Resolution 1999-342
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RESOLUTION 99-~
A RESOLUTION BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA; EXPANDING THE PHYSICAL BOUNDARY OF
THE IMMOKALEE ENTERPRISE ZONE PURSUANT TO THE FLORIDA
EMPOWERMENT ZONE ACT.
WHEREAS, the State of Florida has enacted the Florida Enterprise Zone
Act, Sections 290.001 - 290.016. Florida Statutes. to provide incentives by both
State and local government to induce private investment into distressed areas to
create economic opportunities and sustainable economic development; and
WHEREAS, the area included in Tracts 112.03.113, and 114 of the 1990
Census, published by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. hereafter known as the
Immokalee Community, is a distressed area which exhibits unacceptable levels
of poverty. unemployment, physical deterioration. and economic disinvestment;
and
WHEREAS. the Board of County Commission adopted Resolution #95-
248 on March 28,1995, nominating the Immokalee Community as an Enterprise
Zone pursuant to the Florida Enterprise Zone Act; and
WHEREAS. the State of Florida designated a portion of the Immokalee
Community as a State Enterprise Zone effective January 1. 1997; and
WHEREAS, the Immokalee Community as part of a cooperative
application with Hendry County and the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida, was
designated a Federal Rural Enterprise Community under the Empowerment
Zone/Enterprise Community Inillative by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in
January 1999; and
WHEREAS, the State enacted a companion program to the Federal
Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Initiative entitled the Florida
Empowerment Zone Act, under Chapter 99-342, Laws of Florida, which allows
State enterprise zone designations to correspond with the boundaries of federal
Enterprise Communities; and
WHEREAS, the entirety of Tracts 112.03, 113, and 114 are included in
the Rural Enterprise Community designation.
NOW. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA. that:
The Immokalee Enterprise Zone boundary is revised to include all of
Census Tracts 112.03. 113 and 114, as shown in Attachment A.
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This Resolution adopted after motion, second and majority vote favoring
DATED:
ATTEST:
DWIGHT E. BROCK
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Heidi F. Ashton
Assistant County Attomey
COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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