BCC Minutes 04/14/2026 (Draft)April 14, 2026
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, April 14, 2026
LET IT BE REMEMBERED that the Board of County
Commissioners, in and for the County of Collier, and also acting as
the Board of Zoning Appeals and as the governing board(s) of such
special districts as have been created according to law and having
conducted business herein, met on this date at 9:00 a.m., in
REGULAR SESSION in Building "F" of the Government Complex,
East Naples, Florida, with the following Board members present:
Chairman: Dan Kowal
Burt L. Saunders
Chris Hall
Rick LoCastro
William L. McDaniel, Jr.
(Attending remotely)
ALSO PRESENT:
Amy Patterson, County Manager
Ed Finn, Deputy County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Crystal K. Kinzel, Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller
Troy Miller, Communications & Customer Relations
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COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Community Redevelopment Agency Board (CRAB)
Airport Authority
AGENDA
Board of County Commission Chambers
Collier County Government Center
3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd Floor
Naples, FL 34112
April 14, 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 (Absent)
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.
REQUESTS FOR PUBLIC PETITIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN
WRITING TO THE COUNTY MANAGER AT LEAST 13 DAYS PRIOR TO
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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.
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1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
A. Invocation: Pastor Brad Taberer - Faith Church Naples ||| Pledge of
Allegiance: Michael Lyster – USN Submariner
2. AGENDA AND MINUTES
A. Approval of today's Regular, Consent, and Summary agenda as
amended (ex-parte disclosure provided by Commission members for
Consent agenda.)
B. March 10, 2026, BCC Meeting Minutes
3. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
4. PROCLAMATIONS
A. Proclamation designating April 12 - 18, 2026, as National Public
Safety Telecommunicators Week. To be accepted by Sheriff Kevin
Rambosk, Colonel Jim Bloom, Chief Greg Smith, Manager Amy Tuff,
and several 9-1-1 telecommunicators.
B. Proclamation designating April 2026 as National Child Abuse
Prevention Month. To be accepted by Linda Goldfield, Chief
Executive Officer.
C. Proclamation designating April 2026 as Sexual Assault Awareness
Month. To be accepted by Shaina Anderson, CEO, Project HELP, Inc.
D. Proclamation designating April 12 - 18, 2026, as Know Your County
Government Week in Collier County. To be accepted by Mikie Stroh,
Collier County Schools, Susan Golden, League of Women Voters,
along with 35 junior and senior students from seven area high schools.
5. PRESENTATIONS
6. PUBLIC PETITIONS
7. PUBLIC COMMENTS
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On general topics not on the current or future agenda. Unless adjusted by the
Chair, registered public speakers will receive three (3) minutes and time may
not be ceded to another speaker. The Chair may limit the number of public
speakers under this item to five (5) for any meeting. (Resolution 98-167)
8. BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
9. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS
10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT
A. Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as the ex-
officio Governing Board of the Collier County Water-Sewer District,
approve a Resolution repealing and replacing Resolution 2025-219 by
increasing and authorizing the borrowing amount under the Florida
Local Government Finance Commission’s Pooled Commercial Paper
Loan Program to a not-to-exceed principal amount of $300,000,000.
This Loan is secured by a subordinate pledge of and lien on the net
revenues of the water and sewer utility system in accordance with the
terms of the Loan Agreement and as provided in the Resolution
approving such Loan; authorize execution of the loan note or loan
notes to evidence such borrowing; authorize the execution and
delivery of other such documents as may be necessary to effect such
borrowing; and authorize all necessary Budget Amendments. (Katrina
Lin, Manager - Financial Operations)
12. COUNTY ATTORNEY'S REPORT
13. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
A. Presentation of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the
fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, and authorization to file the
related State of Florida Annual Local Government Financial Report
with the Department of Financial Services.
14. AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND/OR COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
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15. STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
A. Public Comments on General Topics Not on the Current or
Future Agenda by Individuals Not Already Heard During
Previous Public Comments in this Meeting
B. Staff Project Updates
C. Staff and Commission General Communications
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16. CONSENT AGENDA - All matters listed under this item are considered
to be routine and action will be taken by one motion without separate
discussion of each item. If discussion is desired by a member of the
board, that item(s) will be removed from the consent agenda and
considered separately.
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A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable
water and sewer utility facilities for Healthcare Network -
Orangetree. [PL20250012970]
2) Recommendation to authorize the Office of the County
Attorney to initiate foreclosure proceedings pursuant to Section
162.09, Florida Statutes, in relation to $164,823.60 in accruing
code enforcement liens for ongoing violations at 1500 Daffodil
Ct., Naples, Florida 34120, arising from Special Magistrate
Case No. CELU20200013266, titled Board of County
Commissioners, Collier County, Florida, vs. Sherry Lynn
Hinds.
3) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a
Performance Bond in the amount of $86,200, which was posted
as a development guaranty for an Early Work Authorization
(EWA) for work associated with Brightshore Village.
[PL20240012346]
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4) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the sewer
utility facilities and accept the conveyance of a portion of the
sewer utility facilities and appurtenant utility easement for
Pineda Commercial Center. [PL20230017095]
5) Recommendation to authorize the County Manager, or
designee, to release the Utilities Performance Security (UPS) in
the amount of $46,876.40 to the Project Engineer or
Developer’s designated agent for Greystar MF Santa Barbara –
Phase 1. [PL20240009049]
6) Recommendation to approve a Third Amendment to the
Agreement for Sale and Purchase with Symphony Properties,
LLC, a Conservation Collier acquisition, extending the
remediation period to November 7, 2026, to provide additional
time for the Seller to complete additional groundwater testing
and receive written approval from the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection certifying that the remediation
completed on the property complies with Florida laws.
7) 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 Warm
Springs, Application Number PL20150001870 (PPL), and
Warm Springs – Phase 2 (FP), Application Number
PL20170001519, and authorize the release of the maintenance
securities in the amount of $372,237.10 and $164,509.20,
respectively.
8) Recommendation to direct the County Attorney to advertise for
a public hearing an amendment to Ordinance 2017-27, which
regulates the placement and permitting of communications
facilities in the County Right-of-Way.
B. TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to accept and execute a Release of
Subordination of County Utility Interests related to a
subordination in favor of the Florida Department of
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Transportation (FDOT) for a site located on State Road 45
(U.S. 41), near the Oakmont Parkway, lying within the Pelican
Bay Community (Unit 16) in Collier County, Florida, F.P. No.
4415121, Parcel 800.2, recorded in Official Records Book
6500, Pages 3509-3514.
2) Recommendation to approve an Agreement for the purchase of
a pond site (Parcel 315POND) required for the Wilson
Boulevard (Golden Gate Boulevard to Immokalee Road)
Project (Project No. 60229). (Estimated Fiscal Impact:
$238,594)
3) Recommendation to authorize the Chair to execute twenty (20)
Deed Certificates for purchased burial rights at Lake Trafford
Memorial Gardens Cemetery and authorize the County
Manager or designee to take all actions necessary to record the
Deed Certificates with the Clerk of the Court’s Recording
Department.
4) Recommendation to approve a Purchase and Sale Agreement
between Collier County and The Trust for Public Land for
acquisition of approximately 24.3 acres comprising
approximately 1.5 miles of the Bonita-Estero Rail Corridor
located in Collier County at a purchase price of $11,642,069;
authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement and any
documents required for participation in the Surface
Transportation Board process, including the Seminole Gulf
Railway Indemnity Agreement; and authorize administrative
amendments to the Purchase and Sale Agreement necessary to
incorporate the final legal description into Exhibit “A,”
provided such amendments do not materially alter the scope of
the transaction.
5) Recommendation to accept the Golden Gate City Water
Resource Protection-Restoration Master Plan.
6) Recommendation to approve and execute the attached
Developer Agreement with N.A. Realty Trust, Inc., (Developer)
for the design, permitting, and construction of the extension of
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Veteran’s Memorial Boulevard, and authorize the necessary
Budget Amendments.
C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as
the ex-officio Governing Board of the Collier County Water-
Sewer District, award Invitation to Bid No. 25-8400 to U.S.
Water Services Corporation for the Raw Water Booster Pump
Station Improvements project in the amount of $1,345,947.43,
approve an Owner’s Allowance of $100,000, and authorize the
Chair to sign the attached Agreement. (Project No. 70085)
2) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as
the ex officio Governing Board of the Collier County Water-
Sewer District, execute a Grant Agreement between the County
and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to
accept funding in the amount of $2,100,000 for the Collier
County Pump Hardening & Rehabilitation Project, approve all
necessary forms, and authorize the necessary Budget
Amendments. (Fund 4016, Project No. 33981)
3) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, as
ex-officio the Governing Board of the Collier County Water-
Sewer District, approve a settlement agreement with Zabatt
Engine Services, Inc., d/b/a Zabatt Power Systems, Inc., related
to Agreement No. 23-8067 for the Tamiami Well 23 Generator
Replacement project, which adds 45 days to the final
completion date and waives liquidated damages in the amount
of $6,578 resulting from a manufacturer equipment defect
delaying the timely completion of the project, and authorize the
Chair to sign the attached agreement. (Project No. 70069)
4) Recommendation that the Collier County Board of County
Commissioners, acting as Ex-Officio the Governing Board of
the Collier County Water-Sewer District, approve an
Assignment and Assumption Agreement of Major User
Agreement for the Delivery and Reuse of Irrigation Quality
(IQ) Water assigning all rights, duties, benefits, and obligations
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from Nassif Golf Ventures, LLC d/b/a Hibiscus Golf Club to
The Lantern Club, LLC, a Florida limited liability company.
D. COMMUNITY SERVICES
1) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign
thirty (30) mortgage satisfactions for the State Housing
Initiatives Partnership loan program in the amount of
$313,250.00, and to approve a Budget Amendment to recognize
$38,250.00 in revenue from loan payoffs. (SHIP Grant Fund
1053)
2) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign the
First Amendment to the Emergency Solutions Grant
Subrecipient Agreement #ES25-01 between The Shelter for
Abused Women & Children, Inc., and the Collier County Board
of County Commissioners, to modify the period of
performance, increase the project budget by $30,000.00, update
the contact information, and revise Grant and Special
Conditions, Grant Control Requirements, Terms and
Conditions, and General Provisions. (Housing Grant Fund
(1835), Project No. 33949)
3) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign
two (2) Releases of Lien for full payment in the amount of
$17,335.91 pursuant to the Agreement for Deferral of 100% of
Collier County Impact Fees for owner-occupied Affordable
Housing Dwellings.
4) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign a
Landlord Payment Agreement between Collier County and Emi
Cara for the Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) program,
allowing the Community and Human Services Division (CHS)
to provide grant-funded rental assistance to individuals and
families in the TBRA program through the HOME Investment
Partnerships Program and the HOME-ARP Grant Programs.
(Housing Grant Fund 1835 and HOME Grant Fund 1848)
5) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign the
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First Amendment to the Behavioral Health Services Agreement
between Collier County, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office,
and David Lawrence Mental Health Center, Inc., to update
language per new requirements. (No Fiscal Impact)
6) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign the
Second Amendment to the Subrecipient Agreement between
Collier County and Collier County Community Redevelopment
Agency (Immokalee) to amend Community Development
Block Grant Agreement #CD24-02 to extend the period of
performance, reduce the funding amount to $225,310.00, revise
grant language, and update exhibits required. (Housing Grant
Fund 1835). (This item is a companion to Item #16L1)
7) Recommendation to approve and authorize the County Manager
to sign any documents required by Central Florida Behavioral
Health Network, Inc. (CFBHN) for the Coordinated Opioid
Recovery (CORE) Network of Addiction Care funds (Grant
Fund 4053).
E. CORPORATE BUSINESS OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to approve amendments to the Administrative
Service Agreements for the IRS Plan 457 deferred
compensation plans with Nationwide and MissionSquare,
providing for continued open architecture investment platform
and lower recordkeeping administrative fees benefiting the
individual Collier County retirement plan investor.
2) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid No. 25-8399,
“OEM Ford & Motorcraft Parts, Fluids and Supplies – Grant
Funded,” to Tamiami Ford, Inc., for the purchase of original
equipment manufacturer ("OEM") parts, fluids, accessories,
related supplies, and freight necessary to support ongoing
County fleet operations, and to authorize the Chair to sign the
attached Agreement.
3) Recommendation to approve the administrative report by the
Procurement Services Division for various County Divisions’
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after-the-fact purchases in accordance with Procurement
Ordinance No. 2025-34 and the Procurement Manual, and to
authorize the timely payment of outstanding invoices in the
amount of $31,157.04.
F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to renew the annual Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity (COPCN) for Medtrek Medical
Transport, Inc., to provide Class 2 Advanced Life Support
(ALS) inter-facility transport ambulance service for a period of
one year.
2) Recommendation to accept a report of administrative budget
amendments to the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Adopted Budget
approved by the designated budget officer in accordance with
Budget Amendment Policy and Procedure Resolution No.
2025-188 and Section 129.06, Florida Statutes.
3) Recommendation to approve and authorize the County Manager
or designee to execute an After-the-Fact amendment to the
Federally Funded Subgrant Agreement for the Emergency
Management Performance Grant G0559 (EMPG), extending the
Period of Performance (POP) from March 31, 2026, to June 30,
2026, to allow for the receipt and payment processing of grant
deliverables. (Fund 1833; Project No. 33927).
4) 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
1) Recommendation that the Board, acting as the Airport
Authority, award Bid No. 25-8521 "5,000 Gallon Jet “A”
Aviation Fuel Truck" to SkyMark Refuelers, LLC, in the
amount of $329,900, and authorize the Chair to sign the
attached Agreement. (Project No. 33936)
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2) Recommendation to adopt a Resolution approving and
authorizing the execution of Amendment No. 1 to Public
Transportation Grant Agreement (PTGA) 450316-1-94-01,
Contract No. G3680 with the Florida Department of
Transportation to add six (6) months to the current expiration
date of June 30, 2026, making the new expiration date
December 31, 2026, to the Agreement for the Purchase of a
5,000 gallon Jet A Refueler Truck at the Marco Island
Executive Airport (MKY).
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 $74,433,222.48 were drawn for
the periods between March 12, 2026 and April 1, 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 April 8, 2026.
3) Recommend that the Board provide approval to designate the
Sheriff as the official applicant and point of contact for the U.S.
Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of
Justice Assistance Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance
Grant (JAG) FY ‘25 Local Standard grant. Authorize the
acceptance of the Grant when awarded, approve associated
Budget Amendments, and approve the Collier County Sheriff’s
Office to receive and expend 2025 JAG Standard grant funds.
K. COUNTY ATTORNEY
1) Recommendation to appoint two members to the Radio Road
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Beautification Advisory Committee.
2) Recommendation to appoint Kelly Hyland to the Domestic
Animal Services Advisory Committee.
3) Recommendation to appoint Cecelia Morales to the Public
Transit Advisory Committee.
4) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $85,000 plus $21,760 in statutory attorney and
experts’ fees and costs for the taking of Parcel 1338FEE
required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No.
60249.
5) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $165,000 plus $53,647 in statutory attorney and
experts’ fees and costs for the taking of Parcel 1325FEE2
required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No.
60249.
6) Recommendation to appoint two members to the Tourist
Development Council.
7) Recommendation to reappoint two members to the Rock Road
Improvement MSTU Advisory Committee.
8) Recommendation to appoint John Telischak and reappoint
Cindy Carrol to the Historic/Archaeological Preservation
Board.
9) Recommendation to reassign the category of Bruce Hamels
from an at-large seat to the District 5 seat on the County
Government Productivity Committee.
10) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Order of Further
Extended Possession for Parcel 1463RDUE/TDRE in the
condemnation case styled Collier County v. Del Rio, et al., Case
No. 25-CA-240, allowing continued occupancy of the subject
property through June 30, 2026, under specified terms and
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conditions, for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project
No. 60249.
11) Recommendation to authorize the making of an Offer of
Judgment in the amount of $260,000.00 to Respondents, Joel
Symonds; Brenda Symonds; Island Paradise Builders, LLC;
and Brenda Symonds PA, in the lawsuit styled Collier County,
Florida v. Roberto T. Sierra, et al.; Case No. 25-CA-225, for the
taking of Parcel 1345FEE required for the Vanderbilt Beach
Road Extension Project No. 60249.
12) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $125,000 plus $27,098 in statutory attorney and
experts’ fees and costs for the taking of Parcel 1282FEE
required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No.
60249.
13) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $100,000 plus $19,677 in statutory attorney and
experts’ fees and costs for the taking of Parcel 1360FEE
required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No.
60249.
14) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $23,565 plus $15,511 in statutory attorney and
experts’ fees and costs for the taking of Parcel 1420TDRE
required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No.
60249.
L. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
1) Recommendation that the Board, acting as the Community
Redevelopment Agency (CRA) approve a Second Amendment
to Agreement CD24-02 to increase time to the period of
performance, and reduce the Federal Funding amount to
support the reduction in activities for said Agreement between
Collier County and Collier County Community Redevelopment
Agency (Immokalee) for FY 2024/2025 Housing and Urban
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Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG), authorize the Chair of the CRA to sign the Second
Amendment, and authorize the necessary Budget Amendment.
(This item is a companion to Item #16D6)
2) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners and
acting in its capacity as the Community Redevelopment Agency
Board, approve an Agreement for Sale and Purchase to acquire
the property located at 2663 Francis Avenue for a future
stormwater expansion project. The cost for this transaction is
$440,000 plus associated closing cost.
M. TOURIST DEVELOPMENT
1) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign a
5-year Use Agreement between the Department of
Environmental Protection – Division of State Lands and Collier
County in relation to allowing the placement of dredged sand
from Wiggins Pass onto Delnor Wiggins State Park beach, per
the State’s request (Project No. 80288).
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17. SUMMARY AGENDA – This section is for advertised public hearings
and must meet the following criteria: 1) a recommendation for approval
from staff; 2) unanimous recommendation for approval by the collier
county planning commission or other authorizing agencies of all
members present and voting; 3) no written or oral objections to the item
received by staff, the collier county planning commission, Other
authorizing agencies or the board, prior to the commencement of the
bcc meeting on which the items are scheduled to be heard; and 4) no
individuals are registered to speak in opposition to the item. For those
items which are quasi-judicial in nature, all participants must be sworn
in.
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A. Recommendation to approve a Resolution designating the Close-Out
of the adopted Heritage Bay Planned Unit Development (PUD), which
has fully completed development pursuant to its development orders,
constructing up to the authorized density and/or intensity, and has
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been found by county staff to be compliant with its specific developer
commitments. [PL20250011012]
B. Recommendation to approve a Resolution of the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, renaming Anthem
Parkway to Anthem Parkway North, which is depicted as Tract R-2 of
the Anthem Parkway – Phase 5A subdivision, as recorded in Plat
Book 74, Pages 77–83, and Tract R-1 of the Anthem Parkway – Phase
5B subdivision, as recorded in Plat Book 77, Pages 37–40, and that
portion of Tract R of the Ave Maria Phase Three subdivision, as
recorded in Plat Book 48, Pages 20–21, of the Public Records of
Collier County, Florida, located in Sections 32 and 33, Township 47
South, Range 29 East, Collier County, Florida. [PL20260000164]
18. ADJOURN
INQUIRIES CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE BOARD’S AGENDA
SHOULD BE MADE TO THE COUNTY MANAGER’S OFFICE AT 252-
8383.
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MS. PATTERSON: Chair, you have a live mic.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning, everyone. I'm going to
bring this meeting of the Board of County Commissioners to order.
County Manager.
Item # 1A
INVOCATION: PASTOR GLENN WIGGINS – SEAGATE
BAPTIST CHURCH NAPLES ||| PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
MICHAEL LYSTER – USN SUBMARINER – INVOCATION AND
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE GIVEN
MS. PATTERSON: Yes. Today we have our invocation by
Pastor Glenn Wiggins from Seagate Baptist Church. He'll be
followed by -- the Pledge of Allegiance by Michael Lyster, U.S.
Navy submariner.
PASTOR WIGGINS: Good morning. Let's pray together.
Father, we thank you for the Collier County Commissioners.
You've ordained their authority, and we asked that you would guide
them as they lead, give them wisdom from above that's pure,
peaceable, and full of mercy. Lord, help them to do right and choose
what's right over what's popular and what's true over what's easy.
Lord, I pray for a hedge of protection around all of these that are
serving in the Collier County Government. I pray you guard them
from harm, seen and unseen. Place your mighty hand upon them and
keep them safe as they serve the people of Collier County.
Lord, we pray this morning that you would please put the fires
out in Collier County. Would you calm the winds and crush the
flames and protect all the homes, the animals, and especially the
people who live out there.
Lord, we pray for the firefighters this morning and all those who
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are battling. God, be their shield, be their strength, protect them
physically as they face danger. Lord, give them clarity of mind and
strength in their bodies, courage in every moment, Lord, as they face
this fire. Surround them with your presence like you did with
Shadrach, Meshach, and the Abednego in the midst of the fiery
furnace.
Father, we also pray for their families. We know it's
challenging, the separation, the concern they have but, Lord, I pray
you comfort their hearts, calm their fears. Lord, we know you're
watching over them. Strengthen them and give them the assurance
that, Lord, they're not alone.
In all things done in this meeting today, we pray your will will
be done. I thank you for these leaders you've raised up. Lord, help
them to walk in integrity and help them to be men and women who
seek righteousness. We trust you this morning, Lord, as our refuge,
our strength. You're our very present help in trouble, and thank you
for salvation in and through the name of Jesus. For in Jesus' name I
pray, amen.
MR. LYSTER: Join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag.
Military veterans salute, as appropriate.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
MR. LYSTER: Thank you, Commissioners. I appreciate the
opportunity to lead the Pledge of Allegiance. I'm -- as the County
Manager said, it's submariner. There's no such thing as a
"submariner."
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: That's not true.
MR. LYSTER: The other thing I always remind the marines in
the audience is there's only one good marine, and that's a submarine.
But other than that, I've been a resident of Collier County for 26
years now, and my current efforts are I'm the president of the board
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of Trustees for our church, Naples Community Church, and we're
building a new church. So if you ever want a challenge in life, try
building a new building in the City of Naples. It's a lot of fun. But
it's a -- it's my honor to be here, and I look forward to a successful
meeting for you. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, Mr. Lyster.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Can I say something?
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Yeah. Go ahead, Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: So our County Manager asked
me if it's "submariner" or submariner. I'm a retired Air Force
Colonel, so we say submariner, so...
Mike, the one thing I wanted to say -- and it's maybe a little
trivia correction, but you said it perfectly. And it's a little pet peeve
of mine when people say "vetrin," right? There's no such word as the
word "vetrin." It's veteran. Look at the way that it's spelled. You
said it correctly. I hardly ever hear it said correctly. Everybody says
"vetrin," and there's no r-i-n. It's not "vetrin."
So -- but I thank you for your service. We've crossed paths, you
know, quite a bit. I'll still call you a "submariner" just for -- you
know -- submariner, rather, just for a little dig.
But you also are so involved in the community, you know,
wearing your patches and -- that represent, you know, a long line of
dedicated duty. And so all of us here -- you know, Dan and I are the
only two veterans up here, but it's irrelevant because all the
commissioners up here really respect and admire so much of what
our veterans do in the community, and you're one of the main senior
leaders.
And you're standing next to, you know, Wayne Smith, who's a
legend here, as a, you know, former POW and true, you know,
Vietnam War hero and fellow Air Force Academy grad. So I want to
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say that.
And I'll try to get the "submariner" -- it doesn't sound as cool. It
doesn't sound as cool. It sounds just as crazy, but not as cool. But
thank you, sir. Really appreciate all that you do.
MR. LYSTER: Thank you, Commissioner.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: And I would like to clarify one thing,
you're building your church within the jurisdiction of the City of
Naples?
MR. LYSTER: Right.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. Not the County, because it
would be easier if you were doing it in the county.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: See, you didn't get it all
correct, okay. Dismissed, Submariner.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Take care. Thank you.
Should we have a motion now to allow Commissioner McDaniel
to join in by remote?
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. He's on the phone.
COMMISSIONER HALL: So moved.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I have a motion. Do I have a second?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: (No verbal response.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All opposed, same sound, same sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: The ayes have it.
Welcome aboard. I don't know if he heard me.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you, sir. I'm here.
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: It's good to have you.
County Manager.
Item #2A
APPROVAL OF TODAY'S REGULAR, CONSENT, AND
SUMMARY AGENDA AS AMENDED (EX-PARTE DISCLOSURE
PROVIDED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR CONSENT
AGENDA.) – MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER
HALL; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO –
APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED
MS. PATTERSON: Agenda changes for April 14th, 2026. We
just have one; it's an add-on item. 16A8 is a recommendation to
direct the County Attorney to advertise for a future consideration an
amendment to Ordinance 1997-50, the Collier County parking
ordinance, to increase parking violation fines and include procedural
amendments in accordance with the events outlined in the proposed
ordinance.
Other than that, we have court reporter breaks scheduled for
10:30 and probably not at 2:50.
That is all I have.
County Attorney.
MR. KLATZKOW: Nothing, thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I have nothing to add,
Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Hall.
COMMISSIONER HALL: No changes.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner LoCastro.
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COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: No changes.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner McDaniel, do you have
any changes?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No changes, no -- no changes;
no declarations.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you. And myself, no changes
and no declaration.
MS. PATTERSON: If we could get a motion to approve the
agenda as amended.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Do we have a motion?
COMMISSIONER HALL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: 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.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All opposed, same sound, same sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: The ayes have it.
SEE REVERSE SIDE
Proposed Agenda Changes
Board of County Commissioners Meeting
April 14, 2026
Add-On Item 16A9: Recommendation to direct the County Attorney to advertise for future consideration an
amendment to Ordinance 1997-50, the Collier County Parking Ordinance, to increase parking violation fines and
include procedural amendments in accordance with the events outlined in the proposed Ordinance. (Staff’s
Request)
Notes:
TIME CERTAIN ITEMS:
4/14/2026 3:27 PM
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Item #2B
MARCH 10, 2026, BCC MEETING MINUTES – MOTION TO
APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS; SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER HALL – APPROVED
MS. PATTERSON: Item 2A is the March 20th, 2026, BCC
meeting minutes.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Can I get a motion?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Move for approval,
Mr. Chairman.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Second.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I have a motion and second. All in
favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Opposed, same sound, same sign.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye (delayed).
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I think he's a little delayed, but that
was an aye. All right. It's passed.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 4,
proclamations.
Item # 4A
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING APRIL 12 - 18, 2026, AS
NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMMUNICATORS WEEK.
TO BE ACCEPTED BY SHERIFF KEVIN RAMBOSK, COLONEL
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JIM BLOOM, CHIEF GREG SMITH, MANAGER AMY TUFF,
AND SEVERAL 9-1-1 TELECOMMUNICATORS. – MOTION TO
APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER HALL; SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO – ADOPTED
Item 4A is a proclamation designating April 12th through 18th,
2026, as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. To be
accepted by Sheriff Kevin Rambosk, Colonel Jim Bloom, Chief Greg
Smith, Manager Amy Tuff, and several 911 telecommunicators.
Congratulations.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Congratulations.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Sheriff, do you want to say some
words, or do you have somebody designated to?
SHERIFF RAMBOSK: No. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Good morning, Board Members and
Chair.
Thank you for recognizing our incredible dispatch team in
Collier County. You know, if you think back over history, there was
a time when -- dispatchers have always provided integral
information, but it was relegated mostly to location, type of
emergency, and then getting the resources there. Today, and as we
move into the future, they are first responders in every sense of the
word. They take proactive action from the time an emergency is
called in until the time law enforcement, fire rescue, and EMS
complete that chain of lifesaving.
So I want to thank you. I want to recognize all of our
telecommunicators, our dispatchers, and thank them for an absolutely
fabulous lifesaving job they do each and every day. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, Sheriff.
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(Applause.)
Item #4B
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING APRIL 2026 AS NATIONAL
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH. TO BE ACCEPTED BY
LINDA GOLDFIELD, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. – MOTION
TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER HALL; SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO – ADOPTED
MS. PATTERSON: Item 4B is a proclamation designating
April 2026 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. To be
accepted by Linda Goldfield, chief executive officer.
Congratulations.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Would you like to say a few words?
MS. GOLDFIELD: Thank you to the County Commissioners
for acknowledging that -- and recognizing this month as Child Abuse
Prevention Month. It's a time for a community to come together
around the shared responsibility for ensuring every child grows up to
be safe, protected, and supported.
Acknowledging that it's time to shine a light on the critical
issues, the demand -- not only awareness but action from all of us.
Each year there are hundreds and hundreds of child abuse and neglect
reports in our community. Behind every report is a child
experiencing trauma no young person should ever face or endure.
While these numbers are difficult to face, they also reflect a
powerful proof that child abuse is preventable, and it's everyone's
responsible to prevent it.
At Youth Haven, we see first hand the impactful trauma but also
the incredible transformation that can happen when a child is given
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safety, stability, and compassionate care. For more than 50 years, we
have provided home, hope, and healing to abused, neglected, and
homeless children and teens in Southwest Florida, but these
vulnerable youth can only receive help if someone speaks up. If you
see something, say something. If you suspect abuse, please report it.
In Florida, reports can be made to the Florida Abuse Hotline,
1-800-96-ABUSE or online at reportabusemyfamilies.com. Together
as a community we have a responsibility to ensure the children are
safe. They are the future of this community.
Thank you so very much.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
Item #4C
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING APRIL 2026 AS SEXUAL
ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH. TO BE ACCEPTED BY
SHAINA ANDERSON, CEO, PROJECT HELP, INC. – MOTION
TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER HALL; SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO – ADOPTED
MS. PATTERSON: Item 4C is a proclamation designating
April 2026 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. To be accepted by
Shaina Anderson, CEO, Project HELP, Inc. Congratulations.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: You've got the whole crew
here. Who's running the operation at home?
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
MS. ANDERSON: Good morning, Commissioners, and thank
you for recognizing Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This is -- this
year's particularly meaningful for Project HELP, as we are
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celebrating our 40 years of serving the community.
We have worked for four decades to stand along survivors to
ensure that they are not alone during some of the most difficult
moments of their life.
We are proud to be Collier County's only certified sexual assault
center and comprehensive victim service center. We provide 24-hour
crisis response, forensic exams, advocacy, counseling, and long-term
healing to survivors and their family members.
I'd like to recognize a meaningful part of our community's
history. Commissioner Burt Saunders worked alongside our founder,
Beth Knake, several years ago -- by the way, she says hi -- to help
advance legislation ensuring that advocates could be present
during -- with victims during depositions, leading way to many of the
victim rights that have set precedent to continue to protect survivors
today.
I'd also like to extend a special thank you to Commissioner
McDaniel for his longstanding support in helping bring our services
to the Immokalee community. Because of that commitment, we have
been able to expand our access through our forensic exam and mental
health mobile unit and ensuring that survivors no longer have to
travel nearly an hour to come to our offices in Naples to receive
critical services. The investment in access has made a meaningful
impact on survivors in our community.
As we recognize Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we are
reminded that this work is in partnership as advocates, community
leaders, and this board. Together we are building a system where
survivors are believed, supported, and able to heal.
Thank you for standing with survivors and for recognizing this
important month.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
(Applause.)
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COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Mr. Chairman?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Beth and I worked together on this a long, long, long time ago.
And I will tell you just how important your organization has been and
how far Florida has come.
Back when I first got elected to the Florida House, the very first
bill I filed was one that Beth Knake asked me to file, and that was
one dealing with the investigation of rape. Back in those days, a
woman's raped, she's taken to the hospital, they had a rape kit where
they would do an investigation and take evidence, and they charged
the woman for the rape kit. Now, if you have a burglary in your
house and an officer comes and takes evidence, they don't charge you
for that, but they were charging rape victims for evidence collected.
And there was a tremendous backlog of those types of cases that were
just not being pursued.
And so my first bill -- and I have a picture with the governor
signing it -- was to make sure that any rape victim that's taken to a
hospital or to any medical facility and is examined, that there are no
charges for that. And so today things have changed so much. Back
in the stone ages, it was a whole lot different.
So thank you, and tell Beth I wish her well. Thank you.
MS. ANDERSON: I will. Thank you, Commissioner.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
(Applause.)
Item #4D
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING APRIL 12 - 18, 2026, AS
KNOW YOUR COUNTY GOVERNMENT WEEK IN COLLIER
COUNTY. TO BE ACCEPTED BY MIKIE STROH, COLLIER
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COUNTY SCHOOLS, SUSAN GOLDEN, LEAGUE OF WOMEN
VOTERS, ALONG WITH 35 JUNIOR AND SENIOR STUDENTS
FROM SEVEN AREA HIGH SCHOOLS. – MOTION TO
APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER HALL; SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO – ADOPTED
MS. PATTERSON: Item 4D is a proclamation designating
April 12th through 18th, 2026, as Know Your County Government
Week in Collier County. To be accepted by Mike Stroh, Collier
County Schools; Susan Golden, League of Women Voters; along
with 35 junior and senior students from seven area high schools.
Congratulations.
(Applause.)
MS. GOLDEN: Hi. I'm Susan Golden. And I'm here on behalf
of the League of Women Voters.
Know Your County Government is a partnership between 4H,
the Collier County Public Schools, and the League of Women Voters,
and this is the 43rd year for Know Your County Government. This is
our third and final day. And if the rumor is true, our County Manager
went through this same program when she was in high school here.
So you may be looking at a future County Commissioner or a County
Manager in the coming years.
So thank you very much for acknowledging the students, and we
really appreciate all of the county departments that have assisted us in
the last couple of months. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, if we could get a motion to
accept the proclamations.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: A motion to accept.
COMMISSIONER HALL: I'll move to approve.
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COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Motion and a second. All in favor,
signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Opposed, same sound, same sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: The ayes have it. Thank you. Thank
you, guys.
Item #5A
2027 KEEP COLLIER BEAUTIFUL CALENDAR BY 1-12
GRADE STUDENTS IN COLLIER COUNTY
MS. PATTERSON: Before we move, let's turn our attention to
the back of the room for the Artist of the Month. This month we are
proud to honor the talented winners of the 2027 Keep Collier
Beautiful Calendar Art Contest as our April Artist of the Month.
Keep Collier Beautiful has worked diligently to organize this
contest with invaluable support from Collier County's Solid Waste
division. Each year, students from first grade to 12th grade are
invited to submit original artwork that highlights the importance of
recycling, proper disposal, and their passion for protecting the
environment. Many of these young artists also participate in Keep
Collier Beautiful's annual community cleanups, including the Great
American Cleanup and the International Coastal Cleanup.
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Item #7
PUBLIC COMMENTS
With that, we move along to Item 7, public comments.
MR. MILLER: Good morning, Mr. Chair. We have one
registered speaker for this item, Cody Jones.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning, Mr. Jones.
MR. DAVIS: Good morning. Cody Davis is the --
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Cody Davis.
MR. DAVIS: Yes.
MR. MILLER: That is my bad.
MR. DAVIS: I’m speaking on the toxic dust issue related to
Coastal Waste and Recycling.
Commissioners and staff to this point have taken no action to
remedy the issue and repeatedly claims that the State preempts local
regulation of air pollution, but this is not true, and the County
Attorney knows this.
In 2019, the Collier County Water Pollution Control and
Prevention Ordinance was passed. Mr. Klatzkow was the County
Attorney at the time, and both Commissioners McDaniel and
Saunders were in office.
In the opening text of this ordinance it reads: The Board of
County Commissioners hereby makes the following findings. Florida
Statute Section 403.182 allows local government to adopt ordinances
relating to local pollution control programs that are stricter or more
extensive than those imposed by the Florida Air and Water Pollution
Control Act.
Sarasota, Hillsborough, Duval, Peninsula, Orange, and other
Florida counties all currently maintain their own local air pollution
control programs according to the Florida Department of
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Environmental Protection.
I understand that creating a local air pollution program would
require getting approval from the FDEP, but a procedural hurdle is
completely different from preemption.
The County's hands are not tied. There is no state preemption,
and the County is aware of this -- the County Attorney is aware of it,
proven by the 2019 Water Pollution Ordinance, yet the County
continues to claim preemption anyway.
I also recognize that this toxic dust issue is an acute problem that
can't wait for the process of creating a local air pollution program,
which is why I urge the County to make use of another option at its
disposal that doesn't require approval from the FDEP.
Florida Statute 403.7046, which regulates recovered materials
dealers, such as this waste facility, states in Subsection (2)(e),
nothing in this section shall prohibit a local government from
enacting ordinances designed to protect the public's general health,
safety, and welfare.
From 2018 to '26, this property has had 33 code violations
complaints, while in the past decades only nine. Independent testing
demonstrated elevated levels of Fiberglass, gypsum, and other toxins
in the dust being spread by the facility. In its current state, it's a
demonstrable threat to the public's health, safety, and welfare.
The County Attorney has clear authority to remedy this situation
quickly, but no action has been taken, all while several residents are
getting badly sick, and businesses are being harmed because of the
County's failure to act. I ask that the Board direct the County
Attorney to draft an ordinance under Statute 403.7046, Subsection
(2)(e), and return it to the Board within 30 days.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you.
(Applause.)
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right.
Item #11A
RESOLUTION 2026-83: A RESOLUTION REPEALING AND
REPLACING RESOLUTION 2025-219 BY INCREASING AND
AUTHORIZING THE BORROWING AMOUNT UNDER THE
FLORIDA LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE COMMISSION’S
POOLED COMMERCIAL PAPER LOAN PROGRAM TO A NOT-
TO-EXCEED PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $300,000,000. THIS
LOAN IS SECURED BY A SUBORDINATE PLEDGE OF AND
LIEN ON THE NET REVENUES OF THE WATER AND SEWER
UTILITY SYSTEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF
THE LOAN AGREEMENT AND AS PROVIDED IN THE
RESOLUTION APPROVING SUCH LOAN; AUTHORIZE
EXECUTION OF THE LOAN NOTE OR LOAN NOTES TO
EVIDENCE SUCH BORROWING; AUTHORIZE THE
EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF OTHER SUCH DOCUMENTS
AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO EFFECT SUCH BORROWING;
AND AUTHORIZE ALL NECESSARY BUDGETAMENDMENTS.
(KATRINA LIN, MANAGER - FINANCIAL OPERATIONS) –
MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS;
SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO – ADOPTED
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 11.
Item 11 is -- 11A is a recommendation that the Board of County
Commissioners, as the ex officio governing board of the Collier
County Water/Sewer District, approve a resolution repealing and
replacing Resolution 2025-219 by increasing and authorizing the
borrowing amount under the Florida Local Government Finance
Commission's Pooled Commercial Paper Loan program to a
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not-to-exceed principal amount of $300 million. This loan is secured
by a subordinate pledge and lien on the net revenues of the water and
sewer utility system in accordance with the terms of the loan
agreement and as a provided in resolution approving such loan;
authorize execution of the loan note or loan notes to evidence such
borrowing, authorize the execution and delivery of other such
documents as may be necessary to effect such borrowing, and
authorize all necessary budget amendments.
Ms. Katrina Lin, your manager of Financial Operations, is here
to present.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Good morning.
MS. LIN: Thank you, County Manager.
Good morning, Commissioners. For the record, Katrina Lin,
Financial Operations manager for the Public Utilities department.
Commissioners, I'm here to provide a presentation or answer
any questions at the direction of the Board.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'd like to --
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I'd like to hear the -- yeah, I'd also like
to hear the presentation. Thank you, Ms. Lin.
MS. LIN: Sure.
Next slide, please.
Today we are seeking your approval of the resolution as the
governing board of the Collier County Water/Sewer District to repeal
and replace Resolution 2025-219.
This action will increase authorized borrowing capacity under
the Commercial Paper Loan program from 200 million to a not to
exceed 300 million as the interim gap funding, prior to issuance of
any long-term f-i-x-e-d rate bond.
Next slide, please.
Here's the agenda for today's discussion. We'll go over a brief
background of prior Board actions, discuss the benefits of using the
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commercial loan program, and staff's recommendation.
Next slide, please.
This request builds on a series of Board actions since 2023 in
conjunction with the Finance Committee, leading to where we are
today. The next two slides summarize that progression.
Next slide, please.
In brief, this program has expanded in scope and growing
capacity, now increasing to a 300 limit -- excuse me -- 300 million
limit as recommended by the Finance Committee. To date, no draws
have been made. Projects have continued on a cash-funded basis.
Next slide, please.
There are three key benefits of the commercial loan program.
This program ensures that we can bridge timing gaps between project
expenditures and long-term financing or revenue collection. The
approval does not trigger borrowing and does not require an
immediate draw or obligation. It simply preserves access to a
cost-effective funding tool.
The commercial paper provides flexible access to low-cost,
short-term financing when needed. It allows staff to respond quickly
to construction schedules, market conditions, and refinance into
long-term fixed-rate bonds where rates are most favorable.
Next slide, please.
In summary, this is a proactive step to align our financing
capacity with the County's growing capital program while
maintaining prudent financial controls.
Staff recommends approval of the resolution to increase the
commercial loan program borrowing amount not to exceed
300 million and to authorize all related actions necessary to
implement the program.
Thank you. I'm happy to answer any questions.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. Thank you.
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Any questions from the Board?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I don't see any. I have one quick one.
How -- how often do we visit this -- you know, the idea where we cap
what we go to when it comes to commercial paper? I mean, how
often does this come around that we revisit to see if we're at the right
spot or not?
MS. LIN: So, Commissioners, this is subsequent actions after
our rate study and the Board approved the Annual Update and
Inventory Report, we evaluate our capital program needs and then
evaluate the threshold that we have under the Commercial Paper
Loan program.
So far we expect to be over 300 million. And this was approved
as part of the rate study in conjunction with the -- our financial
advisor, PFM, and the Finance Committee.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you. No other questions.
All right. Do we have a motion to pass this resolution?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Mr. Chairman, I'll make a
motion to approve.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. So I have a motion. Do I
have a second?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Second.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Motion and two seconds. All in favor,
signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Opposed --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye (delayed).
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: -- same sound -- opposed, same sound,
same sign.
All right. He got his "aye" in quick enough. All right; it passed.
Thank you so much.
MS. LIN: Thank you, Commissioners, for your support.
(Applause.)
Item #13A
THE ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2025, AND
AUTHORIZATION TO FILE THE RELATED STATE OF
FLORIDA ANNUAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL
REPORT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES.
– MOTION TO ACCEPT PRESENTATION BY COMMISSIONER
SAUNDERS; SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO –
APPROVED
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 13.
13A is a presentation of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
for the fiscal year ended September 30th, 2025, and authorization to
file the related State of Florida Annual Local Government Financial
Report with the Department of Financial Services.
And Mr. Derek Johnssen from the Clerk's office is here to
present. I'm sorry. I don't know your actual title.
MR. JOHNNSEN: Finance director.
MS. PATTERSON: Finance director.
MR. JOHNNSEN: Thank you very much, ma'am.
Good morning, Commissioners, Derek Johnssen from the
Clerk's Office.
Today we're happy to present to you the 2025 Annual
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Comprehensive Financial Report and the results of the Fiscal Year
2025 audit.
This process requires the cooperation of all county departments
as well as the Sheriff, Clerk, Property Appraiser, Tax Collector, and
Supervisor of Elections. I would like to personally thank my staff,
county administration, the budget office, the County Attorney's
Office, and staff throughout the County and constitutional offices for
their combined dedication to this task.
The process starts really in the middle of the summer with
interim audit procedures and culminates in the report that you see
today. We are proud to report that the 2024 edition was also the
recipient of the GFOA's Award for Excellence in financial reporting,
and it's included in this year's document.
Also, I'd like to plug our popular annual financial report. I've
got to admit it's a lot more readable than what we're going to put in
front of you today, and everyone needs to read that.
I'm also happy to be delivering to you today an unmodified audit
opinion, which is really the best that we can receive.
With me today are Mr. Kessler, the partner in charge on your
audit, as well as Ms. Alexandra Mitchell, senior manager, both from
CliftonLarson. We have a short presentation to bring you, and then
we'll be around for questions afterwards.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, Derek.
MR. KESSLER: Thank you, Derek.
Good morning, Commissioners.
How do I move the slide?
Perfect. All right. Well, good morning. As Derek indicated, we
have good news to share this morning in that the audit was clean;
very successful audit for 2025. A lot of hard work goes into that
document by your staff as well as the staff at the Clerk's Office and
all the other constitutional officers that provide financial data that's
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covered in the scope of the audit.
So I have a brief presentation prepared to talk through some of
the details of the audit as we go through and some financial
highlights of what we saw in 2025.
So as a refresher, the scope of what we do in our audit
procedures are really covered in these three buckets that are here on
the screen here. We audit your financial statements, so your Annual
Comprehensive Financial Report, the ACFR, the
multiple-hundred-page document that you have in front of you.
We also audit the federal compliance every year -- that's referred
to as the single audit -- in accordance with federal guidelines, and
that's your federal grants that you spend during the fiscal year
ensuring that they are in compliance with the rules and regulations
and proper protocol for those expenditures, as well as state
compliance. So that includes your state grants, looking at your
expenditures, as well as serving compliance with state statutes around
investments and your e911 operations as well.
Our audit reports are covered in these five points here. So these
are our deliverables that CLA prepares. And the rest of it, just to put
it in perspective, the two, three hundred pages that are in your ACFR
are all prepared by the Clerk's Finance Department and your team
putting that information together.
So what we do is we issue these opinions that are in your
document, but we are audit -- auditing those numbers and your
internal controls that are included within this document and all of
your major funds, footnotes, and supporting schedules there. So from
an audit standard standpoint, the scope has not changed from prior
years, so these five areas are comparable with prior years.
From an opinion standpoint, as was previously mentioned, we
issued unmodified opinions both on your financial statements and
your single audits for federal and state compliance, meaning that that
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that's clean opinions. No exceptions. It's the highest level of opinion
that you can receive within your financial reports.
And within both the financial statements and your single audit,
there were no findings. No material weaknesses, no significant
deficiencies. And what that ultimately means is, is when I say we
look at your internal controls and your transaction process and in
your compliance, we did not note any exceptions or any issues in
what we looked at. So we have nothing to report in that regard.
For overall communications just that are important for you-all as
the Board, as governance of the County, just a couple things here.
We had no changes to our scope, you know. What we planned in the
summer when we start this back in July did not change between that
point in time and the issuance of the report, meaning that everything
was as planned, no surprises, nothing significant that we had to dig
into.
Significant accounting policies are in accordance with generally
accepted practices, so no concerns or issues there. No difficulties in
performing the audit. In fact, this was, in my opinion, one of our
better audit years in how smooth and efficiently everything went.
So kind of jumping around the slide, you know. A huge thank
you to everybody at the County and the Clerk's Office for making
sure that that was efficient, no less smooth this year. So I think it was
a great success on everybody's front at that point.
There was one thing in the opinion I do want to highlight here
that we call an emphasis of a matter, and what this means is is under
the professional standards, if there's something significant within the
financial statements, we call highlight to it. It does not change our
opinion. It does not mean it's something bad or anything along those
regards, but we want to make sure the readers of the final statements
understand that there's something changed from prior year. There
was a new accounting standard that had to go into effect this year that
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required the County to do some more, I'd say, legwork and
calculation regarding leave balances, so PTO, vacations, sick time
that employees had accumulated and what that liability looks like.
I'll cover that in detail in a further slide, but just know that's in your
opinion, just to -- just to highlight and to bring readers' attention to it.
Some financial highlights quickly, just to let you all know kind
of how things are looking for Fiscal Year '25 based off the audit
results. We tested 12 grants in total between your federal and your
state programs. It was over $45 million in expenditures that were
subject to testing there, and that includes the Coronavirus State and
Local Fiscal Recovery Funds of 16 million last year and then
transit-related federal grants of over $10 million last year as well.
Your governmental activities, so that's your General Fund and
all your governmental activities, you had an increase of net position,
so that's -- that's increase of income over prior year of $197 million,
and your General Fund had a fund balance increase of $915,000 year
to year.
Your business type activities, utilities, waste, those kinds of
operations, you had an increase of your net position of $114 million
there as well.
So all strong financial position results for 2025 working its way
through the financial statements there.
As a quick highlight, when we talk about that accounting
change, I just wanted to put this in front of you just for a little bit of
perspective. The compensated absence is liability. It's -- as I said,
it's vacation, leave time, sick time that has been obligated to County
employees, and that includes time not only that might be paid out
upon termination but also time that might be used. So the accounting
requirements require you to put a liability to say you have obligated
these leave balances to employees, and here's the value in the
financial statements.
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So the prior-year ending balance in your governmental activities
was $43.8 million. The change in accounting rules had to restate that
with a $25 million increase to 68.7 million, and your ending balance
for 2025 was $71 million.
So there's nothing you can do to pay down that number. There's
nothing you can do to change that liability in your financial position.
This is just the encapsulation of the obligation you have made to
employees. If you changed any sort of leave policies, that could
cause an increase or a decrease in any given year depending on how
you-all structure that and how the constitutional officers structure
that, but that doesn't change any sort of budgetary requirement or any
sort of cash outflow from your perspective as that liability changes.
But it is a big number, so I just wanted to highlight that and make
sure we at least touched on that.
So with that said, you know, again, I'll say a huge thank you to
everybody at the County, at the Clerk's Office, at all the
constitutional officers that got us here to deliver this report in a
timely and efficient fashion. We love working with you-all here at
Collier County. We appreciate the opportunity to serve as your
auditors.
And with that said, I will pause for any questions, feedback,
anything else from the Commission.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: It doesn't appear I have any questions
from the Board here at this time. Thank you for the presentation.
I just assume we just accept this. There's no vote that has to be
taken?
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Derek?
MR. JOHNNSEN: We need a motion to approve the report and
accept the report.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay.
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MR. JOHNNSEN: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, Derek.
So do I have a motion to approve the report?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Mr. Chairman, I'll make a
motion to accept the report as presented.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: We have a motion. And a second?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I have a motion and second. All in
favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All opposed, same sound, same sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. The ayes have it.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Bill is -- Bill is weakening by
the moment.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Right. He might need a court reporter
break.
MS. PATTERSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 15,
staff and commission general communications.
Item #15A
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA BY INDIVIDUALS NOT
ALREADY HEARD DURING PREVIOUS PUBLIC COMMENTS
IN THIS MEETING
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Item 15A is public comments on general topics not on the
current or future agenda by individuals not already heard during
previous public comments in this meeting.
MR. MILLER: We have none.
Item #15B
STAFF PROJECT UPDATES
MS. PATTERSON: All right. Item 15B, staff project updates,
we do not have any.
Item #15C
STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
That brings us to 15C, staff and commission general
communications. I'm going to just brief you a little bit on
the -- what's going on with the fire that's over in the Picayune.
So we do have an update from this morning. So the update this
morning from the Florida Forest Service stated that it originally was
just under 1500 acres. That number's increased to just under
2,000 acres have burned, and the fire still remains at 15 percent
contained.
Overnight -- and this is important to highlight because there may
be a misunderstanding out there with the public. Crews were
working overnight. They improved lines around structures and
performed a 15-acre burnout to reduce the spread of the fire towards
populated areas. So just because people aren't seeing things
happening, there's things happening.
With that, I have to say a huge thank you to our Collier County
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Sheriff's Office. Other county resources have poured in. Lee County
sent strike teams as well as the state agencies, and we have,
obviously, County staff, Greater Naples Fire District. This is in their
fire district, so all hands on deck for this 24-hour-a-day operation.
We did have an 8:30 briefing, and our Emergency Management
staff were in attendance. And Mr. Shaw, who's our interim director
of Emergency Management, is probably currently on a recon flight
with the incident command staff to look at it from the air.
Today, they'll be concentrating on the left flank of the fire and
behind the Swamp Buggy track. They're working in two divisions.
So they have the resources split into two.
County Road and Bridge is currently on standby for any closures
that may become necessary on 951, depending on the wind and
visibility and smoke. So we'll stand by for that direction.
There were folks -- the number was seven, the people that spent
the night at the Golden Gate Community Center for a safe haven.
There are no occupants there currently, but the safe haven remains
opened for continued need.
We are looking, as this progresses through the day, to see if we
need to offer perhaps the South Regional Library or some other parks
locations if people are experiencing any concerns due to the smoke.
So if we need to open those rooms up for people to go and get into a
better smoke-free environment, we'll look to do that.
With that, if you have any questions for me -- Mr. French was at
the scene last night at the community center helping those folks out.
Mr. Mullins, in the back, is running the communication as well. So if
I have any questions from the Board, we're receiving regular updates
from our partners in the field.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Just wait till my turn.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Oh, okay. Commissioner Saunders,
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did you want to make comment?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, just a couple quick
questions. I understand that there have been some structures, perhaps
a couple barns that have burned. Have there been any houses or any
other --
MS. PATTERSON: No.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- combination of that?
MS. PATTERSON: No. There's no report of structural loss. I
don't even know if the barns completely burned or if they were
damaged. But the last report I got was there were no homes that were
lost. So they're continuing to protect those -- those homes.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And in terms of just electric
power in the general areas, are there electrical outages or anything?
MR. FRENCH: Not aware of any.
MS. PATTERSON: Mr. French says none that we're aware of at
this time.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: I do know FP&L was on scene last
night at one point with their trucks. So sometimes that's standard for
them to shut down the grids so it don't spark more.
MS. PATTERSON: Yep.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: My understanding is that at
the areas that we're using as shelters, there are no services or anything
available.
MS. PATTERSON: No.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'm wondering if we can
make available, you know, snacks and water and that sort of thing, if
you need authorization to do that.
MS. PATTERSON: Yes, sir. We had actually discussed that
this morning, to be able to at least provide some waters and some
snacks at these locations for people whether they're staying or just
going to take a break. So we'll take care -- we can take care of that.
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COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: You don't need any
authorization from us? Well, why don't we do this, why don't we
authorize the manger to, in her discretion, provide necessities, water
and snacks and that sort of thing, at the shelter if any is needed?
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Sure.
MS. PATTERSON: Very good. Thank you.
I should mention --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I agree.
MS. PATTERSON: -- the horses also -- so this is an area that's
quite -- has quite a few barns. My understanding, all of the horses
were safely evacuated. In fact, there are six of them staying where I
keep my horse. So they've spread out throughout the county. There
was a really good effort of folks bringing horse trailers in to get the
horses out of there.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner McDaniel, did you have
a comment?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, no, Mr. Chair. I just
wanted to concur with Commissioner Saunders on the ramping up the
support at the shelter.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Okay. Well, thank you for the report.
Hopefully we can just keep the citizens updated as we move along
with this. It sounds like it's moving south now, I mean, if it's heading
towards the Swamp Buggy track there from where it initially started.
MS. PATTERSON: Yeah. And it will depend, of course, on
wind conditions. That was the enemy yesterday, because we had
pretty heavy winds, which helped, obviously, fuel the fire. So again,
they've split into the two groups to be able to fight this fire. I
understand more resources are coming in through Forestry as well.
And again, Road and Bridge is on standby. We do have heavy
equipment, water tenders, things like that that we can help with. As
soon as they make that call, we'll be there to deploy those resources.
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And I should mention also for folks that are needing the safe
haven, we were -- we did take pets. We got supplies and things from
DAS to be able to accommodate those animals. So we don't want
anybody staying behind out of fear of not being able to bring their
pets to these places. We'll figure that out and help them out.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I believe did -- Mr. French, did you guys want to make a
comment reference to --
MR. FRENCH: Well, Commissioner, I don't know if you
wanted me to comment on the former speaker, his comments on the
pollution.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Well, I just -- it was a strong word that
said that we did nothing several times, and to me I felt like we
probably did something, and that's why I asked you for that
information.
MR. FRENCH: We sure did do a lot. And Ms. Cook is very
familiar. She did work for the State of Florida Department of Health
for some time, and she did monitor air quality.
There was a reference made to Sarasota, Hendry, and Glades. In
fact, that is titled their county pollution control, but indeed, that is run
by State of Florida.
And under that ordinance, you certainly can -- you certainly can
adopt an ordinance. County Attorney, I'm certain, is surely aware of
this; however, what happens is that the DEP remains in sole
authority. So at any time the DEP can come in and make that final
ruling.
And what happens under that ordinance, it is clearly guided that
if you were to do that, you were to demonstrate a program and you
can send it up to them for consideration, the local government would
be fully accountable. They would have to demonstrate that they have
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both the lab testing facilities, staffing, financial resources, and all of
that -- all of those things that are required, and it would have to be
approved by the DEP.
And at any time the DEP can step in and make final ruling.
They can deregulate that county, and that is -- that is the first passage
of the ordinance that -- or I'm sorry -- the statute that is regulated. It's
your first line of text.
So with regards to that, we have had several occasions out there.
We have been in constant communication. Mr. Iandimarino -- we
just spoke about this the other day, and I'm sure Tom wasn't here, but
I will tell you that my understanding is that DEP was on site and that
the site passed from the DEP.
So there was a ruling made by them. We'll be happy to brief the
Board later. I'll go gather that information. I can send that to you
independently. But this is not something -- again, as I said
previously, this is a preexisting site, probably been there -- I know it's
been there north of 40 years. It used to be Yahl Mulching. I think
they named the street after them because they were one of the first
ones there.
There has been an influx of different types of businesses that
have moved in. Clearly, from the zoning and building element that I
oversee, people are seeking the highest and best value of their
property; however, what happens is that this is a -- this is a -- a
business. Whether or not it's changed ownership or not, it has been
an established business for a very long time.
So moving next to the airport doesn't mean you're not going to
get airport noise. And I'm -- I'm certainly not diminishing the
particular matter that's there. We know it's there. We see it in a lot
of our industrial parks, concrete plants, these type of things, clearly,
it's not a place that would likely be ideal to move next to.
So at the end of the day, we are very involved with this.
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, Mr. French.
MR. FRENCH: And then we can also -- like I said, we're
looking at our parks, as the County Manager said, with regards to
helping these folks out. We really appreciate the Sheriff's Office. I
think Sergeant Ruthy (phonetic) was actually out there helping me
last night at DAS, and we were loading up cages and food and things
like that just in the event that -- because we did have a number of
people show up with small pets that we're happy to accommodate.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Well, I would like, in the future
if -- because I know there was a -- there was an official report, and it
came from the EPA, the State. And I know the report was recently.
And I guess they did two visits, a surprise visit and a scheduled visit.
But if you could put something together just to brief us on where
they're at and what's going on, I'd appreciate that.
MR. FRENCH: Yes. I'll make sure all the Board members gets
it.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Thank you, sir.
MR. FRENCH: Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Commissioner Saunders, do
you have anything else to add?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I do not, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you. I will say that this is --
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Well, that's something.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, just a thought. The
students here, this is probably the shortest meeting we've had in my
memory. Usually we go until 3 or 4 o'clock, sometimes 8 o'clock.
Once I think we went to 1 a.m.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: One a.m., yes. I think that was our
first meeting, Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER HALL: 1:30.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: 1:30.
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CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Not in the afternoon.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: But anyways. Again, looking
forward to -- I think we're having lunch with you fellows, you folks,
so looking forward to that.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner Hall.
COMMISSIONER HALL: Thank you, Chairman.
I did want to say welcome to the meeting. This was a great one
for you to have to endure. You made it through the financial audit.
And if you can do that, you got it made.
But anyway, we'll look forward to seeing you at noon and
chatting with you a little bit and getting to know you. So thanks for
coming.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, Chairman. Yeah,
I have three short totally unrelated things.
First, I want to thank the County Manager and our fire chiefs
and fire commissioners last night. There was great communication
back and forth to all of us. I happen to have some communities that
are on the outskirts of the fire, so they're not affected by the flames
but definitely by the smoke.
When I checked in with all my general managers and HOA
presidents and all the people of the communities that I thought might
be affected, they had already heard from their fire commissioners,
their fire chiefs. So they were -- they were all, you know, so pleased.
So we were all paddling in the same direction, which was very
impressive.
And then even -- you know, redundancy's not a bad thing, so
you gave us a lot of detail, and an hour prior to that, Jamie French
sent the same thing. So I can just tell you as a commissioner I felt
very confident and comfortable with what was going on, and I think
we were all getting, you know, that detailed information, which was
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good.
The second thing I want to say, and it's going to come to us, I
think, in future meetings. But you might recall -- maybe it was last
year -- I had what I called an eyesore house on Goodland that we had
sort of kicked the can on for years and years and years, allowing
people to violate all these codes and have their front yard look like
a -- you know, a trash heap, and foreclosed on that house in less than
30 days, got it turned around.
There's another one that's going to come to us. So this is just
more of a statement. We can do something about these houses. I
want to really thank Mr. Klatzkow and his leadership and his team
and also our Code Enforcement team.
So if there's -- if there's citizens out there that live next to these
houses, we don't have a crystal ball so -- you know, we don't drive up
and down the streets five times a day looking for these houses, but
bring them to our attention, and they have to meet very specific
codes. I mean, houses just can't be a junkyard just because you own
it or rent it, and we are starting to put some teeth into these houses
one at a time, but you've got to start somewhere.
So there's another one that's coming to us, and there
might -- there's plenty of others, you know, around in the district, and
it's about time that we used the resources that we have at our disposal
to either force them to take action -- we're not trying to pull the keys
out of their hand, but, you know, when you get past the point of no
return, you know, we have to move on to something much more
aggressive.
And then to the students here I wanted to make a couple
comments. First of all, most of the people have exited, but as you
students may or may not know, this is being televised. It's -- it's on
rapid repeat on all the government channels.
But just look at the way these students are dressed, like, how
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professionally they are. You know, I walk through the mall, I'm out
at the beach, we all are, and, you know, I see the kids with the
backwards hats, you know, the jeans down to their ankles, their
underwear showing, you know, not really dressed professionally and
appropriately. And granted, this is government day, so I'm sure
maybe you're wearing your Sunday best, but you should.
And the reality is, when I run across young adults who are
involved in anything, okay, Boy Scouts, beach cleanup, government
day, doing something in your high school, it tends to lead to a -- to a
student that's sort of operating at a much higher level not only
academically but giving back to their community, and then they tend
to go on and do great and wonderful things.
So I really applaud you for being here. Maybe it was
mandatory. Maybe it gets you out of school. I don't know what
the -- what the deal is, but I know that's not the case. But there are
young superstar professionals in our community, and it's great to see
them so concentrated in one room right now.
But go out and make this contagious to some others, because
you have some people that I believe you are a real example to, as
students, to those that maybe kind of don't get it, you know. So
they're sort of sometimes causing trouble in the county, or they're out
of the sight, out of mind, and, you know, not involved at all. And,
obviously, you've stepped forward.
To Commissioner Saunders' point, this is probably the least
helpful meeting to witness because when we are in here till 6, 7,
8 o'clock at night and we have 70 people on this side telling us we're
the worst commissioners in the world and we're ruining Collier
County, and then we have 70 people on this side saying "Please
approve this one particular project. It's going to do so many
wonderful things in the county," and then they plop the decision on
our -- you know, on our desks here, you really realize that these jobs
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sometimes can look easy from the cheap seats.
None of us wake up in the morning figuring out how we can
make county worse or how we can turn Collier County into Miami.
But there's a lot of rules and regulations we have to go by. So just
because 50 citizens tell us they want or don't want something, we
can't -- we can't vote a popularity contest.
And so a lot of times -- and I've said this phrase a lot, and we've
all said it, sometimes we're forced to vote on the things we hate the
least, but it's legal -- it's not illegal. It's not immoral. It's not
unethical. And we just can't do nothing or ignore something because
some people are telling us to do it.
So if you were in here one of those days, boy, you'd feel the
tension in the room. It's about 15 degrees warmer because there's
about 200 people in here sometimes with posters and signs and things
like that, and you really get a chance to see how government works,
how citizens, their involvement can make a difference or sometimes
their involvement but lack of understanding of -- you know, just
sitting at the podium and screaming, "We don't want it. We pay your
salary. We elect you. You need to do what we tell you to do," that's
actually not how government works.
And so we'll talk about it a little bit more at lunch. But, you
know, I invite you to tune in on some of these public channels to
watch some of our commissioner meetings, because if we have to
endure it till 2 o'clock in the morning, you should be watching it as
well, okay?
But thank you for being involved and for what you do. And I
hope you do go out and do great things in our community. And often
when I talk to young students, I always say, "You don't have to want
to be a County Commissioner. There's a thousand different jobs in
county government that support our county."
You know, before I did this, I was the chief operating officer at
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Physicians Regional, and I used to do this exact same thing in the
hospital, and sometimes students would say, "Oh, my God. Now that
I'm in the hospital, I couldn't imagine going into the ER. I couldn't
imagine doing doctor stuff. I hate blood. I couldn't give somebody a
shot."
Our hospital is the same thing as sort of the County. We have
people in the hospital that are accountants, security, that work in
radiology. So everything's not in the operating room, you know,
doing the -- sort of the surgeon, you know, type of thing. And it's the
same thing at the County. We have such a dynamic staff doing all
kinds of other things. It's not just about, "Well, are you going to run
for office or not? Are you going to be a politician or not?"
And one of the things that makes me really proud to sit up here,
even though we oftentimes agree to disagree, we even get comments
from citizens who go, "This is probably the most professional five
commissioners we've had here." Because we agree, but we disagree
at times, but we do it in a professional way. We're representing, you
know, the citizens.
And one of the things you didn't see today, it seemed like we
were just voting very quickly on different things. Before this meeting
happens, we spend sometimes days, weeks, months, even a year on a
particular topic before this is the final stop.
Yesterday was a full day for us sitting in our offices and having
County staff come to us and talk about the things that we vote on. So
there's a lot of behind-the-scenes work. We don't just come here and
go, "Okay. Yay or nay. You know, what are we voting on?" So it's
a much more complicated process.
But there are a lot of opportunities to be a public servant for
your community than just being an elected official. And I tell you,
all five gentlemen here -- we've got Commissioner McDaniel on the
phone. I don't think any of us consider ourselves politicians. You
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know, we consider ourselves public servants trying to serve the
community to the best of our ability.
And no matter what decision we make, it's not going to please
everybody. There's nothing we can do where everybody goes, "Yeah,
you're the greatest."
You know, we get emails where you read one, "You're horrible.
I can't wait till you get voted out of office. You've done nothing to
help Collier County."
Next email, "You're great. You're wonderful. I support you.
You should run for governor, and, you know, I'm so proud to have
you represent our district." So people come in all shapes and sizes.
But, you know, you're really the ones that will fill this building,
and maybe other buildings, Tallahassee or wherever you decide to go,
or just to be good citizens in the community who actually understand
how county and state and national federal government works.
I can't tell you the number of doors I knocked on when I was
first running, and I said, "Hi. I'm Rick LoCastro. I'm running for
District 1 County Commissioner."
And people that have lived here for 30 years, "I'm in District 1?
How many commissioners are there? What do you do? What's your
job?"
Take a deep dive into knowing the basics of how your local
government works and how you may or may not be able to get
involved, and even if you aren't, just being a good citizen in our
community and understanding who's your commissioner. What can
they vote on? What don't they vote on?
Sometimes we get three-page emails yelling at us about
something that we have no authority or jurisdiction, you know, to do,
or they're yelling at a citizen about something that's really a Governor
DeSantis type of decision.
So I might agree with everything, but I say, "Great -- great topic.
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Wrong email. You know, wrong person."
But thank you for being here. I look forward, you know, we all
do, to having lunch with you. And like I said, this might have been
the best example of a commissioner meeting but, you know, we spent
a lot of time in here but more time on the other side of this wall
preparing for votes and what we have to do here. And, you know, we
all take this responsibility seriously because it's a -- it's a big
important piece of the success of our county and -- but like I said, not
every decision will please everyone.
So think about some questions maybe that you're going to have
at lunch. And, you know, you've got the four of us here that have
certainly been sitting in these seats for a little bit and have seen a
little bit of everything.
But, you know, I commend you not only for the professional
way that you're dressed and how excited it seems that you are to be
here to miss school, maybe, but more than that, I think it's because
you really have a passion for what the community does and how you
can make a difference.
And so I think -- I wish citizens would see more of this. And we
have such a high concentration of excellence right now in this room.
I think I speak for all the commissioners when I say, "Man, it really
feels good seeing, you know, this group of you-all caring about what
our county does and how we do it."
And we want you to come up here and replace us possibly, some
of you, in the future, and do it better than us. You know, we always
want to see improvement, but thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Thank you, Commissioner.
Commissioner McDaniel, do you have anything to say from the
heavens or wherever you're at?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: When do I not, Mr. Chair?
I want to -- I want to first -- I want to first thank everybody for
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allowing me to attend remotely. I do want to say I'm awful
sorry -- today is one of my favorite days. Having served as a
commissioner for nine years, Know Your Local Government is a fun
event for me. I enjoy engaging with students.
And I just want to offer up a little caution for the students that
are there. Don't allow Commissioner LoCastro to lead you too far
down the trail. I won't be there to protect you, so just pay attention as
you go.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Troy, cut him off.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: But my meetings have -- easy
now, easy now.
My meetings have been going really well, and I'll look forward
to seeing you-all here in a few days.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. Thank you. Look forward to
it, too.
I look forward to having lunch with you guys here over -- I
believe at the courthouse on the sixth floor, I believe that's where
we're going.
I'd just like to say, I've been monitoring the fires too, myself,
through a couple different lines of communication, and I just want to
thank even the first responders coming from different jurisdictions to,
you know, aid us in this. I know we do the same, and that's what's
good about having a great working relationship with our other local
governments and our other entities within the state of Florida, even
outside of the state of Florida.
During hurricanes we get people from all over the country. And
we do the same. We send also -- and we have the ability to do that
because we do have such good constitutional officers and the
Sheriff's Office and our EMS and our public safety. Overall, they
have the opportunity to have the ability and the -- and the money to
support that cause to -- you know, it's all about public safety. I mean,
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that's first and foremost.
So let's just pray that we can get a grip on this fire, because it
could -- the winds could shift. And it's so close to some communities
that are, you know, right on the edge, on the cusp of it, and it could
really turn bad real quick. So let's just keep that in mind.
And just be patient out there, because there's probably going to
be areas where the roads are going to be congested. There's going to
be areas, because there's smoke, we may have to close certain things
down. I don't know if we've gotten to the point we're closing I-75 or
anything due to the wind shift. But I know in the past we've had to
do that because of visibility, because it could just cause a major
accident out there if the visibility gets to that point.
So just be patient. It's for the greater good, so I just want to say
that.
Anything else?
MS. PATTERSON: (Shakes head.)
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: County Attorney?
MR. KLATZKOW: Nothing, thank you.
CHAIRMAN KOWAL: All right. This meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners is adjourned.
COMMISSIONER HALL: It’s in the books.
*****
****Commissioner Hall moved, seconded by Commissioner
LoCastro and carried that the following items under the consent and
summary agendas by approved and/or adopted****
Item #16A1
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER
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UTILITY FACILITIES FOR HEALTHCARE NETWORK -
ORANGETREE. [PL20250012970]
Item #16A2
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE
FORECLOSURE PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTION
162.09, FLORIDA STATUTES, IN RELATION TO $164,823.60 IN
ACCRUING CODE ENFORCEMENT LIENS FOR ONGOING
VIOLATIONS AT 1500 DAFFODIL CT., NAPLES, FLORIDA
34120, ARISING FROM SPECIAL MAGISTRATE CASE NO.
CELU20200013266, TITLED BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, VS.
SHERRY LYNN HINDS.
Item #16A3
CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND
IN THE AMOUNT OF $86,200, WHICH WAS POSTED AS A
DEVELOPMENT GUARANTY FOR AN EARLY WORK
AUTHORIZATION (EWA) FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH
BRIGHTSHORE VILLAGE. [PL20240012346]
Item #16A4
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE
SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES AND APPURTENANT UTILITY
EASEMENT FOR PINEDA COMMERCIAL CENTER.
[PL20230017095]
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Item #16A5
COUNTY MANAGER, OR DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE
UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) IN THE
AMOUNT OF $46,876.40 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR
DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT FOR GREYSTAR MF
SANTA BARBARA – PHASE 1. [PL20240009049]
Item #16A6
THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT FOR SALE AND
PURCHASE WITH SYMPHONY PROPERTIES, LLC, A
CONSERVATION COLLIER ACQUISITION, EXTENDING THE
REMEDIATION PERIOD TO NOVEMBER 7, 2026, TO PROVIDE
ADDITIONAL TIME FOR THE SELLER TO COMPLETE
ADDITIONAL GROUNDWATER TESTING AND RECEIVE
WRITTEN APPROVAL FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION CERTIFYING THAT THE
REMEDIATION COMPLETED ON THE PROPERTY COMPLIES
WITH FLORIDA LAWS.
Item #16A7
RESOLUTION 2026-72: RESOLUTION FOR FINAL
ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVATE ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE
IMPROVEMENTS, AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE PLAT
DEDICATIONS, FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF WARM SPRINGS,
APPLICATION NUMBER PL20150001870 (PPL), AND WARM
SPRINGS – PHASE 2 (FP), APPLICATION NUMBER
PL20170001519, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE
MAINTENANCE SECURITIES IN THE AMOUNT OF
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$372,237.10 AND $164,509.20, RESPECTIVELY.
Item #16A8
DIRECT THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO ADVERTISE FOR A
PUBLIC HEARING AN AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE 2017-
27, WHICH REGULATES THE PLACEMENT AND PERMITTING
OF COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES IN THE COUNTY RIGHT-
OF-WAY.
Item #16A9– Add-On Item (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO ADVERTISE FOR FUTURE
CONSIDERATION AN AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE 1997-50,
THE COLLIER COUNTY PARKING ORDINANCE, TO
INCREASE PARKING VIOLATION FINES AND INCLUDE
PROCEDURAL AMENDMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
EVENTS OUTLINED IN THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE.
(STAFF’S REQUEST)
Item #16B1
A RELEASE OF SUBORDINATION OF COUNTY UTILITY
INTERESTS RELATED TO A SUBORDINATION IN FAVOR OF
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FDOT)
FOR A SITE LOCATED ON STATE ROAD 45 (U.S. 41), NEAR
THE OAKMONT PARKWAY, LYING WITHIN THE PELICAN
BAY COMMUNITY (UNIT 16) IN COLLIER COUNTY,
FLORIDA, F.P. NO. 4415121, PARCEL 800.2, RECORDED IN
OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 6500, PAGES 3509-3514.
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Item #16B2
AN AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A POND SITE
(PARCEL 315POND) REQUIRED FOR THE WILSON
BOULEVARD (GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD TO IMMOKALEE
ROAD) PROJECT (PROJECT NO. 60229). (ESTIMATED FISCAL
IMPACT: $238,594) OF $999,915.35
Item #16B3
THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE TWENTY (20) DEED CERTIFICATES
FOR PURCHASED BURIAL RIGHTS AT LAKE TRAFFORD
MEMORIAL GARDENS CEMETERY AND AUTHORIZE THE
COUNTY MANAGER OR DESIGNEE TO TAKE ALL ACTIONS
NECESSARY TO RECORD THE DEED CERTIFICATES WITH
THE CLERK OF THE COURT’S RECORDING DEPARTMENT.
Item #16B4
PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLLIER
COUNTY AND THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND FOR
ACQUISITION OF APPROXIMATELY 24.3 ACRES
COMPRISING APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MILES OF THE BONITA-
ESTERO RAIL CORRIDOR LOCATED IN COLLIER COUNTY
AT A PURCHASE PRICE OF $11,642,069; AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIR TO EXECUTE THE AGREEMENT AND ANY
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD PROCESS, INCLUDING
THE SEMINOLE GULF RAILWAY INDEMNITY AGREEMENT;
AND AUTHORIZE ADMINISTRATIVE AMENDMENTS TO
THE PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT NECESSARY TO
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INCORPORATE THE FINAL LEGAL DESCRIPTION INTO
EXHIBIT “A,” PROVIDED SUCH AMENDMENTS DO NOT
MATERIALLY ALTER THE SCOPE OF THE TRANSACTION.
Item #16B5
ACCEPTANCE OF THE GOLDEN GATE CITY WATER
RESOURCE PROTECTION-RESTORATION MASTER PLAN.
Item #16B6
APPROVE AND EXECUTE THE ATTACHED DEVELOPER
AGREEMENT WITH N.A. REALTY TRUST, INC.,
(DEVELOPER) FOR THE DESIGN, PERMITTING, AND
CONSTRUCTION OF THE EXTENSION OF VETERAN’S
MEMORIAL BOULEVARD, AND AUTHORIZE THE
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS.
Item #16C1
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AS THE EX-
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD OF THE COLLIER COUNTY
WATER-SEWER DISTRICT, AWARD INVITATION TO BID NO.
25-8400 TO U.S. WATER SERVICES CORPORATION FOR THE
RAW WATER BOOSTER PUMP STATION IMPROVEMENTS
PROJECT IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,345,947.43, APPROVE AN
OWNER’S ALLOWANCE OF $100,000, AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT. (PROJECT
NUMBER 70085)
Item #16C2
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A GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
TO ACCEPT FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,100,000 FOR
THE COLLIER COUNTY PUMP HARDENING &
REHABILITATION PROJECT, APPROVE ALL NECESSARY
FORMS, AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENTS. (FUND 4016, PROJECT 33981)
Item #16C3
A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH ZABATT ENGINE
SERVICES, INC., D/B/A ZABATT POWER SYSTEMS, INC.,
RELATED TO AGREEMENT NO. 23-8067 FOR THE TAMIAMI
WELL 23 GENERATOR REPLACEMENT PROJECT, WHICH
ADDS 45 DAYS TO THE FINAL COMPLETION DATE AND
WAIVES LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNT OF $6,578
RESULTING FROM A MANUFACTURER EQUIPMENT DEFECT
DELAYING THE TIMELY COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT,
AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
AGREEMENT. (PROJECT NO. 70069)
Item #16C4
AN ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT OF
MAJOR USER AGREEMENT FOR THE DELIVERY AND REUSE
OF IRRIGATION QUALITY (IQ) WATER ASSIGNING ALL
RIGHTS, DUTIES, BENEFITS, AND OBLIGATIONS FROM
NASSIF GOLF VENTURES, LLC D/B/A HIBISCUS GOLF CLUB
TO THE LANTERN CLUB, LLC, A FLORIDA LIMITED
LIABILITY COMPANY.
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Item #16D1
THIRTY (30) MORTGAGE SATISFACTIONS FOR THE STATE
HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP LOAN PROGRAM IN
THE AMOUNT OF $313,250.00, AND TO APPROVE A BUDGET
AMENDMENT TO RECOGNIZE $38,250.00 IN REVENUE FROM
LOAN PAYOFFS. (SHIP GRANT FUND 1053)
Item #16D2
FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS
GRANT SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT #ES25-01 BETWEEN
THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN, INC.,
AND THE COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, TO MODIFY THE PERIOD OF
PERFORMANCE, INCREASE THE PROJECT BUDGET BY
$30,000.00, UPDATE THE CONTACT INFORMATION, AND
REVISE GRANT AND SPECIAL CONDITIONS, GRANT
CONTROL REQUIREMENTS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS, AND
GENERAL PROVISIONS. (HOUSING GRANT FUND (1835),
PROJECT 33949)
Item #16D3
TWO (2) RELEASES OF LIEN FOR FULL PAYMENT IN THE
AMOUNT OF $17,335.91 PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT
FOR DEFERRAL OF 100% OF COLLIER COUNTY IMPACT
FEES FOR OWNER-OCCUPIED AFFORDABLE HOUSING
DWELLINGS.
Item #16D4
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A LANDLORD PAYMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLLIER
COUNTY AND EMI CARA FOR THE TENANT BASED RENTAL
ASSISTANCE (TBRA) PROGRAM, ALLOWING THE
COMMUNITY AND HUMAN SERVICES DIVISION (CHS) TO
PROVIDE GRANT-FUNDED RENTAL ASSISTANCE TO
INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN THE TBRA PROGRAM
THROUGH THE HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS
PROGRAM AND THE HOME-ARP GRANT PROGRAMS.
(HOUSING GRANT FUND 1835 AND HOME GRANT FUND
1848)
Item #16D5
FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY, THE
COLLIER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, AND DAVID
LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, INC., TO UPDATE
LANGUAGE PER NEW REQUIREMENTS. (NO FISCAL
IMPACT)
Item #16D6
THE CHAIR TO SIGN THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE
SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY
AND COLLIER COUNTY COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY (IMMOKALEE) TO AMEND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT AGREEMENT #CD24-02 TO
EXTEND THE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE, REDUCE THE
FUNDING AMOUNT TO $225,310.00, REVISE GRANT
LANGUAGE, AND UPDATE EXHIBITS REQUIRED. (HOUSING
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GRANT FUND 1835). (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO ITEM
16L1)
Item #16D7
THE COUNTY MANAGER TO SIGN ANY DOCUMENTS
REQUIRED BY CENTRAL FLORIDA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
NETWORK, INC. (CFBHN) FOR THE COORDINATED OPIOID
RECOVERY (CORE) NETWORK OF ADDICTION CARE FUNDS
(GRANT FUND 4053).
Item #16E1
AMENDMENTS TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
AGREEMENTS FOR THE IRS PLAN 457 DEFERRED
COMPENSATION PLANS WITH NATIONWIDE AND
MISSIONSQUARE, PROVIDING FOR CONTINUED OPEN
ARCHITECTURE INVESTMENT PLATFORM AND LOWER
RECORDKEEPING ADMINISTRATIVE FEES BENEFITING THE
INDIVIDUAL COLLIER COUNTY RETIREMENT PLAN
INVESTOR.
Item #16E2
INVITATION TO BID NO. 25-8399, “OEM FORD &
MOTORCRAFT PARTS, FLUIDS AND SUPPLIES – GRANT
FUNDED,” TO TAMIAMI FORD, INC., FOR THE PURCHASE OF
ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER ("OEM") PARTS,
FLUIDS, ACCESSORIES, RELATED SUPPLIES, AND FREIGHT
NECESSARY TO SUPPORT ONGOING COUNTY FLEET
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OPERATIONS, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO SIGN
THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT.
Item #16E3
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT BY THE PROCUREMENT
SERVICES DIVISION FOR VARIOUS COUNTY DIVISIONS’
AFTER-THE-FACT PURCHASES IN ACCORDANCE WITH
PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE NO. 2025-34 AND THE
PROCUREMENT MANUAL, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE
TIMELY PAYMENT OF OUTSTANDING INVOICES IN THE
AMOUNT OF $31,157.04.
Item #16F1
THE ANNUAL CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND
NECESSITY (COPCN) FOR MEDTREK MEDICAL TRANSPORT,
INC., TO PROVIDE CLASS 2 ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT (ALS)
INTER-FACILITY TRANSPORT AMBULANCE SERVICE FOR A
PERIOD OF ONE YEAR.
Item #16F2
ACCEPTANCE OF A REPORT OF ADMINISTRATIVE BUDGET
AMENDMENTS TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-26 ADOPTED
BUDGET APPROVED BY THE DESIGNATED BUDGET
OFFICER IN ACCORDANCE WITH BUDGET AMENDMENT
POLICY AND PROCEDURE RESOLUTION NO. 2025-188 AND
SECTION 129.06, FLORIDA STATUTES.
Item #16F3
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THE COUNTY MANAGER OR DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE AN
AFTER-THE-FACT AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERALLY
FUNDED SUBGRANT AGREEMENT FOR THE EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANT G0559 (EMPG),
EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE (POP) FROM
MARCH 31, 2026, TO JUNE 30, 2026, TO ALLOW FOR THE
RECEIPT AND PAYMENT PROCESSING OF GRANT
DELIVERABLES. (FUND 1833; PROJECT NO. 33927).
Item #16F4
RESOLUTION 2026-73: APPROVED AMENDMENTS
(APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS,
OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-26
ADOPTED BUDGET.
Item #16G1
THE BOARD, ACTING AS THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY, AWARD
BID NO. 25- 8521 "5,000 GALLON JET “A” AVIATION FUEL
TRUCK" TO SKYMARK REFUELERS, LLC, IN THE AMOUNT
OF $329,900, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO SIGN THE
ATTACHED AGREEMENT. (PROJECT 33936)
Item #16G2
RESOLUTION 2026-74: APPROVED AND AUTHORIZED THE
EXECUTION OF AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATION GRANT AGREEMENT (PTGA) 450316-1-94-
01, CONTRACT NO. G3680 WITH THE FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO ADD SIX (6)
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MONTHS TO THE CURRENT EXPIRATION DATE OF JUNE 30,
2026, MAKING THE NEW EXPIRATION DATE DECEMBER 31,
2026, TO THE AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A 5,000
GALLON JET A REFUELER TRUCK AT THE MARCO ISLAND
EXECUTIVE AIRPORT (MKY).
Item #16J1
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 $74,433,222.48 WERE DRAWN FOR THE
PERIODS BETWEEN MARCH 12, 2026 AND APRIL 1, 2026
PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06.
Item #16G2
THE BOARD APPROVED AND DETERMINED VALID PUBLIC
PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING
CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF APRIL 8, 2026.
Item #16J3
THE BOARD PROVIDED APPROVAL TO DESIGNATE THE
SHERIFF AS THE OFFICIAL APPLICANT AND POINT OF
CONTACT FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, OFFICE
OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS, BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE
EDWARD BYRNE MEMORIAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT
(JAG) FY ‘25 LOCAL STANDARD GRANT. AUTHORIZE THE
ACCEPTANCE OF THE GRANT WHEN AWARDED, APPROVE
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ASSOCIATED BUDGET AMENDMENTS, AND APPROVE THE
COLLIER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE TO RECEIVE AND
EXPEND 2025 JAG STANDARD GRANT FUNDS.
Item #16K1
RESOLUTION 2026-75: APPOINT TWO MEMBERS TO THE
RADIO ROAD BEAUTIFICATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Item #16K2
RESOLUTION 2026-76: APPOINT KELLY HYLAND TO THE
DOMESTIC ANIMAL SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Item #16K3
RESOLUTION 2026-77: APPOINT CECELIA MORALES TO THE
PUBLIC TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Item #16K4
STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $85,000
PLUS $21,760 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY AND EXPERTS’
FEES AND COSTS FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL 1338FEE
REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60249.
Item #16K5
STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$165,000 PLUS $53,647 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY AND
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EXPERTS’ FEES AND COSTS FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL
1325FEE2 REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60249.
Item #16K6
RESOLUTION 2026-78: APPOINT TWO MEMBERS TO THE
TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.
Item #16K7
RESOLUTION 2026-79: REAPPOINT TWO MEMBERS TO THE
ROCK ROAD IMPROVEMENT MSTU ADVISORY
COMMITTEE.
Item #16K8
RESOLUTION 2026-80: APPOINT JOHN TELISCHAK AND
REAPPOINT CINDY CARROL TO THE
HISTORIC/ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRESERVATION BOARD.
Item #16K9
REASSIGN THE CATEGORY OF BRUCE HAMELS FROM AN
AT-LARGE SEAT TO THE DISTRICT 5 SEAT ON THE COUNTY
GOVERNMENT PRODUCTIVITY COMMITTEE.
Item #16K10
A STIPULATED ORDER OF FURTHER EXTENDED
POSSESSION FOR PARCEL 1463RDUE/TDRE IN THE
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CONDEMNATION CASE STYLED COLLIER COUNTY V.
AL., CASE NO. 25-CA-240, ALLOWING CONTINUED
OCCUPANCY OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY THROUGH JUNE
30, 2026, UNDER SPECIFIED TERMS AND CONDITIONS, FOR
THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD EXTENSION PROJECT NO.
60249.
Item #16K11
AUTHORIZED THE MAKING OF AN OFFER OF JUDGMENT IN
THE AMOUNT OF $260,000.00 TO RESPONDENTS, JOEL
SYMONDS; BRENDA SYMONDS; ISLAND PARADISE
BUILDERS, LLC; AND BRENDA SYMONDS PA, IN THE
LAWSUIT STYLED COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA V. ROBERTO
T. SIERRA, ET AL.; CASE NO. 25-CA-225, FOR THE TAKING
OF PARCEL 1345FEE REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT
BEACH ROAD EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60249.
Item #16K12
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$125,000 PLUS $27,098 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY AND
EXPERTS’ FEES AND COSTS FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL
1282FEE REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60249.
Item #16K13
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$100,000 PLUS $19,677 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY AND
EXPERTS’ FEES AND COSTS FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL
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1360FEE REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60249.
Item #16K14
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$23,565 PLUS $15,511 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY AND
EXPERTS’ FEES AND COSTS FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL
1420TDRE REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60249.
Item #16L1
SECOND AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT CD24-02 TO
INCREASE TIME TO THE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE, AND
REDUCE THE FEDERAL FUNDING AMOUNT TO SUPPORT
THE REDUCTION IN ACTIVITIES FOR SAID AGREEMENT
BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY AND COLLIER COUNTY
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (IMMOKALEE)
FOR FY 2024/2025 HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
(HUD) COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
(CDBG), AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR OF THE CRA TO SIGN THE
SECOND AMENDMENT, AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENT. (THIS ITEM IS A COMPANION TO
ITEM 16D6)
Item #16L2
AGREEMENT FOR SALE AND PURCHASE TO ACQUIRE THE
PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2663 FRANCIS AVENUE FOR A
FUTURE STORMWATER EXPANSION PROJECT. THE COST
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FOR THIS TRANSACTION IS $440,000 PLUS ASSOCIATED
CLOSING COST.
Item #16M1
A 5 -YEAR USE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT
OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – DIVISION OF STATE
LANDS AND COLLIER COUNTY IN RELATION TO
ALLOWING THE PLACEMENT OF DREDGED SAND FROM
WIGGINS PASS ONTO DELNOR WIGGINS STATE PARK
BEACH, PER THE STATE’S REQUEST (PROJECT NO. 80288).
Item #17A
RESOLUTION 2026-81: DESIGNATED THE CLOSE-OUT OF
THE ADOPTED HERITAGE BAY PLANNED UNIT
DEVELOPMENT (PUD), WHICH HAS FULLY COMPLETED
DEVELOPMENT PURSUANT TO ITS DEVELOPMENT
ORDERS, CONSTRUCTING UP TO THE AUTHORIZED
DENSITY AND/OR INTENSITY, AND HAS BEEN FOUND BY
COUNTY STAFF TO BE COMPLIANT WITH ITS SPECIFIC
DEVELOPER COMMITMENTS. [PL20250011012]
Item #17B
RESOLUTION 2026-82: THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA,
RENAMING ANTHEM PARKWAY TO ANTHEM PARKWAY
NORTH, WHICH IS DEPICTED AS TRACT R-2 OF THE
ANTHEM PARKWAY – PHASE 5A SUBDIVISION, AS
RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 74, PAGES 77–83, AND TRACT R-1
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OF THE ANTHEM PARKWAY – PHASE 5B SUBDIVISION, AS
RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 77, PAGES 37–40, AND THAT
PORTION OF TRACT R OF THE AVE MARIA PHASE THREE
SUBDIVISION, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 48, PAGES 20–
21, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF COLLIER COUNTY,
FLORIDA, LOCATED IN SECTIONS 32 AND 33, TOWNSHIP 47
SOUTH, RANGE 29 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA.
[PL20260000164]
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There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 10:08 a.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL
___________________________________
DAN KOWAL, CHAIRMAN
ATTEST
CRYSTAL K. KINZEL, CLERK
___________________________
These minutes approved by the Board on __________________,
as presented ______________ or as corrected _____________.
TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF VERITEXT BY
TERRI L. LEWIS, REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL COURT
REPORTER, FPR-C, AND NOTARY PUBLIC.