EAC Minutes 07/05/2000 RJuly 5, 2000
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
Naples, Florida, July 5, 2000
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Environmental Advisory
Council, in and for the County of Collier, 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 members present:
CHAIRMAN:
M. Keen Cornell
John Baxter
Ed Carlson
Michael G. Coe
NOT PRESENT:
Thomas W. Sansbury
Alexandra Santoro
J. Richard Smith
ALSO PRESENT:
Start Chrzanowski, Senior Engineer
Stephen Lenberger, Environmental Specialist,
Development Services
Bill Lorenz, Natural Resources Director
Patrick White, Assistant County Attorney
Ron Nino, Current Planning Manager
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CHAIRMAN CORNELL: Good morning. Welcome to the
Environmental Advisory Council meeting, July 5th. Want to do a roll call?
MR. LENBERGER: Absolutely.
Baxter?
MR. BAXTER: Here.
LENBERGER: Cornell?
CORNELL: Here.
LENBERGER: Carlson?
CARLSON: Here.
Coe?
MR.
MR.
MR.
MR.
MR. LENBERGER:
MR. COE: Here.
MR. LENBERGER:
(No response.)
MR. LENBERGER:
(No response.)
MR. LENBERGER:
(No response.)
Sansbury?
Santoro?
Smith?
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: Any excused or--
MR. LENBERGER: To my knowledge, we've had no phone
calls.
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: Well, even though we have two
vacancies -- which I guess we're working on, right -- we really
can't do business without five. So maybe we should wait a
couple of minutes and see if we can get a quorum. Oh, wonderful. Marjorie?
MS. STUDENT: Yes, Mr. Chairman, I wanted to introduce our
new land use attorney, Patrick White. And he's going to be doing
these meetings. So Patrick comes to us from the County
Attorney's Office, so --
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: Great.
MS. STUDENT: Thank you.
(Brief recess.)
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: We'll reconvene.
We don't have five. We need five to do business. With
apologies. We should talk about what would be a good thing to
do as far as reconvening. You thought perhaps in a week?
MS. MURRAY: I'm Susan Murray, chief planner. I was
speaking with your new attorney with some options, and I'm
unclear about what action you could take right now. I don't
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believe you can do any. You might want to check with him. I
don't believe there's any advertising requirements that we have
to meet. I just wanted to inform you of that.
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: We wanted to make sure we started
your career down here with a problem.
MR. WHITE: I appreciate that, Mr. Chairman. Patrick White,
county attorney.
Absent a quorum, you're precluded from taking any public
quorum, continuing the meeting. But given that there is no
specific publication requirement, did you want to agree amongst
yourselves to meet next week, letting the other members as well
as yourselves know when that meeting would be, what the
agenda would be? And certainly that would be appropriate,
given the lack of a quorum.
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: Gentlemen, does that sound all right?
You want to try to meet?
MR. COE: Yeah, the county's going to have to let us know,
because we don't --
MS. MURRAY: Yeah, there might be a question of room
availability. But we would try to make accommodations and as
long as we have reasonable notice and inform the public, if that's
appropriate.
MR. WHITE: As long as the notice is real. Which given the
circumstances, I think given just a few days would be sufficient.
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: Okay, so we're talking about
Wednesday, July 12th?
MS. MURRAY: Correct.
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: What time?
MR. WHITE: I'd just like to apologize to the applicants --
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: Yes, me too.
MR. WHITE: -- the fact that we don't have a quorum.
CHAIRMAN CORNELL: I guess we stand adjourned.
MR. WHITE: Thank you.
There being no further business for the good of the County,
the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 9:20 a.m.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
KEEN CORNELL, CHAIRMAN
TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF GREGORY COURT
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