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BCC Minutes 03/10/1994 W (Golden Gate Townhall Meeting)ORiGiNAL BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS GOLDEN GATE TOWN HALL MEETING March 10, 1994 7:00 p.m. Golden Gate Community Center Naples, Florida 33999 Reported by: Christina J. Reynoldson, RPR Deputy Official Court Reporter OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS Carrothers Reporting Service, Inc. 20th Judicial Circuit - Collier County 3301 East Tamiami Trail Naples, Florida 33962 TELE: (813) 732-2700 FAX: (813) 774-6022 2 APPEARANCES DOARD MEMBERS: Timothy J. Constantine, Chairman Bettye Matthews, Commissioner John Norris, Commissioner Michael J. Volpe, Commissioner STAFF: George Archibald - Transportation Director Dick Clark - Acting Community Development Administrator Tom Conrecode - OCPM Director Kenneth Cuyler - County Attorney Neil Dorrill - County Manager Bill Margert - Assistant County Manager Bill Lorenz - Environmental Services Administrator Michael McNees - Acting Utilities Administrator Greg Mihalic - Affordable Mousing Director Tom Olliff - Public Services Director Marjorie Student - Assistant County Attorney Carol Beauvais - pg. 10 Nancy Blsbee - pg. 19 Vilma Cirinciohe - pg. 19 Michael Gaglione - pg. 7 Tauni Roster - pg. 22 Don Segreto - pg. 26 A1 Somoza - pg. 15 David Tomlin - pg. 27 ALSO PRESENT: James Stewart OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 PROCEEDINGS MR. STEWART: Welcome to the Golden Gate Area Chamber of Commerce Town Hall Meeting with the Board of County Commissioners. We appreciate everybody coming out tonight. We'll start out tonight with an invocation by former past Chamber of Commerce president Russell Tuff. Russell, if you'll come to a microphone. (The invocation was presented, followed by recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.) MR. STEWART: We welcome our Board of County Commissioners for Collier County, and I'd like to introduce the Commissioners. I'm sure that all of us know them a11. First, from the First District, Commissioner John Norris. From I believe the Second District, Commissioner Mike Volpe. From the Third District, our own Tim Constantine. And from the Fifth District, Ms. Betrye Matthews. We also have with us County Manager Neil Dotrill and a number of staff people from the county. We welcome all of them. CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: Jim, can I make one OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 4 suggestion? We've got a couple of different agendas floating around. I know APAC expansion is buried down into both of those agendas and ! wonder if -- ! think a lot of people are here on that issue. Just a raise of hands how many on the APAC issue. Why don't we go ahead and take this one first and then get back to the others. I think that's the big issue right now. MR. STEWART: You're suggesting that with two agendas we follow neither one of them. I think that's a very good idea to take APAC first. The ground rule is Mr. Dorrill has a handful of speaker cards. If you're interested in speaking, obtain a speaker card from Mr. Dorrlll. We will give everyone an opportunity to speak briefly on the points, but we don't have all the time in the world to discuss this so we'll probably to try to keep it limited to half an hour total. The issue of the APAC expansion is essentially an effort by the property owner to request the Board of County Commissioners to extend 25th Avenue and cut through so that they will have easier access to a second OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 5 quarry pit located at the site of the existing quarry pit. And we will ask the Board to briefly discuss their view on each issue and this particular issue and then we'll open it up and give the public the opportunity to speak as well. Thank you. CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: I'll start off. We're a little bit limited as to what we can say. It's a quasi-Judicial matter, which means they bring this before the Board in a few weeks. My understanding is it's gone before one advisory board at this point and will go before the Planning Commission and will eventually come before the Board of County Commissioners. Because we're acting in that term, "quasi-Judicial," we have to be a little bit limited in what we can say on the specifics. And frankly, I haven't seen the file as a Board, and I don't think it's come to any of us yet. The first I had heard of this was last week. I got a few phone calls on it from people who were concerned. And I would suffice it to say I haven't seen the file on OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 this. I haven't seen what's suggested. I've been told by some of the neighbors their concerns that 25th in particular is going to be turned into some sort of throughway. I have to kind of walk a tight rope in talking about specifics, but I think the Board as a whole is opposed to any damage to the integrity of any neighborhood. Not having seen the specifics, I can't address what they are. I don't think any of us are interested in damaging what is an existing neighborhood. The county attorney keeps standing up and looking nervously as though we're going to cross the line of what we can and can't say. I don't think any of us have seen it. COMMISSIONER MATTHEWS: I have. CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: One of us, I guess, has seen the file on this. But as I say, the time frame will be coming and perhaps our staff will enlighten us as to what that time frame is. I encourage not only sharing your thoughts tonight, but when it comes to the Planning Commission, perhaps someone can tell us when, and also when it comes before OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 the Board you have a chance to come out and let your feelings be known. And also, if you can't get there because you work, give us a phone call or drop a letter to us and make sure all the commissioners know how you feel on this. That's true with any issue, but this one in particular. Why don't we go ahead and hear from the public speakers on this? If I mispronounce anyone's name, I apologize. I know they always mispronounce mine. So cut me a little slack there, I guess. Michael Gaglione. Is that correct? If you want to -- is there a roving microphone anywhere? Perhaps this is it. MR. GAGLIONE: My name is Mike Gaglione. I've been a resident in this area for 15 years. I bought land out on Ninth Street in Golden Gate adjacent to the rock pit. I bought the land seven years ago. They told me, the realtor told me when I bought that land they were not going to continue to be mining, earth mining, or digging for rock out there much longer. So I saw this, my wife and I saw this, to be a nice, quiet, peaceful place to be and nice and tranquil, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 no noise, and we figured the mining would stop eventually. They stopped at night and started at five o'clock in the morning. Trucks were backing up, and that's just to start. We've got dynamite blasts that happen twice a month or three times a month. I don't know what it is. I was kind of insulted this Sunday in the Sunday paper that they said there were no complaints, no one had complained about the blasting. Well, that's a crock because I have called the county. They've been out to my house with seismographs, seismometers and everything else. I showed them the cracks in my foundation. And this is -- every resident on my street, they've all called. People behind me that live right on the lake, they have cracks and they have damage. They've called the police, they've called the county and nothing's happened. They come out and they say, "Okay, shoot the shot," and it's like half the impact that we get when you're not there. So I'm here on behalf of my friends and neighbors to say I don't think this should happen because we're going to be stuck in between a cross-fire. Ninth Street OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 is located right in the middle of where the old site is and where the new one is that they're proposing. I think that if everybody gets together, I think it should be stopped for the residents that have spent their hard-earned money and improved their properties instead of letting people that don't live there vote on this and ruin our lives and the money that we've spent out there trying to get our families ahead. (Applause from the audience.) MR. GAGLIONE: I've thought about this all week long. I've never come before the Board of County Commissioners before. I appreciate you guys actually having this for us, and I think you'll hear us all. The wildlife that's out there, the red-cockaded woodpeckers, the panthers, they're there, believe me. I don't care if they were out there one day looking. They're there. The panthers are there. The red-cockaded woodpeckers are there. There's a fresh water spring out there. I've done a lot of walking around out there and there's a lot of wildlife. And I don't think they're thinking of that at a11. I have called Green Peace myself and talked to OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 "2 10 them. I'm appalled that this could actually even happen; that people -- we're so close to the Everglades, and our eco system has already been damaged to the point that it might never return to the way it was, the Everglades. So this is a very important issue as far as I'm concerned. Most of the people that are here right now are here for this one issue, not the 1-75 bridge. That's already built, you know. We want to stop this. Our property values will go right through the floor. And there's little children going to zuhool on their bicycles out there. I look at it as a safety thing, too. These people don't realize how many children are out there. These children, they leave their bikes at the end of my driveway. I mean, there's too many children out there, and these trucks are going up and down. They don't care. They do their work, they do their Job and they go home. They don't have to live there, we do. (Applause from the audience.) CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: Is there a Carol Beauvais? MS. BEAUVAIS: Commissioners and ladies and gentlemen. First, I'd like to thank you Commissioners OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 for stopping the advance on the landfill. (Applause from the audience.) MS. BEAUVAIS: Now, let me paint you a word picture. And place yourselves, Commissioners, in my shoes for a moment. Eleven years ago my husband had an offer for a position here in Naples which he chose to accept and we left Illinois with the winters of snow and nigh heating bills. Our young son chose to move with us. At age 15 he had used the money that he had spent or had earned mowing lawns, shoveling snow and painting a wooden fence for a horse ranch and he bought a horse. Naturally when we moved down here he wanted to bring that horse with him. So we began looking for land that would accommodate a horse. Now, we didn't go to Wyndemere or Marco Island or any other area where we would have to petition to have a zoning change so that horse would be allowed. We looked out in Golden Gate Estates, but then we saw a gravel pit near Golden Gate Boulevard. Well, we didn't want to live by a gravel pit so we chose to build, or buy, on 19th Street Sc%~thwest, which is off of 16th, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 12 which is right where you want to put that gravel pit. At the time we moved there, eleven years ago, there were fewer than ten homes on our street. It wasn't paved. And we put in much love and labor to improve our property with flowers, palms we grew from seed, pineapple plants that I can share with you, bananas, et cetera. Now, eleven years later we have forty-one homes on our one-mile stretch of street, and it's pavzd. Our palm trees have matured. Our fruit trees have enough fruit that we share with our friends and neighbors. Now we're informed by a neighbor that a company wants to put a gravel pit practically in our back yard. We don't want the unsightliness, the blasting, the dust or the traffic of large dump trucks traveling on 16th Avenue, which is a narrow road without a road base to support this kind of traffic. And there are very young and a lot of children standing on street corners waiting for their school buses. This property is zoned Estates Residential. It is not a place for a gravel pit, nor any business of that type. You know, you've run a woman out of her business on 39th Street who was only growing plants. You're OFFICIAL cOURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 3 13 trying to run Terry's Nursery out of business, and they're not obnoxious. A few years ago we had a tomato farm on 17th Street Southwest whose irrigation pumps ran day and night. That was disgusting. It was disturbing, annoying, and continuous. But it was only a small fraction of the noise we'd be subjected to if a gravel pit i~ allowed. I believe I speak for a lot of you here tonight when I say we don't want our homes jeopardized or our peace of mind and tranquility and environment infringed upon. Please, let's have a show of hands from you Commissioners -- you can't say anything, but raise your hand if you would like a zoning change that would put a gravel pit in your back yard. (Applause from the audience.) MS. BEAUVAIS: I don't see any hands. COMMISSIONER NORRIS: Mrs. Beauvais, I just want you to know that it's not my idea to put that gravel pit out there. You characterized it as that. I've not been presented this information until just now. MS. BEAUVAIS: Sir, it was in the newspaper. I OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 14 read it in the newspaper. COMMISSIONER NORRIS: idea. have the article right here. I'm not -- this is not my MS. BEAUVAIS: I'm not saying it is, sir. COMMISSIONER NORRIS: Yes, you did. MS. BEAUVAIS: No, I didn't. All I'm saying is when it comes time to vote, please remember that we purchased that land -- COMMISSIONER NORRIS: That's different. But you said you didn't want me to put that in there. This is not my proposal. I just now received it. I haven't seen it. MS. BEAUVAIS: I won't argue with you, and I apologize if I inferred it was your idea. I just am suggesting that when it comes to a vote, you remember all the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people who live out there. We don't want it in our back yard, Just as I don't believe you would want it in yours. COMMISSIONER NORRIS: That's fine. That's fine. If you characterize it that way, that's fine. I agree. CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: Next speaker I believe is A1 Somoza. OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 15 MR. SOMOZA: My name is A1 $omoza. I want to thank you for the opportunity to let us speak before you and our friends and neighbors. I moved to Naples about three and a half years ago. My wife and I came down from Gainesville to build a nursery. We particularly looked for this area for the quality of life for our children and a place that we could grow plants in a clean environment because there were very few areas left that you could do both in south Florida other than Homestead where the plants could survive the cold weather that affects them very much. We looked for agricultural land and we went to the Golden Gate Estates area because our agent told us that would be a perfect place for it. We bought 35 acres there and I went through the county planning board. The hoops they made me go through to put a nursery in an already standard agricultural real estate property, you would not believe. I once had to move a pipe 30 feet across a road because it was three-tenths of an inch out of the invert elevation requirement that they asked for. Three-tenths of an inch, a six-inch pipe. Here we are arguing over a 500-acre development OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 16 that is going to affect literally hundreds and hundreds of people. And I respectfully request you folks to take a serious and hard look -- I'm not against progress. Progress is what makes us all pay more taxes, but it's got to be done in a very responsible way. In our nursery, we have easily put over a million and a half dollars' worth of investment in it. We have over 60 employees there. And we expect to grow even further, but we're doing it very, very carefully because we have an environment to take care of. We have to think a little bit about what that mine can do for us. The blasting that they do at the current mine, even though it's six and a half miles away from us, I can feel it in the ground when they blast. Our neighbors two or three miles down the road can feel it themselves. Whether it's minor or not I don't know. I cannot pump one gallon of water out of my well that is not registered with South Florida Water Management. I have to give them a report every month of every single gallon I use. Who is monitoring the size of the blasts in this pit? (Applause from the audience.) OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 17 MR. SOMOZA: Is there somebody there? Is somebody actually monitoring the number of blasts? Let me give you an idea. I have a permit to blast rock in an area in which we are intending to make a little lake on the farm because surface water is a lot easier to get out of a lake than in a well from recovery of rain storm and so forth. We didn't have to go through anything. I mean, literally the blaster, the guy that came to blast the rock on our property, told us that he had to go to the county and get a permit that took five minutes. There was no checking. He could have used any number of pounds in there, God forbid. One of them went up in the air and felt on top of my roof. I had to replace my roof at $600. Who's going to monitor this, that's my concern. Every time they blast the underground, and I do know a little bit about geology, it will shake. And 45 feet below, little tiny, little gravel pieces are going to come up in my wells and clog the orifices of over 600 irrigation heads that I have. That will take literally thousands of dollars to clear it every time these folks OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 18 are going to blast it. These are legitimate concerns that I have, not to mention the dust on the leaves of our plants; not to mention the Oust on the roof of our builOtngs that we 9ut up there for sun to be filtered in at a certain degree. We have 30% shade, 40% shade, 50% shade. All that dust is going to affect that tremendously. I don't think it's fair that these folks are coming into civilization instead of away from civ£1ization. (Applause from the audience.) MR. SOMOZA: Again, i'm not against progress. If they have to do something, all we request of you is that you review this very, very carefully because our livelihood and the livelihoods of hundreds and hundreds of people that supported you and still do support you is going to be severely affected by this. Thank you very much. (Applause from the audience.) CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: I have two more names here and it references letter items on the agenda. I think it's this one, but like I said, we're working off two agendas. OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 19 Nancy Bisbee, did you want to speak on this? MS. BISBEE: Our roads and bridges today will not carry these extra trucks. The bridge on White Boulevard between 25th and 23rd is in bad shape right now. They're blasting on wells as well as our homes. Several years ago the residents and supporters had quite a time getting the present quarry to use smaller blasts. I live about five miles away and I would have cupboard doors shook open and things shook off of my shelves. This was like ten years ago, so think what it would be that much closer to us today. Usually they blast early in the morning and late in the evening. Like the gentleman ahead of me, I hear it. I feel it. Inside my home I can still feel it. And that's all I have to say on that. (Applause from the audience.) CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: And I think the final speaker on this is Vilma Cirincione. MS. CIRINCIONE: I'm Vilma Cirincione. I'm president of the Golden Gate Estate Area Civic Association. It looks like the same old story. We here again or OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 20 will be in the future fighting the Master Plan. Somehow they always keep trying to make changes in our area, an area that's not supposed to have businesses. Now they are trying to bring a business there because they do not own the land. They're trying to buy it and they're looking for a zoning variance. And it's in the Estates. It's not in the unincorporated out of the Estates like the present one they have that's off Fifth Street. That's not in the Estates. So they're trying to invade the Estates. And the trucks are a problem. They will almost run you over or will broadside you. And I did try to find out how many tickets they do give these truck drivers, but I was not able to get that information, because I do see the police stop them. And, everybody keeps saying we're agricultural, but a rock pit is not agricultural. (Applause from the audience.) MS. CIRINCIONE: Right now it's only one block from the boulevard to the rock pit. But if you look at the map, you are talking now about White Boulevard, but then from there they have to run south and then east. So it's OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 21 several blocks. It's not like at this present time where they were there probably before we were because I've heard from old-timers that when they blast the water in the well would come up brown, people that lived on Wilson and all those places close to it. And if you want to see the traffic of the trucks, because I did see that article that said that someone in the county said they don't get complaints, well, I tell you what, go out on the boulevard between 9:00 and 10:00 in the morning when they're coming back for their second load of sand or rocks, whatever they're going to get, and between 3:00 and 4:00, because we're retired and I usually run the odd hours, and you'll see these trucks one after the other. Last week there were like three and four, one after the other. I do know from experience that a rock pit is a problem because where I lived before there was one there before they developed the area, which was east of us, and we had problems with homes cracking and all those different things, and shaking. But fortunately the trucks do not come through Andover where I was living, they went through 199th 22 Street there in North Dade. So we did not get the truck traffic, but we did get all the explosion problems. So like I said, they don't own the land and they they're trying to buy it and get a variance. So actually, they don't belong there as far as we're concerned. And the members of the association are against it. Thank you. (Applause from the audience.) CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: There is one more speaker, Tauni Roster. MS. ROSTER: Hi. Thank you for coming out here instead of us having to go into town like the last time. I don't have a speech, but I was appalled when I found out about APAC wanting to do what they want to do. There's a lot of people here tonight as there was at our last little battle or confrontation. The thing I wanted to say was that the Estates land is zoned Residential Agricultural. You can't change the rules. You can't bring industrial or commercial private business into an area like that other gentleman was talking about where we have our homes. We do care about OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 23 our community. Whatever happens in our community, we are going to fight it. We are against this. Thank you. (Applause from the audience.) CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: We'll wrap this one item up in a minute. I did want to mention the manager just gave me some projected dates. We don't have an exact date yet, but it will go before the Planning Commission in April and it's likely to come before the Board of County Commissioners sometime in May. So if you do have -- I know a number of people have comments about the number of complaints that have or haven't been made to the county. So if you have complaints, probably this is a good time to make them with the county. And then Just keep your eye on the newspaper for when this comes before both the Planning commission and the Board of County Commissioners. I think Commissioner Volpe wanted to add something. COMMISSIONER VOLPE: As the Chairman mentioned, we're somewhat limited in terms of what it is that we can discuss this evening. And for most of us, this is the first opportunity that we've had a chance to hear any of 24 the particulars about this particular application. I Just wanted to share with you a couple thoughts generally. The first instance, as I look around the room, there are a lot of familiar faces. This is where I began my proverbial political career. As you know, I served four years as a member of the Golden Gate Fire Control & Rescue District. So I recognize a lot of you and I know how important these types of issues are to all of you and to all the residents of Collier County. A couple of things. I think what we're talking about is conditional use; is that correct? MR. DORRILL: Yes. COMMISSIONER VOLPE: It's conditional use. Number one, as a conditional use there are a number of considerations of how someone can obtain a conditional use. For example, the various uses along Golden Gate Parkway are conditional uses. Some of =hose churches are conditional uses. It requires four votes, a super majority, in order to get a conditional use. I think what they're talking about here, and I'm getting most of it in this discussion, is we're talking about a commercial excavation permit to allow for 25 excavation to o~ur, commercXal excavation. When these issues have come up before the Board, and I've sat on the Board for six years, part of the consideration is how many of these commercial excavation pits do we have throughout Collier County, and where are those excavations being used and for what purpose. Are they b~ing used for our transportation network or are they being used to perhaps assist some sister counties and so on. I Just wanted to mention that in terms of some of the considerations, four votes, a super ~aJority, is going to be required. Commercial excavation is what I believe the application is. There are a number of considerations, not the least of which the extent to which these types of operations benefit a particular area of our community. So just by way of background for those of you that are unfamiliar or not as familiar as some of us are with Just the processes, as the Chairman pointed out, the process will require certain advertised hearings first before the CCPC, the Collier County Planning Commission, and then before your Board of County Commissioners. 26 And you've got plenty of time to get all of the facts, and we'll have plenty of time to have the opportunity to discuss some of the issues with you. CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: Mr. Segreto, you have a slip here in front of me. I didn't realize it was this item you wanted to speak on. MR. SEGRETO: My name is Mr. Segreto. It appears I've been arguing numerous years, for 16 years, to try to save the Estates. The county seems to feel that they can walk into the Estates any time they want and put what they call a conditional use or a provisional use. This is highly restricted land. I was in front of the DCA, and the DCA has to give them approval before you can go anywhere near that land. Not only does the DCA have to give them this approval, but also the Army Corps of Engineers. Why are these people down here upsetting all these people when first they have to find out do they have a legal right to even enter into that area? That area is area of state critical concern, which means you cannot touch it without these people telling you yes or no. 27 The Commissioners don't have the authority to give this company the right. They have to first go to the Army Corps of Engineers and first to the DCA. Why are we upsetting all these people when we know darn well that the law clearly says that land is in perpetude (sic) and cannot be used? (Applause from the audience.) MR. SEGRETO= It's sickening. CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: Why don't we go ahead -- if there's anyone else that wants to speak to that, you can raise your hand at this time and you're welcome to; otherwise, we'll move on to -- okay, a gentleman in the back. When you start to speak, we'll need your name just for the record. MR. TOMLIN: Thanks. I'm David Tomlin. I live on 21st Street Southwest. I moved out there in 1983. my house or the zoning department many times because I could hear the dredges going out there at the existing rock pit. And I've been waiting for years for them to dig that thing out so all the noise would stop. And I had the police at OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS~ COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 28 I can't imagine that they would want to continue and move that thing closer to residential areas now because like my windows in my bedroom facing the east, I can't in the wintertime -- now I sleep with the windows open and you hear drag lines going at three o'clock in the morning. That's all I've got to say about it. I don't think it's something that should happen out there. (Applause from the audience.) CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE= Just one final reminder that in April the Collier County Planning Co~ission will hear this item and most likely in May it'll come to us. So keep your eyes open and as it comes before the Board be sure and turn out as much as you can. MR. TOMLIN: Right there, like all morning long. CHAIRMAN CONSTANTINE: that's what it sounds Let's go to the next issue. (An emergency recess was taken from 7:45 p.m. until 8:15 p.m. and the meeting was adjourned to be continued at a later date.) OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962 29 STATE OF 1%ORIDA ) COUNTY OF COLLIER ) I, Christina J. Reynoldson, RPR and Deputy Official Court Reporter, do hereby certify that the foregoing proceedings were taken before me at the date and place as stated in the caption hereto on Page I hereof; that the foregoing computer-assisted transcription, consisting of pages numbered 3 through 28, inclusive, is a true record of my Stenograph notes taken at said proceedings. Dated this 18th day of March, 1993. STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF COLLIER 20th Jud~6ial Circuit The_fo~egoing certificate was acknowledged before me this day of March, 1994, by Christina J. Reynoldson, who is personally known to me. OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS, COLLIER COUNTY, NAPLES, FL 33962