BCC Minutes 06/24/2025 (Draft) June 24, 2025
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, June 24, 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: Burt L. Saunders
Chris Hall
Rick LoCastro
William L. McDaniel, Jr.
Dan Kowal (Absent)
ALSO PRESENT:
Amy Patterson, County Manager
Ed Finn, Deputy County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Crystal K. Kinzel, Clerk
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
June 24, 2025
9:00 AM
Commissioner Burt Saunders, District 3; – Chair
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 HEARD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
MEETING FOLLOWING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
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ANYONE WISHING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON PUBLIC PETITION MUST
SUBMIT THE REQUEST IN WRITING TO THE COUNTY MANAGER AT
LEAST 13 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE MEETING. THE REQUEST
SHALL PROVIDE DETAILED INFORMATION AS TO THE NATURE OF THE
PETITION. THE PUBLIC PETITION MAY NOT INVOLVE A MATTER ON A
FUTURE BOARD AGENDA AND MUST CONCERN A MATTER IN WHICH
THE BOARD CAN TAKE ACTION. PUBLIC PETITIONS ARE LIMITED TO A
SINGLE PRESENTER, WITH A MAXIMUM TIME OF TEN MINUTES, UNLESS
EXTENDED BY THE CHAIR. SHOULD THE PETITION BE GRANTED, THE
ITEM WILL BE PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA FOR A PUBLIC HEARING.
ANYONE WISHING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT
ON THIS AGENDA OR A FUTURE AGENDA MUST REGISTER TO SPEAK
PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION OF THE AGENDA BEING
CALLED BY THE CHAIR. SPEAKERS WILL BE LIMITED TO THREE
MINUTES, AND NO ADDITIONAL MINUTES MAY BE CEDED TO THE
SPEAKER. AT THE CHAIR’S DISCRETION, THE NUMBER OF PUBLIC
SPEAKERS MAY BE LIMITED TO 5 FOR THAT MEETING.
ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD
WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING PERTAINING THERETO,
AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF
THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE
TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 2003-53 AS AMENDED BY
ORDINANCE 2004-05 AND 2007-24, REQUIRES THAT ALL LOBBYISTS
SHALL, BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY LOBBYING ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDRESSI NG THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS), REGISTER WITH THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AT THE
BOARD MINUTES AND RECORDS DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY
ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING,
YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN
ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT DIVISION LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL, SUITE
1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380.
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LUNCH RECESS SCHEDULED FOR 12:00 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Invocation: Pastor Tim Reed - Fairway Bible Church ||| Pledge of Allegiance:
Daughters of the American Revolution
2. AGENDA AND MINUTES
Approval of today's Regular, Consent, and Summary agenda as amended (ex-parte
disclosure provided by Commission members for Consent agenda.)
A. May 27, 2025, BCC Minutes
3. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
A. EMPLOYEE
1) 20 YEAR ATTENDEES
a) Stephen Athey - Code Enforcement
b) Barbara Shea - Pelican Bay Services
2) 25 YEAR ATTENDEES
a) Christie Betancourt - Community Redevelopment Area
b) Salma Nader Preston - Operations & Performance
Management
c) Philip Snyderburn - Solid & Hazardous Waste Management
3) 30 YEAR ATTENDEES
a) Carolann Adams - Library
4) 35 YEAR ATTENDEES
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4. PROCLAMATIONS
A. Proclamation honoring America's 250th Anniversary on July 4, 2026, and
recognition of DAR monument donation. To be accepted by Candice
Sebring-Keller, representing the Naples-on-the-Gulf Chapter of the DAR
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. Recommendation to approve Resolutions of the Board of County
Commissioners proposing amendments to the Collier County Growth
Management Plan, to create the Greenway-Fritchey Residential Overlay, to
allow a maximum of 1,299 single family and multifamily residential units
with housing that is affordable; and allow the reduction in the littoral shelf
planting requirements. The subject property is located at the northeastern
intersection of Greenway Road and Fritchey Road, approximately a half
mile north of Tamiami Trail East (US 41), in Section 7, Township 51 South,
Range 27 East, Collier County, Florida, consisting of approximately 227.09
acres. (Transmittal Hearing) [PL20220002063]
10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT
A. Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as the ex officio
Governing Board of the Collier County Water Sewer District, approve
Amendment No. 10 to Agreement No. 04-3673, with Carollo Engineers,
Inc., for Professional Engineering Services for Design of the Northeast
Water Reclamation Facility and Water Treatment Plant project, updating and
finalizing the construction plans, specifications, and bid documents,
amending the Consultant’s rates to provide an adjustment based on the
applicable Consumer Price Index increase, approving the necessary Budget
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Amendment, and authorizing the Chairman to sign the Amendment for the
net amount of $11,682,939.17. (Project Number 70194)
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
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16. CONSENT AGENDA - All matters listed under this item are considered to be
routine and action will be taken by one motion without separate discussion of
each item. If discussion is desired by a member of the Board, that item(s) will
be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered separately.
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A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) This item requires that ex-parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the plat of Terreno at Valencia Golf and
Country Club – Phase 4 (Application Number PL20240001645),
approval of the standard form Construction and Maintenance
Agreement, and approval of the performance security in the amount of
$4,920,187.06.
2) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the sewer utility
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facilities for NCH North Naples Medical Park, PL20250001295.
3) 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 for Caymas Phase II – Phase 1A,
PL20240010875.
4) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a
Performance Bond in the amount of $1,000,000, which was posted as
a guaranty for Excavation Permit Number PL20210002363 for work
associated with the Terreno at Valencia Golf and Country Club Phase
1.
5) Recommendation to waive the nighttime hearing requirement and hear
a Land Development Code amendment related to the Rural Lands
Stewardship Area Zoning Overlay District (RLSA District) at two
regularly scheduled daytime Board of County Commissioners
meetings and approve a request to advertise the Land Development
Code Amendment, PL20220003445.
6) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a
Performance Bond in the amount of $56,600, which was posted as a
development guaranty for an Early Work Authorization (EWA) for
work associated with Avalon North at Ave Maria - Model Park,
PL20240013711.
7) Recommendation to direct staff to advertise and bring back an
Ordinance amending the Land Development Code to allow an
applicant of a land use petition that requires a Neighborhood
Information Meeting (NIM) the option of advertising the NIM on the
County Clerk's, PL20250000524.
8) Recommendation to hear a Land Development Code amendment
related to floating solar facilities at two regularly scheduled daytime
hearings and to waive the nighttime hearing requirement.
9) This item requires that ex-parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the plat of Seven Shores – Phase 3 (Application
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Number PL20240009867), approval of the standard form
Construction and Maintenance Agreement, and approval of the
performance security in the amount of $2,797,624.86.
B. TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to ratify administratively approved Change Order
No. 1 under Agreement No. 24-8213, to add thirty days to the contract
time and add $150,510.00 of funds utilizing the FY2025 Critical
Bridge Repairs Programs and the Project Allowance from bridge
034048 to complete and pay for additional work on the Randall
Boulevard at GG Main Canal Bridge Project as a result of a car crash,
and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached Change Order.
(Project No. 66066)
2) Recommendation to approve an after-the-fact payment of $103,572.26
to Horsepower Electric, Inc., for the "Signal Hardening at Airport Rd
& Poinciana Elementary School" project.
3) Recommendation to approve Collier Area Transit (CAT) Public
Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Update in accordance
with Final Rule 49 C.F.R. Part 673 requirements.
4) Recommendation to approve the selection committee’s ranking and
authorize staff to begin contract negotiations with Kimley-Horn and
Associates, Inc., related to RPS No. 24-8310, Design Services for
“Four-Point Roundabout Immokalee Road at Camp Keais Road” so
that a proposed agreement can be brought to the Board for
consideration at a future meeting.
C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as the ex
officio Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer District,
award Invitation to Bid No. 25-8338 to Powerserve Technologies,
Inc., for the SCRWTP Electrical Reliability Phase IIA project, in the
amount of $4,765,400, authorize an Owner’s Allowance of $100,000,
approve the necessary Budget Amendment, and authorize the
Chairman to sign the attached Agreement. (Project No. 70069)
2) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as the ex
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officio Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer District,
award Invitation to Bid No. 25-8339 to Powerserve Technologies,
Inc., for the SCRWTP Electrical Reliability Phase IIB project in the
amount of $2,935,000, authorize an Owner’s Allowance of $100,000,
and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached Agreement. (Project
No. 70069)
3) Recommendation to approve Amendment No.3 to Agreement No. 22-
8000 with Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLC, for Quicklime
supply for the Collier County Water-Sewer District, to increase the fee
schedule prices, and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached
Amendment.
4) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as the ex
officio Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer District,
approve Change Order No. 1 to Agreement No. 20-7722-NS, with
AECOM Technical Services, Inc., for the NCWRF Headworks
Facility project, adding 349 days to Tasks 1 through 6, reallocating
$272,893 from design and procurement tasks to construction related
services tasks, and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached
Change Order. (Project No. 70149)
5) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as the ex
officio Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer District,
ratify administratively approved Change Order No. 4 to Agreement
No. 23-8116, with Poole & Kent Company of Florida, for the
NCWRF Pretreatment Facility project, adding seventeen days to the
contract time, approving the use of $302,321.39 of the Owner’s
Allowance, and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached Change
Order. (Project No. 70149)
D. PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve and authorize a Budget Amendment to
recognize interest earned, in the amount of $4,300.74, for December
2024 through March 2025 on advanced library funding received from
the Florida Department of State to support library services for the use
of Collier County residents. (Public Service Match Fund 1840)
2) Recommendation to accept the FY24-25 State Aid to Libraries Grant
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funding, in the amount of $129,213, and authorize the necessary
Budget Amendment. (Public Service Grant Fund (1839), Project
33943)
3) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign the Third
Amendment to the agreement between Collier County and the Florida
Department of State Division of Historical Resources for the
restoration of the historic cottages at Mar-Good Harbor Park to extend
the period of performance to December 31, 2025. (Public Service
Grant Fund 1839 and Public Service Match Fund 1840)
4) Recommendation to authorize the necessary Budget Amendments to
reflect the estimated funding for FY25-26 Community Care for the
Elderly, Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative, and Home Care for the
Elderly programs, in the amount of $2,518,822; $17,786 in estimated
co-payment contributions, and the estimated cash match of $20,000.
(Fiscal Impact $2,556,608, Human Services Grant Fund 1837)
5) Recommendation to authorize the necessary Budget Amendment to
reflect the estimated funding for the FY25- 26 Emergency Home
Assistance Program in the amount of $110,453.60. (Fiscal Impact
$110,453.60, Human Services Grant Fund 1837)
6) Recommendation to approve a Resolution to authorize continued
participation in the Local Provider Participation Fund for the Directed
Payment Program and Graduate Medical Education Program, which
will be solely funded by assessments on Collier County hospital-
owned property or property used as a hospital in an amount of 1.74%
of net inpatient revenue and 2.81% of net outpatient revenue.
7) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign the First
Amendment to the subrecipient agreement between Collier County
and Housing Development Corporation Inc., d/b/a HELP, to amend
Community Development Block Grant Agreement #PS24-02 to
increase the project budget by $12,326.92, revise grant language, and
update County contact information. (Housing Grant Fund 1835)
8) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign the
Second Community Development Block Grant Amendment between
Collier County and Baker Senior Center Inc., (#PS24-04) to increase
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the project budget by $27,499.97, revise grant language, and update
exhibits required. (Housing Grant Fund 1835, Project 33915)
E. CORPORATE BUSINESS OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 24-8301
“Medium Duty Towing & Transport Services” to Prompt Wrecker
Service and Sales, Inc., d/b/a Prompt Towing Service ("Prompt
Towing Service") and authorize the Chair to sign the attached
Agreement.
2) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 24-8302,
“Heavy Duty Towing & Transport Services,” to Prompt Wrecker
Service and Sales, Inc., d/b/a Prompt Towing Service ("Prompt
Towing Service") and authorize the Chair to sign the attached
Agreement.
3) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid No. 24-8305,
“Automotive & Equipment Batteries,” to Battery USA, Inc., for the
purchase of automotive and equipment batteries to support County
operations, and authorize the Chair to sign the attached Agreement.
F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to authorize two Budget Amendments. The first
reallocates $1,036,561.90 from reserves in Fund EMS (4050) to EMS
Capital Fund (4055) to support the purchase of medical stretchers. The
second transfers funds remaining in Project 31455 (Fund 4055) in the
amount of $622,168.45 to Project 50236 to align with current
emergency medical services capital needs.
2) Recommendation to authorize a final payment in the amount of
$115,155.74 under Agreement No. 21-7833 with Compass
Construction, Inc., which reflects the County’s withholding of
$39,390, and find this expenditure has a valid public purpose to close
out the “Golden Gate Community Park Activity Pool Reconstruction
and Restroom Alteration” project. (Project No. 80405)
3) Recommendation to approve Change Order No. 20 reallocating
$50,000 from the building permit fees and $34,785.76 from P&P
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Bonds, and ratify administrative approval of ninety days to the
Substantial Completion and allowing for the utilization of $98,350.34
of the Contingency funding for Purchase Order No. 4500229878,
under Agreement No. 21-7883-ST with O-A-K/Florida, Inc., d/b/a
Owen-Ames-Kimball Company, for the Main Campus Upgrades, and
authorize the Chair to sign the attached Change Order. (Project No.
50214)
4) Recommendation to approve the issuance of a Purchase Order for a
quotation in the amount of $425,700 under Multi-Contractor Award
Agreement No. 19-7525 to Capital Contractors, LLC for the
Restoration of Historic Structures at the Immokalee Pioneer Museum
at Roberts Ranch, plus an Owner’s Allowance of $49,644.21 that will
be included in the Purchase Order. (Project No. 50516)
5) Recommendation to ratify administratively approved Change Order
No. 1 under Agreement No. 20-7817, “CEI Services for Pelican Bay
Sidewalk Improvements,” to Johnson Engineering, Inc., adding
$49,906 for additional construction inspection services and 365
additional contract days during the extended Phase 2 construction
period, approve the necessary Budget Amendment, and authorize the
Chair to sign the attached Change Order. (Project 50212)
6) Recommendation to approve the Fourth Amendment to Radio Tower
Lease Agreement 787-C with Crown Castle GT Company LLC,
authorizing Collier County to continue the operation of public safety
communication equipment installed at 1899 Trade Center Way,
Naples, Florida 34109.
7) Recommendation to approve a Fifth Amendment to Radio Tower
Lease Agreement 787-B with Crown Castle GT Company LLC,
authorizing Collier County to continue the operation of public safety
equipment at 15571 Tamiami Trail East, Naples, FL 34114.
8) 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
approved by the Board of County Commissioners via separate
Executive Summaries.)
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G. AIRPORT AUTHORITY
H. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
I. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
1) Miscellaneous Correspondence June 24, 2025
J. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
1) To record in the minutes of the Board of County Commissioners, the
check number (or other payment method), amount, payee, and
purpose for which the referenced disbursements in the amount of
$79,623,508.15 were drawn for the periods between May 29, 2025,
and June 11, 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 June 18,
2025.
3) Budget Amendment recognizing $2,249,600 in revenues and
expenditures in the Sheriff's FY2025 General Fund Budget
K. COUNTY ATTORNEY
1) Recommendation to authorize the County Attorney to file a lawsuit on
behalf of Collier County Board of County Commissioners against All
Wired Communications, Inc. and any other responsible parties for
$101,238.04 in damages caused to eleven 6-inch wastewater lateral
pipelines located at or near 91st Avenue N., 92nd Avenue N., 93rd
Avenue N. and 6th Street N.
2) Recommendation to reappoint Todd Allen and Stephen Jaron to the
Contractors Licensing Board.
3) That the Board of County Commissioners, sitting as the Collier
County Community Redevelopment Agency, adopts Staff’s
Recommendation on appointments of the initial membership and
terms for the newly formed Immokalee Community Redevelopment
Board and directs the County Attorney to prepare and process a
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Resolution memorializing these appointments.
4) Recommendation to provide direction to staff to advertise an
ordinance to amend the Collier County Parking, Storage and Use of
Vehicle Control Ordinance codified in the Code of Laws and
Ordinances to provide limitations on the parking and/or storing of
commercial motor vehicles and commercial equipment in residential
areas including the Estates zoning district.
5) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the District School
Board of Collier County and the Collier County Sheriff’s Office
concerning School Resource Officers within Collier County schools.
6) Report to Board on issues raised by Mr. Dan Schmidt during the
Public Comment portion of the Board’s June 10, 2025, meeting.
7) Add-On Item: Recommendation to reclassify Scott Spitzer to an At-
Large seat on the Infrastructure Surtax Citizen Oversight Committee.
L. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
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17. SUMMARY AGENDA - This section is for advertised public hearings and
must meet the following criteria: 1) A recommendation for approval from
staff; 2) Unanimous recommendation for approval by the Collier County
Planning Commission or other authorizing agencies of all members present
and voting; 3) No written or oral objections to the item received by staff, the
Collier County Planning Commission, other authorizing agencies or the
Board, prior to the commencement of the BCC meeting on which the items
are scheduled to be heard; and 4) No individuals are registered to speak in
opposition to the item. For those items which are quasi-judicial in nature, all
participants must be sworn in.
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A. This Item has been continued to the August 12, 2025, Board of County
Commissioners Meeting. No discussion will take place at the June 24,
2025, meeting related to this item Recommendation to adopt an Ordinance
amending the Collier County Land Development Code to implement
housing initiatives in the Growth Management Plan relating to housing that
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is affordable. [PL20210001291] (Second of two hearings)
B. 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.)
18. ADJOURN
19. 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 SAUNDERS: Good morning. Welcome to the
County Commission meeting of June 24th, 2025.
Before we begin with the invocation and the Pledge,
Commissioner McDaniel has a comment he'd like to make.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you, sir.
Good morning, everybody. I just -- I want to say, as we are
praying this morning -- as you know we open every meeting with a
prayer and the Pledge. I just -- I just want to add in two families for
us to add into our daily prayers.
Our Deputy County Manager, his family is suffering right now.
There's a -- there's a very ill family member with our Deputy County
Manager, and I'd like to add our Deputy County Manager and his
family into the prayer.
And our previous County Manager, Mr. Ochs, Leo Ochs, his
daughter has been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, a 42-year-old
woman with two children, and I'd like, if you can -- as we're going
along, we all pray a lot, we all pray, and add these folks into our
prayers for blessings and peace.
Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Certainly. Well, we have Pastor
Tim Reed with the Fairway Bible Church who's going to get us
started with the Pledge, and following the -- I mean with the prayer,
and following the prayer, we'll have the Pledge. That will be
provided by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Good morning.
Item #1A
INVOCATION: PASTOR TIM REED - FAIRWAY BIBLE
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CHURCH, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION - INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE GIVEN
PASTOR REED: Good morning. Let's pray together.
Heavenly Father, this morning we come before you at the start
of a new day and recognize our need for you, God, our need to
depend upon you for wisdom, for direction, for strength, for power.
Lord, this morning, I pray for healing for our land. God, I pray
that you would heal the divisions that exist among us. Father, I pray
for a spirit of unity to pervade not only our county but, Father, our
state and our country as well. Father, may we be united behind what
is right and may we stand firm against tyranny and evil.
And, Lord, this morning, I just ask that you would lead us and
guide us by the power of your holy spirit. I pray for our council
members this morning, Dear Father, that you would illuminate their
minds, that you would give them wisdom beyond themselves as they
make decisions that affect many, many lives.
And, Lord, this morning, I pray for the families of those that are
hurting, Father, for those family members from our Deputy County
Manager and, Father, for the young lady that was diagnosed with
Stage 4 cancer. Lord, we don't always understand your plan. We
don't always understand your ways, but we know that you are a good
God that loves us.
And so we pray today for these individuals. We pray for your
healing hand upon them. I pray for their family members, Dear God,
that you would just wrap your arms of love and grace around them
and give them peace.
Father, I pray, too, for just a sense of love and unity among us,
and, Father, in a land -- we live in a land where we can choose to be
anything that we want to be. Father, I pray that we would choose to
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be kind to one another and that we would show your love and that we
would reflect the love of Jesus with everyone that we come in contact
with today, and I pray these things in the name of your son, our
savior, Jesus. Amen.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Since we're providing a
proclamation to the Daughters of the American Revolution, we're
going to reserve their comments for that point in time. Generally we
have -- whoever leads us in the Pledge, we give them an opportunity
to tell us a little bit about themselves, but they'll have that opportunity
in just a few minutes.
Ms. Patterson.
Item #2A
APPROVAL OF TODAY'S REGULAR, CONSENT, AND
SUMMARY AGENDA AS AMENDED (EX-PARTE DISCLOSURE
PROVIDED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR CONSENT
AGENDA.) - MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER
MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER HALL -
APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. Agenda changes for June 24th,
2025. First we have add-on Item 16B5. This is a recommendation to
approval a beach fill project on Vanderbilt Beach and to, one,
authorize a purchase order in the amount of $165,212.50 for
construction to Earth Tech Enterprises, Inc., under Agreement
21-7885, beach maintenance-related activities for an on-call urgent
services beach fill project on Vanderbilt Beach and a purchase order
for 49,500 to Stewart Mine -- Stewart Materials, LLC, under
Agreement 21-7827, beach compatible sand supply, for the purchase
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of beach quality sand, and, two, make a finding that this expenditure
promotes tourism. This is being added to the agenda at staff's
request.
Next is add-on Item 16K7. This is a recommendation to
reclassify Scott Spitzer to an at-large seat on the Infrastructure Surtax
Citizen Oversight Committee. This add-on is at Commissioner
LoCastro's request.
Move Item 16A8 to 11B. This is a recommendation to hear a
Land Development Code Amendment related to floating solar
facilities at two regularly scheduled daytime hearings and to waive
the nighttime hearing requirement. This item is being moved at
Commissioner McDaniel's request.
Finally, continue Item 16K4 to the July 8th, 2025, BCC meeting.
This is a recommendation to provide direction to staff to advertise an
ordinance to amend the Collier County Parking, Storage, and Use of
Vehicle Control Ordinance codified in the Code of Laws and
Ordinances to provide limitations on the parking and/or storing of
commercial motor vehicles and commercial equipment in residential
areas including the Estates zoning district. This move is at
Commissioner McDaniel's request.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Ms. Patterson?
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I apologize for interrupting.
Commissioner Kowal, is he on the line, by any chance?
MS. PATTERSON: No, sir. He is not attending today.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Fine.
MS. PATTERSON: We have two agenda notes. 16K3 in the
executive summary, No. 6, nonvoting seats, Edward "Ski" Olesky's
name is misspelled, and second, Item 16K5, the executive summary
should say the 2025/2026 school year instead of the 2024/2025
school year. The MOU is correct.
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We do have court reporter breaks scheduled for 10:30 and 2:50,
if necessary.
And with that, County Attorney.
MR. KLATZKOW: No changes. Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Hall, any changes
or any ex parte?
COMMISSIONER HALL: No exchanges; no ex parte.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I have no changes either or ex
parte.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: No changes; no ex parte.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I have no changes and no ex parte
as well. I do have a question, Commissioner McDaniel, on the
continuation of the parking issue. Is there anything -- any particular
reason to delay the advertising or --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, yes, sir. I didn't ask for it
for fun. This -- in all candor, this isn't ready for prime time. We
have -- actually, I, along with senior staff, County Attorney, Code
Enforcement, we have -- we have a meeting today at 4 o'clock, and
we're going to go through the ramifications of this and some
suggestions that I have.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. So this will come back
on July 8th for the purpose of authorizing advertising.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Advertising, yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: It ultimately will come before us
during our second meeting probably in August or first meeting in
September.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Plus/minus, yes, sir,
depending on -- depending on how the meeting this afternoon goes
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and how we get -- how we get through the balance of the language
adjustments.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I have no changes and
no ex parte as well.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I do have one quick question,
if I might.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And this is just on the
correction on the MOU with the school district. Does this -- does this
MOU allow us -- and I'm not pulling it for now. I just want to ask.
Does this allow us to have a little bit of a say-so with regard to
charter schools and private schools and things along those lines with
their location and their impact?
MS. PATTERSON: No, sir. This is a different MOU. This is
related to the school resource officers.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, okay. Fair enough.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Then we need a motion
to approve the agenda as amended.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and a second.
All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously.
SEE REVERSE SIDE
Proposed Agenda Changes
Board of County Commissioners Meeting
June 24, 2025
Add-on Item 16B5: Recommendation to approve a beach fill project on Vanderbilt Beach and to (1) authorize a
Purchase Order in the amount of $165,212.50 for construction to Earth Tech Enterprises, Inc. under Agreement 21-
7885 “Beach Maintenance Related Activities” for an On-Call Urgent Services beach fill project on Vanderbilt
Beach and a Purchase Order for $49,500 to Stewart Materials, LLC under Agreement 21-7827 “Beach Compatible
Sand Supply” for the purchase of beach quality sand, and (2) make a finding that this expenditure promotes tourism
(Project 90066). (Staff’s Request)
Add-on Item 16K7: Recommendation to reclassify Scott Spitzer to an At-Large seat on the Infrastructure Surtax
Citizen Oversight Committee. (Commissioner LoCastro’s Request)
Move item 16A8 to 11B: Recommendation to hear a Land Development Code amendment related to floating solar
facilities at two regularly scheduled daytime hearings and to waive the nighttime hearing requirement.
(Commissioner McDaniel’s Request)
Continue item 16K4 to the July 8, 2025, BCC Meeting: Recommendation to provide direction to staff to
advertise an ordinance to amend the Collier County Parking, Storage and Use of Vehicle Control Ordinance
codified in the Code of Laws and Ordinances to provide limitations on the parking and/or storing of commercial
motor vehicles and commercial equipment in residential areas including the Estates zoning district. (Commissioner
McDaniel’s Request)
Notes:
•Item 16K3 in the Executive Summary #6 Non-Voting Seats Edward “Ski” Olesky’s name is misspelled.
•Item 16K5 the Executive Summary should say the 2025-2026 school year instead of the 2024-2025 school
year. The MOU is correct.
TIME CERTAIN ITEMS:
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Item #2B
MAY 27, 2025, BCC MINUTES - MOTION TO APPROVE AS
PRESENTED BY COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL; SECONDED
BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO – APPROVED
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We'll move on to the agenda and
minutes. The minutes for May 27, 2025, we need a motion for
approval.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and second. All
in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously.
Item #3A1
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS – 20 YEAR ATTENDEES –
PRESENTED
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to awards
and recognitions, and we have several today.
We're going to start with our 20-year attendees for Item 3A1.
First up we have Stephen Athey, Code Enforcement.
Congratulations.
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(Applause.)
MS. PATTERSON: Next, 20 years, Barbara Shea, Pelican Bay
Services. Congratulations.
(Applause.)
Item #3A2
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS – 25 YEAR ATTENDEES –
PRESENTED
MS. PATTERSON: Moving on to Item 3A2, this is our 25-year
attendees. First up, Christie Betancourt, Community Redevelopment
Area.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Who's running the office?
MS. BETANCOURT: We shut it down for a couple hours.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Maria, you're going to
Photoshop Commissioner McDaniel out, right? Put, like, a bear there
or something. You know, the Everglades alligator.
MS. PATTERSON: Our next 25-year attendee is Salma Nader
Preston, Operations & Performance Management. Congratulations.
(Applause.)
MS. PATTERSON: Twenty-five years, Philip Snyderburn,
Solid & Hazardous Waste Management. Congratulations.
(Applause.)
Item #3A3
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS – 30 YEAR ATTENDEES –
PRESENTED
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MS. PATTERSON: Moving on to Item 3A3, these are -- the
30-year attend, Carolann Adams, Library. Congratulations.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: There's more coming. At
least one.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Carolann's going to have a
presentation on the Dewey Decimal System. It's a 45-minute
presentation with two intermissions, so everybody keep your seats.
(Applause.)
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 4,
proclamations. Item 4A is a proclamation honoring America's 250th
anniversary on July 4th, 2026, and recognition of the Daughters of
the American Revolution monument donation.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Hang on. Commissioner
McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I just -- Christie, I just want to
say out loud before your whole crowd leaves, thank you. We do
these recognitions for employees all the time, and I have to say this,
that Ms. Betancourt is the glue that holds Immokalee together. Your
efforts, your actions, your care for our community is -- I can't say any
more than thank you.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I
appreciate that. Carry on.
Item #4A
PROCLAMATION HONORING AMERICA'S 250TH
ANNIVERSARY ON JULY 4, 2026, AND RECOGNITION OF
DAR MONUMENT DONATION. TO BE ACCEPTED BY
CANDICE SEBRING-KELLER, REPRESENTING THE NAPLES-
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ON-THE-GULF CHAPTER OF THE DAR - MOTION TO
APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER HALL; SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO – ADOPTED
MS. PATTERSON: All right. Back to Item 4A. This is a
proclamation honoring America's 250th anniversary on July 4th,
2026, and recognition of Daughters of the American Revolution
monument donation. To be accepted by Candace Sebring-Keller
representing the Naples on the Gulf Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Congratulations.
(Applause.)
THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Smile on one. Three, two, one,
smile.
COMMISSIONER HALL: I was smiling the whole time.
MS. NIGHTLY: Dawn Nightly (phonetic). Good morning,
everyone. I am Mrs. Dawn Nightly, Regent of Naples on the Gulf
Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.
On behalf of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the
DAR, I want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Collier County
Board of Commissioners for the honor of receiving this proclamation
which allows us to place a patriot marker here in Collier County.
This is an important moment for us, as our chapter has been working
hard to see this project come to fruition, and we are incredibly
appreciative of your support.
The DAR has launched a national initiative to commemorate the
men and woman who supported the American Revolution. This
project seeks to honor those who fought in the war and the countless
patriots who contributed in many other ways, whether through
providing supplies, offering shelter, or aiding in the resistance. Their
sacrifices helped shape the freedoms we enjoy today.
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the United States, this
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marker becomes even more significant. This marker will serve as a
lasting tribute to those patriots who may not have received the
recognition they deserve but whose contributions were vital to the
birth of our nation. It is a reminder to all of us of the courage,
dedication, and unity that forged the foundation of the United States.
By placing this marker, we also honor the spirit of community
and civic engagement that continues to define our nation. It will
stand as a testament to the generations who came before us and the
continuing importance of preserving and sharing our history.
We are grateful to the Board of Commissioners for this
opportunity and look forward to the day we can gather with our
community to dedicate this marker. It is not only a gesture of
remembrance but also a call to future generations to appreciate and
protect the freedoms we hold dear.
Thank you again for your support and for helping us ensure that
these patriots are never forgotten.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you.
Ms. Patterson, do we have a location for that?
MS. PATTERSON: No. We're evaluating the best location
either here on campus or at one of our parks, and so we'll come back
when we have a final location determined.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Would Freedom Park be
a -- I mean, it seems that would be a great location for it.
MS. PATTERSON: It would be. The other location we were
thinking about was out by the flagpoles by the courthouse, which is
another really nice location as well, so...
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We need a motion to approve the
proclamation.
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COMMISSIONER HALL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and second. All
in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously.
MS. PATTERSON: Thank you, Commissioners.
Item #7
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA
MS. PATTERSON: That brings us to Item 7, public comments.
MR. MILLER: Good morning. We have 10 registered speakers
for public comments. I'd like to ask the speakers to queue up and use
both podiums. Also, you have three minutes. You will hear one beep
at 30 seconds to go.
Our first speaker is Jerry Rutherford. He will be followed by
Ken Keller.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And just for the speakers that are
coming up, we generally -- this is an opportunity for people to speak
on subjects that are not on the agenda or not coming up on the next
agenda or so. You may not get any response at all from the
Commission. That doesn't mean we're not listening. It's just that we
generally move forward with these fairly quickly.
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So, Mr. Miller.
MR. MILLER: Mr. Rutherford.
MR. RUTHERFORD: Good morning, Commissioners. Thank
you for this opportunity to speak.
Twenty-five years ago, as chairman of the Christian Coalition at
the time, we came to the commissioners and asked for our national
motto "In God We Trust" to be put in the Collier County buildings.
They enthusiastically endorsed it.
Now, as a citizen of Collier County for more than 40 years, I'm
coming and asking a similar favor. The 10 Commandments have
been the basis of civil law in our west for over 2,000 years. Our
founders established our laws on the basis of the 10 Commandments,
and we would like your permission to place the 10 Commandments
in the Collier County government buildings.
Lemon versus Kurtzman has been overturned, so we believe that
the desire of the general public is to reinstate what was a
commonplace in our country for over 250 years. Both history and
tradition tell us that the 10 Commandments were commonly posted in
public places throughout our history. I would like to mention that the
public school books at that time, the New England Primer, which was
printed in 1690, and Noah Webster's Blue-Backed Speller, and the
other was the math books; they all had the 10 Commandments in
them.
James Madison, our fourth president and the primary author of
the Constitution, states that we have staked the whole future of
American civilization not on the power of government; far from it.
We have staked the future of our political institutions upon the
capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the 10
Commandments of God. And I have numerous other quotes that I
could give you, but I think that's sufficient.
We would appreciate your consideration for this request. I'd like
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to show you a sample. Now, this is not going to be the one probably
you will want. This doesn't give the 10 Commandments in large
enough for it to be seen, but this is similar to what we will be
presenting to you. We need it in larger print, so I'm just asking to
have this put in the Collier County government buildings.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you. Mr. Miller, my
machine here is not working.
MR. MILLER: I will take care of it, sir.
Your next speaker is Victoria Redstall. She'll -- excuse me -- is
Ken Keller and will be followed by Victoria Redstall.
MR. KELLER: Thank you. I, too, am speaking on behalf of
putting the 10 Commandments in the public buildings just like we did
the national motto.
Now, the common use of the Jeffersonian principle of separation
of church and state, keeping -- has been turned on its head. Instead of
keeping the government of the church as intended -- the government
out of the church as intended in the Jeffersonian letter of response,
the Danbury Baptist Church is now being used to block foundational
Judeo-Christian principles out of not just government, but schools
and public institutions, and here's what the First Amendments reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press, et cetera.
These principles are being systematically marginalized in our
cultural, leaving want if we now must be protected from religion and
our historical worldview.
The Judeo-Christian principles in the Bible are demonstrably
foundational to our system of governance, indeed to our culture in
general, that they are assumed, whether you're a believer or not,
simply to be true. The biblical world view on which our nation is
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founded is systematically tightly woven and consistent in spite of
how often misapplied by its inheritance.
More importantly, they are a window into the very heart of God
in whom we claim to trust in our national motto.
The national motto, the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as
numerous other founding documents, all mention God. The 10
Commandments are even etched into most of our historical
government buildings in Washington, D.C., including the Supreme
Court. The 10 Commandments have become, over time, therefore,
less of a biblical expression of a particular religious denomination
than a founding principle of our nation and, indeed, Western
civilization itself. This is why it should be prominently posted beside
our motto.
Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Victoria Redstall. She'll
be followed by Adrienne Redstall.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Now, for the members of the
Commission, this display is not working at the moment, so if you do
want to speak on anything, just let me know.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That would work.
MS. VICTORIA REDSTALL: Commissioners, I'd just like to
share my experiences that I've had with the Naples wildlife
conservancy.
Going back three years with a perfectly healthy bluejay, one
week after I took him there, he was dead. Same with a very healthy
rabbit. Two years ago I took them there because everybody says it's
a one-stop shop, the only place you can take a wounded or abandoned
animal.
Hence, when a newborn squirrel arrived in my feet, because God
puts them in my feet, on September the 1st of last year, I didn't take it
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to the Conservancy --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let me interrupt for just a quick
second, if you don't mind.
MS. VICTORIA REDSTALL: Sorry.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Slow down just a little bit. I know
the reporter is having a hard time catching everything, but quite
frankly, we are as well, because you are going really fast, so --
MS. VICTORIA REDSTALL: Just didn't want to --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: You've got plenty of time.
MS. VICTORIA REDSTALL: Thank you.
Hence, when I had -- a newborn squirrel arrived at my feet on
September the 1st of 2024, I didn't take it to the Conservancy, and I
raised it on my own, in my bra, at the shops. Everywhere, he went
with me -- I got him a cage -- until I set him free in the wild. I now
see Lucky the Squirrel every day in the wild with his family.
This might be petty to you, but it's not about the squirrel. It's not
about the raccoons, which I'm getting to. This is a much bigger
picture with the evilness of the Naples wildlife conservancy. I am
very concerned with their lack of transparency and the accountability.
On May 19th, I took abandoned newborn raccoons to the
Conservancy reluctantly. I asked if they could please just call me
when the time came for them to be released. The female vet checked
them in, very rudely said to me, "They won't be released for at least
10 more weeks, as they are newborns. We don't have to call you. It's
not in our policy."
I said, "Well, could you just please call me so that I can show
you where I found them?"
On May 27th, that's eight days later, I left a message for the
female chief programs officer to just please call me with an update on
the raccoons and to confirm she will be calling me when they get
released. I also said that at that time I had a donor recently come in
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and give a huge amount of money in my name specifically for the
welfare of the raccoons that I brought in.
She told me that it is not their policy to call me, and I might only
get a phone call if -- she said the word "if" they make it, to which I
responded that I know very well that they will make it because I have
living proof that they will, because I knew that I did keep one back. I
didn't realize it was against the law, and I've learned from it, but I did
keep one of those raccoons back. I kept a sibling.
So I said to this woman, "If they don't make it, I will expose the
Naples Conservancy for not taking care of their animals," which
everyone has said for years, but I never had proof until now.
She then checked me out on social media, realizing I did have
that sibling, and he was getting bigger and stronger every day. She
saw that I had a huge following on Facebook, and people were
enjoying the growth of this baby raccoon. Everyone was made happy
in my neighborhood, my friends, my family, social media. Even the
day when his eyes opened the third week, I shared that on social
media as his eyes opened and looked into the eyes of my mother and
myself.
Within three weeks, on June the 17th, I received a phone call
from an officer from FWC calling me to surrender the one raccoon
that I had raised since May 18th for one month and two days up until
that point. He explained to me that three women had anonymously
complained about me. One of them, I am told, is one of the women
that work at the Naples Conservancy.
The officer said it’s illegal to take a raccoon from the wild,
which I didn't know, because they are rabies vectors. I have learned
this now.
It's illegal to rehab a wild animal without licensed rehab, but he
asked me to surrender the raccoon to the Conservancy, which I did
right away. I had documented the raccoon's weight, food intake, and
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sleep patterns. He was in perfect shape when I surrendered him.
Even slightly overweight.
I arrived -- I was -- when I arrived at the Conservancy, I was
handed a letter by the female chief programs officer stating that if I
ever go there again, they will have me arrested for trespassing, yet
I've only been there on four occasions, once to deliver a bluejay,
which they killed a week later; twice to deliver a healthy rabbit,
which they also killed; and three to deliver two baby raccoons which
we have no idea where they are because there's no accountability
right now until we find out where they are; and the fourth time was
when I was told by FWC to surrender the one raccoon that I had
started to raise, by the name of Rocky.
What are they hiding? What are they so afraid of and threatened
by me asking questions just for a welfare checkup or just for the
phone call when they release them? Why won't they answer for the
siblings that I gave them on day one on May 19th, where are they
now?
Where is Rocky now, the sibling that I raised for over a month
and two days? Why is there no transparency at the Naples
Conservancy? Why is there no accountability or answers as to where
Rocky is now?
They get millions of dollars in donations per year. This January
they were given $25 million by Carol and John Walter. They were
given another undisclosed millions by Richard Schulze Foundation to
name but a few.
There are numerous organizations, charities, and private people
who donate. So why can they not just make a phone call to a resident
here of Collier County who simply wants to be part of their release
and who is concerned enough to drive and bring them in -- an injured
or abandoned animal.
The CEO earns over a quarter of a million a year --
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We're going to need to -- I'm sorry.
We're going to need you to go ahead and wrap up.
MS. VICTORIA REDSTALL: Okay. On top of this, the report
FBC gave me was -- by the Conservancy, of Rocky, was very
different. They had said he was emaciated when I surrendered him.
A complete opposite. He was overweight when I took him in.
I'm just requesting that this matter be put -- if you can't put it on
the agenda, could you please send Code Enforcement to the Naples
Conservancy so that they can account for those raccoons that I took
in and also have complete transparency from this point on.
Thank you for letting me go over my time.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Adrienne Redstall. She'll
be followed by Tina Clark.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Good morning.
MS. ADRIENNE REDSTALL: Good morning. Thank you.
Very similar, it's about the raccoons. It was a terrible shock to
be forced to surrender a baby animal that we had grown to love so
much over the four weeks that we had him in our home.
I have never been treated so badly, so cruelly in my life as I
have been by the women at the Naples Conservancy. To have a
woman survivor -- supervisor at the Conservancy hand my daughter a
letter the moment we walked through the door stating that if she was
to ever set foot on the Conservancy property again, she would be
arrested for trespassing was horrifying to me as her mother.
Even when my daughter pleaded with her to give her a phone
call when the raccoons would be released -- I wanted to see that,
too -- she smiled and said, "I will not be calling you, and I have
instructed my staff to not call you." It was so unprofessional and
wicked that there must be a change.
Where are these darling raccoons now? And where is that very
special Rocky that we raised for four weeks? I miss him terribly, and
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so do my friends.
I urge the commissioners today to please demand accountability
for the three raccoons and for the Conservancy to be transparent from
this point forward for all those who entrust the Conservancy to take
care of the injured and abandoned wildlife.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Tina Clark. She'll be
followed by Kip Blackman.
MS. CLARK: Good morning, Commissioner. Good morning,
citizens.
My name's T. Clark. I have been a rescuer pretty much all my
wife with the ASPCA, our coalition here, Florida Stark. I love these
organizations.
I saw everything that's happened with this situation and saw the
raccoon. He was in great condition. My problem with the situation
is, one, I can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to educate all of
us on how to --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: You need to direct your comments
to us.
MS. CLARK: Okay.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And you need to stay on the
microphone.
MS. CLARK: Okay. I can't imagine why they wouldn't want
them to be educated when it comes to wild animals. I don't have a lot
of education. I would be happy to learn.
The second is how we treat our senior citizens. When I was
raised, it was to respect seniors, respect animals, respect pretty much
everyone around you. So that really saddens me that they took an
opportunity and changed it into something very ugly.
I pray that Rocky's doing okay, and I hope that we get some
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answers. I realize that because of the organization that it is, they may
not be required to give us any, but something stinks here, and it's not
Rocky raccoon.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Kip Blackman. He'll be
followed by Scott Schell.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Blackman.
MR. MILLER: I'm having trouble reading your writing. Is it
Blackman?
MR. BLACKMAN: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Miller?
MR. MILLER: Yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: This is --
MR. MILLER: Yeah. I'll be right there, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Oh, okay. Thank you.
MR. BLACKMAN: Hey. Good morning. I'm Kip Blackman.
I spoke with Commissioner Hall on the phone a few weeks ago. This
is regarding Gulf Harbor Neighborhood off of Wiggins Pass Road in
North Collier County being flooded with freshwater by Collier
County and South Florida Water Management District.
We have lots of proof, pictures, photos, videos, water samples.
We brought it to their attention.
I've been working with South Florida Water Management
District and Collier County since last year all the way until
December. We had a meeting over the phone. I can't get them to
come in person, but we tried to give them just enough information to
not annoy them but get them to come to the table and talk with us so
that we could show them what we're talking about.
Basically what's happening is our neighborhood never flooded
before 2017. It just didn't. Even in the 2015 stormwater
management plan for Collier County, our little neighborhood is not
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listed as one of the repeat flooded areas. It's not on there.
All the development that's happened out east, all that water
now -- everybody has their retention ponds. They're allowed -- they
have to store so much water. Any excess water now gets dumped
into the Coco structure, which comes all the way down Immokalee
Road, goes right in front of Palm River and that Coco 1 weir right
there. That is operated by South Florida Water Management District.
It's public. They have sensors. They have had the data. I've been on
the database. I can match up every time our neighborhood has
flooded with a certain flow rate right there.
Just to give you an example, 500 cubic feet per second is a lot of
times what we see coming out of that weir being dumped into the
Cocohatchee River. Well, that equals 13 and a half million gallons
per hour.
And our neighborhood's about 40 acres. If you put a wall
around it, 13 and a half gallons -- million gallons in one hour would
put two and a half feet of water.
The problem is is the river needs to be dredged. In 2017, there's
an article on Naples Daily News. I think that was where it was. You
could look it up. But there was the Conservancy of Southwest
Florida, they did a study on the estuaries. The Cocohatchee River got
a D minus. You guys also probably knew that and looked into it.
So in 2020, you guys did a feasibility study for dredging
700 feet east of the bridge all the way to Wiggins Pass because it
needs done.
So the river is clogged. Most of that is because of all the water
and sediment from the building that's going out east that's being
dumped into the river. It needs to be dredged so that we have water
flow. Also, it's very dangerous for our community, obviously, which
is really the main reason that we're here.
Since 2017 -- we didn't flood before that. I moved in in 2021.
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We've flooded at least, I don't know, eight times. I've had anywhere
from six inches, nine inches, 29 inches, 44 inches, and this is all after
Ian. Ian, we had eight feet in the neighborhood. Obviously, Ian is an
anomaly, but the other times the storm could be 200 miles -- it was
still down by Cuba, Debby, and at a high tide of 2.5, we got flooded.
It's a 2.5 tide right now, and it was yesterday. There's no water in our
neighborhood anywhere because they're not releasing water. When
they release the water through the weir at the wrong time, incoming
tide or strong west wind...
So really what I'd -- there's two things we want. We want the
river dredged -- actually three. We want you guys to control the flow
so that the water's not being pushed out while the tide's coming in,
but really we just want to sit down so we can explain this in person
to -- I've worked with Lisa Koehler, Trinity Scott, Marshal Miller.
Those are just some of the names.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you.
MR. BLACKMAN: You're welcome.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Scott Schell. He'll be
followed by Shelly Schell.
MR. SCHELL: I'm going to pass on my time today.
MR. MILLER: All right. Shelly Schell, and she will be
followed by Sheryl Baron.
MS. SCHELL: Good morning. I'm Shelly Schell, and I'm a
resident of the Gulf Harbor neighborhood, and I'm here to support
what Kip was saying.
I have young children in the neighborhood, and we can't even
get off buses or anything due to this flooding. And especially the
significance of the D minus water quality in the Cocohatchee River,
when that came to light and no one even cares, was shocking.
So we really appreciate the in-person meetings and the
opportunity to find a solution.
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MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Cheryl Baron, and she will
be followed on Zoom by Denise Shanabarger.
MS. BARON: Hi. Thank you for your time, guys. I know that
we spoke with the commissioner as well, and we appreciate your
time, but I'm here repeating everything that Kip said.
And our canals need to be dredged. After any major storms or
hurricanes, over the time, sediment has built up significantly,
especially after recent storms. This has raised the canal bed,
worsening flooding during high tides and heavy rains.
Flooding in Gulf Harbor, our community has experienced
repeated flooding, and there has been no infrastructure work done in
50 years to help migate -- migrate -- my gate up [sic].
We need targeted support and an official assessment of our
situation. We are asking Collier County to consider a grant or
dedicate a funding that can be allowanced because of the
Cocohatchee River being used to be dredged, and also as our canals
in the back.
We also respectfully respect that the commissioner [sic], Trinity
Scott, Lisa Koehler, and Marshal Miller visit Gulf Harbor in person
with us to see firsthand the conditions we are experiencing. We love
our community and want to see it protected and preserved. We
believe a site visit will make it clear how serious and urgent this
matter is.
We also want you guys to know that it is very dangerous. I have
kids where we've been stuck in our house and -- just to go to the bus
stop. And it's not like, oh, we're just having flooding in our
driveway. It's going into the homes. And it's -- for me, I'm very
lucky because I have three levels, but there are people in my
community who have one level. And that's what they have, and they
can't afford to do anything else. And those are the people we're really
fighting for because they need that. They need something to be done.
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And they've lived here -- they're older people, and they've lived
here for so long. They're like, I can't even afford to move. I can't
afford to do anything, and they're one-level homes.
Please, this is, like, so urgent. We really just want to meet with
you guys. And if you guys have a solution, we're willing to hear it.
We're willing to work with you guys. But we've just gotten the
runaround in circles and circles and circles.
So anything that you guys can do to help us, and if we could
help you, we're here to help. I mean, we've spoken to Rick Scott;
we've spoken to Byron Daniels [sic]. Like, we just need that help.
So we'd appreciate if you guys can help us.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Ms. Patterson, who on our staff
would be the right person for folks to speak to?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Can I -- Mr. Chair, is the
button working yet?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: The button's working.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Hang on just a second because I
just asked a quick question here.
MS. PATTERSON: Trinity Scott and Marshal Miller.
Obviously, we will work with the Water Management District, as
indicated, Ms. Koehler. But I have a decade of familiarity with this
neighborhood as well, so I'm happy to sit down with the folks and
chat about what's going on.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And just as a note, I had a
communication with Byron Donald's office in February on the
permitting that's been applied for years with the Corps of Engineers
out by the bridge. So the circumstance is ongoing. I mean, there is
action that's going. It's not happening certainly as quickly as
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possible. But I do know that we're working through the permitting
issues with the Corps of Engineers. And so communication is a must.
Our County Manager probably knows as much as anybody with
regard to that neighborhood.
And I suggest, Commissioner Hall, that you make sure you
communicate with our congressman as well just to -- just to assist
with this. This isn't just your hood. This is -- this is a circumstance
that's going on throughout our entire -- our coastal community with
the -- with the tannins that have come in and silted in our waterway
all the way across the board.
MR. MILLER: Your final registered speaker for public
comment is joining us on Zoom, Denise Shanabarger.
Denise, you're being prompted to unmute yourself, if you'll do
so at this time. Denise, I see you've unmuted. You have three
minutes.
Oh, hold on, Denise. I'm sorry. I need to change a setting on
my end. We're not going to hear you otherwise. All right. Now,
Denise, if you'd start again, please.
MS. SHANABARGER: Hi. Good morning.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Good morning.
MS. SHANABARGER: I hope everyone is doing well today.
I would just like to discuss the fact, much like Kip had said, this
has been going on since 2017. After Irma hit, we had about 13 inches
in our neighborhood. Prior to that we had nothing. Our streets would
flood but never would it come in through our homes.
After Hurricane Ian, which was an anomaly, yes, we had eight
feet in our homes. People that were in lower-lying homes lost
everything, everything. Just one story. All their things, all their
things were gone.
Since then we have flooded eight times. Like Kip said, it's been
anywhere from eight inches to 16 inches to four feet, and the majority
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of this water is freshwater. We've checked it. It's not coming in from
the gulf.
We have tried to speak to many people, and we've gotten
nowhere with the county. I do believe he is right; we need to have
that river dredged. It is completely silted over with all the
development and silt coming from the east. That needs to happen.
And from what I've understood, that there is a permit out there, but it
has not been approved, and if it is approved, it's another five, six
years out before anything will be done, but yet the Perry Hotel had
been built there, and just recently they dredged out to have docks. So
I'm not quite sure how that occurred.
But other than that, we do need to have water management, and
South Florida Water Management is welcome to come into our
neighborhood and see exactly what's going on when they release the
water.
And I please -- I beg you to help us because it's been going on
way too long, and I really don't want to go underwater this season
again.
Thank you so much for your time.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you.
MR. MILLER: And that is our final speaker for Item 7.
Item #9A
REOLUTION 2025-128; RESOLUTION 2025-129:
RESOLUTIONS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE
COLLIER COUNTY GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN, TO
CREATE THE GREENWAY-FRITCHEY RESIDENTIAL
OVERLAY, TO ALLOW A MAXIMUM OF 1,299 SINGLE
FAMILY AND MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL UNITS WITH
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HOUSING THAT IS AFFORDABLE; AND ALLOW THE
REDUCTION IN THE LITTORAL SHELF PLANTING
REQUIREMENTS. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT
THE NORTHEASTERN INTERSECTION OF GREENWAY ROAD
AND FRITCHEY ROAD, APPROXIMATELY A HALF MILE
NORTH OF TAMIAMI TRAIL EAST (US 41), IN SECTION 7,
TOWNSHIP 51 SOUTH, RANGE 27 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY,
FLORIDA, CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY 227.09 ACRES.
(TRANSMITTAL HEARING) [PL20220002063] - MOTION TO
APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL: SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS – ADOPTED
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 9,
advertised hearings. Item 9A is a recommendation to approve
resolutions of the Board of County Commissioners proposing
amendments to the Collier County Growth Management Plan to
create the Greenway-Fritchey residential overlay to allow a
maximum of 1,299 single-family and multifamily residential units
with housing that is affordable and allow the reduction in the littoral
shelf planting requirements.
The subject property is located at the northeastern intersection of
Greenway Road and Fritchey Road, approximately a half mile north
of Tamiami Trail East in Section 7, Township 51 South, Range 27
East, Collier County, Florida, consisting of approximately
227.09 acres. This is the transmittal hearing.
And with that, Mr. Bosi or Mr. Yovanovich -- Mr. Yovanovich
is here to begin the presentation.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Good morning. For the record, Rich
Yovanovich on behalf of the applicant, which is the
Greenway-Fritchey Land, LLC, and Habitat for Humanity.
With me today are a host of people that can answer any
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questions you may have.
David Torres with Greenway-Fritchey, Lisa Lefkow with
Habitat, Mike -- I always mess his name up --
MS. LEFKOW: Solorzano.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Thank you, Solorzano.
You would think Yovanovich could get someone else's name
right.
Taylor Whitcomb, myself, Mr. Mulhere. Norman Trebilcock is
our traffic consultant. Matthew DeFrancesco is our civil engineer.
Jeremie Chastain works with Bob and is also one of the planners on
this project. And I think -- Ms. Brosious is here with Passarella to
answer any questions that may -- in regard to the environment.
The property is along Greenway Road. It's approximately
227 acres, which is just north of U.S. 41.
As the County Manager indicated, we're here for the first step in
a multistep process to hopefully get a project approved on Greenway
Road.
Our request is to create a subdistrict to allow for the
implementation of the Growth Management Plan provisions you-all
adopted in 2023 to allow for affordable housing within the Rural
Fringe Mixed-Use District.
Our request is to allow for up to 5.72 units per acre on the
227 acres -- 20 percent of those units will be income restricted at the
80 percent and below income threshold -- and to address, you know,
the littoral zone plantings for the project.
Assuming we get transmitted, it would go to the state for review.
Then it would come back to the Board of County Commissioners for
the actual PUD rezone consideration.
As I mentioned, we are consistent with your Growth
Management Plan today with what we're requesting. We are
consistent with your Land Development Code and affordable housing
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density bonus matrix for what we're requesting. The problem is that
the Land Development Code has not yet been amended to implement
the Growth Management Plan provisions, and that's why we're here
today for this Growth Management Plan amendment.
I think you considered at your last meeting the implementation
provisions for the Land Development Code. Had that been adopted,
we probably could have withdrawn our request. But we're moving
forward to hopefully keep the ball moving on this project.
The property is in the Rural Fringe Mixed-Use District. This is
where development is supposed to occur, in the Rural Fringe
Mixed-Use District. It is consistent with, as I mentioned, the Growth
Management Plan that was adopted a couple of years ago.
We would qualify for a density bonus under your existing
density bonus matrix for 6.2 units per acre. We're obviously asking
for less than that as part of this process. And both your staff and the
Planning Commission -- and the Planning Commission unanimously
recommended approval of our proposed transmittal to the state.
At this point I don't -- we didn't -- since we didn't have to swear
in, I don't know if we have any members of the public here. But we
have a presentation on what the PUD will look like. We can move
forward with that, or we can stop at this point and just consider the
Growth Management Plan amendment. It's up to the Board how you
would like us to proceed.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let's see where we are with the
Board, because as you said, this is simply a transmittal decision.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Correct.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: It's not a decision on the merits.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. And I can wait till the
end if you want to go through public comment --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let's see if there's any public
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comment.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- staff comment, and then I
have -- I do have some comments, please.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We do have one registered public
comment, Brad Cornell.
MR. CORNELL: Good morning, Mr. Chair and
Commissioners. I'm Brad Cornell. I'm here on behalf of Audubon
Western Everglades and Audubon Florida.
I want to flag in particular the proposal to reduce the littoral
shelf planting from 30 percent to 10 percent. And the issue with this
is that your stormwater ponds are really important for not only
recharging aquifers but also making sure water quality is not violated.
And when you have more littoral planting, you have cleaner water.
It's really important and basic science that, you know, we
practice at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. The research in Everglades
restoration with stormwater treatment areas bear this out. We need to
have littoral plantings to take up nutrients. Nutrients are what -- you
know, like phosphorus and nitrogen from fertilizer -- because people
plant grass all around these neighborhoods, and that's what causes
algae blooms. And when you get algae blooms, everybody is
unhappy. And so they put other things like copper sulfate and
aluminum sulfate into the lake, which is poison, to try and control the
algae blooms, and it's a vicious cycle.
So the way to break that cycle is to make sure you've got littoral
plantings. That was the whole idea in the Rural Fringe Mixed-Use
District, to have 30 percent of the regulation level of the lake be in
littoral plantings, and we stand by that. That should remain in there.
We also have some concerns about the way TDR credits are
required for the project. We don't want to be lessening the demand
for TDR credits.
We certainly acknowledge the need for affordable housing.
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That's a good aspect of this project. We want to see that. We just
don't want to harm the purpose of the TDR program, which is
environmental protection, in the cause of affordable housing. We can
have both, and that would be, let's not lessen the requirement for
TDRs for the non-affordable housing.
Thank you.
MR. MILLER: That was our only speaker, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. Are we going to hear
from staff, or do you just want to hear my comments, sir?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I guess we'll hear from staff. I
thought -- I was thinking that we didn't need much of a presentation.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We really don't, not for the
transmittal.
MR. BOSI: Mike Bosi, Planning and Zoning director.
And as mentioned, this is the transmittal. This is just for the
GMP. The comments related -- by Brad related to littoral shelf
plantings, those are contained -- or those are a deviation within the
PUD, so you will have that opportunity at adoption to hear those
specifics. That's not contained within the -- within the proposed
Growth Management Plan amendment.
This is proposing 20 percent for affordable housing heard by
the -- or heard by the Planning Commission recommendation of 6-0.
We did have one speaker, Mr. Lopez, who lived in close proximity,
was opposed to the product -- to the proposal related to -- traffic and
water management were his primary concerns.
As I mentioned, staff is recommending approval, and I will point
out to the Board of County Commissioners, when the Rural Fringe
Mixed-Use District plan was updated to increase the density for
affordable housing or to allow for affordable housing within the
Rural Fringe Mixed-Use District back in 2023 to 12.2, there's a
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provision that says, if you're providing affordable housing, you shall
not utilize TDRs.
So you cannot impose TDRs upon a Growth Management Plan
amendment or a proposal that is looking for -- unless you are looking
for a deviation from the Growth Management Plan, which we don't
traditionally authorize.
So just to let you know that in the adopted -- the adopted FLUE,
the provision for the Rural Fringe Mixed-Use District prohibits the
use of TDRs when you have affordable housing, and that has -- that
has a relationship to the provision of affordable housing, the need to
minimize the cost associated with it.
But any questions that you may have, staff would be able
to -- we'll try to answer it.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, you hit on my number
one issue with what's, in fact, transpiring here. First of all, I'd like to
go ahead and move this forward and make the motion for transmittal.
I'd like to make a motion for approval. And then if I get a second,
then I'll finish up my comments.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I'll second that to --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Thank you.
Thou shalt not utilize TDRs for affordable housing. I expressed
a concern about this when it was brought to us back to '23. It could
well be why we haven't amended the LDC and things that we need to
do in order for this to be a regular process.
But I'm -- I am expressing concerns today with regard to the
lack of the consumption of TDRs and the value of those TDRs.
Those TDRs were offered up to folks that were designated as sending
area in some theory of compensation for the lack of property rights
that went away when the Rural Fringe Mixed-Use District was
established.
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And so I would like for us, at some particular stage, to have
some discussion with regard to the availability of TDRs, how they
can be utilized, and allow for a marketplace.
And again, we get in a -- we get in a habit of everything all in
for and on behalf of affordable housing. And no one argues that
affordable housing is a needed requisite for our community, but on
the same token, there is -- there is a need for the utilization of those
TDRs just to maintain the value for that marketplace that was
established for the folks that had property rights that were
extinguished.
My second issue is the littoral shelves. I want that -- I would
like for that to be reviewed as well.
Mr. Cornell's comments were apropos with regard to the
water-quality circumstances that come from proper littoral shelves,
proper plantings within littoral shelves. I've done enumerable
amount of littoral shelves in my day, back in the day. So I'd like to
have that reviewed.
And a third suggestion that I would like to see prior to adoption
is an -- I know there's some description about some portable power
units being moved over to our EOC. That's all great. I would like to
see an alternative power source at the clubhouse with this facility.
One of the things that astounded me when I came into office in
'17, and then Irma hit us, was lack of alternative power sources
throughout our community, not just -- I think we had almost a
thousand lift stations that had been turned over to the community by
developers that didn't have alternative power sources, and we
amended the Land Development Code with that requisite so that lift
stations do, in fact, have alternative power sources.
I was informed yesterday that we didn't amend with regard to
clubhouses within new subdivisions. I'm not looking to impose any
regulation on existing subdivisions. I think it's prudent for,
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minimumly, all subdivisions to have at least a plug for an alternative
power source.
The rationale is -- the blessing that we have when a -- when a
natural storm event transpires is federal, state, and local assistance,
and if we have a local facility where we can bring supplies, it can act
as a cooling station, and it has an alternative power source, that will
better accommodate those who choose to not heed an evacuation
issuance when our government, in fact, so does, but that's something
that I would like to have addressed as well.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, Chairman.
I'm going to vote to approve the state transmittal, but I just -- I
want Mr. Bosi to have the last word. And let me just set the table for
a second.
Let's slow our roll, okay? We're not picking wallpaper out,
okay, for these units yet. The last time we were in this room and we
voted for a state transmittal, all of our emails and all of social media
blew up about the idiot commissioners that approved 500 houses to
be built on top of an orange grove, which we did none of that, okay?
So this is a state transmittal. I haven't seen the project yet in its
entirety. We're not voting on what we're doing to the clubhouse or
where the roads are going to be or if we think, you know,
traffic -- this is just part of the legal process that allows it to go to the
state, and then Mr. Bosi, I think, just -- especially from our
meeting -- and you already touched on it, but I think it's important to
conclude what this is and what it isn't.
And a couple of the main points are by us voting on the state
transmittal, we're not voting on -- at this point on construction. So
we're not, you know, bringing in bulldozers tomorrow, to reiterate
that the Planning Commission has heard this and what their findings
were. And then as we discussed yesterday, the ability for increased
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density. But this is under what the max could be, so, you know, that's
another nuance.
But if you would just tie up sort of all those little nuances,
separate rumor from fact, so, you know, somebody doesn't, you
know, get out ahead of their headlights as they did at the last
commissioner meeting. It wasn't anybody in this room, but, you
know, the front headlines were all about how we did this and we did
that, and we didn't.
So if you would wrap this up as to exactly what we are doing
and then what the next steps would be and some of the nuances of
what the Planning Commission approved and, as far as density,
where it ranks as far as what they could have asked for and what they
did ask for.
I think those are important points. I'm obviously supporting the
state transmittal, which is what this vote is all about.
MR. BOSI: Absolutely, Commissioner. And I will
reiterate -- again, Mike Bosi, Planning and Zoning director -- this is
the transmittal hearing for the Growth Management Plan amendment.
This is the high-level request for the -- for the additional density for
the number of units for what's going to be set -- or allocated to
income-restricted levels.
When it comes back, after it -- after -- if you make a -- or if you
approve this for a transmittal, this will go to the State of Florida. It
will be disbursed to all the state agencies reviewing for areas of -- or
areas of significant systems in terms of the state systems. They'll
provide us any comments. We'll have -- the applicant and the county
will have time to react to any additional concerns that are expressed
by the State.
After that, we will prepare a staff report that goes to the
Planning Commission. The Planning Commission will have an
adoption hearing in which they'll hear the PUD. But the focus will be
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the PUD, the specifics of the actual "do" of the regulations within
that PUD.
They will hear that, make a recommendation to the Board, and
then the GMP for the adoption and then the PUD for adoption will be
brought at a public hearing for the Board of County Commissioners.
The uniqueness about this, it only requires a simple majority to
transmit, but for adoption it will require a supermajority.
The Planning Commission did hear -- did hear the petition. It
was a unanimous recommendation for approval for the Board of
County Commissioners to transmit this to the State to bring it back
for an adoption hearing later on.
So for all those -- those steps, we'll be required, before a
project -- the PUD couldn't even be approved at an adoption hearing.
So this is simply to give the state an opportunity to review the
contours of the Growth Management Plan amendment, and then it
will be brought back at an adoption hearing in which there will be
public notice, signs will be posted as well, and an opportunity for all
of the public to provide commentary on the proposal and the specifics
of the proposals that's within the PUD.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Hall.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Thank you, Chairman.
Hey, Rich, can you come up? Yesterday in the office you did a
really good job explaining to me the sending, receiving, the TDR
process.
I guess my question is, what would the TDRs look like if there
was -- if there was TDRs and an affordable project?
MR. YOVANOVICH: What --
COMMISSIONER HALL: And I want you to do that without
your angle.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Without my angle?
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COMMISSIONER HALL: Without your angle.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, I'll do the simple math.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Because you did yesterday, and it
was great.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I will do the simple math, which is not
my angle.
Right now we have 229 acres. You divide that number by five,
which I cannot do in my head. That, I think, is -- what is
that? -- 45-ish base units. So under the current program, if --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: 45.8.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So 46. I was close.
COMMISSIONER HALL: You did good.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So 46 units can be generated from this
property today. Under the typical Rural Fringe Mixed-Use District
project that does not include affordable housing, we could go to one
unit per acre, and you get that difference. The 48 -- the 229 minus 48
is 181. You would have to buy 181 TDRs to get to the one unit per
acre.
So theoretically, if we had to buy TDRs and then do affordable
housing, we would do 181 TDRs, so that would be 229. You take
that from the 1,299, and the delta would be the bonus units. That's
how the program would work if we were required to do both TDRs
and do an affordable housing density bonus.
That's the way the program works. That's not my angle.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Yovanovich, in terms of
the -- the only issue I had was the littoral plantings. So I think the
requirement was 30 feet and --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Thirty percent.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thirty percent, I'm sorry. And
you're reducing it to half of that?
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MR. YOVANOVICH: And just the -- and we can get into the
details of this. I prefer to do it after I have a chance to talk to
Mr. Cornell between now and the adoption hearing. But in the urban
area, the requirement is 7 percent. Where we came up with a
30 percent requirement for littoral plantings in the Rural Fringe
Mixed-Use District, I don't know. I'm being told from the different
environmental consultants that 30 percent is not necessary.
I'm happy to talk to Mr. Cornell hopefully between now and the
adoption hearing to talk about those things, and we can bring all
those experts up, if you want, at the adoption hearing to talk about the
littoral zone plantings.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Most likely I'm going to want to
hear from the experts whether in writing, in advance, or at the
hearing.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Absolutely.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: So we have a motion and a second.
Commissioner McDaniel, you're lit up again. Do you have
some other comments?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Just one quick comment with
regard to that. The size, shape, and color of littorals is important, but
it's even more important to utilize the proper plantings that extract the
nutrients out of the water and then removal of those plants when they
reach a sufficient size where they're no longer doing that. That's
as -- almost more important than how many -- how many percentages
you have on littorals, so...
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have a motion and a
second. If there's no further discussion, all in favor, signify by saying
aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
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COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Thank you.
Item #11A
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AS THE EX OFFICIO
GOVERNING BOARD OF THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER
SEWER DISTRICT, APPROVE AMENDMENT NO. 10 TO
AGREEMENT NO. 04-3673, WITH CAROLLO ENGINEERS,
INC., FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR
DESIGN OF THE NORTHEAST WATER RECLAMATION
FACILITY AND WATER TREATMENT PLANT PROJECT,
UPDATING AND FINALIZING THE CONSTRUCTION PLANS,
SPECIFICATIONS, AND BID DOCUMENTS, AMENDING THE
CONSULTANT’S RATES TO PROVIDE AN ADJUSTMENT
BASED ON THE APPLICABLE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
INCREASE, APPROVING THE NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENT, AND AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO
SIGN THE AMENDMENT FOR THE NET AMOUNT OF
$11,682,939.17. (PROJECT NUMBER 70194) - MOTION TO
APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO – APPROVED
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 11A.
11A is a recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners,
as the ex officio governing board of the Collier County Water/Sewer
District, approve Amendment No. 10 to Agreement No. 04-3673 with
Carollo Engineers, Inc., for professional engineering services for
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design of the Northeast Water Reclamation Facility and Water
Treatment Plant project, updating and finalizing the construction
plans, specifications, and bid documents, amending the consultant's
rates to provide an adjustment based on the applicable Consumer
Price Index increase, approving the necessary budget amendment,
and authorizing the Chairman to sign the amendment for the net
amount of $11,682,939.17.
Mr. Jim DeLony, your department head for Public Utilities is
here to present.
MR. DeLONY: Thank you, County Manager.
Good morning. I'm Jim DeLony, your department head for
Public Utilities.
It is my pleasure to present this item to you. I'm accompanied
today with Joe Bellone, the operations finance director from Public
Utilities, and my good friend Matt McLean, who's our engineering
project manager for Public Utilities.
This amendment today is -- reflects -- slide, please -- reflects the
effort we've made over a period of a long time. Those of you that
might know where this is, this is located just east of the county
fairgrounds, north of Palmetto Ridge High School and the Orange
Blossom Ranch development.
The northeast project represents, as I said earlier, over two
decades of strategic planning, and I would like to briefly walk you
through that -- those two decades of planning that brought us here
today.
Next slide, please.
We began design services with Carollo Engineers in 2004.
Selected them for their specialized experience in the water and
wastewater infrastructure.
In 2010, the project entered hibernation due to the recession, but
we as a county acted deliberately. We structured that pause with the
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Board of County Commissioners' approval to approve our investment
that we had made to date -- to that date so that when the time came,
we could move forward with final design.
By 2015, we extended the agreement to ensure project
continuity. Then in 2017, we reactivated the project for engineering
services that supported new development in that region, particularly
site planning for utility services, deep injection wells, and the
compatibility with the regional park and the recycling center that are
adjacent to that site.
Next slide.
Today we're at that critical juncture that we all envisioned 20
years ago, and that -- we have current population projections that tell
us that now is the time to advance this program to final design to
meet the service demands that we need in place by 2031.
The timeline is driven by agreements that are already in place
with five major developments in the northeast Collier County area:
The Sky Sail Rivergrass, the Town of Big Cypress, Bellmar, and
Brightshore.
Amendment 10 ensures we will meet demand by finalizing the
construction designs for a four-to-six-million-gallon-per-day water
reclamation facility, a 10-million-gallon-per-day regional water
treatment plant, and the supporting infrastructure for both.
What's unique about this approach -- our design approach, that
we're going to utilize modular technology which will allow us the
flexibility to expand as needed in the future as we see demand
increase.
The design will take full advantage of the most current water
and wastewater treatment technology and positions the District to
meet evolving regulatory requirements. And as part of
the -- inasmuch that we are a part of a regionally connected system,
the northeast facilities increase the reliance and agility for the entire
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district, meaning we can move flows west to east, east to west to
make sure we can stay in compliance and meet demand.
The two notable technologies that we planned for this
design -- I'd like to cover those quickly. The nanofiltration and
reverse osmosis for raw water treatment, which allows us to
utilize -- fully utilize both brackish and freshwater for our plant and,
secondly, in terms of the wastewater, we're going to have advanced
water treatment in that we'll being using membrane
reactors -- bioreactors that will ensure that we meet not only current
but emerging requirements for the treatment and disposal of treated
wastewater. Very important to stay ahead of that game, obviously.
Next point -- next slide, rather. Thank you.
So we see Amendment 10 as a continuation to provide the
opportunity to leverage Carollo's national and local expertise. It's a
very important fact that the key members of this design team are from
our original design team, to include the CEO of Carollo, a firm of
over 800 team members located in 42 offices across our country. He
was our lead designer for wastewater treatment, and he will continue
same.
I met with him personally to ensure that he's going to stay on the
team. I looked at the names of the people that were with us in 2010
and the people that will be a part of the design team for this ongoing
effort. Same folks. No bait; no switch. We've got the continuity of
effort at the expert level, and I'm very proud to say that we're able to
do that because that will give us the best effort in terms of retaining
what we've already paid for as well as leveraging their great
knowledge. This will give us the reduced time and cost, and it will
certainly create the right program that we will need not only now but
in the future.
With Amendment 10, the total cost is estimated at about
$32 million. The county has spent approximately $10 million to date
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on engineering efforts. The current rough order of magnitude, or
ROM, for the construction costs for this phase is approximately
$438 million.
This project is projected to be awarded for construction
sometime in 2028. It is very possible economic and market factors
will cause this to be higher.
A ROM is an initial estimate of the project costs which provides
a general idea of the project's budget with the expected accuracy
range of minus 25 to plus 75. So it's as good as we can make it at this
stage of the game, but there's no guarantees given the dynamics of the
market, particularly for these high-demand items that go into building
one of these plants.
Calculated is a percentage of the current ROM. The design fee
is 7.4 percent. For a project of this complexity, we consider this to be
fair, reasonable, and represents a best-value investment for the
county.
Design costs typically vary project to project based on the
project's complexity. We went out -- I went out and visited Sarasota
County's Bee Ridge water reclamation facility, which will be very
similar to the one we'll build. Same technology. The design fee on
that particular facility is 10.4 percent.
So I think we have the right price, we've got the right firm, and
we need to move forward.
In closing, the strategic approach with the continuity for
the -- with the continuity for the Northeast Water Reclamation
Facility and Water Treatment Plant has sound physical stewardship
and implements a forward-looking treatment solution. It has -- it will
position us to meet the increasing demand in our northeast service
area. It certainly will allow us to remain in compliance with current
and emergency -- emerging regulatory and treatment requirements.
Commissioners, the Board has supported this approach to
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deliver the no seeds [sic] program for two decades through
noncontractual amendments; therefore, I respectfully request your
approval of this Amendment 10 so we may move forward with the
final design and the construction plans.
That concludes my briefing other than your questions.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you, sir.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. I'd like to make a
motion for approval, and then I do have a comment if I do receive a
second.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Can I go first, sir?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: You've got the floor.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. I just want to say, I
want to -- I want to just remind everybody, in one of Mr. DeLony's
original slides, the reactivation of this project came in 2017, and that
was no mistake. That's when -- that's when I came into office.
And as you know, I am a huge advocate of especially
life-sustaining critical infrastructure and the requisites for the people
that we already have, let alone knowing that there's more coming.
There was a shift back in the day where if we don't build it, they
won't come. That hasn't worked out so well for us.
It's past time for us to be moving forward with regard to the
critical life-sustaining infrastructure that we have.
When I -- when I first came into office in '17, the previous
management shared with me we had storage tanks at one of our
facilities we couldn't take off-line because we didn't have sufficient
redundancy in the system to be able to do proper PM and so on.
Commissioner Saunders, you and I were party to the acquisition
of the wastewater/water facilities in Golden Gate City. Again, that
was all part of the integration of this system that we direly need for
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our community and the residents that we currently have let alone
knowing that there are more coming. We have all been able to see
the advent of the developments that are coming forward in the east,
but with the -- with Mr. DeLony's statement of our capacities to be
able to move east and west with regard to our flows, it's critical for us
for our entire community, and I'm wholly in support of moving
forward with this.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Hall.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Thank you, Chairman.
This is my third year into this job, and I still get sticker shock.
So when I saw this, I was immediately -- I was bothered by the price
of it. I'm in full support of it. And I'm just making a comment. I'm
just being transparent.
I felt like we were behind the eight ball, that we didn't have
much of a choice, that our hand might be being forced, and that, you
know, with this top firm and with the people that we had previous
history with, that we didn't really have any wiggle room or we didn't
have any say-so with it; we kind of had to go forward with it.
But in talking with Mr. DeLony yesterday, I really appreciate
the confidence that you brought to me in the fact that we are not
being taken advantage of.
MR. DeLONY: No, sir, we're not.
COMMISSIONER HALL: That due diligence has been made;
that we are making the right decision regardless of the price. And I
just wanted to say it publicly that I appreciated you building the
confidence in me to where if I ever get backed into a corner and I feel
like I'm being taken advantage of, bad things rise up in me.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: All of us.
COMMISSIONER HALL: And I just -- Dot asked me -- she
said, "How are you doing after yesterday's meeting?"
And I said, "Well, I've been mad four times, and I've gotten over
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it four times in the last hour." So I appreciate you.
MR. DeLONY: Thank you, sir. Appreciate that.
COMMISSIONER HALL: I appreciate the candor. I appreciate
the honesty and the diligence that you did in moving forward with
this.
MR. DeLONY: Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I'll echo all of those comments
as well. I did appreciate the time that you spent going through this. I
have a great deal of confidence that we're moving in the right
direction. I've worked with a lot of your team members there over
the years, and so I feel very good about moving forward with this
even though it's a big number and, mostly likely, the number's going
to get bigger. It's not going to get smaller.
We have a motion and a second. If there are no registered
speakers, then I'll call for the vote. All in favor, signify by saying
aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously. Thank
you.
MR. DeLONY: Thank you, sir.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 11B,
formerly 16A8. This is a recommendation to hear a Land
Development Code amendment related to floating solar facilities at
two regularly scheduled daytime hearings and to waive the nighttime
hearing requirement. This item is moved to the regular agenda at
Commissioner McDaniel's request.
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Mr. Mike Bosi, your director of Planning and Zoning, is here to
present or answer questions.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Before we get into that, it may be
appropriate to take a quick break. I think we've probably only got
about a half hour or so left in the meeting, but why don't we come
back at 25 minutes to 11. That will give our reporter a bit of a break.
We are in recess until 25 minutes to 11.
(A recess was had from 10:22 a.m. to 10:35 a.m.)
MS. PATTERSON: Chair, you have a live mic.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I assume there's a large crowd of
folks out in the hallway, if you'd tell them to come on in for the
meeting.
Ms. Patterson.
Item #11B
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AMENDMENT RELATED TO
FLOATING SOLAR FACILITIES AT TWO REGULARLY
SCHEDULED DAYTIME HEARINGS AND TO WAIVE THE
NIGHTTIME HEARING REQUIREMENT. (COMMISSIONER
MCDANIEL’S REQUEST) - MOTION TO APPROVE WITH
DIRECTION GIVEN BY COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL;
SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO – APPROVED
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. Starting back on Item 11B,
Mr. Bosi.
MR. BOSI: Thank you, County Manager. Mike Bosi, Planning
and Zoning director.
The request was simply to waive the nighttime hearing and have
the Board hear the proposal for a Land Development Code
amendment for floating solar facilities be heard at two regular agenda
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items.
I think there may be some commentary or questions or some
direction the Board wanted us to provide or some of the Board
members would like to suggest to how we're going move to forward
with these proposals. So I would open myself for any questions or
any direction from the Board of County Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel, you had
this pulled off the consent.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, I did. And I just -- I just
wanted -- you know, what I envision is a modified or simple
conditional-use process.
I know that we're being ordered by the state to adjust our Land
Development Code to accommodate these floating solar facilities.
And my understanding of the language that came from the state
to -- was something along the lines to use our best efforts to
accommodate these uses. What are you pointing at?
MR. BOSI: The highlighted area, No. 3, I think, is most
pertinent to your direction. And what it says is they must be a
permitted use within the appropriate land-use category in each
Comprehensive Plan and land development regulations.
So my -- and Mr. Klatzkow could help me out with this, but I
would think that we would need to make these permitted within a
zoning district and then all other zoning districts. If you'd like to
make them conditional or prohibited, that would be the discretion or
direction of the Board.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So your interpretation is we
pick one zoning district that they become allowed as.
MR. BOSI: From reading 3, floating solar facilities shall be a
permitted use in the appropriate land-use categories in each local
government comprehensive plan, and each local government must
amend its LDC regulations to promote the expanded use of
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solar -- floating solar facilities. I would interpret that that we need to
make that as a permitted use, but the County Attorney may have a
different read on it.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Let's hear what the County
Attorney has to say, if I can.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. I would say that if the
legislation says, "In appropriate land-use categories," they're really
looking to us to determine what those appropriate land-use categories
are.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's kind of what I was
thinking.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Unless there's some other
guidance. And there may be some in the legislative history of that
language. But, Mr. Klatzkow?
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, if you make it a permitted use, you're
keeping with the language of the statute; however, if you make it a
conditional use, a conditional use is an activity that is
permitted -- permitted in that center, but you get to place conditions.
And the statute also has certain conditions we could probably put on
it, including buffering. You know, could it be challenged if you do a
conditional? Yeah. Would it be challenged if you do a conditional?
Probably not.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Would it be challenged what?
MR. KLATZKOW: It could be challenged under the language
of the statute, but I don't think it would be challenged.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I understand.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: The language there where it says,
"In the appropriate land-use categories" doesn't give us any guidance
as to what those categories are, and my assumption would be that we
make that determination.
So for example, if we said it's permitted in commercial districts,
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it's committed -- it's -- but it's not a -- it's not appropriate in a
single-family development, for example, it seems to me that they're
giving us that ability to determine what land-use classifications are
appropriate for this to be a permitted use.
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well -- and my thought
process was allowing for them as a conditional use allows us to
identify the individuality of the different requests that come forward.
We don't have a specific land-use category for a lake unless it's a
mining operation. When I get done digging, I'd shut off my pumps,
and I have a waterfront community.
So designating a particular use as an allowable use would allow
us to have -- have community input, which is imperative, and also
take into account the differentiations of the individual requests, if
they even come forward. I mean, with the advent of what's going on,
who knows whether the solar power's going to be as all that as what
everybody thought it was going to be.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Hall.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Thank you, Chairman.
I tend to go along in thought process with Commissioner
McDaniel where I would -- if we have to do something, I would like
to do the least that we have to do and give us the choice to do what
we want to do.
So when I say, you know, a floating solar facility be permitted in
an appropriate land-use category, I go the opposite direction. I go to
agriculture instead of commercial district. So if we made it permitted
in agriculture and then somebody wanted to ask for a conditional use
in another area, we would have that choice.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah, I agree. I think we have the
ability to pick one or two land-use categories to say this is where it
would be appropriate, and everywhere else it would have to be a
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conditional use. We could still be challenged, but I agree with the
County Attorney. I don't think there would be any challenge to that.
But anyway, what is the request now, for us to waive --
MR. BOSI: The request is to waive the nighttime hearings --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Hearings.
MR. BOSI: -- which is normally a customary approval from the
Board of County Commissioners. You will just hear it at two of your
regularly scheduled hearings.
One thing I would like to clarify, and this is how it's proposed
right now, just upon the -- when we went to our coordination with
DSAC, DSAC's subcommittee, and then the Planning Commission,
we were proposing as permitted by right in ag Estate, public use, and
community facilities. So we would narrow it down to just rural
agricultural as a use allowed.
And then what I really wanted to have some feedback upon is if
these were, say, a facility, say an industrial property wanted to
have -- and it had a water management lake within that industrial
property, if they wanted to have a solar facility developed as an
accessory use there, would you still want that to be a conditional use,
or would you find the accessory use within, say, an industrial zoning
district as an allowable accessory use to the principal?
And I know that's a little nuanced, but those are things that we
will have to deal with as we're writing the code specifically.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah, not in the Estates.
MR. BOSI: Okay. Yes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay?
MR. BOSI: Yes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm -- community facilities,
no. I don't mind anybody coming and asking. I -- and,
Commissioner Hall, agriculture scares me as well. That's -- that
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encompasses hundreds of thousands of acres in Collier County.
I am a miner. I have a conditional use on an agriculturally
zoned piece of property. And as I said, when I get done digging, I
shut off the pumps, and what do I have? I have lakes.
So you have the potential by right of these solar fields popping
up in lakes throughout our community without anybody having
anything to say about it.
And so I'm in agreement with you with regard to restricting the
allowable uses by right at all down to a minimum. And, you know,
in my personal viewpoint, the public use probably is the most
prohibitive that we, in fact, have, because we aren't going to do
anything as a government that wouldn't necessarily be known to the
community, and then -- and then allow for agricultural Estates. C-1
through 5 is fine as an ancillary use as long as it's a conditional use. I
want to be able to have the conditions to protect the community.
So I'm not in favor of agriculture at all. Of those defined uses,
public use is the one that I can get the -- if we have to pick one, if
that's the interpretation, that we have to pick one to allow it, then
that's the one that I would pick. Because that, to me, is the
government already.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We're -- the only request
now is to waive the nighttime hearings. And you're looking for some
guidance. I would agree with Commissioner McDaniel. I want to
protect the neighborhoods as well, and I think the -- and we'll have
this debate when it comes back.
Commissioner McDaniel is talking about public use areas for it
to be permitted. I was talking in terms of some of the commercial
districts where I think it would be appropriate. But I think we all
agree -- well, I can't say we all agree. But I think that that's going to
be the issue. I think that having these in the "E" Estates would be a
mistake because with what's going on in the Estates right now, this is
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just going to add to it, and we certainly don't want to do that.
I don't know if you need any further clarification before we go
forward with this.
MR. BOSI: And as a summary, what I've heard was to move
forward as a permitted use within the public and then all other
requests, whether it be a principal use or an accessory use, would
require a conditional use.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We'll have a --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- discussion as to whether or not at
the time --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Did you make that as a
motion?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We'll have a discussion as to
whether or not perhaps commercial would be appropriate as well or
even the agricultural. But you understand that we want to limit --
MR. BOSI: Absolutely.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- where it's permitted.
MR. BOSI: Staff has a complete understanding of what we're
going to bring back to the Board of County Commissioners. And
then whatever modifications that you make at the time is appropriate
based upon that.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Any registered speakers?
MR. MILLER: No.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Move for approval.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and a second to
approve waiving the nighttime hearings. All in favor, signify by
saying aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously.
MR. BOSI: Thank you.
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 to Item 15,
staff and commission general communications. Item 15A is public
comments on general topics not heard on the current or future agenda
by individuals not already heard during previous public comments in
this meeting.
MR. MILLER: We have none.
Item #15B
STAFF PROJECT UPDATES
MS. PATTERSON: Item 15B is staff project updates. We have
none.
Item #15C
STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
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MS. PATTERSON: That brings us to Item 15C, staff and
commission general communications. I'm going to hold my
comments -- we do have Mr. Summers in the room as well -- until we
move over to the commissioners to discuss the jetport.
But other than that, just to mention that we do have a full
meeting on July 8th, a number of topics coming forward. I've
discussed this with you in our one-on-ones. So as it stands now,
we've got a number of interesting things that we'll be discussing on
July 8th.
With that, County Attorney.
MR. KLATZKOW: Nothing. Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. So we're not going to
hear from Mr. Summers?
MS. PATTERSON: We figured we would take your comments,
and I know some of you have questions specifically about the jetport.
So if we want to do -- once you've had a chance to talk about it --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Why don't we go ahead and hear
the subject before we go to our comments.
MS. PATTERSON: You want to go ahead and go straight to
that? Yep.
So just to get this started, we received notification from the State
of Florida through FDEM over the weekend regarding a letter of
interest regarding the jetport, so this is the landing strip out in the
middle of the Everglades -- not to be confused with any of the
county-owned. This is operated by the Miami-Dade Airport, their
port authority -- for this property to be utilized for emergency
purposes.
As more information became available to us, there's a proposal
now that -- between the federal government and the State of Florida
to utilize the property for a temporary detention center. It's our
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understanding that there are already resources being mobilized and
moved onto the site to be able to assemble trailers as well as
heavy-duty tent facilities to house detainees at that property.
There is a proposal for the property to be purchased by the State
of Florida. That was sent to -- I have a copy of that letter. That was
sent to Miami-Dade County as well as Collier County.
With that, I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Summers, who has a
long history with this property but has been in communication with
FDEM and others to bring you up to speed.
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioners, good morning. For the
record, Dan Summers, director of emergency management.
Let me preface this: I have about eight quick talking points.
They may or may not fall in a sequential order. But let me just start
off to say this has been a very fluid set of circumstances, and I think
you-all can appreciate that based on the current climate.
Just a couple of things to share with you. First of all, the Miami
jetport is referred to -- its airport abbreviation is TNT. So you will
hear that TNT airport, Transitional and Training Airport, designator
used as a matter of shorthand.
I was generally aware that the Florida Division of Emergency
Management back in February did a site visit at that location. We
were not included in that discussion, but they did do a site visit for
some advanced contingency planning back in February.
We all caught the news reports from the State Attorney
General's office, I think, about midweek of the -- of this proposed
action. Other than that -- other than the initial news report, at least
local Emergency Management, to my knowledge, was not notified,
and I think local law enforcement both with Collier County Sheriff's
Office as well as Miami-Dade Sheriff, they were just recently
brought into the fold.
I did speak with state FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie, and let me
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make sure you understand how their approach is. Kevin Guthrie is
certainly a busy man, because he has been supporting the Israeli
evacuees coming into the state of Florida under the Governor's
request, and then also his role is setting up the logistics for this base
camp, if you want to call it that, where they're bringing in mobile
trailers and heavy duty tents and other wraparound services for this
detention facility.
And I did see those resources inbound yesterday. I have not
made a site inspection. I don't know that that's necessary at this
point, but we're very familiar with the property.
I understand from Kevin Guthrie that the direction is to have
that site operational on or about July the 1st. And from there, let me
clarify for your comfort a little bit about the jurisdictional authority.
And I know about that jurisdictional authority because, as I ran
Ochopee Fire Department for many, many years, we had agreements
down there for service. But the property itself, all 28,000 acres, I
believe, is contained within Collier County, but, by agreement,
Miami-Dade port authority or airport authority is the owner/operator
of that particular parcel.
The -- basically the county has no jurisdictional authority on that
site; however, our engagement there has been things like plane
crashes and accidents, responding from Ochopee, et cetera.
That airport facility, if you've not been on campus, there is really
just the gigantic single runway. A little bit of cleared space, a couple
mobile homes, a power line, and a couple of pole barns, and a lot of
real estate is really all that's out there at that particular location. So
there's very -- there's minimal infrastructure. I know Jack Wert and I
looked that the site at one time for a possible airshow.
The detention facility, the lead operator will be the Florida
Department of Corrections. So you've got Florida Department of
Corrections working with federal and state law enforcement agencies
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for that detention. The FDEM role is related to the logistical support
of that site.
I did speak with Colonel Bloom last night and made sure that we
were all on the same piece of music. He, in turn, has also been in
touch with Miami-Dade Sheriff so that any further evaluation for any
offsite consequences is being planned for.
Again, the bulk of this, the state has said that they are going to
take the responsibility for on-site emergency services, that includes
fire and EMS. So we've been told there will be no taxing of our
resources. But again, I think as these things kind of materialize and
mature, if we run into a hiccup, we know that all the parties can
gather around the table and work that out.
The state has also indicated, as I mentioned, the fire and EMS
services, and I'm going to re-talk with Miami-Dade EM today and
make sure that they are also handling any backfill of any fire and
EMS assets. If you've been out there, you know it's a long way from
nowhere, and we're -- we would encourage them to look at air
operations if needed for medical evacuation probably from
Miami-Dade. That has more air assets. I'll maintain that open line of
communications.
As I mentioned, I spoke with Director Guthrie, mentioned that I
felt like we were taking a little off guard without some more
advanced notification, but I do understand he's been extremely busy
with several operations as well as ongoing FEMA recovery. But the
line of communications is there. There are no unmet needs, and there
have been no taskings made to my office or to Collier County.
As always, we'll have a -- maintain a full cooperation in support
with our federal/state partners. We'll monitor any offsite concerns,
and FDEM will be handling all the media inquiries.
So, yes, it's within our confines. Owner/operator is Miami-Dade
Jetport Authority, and lead operations is Florida Department of
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Corrections with the federal and state partners.
And I think they have also worked to improve some of their
communication resources, wireless resources, cellular coverage.
Historically it's been bad out there, but I believe that's been
addressed.
Other than that, I think the unified command approach is
certainly in place. And again, we will support, and I will keep you
updated with any other concerns.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I have just a couple quick
questions.
You had indicated that the county has no jurisdiction out there at
all. I just want to have confirmation from the County Attorney that
we have no involvement in any of this.
MR. SUMMERS: Yes, sir. We went back and looked
at -- well, first of all, the agreements were kind of antique. That was
done late '60s with a full transfer, and I believe it may have even been
a bill of sale or a deed to that. I originally thought it was a lease. I
misspoke a little bit about that property.
The agreement that I had on file for Ochopee was really related
to services, fire services and other support. But it's clear in my mind
that we do not have jurisdiction over that property.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: The reason I ask that is we are
going to get requests, have already gotten requests to weigh in in
reference to this project. And I just want to make it clear from the
public -- on the public record with -- from the County Attorney and
with you that this board has -- and this county has no jurisdiction to
deal with this issue. This is a state/federal issue and a Dade County
issue. Is that correct, Mr. Klatzkow?
MR. KLATZKOW: I believe that's correct, but I will
double-check.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Because we will get those
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questions.
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And then secondly, you're familiar
with the location out there.
MR. SUMMERS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We've had many hurricanes since
that site was designated as a training runway. What happens when
we get a storm across there? Does that area just flood a lot, or is it
just --
MR. SUMMERS: It is naturally low.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: It just seems like it's in the middle
of the Everglades.
MR. SUMMERS: And, frankly, Miami-Dade will close that
airport frequently during severe weather because of the absence of
resources on site.
In terms of any contingency planning related to the detainees,
that is a hot topic that I will cover with Miami-Dade Chair. It is my
opinion -- and again, I love my colleagues, but this is their show, and
the consequences of storm management will be theirs.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: The reason I asked that is, you
know, they're putting tents out there, temporary facilities. We're in
the middle of the hurricane season. We're going to get some.
Everyone knows that. And I don't know if this is all of a sudden
going to become our problem. You know, if there are thousands of
people out there that have to come west because of a storm
approaching from the east, does that become our problem?
MR. SUMMERS: I'm going to address that. I don't want it to
become our problem, let me just put it that way, as diplomatic as I
can. And also, remember, too, not too far down the road, you've got
the Krome federal facility, too. So I suspect that if there is a shelter
of refuge, those detainees would be moved to the Krome location.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, if you could kind of tie that
down a little bit because --
MR. SUMMERS: I will. Oh -- I mean, yes, sir, I will. That's
high priority.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, Chairman.
I like what you said, Dan, because I agree. I think when it
comes to -- you used the term "unified command," and I know we all
take great pride in what I call cohesive messaging. I don't know
about the other commissioners, but I actually got two formal requests
for interviews from the New York Times and one just about an hour
ago from USA Today.
I would just make the suggestion that -- and it echoes what
Commissioner Saunders was saying -- that any of those requests we
get, I plan to send them to Ms. Patterson who will probably involve
you and John Mullins. But I think, you know, any of us making
statements -- I believe some of these requests might be coming to
me -- or maybe they're coming to all of us. But two formal requests
came to me because they might think it's in my district because I've
got a big chunk of the Everglades.
But I think it's a -- it would be a big mistake for any of us to sort
of separately answer. Even if we're echoing what you're saying, I just
think, you know, people are jumping on any type of -- reporters on
any type of feedback. And like you said, this is a very fluid, evolving
situation, and we weren't the main players. And I think these news
outlets hearing it from county staff and people in your positions
rather than us trying to pontificate on top of a soapbox or something
is going to confuse messaging. Too many cooks in the kitchen. So
that's what I plan to do with the two requests that I got.
So I'm going to send those to you, Ms. Patterson. I'm going to
CC -- well, I'll send it to the three of you because John Mullins,
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obviously, is involved a lot of times -- all the time in our messaging
to the media and press, and I, for one, I'm not going to make any kind
of comment and confuse the situation.
MR. SUMMERS: Thank you, Commissioner. And to be a little
more candid than that, I did make that perfectly clear to Director
Guthrie, and he said, "We absolutely will handle all the media
inquiries."
And my plan -- I've received several as well and withheld that,
confirming Kevin Guthrie's point of contact. County Manager and I
will formalize that protocol.
I do think it's important to let -- it is a state-led mission, and they
have worked out a real estate deal with Miami-Dade. And I would
say, other than that we're Switzerland in this environment unless
there's some other request.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: And in my forward, I don't
plan to reply back to the reports to let them know what I'm doing
because that then opens up this huge dialogue. Then they go, well,
just a couple of quick questions, and it becomes, you know, sloppy.
But I appreciate you taking this on and keeping us posted.
I think Commissioner Saunders really brought up one of the
main key points, that it might be a big chunk of empty land out there,
and maybe somebody was salivating thinking they can do something
with it. But sitting here in the middle of hurricane season, I sure
would hate to see this plop in our lap that a thousand detainees that
were sitting in tents now need food, shelter, transportation and all
that. And it's also in the middle of an environmentally
sensitive -- you know, environmentally impacted area. I realize they
use it for touch and goes and whatnot, but -- that surrounding area.
But I would expect, no question, Dan, you're the guy that's going
to relay that to everyone. And I'm sure they've put some thought into
that, but I don't -- like you always say, I don't want them to think that
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we're a love boat when it comes to hurricanes; that we could be a
lifeboat in time of emergency. But it could be a big ask if a
Hurricane Ian or Irma or a Katrina came through here, and we had
people out in the boondocks there in serious, you know, jeopardy,
you know, due to the storm.
MR. SUMMERS: And it does bother me, sir -- you're spot
on -- because even in between the taxiways are quite low and quite
wet. So again, the contractors are going to have their hands full with
anything temporary on a good day, especially in the rainy season, and
then secondly, those escalating consequences if we're looking at a
storm threat. We'll get on it directly with our partners.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Keep me in the loop.
MR. SUMMERS: We will.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: It's your district.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: This is in my district. They
sent an LOI to Commissioner LoCastro last week. I just learned
about that yesterday. You were the Chair, that was the last record
that they had, being the Chairman of the Board.
And again, I'm not the beginning and the end, but just to -- I had
no visibility on this whatsoever. I actually went to -- it was requested
by a reporter -- I heard Congressman Byron Donalds on the radio.
He wasn't aware of it and really thought it was a pipe dream of
somebody, and now we're all learning that this isn't a pipe dream.
Now, with regard to our concern -- and these are all valid
concerns, but we all know -- we've all -- most of us have all
experienced multiple hurricanes, and it depends on which way that
dang thing's coming. If it's coming from the east, they're going to
move to the west. If it's coming from the west, they're going to move
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to the east.
But nobody -- nobody even -- nobody even called and talked to
me about the exposure for our community with regard to the
utilization. And I know they don't have -- I wasn't -- I'm not looking
for permission. I'm just looking for some information with regard to
that.
I spoke to the owner of the Hendry County prison, which is out
at the end of Oil Well Road that has a wastewater/water treatment
facility that's zoned as a prison that Governor Scott shut down back
in his day. Nobody even communicated with him about the
utilization of that facility.
So communication's nine-tenths of the law, and I absolutely
concur that we should stay out of the media with regard to this.
Unified command is, in fact, the way to go. I'll direct my questions
and comments over to the County Manager's Office as well. But
minimumly, send us one-way communications. I just learned today
that you knew of a site inspection that was going on out there in
February of this year.
MR. SUMMERS: That was passive information.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Not that you knew what they
were doing. And I'm not throwing any rocks --
MR. SUMMERS: No, no.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- please. I'm frustrated
because people look to us to kind of sort of know what's going on.
And I already gave a report to a reporter with regard to the
knowledge that I had at the time last week when this first bubbled up
that this was -- wasn't even coming as a facility. I actually even
stepped out and said there's -- this wasn't working.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Never heard of it.
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioner, I'm known for my candor,
and I won't let you down.
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The calls that I made on Saturday to FDEM, to my regional -- up
my chain -- and staff was at Tampa -- was this, as of Saturday, was
investigatory only. It went from investigatory to assets being
deployed with my next follow-up call.
I have to be careful about not biting the hand that feeds me, but
I, too, am disappointed in the absence of a courtesy call on this.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I spoke with Kathleen
Passi -- our senator this morning, and she -- and granted, she was
traveling, so she was a little bit out of the loop, but she wasn't even
made aware that it -- that this facility was coming, and I -- and that's
my major frustration. It's -- you know, everybody's got an opinion
with regard to the environmental sensitivity and the potential
exposures and so ons and so forth. But the bottom line,
communication's nine-tenths of the law.
MR. SUMMERS: And let me -- I'll wrap up here and just say
this --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Me, too. I'm done.
MR. SUMMERS: -- we know -- we have a great deal of respect
for the law enforcement sensitivity, but law enforcement sensitivity
deals with the crisis component. The county deals with the
consequence component. So we're the second ring around that
operation, if you will. And again, I think we can handle it. Just a
little disappointed that we didn't get quite the heads-up that we
deserved and I needed to pass along to you.
So we're caught up, and I'll -- I can assure you we will keep you
informed.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I'll just add, I got that letter of
intent, what, a day or two ago, and I think five minutes after receiving
it -- I just happened to be doing email at the time -- I read it and I
knew that I wasn't the person who should get this, nor did I really
know exactly what it was, so I sent it to Ms. Patterson and
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Mr. Klatzkow, and then they were already starting to get feelers. But
that's the last correspondence I got.
And I would expect, Ms. Patterson, you replied -- I think you
did reply back to that person saying Commissioner LoCastro isn't the
guy that should get this. They should be dealing with you. So I think
we corrected that misconnection, and then I assume then you or
somebody is who informed Commissioner McDaniel because I
couldn't, but I figured you would.
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. As this situation continued to
evolve through our -- when we were in one-on-ones yesterday, we
brought each of you the information we had at the time, which
actually was -- started as basic in the morning, and by the afternoon
we found out that they were actually mobilizing. So it was definitely
a dynamic situation yesterday with our level of knowledge. We, like
you, had heard some reports about some investigation but
didn't -- you know, quickly realized that it was way beyond that.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I would only add there is
some confusion on social media. You know, I kind of monitor things
a little bit just to -- sometimes you do hear some good things that you
need to jump on.
There are a few people that are confused, and they're confusing
this with the Everglades airport. And so we just clarified that here.
Because a lot of people don't know about this airstrip, and so there's
been so much talk about the Everglades Airpark recently and what
we might do, and it's being morphed in some -- and I'm not jumping
on it and making the correction because then you're having a town
hall meeting on Facebook. But I think the more we put out, we
should clarify that because not a lot of people are aware of this
location, and they're confusing it with the Everglades Airpark.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Somebody put out a map and
point at where it is, I mean, and that will help clarify a lot of the
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mis- and disinformation that's out there.
MR. SUMMERS: And I think with Mr. Mullins' help, we'll
make sure that we've got FDEM and Collier Sheriff's Office on the
same page.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I'm going to just wrap this issue up
with there are a couple very important points for the public to fully
understand. We've brought those out. The first one being this county
has no authority, has no jurisdiction, has no say in what goes on at
that airport. This is an issue coming out of Tallahassee, and we were
not consulted in any way in terms of whether it's a good place for this
type of facility. Not our issue.
So when people ask us, "What can we do?" the answer is,
obviously, "Contact, you know, the state government." We have
no -- we have no say, and that's not going to change. Whether this is
a good idea or bad idea, again, not for us to opine on. If I'm asked, I
will give my opinion but only as an individual, not as, you know,
someone representing the county and -- because we are going to be
asked those types of questions. And I think that, you know, we
just -- the public just needs to understand we have nothing to do with
this.
MR. SUMMERS: Correct.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right.
MR. SUMMERS: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Anything else on that topic before
we move on to the conclusion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right.
MR. SUMMERS: Thank you, Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you.
Then we'll go to our last item, which is County Commission
communication.
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Commissioner Hall, do you have anything for the good of the
order here?
COMMISSIONER HALL: Nothing for the good of the order
other than if I'm ever, ever notified by fake news, it's crickets from
me.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's probably why they keep
calling me. They're getting crickets from everybody else.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Thank you, sir.
I have two points. And I asked about these yesterday, but I just
want to make them formal questions. We had some discussion about
a tower at Ochopee and that fire station down there. I'd like to get an
update on that soon as to how we're going, what we're doing, because
that was a very contentious item.
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And maybe we can put one
out at the jetport while they're moving facilities in.
And then the other is there was a -- I had a request for a
notice -- an expansion of the notice requirement for rezones, so
we -- to include agriculture -- basically all lands. I think it's time for
us to expand those bounds. We've been caught -- I have been caught
a couple of times with a very limited amount of people knowing that
a rezone request is coming, so I would like that to be addressed at
a -- you don't have to do it now unless you're ready to say something
about it.
Mike, do you have -- Mr. Bosi.
MR. BOSI: Mike Bosi, Planning and Zoning director.
And I know this isn't customary for staff to -- the direction that
we thought that we had heard from the Board was to increase the
agricultural notification from a thousand feet to one mile. That
doesn't -- it's not changing anything within the zoning districts within
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the urbanized area. This was -- we understood it as strictly related to
the agricultural areas.
Are you asking for even larger notification for zoning districts
beyond the Estates and ag to be one mile?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And that can be -- I want the
ag done yesterday.
MR. BOSI: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And then I'm not opposed to
having a discussion by our board with regard to this, to elevate this
because, there again, we've all ran into rezone requests and use
changes and along those lines, and people aren't well informed
depending on -- and it basically just boils down to how far
we're -- our regulations are set up for a notice of a use -- a change of
use.
So minimumly, the ag -- including the agriculture will assist,
and then we can have a -- maybe when we adopt that, we'll talk about
the others.
MR. BOSI: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel, do you
have anything else to add?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, Chairman.
I just wanted to say two quick things.
I had added something on 16K10 [sic]. It was a
recommendation to reclassify Scott's Spitzer as a -- to an at-large seat
on the Infrastructure Surtax Citizen Oversight Committee, which I
will tell you I personally know Scott. Very impressive individual.
He served in elected office up north previously. And I just wanted to
go on the record and just say he's -- he's been a very involved citizen
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in my district, and I really appreciate his efforts and his ability to step
forward and be part of anything to make the county better. He's been
a great resource, and so we did a good thing today by elevating his
at-large seat and putting him permanently on the Infrastructure Surtax
Citizen Oversight Committee.
Do you know Scott?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Very well. I'm all for the
move.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I don't know if he'll hear this
or anybody will hear it, but it's worthy of mention.
And then, lastly, I just wanted to say -- I had said it before -- I
was really impressed with what Paradise Coast Sports Complex did
for Memorial Day. You know, as a veteran, it was very meaningful
that they understood what Memorial Day was. They had a packed
house. And a lot of efforts by Jamie French and his staff to, once
again, make that facility spit shined showed.
They've got an event -- a game on July 4th. Lots of other
activities, and I'm sure we'll get the word out to everyone, and I hope
to see a full crowd there to, you know, celebrate the 4th of July. But
it will be a special evening at the sports complex, and I hope our local
citizens come out and rally for an event that celebrates our nation's
birth.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I'm glad that you mentioned the
Paradise Coast. On July 8th, at our next meeting, I am bringing back
the issue of the sixth penny for providing some additional funds to
finish off that park, so we'll have another presentation. But at that
point I'm going to be asking the Board to make a decision. So if you
have any questions or issues about that, we've got a couple weeks
before it comes back. I'm sure there will be -- there will be some, so
I wanted to give you some forewarning on that.
Also, Ms. Patterson, it doesn't have to be July 8th, but perhaps
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our first meeting in August, if July 8th is getting to be crowded, I
would like an update on the Everglades airport, because we are still
getting a lot of questions about that.
MS. PATTERSON: Yep.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I know there's been a lot of
work done on that. And I know Ms. Trinity has done a lot of stuff on
that, and we have a lot of good news. So Ms. Scott has been working
very hard on that, so...
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. Depending on how all these items
pan out on July 8th, we can plan for July 8th or August 12th for an
update.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: There's no -- there's no urgency in
that, but I just want to get the word out to the public what's going on
there.
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Anything else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: If not, we are adjourned.
*******
****Commissioner McDaniel moved, seconded by Commissioner
Hall, and carried that the following items under the consent and
summary agendas by approved and/or adopted****
Item #16A1
RECORDING THE PLAT OF TERRENO AT VALENCIA GOLF
AND COUNTRY CLUB – PHASE 4 (APPLICATION NUMBER
PL20240001645), APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT, AND
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APPROVAL OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY IN THE
AMOUNT OF $4,920,187.06 - LOCATED IN SECTIONS 24 & 25,
TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RANGE 27 EAST
Item #16A2
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR NCH NORTH NAPLES MEDICAL PARK, PL20250001295 –
FINAL INSPECTION BY STAFF FOUND THESE FACILITIES
SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE ON APRIL 22, 2025
Item #16A3
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER
UTILITY FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR CAYMAS PHASE II – PHASE 1A (PL20240010875) - FINAL
INSPECTION FOUND THESE FACILITIES SATISFACTORY
AND ACCEPTABLE BY STAFF ON MARCH 25, 2025
Item #16A4
THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE
BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,000,000, WHICH WAS POSTED
AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER
PL20210002363 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THE
TERRENO AT VALENCIA GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB PHASE
1 - THE AS-BUILT LAKE CROSS-SECTION HAVE BEEN
RECEIVED AND INSPECTED ON MAY 8, 2025
Item #16A5
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WAIVE THE NIGHTTIME HEARING REQUIREMENT AND
HEAR A LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AMENDMENT
RELATED TO THE RURAL LANDS STEWARDSHIP AREA
ZONING OVERLAY DISTRICT (RLSA DISTRICT) AT TWO
REGULARLY SCHEDULED DAYTIME BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS’ MEETINGS AND APPROVE A REQUEST
TO ADVERTISE THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
AMENDMENT (PL20220003445)
Item #16A6
CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND
IN THE AMOUNT OF $56,600, WHICH WAS POSTED AS A
DEVELOPMENT GUARANTY FOR AN EARLY WORK
AUTHORIZATION (EWA) FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH
AVALON NORTH AT AVE MARIA – MODEL PARK
(PL20240013711) - W/PULTE HOME COMPANY, LLC
Item #16A7
STAFF TO ADVERTISE AND BRING BACK AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE TO ALLOW
AN APPLICANT OF A LAND USE PETITION THAT REQUIRES
A NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION MEETING (NIM) THE
OPTION OF ADVERTISING THE NIM ON THE COUNTY
CLERK'S (PL20250000524)
Item #16A8 – Moved to Item #11B (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
Item #16A9
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RECORDING THE PLAT OF SEVEN SHORES – PHASE 3
(APPLICATION NUMBER PL20240009867), APPROVAL OF THE
STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
AGREEMENT, AND APPROVAL OF THE PERFORMANCE
SECURITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,797,624.86 -
W/STIPULATIONS AS DETILED IN THE EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
Item #16B1
RATIFY ADMINISTRATIVELY APPROVED CHANGE ORDER
NO. 1 UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 24-8213, TO ADD THIRTY
DAYS TO THE CONTRACT TIME AND ADD $150,510.00 OF
FUNDS UTILIZING THE FY2025 CRITICAL BRIDGE REPAIRS
PROGRAMS AND THE PROJECT ALLOWANCE FROM BRIDGE
034048 TO COMPLETE AND PAY FOR ADDITIONAL WORK
ON THE RANDALL BOULEVARD AT GG MAIN CANAL
BRIDGE PROJECT AS A RESULT OF A CAR CRASH, AND
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
CHANGE ORDER (PROJECT NO. 66066) - W/THOMAS
MARINE CONSTRUCTION, INC.
Item #16B2
AN AFTER-THE-FACT PAYMENT OF $103,572.26 TO
HORSEPOWER ELECTRIC, INC., FOR THE "SIGNAL
HARDENING AT AIRPORT RD & POINCIANA ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL" PROJECT - UNDER CONTRACT #23-8119
Item #16B3
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COLLIER AREA TRANSIT (CAT) PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
AGENCY SAFETY PLAN (PTASP) UPDATE IN ACCORDANCE
WITH FINAL RULE 49 C.F.R. PART 673 REQUIREMENTS -
APPROVED ON MAY 8, 2025
Item #16B4
STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH
KIMLEY-HORN AND ASSOCIATES, INC., RELATED TO RPS
NO. 24-8310, DESIGN SERVICES FOR “FOUR-POINT
ROUNDABOUT IMMOKALEE ROAD AT CAMP KEAIS ROAD”
SO THAT A PROPOSED AGREEMENT CAN BE BROUGHT TO
THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION AT A FUTURE MEETING
Item #16B5 - Added
BEACH FILL PROJECT ON VANDERBILT BEACH AND TO (1)
AUTHORIZE A PURCHASE ORDER IN THE AMOUNT OF
$165,212.50 FOR CONSTRUCTION TO EARTH TECH
ENTERPRISES, INC. UNDER AGREEMENT #21-7885 “BEACH
MAINTENANCE RELATED ACTIVITIES” FOR AN ON-CALL
URGENT SERVICES BEACH FILL PROJECT ON VANDERBILT
BEACH AND A PURCHASE ORDER FOR $49,500 TO STEWART
MATERIALS, LLC UNDER AGREEMENT #21-7827 “BEACH
COMPATIBLE SAND SUPPLY” FOR THE PURCHASE OF
BEACH QUALITY SAND, AND (2) MAKE A FINDING THAT
THIS EXPENDITURE PROMOTES TOURISM (PROJECT
#90066)
Item #16C1
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AS THE EX OFFICIO
GOVERNING BOARD OF THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER-
SEWER DISTRICT, AWARD INVITATION TO BID NO. 25-8338
TO POWERSERVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., FOR THE SCRWTP
ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY PHASE IIA PROJECT, IN THE
AMOUNT OF $4,765,400, AUTHORIZE AN OWNER’S
ALLOWANCE OF $100,000, APPROVE THE NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENT, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN
TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT (PROJECT NO.
70069) - THIS PROCESS HAS A PERMITTED CAPACITY OF 12
MILLION GALLONS PER DAY OF POTABLE WATER
Item #16C2
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AS THE EX OFFICIO
GOVERNING BOARD OF THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER-
SEWER DISTRICT, AWARD INVITATION TO BID NO. 25-8339
TO POWERSERVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., FOR THE SCRWTP
ELECTRICAL RELIABILITY PHASE IIB PROJECT IN THE
AMOUNT OF $2,935,000, AUTHORIZE AN OWNER’S
ALLOWANCE OF $100,000, AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT
(PROJECT NO. 70069) - THIS PROCESS HAS A PERMITTED
CAPACITY OF 12 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY OF POTABLE
WATER
Item #16C3
AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO AGREEMENT NO. 22-8000 WITH
LHOIST NORTH AMERICA OF ALABAMA, LLC, FOR
QUICKLIME SUPPLY FOR THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER-
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SEWER DISTRICT, TO INCREASE THE FEE SCHEDULE
PRICES, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE
ATTACHED AMENDMENT - THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO
ALLOWED FOR AN INCREASE OF $83.51 PER TON INCREASE
IN UNIT PRICE APPROVED AT THE JULY 23, 2024 BCC
MEETING; THE THIRD AMENDMENT AGREEMENT WILL
INCREASE BY $14.68 PER EFFECTIVE JULY 12, 2025
THROUGH JULY 11, 2026
Item #16C4
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AS THE EX OFFICIO
GOVERNING BOARD OF THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER-
SEWER DISTRICT, APPROVE CHANGE ORDER NO. 1 TO
AGREEMENT NO. 20-7722-NS, WITH AECOM TECHNICAL
SERVICES, INC., FOR THE NCWRF HEADWORKS FACILITY
PROJECT, ADDING 349 DAYS TO TASKS 1 THROUGH 6,
REALLOCATING $272,893 FROM DESIGN AND
PROCUREMENT TASKS TO CONSTRUCTION RELATED
SERVICES TASKS, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO
SIGN THE ATTACHED CHANGE ORDER (PROJECT
NO. 70149) - AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16C5
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AS THE EX OFFICIO
GOVERNING BOARD OF THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER-
SEWER DISTRICT, RATIFY ADMINISTRATIVELY APPROVED
CHANGE ORDER NO. 4 TO AGREEMENT NO. 23-8116, WITH
POOLE & KENT COMPANY OF FLORIDA, FOR THE NCWRF
PRETREATMENT FACILITY PROJECT, ADDING SEVENTEEN
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DAYS TO THE CONTRACT TIME, APPROVING THE USE OF
$302,321.39 OF THE OWNER’S ALLOWANCE, AND
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
CHANGE ORDER (PROJECT NO. 70149) - AS DETAILED IN
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16D1
A BUDGET AMENDMENT TO RECOGNIZE INTEREST
EARNED, IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,300.74, FOR DECEMBER
2024 THROUGH MARCH 2025 ON ADVANCED LIBRARY
FUNDING RECEIVED FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
STATE TO SUPPORT LIBRARY SERVICES FOR THE USE OF
COLLIER COUNTY RESIDENTS (PUBLIC SERVICE MATCH
FUND 1840)
Item #16D2
THE FY24-25 STATE AID TO LIBRARIES GRANT FUNDING, IN
THE AMOUNT OF $129,213 AND AUTHORIZE THE
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT (PUBLIC SERVICE
GRANT FUND (1839) PROJECT #33943) - FOR THE AFTER-
THE-FACT APPLICATION AWARDED ON MAY 8, 2025
Item #16D3
THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN
COLLIER COUNTY AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
STATE DIVISION OF HISTORICAL RESOURCES FOR THE
RESTORATION OF THE HISTORIC COTTAGES AT MAR-GOOD
HARBOR PARK TO EXTEND THE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE
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TO DECEMBER 31, 2025 (PUBLIC SERVICE GRANT FUND
1839 AND PUBLIC SERVICE MATCH FUND 1840)
Item #16D4
BUDGET AMENDMENTS TO REFLECT THE ESTIMATED
FUNDING FOR FY25-26 COMMUNITY CARE FOR THE
ELDERLY, ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE INITIATIVE, AND HOME
CARE FOR THE ELDERLY PROGRAMS, IN THE AMOUNT OF
$2,518,822; $17,786 IN ESTIMATED CO-PAYMENT
CONTRIBUTIONS, AND THE ESTIMATED CASH MATCH OF
$20,000 (FISCAL IMPACT $2,556,608, HUMAN SERVICES
GRANT FUND 1837)
Item #16D5
BUDGET AMENDMENT TO REFLECT THE ESTIMATED
FUNDING FOR THE FY 25-26 EMERGENCY HOME
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF $110,453.60
(FISCAL IMPACT $110,453.60, HUMAN SERVICES GRANT
FUND 1837) – THE FUNDING WILL RESIDE WITHIN THE
HUMAN SERVICES GRANT FUND FOR PROJECT #33867
WITH NO MATCH REQUIRED FOR THIS GRANT PROGRAM
Item #16D6
RESOLUTION 2025-123: A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE
CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE LOCAL PROVIDER
PARTICIPATION FUND FOR THE DIRECTED PAYMENT
PROGRAM AND GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
PROGRAM, WHICH WILL BE SOLELY FUNDED BY
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ASSESSMENTS ON COLLIER COUNTY HOSPITAL-OWNED
PROPERTY OR PROPERTY USED AS A HOSPITAL IN AN
AMOUNT OF 1.74% OF NET INPATIENT REVENUE AND 2.81%
OF NET OUTPATIENT REVENUE
Item #16D7
FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT
BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY AND HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC., D/B/A HELP, TO
AMEND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
AGREEMENT #PS24-02 TO INCREASE THE PROJECT BUDGET
BY $12,326.92, REVISE GRANT LANGUAGE, AND UPDATE
COUNTY CONTACT INFORMATION (HOUSING GRANT FUND
1835) - AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16D8
SECOND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
AMENDMENT BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY AND BAKER
SENIOR CENTER INC., (#PS24-04) TO INCREASE THE
PROJECT BUDGET BY $27,499.97, REVISE GRANT
LANGUAGE, AND UPDATE EXHIBITS REQUIRED (HOUSING
GRANT FUND 1835, PROJECT #33915) - WITH CHANGES AS
DETILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16E1
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 24-8301 “MEDIUM
DUTY TOWING & TRANSPORT SERVICES” TO PROMPT
WRECKER SERVICE AND SALES, INC., D/B/A PROMPT
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TOWING SERVICE ("PROMPT TOWING SERVICE") AND
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
AGREEMENT - FOR TOWING AND TRANSPORTS OF
COUNTY VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT
Item #16E2
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 24-8302, “HEAVY
DUTY TOWING & TRANSPORT SERVICES,” TO PROMPT
WRECKER SERVICE AND SALES, INC., D/B/A PROMPT
TOWING SERVICE ("PROMPT TOWING SERVICE") AND
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
AGREEMENT - FOR TOWING AND TRANSPORTS OF
COUNTY VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT
Item #16E3
AWARD INVITATION TO BID NO. 24-8305, “AUTOMOTIVE &
EQUIPMENT BATTERIES,” TO BATTERY USA, INC., FOR THE
PURCHASE OF AUTOMOTIVE AND EQUIPMENT BATTERIES
TO SUPPORT COUNTY OPERATIONS AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT - FOR A
THREE-YEAR PERIOD WITH TWO 1-YEAR RENEWALS
Item #16F1
TWO BUDGET AMENDMENTS. THE FIRST REALLOCATES
$1,036,561.90 FROM RESERVES IN FUND EMS (4050) TO EMS
CAPITAL FUND (4055) TO SUPPORT THE PURCHASE OF
MEDICAL STRETCHERS. THE SECOND TRANSFERS FUNDS
REMAINING IN PROJECT #31455 (FUND 4055) IN THE
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AMOUNT OF $622,168.45 TO PROJECT #50236 TO ALIGN
WITH CURRENT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES CAPITAL
NEEDS - FOR CAPITAL NEED THAT INCLUDE
REPLACEMENT EQUIPMENT THAT’S REACHED LIFE
EXPECTANCY
Item #16F2
A FINAL PAYMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $115,155.74 UNDER
AGREEMENT NO. 21-7833 WITH COMPASS CONSTRUCTION,
INC., WHICH REFLECTS THE COUNTY’S WITHHOLDING OF
$39,390, AND FIND THIS EXPENDITURE HAS A VALID
PUBLIC PURPOSE TO CLOSE OUT THE “GOLDEN GATE
COMMUNITY PARK ACTIVITY POOL RECONSTRUCTION
AND RESTROOM ALTERATION” PROJECT. (PROJECT NO.
80405) - AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16F3
CHANGE ORDER NO. 20 REALLOCATING $50,000 FROM THE
BUILDING PERMIT FEES AND $34,785.76 FROM P&P BONDS,
AND RATIFY ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL OF NINETY
DAYS TO THE SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION AND ALLOWING
FOR THE UTILIZATION OF $98,350.34 OF THE
CONTINGENCY FUNDING FOR PURCHASE ORDER NO.
4500229878, UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 21-7883-ST WITH O-A-
K/FLORIDA, INC., D/B/A OWEN-AMES-KIMBALL COMPANY,
FOR THE MAIN CAMPUS UPGRADES, AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED CHANGE ORDER. (PROJECT
NO. 50214) - ADDING 90-DAYS TO THE CONTRACT AND
UTILIZING A PROTION OF THE CONTINGENCY ALLOWING
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FOR THE REALLOCATION FROM THE BUILDING PERMIT
FEES FOR THE MAIN CAMPUS UPGRADES
Item #16F4
ISSUANCE OF A PURCHASE ORDER FOR A QUOTATION IN
THE AMOUNT OF $425,700 UNDER MULTI-CONTRACTOR
AWARD AGREEMENT NO. 19-7525 TO CAPITAL
CONTRACTORS, LLC FOR THE RESTORATION OF HISTORIC
STRUCTURES AT THE IMMOKALEE PIONEER MUSEUM AT
ROBERTS RANCH, PLUS AN OWNER’S ALLOWANCE OF
$49,644.21 THAT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PURCHASE
ORDER. (PROJECT NO. 50516) - THE REPAIRS INCLUDE THE
WELL, HORSE BARN, SMOKEHOUSE, PUMP HOUSE, PRIVY,
MAID’S HOUSE, SUMMER KITCHEN, HORSE RAMP, HIDE
HOUSE, GARAGE, BAPTIST CHURCH/VISITOR’S CENTER
AND THE CANE GRINDER THAT WILL ADDRESS ELEMENTS
SUCH AS ROOFING, WOOD COMPONENTS, STRUCTURAL
FRAMING, FLOORING, HARDWARD, DUCTWORK AND
FINISHES TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE THE FACILITIES
Item #16F5
RATIFY ADMINISTRATIVELY APPROVED CHANGE ORDER
NO. 1 UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 20-7817, “CEI SERVICES FOR
PELICAN BAY SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS,” TO JOHNSON
ENGINEERING, INC., ADDING $49,906 FOR ADDITIONAL
CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION SERVICES AND 365
ADDITIONAL CONTRACT DAYS DURING THE EXTENDED
PHASE 2 CONSTRUCTION PERIOD, APPROVE THE
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT, AND AUTHORIZE THE
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CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED CHANGE ORDER (PROJECT
#50212) - FOR CONTRACT INSPECTION AND OVERSIGHT
SERVICES DURING THE EXTENDED SIDEWALK
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
Item #16F6
THE FOURTH AMENDMENT TO RADIO TOWER LEASE
AGREEMENT #787-C WITH CROWN CASTLE GT COMPANY
LLC, AUTHORIZING COLLIER COUNTY TO CONTINUE THE
OPERATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION
EQUIPMENT INSTALLED AT 1899 TRADE CENTER WAY,
NAPLES, FLORIDA 34109 - EXTENDING THE LEASE TO MAY
31, 2035
Item #16F7
A FIFTH AMENDMENT TO RADIO TOWER LEASE
AGREEMENT 787-B WITH CROWN CASTLE GT COMPANY
LLC, AUTHORIZING COLLIER COUNTY TO CONTINUE THE
OPERATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY EQUIPMENT AT 15571
TAMIAMI TRAIL EAST, NAPLES, FL 34114 - EXTENDING THE
LEASE TO MAY 31, 2035
Item #16F8
RESOLUTION 2025-124: 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 #16I1
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE FOR JUNE 24, 2025
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
June 24, 2025
1. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS TO FILE FOR RECORD WITH ACTION AS
DIRECTED:
A. DISTRICTS:
1) Heritage Bay Community Development District:
12/05/2024 Agency Memo, Signed Minutes, & Agency Mailing
2) Quarry Community Development District:
02/10/2025 Agency Memo, Signed Minutes, & Agency Mailing
03/10/2025 Agency Memo, Signed Minutes, & Agency Mailing
3) Naples Heritage Community Development District:
03/04/2025 Agency Memo, Signed Minutes, & Agency Mailing
4) Horse Trails Community Development District:
2026 Proposed Budget
5) North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District:
FY 2024 Audit Report
6) Heritage Greens Community Development District:
Proposed 2026 Budget; Resolution 2025-2
7) Lely Community Development District:
Projected 2026 Budget; Resolution 2025-2
8) Pelican Marsh Community Development District:
Proposed 2026 General Fund Budget; Resolution 2025-3
9) Port of the Islands Community Improvement District:
Fiscal Year 2025 Budget; Resolution 2025-1
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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 $79,623,508.15 WERE DRAWN FOR THE
PERIODS BETWEEN MAY 29, 2025, AND JUNE 11, 2025,
PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06
Item #16J2
THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE VALID PUBLIC
PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING
CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF JUNE 18, 2025
Item #16J3
BUDGET AMENDMENT RECOGNIZING $2,249,600 IN
REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES IN THE SHERIFF'S FY2025
GENERAL FUND BUDGET - FOR MISCELLANEOUS
SERVICES TRUNED BACK TO THE BOARD AFTER THE
CLOSE OF THE FISCAL YEAR
Item #16K1
COUNTY ATTORNEY TO FILE A LAWSUIT ON BEHALF OF
COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGAINST ALL WIRED COMMUNICATIONS, INC. AND ANY
OTHER RESPONSIBLE PARTIES FOR $101,238.04 IN
DAMAGES CAUSED TO ELEVEN 6-INCH WASTEWATER
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LATERAL PIPELINES LOCATED AT OR NEAR 91ST AVENUE
N., 92ND AVENUE N., 93RD AVENUE N. AND 6TH STREET N.
Item #16K2
RESOLUTION 2025-125: REAPPOINTING TODD ALLEN AND
STEPHEN JARON TO THE CONTRACTORS LICENSING
BOARD – BOTH WITH TERMS EXPIRING ON JUNE 30, 2028
Item #16K3
RESOLUTION 2025-126: THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, SITTING AS THE COLLIER COUNTY
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, ADOPTS STAFF’S
RECOMMENDATION OF APPOINTMENTS TO THE INITIAL
MEMBERSHIP AND TERMS FOR THE NEWLY FORMED
IMMOKALEE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT BOARD AND
DIRECTS THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AND
PROCESS A RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THESE
APPOINTMENTS - APPOINTING LUPITA VASQUEZ REYES
AND MICHAEL FUCUNDO (2 RESIDENTIAL SEATS);
BERNARDO BARNHART AND PAUL THEIN (2
BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL PROPERTY OWNERS SEATS);
MARK LEMKE (NON-PROFIT SEAT); OSCAR LUGO (MSTU
REPRESENTATIVE SEAT); JIMMY NIEVES, YVAR PIERRE
AND PATRICIA “ANNE” GOODNIGHT (3 AT-LARGE SEATS);
ESTIL NULL AND EDWARD “SKI” OLESKY (2 NON-VOTING
SEATS)
Item #16K4 – Continued to the July 8, 2025, BCC Meeting (Per
Agenda Change Sheet)
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STAFF TO ADVERTISE AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE
COLLIER COUNTY PARKING, STORAGE AND USE OF
VEHICLE CONTROL ORDINANCE CODIFIED IN THE CODE
OF LAWS AND ORDINANCES TO PROVIDE LIMITATIONS ON
THE PARKING AND/OR STORING OF COMMERCIAL MOTOR
VEHICLES AND COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT IN
RESIDENTIAL AREAS INCLUDING THE ESTATES ZONING
DISTRICT - NOT LIMITING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AND
EQUIPMENT PARKED OR STORED IN A GARAGE OR FULLY
ENCLOSED STRUCTURE
Item #16K5
THE CHAIR TO SIGN A MEMORANDUM OF
UNDERSTANDING (MOU) WITH THE DISTRICT SCHOOL
BOARD OF COLLIER COUNTY AND THE COLLIER COUNTY
SHERIFF’S OFFICE CONCERNING SCHOOL RESOURCE
OFFICERS WITHIN COLLIER COUNTY SCHOOLS - THIS MOU
IS FOR THE 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR
Item #16K6
REPORT TO BOARD ON ISSUES RAISED BY MR. DAN
SCHMIDT DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION OF
THE BOARD’S JUNE 10, 2025, MEETING
Item #16K7 – Added Item
RECLASSIFYING SCOTT SPITZER TO AN AT-LARGE SEAT ON
THE INFRASTRUCTURE SURTAX CITIZEN OVERSIGHT
COMMITTEE – WITH TERM EXPIRING ON JANUARY 12, 2026
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Item #17A - Continued to the August 12, 2025, BCC Meeting
(Per Agenda Index)
RECOMMENDATION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE TO
IMPLEMENT HOUSING INITIATIVES IN THE GROWTH
MANAGEMENT PLAN RELATING TO HOUSING THAT IS
AFFORDABLE. [PL20210001291] (SECOND OF TWO
HEARINGS)
Item #17B
RESOLUTION 2025-127: 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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There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 11:15 a.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL
___________________________________
BURT SAUNDERS, CHAIRMAN
ATTEST
CRYSTAL K. KINZEL, CLERK
These minutes approved by the Board on ____________, 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.