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Agenda 02/24/2026 Item # 2B (January 27, 2026 BCC Minutes)January 27, 2026 TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Naples, Florida, January 27, 2026 LET IT BE REMEMBERED that the Board of County Commissioners, in and for the County Collier, and also acting as conducted business h REGULARS East Naples, ALSO PRESENT: Amy Patterson, County Manager Ed Finn, Deputy County Manager ard members present: Dan Kowal Burt L. Saunders Chris Hall Rick Locastro William L. McDaniel, Jr. Heidi Ashton-Cicko, Assistant County Attorney Crystal K. Kinzel, Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller Tom Eble, Meeting Coordinator Page 1 Page 9 of 3023 COLLIER COUNTY Board of County Commissioners Community Redevelopment Agency Board (CRAB) Airport Authority AGENDA Board of County Commission Chambers Collier County Government Center 3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd Floor Naples, FL 34112 January 27, 2026 9:00 AM Commissioner Dan Kowal, District 4 -Chair Commissioner William L. McDaniel, Jr., District 5 -Vice Chair Commissioner Rick Locastro, District 1 Commissioner Chris Hall, District 2 Commissioner Burt Saunders, District 3 NOTICE: PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN AGENDA ITEM MUST REGISTER PRIOR TO ITS PRESENTATION. SPEAKERS ARE LIMITED TO THREE (3) MINUTES UNLESS ADJUSTED BY THE CHAIR. TIME MAY BE CEDED BY OTHER IN-PERSON REGISTERED SPEAKERS WHO ARE PRESENT AT THE TIME THE SPEAKER IS HEARD. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE NOT HEARD FOR PROCLAMATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, OR PUBLIC PETITIONS. PRESENTATIONS ARE LIMITED TO TEN (10) MINUTES UNLESS EXTENDED BY THE CHAIR. TO COMMENT ON CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS, REGISTRATION MUST OCCUR BEFORE THE BOARD'S ACTION ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, WHICH IS HEARD FOLLOWING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. Page 1 January 27, 2026 Page 10 of 3023 REQUESTS FOR PUBLIC PETITIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING TO THE COUNTY MANAGER AT LEAST 13 DAYS PRIOR TO THE MEETING. THEY SHALL PROVIDE DETAILED INFORMATION AS TO THE NATURE OF THE PETITION. PUBLIC PETITIONS MUST ADDRESS MATTERS NOT SCHEDULED FOR A FUTURE AGENDA AND CONCERN A MATTER IN WHICH THE BOARD CAN TAKE ACTION. IF GRANTED, A SINGLE PRESENTER MAY SPEAK FOR UP TO TEN (10) MINUTES, SUBJECT TO EXTENSION BY THE CHAIR, AND THE PETITION WILL BE PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA FOR A PUBLIC HEARING. FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS ON NON-AGENDA TOPICS, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED BEFORE THAT PORTION IS CALLED. COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE (3) MINUTES; TIME MAY NOT BE CEDED. THE CHAIR MAY LIMIT THE NUMBER OF SPEAKERS TO FIVE (5) FOR THE MEETING. APPEALS REQUIRE A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS, WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE ON WHICH THE APPEAL IS BASED AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO BE VERBATIM. LOBBYISTS MUST REGISTER WITH THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AT THE BOARD MINUTES AND RECORDS DEPARTMENT PER COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE 2003-53, AS AMENDED. ALL DIGITAL AUDIO AND VISUAL MATERIALS SUBMITTED BY THE PUBLIC VIA EMAIL LINK OR ATTACHMENT OR TRANSPORTED ON EXTERNAL DEVICES FOR BROADCASTING AT THE BOARD MEETING, MUST BE IN A COMPATIBLE FORMAT AND RECEIVED BY THE COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE BY NOON ON THE DAY PRECEDING THE BOARD MEETING TO BE SCANNED FOR NETWORK SECURITY THREATS. DIGITAL MATERIALS SUBMITTED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO REQUIRES ACCOMMODATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING, YOU ARE ENTITLED TO CERTAIN ASSISTANCE AT NO COST. CONTACT COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL, SUITE 1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380. ASSISTED LISTENING DEVICES ARE AVAILABLE. A LUNCH RECESS IS SCHEDULED FROM NOON (12:00 P.M.) TO 1:00 P.M. Page 2 January 27, 2026 Page 11 of 3023 1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 2. AGENDAAND MINUTES 3. 4. A. Approval of today's Regular, Consent, and Summary agenda as amended (ex-parte disclosure provided by Commission members for Consent agenda.) AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS A. EMPLOYEE 1) 20 YEAR ATTENDEES a) Colleen Karlen -Code Enforcement 2) 25 YEAR ATTENDEES 3) 30 YEAR ATTENDEES a) Gloria Herrera -Fiscal & Grant Services b) Nancy Gundlach -Zoning c) Marian A. Rhyne -County Attorney's Office 4) 35 YEAR ATTENDEES PROCLAMATIONS A. Proclamation designating February 6, 2026, as National Wear Red Day. To be accepted by Tracy Duhaney, Board Chairperson, American Heart Association SWFL Day. To be accepted by Tracy Duhaney, Board Chairperson, American Heart Association SWFL 5. PRESENTATIONS 6. PUBLIC PETITIONS 7. PUBLIC COMMENTS Page 3 January 27, 2026 Page 12 of 3023 8. BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS A. 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 an amendment to the Collier County Growth Management Plan for the unincorporated area of Collier County, Florida, specifically amending the Rural Golden Gate Estates Sub-Element of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan Element and Golden Gate Future Land Use Map and Map Series to change the designation of the property from Estates-Mixed Use District, Residential Estates Subdistrict to Estates-Mixed Use District, Orangetree Bible Subdistrict to allow a conditional use for a church up to 12,000 square feet. The subject property consists of 4.20± acres and is located at the northwest comer of Shady Hollow Boulevard East and Immokalee Road in Section I 0, Township 48 South, Range 27 East, Collier County, Florida; furthermore, directing transmittal of the adopted amendment to the Florida Department of Commerce; providing for severability and providing for an effective date. [PL20240013798] (This item is a Companion to Item #8B) B. This item requires Commission members to provide ex-parte disclosure. Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve a Conditional Use to allow a church on property zoned Estates (E) pursuant to Section 2.03.01.B.l.c.l of the Collier County Land Development Code, on property located at the northwest comer of Shady Hollow Boulevard East and Immokalee Road, in Section I 0, Township 48 south, Range 27 east, Collier County, Florida, consisting of 4.20± acres. [PL20240012938] (This item is a Companion Item #8A) 9. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS A. This Item was continued from the December 9, 2025, BCC Meeting Recommendation to approve a Resolution relating to the Capital Improvement Element of the Collier County Growth Management Plan, Ordinance 89-05, as amended, providing for the Annual Update to the Schedule of Capital Improvement Projects, within the Capital Improvement Element of the Collier County Growth Management Plan based on the 2025 Annual Update and Inventory Report on Public Facilities (AUIR), and Page 4 January 27, 2026 Page 13 of 3023 including updates to the 5-year Schedule of Capital Projects contained within the Capital Improvement Element (for Fiscal Years 2026 -2030) and the Schedule of Capital Projects contained within the Capital Improvement Element for the Future 5-year period (for Fiscal Years 2031 -2035), providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. [PL20250000000] 10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS A. Recommendation to adopt a Resolution establishing a framework to constrain County spending at current fiscal year baseline levels for Fiscal Year 2027, applying to County funding allocations including those for Constitutional Officers; authorizing limited annual increases for operating and capital costs; and directing the preparation of an annual long-term capital and asset management analysis. 11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT A. This Item to be heard at 10 AM. Recommendation to accept the Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) Governance Restructure Study Report; make a finding that the recommendations therein promote tourism; provide staff with direction as to next steps, which may include the drafting of any proposed tourism promotion agreement, private sector transitional plan, updates to the Collier County Code of Ordinances, and other necessary transitional documentation for review of the Tourist Development Council and Board of County Commissioners. (John Mullins, Division Director - Communications, Government & Public Affairs) 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 Page 5 January 27, 2026 Page 14 of 3023 Comments in this Meeting B. STAFF PROJECT UPDATES 1. DAS Update (James French, Department Head -Growth Management & Community Development Department) C. STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS 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. A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 1) Recommendation for the Board of County Commissioners to receive and approve the Collier County Floodplain Management Plan 2024 and 2025 Progress Report 2) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for St. Katherine's Greek Orthodox Church. [PL20250008634] 3) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities and accept the conveyance of a portion of the potable water utility facilities and appurtenant utility easement for Siena Lakes West. [PL20250012269] 4) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities and accept the conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities and appurtenant utility easements for Summerlit Phase 1 and 2C. [PL20250005843] 5) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities and accept the conveyance of a portion of the potable water and sewer utility facilities and appurtenant utility Page 6 January 27, 2026 Page 15 of 3023 easement for Extended Stay America Naples. [PL20250008401] 6) 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 Valencia Sky-Phase 5. [PL20250008673] 7) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water, irrigation quality water, and sewer facilities and accept the conveyance of the potable water, irrigation quality water, and sewer facilities for SkySail Phase 4 Townhomes. [PL20250007303] 8) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities and accept the conveyance of a portion of the potable water utility facilities and appurtenant utility easement for Pelican Bay Community Park. [PL202500 I 071 7] 9) Recommendation to approve a Resolution for final acceptance of the private roadway and drainage improvements, and acceptance of the plat dedications, for the final plat of Windward Isle, Application Number PL201400007 41, and authorize the release of the maintenance securities in the amount of $656,975.44. 10) Recommendation to approve a Resolution for final acceptance of the private roadway and drainage improvements, and acceptance of the plat dedications, for the final plat of Isles of Collier Preserve Phase 4, Application Number PL2014000 I 091, and authorize the release of the maintenance securities in the amount of $47,069.33. 11) Recommendation to approve a Resolution for final acceptance of the private roadway and drainage improvements, and acceptance of the plat dedications, for the final plat of Manatee Cove, Application Number PL20150001677 (PPL) and PL20190002421 (PPLA), and authorize the release of the maintenance securities in the amount of $316,875.55. 12) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a Performance Bond in the amount of $86,503.20, which was posted as Page 7 January 27, 2026 Page 16 of 3023 a guaranty for Excavation Permit Number PL20130001954 for work associated with Hacienda Blvd. Phase One. 13) Recommendation to recognize and appropriate revenue in the amount of $334,066.74 for the continued operation of the County-owned Marinas -Cocohatchee River Park Marina, Caxambas Marina, and Port of the Islands Marina -and authorize all necessary Budget Amendments. 14) Recommendation to approve a Resolution related to the Stewardship Sending Area 15 -Restoration Credits (CLH & CDC SSA 15) in the Rural Lands Stewardship Area Zoning Overlay District (RLSA) and to award Restoration II credits to Collier Land Holdings, Ltd. in accordance with the approved restoration plan. B. TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 1) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Local Agency Program ("LAP") Grant Agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for the "Shadow lawn Elementary Safe Routes to School" project, reimbursing the County up to $761,516.00 for the construction of a 6-foot sidewalk on the north side of Linwood Ave between Linwood Way to Shadow lawn Drive, and a 6-foot sidewalk on the south side of Linwood Ave from Shadowlawn Drive to Airport Pulling Road; execute a Resolution memorializing the Board's action; and authorize the necessary Budget Amendments (Project #33974, Fund 1841), FPN 446550-2-58-01. 2) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Local Agency Program ("LAP") Grant Agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation ("FDOT") for the "Goodlette Frank Rd Sidewalks at Various Locations" LAP project, reimbursing the County up to $1,505,623.00 for the construction of four sidewalk segments west of Goodlette Frank Road on Frank Whiteman Blvd., Cooper Dr., Illinois Dr., and Wisconsin Dr.; execute a Resolution memorializing the Board's action; and authorize the necessary Budget Amendments (Project #33975, Fund 1841), FPN 448126-2-58-01. Page 8 January 27, 2026 Page 17 of 3023 3) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Local Agency Program ("LAP") Grant Agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation ("FDOT") for the "Pine Street from Becca Ave to US 41" LAP project, reimbursing the County up to $265,511.00 for the construction of a five-foot sidewalk on Pine Street; execute a Resolution memorializing the Board's action; and authorize the necessary Budget Amendments (Project #33976, Fund 1841), FPN 448128-2-58-01. 4) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Local Agency Program ("LAP") Grant Agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation ("FDOT") for the "Naples Manor Sidewalks at Various Locations" LAP project, reimbursing the County up to $2,341,880.00 for the construction of five-foot-wide sidewalks in Naples Manor on Sholtz St. from Floridan Ave. to Hardee St., Holland St from Floridan Ave. to Carolina Ave., and Caldwell St. from Floridan Ave to Warren St.; execute a Resolution memorializing the Board's action; and authorize the necessary Budget Amendments (Project #33953, Fund 1841), FPN 448129-1-58-01. 5) Recommendation to approve an Interlocal Lease and Donation Agreement with the District School Board of Collier County to convey a portion of the Immokalee Community Park, located at 321 N. 1st St., Immokalee, Florida 34142, to support continued joint use and facility improvements to be funded and maintained by the District School Board, estimated to exceed $5 million. 6) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a Performance Bond in the amount of $3,223,344.44, which was posted as a guarantee for work associated with Agreement No. 23-8154 for "County Barn Rd Pathways Local Agency Program (LAP) Project" #43091-2-58-01 with RJ Engineering Construction Corp. 7) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute documents necessary for the conveyance of a Utility Facilities Warranty Deed and Bill of Sale to the Collier County Water-Sewer District for potable water infrastructure on County-owned property located at Pelican Bay Service Division Maintenance Facilities ("PBSD Maintenance Facility"), at no cost to the County. Page 9 January 27, 2026 Page 18 of 3023 8) Recommendation to approve the Temporary Farm Lease Extension with Meloy Hay Company, Inc., for property located at Williams Reserve in Immokalee, and authorize the Chair to execute the extension on behalf of the County to allow continued operations pending development of a standard form lease. 9) Recommendation to approve the Resolution authorizing the Chair to execute Section 5311 Public Transit Grant Agreement (FPN 410120- 2-84-25) with the Florida Department of Transportation to accept Federal Transit Administration grant funding in the total amount of $860,522 to provide transit service to the rural area of Collier County, and to authorize the necessary Budget Amendments. 10) Recommendation to approve the Resolutions authorizing the Chair to execute Section 5310 Public Transit Grant Agreements (FPN 448810- 1-94-25 and FPN 448810-2-84-23) with the Florida Department of Transportation to accept Federal Transit Administration grant funding in the total amount of $1,032,204 for the purchase of five paratransit cutaway vehicles, five radios, five wireless routers and five tablets, as well as paratransit operating assistance, and to authorize the necessary Budget Amendments. C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT 1) This Item was continued from the January 13, 2026, BCC Meeting. Recommendation that the Board award Request for Proposal No. 25-8412, "Disaster Debris Removal and Disposal Services," to Ashbritt, Inc., Ceres Environmental Services, Inc., Crowder Gulf Joint Venture, Inc., DRC Emergency Services, LLC, and Phillips Environmental, LLC, and authorize the Chair to sign the attached Agreements. 2) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as the ex officio Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer District, award Request for Proposal No. 25-8401 to Raftelis Financial Consultants, Inc., for Financial Consulting Services and authorize the Chair to sign the attached Agreement. Page 10 January 27, 2026 Page 19 of 3023 D. PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT 1) Recommendation to (a) approve the after-the-fact electronic submittal of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program 2026-2027 Continuation Application to AmeriCorps, under the Corporation for National and Community Service, in the amount of $100,000 (b) allow the County Manager or their designee to serve as the authorized representative for the grantor's electronic submission system, eGrants, throughout the grant period and ( c) authorize the necessary Budget Amendments (Housing Grant Fund 1835 and Housing Match Fund 1836). 2) Recommendation to approve an extension of Tanya Williams, Collier County Library Director, as the Board's representative to the Early Leaming Coalition of Southwest Florida (ELC of SWFL), amending the term to January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2029. 3) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign the Second Amendment Subrecipient Agreement between Collier County and Collier Health Services, Inc., d/b/a/ HealthCare Network, to amend Community Development Block Grant Agreement #CD- CV21-09 to revise the project scope, components, and payment deliverables (Housing Grants Fund 1835, CDBG-CV Project #33674). E. CORPORATE BUSINESS OPERATIONS 1) Recommendation to award Request for Proposal ("RFP") #25-8407 Collier County Medical Director Employment Physicals and Drug Testing to Advance Medical of Naples LLC and authorize the Chairman to execute the attached Agreement. 2) Recommendation to approve modifications to the 2026 Fiscal Year Pay & Classification Plan which consists of four new classifications, one reclassification, and one classification title revision from October 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025. F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS 1) Recommendation to approve the selection committee's ranking and authorize staff to begin contract negotiations with the top-ranked firm Page 11 January 27, 2026 Page 20 of 3023 WSP USA Buildings, Inc., concerning Request for Professional Services ("RPS") No. 25-8370, "Design Services for Immokalee Improvement Projects" so that staff can bring a proposed agreement back for the Board's consideration at a future meeting (Project Nos. 33813 and 33814). 2) Recommendation to approve and execute the grant agreement with the Florida State Courts System, Office of the State Courts Administrator, reimbursing the County up to $1,000,000 for the renovation and expansion of the existing switchgear and automatic transfer switch at the "Courthouse Annex Building LI" (Project #33979). 3) Recommendation to adopt a Resolution approving amendments ( appropriating grants, donations, contributions, or insurance proceeds) to the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Adopted Budget. G. AIRPORT AUTHORITY H. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS I. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE 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 $41,182,848.66 were drawn for the periods between January 1, 2026, and January 14, 2026, pursuant to Florida Statute 136.06. 2) Request that the Board approve and determine valid public purpose for invoices payable and purchasing card transactions as of January 21, 2026. K. COUNTY ATTORNEY 1) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the amount of $75,000 plus $19,389 in statutory attorney and experts' fees Page 12 January 27, 2026 Page 21 of 3023 and costs for the taking of Parcel 1296FEE required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No. 60249. 2) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the amount of $105,000 plus $27,139 in statutory attorney and experts' fees and costs for the taking of Parcel 1361FEE required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No. 60249, and delegate authority to the County Manager or her designee to process payment of additional statutory attorney's fees for supplemental proceedings, if any, as authorized by Ch. 73, Fla. Stat., but not to exceed $4,000. 3) Request that the Board set the balloting date for the recommendation of members to the Pelican Bay Services Division Board by record title owners of property within Pelican Bay 4) Recommendation to appoint three members to the Land Acquisition Advisory Committee. 5) Recommendation to authorize the County Attorney to file a lawsuit on behalf of Collier County Board of County Commissioners against Orchid Cove at Port of the Islands Condominium Association, Inc., to discharge a series of liens totaling over $800,000.00 recorded with the Clerk of Court for allegedly unpaid assessments ( along with related fees and costs) imposed on two properties comprising of 2.37 acres of residential property, that the County obtained by escheatment tax deeds in September and October 2022. 6) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the amount of $120,000 plus $31,295 in statutory attorney fees, expert fees, and costs for the taking of Parcel l 299FEE required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No. 60249. L. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY M. TOURIST DEVELOPMENT 17. Summary Agenda -This section is for advertised public hearings and must meet the following criteria: 1) A recommendation for approval from staff; 2) Page 13 January 27, 2026 Page 22 of 3023 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. A. This item was continued from the January 13, 2026, BCC Meeting & further continued to the February 10, 2026, BCC Meeting. Recommendation to adopt an Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 2003-37, as amended, cited in Chapter 110, Article II of the Collier County Code of Laws and Ordinances, which regulates construction in the public rights-of- way, to add additional right-of-way permit requirements and a section regulating excavation activities within the public right-of-way. Section 10, Township 49 South, Range 27 East, Collier County, Florida. [PL2024000569 l] B. Recommendation to adopt an Ordinance amending the Collier County Land Development Code related to Floating Solar Facilities as a land use. [PL20250000235] (First of two hearings) C. Recommendation to adopt a Resolution approving amendments ( appropriating carry forward, transfers, and supplemental revenue) to the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Adopted Budget. 18. ADJOURN INQUIRIES CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE BOARD'S AGENDA SHOULD BE MADE TO THE COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE AT 252-8383. Page 14 January 27, 2026 Page 23 of 3023 January 27, 2026 MS. PATTERSON: Chair, you have a live mic. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right, everyone. We're going to bring this Board of County Commissioners meeting to order today, so ... MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. We're going to start with an invocation by Reverend James Baird of the Covenant Church of Naples followed by the Pledge of Alle • nee by Golda Trantham, U.S. --I probably just messed up he e --sorry --U.S. Women's Army Corps 197 4 to 197 6, memb era ti on Vet Help, chairman of the Southwest Florida Woo old Star Families Memorial. REVEREND BAIRD: I: ether. Dear our Lord, you would bless this Lord, we you have in rulers, and and t cou to care kingdom, and prosperit blessing. we ask that • tude for the servants that ou for governors and for i m the wisdom, the love, order and justice to prevail in our ey discern their divine calling, Lord, authority, to pass laws that advance your e a lm where piety and faith and justice sh over the people of this place with great Lord, we ask of these things in the name of Jesus and by the power of the Spirit. Amen. (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.) CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I believe, Golda, you wanted to say a few words. MS. TRANTHAM: Thank you. I just wanted to bring attention to the fact that we are in the process of bringing a memorial to honor Page 2 Page 24 of 3023 January 27, 2026 our gold-star families in Southwest Florida. We're hoping to --we've already started the kick-off, and all we wanted to do was bring everybody's attention to the fact that we have one of the largest veterans populations in Southwest Florida, but we don't have anything to honor our gold-star families. And at this time --look for us. We'll be around letting everyone know what we're doing and where we'r oing with it. Thank you very much. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Th Ms. Patterson. MS. PATTERSON: Y Item #2A APPROVAL SUMMAR PROVIDE AGE KO add-on, SENT,AND J\RTE DISCLOSURE OR CONSENT OMMISSIONER PTED uary 27th, 2026, first we have an iscussion regarding the veterans' community c request. is being added at Commissioner Saunders' Continue Item G 1 to the February 10th, 2026, BCC meeting. This is a recommendation to approve updates to the airport leasing policy, airport minimum standards, and airport rules and regulations. This is being continued at staff's request. We do have an additional continuation that is not on the change sheet, late breaking, and we'll update the change sheet accordingly. That is to continue Item 16D 1. This a recommendation to approve Page 3 Page 25 of 3023 January 27, 2026 the after-the-fact electronic submittal of the retired and senior volunteer program 2026-2027 continuation application to AmeriCorps under the Corporation for National and Community Service in the amount of $100,000, allow the County Manager or their designee to serve as the authorized representative for the grantor's electronic submission system, eGrants, throughout the grant period; and authorize the necessary bu et amendments. This is being moved at staffs request. We do have a couple of age 16C 1 were uploaded on J anua published. And a correction be paid by Pelican Bay. Fun We do have a ti 10 a.m., and this a restructure s Weha 10 o'clock an w· Tha . . s. The agreements for Item e agenda was initially e recording fee will nd 3041. eard at e governance tep actions. after the time-certain at I have no changes. M mm1ss1oners. CHA COMM disclosure. Commissioner Saunders. SAUNDERS: I have no changes and no CHAIRMAN WAL: Commissioner Hall. COMMISSIONER HALL: No changes and no ex parte. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner LoCastro. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Same; no changes, no ex parte. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Same. Page4 Page 26 of 3023 January 27, 2026 CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Same. Well, I have no changes, but I do have on, Item 8A and 8B, meetings. I'm sorry, wrong time for that. MS. PATTERSON: That's okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Rookie. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Rookie. All right. All in favor of approvi COMMISSIONER McDANIE COMMISSIONER LoCAS CHAIRMAN KOWAL: COMMISSIONER HA COMMISSIONER SA CHAIRMAN K L: 0 (No response.) CHAIRMAN KO Page 5 signify by saying aye. ye. Page 27 of 3023 Proposed Agenda Changes Board of County Commissioners Meeting January 27, 2026 Add on Item lOB: Discussion regarding the Veterans ' Community Center. (Commissioner Saunders ' Request) Continue Item 16Gl to the February 10, 2026, BCC Meeting: Recommendation to approve updates to the Airport Leasing Policy, Airport Minimum Standards , and Airport Rules and Regulations. (Staffs Request) Continue Item 16dl to the February 10, 2026, BCC Meeting: Recommendation to (a) approve the after-the- fact electronic submittal of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program 2026-2027 Continuation Application to AmeriCorps, under the Corporation for National and Community Service, in the amount of $100 ,000 (b) allow the County Manager or their designee to serve as th e authorized representative for the grantor's electronic submission system, eGrants, throughout the grant period and ( c) authorize the necessary Budget Amendments (Housing Grant Fund 1835 and Housing Match Fund 1836). (Staffs Request) Notes: • Agreements for Item 16C 1 were uploaded on January 23 after the agenda was initially published. • Correction for item 16B7: the recording fee will be paid by Pelican Bay ; funds are available in Fund 3041 , Project (50211). TIME CERTAIN ITEMS: Item llA to be heard at 10:00 AM: Recommendation to accept the CVB Governance Restructure Study Report , and direct staff on next-step actions. 1/27/2026 2:18 PM Page 28 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Item #3A 1 AW ARDS AND RECOGNITIONS -EMPLOYEES -20 YEAR ATTENDEES -ALL PRESENTED MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 3, Awards and Recognitions. We have se eral today. First, our 20-year attendee, Colleen Karlen, Code En£ ent. Congratulations, 20 years. (Applause.) COMMISSIONER Lo Enforcement are these bi Code Enforcement. CHAIRMANK COMMI CH co . ody thinks Code I mean, she's very nice. a plaque. orry about that. ur own word. AWARD ATTENDEE G IONS-EMPLOYEES-30YEAR SENTED N: Next up are our 30-year attendees. First Gloria Herrera, Fiscal and Grant Services. Congratulations. (Applause.) COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Who's running the office? CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Everybody's here. MS. HERRERA: My peeps. (Applause.) Page 6 Page 29 of 3023 January 27, 2026 CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Come on, guys. Take a picture with her. MS. HERRERA: Come on, guys. I asked permission. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I don't have plaques for everybody, so ... THE PHOTOGRAPHER: We're going to need two rows. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Also, th aller people in the back. Congratulations. (Applause.) MS. PATTERSON: Nex have Nancy Gundlach, 30 y e going to their seats, we ratulations. (Applause.) MS. PATTERS Community Develo Community Nancy, co Our fi Atto on --co (Appl COMM MS. PATT proclamations. Item #4A t's get the eon up. Le get our picture with Nancy. yne, County get her picture, if the County to come up and get a picture, come McDANIEL: Group photo. N: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 4, PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING FEBRUARY 6, 2026, AS NATIONAL WEAR RED DAY. TO BE ACCEPTED BY TRACY Page 7 Page 30 of 3023 January 27, 2026 DUHANEY, BOARD CHAIRPERSON, AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION SWFL -MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO -ADOPTED MS. PATTERSON: Item 4A is a proclamation designating February 6th, 2026, as National Wear d Day, to be accepted by Tracy Duhaney, board chairperson, ican Heart Association Southwest Florida. Congratulati (Applause.) CHAIRMAN KOW A uld like to say a few words. MS.DUHANEY Commissioners. As the Southwest Fl chair, I want and the lif esa Ea the eart Association board tional Wear Red Day 1c eart Association. of February, communities across Wear Red Day to support the vem is year we invite Collier County ebruary 6th, by wearing red and raising awareness ea threat facing women, cardiovascular disease. Wh atter so deeply? Because losing even one woman to heart or stroke is one too many. Today nearly percent of women over age 20 are living with some form of cardiovascular disease. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, and it is also the leading cause of maternal mortality, taking the lives of new moms during what should be the safest and happiest time of their lives. Women are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR and less likely to survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. And while Page 8 Page 31 of 3023 January 27, 2026 research saves lives, women make up only 3 8 percent of participants in cardiovascular clinical trials in 2020. This is why awareness is not optional; it is critical. On National Wear Red Day, the American Heart Association encourages everyone to know your numbers; your blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and BMI, because these are the key indicators of your risk for heart disease Knowledge is power, and these are numbers every woman des to know. There are many ways our co can take action. Wear red on February 6th to spark conv ·nspire others to prioritize their heart health; give by se ·ng page or visiting wearredday.org; learn hands-a 't need medical training; just courage, are less likely to receiv simple skill can save a li well-being, b art n On Nati gain, women nc d learning this care and emotional mental health. out American Heart siste long o go re for mothers, daughters, ether, we can create a healthier, . Thankyou. C Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve tn n? COMM HALL: So moved. COMMIS McDANIEL: Second. CHAIRMAN WAL: I have a motion and a second. All in favor, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye. COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. Page 9 Page 32 of 3023 January 27, 2026 CHAIRMAN KOWAL: It passes unanimously. You're welcome --thank you. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you. (Applause.) Item #7 PUBLIC COMMENTS MS. PATTERSON: at brings us to Item 7, public comments. MR. EBLE: We have on on Zoom, Emma Ochoa. Emma, you sho Emma Ochoa (No re MR. C MS. Item #8A u e, so apologies. y. Is tfiere one in person there? 's no one in person. . County Manager -- • f Emma comes back. --move on to the next item. : Very good. ORDINANCE 2026-05: AN AMENDMENT TO THE COLLIER COUNTY GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE UNINCORPORATED AREA OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, SPECIFICALLY AMENDING THE RURAL GOLDEN GATE ESTATES SUB-ELEMENT OF THE GOLDEN GATE AREA Page 10 Page 33 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 MASTER PLAN ELEMENT AND GOLDEN GATE FUTURE LAND USE MAP AND MAP SERIES TO CHANGE THE DESIGNATION OF THE PROPERTY FROM ESTATES-MIXED USE DISTRICT, RESIDENTIAL ESTATES SUBDISTRICT TO ESTATES-MIXED USE DISTRICT, ORANGETREE BIBLE SUBDISTRICT TO ALLOW A CONDITIONAL USE FORA CHURCH UP TO 12,000 SQUARE F T. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 4.20± SAND IS LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER O Y HOLLOW BOULEVARD EAST AND I ROAD IN SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, OLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA; FURTHERMO , IREC ING NSMITTAL OF THE ADOPTED AM MEN A DEPARTMENT OF C CE; OVIDING R SEVERABILITY AND G AN EFFECTIVE DATE. [PL20240013 IS I O NION TO ITEM #8B) -MOTION N"E COMMISSIONER SAUND D B OMMI SIONER MCDANIEL - AD : A CONDITIONAL USE TO ALLOW A CHURCH ON TY ZONED ESTATES (E) PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.03.01 ... C .1 OF THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, ON PROPERTY LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SHADY HOLLOW BOULEVARD EAST AND IMMOKALEE ROAD, IN SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RANGE 27 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, CONSISTING OF 4.20±ACRES. [PL20240012938] (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION ITEM #8A) -MOTION TO APPROVE Page 11 Page 34 of 3023 January 27, 2026 W/CHANGES BY COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL -ADOPTED MS. PATTERSON: That moves us along to Item 8. This is the Board of Zoning Appeals. We do have Items 8A and 8B, which are companion items. First up, 8A is a recommendation to approve an amendment to the Collier County Gro Management Plan for the unincorporated area of Collier Cou orida, specifically amending the Rural Golden Gate Estates su nt of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan Element and Gol Map Series to change the de Mixed-Use District, Resident! Mixed-Use District 0 conditional use for a The sub· located at t Immokalee Collier ado Land Use Map and erty from Estates to Estates owa 0 square fee . lus/minus acres and is ow Boulevard East and n 4 South, Range 2 7 East, ore, directing transmittal of the epartment of Commerce, an ding for an effective date. em 8B. This is a recommendation to approve a se t llow a church on property zoned Estates pursu 2.03.01.B.1.C.1 of the Collier County Land Development C roperty located at the northwest comer of Shady Hollow Bou ard East and Immokalee Road in Section 10, Township 48 South, Range 27 East, Collier County, Florida, consisting of 4.20 plus/minus acres. With that, we'll do ex parte, and then we will --and your disclosures, and then we'll swear everybody in. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Well, this is where my paper . comes 1n. Page 12 Page 35 of 3023 January 27, 2026 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's right. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Saunders. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have meetings and some correspondence in reference to both 8A and 8B. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Hall. COMMISSIONER HALL: Tha ou, Chairman. I have meetings and calls. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Co COMMISSIONER LoC CHAIRMAN KOW A COMMISSIONER McD e meetings and emails. cDaniel. I have meetings CHAIRMAN KO both, A and B. MS.PA stand to be testi but the (The CHAI articipants could please at includes any that will o you swear or affirm the ruth, the whole truth, and nothing du sworn and indicated in the affirmative.) AL: Tom, how many people do we have ular item? MR. EBLE: have eight registered speakers, sir. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. MS. PATTERSON: All right. We'll begin with the applicant. MR. DELATE: Thank you. Good morning, gentlemen. My name is Mike Delate from RDA engineers, and I appreciate your time today to go over this project. I also want to thank the neighbors, frankly, for being involved in Page 13 Page 36 of 3023 January 27, 2026 this process. I think they've enlightened us to their concerns through this. And then staffs --appreciation for staff in providing support and direction in presenting this. So from there I'll proceed. Just an introduction again, I'm Michael Delate. I'm a professional engineer with RDA Consulting Engineers. With me is Richard DuBois, another engineer here with RDA. We also have our transportatio lanner, Jim Banks, who you're familiar with, and our biologi arco Espinar from Collier Environmental. Additionally, the pastors Mincey --actually, Dennis well. And Dennis will give a presentation. Just a little backgr church. Their parent chu near Immoka and members tha ed o • n the closer b r the body incey are here as d of the C is a local Church, which is located d a lot of church s eeded to have a church uld want to that goes to a church. meet there right now at the Cor obvi re outgrowing that facility and, ace, their home. So proposed c also as the Es own. rch mbers are from that area of the . And with their own growth internally and s out even more, they needed a place of their And they've --they looked around quite a bit --and Rich will get into that in the presentation --for a suitable location. They had many concerns. Obviously did not want to intrude into neighborhoods, so they looked for locations on a major road that would be more convenient for the churchgoers and also not intruding into neighborhoods. With that, they want to become a good neighbor to Page 14 Page 37 of 3023 January 27, 2026 the community that they're moving into and hope that the community understands that. With that, I'll pass it over to Richard, and he can go over what's proposed for you-all to review and hopefully approve. MR. DUBOIS: Good morning, Commissioners. Thank you all for taking the time today to hear this potential project. My name's Richard Dubois with A Consulting Engineers here to discuss the church. Mike su ized the project. So to go into a little bit more detail, the pr hurch is going to be capped at 299 seats with a maximum ootage of 12,000 square feet. With this project wo neighbors, we are pr four sides of the pro requires for c • In add. ture ex sio ation we king with the f ers along all at the code that we're adding for o days a week: nday services. ve agreed to provide the reservation along Immokalee nd the building would then be set back do w t to mention is with this project there are no daycare facilitie ed. This is purely for a church use for the congregation to be e to meet closer to home, not necessarily need to drive as far to attend their church services. To give you a brief summary of the property and how the proposed church will sit on the property, on the right-hand side is Immokalee Road, to the south is Shady Hollow Boulevard, and the church abuts a vacant parcel to the west and to the north, and the closest home that's been developed is the next parcel over, to the Page 15 Page 38 of 3023 January 27, 2026 west, about 430 feet from the edge of the home to the edge of the proposed church building and about 165 feet to the edge of where the parking will be with the enhanced buff er between the parking area and the property line. This is the summary of the site plan that we've included with these applications. This provides the required preserve landscaping, stormwater management, parking. Bas on the seat count, we'd be proposing about 128 parking spots is --with this church, and we would be utilizing grass parki ell for a substantial amount of the parking on site in order p ke e costs down for the church. We'll also be maint ace on site. I did list all the condition this slide and the next two slides. W e'v eady t ittle bit, and you guys, I'm sure, have gh tn The main topics here that I would 1 • • kly is the services committed day, the cap of the 299 seats, the c ss area, and the principal and ropose on site are the main chu and then a small playground for chil uses being proposed at this time. io • th staff, we have committed to having a on site ece ary if it's determined that the inflow of traffic is imp ex • ng traffic, so we've already made that commitment as ne other thing that we've added to this property throughou iscussion with the neighbors after the NIM and after working through it with staff is a turn lane off of Shady Hollow Boulevard into the site. That turn lane is not required based on our traffic count, but we have added it in order to be a good neighbor and help mitigate and minimize, as much as possible, the traffic on Shady Hollow Boulevard. And the last thing I'll touch on in the conditions of approval, the Page 16 Page 39 of 3023 January 27, 2026 lighting on site, we have made the commitment that it would be Dark Sky compliant lighting and that the pole heights would be capped at 15 feet height in order to help minimize impact to any neighboring parcels. Again, that is above and beyond what the code typically would require for a development like this, but we're trying to come in and be good neighbors with the properties that are next door. To touch quickly --touch base qu· ly on the location, our clients looked into many locations £ s development. In this area, as we all know, most of it's zone , and any zone --any Estates-zoned property would e conditional use and GMP A process in order to d that property. One thing that's continue hout our NIM and throughout our planni plicat there was a parcel to the east on the ide o ee that would be suitably zoned for this de t. d through it with staff, and we obtai well. That parcel is also zoned E require a GMP A and 1 us it for sale that claims com real estate sign that may or may not hav curate. So w roperties. That property in particular, it was extre uite wet. That was one of the many reasons that property osen. So this parcel was chosen due to its location on Immok: e Road. We're not trying to expand a mile deep into one of the neighborhoods and build a church there. We're trying to stay as close as we can to a main road. And the proximity with the local church members, as they're continuing to grow their congregation, there's quite a few members that live out in this area. Just to give you guys an idea of what we're looking to build, this Page 17 Page 40 of 3023 January 27, 2026 is a proposed rendering of what the church could look like. The pastors and the church are looking to build a nice structure that they can be proud of and to call home. With this application, we're not looking to propose a barn or any kind of structure that would be unsightly. Just a general summary of the floor plan as well of what it may look like. Now, the next slides here, as o have a videographer go out and c what the traffic patterns look 1 • Sunday. One thing I want t right, middle of January. We Swamp at the end of Holl the traffic -- CHAIRMAN KO and it's --y buildin ekend, the 18th, we did raffic just to understand he morning on a ring peak season, Bird Rookery closed, but I'm Your video's not playing, a plane's flying into a That's even better. ma 'm going to show you guys some quick c the traffic providing video this was on a Sund . 'clock, and then just before noon of what ng okalee Road and Shady Hollow isn't cherrypicked videos. We're here hour. The traffic overall is quite light, and One thing that I did want to mention is that peak-hour traffic from this development would be once church lets out at the end of a Sunday service. The typical peak-hour traffic on Immokalee Road does not coincide with the traffic that would be seen from this project. Just a quick summary as well. I can skip through it quickly. Page 18 Page 41 of 3023 January 27, 2026 This is just a quick minute of traffic on the hour. I watched the video myself sped up. It was pretty --it was pretty much the same throughout the three-hour stretch where it was all extremely light traffic. No stand-stills. Vehicles would be able to make turns off of Shady Hollow Boulevard onto Immokalee Road either going northbound or southbound with minimal problems. And that's our presentation today r you-all. So thank you very much for considering our applicatio Pastor, go ahead. COMMISSIONER SA Chairman, I'd like to ask a question. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: COMMISSION AUN appropriate to ask a question of th CHAI COM that --there what yo ther ' assum1 • ht. You had indicated o struck me here. This is to have a daycare facility --or time. And I don't know if that is e other uses down the road. I'm ead.) MR. COMM UNDERS: --what you're presenting today is what yo MR. DUBOI . orrect. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: --which is the two days of services, and no other activities. MR. DUBOIS: Correct. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And the reason I raise that question is there are --and this is a question for the County Attorney. There are opportunities to engage in activities or have other services Page 19 Page 42 of 3023 January 27, 2026 that are compatible --I'm not sure if that's the right word --where you don't need to come back for a change, and I want to make sure that we are limiting this to the uses that have been outlined today, that there's not going to be an opportunity to come back and say, well, we --you know, a daycare facility --and I'm not saying you would do this, but just, you know, down the road 20 years from now there may be somebody else that's running the sh there --that they can't come back and simply say, well, a d e is a compatible or customary use of a church, and t it's a use that is permitted. I just want to make sure we're • MS. ASHTON-CICK tion in there that I saw end adding a in my quick read on daycare. condition that, you kn only tll his conditional ck to --for use are allowed and an public hearing. COMM I brought t in th pe playgroun there's no int o ha basketball court, kids. g . Well, that's the reason e hat we have that language me either --either another rezone other than what's specifically , you mentioned that there would be a 1 pl round area for kids. I'm assuming outdoor --you know, a pickleball court or a g of that nature. This would be just for small MR. DUBOIS: That's correct. Yeah, it would be small playground that children could use after service, directly after service, and then go on with their day. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. And if we could make sure that the documents reflect --reflect that. The reason I mentioned that, it's a little bit silly, but we did have a church in one Page 20 Page 43 of 3023 January 27, 2026 neighborhood where they had a couple basketball hoops set up and a light, and kids would be out there 10, 11, 12 o'clock at night making a lot of noise and playing basketball at the church, and the neighbors would constantly complain and ask the church folks to eliminate that, and they simply wouldn't do it. They wanted their kids to be able to play basketball at 10 or 11 o'clock at night. And so I want to make sure that t e's no unnecessary noise associated with that if this is approv MR. DUBOIS: Thank you. COMMISSIONER SA CHAIRMAN KOW A COMMISSIONER McD end, because I think Wi comment, and I do hav until we're all done. CHAI of their prese you. cDaniel. d I'll wait till the public a ant, but I'll wait e --they still have part e eir presentation? He said so ying a word. alon Bible C 11 --okay. e is Pastor Denny Hustedt and w rows behind. We co-pastor Orangetree u, ge emen, for allowing us this opportunity to present our requ ve a church building on the comer of Immokalee and Sh Hollow Boulevard. We are grateful to you. And if I may divert just for a couple of seconds, I want to just say thank you to our church family. We have a number of our people here, some who I see have given sacrificially to purchase the property, and I want to say thank you for being here to support this. When our nation was founded, the Founding Fathers realized that they needed churches if a fragile form of government was going Page 21 Page 44 of 3023 January 27, 2026 to survive, such as a republic. If there was going to be democracy and freedom and freedom of speech and civil government, they needed churches to provide a moral compass for the nation, and so churches were encouraged. The necessity of the 10 Commandments being taught, Christ's words being communicated to them, was absolutely essential in order to keep the public from deviancy, from criminal activity, from chaos. What I t • nk we see in Minneapolis today is an example of intrusion int church, public chaos when there's an effort to replace democ edom of speech, liberty with communism. So as a church in our r Fathers in seeking to advance We want to be there t sent o where people can co spiritually de want to prov Our Lor do that. the with the Founding our community. f hope, a place are tionally or nt to be there. We 1 • to our world. We want to municate the truth that is found in • stian foundation in our or li ourishing. So we think we ding Fathers thought, to be lights into our comm 1es. In a prac 1 wa e want to long --as far as we stay with the Sunday/Wednes at, but we want to be available for people who want to use th urch perhaps for a public event, and if there's the need for tutoring, if the County requests a bus stop on our parking lot, we want to be available to listen and see how we can be of assistance. If there's anything that we can do in our community to help and to flourish the community, we want --we want to be there for that. So we want to say thank you for the privilege of being able to Page 22 Page 45 of 3023 January 27, 2026 communicate our desire, and if I may say, I think our community right now of Orangetree area in the Estates is very short of churches. We have very few in the area, especially public buildings. It's very light, and so we want to be a lighthouse into our community. And I am thankful for your consideration. Thank you. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you. And does that complete your presentation as the petitioner? MR. DELATE: (Nods head.) CHAIRMAN KOWAL: 0 w about county staff? Mr. Bosi. MR. BOSI: Mike Bosi Staff, as indicated within the petition, recomme appr conditional use. Of course, in the Esf because of th Plan to mo withi ing director. ary, is supporting P and the conditional use, but a Growth Management use that's allocated hear this, made a rec o the Board of County Com ain concern was the public testimony that the ctivity of the Rookery Bird Sanctuary that sits to e parcel at the terminus of this --of Sleepy Hollow [sic], th n be in the active --the most active time for those facilities. TH , with the local traffic and the church traffic, was --there was concerns about ingress and egress. Staff did take those into consideration in speaking with our transportation planners. We haven't had an opportunity to do operational analysis. That would happen during an SDP. But from --from our overview, we do think that there still can be a safe condition. Page 23 Page 46 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 And we looked at that rookery --the bird rookery, and there's roughly about 30 to 32 parking spaces at that location. We don't think that that is a volume that was going to create a great public concern or traffic safety. There was a number of modifications that came out during the Planning Commission . The applicant's team mentioned it. I think one of the most significant was the tu ane on Immokalee Road into it, a decel lane that they are volunte , as well as originally the setback from the 50-foot right-of-tis being requested for a future Immokalee expansion a ' e going to be providing that but also being set back et from th For those reasons, staff i roval, and we lated to our would --any question t you executive summary. CHAIRMAN KO question. COM also abou going o and a servi be. But then bit of concern. S, Slf. • s comments that this would be , for the churchgoers there, but he r pu ents. And again, I'm concerned You know, it's one thing to say this is service on a Wednesday from 5 to 9 from 9 to 1 or 2, whatever the hours would at, open for public events, that raises a little And so obviously, there are going to be weddings and all those things that go along with the operation of a church. But I'm a little concerned about the general term "public events." And maybe --it may be one of those things where Pastor Hustedt might have to kind of define that a little bit, but I don't want this to be opened up to where there could be events anytime, any night, any day, for quote, Page 24 Page 47 of 3023 January 27, 2026 "public events." So how do we make sure that that doesn't happen? MR. BOSI: And as you, in your earlier discussion with the County Attorney, related to --you know, the --having an additional restriction, a Condition No. 19, that states that activities related to this conditional use are only those activities that have been identified within the conditions of approval, meaning that the hours of operation become Sunday 7:30 to 2:00 don Wednesday 5:00 to 6:00, those are when the church acti can move forward. The normal days of operatio e Sunday and Wednesday. Those will be the days that the to. Anything beyond that would --they would be to some temporary-use events. Any fa ould be eligible for 42 temporary-use ev rough' equires an application to Grow on the safety service provi g on. And there's restrictions ould happen. So th uld --that are being pe this issues those p MR. BOSI: COMMISSIO t. . nything beyond what's ts1 e of a temporary-use t be authorized by this --by ERS: And it's the County staff that R SAUNDERS: --for special events; those do not come to the Commission? MR. BOSI: No. Those are issued by Growth Management, yes. MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Commissioner, in light of the conversation, I would also recommend, under Condition 5, at the end it identifies that the other organizations and clubs can use the facility during the hours of operation. So we would add at the end of No. 5 Page 25 Page 48 of 3023 January 27, 2026 "during the hours of operation," which would tighten it up to make sure it would be --there's no wiggle room. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Hall. COMMISSIONER HALL: Thank you, Chairman. Mr. Bosi, what is the allowed density now for the residential mixed per acre? MR. BOSI: Within the Estates ng restrict, it's one unit per 2.25 acres. COMMISSIONER HAL be, you know -- MR. BOSI: Well, curren that's allowed within t COMMISSIONE it says that th mixed use. And rev1 d the mixed-use would in ut that, because ential subdistrict to the ant to be the event police ings an funerals and an occasional I understand that the revivals wo ve t forth for the week's use, but I don't ng d funerals would have to have special perm1ss10 , t's a rmal use of the church, and it's certainly not sive, but it's something that's special to people, and the use their church for those --for those events. And so I don'f don't think it's going to be necessary --I don't want it to be necessary where we have to be the big --the big event police for what society wants and what people are expecting from their church. I just wanted to --what's your thoughts on that? MR. BOSI: I would say weddings, funerals, those may happen outside of the Wednesday and Sunday, because right now as it's written, the hours of operation are strictly for this --for the church for Page 26 Page 49 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 activity to happen there is Sunday and Wednesday. So if they want churches [sic] and weddings to happen, say, on Saturdays as an appropriate, that would be --that should be added to this --to this list of activities that weddings and funerals can happen on a Saturday or various other days what you're --because those are customary --or activities that are associated with a church. But the way that these conditions have been --have been crafl , they really say they restrict the activity. It's is only Sunday and nesday that activity is going on within that church in terms of ic accessing. COMMISSIONER HAL would like to see that added as just a normal use whether somebody has th bury their loved one. and it's certainly not Commissione That could about one bala ve to be determining somebody wants to of the church, intensive. derstand what ou know, the public use. he road. He's talking u the other. There's like to see happen. issioner McDaniel. : Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. aned out over his skis a little bit in an ere o need for an additional public facility in the area. IF AS facility right down the street in front of the --in front airgrounds. We have the Big Corkscrew Regional Park righ ound the bend with a whole bunch of public-use space. It was suggested maybe about a polling station or something. We don't need those things. I think the restriction of ancillary uses just during named business hours is a bit restrictive. I think the language that was, in fact, in there that allowed for normal church activities with permission, if the pastor gets a notice from one of the parishioners Page 27 Page 50 of 3023 January 27, 2026 that want to do a wedding on a Saturday, then they apply to the County and tell --those are known events. Now, if somebody passes away, that's a little different story. You don't have near the lead time. But I think if they codify their commitments on their ancillary use --I'm calling them ancillary uses. They're actually primary uses of a church. But if they codified those within the development order and then k permission when an extra --extra event comes along, I t • e've sufficiently protected ourself. I have no interest, as C church police and mindin activity, in fact, trans ire I do have two q the end I'll ask the a determination trigger oft complaint inte 11 stated, in being the ctivity --additional ou, and then at o makes the cessity thereof? Is there a 1cient amount of e, I didn't mean to : Let's address that before we're inate on that thought process a little bit and share manage that out t the area with the r thoughts as to how we can better ping up the neighborhood, people that are in al of congestion and how we can better manage that. MR. BOSI: Well --and I can tell you off the top of my --off the top of my head, I don't think we're going to have a trip count that's going to be associated with the actual events on Wednesday and Sunday. We would rely upon the neighborhood. If they feel that there is a problem with the --with access and they feel that ingress and egressing their street during the church hours has become Page 28 Page 51 of 3023 January 27, 2026 problematic, they would call, they would call Code Enforcement, and Code Enforcement would coordinate with staff and with the church to alleviate that problem specifically. And the first step would be, make sure that you've got a Sheriff's officer representative to help with traffic control. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Let's think about that a little bit before we're done today. MR. BOSI: Yes. COMMISSIONER McDAN allowing for a use change and police the activities that are, or Sheriff and along those line way to get there other how that's all my questions CHAIRMAN KO Commission about traffic ' not --I'm not interested in e neighborhood have to r Code Enforcement ay be a different • t in the past. So • ng to piggyback on rd the petitioner talk r d 1f they need to have a deputy t ding on the severity of the traffic t the Immokalee Road side of it, ave a lo e at e trying to tum and blocking lanes --congesting traffic on Immokalee Road, which is a dy hea co ested. The thin • in r ity, though, you don't --you never want to call a deputy of et to come and take care of a problem that you've created, bee se then that takes one deputy off the street to respond to actual emergencies. Typically what happens in these situations, they go to a detail deputy program, and those guys sign up for this work through detail, the church pays for the deputy, and those type of things, so the public's not paying for them while they're creating that traffic issue. So it's hard to --you just can't call them up and say, "I need a Page 29 Page 52 of 3023 January 27, 2026 detail deputy." It's done in advance. You know, weeks in advance these guys sign up for these details. So I think once it's determined, if this is an issue, they should be on some sort of regular basis have the access to detail deputies in advance, especially if they're going to have a big wedding or something like that that they know is going to happen, because you can't just expect them to just drop everything and come and deal with the traffic whe these guys need to be on the road and not be dictated to, you kno spond to something that's created by the church itself. So t that program exists. So I think we really need dive if this is going to be something that they may ha asis, participate with the Sheriff's Office on, so ... Commissioner S COMMISSIONE I agree • terms ofw that you ha publi that' Thank you, r. Chairman. all a Commissioner McDaniel in t are standard events e Just the description of have some way to make sure that of a public event, there has to be appr • . And when I say "public events," if there is a decision to have a carnival, for examp o ·ngs, I'd be concerned about that. Weddings an nd other standard things that you would expect in a chur ee, we don't want to be in the business of policing that. I jus ant to make sure we're not opening the door too broadly in terms of other types of events. MR. BOSI: And, traditionally, the festivals would be something that is associated with churches, but we do --we would require --if they were proposing one, they would need a temporary --a special-event permit from GMD. And like I said, that requires coordination with EMS, the Sheriff's Office, and Fire, as well as Page 30 Page 53 of 3023 January 27, 2026 general purpose government with that permit. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: If I remember correctly, you made a statement that there's so many that they can request throughout a year? MR. BOSI: There's 42, 42. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Up to 42 a year? MR. BOSI: Throughout the cale r year, they're entitled to special events. MS. ASHTON-CICKO: In icular conditional use, it limits the special events to CHAIRMAN KOW COMMISSIONER CHAIRMAN MS. ASHTON ng e that says that the funerals a CH MS. item. you'll he speaker is s. n ~ ect to the day and hour , as proposed, are two. you. We have public speakers. eight public speakers on this speakers, you have three minutes, and nds remaining. Our first public MS. ood morning, gentlemen. CHAIRM WAL: Good morning, Peggy. MS. WYNESS: When I found out I had three minutes, I had to condense because I'm from Chicago, so I'm very long-winded. But I'm here to represent the spiritual aspect of our church. If you look at our logo, it is --it says "Orangetree Bible Church." So our main function is to be able to reach out to our community, friend or foe, to teach them God's word, to enlighten them. Page 31 Page 54 of 3023 January 27, 2026 And also it says "Jesus proclaimed." Number 1 focus is always on Jesus. He's our savior, our Lord, and he came and died for us. That is the reason why we have this beautiful country and this beautiful community to live in. So basically we're a very simple church. We're not going to have a carnival that I know of anytime soon. We are good neighbors. We care out people. We will be praying for our community. We wi raying for peace, and we will be praying for tranquility. ~ e praying for the goodness of God to be surrounded in Or e Church. I prayed three years for a church to come t t commun and God answered my prayer. He answers my praye ve di favor, and so does our church. And so I really be win-win for eve and also tot the light that A --j --it's somet ng that's a ood, to love our neighbor, al aspect and to just be entlemen, I will be at the church ur people and for peace and for goo ss a kindness and for mercy and for love rin d for self-control for our community. So mu . And by the way, we are taking donations for g committee. Thank you. CHAIRM AL: Thank you. MR. EBLE: r next speaker is Jacqueline Mia. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning. MS. MIA: Good morning. I agree with what the staff has recommended, and I ask for approval to build this house of worship for our community. I support having the location and not having to drive to the parent church, Faith Bible Church, located at Immokalee and 75, as mentioned earlier, which I was a member at for many Page 32 Page 55 of 3023 January 27, 2026 years. I reside in the Estates. And this would benefit all of us, including myself. Thank you. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you. MR. EBLE: We'll have speakers queue up at both podiums. Our next public speaker is John Snowball, and he will be followed by Colleen Araujo. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good MR. SNOWBALL: Good Snowball, and my wife and this location for a number morning that the traffic at minimal. Secondly, greatly to healthy co good churche that contrib Myw· . ing. My name is John the church being built at 11, we've learned this . . mornings is very hes contribute we think it imperative that or the community to values its be whi asure to serve this young church ouragement for both of us. ip there, we believe that this church t to the community. Thank you. MR. nex eaker is Colleen Araujo. I hope I'm getting that n I apologize. MS. ARA ose enough. MR. EBLE: cl our next speaker will be Daryl Kniep. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Just for logistical reasons, when he says that, he wants the next person to kind of stage over by the podium so we can keep moving. So whoever he called after you, ma'am, would you please, that individual, go to the other podium, just so we can keep the ball moving. We've got some time-certain things . coming up. Page 33 Page 56 of 3023 January 27, 2026 So thank you, ma'am. Good morning. MS. ARAUJO: Good morning. Thank you for the time. I am the house that lives right next to the church. I'm not a foe. I am a Christian. I waited 23 years to have a house in the country with animals sanctuaries, birds, trees, everything that goes with it. No parking lots, no businesses, no disruptions. Twenty-three years. If you waited that long to have a e and you were so happy when you got there, you didn't buy e in a commercial area, you bought a home on a residential st has a sanctuary at the end of the street --I feel it's very u king my heart. It hurts me every day. I'm a Christian. I have n , but I don't think a church needs t 1 two-lane That's why there. I watch the street that --by the wa , there's no traffic. I live t e. traffic come. the tr o • n my yard every single day. Every o f m eigh ecause I work in my yard. ve all a long to And I don' be a parking lot going to have to he goes on. relax and enjoy life. I worked eone wants to come and take that ir. I don't think anyone who waits that get ome deserves to have it all changed. ny barriers you put up, there's still going to xt to my street --right next to my home. I'm weddings , funerals, churches, everything that I have dogs. Do you know if you have dogs, when you have dogs, every time a car door closes, dogs go out off. I have to --I don't understand why this is even --why this has to be an issue. I didn't build my home --I didn't buy a home in a commercial area. I bought it on a quiet little two-lane street, and I Page 34 Page 57 of 3023 January 27, 2026 really would like it to stay that way. Really, with all my heart and soul I've invested in this, and I want to stay there, but I just can't even see where the property would have any value now because the whole structure would be ruined on that street. It's not a quiet residential street anymore. It's a busy mess. Thank you. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank y MR. EBLE: Your next speake followed by Mike Pyles. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: podium. That's the whole i this one. I'm your traffic dire MR. KNIEP: G I've been a resident in ' , maam. aryl Kniep, and he'll be have just used that odiums. Mike, go to 0, aryl Kniep, and my wife Angela, she's I want previous h lnC 86. regular ba bj e • ns I've heard at is d ocation. ard a lot of ready, but it will --the eekdays, and the church isn't e've heard before, it's only going nd Sundays, Sunday mornings on a Besides ould be very little time, except for these special occasion u men have talked about. Right now, if drive into Corkscrew Middle School parking lot, when they meet now you'll see 25 to 40 cars, and you won't --and you won't hear anything. You just notice that they're there. So that brings up the subject of noise. So it's going to --it's going to be very quiet. You know, you don't --I believe --I'm a member of Faith Bible Church also, like John Snowball, and we have our doors closed. I don't think you can hear anything going on in our Page 35 Page 58 of 3023 January 27, 2026 church. And I doubt whether you will hear anything going on in theirs either. So noise is not even an issue at all. And you can compare that to the noise now generated by dirt bike enthusiasts which apparently go out there whenever they want to, and probably most likely on weekends, but that would be quite a bit more noise than what you're going to get from the church. The location that --which is anot objection, at one of the meetings I was at, they said, "Why want to have a church in a residential area?" Well, to any o ooking at where the churches are now located in C r Cou you're going to notice almost all churches are in ential area. in my op1n1on, none of the objections that I've ed her are a eason to deny the church position to b ing tha esidentially aesthetic to the area ot be a big b ding with a tall steeple. So t , too. Than ry much. CH e Pyles, and he'll be mo entlemen. I'm a resident on Shady live at the house at the end of the road as the road e roo I'd like t uple comments on the video that supposedly condition. First, there was no video, as I understand it, of nesdays, which a Wednesday evening service, I think all of you probably know what's happening to the volume of traffic on Immokalee Road. It is bumper to bumper. It travels fast at that stretch of the road. This intersection also has a tum lane that is used as a U-tum because the street immediately south of Shady Hollow doesn't --you cannot tum onto that residential street off Immokalee Road. You have to come up to our street, make a U-tum, Page 36 Page 59 of 3023 January 27, 2026 and drop down a block. As for Sunday morning, the CREW sanctuary is closed right now, and there's a reason it's closed. They're undergoing an expansion. When I bought my lot out there about 12 years ago, they were getting about 30,000 visitors a year into the Rookery. The current numbers we've seen have been around 50,000. Most of that traffic is on the weekends. The Rookery is closed right no the boardwalk entrance into the parking lot. There was a m The CREW sanctua parking lot because the rookery because oft prevailed upon the traffic lined u on the wee I --t pave this I used rookery alk. use they're reconstructing hey're also expanding the parking spaces there. ansion of the traffic into the e County of umber of e dirt part of the road evard for exercise, and would walk on the o to occupy myself during eekends, I would hit averages own that road in or out of the One o at turned the tide with the Planning Commission to inst the staff report was one of the commissioners is a eekend --regular weekend visitor to the rookery and is personally familiar with the traffic encountered out there. Not only does traffic peak on the weekends when the rookery is open, it peaks around midday because people, particularly during summer heat, they go into the rookery to do their walking in the morning, and they head out before the afternoon heat. So there's an --there's an exit from the rookery along the time of day church would be letting Page 37 Page 60 of 3023 January 27, 2026 out. We get a lot of traffic on that road. Fish and Wildlife is out there almost daily. SWFWMD trucks are out there constantly. Sheriff, fire, ambulances are out there for drills. My lot has the easement that provides the vehicular access to the bird rookery. So they do frequent emergency exercises there. They also periodically go in and have to remove people from e trails who are in distress usually because of --not animal atta ut some sort of heat stroke or medical condition. So we see a lot of traffic. as it is, and now you're talki CHAIRMAN KOWAL: time was up, but I'm 1 you want to -- MR. PYLES: the situation there saying was act that. ical residential street 1 use -- ind you, your ur thought, so if ing. I don't actually know the sign that used to be o r church construction. It ommission members that raised r. He was aware of that, and he buy that lot? It's still on the mark Th having to go process." en bout, "Oh, it's not yet suitable. We'd be --we'd be having to go through the same Their comme as we looked at it, and it would have been more expensive to build on because of the additional site work required by the wetlands. So basically -- CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Once again, sir, your time's up. I don't want to be rude to the other people, but you got your three minutes, so -- MR. PYLES: Thank you, sir. Page 38 Page 61 of 3023 January 27, 2026 CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you. Thank you. MR. EBLE: Our next registered speaker is Charles Norman Pulliam. He'll be followed by our final registered speaker, Robert Davenport. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning. MR. PULLIAM: Good morning, Chair, Commission, and staff. I'm a property owner in Collier Count): nd a full-time resident. I am not requesting any special 1deration or treatment today. I believe --I am requesting you a his project based on the rule of law, not opinion or emotio , and county laws. Our nation is a nation of law and This church will provide • appr ved, services for the comm I'm any condition that nee adde to add it and give us anot Thank): CHAI vide essential oday. If there's c ue this meeting portunity to speak. is Robert Davenport. I've been a re toN me two church wil ty s1 65. In 1965, I drove all the way sterday I come from Immokalee. It took e. do have traffic challenges, but this e traffic patterns out there very much. e traffic challenges, but your staff has said that it's workable. your staff has recommended approval stipulations, and I would ask that you approve this proposed project, and if it's --amendments has to be made, well, maybe we could make those. Thank you. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, sir. Was that the end of the public speakers? Page 39 Page 62 of 3023 January 27, 2026 MR. EBLE: That's all for public speakers. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Commissioner LoCastro. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, Chairman. I didn't ask any questions because I did a deep dive with the church, and also I read some of the citizen feedback, and also I looked at the transcript from the Planning Commission and their recommendation. I think a big part of eir recommendation against was, as everybody said, the lot aero street, and you've already sort of debunked that. Part of our professional P. think, is this possible churc and I always think it's a courte project in their distric the one us sort of step on each thoughts known. I'm in a doesn't mean impactfi be c e, at least the way I Saunders' district, er who has the or or against, not make my dred ninety-nine seats is is one of the least and we ve said in this room before, e, you know, you say no to a ears placements, or even us, are • g at something, you know, much more intensiv ng t creates a little bit of traffic isn't a rubber sta th is inevitable. So people that do buy in areas where t h, I bought here, and then I want to live here the rest of eternity never have anything change," it's not realistic. I don't think the church is asking for anything above and beyond. I love all the things that my colleagues added to make sure that, you know, you're not having a carnival three times a week. You're not having --the baseball courts is a perfect example, because I remember that conversation. So regardless of what motion is made, I'm for approval. I think Page 40 Page 63 of 3023 January 27, 2026 it fits on the piece of property. I think the neighbors will make it work. I think some of the neighbors will wind up attending the church. We found this before where --I said to somebody yesterday, when people were against the Baker Senior Center and we approved it, then we heard, like, a year later that a large percentage of the people from the community were using that. I think you're building a structure at's not overly huge. I don't think it's a giant parking lot right ne a house. And so, you know --and I also, if you think a fie, there's always a concern --and Commissioner tit up perfectly, and he's a former sheriff. You know ou had one dred cars all one lane trying to make a left-hand tu , as mentioning that. But these cars ar ing to nt directions. There's not going to be s all o e trying to make a left-hand tum. And so ' above and be that, no would do urch has also gone et , and all of the things that ut as I said, to be good neighbors s that maybe have an issue with d put something on this piece of property do at. So It t fit, and I hope there's a motion to approve, and I certainl cond it. CHAIRM WAL: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, thank you. Mr. Chair, and I apologize I wasn't playing --Vice Chair wasn't hitting the gavel. The little thing on the end of my pen was loose while you were talking, and I just hit it, so ... CHAIRMAN KOWAL: You hit it on your head. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah, hit it on my head. Page 41 Page 64 of 3023 January 27, 2026 I, as well, am in support of the project. I do have a question for the applicant, if I may. I heard early on about the --because it's a known fact we're going to four-lane Immokalee Road clear up to the blinking light for that --for that --I think they call it the Immokalee Road Rural Villages. We know --we know that four-lane is coming. Is there --and I heard about a reservation d a dedication, but I didn't hear about a donation. Is that 50-fo ng to be attributed to that four-laning at no expense to the g ent? MR. DUBOIS: So, no. -foo • ht-of-way reservation is being set aside, I believe, an County ~ ey can confirm this, that the purchase price will be ked i to the es at when the GMP A conditional us ? MS. ASHTON-C a fore approval is the valuation - COM MS. a 10n. Get in a huddle over there and talk e --as well as the dedication and rese wo a very good thing for the commu We know there are issues out there. I hap n tli xecutive committee and the board of trustees of th do know that the bird sanctuary --rookery sanctuary is clo now, so your recent filming isn't real with regard to what's go on. There is traffic that is on that road. And if anybody hasn't ever gone on that walkabout, go. It's a wonderful walkabout. A true stomp in the swamp right in amongst them, so it's a wonderful facility. So my next suggestion is to --as we're going through this, preliminarily, I don't want to have to trigger a code enforcement issue for a sheriff to come and manage the traffic. I think that ought to be Page 42 Page 65 of 3023 January 27, 2026 part of the operational aspects of the church. And then at some stage, and --I know there's an expense associated with that, but that's going to help mitigate the traffic, that's going to help offset the unknowns once that rookery --the bird sanctuary rookery gets opened back up, those issues can be mitigated and handled in advance. So I think that the --as you said, other businesses. You can apply for don't have to have a deputy with of our community service offi fact, do that. Minimumly -- is open and minimumly on the so ons and so forth. I • k that I didn't really thi limitation of the addition understood activities t hair, I've done it in my fellows sign up for it. You ing there. It can be one ing it, and you just, in • lly while the church ddings, funerals, ey ggestion on the requisite. I think, if I • mit all special or other organizations, : Okay. : Yeah, just other organizations. ANIEL: And I think the fact that ifwe codify the no uses in the development order, that will suffice. We don o --as Commissioner Hall said, we don't have to be the chur police as to what you can and can't do and when you're going to do it. If it's outside of normal business, normal church operations, then --then you have --you have to get an event permit, and off you go. So I'm --I'm good with that as long as we codify it the --codify it in the development order. So those are my comments for now. Page 43 Page 66 of 3023 January 27, 2026 MR. DELATE: Commissioners, Mike Delate. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Saunders. MR. DELATE: Sorry, before that. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Oh, I'm sorry. MR. DELATE: Per your request regarding the donation versus reservation, we did speak with the pastor, and they agreed that they would donate that --what's called out a reservation on the plan now will be a donation. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Th Commissioner Saunders, COMMISSIONER SA have a couple questions a These are very difficult for the rest of the interest and then th . Sorry. ou, Mr. Chairman. I nts. e they're ing the balance mem ers of this church The eart concerning her home certa • ese types of developments I lik t this in my neighborhood? And gene s ar idential neighborhoods. There's 's anything inherently wrong with that. But I also at t neighbors have --have certain rights also and re p Plan and on zoning when they made their purchases, and t hange to what the rules were. And so we do ange the rules, and we may change the rules today in reference to this, but I have a couple questions and perhaps some recommendations. Commissioner LoCastro, this is not the least impactful use of that property. The least impactful use of that property is what it's already zoned for. So we're changing this, and we're making it a much more impactful use. It may not be as impactful as a Page 44 Page 67 of 3023 January 27, 2026 drive-through restaurant, but it's still an impactful increase. And so the one house that's adjoining I think raised a legitimate concern about noise and also potentially for lights. If they're open till 9 o'clock at night, there are going to be lights from the parking lot. What is the distance from the parking lot --you had a slide up. I think it was 160-some-odd feet from the parking lot to the neighbor's yard, or was that to the neighbor's hous ? MR. DUBOIS: Yeah. So it w ut 164 feet to the neighbor's home from the edge of the parkin COMMISSIONER SA parking lot to the lot line of MR. DUBOIS: They're be 28 feet or so, I wo property. COMMISSIONER buffering g have there And how far from the o it would probably ot to the nd how wide is the ering are you going to ing on t at side, on the west side, at vegetation and then adding se. • e it's a Type B buffer. If I recall corre lide back up as well, but I believe it was six-foo -e ti of planting. And o • g I want to summarize --if we could pull the presentation bac lly quick --the location here for this --so here is the exhibit show. So that 165 is measured from the parking lot. We have this lot --empty lot between us and the adjacent neighbor that's built. So there is a lot here as well, and then that home is there. So that buffer -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: That lot that's in between, that's a single-family home? MR. DUBOIS: There's a single-family lot as well in between Page 45 Page 68 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 the church property and the existing home that's developed, correct. So there is --there is a lot as well between this project and the closest home. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Is there any potential --I don't want to run up the cost for a church, and none of us like to vote against churches. Is there any potential for a wall along that side of the property to buff er the existing hous and the future house from the light and noise from the parking MR. DUBOIS: I don't belie that. Regarding the landscapi have the 25-foot Type B bufi urch would be opposed to dscaping to the west will bs will be maintained at a minimum of • ches • heig COMMISSION AUN MR. DUBOIS: S o enhanced landscape plantin at the time o • proposing here today, very similar to a wall itself. won' the s co ay. I appreciate that, but it noise resistance won't be quite M uld have no objection to either a solid wall or a s me of actual solid material. COMM SAUNDERS: A solid wall along that property line, is o you would agree to that? MR. DUBOI . es. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. Mr. Chairman, Members, I --I don't like --I've gotten to a point where I just don't like changing the Comprehensive Plan. People rely on it , and we've done that a lot, and I've voted for it quite a few times. We've looked at the public benefit, and, generally speaking, it's been a lot of workforce housing that's come along with these Page 46 Page 69 of 3023 January 27, 2026 comprehensive land-use changes. Churches are --I think, are a real positive, and I think --with the addition of that wall along that property line, I think that does alleviate a lot of the concern that was raised by the property owner. So with that additional condition, I will --I will support this. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIE motion for approval, or do you w CHAIRMAN KOWAL: o you want to make the o? • your district, correct? COMMISSIONER Mc COMMISSIONER LoC CHAIRMAN K L: 0 COMMISSIONE STR CHAIRMAN KO COMM RS No, in his. . nders. tion? obviously, it' was not a motion, but e a motion to approve that. I'll second. ght. And do we need to have that lang ssing? ANIEL: With those stipulations that we talked ab e donation of the right-of-way -- CHAIRM AL: Yes. COMMISSIO R McDANIEL: --the requirement of the Sheriffs Department maintaining traffic, and all of the other commitments within the -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All of the -- CHAIRMAN KOWAL: And the Condition 5 for the nonchurch people for activity. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll second that. Page 47 Page 70 of 3023 January 27, 2026 COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Now, the wall, I think, would be, what, a 6-foot wall, I think. Is that pretty standard, what we talked about? CHAIRMAN KOWAL: That's standard. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. So I have a motion and a second. All in favor, signify by sayin COMMISSIONER McDANIE COMMISSIONER LoCAS CHAIRMAN KOWAL: COMMISSIONER HA COMMISSIONER SA CHAIRMAN K L: 0 ame sound. (No response.) CHAIRMAN KO All rig MS. It's all right. Go. easure, Chair, court reporter our ock time-certain. : Yes, yes. Let's make it a 10-minute at .36. (A reces rom 10:26 a.m. to 10:36 a.m.) MS. PAT : Chair, you have a live mic. CHAIRMAN WAL: Thank you. All right. This meeting is being brought back to order, so if everybody will please take their seats. And we have a time-certain, which we're a little over, but --it was 11 A, correct? Item #1 lA Page 48 Page 71 of 3023 January 27, 2026 ACCEPTING THE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU (CVB) GOVERNANCE RESTRUCTURE STUDY REPORT; MAKE A FINDING THAT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THEREIN PROMOTE TOURISM; PROVIDE STAFF WITH DIRECTION AS TO NEXT STEPS, WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE DRAFTING OF ANY PROPOSED TOURISM PROMOTION AGREEMENT, PRIVATE SECTOR TRANSITIONAL LAN, UPDATES TO THE COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF O J\NCES, AND OTHER NECESSARY TRANSITIONAL ENTATION FOR REVIEW OF THE TOURIST L ENT COUNCIL AND BOARD OF COUNTY CO SSIONER JOHN MULLINS, DIVISION DIRECTOR -CO UNI ATIO GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC AFFAIRS OTI PRO HE REPORT AND MOVE FORWA CO SSIONER I: CASTRO; SECONDED BY COM R DERS -APPROVED time-ation to accept the Convention and ture Study Report; make a Visi find1 datl erein promote tourism; provide irection t steps which may include the drafting of any propo touris om • on agreement, private sector transitional p upda to the Collier County Code of Ordinances and other neces sitional documentation for review of the Tourist Developme Council and the Board of County Commissioners. Mr. John Mullins, your division director of Communications, Government, and Public Affairs, will begin the presentation. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning, John. MR. MULLENS: Thank you, sir. To begin this presentation, I'd like to briefly outline how this Page 49 Page 72 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 study came about, and just as importantly clarify what it is and what it is not at this stage. In October of 2024 and at their request, County Manager Patterson and I met with the representatives of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association to discuss operational challenges within the tourism division. Those discussions focused on issues such as travel approvals for industry events, procure nt processes, staffing levels, and hiring and other day-to-day ope al constraints. And as the County Manager ed, that many of these functions are governed by the e poli and procedures that apply to all county divisions at lead to oader conversation initiated by the manager abou erations and organizational structu tinations and peer markets nationwi The fundamental qu with private- behind our b 1ncr hether we're competing anizations with one arm ra tape and whether there's evelopment performance and cus e County Manager authorized a study governance models for tourism optimiz and promotional realms including the potential b sitioning from a government-based tourism division to a hy rivate-sector DMO. And Mr. Wert and Mr . Lambeth will s ak in greater detail about those findings here shortly. Now, as you know better than anyone, local government administration requires many hats: Ensuring public safety, delivering essential utilities , managing growth and infrastructure, providing services to residents and visitors, and overseeing programs that support our seniors and veterans. Page 50 Page 73 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Local governmental bureaucratic management of national and international marketing campaigns may not be the best-fitting hat. In fact, on a whim, I reviewed the course offerings for a public administration degree at FGCU and found no course work focused on the topics of tourism, marketing, or promotion. Those disciplines fall under an entirely different academic track called hospitality management, highlighting the speciali expertise required in this highly competitive field. If the Boa ees with the study's recommendations, today represe rst of at least two discussions on this topic. As outlined in the exec present the study results, disc recommended model structure, and gauge the next steps policies, an marketin serve w purpose today is to efits of the rnmental 1re staff to take loping materials, y transition only the sm division. your guidance, the next ion questions including what d look like, and who would realistically become operational? s and operational funding mechanisms entail? How physical and operational transition be managed? What a 1nistrative actions and Board approvals would be required? What performance measurements should be included in any contract for services with a new entity? And how would transparency and accountability for TDR expenditures be maintained or even enhanced? Now, while some of these questions may venture into unfamiliar territory, they are not uncharted. State and national models already Page 51 Page 74 of 3023 January 27, 2026 exist, offering proven best practices. We can also seek guidance from leaders who have successfully navigated similar transitions and apply their experience and hindsight to our advantage. If the Board agrees with the recommendations in the executive summary this morning, we will continue to work with our contractor, engage industry stakeholders, and consult with the County Attorney and the Clerk to develop these compon ts and return to both the TDC and the Board for review and nsideration. And with that, I'll tum the pr. ver to Mr. Wert and Mr. Lambeth, the researchers is study. CHAIRMAN KOWA MR. WERT: Than Commissioners. Ve CHAIRMANK 25-year res· Marketin to be of I'm a 20 --almost mpany, Wert rea, and I'm just happy y that we did on behalf this p work ar done and t s name. John and I partnered on his company, Civitas, has done a lot of on actly the same kind of study that we've t this might lead to. t you just lead it off here, if you could --he's joining us online h --with some background on Civitas and how you fit into this whole project. MR. LAMBETH: I thank you very much, Jack. Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the Board. Thank you for letting me join virtually today. Just a bit about our background. Our company, Civitas, is really the nation's leading firm in working with destination organizations Page 52 Page 75 of 3023 January 27, 2026 primarily focused on two issues: Funding, we do a lot of work in helping destinations achieve their funding goals, and organizational structure. We have worked around the world with destinations. We've worked in all 50 states with over 200 destinations and this year are celebrating our 30th year in existence. And we were very excited when Jack approached us to help with ·s effort, and we'll be very pleased to share some of our findin some of our results today with you. MR. WERT: Great, Joh Through John's introdu we --how we got to where we was initiated by the C Man kind of know where as a study that f last year, and John Lambeth and I ha ed o . . e 1nce going through a nu Theo governanc someti they destl sometimes presentation. xploring alternative r fer to the tourism division Visitors Bureau, which is what eting organization, the official aniz or Collier County. So those of interchanged in the industry, so you'll ay both of them in part of my The all pu verall purpose of the study, as I've said, is looking at other go ance structures, addressing the benefits of possibly transitioning from a nongovernment destination marketing organization to something else, and then to provide some recommendations to improve efficiency, flexibility, responsiveness, and engagement with our tourism partners here in Collier County. Early on, as we started our study, we identified several benefits that could happen as a result of moving away from a government Page 53 Page 76 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 model to a non-government model. First and probably foremost, we wanted --and everybody is --in the industry is looking for ways to optimize visitor spending in our community, streamline and improve operations. Another benefit is transferring some of the functions that government currently provides to the tourism division. Staff time for legal, accounting, human resources, pr urement, those services are currently provided to the division a d for by tourist tax revenue, the time spent by county staff. We saw a benefit of cont· accountability that the Touri oversight related to expenditu We saw another fit in r engagement that the di Collier County. As they people spend d-ea maybe atten y. ent transparency and the tly follows and a lot of elopment tax. improving the e tourism i ustry here in e community and those ation time here or g a lot of positive aking sure that the industry was many opportunities to be a part does in promoting the destination. We s ex1 ity specifically in times when we are really challen crisis of whatever it might be. We certainly have seen issues to hurricanes, to wildfires, to oil spills all over many years. Tourism division has responded to that, but it's becoming more difficult to react quickly and overcome any misinformation that's in the marketplace about did our --are we still in business. Did our area be hurt as much as many of the other areas of Florida have been hurt in crisis situations? And we also saw some opportunities to diversify future --finding future funding opportunities beyond just the tourist Page 54 Page 77 of 3023 January 27, 2026 development tax. The Tourism division is now and has faced a number of challenges in the past. One of the things that's been very troubling is the reduction in the number of staff positions in the division. It's gone from a high of 13 to nine FTEs currently despite rising numbers of visitors coming to our destination every year. It's the job of the Tourism division to service those peop to make sure that they have a good experience while they're her that's hard to do if your staff continues to reduce. Recruiting has been a ch the organization positions, County positions is not compe Ye in t e -- and that's where the ity oft en we did try to replace age scale for Collier the public sector, e from. Not from other govern t ivate sector. And the was that the job titles for people int tch up with the private sector. So s1 ion from the position they' ism position, it doesn't say what the od candidates because they s1m hat we're looking for is their pro e e uld bring to Collier County. We ere been a number of processes going on at the federal, al level as well of reducing the size of government. ti to grow a tourism-based organization in a government sector th keeping up with the growth in the tourism industry and the changes in that tourism marketplace. I've mentioned the slow response, and we've --we've really seen a number of situations where we should have been able to tum more quickly, make sure that the messaging was changed to meet the situation. And there have been growth pressures in the past. What has Page 55 Page 78 of 3023 January 27, 2026 been wonderful to see over the years is that, for instance, our international visitors have in the last 10 years gone from 10 percent of our visitation to 20 percent. And our meetings market, that group meeting market that so many of our larger hotels depend on, has grown from 10 percent 10 years ago to 30 percent of the visitation. You need staff to be able to handle that kind of growth. We looked at some possible solut • s. And requesting additional staff positions could be a ility. We'd go back and suggest that during the budget cy we look for additional positions into the Tourism div· The ervices could be contracted out, and that is c olution. And also continuing the study that we at additional or different government So how do we go frankly, the likelihood th e e? And of adding new ntracting, very --it's a ving a full-time positions is less eff ecti posit· virt hav new gove And our out of where t n is going to work contractor may not. They may vestment that we saw was exploring a re, ongovemment structure. mmendation was to look at it transitioning ht now --the Convention and Visitors Bureau is part of c ty government --to go to something else; looking at the benefits such as optimizing visitor spending; improving agility, that flexibility thing, to tum on a dime, if you will; and better stakeholder engagement. And we --we saw that going to a different structure didn't really hurt accountability or transitioning --or transparency at all. It really is the same thing. You report on a regular basis exactly as the way Page 56 Page 79 of 3023 January 27, 2026 the tourism division currently does. So what I'd like to do now is have John Lambeth go through, and he'll be able to show you some of the research findings that are in our --your packet there, but also I think it's good that he --because he really headed up the findings and some of that research. John. MR. LAMBETH: Thank you so When we took a look at this, w picture, what is going on around around Florida with respect to that information to you. An models. We looked at what essentially internal de you have today in Colh We looked at what ch, Jack. ly wanted to get a national try and what is going on es so we could provide eral different kinds of n, which is ernment such as vernment structures where nt authorities that are there are sep charged with or a ions; hybrid, meaning eavily essentially government run; is a private non-profit tina ganization. dition to the work we do for destinations, we do a unt research on the industry, and we track 1,412 des 1 the U.S. Those are both government and non-profit. F profits, we pull all of their 990 information, which is their tax r rn information. And if you're familiar with the tax returns that non-profits have to file, about two-thirds of that information is financial, but there's a significant amount of nonfinancial information that's included, and we categorize all of that. We have that in a very large database. It gets updated every month with new filings with the IRS, and so we can track with great precision what kinds of organizations are out there, how they're Page 57 Page 80 of 3023 January 27, 2026 structured, and how they continue to operate. Of course --well, you can see on the chart, there are 84 percent of U.S. DMOs, and about half of Florida DMOs are non-profits. The government DMOs across the U.S. are really concentrated in several states. Florida is one of them. There are a handful of other states that have a large section of government DMOs. All the rest of the states are by and large predominantly non-pr ts, and within that non-profit category, there are three different c that might apply to a DMO; a ( c )6, which is what the IRS call • ess league; a ( c )4, which is a social welfare, sometimes re to a issues corporation; or a ( c )3, which is a charitable o A far, the most common of that are the ( c )6s. In fact, of all D three-quarters of them percent that are c 3 s, an that is those ons t really are a more 5 percent, so few (c)3s d (c)4s. Six e ( c )4s. And the reason for aritable in nature. They u ood, where ( C)6s are on, industry, health as studies, both that have made this transiti om a g rn tal constituent entity to a private non-profit, ase hey chose ( c )6s. These are some of the things that th interviewed both CEOs that went through this process, inc e CEOs that have since moved on but have been in these organ tions. Both cited improved speed to market and talent recruiting, blending very well with what Jack had described as some of the current challenges. They recommended the need for strong support for the transition, very good outreach and communication with stakeholders and government entities, and the last one I'll say is really the one I would emphasize the most, that there be solid transparency and Page 58 Page 81 of 3023 January 27, 2026 accountability built into these districts. And the ( c )6 model, one of the reasons it has worked so well is that there is transparency and accountability typically built into those systems. Transparency in the frequent reporting --and we would expect if you did go this direction that you would have frequent reporting both to the TDC and to your board, both as you have today. Of course, annual reports. And in addition, you would ha organization and would have ve ~ involved in that, such that you accountable and make sure t And of course, on top o reported out each yeai ey're So the information abo they Where they g o he are public. accountabi reement with this erf ormance standards organization very tion's financials are s are all public. o s public. ies of the top employees f transparency and of this process, Jack really led a f folks. Hybrid sessions where we etings, people could attend either way; i through the process; one-on-one discussi em rs. And, of course, we've been going through th1 ess for a while in terms of a committee, the TDC's Resour these things, and now before your board to make sure this was ery open and accountable process . I only have two more slides, and I'll move through them quickly to keep this all moving. As part of our database, we did a research of organizations with similar budgets to your destination organization, and you can see them now here up on the screen. And we identified not only their budget, what state they're from, but also what type of organization they are. And you can see this is fairly representative of Page 59 Page 82 of 3023 January 27, 2026 the rest of the country. You've got a few government organizations in here. You've got one ( c )4 and one ( c )3, and the rest are ( c )6s. So it sort of bears out, both within your revenue range that your current DMO is at, how these structures compare to the rest of the country. And finally, let's look at Florida in particular. Here we've identified several destinations around the state with varying budgets but trying to get the best comparable se we can. And you can see in Florida we have more government o tions. By the way, I think that's at • likely to change over time. I think because of the s s I think you're likely to see --you've seen several ida already change. And I think you're going to se ikely into the future, but this just gi anizations are organized, what their b y, t their organizational structures So with ·11 tu nd, of course, we'll be available£ . indicated and how the current iliti t change going from a nongov . The County would retain the funding and the re h renourishment, beach park facility, the sports co ounty museum operations, and the administration o urist Development Council. The TDC itse ould continue its role as your advisory group on all tourist tax revenue expenditures, looking at each of those and bringing back recommendations for your consideration. And the new destination marketing organization would continue as it currently is as the County's official destination marketing organization handling marketing, promotion, group sales, events around the community, through a contract with the County. Page 60 Page 83 of 3023 January 27, 2026 This would require the new organization to put together bylaws, articles of incorporation, policies and procedures, IRS reporting, and audits. So we looked at, then, possibilities of future funding. Right now the only revenue that the Tourism division has is the tourist development tax revenue. What we see in a new nongovernment setting is that it opens up a whole num r of new revenue opportunities: Expanded co-op mar g opportunities, partnering with our tourism partners, hotels, actions and so forth in advertising, going to trade sho h. The issue on that has b • ng that, but the the General revenue that comes back from Fund. It does not go to the • burse expenditures. Membershi under a go we've ex 1 ands also spe expenence . . revenue 1s go1n funds. something that's possible :venue from that. And those hybrid meetings ey seem very much interested in ply ants, again, that's something that er county government cannot do. And ue. e same kind of thing as we've our research through co-op is that that General Fund, not back to the Tourism There's also a possibility of forming in the future a tourism improvement district, something that John's company has been working on all over the U.S., and a couple right here in Florida. To get additional marketing funds or in the case up in Seminole County they are using it to actually build a new indoor sports complex. So that's a possibility for the future or perhaps a destination marketing Page 61 Page 84 of 3023 January 27, 2026 fee that would be a voluntary fee that would support additional marketing initiatives. And finally, we know that the increase to 6 percent for the tourist development tax is going to be on the ballot this fall. That could be another potential source of revenue, although most of that would be going to completing the sports complex. Staffing of the new entity, the cu t staff would be offered transition to the new entity or they c with county government in another position. We do see t d roles in marketing, sales, and engagement in oper ossible and probably will be needed to at least re hat the division has --has lost and --but initially, human reso And we talked accountabili t to the TDC stakeholde tsourcing, at least d cost control. nc d ame regular reporting ourism industry now, and now the new opt the recently approved CVB ain e performance metrics, things visitor spending, social media tin ads, and so forth, and maintaining the return on inv asurements that were --that the organization is already using: visitor spending, economic impact, average length of stay, mar 1ng. And that whole measurement of the investment in marketing, bringing people to the destination and the resulting visitation that comes from people who were influenced by that --that marketing effort. So all that --that's the gist of our recommendation from the research that we did. And our final recommendation is that --to form a non-profit Page 62 Page 85 of 3023 January 27, 2026 501 ( c )6 destination marketing organization contracted with Collier County. The benefits that we saw early on in the study, and as we finished it, really bore out the optimization of visitor spending; agility, to change quickly; flexibility, to bring new direction to marketing efforts very quickly; and the transparency measures. So we've already been through several steps in this process. Early on we provided the county admi • tration with our initial findings, that --that was approved t e forward. We presented to the Productivity Committee and orable recommendation from them. They had some su were very helpful, and we added it to the overall re We also had a prese recommended, and y Chris Fabian with R to meet prett . . 1mprov1ng Wet they highly orandum from s 1 Uy does seem g to do here in r velopment Council, and ded for your consideration, and ur support of the results of our dire on where we might go in the futur destinatio stop there. ib1 of adding and forming a new non-profit rgan ation here in Collier County. And I'll And John a certainly here to answer any questions you might have. Look1 toward a positive recommendation from all of you. Thank you, Commissioners. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Well, thank you. Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You know, I can hold my comments until after --I think --do we have public speakers? CHAIRMAN KOWAL: We have public speakers, correct? Page 63 Page 86 of 3023 January 27, 2026 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll hold my comments till then, if --do you want me to re-light back up or -- CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Is the Board okay -- COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Let's hear public comment. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Also public comment, or would you like to -- COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: eah, just one quick comment --a question in terms of a • 1ne. That last slide you had • sion first quarter of 2026. was consideration by the County We've got a lot of work to do. en do expect the final product to come back to the Board £ MR. WERT: With favor from the Board, we f forming a new can move very quickl organization like this best and the not where the co haven't do bac Deve the staff? MR.MDL e looked at e best of the ally good feeling of ould be formed. We o that data ready to go. wo months, I think we could be y with the plan that --that we see we e back to the Tourist you for final --for final work. Mr. Mullins, do you want to finalize eah. Just to add to that --and I think Bartles & Jaymes s it best in the 1980s. "We sell no wine until it's time." So we'll take whatever time it takes to get this right, to get it into a position that the County Attorney, the Clerk, and others are comfortable with it, and then we will take it back to the TDC and to the Board for final recommendations, edits, and approval. So there is no rush to do this. It doesn't have to coincide with the beginning of the next fiscal year or anything else like that. We Page 64 Page 87 of 3023 January 27, 2026 will do it when it's ready. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you. Tom, how many public speakers do we have? MR. EBLE: Mr. Chair, we have nine. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Nine? MR. EBLE: Yes, sir. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Do you ·11 want to wait? COMMISSIONER McDANIE ther way. Either way. I can make my comments now or wait • ards, whichever you prefer, sir. CHAIRMAN KOWA ·1 up again. I thought maybe you wanted to talk. COMMISSION cDA t we were going into commun • CHAI with public s MR.EB t. 's that? go ahead and start queue up at both is Dianna Dohm, and she will be mo ommissioners, Dianna Dohm. the Marco Island Chamber of Tourism nal to the Marco Island business community. It 1 Visitor spend1 sustains our hotels, our restaurants, our retailers, our attractions, our professional services, directly supporting thousands of jobs and providing a reliable revenue stream that keeps small businesses open and thriving. These dollars are --these dollars also reduce the tax burdens on residents by funding public services, infrastructure, community amenities all that benefit Collier County. Page 65 Page 88 of 3023 January 27, 2026 To protect and grow this economic engine, Collier County must maintain a strong, private non-profit convention and visitors bureau. A private non-profit convention bureau promotes tourism that is strategically driven, data driven, and insulated from competitive priorities. It allows for nimble decision-making, consistent long-term planning, and targeted marketing that highlights the distinct identity of Marco Island and our county as a w le; this market where destinations that fail to invest strate • are quickly left behind. A well-resourced private CVB delivers measurable returns on investment and d • visitation and supports the sustainable tourism tha munity values and quality of life known to Weakening or r instability for local County's mos generation. broader C of o Thank you. • sks economic on Collier nd revenue o Island, and the must remain a priority B must be the cornerstone nex ublic speaker is Clark Hill, and he will be followe ith. CHAI AL: Good morning. MR. HILL: d morning. Clark Hill. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak to you today. It's a privilege and an honor. I've been a resident of Collier County now for 25 years. I opened the Hilton Naples Hotel and Shula's Steakhouse in the year 2000 so --and I'm interested in tourism, but I'm also interested in our community. Page 66 Page 89 of 3023 January 27, 2026 And I've been on the Tourist Development Council I think it's 17 years. I'm not positive. But I've been on the Tourist Development Council for a long time. It's been --certainly been a privilege for me to serve in that capacity, and I've learned quite a bit, but I've also come to appreciate the leadership that we have in Collier County and how we make decisions. I'm here to express my support for e change in the way the CVB operates. I think it's going to beneficial to the tourism industry. I think it will be benefi I see many, many advantages e community. As a whole, o pro ding that way, and I'm in favor of it. Thank you again for you CHAIRMAN K L: TH followed b CH MR. ple part o A institutions, a we s sustaining the c community. nd he will be ssioners. Thank you for of the governance restructure of is Kevin Smith, and I have the or o r gifts at Artis-Naples. And as r tourism grants and reporting. o Hier County's largest cultural very day how essential a strong CVB is to ibrancy that draws visitors to our beautiful While organizations like ours do actively promote our own programming, the CVB provides a different essential function by presenting a unified destination voice. That countywide perspective brings together our lodging, dining, arts, and local businesses in no single way a cultural organization can accomplish, which elevates the entire tourism ecosystem. Page 67 Page 90 of 3023 January 27, 2026 In my previous roles with cultural organizations in Palm Beach and Broward Counties, I worked closely with this structure and saw firsthand the benefit of a DMO organization. From my standpoint, the proposed restructure is both timely and necessary. It would provide a strong strategic destination marketing, continued partnership with arts and cultural organizations, efficient, timely promotional support, transparent stewa ship of our tax dollars. Tourism supports more than 27 Jobs in our region, and cultural institutions like Artis-Na s a meaningful role in why visitors choose us. To stay co need a DMO structure with tools, flexibility, and th ur peers across the state already enjoy. Thank you again CHAIRMAN KO MS. PEARSON: G Thank you fa CHAI M d ing. ir and Commissioners. . I'm Amanda Pearson. ually announces your name speaker is Amanda Pearson, and she'll be followe oc ood. CHAI AL: Good morning. MS. PEAR was very excited. Good morning. Amanda Pearson. I'm a me er of the UAC Council, and I just want to, you know, continue the comments today. But I will speak quickly because it sounds repetitive after what I've heard today. So tourism is not just an economic driver in Collier County, it's one of our most vital industries. It supports more than 27,000 local jobs, fuels our small businesses, and provides revenue that helps keep taxes lower for residents. Page 68 Page 91 of 3023 January 27, 2026 And it's important to remember hoteliers don't create the tourist development tax, our guests do. Hotels simply collect on Collier's behalf. Without hotels filling these rooms, these tax dollars would not exist. During the fiscal year, industry will again generate millions in tourist tax revenue. That revenue is why this conversation matters and why we must ensure these dollars e working as hard as possible for Collier County. The independent study spok clear: Collier is failing behin • we rank third in tax collecti 22.8 percent of those collectio 44.3 percent average we've added over 1600 . more coming. occupancy, J unde fro Under t t today makes one thing • ye set. While we --while we spend just pared to a same time, 4 and '26 with ru el, the CVB is constrained. Staffing has dropped ce 2022. Payments and ap po s with Visit Florida, including the 2 missed it's important rtising funds after Hurricane Milton we lim tions, not the lack of need. This is why So across t y, 84 percent of DMOs --across the country, 84 percent of DM operate as non-profit organizations, including many of our closest competitors like Sarasota, Tampa, Miami, and Palm Beach. A non-profit DMO would deliver a greater efficiency, faster marketing response, and improved agility during storms and market shifts. It would reduce the County's administrative burden by shifting staffing, procurement, HR, accounting to a specialized entity and Page 69 Page 92 of 3023 January 27, 2026 allow public dollars to go further. Transparency would not be lost. It would be strengthened through audits, IRS filings, county reporting, and commissioner oversight. Most importantly, this model allows us to diversify our funding, enhance partner programs, and create real collaboration with industry and community stakeholders without i easing pressure on taxpayers. Our expectation of the new accountable, be competitive, a premier destination, not a c I respectfully urge you to destination marketing protects tourism revenu health. Thank ):: CHAI Ij simple: Be nimble, be e so Collier remains a to a non-profit cture that -term economic hat you have three minutes, and I ·ng to get through it fast. We do kno hav keep 's try capture all your words, so just cadence may have to be --but, thank you. MR. xt speaker is Sharon Lockwood, and she will be followe dy Smith. MS. LOCK D: Good morning, Commissioners. I'm Sharon Lockwood. I'm the area general manager at the JW Marriott Marco Island, but I'm here today as both an industry representative and someone who participates in the steering committee to explain why this study matters to the tourism industry and why its recommended direction aligns with today's marketplace, especially as you consider a vote on this initiative. Page 70 Page 93 of 3023 January 27, 2026 This is not about changing Collier County's mission. It's about strengthening how that mission is delivered. At its core, this is an optimization question. The County has done good work, but the real question is whether the current structure remains the best tool in an environment where destination marketing is more competitive, more specialized, and moving faster than ever. The study gets this exact --the st governance model is a means to an market reality is clear. Tourism i we. We compete daily with d talent quickly, pivot in realti conditions shift. Increasingly thos through a non-profit D accountable, but because market. This • across all of gets this exactly right. The d not an end itself. The ing still, and neither can an hire specialized agility when talked about, e re less at the pace of the we've heard. It is St <lest· deman s have changed. Modem Ourc staffing, job and those are st are doing the work. does not change. , flexibility, and deep expertise, edia strategy, crisis response, and re 1 udes built-in constraints around ns, and rapid response during disruptions, imitations, not a criticism of the people who nd that's why it's equally important as what The County retains full control of the TDT funds. The Tourism Development Council continues its advisory role. Transparency, reporting, and accountability remain intact. Public oversight stays exactly where it belongs. From the hotel industry's perspective, this isn't about shifting control. It's about aligning tourism promotion Page 71 Page 94 of 3023 January 27, 2026 with a structure that can operate more effectively while remaining fully accountable to the public. The goal is simple: Strengthen Collier County's competitiveness, protect this vital economic engine, and ensure our tourism mission is executed at the highest possible level. Thank you. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you. MR. EBLE: Your next registered eaker is Randy Smith, and he will be followed by Meg Stepani CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Go MR. SMITH: Good mo ners. My name's and Tours, in my rve as the Vice ort the Randy Smith. I'm CEO o 36th year in hospitalit s Chair of the steering governance study an non-profit D representati partner e deve attracti ormation o potential as the designated e with the industry e product that was vernance study. ed multiple governance models. ecosystem, including hotels, rts, sports, cultural partners, many here today ins CVB's perfo and public over e e s, and the intent is to optimize the ple as that, while preserving transparency As you've hea today --I'll make it quick --throughout the study of the process, the same themes came up again; staffing constraints, market responsiveness, talent recruitment challenges, and crisis response speed. A key takeaway was how much emphasize the study places on accountability. In one of those measures, we're going to have a new CVB board of local industry experts to --for direction and more Page 72 Page 95 of 3023 January 27, 2026 accountability. So we encourage you to accept the study and to allow staff to move onto the next phase of developing an implementation plan for your consideration. The next phase gives the Board concrete information to evaluate before making any final decisions. Thank you for your time and consideration. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank y MR. EBLE: Our next speaker • g Stepanian, and she will be followed by David Lindberg. MS. STEPANIAN: Goo Stepanian. I'm the executiv Business Improvement Distric both --and as well wi r colle hearing this issue yo issioners. I'm Meg A venue South • e today and st weeks I am her atization of this --of the CVB. I co ue pective. The Fifth A venue So io • tnct. We're beholden to the en to the City of Naples, and heh . So all in, we serve more than 280 rty o . We're our own little micro DM cks and balances; audits, 990s, the things that you se re today. My co ow I speak for all of us, we support transparency an tability. As stakeholders, we know what we need and how we n cl to represent our market. We're --we work tirelessly every day to serve this community and the hospitality industry and our visitors. There are priorities that often compete with that of a municipality, especially during a time of crisis. I know that from firsthand experience. It's usually all hands on deck, and we're handling, you know, advanced marketing, let's say, within the BID, Page 73 Page 96 of 3023 January 27, 2026 and I'm able to be nibble and put that message out there with the resources that I have, and the City is able to clear the streets and the trees and all of those sorts of things. So we all pitch in, but we all have a way to do it. As in everything, there are exceptional examples and those that are not. I impress upon you-all today, we have exceptional leaders in our community, and we have here --w· in hospitality, and we are beholden to one another. As stakeh s, we've been meeting together, and we know --and I'm o steal Sharon's line --you know, rising tides do lift all s • Why this is needed no spoken to, you know, how thi ody has already e need for co-op rams a ·nitiatives that he years the have been advertising, website a come up. And I do kno missed opportunities. Arr • n the season with Milton and Helene, fault of anyb And ag • sto open." This constituents, we resource effectivel consideration. . And again, through no ne s a little bit differently. riorities perhaps when there are situations that happen at eed ut there marketing, "Hey, we're ws us that opportunity. ues say fall behind its competitive set, and ithin the hospitality industry, your be able to protect and grow this essential or our community. And thank you for your CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, ma'am. MR. EBLE: Our next speaker is David Lindberg, and he'll be followed by our final registered speaker, Chris Lopez. MR. LINDBERG: Good morning, everybody. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning. Page 74 Page 97 of 3023 January 27, 2026 MR. LINDBERG: Thank you so much for the time here today. My name is David Lindberg, and I am the sales director and tournament manager for the Chubb Classic presented by ServPro, the PGA Tour Championship event that's taking place here in just a little less than two weeks at Tiburon Golf Club. As you can imagine, we are ramping up for the tournament but wanted to stop on down here for a little it to just voice our support for the change for the CVB and for t ganizational structure for it. We have been partnered wit B for many, many years as part of the tournament, and we' ner together through a vast majority of different as tournament such as we host a First Tee champion whe • conjunction with the CVB, we're able t ite out diffe First Tee chapters. The First Tee uth g organization at's spread out all throughout the count ith t VB's help, we're able to pick some di for their marketing efforts such a a, • ago, Philadelphia, and read ond In e, "Hey, Naples is open. We're 1 experience for the kids to come lso, in part to our title sponsor, Chubb ntin sponsor ServPro. There is a large economic 1m rea during tournament week where, you know, the Chub ill come in and they'll buy out the whole of Ritz-Carlton prope s down here and in addition, because of that, we also have ancillary hotel needs that partners such as Naples Grande, Home2Sweets, and a few others as well. So we definitely see, you know, the firsthand impacts of having and working in conjunction with the CVB. Overall, during tournament week and throughout the whole process, we're able to generate approximately $25 million in Page 75 Page 98 of 3023 January 27, 2026 economic impact that we have found through various studies from our side just because of the event. Overall, we're very supportive of this change for the organizational structure for the CVB and looking forward to seeing what the next steps are for it. Thank you so much. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank y MR. LINDBERG: Have a gre MR. EBLE: Your next spea CHAIRMAN KOWAL: MR. LOPEZ: Good m On behalf of the Florida and the Collier Count director for FRLA here Werequ and hope to across the day. . . omm1ss1oners. ing Association ' the regional at this point in time ess with our partners d I put my notes away omplished and diverse Thank you. All right. Questions from the Co That eaker, correct, Tom? MR. E head.) CHAIRM WAL: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm stuttering right now. I'm --Randy and Sharon came and visited with me last week and talked to me about this, but I'm --I'm not --I'm not really thrilled about this process . I'm not seeing the rationale for what, in fact, can be accomplished with what we already, in fact, have. Page 76 Page 99 of 3023 January 27, 2026 You've delineated --we've spent money on the study. There is more money to be spent on the study. The circumstances that were brought up as deficits currently with the compression of government, the lack of FTEs and so on and so forth, all I'm seeing is another group of people coming and asking for more money and more FTEs and more expenditure. And --now, I'm inclined to move meeting with Randy and Sharon last identify measures and milestones is forward based upon my to be able to physically this can, in fact, be accomplished. I understand the ration some of the representations. of money in advertisi appropriated --I know year just to get out of be , million a yea ast t semi discreti y tha . I take exception to we spen enormous amount y. We e ropriate five, six million a ropriated another five elatively speaking, is e 1n the event of an adverse ergency , so on and so forth. we don't form a 501 ( c )6 yet at this is a fore gone conclusion, because be a foregone conclusion. I beli ugg • ons that have been brought forward by the steering c nd your work, immeasurable, can be a huge benefit. And I' I'm inclined to believe that these suggestions can be brought to o existing staff that we can, in fact, effectuate the positives that are being represented that can come with this privatization, but I'm not skippy about the privatization aspect of it. I think that the staff that we have is doing an admirable job. I think the engagement by the community is really good , and we've learned some --some --some things that could be accomplished with our existing staff. Page 77 Page 100 of 3023 January 27, 2026 But I see this as a --as another bureaucracy and another --another avenue to be coming at the TDT money and the TDC board itself to be able to come in and effectuate other things. So I'm going to support moving this forward if, in fact, it is the wish of the Board to do so just to get those --the balance of that data so that I can see the transparency, so I can see the measurables and milestones, so I can see the accountabi • I don't think we have non-acco have the circumstances that have actually, Jack, in that one slide the international markets. A be better? Eh, maybe. It pote can't be. But I'm inclined to with the current staff that another org represente ility now. I don't think we resented here. I think t our tourism is up in ficacy --now, can it ot saying that it ion implement it not be moving to 's, in fact, being nswer part of the --one of the -'re looking for today is a reco com tion from you to accept the results dy itself is complete. CO ANIEL: Yeah, I got that. MR. W we're looking for --first of all, accept what we have right no then give us some direction as to what you'd like to see next, an e'll go back and jointly work together with the staff and so forth to deliver that. So we'll come back to you with what you ask in addition to just accepting this study today. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I understand. And forgive me for interrupting, Jack. I didn't mean to interrupt you. MR. WERT: That's okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I was told we were coming to Page 78 Page 101 of 3023 January 27, 2026 accept the report as it has, in fact, been done and then --and then move forward with the next steps. And part of next steps was the formation of a 501 ( c )6 and some other things that were in there, not just an acceptance of the report. So --I said what I said already. MR. WERT: Thank you. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Locastro. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: hank you, Chairman. I'll just start off with two little • earted things, because sometimes it just feels very tense • oom. Number one, you can tell Jack is semiretired becaus 'snot ing any socks, so that's one thing. COMMISSIONER McD little footsies. COMMISSIONE Ritz-Carlton podium, bee advertisemen you kno on ng is I hope the man who came to the in a huge like a Nascar driver, onald's, Burger King, you thos b there actually squeezing No I'm not stuttering, okay. I think coming back giv ive. nd so, you know, I think we'd be foolish to and then go, eh. And I've talked with both --people ides, and I don't disagree necessarily with what Commissione cDaniel said, but as you reiterated, Jack, this is to move forward to give us that deeper dive. And I actually think you're going to come back with information that's going to make it at least even more favorable to me. You know, one of the things that I asked is, are we inventing the wheel here or reinventing it? And the reality is, there's a lot of --you guys have done a lot of work to show that other counties are way ahead of Page 79 Page 102 of 3023 January 27, 2026 us and have done this and have had success. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean apples to apples. So you might come back with details where we say, "You know what, it's been awesome for other counties, but for us this wouldn't be better. It would just be different." And sometimes different is great to try, but I want to hear that next level. So, you know, I'm not, you know, confused or uncertain. I fully support t • I don't think it's about what we point that was made is, like, you could --you could overspend, it on? And I think this --ta • briefing us on, if it --if it wind up coming bac strategic position to before. I don' Andi mee And, you know, to the spend enough. You what are we spending e level that you're e vote, if you gives us a more sed this term invest it. opportunities. k it would give us that for, and that's what this n a e job, but I don't want us to do an don't want to do an admirable job when we fix a ro ant do an admirable job when we approve affordable ho n't want to do an admirable job on beach restoration. I w a phenomenal job. And if we're doing admirable on anytH g, that's why we re-examine it. So, you know, to use an example, we voted at our last meeting that we're going to do a deep dive on the sports complex. We all agree. Wow, FC Naples, and we have the boss right here. What a great first season. Everybody's happy. The stands are full. But was that admirable, or was it phenomenal? So just like with any business --and I look at this as a business Page 80 Page 103 of 3023 January 27, 2026 venture --you take a report card, you take a look, and if it shows we've done a phenomenal job in tinkering it with any way, it might not be an improvement. Okay. We're smart enough, then, to take a look at it. But I'm looking to accelerate what we're doing, maybe not spend more money, but just spend it in smarter ways and in different areas. And I think that other counties have alr dy benefited by restructuring themselves. So I'm in full support of it. Sometimes we sit here and sa:¼ examination process is Ieng know, we don't want to dump that we probably are e on t fence on this. Althoug ight passed now, and I could ed thought, you bone." But I that wo bee • 's worth the effort. ntinuing the of work, and, you e for something not on the in months, if it's , "Well, I actually ore meat on the and to have an end result hat we've done. an admirable job across the ote catch up and leap over some of at • nk right now are kind of lapping us, but • 1 jus lways feels great around here. We live in paradise. hen you drill down, that can change very quickly if we're e ball. And I think y guys are headed in a good direction to give us better feedback for an actual vote on if we want to move forward with sort of this reorganization. So I fully support moving forward. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Hall. COMMISSIONER HALL: Thank you, Chairman. I, for one, like the idea of getting out of the marketing business as a government. I've had a lot of discussion about this topic, and I Page 81 Page 104 of 3023 January 27, 2026 was glad to see that the study's finished. And I was really glad to hear that we don't --if we do this, we don't have to create the wheel, that it's already been done by other government entities. I would like to take --if we do this, I would like to take what works well for them and use that, and then take the weaknesses and eliminate them, and I think that we can do that. I would --if we do move forward the discussions in talking with the Clerk, there has been room aud in these type of entities across the state, and I would like real deep dive into what was allowing --it's like mail-i ots, e's --or it's like passing the football. There's three t that can g rong --or three things that can happen, and two are b d. So ike to take a look at that and make sure, i s that. In the spirit of s i a of merging and creating • oing something that we don't do om for discussion. And I am forward and we do let th· hat I use in business, and I've ou can have control or you can can oth. ·ning to relinquish some control that we ge mething that's in a better --in a better capacity, trus wth that could come, but I wouldn't be willing to give t rol up willy-nilly. I would really want to see it well thought out, e the contracts drawn up, see what the rules are, see what --you know, we as the government, we have the responsibility for public funds for the tourism tax dollars. That's not going to change. That's state statute. So we're not going to be giving up control with that. I --just because this is different doesn't mean that it's determined. I have a --I'm having a hard time --you know, we've Page 82 Page 105 of 3023 January 27, 2026 been pitched by eight people that came up here, nine people that came up here, and I really don't know what the motive is yet. There's a motive, but --it's not clear to me, but I know that there is one. We have the control with the TDT funds, but there's also going to be private money that's going to be raised and the private benefits. How that --how that's going to be determined, and how that's going to be --you know, whenever I hear the ord "accountability," "transparency," those are all buzz w at don't mean a whole lot to me, but they're all sales words. things are going to be automatic. We're not going to quis • s or create anything without transparency, witho countabili nother word is "collaborative." Whenever Is hat w rd, I that AI created the narrative. I'm all for getting over to someone who doe don't want to ··y ely, discussion, ut b strengt disc sin nd turning it t at the same time, I without major an maximize the esses. d to have further ·ant, I think, is warranted. Done. S: Thank you. • Commissioner Saunders. DERS: First I want to thank the folks that put all tli at this point and for the presentations from everyone. It wa rofessional. It was very persuasive. I'm going to s ort moving forward with completing some documentation. I understand that we will have one more bite at this apple before a final decision is made. And so as a part of that, I do understand that there has been some fraud in some other jurisdictions. I'd like to make sure that when this comes back, that we do have some information from some of the communities where this has been successful just for comparison purposes. And I know that's part of Page 83 Page 106 of 3023 January 27, 2026 the study, but just part of the presentation in terms of the documentation. I think this is going to be a much more efficient way to proceed. And again, I thank our staff and the other folks that have put this together. I'm going to take off on a little bit of tangent. I'm going to reserve the right to do that. Jack Wert sort of opened the door I'm going to say, but he doesn't kno one of your slides you had more r. so I want to spend a minute ta important going forward for This board has made thre first was to pass a res at the Paradise Coast p completed. So this sixth engine that I The Boa his. He doesn't know what door he opened. But on e sixth penny tourist tax, because I think that's to that tax. The d finish the fields t eld house finish that economic people. y on the ballot, and voted to do that 5-0 tax, and the likelihood of it • , I t retty great. id ird thing, which is the most critical part right now, d appropriated $150,000 for an educational c educate the public on the benefits of the passage of this r m. There has too campaign to make sure that this passes. And I've asked the Chamber of Commerce, the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, through Chris Lopez, if they would be interested in helping fund a campaign, an advocacy campaign. We can say , "Here are the benefits of voting for this. Here's some of the stuff that we will do with this," but we can't say to the public, "We want you to vote for this." Page 84 Page 107 of 3023 January 27, 2026 The Chamber of Commerce, the restaurant association, private organizations can do that. There are folks in this room that can raise some money for a campaign, and I think we need a couple hundred thousand dollars in addition to the 150-that the County has to run a really good campaign to make sure this passes. What that will generate is over $11 million a year into the distant future, a substantial portion of ich can be used for advertising, beach renourishment, a as completing these types of projects that will help generate unsm. So what I'm issuing toda an gent on a different topic is kind of a call to acti in this room right now, there are folks that are g t has occurred today in reference to t pend1 s for advertising, are also going to be the that d mpaign and make somethin happen 1 I'm g with at the end of February in my offi toge m oup to talk about coor see private sector to come together, run a professional campaign to ma sses. ir, I support moving forward with this. C Thank you. Commis aniel. COMMIS McDANIEL: Yes. If you would, whoever's running the slide s , bring up your recommendations , because those recommendations that were on that slide look to be different than what's been recommended by our staff. Yeah, I don't --I like the recommendations that have come forward from our staff, not these. I think this is premature. I think there's more data and analysis that needs to be done before we start moving into these recommendations. Page 85 Page 108 of 3023 January 27, 2026 The recommendations that came from --on the agenda item that I have talk about moving this forward, assimilating more data, bringing forward agreements, bringing forward initiatives as to how these judgments can, in fact, be made, but I think some of these things are out there a little bit more than what are in this recommendation that came to me from our staff in this agenda item. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commis • oner Hall. COMMISSIONER HALL: Th ou, Chairman. I wanted to --I got some fee om Chris Fabian at ResourceX. Actually, I got a from him, and I just wanted to kind of go over ju he highlights. When it comes to creatin is thi • g out of the marketing business fo it alig nonty-d budgeting's core philosophy that sa re we must, nable where we should, and outsource wH alue, and partner where it expands imp want to keep that in mind where s impact. 0 the s availa le resources with the priv t. Priority-based budgeting also supp it enables better service outcomes at a lo ter strategic flexibility. And as looking at the cha arasota, they have the same amount, basically, o that we collect, but yet their --their budget with the 501 ( re was they were almost $5 million cheaper than what we were their budget, and that was encouraging to me. One of the other things that he said --that Chris when he said --he said a risk --there's significant staffing constraints, which we've addressed that, with our current model, and this would allow strong contractual oversight, which I mentioned that earlier. And from the --from the PBB lens, from the priority-based budgeting lens. Page 86 Page 109 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Accountability's not dependent on whether our staff are public employees, but it's rather if the performance metrics, the reporting structures, and the oversight mechanisms are robust and enforceable. And I want to make sure, going forward, that if we do this, that we have enforceable actions based on the contracts that are coming up. I don't --I kind of get excited about creating this, but at the same time, I'm very --I'm very reserved and utious moving forward, because I think us as a Board, I thin tourism committee, and I think the staff that we have, I thi e're all very capable, along with the Clerk's Office, of wor and really coming up with something that's halfw So basically, in best prac environmental realitie mentioned a while ago. can reduce our staff and c the talent env • whe • 1 co I just wanted ighl ftha operational and es that Mr. Wert says that we creasingly competitive in • nation marketing. And e --I just --I mean, he sically all says the same thing. But Ying forward in this but at the ent --different items to think AL: Thank you. Commissio astro. COMMISSIO R LoCASTRO: Thank you, Chairman. To just piggyback on what Commissioner Hall said, I agree being cautious, and I think that's what our next meeting's for in a couple months. And I can tell you I will be cautious. My colleagues here have all raised important concerns and even corrections. Jack, I was going to have this same slide pulled up just for clarification, and if this does pass, to make the presentation maybe in Page 87 Page 110 of 3023 January 27, 2026 a couple of months even stronger. The final recommendations really aren't for this meeting. And so there's a few things that are a little discombobulated on here. No fault of anyone. But if this does pass and you come back in a couple months, that's where I'll really be looking for, like, hard-hitting things that are the final recommendations from what you've done, so --but this was still very helpful. And I mean, unless anybody el moving, I'll make a motion that w. it up, I mean, to keep things ve for you-all to move forward. COMMISSIONER SA CHAIRMAN KOWAL: just like to add -- CO MMIS SI ON COMMI CH I'm not a expa a second. I would ve a comment. add that, you know, of growing government, ays on t e side of downsizing operating. this how many months ago, and I o, creating another bureaucra a tic vel of government that, you know, is going to crea don't know --more things that we have to follow other tha e --what we already have on our plate when it comes to tourism dhow we do the money and how we spend it and the statutory strings attached to it. But my colleagues up here today, and, you know, what they said, and Commissioner Hall --because when I saw the ResourceX kind of chimed in and, you know, two and a half years ago we brought them on board to do exactly what I --my mindset was to do to our county government, was to downsize it, make it more efficient Page 88 Page 111 of 3023 January 27, 2026 operating and save money where we can. And then seeing through their wisdom --and that's what they do for a profession, and they kind of, you know --Commissioner Hall kind of brought it home for me because I didn't know the exact details of what they felt behind this particular thing, and to me it makes sense, and now it's kind of opened my eyes to. But the one thing that I really, rea that history's great. You know what' happened. We can factually chec in other government agencies implemented. want us to emphasize is at with history? It's already there has been some fraud And what I'd like to see 1 those things identified the next tim ave a -dive discussion how that fraud happene d to the peo e that committed the fraud, and uard this organization and safeguard thi ·ng ifwe move forward? Because o oout that. Because we can talk ut t t, but a 1 it takes is one bad apple to j we do from there on out is just nd you know how we will be. You I'll never let it happen again. So , I think, is very important, for me especially, an y colleagues might agree on that, that those are something o identify, especially moving forward. I know Comm ioner McDaniel wanted to make a comment. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah, just a comment. And it's more of a clarification on the motion. I mean, the motion is for the recommendations that are put forth in the executive summary, not the final recommendations and such that are up here. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Right. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Right. Page 89 Page 112 of 3023 January 27, 2026 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I --as I said at the beginning, I'll support that. I get the gist that we need to move forward with this, accept this report, and then, in fact, come back with the specifics as to the --how this is all going to work. So I just wanted to clarify. That's why I asked this slide to come up. Somebody can take it off the screen if they want to to make me feel better. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah. t's not like we're voting on them exactly. COMMISSIONER McD all want to make me feel bet CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Locastro, I believe. COMMISSIONE CHAIRMAN KO Saunders. co use I know --I know you Aye. rom Commissioner a omm1ss1oner Opposed, same sign, same signal. (No resp CHAIRM It passes 5-0. Thank you. L forward to hearing your report. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: We've got a Go Me [sic] fund for Jack's socks that I just put up on -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: He's got socks on. He's wearing little footsies. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: He's got socks? COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: He's got a --he's got little Page 90 Page 113 of 3023 January 27, 2026 shorties, yeah. That's where retired --he's retired. He's semi-retired. MR. WERT: Semi-retired. MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners? CHAIRMAN KOWAL: County Manager. MS. PATTERSON: That brings us to our advertised public hearing, Item 9 A, which is the A UIR. After that, we have two commissioner items. I feel like --it's a he Board's pleasure. We can probably get through the AUIR fairl ckly. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: If t reporter needs a quick 10 minutes, I'd like to take that. of the Board's okay, if we can just work through th· cl maybe o a lunch. COMMISSIONER McD eally. aven't eaten in three days. I'm joking CHAIRMAN KO the --12: 11. mee (A rec MS. ead and take :11 p.m.) . e mlC. rom break. Bring the RESOLUTI : APPROVING A RESOLUTION RELATING TO 'APITAL IMPROVEMENT ELEMENT OF THE COLLIER C TY GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN, ORDINANCE 89-05, AS AMENDED, PROVIDING FOR THE ANNUAL UPDATE TO THE SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, WITHIN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ELEMENT OF THE COLLIER COUNTY GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN BASED ON THE 2025 ANNUAL UPDATE AND INVENTORY REPORT ON PUBLIC Page 91 Page 114 of 3023 January 27, 2026 FACILITIES (AUIR), AND INCLUDING UPDATES TO THE 5- YEAR SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL PROJECTS CONTAINED WITHIN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ELEMENT (FOR FISCAL YEARS 2026 -2030) AND THE SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL PROJECTS CONTAINED WITHIN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ELEMENT FOR THE FUTURE 5-YEAR PERIOD (FOR FISCAL YEARS 2031 2035), PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDIN RAN EFFECTIVE DATE [PL20250000000] -MOTION T OVE AS RECOMMENDED BY COM O MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMIS ER LOC RO -ADOPTED MS. PATTERS This was continued This is a reco Capital Im Managem annu wit Gro , that b s us to Item 9A. 9th, 2025, C meeting. olution relating to the County Growth , a ended, providing for the apital improvements projects ent of the Collier County the 2025 Annual Update and acilities and including updates to the five-years pita rojects contained within the Capital Improvemen r Fiscal Years 2026 through 2030 and the schedule of cap1 cts contained within the Capital Improvement Elem t for the future five-year period, Fiscal years 2031 through 2035, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. Mr. Mike Bosi, your director of Planning and Zoning, is --I'm not sure --is here to beginning the presentation. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You're the boss. MR. BOSI: Thank you. Thank you, County Manager. Mike Page 92 Page 115 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Bosi, Planning and Zoning director here to present the 2025 AUIR/CIE, Annual Update and Inventory Report/Capital Improvement Element related to the GMP. This was heard by the Planning Commission in November. It was recommended unanimously for a recommendation of --for approval from the Planning Commission to the Board with no modifications as presented. What is the AUIR? It's the an projected needs and required capi years based upon the proj ecte adopted levels of service. It changes as changes in the de Basically what it' We have population pr the --these are the impro service with Cap1 the infrastruc ne-year snapshot in time for ovements for the next five eases against BCC the snapshot e-year window. r dow. These are intain the levels of facilities to maintain a rovided by the County. faci par the So , they make up your concurrency water, wastewater, solid waste, hose are all tied specifically to ment. And then you've got your Catego law enforc ey'r our non-concurrency facilities: Jails, s, EMS, emergency services --medical t buildings. And as I mentioned, they make up concurrency, th ategory A facilities, and those are facilities and services needed to maintain the adopted levels of service, make sure their standards are available when the impacts to development occurs, which are contained in the CIE policy of the Land Development Code. We're one of the only counties within the state of Florida that still maintains concurrency on the majority of our Category A Page 93 Page 116 of 3023 January 27, 2026 facilities. The State has allowed for counties to only provide for the public utilities as a Concurrency Management System. We maintain the original Category A facilities of parks, of schools, transportation, stormwater, and public utilities. So this is --this is something that we've been doing. I've been personally involved with it since 2006. So close to 20 years have been presenting the AUIR/CIE, and it's what helps maintain the level of infrast cture so our growth --our growth within the infrastructure can up with our growth within our population. So how do we arrive upo upon the year-round populat· Florida's Bureau of Economic range. Prior to the --i e augh range. We made the s 201 Great Recession and sin But we midst of righ w. about 2 0 per • on requirements? Based e University of we're at a medium population 11, right at t impact to the n at the medium range. n, which we're in the . on average, increases number on an annual basi be cent since I've been doing --or as served us well. And I'll get a e other modifications or special adjustmen ome of the other departments in terms of making su the capacity that we need. Here's you ermanent population projections. It's kind of an eye chart. I would say to you, that after the decennial census of 2020, our population has been reset a bit, and it shows up in the difference between the 2021 and the 2022 projections, whereas 2021 we were expecting --we expected --we had 394,424 people, and the following year after the influence of the decennial census, we recalibrated at 388,906. But what I would also say is when you look at the column for Page 94 Page 117 of 3023 January 27, 2026 your average annual growth, when you go --the difference between 2021 and 2022 was the '21 --or 2019, '20, '21, we were all around 7,000 every year of new population growth. Since 2022, it's been right around 6,000. So when we hear that our --the population is exploding and our growth is unbridled, there's nothing that could be further from the truth. Since --since 2010, our annual po column on there, your annual growt Now, what we're finding is since has been down to 1.5 percent. as a county. Commissioner McDanie Interactive Growth M future land uses/popula master planning. And wit ulation, which is the final has been under 2 percent. at population annual growth doing is we're maturing for allocating r infrastructure as always a term that e inflection point is as t steep level of increase is . ma1 to de the pop accumulat • nt, and that rate of growth starts rourr point where --of inflection, and eiving is a little bit slower in its And I th' that the areas of greatest growth that we are going to have is be in the Rural Lands Stewardship Areas, the Ave Marias, th own of Big Cypresses, the Corkscrew Grove, which will --another village that we're going to be bringing to you in the next couple months. Those projects take decades to build out. Ave is a great example. Ave is a little bit past their halfway point from a population standpoint. Now here near close in terms of the total square footage from commercial, industrial, or civic, and they have a long way to go, and they've been around for 20 years. Page 95 Page 118 of 3023 January 27, 2026 So our growth has slowed somewhat compared to what we saw back in the aughts and the later of the teens. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: And could I ask Mike -- CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Go ahead. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Mr. Bosi, just a quick question. MR. BOSI: Yeah. COMMISSIONER LoCASTR MR. BOSI: Sure. COMMISSIONER LoC maybe earlier as I was tryi the sake of argument, in 2 right? I mean, that' MR. BOSI: C COMMI municipalit' MR. st go back to that slide. I apologize if you said it umbers. So for --just lation was 413,000, the entire county, 0: Tliat's all of Collier County? icipalities, the two --our three ASTRO: Right. ity Naples, about 22,000; Marco Island is about 19-, 20, lades City is 572,000. So you're talking -- COMMIS LoCASTRO: 572,000 in Everglades City? MR. BOSI: , I'm sorry. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Wow, that place has really expanded. And then, just my follow-up. Do we have an idea of an estimation that when we're in the thick of season how many nonseasonal [sic] people come here? So, like, what our --how many boots on the ground as we say in the military we have, like, in the Page 96 Page 119 of 3023 January 27, 2026 seasonal period? Because, like, on Marco, the number we always use is full-time residents, about 15,000. In the height of season, SO-plus-thousand. Do we have a guestimate of that in the county of how that 113,000, you know, changes, plus or minus, you know? MR. BOSI: Well, we projected a 20 percent --a 20 percent -- COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: A 20 percent? MR. BOSI: --increase. So you'r ight around 82,000 to 85,000 additional people -- COMMISSIONER LoCAS MR. BOSI: --any one ti COMMISSIONER Lo numbers a lot, and, you is --you know, like MR. BOSI: Y CHAI also, then. people that a e get asked these bit, but this se. ow-up question to that r to as snowbirds, y have residences here but co talki , is that the 20 percent, or are we at includes your seasonal residen o ds less than six months here would be included son • ncrease, as well as our trip --your traditional va other visitors. CHAIRM AL: Okay. MR. BOSI: , yeah, it includes --includes everybody above permanent population, the folks that live here over six months of the year. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: So you're saying, like, 80,000, then? COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: It adds 80,000-ish, you know. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Ish. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Plus/minus. Page 97 Page 120 of 3023 January 27, 2026 COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. MR. BOSI: Yes. That's our numbers, and our numbers are verified through water usage, sewage disposal, trip counts on our road system. We use that every year to verify that we are at the right ballpark utilizing that 20 percent. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: eah. I think it's a little more than that, but -- CO MMIS SI ONER HALL: COMMISSIONER LoC they talk about how they ex MR. BOSI: Marco's mu different than Collier seasonal held reside COMMI MR.B their popul popu es it feel like 80 percent? use, I mean, on Marco, 0-ish. co's much uch more a . e the Naples -- most a doubling of of that --of that great but has oC : Okay. C ANIEL: Quick question. CHA Go ahead, Commissioner McDaniel. COMM McDANIEL: And maybe you're going to get to it, but ho --you were the one that brought up the CIGM. How do tn numbers match with it, and are we staying as current with the CIGM data as we possibly can? So those two questions. MR. BOSI: We utilize the CIGM data more for the long-range --or the long-range planning aspect of not only population but land-use accommodations. We don't bring the CIGM down to the five-and the 10-year windows. In a sense we do --we'll Page 98 Page 121 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 do a comparison, but we don't utilize the CIGM to influence these numbers. We're obligated to utilize the BEBR numbers unless the Board of County Commissioners propose to the Department of Commerce an alternative methodology, which we've talked about at various points in our discussion with the Board of County Commissioners. But it's somewhat comparable. probably about a 5 to 10 percent hi five-year --or 10-year period tha have progressed, but not a hu COMMISSIONER Mc lot. And the second part o CIGM up to date? MR. BOSI: Ye 2023, and I currently w their pu CIGM has allocated umber over the --a e BEBR median numbers 10 percent of 400-'s a e keeping the updated it was is an update that's r District, you know, for v1 rward. er, and he's --I'm anticipating oming in within the next anot coup o I le to brief you on that as well. C ANIEL: Okay. MR. how much do we build? I always like se they're really straightforward and easy. pulation, what's the level of service, and what's the capital i rovement needed? The population is 29,700 people projected over the next five years. The level of service is .33 square feet per person. You multiple the 29,7-versus the .33. That answer is 9,801 additional square foot is required within our libraries. That's --that's how we maintain to make sure that we're --our infrastructure and our services are providing for. Page 99 Page 122 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Now, some of them are a little bit more detailed and complicated, but the libraries provides a good example of how we track and how we measure our population expectations against our levels of service to determine how much improvements that we do need. But it's not only population, like I said, but it is the key metric within the level-of-service standard. E eptions, roads and bridges, traffic counts collected multiple tim ear, also we've got a trip bank reserve capacity in terms of akes up that concurrency management system. Your water and waste population projections, plus s in 2000/2001, we had ciden our wastewater facilitie Utilities staff, and Utilitie extra --ext necessary mand usage plus • reserve. Back wage --one of e rd directed tin a little ays have that --that dies of the water management plan rse, Solid Waste is your landfill we ithin the next --10 then 15 years IS go1 frequen t's going to be talked about very ounty Commissioners. So far he outcome of your Category A facilities are ojections. For the next five years, we expect a $3,092,419,800 p osed CIE. And just to --for full transparency, it's about $712 million shy of what we need for the --that total $3 billion project. So we are a little short on funding, but that is not unusual for function within the CIE/AUIR. And what that is is --what that's saying is the projects that are sitting in our fourth and our fifth year, there is going --there's going to be a need to identify additional Page 100 Page 123 of 3023 January 27, 2026 revenue sources, but as they become closer, we make sure that that revenue source has been identified for them to maintain their position. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Hall, did you want to ask a question about this slide? COMMISSIONER HALL: Yes, just real quick. MR. BOSI: Yeah. COMMISSIONER HALL: M. service determined? Like, is it --• you pull out of, or is it someth • COMMISSIONER Lo COMMISSIONER HAL COMMISSION COMMISSIONE MR. BOSI: ow is --how is level of a level-of-service book that hen started doing this -- p. on your phone. unty Commissioners, you ne of these facilities. a wer. guys set the 1 CHAI co hat's not what I'm asking. How whe and div with .33 o e take the population that we had e were going to go this route footage by our population and come up MR. B hat's --that's a good approximation. It was established befo here, and I started in 2002. You're talking back in the '90s. A 1989 this was the adoption of our plan. So the '90s is when the formation of our Capital Improvement/AUIR started where they started establishing levels of service. Now, the levels of service for anyone --any road segment has changed over the years. Levels of service for EMS has changed over the years. There's been multiple modifications to the levels of service over time. So for any one category, I think you'd have to look at it, and we Page 101 Page 124 of 3023 January 27, 2026 could probably do a deeper dive in terms of what was it 15 --or 10 years ago? What was it 20 years ago? And you could have an evaluation. That might be something that the Board would find useful for the --say, next year's AUIR to give you a little bit better understanding of how often each one of these components have changed and where they migrated to or where they migrated from. COMMISSIONER HALL: So it' ind of a swag? MR. BOSI: Yes. MS. PATTERSON: If I ma So when you look at somethin science, and there's been ch technology. CHAIRMANK background. MS.PA obviously, years ago. ly depends on the category. d wastewater, there's a s of service due to y and water usage, r than appliances of 20 ce. of service, things like law ildings, the original levels of ase analysis of what we had at the ice were created for the population at that time. con ued to be the adopted level of service. The issu ith le 1 of service specifically for those facilities that we also col act fees is there's, again, a relationship between the impac es maintaining the level of service, not improving it, but not allowing degradation of the level of service. And so the fees that people pay are based on an expectation of delivery of capital improvements in infrastructure consistent with that level of service. So while there have been changes to some of these levels of service over time, just to decide to change a level of service without Page 102 Page 125 of 3023 January 27, 2026 underlying data and support is not something that's encouraged because, again, you have everyone that's paid into the system for us to deliver parks or libraries at a certain level, and their bite of capacity has been paid for. So I hope that helps. The level of service for government buildings was established in 2004, law enforcement in 2005, jails in 1999, all based on master plan studies d financial studies supporting those levels of service. And we do revisit them. Th several times for us to go and recommendations where the regional parks in the mid 200 acknowledgment oft available for recreation CHAIRMAN KO that you sh .33 --and that s directed in the past els of service and make at did happen to • Commission's nds that are time I see that one slide library and the c ent every year is you said o, with .33. today --I mean, my wife reads two , an asn't been in the library in 10 years. know what I mean. She gets her books through a ea hem. I mean, so I don't know where the .33 comes fro "nk we need to take a deeper dive at some point because --anything else. You know, we had the big e-bike thing, and alked about it, and government doesn't keep up with technology sometimes when it comes to their practices, you know. And things overnight just change with somebody inventing something or something like that. And, you know, I don't know if the .33 is an accurate thing in today's day, in this world we live in now. So if it comes from us, then I think we need to take another look. MS. PATTERSON: Yeah. It's a timely conversation because Page 103 Page 126 of 3023 January 27, 2026 libraries is approaching the place for the first time in 15-plus years where we are going to contemplate the next improvements for libraries. That's an appropriate time to review those levels of service. There have been changes, to your point, with books. We used to have a level of service for books as well, which is --which has gone away and been blended into the existing level of service --those costs. But we can certainly take a loo t these as we start to schedule improvements. EMS, for the first time in m themselves out of a deficienc}: levels of service have evolv more data, particularly as we strengthen those mast and then try to align so And again, I've talke o at the way w pub which also is form 20 years, has actually gotten ·t's interesting how these 1nitely provide you 'm looking to blic facilities about this, is we're looking ou o the eastern lands, o • with these levels of service don't need to build a community ex oor build a, you know, com and the CHA I'm picking o always the slide MS. PATTER • g to merge some of these together ccount for that in level of service. Yeah. And I don't want to sound like but I just --it's the easy one because it's as an example. N: Yeah. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: We live in a unique environment situation where we live here in Southwest Florida because not too many other jurisdictions in the country other than similar ones like ours that --like, our EMS, our fire, our law enforcement, you know, six --four to six months out of the year the population increases almost 100,000, and they still respond to calls. These people still Page 104 Page 127 of 3023 January 27, 2026 require these services, and it's stressed on these agencies that we don't over-hire, we don't over --you know, we kind of run at a level that we feel our normal population is, and they just get stressed in these months that --then they're dumped on with these additional people in this county. So I think trying to figure out all aspects of this moving forward here in the near future to be more efficient in this. MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. Ifl ay, with EMS, part of this, now that we've found ourselves in a better position with our --level of service is exactly 're describing, is looking at how we might put up seasonal • ts, 12-r units, in order to balance the system rather th e tradition ut up ambulance --build a station, p an mbula is how are we collocating, where do ies to p units, and also looking at a different w the MIH, the ommunity paramedicine, or it's a 12 e're finding ourselves now staffed and i n to abl e of these things that we have not bee the p C L: missioner McDaniel. slid looks items are e curious abou our AUIR. : Yes. If you'd flip back one --an e slide that you were just on, it g with potable water and wastewater and ba to the previous slide, that one, these he AUIR. And I find that curious. I'm and bridges end up being an exception to MR. BOSI: When I --we use the term "exception," I would say that they utilize population but other additional factors to measure the demand that's placed against them so --whereas, libraries just use the population as the straight barometer as to how many square footages that they're going to need to satisfy. Road and bridges not only uses transportation --or the Page 105 Page 128 of 3023 January 27, 2026 population projections, but they look at, you know, the actual utilization of the roads and the volume, the capacity that's associated with them to make the determinations of what the demand is and what the needs are going to be. Utilities, the same way. They have the, you know, historical demand usage, population, as well as some additional capacities to make sure that those facilities are avail le. So maybe not --not exceptions that are utilized that make them u there's additional factors aybe that's probably the better way to put it. COMMISSIONER Mc know, when we --when know what, I'll reser that note, I guess, you dering --and you until you're done ugh ts that I'd with the presentatio like to put f o MR.B and Utilities CIE, so moving Vanderbil Collier Bo 2026. And V 0 ere, the Transportation p over 7 5 percent of that jor proJects that we're going to nst projects that are going to be ou have Airport Road between an mokalee. That's a road widening. idening between Green to City Gate north, each Road, 16th to Everglades, is also for --designated f o onstruction. And then 2027, you've got Randall/Immokalee Road intersection phased in, with the Veterans Memorial Phase 2 in 2027, as well as the Everglades Boulevard, Golden Gate Boulevard to Oil Well Road. That is right-of-way in 2026/'27, and then mitigation and construction in 2028. And then the Immokalee/Livingston Road flyover in 2028. Page 106 Page 129 of 3023 January 27, 2026 That's construction mitigation. And then the last two projects, Oil Well Road between Everglades and Oil Well Grade, design in 2026 and then construction in 2028. And then Goodlette Road between Vanderbilt Beach Road and Immokalee, the expansion is 2028 as well. And then your major public utility projects on potable water, a new 10 million gallons-per-day Northe t County Regional Water Treatment Plant is anticipated to be e in FY2031. Wastewater, the South Cou eational --the South County Reactional --or Reclamation E s an increase in capacity by 5 .1 million gallons per d water for the Northwest Water Service Are newt eatme apacity and additional treatment c ity pla ugh the plant construction expansion , 1. lo erage daily flow. And the 6.3 million gallons for to acco Activity 3.5 million-g facility. acility for new sewer d to the wastewater, the Golden are cipated to expand when needed urrent and future development in ounding area north of 75. That's a sion resulting in a 5 million-gallon net And what we' asking the Board to do, recommendation: To accept and recommend approval of the attached document as the 2025 Annual Update and Inventory Report on public facilities, accept the recommendations within Category A and B facilities related to project and revenue sources, and include those projects in Category A for the CIE schedule of improvements. And with that, any questions that you may have. We've got Page 107 Page 130 of 3023 January 27, 2026 representatives from most of the Category A and B facilities. If you've got any specific questions you'd like to go over, we'd be happy to try to address them. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Do we have any public speakers on this? MR. EBLE: No, sir. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. C COMMISSIONER McDANIE many counties in the state of Flor· MR. BOSI: As the Coun a level-of-service study com are the only ones that perform Report where we talk t Cate facilities. The Catego there used to that their CI the 201 that missioner McDaniel. es. Let's start at the --how ally utilize an AUIR? ferenced, in 2008 we did the 67 counties, we and Inventory Category B ictions have to because • n the state of Florida nat ended in the 20 --after egislature passed, and we only ones that gets to this level of deta1 co AUIRon an ory A and Category B facilities. ANIEL: And if one weren't doing an s, which is what the acronym stands for, what t for these levels of service in these necessary --and re , when you get down to it, that's one of the things that I found is when you refer to those exceptions in the AUIR, those are --those are an integral part of the quality of life of our community, and what would we do ifwe didn't do this AUIR? What do other municipalities do to account for these assets? MR. BOSI: I think that they probably are a little less informed in terms of identifying the needed facilities over the next five and 10 Page 108 Page 131 of 3023 January 27, 2026 years in planning in that robust and overall countywide way. They may take each one of the facilities from --I'll use Lee County as an example. Transportation Planning may make presentations in terms of what they need over a five-and 10-year period to the --to the Lee Commissioners but not in a holistic way. So I think you would run the --or you would run the possibility that your growth of your infrastructure asn't parallelling the growth that you were experiencing from a ~ tion standpoint, and because of that, I think you woul could run into some deficiencies and find yourselv --where those transportation deficiencies, t eficiencies, park deficiencies start showing up ulation in ways that --I'm sure that w have phones ringing from your constituents them w in terms o heir perspective and how the t th' s of situations and the capacities a COM was -- con of the thoughts that I had re we statutorily required to Okay. And so --and today it's g g to vote to accept it and move it s as has been proposed in the recommendatio , ould like some contemplation on how do we get there from here. e already have deficiencies. You've shown close to $700 million in deficiencies in what I perceived to be as necessary quality-of-life circumstances. And while we're looking at these alternative methodologies to make these --to make these determinations, I think maybe we need to rise up a little bit other than to just the population of Collier County. We get beat upon on a regular basis because of housing affordability and the influx of Page 109 Page 132 of 3023 January 27, 2026 population that come here every morning and leave every night. Are we accounting for that additional traffic with regard to our congestion management systems? MR. BOSI: And that's a great question. That's why --that's why we utilize trip counts. That's why we utilize the volume and capacity. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: id you see he said --he said that was a great question. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: He COMMISSIONER McD COMMISSIONER Lo twas good. ou notice that? king up. That's not a great question. CHAIRMANK population and would be abl not --you unde fro JO You yourroa certain comp impact of dema COMMISSIO rom di you would ve just done a 20 percent markup, we 1 guests, but you're valuating and he 63,0 0 people that have to travel ide this county to occupy their ou 't know what that imprint was. impact was on your --on the capacity of we utilize extra measurements in r AUIR to make sure we're getting the full placed upon them. R McDANIEL: I would contend that we're not. I would contend that we've been direly deficient, and especially in our road construction and infrastructure with regard to that. I mean, obviously, we're okay with our potable water and so on. And we have --we all --you've shown some very what I perceive to be as fairly dire deficiencies in our transportation system as well as our stormwater system. Page 110 Page 133 of 3023 January 27, 2026 So as we're going through that --and we have a budget hearing coming up in February. I think we're --we can have another dis---I don't know if it's an actual hearing or if it's a workshop. MS. PATTERSON: It's a strategic planning workshop, but we will touch on the some of this. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I won't beat on it any more for now. We'll belabor it until then. it up. This is the whole hen we present it to you in of tfl ar, because we know in MR. BOSI: But once again, yo purpose of the timing of the AUI November, December, and Ja February you start those pre Manager and Chris' staff spec s with the County were the capital oblig s relat e informed of what n the other issues that are, obvious kno our budgeting. COMMISSIONER Thank you. And if nobody els COM . . nng1ng. you going to you going to do a o ave a comment. missioner Hall. ank you, Chairman. tion are we doing it. I mean, it may option that's out there, but our phones are r, n are you going to stop this? When are When are you going to do this? When are And it's kind 1ke --the way I look at it, it's like the lady that --the daughter asked the mom, said, Mom, "Why do you cut of ham [sic] off every time you make a ham?" She said, "Well, it's because my grandma did." She said, "Grandma used to cut the ham off'' --the ends off. So when they asked grandma, they said, "Grandma, why do you cut the ends of the ham off?" Page 111 Page 134 of 3023 January 27, 2026 She said, "Oh, it's because the ham wouldn't fit in my oven." So just because we've always done it the way we do, the way we do it, I don't know that that's the very best way. It may be, but I appreciate the comment that Commissioner McDaniel made because when it comes to improving our roadways, we've got several things in the works. Expanding these roads, expanding that road. But once we get those roads expa ed, we're landlocked. There's really --it's going to be hard pand those roads again unless we just build roads over th s. And when it comes to wastewater, you know, we're ehind. When it comes to maintenance and facilities, water, stormwater. And when it comes to facilitie million dollars behind in needs. So I think it's goin and amongst you-all to d smartest w I un eat discussi amongst us the A UIR process is the ' want to change it. I don't want onl a lo mad C co a ing. But if we're the the otlier counties, I mean, they're t to have some method to their rec1 question. : Commissioner Saunders. S~ DERS: Thank you. , but it's sort of indicative of what we've in Collier County. This is going back a century ago, and I pened to be on the Board at the time. We had the AUIR, and we had standards for parks. And one of the commissioners felt, well, let's --"We can change the definition of what's a park, and therefore, we don't have to build any more fields or as many fields." So the idea there was, well, let's just say our beaches --our acres of beaches are our parks, and therefore, we meet our AUIR. Of course, if you're a soccer player or baseball player, Page 112 Page 135 of 3023 January 27, 2026 that doesn't do you much good. And I think that, you know, the fact that we're the only county that does this --I'm sure other counties must do something. But I think the AUIR and this whole process of having levels of service has really made this a nice community to be in, even though we do have some traffic issues, and that's been our guide to get there. So if we are going to replace it, that's fine, as lo as it's replacing it with something better. Because you take k around the state --and this is just up to Lee County. I d that in terms of the facilities they have can match here. And I think a lot of it is has just been a lack o he needs, and that's what we do down here, so ... I appreciate the q ion als tter way to do it, but I think that until a be i e're doing pretty good. Co that COMM CHAI co ourb wewou ' e going to stick with it. 1 er McDaniel. EL: And on that point, ·1y manipulated. You mentioned t we build less parks if we counted --the level of service for the parks and any parks. And then there was through, and they changed the level of service on com arks in rationale to regional parks, which then allowed for less fu ng being appropriated into the community parks and more into regional parks. And so then our community parks started to get not as much funding as they needed for maintenance and so on and upkeep. And so the question that I'm asking is --not throwing rocks at anybody because we've been doing it this way forever --is I would like --when we have our budget hearing coming up in February, I Page 113 Page 136 of 3023 January 27, 2026 would like to hear how some of these other communities, in fact, manage these what I perceive to be as critical life-sustaining quality-of-life assets that the County, in fact, owns. So I'll make a motion for approval as recommended. MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, if I may, we do have Chris Johnson here with some slides on our debt; however, if you'd like us to hold those until we do the strategic nning workshop, that's obviously an option for you. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: ant to lump it in now, or do you want to do it after? MS. PATTERSON: ~ certainly do it at the strategic for now, but we can There's no urgency as more of an to this, and we're in a goo informational item. CHAIRMAN KO Chris. MS.PA C Le COM me and a sandw nk you. Sorry. : You're the Chair. : You get to do it. afternoon, Commissioners. s u al quick. McDANIEL: Just remember you're between CHAIRMAN WAL: He ate a brownie; don't worry about it. MR. JOHNSON: I will go as quick as possible through this today. Give me one second here. All right. For the record, Christopher Johnson, your director of Corporate, Financial, and Management Services. As Ms. Patterson kindly pointed out, today I just --we're talking about the AUIR. You saw the stormwater, the road deficit that Mike Page 114 Page 137 of 3023 January 27, 2026 had put up there. You saw the planned utility capital CIE at about almost $2 billion in the next five years. So I wanted to go through quickly kind of our debt history, our current outstanding debt as of the end of the fiscal year last year, the uses of debt, our debt policy limits, our creditworthiness, and kind of our capital program funding and financing approaches. And again, I'll go through it quick ecause I know that sandwich is probably looking pretty at this point. First off, I'll start with the d [Y. This slide here, in blue there you'll see the outstandin ear end from the Year 2000 to last year, 2025 ou'll see the --that is the interest liability at that poi Our debt peaked e in F and currently we are at milh • lion in principal, n principal. nd you can kind of see the shift there. in the early bonds issu • nd of that boom going on • ously. There were mental and our Collier easing t at there, and then there through recession as it was being ping it up and paying it off here Cou was paid fromF '2 nd we're working our way back down, but lookin , yo can tell moving forward this might be an option for COMMIS McDANIEL: Just one quick question. MR. JOHNS I saw you looking at me, Commissioner. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. I was trying to get his attention, and you saw him. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I heard the button. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I just wanted to ask, too --I mean, we're extremely strategic in our borrowings, and so the correlation to the growth that was transpiring, that growth had ceased Page 115 Page 138 of 3023 January 27, 2026 by 2008 when we reached our peak, but they --but if my main brain serves me correctly, we were in the --we were in a very favorable interest environment at that time. MR. JOHNSON: You are correct. And I'll skip on as well to our current outstanding debt here and just give you a little --a little background on that. In 2010, the County embarked on refinancing plan. And through that • refinanced over $531 million in g has resulted in a cost of borro a year to the general govern can now be utilized for a And, again, thi debt by instrument. through that, Collier Cou bonds, wh· don' strategic, I would say, debt eriod till today, we've ovemmental debt, which uced by over $3 million So that money t outstanding en you go . At the bottom, you'll see f those are refunding • g with those. Tfiey're debt, but they really y questions on that at all before I moveo (Nor MR. JO 11 right. Uses of debt. According to our , debt should be used for acquisition, maintenance, repla ent or expansion of assets within useful life of greater than five years. The term of the debt, typically we try to average the useful life of the projects being financed for the term, which this kind of provides a fair allocation of those costs between the current and future beneficiaries of what we are building. Our current debt portfolio consists of debt for many projects. This is just a short list of some of those projects that we are currently Page 116 Page 139 of 3023 January 27, 2026 paying off. I'll just touch on a couple of them. You have the courthouse annex, you have a water and wastewater infrastructure, EMS land, transportation network improvements, Golden Gate Golf Course, and one --another one on here is the sports complex. Moving on from there, I'll just briefly go over our debt policy limits. General governmental debt limits --and this is a self-imposed limit to the Board's debit policy --is le than 13 percent of bondable revenues. The chart you see here is 1story of that --of that percentage. Again, in 2011 you e were up at 11.1 percent. We're currently at 5.1 percent le revenues for general governmental debt. Questions on that at all? (No response.) MR. JOHNSON: would --curr is no polic coverage. covera at ab 817 percent. required£ Any que COMMIS ratio? at? enterprise de t, which t is with the utility. There ovide that required our current bond ked in 0 18 on this chart, and we're • about 8.17, which is • ment by bond coverage is 125 We're well over the revenues that are y Water/Sewer District bonds . HALL: Basically that's our debt coverage MR. JOHNSON: That is our debt coverage ratio, correct. And we'll talk about our creditworthiness. As you see here, this is the bond ratings by three different agencies. Fitch Rating Service, Standard & Poors, and Moody's Investor Services are the main three. These rating agencies have professional analysts to analyze the potential risk for an investment to invest in particular --sorry --for Page 117 Page 140 of 3023 January 27, 2026 an investor to invest in a particular bond. They apply different parameters to assess the quality of the bonds through the bond rating chart depicted here. And I just want you to pay attention to the top here where you see the AAA, AAA, AAA, and the second level here which is AA 1, AA Plus, and AA Plus, because the next slide here, according to our bond policy --I'm sorry --our debt policy, the County seeks to maintain the highest p sible credit rating without compromising the delivery of our se Our current bond ratings by can see, AAA, AAA, AAA. 0 one tier lower. Again, that's development tax, and then ou And that's very impo becau ability to borrow at lo taxpayers mo Anyq (Nor depicted here. As you ment bonds are that "lity of tourist again all AAA. ounty with the re ng the Capital program funding and fina ed on this earlier. There's kind of three can • , or two and then a mixed one, I guess. o, pay as you go. We have the cash. We have the b goi to move forward with the project. You have debt. to go out and finance the project. We have a hybrid approach\ is what we've been using recently where we --where we use it of both. Through the Finance Committee, we've been employing this approach. Some examples, the Board has advanced lines of credit for stormwater, transportation, and the water utility through commercial paper. This has allowed us to move these projects forward --move these projects forward without actually borrowing the cash until we need it, therefore saving interest for the taxpayer. Page 118 Page 141 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Two examples of this: We borrowed $30 million for Vanderbilt Beach Road extension, and we borrowed $50 million to move the North Collier Water Reclamation facility's pretreatment facility forward. Both of those projects have since been covered with pay-go money without having to draw on those lines of credit. Any questions on that at all? (No response.) MR. JOHNSON: And we'll co e to look at that. We have regular finance committee meeti probably be picking up here a • or twice a year, and it will all the new --the new capital improvements movi Bu '11 keep you up to date on that. And then finally, This kind of gives you borrowing based on --if there you'll s and then the So right have perspec currently a 1 perc allows us, I g $925 million, de Any questions (No response.) . . c1ng scenanos. ce ted to under those columns lion, and 150 million, colors. 11 the way to the --to the n over 25 years currently would illion. Now, to put that in ental standpoint where we are o, with our limit of 13 percent, that y for between 540 million and n the term and the rate. y of that? MR. JOHNSON: All right. That was all I had. Thank you, Commissioners. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Thank you, Chris. All right. So I believe you were going to make a motion, or you did make a motion. Page 119 Page 142 of 3023 January 27, 2026 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: For what? CHAIRMAN KOWAL: For the AUIR report. MS. PATTERSON: To accept the AUIR. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm sorry. Yeah, I'll make a motion for acceptance of the AUIR report as recommended. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: ' 1 second. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I hav otion and a second. All in favor, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER McD COMMISSIONER Lo CHAIRMAN KOWAL: COMMISSION ALL: COMMISSIONE DE CHAIRMAN KO sign, same sound. e ayes have it; it's passed. RESOI: 3 . UTION ESTABLISHING A FRAME N IN COUNTY SPENDING AT CURRENT AR BASELINE LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027, A G TO COUNTY FUNDING ALLOCATIONS I LUDING THOSE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS; AUTHORIZING LIMITED ANNUAL INCREASES FOR OPERATING AND CAPITAL COSTS; AND DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF AN ANNUAL LONG-TERM CAPITAL AND ASSET MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS -MOTION TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED BY COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER KOWAL -ADOPTED Page 120 Page 143 of 3023 January 27, 2026 MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item l0A. This is a recommendation to adopt a resolution establishing a framework to constrain County spending at current fiscal year baseline levels for Fiscal Year 2027 applying to County funding allocations, including those for constitutional officers, authorizing limited annual increases for operating d capital costs, and directing the preparation of an annual long-te pital and asset management analysis. This item is brought to da by Commissioner McDaniel. CHAIRMAN KOWA COMMISSIONER McD CHAIRMAN K L: COMMISSIONE that I --it was the way. T discussion last , Slf. istrict 5. ol is something eral of my friends along ea nt for this is really the -our of the five of us had group of media that's out there. king a referenda to eliminate ad e ty. I've still yet to hear a plan for how tiliz or replaced because of the essential services. You know, look at our budget, and they see a 2.4, $2.6 billion budget d think we have money coming out of ears when, in actuality, it's about 700 million that this board actually has something to say about, and our Sheriff's Department consumes in excess of 50 percent of that. And so I have --I have --plus/minus. I'm not picking on the Sheriff. I've said regularly, I mean, there's a reason why we're No. 1 in low crime in the entire state of Florida, and I'm going to continue Page 121 Page 144 of 3023 January 27, 2026 to service --support our law enforcement. But the thought process I had here was to implement --make this suggestion that we hold spending at this year's levels that were recommended and --plus 3 and 5. Three on O&M and five on capital. And then --and having that come as direction from this board. And then, secondarily, as of --as far more --what I perceived to be as is the analysis of our assets. Con· management of our assets, the of those assets, where --wh theoretical replacement --or replacement of assets n they life. o part of this resolution was more critical item, and that ty was not prepared for the ur assets, the useful life ere requisite for or the inevitable ched their useful stablished that 301 fund eing performed. That account, that was another a ame the previous adminis data that istration's now sharing that that being performed, and I think t o e manage this government. • in spending. No matter what happens in Tallahas ha ey decide to do with the ad valorem, holding ou these recommended levels, I think, is an extremely pru for us, irrespective of what they do. If this Board chooses i , August, whenever we --September when we set the budget, if we do, in fact, remain at rate neutral, the spread between these expenses and the revenues that are associated with it can be plowed over into reserves. It doesn't take the money away from our constitutionals. It doesn't take it away from our administration. It just provides a mechanism for those additional requests to come back to this board for ratification as we go. So Page 122 Page 145 of 3023 January 27, 2026 the --those are --that's the quick synopsis of the --of the two proposals that I put into this resolution. Anybody got any questions? CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I don't see anybody lit up. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Nobody's lit up. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Nobody's lit up. Uh-oh. I got a light. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: ou waited too long to call for a vote. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: COMMISSIONER SA Johnson, what will this ulti process? MR. JOHNSON: thought I had someth here it is. Cany Esse our -- min up, ner Saunders. Huh? t wanted to ask Chris o through our budget e just --I peared. Oh, e e forward through re, the time line draft, if you don't uld be an opportunity to pull this e 3 and the 5 percent moving forward as we go into Pla ing Budget Workshop on February 17t ve further discussions on this, because I'll be able to put it int f my spreadsheet that pushes everything out, and we'll be able to 1 you guys where that will leave us as far as planning goes, and from there, when we go in to adopt the budget policy, it would become part of that policy. We would base the policy around this resolution. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. So we are basically setting budget policy? MR. JOHNSON: A portion of it, yes, a piece of it with this Page 123 Page 146 of 3023 January 27, 2026 resolution. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I don't know that I have any particular problem with it, but it seems like we would want to do that at the budget workshop. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Budget workshop, yeah. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I mean, I don't --that's why I asked the question. I don't know if this • es our hands a little bit without us really knowing it or just y what it does. It sounds like it does impose some restricti e way. But we have a budget workshop in three wee MR. JOHNSON: And direction. I would have to between a resolutio resolution with a po would provid take that ju policy wor poli provide me with and the difference can trump a to nge. But it rd. But I can --I can to move into our budget -- would establish the be changed. It's not law like an ordinance. COMM McDANIEL: And it's just for one year. It's this year. We h er done this as a board before in my tenured nine years, and Co issioner Saunders, you're in excess of a century. The policy -- CO MMIS SI ONER SAUNDERS: It's only a half a century. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Half a century, okay. The policy --or the budget initiatives have come from staff to us, and then we give them back with, up until recently, little to no adjustments that become policy that, then, he disseminates out to our Page 124 Page 147 of 3023 January 27, 2026 departments. This is us establishing that policy in advance. And, again --and I'm fine if Chris rings the bell and says, "We need to do something different." Again, we're not --we're not --all we're doing is fencing off the money so that --with these parameters to be established. And then if the Board chooses to remain at rate neutral, then that will plow those excess additional funds --I don't want to call them excess funds. But it ·11 plow those additional funds over into reserves and make t ake the departments and/or --and/or constitutionals c talk, so ... CHAIRMAN KOWAL: r Hall. COMMISSIONER HA I'm all about limitin far as O&M and capit any budget policy direc I've --this is oing t figured this o not going to policy c reso our spending as isconstrued as ourt ar, and I've just about t p • y, it happens, and I am to have a real budget we dec1ae to do, but I don't want to budget policy based on this to take the resolution as a something less than that. CO ANIEL: Well, it --can I speak? CHAI AL: Yes, go ahead. COMMIS McDANIEL: It carefully was worded "up to 3" and "up to 5," so -and it's for this year. And so it doesn't mean it has to be 3 and 5. And because you're short tenure and not the half century or my quarter century --I could go into a history here where this board received the budget initiatives, then put it back as policy, and there was no adherence to it whatsoever. I remember asking Father Ed one day at the podium how many of the 19 departments adhered to the policy, and he happily looked at the floor and said, Page 125 Page 148 of 3023 January 27, 2026 "None, sir." So this is --this is my --this is my suggestion for us to be setting these parameters now, and then if staff comes back to us and tells us that we need to be doing something different, then okay. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I'm looking at you because I just -- MS. ASHTON-CICKO: So you can --you can establish the policy through this resolution, and you n change the policy later and amend the resolution if you nee t's --it's not an ordinance. It doesn't have to be advertised, y , in order to make a change. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: y. COMMISSIONER HA . Why do ave to establish policy with a resolution? Why can't ·ust h ve a r mendation and a --that we're resolv stick o ng to 3 cent and 5 percent --up to 3 d 5 pe t without e blishing policy? COMMI 0: a resolution, like you say, which is, like CHAI or -- on't know if it's too another meeting here in February ' have the workshop in February -- Budget meeting. --a then we will adopt the policy document and the budg at goes out to the divisions in first meeting in March. CHAIRMAN WAL: I mean, we could have the same discussion then and then put pen to paper to have a resolution and have to change the resolution if we have a deeper discussion or dive at that time. You know, I think the Commissioner gave his ideas, which I think some of us kind of understand and agree with, but at the same time, you know, there may be more meat on the bone at the other meeting that may drive us to do something different once it Page 126 Page 149 of 3023 January 27, 2026 actually comes time to create policy. So I don't know if it's timing more or less. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well -- CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Go ahead. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I --here again, now is the time to be doing those things. Perceptively, we aren't short on what we have been spending, what we alrea allotted in this particular budget year for the allowable expen his just --this just sets those parameters for this year. And I don't see --I don't It gives direction to staff to in fact, come to us with all have further discussi amend the resolutio But seco • expenditur analysis re don't in doing this right now. t initiatives that will, ing, and we can to adopt the --or rtant than this holding on lution which is the ts that we have where we oads, we have a decent handle our surficial assets, our the ana the way m good termino nd so forth, we're way out there as far as w ing to call it an actuarial because that's , but I was informed that that wasn't a real So the use of our assets is imperative for us to be able to make any kind of future financial decisions. I mean, we're --we really don't know what we need to have set aside in reserves in order to maintain these assets that needs to come out of general operating in order --in order for us to secure the future. So the second portion of this resolution is, I think, critical, and the first part is easily amendable and gives direction to staff to Page 127 Page 150 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 actually develop these budget initiatives. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Would you like to make a motion? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll make a motion for approval as presented. COMMISSIONER HALL: Second. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. I have a motion and second. All in favor, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIE COMMISSIONER LoCAS CHAIRMAN KOWAL: COMMISSIONER HA COMMISSIONER SA CHAIRMAN K L: 0 ame sound. (No response.) CHAIRMAN KO MR. JO MOTi GATHER COMMISSI COMMISSION IN ETERANS' COMMUNITY R SAUNDERS' REQUEST) CT TO STAFF TO START KAGES AS REQUIRED BY DERS; SECONDED BY CASTRO -APPROVED MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to our add-on item, 1 OB. This is a discussion regarding the veterans community center. This is brought to the agenda by Commissioner Saunders. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you. Page 128 Page 151 of 3023 January 27, 2026 I think we've all gotten word from Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart that the $9 million that has been requested for the reconstruction of the veterans community center over at the old Golden Gate Golf Course is in the House budget. It was in the agreement with the Senate. And so Congressman Diaz-Balart was fairly confident that this money would be forthcoming. We've now learned that there's a 11 ential for a government shutdown over DHS funding, but ev gardless of that, this budget will ultimately go through. It's j stion of whether it's going to be January 30th or it's going t time thereafter. And so what I'd like to -just for a e bit of history, a friend of mine donated this bu e Co a number of years ago, and when we did $15 million, I believe, for an educatio of a trainin facility for the School Board. And the ard ed this particular building. They though t lo • on for it. The Co , an 1gn work was being done. And I' ter, but it was sometime later the Sch ot an adequate facility, and the et with folks and started talking about some sort --m tary museum or some other function so it would be i n with the nursing home, and we all came up with the concep terans community center. Mr. Mullins a and Alexander Scardino started working on what goes into a veterans community center, because there are different types of veterans community centers around the country, and they're all different. And so we met with different veterans organizations. We met with the VFW and came up with basically a list of what types of offices and things would have to be in this veterans community Page 129 Page 152 of 3023 January 27, 2026 center to fully serve the needs of veterans in our community along with open meeting space and for --I'll give you an example where I think we're all familiar with the breakfast that's served at the Fleischmann Park on Saturday mornings by one of the veterans services groups. They're looking for a home. This would be a perfect location for that because they're --as you may know, there's a large open space in this building that w uld be ideal for large meetings and for that type of thing. So in response to the fact th never a 100 percent guarantee that that $9 million in fundi to direct staff to begin to put t that are necessary to r anotn ultimately a contractor available, that we won't o looking for a t. fairly assured --there's int we're fairly assured I'd like for the Board ents and things eers and g become ight months later still And so r • ve the staff direction to move f o rd h the details of this grant --this f ede er a bid package as required, and bein by potential architects and bidders. of a direction to staff to move forward with thi kno hat this is a priority of the Board. COM McDANIEL: Second. COMM SAUNDERS: One of our priorities. CHAIRM WAL: I got a motion and a second. All in favor, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye. COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye. Page 130 Page 153 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Opposed, same sound, same sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Staff has their marching orders. MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 15, staff and Commission general communications. Item #15A PUBLIC COMMENTS ON G CURRENT OR FUTURE A ALREADY HEARD DURIN IN THIS MEETING NE topics not o heard duri --- ICS NOT ON THE VIDUALSNOT LIC COMMENTS omments on general dividuals not already meeting. akers. STAFF PRO TES -DAS UPDATE (JAMES FRENCH, DEPARTMEN -GROWTH MANAGEMENT & COMMUNITY D LOPMENT DEPARTMENT) PRESENTED AND DISCUSSED MS. PATTERSON: That brings us to staff project updates. At the request of the Board, we do have Mr. French here to give you a brief update on DAS. Page 131 Page 154 of 3023 January 27, 2026 MR. FRENCH: Good morning --or good afternoon, Commission. Jamie French, your department head for Growth Management and Community Development. In speaking with the Board members, especially Commissioner Saunders, we do appreciate your interest in Domestic Animal Services and some of the steps that we've taken forward. Over last 20-plus --20-plus mont not years --getting back to that population of Everglades City, issioner LoCastro. They're going higher, not wider. This board entrusted me Manager's Office and the ad direction: Go fix it. And I re opportunity that you'v leadership group that I' over that period of time. During the infrastructure, enhance along with the County orward with one st and the 11 as the one significant a rovements to really fety of our employees, the safety of eally more so the efficiency. our The an keep an animal in that facility, and --in which case what it does, it creates as been focuse ur budget, and that's really what we've So without ado, we do have a presentation with the thanks and help, o urse, of Meredith McLean, your DAS director, and Mr. Brian DeLony. As Mr. DeLony --senior DeLony says, best engineer in the state of Florida. Yep, I got a thumbs up. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Behind that big screen back there. MR. FRENCH: We do appreciate the partnerships that have existed over --over this time. And I'll have a --I think we've got a little bit of a surprise at the end of this as far as some of the additional Page 132 Page 155 of 3023 January 27, 2026 features that we'll be offering within DAS and our Parks and Recreation group. Meredith. MS. McLEAN: Good afternoon, Commissioners. Thank you. I'm excited to give you this presentation. I do want to say I have only been here, you know, a year and, I think, four months now, and a lot of th' was in the works before I came in, so I just want to thank the istration for focusing on Domestic Animal Services. I did ome time there before I came into this position, so I were to the organization, an these improvements ou about how some of these great improvements fl e really great outcomes in numbers So Building 1, ma since I've been there. Th been there . That's where we see , space for our staff to our cat adopt· take a break. Yo wa inst barri waste st then a sma rior improvements there. I don't w, the bigger things were the so canopies; fencing. Important • h is really important for our dogs; more kno animals produce a lot of waste. And rd where we have lots of big dogs, but we clogs, and we wanted to improve their safety and give them a lit it of space for themselves. We updated our HV AC systems which are great for climate control, but they're also really great for our, you know, health and safety of both our humans and animals. You know, when we have better HV AC systems and separate spaces, we're able to control our disease, which ultimately controls spending. Interior painting. New lights. We revamped our office space. Page 133 Page 156 of 3023 January 27, 2026 We installed new countertops. We upgraded the bathroom. I know these sound, you know, small, but they really do make a difference in working there every single day. We got a new refrigerator for our staff, which they really appreciate. We updated all of our furniture, and then we updated our cleaning standards and procedures. So that not only helps the safety and well-being of our staff, but also the animals. As Mr. French said, e cleaner we are, the healthier our animals are, which me ey stay with us less time. The other thing I want to po· ere is in all of these improvements, we've seen a lo great community, and where peo rt of thou e were that Sarah McLaughlin commercial and e into our ch a clean facility, they come in and t environment." So we H buildings, which also lea animals. Buildin keep all the t gt gh our nd outcomes for our e ort, which is where we we need a lot of those items. So de it. Staff knows where to go. e loo or things. It's much easier to use. d dryers. HV AC was added there. We at were --sort of needed to be in a new area to co ce with what we needed in our vet clinic. And then we o do the vet clinic and recovery to be located --sorry on t one. We --let me come back to that one at the end, actually, because that's a further improvement there. Like I said, we updated the yards adjacent to our Building 5. We added additional gates and fencing. So when you used to come out to our play yards, it used to be one open yard. There's now a catch pen there, which is really important. If an animal starts to run, we have a secondary barrier, and you want to see that throughout all Page 134 Page 157 of 3023 January 27, 2026 shelters within any organization, so we were able to do that. Again, I keep hitting on the HVAC. We live in Florida. It's really important. But also for that communal disease. Stop. Lighting floors. We added acoustic blankets to the walls, so that really helps with the sound. So animals are really overstimulated. So when we're able to reduce that sound and kind of overstimulation, it does give them a little bit better qualit~ f life. And when they're not as stressed, they're more highly like e adopted there. Storage, we added card acce of our building. We added bite panels at the bottom of ou at's not --it is to help humans, but dogs tend to re in a small, confined area, so we added a panel at t r that they can't see each other as we're m throu We reinforced our s r that separates --one of our bu where you can move those are really animals fro important if have an larg don' that dis do to Buil all --we all h' a ca that staff only so the view of the puB us dog cases or if we eed to look at. So if we have a ually be split into two, and we ls in t as frequently, which spreads ally great key thing that we were able to so use that --as you know, we're ight now. We can separate that and keep there and we can keep those animals out of Here's just some pictures for you. You can see there, you know, we needed a lot of improvement to the kennel walls themselves. We did a lot of concrete restoration there. All of our insulation needed to come out for many reasons. New flooring. New systems within our plumbing. You know, all of these good things that we need. And then also paint; it seems very simple, but, you know, colors are really Page 135 Page 158 of 3023 January 27, 2026 important to animals. And they say that blue is a little more soothing per the studies, so we were able to give them a little bit --we call that the Zen Den in there. Here are just some more pictures for you. You can see that sound-proofing barrier in Building 5, the upgraded lighting. Okay . So exterior, we removed exotic plants species from the preserved land, and that is out to bid. e did a code blue emergency communication box outside of admi s. So admissions is our area where animals are coming in and lot of times we had multiple people coming through witho op, • h, you know, could lead to different animal fights an ngs like th owe were able to install that out there. So it's £ ode B ue, bu also allows us to, you know, manage ou e comi • to the system. We installed a lice which is im rtant for many reasons, but unfortunate! e people that will drop animals and • nf ormation and pursue charges if ne Al . We transitioned from nati e identified and corrected defic tter , we updated directional and identl ide. That's really important as you're moving an , b use we want to make sure everybody's going in the r ons to prevent many things. And we di our irrigation. COMMISSIO R McDANIEL: So there's no more breaking our dogs out in the middle of the night when they get locked up? MS. McLEAN: No, there has not been any of those. We improved our electrical --I hate to read from slides, but we did --it's a lot of stuff, so it's really important. We improved the electrical. We upgraded our drinking fountains. As you-all know, not only do we have staff, we have volunteers who roughly give us Page 136 Page 159 of 3023 January 27, 2026 25,000 hours a year, which is a big number in terms of staff time that we're not paying for, and we want to make sure that they're well hydrated while they're with us. We upgraded our IT server equipment, which is great, because moving forward we have lots of different things that we have planned to make our operations more efficient with our staff. We upgraded our fire alarm, our flooring. We put a of rodent-proofing measures into place. We did that fo uple reasons. We don't want those guys in there. But as w, animals eat a lot off ood, so rats tend to be attracted. So put tfl • to prevent them from coming in. We also moved ink it mi e on another slide, but we moved our food into a ne ith that barrier as well, and it is climate rolled e inventory that we have coming in is ta: So here's just some older ones a MR.De C. You can see sort of the the buildings. ry and the permanent used to be three dog buildings, • d dog building, there would be a "no at's barrier preventative to people coming in t animals. So that gate was actually taken down, and t a oth the public and volunteer access. And that matters, becau 1f we keep animals out of view unless somebody is coming to look for their animal, they're not seeing those animals, which means they could stay with us longer. So why not put them on view, explain what the difference between a "stray," "wait and available" means, and allow the public to see all the animals that are in our care. But also, we're not trying to hide anything. We want to be very transparent about what we're doing and have more Page 137 Page 160 of 3023 January 27, 2026 community conversations, so we were able to remove that gate barrier there. Like I said earlier, we added our, you know, volunteer and staff break areas. There's some outside, and then we improved the one inside. Additional parking spaces. If you have come over to DAS, you understand that our parking is tight, so we were able to expand some of our parking spaces there. We installed hard-surf ace walk· into community cat housing area daily campus cleaning and ma· portable kennel wash statio were cleaning so that we have as we're going throug gs. Okay. So volunte about those, so I'm going these we tou aths from staff parking area • plemented and improved <lards, and we built ster area so that we specifically go to , we alread ort of talked t there. I think most of . We did, you know, . some 1m ea. liere's just some of fencing abo . air C sallypo think mos storage that we were talking 5, and now it's up further with er. Here's the interior of the ding slides. Pictures are much better. I Let m want to touch on numbers a little bit because I think that's r e what we want to hear here is --so the capital improveme really reduce operational bottlenecks, they expanded usable space, and they enabled us to kind of put placement options in place for animals because, like I said, the public is gaining trust in us and partner agencies were maybe things weren't the greatest before were willing to come in. And because of that, the numbers I kind of want to touch on is we've seen adoptions increase 60 percent from Fiscal Year '24 to '25, our transfers have increased Page 138 Page 161 of 3023 January 27, 2026 by 44 percent, and our return to owners increased by 3 percent. So those are really great numbers. And then just in terms of our live release rate, which really means the animals that make it out of our facility with a good option, have raised from 88 percent to 96 percent all while taking in about 800 more animals. So all of these capital improvements really allowed us to do better for the animal lfare in our community, and we're grateful that the support wast o provide these. Do you want to talk about P lay? MR. FRENCH: Yes. Ju ry qui , one of the things, Commissioners, that I think touched on • th each of you is that part of this collective impact t we've taken Growth Management is that w really oth the ices we had intact in the former Gro nity Development grou to co Parks and Recreation as well as our D So you - vehicle contrac schedulin animals aren u ee a Parks and Recreation ing the cow pasture. We've ready --we're already paying the these things we don't want to 1 the outcome of this as well as the ound the volunteers and so that the We can pu in there at 6: 3 0 in the morning versus a contractor showing at 8, 9, 10 o'clock in the afternoon or perhaps even taking their lunch there. So we've put our own destiny in our own control, so to speak. And as --this collective impact includes North Collier Regional Park. So I've really advanced some of the talks between James Hanrahan and Meredith McLean and even some of your economic development housing folks on how we look at everything from vending machines to what other amenities can we Page 139 Page 162 of 3023 January 27, 2026 put in place to actually better advertise DAS, some of the services we provide, but also show amenities there. So that's where the concept of kind of a cat cafe or purr and play comes into place. These are very popular throughout the country where people actually pay to go in there with shelter cats, and there's an outside seating area. Meanwhile, they go in there and they socialize with these very adoptable cat The good news is ours is free. amenity that we offer at Collier visit and schedule for your ti looking for a cat or just wan these cats. We're partnering those --we want friend utilize space i underutiliz and say, "I and i e not --it's already an It's a free location for you to ople that really are time with some of aples for adult cats in ere, and we exhibit hall was a fairly nal Park. I used to joke m sound when I drive by," building that was fully --fully s never --it was very rarely romote more walk-in traffic. We're looking at me the services at that exhibit hall to include almo guie ea for people to go and actually get a cup of coffee, to get fre , vegetables, whatever that they may desire out of our vending chines through your newly approved vending machine contractor. And this is all at no charge to the taxpayer. They actually just paid the vending for this. We went into there --and really does offer relaxing, feel-good experience at no charge, as I said. It raises awareness for our DAS. For the cats, it provides additional daily socialization outside of a cage, and it improves the behavior of that animal, confidence, and the Page 140 Page 163 of 3023 January 27, 2026 adoptability right there. It also enhances our ability to attract more volunteers from that North Naples area that may not want to trek all the way to Davis Boulevard to that location. And it also --as I said earlier, it does support both your Domestic Animal Services and your local shelters. Here's just some pictures of that room. All of this furniture, some new, some recycled. In the even at this venture doesn't work, all of this material can be put ack into DAS. But again, you see scratch-proof chairs. It w· up to about 10 people that would schedule in there for ab s, 45 minutes per visit. And we would encourage w ld you not have people scheduled in advance. This would be -- dedicated to this eig will live cage of emergen safety and roomw • t that will be And these cats the back in the event ove these for their ber, this was the old microscope ty t on occasion they would have classes, but for the most part, this Curre as can see, we put in a catch pen. These are just typic design panels that you would get from any furniture compa they're clear. That does not allow the cat to escape. Doors wo close, person would enter, and it's all badge access so it would not be available --it's locked all the time. Emergency access and fire code is a high priority, so you would always be able to escape. These catch panel areas, those are doors. They do not lock. It would be your exterior doors that would lock. This is the --if you've ever been to the exhibit hall, when you Page 141 Page 164 of 3023 January 27, 2026 walk in, you'll see now much like you have at pickleball, some high-top tables, free WiFi. There's some comfortable seating areas. So in the event that we even schedule the exhibit hall, what you would see there is you would actually have a waiting area before you went in for --whether it be a wedding, a corporate retreat, or something like that, all within this building right across from your fitness facility. Building was fully scrubbed. pounds of dust out of the ceiling. building. And we've utilized t vaccination clinics in the pa community members. That's it in a nuts there's a lot of effort th that --again, credit all g nights, we you as o we removed better than 20 completely sanitized the n for your community , very well for your . I know that il you is to serve, but really the • . It's a lot of hours; e ur sleeves, and hopefully ore than pleased with this, as well you, Jamie. DERS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of o thank our management and our staff for really a good-ne . I had asked Ms. Patterson to make sure that we had a goo orough presentation. Sorry it kept us from a late lunch, but I thought it was --this is just such a good-news story, because the animal rights people in this county are very vocal. And 2024, when this process really got started, our DAS facilities were really sad, really pathetic. You mentioned --you mentioned rats. Well, there was one building that was overridden with rats, and it was just a horrible Page 142 Page 165 of 3023 January 27, 2026 situation. And Ms. Patterson and our staff really came together to make this a really good-news story. You think 20 months, that sounds like a long time, but there was just so much that needed to be done out there. And so thank you --thank you for that. I want to ask a couple quick questions. Ms. Patterson, we were dealing with the privatization of our an· al --some of our animal control operations. I know you've b orking with Love of Cats and some of the other organizatio at's the current status of our privatization efforts? MS. PATTERSON: S activities out in the publi release, we've prepar partner agencies on. out on the str procureme And that that's • und pro --specifically trap, neuter, and o bring some romised, we ould have it o. It may be at ot, it's ready to get there. oody in the community the County would be able to apply with that trap, neuter, and release S: Yeah. And I think the effort ncy of the County, but by using private organ tare out there capturing cats and dogs and neutering them, t increasing our budgets to accomplish this, but we are going to ore wisely spend County funds. So this is a really good-news story, and I just wanted to get the word out. I think --in terms of your 96 percent rate of success in getting animals out --is that what I understood you to say, it went from 8 8 percent to 96 percent? MS. McLEAN: Yep. So the live release rate is animals that make it out with an outcome whether that be adoption, transfer, you Page 143 Page 166 of 3023 January 27, 2026 know, placement within the organization, or at Purr and Play. Yes, that's 96 percent at this time. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'm going to ask you a question that you're not prepared for, but I'm just kind of curious if you might have a guess. How does that compare to animal services in Lee County in terms of successful release rate? MS. McLEAN: So the national st <lard is we want to be over 90 percent. Collier County is over 9 cent. Lee County is not there. COMMISSIONER SA we do a lot of things right h them. Thank you. COMMISSIONE correct answer. MS.Mc CHAI co t mentioned that because ty, and this is one of politically er LoCastro. Tliank you, Chairman. nders, this is a good-news story, sto ets out. So this room's empty. I guarant e at were Zooming in and cared about the first coupl t w oted on have all Zoomed out. I still ge m volunteers who work at DAS and I don't think fully appr e improvements that have been made. So one of the ngs I would say, Meredith, is when a new volunteer comes on, before they come with preconceived ideas that they got off of Facebook, this might --you know, the information in here might be great as part of their orientation, and maybe it already is. I don't know if this is something you get out in a media release or whatever, but it's really not worth the paper it's printed on if only 10 people in here sort of hear about it. Page 144 Page 167 of 3023 January 27, 2026 And I can tell you the minute you walk outside this door, unless I'm the only commissioner that is --has heard from the public, I still hear people that have no idea we've done all this. They're still talking about stuff from five years ago. "Oh, the place is infested with rats. Oh, you still haven't added air conditioning." So, you know, I think some sort of marketing launch or however --whatever you think is the b t way. And sometimes the best way is through the people who ly work there and maybe some of the new people that don' you know, they're walking into a facility that was way wo It's great to walk in tod five things that need improve 100 things." And we do any everything. But we've lot. eer and go, "Oh, I see 11, we improved lways do So I think this was a f things that a lot of us already kind staff. It was more valuable, I th e 1 packed in one thing, and you rea didn't happen in a day. But when you me of the comment out there, like, bles, e staff doesn't care, and they're not doi u know, I think the challenge is, make sure the , I' till hearing from some board members --a w, because I cc'ed you on my reply to certain board m ho still say the sky is falling in many different areas. An aybe they don't have a full appreciation for how far we've come when it comes to DAS. But I really applaud all that's been done out there. Certainly, this group of commissioners hasn't been sitting on our hands and doing nothing and not caring. And, you know, in my comments afterwards, one of the big things that --I'll just say up front, those of us that went to Page 145 Page 168 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Tallahassee, one of the --one of the big hot topics up there is animal cruelty and raising the penalties, and so we're all about that. Because if the State does something to raise those penalties, then we can immediately piggyback on that. And so I think those of us that went were really encouraged by what we heard. And I'll have more on that later, but, you know, this is packaged really well and is truthful with what yo 've done. So I would just say the more you can get it out there tot that are within the building and even those that are outside th • g, I think it would be very valuable to separate rumor fro CHAIRMAN KOW A COMMISSIONER HAL Jamie, I've been and I've been out there all of the hard work that implementati a fabulous jo really a rman. I saw t a mess it was, udos to you nd your staff for for the creativity and the mean, you've just done ow that as a Board we issioner McDaniel. ANIEL: Just so you know, as far as getting the u've een invited to my town hall coming up here in a cou s or a week and a half. COMMIS LoCASTRO: Bring the slides. COMMISSIO R HALL: Bring a cat. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I want to see this, and we want to have a discussion about adoptions and how we do what we do and so on and so forth. It's all about --it's all about spreading the news, so -- COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: If you can email this to us, I bet some of us could --would pull some things out of it for, like, our Page 146 Page 169 of 3023 January 27, 2026 newsletters and things like that. Because you've put it all in one spot, and very valuable. So I'd love to have a copy of this, I'm sure everybody would, to use it either in town halls, newsletters, or just to have the data at our fingertips. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I was going to make it mandatory that she goes to all the town halls. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: MS. McLEAN: I do love to gi COMMISSIONER LoCAS you probably don't want to co CHAIRMAN KOWA so I guess just good job. said, I echo --I wen it was like. And, yo resentation. . 'y e got one tomorrow night estions of the Board, Commissioner Hall st and saw what ork, everybo should be really proud o ou s have done. So thank you. MR.F m1 • ners. Just a last word on this is ple r out to those, and I know that you tic Animal Services Advisory Co ou wanted to get a few words ou li o a very long-term volunteer as well yshore Community Redevelopment Agency you is that if there's something wrong, whether it's nd, or holiday, Al is very quick to call me on my personal pho esn't matter what time of day or evening. But I would tell yo , t really does come down --I'm very blessed to have a great group of colleagues that I get to work with. And I know, Commissioner LoCastro, you think he may be a fictitious person, but I will tell you, as far as our cleaning efforts at any of our parks, at our building at Growth Management, and even at DAS, Mr. John Benoit, he is a key --he is amazing. And I know, Commissioner McDaniel, you've known John Page 147 Page 170 of 3023 January 27, 2026 coaching basketball for a long time, as have you, Commissioner Kowal. But he is a --you wouldn't have thought a retired New York City police homicide detective would be as instrumental in this operation as he and his colleagues are, and we're so very lucky to have John Benoit, James Hanrahan, and all of our group. So thank you for the continued support. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank y . And I did see that friendly face sitting in the audience since 9 a o --all right. Item #15C STAFF AND COMMISSIO MS. PATTERSO 15C, staff an Theo aware -- We • kee distn and I th With CHAI uni cations. sure you're all t's likely going to stay in light o our cold and dry weather. enough to do anything. So we'll r lead from fores try and the fire rought index numbers that we needed, act iy has followed suit. ttomey. AL: That's funny that --because that day ys, "Hey, Commissioner, are you available? We're going to implement the bum ban," and you need a signature. And it just so happens, you know what, it makes sense; cold weather, dry air, low humidity. And then my phone started blowing up. "It's cold. I want a bonfire." I want to --you know, everybody's like, "How can you do it when it's the coldest day of the year? And I want a bonfire Page 148 Page 171 of 3023 January 27, 2026 tonight." And I'm like, "Oh, God." You win some, you lose some, I guess. But just --some of the phone calls we get, just let the public know. MS. PATTERSON: County Attorney? MS. ASHTON-CICKO: I do not have anything. MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commis • oner Saunders. COMMISSIONER SAUNDE don't have anything. Just again, thank you, and look forwa meeting in February. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: r Hall. COMMISSIONER HA CHAIRMAN KOWAL: COMMISSION I don't know i hours of testi that? COM tro. hings. e , we had seven . You guys remember 1 y. Would you care to I just thought I would --I just wa w-u talked about, and Com rs as well, like, hey, let's chair a meeting and see iron ental type of solution that could be explored. is this Friday. And all the right people have been involved --en invited. You know, some outsiders that all of a sudden wan o sort of pile on --and what I've said is "the folks that have been involved from day one." So, of course, we'll have the orange grove owner, his counsel, and then all of our key staff: You know, Jaime Cook. We've got the Audubon Society invited. And so, you know, we'll brainstorm and see if something's going to come back to the Board here. You know, that's what we voted on was, 3-2, was to give the owner at least the Page 149 Page 172 of 3023 January 27, 2026 opportunity to come back with something or not, and it's completely his choice. But everybody's accepted the invitation to have a discussion. We're going to see what's feasible. It was said many times in this room over seven hours, "There's a million other better ideas than putting 400 houses." So what I've responded to everyb don't need a million ideas, but we n by saying is, "Well, we e that's actually feasible," to not pursue it, and he just or --or it's feasible but the owner continues with his farm. But hopefully, you kno of direction. We're not going might have a little bit . You know, we voted that, you know, that. This will be one 1 I had a c her to be th ands sho tha social media or we discussed if we're mi ng something. , which I said I really want people thought s v1ronmentally important all over the place, and they were ant her to take another look en i qualify at the highest possible • er. And if not, then we need some of cau we have a lot of people screaming on over the map. So hopefully Friday it will the conversation a little bit. I wanted to ju ive a shout-out to John Mullins and Bridget and Lisa who, you know, took care ofus up in Tallahassee, you know, those of us that went. The big issues that were covered were --I talked about the animal cruelty fines already. We talked a bit about e-vehicles. You know, we passed an ordinance here pretty early in the game, and a lot of counties are kind of catching up. I think I said at a previous meeting I think --I don't think, but at Page 150 Page 173 of 3023 January 27, 2026 a future meeting, you know, when we've got a little bit of room in the agenda, I would like us to take a look at that ordinance and see if there's anything that we need to add, or we might hear from the State that they've released something that maybe we can incorporate. So, you know, we're always keeping our eyes on it. Commissioner Saunders got a chance to make some comments on the floor there in the capitol about h <ls-free texting, correct, sir? Was that your -- CO MMIS SI ONER SAUND COMMISSIONER LoC COMMISSIONER SA rule for noise. COMMISSION that was great to ge obviously, he' Butw Saunders that Sen o that --' s was what? as the plainly audible C assee. eah. And so y,and . And Commissioner oncurred. So it wasn't But the two of us got to meet with of interesting, at least the t meeting with the governor --and I'm sort of p e. , you know, the front door to Florida is pretty pop , and a lot of people are coming here. So the question --t n that she had with the governor is, "We've got to really make e we're keeping up with housing and infrastructure and all these things because we can't lock the gate to Florida." And we're all proud of it being a popular state that people are transitioning to, but, you know, some of the things --some of the tough decisions we have to make in here where people don't want something in their backyard, you know, sometimes you've got to eat Page 151 Page 174 of 3023 January 27, 2026 the spinach a little bit because our population isn't shrinking at all, so ... But she was, you know, very candid in what might be coming down from the State in the way of how growth and development could be approved, where we might get some state direction, and some of that we've said in previous meetings, you know, we'd like to have as much decision-making process as we can here at the County. You know, we don't want t te to necessarily tell us what to do. But if you guys remember hat, maybe last year, she looked at us and said, you kno t not get everything you want." And so she sort of c ame sort of discussion. But, you kno eat trip. So, John, to yo , of cour ridget and Lisa were --you can just epresentatio up there, as everybody in • wanted to, you know, say that on the Lastl chatt· charge the The dee o I were --were sort of so I won't steal the thunder but ou remember at the last riv ds that are not up to par, and we ou know, can we use funds and then time, nd we heard from our Clerk of Courts. as made --it wasn't a decision --was that we ey General's position on what we can and can't do. Someho ou have some reporters out there that maybe turned off the Zoom a little too early, or in the case of a couple --and I won't name them --they put out a very sensational headline that oftentimes on social media people don't click on and read. So when the sensational headline says, "Commissioners just approved millions of dollars to redo private roads," well, that's great to --for sensational headlines, but that's not what we did. Page 152 Page 175 of 3023 January 27, 2026 And if you click on the article, then it sort of explains it, then, a little bit, but most people didn't. They saw that headline, and then if you read all their comments --and there's hundreds and hundreds of comments that say, "Idiot commissioners, why are they using my tax dollars?" blah, blah, blah, and all of that. We know what we did here, and hopefully somebody's listening. But we're --we'll see what the next ste are. But, you know, we're concerned. Public safety is importa d, you know, we can't go back in time and make people ta ftheir private road. But when they don't, we can't just • r hands. And I think we were all in lockstep. We do ecessarily w the exact answer, and that's why we look for leg But those were j e thin mean, Commissioner kno thing about the ublic-pn S • ' O, Slf, Commission C any ention, and, I pl up on the same e anything to --or after : Do you know how ts all the positive things about, like, ht. u're right"? COMM McDANIEL: Yeah. COMMIS LoCASTRO: I figured it out. COMMISSIO R McDANIEL: She's writing them down. COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: No. So he says something to a speaker that's 100 percent true, and then they go, "Oh, you're correct." So like I could have Mr. French up here and say, "So are there five districts and five county commissioners?" And he'd say, "You're exactly 100 percent right." Page 153 Page 176 of 3023 I figured you out. I figured you out. But anyway, sir, I tum it over to you. January 27, 2026 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm told I'm a rather complex individual, so you got me figured out. Two things: Brief update on the RPC. We're doing well. The perception is --and I'll have a better analysis next month, but we're well past next --or this coming Septe er --if you'll recall, when I took over as Chair, we were done, 1 ptember, ran out of money, and now we're plodding along. We've reduced the staff d They're not paying any mon And then Sarasota Count from Sarasota missed But they're leaning in a So I'm conservative and be able t If you'll ee County's showing up. howing up. the commissioner ast wee he didn't attend. C will be revived between the counties. We adj d the and cents a person per county, 15 cents a person and split it up ly payments so that the electeds viability of the expenditure of the tax money. ativ optimistic with regard to the RPC. The s wanted to talk --and I just wanted to see how you-all felt. eft us, so maybe we can get more done now. I would like to see ou folks --I've been approached by several school board members and suggested a joint workshop with the Board of County Commissioners and the School Board. I don't think we've ever done that, Commissioner Saunders. I know I don't recall. COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: A long, long time ago. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: A long, long time ago. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yes. Page 154 Page 177 of 3023 January 27, 2026 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So if you're in the mood, I would like for us to pursue that, and I would also like to pursue one with the City of Naples Council as well. And I don't want to preclude Marco Island or Everglades, but minimumly be the City, especially --City of Naples, especially with the upcoming election, the change of people that are coming in there and just enhancing the overall communication with the munic • alities that are within our county. So with a positive head nod, give direction to staff to start tickling our calendars to ometH get those things set up, specifically with the --with the councils of our municipalities. COMMISSION one second? CHAIRMAN KO COMM Patterson abou Pen reached o fall off of the for something, type thing." oke with Amy e many months ago I spent meeting with Commissioner of the idea of, you know, having oun m1ss1oners. son yesterday, I said, I know you . Just wanted to make sure it didn't nd she said, "No. You know, we're looking , in the spring. Maybe it's a March, April It doesn't have to be a full day. I mean, I don't think --so, you know, now that Amy's here, maybe one day we --you know, if it --if it gives us enough time, we have sort a --you know, a few hours or whatever, a half a day with Lee County Commissioners. Then they walk out. Then maybe the --I mean, it's just --I'm just --I'm spitballing. But rather than bring us in here three different times for Page 155 Page 178 of 3023 January 27, 2026 really what would be half a day, since we see value in bringing these different groups together, maybe it could be a workshop and they all have a time-certain, and we see what we can accomplish. So just an idea. But she had mentioned yesterday, she said, "No, the meeting with Lee County is something that's already been pursued." And I also love this idea, but maybe it's some ing that we do --you know, it's a full day for us, but we cycle th rough here, and there could be some good cohesive discussio ow, separately as the groups. Not everybody all to ly, but just a thought. But I love that idea. MS. PATTERSON: Yes, t Tuesday of the can --we can month for workshops, ·fit wo certainly schedule mor COMMISSIONER mean, we'v We just ha a litt affo matters th they want to MS. PAT and speak with -- t y. • ust a t ought I had. I arding impact fees. le to the school. Talk ut housing, housing school district owns. Yeah. ANIEL: So there's multiple subject sure the School Board has a couple out, so ... : Do you --would you like us to reach out COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. We decided that while you were off in the back there. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: And I spoke to you about this yesterday -- MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: --because I was approached also by Page 156 Page 179 of 3023 January 27, 2026 the new chairperson from the School Board. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Outstanding. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: And we had a conversation. MS. PATTERSON: We can try to coordinate. We'll coordinate some calendar dates and see what we can get together along with Lee County. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: ood. That's all, sir. CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Anyt • lse? All right. Well, Commissio it's just --I read these thing all ro was saying, you know, 's like --and it's not the average citizen or constitu t --you know, they're blowing off steam ial media, get it out there. And some , and I didn't --you know, li ys ecause, you know, maybe • ' erlooked or something. But it' he ones that claim to be, you know ve a designated blogging site t and they talk about things we do and 1. ee pay more attention to it now because And the more and more I read these people tha se professional keyboard bloggers, they get it wr ·ority of the time. And you t, this is an invitation. I'm very accessible and approachable. d if you see something or you think you want to report on something that we've done or said or whatever, and before you actually put the finger to the keyboard, you can ask me and get --I can give you my opinion, because maybe you're not seeing it the same way that we actually did it. And then that way we're not --you know, just so you're being more accurate. Because, listen, I believe our Founding Fathers put that in the very first --first Page 157 Page 180 of 3023 January 27, 2026 thing in our Bill of Rights was, you know, the freedom of speech and press and things like that. And actually the press was --you know, the reporting of that speech was a fourth check and balance that our Fore fathers felt that was put out there to keep our government in line, but at the same token, they didn't want false things put out there, because that actually muds the system up even wors And it was to be back-checked actually checked, you know, m a source or something before you actually put someth • like that. It was credibly. You know, it's just lik can tell you a lot of thin s this or doing that. U it, you know, becaus where, you report on u know. An they blo throu ou can --people ebody's doing u don't act on e ger problem , w en people want to it's credible, you mebody. If they --if there on their regular f times it's not accurate. ake --I pushed you guys aniel's very hungry even though here. I watched him. he ate a co here. McDANIEL: I'm gnawing on my arm down CHAIRMAN guys. We're adjourned. But I have nothing else. Thank you, ***** Page 158 Page 181 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 **** Commissioner Kowal moved, and carried the following items under the consent and summary agendas by approved and/ or adopted 5/0 **** Item #16Al THE COLLIER COUNTY FLOODPL N MANAGEMENT PLAN 2024 AND 2025 PROGRESS REP Item #16A2 FINAL ACCEPTANCE 0 AND SEWER EK IESHAVE PTABLE AFTER UTILITY FACILITI ORTHODOX CHU BEENFO INSPECT! PORTI AND APP LAKES WES Item #16A4 27,2025 FT TABLE WATER AND SEWER ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A TA E WATER UTILITY FACILITIES UTILITY EASEMENT FOR SIENA 50012269] FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES AND APPURTENANT UTILITY EASEMENTS FOR Page 159 Page 182 of 3023 January 27, 2026 SUMMERLIT PHASE 1 AND 2C [PL20250005843] - INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED ON OCTOBER 21, 2025, AND THESE FACILITES ARE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE Item #16A5 FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POT UTILITY FACILITIES AND ACC PORTION OF THE POTABLE FACILITIES AND APPURT EXTENDED STAY AMERI LE WATER AND SEWER HE CONVEYANCE OF A ND SEWER UTILITY TY EASEMENT FOR 0250008401] E WATER AND SEWER T CONVEYANCE OF TILITY FACILITIES Item #16A6 FINALACC UTILITY THE PO FOR HA 5. [PL20250008673]-AFINAL INS T BY STAFF ON SEPTEMBER 5,2 PUBLIC UTILITIES FINAL ACCEP OF THE POTABLE WATER, IRRIGATION QUALITY WATER, J\ND SEWER FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER, IRRIGATION QUALITY WATER, AND SEWER FACILITIES FOR SKYSAIL PHASE 4 TOWNHOMES [PL20250007303] Item #16A8 Page 160 Page 183 of 3023 January 27, 2026 FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE POTABLE WATER UTILITY FACILITIES AND APPURTENANT UTILITY EASEMENT FOR PELICAN BAY COMMUNITY PARK [PL20250010717] Item #16A9 RESOLUTION 2026-20: A RES ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRI IMPROVEMENTS, AND A! DEDICATIONS, FOR THE APPLICATION NU PL2 THE RELEASE OF T T AMOUNT OF$ 6,975. FOR FINAL Y AND DRAINAGE EPLAT WARD ISLE, THORIZE TIES IN THE RE S UTION FOR FINAL AC ANC IMPRO DEDICA'. PRESERVE AND AUTHOR SECURITIES IN Item #16Al 1 PRI ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE CCEPTANCE OF THE PLAT H INAL PLAT OF ISLES OF COLLIER PPLICATION NUMBER PL20140001091, E RELEASE OF THE MAINTENANCE AMOUNT OF $47,069.33 RESOLUTION 2026-22: A RESOLUTION FOR FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVATE ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS, AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE PLAT Page 161 Page 184 of 3023 January 27, 2026 DEDICATIONS, FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF MANATEE COVE, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20150001677 (PPL) AND PL20190002421 (PPLA), AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE MAINTENANCE SECURITIES IN THE AMOUNT OF $316,875.55 Item #16A12 THE CLERK OF COURTS TO BOND IN THE AMOUNT 0 AS A GUARANTY FORE PL20130001954 FOR WOR BLVD. PHASE ONE Item #16A13 RECOGNIZ OF $33 .74 co A PERFORMANCE HICH WAS POSTED NUMBER HACIENDA NUE IN THE AMOUNT INUED OPERATION OF THE OCOHATCHEE RIVER PARK MA ISLAN BUDGET MA , AND PORT OF THE AUTHORIZE ALL NECESSARY Item #16A14 RESOLUTION 2026-23: A RESOLUTION RELATED TO THE STEWARDSHIP SENDING AREA 15 -RESTORATION CREDITS (CLH & CDC SSA 15) IN THE RURAL LANDS STEWARDSHIP AREA ZONING OVERLAY DISTRICT (RLSA) AND TO AWARD RESTORATION II CREDITS TO COLLIER LAND HOLDINGS, LTD. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPROVED Page 162 Page 185 of 3023 January 27, 2026 RESTORATION PLAN Item #16Bl RESOLUTION 2026-24: A LOCAL AGENCY PROGRAM ("LAP") GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FDOT) FORT "SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SAFE ROUTES T OOL" PROJECT, REIMBURSING THE COUNTY. $761,516.00 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 6-F LK ON THE NORTH SIDE OF LINWOOD AVE OOD WAY TO SHADOWLAWNDRIVE,A 6-F OT WALKONTHE SOUTH SIDE OF L OD A M SH ~ WLAWN DRIVE TO AIRPORT GR D; EXECU A RESOLUTION EMOR L G BOARD'S ACTION; AND AUTH E E GET AMENDMENTS (PROJECT _ D 1 __ 6 50-2-58-01 Ite RES OCALAGENCY PROGRAM ("LAP") GRAN W THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSP FDOT") FOR THE "GOODLETTE FRANK RD SIDEW ARIOUS LOCATIONS" LAP PROJECT, REIMBURSING COUNTY UP TO $1,505,623.00 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOUR SIDEWALK SEGMENTS WEST OF GOODLETTE FRANK ROAD ON FRANK WHITEMAN BLVD ., COOPER DR., ILLINOIS DR., AND WISCONSIN DR.; EXECUTE A RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE BOARD'S ACTION; AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS (PROJECT #33975, FUND 1841), FPN 448126-2-58-01 Page 163 Page 186 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Item #16B3 RESOLUTION 2026-26: A LOCAL AGENCY PROGRAM ("LAP") GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ("FDOT") FOR THE "PINE STREET FROM BECCA AVE TO US 41" LAP PROJE , REIMBURSING THE COUNTY UP TO $265,511.00 FO CONSTRUCTION OF A FIVE-FOOT SIDEWALK ON PI EET; EXECUTE A RESOLUTION MEMORIAL OARD'S ACTION; AND AUTHORIZE THEN SSARY B GET AMENDMENTS (PROJECT #33976, FUND 1 FPN 4481 -58-01 ------ Item #16B4 RESOLD Y PROGRAM ("LAP") GRANT """..__.__L.rA DEPARTMENT OF TRA OR THE "NAPLES MANOR SID TIONS" LAP PROJECT, REI TO $2,341,880.00 FOR THE CO -FOOT-WIDE SIDEWALKS IN NAPLE SH TZ ST. FROM FLORIDAN AVE. TO HARDEE D ST FROM FLORIDAN AVE. TO CAROLINA CALDWELL ST. FROM FLORIDAN AVE TO WARREN ST.; ECUTE A RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE BOARD'S ACTION; AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS (PROJECT 33953, FUND 1841), FPN 448129-1-58-01 Item #16B5 Page 164 Page 187 of 3023 January 27, 2026 AN INTERLOCAL LEASE AND DONATION AGREEMENT WITH THE DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD OF COLLIER COUNTY TO CONVEY A PORTION OF THE IMMOKALEE COMMUNITY PARK, LOCATED AT 321 N. 1ST ST., IMMOKALEE, FLORIDA 34142, TO SUPPORT CONTINUED JOINT USE AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS TO BE FUNDED AND MAINTAINED BY THE DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD, ESTI TED TO EXCEED $5 MILLION Item #16B6 THE CLERK OF COURT BOND IN THE AM WAS POSTED AS AG ATED WITH AGREEME BARN RD PATHWAY LAP) PROJECT" 43091-2-5 NSTRUCTION co EXECUT TS ECESSARY FOR THE CONVEYA TILITY FACILITIES WARRANTY DEED AND BILL OF O THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER- SEWER DISTRIC OR POTABLE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ON COUNTY-OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT PELICAN BAY SERVICE DIVISION MAINTENANCE FACILITIES ("PBSD MAINTENANCE FACILITY"), AT NO COST TO THE COUNTY ( Correction: The recording fee will be paid by Pelican Bay; funds are available in Fund 3041, (Project #50211) -Per Agenda Change Sheet) Page 165 Page 188 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Item #16B8 THE TEMPORARY FARM LEASE EXTENSION WITH MELOY HAY COMPANY, INC., FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT WILLIAMS RESERVE IN IMMOKALEE, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE THE EXTENSION ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY TO ALLOW CONTINUED PERATIONS PENDING DEVELOPMENT OF A STANDA RM LEASE Item #16B9 RESOLUTION 2026-28: THE CHAIR TO E GRANT AGREE FLORIDAD FEDERAL THE TOT SER TO THORIZING IC TRANSIT THE TION TO ACCEPT NT FUNDING IN VIDE TRANSIT LIER COUNTY, AND BUDGET AMENDMENTS RESOLUTIO : RESOLUTION 2026-30: THE RESOLUTION ORIZING THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE SECTION 5310 P IC TRANSIT GRANT AGREEMENTS (FPN 448810-1-94-25 AND FPN 448810-2-84-23) WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO ACCEPT FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION GRANT FUNDING IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $1,032,204 FOR THE PURCHASE OF FIVE PARATRANSIT CUTAWAY VEHICLES, FIVE RADIOS, FIVE WIRELESS ROUTERS AND FIVE TABLETS, AS WELL AS Page 166 Page 189 of 3023 January 27, 2026 PARATRANSIT OPERATING ASSISTANCE, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS Item #16Cl -(Continued from January 13, 2026, BCC Meeting) RECOMMENDATION THAT THE BOARD AWARD REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 25-8412, "DIS TER DEBRIS REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL SERVICES," TO RITT, INC., CERES ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES CROWDER GULF JOINT VENTURE, INC., DRC EME VICES, LLC, AND PHILLIPS ENVIRONMEN UTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTA TS Item #16C2 AWARD RE FINANCIAL CONS G SIG FIN PUBLI Item #16Dl ( Changes) 5-8401 TO RAFTELIS C., FINANCIAL UTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO NT -TO PROVIDE ICES FOR COLLIER COUNTY future BCC Meeting, during Agenda (A) APPROVE THE AFTER-THE-FACT ELECTRONIC SUBMITTAL OF THE RETIRED AND SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM 2026-2027 CONTINUATION APPLICATION TO AMERICORPS, UNDER THE CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE, IN THE AMOUNT OF $100,000 (B) ALLOW THE COUNTY MANAGER OR THEIR DESIGNEE Page 167 Page 190 of 3023 January 27, 2026 TO SERVE AS THE AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE GRANTOR'S ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION SYSTEM, EGRANTS THROUGHOUT THE GRANT PERIOD AND (C) AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS (HOUSING GRANT FUND 1835 AND HOUSING MATCH FUND 1836) Item #16D2 APROVE AN EXTENSION OF COUNTY LIBRARY DIREC REPRESENTATIVE TO T WILLIAMS, COLLIER BOARD'S ING COALITION MENDING THE BER 31, 2029 OF SOUTHWEST FLORID~ TERM TO JANUAR\i 022, Item #16D3 THE SECO BETW CO SE AM AGRE COMPO GRANTSF Item #16El B PIENT AGREEMENT UN AND COLLIER HEALTH ~ CARE NETWORK, TO DE MENT BLOCK GRANT 9 TO REVISE THE PROJECT SCOPE, PA ENT DELIVERABLES (HOUSING CDBG-CV PROJECT #33674) AWARD REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL ("RFP") #25-8407 COLLIER COUNTY MEDICAL DIRECTOR EMPLOYMENT PHYSICALS AND DRUG TESTING TO ADVANCE MEDICAL OF NAPLES LLC, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT Page 168 Page 191 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Item #16E2 APPROVED MODIFICATIONS TO THE 2026 FISCAL YEAR PAY & CLASSIFICATION PLAN WHICH CONSISTS OF FOUR NEW CLASSIFICATIONS, ONE RECLASSIFICATION, AND ONE CLASSIFICATION TITLE REVISIO ROM OCTOBER 1, 2025, THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2025 Item #16Fl THE SELECTION COM STAFF TO BEGIN TOP-RANKED FI CONCERN ("RPS") N IMPRO PRO co 33 ND AUTHORIZE WITH THE ' NAL SERVICES OR IMMOKALEE FF CAN BRING A EBOARD'S EETING (PROJECT NO. S THE GRANT A ENT WITH THE FLORIDA STATE COURTS SYSTE , OFFICE OF THE STATE COURTS ADMINISTRATOR, REIMBURSING THE COUNTY UP TO $1,000,000 FOR THE RENOVATION AND EXPANSION OF THE EXISTING SWITCHGEAR AND AUTOMATIC TRANSFER SWITCH AT THE "COURTHOUSE ANNEX BUILDING Ll" (PROJECT #33979) Page 169 Page 192 of 3023 January 27, 2026 Item #16F3 RESOLUTION 2026-31: A RESOLUTION APPROVING AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS, OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-26 ADOPTED BUDGET Item # 16G 1 - ( Continued to F ebrua , 2026, BCC Meeting, per Agenda Change Sheet) UPDATES TO THE AIRPO MINIMUM STANDARDS, A ICY, AIRPORT ESAND REGULATIONS Item #16Jl RECO co PA WH AM PERI 2026, PU Item #16J2 ARD OF COUNTY NUMBER (OR OTHER PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR CE URSEMENTS IN THE 66 WERE DRAWN FOR THE ARY 1, 2026, AND JANUARY 14, LORIDA STATUTE 136.06 THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF JANUARY 21, 2026 Item #16Kl Page 170 Page 193 of 3023 January 27, 2026 A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $75,000 PLUS $19,389 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY AND EXPERTS' FEES AND COSTS FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL 1296FEE REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD EXTENSION (PROJECT NO. 60249) Item #16K2 A STIPULATED FINAL JUD $105,000 PLUS $27,139 IN EXPERTS' FEES AND C 1361FEE REQUIRED F EXTENSION PROJ AUTHORITY TO DESIGNEE STATUTO PROCEE ST HEAMOUNTOF ORNEYAND GOFPARCEL ACHROAD E ER DITIONAL PLEMENTAL BY CH. 73, FLA. RESOLD : T BOARD SET THE BALLOTING DATE FOR MMENDATION OF MEMBERS TO THE PELICAN BAY CES DIVISION BOARD BY RECORD TITLE OWNERS PROPERTY WITHIN PELICAN BAY - CONFIRMING A BALLOTING DATE OF MARCH 6, 2026 Item #16K4 RESOLUTION 2026-33: APPOINTING THREE MEMBERS TO THE LAND ACQUISITION ADVISORY COMMITTEE -EACH Page 171 Page 194 of 3023 January 27, 2026 TO A THREE-YEAR TERM EXPIRING ON FEBRUARY 11, 2029 Item #16K5 COUNTY ATTORNEY TO FILE A LAWSUIT ON BEHALF OF COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGAINST ORCHID COVE AT PORT F THE ISLANDS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION ., TO DISCHARGE A SERIES OF LIENS TOTALING 800,000.00 RECORDED WITH THE CLERK OF COU OR EGEDLY UNPAID ASSESSMENTS (ALONG H RELAT FEES AND COSTS) IMPOSED ON TWO PROPE S C MPR G OF 2.37 ACRES OF RESIDE L PR , THA'. E COUNTY OBTAINED BY ESC NT DEEDS I SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBE 2022 Item #16K6 AS $120, EXPER 1299FEE EXTENSIO Item #16Ml TIN THE AMOUNT OF S TORY ATTORNEY FEES, C S FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL UIRE OR HE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD OJ T NO. 60249) THE PURCHASE OF A JOHN DEERE 6135E CAB TRACTOR FROM DEERE & COMPANY UTILIZING COOPERATIVE PROCUREMENT PIGGYBACK 411 "SOURCEWELL AG TRACTORS 082923-DAC" USING TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX FUND 1105 IN THE AMOUNT OF $116,292.81 AND MAKE Page 172 Page 195 of 3023 January 27 , 2026 A FINDING THAT THIS EXPENDITURE PROMOTES TOURISM Item # 1 7 A (Per Agenda Change Sheet) Continued from the January 13, 2026, BCC Meeting & Further Continued to the February 10, 2026, BCC Meeting. RECOMMENDATION TO ADOPT A ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO . 2003-37, AS A ED , CITED IN CHAPTER 110, ARTICLE II OF THE COL UNTY CODE OF LAWS AND ORDINANCES, WHIC GUI: S CONSTRUCTION IN THE PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF , TO AD DITIONAL RIGHT- OF-WAY PERMIT REQUI NTS ND CTION REGULATING EXC ION IES IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF- Item #17B TOAD co FLO [PL202 Item #17C ENDING THE COLLIER CODE RELATED TO ILi S A LAND USE. F TWO HEARINGS) RESOLUTION 20 -34: A RESOLUTION APPROVING AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD, TRANSFERS, AND SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-26 ADOPTED BUDGET Page 173 Page 196 of 3023 January 27, 2026 There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 2:06 p.m. ATTEST CRYSTAL BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX OFFICIO GOVER ING BOARD(S) OF SPECIAL DIST S UNDER ITS CONTROL by e Board on _________ , r as corrected TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF VERITEXT BY TERRIL. LEWIS, REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL COURT REPORTER, FPR-C, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Page 174 Page 197 of 3023