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BCC Minutes 06/21/2001 B (Budget Workshop)June 21,2001 BUDGET MEETING OF JUNE 21,2001 OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 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 9:05 a.m. in BUDGET SESSION in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following members present: CHAIRMAN: VICE-CHAIRMAN: ABSENT: ALSO PRESENT: James D. Carter, Ph.D. Pamela S. Mac'Kie Jim Coletta Tom Henning Donna Fiala Tom Olliff, County Administrator Page 1 COLLIER COUNTY GOVERNMENT BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FY 2002 BUDGET WORKSHOP SCHEDULE Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 9:00 a.m. G,enex~ Overview A~i Valorem Tax Implications Debt Service Funds (200's) Trust Funds (600%) MSTD General Fund (111) Special Revenue Funds (100%) Enterprise Funds (400's) Internal Service Funds (500's) Gas Tax/Impact Fees Capital Funds (300's) Friday, June 22, 2001.9:00 a.m. General Fund (001) Overview Ad Valorem Tax Implications General Fund Ooerating Divisions' State Attorney Public Defender BCC County Attorney Management Offices Support Services Emergency Services Public Services Commtmity DevelopmenffEnvironmental Services Transporta~on Airport Authority Operations Courts & Related Agendes - 3:00 p.m. Requested Review of General Fund Supported Capital Projects Constitutional Officers: · .-Property Appraiser :: Supervisor of Elections Clerk of Courts Sheriff's Office Monday, June 25, 2001 - 9:00 a.m. Wrap-up June 21,2001 CHAIRMAN CARTER: We are live, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. We're all happy. I can see that. They're all out here like doom and gloom. Yes, it is budget time. Everybody smile. Good morning, Commissioners. If you would please join me by rising and pledge of allegiance, and we will begin the process. (Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.) CHAIRMAN CARTER: Good morning, Mr. Olliff. The last time I read the United States Constitution, when you elect people it is taxation by representation. They said in front of you this morning, in case anyone out there does not understand how the United States of America works. Thank you. MR. OLLIFF: Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, welcome. Welcome back, I guess. About 12 hours ago you were here doing Land Development Code amendments, so we appreciate you coming. We also appreciate the board taking the time and setting aside time. We know June is a very, very busy month for the board. We do appreciate you dedicating the amount of time necessary to go through this budget and to understand it. To begin, I would also like to thank Mike Smykowski your office of management and budget director and his staff. His staff is here in the room with you, and I'll let Mike do the introductions, but as part of this budget because there are three new commissioners, we are treating this, in part, as an educational process to make sure that the new commissioners understand how the budget is structured. And just to help you understand a little bit about the overall budget and what it takes to get to this moment in time, our estimate is that this budget has taken about 10,000 hours of staff time at this point to develop to bring to you, and it will take about another 1,000 hours between now and September to finalize and edit any changes that are made as a result of these workshops. The other highlight, I would say, of this particular budget process Page 2 June 21,2001 in and of itself is that this is the first budget that you can point to as being one that was completely developed electronically. This budget was input in the field and by your operation staff directly into computerized spreadsheets that were e-mailed to your office of management and budget staff where those spreadsheets were designed to automatically total up to the fund level, and we feel like we probably saved anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the staff time that was required to put these same budgets together last year. So this is a good opportunity for us to toot the horn a little bit and tell you how we are taking advantage of the technology that you have provided us in the past. What we want to do is is provide you a little overview, first of the fiscal year '01 budget, the year that we're in. And then we'll give you some highlights of fiscal year '02 budget. And then we will go through according to your schedule the budgets that are in your workbook. Primarily those that are non-countywide general fund budgets will be covered today and then tomorrow will be those that are ad valorem '01 funded programs. To begin with the review of'01 budget, we thought it would be good to see at least a list of some of the projects that were completed, and if we could work from the visualizer I'll show you this is a picture of the EMS Station 17 that was in your budget this year. That's a project that was located on 13th Street Southwest. It was completed on April 4th and fortunately for us it was actually two months ahead of schedule and completed under budget. Most of you are familiar with the Domestic Animal Services building that was also programmed in the fiscal year '01 budget for completion. That project was completed in January of this year, and it's -- it's up and running, and I think it's a very, very successful capital project for you. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Tom, as you do that, is it too much Page 3 June 21, 2001 trouble to identify which fund areas those come out of?. It might help the new commissioners understand how this is put together. MR. OLLIFF: The Domestic Animal Services building was actually one of your general fund capital supported projects. It's one of the areas where those of you who've been here for any period of time know that historically we have a large number unfunded general fund capital projects, and it's probably the one area where we are trying to make some progress and you'll see that as we go through this budget. For the first time in a number of years, I can point to some successes on your beach renourishment program. Through your tourist development tax program, we were able to successfully complete two major beach renourishment projects. This is a picture of the Park Shore Beach renourishment before it was actually renourished, and then there is a picture of that same beach after we were able to put down, roughly, forty to forty-five thousand cubic yards of sand. The second project that was completed this year was the Hideaway Beach renourishment project. Again, that's a picture of that beach before we actually did the renourishment. Then, here is a picture of that same beach after we were able to truck in, again, about 50,000 cubic yards of sand onto that beach. So for the first time I think you can -- you can be proud that you actually had a fairly successful beach renourishment program this year, and we full well expect to continue that -- that progress in the coming year. Some of you are aware that there was a funding for a juvenile detention center, and it's actually here in this complex, but I'll bet most of you don't even know where it is. It is located on the north end of this campus on the backside of the jail facility. That project was completed. It's a 34,000 square foot facility. It's 54 beds. It's a juvenile detention center here on this campus. And, actually, that Page 4 June 21,2001 was a grant-funded program. So that was no local tax monies used to build that. A couple of the noncapital project things that I wanted to point out, that were in your budget problematically, that were very successful. The parks department has finally figured out, I think, a good formula for success on some of your community-wide concerts, and while I don't expect most of you went to the reggae concert, this is one of the two concerts that we had this year. One was a country jam and the other was a reggae festival. Attendance at each averaged more that 20,000 people. So I think it points to the fact that not only have we figured out how to be successful with these concerts, but I think it also shows that there is a large public demand for these kind of outdoor events. And that's the picture of the crowd at the Vineyards for the reggae festival. Next picture is the Golden Gate government services building and if you've driven down Golden Gate -- COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Sorry. MR. OLLIFF: If you've driven down the parkway in what is commonly known as Golden Gate City, this is the new Golden Gate government services building. We are scheduled to cut a ribbon on that building on July 9th of this year, and it is a continuing effort of ours to try and provide satellite government facilities to get government services out where the people actually are. If you've not been through the building, I think you -- you'll be impressed if you attend the ribbon cutting that it's going to be a real good public service facility. It includes the tax collector, the property appraiser, and the clerk of courts. We're also scheduled to build a new sheriff substation on that same property shortly. ProJects that got underway as part of your fiscal year '01 budget that are not as yet complete but we wanted to give you a little progress update. The picture on your visualizer now is the Max Page 5 June 21,2001 Hasse Community Center. It's coming along very, very well. It's at the Max Hasse Community Park on Golden Gate Boulevard. It's a 9,500 square foot building, includes a fitness facility, and it's scheduled to be open in September of this year, just about the time school starts. It is adjacent to the Big Cypress Elementary School, and we've got a partnership agreement with the school where they use our public park facilities and we, in mm, get to have access to the school lands and some of their athletic fields after school hours. So it's a good joint partnership example for us. Most of you can't help but drive by and see the North County Regional Library Project, and that one's moving along very, very well. It's on the comer of Airport and Orange Blossom. That project is scheduled for completion in January of '02, right about peak-season time. We think that's going to be a landmark-type facility for us. It's -- it's really going to be the kind of facility in terms of public service facilities that we think this community is looking for. It's not your standard box facility. It's Spanish design and architecture, stand-alone bell tower, solarium reading rooms, and just a more upscale type library facility than we've constructed in the past. Obviously, an issue of great importance, about six months ago was our North County Waste Water Treatment Plant. This is a picture of the 5-million-gallon per day expansion. I will tell you that that project is well ahead of schedule at this point because of the authorizations that you gave us to negotiate some overtime work with the contractor and, in fact, I was out there two days ago with Mr. Mudd, and that project according to our original schedule is about 30 days ahead of schedule at this point. We are scheduling completion of that in December of'02. It should be well ahead of our DEP time frames for that project. Recently on a board agenda you authorized the county to purchase a building on Horseshoe Drive, and it is at the far west end Page 6 June 21,2001 of the Horseshoe loop. It is what's commonly referred to as the Old Barnett Bank Building. We were leasing that building for a number of years to try and provide space for a number of the off-campus sheriff functions. We were able to negotiate a purchase price for that and negotiate a long-term purchase that allowed us to actually have an annual payment for that building that equaled what our annual lease payment was. So for the same amount of money that you were paying in lease, you are now, at least, investing in a facility you will own. We hope to close on that building next month. The next series are ones that you are very familiar with, but we wanted to continue to remind you that there is ongoing progress on a number of your arterial roadways. Livingson Road -- and this is actually an older picture from what the road currently looks like. Most of you, I believe, snuck out there, taken a look at it, and some of you have even snuck out and drove on it. There are some guilty faces. CHAIRMAN CARTER: They catch me every time. MR. OLLIFF: Livingson Road from Radio Road to Golden Gate Parkway is scheduled to be completed in August of this year. We will have an unprecedented ribbon cutting for that road. Immokalee Road from four-lane -- the four-lane portion of that being constructed from 1-75 to Collier Boulevard, that continues to be on schedule, and it's scheduled to be completed in the spring of'02. And we know that there are a number of constituent issues up there in regards to safety, and just for the board's general knowledge, we are working on whatever interim measures we can provide for some of those communities. In particular in terms of left-hand turns into some of those communities against oncoming traffic. Golden Gate Boulevard Project is a project going from a four lane -- going from two to four lanes, scheduled, again, to be completed in the fall of '02. That project continues to be on schedule, and if you've Page 7 June 21,2001 been out there recently, you'll begin to see and get a feel for how much of a benefit that's going to be for that estates neighborhood. Last two projects are Pine Ridge Road and Airport Road. This is a picture of the Pine Ridge Road construction which has been primarily to this point a lot of underground utility work, very disruptive kind of work. Fortunately, a lot of that work has happened both after hours and on weekends when it's not peak business traffic time. Hopefully, a lot of that complete-lane-closure work is over with, but that project is a very complicated project due to the number of businesses and utilities along that roadway, but it continues to go well. Airport Road is the last roadway that we're going to show you this morning. That's a six-laning project from Pine Ridge to Vanderbilt Beach Road scheduled for completion in May of '02. And that project, as well, is on schedule. So for a community that hasn't built a road in about three fiscal years, I think you can pat yourself on the back for getting a number of these major road projects underway and, frankly, from a community disruption standpoint, I think both your transportation staff and the contractors have done a phenomenal job of keeping the disruption to our community and the traffic flow to a minimum. I think they've done a real good job of that. If you've been in other communities with this many road projects going at the same time, sometimes this can really be a formula for disaster, and I think this has gone very, very well. Some of our broad highlights for fiscal year '02 1 need to point out for -- especially for some of the new commissioners -- to me there is a general philosophical discussion I think that we ought to have at some point just about a growing change in our community, and I think historically county governments were never in a position to provide what I would call municipal-type services. County Page 8 June 21,2001 governments were to provide basic infrastructure needs, and at some point communities once the populations and the densities got to a point incorporated and they began to provide what you consider more municipal-type services through cities, but as Florida has grown, I think you've begun to see a change in that in that counties are beginning to be called upon to provide what used to be city-type functions and a large number of this community begins to look to you and to us to be able to provide municipal-type services. And to try and understand what it takes to do that, I think we continue to get compared to the City of Naples and wish that we could provide the types of service and to the -- to the level, perhaps, sometimes that the City of Naples does. We've prepared a graph for you just to show you a comparison. I'm not saying this -- I'm not showing you this graph in any way to be disparaging towards the city at all, but just to give you a clear understanding of where we are in terms of staffing to population and what it requires to provide the kind of level of service that I think is provided in the city. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Does -- does that include Glades sheriff -- MR. OLLIFF: No. We have taken out all law enforcement, so we're talking about general government employees to population. And if look, it's almost a three-to-one ratio in terms of what the city has in terms of employees to population versus what the county has, and if you can look down -- maybe, Beth, I can get you to focus in on that -- that bottom line -- if you look at what it would require in terms of the county-wide population for the county to be able to provide the same level of service from a staffing perspective, you would have to actually add 2,300 employees to your payroll in order to have that same staffing pattern that the city does. So I don't think that is a realistic expectation, certainly not in this coming year's budget, but Page 9 June 21,2001 it's just one that I thought was worth pointing out that our ability to be able to provide the kind of-- for instance, landscape-type maintenance and park maintenance and that almost pound for pound if you look at our parks, it's almost a three-to one staffing ratio when you go from city's to county's. In addition to that, I think it's worth noting that not only do we have this disparity in terms of our ability to provide service, but I think if you look the county also provides, in addition to that, a number of services that are not provided by cities. And if you look at this list, not only do we have a lower employee-to-population ratio, but on top of that we are providing this entire list of services that cities do not. So on top of what municipal services are being provided, you look at library services, domestic animal services, medical examiners, bailiffs, and the whole list, there's a large percentage of your employee base that is going to provide these services that are not provided in the city. So I think it's just good as we step into this budget process for you to understand some of the distinctions between county government and the city and what, frankly, you and your staff have been able to do with a much smaller employee base and, frankly, I think a much smaller budget in terms of comparison to population. COMMISSIONER HENN1NG: Can we get a copy of that just for our records, please? MR. OLLIFF: Absolutely. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I would really like that, Tom, and Commissioner Henning. I think I would like step it one level further. I smell a real nice production for 54 that says this is your county at work, services provided, and when people criticize and say, we are bloated, we're inefficient, I think they ought to step back and ask -- ask yourself, if this is what you're getting for money spent compared to other communities within your county externally and then come Page 10 June 21,2001 back to me and say we're not doing a good job. And I think this is the kind of message that needs to be put out there so folks really understand what you're getting, because I'm -- I'm amazed, and I thank you for that. MR. OLLIFF: That's the reason we wanted to show you this, again, not to say anything about the cities because they do a fine job and -- CHAIRMAN CARTER: I'm not criticizing the city, whatever they need to do, but I think we need to show what we're doing at the county level. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I do feel a little prouder than I did before I got here this morning. That's great. Thank you for that. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I'll use that anytime I can, believe me. MR. OLLIFF: I'll step out of my teacher's role and move onto the actual -- I have to move on to the fiscal year '02 budget for you a little bit. The fiscal year '02 budget as presented actually has a .41 mill or an 11.9 percent increase over the millage rate that was levied by this board for fiscal year '01. In general terms you can talk about that in 4 tenths of a mill is generally what the increase is in this budget. If approved, this would be the first millage increase since 1997 when the millage was increased by about .25 mills. You need to keep in mind if this millage rate is approved at what is the currently proposed rate, it would still be the lowest millage rate in the State of Florida compared to all 67 counties, and that's with the increase that's proposed in this budget. And if you can take a look at this list, that's the list of all of the counties and all of the millages within the State of Florida, and there is Collier County down at the bottom at 67 with a 3.5028 millage rate currently. If you were to approve this budget, it would go up to about 3.9 and, again, compared to last year's millage rates, we would still be the lowest in the State of Florida. Page 11 June 21, 2001 Now, it's suggested sometimes that Collier's millage rate is at a low level strictly because of the high taxable values in this county, and while it's obvious that that is partly true, it's also only part of the reason why I think Collier's tax rate is as low as it is. And last year you need to note that there were eight counties that had a higher taxable value than Collier County does, and if you'll look at the list here, you will see that those eight had higher property tax rates than did Collier County, and in some cases significantly higher property tax rates than does Collier County. So while there is certainly some truth in the fact that Collier's high property values help to keep our millage rate low, I think there's also plenty of evidence to show that both as a board and as a staff you've done a great job of trying to maintain an efficient organization over the course of the history of this government that's kept it low as well. In addition, I think to try to give you some perspective about the magnitude of the county budget within a typical tax bill, we've pulled a graph for you to show that on a typical homeowner's tax bill, the county portion of the taxes amount to less than one-quarter of the tax bill that a property owner receives. So while -- COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Could you zoom in on the graph? MR. OLLIFF: Sure. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: There you go. Thanks. MR. OLLIFF: So while there's an awful lot of interest and attention in county government and county government's budget, it's always good to know where we are in terms of the total tax bill, and you only amount to about one-quarter or less of the average tax bill that's provided every year. Of that quarter it's also good to know where you as a county commission fall in terms of that total budget as well, and this graph shows of the county budget how much of that budget is attributable to the county manager's agency or the Board of Page 12 June 21,2001 County Commissioners agency versus all of the other people who are -- are being funded out of your ad valorem tax rate. Again, I think you'll see that the BCC portion of the total county budget is fairly small. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Tom, are those transfers really attributable to us? The 15.1 percent, that's transfers? MR. OLLIFF: Yes. In most cases. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: So we could say we're 30 percent of the 25 percent. MR. OLLIFF: About one-third of the 25 percent is actual functions that you control, but I just want to make the point a great deal of this budget are agencies and operations that are not under your control. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Interesting. MR. OLLIFF: The budget has proposed -- addresses issues that we believe were directly raised by the public, by the board over the course of the last six months, and by the public. And we're going to take the opportunity to just go through a few of the highlights of the things that are in this budget. The first -- and I guess one that raised itself today was the elimination of this thing. This is the actual voter punch card from the last election, and Ms. Edwards, your Supervisor of Elections, is working along with the elections agency of the State of Florida to try and develop some options for you to consider. Right now I think we are looking at a touch-screen type technology which is -- is the state of the art. And, frankly, we have had to show that in this budget as something that is a financed purchase. We are showing that as a multi-year purchase, and when we get to that budget, we'll give you the details of that, but that was one of the highlights, I think, of this budget is new voter equipment. Second item was one that's been front and foremost in Page 13 June 21,2001 everybody's mind is indigent health care, and I'll ask Leo if he will just come up now and give you just a brief walk-through of what is currently in the budget for indigent health care plan. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Before Leo starts just quickly, Tom, do we have any idea what that voter reform -- I mean, I know what the number is, but how that would affect the millage rate. I think -- I just think people need to know that was out of our control. We don't have anything to do with that. MR. OLLIFF: Right now the supervisor of elections has programmed a number of about $6 million. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Right. MR. OLLIFF: That is a worst-case number, and we we will probably not have final numbers until midsummer, but we've also, again, financed that number so that that $6 million is not a $6 million annual impact in this year's budget, and you will only see that -- about probably about a tenth of that in this year's budget as a debt- service payment. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you. MR. OCHS: Good morning, Commissioners. The county- commission-funded portion of the FY '02 Public Health Department budget contains an expanded service request totalling $2,903,800 that's comprised of the five program areas that you see on the visualizer. I'll work from the bottom to the top just in terms -- CHAIRMAN CARTER: Can you sharpen that up, Leo? Maybe it's me. MR. OCHS: Okay. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you. COURT REPORTER: Could I get your last name, please? MR. OCHS: Yes, Ochs. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Okay. Thank you. MR. OCHS: The bulk of that $2.9 million is intended to be Page 14 June 21, 2001 expended on a new program initiative for primary medical care services to the uninsured and underinsured population here in the county. Also contained in this expanded program request is a $200,000 appropriation to maintain the school nursing program, a $150,000 appropriation to maintain the health department's prenatal clinic for indigent pregnant women. There's also $125,000 appropriation recommended as the county's share of the local match for the Healthy Kids insurance program, and then, finally, a $60,000 appropriation proposed to expand the existing health department dental clinic services to expand that beyond services to children and begin to service some of the adult population that can't otherwise get those services. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: The Healthy Kids and the prenatal care, are those adequate to compensate for the Governor's veto of our appropriations? MR. OCHS: Commissioner, let's go to Healthy Kids item on the visualizer, if you will. The $125,000 would -- would be one-third of the required local match. The $250,000 that you see next to that in fees and other revenue represent the other two-thirds of the local match requirement that have historically come from the two hospitals in the community. So we are assuming or hopeful that they will continue to fund one-third of that local match. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Had they anticipated doing that before -- I mean, would that be -- had the Governor not vetoed the local appropriations, would they have been expecting to pay that two- fifty or was that included in the appropriation amount? MR. OCHS: No. They had not expected to do that. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: So this is a request we're going to be going to them with, appropriately. MR. OCHS: Yes. And also on the prenatal care program initiative you should also know that the $150,000 was intended to Page 15 June 21,2001 offset the loss of a -- of a $300,000 grant from the state that's currently helping to fund that program. That's a program that's a partnership between the county, the state health department, and Naples Community Hospital right now, and through the Foundation for Women's Health. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: But we also had an appropriation for Isabel Collier Reed that was vetoed that I think included some money for pregnant women, and I just wonder if that one-fifty covers -- it doesn't -- saying, no. So we're still going to be looking for -- if we fund all of this, we're still looking for Healthy Kids money from private industry, and we're still looking for prenatal care money from somewhere. MR. OCHS: Correct. Just to keep the current level of service in those programs going. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: So those two really -- I mean, I see that they're on here as expanded services. They are expanded for county budgets, but they're not new programs for Collier County. MR. OLLIFF: Very true. MR. OCHS: Healthy Kids, the prenatal program, and the school nursing program are not new programs. They're showed as expanded in this budget because this would be the first time that the board has funded those programs with direct cash as opposed to incoming contributions. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: And we'll still be looking for matching dollars in all those from other sources. MR. OCHS: Absolutely. The 200,000 in the nursing program was intended to offset the loss of a private donation in that same amount that currently is part of the funding mix for the school nurse program. MR. OLLIFF: And, Mr. Chairman, I'm just going to remind you that this is only provided as just a highlight for you. We will get to Page 16 June 21,2001 this budget, and you will have an opportunity to talk about the details, but wanted to at least give you the preliminary information so that you would have it to think about. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you, Commissioner. I just -- thank you for that because this is just an overview to give you an idea, and we'll come -- MR. OCHS: We'll be back tomorrow to answer all your specific questions. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Right. Thank you. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Okay. I'm sorry. I was just worried about those vetoes. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you. MR. OLLIFF: Also in this fiscal year '02 budget you have enhanced planning assistance for your Immokalee initiative. And I think it's a program that you're all familiar with, but one we also have put high on our priority list in terms of addressing not just code violations but housing issues there, and especially substandard housing issues, and we need to have some planning assistance there, so there's an additional planner in your budget for that. $100,000 is set aside primarily for appraisal work to help identify properties that might be good candidates for green space or passive recreation purposes. And, again, the board wanted to see a separate-type program for a green space acquisition program, again trying to respond to the citizen survey where consistently we get about 85, 86 percent of the citizens saying that they wish the county was a little more aggressive in terms of taking down properties primarily within the urban areas, so we have $100,000 set aside in this budget for that. There's a new financial management system which we are purchasing in conjunction with the Clerk of Courts, Dwight Brock. The clerk has actually put $500,000 of his own trust fund monies towards that project, and we've created -- well, what we Page 17 June 21,2001 would call an interagency team between the clerk and your Support Services Division, and I've asked Joanne to just come and provide you a brief summary of what that project is. MS. LEMUR: Good morning, Commissioners. Joanne Lemur. The current system is 13 years old. It's very antiquated. It's not user- friendly. You have to use tab and return to move around the screens compared to the point and click we're used to in our Windows environment. It lacks the ability to interface with many of the other county's other major business applications. It lacks the ability to facilitate e-commerce and e-government. It requires duplicate entry and extensive manhours. A great example of this is in human resources. To process payroll the human resource staff has to input data into two separate systems. This requires about 20 hours every other week of extra manhours that -- that can be eliminated. The new system that we're looking at -- I'll just highlight some of the advantages of it -- will obviously save manhours, faster turnaround on transactions, less effort to process requests, will reduce the chance for lost documents by incorporating our document imaging, reduce central support needed to process payroll, and employee benefit by allowing employees a self-service approach. It will provide us a foundation for enhancing existing and developing future e-government applications. It will dramatically improve and expand citizen, vendor, and employee access to services and information. It will expediate transactions, reduce errors, increase reporting capabilities. It's going to be much faster, more versatile, more responsive, increase customer awareness, and staff accountability. And I could go on and on, but it's -- it's really going to re-engineer the way we do business. The project is estimated to cost $2,750,000, which will include software, implementation costs, and training. In addition to those capital costs, we'd be looking for seven staff to be the implementation Page 18 June 21,2001 team; four on the clerk's side, three on the board's side. Those staff would look at work-flow analysis, re-engineering our work flow, implementing the various components of the system, running the parallel systems, and then the training of employees and the institutional knowledge gained through the implementation phase. The seven additional staff will cost approximately $399,000 in annual cost. This has been pared down quite significantly from the consultants recommendation of twelve staff, so we think we can do it with seven. We're looking to award a contract this summer. We actually have an agenda item coming to you on Tuesday. Commencing the project October 1 st and looking at an 18- to 24-month implementation, 24 months being very conservative and fully up and running. MR. OLLIFF: Thank you, Joanne. The magnitude of software programs these days is -- is really what I wanted you to see. It's a $2 1/2 million software program and inasmuch as two years in order to implement, but I will tell you that your entire county functions on these software programs now, and our ability to integrate between finance and your clerk's office and your human resources and your risk and your purchasing departments is very, very important to how efficient we can be. Also, in the fiscal year '02 budget, there are some enhanced domestic animal services, budget requests primarily for staffing, and for those of you in Districts 1, 3 and 5 in particular, I think you would attest to the growing number of public calls and concerns about animal-related issues, and I think you are well aware of our inability to be able to respond well to that given the current staffing levels. So, again, I think we are trying to find those areas where the public is demanding more service and trying to respond to that in this budget directly. Engineering and design monies are in this budget again for the Page 19 June 21, 2001 North County Regional Park. It is a 212-acre both active and passive park, soccer and baseball fields in addition to wooded walking trails. The preliminary site plan is on your visualizer now. We hope to be able to get down to a final design and permitting over the course of this next year, and as you'll recall, this fronts Livingston Road. Livingston Road will be the primary access to this park, so we have to build this park in conjunction with the construction of Livingston Road so that both of those projects are completed as nearly on time as possible so that the public can get access to the park when it's -- it's ready to be open. One of the other really neat features, I think, that we continue to hear from the public that is a high recreational desire there is, if you will, water play park. There is a fairly significant water-themed park located there where your pen is pointed. In addition, there is $8 million in this budget for the construction of a new Immokalee Jail. It's design has been completed. In fact, the design is sitting on the shelf, as we speak. It will provide a new 192- bed facility replacing the current 39-year-old building. In addition to that, I think, if you've ever had a chance to go out -- or not -- I wouldn't call it an opportunity -- but if you've ever seen this facility, you will know how badly we need that replacement, and if you talk to the sheriff's department, you will know how badly they need to have some attention provided to jails and jail space and jail beds. This does not provide a large number of additional beds, but it does provide at least replacement of beds that we would consider to be substandard at this point. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Was it Nelson Faerber's father who was the architect? MR. OLLIFF: Architect in 1962. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Interesting. MR. OLLIFF: As well in this budget is a new EMS station. It's located at the Grey Oaks Project. It is directly in front of and the sign Page 20 June 21, 2001 that you see on the visualizer there is the entrance to Poinciana Elementary School. It is directly south of the new project being constructed as part of Grey Oaks on the west side of Airport Road. That project will be completed 11 months after we finally acquire the property. It's slated for construction this coming year. COMMISSIONER HENNING: And that is a shared facility just like we do with the school systems, so a bigger bang for the taxpayers' buck. MR. OLLIFF: While we've not finalized it yet, we are at least planning. This is a picture of a vacant lot in front of the DaRuMa Restaurant on Vanderbilt Beach Road -- on Vanderbilt Drive. I'm sorry. We are trying to lease this property during the period of time while we are constructing a new beach parking garage to provide the public an opportunity which is almost directly as close to the beach as is the current parking lot so that the public does not get inconvenienced while we are in the middle of constructing a parking garage. So there is money in the budget to try and negotiate a lease for that lot. Money is obvioiusly in the budget for expanded library services. As the new regional library comes on line, there are additional costs associated with staffing and programs. We annually have to throw up a picture of John Jones just to let you know that he provides some programs and a little color for our -- COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: You mean Beauregard. Where is Beauregard? He's here isn't he? MR. OLLIFF: Beau stepped out. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Okay. MR. OLLIFF: As well in this budget are enhanced PUD monitoring and PUD environmental and landscape enforcement. And I think this board has had several discussions over the course of the past six months about our inability to be able to go out and Page 21 June 21, 2001 monitor PUDs in terms of their commitments and their actual PUD documents. We are providing additional staffing in order to be able to go back out and check on already preapproved PUDs to make sure that they're living up with the commitments and stipulations that you provided for them. We're also including commitments for development review turnaround times. We have historically as part of the original development services implementation developed a series of turnaround times. In simple terms if you turn in a building permit, we were committing on average to have building permits out of that department within five working days when it was originally opened. We are currently working with the DSAC, your advisory committee, to develop turnaround times that we are going to commit to as your staff to the development community for each and every permit that they turn into us. We think that they are owed a level of service. If they're going to pay for their permits, they ought to know what they ought to get in return, and so we're trying to work with the community, and before the budget's actually adopted in October, we hope to have those in place. Also in this budget, obviously, your largest priority -- and we've certainly not saved the best for last, but we've included transportation funding, and we wanted Mike to come and give you a brief on what the assumptions in this budget are for transportation funding. MR. MCNEES: Good morning. Mike McNees from your county manager's office, and I will be brief. By the end of fiscal 2001 you will have more than $75 million committed to ongoing capital projects. Your fiscal 2002 budget shows an additional $100 million in capital projects in your gas tax fund for what is the second year of what you've been seeing as your five-year road plan. You see another $18 million in your fiscal '02 budget for impact-fee-funded capital projects. If you add all those numbers together, they come up Page 22 June 21,2001 to $114 million more than you have. This budget is funded with a $114 million bond issue from an unspecified repayment source. And the way that works for this budget is were the half-penny-for-roads referendum to succeed, the repayment source would be then identified as that half a penny over the next 20 years. If that referendum were not to succeed, the repayment source -- you would have one of two options -- would either be pledging your existing gas taxes, which are about 12 million a year, so you would have to allocate approximately 9 million of that for the next 20 years to repay that source. You would have some options to look at perhaps some other sales tax financing. Bottom line, then, would be your last option would be to begin to cut projects which, again, we're into the whole currency discussion which we're certainly not going to have this morning, but just wanted you to understand how this budget is funded. It does fund your next -- your next year of your capital improvement plan for roads, but it does require $114 million worth of new money. MR. OLLIFF: Thank you, Mike. In addition to, this budget includes architectural funding for an estimated $20 million jail expansion project. That's a picture of your current jail, but as well as an addition to that jail, we also have included repairs and renovations to that existing jail which was built in 1985. If you've ever had a discussion with Don Hunter and/or Skip Camp about the state of that -- that facility, we continue to do duct work and tape and patch and things to try and keep it from leaking. It needs some significant roof repairs, and it's a project which we've talked about but have never really tried to tackle, and we have got money in the budget for architects and design and in anticipation of actually funding a jail project in fiscal year '03. There's also architectural funding for the administrative building to house the constitutional officers and court-related agencies and to Page 23 June 21, 2001 build the new public parking garage on this deck. That is the first phase of your master plan. On the screen is a campus master plan that's a part of that, and it shows where the parking garage is to the top of the screen, and it shows where the new what they call courthouse annex building will be, which is connected to your courthouse building primarily because it is -- is almost fully a court- related-agency-type building. That's -- that's a straightforward construction project, but between the two it's anticipated to be in the neighborhood of $30 million. We've got the architectural design monies in this coming budget and, again, the board is going to have to make some decisions about going more towards debt service and borrowing for some of these larger projects in future years. Our ability to pay for these out of pocket on any given fiscal year is simply not doable, so in order for us to actually address some of these capital needs, you are going to have to borrow money in order to be able to accomplish it. Design and construction funds for a North County Government Services Center, if you'll look on the board behind Beth here you will see the floor plan that we have worked out with all of the constitutional officers. Our continuing effort, again, to provide service where the people are as opposed to making them drive down to Airport and 41. That floor plan, as colorful as it is, actually functions as well. It provides space for every constitutional officer as well as the Board of County Commissioners, and we expect to provide every single government service that we can possibly remotely provide from that location including Guy Carlton's ever popular driver's license program that he's been delegated from the State of Florida to provide. And ! think that's going to be an immensely popular site. It is directly west of your new regional library, has a shared parking lot with that facility, and we expect to construct that facility in fiscal year '02. Page 24 June 21, 2001 COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Tom, I just really want to take the chance to commend you for these ideas, for this facility in particular. I really think this is going to be the beginning of your legacy really in this county. This is a very important step we're taking, and I just really want to commend you for it. MR. OLLIFF: Thank you. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I'll say ditto to that. MR. OLLIFF: The one other thing of note just for those of you, especially the commissioner of the district, to point out, is the little round pod at the bottom right-hand side of that screen is actually a public meeting room as well. So we have provided a small meeting room in there for the public to be able to access that, and you can actually hold meetings in this building as it's designed without the balance of the building being open. So there's restroom access and public meeting room access while the rest of the building is shut down. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Tom, do you have any idea what the capacity of that will be? MR. OLLIFF: It's only about 40 at this point, but for most group meetings that we have, we figure we can probably accommodate 80 to 90 percent of the meetings that we have at any given time. CHAIRMAN CARTER: That's good. Thank you. MR. OLLIFF: Allocations of TDC funds are in this budget, and you know of this project because you recently approved of it. This is a site plan for the Naples Botanical Gardens. So that's part of the TDC budget. There is construction monies and design monies for that project, but just so the board doesn't think that it's a fiscal year '02 project, it is a fairly major project, and they are programming opening that facility in fiscal year 2003. But you should start seeing construction on that project in fiscal year '02 with the help of the Page 25 June 21,2001 Board of County Commissioners. We're almost done here, Mr. Chairman. The last project that we want to highlight as part of this budget is GIS, and especially for new board members who may not be familiar with GIS is we have appointed a multi-agency team, again, to deal with that project. Jim Mudd is running that team on our side of the house, and I've asked Jim to give you a brief of what GIS is and where we are with it. MR. MUDD: Jim Mudd, Public Utilities Administrator, for the record. What GIS is -- it's not a gizmo; it's not geographical information from Mudd's operation. Okay. That's not what it is. It's a graphical information system that touches every -- every office in the county. It's a combination of maps and spatial reference data integrated using computers and software. Any information that includes a spatial component such as addresses or coordinate locations can be referenced through a GIS to a map allowing relationships among data sets to be displayed queried and analyzed. What's that mean? For instance, if you go over to Ed Kant's operation, he has a room about half this size that's full of blueprints, and he's got 'em in waste -- steel wastepaper baskets. Okay. If you go over to my collections and distribution staff in water, they've got a room about the same size with different maps and blueprints. And when somebody makes a change to one of those blueprints, it doesn't get passed. It's made to that set of blueprints, and you might have five different copies in that process. Lots of different changes are being made all over the county, and it isn't being coordinated with all the different changes because they're done in the process. What GIS gives you the capability to do is give everybody a common reference to get those blueprints in one place where they can be shared by everyone else. A GIS is much more than a computer- aided drafting or CAD that you hear about all the time or automated mapping systems. GIS combines information from land maps, Page 26 June 21, 2001 engineering drawings, and tabular databases into a uniform geographic and textural database. GIS is an effective and efficient tool for managing spatial information. The integration of these diverse data sets into a GIS allows access to multiple users to consistent information. GIS is more than pretty pictures. It helps us answer three crucial questions: What it is; where it is; and how it relates. These answers provide the basis for more informed and intelligent decision making. For instance, Palm River, three -- excuse me, five broken water mains in the last two and a half weeks. Bad locates. Why wasn't it where it was supposed to be? Might have been documented seven years ago by Al, but A1 doesn't work for us anymore, and Pete's out there. Pete can't remember where A1 put the piece, and he doesn't know where he put the map or he put the blueprint. It happens every day in Collier County. GIS, how long have we been working on it? GIS -- we've been trying to get GIS in the county for over 15 years. It's had three failed attempts. We decided this time to come with the task force with everybody with a constitutional officer included, with all your staff to come together. We started the first quarter of this FY, and we did a needs assessment. I gave you a copy of this needs assessment. You should have it on your desk. And I also provided you a tutorial method with CD-ROM in the back which you just bring on and it takes over your -- takes over your computer, and it gives you a rather quick tutorial so you don't have to go through this process. Abe Skinner has been instrumental in this. Abe has put forth about $4 million into the process to develop the photography and to do a complete photo run of the entire county and at the same time bring his appraisal piece over to it. He's also put in about 260,000 for planametrics. And planametrics, you start saying, what are you talking about? Well, where are the fire hydrants? Where is the edges Page 27 June 21,2001 of the road? Where are the streetlights, and you get those from the maps so those have grid coordinates. We're putting a grid over GIS to give us better than a half foot specificity as far as what we need to have as far as where the underground utilities are, the road center lines, and things like that. Not only does it give your county staff the process, but if you take a look at the Land Development Code there's been a change that says, "Hey, if you're a developer, you'll give us GIS of your plans so that we can incorporate that into this database." So it's a shared process between the community and the county staff. Tom, if you could show those real quick, give you kind of an idea what you'll get as far as your different levels. There's 55 levels now of data that you put on. You can flip the slide. This is a golf course, Tom; it's Naples Lakes Golf Course. You basically lay your planametrics is what he just put on where the roads are, where the streets are and data process. Next slide. Starts putting on what the subdivision looks like and what the different -- what the different plots are for each one of the homesites. Next slide. Another layer would give you where the water distribution process is on the slide. It would overlay on top, and what I've tried to do is give you about six of those levels. There's a total of 55 that are planned in this -- in this -- in this report that we gave you that's been integrated. Next slide. And last but not least, how the water lays on it. So not only do you get your manholes for sewer, but you also get where your pump locations and your distribution system gets laid on it. So you don't lose the data as you go through it, but it gives you the capability to see where it is in relation to everything else. And everybody says, well, I just showed you pretty pictures. This is the key to GIS when you pluck on that street, okay, you get the addresses for the people that live there, okay, then you get the Page 28 June 21,2001 background, the hookups, what their -- what their connections are in that process. This is a three-year effort. It started this year. We've got about a half million dollars in this budget, $2.5 million is scheduled for next year, and the in 2003, the final stage, you have $1.5 million. The reason I'm giving you an overview is the budget is decentralized in every division's budget. So you'll see pieces of GIS in the process through everybody's process, but it's $2.5 million. It's laid out in the back of this plan for you so that you've got that process and you get the whole picture. CHAIRMAN CARTER: So in three years we'll have it online, Mr. Mudd? MR. MUDD: 2003 you'll have a fully functioning system. It will be online in stages starting next year, sir. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you. I have been here my third year listening to this, watch people pick it apart, and I can't tell you how frustrating it is with that need out there. We must get it done if we're going to be in the 21 st century, so I just say put the pedal to the metal. Let's get it done. It's the best money we could ever spend. MR. OLLIFF: In summary, Mr. Chairman, I think this is a good budget. If I didn't think it was a good budget, I wouldn't submit it to you. I could have submitted to you a budget that stayed within the millage rate from last year and, frankly, I don't think we would have been able to address things that were nagging needs of this community. I do not think we would have been able to address a lot of the issues that the public continues to tell you we needed to do a better job on, continues to call us and complain about each and every day. I will tell you this budget doesn't get it all done, but it certainly moves us in the right direction. Just an overview about what we're doing over the next couple of days. I think the O and B staff along with the division of department Page 29 June 21, 2001 directors will provide you in the next two days a total look at the full county budget. We have dedicated a wrap-up day on Monday. That is only necessary if you have questions that we need to come back to you with or decisions that haven't been made over Thursday and Friday. What results at the end of this workshop process is that you will develop what is called the tentative millage rate. That tentative millage rate is then published and provided to the property owners. From that point, practically speaking, that millage rate is easy to bring back down to lower from the point that you've published it. It is not impossible, but it is very difficult to increase the millage rate from that point. So we just wanted you to understand what the process was, what the expected outcome of the process is. And unless you have any further questions of me or the administrative staff, I'm ready to turn this over to Mr. Smykowski, and let's get down to the details. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Mr. Olliff, I, again, commend you for dealing with reality. First time that -- well, it started to evolve but now we're doing what we need to do. You start with the issues. You start with what you need to do and work your budget, instead of picking a number and saying, "We have to be at this number." That is ass backwards. That is inefficient management. That is not strategic planning. That is not what good organizations do. You are to be commended for the reality. I thank you, and I appreciate what you said about you start with higher number. It is much easier to reduce that. You operate with that framework instead of trying to raise the price on somebody after you negotiated the contract. Same process. Thank you. MR. OLLIFF: Thank you. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: How do you really feel though, Jim? Page 30 June 21, 2001 CHAIRMAN CARTER: Oh, I didn't even really get started. MR. OLLIFF: Mr. Smykowski, it's all yours. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Thank you. For the record, Michael Smykowski. I'm the county's budget director. Before we get started, I would like to introduce the budget staff who has worked long and hard, and I would like to thank them and commend them for that. Over the last three months they've put in tons of overtime, probably to the detriment of their personal and family lives, and I appreciate the efforts that they've gone and the time they've put in to bring you this product today. Chris Dublis, Susan Usher, who joined us this year from utilities who worked on the capital budgets this year, Tony Gambino, Winona Stone, Randy Greenwald. And last but not least, Pat Lehnhard's hiding in the back. Pat is the one who puts these booklets together, and every time we say, "Oh, we have one slight change to make" and everyone thinks it's readily -- very easy to make, and we just have to change out a few pages, it's Pat's the one who's doing all that for us. I would like to commend her, certainly, for her efforts in bringing you a fine product today. With that I'd like to discuss briefly the schedule for today. Today we're going to focus on the Non-General Fund departments. We're going to start with debt service funds, work into our trust funds. We'll talk about the unincorporated area General Fund which is ad valorem supported. We'll talk then on the special revenue funds. Many of those are MSTUs with citizen advisory committees who've elected to tax themselves for enhansed services in a whole number of areas. I will then focus on our enterprise funds which include our water and sewer utilities, our solid waste operations. The internal service funds, such as fleet management and our self-insurance funds, and finally our gas tax and impact fee capital funds, the 300 series. Tomorrow we will look from start to finish at the General Fund Page 31 June 21, 2001 and all of the departments, divisions, and/or capital projects that receive funding from the General Fund inclusive of the constitutional officers and then, again, as Mr. Olliff indicated on Monday, wrap-up if -- if necessary. With that I'd like you to please turn -- there's a debt service tab. We'll start there. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: G-1. MR. SMYKOWSKI: There really aren't policy decisions to make for the board here. This is just a summary on G- 1 of the outstanding debt which is principal and interest. Think of it in terms of the outstanding mortgage payments due on previously funded capital projects. If anything is worth noting, at the upper left-hand column, you look at the final maturities on most of these outstanding bond issues, and you'll notice that most of them are relatively short with a number of them coming -- reaching final maturity in 2003, 2004. Relatively few of them going out beyond the next three to four years. On the -- on the revenue side, there is one thing of note here that we'll actually talk about tomorrow. You see in the middle of the page, "transfer from General Fund," there's six point -- about $6.9 million for debt service. Mr. Olliff in his opening remarks indicated that we're having to finance a number of big-ticket projects. In a given year, the county manager is faced with 50 to 60 million dollars' worth of requests, approximately 10 to 12 million dollars of available funding, so he has to play Solomon every year and -- and make decisions that are in the best interests of the county. Obviously, with 10 to 12 million dollars to work with, when you have elections -- new elections equipment that's going to cost 6 million, if you fund that, you don't have a whole lot left to do anything else with, and there are a whole host of capital needs. The infrastructure of the county is aging. One of the recommended projects is a new roof on the jail. Page 32 June 21, 2001 That's very expensive, but we're to that stage where repair and maintenance becomes a greater issue. Tomorrow we will discuss those projects. The reason for the increase there on the General Fund side is financing for things like the Immokalee Jail. That's approximately $8 million. Well, again, between those two, elections equipment and the Immokalee Jail, that would eat up more than the total available funding that you had. So we'll -- we'll explore that in great detail tomorrow as part of our General Fund, but I just felt that was one of the noteworthy things to point out on this -- on this schedule. With that, again, there are no policy decisions. These are the outstanding mortgage payments, so to speak, on existing debt, and with that I would like you to mm, please, to the grant and trust fund section beginning on page D-1. On D-2 there is a description provided of the various grant funds and what the source is and what they're typically used for. It is worth noting to the board, again, these areas we're discussing up front, the board really has limited -- there is no policy decision to make here. It's a function of the available grant dollars that we anticipate to receive in the upcoming year. On D-4 there are some expanded service requests principally associated with the new CDBG block grants. Obviously, the board has talked about that already via an executive summary, a separate presentation, approximately $2.1 million and, obviously, there is an allotment for administration of those existing -- of those new grant funds that Collier County will be receiving. So there's recommended three housing and urban manager positions and one planning technician to administer that CBDG grant. There's also a request on the MPO side for a new position to assist with bike pedestrian and ride share programs. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Mike, are these matching grants, some of them? Page 33 June 21,2001 MR. SMYKOWSKI: Some of them the sheriffs -- the sheriffs grants are; MPO to a small degree; the natural resources is not; the housing is not; RSVP is not; EMS, no; parks and rec for the summer food grant program, that is not; services for seniors we match with a small piece from General Fund. We'll talk about that tomorrow. The largest one with a matching component are the sheriffs grants, and they typically match -- provide the match through their confiscated property trust fund proceeds. In other words, when they -- if they make a drug arrest and seize cash, they're able to keep that cash, and they're using those funds as match proceeds. COMMISSIONER HENNING: So we do have it. We can make a decision on the match grants whether to fund that or not; is that true? COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Upon application. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Yes. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: You know, that's -- we get that question put to us often, "Do you want to provide the match?" Unless it's something, like, the sheriff has control over his confiscated trust fund, he can use that to match without our approval. But if it requires a property tax match, we get the say-so. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Right. And those grants that would require match from property taxes in any way, shape, or form we'll discuss tomorrow. There's the Services for Seniors is $110,000 annual allotment that has not increased for as long as I can remember, and that leverage is probably eight or ten to one in additional grant funding for services that actually saves the county money by keeping people out of nursing homes where it would actually cost more to provide that specialized care, keeping -- the goal of Services for Seniors program is to keep people in their houses as long as that is a viable reality. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Grants allow you the opportunity to Page 34 June 21,2001 leverage dollars to provide a service is the way I've always looked at it and that's -- and, of course, they run out, but it gives you that opportunity to do what you need to do without putting the whole burden on your own taxing process, meaning your own ad valorem tax process. MR. SMYKOWSKI: We will then move to our -- to our trust funds which are on page -- MR. OLLIFF: D-6. MR. SMYKOWSKI: -- D-5 and D-6. In these cases these funds -- the trust funds, the board's acting in a trustee capacity. Typical funding is from varied sources such as donations and bequests. Funds are restricted for a given purpose. For example, the library trust fund, people in many instances make donations or bequests in their wills to donate funding for a library funding. In the case here, the library trust fund's been the beneficiary over the last few years of funding a literacy program in Collier County. That is one of-- actually, one of the noteworthy points on page D-6. There was funding for a literacy program coordinator for a two-year period. To begin that process, the recommendation of the staff is to continue that program. The initial upfront funds received to initiate that program have been exhausted, but the staff recommendation is to continue that, and that is shown -- will be shown and discussed tomorrow in the expanded request in the library budget. There is a description on page D-5 of, you know, the various sources, confiscated property trust, GAC land trust. Again, the dollars vary widely from year to year in terms of-- you know, confiscated property. It's anyone's guess, you know, the dollar of monetary value associated with any property that's confiscated, library trust fund in terms of, you know, how much donations might be received in a good year -- in a given year. Excuse me. And if there are no questions there we'll move to Unincorporated Area Page 35 June 21,2001 General Fund. MSTD General Fund 111, that begins on page B- 1 and there is a summary. Again, before we discuss this, what I'll try to do at the beginning of each new section is to -- for the benefit of the commission and the public at large is to focus on the nature of the funding, where it comes from. In this case, county steps in and provides municipal-type services in the unincorporated area of the county. Due to the lack of city government, the county defacto becomes a principal service provider. This would exclude residents of the City of Naples, the City of Marco Island, and Everglades City as they are paying into their respective city general fund for services provided in this area. Overall there is a tax decrease within this fund. Last year's millage rate was .8425 or $84.25 per $100,000 of taxable value. The proposed millage rate with the budget before you is .8103 or $81.03 per $100,000 of taxable value resulting in a decrease of $3.22 for -- per $100,000 of taxable value. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Mike, can you show me what graphics and tech MST is? MR. SMYKOWSKI: Yes. There's -- there's a department in the community development fund that does mapping, a lot of zoning maps, street addressing functions, et cetera associated. It's ancillary to the development process. As the county continues to grow, that's a continuous ongoing effort. COMMISSIONER HENNING: And that's funding in what kind of manner? COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Other permit phase. COMMISSIONER HENNING: It's through the community development it's funded; right? MR. SMYKOWSKI: It's funded in the unincorporated area general fund, so it is funded through taxes with a portion of that Page 36 June 21,2001 budget being funded through a transfer from the community development fund. You'll note on page B-3 under "other sources" it says transfer 113, proposed -- COMMISSIONER HENNING: Okay. I'm there. MR. SMYKOWSKI: FY '02 is $1,530,300. There are pieces of the community development budgets that are in the unincorporated area general fund that through a -- what was called a rational nexus analysis that was done by staff and the board approved about three or four budget years ago that a certain segment of each of the programs provided these departments had some direct bearing and were related to the development process and as such should be borne by the -- by the permits supported community development fund. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I think it was a couple of budget cycles ago we went through this really carefully because we significantly increased the amount of these budgets, the percentage that was covered by permit fees as opposed to general taxes, and unless something drastic would have changed -- and I can't see how - - we really were as aggressive as we could be. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Good. MR. SMYKOWSKI: That is correct. And just to give you the magnitude of this, total ad valorem proposed in the current year's budget is about $16.3 million. You see the transfer from 113 is a million six fifty-six. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: That's what they're paying. MR. SMYKOWSKI: If that did not take place, the ad valorem would be one million six fifty-six higher as a result of that decision, so that has offset ad valorem taxes to the general population as a result of those decisions and that study that was undertaken. With that there are -- there are expanded services proposed on pages B-4 and B-5. I'll let the analyst and/or Mr. Kant's representing initially on B-4 transportation. Page 37 June 21, 2001 MR. KANT: Good morning, Commissioners. We've asked for additional landscaping crew. We currently have 36 miles of landscape medians. This year alone we will be adding five. Over the next two years, we'll be adding five more each year for a total of about 50 miles -- a little over 50 miles. What we did in looking at this request was we costed out at our current bid prices for our contracted work what this maintenance would cost. And that would come up with about 535,000. The cost of this crew is considerably less. Of course, the equipment is amortized over a longer period of time, uses better control and allows us to provide a safer work environment and safer motorist environment. We've also looked at an additional paving request. Currently, if you remember back to the workshop, we pointed out that at our current rate of funding it would take us about 37 or 38 years to go through a full cycle of paving or repaving or upgrading the 1,564 miles of road that we have. Unfortunately, the expected life span of most of these roads is typically in the range of 12 to 15 years. By increasing the amount of funding and allowing us to get more -- not only more roads, but a better work -- smoother work program -- we believe we can bring this back down into the 15- to 18-year life cycle which is much more acceptable. MR. OLLIFF: This is going to be something we're going to have to trend towards, repaving more and more of our roadways annually, because if you'll remember Norman was talking to you about life-cycle costing on some of these roads and we've, frankly, just been heading in the wrong direction paving more roads and then having almost a static amount of money in there for repaving, so we're going to have to -- you will see us aggressively begin to increase our repaving amount annually. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Am I correct, Tom, that this paving is generally paid for out of the gasoline tax. Is that or is that -- Page 38 June 21,2001 MR. KANT: No. This is resurfacing and -- this is considered a maintenance program as opposed to new-construction program. There is -- there is a quasi new-construction aspect of it only in that as we convert some of the lime rock roads to paved roads, but because those are active roads and they're all part of platted permitted roadway network, we consider that part of the maintenance program because when we go to pave it, it's all done with the same material. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: There's two 5-cent gas taxes; is that correct? MR. KANT: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: And both of them are dedicated towards building new roads; no portion of it is for repair? MR. KANT: As I understand it, yes, sir. MR. OLLIFF: If there's no further questions, we can move on to public services. MS. STONE: Donna Stone. The Immokalee Parks and Recreation Department has requested a number $69,000 in expanded request. That includes one position of a maintenance worker, fitness equipment for the athletic center, and also part-time expenses for personnel to expand special camps, and that's offset by about $27,000 in revenue that would be generated in those additional special camps. MR. GAMBINO: Tony Gambino, budget analyst. The community development facility franchise regulation is asking for $70,000 for base rate and implementation of the additional network also called I-net. And we're also in graphics and tech asking for $65,500 for a senior GIS analyst position for Collier County GIS program. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Could you tell us what I-net is, please. MR. OLLIFF: Mr. Wallace is heading towards the microphone. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Good. Page 39 June 21,2001 MR. WALLACE: Thank you. Bleu Wallace, Director of CDS Operations. The institutional network is something that we're looking at to utilize the fiberoptic cable that belongs to the cable systems. In order to use the fiber to relay and connect governmental offices, constitutional offices, everything wherever that fiber is we can utilize that with our e-government and with our network that we have here especially to connect school board satellite activities in Immokalee once we get fiber out there and all over the county. And if the -- if the railway is there, we can utilize it, and if it's there and placed there by the cable providers, then we can utilize that as two- way communication. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: We can use it for what? MR. WALLACE: For communications. MR. OLLIFF: Communication, data transfer. For example, remote park sites, for example, are currently dial-in operations for computers. If I want the ability to have somebody to be able to go to a park site and register for classes and directly input that information to the home computer, I need a hard connection in order to be able to have reliable service for that. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: A phone line. MR. OLLIFF: A phone line, a fiberoptics line. As long as the cable company has the main line out on the roadway, I can connect to that as long as they have capacity in that line so -- COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: That's not very much. They don't have much. I mean, they drive me nuts with not having enough capacity. MR. OLLIFF: We're talking cable companies, not UTS. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I'm sorry. I was thinking -- okay. MR. WALLACE: This is cable, and it's the new fiberoptic system that they have upgraded -- both Time Warner and Comcast Page 40 June 21,2001 has upgraded recently. The whole county has been upgraded to fiberoptic. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: The whole county. I thought it was just limited areas that had the fiberoptic. MR. WALLACE: No. Fiberoptic is all over the county with the exception of a fiber link to Immokalee. We're working on that. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Mr. Wallace, I want to thank you personally for everything you've done for Everglades City and Immokalee to move this forward. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Bleu, what kind of interlinks do we have here on campus? Are we using digital or analog. MR. WALLACE: I think IT has already -- has some dedicated T-1 lines from Sprint to the Horseshoe location. They may have some other lines. But right now it's a dial-up situation from your remote sites, and that's what we're trying to do is get a hard connection so we can have two-way communication county-wide. COMMISSIONER HENNING: So you're saying that we don't have optic on -- on the campus here for our communications. We're using a dial-up in between the clerk's office and here? MR. OLLIFF: On campus we have interconnected fiberoptics. We also have interconnected fiberoptics from here to Horseshoe Drive. That's pretty much the limit of your system. Beyond that, if you think about how many remote sites this county has, everything else is dial-up. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Thanks. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Wallace. Thank you, Commissioner. Do you want to continue, please. MR. GAMBINO: Also in community development and code enforcement is requesting two additional positions, environment Specialist I, a supervisor position. Michelle Arnold will tell you Page 41 June 21,2001 more about that. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I have my usual question about, why not more? MR. SMYKOWSKI: The manager funded the flow request made by the department in this case. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: That's the answer I get every year. I just want you to hire more and do more. MS. ARNOLD: For the record, Michelle Arnold, Code Enforcement Director. The two positions that I'm asking for, the supervisory position is to address some more neighborhood specific interests and the focusing on what the different priorities are. We've already kind of started that program. I'm requesting an administrative position to help with broadening that program so we can better identify what special needs are required for each area within our county. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Michelle, are you going to be coordinated with the sheriffs office and community leaders? Is that what this program is all about? MS. ARNOLD: Yeah. We -- we are with the COP deputies currently working with the sheriff's office, and this person would help to heighten that coordination effort. We have joint programs that we currently work on, and this person would be more of a coordinator to kind of strengthen the programs that we've already started. The environmental planner is to do things like our PUD monitoring and address some of the other environmental-related monitoring programs that we currently are working with the planning department on and kind of do some redirection on our focus with respect to environmental enforcement. You-all were given information regarding the Martin County comparison and other county comparisons, and we're going to be trying to redirect our -- our enforcement efforts with respect to environmental planning and Page 42 June 21,2001 trying to focus on the big-picture-type thing, and this person would help in that particular effort. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Michelle, does this budget include the stepped-up inspection in Immokalee? MS. ARNOLD: The stepped-up effort in Immokalee is going to be addressed by the Immokalee Initiative Program, and that's outside of my budget. COMMISSIONER HENNING: And I think that program that, Tom, you set up as far as employees going to other counties and seeing how they do it is a great program, and I found it very interesting. What our staff has -- has brought back and what they see in other counties has done and it works and what they can implement here in Collier. MS. ARNOLD: And I think that from -- I can only speak from the code enforcement -- from the code enforcement side, we are looked at by other communities as a model. They want to know what we're doing and incorporate some of the efforts that we're doing. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Well, I trust you, Michelle, as a policy director. You tell me this is what you need, it will be up to this gentleman over here to deliver it through your division to make it happen. So going once, going twice. I think it's very good. Thank you. MR. OLLIFF: Just to follow up on what Commissioner Henning was saying, the -- the request here is actually a direct result of that Ideas team that we sent to Martin County, and they brought back some recommendations about some of the programs that Martin County does that they are sort of famous for around the state in terms of environmental codes and programs, and your Ideas program will actually be making a presentation to you on the 26th to give you an update from their perspective, directly from their mouths to you, to let you know what it is they saw, what they found. And I think we Page 43 June 21,2001 can do a little better, and this budget request is a direct result of having sent that team to Martin County to spend two days looking at them. Michelle, thank you. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you. MS. ARNOLD: Thank you. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Let me ask our recorder. How are you doing? Can we finish this section, or do you need a break? COURT REPORTER: I'm fine. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Actually, you just need to get really close to it. MR. OLLIFF: Make sure the switch is ... COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: CHAIRMAN CARTER: No. MS. STONE: Now? No. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Yes, ma'am. It's a high-tech mike. You jiggle the wire back there. You got it. MS. STONE: The Naples Park unincorporated areas request for expanded services is $384,000. That includes 5 1/2 positions as well as temporary staffing, some of which are for expanded services, a Latin Concert. Mr. Olliff showed you earlier the results. I've been to some of the programs that they've put on -- have been quite, quite enjoyable. They also want to expand the County Jam and Snowfest. There's funding in there for that. In addition, there is some machinery and equipment, fitness equipment, that's requested. There's also funds requested for doing background checks on volunteers that work with children. There any questions? Marla Ramsey's here to -- COMMISSIONER HENNING: I -- I think just kind of a statement, and I don't know where the board wants to go with it. Should we be doing things that the private sector provides? I see one in here like kickboxing. Of course, that's only -- it's a small amount, Page 44 June 21,2001 but I don't know how anybody else feels. I -- I just feel that we should, myself, feeling that we should not be stepping on the private sector's enterprise. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: But you know, respectfully, if we adopt that as our position, then we can't compete with the YMCA and -- and just about everything we do they do. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Well, that's a not-for-profit, YMCA. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Okay. Then every Powerhouse Gym or whatever it is we also provide, you know, workout machines and aerobics classes and -- I personally don't have that same -- CHAIRMAN CARTER: Well, I'm going to put it in this perspective, $5,200 against a total budget against what it would translate for household on an ad valorem tax, I probably can't even calculate it. What, three or four cents a household? I mean, to me it says if that's $5,200 to give children an opportunity to participate in a sport which they couldn't afford to do through a "Y" or private service, it says let them have it. Let them try it, because I believe reaching children through any mechanism -- $5,200, I don't believe is MR. SMYKOWSKI: And you are using a contractor for these services. They are -- they are the principal provider and it's registration as-needed. MS. RAMSEY: For a clarification on that, it -- usually what happens in a program that comes through a community park, it's brought by the public. For example, the kickboxer or the Jazzercise, it's done on a contractual basis where it's, like, a 65/35 split. So there is no cost to the county other than the usage of the room. In essence, they provided -- we still receive revenue based upon that. This is the additional cost on the -- on the contractor because pay it first and then get reimbursed later. Page 45 June 21,2001 COMMISSIONER HENNING: So what you're saying -- MS. RAMSEY: Marla Ramsey. COMMISSIONER HENNING: So what you're saying it is private industry, and we're just providing essentially a place for them? MR. OLLIFF: Actually the space. MS. RAMSEY: That's correct. CHAIRMAN CARTER: So everybody wins. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: That's good. MR. OLLIFF: Just so the board's aware, a couple years ago, in fact, two years ago -- two budget years ago we made the philosophical change to move all of your parks into the unincorporated 111 fund, so all of the entire parks department's expanded service request -- the entire operations are now funded out of the 111 fund, so this is it. This is the total expansion for our parks and recreation that you see here. If there's no questions, we can move on to community development and the natural resources department. MR. GAMBINO: Community development and natural resources is requesting an environmental Specialist I position and also $30,000 to develop, print, and distribute 40,000 copies of the Collier County boater's guide. And then there's $3,500 requested for purchase of a global-positioning satellite unit. COMMISSIONER HENNING: And that $30,000 for 40,000 copies of the boater's guide, that was a grant, if I'm not mistaken. MR. GAMBINO: That money is supposed to come from the boaters' improvement program. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: So is this our match, because this is a property tax page? MR. LORENZ: The revenue source -- CHAIRMAN CARTER: Name for the record, sir. Page 46 June 21,2001 MR. LORENZ: Bill Lorenz, Natural Resources Director. The revenue source will be coming from the boaters' registration fees. COMMISSIONER HENNING: I see. MR. LORENZ: We have applied for grants, and we would like to be able to offset that amount of money for as much as we can with the grants, but the revenue source, if we don't get any grants, will come from the boaters fees. MR. OLLIFF: And it's actually called the Boater Improvement Trust Fund, and it's back on one of your trust fund projects, and it's money that goes to Tallahassee, comes back here, and we are obligated to spend it on boater-related improvements. So in a lot of cases we use it for boat ramp improvements and, in this case, we're going to use it for a boaters guide through natural resources. COMMISSIONER HENNING: And this is just another tool to educate the community, the boaters of protecting the manatee, watch out for manatees. MR. LORENZ: That's one objective. I think, quite frankly, safety as well in terms of where the channels are, what to avoid, plus information that's important for boaters to know where to get around in Collier County. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Thank you. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Okay. Thank you, Mr. Lorenz. This might be a good point for us to take a break. We'll take 15, and we'll be right back. (Recess taken.) CHAIRMAN CARTER: Ready to go, folks. We are live. Welcome back. Everybody will have their seats, please. You've all have been fine today. You don't have your cell phones on. Thank you for that. We're now moving to the next item which, I believe, is special revenue funds, Mr. -- Page 47 June 21,2001 MR. SMYKOWSKI: Actually, Commissioner, we have on page B-9 and 10 there are some capital projects that are funded through the unincorporated area General Fund taxes. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Okay. MR. SMYKOWSKI: As Mr. Olliff indicated, we had shifted the majority of the parks budget from the General Fund to the unincorporated area General Fund. As a result of that the capital project requirements are also, then, correspondingly funded by the unincorporated area General Fund taxes in accordance with that shift in funding. Susan Usher, the budget analyst for capital projects, will walk you through with B-9 the assistance of Marla Ramsey. The first project on that page, Golden Gate Community Center, we'll talk about tomorrow because that is actually funded by the General Fund. On B-9, you see the totals beginning with the neighborhood park for $350,000. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Just a question before you go. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Yes, ma'am. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Why is the Golden Gate Community Center in the General Fund? Because all the parks has been shifted to the MSTD. MR. SMYKOWSKI: That is actually funding for WIC Office. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Not a park. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Correct. The proposed location is within that Golden Gate Community Center improvement project but seems to be of a county-wide benefit rather than an individual park, and we'll have ample time to talk about that tomorrow. MR. OLLIFF: And before Susan starts, just to answer questions before they come up and provide new commissioners with some information, the capital that you see here in front of you are those projects that are nonimpact-fee eligible capital. Everything that is is Page 48 June 21,2001 an impact-fee eligible capital you will see as we go through the impact fee funds. But in anything that is a replacement project or sometimes you'll see exotics removal, restriping, repaving of parking lots, as your system begins to age, all of that capital improvement is going to have to come from a source other than impact fees. So that's -- that's this capital list that we'll cover right now. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Because it shifts to maintenance. MR. OLLIFF: Exactly. MS. USHER: Good morning. As stated earlier on page B-9, the majority of these projects have to deal with repair, replacement, and maintenance of the various parks. There are three that are out of that category, and that's the neighborhood park where we would like to purchase some land. The 951 Boat Ramp Expansion is to expand that in that particular park and then to buy -- purchase some land in Copeland. Marla can perhaps give us more detail on each one of these capital projects. MS. RAMSEY: The number one listed up there is the Caxambas fuel spill clean-up. It is a item that was -- happened, I guess, about 1995 or '93, and it's a DEP-required project. The second one is Immokalee Pool. It's ready for a resurface of the main surface of the pool with the pebble surface. We've redone all the neighborhood parks since '97 except for Palm Springs. That is the one place we have left to do some playground equipment rechanging -- changing it out. We have -- the Vineyards Park is a lake recharge. Currently, we get our recharge from the Vineyards itself, and we're looking to hook directly up to effluent line that runs by the park and do our recharge directly. The next one is Golden Gate Aquatic Center which is to replace two pool filters at the Golden Gate Pool. The next one is the Copeland land. The church is looking to assess a lease fee to us for the use of their property, and given the property values in Copeland, Page 49 June 21,2001 it seems to be more cost effective to just purchase the property and put it there permanently. The next one is the rental of that lot up at Vanderbilt Beach across from the parking lot that we have currently for the parking garage if we can make that happen. The next is the East Naples Community Park to resod the soccer field at that location. We have exotic removal listed next which is getting rid of all the Australian Pines and Brazilian Pepper and all the other exotic vegetation from our parks, as well as to keep up with the follow-up maintenance that goes along with that. In the neighborhood park -- excuse me, we have a -- the parks and recreation advisory board has approved a neighborhood park at Isle of Capri, and so we're looking for a lot at that particular location as well as to develop that park and one in Willoughby Acres which the county already owns the land for. Golden Gate Community Park is to restripe the parking lot at that location, and you will see over the next few years that we will be redoing all the parking lots at all of the community parks one by one or two by two as we need to. Next is the East Naples skate park to repair the maintenance of that facility. 951 boat ramp expansion, we're working with the Rookery Bay for an overflow parking area as well as Florida Department of Transportation to extend the 951 Boat Ramp 180 feet in each direction as it is currently located and trying to come up and use the Isle of Capri light -- traffic light in order to have access and egress and ingress from that particular site. At Bayview we're looking to change out the docks and the fishing tables at that location; and, lastly, is to make some improvements to Aaron Lutz Neighborhood Park and bring that up to their standard. The very last one on the list was a project that was requested but not recommended was the purchase of 20 acres from the Botanical Garden which is located next to Sugden Park. Page 50 June 21, 2001 COMMISSIONER HENNING: Is that TAC funds for the botanical garden? MS. RAMSEY: No. This particular one was -- was not. This was -- that's a different project that was for development of their existing facility, and this one here is actually trying to sell the land that they had before which is located next to Sugden Park. MR. OLLIFF: This is actually land adjacent to Sugden Park that was owned by the Botanical Gardens at one of the original sites. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Okay. I remember the site. MR. OLLIFF: The staff had requested to purchase a couple of the lots that were actually abutting your Sugden Regional Park. And while it's a great idea and we would love to have the property for some overflow parking and just some access to that park from Bayshore Drive, just in terms of priorities, I'm not recommending that for funding. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: What was the amount of that request? MS. RAMSEY: $500,000. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: And -- and as I understood it, this would have been for a lot more than just overflow parking. I mean, this would have allowed access -- an additional access point to Sugden Park off of Bayshore Drive, and I'm just, you know, really disappointed to see it didn't make the cut. Is it something -- do we know if this land is going to be sold? Are we going to lose the opportunity? MS. RAMSEY: The recommendation that I would have -- I don't know if we'll lose the opportunity. We did send a letter to them letting them know that it was requested but not recommended, and I did mention that with The Conservancy who's putting together a list of urban lands for purchase, if they go forward with that ad valorem bond, was suggesting that they include these parcels on that list. Page 51 June 21, 2001 COMMISSIONER HENNING: Who makes the determination for projects like this that doesn't fit the impact fee? COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Yeah. MR. OLLIFF: Generally, the impact fee ordinances are fairly clear in what is allowable and what's not. Your staff usually does a pretty good job of that, but if anything's in question, we usually run to the County Attorney's Office and get an interpretation on whether or not it is an eligible project for impact fees or not. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Who does the ordinance? Who drafts the ordinance? MR. OLLIFF: County Attorney's -- County Attorney's Office approved by the board. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Subject to whatever they tell us are the legal limitations. But you raise a good point, because why couldn't -- why couldn't -- you know, this is a significant enough piece of property, why couldn't this be used to -- used for impact fees to acquire this property? I can't understand why not. COMMISSIONER HENNING: It's an expanded -- it's an expanded service, and you're doing it because of growth, you know, adding another facility, more parking. MR. OLLIFF: You may be able to. This may be an impact-fee- eligible project, but I'll also tell you that in light of the other demands on your park impact fees, you're going to have to actually take down long-term notes against future impact fees just to fund the regional park project that you've got. And you've also got on your agenda for Tuesday the purchase of some additional property out in the estates for another park site, and the demands on your impact fee funds are greater than your revenue stream at this point. So we're looking at actually this coming year looking at a review of that impact fee as well and having the board look at the level-of-service standard that was established for that to see if it continues to be an appropriate Page 52 June 21, 2001 impact fee, which may provide some opportunity for additional revenue. CHAIRMAN CARTER: And Botanical Gardens owns it. I don't believe there is a sense of urgency for them to sell it and, after all, we just funded them for a half million dollars out of tourist development taxes. I think they would work in a cooperative spirit with us if we can find another mechanism to work with that, take some time to do that. I'm not ready to push a panic button here, and I want to look at all opportunities and work with them on this issue. I don't want to lose the land on the other side of it. I think what I'm hearing is possibly, Ms. Ramsey, some other opportunities. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: So if we are going to leave this on the cut list, which is a shame, what I wish we would do is instruct staff to investigate whether or not any portion of this could be paid for with tourist -- I'm sorry -- with impact fee dollars and just give us a report on that at wrap-up, but also failing that, that we instruct staff to continue to work with the Botanical Gardens to try to work some kind of a deal that allows us to acquire this property. If we could get this piece of property or some portion of it, we could connect our parks. We could connect Sugden Park to Bayshore Drive. You know, all of a sudden, the backside of that park wouldn't be the backside anymore. This could be a tremendous benefit to that section of the county, and I wish Commissioner Fiala were here for this because she would point out to you how underserved these people in East Naples are for parks. The parks that they have are not as good as some of the others, and here's our very best park, and the real way that we could allow some additional access to it if we could make a deal with Botanical Gardens. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Well, I -- you know -- wait a minute. There are two major parks in East Naples now. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Check out the facilities. Page 53 June 21,2001 COMMISSIONER HENNING: We have an amphitheatre going in East Naples also. I don't want East Naples being slighted in our parks. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I don't want to lose the land, either, but I think we have some opportunity to work here and -- I mean, I don't disagree. If we get trained odds, let's pursue it and do it at wrap-up. I don't have a problem with that, but I'm cautious. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: I would like to see it happen at the wrap-up when Donna Fiala is here to speak her mind, when we get to September, October. COMMISSIONER HENNING: So what we're asking for is take a hard look at it and see what kind of funding sources you can come up with besides ad valorem, impact fees, talk to the Botanical Garden, show them what kind of benefit it is to their operation, how willing this board is to working with the Botanical Garden. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Try to keep it alive. MR. OLLIFF: And bring back a report for budget public hearings in September. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Right. I'm all right with that. I hear -- I hear three nods. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: You can hear nods? Good. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Okay. Thank you. Any other questions by the board? COMMISSIONER HENNING: No. CHAIRMAN CARTER: All right. MR. SMYKOWSKI: We'll now move to the special revenue tab on page C-2 and C-3. MR. DUBLIS: Chris Dublis, for the record. The Support Services Special Revenue consist of the 800 Megahertz Fund and the ADA Improvements Fund. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Could you get a little closer to Page 54 June 21, 2001 that mike. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Yes, sir. We need to kick it up a notch. MR. DUBLIS: The 800 Megahertz Fund is for maintenance of the intergovernmental radio communications program. Revenues are based on moving-violation fines. The other fund, the ADA Improvements Fund, is for handicap access improvements and special-needs equipment. Revenues for this fund are based on parking fines -- handicap parking fines, in particular, and concession fees. The expanded for the 800 Megahertz Fund is on C-3 which includes upgrades to the 800 Megahertz system and a new vehicle. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Can't -- isn't there -- don't we have vehicles laying around here? Couldn't it be a shared thing? I mean, I don't know how much those vehicles are going to be used, I mean, expect the miles to be put on it in a year's time. MR. OLLIFF: We actually have a minimum mileage -- MR. DALY: John Daly -- MR. OLLIFF: -- must be used, or it doesn't remain a vehicle in our county stock, and John has -- has convinced me that with some of the outlying requirements that he has for inspection of tower sites and in our mobile command system, mobile radio system, that he's been putting mileage on his own personal vehicle and getting reimbursed on a regular basis, to the point where I felt a little uncomfortable with him on a regular basis being in his personal car, especially at some of the remote sites where we've got them. John, you want to add to that? MR. DALY: John Daly, radio communications manager. I'm out in the field probably almost every day. We do have some sites that are very remote. We've got one site that's almost 80 miles from Naples. I estimate the mileage to be about 600 miles a month. You know, we have right now a surplus vehicle that fleet management Page 55 June 21,2001 made available to us. However, they want to get that out of the fleet due to the age and mileage on that vehicle. MR. OLLIFF: One of the commitments that I had to make early on was to dedicate some additional attention to our 800 Megahertz System, especially on the public safety side, and had a number of-- I won't say they were the most friendly meetings between fire departments and the sheriffs department about our ability to be able to maintain that 800 system. And I will tell you that in years past I'm not sure we did as good a job in terms of keeping that system up and giving it the attention that we need to. And John and his staff are committed to make sure that we're providing the level of service that public safety in particular needs out in the field from communications. And it's just one of the support things that I felt was important to do that. CHAIRMAN CARTER: How long do we keep a car in the fleet on that basis for you? MR. OLLIFF: It depends on mileage. On average I think it's six to seven years, but it depends on the mileage of the vehicle and it also depends on the maintenance records of the vehicle. There's actually a formula that they use, and at the point when we think that maintaining the vehicle is more expensive than purchasing a new vehicle, that's the time that we trade them out. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Okay. All right, Commissioner Henning? COMMISSIONER HENNING: Yes. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you, Mr. Daly. MR. SMYKOWSKI: That moves us to pages C-6 and C-7 in public utilities, special revenue. There are two funds associated with pollution control and prevention department. Mr. Greenwald will give you a quick overview. MR. GREENWALD: Randy Greenwald, for the record. In Fund Page 56 June 21,2001 114 the pollution control fund millage rate is decreasing from .0445 mills to .0434 mills, which is a decrease of 11 cents per $100,000 of taxable value. A big part of the reason for that was the hazardous waste program is being transferred to solid waste out of there. The expanded requests are on page C-7. We're going to request a sinking fund for an atomic absorption analyzer. It's an expensive piece of laboratory equipment that costs approximately $100,000 to replace, which is a lot of money for a budget this size to do in one year. So we thought we could put that sinking fund in place for the next two years. And it is ten years old right now, so the life of it is expected to be gone by the time the sinking fund is finished. MR. OLLIFF: And, again, just so the board's aware, this was a voter-approved special tax of not to exceed one tenth of a mill strictly related to efforts to protect ground water, and we do delegate a responsibility for some underground fuel tank storage inspections as well as monitoring and testing and laboratory work. It's -- it's a fairly cut-and-dry fund. Unless the board's got any questions with this, I suggest we just go on to the next. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I guess the only question I have is if you're moving hazardous waste to public -- wherever you're moving it. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Solid waste. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Solid waste. Is it still going to be funded with this money, with the transfer? MR. GREENWALD: No. MR. SMYKOWSKI: No. It was previously funded with solid waste dollars to an interdepartmental payment, but we're just putting it directly with the direct provider of that service. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: That's -- and these monies are not -- every year I wonder about -- you know, this is a voter-approved special tax that we basically don't assess because we don't find very Page 57 June 21,2001 many -- I mean, we assess very, very little of what -- MR. SMYKOWSKI: Less than half of the allowable millage. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: And the question I always have is, we know for sure that this is something the public is willing to pay for because they voted they were willing to pay for this in perpetuity. Are there -- are there functions that county government could or should perform that would be eligible to be paid for by this money in the environmental area? MR. OLLIFF: We go through that exercise and, in fact, that's why you'll see even this fund picking up pro rata share of GIS implementations. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I see that. MR. OLLIFF: We're trying to find fair-share contributions for pollution control. Anything that we are doing that we think we can make a rational argument is a groundwater protection issue we will put in this fund. MR. SMYKOWSKI: That's correct. You will see the last item there for 25,000 was a request for that NPDES, the pollution discharge elimination system application to the EPA. Originally that was going to be paid in the General Fund through stormwater management, but the decision was made to use this available resource. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: And that's the sort of new program that they finally gotten to us that now we have to do beach water monitoring, and that earlier was just the big cities. It's finally gotten down to us that John Bolt told us was coming. I see him nodding yes. Okay. Thanks. CHAIRMAN CARTER: All right. No questions, Commissioners. We'll move on, Mr. Smykowski. MR. SMYKOWSKI: We move to the Community Development Fund 113, the summary of which is on C-10 and C-11 Page 58 June 21, 2001 and expanded service requests on C-12 and C-13. I'll turn it over to Mr. Gambino. MR. GAMBINO: The Community Development Fund 113 is a self-supporting fund which collects most of its revenue through the permitting fees. Overall the fund's showing a 26 percent decrease, but that's because last year there was 9.5 million budgeted for building expansion. If you take that out of the mix, you really have a 16.5 percent increase overall, and to fund the expanded we need to increase permitting fees by 8 percent. If you look on C-12 and C-13, there is a list of the expanded requests. MR. SMYKOWSKI: On a preliminary basis, Mr. Dunnuck has the DSAC, Development Services Advisory Committee, has reacted positively to the proposed services and back there in some instances were the ones who were initiating the requests and agreeing to pay more for those additional services, but at this point there is a subcommittee -- an ad hoc subcommittee voted specifically to the budget that they have not made a final recommendation on the proposed budget as of this moment, but there was preliminary endorsement from the general overall committee. MR. GAMBINO: Is there any questions about the expanded services? Would you like me to go through them? COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I have a question about the Immokalee Project, just I'm glad to see it's here. I was worried that -- that it might have sort of fallen off the radar screen with Vince Cautero having left that this was sort of a child of his creation. I appreciate that it's -- it's not lost and my question is, once we add this senior planner, does this mean we will have two of the five, 'cause we already have one person there; right? MR. MIHALIC: Good morning, Commissioners. I'm Greg Mihalic, Housing and Urban Improvement. Last year we had planned to add that planning position into this area, but it was really Page 59 June 21,2001 pulled back, so this will be the only planner as signed to the Immokalee initiative. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: And it's an absolute necessity. The people in Immokalee have to travel all the way down here to the government service building to governmental services to be able to move forward on their permits, and it's an inconvenience for a population that exceeds the City of Naples. I think they deserve better. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I think they deserve better, too, and I think, frankly, I'm disappointed we didn't get it going this last year. The good news is we're at least going to get going with one person this year. It's kind of like how I am with code enforcement. Should we have more and -- and -- and when are we -- let me just say -- this will be the shortest way to do this. When are we going to be getting that update we asked for on this program and its progress? We talked about that in the development services workshop, whatever -- whenever that was. We asked for an update on the -- how many of the trailer parks have come in with their site improvement plans, how many were processed. I happen to know the answers to these questions, but I think the board needs to know them, and I wish they knew it before a final vote on this budget because I think they might feel that we should be doing more in Immokalee on that housing issue than staff-- sending one staffperson out there. Because it's a great program but hasn't been terribly successful. I think there's been one or two that have come in and been completed and that's because the -- we haven't had the outreach that we've needed. And when one or two people have come in with their trailer park plans, you know, to come in under this SIP, they've been sent through the regular review process instead of just the few health- and-safety issues that we said we wanted them to be reviewed. MR. GREENWALD: Well, Commissioner, this is really a Page 60 June 21,2001 seven-person area. You know, we're not talking about one person. We're talking about seven people. While it's true we will have a planner now assigned to this particular project, that will be helpful, but there's also some procedural issues that need to be worked out internally in the county to be sure that we are facilitating these processes as much as possible. The plan was to really update you in the Immokalee workshop, which was sort of scheduled for, you know, November, the November or December area, but -- but there's more than staffing issues that need to be worked on. This -- this whole procedure, this whole project, this whole initiative needs to work it's way out, and we have not really shaken it down to that level yet. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: See, the reason I hate to wait that long is because there seems to me to be some real simple solutions, like -- you know, we had the fast-track permit for economic development projects. We just need a special application form for these SIPs so they don't go through the standard review. They only go to this couple of agencies or couple of departments that they need to go to, because otherwise, Commissioner Coletta, the one person out there who's tried to go through this process doesn't have a real good report to give back to his fellow landlords out there about how easy it was to move through this process. It needs to be much, much easier. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: No. It isn't -- it is not an easy process, and the reason it isn't is because there's been so many violations have taken place over the years. Overcapacity for the number of trailers to fit in there, roads aren't there. There are some places where electric wires lay on top of the trailers. And I'll tell you right now, they're moving forward at a very good pace. We're now starting to get the rest of the community through the civic association out there involved. In fact, last Saturday I spent the day going around Page 61 June 21,2001 to the Hispanic community doing a survey, and a number of them would like to see this effort continued. I want to bring them in and make it part of their own initiative too. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Excellent. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: So I'm very happy with the pace that we're going with. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I guess my only question is always just throw more people at the situation, is that going to speed up the process? I see John Dunnuck shaking his head no, so I'm with you, and hearing Commissioner Coletta, you know, we all want it to happen, but if we have to go through a process where more people are not going to get us there faster, then I don't want to keep -- MR. GREENWALD: I'm glad to agree with my boss, but I think we don't need -- but we do need the plan, but we don't need more people. We have to look at our processes. But remember we're trying to look at health-and safety violations where people are coming in a cooperative spirit, and we have the fire department that wants fire hydrants installed, and everybody else wants other things installed. We need to pare that back to health and safety, and that's a procedural issue that we need to work on. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: And I wasn't suggesting you need to hire more people. I did want to use this opportunity -- if I'm going to have to wait until November to get the update on the SIP program, I'm not going to miss this chance to say, guys, streamline that process. The application process is wrong. It doesn't need to be that hard. Please work on the process. That's all I got. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you, ma'am. COMMISSIONER HENNING: I just have one question. Is this person going to be bilingual? MR. GREENWALD: We are inspiring all these positions to hire bilingual people or trilingual if possible. Page 62 June 21,2001 COMMISSIONER HENNING: Thank you. CHAIRMAN CARTER: They don't have to speak English, Commissioner. As long as they can speak other languages, we're going to be all right. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Creole would be good. MR. OLLIFF: But don't think that finding a trilingual planner is an easy thing. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Wow, what an opportunity for someone. MR. GAMBINO: Is there any other questions about the expanded Fund 1137 We'll be adding 11 positions in that fund. COMMISSIONER HENNING: No questions from me. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I don't hear any. No questions, sir. MR. OLLIFF: If there's no questions, then we're on page C-16 of your book, transportation. MR. SMYKOWSKI: That's correct. These are a whole host of municipal service taxing districts. Again, these are governed by -- typically by citizen advisory committees where they're making advisory recommendations to the board. As a general rule, the board has typically honored the requests as -- of these advisory committees as these are representatives of the citizens who have elected to tax themselves for various improvements specifically in the areas of beautification, stormwater drainage, and streetlighting. The millage implications for the various MSTUs or MSTDs are at the bottom of C-16. The biggest thing of note is Bayshore MSTU moving from a capital projects mode where it was -- where we were doing the actual construction phase at three mills, moving back to a maintenance mode in that project, going to approximately two mills for the upcoming year. That is the biggest change. Many of the MSTUs levy the maximum millage allowed. They Page 63 June 21, 2001 are governed by their various enabling ordinances, Immokalee Beautification at one mill. The other thing of note, Lely Golf Estates Beautification from 152 showing an impact per hundred thousand of $50. That was a result of the recent decision and board action where the citizenry there requested an increase in millage cap from 1.5 mills to 2 mills. So we're just, again, following the lead from that citizen advisory group. MR. OLLIFF: If there's no questions here, the only thing I would like to point out is -- is you just need to recognize what a customizing government we have been up to this point. If you look, there are 24 different taxing districts where we, at most of these instances, are responding to neighborhoods' request for a specialized or higher level of service from this government. This is unusual. A lot of county governments do not do this kind of work. We are trying to simplify in the coming year the MSTU process. We're in the process of creating a brochure that in cartoon, in simplified format, can tell the public how to create an MSTU in your particular neighborhood or community, because I think we're going to see more and more and more of these kinds of requests as we move forward. CHAIRMAN CARTER: It follows with the whole guidelines of our community character in terms of it incentifies program. Communities want to accelerate or do things, they have that opportunity to do it, and it's taxation by representation at the lowest local level that you could ever get to call the neighborhoods. These folks control what it is they want to do. They have the power to do that, and we approve it because they are asking us to do what they want done, and they're taxing themselves. It's a beautiful system, and we're -- we are -- I am proud in this county that we have it, because it gives people the ultimate input on what they want. MR. SMYKOWSKI: With that, Mr. Chairman, we're on to page Page 64 June 21,2001 C-20, Emergency Services Special Revenue funds. These are the dependent fire districts. Mr. Dublis can address those. MR. DUBLIS: Yes. The emergency service revenue funds consist of the Isle of Capri Fire Department and the Ochopee Fire Department funds. They, as Mr. Smykowski just said, are dependent fire districts. The other two funds here on this page are the Collier County Fire Control Fund and the Goodland Horse Island fire control fund. Both of these funds are basically a mechanism to take in revenue from areas outside the established fire districts and pay for fire services rendered from those fire departments. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Questions, Commissioners? Thank you very much, sir. MR. SMYKOWSKI: That moves us to C-22, tourist development. These budgets reflect last week's policy decisions by the board in terms of changing the funding allocations. There are two expanded requests for reimbursement to the county attorney's office for legal services. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Excellent idea to capture that. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Right. This has involved a lot of technical work on their part, and they're seeking reimbursement. That is a revenue to your General Fund offsetting a portion of the cost of the county attorney's office. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Questions by the board? COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Yes, please. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Commissioner Coletta. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: On the museum allocation, are we sure that we have enough to build or cover the restoration of Roberts Ranch in there, the repair to the roof over here in the -- the cottage over here at the county complex? Able to do the necessary repairs over at Everglades City as far as painting? MR. OLLIFF: Museum staff says yes. I think it's obviously on Page 65 June 21, 2001 a project like Roberts Ranch we will continue to pursue state grant funds and historical funds for that, but I think their committment is -- and I'm going on record here, Mr. Jamro here, he's committed to me at the break that the Roberts Ranch Project would actually be open to the public in December. So with this -- COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: nodded. That's excellent. MR. OLLIFF: Yes, he nodded. December of this year? Yes, he So you need to recognize that while it's going to be open, there's still a lot of restoration work that needs to be done there, and it will be in part an open historic site and a construction site at the same time. public cry to be able to get access to think this is an adequate budget and, on behalf of the museum for creating your county museums in the future. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: But we think there is just a and see that facility, so we do frankly, we need to thank you a dedicated funding source for I have one more question, economic disaster 196. Explain that, please. MR. SMYKOWSKI: That's simply funding that's in place in the event of a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, a whole series of ads saying that Collier County is alive and well or whatever stage we're in. You recall during the last hurricane I believe it was Dan Rather was on 7, and he said, you know, "Fort Myers and Northern Collier County was essentially wiped out by a hurricane," and the cancellation buttons started -- started -- phones started ringing in each of the hotels and there was actually the hurricane itself had skirted -- skirted us and we had -- CHAIRMAN CARTER: Same brain that brought us the election results; right? Don't take me there. COMMISSIONER HENNING: That's why we have $6 million. CHAIRMAN CARTER: That's why we $6 million, you know Page 66 June 21,2001 MR. SMYKOWSKI: It's an emergency ad campaign ready to roll to announce what state the county is in following any natural disaster. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Speaking of national -- national disaster, the beach renourishment fund reserve, is there enough to cover just one event or two events? I don't see that listed here. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Here comes Mr. Mudd. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: How do we reserve? MR. MUDD: Sir, there's -- Jim Mudd, for the record. There's about $2 million in the reserves that they've kind of got highlighted for that, and as the years progress in the ten-year plan, that starts to get eaten away. So we've dedicated a special account, and we're going to put a half million dollars into that account for the next ten years to build to a $5 million fund, and then we'll use the interest to go back in, but that will give you enough so that you can do bonding issues off of those dollars in order to take care of that process. So -~ so -- so today we have enough reserve money in case we had one -~ knock on wood -- this summer to take care of it, but in the future we're going to dedicate those dollars so it is in a mix-and- match kind of thing. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Thank you. CHAIRMAN CARTER: You all right? COMMISSIONER COLETTA: I'm fine. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Thank you, sir. MR. SMYKOWSKI: With that we'll move to page C-26. There's a series of one, two, three, four -- six miscellaneous special revenue funds. The museum, obviously, receiving funding from TDC. There is an expanded service request on C-27 for an assistant manager position that would open the Roberts Ranch facility to public visitation. CHAIRMAN CARTER: On that will there be any consideration Page 67 June 21,2001 -- I know that you go through a profile to look for a person there -- I hope they would be very knowledgeable about Immokalee, perhaps the ranch. A person well -- if you can get collective agreement in that community -- a person that everybody would be happy with, because that's -- you know, it's a key position. It's a big opportunity for Immokalee, so whatever you can do in that area I think would be appreciated by the community, and I know Commissioner Coletta has worked so hard on that area. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: You've been very instrumental in bringing this forward, too, and I appreciate that. If we could possibly get a native of Immokalee that's been there for a couple generations, that woud be a big, big plus. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Now you're talking. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Questions by the board? COMMISSIONER HENNING: Just one comment. If everybody would look at the revenues on the green sheet, it says GGCC be in charge Golden Gate Community. Center, just let you know when Max Hasse was commissioner, he put me on the advisory board of the Golden Gate Community Center, and at that time our revenue was approximately $11,000. We brought John Dunnuck into the community center, and he raised it to a quarter of a million, and with the great staff that we have there now it just continues to not only provide a good service but a user fee. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Excellent. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Excellent. You can be applauded for that, Commissioner. I really love to see those things happen. MR. OLLIFF: I'm not sure there's a community center that actually functions any more like a community center than does your Golden Gate Community Center. I mean, it's really the focus of most of the community activity that occurs there. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: That's true. Page 68 June 21,2001 MR. OLLIFF: Mr. Smykowski. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Right. Moving on. MR. SMYKOWSKI: That'll move us to enterprise funds at this point which begin on page F, as in Frank, 2. There are -- there are five active funds at this point, three self-insurance funds for property and casualty group health and life and workers' compensation. You have a fleet management fund and a motor pool capital recovery fund. There are expanded service requests outlined on page F-3. Again, these -- these funds serve -- providing services to other county departments in the areas of insurance and fleet management. MR. OLLIFF: Did we skip enterprise funds? COMMISSIONER HENNING: One question. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER HENNING: On the capital improvement fleet management motor pool capital recovery fund, expansion of a building. Where's that going to take place? MR. OLLIFF: At the county barn facility on County Barn Road. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Okay. Aren't we looking to move out of that facility? MR. OLLIFF: We may and we may not. I keep -- we have a group of employees -- Dan Croft is involved along with Skip and some others who are looking at other options. Last year, as you know, we were looking at surplus landfill as a possibility, but to be honest, that property is tied up as part of the rural fringe area, and without some dispensation from the governor's office we can't do anything on that property. We expect that's probably going to be another year before we could see some activity there. In the meantime, we're looking at moving the parks and recreation department that's currently at County Barn out to some of the other park facilities for some of their material storage, which will Page 69 June 21, 2001 provide an opportunity for us to expand the fleet management by a single bay, which they desperately need currently at that site. There's also some opportunities we're looking at -- a lot of that property -- that is valuable property, and a lot of it is currently eaten up by guide wires for a communication tower in the back comer, and we're looking at whether or not there's an opportunity for us to do a much better job in terms of buffering from the community that surrounds us there. And maybe that is not a bad site to make an investment and actually improve some of the facilities that we have. If we can eliminate the guide wires from that tower and also eliminate some of the road-and-bridge material storage on that site that's currently eating up property that's in excess of $50,000 an acre in worth and move some of that storage off site some place, we may be able to free up enough property to actually do something there on- site. But we're weighing that against other property options around the county as well. And to be honest, at this point, we don't have a real good firm decision on what we want to do there, but whatever that decision is we'll bring it back to the board. COMMISSIONER HENNING: So do I hear you say, you know, even if we're going to be moving this facility, the fleet management department, we're going to be use -- the county's going to have that and be utilizing it for something else in the future? MR. OLLIFF: Even if-- if the county operation were out of there, some of the long-range options were to move the sheriffs facility on to that property which is currently in leased space in the industrial park behind the Ford dealership on Arnold Avenue. Again, in our effort to try and eliminate leased spaces and get onto as much county-owned property as possible, the sheriff has requested if we do move that that would be an ideal location for him to relocate to. So I think, regardless, there's going to be a county fleet-type operation there, whether it be the county government or whether it be the Page 70 ~une 21,2001 sheriffs department. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Okay. I appreciate that, and good question, Commissioner Henning, and I think it answers it for me also that you got to do what you have to do while you're there, but it's not going to be a lost cause. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Right. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Any other questions from the commissioners? Moving on, Mr. Smykowski. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Excuse me, Mr. Chairman, I did skip -- skip over the enterprise fund. No slight intended. Those begin on page E-2 and 3, the county water/sewer district. We'll turn it over to Mr. Greenwald and Jim Mudd, the public utilities administrator. MR. GREENWALD: Fund 408, county water and sewer operations is made up of administration, billing, engineering, water and wastewater. They're all primarily funded from user-fee funds. On page E-9 you will see that utilities engineering is requesting seven positions. Financial operations is on E-4. They are requesting three positions, one in financial operations and two in utilities billing. MR. OLLIFF: Actually E-4 and 5. CHAIRMAN CARTER: E-4 and 5, I think, is where you want - MR. GREENWALD: Right. Water operations is requesting two positions, and wastewater operations is requesting four positions. The detail for all of these positions and some additional operating capital outlay expanded requests are all summarized on pages E-4 through E-6. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Mr. Mudd -- MR. MUDD: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER HENNING: -- you can tell us whether the user fee is -- or the ad valorem is not supplementing what should be a user fee for these requests? Do you understand? Page 71 June 21,2001 MR. MUDD: The ad valorem doesn't touch any of this. This is all done by your rates that you have from water and sewer in the process. Now, if you want to talk impact fees versus user fees, then you've got a blending that we're going to try to separate -- separate this summer as we're doing our impact fee study to get you the information so we know what the proper impact fees should be. COMMISSIONER HENNING: I just didn't want the general taxpayer or the property taxes come out of something that should be for user fees. MR. OLLIFF: No. And that's a good point, and 100 percent of these expenses are supported from water and wastewater billings. COMMISSIONER HENNING: I have no further questions. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: I have a question of you. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Commissioner Coletta. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Thank you. Is this increase that we're going to have, how's that going to affect the user fees? MR. MUDD: The -- we're doing a user-fee study. We've determined that the impact fees -- we've been using user fees. If you take a look, get into debt service, as you take a look at this year, we used user fees in total to pay the debt off our amortized annualized rate. We're in the process of breaking that down right now to -- to make sure we have a good delineation between what was user-fee debt versus what was impact-fee debt to make sure that impact fees are covering that debt service. In the past, they haven't been. So, in essence, the user fees have supplemented that debt. In utilities right now it's 110 million. If you take a look at these sheets, you'll notice that by next year I'll be at $201 million in debt, and we got to make sure that the impact fees are laying the process out. That's why impact fee -- the impact fee is so critical for us this summer. What we're going to try to do with rates, as we pull some of that Page 72 June 21,2001 user fee out of the impact fee debt payment, that will give us the opportunity to hold the user rates pretty well constant. What you don't want to get yourself into is a process where everybody's conserving water, but you had to raise your rates because the overhead keeps climbing. That doesn't make a lot of sense, and it doesn't go over too well with the public. All you have to do is go look at Hillsborough in the early '90s; they'll tell you. What we're also going to do based on our water workshop is we talked about inverted rates at the higher-end users, to make those a little bit stiffer. Right now it's only one and a half times what the normal rate is going to be. We're taking a look at that process to make it a little stiffer. The more you use past the norm, it'll cost you more to pay for that quantity of water that you need. So that will help a little bit. Get the impact fees paying the impact fee debt. That'll free up user free -- user-fee dollars so that we don't have to raise rates. Long story to get to a pretty short answer, I think. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Thank you, Mr. Mudd. MR. MUDD: Yes, sir. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Any other questions by the board? MR. SMYKOWSKI: We are going to turn to focus on the utility water and sewer impact fee and operational supported capital projects. As Mr. Olliff noted in his opening remarks, obviously, that's -- we have a number of aggressive projects underway. I'll turn it to Ms. Usher. MS. USHER: On pages E-8 -- I'm sorry. On pages E-8 through E-11 are all your capital projects for water and wastewater. There's two primary funding sources. We have user fees and we also have impact fees. Each page, like, for example, on E-8 is water impact fees, and these are all the projects that will be funded by water impact fees. We need to borrow money next year to fulfill all the projects that people would like to build. I don't know if Jim wants to -- Page 73 June 21,2001 MR. MUDD: We'll talk a little bit about -- let's focus on E-8, and we'll talk about the new projects, okay, instead of going down the whole list, or we'll spend the whole week through this process. If you look at the third line down on E-8, you have the south county water expansion for 1.485 million. That starts in October whereby we're expanding the south water plant and putting in reverse osmosis. We've reached each individual commissioner. When you went out there and looked at the plant here in the winter and fall, we showed you where the site was going to be. We're going to put the facility in, the infrastructure in for 20 million gallons which is final buildout for reverse osmosis, but we're going to bring the first 8 million gallon reverse osmosis on line by 2003. We start construction in October. If you turn to page E-9, first line is the auto meter read system installation. We brought that before the board earlier this year. We're basically putting auto reads for meters in. It's $2.199 million on the first line. And then I want you to go down where you see TBD, to be determined, by number, on the left column. It says "supplemental special assessment software." Our special assessment section has got a piece of software in there that probably came in with the caveman. It doesn't tie in with community development's or any of the other financial tools that we have in the county. What we're basically doing is trying to bring that on board in '02. And we've brought before the board here, during this year, as we looked for the contractors -- the service contractors that would provide that software as we start to pick that process out. Not only do you see it here in water, but you also see that special assessment software on E-11 down under TBD and wastewater because both of them are affected by the special assessment for water and wastewater, so it's pretty much an equal share in between the two. And that pretty much finishes the water new impact fee and water use funds. Page 74 June 21,2001 If you turn to E-10 under wastewater capital, fourth line down, reclaim water ASR. I don't think I have to brief you much on that, but it's $2.455 million, and that's basically the Pelican Bay well fields where we moved it this year from the north wastewater plant over to that at the bequest of the City of Naples. Sir? COMMISSIONER COLETTA: I just wanted to check back with you on that. We were talking about bringing the reused water up to a price to help offset this cost. Have we done anything on that? MR. MUDD: Yes, sir. We're in a process of doing a rate study on that this summer too. We're doing rate studies on water, wastewater, reuse water, and we're also doing all our impact fees, and we're also doing solid waste collections and the landfill issue. So I'm taking a look at the entire rate structure in public utilities this summer. So, yes, sir, we're doing that, and as soon as I get my first inkling on the draft, I'm bringing the customers back together that do reclaim water and advising them of same so that they can adjust their budgets for this coming year too. If you go down to 73925, that's a master pump station. It's 104. It's for $180,000. It's a -- it's a new project for next year under impact fees. We need to get it up -- up and running in order to do that process. Two lines below that is the north area master pump station for $100,000. Again, we need to get that process up and running too. If you turn to E-11. MR. OLLIFF: Jim. MR. MUDD: Sir? MR. OLLIFF: Let me slow you down a little bit. Let me get you to point out 73076 right in the middle. It's a -- primarily a forecast project, but I do want you to make sure that the board is aware that's in this budget. MR. MUDD: Sir, if you want to give me that number one more Page 75 June 21, 2001 time? MR. OLLIFF: 73076. MR. MUDD: It's the north/south sewer interconnect. We've got -- we were doing our process to make sure that we've got it -- got our temporary hooked in with our north/south plant. We'll finish that process up the early part of this fall so that we stay within the consent order of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, but that's in full swing right now. We've almost finished the -- the plans. It looks like we're going to put an 8-inch line right there about Grey Oaks and tie it into a pump station. That'll give us the ability to move a million gallons between our north and south plant, or south and north plant in the next couple of years until we get the permanent north/south interconnect, a bigger pipe, in when we do the Santa Barbara Expansion. So that process is taking place. MR. OLLIFF: Thank you. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Thank you. MR. MUDD: As we go to E-11, the new -- the new pieces on E-11 are the second line down, sludge stabilization management. We are going through a study process right now for $50,000 with -- and it's not -- this is a study and implementation. Starting on 1 July we're going to start moving wastewater sludge to Okeechobee until we can get a stabilization process in, because that organic matter has a large - - has an enlarged result of the odor issues we have. We need to get it out of the landfill. We're -- we're going to get it so we take it from AA to A, which means that you can land apply it. We're going to do just like -- as soon as we're done with this, we're going to take our sludge out to Immokalee in -- in the compost site that they're taking all our yard waste right now. That's 70,000 tons worth that's moving right now and actually being composted. I was out there last week on Friday. Absolutely super. I need to take you out. They've got a 20- acre test site plus they've got a 147-acre actual production site, and Page 76 June 21,2001 it's got a beautiful humus that comes out that can be land applied. They're taking the City of Naples sludge, 'cause it's Grade A sludge, they've treated it to get a lot of the ammonia out of it. We need to do the same so that we can use that product. If I can take the yard waste out and our sludge out of our Naples Landfill, you're talking about 100,000 tons a year. That's -- that's 20 percent of what goes into the landfill we can start using in a compost operation and land apply it and make good use of that resource for our farmers. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I'm glad to hear we got high-class sludge coming out of Naples. That makes my day. MR. OLLIFF: It still stinks, sir. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: No. No. No, it doesn't. MR. MUDD: The -- ifI can -- ifI can take you down about -- about 40 percent of the way down the page to an item 73078, Henderson Creek Sewer Improvements, a project that's been -- long been overdue. We're in the study process right now where we'll get it fixed in the '02 arena. Then we go down about six items to 74021, which is surface water, and you kind of go, what's Mudd doing with $100,000 for surface water? We're going out there looking at potential sites for surface water ASRs, so as the -- as the Everglades Project works through and they get the process and the protocols done, then we can have an idea of where those sites are, and maybe we can even purchase a couple of them so that in the future we have that ability so that we can supplement our irrigation water supply using that technology. Sir? COMMISSIONER HENNING: Are you saying you're going to be storing water in the subsurface, or are you going to be extracting water? MR. MUDD: These particular areas what you do is you get them close where it's got -- for Golden Gate Canal or another -- another drainage canal that's out there, and if there's a parcel that's Page 77 June 21, 2001 vacant, we go out there and start talking a little bit to the landowner and find out who the landowner is. And, yes, it would be an extraction from the surface with a small amount of treatment and put into an ASR well at a future -- at a future time. This is discovery dollars. This has nothing to do with actual -- actually developing or building that particular site, but if you don't start working on it now when -- when you do get the green light in order to do that in the future, we don't want to be behind the curve either. So it's just basically identifying those areas that are potential and if we can get a down payment on those to hold them in the that process, then we're good to go. It's part of the planning process. COMMISSIONER HENNING: for you, sir. MR. MUDD: MR. OLLIFF: You've got your work cut out Yes, sir. And, Jim, I'm going to back you up again on one more, 74125, the supplemental irrigation water project, because I know a number of the commissioners are aware of that issue. MR. MUDD: That's -- that's the mule pen supplemental. The majority of that work will be done this FY. There's about $140,000 that will be left over to do. We should have that up and running December of this year. We've got the green light as far as the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is concerned. We're talking about a site that's going to give us 3.5 million gallons a day when we need it during the dry season. MR. OLLIFF: And, so again, so the board's -- in simple terms what this is allowing us to do is to find a supplemental water source so that come dry season next year we can meet our current contractual obligations for our reuse water. Now, philosophically we have decided not to be a reuse supply guarantee, but we do have contracts in place that we feel we've got an obligation to try to do what we can to need, so we're going to try to blend some water come Page 78 June 21,2001 this dry season to meet your current contractual obligations, but in the future being careful not to enter into new agreements until we know we have the supply to be able to meet them. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Well, there's a benefit to the community by getting as much people onto reuse as we can. MR. OLLIFF: Absolutely. COMMISSIONER HENNING: And my understanding is this is going to be a user fee. MR. OLLIFF: Yes, sir. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Well, you always love if you go back in history a little bit and read my articles, letter to the editor as to why it was so important to utilize that versus the position that was taken, I think that helped all the public understand where you were trying to go, Mr. Mudd, so I really think this is a neat idea. We're going to get there yet. MR. OLLIFF: And keep in mind Collier County is the number one reuse water system in the State of Florida, so we recycle more of our wastewater than in any of the other 67 counties in Florida and have demand out there for more than we can provide. MR. MUDD: Subject to your questions, that's where we are in the capital projects. As I said before, we have about 110 million in debt right now. With the capital projects that you see before you, it will bring us to about $201 million by next year in debt that we need to work through that process, but you're talking about an expansion to the water plant, you're talking about expansions to the north and south sewer plants, you're talking about interconnects, you're talking about supplemental water, a very aggressive program. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Have we gone to the money markets for that yet? I mean, this is -- and I don't know what your time table is for that, but it seems like we're in a good window of opportunity when we have to do debt. Page 79 June 21,2001 MR. MUDD: Yes, sir. We're working through that process right now identifying which can go on the state revolving fund. We just had the representative down to examine what we've got right now as far as debt is concerned and talked to him about some other opportunities for next year. He was just in the shop yesterday, so that's -- that's good news. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Great. MR. OLLIFF: Then, Mr. Chairman, I think we're moving to page E-12, which is your solid waste fund. MR. GREENWALD: On page E-12 solid waste funds are made up of four different funds; solid-waste disposal, landfill closure, solid-waste grants, and mandatory collections. In solid-waste disposal they are requesting five expanded positions, three of which are for recycling and one is for waste reduction. And in mandatory collections they are requesting four expanded positions. The expanded positions are all on page E-13 and E-14, and there are some operating costs associated with those in capital outlay. MR. MUDD: As I -- as I gave you this week, I've given you your charts for the future of solidwaste options that we have in Collier County. As I made mention in my e-mail to each one of you, it is -- it is not a simple process. It's a complicated process. It has a lot of moving parts. There is a big piece of those charts talking about 55 percent waste deviation where we send it away from the final landfill, wherever it goes. If it's a char or if it's ash or if it's compost, we move that away, and when you divert that much, you've got to develop markets, you've got to educate your citizenry. You have to work with commercial establishments to see if there are ways where they can order their parts, products in a -- in a -- more of an environmental-friendly packaging process. There are a lot of companies that will reduce the amount of packing and work with you in order to do that. We've got to discover Page 80 June 21,2001 all of those particular items, and then we have to work with that community. That's what a lot of that has to do in the mandatory- collection part. There are a couple posts there, new positions, where we're going to put somebody on the trucks. Right now we do it as a spot-check. When we -- when we've got somebody that's idle, we'll have them go out there. We've had Mr. Moraco go out there several times to check the trucks. Commissioner Henning has asked me a couple times of times, "Hey, I saw this C&D truck, it went right up to the top of landfill," and he was right in that particular case. We need somebody there all the time to look at what those loads are, to make sure if it's got recyclable material we're diverting it to the recycle place before that product hits the hill so that we can -- we can minimize or we can maximize our -- our air space in the landfill and use it in a more efficient manner. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Besides we don't want the gypsum board to be accidentally going into the cell. MR. MUDD: We try to divert that as much as possible, but I can't tell you we're 100 percent total that stuffs not making it to the top. If it's down at the bottom of the barrel or they decided to make it powder versus a gypsum board piece, they're not catching it. These kind of inspectors would do that process for us. MR. OLLIFF: And we -- we've committed to you that Collier County is getting aggressive in the recycling industry, and we are committed to increasing those percentages statewide that we have to meet, and I think this budget reflects a department that's willing to get aggressive about it, and I think we have to get aggressive by being at the source, and it's what you see this budget doing. The one other thing that I want to point out -- and, Jim, you need to walk them through these rate increases that are in here for both mandatory and collection and for the Cart Program that are shown on Page 81 June 21,2001 page E-12 or, Randy, one of you, because that is a direct impact on our consumer. MR. MUDD: The collection disposal, if you take a look at the rates on E-12 and you start taking a look at '01 and '02 rates, one of the things that when you start taking a look at the total, part of the rate structure change is that four cent a ton that we've brought before the board, that equates to about five dollars and some-odd cents to each one of the households, but another disturbing process that -- that you need to know when you look at E-12 is the fact that the mandatory garbage collection is also tied into when normal folks pay their taxes on the property, and if you -- if you pay your taxes early, you get a 96 percent break. You know, you get 4 percent off of the bill. Well, when you start talking about solid waste, you know, that 4 percent off wasn't in anybody's calculations as they went through that, and that's been compounding. So what's been happening over the years is the carry forward has been getting less and less and less and so this year we're having to transfer out of 470. If you look under revenue second line in '01-'02, some $774,000 out of the 470 approach and we're -- and we're chewing up about $400,000 of carry forward in that process in order to get us so that we can pay our bills of that 1 million -- $1.05 million figure that you see under the '01-'02 total budget. What does that equate to if we had to do a rate increase tomorrow in order to catch that so it doesn't happen next year? It's about $13.50 per household. We need to work real hard with that rate process as we do this summer, and we've done the time line of when we need to have it finished the 15th of July keeps coming up as we backward plan where we need to have the drafts so that we can start getting out the notices. There's an 11 September day where we've got to actually mail those notices, and then there's a 5 October date that we need to make, too, which is the final drop dead for the mandatory collection Page 82 June 21,2001 where it has to go through all the -- we have to dot all the I's and cross all the T's. So we're backward planning trying to get that process done. I don't know if we're going to be able to get it all done by 15 July, but we're sure going to give it our best shot. MR. OLLIFF: If there's no questions on that, Mr. Chairman, I'll point out that it's noon, but you are fairly close. You've only got some impact-fee-related capital funds to able to review, and you will have covered, actually, the full day's agenda, and our recommendation to you is that you just push on through this rather than taking a break for lunch and coming back. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I'm ready to keep going. Let's do it. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Yes, Mr. Chairman, if would turn to tab H for capital. This is impact-fee-supported capital and gas-tax- supported capital, and Susan Usher with the assistance of the appropriate department directors will walk you through that. Again, we'll start with parks impact fee capital. MS. USHER: On pages H-2 through H-4 are parks impact fee capitals. You will notice here and there there are a couple projects that are on one or the other. There's mixed fundings on some of these projects so, for instance, on the Golden Gate Community Center Improvement Project, we just visited that in fund 111 when we were discussing the MSTD ad valorem. Part of that project's been funded over there, and part of it's being funded over here in impact fee. The -- I don't know, Marla, do you want to or I can. MS. RAMSEY: It doesn't matter. I got -- why don't I just start with H-3 which is the main impact fee which is unincorporated areas for regional and community parks. There's only three new projects listed underneath there, and that's the Barron Collier High School -- actually, it's the Barron Collier Elementary School, upgrades to their athletic fields to put Little Leagues at that location. There is the expansion to the 951 Boat Ramp which we talked about earlier, and Page 83 June 21,2001 there is a Manatee Dog Park listed there which is located off of 951 behind the outlet mall area next to the Manatee Elementary and Middle School area to put a facility at that location and start the process of development on that particular park. On H-4, 365368 Fund, that is the fund that's the old impact fee fund which we are looking to discontinue, although you'll see that there is a little bit of impact fee coming in from some T-Bills and some interest, but we're trying to discontinue use of that particular one by spending the dollars. And that really is the only projects that I have listed. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Questions by the board.'? MR. OLLIFF: Just to make sure you don't have any questions on that school project. She mentioned it as if we were doing a construction on a school site. That's a continuing joint agreement that we have where we are doing joint school park projects where the public has access to all of those facilities after school hours and then, frankly, we found out it's the same kids that are using it, whether it's during the school day or after hours, so it just makes sense to spend public dollars on building one ballfield as opposed to building a school ballfield and a public county ballfield. It's hopefully something that we will continue to do. We are working closely with the parks on their capital planning side. They have a 20-year plan of exactly where they are going to build schools, and we are working with them to build parks in each and every location that makes sense for us so that you'll continue to see these kind of programs in the future. Your next fund is library capital fund. MS. USHER: That's on page H-5 is library impact fees. As I said earlier, the North Regional Library will be opening around January of'02. Right below that project is the Immokalee Branch Library expansion. The library has applied for a grant from the state Page 84 June 21,2001 to pay for half of that expansion. MR. OLLIFF: And gotten it. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: And gotten it? MR. OLLIFF: It's my understanding. It was on the approved list that I saw. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Good. MR. JONES: Good morning. John Jones, library. We're on the approved list. It has been funded provided the governor does not veto it. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: He's already vetoed us enough. MR. OLLIFF: Yeah. This may be the only dog we've got left in the fight, so we think it's going to survive. CHAIRMAN CARTER: When does he get done with his pencil? COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I don't know. MR. OLLIFF: I think, obviously, by July 1st the state budget and fiscal year starts so ... CHAIRMAN CARTER: Keep our fingers crossed for a few more days then. MR. OLLIFF: We hope there's no more lead left in that pencil. MR. JONES: Well, we're very high on the list. We're, like, No. 4 or No. 5 out of about 25 projects, so while I would not foresee to be a soothsayer, I think they'd have to cut awful deep and hurt a lot of people before they got to this particular project. MR. OLLIFF: Unless there's any other questions on library capital, we can move on to the Ochopee Fire Control and Isle of Capri. MS. USHER: On page H-6 is Ochopee Fire Control impact fees. Those impact fees was started to be collected in 1998. We're in our fourth -- third year of collecting the money, and there are no projects at this time to spend that money on for next year. On H-7 is Page 85 June 21, 2001 the Isle of Capri impact fee fund. Again, that was started back in 1998 and, again, there is no plans next year for any capital improvements there yet. MR. OLLIFF: But that's primarily because if you look at how much is collected -- I mean, you've got $45,000 over several years collected in one fund and 56,000 in another -- you've pretty much in these kinds of funds have to save the money in order to be able to accumulate enough to actually buy a piece of equipment for either of these districts. So this is pretty much a sinking fund for future equipment purchases. MS. USHER: On page H-8 is the EMS impact fee fund. As you can see on the projects down below, Station 17 is now open and operating, and those costs are forecast. Station 19, which is off of Davis Boulevard, they purchased the land this year, and I think next year they're going to build the station. And Station 21, the Grey Oaks area, again, we have a little bit of money budgeted this year for land purchase and next year to build the building. This facility will be shared with two fire districts, the East Naples and the North Naples Fire Districts. So that'll keep -- by sharing the costs will keep our costs down. MR. OLLIFF: So the board's aware, that Station 19 in East Naples is the one failed to highlight at the beginning. Station 19, when they say, "off of Davis Boulevard" is actually at the intersection of Davis and Santa Barbara on the northeast comer of that intersection. It's a joint site with the school board. The school board, I believe, has plans to build an elementary school on that site. We've also looked at that piece of property as the possible future site for an emergency services center that is on much higher ground there and in a strategically much better location, than is the first floor of Building F for a future emergency services building, that we would build in conjunction with S.O. And a number of other public safety units. Page 86 June 21,2001 MS. USHER: Okay. On H-9 is the correction facility impact fee. The -- this year we paid for the design work for the Immokalee Jail. That jail will discuss -- Immokalee Jail we'll discuss tomorrow. They'll be funded out of General Fund ad valorem. Also planned for next year is an impact fee study and also the design work for the Naples Jail, to expand the jail portion. On page -- MR. SMYKOWSKI: The impact fee study, Commissioners, for the record, is to update the correctional facilities impact fee to again maintain currency with current market conditions in terms of cost of construction. MR. OLLIFF: And, again, in anticipation of that $20 million jail project that you saw that we're doing the design for, we need to make sure that the impact fees are at their highest legal limit in order to be able to provide as much of an offsetting funding source for that as possible. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Just to remind everybody, we don't have a law-enforcement impact fee, therefore, growth is paid by the existing residents. MR. SMYKOWSKI: That is correct, and we will talk about that tomorrow. The county manager has included in the General Fund reserve funding for a law-enforcement impact fee study to address that very question you just posed. MR. OLLIFF: And we've actually already talked to the sheriff's department and their staff, and they are both, not only well aware of it, but, I think, will be happy to work with us in trying to pursue that. COMMISSIONER HENNING: I was going to bring it up tomorrow anyway so ... CHAIRMAN CARTER: Good. MS. USHER: On page H-10 through H-11 is gas tax road construction, and H- 12 through H- 15 is impact-fee-funded road construction. The engineering department for the road department is Page 87 June 21,2001 paid from the gas tax, and on page H-10A you will notice there is the expanded services for that department. They are requesting one secretarial position, two vehicles, some software, and a laptop computer for 157,300. The budget on H-11, you can -- there is -- it doesn't have a project number. It's right below where all those O's are, there's a transportation engineering department, and you can see that these expandeds are included in the $1,552,900 for the requested next year. MS. SMYKOWSKI: The key issue here, just noting again what Mr. McNees outlined in the introduction on H-11, a bond proceeds of 114 million to make this a -- a viable program. It is dependent upon bonding to bring these projects to fruition. MR. OLLIFF: If you look at the bottom of page 8 -- H-11, I'm sorry, under the revenue section, you'll see right in the middle of the revenue list, bond proceeds, and if you follow that all the way to the far righthand column following the fiscal year '02 request that's where you find that $114 million. CHAIRMAN CARTER: We can get the money. We just have to figure out how to service the debt. MR. OLLIFF: They don't usually give you the money until you figured that out first. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Talk about chicken and egg. MS. USHER: Did you want to discuss any of the road projects? MR. OLLIFF: Steve, you may want to highlight some of the major road projects through there. MR. MILLER: Yes. Good morning. Steve Miller, Director of Transportation Engineering. I am proud to tell you that as you heard earlier from Mr. -- Mr. Olliff, we do have five projects that are under construction. I will tell you that we have a very aggressive program this next year, this next fiscal year. We are planning on starting four more projects to the tune of about $70 million. I will list those for Page 88 June 21,2001 yOU. We've got Goodlette-Frank Road from Pine Ridge Road north to Vanderbilt Beach Road we're planning to get under construction next year. Also Livingston Road, Phase 3. As a side note, Livingston Road Phase 2 is being bid today, so we'll know who the low bidder is today on Phase 2. Again, we'll have Livingston Road Phase 4, which is from Immokalee Road to the Lee County line. It's coming on line next year. These are all, like I said, very aggressive schedules. And right now we're right on target with our plans and plans production and real happy to report that to you. MR. OLLIFF: I want you to notice he did that without ever looking down. He's -- he's got these road projects down -- down pat. COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Good. MR. OLLIFF: Mr. Chairman, unless there's no other questions, we can move on beyond transportation. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I think we've all gotten a very good picture on transportation over the last year, so moving right along. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Frankly, Mr. Chairman, the remaining funds are small funds with residual cash. On page H-16 an old Wiggins Pass Dredging Fund with funds in reserve. There's $500 residual cash in the museum capital fund. Pelican Bay Funds we'll address at our separate public hearing. On H-20 there's a road assessment receivable fund that's used primarily as a revolving loan fund to advance construction on some of the beautification projects. And there's an Olde Naples Park Drainage Fund 326 and with that, Mr. Chairman, we are done for today. CHAIRMAN CARTER: Any questions on the board? If not, thank you very much. MR. SMYKOWSKI: Tomorrow's schedule, Mr. Chairman, we'll review the General Fund. We do have from the published schedule there is a slight change. Courts have requested a 3 p.m. Page 89 June 21,2001 Time certain, just because that's when the judges are -- are available and due to some other pressing court matters, the State Attorney and Public Defender we've requested that they be heard first so that they can attend to their other court-related matters. CHAIRMAN CARTER: I'm sure we can accommodate that. It'll be our pleasure. Is there any public speakers, Mr. Olliff?. MR. OLLIFF: There are none registered, Mr. Chairman, and the only other thing I wanted to get on the record today was just to make sure that you as a board had received the comments that Commissioner Fiala provided as a result of her budget committee, and I'll tell you that there were a couple of unanswered questions yet on some of the ad valorem General Fund items, and we'll make sure that as we go through your ad valorem budgets tomorrow that we answer those as we go through the reviews of those particular departments. Other than that, Mr. Chairman, I don't have any public speakers for you, and unless there's any other business for the board COMMISSIONER HENN1NG: Well, now's a good time to grab everything we can out of Commissioner Fiala's district while she's not here to -- CHAIRMAN CARTER: And with that closing note, we stand adjourned. Page 90 June 21,2001 There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 12:20 p.m. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOARD OF ZON1NG APPEALS/EX OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF SPECIAL DISTRIC~.~~S_ CONTROL. JAMES D. CARTER, Ph.D., CHAIRMAN ATTEST: · i'(?,,,,, .. ThE~;e m~nutes approved by the Board on as presented c~ or as corrected TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF DONOVAN COURT REPORTING, INC., BY CAROLYN J. FORD, COURT REPORTER Page 91