BCC Minutes 08/26/2008 E (Post Tropical Storm Fay)
August 26, 2008
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, August 26, 2008
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 district as has been created according to law and having
conducted business herein, met on this date at 3:00 p.m., in
EMERGENCY SESSION in Building "F" of the Government
Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following members present:
CHAIRMAN: Tom Henning
Donna Fiala (via speakerphone)
Jim Coletta
Frank Halas
Fred Coyle (Absent)
ALSO PRESENT:
Jim Mudd, County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Dan Summers, EOC Director
Dan Rodriguez, Solid Waste Management Department Director
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Welcome to the Board of
Commissioners' Emergency Meeting. Today is August 26, 2008.
And would you all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: County Manager, we have an
emergency.
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir. Weare still -- we're still trying to recover
from Tropical Storm Fay, and Mother Nature is not helping us much
as far as rainfall is concerned. In that regard, Mr. Summers and Mr.
Dan Rodriguez are going to talk a little bit another process for
recovery from Tropical Storm Fay, and it will have to do with the
debris management plan.
But last week, the latter part of the week, the President of the
United States answered the request from the Governor of the State of
Florida for an emergency declaration, and we received that. And we,
at that juncture, can now kick into trying to get the vegetative debris
and any construction debris off of the right-of-way at government
expense, so to speak. And there's a cost share amount, as you know,
that's 75/25; 75 federal, 25 local.
In the debris side of the house because Mr. DeLony had -- and
the board saw this and approved it months ago, he got his debris
removal plan preapproved by FEMA. That also put us in the extra 5
percent reimbursable rate. So in that particular regard, we should be at
80 percent federal and 20 percent local.
We have heard nothing about the state basically sharing our 20
percent with us. Normally it's a 50/50 split on that, and we'll -- and
we'll work that as we keep going along, and they break that news to us
one way or the other. But without further ado, I'd like to get staff up
here and basically describe to you our plans for debris manage --
debris removal.
And with that, we're going to have to ask the board to move
$450,000 out of the 111 fund reserve into this particular endeavor. It
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will -- we will use those monies to up front pay the cost of the debris
removal, and then we will be reimbursed by the federal government as
we pay those bills and we show them the vouchers, and they basically
approve the particular missions that we go through in order to pick
that stuff up.
Mr. Summers, did I miss anything?
MR. SUMMERS: No, sir.
MR. MUDD: Then you got anything to add to it?
MR. SUMMERS: No, sir, I don't. For the record, Dan Summers,
director of the bureau of emergency services, emergency management.
Commissioners, you are well aware of the activities going on in
the community and the EOC. We continue to monitor all the activities.
One of the things that I want to stress to the public is that we are
aware of some of the localized flooding on some of the roadways. But
I will tell you that we have no impasse to the delivery of emergency
services, and that's the most important thing. We can get our
emergency vehicles in some of these areas, and water is moving.
And just to recap two important points before I turn it over to
Dan Rodriguez to brief you on the debris removal, we, through the
help of community development/environmental services, their team
and the other agencies, we have reported to FEMA and the state about
$21 million worth of damage.
Now, let me make sure you understand that that -- when you do
these preliminary reports, these are emergency measures which
include overtime activity by all the response agencies, dependent and
independent fire districts, as well as nonprofit organizations and
schools and property damage.
So there was significant activity out there in terms of what you
would think is a tropical storm. Again, a lot of points with a lot of
locations with, quote, minor damage or emergency measures type
activity that you're familiar with. But by no -- by no stretch of the
imagination was this not a storm of reasonable impact to Collier
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County.
Two other points. In the presidential disaster declaration for
Collier County there are six reimbursement avenues, what they call
category A and category B. Category A and B are the only two
awarded to Collier County. In other words, those are emergency
measures activity, standing up the EOC, making ready for our
emergency response, and the other is emergency debris removal.
Those are the only two categories for reimbursement at this time.
As we send more of this damage data or community impact data
into the state and FEMA, if they want to add more categories for
reimbursement eligibility, things such as parks or beaches, roads,
bridges, water controls, all those other reimbursement categories, the
state may add -- the state or FEMA may add to those reimbursement
avenues. But right now it's just debris and emergency measures.
The other thing, a lot of folks have asked the question about the
FEMA 800 number for tele registration. FEMA has not authorized
Collier County what is referred to as individual and family grant
assistance which is why you call the 800 number to register. So they
have not authorized that for Collier County. So our limitations are
significant in recovery, meaning category A and category B only are
only approved at this time.
If I do get notification of other financial resources being made
available to our citizens or to the local government organizations, I
will be sure and pass that on. So those are the only two points that I
wish to clarify at this point.
So if! may, Mr. Chairman, I'll stop at this point, let Dan
Rodriguez come forward and discuss debris removal, and I'll be
available for any questions. Thank you.
Dan?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Good afternoon, Commissioners. For the
record, Dan Rodriguez, your Solid Waste Management Department
Director. I'm going to give you a brief presentation on our mission to
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remove hurricane debris from hurricane -- or I'm sorry, Tropical Storm
Fay.
The public utilities solid waste management department staff is
requesting that the board direct staff to utilize contractors under bid to
recover storm-related debris. We're also asking that we collect
material only from the public right-of-way and that we collect only
eligible debris approved by FEMA for reimbursements.
Just some quick background on Tropical Storm Fay, hit landfall
at Cape Romano on August 19th. The wind speed was about 60 miles
per hour. Strong winds generated substantial debris in Collier County.
FEMA debris specialists toured Collier County on August 22nd and
estimated that we have about 20,000 cubic yards of debris to be
collected, processed, and disposed.
Our operational phases for debris removal include the following
six: Pre-storm preparations. Commissioners, these preparations started
last fall as part of our preparation for hurricane season, which included
preparing and ensuring we had procured contracts for debris removal
and monitoring as well as getting our debris management plan
approved by FEMA.
As the county manager mentioned, on March 28th of 2008,
FEMA approved that plan qualifying us for an additional 5 percent.
Phase 2 is our response/mobilization staging. Prior to Tropical
Storm Fay coming to Collier County, our contractors, our staff,
prepared equipment and whatnot in response to the hurricane. We
were also in communication with FEMA and state representatives for
public assistance.
We're currently in Phase 3, which is the recovery and removal
and reduction. We've already started collecting storm debris through
our current collections contract with Waste Management, Inc., of
Florida. We're collecting conforming piles as part of our normal
contract.
AshBritt and SRI are standing by for us to give them the
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go-ahead to start collection as soon as tomorrow with board approval.
We're currently waiting for FEMA representatives to show up on site.
We currently have a FEMA representative through the state here today
in the audience -- Phil. There he is -- who's going to work with us to
identify those problem debris piles to ensure that we have complete
compliance.
Then, of course, you have Phase 5 and 6; the closeout financials
and state FEMA applications, and Phase 6, which is final payments
received from the state FEMA.
The scope of the Tropical Storm Fay project, again, is 20,000
cubic yards. It's our goal to do two passes in two weeks, that's l4 days.
The areas of operations, we're planning to divide the county into
six main areas; Immokalee, Golden Gate Estates, East Naples, North
Naples, Everglades City, and Chokoloskee, and Marco Island. Golden
Gate City will be included with the Estates.
We plan to use the Collier County Landfill as the processing site
and transportation for final disposal. We've learned through the audits
of Charley that weighing material of this small amount is the best
method to ensure complete reimbursement. We're going to use Solid
Resources, Inc., who are on bid with the county, to monitor the
removal of the debris, to document and verify the eligible debris for
removal, and to provide technical assistance to maximize
reimbursements from FEMA. This is very important.
We just completed the audit from Wilma about a week ago, and
out of that 24 million-dollar project, they disclaimed $4,000 because
of addition errors, and that's going back to a contract. So this has been
tried and tested.
The debris removal contractor is AshBritt Environmental, the
same folks we used in Hurricane Wilma.
Financial component of this, we'll collect only eligible debris
approved by FEMA as we mentioned earlier. All billing will be
strictly reviewed by our financial group with public utilities as well as
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procurement staff in the purchasing department with oversight from
the Clerk of Court's Office. We're going to focus on timely and
unincumbered accurate closeout to absolutely maximize the
reimbursement.
As we ramp up this project and we see that the debris is not as
large as we expected, we'll quickly remove contractors from the site to
reduce costs.
We'll monitor and respond timely to changing funding eligible
from the state and federal government.
Here's a summary of costs. The monitoring expenditure is
estimated about $73,000, the collection, about 255,000, and disposal
at $74,000. Total estimate is around $403,000.
Customer service. Our utility billing customer service folks call
center will respond to debris calls and customer questions. We'll
continue to develop our F AQs to respond accordingly to our
customers.
Solid waste staff, SRI, and FEMA debris specialists will be able
to respond to questionable debris piles.
Utilities code investigators will investigate, document, and
process property damage claims, or calls, excuse me.
Public outreach. We have PSAs already in place, and they've
been sent out. We have press releases to all local print and electronic
media. We have PSAs on our channel 11, and we update our website,
our EOC website with F AQs on debris-related matters.
And that's the -- our recommendation, again, Board, is to just
direct staff to utilize our contractors under bid to recover from the
storm-related debris, collect material only from the public
right-of-way, and to collect only eligible debris approved by FEMA
for reimbursement.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Questions, Commissioner --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, I have one.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Oh, hang on. We need to recognize
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Commissioner Fiala because of the timing. What is the proper word?
MR. MUDD: Extraordinary nature of this particular thing. You
basically acknowledge and make a motion that Commissioner Fiala
can become a participate over the phone for this particular proceeding.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Motion to approve.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion by Commissioner Halas to
approve Commissioner Fiala's participation in this meeting, second by
Commissioner Coletta.
All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: (No verbal response.)
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimously.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you, gentlemen.
My question is, I received a call yesterday from a young family,
just a single mom with kids, and apparently she had some pretty large
branches that came down in her yard out in Golden Gate Estates, and
she and the children have hauled them out to the front but she said she
doesn't even own a chainsaw. And she was wondering, do they pick
them up if they're not cut in four-foot lengths? She has no way to cut
them in four-foot lengths.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commissioner, she can -- she can haul
a tree out there, and AshBritt will pick it up.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Okay, I took her number and
I'll call her back and let her know.
MR. MUDD: Yes, ma'am. The only -- the only caution, caveat
that I would say to that particular comment is, make sure she's on a
public road. If she is on a private road, it will not be picked up and she
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has to have the debris in conforming piles, because private roads and
gated communities are not funded by FEMA under this declaration.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I think she's on a regular road, but
how do you know if it's a pri -- I mean, she's not in a gated
community.
MR. MUDD: Commissioner, all I'm -- just -- she'll know if she's
on a private road.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay.
MR. MUDD: There are roads out in the Estates that are private,
and they do not fall under this. This is basically to pick up from the
right-of-way to public roads.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Outside of Golden Gate Estates there
are private roads.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: In the agricultural area.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yes.
Commissioner Halas had a question.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Yes. Again, what's the FEMA
reimbursement on this percentage-wise?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Eighty percent.
MR. MUDD: Eighty/twenty.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Okay. And we're expecting
hopefully to get something from Governor Crist?
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir, we are.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Okay. And that's, what, 15 percent?
MR. MUDD: No, sir, it would be 10 percent.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Ten percent.
MR. MUDD: Ifwe get nothing from the state, based on what I--
the recommendation that I gave to the board, that $450,000 be put into
the cost center for this particular item out of the unincorporated
general fund reserves, which is fund 111, and let's say it came in at
450,000 for just ease of discussion. Ifwe got nothing from the state,
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the county's liability would be $90,000.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Commission Coletta, you have
questions?
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: I think we need to discuss a little
bit about what is eligible and what isn't eligible. We want to make sure
that people aren't going to be receiving tags on their piles and forcing
them to have those piles moved by -- removed by a private vendor
because they didn't know ahead of time exactly what is considered
storm damage and what is not considered storm damage.
Can you elaborate on that?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Sure, absolutely. According to the FEMA
guidelines, if you live in the public right-of-way and you have
improved property, you maintain the lawn and the trees, that's
considered eligible. And then if -- for instance, if we go out and we
see a pile that's 10 feet tall and 10 feet long, we're going to look at that
a little closer with FEMA representatives to ensure that it is storm
related. Because of the magnitude of the storm, there shouldn't be a lot
of trees that have fallen.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Unless they've been dead for
some time and the wind took them down, in which case it would be
very easy to identify them.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Exactly.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: What you're trying to prevent is
someone taking advantage of this situation and clearing their lot.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: That's correct. If you have a lot in the
Estates, 10 to five acres, and you decide you want to clear it and it
hasn't been maintained, those -- that would stick out, absolutely.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: You cannot mix certain things
within this waste? You have to keep some things separate? Nothing
like appliances can be added to this?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: That's correct. No --
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COMMISSIONER COLETTA: No plastic bags.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Right. It needs to be clean material because
we are using the landfill in our normal process for horticultural waste.
So you wouldn't include appliances, plastic bags, construction
material, correct.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Right. And if somebody has that
intermingled in their pile, then that pile's not eligible unless they
separate it; is that correct?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: We've been through this before.
And the phone calls that come through with people that are very irate
because their pile was rejected while their neighbor's were picked up,
there's a reason for this and they have to know ahead of time so they
can be properly prepared. We're going to have numerous news release
going out on this subject?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: We actually have, and yes. Just after the
storm, the day after the storm, we put out notices for conforming piles,
and then as soon as we heard the declaration, we provided additional
information that said it did not have to be conforming but you do have
to separate it, and those have been running every day, several different
meetings, absolutely, and we'll continue.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: I have a question similar to
Commissioner Coletta's. We're allowing residents to remove debris off
of private property and putting it in the public right-of-way, correct?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: We have many a PUDs that is private
property, and they're on -- they're abutting public property. Are you
saying that is eligible?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: We're saying if they live and they have a
public right-of-way on their property, they can bring -- their debris is
eligible and they can bring it to the right-of-way.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: And that's FEMA guidelines that you
can provide to me?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Absolutely.
MR. MUDD: Yes, sir. During Wilma we got -- if you remember,
we went through extraordinary circumstances to get the President of
the United States and FEMA to give us dispensation on PUDs and
private roads. And I remember writing a memo and a letter to
Congress at nighttime prior to him meeting the President of the United
States the next day, and we made all those connections, and he was
able to get that letter to the president. And within a day or so, we got
authority to have an exception to FEMA -- to FEMA's general policy.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Their policy seems to be unfair, that's
all -- the only reason I'm questioning it.
MR. MUDD: Commissioner, I'm not arguing with you, and I
don't disagree with you either. We've been trying to get this changed
for a while, and they're still not there yet.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: I have two more questions. Pine trees.
There's pine beetles that has run rampant through most of Golden Gate
Estates, all over the county. I don't know how you're going to identify
whether it's -- a tree came down because it was dead and because of
the wind.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Again, if there's a noticeable -- if it's a rotted
tree and it came down because of the windstorm, that's easy to
identify, and that's why we'll have the FEMA folks here, as well as
SRI monitors who specialize in removing this debris, and we'll speak
one on one with the customer ifthere's any question, absolutely.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Well, there's one down the
street, it wasn't rotten. It was -- didn't have much roots, but it came
down.
My last question is, there are so many properties out in rural
Collier County that have flooding. There's no way that they can clear
their property because -- inadequate stormwater drainage.
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We don't know how long it's going to take for those -- these lands
to clear or dry out enough for them to get to their yards to remove the
vegetation. And you're saying you expect this program to last for two
weeks? What happens to those peoples where their land is flooded
because of inadequate maintenance of stormwater?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: What we'll do is, as we're collecting debris
throughout Collier County, is we'll do site assessments, road access
assessments. If there are areas that flooding continues, we'll obviously
bring a recommendation back to the county to provide to you to
handle those other properties.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay, good.
Commissioner Fiala, do you have any more questions?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, but that was a very good
question, by the way.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Yeah. There's flooding all over,
Commissioner, and that's what happens when you get dumped on
eight inches at a time.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah.
Item #3C
RESOLUTION 2008-234
CHAIRMAN HENNING: With that, entertain a motion.
MR. MUDD: Commissioner, I need to read the resolution, and
then I need a motion on that, and then I need another motion to
transfer the dollars, the $450,000.
This resolution is on the visualizer, and I'll read it. Resolution
number 2008 -- and we'll wait to get the number. A resolution of the
Board of County Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, declaring
a public -- a public interest and necessity in removing debris caused
by Tropical Storm Fay on or adjacent to public roads throughout the
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county and authorizing such removal of debris by Collier County as
part of its emergency management efforts in accordance with Collier
County ordinance number 84-37 as amended, and in accordance with
the proclamation/resolution number 2008-231 which declared and
extended a state of emergency for all territory within Collier County
as a result of the extensive damage caused by Tropical Storm Fay.
Whereas, on August 18,2008, the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, the board, in emergency
session, adopted proclamation/resolution 2008-231 declaring a state of
emergency for all territory within the legal boundaries of Collier
County, including all incorporated and unincorporated areas; and,
Whereas, the board, having duly met in chambers on August 26,
2008, and being further informed that Tropical Storm Fay has caused
extensive damage to public utilities, public buildings, public
communication systems, public streets and roads, public drainage
systems, commercial and residential buildings and areas, and as such,
poses an immediate threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the
citizens, residents, and visitors of or to Collier County; and,
Whereas, Collier County ordinance number 84-37 as amended
authorizes the Board of County Commissioners following a
declaration of state of emergency to make a determination and to
declare that it is in the public interest and safety to collect and remove
disaster debris from all property, whether public lands, public or
private roads and gated communities to eliminate an immediate threat
to life, public health and safety, to reduce the threat of additional
damage, to improved property and to promote economic recovery of
the community at large, and to authorize the county or its contracted
agents the right of access to private roads or gated communities as
needed for, A, emergency vehicles such as, but not limited to, fire,
police, and medical care; B, performance of damage assessment,
emergency management specialized search and rescue teams; C,
human services and victim relief; D, temporary emergency traffic
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controls or detail efforts; and E, debris removal vehicles and
equipment, utilizing equipment and sanitation efforts to alleviate
immediate threats to public health and safety and to otherwise
authorize removal of debris, wreckage, or collapsed structures
resulting from a major disaster for a safe and sanitary living or
functioning condition of the proximate environment.
Now, therefore, it is resolved by the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County in special session this 26th day of
August, 2008, that, one, the removal of debris from or adjacent to
public roads throughout Collier County is hereby declared to be in the
public interest and necessary to eliminate or lessen immediate threats
to life, public health and safety, and to eliminate or lessen immediate
threats of significant damage to improved property, and as such, is to
be removed by Collier County or its contractors.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: May I ask a question?
MR. MUDD: Two --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Mr. Mudd, maybe I didn't hear
correctly. About the third paragraph, did you say something about--
this is very early in the resolution -- something about public and
private roads?
MR. MUDD: Yes, ma'am. That is a direct excerpt extracted from
Collier County ordinance number 84-37.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay.
MR. MUDD: Okay. And we're basically now limiting that
particular general provision to something very specific, public roads,
and that was the first whereas.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, fine, thank you. I just wanted
to get the correlation between the two. Thank you.
MR. MUDD: Yes, ma'am. Number two, debris resulting from the
demolition of mobile homes, manufactured homes, residential or
commercial buildings that is pushed out to the right-of-way will not be
eligible for removal operations of Collier County or its subcontractors.
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This resolution adopted after motion, second, and majority vote
favoring same dated August 26, 2008. And I need a motion to approve
this particular resolution.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Motion.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion by Commissioner Coletta to
move the resolution, second by Commissioner Halas.
Discussion?
Commissioner Fiala, do you have any more questions?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, thank you.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: All in favor of the motion, signify by
saymg aye.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimously.
Item #2E
RESOLUTION 2008-235
MR. MUDD: Commission, I need one more motion, and that's to
move the $450,000 out of fund 111 reserves into the account for this
particular --
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Motion to approve --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: -- to move the $400,000 (sic) from
reserves into this account to get moving with the debris removal.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And I could second that motion.
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CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. There's a motion on the floor to
do a budget amendment for $400,000, which is moving is from fund
111 to the storm.
MR. MUDD: Four hundred fifty thousand.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Four hundred --
CHAIRMAN HENNING: He said --
MR. MUDD: I know what he did say.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. So do you want to amend it?
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Okay. It's 450-, okay. I thought it
was 400,000; 450,000.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And that was my second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Okay. Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Seeing none, all in favor of the
motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion carries unanimous.
Any other business?
MR. MUDD: Commissioner, that concludes the business that we
have with the board.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: What's -- do we have to be concerned
about this hurricane in the tropics?
MR. MUDD: Gustav? Gustav, the latest prediction is that it's
going to miss us and it's going to go to the Yucatan, but we're going to
watch it, and when Thursday night gets along and I start looking at
those predictions as it's moving at the south side of Cuba, I'll be a lot
happier and I'll be able to do that.
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If for any reason it looks like that we could be in this cone of
influence, cone of damage or whatever they call it, then I will alert the
commission on Thursday evening and we'll have some kind of a
meeting on Friday, but I don't see it right now based on predictions.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: What's the name of the storm?
MR. MUDD: Gustav.
COMMISSIONER HENNING: It's probably going to hit Georgia
then, right?
Is there any other business?
MR. MUDD: No, sir.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: We are -- oh, I need a motion for
adjournment.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Motion to adjourn.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Second.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Motion to adjourn by Commissioner
Coletta, second by Commissioner Halas.
All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER HALAS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HENNING: Thank you, Commissioner Coletta --
or Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, thank you so much. I'm glad I
was able to be included. Thank you.
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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 3:28 p.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIALiSTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL
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TOM HENNING, Chairm~
ATTEST
DWIGHT E. BROCK, CLERK
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These minutes approved by the Board on , as
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TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF GREGORY COURT
REPORTING SERVICES, INC., BY TERRI LEWIS.
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