town hall meeting at Henderson Creek, I had another one in
Goodland earlier this week. Mr. French and his team came with me.
I've got some other ones scheduled. And my biggest challenge right
now is to debunk all of these sensational articles trying to pump
people up about the wasted tax dollars at Tigertail and, you know,
Costco's on its way tomorrow because a cashier and a bridge club
have confirmed it.
And I wanted to just go on the record at this meeting to whoever
might be listening that we're watching this very closely. I don't
prematurely -- no commissioner up here prematurely gives their
stance on anything until we have all of the details and the facts.
So saying, you know, "Will you vote for Costco or not?" I
don't know. I don't know what's coming to us. Nothing may come
to us. They may go to this NIM and drop everything. They may go
to this NIM and realize they have to go back to the drawing board,
and since it's already zoned commercial, it won't need to be rezoned
if, in fact, they meet the requirements, the stringent requirements of
the county.
So if there's one journalist listening to this right now that's about
to write another incorrect article on all the stupid things we're doing
in Tigertail and how Costco is opening, you know, soon, it's very
premature, and you really need to do your homework to help inform
our citizens and not just write sensational articles that create hundreds
of misinformed e-mails to us and sell a lot of newspapers or maybe
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get you a lot of likes or a lot of hate emojis on social media off of
total misinformation.
So I'm available also to talk to anyone. I'm not throwing this on
Mr. French. But the journalists out there that are looking for the
specifics of the county's position, hopefully I've set the record
straight. And I will put this exact information in a newsletter that
we'll release this week, and I also sent out -- and Mr. French and his
whole team were on an e-mail that I sent out last night to two very
specific media people who are playing games with Costco and also
our -- or maybe they're just writing articles faster than they're doing
the homework about what's going on at Hideaway Beach and not
Tigertail.
And, lastly, I'll say more misinformation -- there's three things
out in the Hideaway/Tigertail area that keep being confused. You
have Hideaway Beach and Sand Dollar Island. That's basically off
of the Hideaway Beach community. Then you have Tigertail
Lagoon. So when you pull into the park and you park your car, the
first thing you see is a lagoon, and then on the other side of the
mangroves is Hideaway Beach. So many journalists and citizens
keep saying Hideaway Beach when they really mean lagoon.
Hideaway Lagoon when they really mean Hideaway -- or Tigertail
Lagoon when they really mean Hideaway Beach.
And, you know, I'm all for writing long articles in my newsletter
that goes to 80,000 subscribers, and I appreciate news media that are
helping to get the word out. But what I don't appreciate are
sensational headlines just to get readership that they've -- I asked the
county staff, "Have you been contacted by this reporter?"
"No."
So, you know, if you're getting all your information off
Facebook and Nextdoor, you might not have the details about two big
major things in my district that may or may not come, i.e., Costco, or
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what's really happening on Hideaway Beach and on Marco Island.
So I wanted to take this time. And I appreciate the chance to
expand on that on the record for whoever might be watching.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. Thank you.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. Well, first of all, I
want to just publicly announce Jamie French's personal cell phone.
They can just call him and not you.
And then number two, you know, the less attention we pay to
the media, the better off all of us are, in fact, going to be.
So I do have two things that I wish to bring up, if you'll indulge
me -- and you're slouching. Do you need a minute?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I was going to tell her she's going to
get a long break here in a few minutes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. We're going to give
her a long break, and I'll try to be brief.
Two things: I'd like Iandimarino and Jamie French to come up.
We -- and I just want to have a brief discussion today and see if
there's consensus to have a hearing at some time in the near future
with regard to our code enforcement. We have long gone on the
premise of reactionary code enforcement. They don't move unless
somebody files a complaint. Well, they do move. Don't take this
literally. You understand that, Thomas.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: We can give Tom's cell
phone, too.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, yeah. Make sure you
put yours up -- put his up on the screen, whoever's running the video.
But it has been the habit of our community to have a reactionary
code enforcement, and I -- and a balance needs to be sought. We're
not the Wild Wild West. People are coming in here from California,
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from the other coast, and they move to Golden Gate Estates, and
they're in the woods, and then they can do whatever they want, and
you can't.
And so my question is, if the Board is in the mood to have a
discussion with regard to how we can happily ramp up our code,
because I'm not all about more government by any stretch of the
imagination. And I know -- and a clarification in an actual hearing
with regard to the laws, what our code enforcement officers can and
cannot do, access visibility, that sort of thing.
And then -- and then have a discussion with these folks who are
in charge of all this as to how we can reach a happy balance, if you
will. Because I remember early on the County Attorney sharing,
"Well, our code enforcement is only -- has always been only
reactionary," and it can't be that way anymore. There has to be some
effort put in from our side to assist folks to come into compliance.
Jamie?
MR. FRENCH: I'm not quite certain if I want to speak, sir.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No. Did you -- and you
have to say your phone number first.
MR. FRENCH: No, I'm not doing that.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
MR. FRENCH: You wouldn't get me anyway, as most of you
know.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: 239 --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Are you okay with
the -- without belaboring the point -- we don't necessarily need to do
it today. Basically, are you okay with us bringing -- with me
bringing an agenda item forward and going through this?
MR. FRENCH: Yes, sir. And, again, for the record, my
name's Jamie French. I'm your department head for --
COMMISSIONER HALL: Everything.
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MR. FRENCH: -- Growth Management and Community
Development.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Everything.
MR. FRENCH: A growing group, we'll call them.
Nonetheless, sir, you as a Board have recognized some of the
consolidation, and through your ResourceX efforts that we've -- that
we've really focused on code enforcement as a -- looking at it
countywide, as all of our code efforts, to be more of that force
multiplier.
Now, clearly, we are not -- in any way, shape, or form do we
want to intimidate the public nor do we want to remove the quiet
enjoyment of their investment or their property, much less remove
the highest and best use that they seek for their property. We value
that as well.
And, currently, we run somewhere between 97 and 98 percent of
voluntary compliance based on the complaints we receive.
Now, as you mentioned, Commissioner, Chapter 162 of the
Florida Statute does require -- throughout the state of Florida, they've
preempted local government to say that unless it is a life-safety
concern, it -- we have to have a complainant, a validated
complainant.
And that does put the public at risk at times because what we do
see is some retaliatory efforts that occur to someone who had a
complaint called on them, then they turn around and they call on their
neighbors, their neighbor's friends, or on the community. And we
balance that very closely, the best to our ability.
But we would certainly love the opportunity to talk to you about
some of the programs we've got, what you've seen probably in your
budget in the last two years, and your last two fiscal years, with
regards to how you as a Board -- and even most recently on a
foreclosure of a home that was worth over $600,000, we collected
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our 200 and -- or quarter of a million dollars in back fines and liens,
and the property has been cleaned up down on Goodland. And I
know we've met with Commissioner LoCastro, some of his
constituents, and received nothing but, you know, praise, and that's
hard to do in some of these communities.
Nonetheless, we'd love to have the opportunity to come back,
talk to you about it, and maybe seek some of your guidance and
perhaps, you know, work more closely with the County
Attorney's -- not that we don't have a great relationship with Jeff's
office, but maybe to get some clarification from this board on what
you'd like us to see, what maybe the considerations of life safety
should be with regards to those things that would require a permit,
whether by state or by local.
And we know -- we know especially, you know, not -- and
Commissioner Kowal was dead on accurate as far as the California
numbers in 2021 and 2022. We recognize that the demographic of
our community has -- is continuing to change rapidly. And
through -- we also use that same regression modeling within my
group that Mike uses as we contemplate future growth, but it creates
future consideration for code efforts and other services that the
county brings forward.
So love to have a conversation with you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Great. And are you all okay
with doing that? That was my primary reason for bringing it up.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Did you have a comment to
him on the code enforcement before I go to my next --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I did. And it's more of an
update for all of you.
So Tom and Jamie and a few others came with me to a town hall
recently, as I said. I usually just do those town halls solo, but when I
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know that citizens have been reading all the media and Nextdoor and
we're trying to separate rumor from fact, it really does help when
senior leadership from the county comes. And you have such
credibility. I mean, look at that town hall, right, Tom? When we
left after three hours, you won't believe -- well, you would believe the
thanks e-mails I got from people that said, "Wow, thank you for
really correcting the record."
But the one thing I wanted to tell the other commissioners, if
you remember, it was last year or maybe even longer than that, I had
presented a stronger ordinance or directive, I should say -- I don't
believe it was an ordinance. It was a directive to our Code
Enforcement Board that our expectation was when people have fines,
that they don't come to the podium and say, "Well, you know, I did
the best I could," and instead of owing us 300,000, that the Code
Enforcement Board, they were sort of turning into Santa Claus where
these fines were all going from 300,000 to zero or, you know, there
was no in between.
And some of the reasons some of these people gave were pretty
thin. So we all said unanimously that we wanted direction to go to
the Code Enforcement Board, that we would like them to hold people
accountable in full because that's not county money that's coming to
us in fines, it's taxpayer money that then we utilize for lots of other
things.
So every time the Code Enforcement Board says, zero, zero,
zero, zero, that's money that's being thrown out the door, and then
sometimes we have a one-hour meeting here where we're trying to
find $50,000 to do something good. And I think I presented the
statistic that said, over the last few years, we had, like, 5 million in
codes or in fines, and we had only gotten, like, a few hundred
thousand dollars. It was something like that.
But what I want to tell the commissioners is that our unanimous
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direction to the Code Enforcement Board has been heard. The
person that I appointed on the Code Enforcement replies back to me
to just give them feedback, and he says, "Wow, we are operating
much differently." You know, just because you had a hangnail and
couldn't cut your grass, and it's 20 feet tall or, you know, you've got
the old sick grandmother -- we're very sincere to a realistic reply.
But, you know, some people, their reply is, "Well, that was the
previous owner. I bought the lot at a huge discount, but I don't think
I should have to pay the fine."
Just as we learned in Goodland due to Mr. Klatzkow's great
work, when we put a lien on that house, that $300,000 fine was paid
in full.
So I just wanted to say thank you, you know, very much, and
that the Code Enforcement Board is operating differently based on
our guidance, and actually, it was the county staff at one of the last
couple of meetings reiterated to them -- because I was getting reports
they were maybe sliding back to old ways and, you know, that has
been corrected.
So that's part of what we're talking about here, because it's real
money, and it's real things, and we want Code Enforcement to have,
you know, teeth but also, you know, to be cognizant of what people
do have, you know -- you know, very specific, you know, issues that
maybe have us readdress the fine, but it's not our default.
So anyway, thank you. And I appreciate, you know, all the
great words you said at the town hall that really educated that group
of citizens who turned out. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you, Jamie.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: My other point.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Go ahead. Sorry.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I'm sorry. Again, I
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wanted to be brief. I would like to know -- we already know that --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: She's tough. She's good.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So my other point is -- and it
has to do with fire. I would like to have a discussion. Dr. George
doesn't need to come to the podium today, but I have a -- I have a
map here of our county with our raw water lines and our
potable -- potable water lines throughout the community. We're
expanding this map.
And I'd like to have a discussion -- and I don't even know if
Amy knows about this yet. And certainly under the direction of the
County Manager and through Dr. George's office -- about a
countywide fire protection service, if you will.
We have municipal lines that run all through Golden Gate
Estates. Particularly right down Golden Gate Boulevard, there are
raw water lines for another municipality who have a policy that don't
allow for interconnection to assist us with fire suppression.
And so -- you telling me to hurry up? Really?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: This is fun up here.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It is, I mean --
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I have something to say today, too, so
I feel bad.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Do you really?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah. We'll get to it.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: That's what this meeting's
for, so we can --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Exactly.
The long and the short of it is is I would like to develop
this -- you know, we have to bring everything up to the Board, get
consensus, positive head nods. I'll work through this process and
bring back another item.
And what I'd like to do is establish a countywide fire protection
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curriculum, for lack of a better term. We've already got MOUs with
municipalities and fire departments and so on, but -- and the initiation
of this is -- and, again, we walk in faith, not fear. But the travesty
that's going on right now in California. We've already had our own
travesty, and we squeezed through that seven, eight years
ago -- seven years ago.
I don't want to squeeze through another one. There's no reason
for us to not have every available public asset available to protect our
community. There's no reason whatsoever. And so that's the
impetus of this.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Can I just ask you a
question?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Sure.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I know that Ms. Patterson's
been doing a lot of work working with our fire chiefs and the fire
commissioners to get an assessment of our fire stations. Even
though this is a little different, it's not. It falls under the umbrella of,
wow, we want, like you said, an overall assessment. Maybe at that
meeting -- and if you think it's inappropriate, you know, you're
making the proposal. But as a side briefing, just giving us an update
since we're all together, and the topic is fire, where we are, where
we're not, what stations we're looking at for possible expansion,
rebuild, new stations. You know, that might be a great meeting to
do that, you know, under that topic.
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. I actually have a meeting this
week with another one of the fire districts, so I'll be able to give you
an update.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Cool.
Now I am done.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: You're done. You weren't lit up.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I might, though.
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: You gave me the head nod.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It depends on what you have
to say.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Well, I do have a few
things I just want to touch on. It actually came out of the public
safety meeting last Friday. You know, I chaired it again this year.
Third year in a row. Typically I don't have a whole lot come out of
there. Most of the times things are handled in-house between mental
health, the courts, things of that nature. But this is something that I
think's going to fall back on us and we might want to get ahead of.
And in light of the regime change in Washington, D.C., and the
marching orders that everybody's publicly seeing on the news, and in
light of what's going on, you know, especially with the 130,000
deportation -- criminal alien deportation warrants that are active out
in our nation, and the reality is there's a percentage of them here in
Florida.
I don't have any hard numbers yet. I did have a meeting with
Undersheriff Bloom yesterday, and we discussed possibly -- because
if you're not aware, we participated back in the late 2000 -- 2008 or
2009, I believe it was. We were heavily participating the 287(g)
program.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We still do.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: And we still do. It's still an active
program but, of course, different regimes do certain funding or don't.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The second portion of that
deportation wasn't taken -- wasn't really going well --
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- but our sheriff's been doing
a great job.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: No, our sheriff is doing a great job.
It's just the fact that the feds have to accept the bodies. I hate to use
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that term, but that's the reality.
And over the last four years, it hasn't been a cooperation to
actually process. When we come across a criminal that commits a
crime here in Collier County, they are then taken to our jail. There's
an AFIS done. FCIC/NCIS check on every individual that enters the
jail system. And there's been -- and over the past four years, there
has been active warrants for these individuals for deportation. And
the process typically was they take that information. They do a
packet on it. The 287G, the individuals in the jail that are trained,
they start a process to -- for U.S. Customs and the ICE agents, and
then is has to go to the Krome, which is the federal holding facility
over in Miami. But they weren't accepting them.
So -- so over the last four years -- I don't have a hard number.
I'm sure we'll get an idea. And I don't want to quote anything or
misquote any number. But there was a lot over the last four, even
within the last year, that served their 30 days for petty theft or
whatever it was, driving without a license, and they had to be
released back into our community again, and they still have an
outstanding warrant because the feds wouldn't accept it.
That's going to change. I think we all see the writing on the
wall right now that that is not going to be the way it's going moving
forward.
So knowing there's a certain number out there and that our
discussion was that -- you know, we've had a -- just without even the
program, we've had a steady uptick over the past several years from
an average daily inmate count from, like, 650 to, like, right now we're
around 750 people, on average, a day within our jail system. Just
within that uptick naturally, because of population change, and
growth, you know, you're going to have more numbers.
But if we're going to possibly have a possibility -- which I'd like
Mr. Mullins, at some point, to come up here and explain what was
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going on in Tallahassee in a moment.
If -- I know it's going to be hard, yeah. He's Roman Catholic,
evidently.
But with that being said, there was probably, like, 11 counties
who participated in the jail side of that program and about five that
participated in the active investigative side. We were one of those
five of the active investigation, one of the 11. And even back then,
Krome was overwhelmed with the amount of warrants coming in for
deportation.
And from what -- in light of what the governor wanted to do,
Mr. Mullins can probably explain a little better than I did in what he
was trying to do this week, or attempted to do, was basically increase
the 67 counties participating.
So, Mr. Mullins, if you want to go ahead and bring everybody
up to speed on what --
MR. MULLINS: This is John Mullins, your director of
Communications, Government, and Public Affairs. And I will try to
do my best to do it in a nutshell.
Basically, the governor had called the legislature in previously
to act on immigration reforms. He had put together a package of
things that he would like to see the legislature consider.
The legislative decided to do pushback on that request, and
yesterday they convened in special session for the governor, based on
his call, and basically immediately adjourned that special session.
They then reconvened their own special session with their own
slate of ideas for immigration reform and advanced that policy
through.
Now, I can't give you a point-by-point comparison of what the
governor proposed and the legislature ended up advancing yesterday,
but I have that information, and I can get it to you quickly after this
meeting.
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, John.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: And it was quite a bit
different? I mean, do you know that for sure? It was --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Very different.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah, that's what I thought.
It was way different.
MR. MULLINS: There was quite a bit of back and forth
yesterday between the governor posting on social media and the
legislative leadership responding in writing and press releases. So it
depends on which camp you're in. If you're in camp legislature, you
may think their package is a little better. If you're in camp governor,
you probably think that that package is a little better. I think you just
really have to parse the details of both and determine what your point
of view is.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, John.
And where I'm going with this, I have -- you know, regardless of
where the State of Florida ends up in their policies on how much they
want to actively take a part in enforcing it, but I feel that our
sheriff -- I mean, I don't want to speak for our sheriff, but I feel we
are a law-and-order type community here and that I don't think we're
going to go against the federal government's demand for assistance
when it comes down to actually processing and detaining these
people with the active warrants, as in you see some of these sanctuary
cities that are pushing back that -- you know, the consequences aren't
going to be good because you just can't harbor an active -- a person
who has an active warrant from the federal government. We're
going to participate.
So that being said, we may be looking -- I don't know if we can
possibly get somebody -- a representative from the Sheriff's
Department to maybe give us a deeper dive on this at our next
meeting, I believe on -- the 11th is our next commission meeting?
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MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Because we're doing our legislative
trip on the 18th.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: So this may change some of our ask
moving forward, because I have a feeling that we're moving forward
reopening the stockade in Immokalee.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Perfect. Two hundred beds
out there.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: There's about 200, 250 beds in the
open-bay-type style, and what -- two things -- the problem is, if we
do, we may have certain things that we may have to do to bring it up
to speed to pass the inspection, because if we do use it for the
housing for the federal prisoners while they're in detention to wait to
go to Krome, they do an inspection process that requires -- and then
they reimburse the county for each person being held, and that's
something I think the Sheriff is going to enter into a renegotiation on
what that value is going to be for reimbursement, because I think in
the past it was around $71, and that's probably well low [sic] what it
would actually cost us to house an individual in population.
But -- so these are the type of things we may have to take into
consideration as quickly as maybe some asks for some grants
or -- who knows. Maybe we can get some partnership where
maybe -- because it's going to take manpower. And, you know, how
it works, we hire manpower for the maximum amount of prisoners
that are held, not the minimum. And even when we don't have the
maximum number, we don't lay these people off or fire them. We
have to keep them on hand.
So there may be a push to get manpower, too, because of the
population increase. Because we have no clue where it's going to go
with the legislators, if this is something that, you know, the rest of the
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counties are going to participate in or not, that's going to put a big
stress on the federal prison system here in Florida, and we may have
longer terms of holding these people on these warrants within our
own housing facilities.
So that being said, we may -- I mean, even if there's a possibility
to man it with some federal prison guards, you know, as a possible
staging area for these individuals while they're waiting, it may even
be something in the future. But I don't know. But this may change
our ask when we go to Tallahassee for some grant money to make
sure we're up to speed to get ahead of it before it becomes too late,
so...
And one other thing I know that came out of the meeting was
possibly looking at another master plan for the jail. I think
Commissioner Hall had mentioned something -- I heard you saying
something about the female dorm for the mental health dorm. I
actually had an opportunity to go in there the other day and check it
out.
Basically, it's not even a mental health dorm. They took a
normal pod, and they tried to convert it into a mental health dorm,
which we have an actual men's mental health dorm. Well, the way
it's designed is you have -- the CO sits in the middle, and they have a
nurse, and they have a station that they observe all the patients at the
time they're being held there under criminal charges. And they have
access, and they have views into the cells, and it's just a more
efficient type way.
And the female one is not like that, and it's just a normal pod
that has elevated cells, and that they've -- in the past they've actually
had people commit suicide by jumping from the balcony. They had
to go in and makeshift some fencing and weld some fencing up there
to keep that from happening.
And then we have a CO that actually just sits at a folding table
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right in the middle of the populated area, you know, amongst the
inmates, with a nurse.
So it's just not conducive to what a typical mental health jail cell
would be configured. So they're looking to do another master plan.
But they want to be part of, you know, whoever gets the contract to
do the design or the planning because they just don't want somebody
to come back and say, "Oh, just build another building," or "add on to
your building." They want to try to retrofit some empty space they
have. So I think we can do -- have us -- at least have their ideas,
their inputs on, you know, who we pick to do this master plan again,
because they haven't had one since 2016. So it might be time.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yep.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yes, Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I sat in when the Sheriff hired
the consultants from California to do the last master plan, and your
participation in the Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee is key to
success, because the entire master planning process deals only with
the adult population, the actual population that we have. Little
regard, if any, is given to the pipeline that feeds that adult population.
So as you're moving through this process, focus the energies on the
pipeline, then the necessity for attending the adult population, over
time, should reduce.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. We'll do that. So it's kind of
like full circle. We're kind of coming around.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah, it is. Imagine that.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: But if the Board would be okay if the
Sheriff or his representative, in the next meeting, bring forward some
hard numbers and what they feel they're going to need to move
forward to get ahead of this before it's too late, I'd like to have that
entertained, and that way we have the information before the 18th in
case we have to change our marching orders when we head up to
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Tallahassee.
But that's all I have.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Hit the gavel.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Anything else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Nothing? All right. I guess we're
adjourned.
*****
****Commissioner McDaniel moved, seconded by Commissioner
Hall, and carried that the following items under the consent and
summary agendas be approved and/or adopted****
Item #16A1
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER
UTILITY FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
AND APPURTENANT UTILITY EASEMENT FOR CAYMAS
PHASE ONE – PHASE 1E & 1F, PL20240006738 - FINAL
INSPECTION ON OCTOBER 14, 2024, FOUND THESE
FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A2
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER UTILITY
FACILITIES FOR NCH BUSINESS CENTER STERILE
PROCESSING DEPARTMENT, PL20240012598
Item #16A3
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RESOLUTION 2025-21: A RESOLUTION FOR FINAL
ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVATE ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE
IMPROVEMENTS AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE PLAT
DEDICATIONS FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF GREYHAWK AT
GOLF CLUB OF THE EVERGLADES PHASE 3, APPLICATION
NUMBER PL20180001192, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE
OF THE MAINTENANCE SECURITY IN THE AMOUNT OF
$119,996.59
Item #16A4
RESOLUTION 2025-22: 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 14, APPLICATION NUMBER
PL20190002012, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE
MAINTENANCE SECURITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $739,407.70
Item #16A5
THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE
BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,520, WHICH WAS POSTED AS
A DEVELOPMENT GUARANTEE FOR AN EARLY WORK
AUTHORIZATION (EWA) FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH
PRIMA AUTO CONDOS, PL20240009535
Item #16A6
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RECORDING THE PLAT OF SANTA BARBARA PLACE
VILLAS, APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT, AND
APPROVAL OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY IN THE
AMOUNT OF $995,967.50. (APPLICATION NUMBER
PL20240002384) - A SUBDIVISION OF LANDS LOCATED IN
SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 50 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST,
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
Item #16A7
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO REVIEW
AND APPROVE THE PROPOSED TEMPORARY USE (SPECIAL
EVENT) PERMIT FOR THE COUNTRY JAM CONCERT
PROPOSED FOR THE PARADISE COAST SPORTS COMPLEX
ON MARCH 1, 2025, LOCATED AT 3865 CITY GATE
BLVD S., NAPLES, FL 34117, IN SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 49
SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
Item #16A8
ARBORX INC., AS A QUALIFIED APPLICANT TO THE
COLLIER COUNTY BASIC INDUSTRY GROWTH PROMOTION
INCENTIVE PROGRAM AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN
TO EXECUTE THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT FOR PROJECT
“CARBO” AND APPROVE ALL NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENTS
Item #16A9
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A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT AND THE ROAD CLOSURES
THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR THE ANNUAL EVERGLADES
SEAFOOD FESTIVAL TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 5 – 10, 2024,
IN EVERGLADES CITY, IN ORDER TO FULFILL COLLIER
COUNTY’S SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT REQUIREMENTS FOR
ROAD CLOSURES - ROAD CLOSURES OF SECTIONS OF
COUNTY ROAD 29 (CR 29)
Item #16B1
THE PURCHASE OF A DRAINAGE EASEMENT (PARCEL
148DE) REQUIRED FOR THE WEST GOODLETTE-FRANK
ROAD AREA STORMWATER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
PHASE 2 (PROJECT NO. 60142). ESTIMATED FISCAL IMPACT:
$46,328
Item #16B2
AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF RIGHT OF WAY
(PARCEL 1364FEE) REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT
BEACH ROAD EXT – PHASE 2 PROJECT (PROJECT NO.
60249). ESTIMATED FISCAL IMPACT: $82,483
Item #16B3 – Continued to the February 11, 2025, Meeting (Per
Agenda Change Sheet)
PURCHASE AND SALES AGREEMENT WITH JOSEPH
D. STEWART, P.A. FOR THE PURCHASE OF UNIT 105, WHICH
IS THE LAST REMAINING AVAILABLE UNIT TO PURCHASE
OUT OF 18 CONDOMINIUM OFFICE UNITS WITHIN THE
COURT PLAZA III BUILDING SITUATED ON 1.17 IMPROVED
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ACRES ON AIRPORT ROAD SOUTH, ADJACENT TO THE
GOVERNMENT CENTER, FOR THE COMMUNITY & HUMAN
SERVICES DIVISION. (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO
Item #16B4)
Item #16B4 – Continued to the February 11, 2025, Meeting (Per
Agenda Change Sheet)
PURCHASE AND SALES AGREEMENT AND ADDENDUM
WITH BIGI & BIGI, LLC, THE PURCHASE OF 14 OUT OF 18
CONDOMINIUM OFFICE UNITS WITHIN THE COURT PLAZA
III BUILDING SITUATED ON 1.17 IMPROVED ACRES ON
AIRPORT ROAD SOUTH, ADJACENT TO THE GOVERNMENT
CENTER, FOR THE COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES
DIVISION, AND AUTHORIZE ANY ASSOCIATED BUDGET
AMENDMENTS. (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO Item #16B3)
Item #16B5
AWARD A WORK/PURCHASE ORDER FOR A REQUEST FOR
QUOTATION (“RFQ”) FOR THE 17TH STREET SW AT KEANE
AVENUE STORMWATER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT UNDER
AGREEMENT NO. 20-7800, “UNDERGROUND CONTRACTOR
SERVICES,” TO MITCHELL & STARK CONSTRUCTION, CO,
INC., IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $824,068.44, WHICH
INCLUDES A BASE BID AMOUNT OF $749,153.13 AND AN
OWNER’S ALLOWANCE OF $74,915.31, APPROVE THE
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED WORK/PURCHASE
ORDER. (PROJECT NUMBER 50238)
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Item #16B6
RESOLUTION 2025-23: A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE
CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE SECTION 5311 PUBLIC TRANSIT
GRANT AGREEMENT (FPN 410120-1-84-43) WITH THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO ACCEPT
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION GRANT FUNDING IN
THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $1,568,510 TO PROVIDE TRANSIT
SERVICE TO THE RURAL AREA OF COLLIER COUNTY, AND
TO AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS.
(CAT GRANT FUND 4031)
Item #16B7
A DONATION OF SAND FROM STEWART MATERIALS
RECEIVED BY COLLIER COUNTY IN ADVANCE OF
HURRICANE HELENE AND MILTON'S LANDFALLS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $25,968
Item #16B8
RESOLUTION 2025-24: A RESOLUTION AND DISTRICT
OFFICE LEASE AMENDMENT WITH CONGRESSMAN MARIO
DIAZ-BALART FOR ADDITIONAL COUNTY-OWNED OFFICE
SPACE. (2025-33)
Item #16B9
AWARD A WORK/PURCHASE ORDER FOR A REQUEST FOR
QUOTATION (“RFQ”) FOR THE 23RD STREET SW AT KEANE
AVENUE STORMWATER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT UNDER
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AGREEMENT NO. 20-7800, "UNDERGROUND CONTRACTOR
SERVICES," TO MITCHELL & STARK CONSTRUCTION, CO.,
INC., IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $879,811.90, WHICH
INCLUDES A BASE BID AMOUNT OF $799.829.00 AND AN
OWNER’S ALLOWANCE OF $79,982.90, APPROVE THE
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED PURCHASE ORDER.
(PROJECT NUMBER 50238) - AS DETAILED IN THE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16B10
WORK ORDER WITH HUMISTON & MOORE ENGINEERS TO
PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE
APPLICATION OF A MODIFICATION TO USACE PERMIT NO.
AJ-2004-07621(IP-MJD) TO ALLOW DREDGED SAND TO BE
PLACED ON DELNOR- WIGGINS STATE PARK BEACH,
UNDER THE CURRENT LIBRARY SERVICES CONTRACT 18-
7432-CZ FOR TIME AND MATERIAL ESTIMATED AT $21,245;
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE WORK
ORDER; AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS ITEM PROMOTES
TOURISM
Item #16B11
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 24-8325,
“CONCRETE: SIDEWALKS, CURBS & GUTTERS, AND
RELATED ITEMS,” TO PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE, LLC
(PRIMARY), NATIONAL TRAFFIC SOLUTION, INC.
(SECONDARY), AND COASTAL CONCRETE PRODUCTS,
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LLC, D/B/A COASTAL SITE DEVELOPMENT (TERTIARY),
AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE
ATTACHED AGREEMENTS
Item #16B12
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 24-8290
“IRRIGATION PUMP STATION MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS,
AND SERVICES” TO AGRICULTURAL SERVICES
INTERNATIONAL, LLC, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN
TO SIGN THE AGREEMENT - TO OBTAIN SERVICES FROM A
CONTRACTOR FOR PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE,
REPAIRS, AND SERVICES FOR IRRIGATION PUMP STATIONS.
Item #16C1
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AS EX-OFFICIO
THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE COLLIER COUNTY
WATER-SEWER DISTRICT (CCWSD), AWARD INVITATION TO
BID (“ITB”) #24-8228, “CRANE RENTAL SERVICES,” TO
MAXIM CRANE WORKS, L.P., AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT
Item #16D1
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 24-8294, “SENIOR
MEAL PROGRAM,” TO G.A. FOOD SERVICES OF PINELLAS
COUNTY, LLC, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN
THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT - TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE
HOME DELIVERED AND CONGREGATE MEAL SERVICES
FOR THE SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAM FURTHERING THE
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COUNTY’S STRATEGIC PLAN THROUGH IMPROVING
ACCESS TO HEALTH, WELLNESS, AND HUMAN SERVICE
Item #16D2
RESOLUTION 2025-25: APPROVED TECHNICAL REVISIONS
AND CLARIFYING LANGUAGE TO THE COLLIER COUNTY
STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP LOCAL
HOUSING ASSISTANCE PLAN FOR FISCAL YEARS 2022-2023,
2023-2024, AND 2024-2025 DISASTER ASSISTANCE AND
RENTAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES; AND A SHIP FY
2021/2022 EXPENDITURE EXTENSION TO JUNE 30, 2025.
(SHIP GRANT FUND 1053)
Item #16D3
A STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP)
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) BETWEEN
COLLIER COUNTY AND MHP FL VII, LLLP TO FURTHER
AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIATIVES THROUGH A
$1,246,600.80 IMPACT FEE LOAN FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION
OF RENTAL HOUSING UNITS AT THE EKO CADENZA
DEVELOPMENT AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER
OR DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL SHIP-RELATED
SUBORDINATION AGREEMENTS FOR THIS PROPERTY IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE MOU. (SHIP GRANT FUND 1053)
Item #16E1
A THIRD AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT NO. 15-6474R,
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“MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR COLLIER COUNTY AND
EMPLOYMENT PHYSICALS AND DRUG TESTING,”
WITH ADVANCE MEDICAL OF NAPLES, LLC
Item #16E2
THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PREPARED BY THE
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR VARIOUS
COUNTY DIVISIONS’ AFTER-THE-FACT PURCHASES
REQUIRING BOARD APPROVAL IN ACCORDANCE WITH
PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE 2017-08, AS AMENDED, AND
THE PROCUREMENT MANUAL, IN THE AMOUNT OF
$49,613.51
Item #16E3
THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PREPARED BY THE
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR VARIOUS
COUNTY DIVISIONS’ AFTER-THE-FACT PURCHASES
REQUIRING BOARD APPROVAL IN ACCORDANCE WITH
PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE 2017-08, AS AMENDED, AND
THE PROCUREMENT MANUAL, IN THE AMOUNT OF
$18,129.87
Item #16E4
RATIFY PROPERTY, CASUALTY, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
AND SUBROGATION CLAIM FILES SETTLED AND/OR
CLOSED BY THE RISK MANAGEMENT DIVISION DIRECTOR
PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 04-15 FOR THE FIRST
QUARTER OF FY 25
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Item #16E5
THIRD EXTENSION AND AMENDMENT TO THE SERVICE-
LEARNING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE FLORIDA GULF
COAST UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND THE
COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THROUGH JANUARY 24, 2029 - TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE
OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDENTS AT FLORIDA GULF COAST
UNIVERSITY (FGCU)
Item #16E6
ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT ASSIGNING ALL RIGHTS,
DUTIES, BENEFITS, AND OBLIGATIONS TO INTEGRITY
ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LLC, CONCERNING
AGREEMENT NO. 18-7432-SW, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
LIBRARY SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
ENGINEERING CATEGORY.”
Item #16E7
MODIFICATIONS TO THE 2025 FISCAL YEAR PAY &
CLASSIFICATION PLAN WHICH CONSISTS OF TWO NEW
CLASSIFICATIONS, TWO RECLASSIFICATIONS, AND
REMOVAL OF ONE OBSOLETE CLASSIFICATION FROM
OCTOBER 1, 2024, THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2024
Item #16F1
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EXPENDITURE OF UP TO $10,000 OF TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT TAX (TDT) PROMOTION FUNDS TO
SUPPORT THE UPCOMING MARCH 2025 TRILOGY
LACROSSE EVENT AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THESE
EXPENDITURES PROMOTE TOURISM
Item #16F2
THE USE OF THE PARADISE COAST SPORTS COMPLEX FOR
THE PURPOSE OF A CIVILIAN LANDING SITE BY THE
UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES FOR A LACROSSE GAME,
AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENT
Item #16F3
RENEW THE ANNUAL CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC
CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY (COPCN) FOR JUST LIKE
FAMILY CONCIERGE MEDICAL TRANSPORT SERVICES,
D/B/A BREWSTER AMBULANCE SERVICE, TO PROVIDE
CLASS 2 ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT (ALS) INTER-FACILITY
TRANSPORT AMBULANCE SERVICE FOR A PERIOD OF ONE
YEAR
Item #16F4
RESOLUTION 2025-26: A RESOLUTION APPROVING
AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS,
CONTRIBUTIONS OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE
FISCAL YEAR 2024-25 ADOPTED BUDGET. (THE BUDGET
AMENDMENTS IN THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION HAVE
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BEEN REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS VIA SEPARATE EXECUTIVE
SUMMARIES.)
Item #16F5
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 24-8314,
CONSTRUCTION OF THE BIG CORKSCREW ISLAND
REGIONAL PARK PHASE 2A SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION
ON OIL WELL ROAD AT BIG CORKSCREW DRIVE, TO
QUALITY ENTERPRISES USA, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF
$2,442,394.00, APPROVE A $200,000.00 OWNER’S
ALLOWANCE, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN
TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT. (PROJECT NO. 80039)
Item #16F6 – (Continued to a Future Meeting, Per Agenda Change
Sheet)
CHANGE ORDER NO. 1, ADDING 180 DAYS TO THE PROJECT
TIME UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 22-7951 WITH CHRIS -TEL
COMPANY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, INC., D/B/A CHRIS-
TEL CONSTRUCTION, TO SUPPORT THE REMAINING PRE-
CONSTRUCTION SERVICES FOR THE COURTHOUSE MULTI-
PROJECT EXECUTION CONTRACT, AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED CHANGE ORDER.
(PROJECT NO. 50235)
Item #16F7
CHANGE ORDER NO. 6, ADDING $98,582.08 TO THE
CONTRACT AMOUNT UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 22-7960
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WITH WAYPOINT CONTRACTING, INC., FOR THE COLLIER
COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICE CENTER EAST BAY
ENCLOSURE, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN
THE ATTACHED CHANGE ORDER. (PROJECT NO.
50390)
Item #16G1
CHANGE ORDER NO. 2, ADDING FOUR DAYS TO THE
CONTRACT TIME AND USE $12,626.46 FROM THE OWNER'S
ALLOWANCE FOR WORK DIRECTIVE #2 UNDER
AGREEMENT NO. 23-8120 (PURCHASE ORDER 4500229417)
WITH DEC CONTRACTING GROUP, INC., FOR THE “BULK
AIRCRAFT HANGAR AT MARCO ISLAND EXECUTIVE
AIRPORT,” AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE
ATTACHED CHANGE ORDER. (PROJECT NO. 33822)
Item #16J1
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 $48,183,993.95 WERE DRAWN FOR THE
PERIODS BETWEEN JANUARY 2, 2025, AND JANUARY 15,
2025, PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06
Item #16J2
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THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE VALID PUBLIC
PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING
CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF JANUARY 22, 2025
Item #16K1
THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO MAKE A SETTLEMENT OFFER
OF $15,000, AS A NUISANCE THRESHOLD FOR LITIGATION
STRATEGY PURPOSES, IN THE MATTER STYLED TERRI
HOHMANN DAKAN ET AL. V. COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, CASE NO. 23-CA-2715, PENDING
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
Item #16K2
AN INSURANCE SETTLEMENT WHEREBY THE COUNTY
WILL RECEIVE $9,157.44 TO SETTLE AND RELEASE THE
COUNTY’S CLAIM AGAINST EVANGELINA SIERRA HAVRAN
FOR COSTS INCURRED TO REPLACE A DAMAGED LIGHT
POLE, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER OR
DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE THE RELEASE
Item #16K3
RESOLUTION 2025-27: A RESOLUTION REAPPOINTING TWO
MEMBERS TO THE LAND ACQUISITION ADVISORY
COMMITTEE – APPOINTING RHYS WATKINS AND MICHELE
LENHARD WITH TERMS EXPIRING ON FEBRUARY 11, 2028
Item #16K4
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AN AMENDMENT TO A MEDIATED PARTIAL SETTLEMENT
AGREEMENT WITH QUALITY ENTERPRISES USA, INC.,
CONCERNING DESIGN-BUILD AGREEMENT NO. 20-7708,
PERTAINING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE VETERAN’S
MEMORIAL BOULEVARD EXTENSION PHASE I PROJECT,
AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE
ATTACHED AMENDED PARTIAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
Item #17A
ORDINANCE 2025- 05: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE
COLLIER COUNTY GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN TO
CREATE THE TAMIAMI TRAIL GREENWAY ROAD MIXED
USE SUBDISTRICT, TO ALLOW CONSTRUCTION OF 300
MULTI-FAMILY RENTAL UNITS WITH AFFORDABLE
HOUSING AND UP TO 64,000 SQUARE FEET OF GROSS
FLOOR AREA OF COMMERCIAL INTERMEDIATE, C-3
ZONING DISTRICT USES, AND FURTHERMORE DIRECTING
TRANSMITTAL OF THE ADOPTED AMENDMENT TO THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. THE SUBJECT
PROPERTY IS LOCATED NORTH OF TAMIAMI TRAIL EAST,
APPROXIMATELY 441 FEET WEST OF INTERSECTION OF
TAMIAMI TRAIL EAST AND GREENWAY ROAD, IN SECTION
12, TOWNSHIP 51 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA, CONSISTING OF 24.41± ACRES.
PL20230008643- (GMPA) (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO
ITEM #17B)
Item #17B
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ORDINANCE 2025-06: AN ORDINANCE REZONING
PROPERTY FROM A RURAL AGRICULTURAL (A) ZONING
DISTRICT PARTLY WITH AN AIRPORT ZONING OVERLAY TO
A MIXED USE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (MPUD)
ZONING DISTRICT PARTLY WITH AN AIRPORT ZONING
OVERLAY FOR A PROJECT TO BE KNOWN AS TAMIAMI
TRAIL GREENWAY ROAD MPUD TO ALLOW DEVELOPMENT
OF UP TO 300 MULTI- FAMILY RENTAL UNITS WITH
AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND UP TO 64,000 SQUARE FEET
OF GROSS FLOOR AREA OF COMMERCIAL INTERMEDIATE
(C-3) ZONING DISTRICT USES ON PROPERTY LOCATED
NORTH OF TAMIAMI TRAIL EAST, APPROXIMATELY 441
FEET WEST OF INTERSECTION OF TAMIAMI TRAIL EAST
AND GREENWAY ROAD, IN SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 51
SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST; CONSISTING OF 24.41± ACRES.
(THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO ITEM #17A)
Item #17C
RESOLUTION 2025-28: A RESOLUTION APPROVING
AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD,
TRANSFERS AND SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE) TO THE
FISCAL YEAR 2024-25 ADOPTED BUDGET. (THE BUDGET
AMENDMENTS IN THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION HAVE
BEEN REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS VIA SEPARATE EXECUTIVE
SUMMARIES.)
Item #17D - (Continued to the February 11, 2025, BCC Meeting)
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RECOMMENDATION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE TO
ESTABLISH PROVISIONS FOR FOOD TRUCK PARKS AND
MOBILE FOOD DISPENSING VEHICLES. (SECOND OF TWO
HEARINGS) (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO 17E) (2024-
2205)
Item #17E - (Continued to the February 11, 2025, BCC Meeting)
RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE A RESOLUTION OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE
CODE FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT, WHICH WAS CREATED
BY ORDINANCE NO. 2013-57, BY AMENDING THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES TO CREATE AN
APPLICATION FOR MOBILE FOOD DISPENSING VEHICLES,
PERMANENT, PERMIT. (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO 17D)
(2024-2224)
Item #17F – (Continued from the January 14, 2025, BCC Meeting,
And further continued and to be readvertised.
RECOMMENDATION TO REPEAL AND REPLACE
PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE NO. 2013-69, AS AMENDED,
WITH THE ATTACHED UPDATED PROCUREMENT
ORDINANCE. (2025-320)
January 28, 2025
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 1 :00 p.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL
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BURT SAUNDERS, CHAIRMAN
ATTEST
gC, Y,STAL K. KINZEL, CLERK
These minutes approve by the Board on 1 ? I c 5 ,
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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