BCC Minutes 09/26/2017 RSeptember 26, 2017
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, September 26, 2017
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 9:00 a.m., in REGULAR SESSION
in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida,
with the following members present:
CHAIRMAN: Penny Taylor
Andrew Solis
Donna Fiala
William L. McDaniel, Jr.
Burt L. Saunders
ALSO PRESENT:
Leo Ochs, County Manager
Nick Casalanguida, Deputy County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Crystal Kinzel, Director of Finance & Accounting
Troy Miller, Communications & Customer Relations
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COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Community Redevelopment Agency Board (CRAB)
Airport Authority
AGENDA
Board of County Commission Chambers
Collier County Government Center
3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd Floor
Naples, FL 34112
September 26, 2017
9:00 AM
Commissioner Penny Taylor, District 4 – BCC Chair
Commissioner Andy Solis, District 2 – BCC Vice-Chair
Commissioner Donna Fiala, District 1 - CRAB Co-Chair
Commissioner Burt Saunders, District 3
Commissioner William L. McDaniel, Jr., District 5 - CRAB Co-Chair
NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST
REGISTER PRIOR TO PRESENTATION OF THE AGENDA ITEM TO BE
ADDRESSED. ALL REGISTERED SPEAKERS WILL RECEIVE UP TO THREE
(3) MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS ADJUSTED BY THE CHAIRMAN.
REQUESTS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ON SUBJECTS WHICH ARE NOT ON
THIS AGENDA MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING WITH EXPLANATION
TO THE COUNTY MANAGER AT LEAST 13 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF
THE MEETING AND WILL BE HEARD UNDER “PUBLIC PETITIONS.”
PUBLIC PETITIONS ARE LIMITED TO THE PRESENTER, WITH A
MAXIMUM TIME OF TEN MINUTES.
ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD
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WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING PERTAINING THERETO,
AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD
OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE
TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 2003-53 AS AMENDED BY
ORDINANCE 2004-05 AND 2007-24, REQUIRES THAT ALL LOBBYISTS
SHALL, BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY LOBBYING ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDRESSING THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS), REGISTER WITH THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AT THE
BOARD MINUTES AND RECORDS DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY
ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING,
YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN
ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT DIVISION LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL,
SUITE 1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380; ASSISTED
LISTENING DEVICES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ARE AVAILABLE IN
THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION.
LUNCH RECESS SCHEDULED FOR 12:00 NOON TO 1:00 P.M
1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
A. Invocation by Pastor Michael Bannon Crossroads Community Church of
Naples
2. AGENDA AND MINUTES
A. Approval of today's regular, consent and summary agenda as amended (ex
parte disclosure provided by commission members for consent and summary
agenda.)
B. June 20, 2017 - BCC/Master Plan Update/Rural Fringe Mixed Use District
Workshop
C. June 27, 2017 - BCC/Regular Meeting Minutes
D. July 11, 2017 - BCC/Regular Meeting Minutes
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3. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
A. EMPLOYEE
B. ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
C. RETIREES
D. EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
1) Recommendation to recognize Silvia Puente, Library Program
Specialist, Public Services Department as the July 2017 Employee of
the Month.
4. PROCLAMATIONS
A. Proclamation designating September 14, 2017 as Hunger Action Day in
Collier County. To be accepted by Karole Davis, Major Gifts Officer for the
Harry Chapin Food Bank in Collier County.
B. Proclamation designating September 2017 as National Recovery Month in
Collier County. To be accepted by multiple advocates for mental health and
substance abuse recovery.
C. Proclamation designating September 26, 2017 as National Voter
Registration Day in Collier County. To be accepted by Jennifer J. Edwards,
Collier County Supervisor of Elections, along with Melissa Blazier, Alex
Breault, Heather Doane and Trish Robertson.
D. Proclamation designating September 17 - 23, 2017 as Constitution Week in
Collier County. To be accepted by Juliana Meek, Chapter Regent, and
members of the Naples-on-the-Gulf Chapter of the National Society of
Daughters of the American Revolution.
5. PRESENTATIONS
A. Presentation of the Collier County Business of the Month for September
2017 to Bear's Plumbing of South Florida, Inc. To be accepted by Dan
Anderman and Chris Stephens. Also present is Bethany Sawyer representing
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the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce.
B. Hurricane Irma Status Report with Dan Summers, Bureau of Emergency
Services Division Director
6. PUBLIC PETITIONS
A. Public Petition request from Katherine Carroll requesting that the Board of
County Commissioners reimburse permitting fees paid by fire victims Mr.
Kurth ($2,376.85) and Mr. LeBuff ($2,395.42).
7. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE CURRENT
OR FUTURE AGENDA
8. BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
9. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS
A. This item has been continued from the July 11, 2017 BCC meeting. This
item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are
required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance
amending Ordinance No. 2007-46, as amended, the Wolf Creek RPUD, to
approve an insubstantial change to the PUD, to add a preserve exhibit that
revises the preserve configuration for Parcels 3B and 9 only, and providing
for an effective date. The subject property is located on the north side of
Vanderbilt Beach Road, approximately one-half mile west of Collier
Boulevard, in Section 34, Township 48 South, Range 26 East, Collier
County, Florida, consisting of 189± acres. [PDI-PL20160000404]
B. This item has been continued to the September 26, 2017 BCC meeting
and further continued to the October 10, 2017 meeting. This item
requires that all participants be sworn in and ex parte disclosure be provided
by Commission members. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance
amending Ordinance Number 95-33, the Briarwood PUD, as amended, to
add 320 multi-family dwelling units in Tract B & C: multi-family residential
as an alternative to commercial development on Tract B & C: commercial
community; to add development standards for Tract B & C multi-family
residential; to add Exhibit A-1 Tract B & C Master Plan and Exhibit A-2
enhanced Type D buffer for property consisting of 209.17± acres; located on
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the east side of Livingston Road, north of Radio Road, in Section 31,
Township 49 South, Range 26 East, Collier County, Florida; and by
providing an effective date. (PL20170000007)
C. This item has been continued to the October 10, 2017 BCC Meeting
Agenda. This item requires that all participants be sworn in and ex parte
disclosure be provided by Commission members. Recommendation to
approve an amendment to Ordinance Number 2005 -63, as amended, the
Cirrus Pointe RPUD, to reduce the minimum floor area for multi family
dwelling units, and to approve a second amended and restated Affordable
Housing Density Bonus Agreement to allow the Developer to have the
option of constructing owner occupied units or rental units designated as
Affordable Housing Units. The subject property, consisting of 9.92± acres,
is located at the northeast corner of Bayshore Drive and Thomasson Drive,
in Section 14, Township 50 South, Range 25 East, Collier County, Florida.
[PUDA-PL20170001626]
10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
A. This item to be heard at 11:00 a.m. Recommendation to adopt a
Resolution urging the Florida Legislature to enact legislation that would
make texting while driving a primary offense.
11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT
A. Recommendation to approve two resolutions for technical revisions to the
Collier County State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Local Housing
Assistance Plan (LHAP) for Fiscal Years 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-
2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 revising the Owner-Occupied
Rehabilitation Program, updating the Short Sale Policy, adding a new
Construction Assistance Strategy, and providing required clarifying
language. (Kim Grant, Community and Human Services Director)
B. Recommendation to approve an agreement in the amount of $544,690 with
the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) and an agreement with
Collier Health Services, Inc. (CHSI) to participate in the Medicaid Low
Income Pool (LIP) Program, generating $874,513 in federal matching funds
that will provide additional health services for the citizens of Collier County.
(Kim Grant, Community and Human Services Director)
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C. Recommendation to award a construction contract in the amount of
$2,421,251.40 to Haskins, Inc. for Invitation to Bid No. 17 -7170 - Tree
Farm Road Phase II and to authorize the necessary budget amendments.
(Project Nos. 61001 and 70178) (Jay Ahmad, Transportation Engineering
Division Director)
D. This item to be heard at 11:15 a.m. Recommendation to select a State
lobbying firm per RFP #17-7186 to represent the Board of County
Commissioners at the State Capitol in Tallahassee. (John Mullins,
Government Affairs Manager)
E. Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid #17-7153R Doctors Pass South
Jetty Rehabilitation and Erosion Control Structures Contract to Earth Tech
Enterprises Inc. in the amount of $2,047,626 to rebuild the Doctors Pass
south jetty and mitigate beach erosion in the Doctors Pass area with the
installation of Erosion Control Structures, authorize the necessary budget
amendment, authorize the Chairman to execute the Agreement, and make a
finding that this item promotes tourism (Project No. 90073). (Gary McAlpin,
Coast Zone Manager, Capital Project Planning, Impact Fees and Program
Management Division)
F. Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners (Board)
suspends all non-life/safety Collier County codes, rules, and regulations
regarding replacements of mobile homes damaged by Hurricane Irma for 90
days. (James French, Deputy Department Head, Growth Management
Department)
G. Recommendation to accept staff’s report on the creation of a Senior Citizen
Affairs committee, following the direction provided in County Ordinance
01-55 Section 3(b) as amended. (Geoff Willig, Operations Analyst, County
Manager's Office)
H. Recommendation to approve an interlocal agreement between the Board of
County Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, and the City of
Everglades City (Everglades City) for the purpose of the County providing
assistance, manpower, and funding to the City in response to the extensive
damage to Everglades City caused by Hurricane Irma.
12. COUNTY ATTORNEY'S REPORT
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13. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
14. AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND/OR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY
A. AIRPORT
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
15. STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
A. Upcoming BCC Workshop Schedule
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16. CONSENT AGENDA - All matters listed under this item are considered to be
routine and action will be taken by one motion without separate discussion of
each item. If discussion is desired by a member of the Board, that item(s) will
be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered separately.
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A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve a proposal from CB&I Environmental &
Infrastructure, Inc. for Feasibility Analysis of Building Collier
County’s Coastal Resiliency under Contract No. 15-6382, authorize
the County Manager or his designee to execute the work order for a
not to exceed amount of $24,975, authorize necessary budget
amendments, and make a finding that this expenditure promotes
tourism.
2) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the final plat of Artesia Naples, Phase 4,
(Application Number PL20170001099) approval of the standard form
Construction and Maintenance Agreement and approval of the amount
of the performance security.
3) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
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participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the final plat of Price Street Plaza, (Application
Number PL20170001084) approval of the standard form Construction
and Maintenance Agreement and approval of the amount of the
performance security.
4) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the final plat of Fronterra Phase 2, (Application
Number PL20170000897) approval of the standard form Construction
and Maintenance Agreement and approval of the amount of the
performance security.
5) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the final plat of Bent Creek Preserve Phase 2A
(Application Number PL20160003590) approval of the standard form
Construction and Maintenance Agreement and approval of the amount
of the performance security.
6) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the minor final plat of Oyster Harbor at
Fiddler’s Creek Phase 2B, Application Number PL20170001113.
7) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the minor final plat of Sierra Meadows 1 & 2,
Application Number PL20160002608.
8) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the minor final plat of Tract J-1 at Talis Park,
Application Number PL20170002034.
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9) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the final plat of Warm Springs – Phase 2,
(Application Number PL20170001519) approval of the standard form
Construction and Maintenance Agreement and approval of the amo unt
of the performance security.
10) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the final plat of Naples Reserve Circle,
(Application Number PL20160000038) approval of the standard form
Construction and Maintenance Agreement and approval of the amount
of the performance security.
11) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for VI at Bentley Village, West Clubhouse,
PL20150002633, accept unconditional conveyance of a portion of the
potable water facilities, and to authorize the County Manager, or his
designee, to release the Utilities Performance Security (UPS) and
Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $10,567.64 to the Project
Engineer or the Developer’s designated agent.
12) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and unconditional
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for Sienna
Reserve, PL20150001595, and to authorize the County Manager, or
his designee, to release the Final Obligation Bond in the total amount
of $4,000 to the Project Engineer or the Developer’s designated agent.
13) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the p otable water and
sewer facilities for Ultimate Express Car Wash, PL20150002751,
accept unconditional conveyance of a portion of the sewer facilities,
and to authorize the County Manager, or his designee, to release the
Utilities Performance Security (UPS) and Final Obligation Bond in
the total amount of $4,772.10 to the Project Engineer or the
Developer’s designated agent.
14) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for Isles of Collier Preserve Amenity Center, Phase 1,
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PL20150001719, accept unconditional conveyance of a portion of the
potable water and sewer facilities, and to authorize the County
Manager, or his designee, to release the Utilities Performance Security
(UPS) and Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $17,291.38 to
the Project Engineer or the Developer’s designated agent.
15) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for Berkshire Place, PL20150001414, accept
unconditional conveyance of a portion of the potable water facilities,
and to authorize the County Manager, or his designee, to release the
Utilities Performance Security (UPS) and Final Obligation Bond in
the total amount of $12,984.80 to the Project Engineer or the
Developer’s designated agent.
16) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for Cipriani at Lely Resort, PL20150001136, and to
authorize the County Manager, or his designee, to release the Utilities
Performance Security (UPS) and Final Obligation Bond in the total
amount of $43,014.27 to the Project Engineering or the Developer’s
designated agent.
17) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for Giaveno, PL20140001923, accept unconditional
conveyance of a portion of the potable water facilities, and to
authorize the County Manager, or his designee, to release the Utilities
Performance Security (UPS) and Final Obligation Bond in the total
amount of $32,566.24 to the Project Engineer or the Developer’s
designated agent.
18) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for Naples Reserve, Phase 1, PL20150000348, and
accept unconditional conveyance of the potable water and a portion of
the sewer facilities, and to authorize the County Manager, or his
designee, to release the Final Obligation Bond in the amount of
$4,000 to the Project Engineer or the Developer’s designated agent.
19) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and unconditional
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for Naples
Reserve, Phase 2, PL20150000335, and to authorize the County
Manager, or his designee, to release the Final Obligation Bond in the
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amount of $4,000 to the Project Engineer or the Developer’s
designated agent.
20) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the sewer facilities
for LB Naples Grande - Temporary Sales Office, PL20170001553.
21) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and unconditional
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for Lakoya
Phase 2, PL20130002656, and to authorize the County Manager, or
his designee, to release the Final Obligation Bond in the total amount
of $4,000 to the Project Engineer or the Developer’s designated agent.
22) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and unconditional
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for
Heritage Bay Commons Tract D, PL20150002518 and
PL20150002877, and to authorize the County Manager, or his
designee, to release the Utilities Performance Security (UPS) and
Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $17,313.47 to the Project
Engineer or the Developer’s designated agent.
23) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and unconditional
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for Firano
at Naples, Phases 1, 2, and 3, PL20110002021, PL20130002513, and
PL20110002596 and to authorize the County Manager, or his
designee, to release the Utilities Performance Security (UPS) and
Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $18,383.58 to the Project
Engineer or the Developer’s designated agent.
24) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the sewer facilities
for Germain Auto Images, PL20160000439, and accept unconditional
conveyance of a portion of these sewer facilities.
25) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer utility facilities for SFWMD Big Cypress Field Station,
PL20160000750, and to authorize the County Manager, or his
designee, to release the Final Obligation Bond in the amount of
$4,000 to the Project Engineer or the Develop er’s designated agent.
26) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for Naples Reserve Island Club, Phase 1,
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PL20150001154, and accept unconditional conveyance of a portion of
the potable water facilities, and to authorize the County Manager, or
his designee, to release the Utilities Performance Security (UPS) and
Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $18,298.07 to the Project
Engineer or the Developer’s designated agent.
27) Recommendation to grant final acceptance of the private roadway and
drainage improvements for the final plat of Fiddler’s Creek, Phase 3,
Unit One, Application Number AR-1607 with the roadway and
drainage improvements being privately maintained; acceptance of the
plat dedications, and authorizing the release of the maintenance
security.
28) Recommendation to approve an Easement Use Agreement
(Agreement) for Lot 15, Nature Pointe, according to the plat thereof
as recorded at Plat Book 20, Pages 20 through 22 of the public records
of Collier County.
29) Recommendation to approve an easement agreement for the purchase
of a road right-of-way, drainage, and utility easement (Parcel
409RDUE) required for the expansion of Golden Gate Boulevard
from east of Everglades Boulevard to east of Faka Union Canal
(Project #60145). Estimated Fiscal Impact: $6,054.
30) Recommendation to approve an easement agreement for the purchase
of a road right-of-way, drainage, and utility easement (Parcel
412RDUE) required for the expansion of Golden Gate Boulevard
from east of Everglades Boulevard to east of Faka Union Canal
(Project #60145). Estimated Fiscal Impact: $15,054.
31) Recommendation to approve an easement agreement for the purchase
of a road right-of-way, drainage, and utility easement (Parcel
418RDUE) required for the expansion of Golden Gate Boulevard
from east of Everglades Boulevard to east of the Faka Union Canal
(Project #60145). Estimated Fiscal Impact: $10,100.
32) Recommendation to approve an easement agreement for the purchase
of a road right-of-way, drainage, and utility easement (Parcel
415RDUE) required for the expansion of Golden Gate Boulevard
from east of Everglades Boulevard to east of Faka Union Canal
(Project #60145). Estimated Fiscal Impact: $14,100.
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33) Recommendation to approve a second amendment to purchase
agreement for the purchase of a fee simple property (Parcel 101FEE)
required for the Immokalee Stormwater Improvement Program
(Project #60143). Estimated Fiscal Impact: $10,000.
34) Recommendation to approve a Purchase Agreement for the purchase
of two (2) fee simple parcels (Parcels 103FEE1 and 103FEE2)
required for roadway improvements at the intersection of Airport
Road and Davis Boulevard (Project No. 60148) Fiscal Impact:
Approximately $695,950.
35) Recommendation to approve a Drainage, Access and Maintenance
Easement for the donation of an easement parcel (109DAME)
required for routine maintenance of the SR29 Canal. Estimated fiscal
impact: $44.
36) Recommendation to award Bid No. 17-7155 to Horsepower Electric,
Inc. for the construction of a new Traffic Signal at the intersection of
CR 856 (Radio Rd) and Madison Park Blvd/Sanctuary Drive in the
amount of $497,497 and authorize the necessary budget amendment
(Project No. 60172).
37) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release an
Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit in the amount of $16,400 which
was posted as a guaranty for Excavation Permit Number 60.146,
PL20160000338 for work associated with the Collier Charter
Academy.
38) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release
Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit No. FGAC-15118 in the amount
of $12,660, which was posted as a guaranty for work associated with
Casoria at Treviso Bay, Site Development Plan (SDP)
PL20140000605.
39) Recommendation to authorize the Clerk of Courts to release a Cash
Bond in the amount of $1,040 to Sloan Engineering Group which was
posted as a development guaranty for an Early Work Authorization
(EWA) (PL20160002677) for work associated with Dollar General.
40) Recommendation to approve the release of a code enforcement lien
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with an accrued value of $95,600 for payment of $500 in the code
enforcement actions entitled Board of County Commissioners v.
Yislen De La O and Roesmel Rua, Code Enforcement Board Case
Nos. CESD20140005957 and CESD20140023123 relating to property
located at 2883 50th Ter SW, Collier County, Florida.
41) Recommendation to approve the release of a code enforcement lien
with an accrued value of $222,600 for payment of $7,000 in the code
enforcement actions entitled Board of County Commissioners v. H &
H 29th Ave Holdings LLC. Code Enforcement Board Case No.
CESD20100019403 relating to property located at 3220 29th Ave NE,
Collier County, Florida.
42) Recommendation to approve the release of code enforcement liens
with an accrued value of $139,550 for payment of $450 in the code
enforcement actions entitled Board of County Commissioners v.
Edilbray Perez and Belkis Martinez. Code Enforcement Board Case
Nos. CEPM20080001391 and CESD20100001280 relating to
property located at 5563 17th Ave SW, Collier County, Florida.
43) Recommendation to approve the release of a code enforcement lien
with an accrued value of $298,950 for payment of $500 in the code
enforcement actions entitled Board of County Commissioners v. Fidel
and Esperanza Alviar, Jr., Code Enforcement Board Case No.
CESD20110000036 relating to property located at 519 Adams
Avenue, Collier County, Florida.
44) Recommendation to approve a Resolution supporting the County’s
applications to Florida Department of Environmental Protection for
Long Range Budget Plan Requests for Beach Renourishment Projects
for Fiscal Year 2018/2019. This action maintains the County's
eligibility for State Cost Share Funding for future renourishment
projects.
45) Recommendation to approve a resolution that approves an agreement
between Collier County and the Florida PACE Funding Agency to
administer a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program within
the unincorporated area of Collier County, an indemnification
agreement between Collier County and Counterpointe Energy
Solutions (FL) LLC, third party administrator, and authorize the
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chairman of the Board of County Commissioners (Board) to sign
these agreements.
46) Recommendation to approve an Interlocal Agreement with the District
School Board of Collier County providing for the conveyance of
Manatee Road Extension to Collier County as public right-of-way
(Project #60131). Estimated Fiscal Impact: $122,920.70
47) Recommendation to approve the South Florida Water Management
District (SFWMD) Agreement Amendment No. 4600003476A-1
extending the completion date from September 29, 2017 to May 31,
2018 for the construction of the Haldeman Creek Weir Replacement
Project, Project #60103.
48) Recommendation to continue the ongoing update of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Digital Flood Insurance
Rate Map (DFIRM) which will more accurately identify the flood risk
for County residents and potentially reduce the cost of flood insurance
premiums for certain residents.
49) Recommendation to authorize payment of an outstanding invoice for
Agreement No. 14-6332 Exotic Vegetation Removal for projects to
Earth Tech Environmental LLC.
50) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
approve for recording the final plat of Hadley Place East, (Application
Number PL20160002628) approval of the standard form Construction
and Maintenance Agreement and approval of the amount of the
performance security. (This is a companion to Agenda Item #17G).
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
1) Recommendation to award Bid No. 17-7150 Bayshore CRA Fire
Suppression System to Quality Enterprise USA, Inc. for a bid price of
$520,282.44, authorize the Community Redevelopment Agency
Board Chair to execute a contract and authorize a $73,282.44 budget
amendment.
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2) Recommendation that the Collier County Board of County
Commissioners (BCC), as the Community Redevelopment Agency
(CRA), approve an amendment to the previously approved U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant
agreement between the BCC and the CRA for additional funding in
the amount of $125,000 and a time extension for the Immokalee
Sidewalk Improvement Program, authorize the Chairman of the Board
to sign the amendment and authorize necessary budget amendments.
C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve Contract Amendment Number 5
reactivating Contract No. 04-3673, "Professional Engineering
Services for Design of the Northeast Water Reclamation Facility and
Water Treatment Plant," and authorizing the issuance of a purchase
order in the amount of $172,642 to initiate the update of the Northeast
Utility Facility design criteria, and to authorize the necessary budget
amendment.
2) Recommendation to approve a $32,193.49 Change Order to a
purchase order, issued under Contract #14-6213 for "NCWRF Belt
Filter Press No. 6 Rehabilitation,” with Mitchell & Stark Construction
Co., Inc., under North County Water Reclamation Facility Technical
Support Project Number #73968.
3) Recommendation to approve a Right-of-Way Consent Agreement and
associated Memorandum with Florida Power & Light Company,
providing for construction of a portion of the second phase of the
Livingston Road Force Main on property located along the west side
of Livingston Road from Golden Gate Parkway to Marbella Lakes
Drive within Florida Power & Light Company’s power-line right-of-
way.
4) Recommendation to approve a Right-of-Way Consent Agreement and
associated Memorandum with Florida Power & Light Company,
providing for construction of a portion of phase 6A of the Livingston
Road Force Main on property located south of Livingston Road and
Pine Ridge Road intersection within Florida Power & Light
Company’s power-line right-of-way.
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5) Recommendation to recognize and appropriate revenue to the
Facilities Management Division cost center in the amount of
$105,041.04 for the period of June 2017 through August 2017 of
Fiscal Year 2016-2017 and authorize the necessary Budget
Amendment.
6) Recommendation to approve a Certification of Financial
Responsibility, as required by the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection, for the renewal of an operating permit for
the deep injection well system at the South County Water
Reclamation Facility.
7) Recommendation to authorize a budget amendment in the amount of
$148,000 transferring funds between cost centers and line items
within the Collier County Water-Sewer District Operating Fund (408)
to cover costs for unanticipated increases in bank fees and contractual
services.
8) Recommendation to approve the annual rate resolution to establish the
fees, rates, and charges for the use of Collier County Solid Waste
Facilities, including landfill tipping fees, recycling drop -off center
fees, and residential multi-family and commercial waste collection
fees for FY18. This resolution adopts the rates that fund the FY18
budget for solid waste collection and disposal and increases the rates
by 2.9 percent in accordance with the CPI for the year.
9) Recommendation to approve AECOM signed agreement to reinstate,
amend and extend Contract No. 16-6597 – Jail Master Plan to
complete the Final Report for the Jail Master Plan.
D. PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve a First Amendment to Lease Agreement
with NWNG LLC, dba Naples Grande Beach Resort to increase tram
service and manage inclement weather operations.
2) Recommendation to approve a Release of Lien to combine release of
3 separate liens with one developer for a combined amount of
$11,788.56 for properties developed by Habitat for Humanity of
Collier County, Inc. that have remained affordable for the required 15
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year period set forth in the State Housing Initiatives Partnership
(SHIP) Impact Fee program deferral agreements.
3) Recommendation to approve a Release of Lien combining release of
12 separate liens with one developer for a combined amount of
$82,290.74 for properties developed by Habitat for Humanity of
Collier County, Inc. that have remained affordable for the required 15-
year period set forth in the State Housing Initiatives Partnership
(SHIP) Impact Fee program deferral agreements.
4) Recommendation to approve a Release of Lien to combine release of
19 separate liens with one developer for a combined amount of
$137,494.40 for properties developed by Habitat for Humanity of
Collier County, Inc. that have remained affordable for the required 15-
year period set forth in the State Housing Initiatives Partnership
(SHIP) Impact Fee program deferral agreements.
5) Recommendation to approve ten Release of Liens with a combined
amount of $45,463.87 for single-family owner-occupied properties
that have remained affordable for the required 15 -year period set forth
in the State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Impact Fee
program deferral agreements.
6) Recommendation to approve a Release of Lien to combine releas e of
nine separate liens with one developer for a combined amount of
$36,448.14 for properties developed by Habitat for Humanity of
Collier County, Inc. that have remained affordable for the required 15-
year period set forth in the State Housing Initiatives Partnership
(SHIP) Impact Fee program deferral agreements.
7) Recommendation to accept the tentative settlement amount of $6,000,
in the foreclosure action styled New Penn Financial, LLC d/b/a
Shellpoint Mortgage v. Elain K. O’Donnell, Collier County, et. al.
(Case No. 11- 2017-CA-000779) now pending in the Circuit Court of
the Twentieth Judicial Circuit in and for Collier County, Florida, and
authorize the Chair to execute a Satisfaction of Mortgage.
8) Recommendation to approve the State Housing Initiatives Partnership
Annual Reports and Local Housing Incentive Certification for interim
Fiscal Years 2014/2015, 2016/2017; 2017/2018 to ensure compliance
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with program requirements.
9) Recommendation to approve a First Amendment to the State Housing
Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Sponsor Land Use Restriction
Agreement (LURA) between Collier County and Big Cypress
Housing Corporation that corrects a scrivener's error and clarifies
terms and conditions.
10) Recommendation to approve after-the-fact contracts and attestation
Statements with the Area Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida,
Inc. (Agency) Community Care for the Elderly (CCE), Alzheimer’s
Disease Initiative (ADI), and Home Care for the Elderly (HCE) grant
programs for Collier County Services for Seniors (CCSS).
11) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute
Amendment No. 2 to the Parks and Recreation Division Facility Use
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Naples BMX, Inc. to
extend the agreement for an additional one-year term.
12) Recommendation to approve additional FY17 Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) 5307 grant funds in the amount of $77,939 and
submittal of a revised grant application through the Transit Award
Management System (TrAMS), and authorize the necessary budget
amendment.
13) Recommendation to approve additional FY17 Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) 5339 grant funds in the amount of $12,254 for
capital projects and submittal of a revised grant application through
the Transit Award Management System (TrAMS).
14) Recommendation to approve Tourist Development Tax funding for
the engineering, design, and construction of ten (10) Pickleball courts
at East Naples Community Park (ENCP) at a cost up to $300,000,
authorize all necessary budget amendments, approve and authorize the
Chairman to execute the County work order in the amount of $55,447
for engineering services, and make a finding that this expenditure
promotes tourism.
15) Recommendation to approve a Lease Agreement with the District
School Board of Collier County (School Board) for the continued use
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of the Property at Veterans Memorial Elementary School.
16) Recommendation to authorize the Chairman to sign a Memorandum
of Agreement with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission (FWC) to allow youth hunts for Collier County r esidents
at Pepper Ranch Preserve in December 2017 and February 2018.
17) Recommendation to direct the County Attorney to advertise and bring
back for a public hearing an Ordinance repealing Ordinance 2009-44,
as amended, known as the Radio Road, East of Sant a Barbara
Boulevard to the Intersection of Radio Road and Davis Boulevard
Municipal Service Taxing Unit (MSTU), and dissolving the MSTU’s
Advisory Committee.
18) Recommendation to approve and authorize the removal of
uncollectible receivables in the amount of $7,377.33 from the
financial records of the Parks and Recreation Division in accordance
with Resolution No. 2006-252 and authorize the Chair to execute
attached Resolution.
19) Recommendation to approve Amendment #1 to Community Health
Partners (CHP) Managed Care Service Agreement #12-5854, to
include case management chart review and referral services for the
Operations and Veteran Services (OVS) Division to assist in client
claims requiring in-depth medical history analysis.
20) Recommendation to approve the FY14-17 Department of Children
and Families (DCF) Criminal Justice Mental Health Substance Abuse
(CJMHSA) Grant Final Program and Financial Status Report and
recognize that that the excess match made by Collier County Sheriff’s
Office may be used to cover the shortfall in contractual match
requirement by DLC and NAMI of Collier County subrecipients along
with specific findings.
21) Recommendation to approve an after-the-fact Florida Department of
Economic Opportunity (DEO) Community Planning Technical
Assistance Grant application to implement a tourism marketing
mobile-responsive website in the amount of $60,000.
22) Recommendation to authorize the Chairman to sign the standard U.S.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) entitlement
agreements upon arrival; approve and authorize the Chairman to sign
thirteen subrecipient agreements for activities previously approved in
the FY2017-18 Action Plan for the Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), and
Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Programs; and authorize the
necessary budget amendments in the amount of $3,107,453.43 for the
HUD Fiscal Year 2017-2018 budget as approved in the HUD Action
Plan for entitlement funds.
23) Recommendation to approve three releases of lien for full pa yment of
the deferral of 100 percent of countywide impact fees for owner-
occupied affordable housing dwelling units.
24) Recommendation to approve a budget amendment in the amount of
$100,000 to complete the restoration of the 1947 Budd Tavern Train
Car at the Naples Depot Museum (Depot).
25) Recommendation to approve a loan agreement from the University of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology allowing
the Collier County Museums and the Marco Island Historical Society
to borrow significant artifacts found on Marco Island during the 1896
Pepper-Hearst Archaeological Expedition for a temporary exhibit at
the Marco Island Historical Museum, correcting a scrivener’s error in
the agreement previously approved by the Board.
26) Recommendation to approve a progress report related to the
development of Big Corkscrew Island Regional Park, and approve
modification of proposed layout for the athletic fields in Phase I of the
project.
27) Recommendation to approve the submittal of Collier Area Transit's
Title VI Program to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
28) Recommendation to approve the FY2017-2018 State Aid to Libraries
Grant Agreement, 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, and 2017-2018 Annual
Plan of Service, authorizing the Collier County Public Library to
apply for State Aid to Libraries in the estimated amount of $221,236.
29) Recommendation to approve substantial amendments to Collier
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County's U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Annual Action plans for FY 2015-2016 and FY 2016-2017, to accept
a termination of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
agreement with Oak Marsh, LLC, and to approve a contract
amendment with Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation to
extend the term and remove homebuyer education and counseling.
30) Recommendation to recognize interest earned from the period January
through June, 2017 on advanced library funding received from the
Florida Department of State to support library services and equipment
for the use of Collier County residents in the amount of $2,094.07.
E. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign the
Assumption Agreement from PB Water Services USA Inc. to WSP
USA Inc. as it relates to Contract #13-6164-WF “Professional
Services Architect and Engineering” for the following discipline:
Wellfield Study, Planning and/or Design (WEL).
2) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute the
Sixth Amendment to the Agreement for Medical Examiner Services
(Contract No. 11-5776 Medical Examiner) extending the term of the
Agreement to September 30, 2018.
3) Recommendation to approve the purchase of Flood Insurance for
Fiscal Year 2018 in the estimated amount of $352,698
4) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute a
Federally Funded Subgrant Agreement to accept the annual
Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) in the amount
of $105,778 for emergency management planning, response, and
mitigation efforts and to authorize the necessary budget amendment.
5) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute State-
Funded Subgrant Agreement 18-BG-_-09-21-01-_ accepting a Grant
award totaling $105,806 from the Florida Division of Emergency
Management for emergency management program enhancement and
authorize the associated budget amendment.
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6) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (ITB) No. 17 -7147
“Motor Oils, Lubricants, and Fluids” to Safety Kleen Systems Inc.,
Palmdale Oil Company, Edison Oil Company, Flamingo Oil
Corporation, and Howell Oil Company.
7) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (ITB) No. 17-7078
“Filters for Fleet Vehicles” to Sunbelt Automotive, Inc. d/b/a NAPA
Auto Parts.
8) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign the
Assumption Agreement to JetPay Payment Services, FL, LLC., as it
relates to the July 26, 2011 Agreement for credit card and Automated
Clearing House (ACH) processing.
9) Recommendation to approve Second Amendment to Agreement #12-
5874 with Advanced Data Processing for EMS Billing to extend
services for a one-year period to allow processing of accounts
received through September 30, 2017 and to correct a Scrivener’s
error.
10) Recommendation to renew the annual Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity (COPCN) for Ambitrans Medical
Transport, Inc. to provide Class 2 Advanced Life Support (ALS) inter-
facility transport ambulance service for a period of one year.
11) Recommendation to renew the annual Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity (COPCN) for Just Like Family Concierge
Medical Transport Services, LLC., DBA Concierge Medical
Transport (CMT) to provide Class 2 Advanced Life Support (ALS)
inter-facility transport ambulance service for a period of one year.
12) Recommendation to approve an Interlocal Agreement with the City of
Marco Island to provide fire protection and rescue services to the
unincorporated area of the County known as Goodland.
13) Recommendation to approve an “after-the-fact” request for Fire
Management Assistance Subgrant to the Florida Division of
Emergency Management for reimbursement of expenses incurred
during the Florida 30th Avenue Fire.
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14) Recommendation to ratify Property, Casualty, Workers’
Compensation and Subrogation claim files settled and/or closed by the
Risk Management Division Director pursuant to Resolution #2004-15
for the third quarter of FY 17.
15) Recommendation to approve the administrative report prepared by the
Procurement Services Division for disposal of property and
notification of items available for surplus (from 8/8/17 Meeting).
16) Recommendation to approve the administrative report prepared by the
Procurement Services Division for disposal of property and
notification of items available for surplus.
17) Recommendation to approve the administrative reports prepared by
the Procurement Services Division for change orders and other items
as identified.
18) Recommendation to authorize the County Manager, in accordance
with the County's Procurement Ordinance 2017-08, Section 11.4,
Cooperative Purchasing, to use the allowable Federal GSA schedules
(ex: Schedule 70 and 1122 Program), the State of Florida Contracts,
Agreements and Price Lists, competitively solicited contracts by
US Communities, Western States Contracting Alliance, National
Intergovernmental Purchasing Alliance (NIPA), NASPO Value Point,
Procure Source, HGAC Buy, National Cooperative Purchasing
Alliance, The Cooperative Purchasing Network and National Joint
Powers Alliance (NJPA) public purchasing consortiums, competitive
solicitations from State of Florida cities, counties, school districts and
other public municipalities (i.e., Sheriff’s Association; Transit
Consortium Bus Procurement Contract; Library Purchasing
Cooperative Consortium) for the efficient purchase of goods and
services for the delivery of public services and for which funds
were approved in operating budgets; and authorize the County
Manager or their designee to sign user agreements or contracts
associated with these purchases.
19) Recommendation to approve the purchase of Liability, Automobile,
Workers’ Compensation, Aircraft, Airport and other insurance
coverage for FY 2018 in the estimated annual amount of $949,474.
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20) Recommendation to approve Amendment #4 to Agreement #11-5729
to Allegiance Benefit Plan Management, Inc. for the award of Group
Health Third Party Administration Services; award an Agreement
(#17-7209) for Managed Care Services to Naples Physician Hospital
Organization, known as Community Health Partners, Inc., and
authorize the Chair to execute the Amendment and Agreement.
21) Recommendation to execute a Resolution adopting the Pay and
Classification Plans for the County Manager’s Agency and County
Attorney’s Office effective October 1, 2017; and to approve the
creation of new classifications, modification and/or deletion of
classifications and assignment of pay ranges from the proposed Pay
and Classification Plans, from July 1, 2017 forward using the existing
point-factor job evaluation system.
22) Recommendation to extend existing contracts to Stewart Title
Company and American Government Services Corporation under Bid
#13-6043, “Real Estate Title & Closing Services” for a period of six
months to allow staff to re-solicit these services with a revised award
criteria to include a rotation plan.
23) Recommendation to approve purchase orders for Disaster Recovery
Consulting Services with CDR Maguire, Inc. and Tidal Basin
Government Consulting, Inc., in a preliminary amount not to exceed
$250,000 per firm ($500,000 total).
24) Recommendation to approve the administrative reports prepared by
the Procurement Services Division for change orders and other items
as identified.
F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS
1) Board ratification of Summary, Consent and Regular Agenda Items
approved by the County Manager during the Board's scheduled recess.
(In Absentia Meeting(s) dated July 25, 2017; August 8, 2017 and
August 22, 2017).
2) Recommendation to approve Tourist Development Tax Promotion
funding to support the five upcoming October and November 2017
Sports Events up to $20,600 and make a finding that these
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expenditures promote tourism.
3) Recommendation to approve the Sub Lease Agreement to house the
Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce Visitor Information Center at
the Naples Depot Museum, approve the projected construction
expenditures of $600,000, authorize necessary budget amendments,
and make a finding that this expenditure promotes tourism.
4) Recommendation to authorize budget amendments totaling $23,000
that will provide funding for various agencies within the Courts
System to cover Article V revenue shortfall for the balance of FY
2017.
5) Recommendation to authorize budget amendments appropriating
approximately $396,121,342.14 of unspent FY 2017 grant and capital
project budgets into fiscal year 2018.
6) Recommendation for the termination of the Basic Industry Growth
Promotion Incentive Program Agreement between Collier County and
Ferris Marketing, Inc., due to Ferris Marketing, Inc. being unable to
meet the job requirements of the Agreement at the initial validation
meeting.
7) Recommendation to approve the first amendment to the Agreement
for Impact Fee Payment Refund between Haynes Corporation and the
Board of County Commissioners, which corrects a scrivener’s error
on the number of jobs required for validation.
8) Recommendation to adopt a resolution approving amendments
(appropriating grants, donations, contributions or insurance proceeds)
to the Fiscal Year 2016-17 Adopted Budget.
9) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to execute
Tourist Development Tax Grant Agreements for FY 18 for Promotion
($164,300) and Non-County Owned Museums ($604,073) Grants, and
make a finding that this action promotes tourism.
G. AIRPORT AUTHORITY
1) Recommendation to authorize payment of an outstanding invoice for
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Agreement No. 15-6374R – Maintenance, Repair, and Testing for
Fuel Storage Tank Systems for projects to Adams Tank & Lift, Inc.
2) Recommendation to approve the single-source purchase of a Lektro
Towbarless Aircraft Towing Vehicle in the amount of $69,998 for the
Marco Island Executive Airport.
3) Recommendation to terminate for cause the lease agreement between
Collier County Airport Authority and Duane Truitt and authorize the
County Attorney’s Office to take all action necessary, including
litigation, in order to have Mr. Truitt removed as a tenant from the
property and to recover all outstanding monies owed.
4) Recommendation to approve an after-the-fact acceptance of the
attached Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant offer in the
amount of $149,850, to approve and authorize the Chairman to
execute the attached Resolution authorizing execution of Joint
Participation Agreement Contract No. G0O39 with the Florida
Department of Transportation for $8,333 for Phase 1 of the
Everglades Airpark Runway 15/33 Rehabilitation project, and
authorize the necessary budget amendments (Project No. 33528).
Fiscal Impact: $149,850 FAA, $8,333 FDOT, and $8,333 County.
5) Recommendation to approve an after-the-fact acceptance of the
attached Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant offer in the
amount of $983,920, to approve and authorize the Chairman to
execute the attached Resolution authorizing execution of Joint
Participation Agreement Contract No. G0E60 Supplement One with
the Florida Department of Transportation for $42,350 for the
rehabilitation of Taxiway B at the Immokalee Regional Airport, and
authorize the necessary budget amendments (Project No. 33485).
Fiscal Impact: $983,920 FAA, $42,350 FDOT, and $66,974 County.
6) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to execute
the attached Resolution authorizing execution of Joint Participation
Agreement Contract No. G0O51 with the Florida Department of
Transportation for $80,000 for the Seaplane Base Project at
Everglades Airpark, and authorize the necessary budget amendments
(Project No. 33533). Fiscal Impact: $80,000 FDOT, and $20,000
County.
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7) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid No. 17-7126 - Immokalee
Regional Airport Taxiway B Rehabilitation to O-A-K/Florida, Inc.
d/b/a Owen-Ames-Kimball Company (OAK) for $971,013.74, and
approve and authorize the Chair to execute the contract (Project No.
33485).
H. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
I. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
J. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
1) To record in the minutes of the Board of County Commissioners, the
check number (or other payment method), amount, payee, and
purpose for which the referenced disbursements were drawn for the
periods between August 10 and August 30, 2017 pursuant to Florida
Statute 136.06.
2) Request that the Board approve and determine valid public purpose
for invoices payable and purchasing card transactions as of September
6, 2017.
3) Recommendation to approve the use of $1,000 from the Confiscated
Trust Funds to support the Women's Foundation of Southwest Florida,
Inc.
4) Recommendation to authorize execution of the budget amendment to
increase current funding for the Collier County Sheriff's Fund 608
(Sheriff's Education Trust Fund) in the amount of $80,000.
5) Recommendation to provide an after the fact approval to designate the
Sheriff as the official applicant and point of contact for the U.S.
Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice
Assistance Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG)
FY17 Local Standard Grant. Authorize the acceptance of the grant
when awarded, approve associated budget amendments and approve
the Collier County Sheriff's Office to receive and expand 2017 JAG
Standard grant funds.
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6) To record in the minutes of the Board of County Commissioners, the
check number (or other payment method), amount, payee, and
purpose for which the referenced disbursements were drawn for the
periods between August 31 and September 13, 2017 pursuant to
Florida Statute 136.06.
7) Request that the Board approve and determine valid public purpose
for invoices payable and purchasing card transactions as of September
20, 2017.
K. COUNTY ATTORNEY
1) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the total
amount of $30,000 for the taking of Parcel 399RDUE in the pending
case styled Collier County v. Jarrett Cox, et al, Case No. 16 -CA-1313,
required for the widening of Golden Gate Boulevard from 20th Street
East to East of Everglades Boulevard, Project No. 60145. (Fiscal
Impact: $27,300)
2) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $30,000 as final compensation for the taking of Parcel
310FEE required for the Golden Gate Blvd. Project No. 60145 (from
20th St. E. to east of Everglades Blvd.), in the pending case styled
Collier County v. Joseph Bartoszek, et al., Case No. 16-CA-1200.
(Fiscal Impact: $4,300)
3) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the total
amount of $30,000 for the taking of Parcel 401RDUE in the pend ing
case styled Collier County v. Jarrett Cox, et al, Case No. 16 -CA-1313,
required for the widening of Golden Gate Boulevard from 20th Street
East to East of Everglades Boulevard, Project No. 60145. (Fiscal
Impact: $28,670)
4) Recommendation to approve a Final Judgment for Parcel 198RDUE
in the case styled Collier County v. Baby Brothers Enterprises, Inc., et
al., Case No. 15-CA-298, now pending in the Twentieth Judicial
Circuit, Collier County, required for the widening of Golden Gate
Boulevard (Project No. 60040). (Fiscal Impact: $15,600)
5) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Order settling all statutory
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attorney and expert fees and costs in the amount of $10,250 to
Walgreen, Co., incurred in the taking of parcels in the case styled
Collier County v. Lowe’s Home Center Inc., et al., Case No. 13-CA-
0142 for the US 41/C.R. 951 Intersection Improvement Project,
Project No. 60116 (Fiscal Impact: $10,250).
6) Recommendation to approve a Mediated Settlement Agreement for
the total amount of $85,657 for the taking of Parcel 150RDUE in the
case styled Collier County v. GG1 Naples, LLC, et al., Case No. 15 -
CA-329, required for the widening of Golden Gate Boulevard, Project
No. 60040. (Fiscal Impact: $39,827).
7) Recommendation to approve a Mediated Settlement Agreement for
the total amount of $27,446.79 for the taking of Parcel 253RDUE in
the case styled Collier County v. Pedro Pena, et al., Case No. 15-CA-
350, required for the widening of Golden Gate Boulevard, Project No.
60040. (Fiscal Impact: $25,959.79).
8) Recommendation to approve a Mediated Settlement Agreement for
the total amount of $133,988.50 for the taking of Parcels 236DAME1
and 236DAME2 required for the Lely Area Stormwater Improvement
Project No. 51101 (Crews Road, Cope Lane and Sandy Lane/Wing
South Interconnect) in the pending case styled Collier County v. Andy
R. Morgan, et al., Case No. 14-CA-2308. (Fiscal Impact: $42,158.50)
9) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign a
Settlement Agreement in the amount of $3,500 to settle the lawsuit
styled Scott Holtrey v. Collier County Board of County
Commissioners, Case No. 2:16-cv-00034 now pending in the United
States District Court, Middle District of Florida Fort Myers Division.
10) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign an
Agreement Authorizing the Collier County Sheriff’s Office to have
Traffic Control Jurisdiction over Private Roads within the Marbella
Isles subdivision.
11) Recommendation to appoint two member(s) to the Ochopee Fire
Control District Advisory Committee.
12) Recommendation to reappoint five members to the Affordable
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Housing Advisory Committee.
13) Recommendation to appoint three members to the Black Affairs
Advisory Board.
14) Recommendation to reappoint a member to the Immokalee
Beautification MSTU Advisory Committee.
15) Recommendation to appoint a member to the Immokalee Local
Redevelopment Advisory Board.
16) Recommendation to reappoint two member(s) to the Lely Golf Estates
Beautification Advisory Committee
17) Recommendation to direct the County Attorney to advertise, and bring
back for a public hearing, an Ordinance to extend the temporary
moratorium on the opening of certain new cannabis dispensing
facilities from October 10, 2017 to December 31, 2017
18) Recommendation to waive any potential conflict of interest and the
Chair execute the conflict of interest waiver form in the cases styled,
Jose Encalada. v. Preferred Materials, Inc. and Collier County, Case
No. 15-CA-2124 and Edamis Medina v. Preferred Materials, Inc. and
Collier County, Case No. 17-CA-310, in the Twentieth Judicial
Circuit in and for Collier County.
19) Recommendation to waive any potential conflict of interest and the
Chair executes the conflict of interest waiver letters related to the
County’s acquisition of the Golden Gate Utility System from the
Florida Governmental Utility Authority (FGUA).
20) Recommendation to approve a resolution authorizing the Collier
County Industrial Development Authority to issue bonds for a charter
school known as Gulf Coast Charter Academy South.
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17. SUMMARY AGENDA - This section is for advertised public hearings and
must meet the following criteria: 1) A recommendation for approval from
staff; 2) Unanimous recommendation for approval by the Collier County
Planning Commission or other authorizing agencies of all members present
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and voting; 3) No written or oral objections to the item received by staff, the
Collier County Planning Commission, other authorizing agencies or the
Board, prior to the commencement of the BCC meeting on which the items
are scheduled to be heard; and 4) No individuals are registered to speak in
opposition to the item. For those items which are quasi-judicial in nature, all
participants must be sworn in.
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A. Recommendation to approve a resolution designating the Close-Out of the
adopted Balmoral Planned Unit Development (PUD) which has fulfilled all
of their commitments within their development orders except for one
transportation commitment remaining which will be tracked through the
Commitment Tracking System. [PL20160000605]
B. Recommendation to adopt resolutions approving the preliminary assessment
rolls as the final assessment rolls, and adopting same as the non-ad valorem
assessment rolls for purposes of utilizing the uniform method of collection
pursuant to Section 197.3632, Florida Statutes, for Solid Waste Municipal
Service Benefit Units, Service District No. I and Service District No. II,
Special Assessment levied against certain residential properties within the
unincorporated area of Collier County, the City of Marco Island, and the
City of Everglades City, pursuant to Collier County Ordinance 2005-54, as
amended. Revenues are anticipated to be $25,052,700.
C. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance of the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida amending Ordinance No. 99-53,
the Walgreens PUD, to correct a scrivener’s error due to the inadvertent
omission of text in the PUD document and providing for an effective date.
The subject property is located on the Southwest corner of Airport-Pulling
Road and Vanderbilt Beach Road in Section 2, Township 49 South, Range
25 East, Collier County, Florida. [SE-PL20170001679]
D. This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are required
to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve an insubstantial change to
Ordinance No. 2014-11, as amended, the Lord’s Way 30 Acre RPUD, to add
one deviation relating to signage, to modify one existing deviation relating
to fences, walls and landscape buffers, to reduce the minimum front and side
yard setbacks and distance between structures for single-family, single-
family attached, and two-family and single-family zero lot line principal
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structures, and to modify Exhibit C-2, Typical Lot Layout. The subject
property is located on the south side of The Lord’s Way, approximately one -
quarter mile east of Collier Boulevard, in Section 14, Township 50 South,
Range 26 East, Collier County, Florida, consisting of ±30 acres. [PDI-
PL20170000444]
E. Recommendation to adopt a Resolution amending Schedules 1 and 2 of
Appendix A to Section Four of Collier County Ordinance No. 2001-73, as
amended, titled the Collier County Water-Sewer District Uniform Billing,
Operating, and Regulatory Standards Ordinance, to include proposed rates
for water, wastewater, and irrigation quality water services with effective
dates on October 1, 2017.
F. Recommendation to adopt a resolution approving amendments
(appropriating carry forward, transfers and supplemental revenue) to the
Fiscal Year 2016-17 Adopted Budget.
G. This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all participants are
required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve Petition VAC-
PL20170002386 to disclaim, renounce and vacate the County and the public
interest in the conservation easement described in O.R. Book 3996, Page
3495, et seq. of the Official Records of Collier County, Florida. The subject
property is located on the northeast corner of Palm Springs Boulevard and
Radio Lane, approximately one half mile west of Collier Boulevard, in
Section 34, Township 49 South, Range 26 East, Collier County, Florida.
(This is a companion to Agenda item 16.A.50).
H. Recommendation to adopt an amendment to Ordinance No. 2017-17
extending the temporary moratorium on the opening of certain new cannabis
dispensing facilities from October 10, 2017 to December 31, 2017.
I. Recommendation to adopt an ordinance amending Collier County Ordinance
No. 84-37, As Amended, Codified in Chapter 38, Civil Emergencies, Article
III, Declaration of State of Emergency, of the Code of Laws and Ordinances,
to maximize the County’s opportunities for reimbursement under Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance Program.
18. ADJOURN
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INQUIRIES CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE BOARD’S AGENDA SHOULD
BE MADE TO THE COUNTY MANAGER’S OFFICE AT 252-8383.
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MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, you have a live mike.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
Good morning. It's wonderful to see so many people here. We
hope that you have recovered as much as you can from -- a friend of
mine calls it -- Irmageddon. And we are here right now. Isn't that
wonderful? It brought a smile to my face.
We are very lucky. We have an incredible staff. We're going to
have a report a little bit later in the meeting from Dan Summers who's
going to -- who's still, by the way, in response. It's not recovery yet for
Dan. So he's going to come and deliver what he knows to date. We
hope that you can stay for this.
Item #1A
INVOCATION BY PASTOR MICHAEL BANNON
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NAPLES -
INVOCATION GIVEN
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And at this point I guess we will
stand and have an invocation by Pastor Michael Bannon of Crossroads
Community.
And, Commissioner Fiala, would you lead us in the Pledge of
Allegiance?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, I will. First the prayer, though?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: First the prayer.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Thank you.
PASTOR BANNON: Thank you. We have much to be thankful
for, so let's pray.
Lord God, we thank you that in your providence we were spared a
storm surge that was predicted to be bad. We're thankful for how -- in
the aftermath of a storm, how desirable "normal" is and how we desire
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to get back to it.
Father, I thank you for our county commissioners and all our
county workers who served us, sometimes at the expense of their own
places; for the sheriff's deputies and EMTs and firefighters and
hospital workers who also served us in this storm.
Father, I thank you for utility workers and tree clearers and all the
folks who were busy making our roads passible again and restoring our
electric and our cable and internet and all the things that we rely on.
Thank you, Lord God.
I thank you for those who came from out of state to serve us as
well; grateful to see those trucks from Alabama and Georgia and
elsewhere and thankful for the concern and care.
Father, I thank you as well for the great displays of neighborliness
and citizenry that have occurred in these few weeks after the storm,
and I pray that you would stir our hearts that such things might
continue.
Father, for the -- our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico and for the
folks in Haiti and others who were in the path of Hurricane Maria, our
hearts go out to them. We pray, Lord God, that the damage was not as
bad as anticipated. Father, we pray that, just as we were helped in our
recovery, that others would help as well. Perhaps we, even ourselves,
would help.
Father, for our county commissioners now, as they deliberate and
make decisions that would affect us for the future, I pray that you
would bless them with great wisdom and insight, great camaraderie as
they work together to help respond to our need and restore our county.
For our own selves, Lord God, that we might be faithful citizens
and that we would be their co-workers in the efforts going forward.
And so, Father, we dedicate this meeting to you. Glorify your
name we pray. Amen.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: And with that, unlike football
players, we're standing with our hats over our hearts, and please put
your hand over your heart and say with me...
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: County Manager?
Item #2A
APPROVAL OF TODAY'S REGULAR, CONSENT AND
SUMMARY AGENDA AS AMENDED (EX PARTE
DISCLOSURE PROVIDED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR
CONSENT AND SUMMARY AGENDA.) - APPROVED AND/OR
ADOPTED W/CHANGES; MOTION TO CONTINUE ITEM #16F1
TO THE NEXT MEETING; COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL
OPPOSED TO ITEM #17H; COMMISSIONER FIALA AND
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR OPPOSED TO ITEM #16A45;
COMMISSIONER SOLIS ABSTAINED FROM VOTING ON
ITEM #16A2, ITEM #16A17, ITEM #16A38 AND ITEM #16K20
DUE TO CONFLICT
MR. OCHS: Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good morning, Commissioners. These are the proposed agenda
changes for the Board of County Commissioners meeting of
September 26th, 2017.
The first proposed change is to move Item 16E11 from the
consent agenda to become Item 11I. This is a recommendation to
renew an Annual Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for
a Class 2 medical transport service. That move is made at
Commissioner Saunders' request.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Madam Chair?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, of course.
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COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Could I ask a quick question?
My understanding is that's going to have to be continued. I had a
conversation with the County Attorney about that?
Is that correct?
MR. KLATZKOW: We can continue it. My suggestion was that
the applicant file an addenda to the application. There had been a
change in ownership. The wife had passed away. The husband now
owns it. And we could bring it back in a couple of weeks.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I think as opposed to placing it
on the agenda, I think they need to provide additional information
because of the change in ownership. That has to go through a normal
process. So I would request that this just be continued.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'll second that motion.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. That's fine.
MR. OCHS: Good. Yeah. We'll just -- we'll make that a
continuance to the next meeting.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
The next proposed change is to withdraw Item 16E24 from your
consent agenda. That's at the staff's request.
The next proposed change is to add Item 16HI onto the Board of
County Commissioners consent agenda. This is a proclamation
designating October 10, 2017, as the Republic of China Taiwan Day.
That was an add-on at Commissioner Taylor's request.
The next proposed change is to add Item 16H2. This is also a
proclamation that will go on the Board's consent agenda recognizing
Florence Jelks, the former Pinecrest Elementary School Principal in
Immokalee, and this item was added at Commissioner McDaniel's
request.
The next proposed change is to move Item 16K12 from your
county attorney consent agenda to become Item 12A under the regular
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county attorney agenda. This is a move made at Commissioner Solis'
request having to do with reappointment of five members to the
Affordable Housing Advisory Committee.
The next proposed change is to withdraw Item 16K17. That was
a duplication. You have a similar action under your summary agenda
today, Commissioners, and that's at the County Attorney's request.
The next proposed change is to move Item 17D from your
summary agenda to become Item 9D under your advertised public
hearings. This is an amendment to the Lords Way RPUD. This was
made at Commissioner Fiala's request.
We have two time-certain items this morning, Commissioners.
The first is Item 10A. That will be heard at 11 a.m.; and 11D will be
heard at 11:15 a.m.
And those are all the changes that I have, Madam Chair.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
So now we'll -- any more changes or amendments to the minutes?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Two.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'd like to suggest that Item
16F, the absentia approval for the board meetings that didn't transpire
while we were on break, I'd like to continue that item until our next
meeting just to be -- and I'd like to also ask that it get loaded up onto
Minute Tracks with all of the backup data and everything so that we
can have a proper amount of time to be able to go through and review
-- review that item. 16F.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The item or the minutes or the whole
meeting that we didn't --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The meetings -- there were
three -- that we are being asked to approve in absentia. And I'm asking
to continue that until our next meeting just -- and have those -- have
those meetings and the agendas loaded up with all of the backup data
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onto the Minute Tracks so that we have an appropriate period of time
to review and approve.
I did check with staff and the Clerk's Office, and there is no -- you
know, when the Deputy County Manager and I spoke, we were
concerned about maybe holding up payments, and that's not, in fact,
going to transpire. That's one request that I would like to see.
And do we need to have a motion and a second on all that -- on
that?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: It's 16F what?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: 16F -- 16FA, I believe.
Number one.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: One.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I don't -- I can look at it. I had
16F in my notes, so if you want a moment, I can --
MR. OCHS: 16F1, Madam Chair.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And it was --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- the three board meetings that
transpired while we were on break.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It's the -- yeah, the -- it's the -- what the
County Manager authorized/ratified during our summer recess.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All right. Well, do I hear -- as
long as we're not holding up payment and this doesn't challenge you at
this very stressful time.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: By no means -- just as a point
of clarification, this is no reflection on the County Manager or the
operations while we were on break. This is just a request for an
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appropriate period of time to review that voluminous amount of
information.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All right. Do I hear a motion,
or I'm sure that's your motion. Do I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That is my motion.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll second that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Carries unanimously.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Forgive me, ma'am.
And the second is Item 17H. We don't need to pull it. We don't
need to have a discussion. I pretty much know how you all already
feel. I just would like it to be noted that I am in dissent on that item
with regard to the continuance of the moratorium.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So noted.
And any ex parte to declare except for the one that's been pulled
to move to our regular agenda?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The only ex parte I have on the
consent and summary is Item 17G.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I do have email
correspondence with regard to that item. Other than that, no.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Thank you very much.
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Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. You know, there were two
that I wanted to not vote on. I was talking to you about them, Leo. Do
you remember what the numbers are real quickly?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You have to keep notes.
MR. OCHS: Ma'am, let's see. 16A45, I believe.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That was one of them, yes.
MR. OCHS: You did not want to vote in favor on that item, but
you didn't want to pull it from the consent.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Right, right. I just wanted to go on
record as not voting for it.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And there was another one?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. But I can't remember what it is
either.
MR. MILLER: Madam Chair, if you pardon me. Now might be a
good time to bring up I have two registered speakers on
consent-agenda items, and one of them is for 16A45. Isn't that the one
you're discussing?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes.
MR. MILLER: I have a speaker for 16A45 and a speaker for
16E11.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Maybe we ought to pull those
items.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, I think we probably need to hear
from the speakers before we --
MR. OCHS: E11 was just continued by this board, so I don't
think you need to take that one.
MR. MILLER: Okay. So 16A45, David Schaefer.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Mr. Schaefer?
MR. SCHAEFER: I asked to speak in the event there were any --
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You need to come to the microphone,
sir.
MR. SCHAEFER: Sorry. It's my first time.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's quite all right.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You won't be able to say that
twice.
MR. SCHAEFER: Thank you. I asked to speak in the event that
there were any questions regarding this particular matter since this was
held over from a prior meeting, so...
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Could you identify yourself, please, sir.
MR. SCHAEFER: Yes. My name is David Schaefer, and I
represent the Florida PACE Funding Agency. We are Counterpoint
Energy Solutions. We're the program administrator for the agency.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. I don't think we're
discussing this now. It's on the consent agenda, so it hasn't been pulled
for regular discussion. So thank you very much.
MR. SCHAEFER: Okay. Thank you. Thank you for your
consideration.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You're welcome. Okay. So you would
like to pull 16A45?
MR. OCHS: No.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Or you want to note that you --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No. I was just --
MR. OCHS: She's voting against it.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- going to note that I'm not going to
vote for it.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. Okay. And that's it?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, no. I have another one. Let's
see. I have 16D22. Just pull it onto the regular agenda. And, you
know, and I had some questions on another one, but I'm not going to
take the time at this meeting to ask them. Afterwards -- I forgot to ask
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Leo yesterday, so I'll ask you afterwards, Leo, and that was 16D29.
But I'll just ask you. It's simple questions.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Twenty-nine or 22?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Twenty-nine. I'm also -- I'm pulling
16D22.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Move to the regular agenda.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes.
MR. OCHS: 16D22 --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: D22.
MR. OCHS: -- will become Item 11J.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right.
Commissioner Solis?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Um --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, do you want ex parte?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, yes.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'm so sorry.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No. That's okay.
All I have to do is find it, and I know I have it here. All I need to
do is find it. There we go.
Okay. On item number -- now, these are just the consent-agenda
items.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And summary.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And summary, yes, thank you.
On 17G I just had an email, that's all. On 16A50, also an email.
On 16A3 I met with the representative on that from Wawa and had
discussions with staff. And that's it for the consent and summary.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Very good. Thank you very
much, Commissioner Fiala.
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Commissioner Solis?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. First off, I have -- there's a --
I have a couple of conflicts on the consent agenda. It's 16A2, 16A17,
and 16A38 are related to Lennar Properties. And I have a conflict with
voting on those, so I won't be voting on those matters; and 16K20,
which relates to the industrial development authority bonds, I also have
a conflict. Not really a conflict, but I think I would rather abstain
because one of my partners represents the owner of the property; not
the charter school, but the owner of the property. So I'll be abstaining
on those four matters.
As far as ex parte on the consent agenda and the summary
agenda, I don't have anything to disclose.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you.
Commissioner Saunders?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I have no ex parte on the
summary agenda and no changes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Thank you very much.
I have one modification on the minutes of the RFMUD workshop
we had on June the 20th. Specifically, I'd like to add, under
recommendations, this phrase: The speaker also noted that the great
recession starting in 2008 was also a deterrent to the development of
villages in the rural fringe mixed-use district.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Say that again.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The speaker also noted that the great
recession starting in 2008 was also a deterrent to the development of
villages in the rural fringe mixed-use district. The discussion was what
-- the question came in our conversation, why weren't these -- why has
nothing happened in the rural fringe? Why haven't villages started
there? And the speaker said it has all to do with the county because the
county's code is not facilitating the development of these villages, and
then the speaker also added "and the great recession." So I'd like that
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noted within the minutes, if there's no objection.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That was a recorded meeting,
wasn't it? Is that part of the --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It's not verbatim. Because it's a
workshop.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It's a workshop. It's not a meeting.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Sure, sure, sure.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Which number is that again?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That will be under 2D.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: 2D?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'm sorry, not 2D. 2B; B as in boy.
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. OCHS: If I might, before you move on too far, you may
want to get a motion and a second to approve today's regular, consent,
and summary agenda. I don't know that you did that.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: She hasn't stated her changes
yet.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, I was going to do that -- I haven't
-- I'm not there yet. I know.
MR. OCHS: Sorry.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So if there's no objection?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I have no objection.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: None; no.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay, good. And as far as ex parte, I
have on 9A correspondence and email, and for the item that's been
pulled for the regular agenda, I'll declare ex parte at that time. So --
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. OCHS: I believe you also wanted to vote no on that
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consent-agenda item having to do with the PACE issue.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. Yes. And I
also, on 6A45, will vote no on that. Let that be noted.
MR. OCHS: 16A45, yes.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: 16?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: 16A45, okay. We're a little -- got a
little cobwebs up here, but we're moving along here, so...
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, it's been a long summer and a
difficult one.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Just for clarification, though, we're
only doing ex partes on the consent agenda.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And summary.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. OCHS: Consent and summary, yes.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think you just -- you said nine
something.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, yes, I did.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I wanted to make sure.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Excuse me. There we go. So I have no
ex parte whatsoever on the consent or summary agenda.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Are you sure about that?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No. Where's Starbucks when you need
it, right? Thank you very much.
Okay. So do I hear a motion to accept the agenda and the minutes
as so noted and noting Commissioner Solis' exceptions and
Commissioner Fiala and my exceptions.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So moved.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And mine.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And Commissioner McDaniel's.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Since you're going to make
them. I'll make the motion, by the way.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You made the motion?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll make the motion to accept
the agenda as amended.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think you can second it because I
think Commissioner Fiala made it.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, I didn't hear you. Forgive
me.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's all right.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
You can put this in the minutes: Phew. We got through it.
Okay. All right. Very good. Just on a lighter note, we do have a
new artist here, and her name -- well, her name is Adorable. Her name
is Adorable Monique, and she is an award-winning artist and proud
Collier County resident, and her art is infused with bright, vivid colors
and bold designs. So thank you very much, Ms. Monique.
Very good.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: They are so beautiful.
Proposed Agenda Changes
Board of County Commissioners Meeting
September 26,2017
Move Item 16E11 to Item 111: Recommendation to renew the annual Certificate of Public Convenience
and Necessity(COPCN)for Just Like Family Concierge Medical Transport Services,LLC.,DBA Concierge
Medical Transport(CMT)to provide Class 2 Advanced Life Support(ALS)inter-facility transport
ambulance service for a period of one year. (Commissioner Saunders' request)
Withdraw Item 16E24: Recommendation to approve the administrative reports prepared by the
Procurement Services Division for change orders and other items as identified. (Staffs request)
Add-On Item 16H1: Proclamation designating October 10,2017 as the Republic of China(Taiwan)Day,
in honor of the relations and connections that the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office has made with
Southwest Florida and Collier County,and welcoming those Taiwanese businesses and entrepreneurs seeking
to develop business opportunities in our area. This proclamation will be delivered to Philip Wang,Director
General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Miami,Florida. (Commissioner Taylor's request)
Add-On Item 16H2: Proclamation recognizing Florence Jelks,Former Pinecrest Elementary School
Principal,for her dedication working tirelessly to achieve the goals of the Immokalee Community.
(Commissioner McDaniel's request)
Move Item 16K12 to Item 12A: Recommendation to reappoint five members to the Affordable Housing
Advisory Committee. (Commissioner Solis' request)
Withdraw Item 16K17: Recommendation to direct the County Attorney to advertise,and bring back
for a public hearing,an Ordinance to extend the temporary moratorium on the opening of certain new
cannabis dispensing facilities from October 10,2017 to December 31,2017. (County Attorney's request)
Move Item 17D to Item 9D: This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by Commission
members.Should a hearing be held on this item,all participants are required to be sworn in.
Recommendation to approve an insubstantial change to Ordinance No.2014-11,as amended,the Lord's Way
30 Acre RPUD,to add one deviation relating to signage,to modify one existing deviation relating to fences,
walls and landscape buffers,to reduce the minimum front and side yard setbacks and distance between
structures for single-family,single-family attached,and two-family and single-family zero lot line principal
structures,and to modify Exhibit C-2,Typical Lot Layout. The subject property is located on the south side
of The Lord's Way,approximately one-quarter mile east of Collier Boulevard,in Section 14,Township 50
South,Range 26 East,Collier County,Florida,consisting of±30 acres. [PDI-PL20170000444]
(Commissioner Fiala's request)
Time Certain Items:
Item 10A to be heard at 11:00 a.m.
Item 11B to be heard at 11:15 a.m.
9/26/2017 8:31 AM
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Item #2B, #2C and #2D
JUNE 20, 2017 - BCC/MASTER PLAN UPDATE/RURAL FRINGE
MIXED USE DISTRICT WORKSHOP - APPROVED AS
AMENDED; JUNE 27, 2017 - BCC/REGULAR MEETING
MINUTES - APPROVED AS PRESENTED AND JULY 11, 2017 -
BCC/REGULAR MEETING MINUTES - APPROVED AS
PRESENTED
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, if you don't mind, if we could get
motions on 2B, 2C, and 2D, just for the record.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Sure. Okay. So let's -- so you want
them separately?
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So 2B? You're saying 2 --
MR. OCHS: Yeah. You made some changes --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. OCHS: -- but I don't know that we had a motion and a
second on that item.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. I think there was a consensus
but not -- so can I hear -- have a motion on 2B with the modification
that I brought forward and explained to the Board?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll move to approve.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
2C, which is BCC regular meeting minutes, do I hear a motion?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
2D, July 11, BCC regular meeting minutes, do I hear a motion?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Motion by Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Second by Commissioner Saunders.
All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. It carries
unanimously.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, Madam Chair.
That moves us to Item 3 on your agenda, awards and
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recognitions.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The best part of this meeting.
Item #3D1
RECOGNIZING SILVIA PUENTE, LIBRARY PROGRAM
SPECIALIST, PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT AS THE JULY
2017 EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH – RECOGNIZED
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am, a great way to kick off the meeting.
And this is Item 3D1. It's a recommendation to recognize Silvia
Puente, our Library Program Specialist in the Public Services
Department, as the July 2017 Employee of the Month.
Silvia, if you'd please step forward.
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: I'll read a little about Silvia after her picture here.
Okay. Stay right there, Silvia, while I embarrass you for a
moment, here.
Commissioners, Silvia's been a member of our staff for the past
16 years serving in our Immokalee library branch. She's a program
specialist, but she also manages the Immokalee library branch
sometimes with just one other employee. She always maintains a
positive attitude and is very appreciative of all the help provided by
other libraries and always tries to reciprocate when she can.
She's a member of the Immokalee Interagency Council and is also
a founding board member and current director of the Collier Resource
Center, which is an information and referral resource in our Immokalee
community.
Silvia is known as a go-to person in the community, always a
can-do attitude. She exhibits a great sense of pride in the staff and in
her library system and certainly in the community, and these are just a
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few of the many reasons that she's so deserving of this Employee of the
Month award, Commissioners. It's my pleasure to recognize Silvia
Puente, Library Program Specialist, as your July 2017 Employee of the
Month.
Congratulations, Silvia.
Okay. You're duly embarrassed now. You can sit down.
MS. PUENTE: Actually, I wanted to take a couple minutes.
MR. OCHS: Please.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I was just going to say, can we
have a speech.
MR. OCHS: Silvia?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Go to the microphone.
MR. OCHS: You need to step up to the podium, please. We'll
put you on the record.
MS. PUENTE: I just want to take the opportunity to thank all of
you, my library staff particularly. Working with the county for 16
years has been an amazing ride, and we are a great team. We also
partner with a lot of other county departments out at the Immokalee
library.
And, Commissioner McDaniel, you see right now, the Immokalee
library is a huge hub for the hurricane recovery of Irma right now.
So, again, I just -- I'm grateful to be a county employee. It's a
great honor to be selected that but I just thank my library team
members, my director, and also all other county departments that we
collaborate together. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you.
(Applause.)
Item #4
PROCLAMATIONS - ONE MOTION TAKEN TO ADOPT ALL
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PROCLAMATIONS – ADOPTED
Item #4A
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 AS
HUNGER ACTION DAY IN COLLIER COUNTY. ACCEPTED
BY KAROLE DAVIS, MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER FOR THE
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK IN COLLIER COUNTY –
ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: That takes us to Item 4 on the agenda,
proclamations. Item 4A is a proclamation designating September 14,
2017, as Hunger Action Day in Collier County. To be accepted by
Karole Davis, Major Gifts Officer for the Harry Chapin Food Bank in
Collier County. Karole?
(Applause.)
MS. DAVIS: Good morning. My name is Karole Davis. I'm the
major gifts person here in Collier County for the Harry Chapin Food
Bank of Southwest Florida.
We've been hard at work since before the hurricane, actually.
And while there's a sense of normalcy just starting to return, we know
we've got a long way to go to recover, rebuild, and restore here in
Southwest Florida, and in particular here in Collier County.
Many people don't know that right here in Collier County the
food bank provides over 4 million pounds of food every year through
our partner agencies and through our own emergency food pantries.
So far since the hurricane we have had 42 emergency food pantries.
We usually do 20 to 25 a month, but in the past couple weeks we're at
42. We've had 50 semitrailers full of food coming through our Fort
Myers warehouse down here into Collier and the other four counties
we serve. We're grateful for the partnership. We're grateful for this
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wonderful community that we live in. And we're in it for the long
haul. We'll be here to partner with everybody in need for the time
being and in the future, too.
I look forward to inviting all of you to our new Naples facility
opening soon. Thank you very much.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Leo, could I just ask, where is the
facility that you're welcoming us to soon?
MS. DAVIS: Right off of Prospect Avenue, which is where
Michelbob's Ribs is off Airport Road.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
Item #4B
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 2017 AS
NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH IN COLLIER COUNTY.
ACCEPTED BY MULTIPLE ADVOCATES FOR MENTAL
HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY – ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Item 4B is a proclamation designating September
2017 as National Recovery Month in Collier County. To be accepted
by Sergeant Leslie Weidenhammer of the Collier County Sheriff's
Office on behalf of the Criminal Justice Mental Health Substance
Abuse Planning Council. Also attending are Scott Burgess and his
team from the David Lawrence Center; Beverly Belleau and her team
from the First Program; Pamela Baker from NOMI of Collier County;
and Judge Janeice Martin from the Collier County treatment courts. If
you'd all please step forward.
(Applause.)
JUDGE MARTIN: I have about 15 others. Do you want them all
up?
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. OCHS: Squeeze in there, ladies. Third row.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We're going to give Ms. Fiala a
stump to stand on.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Anybody have a ladder for me?
(Applause.)
SERGEANT WEIDENHAMMER: I'd like to thank the
commissioners for accepting the proclamation to recognize this month,
and it's sort of ironic that it's National Recovery Month.
I'm just going to be brief. Usually I come up here with numbers
and everything, but I'm not going to do that today.
We are in recovery. As you saw many of the faces up here from
our treatment courts, this is just a small fraction of our community who
is going through a recovery; not just from Irma, but they're facing
recovery every day. We all have had our hands in recovery,
rebuilding, restoring the last couple weeks, and we all know how
difficult that has been. But we have lots of people in our community,
our families, our neighbors, our brothers, our sisters, who are in
recovery every day, and they're fighting, battling that storm.
And we've done a very good job as a community reaching out
giving our hand. Please don't forget these folks that are going through
that, because on the other side of that, as I said, are our children of our
community, who we don't see, and people rebuilding lives every day.
And give all of these folks here in recovery a hand for coming
forward and being present for this.
(Applause.)
SERGEANT WEIDENHAMMER: So I thank you. I thank
everybody on the treatment court teams and in our community and the
partnerships that we have.
And I didn't identify myself, but I'm Sergeant Leslie
Weidenhammer, and I'm sorry about that. I'm with the Sheriff's Office.
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Scott?
MR. BURGESS: I'll be very brief. Scott Burgess with David
Lawrence Center.
Leslie really said it all. But one thing that I would like to remind
everybody is before there was this state of emergency here in Florida
related to the hurricane, there's been a state of emergency here in
Florida related to the opioid epidemic, and nationally and, we know,
mental health as well.
So while we know the challenges are great, we know that the
opportunities are even greater, and we know that recovery is possible
and we know that it's the expectation rather than the exception when
people have their proper care.
So we thank you. I want to underscore what Leslie said about the
partnership. We could not be effective in helping provide recovery
and hope and restoring and rebuilding lives if it weren't for all of us
working together, from the county commissioners, to the Sheriff's
Office, to the judiciary, to treatment providers, to our recovery
environment and our peer support specialists, NOMI, everybody's
working together, and that's what it requires in order for us to really
achieve full recovery for our community.
So I thank you for being active partners with us in this recovery
process. Thank you so much for the proclamation.
(Applause.)
Item #4C
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 AS
NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY IN COLLIER
COUNTY. ACCEPTED BY JENNIFER J. EDWARDS, COLLIER
COUNTY SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS, ALONG WITH
MELISSA BLAZIER, ALEX BREAULT, HEATHER DOANE
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AND TRISH ROBERTSON – ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Item 4C is a proclamation designating September
26th, 2017, as National Voter Registration Day in Collier County. To
be accepted by our wonderful Supervisor of Elections, Jennifer
Edwards, along with her staff; Melissa Blazer, Alex Breault, Heather
Doane, and Trish Robertson.
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: Picture.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: What are you giggling about?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, we're supposed to be smiling.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I did the slide shuffle to get
into the picture.
MS. EDWARDS: Good morning. Thank you very much for this
proclamation.
I'm very proud of our staff. Leo, thank you for introducing them.
They are always working hard to put our name out in the community
to remind people to register to vote and to vote. And, to that end, I
want to remind you that in the last election cycle in the general
election, Collier County led the state. We had an 87 percent turnout.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Nice.
MS. EDWARDS: Yes. I always say we get them registered, but
it's up to the parties and the candidates to get them out to vote. So we
appreciate everyone that gets out to vote.
I also would want to add that we are out and about in the
community. We want to maintain the momentum that we have coming
off the last election cycle. And we are going to be -- as a matter of
fact, we're outside. We're right outside this building this morning
registering folks to vote. So if you have a change to your address or
your name or any change to your record, please stop outside and make
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that change.
We also will be at the Crunch Fitness Center, and that's from 5:00
till 7:30 this evening. We'll be at the driver's license office on Airport
Road. We'll be at the Golden Gate library, and we'll be at the Greentree
Tax Collector's Office. So we're at these different places across the
county today to assist and make voter registration more convenient.
So thank you all for the proclamation, and thank you for your
ongoing support of the elections office.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You betcha.
(Applause.)
Item #4D
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2017 AS
CONSTITUTION WEEK IN COLLIER COUNTY. ACCEPTED BY
JULIANA MEEK, CHAPTER REGENT, AND MEMBERS OF
THE NAPLES-ON-THE-GULF CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL
SOCIETY OF DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION – ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Item 4D is a proclamation designating September
17 through the 23rd as Constitution Week in Collier County. To be
accepted by Juliana Meek, Chapter Regent of the Naples on the Gulf
chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American
Revolution.
(Applause.)
MS. MEEK: Hello. I'm Juliana Meek and I'm with the National
Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
We're a nonpolitical civic organization. Our politics began and
ended with the revolutionary war, as we like to say. We're 180,000
strong worldwide with just over 10,000 members here in Florida, and
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our efforts are in patriotism, historic preservation, education and, of
course, with Irma our efforts currently are to raise funds for schools
and veterans who are severely impacted by Irma.
So thank you so much for this proclamation. Again, this goes
along with our patriotism efforts. Thank you so much for your time.
Thank you.
(Applause.)
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, if I could get a motion to approve
today's proclamations.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve today's
proclamations.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: There are two more?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No. That's it.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
MR. OCHS: Thank you very much.
Item #5A
PRESENTATION OF THE COLLIER COUNTY BUSINESS OF
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THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER 2017 TO BEAR'S PLUMBING
OF SOUTH FLORIDA, INC. ACCEPTED BY DAN ANDERMAN
AND CHRIS STEPHENS. ALSO PRESENT IS BETHANY
SAWYER REPRESENTING THE GREATER NAPLES
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE – PRESENTED
MR. OCHS: That takes us to Item 5 on today's agenda. It's
presentations.
Item 5A is a presentation of the Collier County Business of the
Month for September 2017 to Bear's Plumbing of South Florida,
Incorporated, to be accepted by Dan Anderman and also members of
the Chamber. If you'd please step forward.
(Applause.)
MR. ANDERMAN: I'd just like to say a few words. Number
one, thank you, Commissioners, for -- and the Naples Chamber for the
recognition.
We've been in business here in Collier County since 1982. We
presently have 94 employees. And I have been here since 1973.
Donna and I have had some children grow up together. And so it has
been a wonderful place to live and a wonderful place to be an
employer. And, again, thank you for the recognition.
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, in consideration of the time for our
public petitioner, maybe it would be appropriate to take that before the
update from Mr. Summers.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, I would agree. Thank you very
much.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
Item #6A
PUBLIC PETITION FROM KATHERINE CARROLL
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REQUESTING THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS REIMBURSE PERMITTING FEES PAID BY
FIRE VICTIMS MR. KURTH ($2,376.85) AND MR. LEBUFF
($2,395.42) - MOTION TO BRING BACK AS A FUTURE
AGENDA ITEM – APPROVED
MR. OCHS: We'll move to Item 6A. This is a public petition
request from Katherine Carroll requesting that the Board of County
Commissioners reimburse permitting fees paid by fire victims Mr.
Kurth and Mr. LeBuff.
MS. CARROLL: Hi.
MR. OCHS: Good morning.
MS. CARROLL: Good morning. I'm Katherine Carroll, and I've
been helping the LeBuffs and the Kurths for -- pretty much since it
happened. And we've made a lot of great efforts and moved forward.
We've already got their permits with all the help from the people at the
Building Department. And we've reached out to a lot of trades in the
community, and they've donated not only time but materials, concrete
for the slabs, doors, windows, roofing products, and the company I
work with, some of the designers have couches and chairs and cabinets
and such that we'll be putting into the home at that time. Everything
that we're doing is through fundraising and donations.
And I know that the money that we paid -- that they paid for the
permits isn't a lot, but it's a lot to us to help rebuild these homes. And
they lost literally everything: Pots and pan. I mean, we really have to
rebuild from the ground up. And this is just another one of my efforts
to try to help both of the families in any way that I can.
So I ask if you would please be so kind as to maybe donate back
to the fund and help them rebuild their homes from the tragic fire that
they went through in March.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And you're only asking for the
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permitting fees; you're not asking us to build a house or anything like
that, right?
MS. CARROLL: Well, you can build the house if you'd like, but
no, no --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I just wanted to make it really --
MS. CARROLL: -- just the permitting fees that are listed in the
agenda --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- clear to people.
MS. CARROLL: Yes. I didn't know if you wanted me to say the
figures out loud or --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, they're --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Sure.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, you can if you wish,
sure.
MS. CARROLL: Okay. Well, the Kurths paid $2,376.85 for
their permit, and the LeBuffs paid $2,395.42 for their permit. And
we're just asking very kindly if we could have it reimbursed so we
could put it towards windows or towels or bed linens or clothes or, you
know, a roof, doors, and tile. There's lots of things. We need to get
everything donated, and there are things that we're going to have to pay
for. And we've done a lot fundraisers and things like that, Go Fund
Me. And we do have some money but not enough.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I think, procedurally, don't we
need to, in order to formally vote on this, advertise it, bring forward an
executive summary and -- to effectuate this?
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. It's a two-step process. The Board can
either take no action or direct a future staff item to come back
addressing a particular petition. I would just like to remind the Board
--
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I would like that.
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MR. OCHS: -- this is an Enterprise Fund. It's not a waiver
situation. The General Fund, if you decide to not pursue these fees,
will backfill the building permit Enterprise Fund.
And while I certainly empathize with these individuals, you have
many more right now that are going to be in the same situation. So
please be cognizant of whatever precedent you may set on this. And,
again, you're not taking any action today, as Commissioner McDaniel
correctly points out. You're either deciding to take no action or direct
the staff to come back with an item.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'd like to hear --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I was going to mention the
same thing that the County Manager said in terms of there are a lot of
folks that have been impacted by Hurricane Irma as well, and so when
this comes back -- and I support bringing it back for consideration --
I'd like for staff to kind of -- perhaps you can kind of give us an idea of
what this may mean in terms of if we can take the same approach with,
you know, folks that lost their homes or need repairs to their homes. I
mean, this goes beyond just if there's a total destruction.
So we need to make some policy decisions as to how far we want
to go with that. So I just would ask staff to kind of help us out with
that in terms of information when this comes back.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, if I may, as of September 25th --
and this will change -- from Hurricane Irma, with 60 percent of the
value being affected, there are 363 homes in District 1; 645 mobile
homes in District 4. That's my district -- 25 --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Bayshore, right?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. So we're looking at residential,
at least right now, total known estimated damages are $212 million
from Irma.
So I think we need -- we will have more of this -- we need to have
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that time to really consider this. So thank you very much.
So do I hear a motion to --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'd like to hear from staff, if I
may. And Jamie was standing there. And then I'll make the motion to
bring it back for an actual approval.
MR. FRENCH: Good morning, Commissioners. Jamie French,
for the record. I'm the Deputy Department Head for the Growth
Management Department.
Commissioners, I think the County Manager summed it up well.
This is an enterprise fund. It receives no General Fund benefit. So if
we're not in the permitting business, we're not in business.
I would only point back to 2009/2010 when we did go through a
recessionary period, Growth Management was probably the hardest hit
with staff layoffs and cutbacks. We reduced our staff by about 142
people and still took no General Fund contribution other than what Mr.
Isackson was able to help us with planning and zoning. But for the
most part, as I said before, the Building Department stands on its own
and supports itself.
The only thing I would remind you is that fees, as far as county
making a request to FEMA, fees are not reimbursable to local
governments; whereas, they are part of the recovery for those that are
insured for those that would receive federal assistance. It goes into
that cost. It may not cover all of it, but it is a recoverable expense
more so on the user end than it is on the government side.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you. With that, I'd like
to make a motion to -- and if you wish, I'll do the executive summary
to bring it back for formal consideration.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. And did Commissioner
Saunders want to second that?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, I'll second that.
MR. OCHS: Do you want us to broaden that when we come back
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to address the other issues that you mentioned, Commissioner?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. I think if we're going to
make a policy -- if we're going to make a decision on this issue, that's a
policy issue that I think we'd have to be somewhat consistent for other
circumstances.
MR. OCHS: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So, yeah, I think we just need
to have some --
MR. OCHS: Yes. Mr. Cohen's already done some survey work
with other counties, and we'll be well prepared when we come back to
share that with you.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So when this comes back, we'll have
a better idea of the extent of what we could be looking at as far as
requests like this in the future, right?
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So we have a motion on the
floor.
MR. OCHS: We'll bring that back as a staff item at your next
meeting.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good. Thank you.
All right. So there's a motion on the floor and a second. All those
in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
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MS. CARROLL: Thank you.
Item #5B
HURRICANE IRMA STATUS REPORT WITH DAN SUMMERS,
BUREAU OF EMERGENCY SERVICES DIVISION DIRECTOR -
STATUS UPDATE; MOTION TO HAVE A WORKSHOP ON
NOVEMBER 7, 2017 – APPROVED; A STATUS UPDATE WILL
BE PROVIDED AT EVERY MEETING
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, that takes us to Item 5B. This is a
status report on Hurricane Irma provided by Dan Summers, your
Director of the Bureau of Emergency Services. And I would just
remind the Board before Dan starts that this is a status report, not an
after-action review. And while that's certainly something that we'll
want to spend a lot of time on, I don't believe we're at that point today
where we want to get into a lot of after-action review. We're still
reporting on response and recovery at this point.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And, County Manager, I was hoping
that, and I've reached out at least to the City of Naples, and I know I'm
hearing things from other areas that they work on their after action and
that we have a workshop when -- you know, maybe in a month or so
where we can actually talk about the county as a whole and what we
need to improve and how we can do better in the future.
MR. OCHS: Yes. Mr. Summers has a template, if you will, or a
protocol on how we might do that comprehensively, so we can share
that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, that's good.
Can I just do something. Will you go stand next to him.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Dan, get up there.
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MR. SUMMERS: That's very kind. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well deserved.
MR. SUMMERS: Thank you.
We have a very long way to go. And let me just tell you, between
the municipalities, the responders, the volunteer agencies, you know,
this is a difficult line of work during the crisis but one -- and I've said
many times, one of the joys that you have in this is seeing the
camaraderie. The team work, the creativity, the innovation, the
coordination, the cooperation is phenomenal. And I'm certainly very,
very proud of the Collier County family, and I say that because,
remember, it's the families that were missing their county employees
while we were attempting to, as I say, do the impossible sometimes
with nothing during the storm event as the scenario presented.
So it's my honor; thank you. But this goes to the county
employees and municipal employees, law enforcement, volunteers that
did all the heavy lifting the last -- and I just counted 16 days. I'm not
really sure. Is that the Groundhog Day thing? You know, the deja vu
all over again.
So if you see me without a coffee cup, please be very worried,
because I'll need some real quick. Thank you very, very much for all
those kind comments.
Sixteen days' worth of activity is going to be very hard for me to
boil down, but I want to hit some highlights with you real quick.
Obviously, you have some other department and division heads that
are going to report to you today on their particular focus. And the
thing that I just want to comment to you is that remember Emergency
Management is not one department. It is a community effort, and it's
all of these organizations engaging in emergency management, and
that's preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery.
So while we attempt to be the band leader in these areas, we
certainly require and recall the work and the emergency management
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activities that all of these departments have to engage in.
Real quickly, just a quick synopsis. The highest landfall speed
that we recorded was 131 mile-an-hour wind gust at the Naples
Airport, 122 mile-an-hour wind gust at the EOC.
These rainfall estimates are somewhat mis -- are hard to interpret,
because this is rain blowing sideways, okay. So these numbers come
from the National Weather Service and are certainly subject to some
change.
9.61 inches of rain. We -- at one point we had a combination of
26 shelters in refuge, and refuge is basically a location out of the storm
without services. The largest sheltering operation we've ever had.
This is 6,000 (sic) more people in shelters than we had during
Hurricane Wilma.
The picture on the right there is Germain Arena, to give you some
indication of what Lee County was going through.
Our largest special-needs shelter operation, which all of these
individuals were electrically dependent, required skilled medical care,
and this -- we knew this was going to be a high number. We didn't
know it was going to be this high; 397 people, basically, we opened up
a field hospital for at Palmetto Ridge. And that's certainly indicative of
our demographics and those that are at home with additional concerns.
We've lost count of the calls to the hurricane hot line; thousands.
Social media hits, we're still computing that. That was in the millions.
And as of late yesterday, 127 news releases went out.
We were fortunate that the storm moved inland just a little bit
more because our storm surge values predicted by the National
Hurricane Center, in some cases, were 12 feet. We were fortunate that
the storm came a little more inland and kept those numbers lower.
These are -- I've got the word "estimated actual per the National
Weather Service" which means it's their actual estimate, okay. So high
water marks still have to go back and be formally engineered.
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Chokoloskee at 9.5 feet; the visitors center, six feet of water;
Goodland, five to six feet on the water side; Goodland, overall, three to
four feet; Marco, two to four feet; Gordon Road one to two feet in the
city; five feet above mean high water at Tin City.
One of the ongoing issues, obviously, is who -- and it doesn't
matter who did what and whether it was the county delivered it, the
non-profit, the National Guard, the agencies in the commodity
distribution, and as an -- always a challenge in disastrous
communication. And we've become so accustomed to our cell phones
and our Internet, and so in some cases folks felt like they had a hard
time getting the word, and they did. And we're continuing to find other
alert notification strategies. We're working with the state now on the
new phone system. But, again, we've become so dependent on
wireless and Internet-based communications, and when those become
interrupted, it is a little bit of a challenge.
Our commodity sites, as part of our plan, we delivered
commodities, meaning food, water, and tarps -- tarps came in a little
bit late from FEMA, but they came. We got those out -- Immokalee
Farmers Market, Ave Maria, Greater Naples, Golden Gate, Barron,
Goodland, Everglades City, Marco, and North Collier fire stations.
Satellite locations, we did commodity drops at 6Ls, Manatee,
Chokoloskee, and 11 additional drop sites in Immokalee.
So I think while there was some concern that maybe commodities
were not being delivered there, I think they were and, as everything
else, it just takes time to get the word out.
We were also delivering commodities when retail stores were
open. The state guidance is very clear; when retail opens, that
commodity -- that emergency relief commodity mission is supposed to
be wound down. And we knew that that may be -- we needed to
continue to do that, and we did that for a few more days as the word
got out and also to allow people to catch their breath, get their financial
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resources, but we are really supposed to be shutting those operations
down as retail comes up.
Yesterday we had the opportunity -- we have a straight team from
Indiana; I'm sorry, an incident management team helping us in
Immokalee, kind of an extended EOC. They've been working with the
nonprofits out there, and we have 53 non-profit relief agencies on the
ground in Immokalee as of five p.m. yesterday. So there's an
enormous effort going on, and that's kind of normal as part of that
response and recovery.
Our EOC, last count, we worked about 566 support missions out
of the EOC, and that's for fire, EMS, law enforcement, emergency
refueling. And as you know, we did an awful lot for nursing homes
and rest homes during this period; something that will be quite a topic
of conversation at the state level, the federal level, and part of our
after-action report.
The two strike teams, I can't be -- can't say enough about these
two teams that we called in. The first one, Escambia County brought
an incident management team, and the picture there is actually their
mobile command post that they set up in Immokalee, working -- I'm
sorry, in Everglades City working closely with the mayor and Dottie to
get recovery operations going on, get a handle on the influx of
commodities.
We had a very hard time cutting off and managing spontaneous
and converging donated goods and people, and that sometimes can be
the second part of the disaster. And we know that, and we've got some
strategies there that we want to go over with you in the future.
There's a lot of right-sizing of supplies. That's part of the issue in
recovery. We've finally got some resources in there such as portable
showers. We have a nice little on-site portable laundromat that's been
down there running, and this support team from Escambia County is
just the finest group of emergency management professionals that have
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come down to help us, as well as the team from Indiana. And that's
part of what we do; we share these incident management teams to be
extensions of the EOC in very vulnerable areas. And our county team
will be asked to do the same one day in another community, I'm sure.
Shelter operations, always a challenge. Right now we have 20
occupants left in the Immokalee Sports Park, which is the current
shelter, as we moved shelter from Immokalee High and Immokalee
Middle and consolidated to the Sports Park.
North Collier Regional Park has 112. Red Cross is working hard
up there, and we're trying to expedite getting those residents back
home. We have some issues there that we're working with HUD and
other evacuees to get them out of the shelter and get them into a --
back into their regular routine.
We have FEMA on the ground working on mass care. We have
FEMA also working on transitional shelter assistance, and I'll talk
some more about that in a minute.
Presently, there are 45,785 residents in Collier County that have
applied for FEMA assistance. $15.6 million has been obligated
already in Collier County for individual assistance. That can be money
for hotels, that can be other substance such as emergency repairs and
other living expenses.
FEMA has -- 17,000 people have applied for the transitional
housing, and that's to take -- let FEMA pay the bill to take -- or make a
contribution for you to pay a bill for a hotel, and that goes from the
shelter to the hotel. FEMA books the hotel, actually, so that you can
go to a hotel room, get situated, and then start your reentry into
permanent housing.
The goal in all of this is not to get into temporary housing such as
trailers and RVs. If there's existing housing stock in other options such
as rental, rental units, HUD units, extended stay in hotel is far better
quality of life, far more cost effective than trying to go in and set up a
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mobile home park for this type of disaster.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blue roof program, that's also
a free service; 1,038 had registered as of yesterday. Their contractor
was a little stretched. I think there have only been about 70 installs as
of yesterday, but I expect those installations to ramp up very quickly to
do the temporary dry-in on roofs.
The Disaster Medical Assistance Team, a lot of folks don't
understand what we did in terms of ensuring that there was immediate
and in-depth emergency medical care both in Immokalee and
Everglades City, and they addressed everything from public health,
environmental health, ensuring tetanus shots, working on water test
kits, making sure the residents had some idea about the cleanup
process, and addressing vector and mosquito control.
So those disaster medical teams were from Virginia and New
York. They got on the ground very quickly. They had a complete
pharmaceutical package so individuals, if they ran short of emergent
meds, we had doctors and nurses on those scenes with pharmacy --
pharmaceutical supplies to help out.
The housing mission -- and, again, this is never an easy fix and
this never goes quickly. It's just -- that's just the way it is. Our first
priority, as I mentioned earlier, was to use vacant properties. The
Transition Sheltering Assistance Program allows FEMA to book hotels
for up to eight months. So that's a pretty good deal if you are an
eligible candidate and it works for your situation.
The second use, commercially available housing products, what is
available in the housing stock, we understand transportation sometimes
can an issue, and FEMA's Individual Assistance Funding can
sometimes help. They're not buying vehicles, but they can provide
some transportation -- alternative assistance.
And then, finally, governmental housing units. Where do we have
vacancies? What do we have that can be expedited in terms of repair
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or replacement? There are limitations when you get into a primary
housing mission. I still may make that request for a temporary housing
mission only because it will help put more FEMA assets on the ground
to find other temporary housing. So there's terminology here; there's
protocol working with FEMA.
And I think it's real important to understand. This is not an excuse
for FEMA. This is just the challenge of the day. You've got 60
counties in Florida affected by this event. So there's the resource draw
from that. There's the resource draw from Harvey in five other
presidentially declared disasters going on, plus Maria. So resources
are thin.
And I think we've done a good job in properly requesting and
marshaling. Do I have all the disaster recovery centers open that I
want? No. Are there other resources such as online and the mobile
disaster recovery centers? The RVs where they're taking registration.
There are lots of other resources.
So we're getting there. It's not like we're the only county or two
involved in this. But as I look at the metrics, I think we're making
good progress.
Finally, some summary actions taking place. We're still actively
responding. EOC is still partially activated. We have the key agencies
in there. My team is continuing to take requests, manage resources,
right-size the operation, and certainly demobilize. We're very sensitive
to the fact that when it's time to release a resource as it relates to cost,
things we've rented, things we've got to go back and account for, we're
very aggressive in our financial management.
Daily briefings, we're still doing those with the agencies at 8:30
and 4:30 every day to get those reports. We still continue to
coordinate, and we want to do more with volunteer agencies. We have
some challenges there with resources, but we're working with them,
and I think we're going to start a daily conference-call process with
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those agencies.
Asset recovery and restocking, I told Mr. Ochs this morning I
have everything that county EM and county government had scattered
only over 2,000 square miles, so I've got a lot of equipment to recover
and do preventative maintenance and get ready on.
Continue the support of the massive logistical efforts in
Everglades City. That's quite an operation we have down there, and
they're going to continue to need support as they look at infrastructure
and continue our ongoing nonprofit relief efforts.
So let me stop, see if you have any brief questions, or at this point
we'll go to -- get some updates from the division administrators and
directors.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes.
You had mentioned something about mobile homes. First of all, I
just wanted to make sure that I understood what you said. In District 4,
you said there were how many mobile homes?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I did.
MR. SUMMERS: I didn't have -- Jamie French can go over those
numbers.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, I see, because there aren't many
in District 4, actually. It's along Bayshore, and they've got some. But,
boy, they've got a ton of them that were affected in East Naples, which
is District 1. You know, all of those -- South Winds and West Winds
and all of those. And, actually, I would guess that that's what the
figure is really indicating.
But you don't mention anything at all about helping them in this.
And I'm sure that you have, and it's probably just -- you mentioned
Everglades City. There was nothing harder hit than Everglades City,
followed up by Goodland, of course. I haven't seen Immokalee, so I
don't know.
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MR. SUMMERS: Well, thank you, ma'am. Let me comment on
that. And, again, we're paying very close attention to those areas, but
we are working the entire county with the same initiative, so --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, I -- okay. I didn't realize. You
only mentioned the two.
MR. SUMMERS: No, no, no. There's nothing isolated about
that. It's just those are two heavy concentration areas.
One of the things that's important to understand is that FEMA
does not -- if this property is insured or owner occupied, that typically
is where the owner has to take the initiative to either work with their
insurance or work with FEMA, but FEMA does not automatically
replace a mobile home.
FEMA is addressing those individuals that qualify. And, again,
there are certain standards where a lot of these individuals in many of
these parks are not going to qualify for some of that assistance. They
may get some individual relief, but in no circumstance does this mean
an automatic replacement of a trailer.
This is designed to be transitional, it's designed to be temporary,
and it only goes to that particular greatest need.
Now, that, in itself, is problematic just because of the current
trailer demand and resource demand that's taking place in five other
states. So even the inventory is a challenge.
But, again, where they're self-insured, that's up to that individual
to make that recovery. If there's a landlord-operated situation, FEMA
does not reimburse a landlord, does not replace a landlord's trailer,
because that's a private business. So there -- again, there's a narrow
window there of what is eligible in temporary housing, but the primary
goal is to use something like hotels and existing housing inventory. It's
far better quality of life, far more cost effective, and less impact on a
family than setting up some type of park arrangement.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. And the many mobile home
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parks. You were talking about pharmaceuticals, but most of the
mobile home parks in the East Naples area are for elderly. And I was
wondering -- you only said that you sent those to Immokalee. Did you
send them also to the elderly mobile homes in East Naples?
MR. SUMMERS: Well, the difference there is that in East
Naples there was retail stores open, and they could get the drugs that
they needed. In Immokalee and Everglades, those were for emergency
medical care and those most immediate needs where we were having
people with cuts. They were getting injured in recovery. They could
not -- there was nothing convenient from Everglades City or
Immokalee to get those medicines, but in East Naples you had retail
open very quickly.
We had an abundance. We had 12 to 15 additional ambulances
stationed. So they were treating -- they were basically mini emergency
rooms. In your East Naples area, there were not -- fortunately, there
were not those injuries, and then you had the local pharmacies opening
real quickly, so -- and we had other delivery systems so part of that
disaster medical team was to address those areas that were most remote
and those people who had gotten injured immediately after the event or
as part of the recovery.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I see.
MR. SUMMERS: Yes, ma'am.
Dr. Yilmaz, I believe, is next up for a brief report.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Commissioner McDaniel.
MR. SUMMERS: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Madam Chair, you mentioned
early on about having a workshop, and I had a discussion with the
County Manager yesterday about the proposed workshop for next
week, October 3rd, for the sales tax, and I would like to suggest that
we postpone the sales tax workshop and replace it with a post-Irma.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think it -- for -- I can tell you for the
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City of Naples, it's too soon. We need time to digest this. Everybody's
-- we need -- we really need some time to go through this. I don't
know about your regions, but I don't know about the City of Marco.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I agree.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The City of Marco -- I mean, it needs
to be a countywide. We have a countywide EOC. It needs to be a
countywide.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Dan just said they're not even in
recovery yet. They're still --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, they're in --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So I think it may be a little early.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Still in response. Yeah, it's too early.
MR. SUMMERS: Commissioners, part of good emergency
management is ongoing after action, but there -- you have to remember
we're going to be about 26 days worth of data to review. I would
appreciate, if you deem it appropriate, to give us some time to
November. Let us not only -- we've got our response, we've got
recovery, and an enormous amount of FEMA paperwork to do, but
we're capturing corrective actions as we go and we're open to
constructive recommendations.
We'll probably seek some outside help, so -- in the preparation of
that report, but we have a live after-action, and we have a formal
after-action process, and we'd like to go through that, and part of that is
giving people the opportunity to kind of get settled a little bit and
organize their thoughts and let us pull back some good information for
you and boil that up; make sure that what we're giving you is factual
and accurate.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'd like to make a motion that we
follow our Emergency Management Director's recommendation that
we give them time to tabulate and to work on this after-action report,
which is something that is part of the process and that you give us --
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that he gives us notice when he is ready to come before us.
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, if I might just interrupt.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. OCHS: I was going to bring this up under communications,
but since we're talking about it, Commissioner McDaniel's right. I had
a discussion with all of you about the prospect of moving what's
scheduled as next Tuesday's workshop on the sales tax to our
November public workshop date, which would be November 7th.
My thought at this point would be that perhaps we could devote
that day to two workshops; do the sales tax in the morning, have a
lunch break, and then come back in the afternoon, if the Board would
like, and do the Irma after-action review.
You'll have the benefit of a staff report on after action at that
point, and you can use that as a read-ahead and maybe prompt some
additional input from the Board. That's my initial recommendation on
that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the floor with that
recommendation.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Second?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And, Madam Chair, could I
add that we're going to have several meetings between now and then,
obviously. If you could, as a regular agenda item, just keep us
informed on the status as of that time in terms of, just like you're doing
now, what the current status is, briefly, I would second your motion.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I'll go along with that. I
mean, it was a discussion that we had yesterday, and I just -- you
know, there's a lot of things that, while it's fresh in everyone's mind,
that we could, from a policy-making standpoint, make some
adjustments. We're still in hurricane season, and we're going to go
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right straight from that into fire season with a lot of dead debris.
So I think sooner than later is where we were -- and that's the
reason I was pushing for next week. But I'm good with -- if you all are
good for November 7th, I'm good.
I do have a couple other items before you --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the floor and a
second.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That motion carries.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And on -- I have two more
items for Dan. And just as an announcement, Commissioner Fiala,
you talked about temporary housing. Specifically in Immokalee I
would like to acknowledge the Collier County Housing Authority;
above and beyond the call of duty. With assistance from Mario
Diaz-Balart, we were able, on Friday after the storm, to have power
turned on in Horizon Village, a 140-unit-bed dormitory, and started
providing assistance for temporary housing at that facility that had to
be -- it had to be ratified by either the Guadalupe Center or RCMA or
our Sheriff's Department to verify that, in fact, someone's home was
determined to be uninhabitable.
And then the Director of the Housing Authority, Oscar Henshall,
opened up another 25 single-family homes over in Farm Workers
Village to be provided for temporary housing as we're moving through
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this process with FEMA and the temporary housing.
Number three -- this is a public service announcement -- our
Executive Director for CRA in Collier County at large, Deborah
Forester, has done an amazing job. As you know, there are some 50
odd not-for-profits in Immokalee and in the area that are out offering
up assistance, and there wasn't a localized communication point.
And so they had their own meeting on Monday -- didn't invite
me. Don't know why -- and so I called another meeting on Thursday
after the storm and organized the not-for-profits along and then
established Deborah as our main contact point for specific need
requests along with supplies so that there was a focal point of
communication there to be able to assist with the relief efforts as we
were, in fact, going on.
So I just -- and tomorrow after the MSTU and CRA meeting,
tomorrow morning in Immokalee at the community park at 8:30 there
will be another agency meeting just as an update to follow up on how
we're doing, what we're doing, and where we're doing it.
So that's all.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Thank you very much.
MR. SUMMERS: Okay. Dr. Yilmaz?
MR. YILMAZ: Good morning, Commissioners, County
Manager.
This has been one of the experiences -- we went through with
seven federally declared hurricanes. Five of them were direct hit. And
we have a great leadership, and team members did go through those
experiences. We incorporated all lessons learned, and this is one
experience there are more lessons learned. And from a Public Utilities
standpoint, we can always do better as agency. We have the attitude
we're a learning organization.
So I want to start with that I'm going to focus on what we did
know and what we did do for us to get ready for M plus Cat 4, Cat 5
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direct hurricane.
I did hear more stories out of seven that we were able to walk our
dogs in the middle of the eye. That tells you how severe the landfall
was. That's just the hydrology -- professional hydrologist side of me
that I couldn't resist to paint the picture.
With that, Commissioners, I'm pleased to report that we were
ready, best we can, to provide life-sustaining essential water, sewer,
solid and hazardous waste services, including getting ready for the
debris mission you see right now getting more and more active.
And, as importantly, we were positioned and protected,
government facilities, including constitutional officers, and provided
logistics, exceptionally high-demanding shelters that started with
reasonable amount of numbers but then grown exponentially, and
logistics including provided energy, fuel supply, fuel routing, and
making sure that our shelters are safe and our shelters are cool and
public in safe place as our shelters declared by the Board and our
County Manager.
All of the shelters that was identified prior to landfall were
provided all the logistics and supports under our County Manager's
direction. That means any shelter did have compromised power
supply, we provide auxiliary power supply as logistics, and any
shelters did not have generator system, we provided generator system.
All that was done for known and anticipated shelters under our
leadership's guidance, auxiliary power as well as fuel supply, fuel
routing continuously.
Our priorities were clear given the County Manager's and Board's
guidance and direction, and that was public health number one, public
safety and logistics number two, and mental health number three. That
doesn't mean -- that does not mean one is more important than other,
but these are the kinds of emergency situations so that our resources
need to know clearly what the mission is. So we went after all these
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three concurrently; however, our mission was laid out by leadership for
us to focus.
I want to thank our financial team all the way from our office
management and budget to our financial team members and Chief
Financial Officer, Joe. Ninety-nine percent emergency POs were open
prior to landfall. This is something behind the scenes happened, but
that is part of great readiness.
Our County Manager and Deputy County Manager made it clear
to us we want to make sure that we're financially sound, we have the
internal controls, every dollar we're going to spend from day one all
the way till auditor goes out counted. So all the POs, about 99 percent,
were open prior to landfall so that we were ready to move within
72-hour window of action with mission needed.
First, we did take care of the team and our operators and team
members who are essential employees and their families hunkering
down while continue to operate before, during, after storm. Our
regional plants and our SCADA systems, among other critical
infrastructure, through our control rooms and remote automation
census.
Second, we activated, for Public Utilities and Facilities
Department, 455 strong essential team members to be ready and stand
by except -- exceptions were given per CMAs, but most of them were
here up to challenge. And I want to thank every single team member
in facilities as well as Public Utilities Department among other
departments under our County Manager's Office. They have hunkered
down in Collier County, took the hit, and ready for next 72 hours, hit
the ground and start working. So I want to take this opportunity to
thank our team members in trenches working on high-risk environment
making assuring that we meet those priorities and mission given by the
County Manager's Office.
Third, you may have heard COOP, C-O-O-P. We have been
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working through this last five years through our Emergency
Management and EOC. Dan Summers and his team has been on this
thing, especially of hurricane season, and it worked. COOP means
Continuation of Operations Plan, and that was done for all divisions,
all departments under County Manager's guidance and direction given
at least last five years I can recall.
We implemented COOP with minor on-the-go finesse
modifications and executed according, and I think that shows how
good planning under our leadership and our EOC did happen.
All the leaders and managers and the directors were given clear
assignment and leadership roles so that there's no ambiguity of the
roles and responsibility, and they stepped up.
Florida WARN was activated and being ready for M plus H3/4.
Any potential bypass plans, if needed, were requested and staged for
certain locations where we think vulnerable our utilities are from
national contractor prior to landfall. We reserved end-stage generators
up to hundred prior to landfall, and that included fuel service, fuel
tankers.
We anticipated requests from other municipal governments and
local governments, and we provided those resources that included City
of Everglades, and we provided support under EOC mission given, and
as well as we provided support to other municipal governments like
City of Naples. We converted our water service from city to county
right after landfall for the campus.
We secured all government facilities, and facilities then covered
about 600 county-owned structures to date, including buildings, parks,
shade structures, doghouses and tollbooths. And of the measured
facilities, which included 235 occupied buildings, all have at least
minor damage, approximately 10 have substantial damage and, of
those, two are left uninhabitable, which we have an action plan to
remediate that fast.
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Museum of Everglades and the IFAS University extension office
are the only two facilities left uninhabitable; however, we're working
through that process to make sure they are back online.
We are also keeping our focus on two cemeteries under county
ownership; one being Immokalee, due to storm event. And,
Commissioners, we're on it. We're doing everything we can to
remediate, and we'll have some, as indicated by our EOC Director, will
be part of our action -- after-action report how we can protect our
cemeteries against flooding moving forward.
There is more to say here; I'm going to skip in light of time. I just
want to say that I'm pleased to report all regional north water/waste
water, south regional water and waste water back to operational
normal, our water distribution back to operational normal, and our
waste water collection system is back to operational normal, and our
irrigation water system back up and running with normal operations.
And also, our landfill gas-to-energy plant, within 72 hours, start
generating power and feed the FP&L grid. And our landfill gas field
were managed very well and remediated where the damages were.
Moving forward, I think that our solid waste team did awesome
job, and I'm going to have now our Deputy Administrator, Dan
Rodriguez, talk to you briefly about debris mission that has been
managed and coordinated under our director of solid waste; Delia.
Mr. Rodriguez?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Thank you, Dr. Yilmaz.
Good morning, Commissioners. What a long two-and-a-half
weeks, right? Absolutely.
First of all, thank you for the opportunity to present before you,
but also I want to recognize again, as you did this morning, Dan
Summers, as incident commander; did an amazing job, our County
Manager, Leo Ochs, as you know, and Nick Casalanguida, who,
during those dark hours, were right there with great support and
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leadership, and I appreciate that.
With that, I'll be brief. Talk about the debris management plan.
As you know, there is a method to our madness here. A lot of
debris out there, as we all are aware. We're in Phase 2 and 3 of our
debris recovery. We're still mobilizing and establishing debris staging
sites. We're bringing in contractors, and we've already started
collection.
The scope and magnitude of the debris that's sitting out there, per
the Corps of Engineers, is roughly 4.2 million cubics yards. How
much material is that? Well, if we're all familiar with the great
pyramid of Khufu in Egypt, that's about 3,380,000 cubic yards. So
we're going to -- we have enough material to build that pyramid plus
another quarter pyramid, just to give it perspective.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: What an analogy.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That was good.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That was fabulous.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: And I remind -- and if Dilia Camacho, if
you could stand up. Our Solid Waste Director, Dilia Camacho. So I
remind her that we're going to build a pyramid, so let's get it all the
material with that.
We've divided the county into 58 different debris working zones.
We have five main disaster recovery sites that are currently open. And
I'll show you a map, there, of those real quick here. You can see we
have put those out where they're centrally located to each of your
districts so that we can have a quick turnaround. And these are large
sites. The majority of them, the three, four sites, have more than 100
acres, so we can move a lot of this material.
You're familiar with Hurricane Wilma, most of us are. That was
just under a million cubic yards, so we're looking at about four times
that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: What did the black dots mean in
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there? Excuse me.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Those right there? Those are our recycling
centers, if I'm not mistaken, yeah.
We have two contractors working with us. One is the monitoring
contractor. Their job is to make sure the material is collected correctly
and accurately. As you know, the estimates coming in are roughly
about $77 million is what this debris mission will cost. We want to
make sure that every dollar that we can is reimbursed by the federal
government and that takes a lot of documentation and following those
guidelines of FEMA, and that's what Tetra Tech is responsible for.
They're also responsible for making sure that those collection trucks in
the field, which each collection truck will have a monitor, is operating
in a safe and appropriate manner and that if they see anything in the
field, any safety issues, they bring that to our attention.
Our debris contractor is AshBritt Environmental. They're one of
the largest in the business. I will tell you that the resources that are
available in the state are limited, the collection trucks; however, this
company is bringing us trucks. We currently, I'm happy to say, we
have about 51 trucks operating today, this morning, collecting debris.
That's 50 more than we had three days ago.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well done.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: They are going to escalate that on average
about 10 every day. We will probably need in the neighborhood of
about 250 pieces of equipment to get this debris mission completed
within the next four to six months.
With that, Joe Ballone's here as well; Joe Ballone with our Public
Utilities. His team, working with Mark Isackson's group, is again, to
make sure that we're picking up the material that's outlined by the
FEMA guidelines but also following our contract that we have with
AshBritt, which is one of the most competitive in the state, as I'm told,
as a lot of truckers are contemplating coming to Collier County;
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however, the advantage and disadvantage we have is we have the most
material here, and they'll make a lot more money on volume than they
will on the pricing, so that will work to our advantage.
And then, of course, customer service we have are working
closely with the PIO group to make sure we get the PSAs out there and
also to reach out as we get more and more information on the gated
communities to make sure that those gated communities are aware of
our timelines to get out to them.
Again, that requires FEMA pre-approval. That package is almost
complete. We have the letter; we have two letters. One letter from
Department of Health stating that we do have a health/environmental
issue here. They're requesting that we list all the streets, private and
gated, and we want to make sure that those GIS maps are accurate and
correct before we submit that, which we should be doing within the
next 48 hours. And, of course, more public outreach. Our UBCS
customer service group is doing a good job to answer those calls.
And we only ask that the residents be patient. This is going to be
a trying week for us. We have some focused areas. Everglades City,
we're collecting debris there. We have trucks there. We've set up the
staging sites. Goodland is a big area that the County Manager has
asked us to focus on that. We have trucks going there today and
moving forward.
So that's it. Any questions?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I have a question, if I may. It may
seem like a really weird question, but with all of that debris -- and it
looks like it's all dried up, you know, it's been off the trees for a while
sitting on the ground for a while -- can you ever burn some of that
stuff?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Actually, the debris will be mulched up, and
it will be land applied on farms and things like that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay.
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MR. RODRIGUEZ: After it's tested. Absolutely, Commissioner.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right.
MR. OCHS: Next. We've got about seven minutes to wrap this
all up.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Terri, that's for you.
MR. FRENCH: Good morning, again, Commissioners. For the
record, Jamie French. I'm the -- I was a chief forklift operator,
mechanic, I don't know, wherever they had me.
But we echo the acknowledgment to Mr. Summers and to our
County Manager's Office. I'd also like to acknowledge our new
department head, Thaddeus Cohen. If there's one thing he recognized,
that we've done this before, and so he fully supported us throughout
our mission.
But what I've got on the overhead today is just a snapshot as of
yesterday. I can't stress enough that residents of our community,
property owners, use our self-reporting tool. We've been out in the
community. I'll have you know that by day three we had up to 35
teams on the ground of two men, or of two people, of licensed,
qualified individuals, and we covered just over 150,000 address points.
So in Collier we're right at about 230,000 address points. And so
you know, Commissioner, overall county, we're just under 16,000
mobile homes throughout the county, of which a little over 1,800 exist
in Immokalee.
So we know exactly where our mobile home parks, our legal
mobile home parks, let's call them that, where they've been properly
addressed. But just to kind of give you an idea of destroyed versus
major, and this is how FEMA qualifies this. Destroyed would mean
that it's completely uninhabitable, meaning that it doesn't necessarily
need to be tore down. It's just in need of great repair before it could
ever be lived in again or occupied again, of which -- I broke this down
by district as well as by total. We're subtotaling that out just, again, as
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a snapshot as of today at about $9 million worth of destroyed
properties or improved valued properties in Collier County, and this is
all based off of improved value with about 20 percent market
numerator in there off Property Appraiser data. So we marry that up.
Mobile homes are a little different. Primarily we had to go off
market rate of mobile homes. Many of them are mobile in nature, so
the Property Appraiser doesn't cover all of those, as he shouldn't
because he's taxing on property; whereas, mobile homes are regulated
by the Department of Transportation.
Minor damage resulted in about 124 -- I'm sorry. Major damage
resulted in about 124-, $125 million, and you can see that broken out
by district. I also have mapping available as of today that we can share
-- it's been shared with the County Manager's Office. We can certainly
share it with the Board of County Commissioners -- that breaks it out.
Just by the counts -- this would not include Everglades City,
Marco, or the City of Naples -- Commissioner Fiala had 33 destroyed
properties. Major damage was 227.
Commissioner Solis had five destroyed properties, 520 major.
There is a mobile home park in North Naples off of U.S. 41. That
mobile home park is very aged, and it was -- for the most part most of
that was majorly impacted.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Several up there.
MR. FRENCH: Commissioner Saunders, no destroyed, but 38
major.
Commissioner Taylor, 11 destroyed. And, again, this is all
unincorporated Collier; 103 major.
Commissioner McDaniel, 22 destroyed, 155 major.
Everglades City, we did partner with Everglades City, and we'll
continue to partner with them. We've worked with their building
official in tracking all their damage. They've had 23 properties -- I'm
sorry -- 23 structures destroyed, 517 major damage. We're going back
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in and reanalyzing that data as we speak.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Can you say Everglades City
stats one more time, please.
MR. FRENCH: Major was 517; 23 destroyed. Meaning that
there's just a little over 630, maybe 650 address points in Everglades
City. So we believe that a good majority of that island was impacted.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Ninety percent.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So you include Plantation Island and
Chokoloskee in that?
MR. FRENCH: Not in Everglades City, ma'am. That goes in our
overall statistics for the county.
So -- and, again, these are not our numbers. This was done by
their private building official, so we did not do the assessment there.
Just a couple thank-you real quick. We couldn't have done our
mission without the Sheriff's Office. Within a day after the storm they
were able to get us up in the air to do an aerial assessment as well as
the Civil Air Patrol.
We were open. So you know, the Growth Management
Department was open for business on Tuesday after the storm. We
had no power, but we had employees outside for emergency
permitting. We commandeered the blue roof mission. They're in our
buildings. They've been there since Tuesday after the storm. So all of
those residents that have signed up for blue roof, they've either signed
up at our Immokalee office or they've signed up at 2800 North
Horseshoe.
With that, I can't thank my staff enough that I get to work with
every day, our code enforcement officers. And, Commissioner Fiala,
you mentioned it quickly, but our code enforcement officers,
contractors' licensing, engineering inspectors, we were going door to
door and those -- we knew the aging population. We were going door
to door in Immokalee, and we were loaded with food and water in the
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back of our trucks.
So we did -- and there was many times we were told we were the
first person that made contact with them. We simply just wanted to
make sure. And, again, I'll reiterate the self-reporting tool, because our
snapshot is based off what we saw from the air or what we saw from
the street. If these mobile homes or some of these low-lying areas took
water in the home and the doors are closed and we can't get in there or
there's mold issues or there's destruction that we did not visibly see, I
can't reiterate enough, please report that to us. Let us go in. We'll be
happy to inspect it. It's at no charge to you. We want to make sure
that your building is secure and that it's a safe place for you to live in.
So do you have any questions for us? And thank you,
Commissioner Saunders, for driving out with me to Everglades.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, that was nice.
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, in the interest of time, I think we'll
defer the reports from Jack and Gary. We're going to have this as a
regular agenda item every meeting, so we'll -- Jack already met with
the TDC yesterday morning -- Commissioner Fiala chairs that -- and
they're well aware of the emergency marketing and advertising
campaign that's been put together going forward.
I'm going to ask Mr. Isackson to take two minutes to wrap up the
financials, and then we can move on with your break. And I know
you've got a couple time-certain items starting at 11 a.m.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: You know, Leo, it makes me proud
to live here and even more proud to have employees like we have out
there giving of themselves and actually letting their family stay aside
while they help all the rest of us. It's just overwhelming to me.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. I agree, thank you.
MR. ISACKSON: Leo, I'll give you 60 seconds, how about that?
MR. OCHS: That's good, Mark.
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MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, nothing happens without
sufficient budget. We're going to have an item on your -- the last item
after we conclude our business on the -- on the 28th with your final
budget hearing that we'll talk about the process that we have to go
through to establish sufficient budget.
Order of magnitude on a high level, Dan just said that you had a
million cubic yards of debris. You got 4.2. You paid 26 million in
Wilma, so you can do the math. You're staring at a $100 million with
this particular event.
We'll lay out a process under which legislative authority will be
given to us so that we can prosecute budget amendments through my
office and that the Clerk of the Circuit Court can input them. Our goal
is to have a seamless transition so that no work, restoration, or cleanup
stops, and that executive summary will be provided to you at your
meeting on the 28th. And I think you'll find it sufficient to provide us
the guidance that we need to prosecute our work.
MR. OCHS: Thank you. So that's an add-on item to your public
hearing this Thursday evening to adopt your budget. We'll do an
add-on.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: September 28th?
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. Thursday evening at 5:05.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I was thinking about October, and I
said, this doesn't sound right. Thank you.
MR. OCHS: No, ma'am. We want to get that to you Thursday
night.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: He's good on numbers but terrible on
dates, right?
MR. OCHS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All right. So I think if that's the
end of it.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think we're going to take a -- let's do a
15-minute for you to give you a break here.
MR. OCHS: Then you come back for your 11 a.m. time-certain.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: 11 a.m., yep.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
(A brief recess was had.)
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, you have a live mike.
Item #10A
RESOLUTION 2017-171: URGING THE FLORIDA
LEGISLATURE TO ENACT LEGISLATION THAT WOULD
MAKE TEXTING WHILE DRIVING A PRIMARY OFFENSE –
ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: This takes us to our 11 a.m. time-certain. This is
Item 10A. It was brought forward by Commissioner McDaniel. It's a
recommendation to adopt a resolution urging the Florida Legislature to
enact legislation that would make texting while driving a primary
offense.
Commissioner McDaniel?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: With that, it's self-explanatory.
I worked in great cooperation with our Sheriff's Department. Mr.
Rambosk and I spoke at length about this with regard to the
enforceability as the law currently reads, and that's the reason that I
brought this resolution or this executive summary forward.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Can you show me what we're talking
about here?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We can't -- it's about -- well, I'll let
Commissioner McDaniel -- it's about texting while driving and to
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make it stronger.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, yeah. What number is that? I'm
sorry.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I believe it's 11 -- or, excuse
me, County Manager?
MR. OCHS: 10A, sir.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: 10A, yes. And if anybody has
any questions, it was a cooperative effort with our law enforcement
agency. And, Mr. Rambosk, if you'd like to speak a moment on it,
you're welcome to.
SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Thank you. Good morning, Chair and
Commissioners.
For about the last nine years, the Florida Sheriffs Association has
been working on trying to get our legislature to not permit texting and
driving. You might think, intuitively, that you shouldn't be doing that,
and you would be right, you shouldn't be doing that. You know, you
fold in distracted driving along with that, and it is increasingly posing a
problem.
We finally were able to get the first element of law in 2013 which
gave limited ability as a secondary offense to law enforcement with
regard to enforcing a no texting bill. The problem is, very, very
difficult for law enforcement to enforce.
We had to look at alternative measures, and just to give you this
example, in the first -- since January of this year, we write a lot of
careless driving citations because of weaving in one's lane and out of
one's lane because you're texting instead of driving, as well as doing
some other things. During that time, we were only able to issue 10
texting and driving citations.
So, essentially, I'm here to support and endorse your request of
your legislators to make texting and driving a primary offense.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a motion?
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, yes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I have a motion. Do I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, I'm seconding it. Were you the
motion then?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I would -- yes. Well, I brought
the issue forward, so I'd be pleased to make that motion.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And if Burt is seconding it, then I'll
third.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll be pleased to second it.
Yeah. I was out in California not too long ago, and if a police
officer sees you holding a phone while you're driving, you get stopped,
and that's really the way it should be.
SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Yes. And I -- since you mentioned that,
that is the direction we have got to go with more and more traffic here.
Again, this is -- what you're doing is a terrific step, and then we're
going to push beyond that as well.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good. Hear, hear.
So there's a motion on the floor and a second. All in --
MR. MILLER: Madam Chair, I have one registered public
speaker for this issue. Beth Brainard.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Are you going to talk us out of it, Beth?
MS. BRAINARD: Absolutely not.
I just wanted to thank the Sheriff. I'm Beth Brainard with Naples
Pathways Coalition. I'm also representing a statewide group called the
Don't Text and Drive Coalition that's made up of many, many
organizations, business law enforcement, across the state.
And I just -- thank you for this. It's incredibly important. There
are bills both in the Senate, being proposed by Senators Garcia and
Perry, and in the House by Representative Stark and Slosberg,
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companion bills that are going forward on this.
So it's very important not only to get resolution but to also -- I
encourage the public and everyone here to stay on your legislators.
Like the Sheriff said, it seems like a no-brainer, it seems intuitive, but
people are going to fight it for the same reasons they fought seat belt
laws. Although now after, what, 20 years of seat belt laws being
enacted, you can't argue with the data that seat belts have saved lives.
So I wanted to let you know also that you don't stand alone; that
there are 19 other counties that have already passed a similar resolution
along with 18 cities. It's the goal of the "don't text and drive" coalition
to have a resolution passed in every county within the state before this
actually goes to session in January.
So I thank you very much. Because this is Collier County, and
we've got a great sheriff and great commissioners, we don't have to
work as hard, I guess, in the beginning, but we will have to work to get
this legislation passed. So this is a wonderful first step, but let's keep it
going after this. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you.
All right. There's a motion on the floor and second. Any
discussion?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Just a fast thing. Thank you so
much for bringing this up. This is the best one you've ever brought to
us, and it's probably one of the most important ones. Thank you.
That's all I wanted to say.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
Item #9A
ORDINANCE 2017-40: AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2007-46,
AS AMENDED, THE WOLF CREEK RPUD, TO APPROVE AN
INSUBSTANTIAL CHANGE TO THE PUD, TO ADD A
PRESERVE EXHIBIT THAT REVISES THE PRESERVE
CONFIGURATION FOR PARCELS 3B AND 9 ONLY, AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THE SUBJECT
PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF
VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD, APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF
MILE WEST OF COLLIER BOULEVARD, IN SECTION 34,
TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY,
FLORIDA, CONSISTING OF 189± ACRES. [PDI-PL20160000404]
– ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, we have some time before your
11:15 time-certain. I'd like to move to Item 9A. I think we have a
resolution on this, if I might, ma'am.
This is a recommendation to approve an ordinance amending the
Wolf Creek RPUD to approve an insubstantial change to the PUD to
add a preserve exhibit that revises the preserve configurations for
Parcels 3B and 9 only, and then, as the Board knows, we've had some
related discussion amongst stakeholders, and I believe we've got some
resolution at this point.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Before we begin, I did speak to
our County Attorney yesterday, so if you would be kind enough as you
do so, well, sir, to succinctly bring to us what we are voting on or what
we should be concerned with in this issue.
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MR. KLATZKOW: The primary issue here -- and it's relatively
simple -- is whether or not the Board is amenable to a reduction in the
preserve, understanding that a reduction in the preserve will mean an
increase in the number of houses in the PUD. And that's really all
you're voting on. As to who owns what or what --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: My understanding is that the
number of units will remain the same; that the lots will be bigger, but
not an increase in the units.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's a fixed number of units.
MR. KLATZKOW: It's a fixed number of units in the PUD.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: There will be more area to build
those units.
MR. KLATZKOW: There's the ability to build additional units
than what are currently there.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So whether we -- you know, the issue
is each of us need to either listen to our County Attorney or not. But
we had a pretty decent discussion yesterday about this, and we do have
public speakers on this. But I think we need to hear from Mr.
Anderson first.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: We need to do our ex parte, I
think; is that correct?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's correct. I'm sorry.
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, I apologize. I was under the
impression that this was resolved, and we could dispose of this pretty
quickly. If this is going to go into your 11:15, perhaps we could --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, sir. How many public speaker do
we have?
MR. OCHS: -- take this later.
MR. MILLER: I just have one.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I think it is resolved.
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MR. ANDERSON: It is.
MR. BRACCI: I'm the speaker. It's resolved.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: We just need to do the ex parte
and hear what the issue is.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
MR. OCHS: Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So, Commissioner Saunders?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, I do have some ex parte
communications with the petitioner, some communications.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Commissioner Solis?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I've had discussions with Terrie
Abrams, Beth Smith, Bruce Anderson, Mark Alan, Steve Bracci.
These are actually emails. I've met with those prior ones; emails with
the same, Rich Yovanovich, and a phone call with Bruce Anderson.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: My ex parte is as it was explained the
last time we heard this but also, in addition, I've had additional
correspondence and emails.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. I've also previously disclosed,
which was on July 11th, but I have received correspondence from
Attorney Steven Bracci representing the Black Bear Ridge homeowner
association; emails and phone calls with Bruce Anderson. And since
then I've received additional email from Rich Yovanovich. Also --
let's see. That was it. Correspondence, emails, and calls.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I, as well, have numerous,
as previously reported, numerous meetings, correspondence, and
emails.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Thank you very much.
MR. ANDERSON: Thank you, Commissioners. My name is
Bruce Anderson from the Cheffy Passidomo Law Firm.
You may recall from the prior hearing that the residents across the
street in Black Bear Ridge had some concerns and objected. But since
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that time, we've met with them, we've revised the Site Development
Plan and reached an agreement that they no longer oppose the
insubstantial change. We want to thank the residents of Black Bear
Ridge for working with us to come up with a plan that is better for both
parties. They are tenacious, well informed, and provided valuable
input.
And I do need to make a part of the record a landscaping exhibit
that we will be providing an enhanced landscape buffer, Type C
double row plantings, within a Type D buffer width.
And I have nothing else unless you have questions.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I make the motion.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I have a question. Is it possible within
the documents given -- presented to us with the PUD that at a future
time you can increase the density by building additional structures?
MR. ANDERSON: There's already a cap on the density in the
PUD. This doesn't affect that.
MR. KLATZKOW: That's not the question.
MR. ANDERSON: Okay. Then I didn't understand it.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Can you --
MR. KLATZKOW: Your current Site Development Plan lists a
certain number of homes; is that correct?
MR. ANDERSON: Yes.
MR. KLATZKOW: And so you're going to represent to the
Board you will not increase that number.
MR. ANDERSON: That is correct.
MR. KLATZKOW: Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
MR. ANDERSON: It's 212 dwelling units.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Good. All right. So any
questions?
(No response.)
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I, actually, was going to ask
that question about the units, but that's been clarified.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Have you still got a speaker?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: We need to hear from the folks
that were opposed to this project.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. MILLER: This is our registered public speaker, Steve
Bracci.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Just to remind the commission,
when this came up, I guess it was back in late June or so, we continued
this and directed the parties -- or asked the parties to try to get together
and work this out.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And they have.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So the good news is apparently
that has happened. That's why I was saying that it really isn't -- this is
not an item that's going to take very much time.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And point of order, County Attorney,
we didn't swear in right now, but I'm assuming -- because this issue has
been continued, we don't need to swear in again?
MR. KLATZKOW: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Thank you.
MR. BRACCI: Good morning, Commissioners. My name is
Steve Bracci on behalf of the Black Bear Ridge Property Owners
Association and confirming what Mr. Anderson represented: We do
have an agreement, the parties do with respect to this, and it's been
reduced to writing in a settlement agreement between the parties. And
as a result of that, the Black Bear Ridge Property Owners Association
withdraws any objection it has on its own behalf as well, to the extent
it's authorized, legally, on behalf of any individual within the Black
Bear Ridge Association.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And it's my understanding
there are some folks from Black Bear Ridge that are here. They're in
the audience nodding in the affirmative so that -- confirming that this
has been approved.
And unless there's some questions, Madam Chair, I'll make a
motion.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I'll second it.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: The motion is close the public
hearing and approve the petition amending Ordinance No. 2007-46,
the Wolf Creek RPUD.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You second; Commissioner McDaniel
second.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
MR. ANDERSON: Thank you very much.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, Commissioners.
That takes us to your 11:15 time-certain item.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Rock and roll.
MR. OCHS: Even a blind squirrel finds --
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We started off a little slow, but we're
moving into it.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am.
Item #11D
SELECTION OF A STATE LOBBYING FIRM PER RFP #17-7186
TO REPRESENT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AT THE STATE CAPITOL IN TALLAHASSEE - MOTION TO
SELECT SMITH, BRYAN & MYERS TO REPRESENT THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AT THE STATE
CAPITOL IN TALLAHASSEE BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 2017 –
APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Item 11D is a recommendation to select a state
lobbying firm per the specifications in RFP #17-7186 to represent the
Board at the State Capitol in Tallahassee. John Mullins, your
government affairs manager, will begin the presentation.
MR. MULLINS: Thank you. For the record, John Mullins,
Government Affairs Manager.
Today the Board will be hearing brief presentations by the three
state lobbying contract finalists. The lobbyist or lobbyists selected by
the Board will work in conjunction with our office to monitor the
actions of the legislature and executive branches in Tallahassee and
work to protect our local interests and advance the legislative and
project funding agenda of the Board.
The selection process to this point happened as follows:
Procurement services issued an RFP on July 21st, email notices were
sent to 156 lobbying firms; 31 solicitation packets were downloaded;
the nine firms submitting proposals by the deadline of August 21st
were in alphabetical order: Ballard Partners; Becker & Poliakoff;
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Buchanan, Ingersoll, and Rooney; Capital City Consulting; Carlton
Fields; Mark Anderson Governmental Consulting; Pittman Law
Group; Ronald L. Book, partnering with Southern Strategy Group of
Miami; and Smith, Bryan, and Myers.
A selection committee was convened consisting of six voting
members that evaluated each proposal based on criteria established by
procurement. These criteria included points for cover letter and contact
information, certified minority business enterprise, business plan, cost
of services, experience and capacity of the firm, specialized expertise
of team members, and a local vendor preference.
Each committee member was instructed to rank the proposals
from one to nine, one being the best, by virtue of scores received by
totaling the scores of each criteria. Those rankings were entered into a
spreadsheet that calculated the top three. The top three ranked firms
are represented here today.
With the Board's permission, I would welcome each firm to make
their presentation in alphabetical order: Buchanan, followed by
Capital City, concluding with Smith Brian. Each has seven minutes.
Madam Chair, it's the Board's discretion as to asking questions
after each presenter or saving them until the conclusion of the
presentations. After the presentations are concluded, if you're
comfortable with taking a vote, we can use a similar ranking system to
quickly ascertain a result, but only if you so desire.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
MR. MULLINS: Buchanan?
MR. ARNOLD: Thank you, John.
For the record, my name is Keith Arnold. I'm here on behalf of
Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rooney. I'm here with my colleague Brett Bacot,
and both of us have had the pleasure and the privilege of representing
you for the better part of the last 20 years. We certainly appreciate the
honor and the opportunity to stand before you today. We recognize the
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work of staff in recommending us as one of the finalists, and we thank
them for that opportunity.
Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney is a national firm with tremendous
resources, approximately 500 personnel, 100 which are in Florida.
And on behalf of colleagues in Tallahassee, Mac Stipanovich, Linda
Shelly, Tim Stanfield; Marnie George, Mike Harrell, Kim McGlynn
and James Magill, Bob Butterworth, Ivette O'Doski, Paul Hawkes and,
more recently, Former Governor Jeb Bush, we do appreciate the
opportunity to present and to talk to you about some of the issues
which we think are important to this community.
My family moved here in what's now Collier County
approximately 150 years ago. And whether you've been here for
multiple generations or just a few years, I think all of us have been
affected by Hurricane Irma. And I think in many ways that will shape
your legislative agenda as you go forward, shape some of the priorities
that we talk to the legislative delegation about, and how we interact
with the state legislature.
As such, I've tailored my comments to reflect some of those
issues, some past experiences, and some things I think will be
important to you as we move forward.
Hurricane Irma struck Collier County 57 years to the day since
Hurricane Donna flew into and impacted downtown Naples and
downtown Fort Myers. A lot's happened in the last 57 years. Needless
to say I, like so many of your speakers before you, note the tremendous
coordinated response that Collier County had to Hurricane Irma. It
was nothing short of impressive. From Leo's press conference to
Sheriff Romback's (sic) to Dr. Pamela -- Dr. Kamela Patton and so
many others; the response down here was significant and impressive.
I, like other speakers, would, again, echo the phenomenal
competence and cohesion of your response team led by Dan Summers.
He did a wonderful job, and you ought to be very, very proud.
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The issues which you face now are tremendous economically,
culturally and, certainly, to some extent, also from the standpoint of
human services.
Irma reeked havoc on this community. There will be many issues
going forward, and they will center around your ability to engage with
the legislature and your ability to engage with the federal government.
We've had several years of experience working with you on
FEMA issues. Even though that's a federal issue, it is also jointly
controlled by the State, and any day now we expect to receive,
ironically, $7 million of funding from the last hurricane to hit Collier
County. Chairwoman Taylor, we thank you for your letter to the
Governor on that, but we do expect that issue to be resolved
imminently.
Everglades City, Chokoloskee, Immokalee, areas that were
substantially impacted by Hurricane Irma will need continued
assistance as we move forward.
You're on the brink of making a decision, a fairly unprecedented
decision, I might add, to, as a county, intercede with a municipal entity
and ultimately help guide and perhaps manage their infrastructure.
Everglades City simply does not have the personnel to manage
the construction of their water, sewer, and stormwater systems, and
you are going to be asked to step in and fulfill that role for them. And
that comes at a cost, and it comes at a burden. And we need to make
sure that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection
recognizes that you're willing to help the people of Everglades City,
but you're also -- you also need the state to indemnify you for some of
the problems that that utility has faced in the past and potentially will
face in the future.
Storm watershed projects are going to continue to be important.
We just, as you know, I think, successfully negotiated a settlement
between the Department of Agriculture and Collier County on
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Picayune Strand. Watershed projects are going to be the focal point of
your legislative agenda, I would suspect.
So these issues will continue to shape, I think, the priorities, your
discussion with local delegation members, with the governor, and with
our national delegation, and a coordinated response will be critical to
your success.
Dan in his presentation this morning suggested that any
coordinated response to a natural disaster is a community-wide
response. And so it is.
You showed as a community through your leadership, through the
leadership of Leo, Nick, and their staffs, that that coordinated effort,
that community-wide effort was, indeed, successful.
And I would add that, likewise, the effort to rebuild, the effort to
remake this community will also be a community effort, one which is
critically important for all of us to work cohesively together on and to
advocate as one voice, one community, before Tallahassee and
Washington.
I will close by comparing the response in Collier County to what
we saw with Hurricane Harvey in Texas. Hurricane Harvey was an
altogether different storm, and certainly Houston suffered flooding
events like no other. But I think there's a lost point that has not been
discussed in the media about Hurricane Harvey and the flooding which
Houston experienced, and that is, is that Houston touts itself as the
only city in the nation with no zoning laws; none. And you can build
whatever you want on your property, and that has been the case in the
city of Houston since the founding of the city. And it shows what lack
of planning can do to people in a community: Lack of cooperation
between government and citizens and builders and developers. You
just heard from one today.
We, in Naples and in Collier County, were able to survey the
wrath of Irma because of planning and your effort to work with
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developers and work with the community at large and plan for events
like this.
Our efforts are to protect your ability to plan in Tallahassee and
not allow state government to take away your local authority to do so.
That, Madam Chairwoman, Members of the Commission, will remain
our number one objective as we work for your issues in the 2018
legislative session.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. Any questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No. Thank you.
MR. IAROSSI: You guys want to stand up here. Come on. Don't
be shy.
Thank you, Madam Chair, Nick Iarossi with Capital City
Consulting. It's an honor to be here and to be selected as a finalist to
represent Collier County. We're pleased to be here, and thanks for the
opportunity to present.
I started Capital City Consulting in 2003 with a couple of my
partners, and since then we've built it into one of the top lobbying
firms in the state representing a multitude of different clients across a
broad spectrum. We're very proud of what we've built.
And I think the thing that sets us apart from other firms is that
some firms are very good at the technical side of things, other firms are
very good at the political side of things, and I think we've taken a lot of
pride in combining political resourcefulness with technical knowledge
to really create great results for all of our clients, and I think that's
demonstrated by our growth over the years.
I've been in this process now for about 20 years. This will be my
18th session lobbying. And the process has evolved quite a bit over
the years as I've been doing it. One of the things that we've done is try
to hire people who are more specified in the certain areas. And when
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we looked at your bid, it seemed like there were really three areas that
you were focused on.
One, obviously, is appropriations. Appropriations work is
important, obviously, to bring state money down from Tallahassee;
two is public infrastructure projects which, given Hurricane Irma, are
going to become even more important, and resources are going to be
more scarce in Tallahassee, so lobbying efforts are going to have to be
more intense; and then the third is environmental issues.
And when we looked at that bid -- we typically don't go after
every local government bid that comes out. A lot of firms do. We
really don't. We felt we were really well suited to represent Collier
County based upon those principles.
And I brought with me today Jim Boxold, former Secretary of the
Department of Transportation, and Andrew Ketchel, who we hired
recently from the Department of Environmental Protection. And I'd
like to have them just briefly introduce themselves.
MR. BOXOLD: Good morning. As Nick said, I'm Jim Boxold
with Capital City Consulting.
I'm honored to be here with you this morning. Southwest
Florida's, obviously, a special part of the state. I grew up in South
Florida, and my first job after college was working for Congressman
Porter Goss who used to represent this area.
We talk a lot about the difference between South Florida and
Southwest Florida, and it's certainly -- and I'm not going to date myself
and tell you how long ago that was, but the difference between
Southwest Florida and South Florida was apparent even then.
And when I did work for Porter Goss, the issues that we focused
on are going to be very familiar to you; they were making sure that
Florida got its fair share in transportation dollars and making sure that
at that time what we called the western Everglades got the attention
that it needed.
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After seven or eight years, I got my fill of Washington, D.C.,
moved halfway back home, settled in Tallahassee, worked for
Governor Bush and then the Commissioner of agricultural, Charlie
Bronson, and then Adam Putnam.
I'm certainly reminded of my time at the Department of
Agriculture given the devastation that your agriculture producers in the
eastern part of the county are facing now in the wake of Irma. It's
certainly reminiscent of the storms in '04 and '05. That will be a
tremendous challenge going forward.
As Nick mentioned, I spent the last several years of my career in
state government at the Florida DOT, worked on a number of issues
that are going to be very familiar to you, worked with Senator Richter
on the fire station at Mile Marker 63, the widening of I-75 here in
Collier County, advancing the critical safety upgrades for State Road
82 to reduce the deaths that were occurring and then, finally, the
additional fencing for Florida panthers along Alligator Alley.
And while I was honored to get a Conservationist of the Year
award from Florida Wildlife Federation, I recognize that that project
and those improvements to protect the Florida panther wouldn't have
happened without a lot of leadership, including right here in Collier
County.
So I think Nick laid out very clearly that Southwest Florida's a
special place, and I think part of what makes it special is that balance
between public infrastructure and the environment. And I think our
firm, without question, has a tremendous amount of value to add to
that equation, so I appreciate the consideration.
Thank you.
MR. KETCHEL: Thank you, Nick, Jim.
Chairman, my name is Andrew Ketchel. I spent the last three
years of my career as the Legislative Affairs Director of the
Department of Environmental Protection. Prior to that I worked for
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Governor Scott in his Legislative Affairs Office; have been very
involved with all the issues that face Collier County; worked quite a bit
with Leo and Nick on oil and gas and mineral rights issues, beach
restoration issues, mitigation banking issues in the areas of this part of
the state that are very unique to the environment. Very proud of the
work that I've done for this county and for the Department of
Environmental Protection.
About a year ago I joined Capital City Consulting; knew Nick for
many years through my time in the governor's office. My relationship
with the Governor is obviously very special, and so is Nick's. He was
a part of his statewide finance chairmanship and helped the governor
on a number of different issues. So the firm itself is very close with
the Governor as well.
So thank you for the opportunity to potentially serve you and the
county and the opportunity to put our issues in front of the county and
make your issues number one.
So with that, I will turn it back over to Nick, and thank you again.
MR. IAROSSI: So as you can see, those are just two examples of
the 10 lobbyists that we have at the firm that have broad-ranging
policy expertise.
Looking over your past legislative agendas, things like workers'
comp reform, for example. We have Ashley Kalifeh in our office, who
is Deputy CFO, handles the insurance workers' comp issues. We have
Dean Izzo who joined us from -- as Deputy Secretary of the
Department of Economic Opportunity, which hands out incentives and
grant programs, is an expert in those areas. Scott Ross, Deputy
Secretary of DBPR for regulated industries issues, condo associations,
things like -- of that nature that the county's faced; healthcare,
education. We really have policy experts in all these areas that you're
going to be able to draw upon if we are fortunate enough to be selected
here today.
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I guess I'll just close in saying that, again, we don't really respond
to all these types of RFPs for lobbying services locally. We think,
given the policy expertise of these guys, myself -- I do a lot of work
not only in the business sector, but I represent the Everglades
Foundation, so projects like Picayune Strand sur project, very familiar
with. We've gotten lots of funding for CERP projects and Everglades
restoration projects over the years. So we're very familiar with all the
issues that are priorities that have been listed in the RFP.
Happy to answer any questions. And, again, thank you for
selecting us as a finalist.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes.
First of all, you said the right words when you say you don't go
after every bid that's out there. You are select in your decision. That
made me feel good because that means you come to the front of the
line as far as the counties you represent rather than you're just part of
the group or the crowd.
Number one, do you assist with Florida Association of Counties?
Do you work with them? Have you been working with them to help us
-- or to help your clients?
MR. ISACKSON: Sure. So if -- we don't have another county
client. So if selected, you'd be our first and only county client. We
represent several local government entities such as City of Venice,
Palm Beach County Sheriff, several school districts. We're familiar
with the issues surrounding local government, but you'd be our first
county.
Now, have we worked with FAC on other issues that may involve
the cities as well? Of course, yeah, and the counties are impacted,
obviously, by lots of different types of legislation, including workers'
comp, economic incentives. So, yeah, everyone works in coalitions in
that regard. So very familiar with the people at Florida Association of
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Counties. You're going to be hearing from one of the best ones, I
think, to come out of there shortly, Lisa, but -- she's tough competition.
But, yeah, absolutely.
And Tallahassee's a small town, so coalition building -- as
Senator Saunders will tell you from his time up there, coalition
building is really a key part of effective lobbying, and so working well
with others in those types of coalitions to be effective is a priority.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: They have helped us so much over
the years. And I know Lisa isn't with them anymore, but they've really
been helpful so I wanted to make sure --
MR. IAROSSI: Fantastic organization.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- there was a good working
relationship there.
MR. IAROSSI: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Secondly, are you -- it sounds like
from your presentation already that you can open doors to different
legislators. That's important to us, too; a good working relationship,
feet on the ground with the people that matter to our needs, so --
MR. IAROSSI: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- you do -- you have open doors to
legislation?
MR. IAROSSI: I would say, Commissioner, that, you know, our
firm is incredibly politically active, one of the most politically active
firms by far in the state and, out of the 10 of us who are part of the
firm, there's no one that we can't reach.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Great. And let's see -- do you -- will
you set up schedules for us and participate when the schedules are
prepared for us and they meet our approval and John Mullin -- where --
oh, there you are -- you know, he'll be your go-to guy, do you then
assist us and go to these different meetings with us?
MR. IAROSSI: Yes, ma'am. I do quite a bit of that right now for
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clients like school districts that come up for committee weeks or
during session for certain times. We set a whole agenda for them,
walk them through the capitol, make the introductions, help with the
policy, arguments, and give briefings ahead of time, because a lot of
times it's important so that the client knows when they're walking into
a room what the political dynamics are with that particular legislator
and maybe their interaction with leadership or with the other party or
other members of the committee that they're on so that you're on
message also when you go in.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you very much.
MR. IAROSSI: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, just -- this whole
process is going to take a little bit of time, but it's very, very important,
as we all know.
Two areas I'd like to inquire on. One is, I agree with you
completely that there's no more important process in getting legislative
support than building coalitions. Can you give me an example of some
project you may have worked on and what type of coalitions you
would have put together?
MR. IAROSSI: Sure. So, I mean, to be honest, every session we
usually have a different coalition that we're working with. On workers
comp reform, for example, working with various interests of the
business community and also trying to reach out with the workers
comp trial lawyers to figure out solutions to problems. And when I say
"coalition building," too, it's not just people who are like minded in the
lobbying core, but also within the legislature. It's important to work
both sides of the legislature.
A lot of times firms will only work the Republicans or only work
the Democrats. But the reality is, on any given issue, and any issue
that you put forth as a priority, you're going to have to build coalitions
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of Republicans and Democrats many times.
And, as you know, Senator, on committees, those votes can be
very narrow margins at times. So it's building coalitions on issues with
people who are in the private sector pushing a certain initiative and
also building coalitions within the legislature to ensure that you have
the votes. And we see that numerous times particularly on the
Everglades Foundation issues. Those are typically very polarizing
issues, and the only way you get something done, particularly the
things that we've gotten done -- over the last several years with record
amounts of funding and policy initiatives, the only way you get there is
through building coalitions inside and out of the legislature.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And then in terms of building
those coalitions with members of the legislature, setting up meetings,
access, obviously, is very important. And, you know, I hate to say that
campaign activities, campaign contributions, working on individual
campaigns over the years generates the ability to have more access.
Does your firm engage in some of the political activities to assist
candidates that are running for the Senate or for the House? And, if so,
kind of give them a little bit of an idea of what that involves.
MR. IAROSSI: Sure. Yeah, I mean, absolutely, we're one of
probably the most political active firms in the state. We raise millions
of dollars -- it's an election cycle -- supporting those candidates who
are philosophically aligned with the interests of our clients to, in the
clients' mind, you know, create good government based on philosophy.
That is a year-round process.
I probably spend 60 percent of my time on political fundraising,
outreach relationship building with members of the legislature,
traveling the state constantly, spending time with them, working with
them in their districts on campaigns. These guys are going around the
state as well as the other seven guys we have, guys and gals we have in
the firm, traveling to the districts getting to know the candidates,
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really, now at the early phases.
So with term limits and these guys cycling in and out every eight
years, it's really important that you build relationships with them when
they first run for office.
And then, you know, those relationships, that level of trust from
spending time -- and it's no different than you guys have when people
come advocate on your behalf. There are people that you have
developed a level of trust with who have credibility with you so that
what they're saying you take seriously and aren't suspect.
And so our philosophy in dealing with candidates from a political
perspective is not only the fundraising aspects, the putting time in on
the campaigns, but putting time in with them as individuals so you
develop a rapport and a level of trust.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Any other questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Thank you very much.
MR. IAROSSI: Thank you.
MS. HURLEY: Good morning. It's great to see you again. Lisa
Hurley and my partner Andrea Reilly from Smith, Bryan & Myers.
I would like to start off by saying Smith, Bryan & Myers does not
bid on every local government bid that's put out there. Number two,
I'd like to say that I hope height is not one of the criteria you're using in
selecting your lobbyist today.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Or a deep voice.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Sorry, that's the number one
criteria.
MS. HURLEY: I will sit down now then.
The last time I had the pleasure of presenting before you,
Commissioner Saunders, you were actually on this side of the dais
with Keith Arnold and I, and we were giving a legislative update to the
Board, and so it's really good to see you up there. Congratulations,
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again, on your election.
I stepped in before our presentation and caught the middle of the
report from your Public Utilities Department on the current status of
your debris removal plan after Hurricane Irma. And I will tell you, I'm
not a resident here, but when I drove in from Miami last night, you
would never believe that two weeks ago one of the largest, most
powerful hurricanes in the history had ravaged this county.
I heard and I couldn't believe you're still four to six months out
from completing the mission. But I have to tell you, I mean, I was
amazed to see the streets as clean as they were. And so that is a
testament to your leadership and always your great staff on what
you've done so far.
So -- and I think it's also a testament to your leadership in that you
have three very qualified firms that are all vying for the opportunity to
represent you in Tallahassee. We're all very close. We all work
together with each other in Tallahassee, and so these days aren't
particularly fun for us, but -- yeah. But anyways we, too, are honored
that we were selected as one of your three candidates under
consideration.
So Smith, Bryan & Myers, we've been around for over 30 years in
Tallahassee. We have a long history of representing local
governments. Hillsborough County we've represented for over 20
years now. Smith, Bryan & Myers has also represented the Florida
Association of Counties for over 10 years. We've acted as their lead
contract lobbyist for that period of time.
Some of you may know me when I wasn't at the Florida
Association of Counties. I was there for five years, and I was their
legislative director, and I always looked to Smith, Bryan & Myers as
our lead firm because they're results oriented, and that's why I went
there.
We are keenly aware of what local governments face on a yearly
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basis in Tallahassee. It's always challenging. There's always attacks
on home rule, and that's why you belong to associations like the
Florida Association of Counties. But besides those issues that the 67
counties can combine forces on, you also have to look out for your
local projects, your appropriations requests, and that's where leadership
and your contacts with leadership and access to leadership will give
you the results that you're looking for.
And I think Smith, Bryan & Myers is really second to none in our
relationships with leadership. We work very closely with the
Governor, very closely with the President, Speaker, both
appropriations chairs. I believe it's important to -- if you haven't done
so already, follow up. You may consider following up on reputations
and relationships at the legislative level, because at the end of the day,
that's what this process is about, and it's about relationships.
I agree with Keith that this session will be a hurricane-focused
session both on future hurricane preparedness and recovery efforts -- I
think there's going to be probably some finger pointing going on -- but
there's also going to be everyone vying for a very small pool of
resources.
We've already had the state economist who projected $52 million
surplus this year is already going to be eaten up, no doubt about it -- by
the monies that will be needed for recovery efforts.
And so, again, going back to it's always important to have access
and relationships with leadership but none more important than this
next legislative session that we're entering into.
So I think it's important to know a little bit about our firm culture.
Smith, Bryan & Myers has seven lobbyists and two administrative
assistants. The seven lobbyists have very, very diverse backgrounds in
levels of different areas of expertise.
We do not act in silos. Although we appoint a team lead for our
clients, that doesn't mean you only have access to one or two lobbyists.
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When you contract with Smith, Bryan & Myers, you have access to the
whole team, all seven of us.
And as a testament to our founder, Matt Bryan, he really -- our
reputation and our work ethic is first and foremost in his mind, and to
that means that he wants to make sure that we are all keenly aware of
what's going on with our other -- with everyone's clients.
So to that end, every week, Tuesdays and Friday, we have weekly
staff meetings to make sure we go around the table to make sure
everyone's aware of what's going on with our clients, where we need
help. We want to make sure, if I don't have the proper contact or
Andrea doesn't have the proper contact, we get one of the members of
our team assigned to a particular leader to make sure we have the
appropriate person tasked for that job. So you get the whole team when
you contract with us.
So Andrea Riley, who I introduced to you briefly before, she's
been with the firm for five years now. She was with Holland & Knight
before that. She's -- like myself, she's a lawyer as well, and she was
with Adam Putnam in D.C., so she's got the federal experience there.
Matt Bryan, who I mentioned before, he's our -- the founding
partner of Smith, Bryan & Myers, recognized as -- in 2016 as an
Appropriations Lobbyist of the Year. So I know that's very important
for your local interests.
And I think my time is coming up, but we have Jeff Hartley that's
been there for over 20 years. He really heads up the fundraising and
the political activities for us. So, like Nick's firm, we're highly
engaged in that, and we understand the importance in that and building
relationships there.
Tom Griffin from Senator Bradley's office who's worked in all
aspects of the legislature; and then we've David Daniel from, formerly,
of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Jim Naff from the
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs. And I'm sorry I took
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all my time, so I'll stop there.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I wanted to ask you a couple
of questions as well. I did -- my firm lobbies for Lee County, and a
couple years back they had a very major problem with the
implementation of flood elevations and lawsuits that were filed under
the Bert Harris Act.
And one of the things that we did is we formed coalitions, and I
know you were very instrumental in making sure that legislation -- the
Bert Harris legislation was changed to help protect local governments
that were adopting federal flood elevations, because every county had
to adopt those.
Do you still put together those types of coalitions? On that
particular one we had Florida Association of Counties, League of
Cities, and then we had other communities that were interested in that
particular issue. But do you put together those types of coalitions?
MS. HURLEY: We do. And, really, with local government
issues, that's critical. You know, we need to bring in other allies when
we're working on county issues, and the one that I worked most closely
on this last session was the vacation rental issue and so -- which has
been hanging around for years, and we've been fighting for years, but
with my representation of the Florida Association of Counties in
Flagler, we reached out and brought in the homeowner associations
and the Restaurant and Lodging Association. This year we actually
brought in -- we'll see more of a presence from the national hotel and
lodging associations, so that will be a big one this year. And so, yes,
the answer is we still do that.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Two more questions. I asked
Capital City concerning their political activities. You mentioned a
little bit about that. Can you kind of elaborate on that, and then I have
one more question.
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MS. HURLEY: I sure would. And if I may, I'd love to bring
Andrea up. She's been at the firm a lot longer than I have, and she
could probably speak more in depth on that issue. Andrea?
MS. REILLY: Thank you.
I would echo a lot of Nick's comments in that it is almost a
full-time job. We spend -- when we're not over in the capitol, we are
running around the state and sometimes outside of the state spending
time with legislators and supporting them, their campaigns. Whether
it's going down and walking door to door, fundraising or, you know,
waving signs, we participate very heavily in those activities at all
levels; rank and file, freshman, all the way up through leadership when
needed.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. And so one more
question. One of the -- I'm sorry. I assume you were finished.
One of the things that my firm likes to do is have meetings with
county and city staff to see what kind of issues the department heads
may be having with current legislation -- current statutes. Would you
be willing to come to Collier County to -- as needed to meet with staff,
to help us develop a legislative agenda that may attack not only the
appropriations issues that we're facing now but maybe in terms of
some operational issues we may be facing with existing law?
MS. HURLEY: The answer to that question is a resounding yes.
I mean, that's the only way we can effectively represent you at the state
levels. We have to fully understand what's going on here. And so
there's no limit to the amount of -- and the amount of trips we'll make
down here to make sure we're fully immersed in the issues that you're
facing so we can represent you in Tallahassee.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Any other questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Thank you very much.
MS. HURLEY: Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Saunders?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. These are always
difficult decisions. We have -- Mr. Arnold has represented Collier
County for, I think he indicated, 20 years. And though these are
difficult decisions and though there's that long history, that's not
necessarily a reason to continue that process.
I think the two firms that addressed us that were more -- most
specific in terms of what they do in Tallahassee, how they address their
clients, were the two firms: Capital City and Smith, Bryan.
And so, Madam Chair and Commissioners, this is going to take a
couple minutes, but this is a very important issue for us --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- as outlined by everybody so,
you know, bear with me on this.
We spend substantial dollars in hiring lobbyists to represent our
interests, and we need to make sure that we are spending those dollars
in the best ways for our citizens.
And so it's very important, and it was pointed out because of the
issues with Hurricane Irma how important it is this coming legislative
session to make the right decision. Each one of us has our specific
areas of expertise; we can't be experts in everything. And I'm going to
ask you to defer to some point to my expertise. I was a member of the
legislature for 14 years. I certainly know the process.
I'm still with a firm that lobbies one of the -- we make -- Jason
Unger may take exception as to which firm is the most politically
connected, but I am with one of the those firms and very familiar with
that. And so, as I said, each one of us has our own area of expertise.
Chairman Taylor, you've been involved with the ethics issues,
beach renourishment, you've taken a lead on making sure that we got
more money into beach renourishment.
Commissioner Solis, you're an expert on economic development,
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and you've taken a lead on mental health, and certainly your expertise
as a land use lawyer is well known, and we defer to you.
Commissioner McDaniel, any issues dealing with Everglades
City, the sewer plant that we're dealing with there, Immokalee, the
rural lands issues, we really defer to your substantial experience in all
of those things.
And, Commissioner Fiala, you're the history of this county.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Now you're history.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And we defer to you on
numerous issues to find out what the background was and what the
history was, and obviously you're an expert on all of the issues dealing
with East Naples and Marco Island.
And so I'm going to -- I'm going to suggest that we select -- and
this is difficult for me because I know people from both -- from all
three of these firms, but particularly the other two.
I'm going to suggest that we pick Smith, Bryan & Myers as our
lobbying firm going forward. And if the Board's willing to do that,
then I would suggest that we do that on a contract that provides that
either party can terminate the contract -- those are pretty typical -- with
one month's notice. It can be a one-year contract or a three-year
contract, but I'm going to suggest that we select Smith, Bryan. And
there's a lot of reasons for that.
Lisa Hurley, you heard her comments concerning her
background. I can tell you that during the legislative session when she
was with the Florida Association of Counties, we had weekly meetings
of the entire county lobbying teams from around the state. We'd meet
in the basement of the capitol. I think it was seven o'clock in the
morning. We all hated that, but she was a true leader in terms of
making sure that every county, whether it was an in-house lobbyist or a
contract lobbyist, that every person touched the right members of the
legislature. She knew who needed to be contacted. She gave those
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orders. And believe me, everybody followed those orders, and she was
very successful.
And the Florida Association of Counties and those types of
coalitions, I believe she's the right person for Collier County to help us
deal with those legislative issues that are going to be very important to
us.
Matt Bryan, I worked with him when I was in the legislature for
many years. As was pointed out, he was named the Appropriations
Legislator of the Year by Influence Magazine in 2016. Their listing of
their appropriations is tremendous in areas where we really need that
help.
Economic incubators, they've been very successful in that. Beach
renourishment, they've been very successful in that. Transportation,
they've been very successful in that.
And Nick, you know, one of the things that sort of moves me
away from your firm to Smith, Bryan is the fact that Smith, Bryan does
represent other counties, and I think that experience is important. I'm
going to use one example; Hillsborough County. Now, there are three
members of the Hillsborough County Commission that were members
of the legislature. Two of them were the members of the Senate that I
served with, and that firm has represented Hillsborough County for 20
years. Now, that's a sophisticated group of people, but it's -- three
members of that commission really understand the need to have Smith,
Bryan as their lobbyist.
And their -- I think their experience, as members of the
legislature, says a lot when they're maintaining their relation with
Smith, Bryan.
So I'm going to ask the Commission, and I'd be pleased to make a
motion, to select Smith, Bryan as our lobbying team going forward.
So Madam Chair, I'll make that motion.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I'll second it.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We have a motion on the floor, okay.
And there's a second. Is there any discussion here?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: With a compliment to
Commissioner Saunders. Your analogous statements with regard to
the individual expertise and knowledge is paramount, so thank you.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: It sounded like you were a lobbyist.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: You know, I am a lobbyist for
Collier County. I want to make sure that we do the best for our
citizens. And I really genuinely believe this is the right way to go.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I'll tell you, Capital City was
really impressive to me, and with all of the background. I read
everything in all of these three, and they were impressing me too. But
then again, I know what Lisa Hurley can do, because I've worked with
her for years and so -- through the Florida Association of Counties.
And with your saying -- I thought, oh, my goodness, there's only
seven people there. Would they ever be able to give us the service we
would like or we would need. And so I was concerned about that, but I
think with your -- your --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Experience.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- I want to say the right words. I
want to say support for them versus anybody else and your knowledge
and background, I would have to say I will go along with that and --
but Capital, you did a great job. I was -- this has been tough for me,
but thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Do you want to --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. I was going to say, whatever the
decision is, I think it's a wise decision, if there is a change here, that we
look at it in a year and evaluate it.
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COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Sure. You know, most of
these lobbying contracts provide for termination. If we're not happy
with our lobbyist, we can terminate. And if they're not happy with us.
You know, it's a very -- even though you may have a one-year
contract, which we can have, if they're not happy or we're not happy --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So it's an easy out.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Always, always.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Well, then I'm not sure then a
one-year contract is -- it's superfluous. There we are. I got it out.
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, if I might just interrupt. The contract
-- the form contract in your packet was intended to be a two-year
contract with an option to renew for an additional year. We can
modify that, certainly, if the Board would like. But two years with an
option is typically, I think, a good --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: That contract is fine; then that
would be part of my motion. But I want to make sure that there is an
out.
MR. OCHS: Oh, yes, sir. There's always a 30-day, for
convenience.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's in that agreement. I believe
I read that, yeah.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: The only thing I was going to say is I
think the presentations were exceptional, and everyone has great
qualifications. Prior to Commissioner Saunders' presentation --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Lobbying.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- lobbying, you know, I like the idea
of being the county, the one county that's going to be represented by a
firm, you know. I mean, I think my only concern was, you know, being
one client amongst counties like Hillsborough County is -- you know,
when we're -- if we're competing for dollars, you know, and
appropriations and things. But I think as long as everyone feels
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comfortable with that, and that, you know, that won't be an issue that
we're quite -- not quite as large a county as Hillsborough or
Miami-Dade or one of the other counties, that that's not going to
impact, you know, the work and the results that we can expect, then I'll
support the motion as well.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: It was tough.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yep.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Really tough.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: A difficult decision.
MR. MULLINS: Commissioners, I don't know if this will impact
the motion that you have, but we would also request that the Chair be
authorized to finalize the agreement so we can try to have the contract
in place by October 1st.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. I'll make that part of the
motion. We need to get moving. Obviously, there are going to be
committee meetings in October.
MR. OCHS: Yes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's part of the second as
well. I'm good with that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. There's a motion on the floor
and a second, Smith, Bryan and --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Smith, Bryan & Myers.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- that they are employed by us as
lobbyists as of October the 1st.
All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Congratulations. And thank you very
much.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you to you all.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think it is time for our break.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, my goodness.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Lunch.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Lunch.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's the second time that
happened.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's amazing.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: The other time was at 11:15.
(A luncheon recess was had.)
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, you have a live mike.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. County
Manager --
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- where are we?
Item #7
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA
MR. OCHS: We're on Item 7, public comments on general topics
not on the current or future agenda.
MR. MILLER: Commissioners, you have one registered speaker,
Dr. Joseph Doyle, who's been ceded three additional minutes from
Sandra Doyle, who is present.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
How are you?
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DR. DOYLE: Good morning, Commissioners, or good
afternoon, Commissioners. I'm fine. How are you? That's the
question.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Good, thank you.
DR. DOYLE: Actually, I'm happy that you're having this
meeting today, because I'm sick of watching reruns of July 11th. I
think I'm going to get the Emmy for the most public comment in one
meeting. But, anyway, here I am again.
First I want to give accolades to Commissioner Solis, because I
do live in District 2, and we received regular updates daily from
Commissioner. We actually evacuated for the storm, but it was nice to
know when -- what was going on down here, when to come back,
because we didn't want to be a burden to the water and the sewer issues
that were happening, et cetera.
And so we came when power was restored and that sort of thing.
So that worked out well. So that was very helpful to have that
information.
That being said, I would like to say that we left on Thursday,
September 7th, which was the same day as the first budget hearing, but
that was the only budget hearing for Pelican Bay.
Now, I haven't seen a tape of it or anything like that, but I would
like to ask that we have -- which was one of my public comments in
July -- that we have in this case a second public hearing for Pelican
Bay because many of us were not here on September 7th.
So I'd just like to bring that to your attention and see what we can
do about that. I don't know -- I'd seen in the newspaper something
about the third budget hearing possibly but, you know, maybe it could
go there, whatever, but I would like to see something.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You normally have one budget hearing.
DR. DOYLE: Remember, that was the whole thing that I --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Right, we have a budget hearing on
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Thursday. Are we -- can we add to the agenda? I'm not -- I don't
know. I'm asking.
MR. OCHS: Well, it wasn't advertised because the Board talked
about this at their first hearing and decided not to have a second
hearing.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
DR. DOYLE: But I had put in a request prior to the budget that
you do a continuance. Did anyone do a continuance to the second
hearing?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I don't think it was -- we didn't
continue it. I'm trying to remember. There was some discussion with
Neil Dorrill about coming back and doing more presentation, or am I
remembering that wrong? Where did we end up on that?
MR. OCHS: You voted on the budget at the first hearing.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: We did? Okay.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: What happened was we
brought up the discussion of, since there would only be one budget
hearing on that particular item, should we go ahead and continue that
to the second budget hearing.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: There was some discussion
about that, and the Board just decided to move forward with it. So I
don't think we're in a position where we can do anything differently --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Because of the advertisement.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's advertised.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. I mean, it was done
and, of course, there's nothing been advertised.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I think I can -- wasn't his reply
something like they had talked to their board, too, and the Board said,
no, that they were satisfied with this budget?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Right. One of the questions
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was, what was the board vote, and I think the board was like 8-1 or
there was only one dissenting vote on the board. And so the
Commission decided to just go ahead, move forward with it.
DR. DOYLE: Well, I understand that, but I quite think it's unfair
because we were under a state of emergency both from the Governor
and locally. And to have a budget hearing that -- I mean, you know.
You've seen all the letters to the editor in the newspaper and
commentaries. I really think that that September 7th budget hearing,
quite frankly, was unfair for everybody. Not just Pelican Bay, but also
for all the ad valorem millages.
Now, obviously, they have a remedy because you have a second
one on Thursday, but we don't have a remedy for Pelican Bay, okay.
So the other thing that you need to consider, too, is I noticed that
on today's summary agenda, 17B, with the waste removal, you know,
the garbage collection, that that was advertised for September 12th,
and all the paperwork in there still says September 12th, even in the
resolution in the ordinance. Maybe that should be continued also to
Thursday. Even though you approved it on the summary agenda
today, it really was not held as the advertised public hearing for the
12th.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Say that again.
DR. DOYLE: It was summary agenda 17B, as in boy.
MR. OCHS: Yeah. The meeting of the 12th was canceled, and
it's carried over to today.
DR. DOYLE: Right, but that item was put on the summary
agenda. It was not necessarily heard, you know, as a formal hearing as
was advertised. So that you could also carry over to this Thursday.
MR. KLATZKOW: The time to have done that would have been
this morning before you took action.
DR. DOYLE: Well, did anyone read it closely?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, of course.
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DR. DOYLE: I just put that out, because I know you
commissioners had a lot to read, and I think someone should have
pointed it out to you this morning.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So you're saying that on 17 -- oh,
excuse me; I just had it here. 17E?
DR. DOYLE: B as in boy.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: B, yeah, that's better.
DR. DOYLE: You know, I just get the impression that with
slipping things through on the taxpayer at this point.
MR. OCHS: No, we're not slipping anything through,
Commissioners. This is an annual assessment for collection of garbage
--
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, yeah. That's right.
MR. OCHS: -- around the county, and it sets the annual fees. We
do that every year.
DR. DOYLE: Well, it happens to be a 9 percent increase. In the
past it's been a 3 percent increase. For some reason this time it's 9
percent, and we haven't discussed it.
MR. OCHS: You weren't here to discuss it.
DR. DOYLE: I think it should go to the public hearing.
MR. OCHS: You weren't here to discuss it this morning, sir, if
you wanted to talk about it.
DR. DOYLE: It was set September 12th. It was erroneous. The
whole item is erroneous.
So, you know, Commissioners, I'd like to just point these out to
you. I realize we had a storm, but I think we need to rectify some of
these procedural things. You are the Board, they are the staff, and you
set the direction.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So where are we with 17B?
Can we add 17B to the agenda on Thursday?
MR. KLATZKOW: You have approved it.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We don't need to.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, but we're in the --
MR. KLATZKOW: If you want to reconsider it and bring it back
--
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We can reconsider it, yes.
MR. KLATZKOW: If you want to reconsider it and bring it
back, you may do so. But right now you approved it.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Right. I mean, we can reconsider it in
this meeting; is that correct? And then at the next meeting we have to
bring it --
MR. KLATZKOW: You would make a motion to reconsider it,
and then we would bring it back at a future meeting.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And what is that going to do with the --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Tax Collector.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, the collection.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, because we have to have two
meetings on that, right?
MR. OCHS: I'm sorry, ma'am?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'm sorry. I thought -- if we reconsider
this and bring it back at a later meeting, which the first meeting would
be October.
MR. OCHS: October 7th.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Too late.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: October 7th, right?
MR. OCHS: I guess you set your rates on October 7th instead of
October 1st that's --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Retroactively and have it --
MR. OCHS: -- concurrent with your -- the start of your fiscal
year. All this was briefed during your budget workshops. This is not
surprising. It's a routine item we do every year.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: We all knew it was coming.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And we voted on it.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. I doubt that anybody's
going to change their position on it. If there's a desire to change, then
we should reconsider it, but if there's no desire to change it -- and I
have no desire to change it. I mean, I understand the concern that's
been expressed, and perhaps next time we can do a little better job.
But, I mean, we voted on that this morning, and I think we all
understood it.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: We can plan on no hurricane the
next time. Maybe that would help us, too. You know, I still think --
you can correct me here if I'm wrong. Don't we have the lowest
garbage pickup rate in the State of Florida?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Is that because we have the
best garbage?
DR. YILMAZ: For the record, George Yilmaz, Collier County
Public Utilities.
Commissioners, we have presented to you in line item budget
presentation both revenue and expenditure side, being the revenue
centric Enterprise Fund management.
So it was presented to you during our public meeting line item by
line item at least twice, and then you did hear and go through same
agenda item last time, and you have approved it.
So I take exception to gentleman's comments. I'm not sure if you
were here or not, sir, but we are transparent, our rates are based on
facts, revenue centric and Enterprise Fund, and this board made the
decisions based on informed recommendations by competent staff.
MR. KLATZKOW: Commissioners, I misspoke. I'm reading the
ordinance now. Given the circumstances, you could reconsider it and
hear it right now if you wanted to.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Is there any -- let's do it. Do
you want to do that, or do we -- I'm asking for some comments. We
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could reconsider it and hear it right now. We don't have to move it to
another meeting.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, you mean, like, I make a
motion to approve?
MR. OCHS: You have to make a motion to reconsider and get a
majority to reconsider it first.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And what does that do to -- I know
that October 1 we set our tax rate and so that then they can move
forward with that. What does this do to that?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It won't do anything because we just
approved on the summary judgment. If we reconsidered it and now
then brought it back and talked about it, it was just like we took it off
the summary judgment and -- yeah. I mean, I think it's six --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay. So I'll make the motion
then.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'll second that.
All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Carries unanimously -- oh, you oppose.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I oppose.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay, 4-1.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Madam Chair, can we go
ahead and reconsider that right now since it's the topic that we --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And may I? I had my hand up
when you were talking about discussion, Madam Chair.
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Commissioner Fiala blocks our view every once in a while.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Purposely.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, this works very well.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Purposely, yes. And I just
wanted to make a point, Doc. I agree with you with regard to the
budget hearing that we did, in fact, have. I didn't find that that was a
proper way for our community to be conducting business on its first
process. I was outvoted on that, but this particular item I don't have an
issue with. It was vetted. I did read the backup documentation. I don't
have a need to revisit it and go through, as Dr. Yilmaz said, why we
did what we did and what we're doing. I felt that I was very well
informed to be able to make a decision on that this morning. So that's
the reason I voted against bringing it back. I don't have an issue with
talking about it, but I don't have any desire in changing my position.
DR. DOYLE: Yeah. I was just pointing out that it was
advertised for the 12th.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. We're going to do this --
MR. KLATZKOW: If we're going to do this right, he gets three
minutes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. You need to sit down, Dr.
Doyle.
DR. DOYLE: Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So we are now -- we
reconsider this -- let me read it. Oh, who should read it? I think you
should read it, sir, County Manager, or County Attorney, should you
not? Recommendation to approve resolutions approving the
preliminary assessment rolls as the final assessment rolls and adopting
the same as a non-ad valorem assessment rolls for the purpose of
utilizing the uniform method of collection, and I won't read the rest.
MR. KLATZKOW: It's before you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: 7B.
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MR. OCHS: First of all --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And I guess we're going to
have -- we have one speaker on this?
MR. KLATZKOW: We have one speaker on this, yes.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And can I just see if I can clarify
something? I mean, this resolution is for the purpose of using the
uniform collection process. This isn't approving --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The actual text.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- the actual assessment. As the
non-ad valorem assessment rolls for purpose of utilizing the uniform
method of collection. This is -- relates to putting it on our tax bill for
collection, right?
MR. KLATZKOW: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So it's not -- this isn't really even
about the numbers, because we've talked about those in prior
workshops, or am I mixing apples and oranges?
MR. KLATZKOW: You could revisit the number if that's what
you want to do.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, I think we need to stick to the
agenda item at hand, and it's --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So we have a speaker for three
minutes; is that it? Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Then we can vote, right?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. Commissioner McDaniel wants
to speak.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. Just as a point of order,
though the advertisement and the dates within the resolutions and
things were dated as of September 12th when we were supposed to
have a meeting, we were under a state of emergency, and it was
continued automatically due to that, so those dates would just
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automatically transfer to this date.
You know, the doc's contention about the dates being incorrect
and all, with all due respect, I don't agree with. I think because of the
situation that we were in, the improper dates that are in our
documentation just transfer to today automatically.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So we have a speaker. Who is -- the
speaker is --
MR. MILLER: Actually, I had slips from Dr. Doyle under public
comment. I'm assuming you want to afford him three additional
minutes for this agenda item. Obviously, I don't have a slip, but, Dr.
Doyle?
DR. DOYLE: Okay. Dr. Joseph Doyle, Naples. Thank you for
reconsidering this item.
And I would like to point out that I did attend the budget
workshop, as you know, in June, and I did not see anything or hear any
discussion about garbage collection in particular. But I would like to
point out to the Board that from year to year we've usually had a 2 to 3
percent increase in our garbage bill, okay. It was 182, 185, 190 this
past year. If you look in the resolution a little further down, because I
know that Commissioner Solis was trying to look for it, but there is a
number in there of $207. Well, that's a $17 increase. Now, it may not
sound like a lot, but it's 9 percent.
I don't understand why we're going -- for many years we've gone
3 percent. You know, the cost of living is around 2. Why are we
having a 9 percent increase this year? That's was what I wanted to
comment, if we did have the public hearing, which we're having right
now.
And so I feel -- I'm asking the Board to revisit it and maybe give
them half of that. You know, that's a huge increase. And I won't go
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through the whole thing. You know how we've talked about people
who are on Social Security, et cetera, et cetera. They're only getting
about 1.6 to 2 percent. So you add this and you add that. Everyone
wants 5 percent, 6 percent, 9 percent. That adds up, and people are
only getting 2 percent on their pensions. I'd just like to point that out.
That was a huge increase. Even though, as a dollar amount, that's not a
lot. It's like a, you know, large pizza or something.
But when you add it up -- every municipality wants this and that,
it adds up. So that's my comment. I'd like to see you bring that rate
down if possible. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'd like to hear from Dr.
Yilmaz. I wasn't eavesdropping or anything.
MR. YILMAZ: For the record, George Yilmaz.
Commissioners, when it comes to municipal solid waste
collections, there are at least three components. One is municipal solid
waste collection; second is municipal solid waste single stream
recycling. Those are your yellow tops. Then you have the yard waste
collection, then you have the bulk item collections.
And garbage collection is twice a week, recycling for cycle
stream once a week, and yard waste once a week, and bulk items as
needed. That's the solid waste collections part of that fee that the
gentleman is referring to.
Then we have the solid waste disposal fee. Solid waste disposal
fee is tipping fees and tipping fees associated with supplementing,
managing our household hazardous waste countywide to keep our
household and small business hazardous waste out of our waterways,
septic tanks, as well as our landfill.
So currently we are doing 38,000 collections a day; 38,000
customers we touch every day. I will challenge anyone if they want to
take their garbage, bulk items, and yard waste, contract out once, how
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much they would pay. We're paying $200, change, and our rates are
right in the middle of state of Florida solid waste districts. We're not
high, we're not low; however, our service level is one of the highest.
So my recommendation, our County Manager's recommendation
has been, it's the best value, one of the best services in the state of
Florida money can buy.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
All right. Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a motion?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'll second that motion.
All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you very
much.
Item #9D
ORDINANCE 2017-39: AN INSUBSTANTIAL CHANGE TO
ORDINANCE NO. 2014-11, AS AMENDED, THE LORD’S WAY
30 ACRE RPUD, TO ADD ONE DEVIATION RELATING TO
SIGNAGE, TO MODIFY ONE EXISTING DEVIATION
RELATING TO FENCES, WALLS AND LANDSCAPE BUFFERS,
TO REDUCE THE MINIMUM FRONT AND SIDE YARD
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SETBACKS AND DISTANCE BETWEEN STRUCTURES FOR
SINGLE-FAMILY, SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED, AND TWO-
FAMILY AND SINGLE-FAMILY ZERO LOT LINE PRINCIPAL
STRUCTURES, AND TO MODIFY EXHIBIT C-2, TYPICAL LOT
LAYOUT. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE
SOUTH SIDE OF THE LORD’S WAY, APPROXIMATELY ONE-
QUARTER MILE EAST OF COLLIER BOULEVARD, IN
SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 50 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST,
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, CONSISTING OF ±30 ACRES.
[PDI- PL20170000444] – ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that moves us to Item 9D, which
was previously Item 17D. This was moved by Commissioner Fiala
from the summary agenda to the advertised public hearing agenda.
This item does require that ex parte disclosure be provided by
commission members, and all participants are required to be sworn in.
Again, this is a recommendation to approve an unsubstantial
change to Ordinance 2014-11, the Lords Way 30-acre RPUD. This is
for property that's located on the south side of the Lords Way
approximately one quarter mile east of Collier Boulevard.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Let me just make it really simple.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, wait.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm sorry.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You need to declare.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ex parte disclosure, and we need to --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I talked to the lady in the elevator.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's it?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's it.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. I've had conversations about
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Lords Way via telephone, very -- over the several months, but that's it.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Nothing to disclose.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Apparently I've had
correspondence. I'm not -- I don't recall what it is, but we've got some
correspondence.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, nothing to report.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So all those who are going to
testify need to stand and be sworn in.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I just wanted to know what it was. I
mean, it was that simple. I wanted to know what kind of -- it doesn't
say what housing they're building. I guess we checked on that, but
they said, well, this is too early in the stage.
And I just want to know -- the people across the street over at
Naples Lakes Country Club would be really interested to know what's
moving across the street from them, and I just wanted to know what
that was. I was told that I would find out at the right time, and I
wanted to know now.
MS. CRESPO: Thank you. Good afternoon. Alexis Crespo with
Waldrop Engineering representing the applicant. I'm also the lady in
the elevator you spoke with.
Appreciate the opportunity to clarify. This is a single-family
detached community. There'll be 75 single-family lots. The pricing
will be market rate. It will be commensurate with what you see in the
surrounding Hacienda Lakes communities of Esplanade as your and
other communities coming online on the Collier Boulevard corridor.
We do have a resort-style pool, clubhouse, so there are finishes to
ensure this is going to be a quality development that the community
can be proud of. So I'm happy to answer any questions.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Did you have a neighborhood
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information meeting?
MS. CRESPO: Yes, ma'am, and no one showed up.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. So I was wondering -- because
they said they didn't know about it, nobody was going anyway or
whatever. I was wondering, if you wouldn't mind, if you'd give me
your card. Would you go over there and just have a little, like, coffee
with them and explain so that everybody knows what's going on there?
That would be just great. And that way, then, nobody will be
concerned.
MS. CRESPO: I will leave my card with Mike on my way out
today.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And I'll have somebody from that
place, whoever, call you and set that little breakfast up. You live here
locally?
MS. CRESPO: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, good. So you don't have to
travel. Okay, good. Thank you very much.
With that, I make a motion to approve.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: All in favor? Oh.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
You have to put that in the transcript, okay. Please do. No, it's a
great -- I'll always remember this. It's wonderful. It's not the first time,
and it won't be the last time. Don't worry about it.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, I know. Just yesterday I was
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conducting a meeting, so I thought I was still at bat.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
Item #11A
RESOLUTION 2017-174 (SHIP) & RESOLUTION 2017-175
(LHAP): TECHNICAL REVISIONS TO THE COLLIER COUNTY
STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) LOCAL
HOUSING ASSISTANCE PLAN (LHAP) FOR FISCAL YEARS
2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018 AND
2018-2019 REVISING THE OWNER-OCCUPIED
REHABILITATION PROGRAM, UPDATING THE SHORT SALE
POLICY, ADDING A NEW CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE
STRATEGY, AND PROVIDING REQUIRED CLARIFYING
LANGUAGE –ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, that moves us to Item 11. 11A is a
recommendation to approve two resolutions for technical revisions to
the Collier County State Housing Initiatives Partnership, or the SHIP,
Local Housing Assistance Plan for Fiscal Years 2014, '15, '16, '17, '18
and '19, revising the owner-occupied rehabilitation program, updating
the short sale policy, adding a new construction assistance strategy,
and providing required clarifying language.
Ms. Grant, your Community and Human Services Department
Director, will present.
MS. GRANT: Good afternoon, Commissioners. Kim Grant,
Division Director of Community and Human Services.
With your permission, I'd like to give a brief presentation about
these amendments, and then I'd be happy to take any questions.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I don't think we need it.
MS. GRANT: Pardon me?
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Anybody --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Going to save you the -- I was just
wondering, do we need a presentation on what this is?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, I have a comment.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I read it all.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I did, too.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So let's start with some discussion.
Any questions? Commissioner McDaniel?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. And it's just -- there
again, in light of the recent disaster, I found that some of the issues
with regard to the LAP (sic) program were somewhat lacking in
language with regard to disaster recovery housing and such along --
from a county standpoint.
I was wondering if there was an opportunity to enhance that
aspect prior to final adoption, or can we adopt it as you've presented it
and then make that adjustment interimly?
MS. GRANT: Thank you for asking that question. I was going
to give you a real brief on the disaster as well.
The short answer to your question is these amendments have been
working their way through for a while, and I would ask that these be
approved. Staff is working on bringing back to you on the October
10th meeting a program that will handle disaster recovery with all the
SHIP funds.
According to the -- yeah. So we will be essentially dedicating all
of our funds to disaster, and we're working out the details and what it
can go for, and we may actually have to ask for a couple of additional
LHAP amendments, but then we can run those quickly through a
cycle.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll move for approval.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'll second it.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. I'm sure there's some discussion
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here. Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. So let me see if I understood
what you just said.
MS. GRANT: Sure.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: You said that you're kind of going to
veer a little bit -- instead of what this actually said, you're actually
going to devote all of the funds from this to disaster recovery instead.
Is that what you said?
MS. GRANT: Essentially, but let me just clarify that and say it
all the way straight out.
This is adding an additional strategy and a couple of other
changes. Because there was a state and federal disaster declared, we
are required to turn our SHIP funds, anything that's not currently
programmed or encumbered, toward disaster solution.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Recovery.
MS. GRANT: So what we are now looking at is all the programs,
you know, are they consistent, do they have all the language we want,
and we're going to bring all of that back to you on the 10th of October
so that we can move this forward. And we may have additional
amendments, but we would like -- still like this to be approved for the
existing programs in particular so that we can continue to operate
them.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's a good thing. But -- are you
done?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah; yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I notice that this was designed more
or less to turn this over to another agency. It keeps -- instead of saying,
you know, this, it kept saying or sub-recipients or, you know, whoever
was going to help. And so most of it was designed just exactly for
that, to give it to another agency to handle these things. Who are you
talking about, or what kind of other agency or what?
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MS. GRANT: Well, most of the strategies are implemented in
such a way that we hire a partner in the community, you know, a
sub-recipient or sponsor, and that can be -- I'd have to look at each
strategy, but they're usually either for profit or not-for-profit partners
that come and execute the programs with us.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Could you name a few of them?
MS. GRANT: Sure. We have given acquisition funds to
Community Assisted and Supported Living. They do housing for
people with developmental disabilities. We have had programs with --
help me out, Kristi.
MS. SONNTAG: Oak Marsh.
MS. GRANT: Yeah. What's the program?
MS. SONNTAG: Rental rehab.
MS. GRANT: We have a rental rehabilitation program right now
with Oak Marsh, which is a rental provider out in the Immokalee area.
Thank you. Thank you. This is Kristi Sonntag. She's my
manager and keeps track of all these details for us.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And great smile.
MS. GRANT: Rural neighborhoods. Steve Kirk who has, I
think, been before you, he also has properties in Immokalee.
So it's a variety, and each time that we open up new funding, we
do an advertisement and we take applications, and then we bring it to
you for approval as to who the partner is that's selected.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. Now, there were so many
moving parts to this whole thing. One of the things that I wanted to
ask, it was talking about helping people that are eligible and then it
talked about extremely low, very low, low, and moderate. And even
under moderate -- I think it was moderate -- it said extremely low, very
low, and I was wondering how that was under moderate when
moderate was moderate. That was just -- I'll get the page for you in a
minute. I've got it marked. I've got everything marked in here.
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MS. GRANT: Well, I can -- let me try to answer that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: The reason I asked the moderate --
let me take a step further. We've got a bunch of people maybe
working right here at the county, other places that work, like in the
school system, who really need housing, and they don't qualify for
extremely low, very low, or even low, and they only qualify for
moderate. But I know we always say we're going to build it, but I
never see anything built. And I'm concerned about that.
You know I think we're just catering to one income level, and
there's a lot of people that go without because we don't focus on there.
Same with the seniors. I know I've mentioned seniors over and over
again, but we don't seem to do that either, so that's why I asked the
question.
MS. GRANT: Okay. Well, Commissioner, a year or two ago the
Commission made it very clear to us that any dollar we could spend
within the confines of the program at the upper end we were to do so,
so we have been.
So I actually have some information; for the last couple of years
of the SHIP program purchase assistance, because this is our most
common program, and of about 75 loans that were closed during that
period of time, 20, which is pretty much the maximum I can spend,
went to that moderate level, okay. So we are doing what you've asked
for.
Now, it's not such a big number. It's not 200 or 500 where it
would be evident to you; like, you can't drive down the road and say
there's 200 new homes, because we only have so much money. But I
can assure you that we are maximizing the upper end and meeting the
requirements that are also set forth for the other income levels.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And where are you purchasing
those; do you know? I mean, just --
MS. GRANT: These are individuals who purchased a home, and
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they've come to us for assistance.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Great, great. I would love to have
that list.
What does it mean here when it says the minimum of half of that
must be -- and they're talking about a sentence -- spent on people --
those people earning 30 percent of the AMI? How much is 30 percent
of the AMI?
MS. GRANT: Thirty percent of the AMI is -- I have it right here.
Hold on. For a three-person household, 30 percent of the AMI would
be a household income of $18,840.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: How much; 18,000?
MS. GRANT: That's right.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, my goodness. How can they
even live on 18,000?
MS. GRANT: That's right.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's -- so they can't really purchase
a home for that.
MS. GRANT: No. Most likely these people are benefiting from
the rental strategies. So we are for example, doing rental rehabilitation
where they live, or the people who are developmentally disabled or
otherwise need assistance, and we've had some acquisitions for those
folks.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: You know, there was something else
I found in here that I was very pleased to see and that was -- it says,
you know, we always think you have to have 30 percent of your
income devoted to housing, you know, or you really aren't eligible.
And it says, no, that's not true at all. It didn't say it that way. It just
said they limit it to an individual household's ability to devote more
than 30 percent of its income, but for a household that devotes more
than 30 percent of its income, they shall be deemed affordable also if
the first institutional mortgage lender is satisfied that the household can
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afford mortgage payments in excess of 30 percent benchmark, and
that's -- I didn't realize that. I thought we always had to -- we stressed
30 percent, and I thought that was the rule. But I thought that -- in case
anybody didn't happen to get by that we reading part, I just wanted to
present that on here.
Let's see. Oh, there were so many things that I want to -- oh, I've
never heard of a welfare transition program. Do you handle that out of
your department, too?
MS. GRANT: No, we don't. The reference to the welfare
transition program in the Local Housing Assistance Program is
carrying forward a state regulation, and the state regulation says if
you're going to give some SHIP money to, let's say, a developer and
they have to hire people to carry out the program, they are required to
try to hire people who are in the welfare transition program or the
welfare --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Trying to come out of it.
MS. GRANT: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. But that isn't something you
handle.
MS. GRANT: No.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, let's see. Administrative
functions. I've got a few -- I hope you don't mind if I'm taking some of
these -- I think these were interesting questions. Maybe nobody else
will, but anyway.
It says, verification of U.S. citizenship or permanent residency
status. What is permanent residency status? Is that the green card?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Green card.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: How do we know when their green
card expires? Does some --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It says on it.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I know, but does -- I'm trying
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to ask, does anybody -- I mean, we've got a busy department. Do they
ever go out and check everybody's green card?
MS. GRANT: So here's what happens with that. The expiration
of the card is on the card. And the literature put out by INS,
Immigration and Naturalization Service, indicates that once you have
achieved permanent resident status, you do not lose that status, but
your card might expire. And they have expiration dates on the cards to
avoid things like fraud and so forth, so periodically you need to go and
get a new card.
So we do look at that, and we've had many discussions about that.
Technically, if the card has expired, there's not a prohibition; however,
I'm not sure we've ever actually -- have we ever actually ended up
loaning to somebody whose card is expired? I don't think so.
MS. SONNTAG: I don't think so; never.
MS. GRANT: I don't think so.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. I just wondered, because I
know that you don't have a whole heck of a lot of staff to run out and
check all of these things. I mean, you can only do so much. And so I
was just wondering how -- sometimes it's only one person that has the
green card in the household and the rest do not. But I guess that's
acceptable. It's only one person that you need, right?
MS. GRANT: It's the borrowers, right?
MS. SONNTAG: It's the borrower.
MS. GRANT: It's the borrower or borrowers -- it may be one or
two people -- need to have --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That has to be legal?
MS. GRANT: Correct.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Let's see. Here we keep seeing
again, we're talking about this program with the county, but then it
keeps saying sponsor or sub-recipient or organizations. That's another
word that they use here. So, in other words, this is kind of money that
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we're going to get, but then we're going to give it to somebody else to
use; is that what I'm hearing?
MS. GRANT: Essentially on our behalf. So instead of us hiring
a crew and going out and doing rental rehabilitation, we award the
money to Steve Kirk. That's what we mean by that, as an example.
And, again, as a reminder, there's always an application process,
and all of those agreements come to you guys before they are -- before
any work begins.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: It also says that we the county are
supposed to acquire rental units; is that true?
MS. GRANT: To acquire rental units?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, acquire, acquire rental units.
MS. GRANT: That is one of the strategies, but the county would
not own them.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. I thought, because we can't
manage all of that. Who would go out and manage a rental housing
something or another so that --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Commissioner Saunders would
do it.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I think he's busy.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's one of his levels of
expertise.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So we don't really get into that then,
but it's just part of this thing, right?
MS. GRANT: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, fine. I'm sorry I have all these
questions --
MS. GRANT: That's okay.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- but I just didn't know. I talked to
Leo a little bit about it, too, but some of them he didn't even know. So
I thought, well, I would just ask you so then I don't have to ask you
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who oversees the rental program because we don't have one.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's a good idea.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Shut up.
Let's see. Information, SHIP. I think I've just about got it. These
were all for Leo.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You folks on the TV can't see,
but she highlights everything that she wants to talk about. This whole
book is highlighted.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I do. And I have orange for alert
and yellow for regular. That's what I have all of these things for.
Okay. I'm sorry. It will only take me another second and I'll be done.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You're doing fine.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh. And it was talking about
partnership with the City of Naples. Are they going to start doing
anything with affordable housing?
MS. GRANT: So the county has an interlocal agreement with the
City of Naples, and a few things that happen there. Number one, the
allocation from the state comes to the county to administer a global --
you know, a joint program; however, the City of Naples agrees to all
the strategies, they approve the LHAP and so forth for the
administration of the program.
And as we've said in the past, any resident of Collier County
living in the city or the other incorporated areas, anybody in the county
is eligible for the program as well as you have the income
requirements, et cetera.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So, in other words, they don't really
have much of any affordable housing in the city, albeit they collect the
CRA dollars for it, right?
MS. GRANT: I'm not prepared to answer what they do and don't
have. I'm sorry. I don't keep track of their inventory separately.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I was just wondering, because it
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talks about them here, City of Naples, moderate income households
and so forth, but I didn't know that they were doing that. Okay.
And I think that that's it for now. Thank you.
MS. GRANT: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: There was one more orange
thing here you didn't talk about.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. Well, this is -- it's talking
about the 30 percent of the income for housing. I'm going to show you
what he's talking about. This is what I do to all of my pages. You can
tell if I've read it or not because they're all marked up. It takes me
forever to mark all these colors and everything.
But, anyway, that was again just talking about the 30 percent.
And you know what it also said? And I asked Leo about this, too, and I
think -- and Nick, too. It says, will not exceed rental limits adjusted for
bedroom size. And so I read very literally; bedroom sizes. So in other
words, if it's 200 feet, it's one rate, and if it's 400 feet it's another for
the bedroom. And Leo said, no, no. They mean the size of the
apartment, not the size of the bedroom.
MS. GRANT: That's the number of bedrooms, correct? Yeah,
it's actually referring -- I'm not looking at the actual page you're
looking at. But if they're talking about the income levels, it's adjusted
by the number of bedrooms. And so earlier you asked me what the
AMI was, and I said for a three-person household; similar idea. Okay.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, good. Yeah, you know, you
might want to -- next time, instead of adjusted for bedroom size, you
might say bedroom numbers or something.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: You know, just so -- because I read
too literally.
Okay. That was -- those were my questions. I even have more,
but I will just let it go for now. I've got some other things. Okay.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I have a question. The short sale
policy, we are requiring a 30 percent? We go from 6 percent to 30
percent, did I read that correctly?
MS. GRANT: You did.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So we had a letter that came in
last night at 10 o'clock from a Ferugia.
MS. GRANT: Okay. I have not seen that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. It is regarding specifically a
teacher who bought a condo and got about $23,000 worth of SHIP
funding and is now faced with -- she -- it's a long letter, but it's -- I
think it's a very important letter to read. I just --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: What is she faced with?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, she's -- what's happened, she
bought it right before the recession and she bought it at the high, and
now she's finding -- one thing led to another. It's three pages. She's a
schoolteacher, so she's articulate and it's long, but basically she's
concerned that she would be faced with having to pay back 30 percent,
not the 6 percent that this specific item would require her to do.
So maybe -- if this is possible, maybe what we could say is, if
there's an agreement on this board to pass this, if it passes, that she be
sort of carved out with this and that it could be dealt with as a separate
issue completely?
MS. GRANT: If I may, just -- I know you're asking the Board,
but if I might offer a couple points of clarification.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, so I understand it, because I don't
think I do.
MS. GRANT: So when the Board had a short sale policy, it was
6 percent or, I think, 6,000, whichever was greater, or 600, something
like that; however, the Board suspended the policy in 2014. So right
now I actually do not have a policy; however, this is local decision.
So I believe it would be okay if you were to set a policy, and if
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you decided to make an exception for some reason, I don't think that
would be an issue.
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, I don't know that -- I need some clarity
here because I think we might be talking about two separate things.
MS. GRANT: Okay.
MR. KLATZKOW: What's the current -- do we ever go after the
former homeowner themselves for the balance due?
MS. GRANT: If the -- if there's a short sale that's been accepted,
we do not go after them for the rest. If there's been a foreclosure, we
do not go after the individual --
MR. KLATZKOW: So we don't go after the individual at all.
MS. GRANT: Not currently.
MR. KLATZKOW: Okay. Have we ever gone after the original
-- the owner?
MS. GRANT: No. The reason I said not currently is --
MR. KLATZKOW: No, no. I've never seen in my office, never
seen in my office, any litigation resulting from somebody who's lost
their home with the SHIP loan. So the concern of the teacher, I don't
know if it was board policy years ago that set this or just custom that
set this, but we do not go after the former homeowner. And unless the
Board wants to change that policy, we won't.
This 6 percent/30 percent is only during negotiations with the
banks during the foreclosure.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
MR. KLATZKOW: That's all this is about.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Very good. So I think here -- I
think that's basically the writer's concern. Thank you.
All right. I don't have any other questions. Any other discussion?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, just one more. I just want to
say, it says 60 percent of the funds could be used for 80 percent and
below, and although I've said it time and time and time again, I'm
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hoping that it will reach the people who really -- the people we're
trying to keep in this town who have to drive to Fort Myers because
they can't afford to live here.
If we would take some of those funds, and rather than dedicate it
to just the very low, maybe we could dedicate it to builders who
actually build 80 percent or 75 percent housing, and we could start
filling some of that gap.
I know I say that over and you always nod so nicely at everything,
but it never gets done. And maybe nobody agrees with me. I just
think that that's a category that we need to fill, and we're not doing that.
And I think we do our community a disservice.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It kind of falls in line with what
Commissioner Fiala was saying. How soon are you coming back to us
with the amended housing plan that we reviewed a month or two ago?
MS. GRANT: My understanding is we're scheduled for October
24th, or whatever the second meeting is --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And that may be a good time
for us to have a more in-depth discussion, because we've got new data
and new information with regard to housing types, low low income,
low income, so on.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, yeah. Oh, I've read that
through, too.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And we can then start to
develop some policies with -- once that data has been approved
through our AHAC and comes back to us, then we can start to make
some specificity with regard to the community need on newer updated
data.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Accuracy would be very important
on that, wouldn't it?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'd like that; yes, ma'am.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All right. I had another
question. Oh, yes. So we're loosening up -- this is Penny
paraphrasing. We've got -- we may have some extra money here,
correct, or we have money that could be applied to the right economic
level; is that correct?
MS. GRANT: The staff, within the programs that are currently
approved and going forward, per this board direction, meets the
statutory requirement which is that 60 percent of the funds have to be
spent on people below 80 percent AMI --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Right.
MS. GRANT: -- and there's 10 percent admin, which leaves us
30 percent. So that 30 percent we spend on the folks between 80 and
120, and that's the most we can spend.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. But we have those funds -- did I
not read that, that we may have some excess funds, or it's required that
we spend the funds every year. Maybe that's what I --
MS. GRANT: It is required that we spend the funds every year.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So I would like to see if it's
even possible that we focus on areas such as -- if it's possible, to focus
on geographic areas such as the Everglades City, Chokoloskee, that
whole area in there and literally --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Goodland.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- and Goodland, and market to the
people there that these are funds available if you fit that economic level
that is set by the state or federal guidelines. I mean, I'm serious; to
market it to let people know that there is -- if they go through the
process, that that money's there for them.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And that might depend on who we
choose as a sub-recipient. If we continue to just choose one company
because they're the only game in town, we're going to get the same
results.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I was hoping -- I was hoping there
would be more individual response.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, that's what I was asking
originally. Let us know who these sub-recipients are so we know
what's really happening with the dollars. Once we approve it, then we
don't know again, you know. We never even get any information as to
where it goes, so...
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Madam Chair?
MS. GRANT: Commissioner, you approve every agreement
before we begin work. But I'd be happy to bring back sort of a status
report, if you will, of everything you've approved to date and what's
out there being worked on.
But again, we're going to shift to -- when I come back in a couple
weeks, I'm going to talk with you about what we're going to do with
disaster, and we'll do that whole cycle. We'll bring partners on, and
we'll execute. So it will all be, you know, right here with your
approval every step of the way.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Madam Chair, in regard to that,
I'll be in Everglades tomorrow night for the council meeting, and as
this information comes, I'd be happy to carry it there. I'm working
quite closely with the new mayor, Howie, and staff along the way. So
-- and it is more of an individual -- and we have to be careful -- I think
we have to be careful about specificity and designation of the
utilization of these funds. It has to be available on a countywide basis,
and we can't just -- we can't as a policy start to dictate where we're
herding the money to be heading to.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I didn't hear that.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm sorry?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I didn't hear that for the disaster -- for a
disaster, I didn't hear that that's what I said, specifically at this time
period.
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MS. GRANT: Well, you asked if we could market to or inform.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MS. GRANT: We can definitely do that. We can inform
everyone --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct.
MS. GRANT: -- and we can do specific target outreach;
however, Commissioner McDaniel is also correct, the program runs
essentially on a first-come, first-qualified basis for everyone. But we
can certainly do targeted outreach; no problem.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. And I understand that. Let's just
be first in that area.
MS. GRANT: Got it.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you.
MS. GRANT: You're welcome.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. After this long and
interesting discussion --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm so sorry. That was my fault.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: But there were a lot of questions
there I needed to ask.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You have to ask the questions. There's
nothing wrong with asking the questions; not at all. I learned things,
really.
Okay. So we have a -- we don't have a motion on the floor.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, we do; motion and a
second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We do have a motion and a second.
Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That was a good job for not
giving a report.
MS. GRANT: Thank you, sir.
Item #11J
THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE STANDARD U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
(HUD) ENTITLEMENT AGREEMENTS UPON ARRIVAL;
APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN
THIRTEEN SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENTS FOR ACTIVITIES
PREVIOUSLY APPROVED IN THE FY2017-18 ACTION PLAN
FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
(CDBG), HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP (HOME), AND
EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT (ESG) PROGRAMS; AND
AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS IN
THE AMOUNT OF $3,107,453.43 FOR THE HUD FISCAL YEAR
2017-2018 BUDGET AS APPROVED IN THE HUD ACTION
PLAN FOR ENTITLEMENT FUNDS - MOTION TO APPROVE
THIS ITEM WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE HABITAT FOR
HUMANITY ALLOCATION WHICH IS BEING CONTINUED TO
THE NEXT BCC MEETING – APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, while Ms. Grant's there,
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Commissioner Fiala also moved 16D22 onto the regular agenda. It's
now Item 11J. I wonder if we could take that, because it's a similar
item.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Sure. 16?
MR. OCHS: 16D22.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Let me just go get that book.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Here. I can pull it up on the
computer.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: You know what, I know what it's
about and everything, so what you have there is you're just doling out
some money that, you know, you have to give. And 600 -- I think it
was 660 -- no, it was just $600,000 you were going to give to Habitat
to buy land, I guess, or something. And, you know, here we're getting
into disaster recovery again.
I asked for a little report about what land Habitat does own, and I
believe the figure is $11,800,000 worth of land that they already own.
That isn't where the houses are that they've sold; this is other things.
And they have -- most of them -- look at this -- they're vacant
residential, vacant residential. A lot of them are in Golden Gate
Estates, and they're not using it at all.
I don't think that this is an appropriate time to give them another
$600,000 when they own all of this land already. I think it would be
more important if we could take that money and dedicate it to some
kind of disaster relief for wherever it's needed the most, rather than,
you know, pile more on the same old, same old, and we're not getting
anything for the people that desperately need it.
Now, that's my opinion, and I would like to take that $600,000
and apply it to disaster relief in some form or another, and you make
the decision about where so that it can cover people whose roofs were
ripped off from mobile homes -- we saw a bunch of those -- or
anything that would qualify for that money.
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MS. GRANT: Commissioner, you didn't specifically ask me a
question, but if I could just offer a couple of things.
First of all, this -- all these projects were previously approved in
June by the Commission and submitted to HUD in an action plan.
You're the commissioners. You have a choice about where the
money goes. But, procedurally, what we would need to do is
determine where the funds would go, then I have to do what's called a
substantially amendment to the action plan.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Good.
MS. GRANT: Then we have to find somebody to go and do it.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: We can do that.
MS. GRANT: What we have typically done in the past if we get
this far in the process and there is a project that the Commission
changes its mind on or the sub-recipient no longer wants the funds, we
typically go to the next project in line, because all the applications
came in to us early this year. They went through a review committee.
It was all a public process, and they were all ranked.
Now, let me go sideways for a second on disaster recovery.
We're anticipating, but we do not have any specifics, that we will
receive a disaster allocation from HUD. They're indicating it may
come. We don't know what the amount is. We don't know if it will
come directly to us. We don't know if it will come through the state.
So there may be funds appropriated specifically for disaster.
Now, one more thing I'd like to say as a point of information. If
you do decide as a board that you don't want this or any other project
to go forward and you want it to be dedicated to disaster right now, I'll
have to go back with my team and research what we can do, and I'll
have to come back and tell you what that is.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I think that would be a great idea.
The rest of them just distribute as you've already appropriated here
because they were all worthwhile causes, and I think that that would be
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great. But I would love to see, rather than housing -- or land just
sitting there waiting in line with all of the other pieces of land, I would
love to see it go to people -- I'm sorry, but I thought I was talking to
you.
MS. GRANT: Okay.
MR. OCHS: Go ahead.
MS. GRANT: Cormac was just letting me know that we had
indicated to our sub-recipients that this item was pulled. We didn't
know for what reason. But Mr. Kouloheras has offered Cormac some
comments. I don't know what they are, and I don't know if you want to
hear them, but that's what he was just saying to me.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I would really like us to help people
that need the help rather than give it away to just remain vacant for
years and years. This is a good time to take care of our own. But that's
-- you know, I might not even get an approval from everybody here.
But I would think if we could fix some of those mobile homes or if we
could fix some of the places that, you know, need help, just with
money or something. We've got $600,000 we could have -- it doesn't
go very far, but it would go far, you know, at least to some.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Six hundred thousand.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah.
MS. GRANT: One other piece of information I'll offer. I know
I've not been asked a direct question, but I didn't -- specifically I didn't
tell you this amount because I want to make sure I've got all my I's
dotted and T's crossed. But it looks like we're going to have over 3
million in SHIP to dedicate to disaster, okay, and approximately 20
percent of that can be spent on mobile homes. We're still confirming
all the details on that.
So this community is going to have, in a couple weeks when I
bring all this to you, quite a large sum of money, relatively speaking in
my world, available for disaster, in addition to all the other things that
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are out there, FEMA and so forth. I just wanted you to be aware of
that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I bet there's way more damage than
$3 million, too.
MS. GRANT: Pardon me?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I think 600,000 added to three
million would be a wonderful asset. I mean, right now -- why would
you give to somebody who doesn't need it? I just don't understand
that, when -- and, of course, when we prepared it, we didn't know there
was going to be a disaster. How could we put that in a budget? It was
-- you know, there was -- nobody had lost any homes or, you know, it
ripped their houses apart. But as long as that's the case, I don't see why
we don't.
But see -- and I would make a motion to take $600,000 out of this
from that particular project and dedicate it to the disaster relief for
homes or mobile homes that need help right now.
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, the program we talked about in the
prior item was the State Housing Initiatives Partnership program. It's a
state program.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I understand.
MR. OCHS: This item is federal CDBG money.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay.
MR. OCHS: So the item that Kim is bringing back, as she
mentioned, relates to the state SHIP program and the additional
allocation for --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Good.
MR. OCHS: -- emergency there. If you want to take this
600,000, it would go back into one of these CDBG program areas, not
over -- you can't move it over to the SHIP program.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, CDBG could help -- they help
people. I would guess there's seniors on there that are a low income
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that have lost their trailers.
MR. OCHS: I'm sure there's programs within the CDBG suite of
services that would provide this kind of assistance. I'm not suggesting
that they don't, but I don't want the Board to think you're reducing the
CDBG money and you can just throw it over into the SHIP program.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Quite frankly, being that you're
saying -- do you feel that we should just give this to a company that
doesn't even -- you know, that has land amassed already and just give
them some more, or do you think we should help the people that need
it right this minute?
MR. OCHS: Commissioner, all I know is that it went through a
vetting process, it came to this board in June, and you all approved it.
For some reason now there's a question about it, and that's fine. If a
majority of you decide they're not worthy of that money or it should go
somewhere else --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That isn't the case at all, Leo. The
case is we've got -- we've been just talking about disaster all day and
trying to help some of these people out. And here we have a pot of
money that could do it.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am, you do. You have several pots.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Solis?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Actually, I think Commissioner
McDaniel was first.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: We'll take you first. You haven't said
very much today, so I'm going to --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. I was just going to go back to
we've already considered this. We've already made the decision to
move forward with Habitat on this in June, right? That's what the
County Manager was just saying.
I mean, I think -- I think we need to move forward with this.
There's obviously going to be a lot of money, according to Ms. Grant,
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for disaster relief. We're mixing apples and oranges. I would like to
see us just move forward. We vetted it once. We thought it was
worthy, and we ought to move forward with it rather than try to change
midstream when there are going to be other pots of money that we can
use to do exactly what you're suggesting.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: But there was no disaster then in
June.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I understand.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: We approved it, but there was no
disaster. And if we could start to help right now -- I don't understand --
here, let me give you the list.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Well, what I think the County
Manager was saying, though, was that this is not money that we can
just take and do whatever -- necessarily, what we want with it, like use
it like we would use the SHIP loans. It's federal money as opposed to
state money.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Right, but you can still use it for
federal programs designed to help disaster or whatever.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: We don't know what those are.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, I bet they do.
MR. OCHS: Yeah, let's go ahead and get some clarification on
that, because I want to make sure you understand what I'm saying. I'm
not saying that the money in the CDBG program can't be used to help
people rehabilitate their homes, okay.
And, Kim, I'm looking to you for some clarification on the
programs that we already operate in CDBG and which, if any, of those
would provide the kind of assistance that Commissioner Fiala is asking
for.
MS. GRANT: Yeah. And, honestly, I would like to do a little bit
of research before I answer that question. There are some disaster
strategies, but I need to look at them. I need to see what the
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requirements are, what they can go for. And I can do that quickly, but
I do not have the information right here. I'm sorry.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner McDaniel?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And this is just along
with Commissioner Solis. Aren't these time-sensitive issues? These
CDBG funds come available on an annual, predominantly on a fiscal
basis, which was why we went through the process of -- and we have
to spend them. The money has to be spent within the fiscal year, and
there is time-sensitive issues, Commissioner Fiala, with regard to the
expenditure of these funds.
And we did go through an application process with
sub-recipients, people that could, in fact, receive those monies. It was
vetted, they were voted on, and we did do that in June.
Now, I think, in my personal opinion, which is what I wanted to
express earlier on, it's a wonderful idea, if these monies from a
timeliness can be re-appropriated to some form of a disaster relief. But
I think we're going to find, because of the process that we're in, that
with these federal funds we don't have sufficient time to go through the
re-appropriation process.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I just -- if you -- I just wanted to
help people; I'm sorry. I just wanted to help people. The other ones all
sent help to different agencies, and that's great. This one would have
money just sitting there with more vacant land and is helping nobody.
Oh, it's helping their bottom line, but that's about all.
I wanted to help somebody right now, and this is what they need.
They need help right now. And the money is appropriated and ready
to go right now, and I'm sure that we could find the correct numbers in
the alphabet that it would apply to.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Can I ask staff a question?
Because she said it three or four times. We haven't asked our question.
When does the money have to be expended in order for us to be
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qualified for next year's appropriations?
MS. GRANT: Essentially, every year's allocation of somewhere
around two million needs to be expended within 12 months.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And what time frame is --
MS. GRANT: I'm sorry. October 1st through September 30th.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So there you go. We're coming
at the end of our fiscal year.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Is there -- can you ever extend it?
Have you sent a letter in to ask for extension because we're trying to
help disaster relief people?
MS. GRANT: If -- the short answer is no. And if you miss your
timeliness spending one year, they give you a little bit of a break. You
miss it the next year, you're on a conference call with HUD, and they
put you on an action plan, and they may take some of your money
back. They may take all of the money back.
MR. KLATZKOW: But this money starts --
MS. GRANT: October 1st.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- October 1st, so you've got almost a full
year.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: A whole year. Oh, okay.
MS. GRANT: But in order -- that sounds like a long time.
MR. KLATZKOW: No, no. I'm just saying this is for the next
fiscal year.
MS. GRANT: That is true. But what would happen is -- so let's
say we went down this path. Number one, we do research. We figure
out what can happen. We could do that fairly quickly. Secondly, I've
got to put out some sort of a procurement which would be out for at
least 30 days. But I've got to get somebody back in, and I've got to do
a contract, then I've got to bring it to you. Then we have other federal
requirements including something called an environmental review,
which the shortest one is 60 days; some take six months.
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So it's not that it cannot be done, but a re-appropriation definitely
puts a -- if we move this project, puts a big chunk of our required
spending behind schedule.
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, would it be appropriate to ask for a
one-meeting continuance and give us some time to --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: If you've got the time.
MR. OCHS: -- do the research, come back at the next meeting,
and we'll talk more about what potential programs are available that we
could reallocate this 600,000.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, don't hold the other programs
up who are waiting for -- I mean, if they can use it right now, the other
programs, I don't want to, you know, hold them up. But the 600,000
that I think we really need. Maybe we could have people go out and
talk with owners, or I'm sure that they have a disaster list with FEMA
and whoever else or people looking for things. Our guys certainly
know what's going on here down in emergency operations, and we
could talk with the villages, whether it be Goodland or Everglades
City, and see where we can use this money to help them immediately.
But if you want to delay it two weeks --
MR. OCHS: Yeah. I would just prefer to continue the whole
thing for one meeting.
MS. GRANT: Mr. Ochs, there are other elements of this that we
cannot continue due to timing. But if we -- if you would like to
continue just the award of this particular project and move everything
else forward and -- the specific item is the establishment of a budget
October 1st to pay staff, and perhaps we could just move that forward.
MR. OCHS: So I guess we're asking you for approval of this
item with the exception of the allocation to the Habitat project that was
previously approved in June and --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve.
MR. OCHS: -- we'll come back at the next meeting and provide
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the Board some alternatives for that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Point of order. I think -- do we have a
motion on the floor, or we do not for this item?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think there was a motion.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I thought there was.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So do we know who made this motion?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: There was not a motion on the
floor that I recall.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: For this item. I didn't make a motion.
Did you, sir?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I thought it was Commissioner Fiala.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, I don't think so. She called it back,
but I don't think she made a motion.
Okay. So we don't have a motion. So do I hear a motion to --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Approve everybody --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- to approve the item as listed except
for the expenditure of $600,000 --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, motion to approve.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- which will be continued to the next
meeting. Okay. We have a motion to approve. Do I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. That's pretty clear, isn't it?
Okay. I've got the message, folks.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So do I hear a motion to
approve the item as stated in the agenda?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'll make a motion to approve it as it's
stated in the agenda.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll go ahead and second it to
get it on the floor.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Any discussion?
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I would like to make a
recommendation that we take the County Manager's recommendation
and continue the item for next meeting.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's what the first motion was.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll go ahead and withdraw my
motion --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Second.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- my second, and support the
position of Commissioner Fiala to at least bring that discussion back.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's what the first motion --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: That was the first motion.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So we could spend all the rest of the
money.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, that's not what I understood.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Expend all the funds except
for the 600,000. I'll second your motion if you'll remake that motion.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. I would like to make a
motion to expend all of these dollars to the different agencies already
allocated and voted on except for the $600,000 and we extend that
meeting till the next -- or that decision till the next meeting.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll second that as long as that
gives us enough time; if we decide to continue with the Habitat
portion, we'll still be in a good position to do that; is that correct?
MS. GRANT: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. Then I'll second
that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. We have a motion on the floor
and a second. Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Is that clear enough?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: 4-1.
Okay. So moving right along.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am.
Item #11B
AN AGREEMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $544,690 WITH THE
AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION (AHCA)
AND AN AGREEMENT WITH COLLIER HEALTH SERVICES,
INC. (CHSI) TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEDICAID LOW
INCOME POOL (LIP) PROGRAM, GENERATING $874,513 IN
FEDERAL MATCHING FUNDS THAT WILL PROVIDE
ADDITIONAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE CITIZENS OF
COLLIER COUNTY – APPROVED (COMMISSIONER
MCDANIEL REQUESTED THAT STAFF PROVIDE HIM WITH
AN ALLOCATION METRIX (PER AGENCY) FOR THE
DIVISION OF THE FUNDS)
MR. OCHS: This takes us to Item 11B on your agenda. This is a
recommendation to approve an agreement in the amount of $544,690
with the Agency for Health Care Administration and an agreement
with Collier Health Services, Incorporated, to participate in the
Medicaid Low-income Pool Program generating $874,513 in federal
matching funds.
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Ms. Grant?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Madam Chair, I don't know if
there's any discussion about that. I'll make a motion to approve that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'll second the motion.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Third.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
Item #11C
AWARD A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT IN THE AMOUNT
OF $2,421,251.40 TO HASKINS, INC. FOR INVITATION TO BID
NO. 17-7170 - TREE FARM ROAD PHASE II AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS.
(PROJECT NOS. 61001 AND 70178) - APPROVED
MR. OCHS: 11C is a recommendation to award a construction
contract in the amount of $2,421,251.40 to Haskins, Incorporated, for
the Tree Farm Road Phase 2 project and approve necessary budget
amendments.
Mr. Ahmad can present or answer questions from the Board.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Would anyone like a presentation, or
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are we --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No. You know what, this was a
project, and it looked like everything was already in place, and so I'd
like to make a motion to approve.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Madam Chair, I apologize, but
I had a note on the prior item that we voted in favor of, and it's more of
a staffing issue. If I could ask staff to get me the metrics of calculation
for the division of those funds on Item 11B.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I would like to see the metrics
for the division of those monies. I had a note in there, and the system
was not talking, and I couldn't get to it. I didn't have an issue with the
process. I wanted to see the metrics of calculations.
So forgive me, Madam Chair.
MR. OCHS: You mean which agencies -- the allocation per
agency is what you're asking for?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, the metrics of --
MR. OCHS: It's in the summary, sir, but we'll get it for you.
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Happy to do it.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
Item #11E
AWARD INVITATION TO BID #17-7153R DOCTORS PASS
SOUTH JETTY REHABILITATION AND EROSION CONTROL
STRUCTURES CONTRACT TO EARTH TECH ENTERPRISES
INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,047,626 TO REBUILD THE
DOCTORS PASS SOUTH JETTY AND MITIGATE BEACH
EROSION IN THE DOCTORS PASS AREA WITH THE
INSTALLATION OF EROSION CONTROL STRUCTURES,
AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT,
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE
AGREEMENT, AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS ITEM
PROMOTES TOURISM (PROJECT NO. 90073) – APPROVED
MR. OCHS: That takes us to Item 11E, which is a
recommendation to award contract for the Doctors Pass south jetty
rehabilitation and erosion control structures. This is a contract with
Earth Tech Enterprises in the amount of $2,047,626, and Mr. McAlpin
is available to make a presentation or respond to questions from the
Board.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Mr. McAlpin, I do have a question
before you make a presentation. I don't know if anybody wants a
presentation, but how is Irma going to affect this and does it affect it?
MR. McALPIN: Irma does not affect this. We still have -- the
jetty needs to be rebuilt, and the erosion control structures still need to
be installed.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, this is another project that's
much needed and now, today. So I make a motion to approve.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the floor. Do I
hear a second?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you.
MR. McALPIN: Thank you.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, Commissioners.
Item #11F
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BOARD)
SUSPENDS ALL NON-LIFE/SAFETY COLLIER COUNTY
CODES, RULES, AND REGULATIONS REGARDING
REPLACEMENTS OF MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED BY
HURRICANE IRMA FOR 90 DAYS – APPROVED
MR. OCHS: That takes us to 11F. This is a recommendation that
the Board suspend all nonlife safety Collier County codes, rules, and
regulations regarding replacements of mobile homes damaged by
Hurricane Irma for 90 days, and Mr. French is here to make a
presentation or respond to questions from the Board.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So I think -- do you have any
questions?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, I just have a question. What
kinds of codes are we talking about, just out of curiosity?
MR. FRENCH: Commissioners, if you remember several months
ago we brought back all of the, we're going to call them, the legally
nonconforming mobile home parks that existed throughout the county
that we didn't have a site improvement plan on. We've reduced that fee
to $750. Unfortunately we only had a couple of applications. We do
have three applications in now through Mr. Davenport, his two parks,
and I believe his son Jeff's park. Seven hundred fifty dollars per
application does not require a professional engineer, just a surveyor, so
we know what's there, and then it takes us about five days to process it.
But we want to be able to allow the mobile homes that were
destroyed to come in and get a demolition permit and then, of course,
go ahead and get a new trailer, a new mobile home installed.
Now, it would still have to be a class three mobile home,
depending upon where it was, so it would meet the most current codes.
It cannot -- it has to meet the wind load code, but this is more land use
than it is building.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Got it. Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So we have a motion -- do
we have a motion on the floor?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Commissioner McDaniel made
a motion to accept 11F (sic) as reported in our summaries, and we have
a second. Any other discussion?
(No response.)
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. It carries
unanimously.
Item #11H
AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY,
FLORIDA, AND THE CITY OF EVERGLADES CITY
(EVERGLADES CITY) FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE COUNTY
PROVIDING ASSISTANCE, MANPOWER, AND FUNDING TO
THE CITY IN RESPONSE TO THE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO
EVERGLADES CITY CAUSED BY HURRICANE IRMA –
APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, while we're on the subject of Irma, if
we could just hop to 11H, please. It's a recommendation to approve an
interlocal agreement between the Board and the City of Everglades
City for the purpose of the county providing assistance, manpower,
and funding to the city in response to the extensive damage caused by
Hurricane Irma, and Mr. Casalanguida will take you through the
details quickly.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: It's always a mouthful.
County Manager has been in communication with the mayor, and
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the County Attorney's been working with their attorney, and we
wanted to formalize an agreement just so we could track what we're
doing because we're crossing, obviously, municipal lines and spending
some funds down there. They're in agreement.
The mayor is responding and provided a signed agreement to the
County Attorney. It allows for up to $250,000 of expenses. It follows
our procurement ordinance. Under 50,000 would follow the same
procurements we normally do. Over 50- same as well, too, and we'll
report back to the Board and get concurrence from the mayor before
expending any funds.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Have you got any pictures, Nick?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's all right.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Do you have any pictures?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: No, ma'am. I don't have any handy.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I have pictures of the
wastewater facility, but not the disaster that's gone on down there. But
I'd like to move for approval.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So we have a motion on the
floor. Do I hear a second?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala seconded it. Any
other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, Commissioners.
Item #11G
STAFF’S REPORT ON THE CREATION OF A SENIOR CITIZEN
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, FOLLOWING THE DIRECTION
PROVIDED IN COUNTY ORDINANCE 01-55 SECTION 3(B) AS
AMENDED - MOTION TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM TO THE
NEXT MEETING AND FOR STAFF TO WORK WITH MR.
HARTMAN AND BRING BACK A REVISED EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY – APPROVED
MR. OCHS: That moves us back to 11G. This is a
recommendation to accept the staff report on the creation of a Senior
Citizens Affairs Committee following the direction provided in county
ordinances regarding advisory committees.
Geoff Willig, the Operations Analyst with the County Manager's
Office, will present. Geoff?
MR. WILLIG: Yes, good afternoon, Commissioners. Geoff
Willig, for the record, Operations Analyst in the County Manager's
Office.
As you requested at the July 11th meeting, I performed an
analysis going through the six different criterias that are laid out in an
ordinance and provided those -- provided that analysis to you in the
executive summary. If you have any questions...
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. Well, I don't have any
questions, but we have a speaker.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Are there any questions of Mr. Willig?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Mr. Miller, how many
speakers?
MR. MILLER: We have one registered speaker, Doug Hartman.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. You can use --
MR. HARTMAN: It's hard to get up after being here so long.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You can use this over here. Yeah,
thank you.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Grew to the chair.
MR. HARTMAN: First I'd like to thank the Commission for the
opportunity to speak on this particular issue.
We've been embedded in an issue of crisis all day, and this is a bit
of a change.
As was noted by Geoff, on July 11th the Commission asked the
staff to do the analysis as required by state statute and ordinance in the
county to evaluate a proposal made by the Greater Naples Leadership
and the Leadership Coalition on Aging to create a senior citizens
affairs advisory committee.
Now, unfortunately, the staff report seems to have missed
completely what it was that we were proposing. I recognize that their
response is dictated by the language in the ordinance and the language
in the state statute. But let me make it very brief, and I won't read the
long statement that I was involved in here.
What we have here are two groups. One is the Leadership
Coalition on Aging, which is a coordinating body of all of the profit,
non-profits involved in providing services to senior citizens, primarily
needy senior citizens. Very little of their activities involved in the
broader issues involved in senior citizen affairs.
The second group proposing here is Greater Naples Leadership,
and some of you are familiar with that; others are not. The Greater
Naples Leadership is a group of retired executives and politicians and
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related professionals who have come to Collier County to retire and
don't want to be inactive. Basically this group was put together 20
years ago.
What we do is we bring these people in, we identify who wants to
get involved locally who has the experience base that would be
attractive for them becoming involved in civic activities and non-profit
activities in the county. We then put them through a one-year program
orienting them in detail on the structure of our civics operations and on
the structure of our non-profit community that is intended to respond to
those, and then those people are assisted to get involved. The whole
point is get involved, retired people, volunteers; not stakeholders. I
repeat that; not stakeholders.
These are people who've been commissioners in counties up
north, have been mayors, been professional lawyers, architects, and
other things who want to get involved in this county. Shall I continue?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think that's -- I think we understand.
There's a difference.
MR. HARTMAN: Okay. The proposal we made was to form a
committee composed of these kinds of people that would advise on
request the Commission on the subjects that we're going to be dealing
with in the very near future: The three major changes to the growth
plan, the refurbishment of our infrastructure, and the other larger issues
that affect our community. It is not involved in what we've discussed
for the last hour and a half here, the needs of the needy, or necessarily
of a segment of the senior affairs. It's the entire community.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you. All right. So I think we --
Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. It sounds to me like it's a
senior think tank, which sounded good. I like that.
When they first approached me about putting this thing together,
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they explained to me that that's exactly what they were doing. I said,
gee, it sounds good to me. I don't know why I didn't ever think of that.
But, anyway. And they said, well, they would just like to see what we
would say about that. They feel that they would like to be working in
tandem with the government and with our county government
especially.
And I said, gee, that sounds good. You know, I don't know what
problems they can address. But Doug has been working with smart --
Step Smart, which is addressing a lot of seniors, and he'd been getting
comments from the people that go to this program about Step Smart
and, you know, keeping yourself safer and things like that. And so he's
heard from a lot of people who have suggested, oh, we need this, we
need that, we need the other.
And so this is what they came -- this is from the leadership
coalition that he's been working on. And they all agree they would like
to get together and do something, but they're individuals that -- you
know, from a learned background, and I just thought -- I thought it was
a good idea myself.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So would you like to make the motion?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah, I'd like to make a motion to
approve. Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do we have a second?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, I'm going to second it as
a point of order, but she's not -- you don't want to make a motion to
approve the recommendation of this executive summary?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, no, oh, thank you. That's right,
because they kind of told me they don't like it.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, they don't want it -- the
recommendation is to not form this coalition or have this advisory
group, so...
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I didn't understand that
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recommendation at all, really.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's a matter -- personally, it's a
matter of perception based upon what the staff perceived our direction
was at that particular point in time and certainly is not as what was
alleged by those leadership organizations. So just as a point, your
motion needs to be to --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Good point.
Yes; motion to approve the presentation that Doug Hartman has
just presented to us about establishing a group to address issues within
the community but from a senior standpoint.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: As an advisory board.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes.
MR. KLATZKOW: I just need clarification, because I'll be
writing the ordinance that will come back to you. Do you want to set
up a permanent advisory board, or do you want to do like a temporary
advisory board which you can, if it works out --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I think a temporary would be good
for the time being. We'll even see how it works.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I'll second it for the -- if
there isn't already a second, but if the motion maker would accept the
fact as a pilot program for a 12-month period.
MR. KLATZKOW: It will be an ad hoc -- so it will be an ad hoc
committee?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. KLATZKOW: So after a year, you could analyze whether
or not you want to convert that into a permanent committee.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Great. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Can I just --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So you agree? Yes, Commissioner
Solis, your light's on.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And, actually, I had a -- it's more of a
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question, really. I mean, if what we're wanting to create or have is a
group that would come to the County Commission and provide
feedback on the plans and things like that, I just ask the question, do
you want to saddle yourself with the obligations and the restrictions of
the Sunshine Law? Because the Chamber, the Conservancy -- you
know, we have a lot of groups that advise us constantly on things, and
I just ask the question, because it sounds to me like the people are
there; the collaboration and the discussions are ongoing.
As soon as we create this ad hoc committee, it's all going to
change, and it's going to become a little more complicated.
MR. HARTMAN: Our original concept was to form a
permanent, not ad hoc but permanent advisory committee accepting
the fact that it would have to operate in the Sunshine, but we didn't see
that as a problem for a series of retired people who don't have a stake
in anything here, therefore would not get involved necessarily with the
difficulties that sometimes can occur under Sunshine.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: But the difficulties with the Sunshine
is just discussing anything, period.
MR. HARTMAN: Yes, I understand. But it was our
understanding that that was the Option A or nothing, so we opted for
Option A, which was the advisory committee. Now, I don't know
whether an ad hoc committee is subject to Sunshine or not.
MR. KLATZKOW: It's the same thing, but rather than
establishing it by ordinance, we establish it by resolution. And what
we've done in the past is if the committee proves to be valuable to the
Board, we've then converted it to a permanent board.
MR. HARTMAN: I mean, our view of this was when we started
that we would be doing things like preparing white papers on issues
that could be made public after they were reviewed by the
Commission, if they so chose, or any other kinds of activity where we
could collect that talent and that expertise from all of our 400 acting
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people and make it available to the county, to the Commission.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And exactly what you said was the
issue I'm raising. The preparation of that white paper is going to be
subject to the Sunshine Law, so it's not something that you can create a
white paper necessarily and then give it to us and then it will be
subject, you know, to the public records and things like that.
I'm just wondering if -- because the Chamber prepares white
papers and the Conservancy and a lot of groups. I'm just -- I just
wonder if -- because I've had this come up with another context that --
where I was thinking about we should create an ad hoc committee and,
in hindsight, maybe we weren't ready for that yet because there was a
lot of analysis that could be going on in the community that would just
become that much harder to do if we created an ad hoc committee.
MR. HARTMAN: Well, the problem we have is that neither one
of the institutions that made this proposal are organized, equipped, or
funded to do this activity in-house. We were looking for a government
stamp on an organization that then we could attract the people we
wanted out of GNL and LCA to come serve on that board as a
volunteer and get involved in these kinds of analyses and activities.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And the effective cost is
11,000 per staff's recommendation, and the rationale at least that I have
is it's a 12-month trial period, if you will, and it's well worth the
expenditure to engage these learned individuals in our community to
express their opinions and give us advice.
MR. HARTMAN: We want to get them involved.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right.
MR. HARTMAN: And the way to do that is to have some
institutional thing you can say, here it is. Let's get involved; otherwise,
it gets a little vacuous and we have a little trouble doing it.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: The Chamber has a very active housing
wing of them. They're concerned about affordable housing, workforce
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housing, and they're very active. Could you not segue within the
Chamber and avoid all the bureaucratic requirements of having a
committee, and wouldn't that give you the status you need to collect --
to have the kind of leadership you want?
MR. HARTMAN: Not necessarily, and the reason is this: Most
of the advisory committees that you've formed are formed by people
that have a stake in the issue which they're advising on. We are
looking at a group of retirees who do not have a stake politically or
economically in the outcome but who want to bring their experience
and knowledge from up north or wherever to that issue and share it
with you. So it doesn't work too well.
I worked with the Chamber on that housing issue. I'm on one of
the committees. I'm on one of the committees here. Every one of
them has a point of view because they have their -- their rice bowl is
involved, and the same for the Chamber.
When you deal with the Chamber, you deal with people who have
a certain point of view of business encouragement, and that's not really
what we're talking about. It may be that we're going to take a position
that's against what the Chamber would want.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well, then, perhaps what we could do
is continue this to our next meeting and give staff an opportunity to
write a different executive summary to make sure everybody is clear
on exactly where we're going with this before the ordinance is written.
What do you think? Is that too much?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, my motion kind of said it,
didn't it?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. I was going to say,
we've got a motion and a second to give direction for that and clarified
with the County Attorney; it's clear as mud --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. If everybody's clear.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- right now.
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I'd like an opportunity to talk
with the group as well just to make sure -- because I'm not sure that I'm
clear on exactly what it would do and why it would be better to have
an ad hoc committee, but that's fine. I'll support the motion.
MR. KLATZKOW: For clarity, the motion is --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, boy. Can you read me the
motion again, Terri. I said it so well, but...
(The court reporter read back the requested motion as follows:
"Motion to approve the presentation that Doug Hartman has just
presented to us about establishing a group to address issues within the
community but from a senior standpoint.")
MR. KLATZKOW: Unless you direct me to work with him, I
don't really know what they -- how to structure this.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think I need more. I think this is a
wonderful idea, but I think it needs a little bit more time to be vetted.
MR. KLATZKOW: So come back with an executive summary?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. Let's continue this to the next.
MR. KLATZKOW: Staff would work with Mr. Hartman to come
back with a proposed committee?
MR. HARTMAN: I can do that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I think -- I would feel more
comfortable.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So would, then, staff like to work
with Mr. Hartman and put together a new executive -- or summary and
get the words properly and work with Geoff?
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. If that's the direction of the Board,
we'll be happy to do it.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, if that's what the rest of the
Board wants to do, then -- you know, then that's what we do.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So would the original motion
maker --
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: So I pull it.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- pull it, and the seconder agrees to it.
Okay.
So I'd like to make a motion that we continue this to the next
meeting, this item, and have the staff work with Mr. Hartman to
develop the executive summary and be clear exactly what's being
requested.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
All right.
Item #12A
RESOLUTION 2017-176: RE-APPOINTING JOHN COWIN WITH
TERM EXPIRING ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2020; REAPPOINTING
MARY WALLER, CARLOS PORTU AND CHRISTINA
APOSTOLIDIS ALL WITH TERMS EXPIRING ON OCTOBER 1,
2020; WITH STAFF TO READVERTISE FOR ONE VACANCY –
ADOPTED
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, that takes us to Item 12A that was
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previously Item 16K12 on the County Attorney's summary agenda.
This item was moved at Commissioner Solis' request. It's a
recommendation to reappoint five members to the Affordable Housing
Advisory Committee.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. And the only reason I pulled
this is just to have a discussion about what the policy is that we want to
have with regard to some of these committees on whether or not the
committee members need to be residents of Collier County. I mean, I
think the world of Kristi Bartlett and this has nothing to do with her,
because I think she's a great asset to have on the committee. But as I
read the executive summary, she has moved out of the county.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: She lives in Estero.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: In Estero, yeah.
So it's really just a discussion that I thought we should have
because I think -- you know, if we start down this road, I'm not sure
where we can end up with it. That's the only reason.
And, again, it has nothing to do with whether or not Kristi is a --
would be a great person to reappoint. It's just as a policy do we want
to start doing this?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I don't think I could support a county --
any kind of county board or that -- where someone doesn't live in the
county, which is very sad but -- you know, because we're losing talent,
but at the same time, it might be because we don't have enough
affordable housing. Excuse me. I had to do that.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I know.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And/or there might not be
spaces available for appointments.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So I think -- so where does that
leave us with --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Appoint the four?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Appoint four, and then look for another
one, right?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I believe that's the option.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So do you want to make that
in a motion and say who we're appointing so that --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Oh, boy. Let me pull up the --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I thought you had it up there; sorry.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All except for Kristi.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Everyone but -- that's not fair.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, I know.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Everybody except for Kristi.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It sounds like she's got the
heebie-jeebies or something.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I feel bad for Kristi.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, no. She's a wonderful --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And you never know, she might be
happy we're not re-appointing her. She does a lot already for the
county, and this might be one less thing on her plate.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Madam Chair, just as a matter
of policy, I mean, we -- can we just adjust the Board's policy and
mandate that all representatives on this committee must be Collier
County residents?
MR. KLATZKOW: Your ordinance requires residency. It's been
the history of the Board from time to time to waive it in individual
circumstances.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So policy-wise --
MR. KLATZKOW: You don't have to make any changes. This
is your policy.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
MR. OCHS: Madam Chair, you had more applicants than you
had appointments. Do you want to re-advertise, or do you want to
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choose off the list?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I think we should re-advertise
on it and do as Andy said, just --
MR. KLATZKOW: You've got different categories here, so I
think the fair thing to do is to re-advertise for the one seat.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think we should.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Let's do that. Okay.
MR. OCHS: Got it.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So I'll make a motion that we re-
advise, staff re-advise for these vacancies on the committee, and that
once those have been vetted, we bring it back.
MR. KLATZKOW: No, no.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Is that not what we need to do?
MR. KLATZKOW: My understanding is that you're approving
four of the candidates.
MR. OCHS: Correct.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Oh, re-advertise for that one. Okay.
I thought we were re-advising the whole thing.
MR. OCHS: That wasn't my understanding.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Just the one.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, just the one position,
because the other four are residents.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: All right. Well, then I'll change my
motion if that's --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No one seconded it. You can do that.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. So we're -- the motion would
be that we approve the four other nominations to the committee and
that we re-advertise for the seat on the committee that's --
MR. KLATZKOW: Ms. Bartlett had applied for.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- being vacated by Ms. Bartlett.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Hearing none, all those in favor, say
aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously. Thank you.
Item #15
STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, that moves us, I believe, to Item
15, staff and commission general communications. I just have a
couple of scheduling things to confirm with the Board, if I may.
We talked earlier about postponing next Tuesday's workshop on
the infrastructure sales surtax and instead moving that to November
7th.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
MR. OCHS: And in addition to having that topic on that morning
of the 7th, that in the afternoon we would have the Hurricane Irma
after-action report review with the Board. If that meets with the
Board's approval, we'll lock that down.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Like it.
MR. OCHS: Thank you very much.
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The final scheduling question is, essentially, to confirm the
Board's meeting schedule for November and December to determine if
you want to follow your historical practice of meeting on the second
Tuesday in November and then you will meet one time in December as
well on the 12th. So you'd have one meeting in November just before
the Thanksgiving holiday, and then traditionally you've had one
meeting in December, which is your second Tuesday in the month.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's always worked out real well.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Especially when there's an election.
An election? Oh, yeah.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's right.
MR. OCHS: That's a concurrence?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That was my first meeting.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I have a point of discussion I'd
like to make. It's apropos at this time.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: If you'd like to --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Is this part of -- we'll put this under
correspondence and communication.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You could start there. It had to
do with the County Manager talking to us about our schedule.
And I'd like to propose that we, as a pilot program, effectuate a
change in our board schedule for FY'18 and that we stay on a regular
two-week schedule throughout the entire year all the way through our
November meeting, our first meeting in November, at which point then
we take our 60-day break, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's
when the rest of the planet is on vacation, and not do what we have
done for the past millennia with regard to the 60 days off in the
summertime. We are no longer a small, less-than-a-hundred-thousand
resident community.
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And I expressed some issue with our current schedule early on in
the spring, and it's something that I would like for us to try to make an
adjustment. Now, she's taking the candy away from me, by the way.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm just
looking.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: But I'd like to make a
suggestion that we adjust our schedule for FY18 to work straight
through the year until -- to and through our first November meeting, at
which point then we take our 60-day break.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You probably need to talk to my
neighbors. They would probably be very upset if we did that. They
don't want any kind of NIM meetings during the summer.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm awful sorry about that.
And again, one of the --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And you need to talk to Kamela Patton
and convince her that this is the way that all the people who work in
the county can live and work, because their kids get out of school in
the summer. That's when they have an opportunity to go on vacation
with their kids.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And if we work through the summer, a
lot of folks here that would plan on that vacation are going to have to
figure out what they're going to do because they're going to have to be
here because we decided we're going to meet in the summer.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, Madam Chair, in all due
respect to people's vacations and how we've been conducting business
for the past 20-some-odd years, with proper notice, people can make
adjustments in their schedules. And the disservice that I feel we're
doing our community with regard to taking 60 days off at the end of
our fiscal year prior to 30 days in advance of the adoption of our next
billion dollar budget and the next fiscal year is a huge disservice to the
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350,000-some-odd people that do, in fact, live in our community,
which is why I'm making this suggestion.
We're no longer a sleepy, less-than-a-100,000 residential fishing
community. And there are -- and, again, this -- if you listened to the
beginning of this, it was a suggestion of a pilot. We can make
suggestions along the way that we withhold the more contentious -- as
we have in the past, the more contentious zoning issues and so on to a
period of time when more of our part-time residents are, in fact, here.
But in deference to the folks that do live here year round, I'd like to see
us do that.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. Just a comment?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'd suggest that maybe we bring this
back as an agenda item in the future so that we have a chance to kind
of vet this idea with, you know --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, Madam Chair --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- people in our districts.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- brought up several points
there, you know, with regard to school and that sort of thing,
absolutely.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, because I -- and I'm a little
concerned that -- you know, I think one of the things we would hear --
and I'm thinking off the top of my head because this is really the first
I've thought about this -- is those people that feel disenfranchised
because we have -- we don't have important meetings when they're
here. I mean, in a way, this could exacerbate that because it's -- you
know, the season really starts in November when people start coming
back.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's right, season.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And the only retort that I have
again -- and I know times are different, but we are -- the information
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age is upon us, and I know myself, personally, I give as much credence
to a letter or an email or a phone call that I get from a constituent as I
do seeing their smiling face sitting in this room.
So I would just certainly oblige that, and that was one of my
thoughts as the pilot program to make a suggestion, as we have done in
the past with some of our other -- when Commissioner Fiala was out
and we were making some pretty heavy decisions that she wasn't able
to attend with regard to her knee surgery, and we continued items to a
time frame that could be more conducive for some of our part-time
residents. So, again, that's the reason I suggested it as a pilot, so...
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala, your light has
been on.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. No, that -- I couldn't make the
one meeting when I was --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- the day after surgery. But we just
held it till the next meeting. And it wasn't like we put it when they
were out of town.
What we've gotten all along, even now to this day -- and I'm here
to tell you flat out -- and Mike can pull them for you -- people are very
resentful of us if we -- if we decide to hold meetings in the summer
when we know that nobody's here and can object, and that's what's
been held all along. I think it's back when you were still a
commissioner, Burt.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Sure, I agree, that --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: We changed the meetings so that we
didn't meet in the summer because there were so many complaints.
And let's face it, look it, Pelican Bay, they empty out. You know, it's
just --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: City of Naples.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: You just can't blame people thinking
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that we're trying to pull the wool over their eyes, and that's what they
call it. And maybe down in your district people don't vacation as
much, but I want to tell you --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: In ours.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- in our districts, they do. And they
go off for the summer.
And I don't think -- if -- I've never heard anybody complain about
not having summer meetings. I've heard them complain about we're
waiting too long to take a vacation. They're not leaving -- they're
leaving in April, and they wish we would be here for that period of
time, but I've never heard them complain about vacations, unless
maybe they're hunters.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Some of us are hunters.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: When is deer season?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. When is deer season?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I was going to say, I don't -- I
have no problem coming back for a discussion, but I don't think there's
a whole lot of support to do that. I certainly would think it would be
the wrong thing to do to have a break during the season, and that's
what we would be doing, and you will get complaints from that.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, yes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: But we only meet once during
that time frame. I'm only -- I'm necessarily suggesting an elimination
of one meeting and adding two more during a critical period of time in
our operations of our billion dollar company. That's the rationale.
There's only one meeting in December that I'm suggesting that we
not hold, so -- but adding two more during the -- during the -- what I
perceive to be as extremely critical time for, as you -- as we have seen
and heard about budget vetting and the like. And if you all don't want
to support it, rock on. We'll deal with how you've been doing it
forever, but I don't agree with it. I think it's -- times have changed
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sufficiently since certainly when Commissioner Saunders was on the
Board from a population. With love, Commissioner Saunders. But,
you know, the population when you were on the Board was right at
100-, 125,000, if I'm not mistaken, round numbers, and we're 350- plus
now.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Have you heard people complaining
that we're having --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. I'm not doing this just for
fun. I mean, I have --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, because I've never heard -- has
anybody else had complaints about not meeting in the summer?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, it's the opposite. See you later.
You know, you better have this when we're here. In fact, the Racetrac
folks were adamant. They wanted -- they want this in January. They
want it at the height of things, at the beginning of January, this
rehearing.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, no kidding.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. They don't even want it in
October. Not enough people back here.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: As is regularly the case, I do
come and am elected by a group of folks that do not leave for a large
portion of the summer that are here all of the time and that have
expressed a concern about that. So there you go. Be that as it may.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do you have anything else, sir, or
anything else on your correspondence?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. I would like to talk to Nick for a
moment with regard -- are we into commissioner comments and that
sort of thing? Nick goes, what? Did I catch you taking a nap?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: No, sir.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: With regard to the debris
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contract that we have with AshBritten.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: AshBritt.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Do you have an actual per-ton
amount?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: I believe it's $8 a cubic yard, sir, but
I'll have Mr. Rodriguez contact --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Eight dollars a cubic yard.
And just for the record, I know there was an emergency decree put out
by Mr. Kuhn (phonetic) in the Governor's office with regard to our
capacities to renegotiate, and I've been doing a little bit of math along
the way. And I'm a little bit concerned with regard to the timeliness
with -- the debris removal is, in fact, going to transpire. I heard Dan
Rodriguez talk earlier. We were staring at four to six months. I'm
already hearing chirping going on with AshBritten taking on contracts
or doing jobs that are paying 14, $15 a ton and letting our $8-a-ton
contract sit. And I would like to know what kind of provisions we
have in place for protection of an agreement that we had well in
advance of the storm. It's almost like an insurance policy with them
for taking care of the debris cleanup that we have and what type of
assurances that we have that they are fulfilling that agreement even
though, in comparison to other municipalities, it's significantly less.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: We'll get you that information, sir.
We'll pull the contract and review it with you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Sir?
MR. OCHS: What we'll do is -- and when we come back at our
next board meeting for our Irma update, which we agreed this morning
we're going to do every meeting for a while, we'll cover that topic in
detail with you, Commissioners.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. My other question was
on the TDT tax increase. There was some discussion -- we
implemented that TDT tax through the TDC back before we took our
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60-day break, and there was some folks that were theoretically caught
off guard with the exposure.
Has there been resolution to that? There were people that had --
purportedly had contracts and bids out that weren't planning on that 1
percent increase in the TDT tax.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I believe the Tax Collector wrote us a
letter.
MR. OCHS: Yes. The Tax Collector said he's going to start
collecting the tax as an effective date of the Board's ordinance.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I do have a question. Is there
any allowance in the naming of county-owned facilities in dedication
of someone? There's a rather arduous ordinance in place with regard to
the naming processes. We recently had a sheriff die in Immokalee,
and the ordinance is rather -- it's rather arduous to say --
MR. KLATZKOW: Commissioner, there are two ways to get a
building named. One is by a public petition process, which is arduous.
The other is three votes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. I'll bring an executive
summary forward next month. The end.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Phew. That's all.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. Commissioner Solis?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: A few things. One, I just want to say
it again to staff, what an amazing job you have all done and what
amazing leadership you've all shown through this disaster. I was
sitting at dinner on Saturday, and I realized I was sitting on Fifth
Avenue having dinner like I would have had dinner three months ago
after, you know, a major hurricane and things are back to normal. I
mean, they're not back to normal everywhere. Obviously, there's still
suffering greatly. But the strides that we have made, I think, to
bringing things as back to normal as they can be after something like
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this has just been amazing.
So my hats off to Leo, to Nick, Dan, the department heads back
there. I mean, it was really -- it was a wonderful experience, actually,
to be in the EOC with you guys, so...
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Thank you for -- and great job.
I'd also like to take my hat off to the folks at -- the management at
the Fairfield Inn and the Spring Hill Suites; Tracy Arman and Liz
Sanders, who many of us know because she comes here and speaks a
lot. You know, the lengths that they went to, to take care of people
were just amazing. And, I know there's going to be lots of stories like
this. This just happened to be my personal story.
I mean, Tracy Arman was -- in the eye of the storm was out there
cleaning debris out of the storm gutters so it wouldn't flood, you know,
in the eye of the storm; it was that kind of thing.
So incredible stories out there, I think, of our community coming
together and, you know, pulling together to make the best out of a
really bad situation. So, I would just like to give a shout out to them at
the Spring Hill Suites and the Fairfield Inn.
One question I had on something on the agenda, and it was -- I
think somebody had an exhibit that showed where some of the debris
staging areas were.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Dan Rodriguez.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And one of the them said Lodge
Abbott. Is that -- the Lodge Abbott, is that the golf course at Kalea
Bay?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Is it?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. Because I've had a couple of
calls wondering what in the world's going on out there.
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MR. OCHS: Wiggins Pass Road and Vanderbilt Drive there, yes.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's not the commercial piece on the
south side of Wiggins Pass. It's where the -- it's where the golf course
is supposed to go?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. OCHS: That's my understanding, yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. If somebody could give them
just some information on exactly what's going on there. I think people
were -- obviously, that's a very sensitive issue for the neighbors, and I
think they're under the impression that there's -- you know, that maybe
there's things going on there other than just debris staging area. I don't
think anybody really knows about that up there.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You have to tell them Dr. George is
building a pyramid.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. It's going to be a pyramid of
debris. That will go over well. So, anyway, that will be helpful.
And, last, I got a letter from a Mr. Hines that I thought I would
read, and I asked for his permission because I think it's -- it's just
another great story of the service that staff gives to our residents here.
It says, a sincere thank you to Collier County Veterans Service
Office, especially to the Service Officer Alexandra Scardino.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, Alex.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. She was my secretary.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think everybody got this. I just
thought I had to read this.
Being a Vietnam Veteran, I was wounded three separate times
and exposed to agent orange for 10 months during combat missions 50
years ago. I had filed a claim for my veterans benefits through the
Disabled Americans Veterans but could never reach any service
officers or even get a return phone.
I took -- it took three phone calls to the big local attorney office,
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who claims to be working for the people and they care about veterans,
to just get an acknowledgment call that they had received my message.
I had to wait another month for someone from their office to contact
me and ask me all the information for their veterans sections attorneys
to review. I did, and now six months later no one has got back to me
or requested more information.
I decided to try one more time through the Collier County
Veterans Services. I was able to secure an appointment in two days.
After looking at all the history, documents, and medical records
contained in my file -- in my folder, my service officer, Alexandra,
couldn't believe that no benefits had been granted.
Now, after two appeals with the help of Alexandra, I am finally
"entitled," in quotes, to benefits.
What a great job for the veterans Alexander Scardino has done.
Thank you for your help and support, Collier County Veterans
Services. Mr. Dave Hines.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's wonderful.
MR. OCHS: Fantastic.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Great job.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm grateful that you read that.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think she -- that's just, I think,
another example of what a great job staff does, so thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: He said "that big attorney."
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Well, I don't know who that is; I'm
just reading the letter.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I want to echo what
Commissioner Solis said about staff. We were all at the EOC many
times. Our staff was there all night long day after day sleeping there,
and it was very impressive to see what all of you did there. So I echo
what you've said.
I've got 18 items I want to go over.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Can I ask you to move back so
I can watch him.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. I'll be really quick. It
won't take more than five minutes for each one.
We have some legislation that's already been filed to sunset
community development agencies, CRAs. It's already been filed in
Tallahassee. There's going to be a real attack on those types of
facilities -- those types of entities. And I'd like for us to have the
benefit of a report from the County Manager on the activities of our
two CRAs and how much financial disclosure is, how transparent
those entities are so at least we'll have a story to tell in Tallahassee
about not all CRAs are created equal and not all CRAs are
problematic. There may be some in our community that -- in one of
the cities maybe, but certainly not in Collier County.
So if we could -- if you could have something before the --
November time frame, end of October time frame would be very
helpful.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Is that Richard Corcoran?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, it's several other folks,
but I think the Speaker of the House is behind that as well.
Secondly, I want to start taking a look at some of the zoning in
the commercial areas in Golden Gate City between Santa Barbara
Boulevard and 951, Golden Gate Parkway. Nothing outside of that,
but just that corridor. My understanding is that if someone wanted to
build a multi-use facility there you can't do it. So you have all
single-story buildings. And I think it would be good to take a look at
that zoning there; perhaps we could help upgrade some of the
commercial activities in that location.
And so if staff could, perhaps, get back with me to talk about
what some of the options are. I know we have contracts with different
planning organizations, different planners, and maybe there's
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something we can do there.
I don't think it's a very complex issue. It's just a matter of taking a
look at that corridor and determining if some mixed-used-type
development would be appropriate there.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Commissioner Saunders, if I
might. We are under review of the Golden Gate Master Plan, which
includes Golden Gate City, urbanized Golden Gate Estates, and then
the rural Golden Gate Estates, because I'm working through that
process, and that's an area where you can get involved, property owner
specifically, and we can effectuate map changes at an administrative
level, changing the color from pink to orange to allow for that sort of
process to be effectuated and eliminate the comprehensive Growth
Management Plan amendment process. That's going on right now and
might could be a much more effective way to effect -- to get done what
you're looking to do.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. Well, perhaps staff
could get back with me on how --
MR. OCHS: Yeah, I would agree wholeheartedly. We've got the
restudies going, and we could work with the existing consultants to
kind of incorporate this into the ongoing study.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I appreciate that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm just thrilled that you're doing
that. It's needed some tender touch, somebody to focus on them and
actually pull them up by their bootstraps, and I think it's wonderful that
you're tackling that.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, I appreciate you saying
that. It's the kind of thing that will take a long time, but it's --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, just like Bayshore.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. Somebody's got to
start. The other 12 items, I'm going to hold those off until the next
meeting.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. So I only have five. No.
Let me hand this out first so I can -- when I speak about this,
you've got it in front of you.
The proposal is to have a Sea Level Rise Risks and Solutions
Summit here in the county October the 17th. You can see the sponsors
are Collier Citizens Council, Greater Naples Leadership, Chamber of
Commerce, Collier County's Presence Council, and the League of
Women Voters. The speakers are Mike Savarese; Alex Kaplan,
reinsurance; Jim Cason, former mayor of Coral Gables; and Eric
Carpenter, City Engineer, City of Miami Beach. He is kind of
fascinating because they're the ones who are building these huge
pumps.
So the thought was it would be October 17th here in the
chambers, and I think I need your consensus to allow this to go
forward.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Sure.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I would definitely support that
effort. Do I need to make a motion?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I would love you to make a motion.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I will make a motion that we move
forward with the Sea Level Rise Risks and Solutions Summit on
October 17th introduced to us by Commissioner Penny Taylor.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much. I will second
that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay.
MR. OCHS: Commissioner, do you need any staff support or
logistics or supplies or anything?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Basically -- okay. Well, then the part
two of this would be can we televise this? Is that appropriate? Can we
put this so that we can put it out to our constituents throughout the
county?
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MR. OCHS: If that's what the Board would like, we certainly
can. This room is obviously well suited for that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, sure.
MR. OCHS: Is it going to be here or upstairs?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Here.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's not a workshop. This is going to
be separate.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It's more discussion.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: It's not --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Not us.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Not us up here.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: It's this group that wants to use
this room.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's right; that's right. Okay.
Wonderful.
All right. Thank you very, very much. Okay. So all those in
favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
All right. On the level of NOAA and our wonderful
Savarese/Shang partnership that they're coming to study Collier
County for three years, they are coming to the Commission -- Dr.
Shang is presenting, is it the 10th or the 7th? When are we?
MR. OCHS: I believe it's the 10th; October 10th.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: That's our meeting?
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MR. OCHS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. So it's October 10th. And, once
again, I would like to host a lunch. I'd like the county to host a lunch
for the leadership in our county, Chamber of Commerce folks, you
know, Stantec, people -- the Collier Enterprises, Barron Collier, to
extend an invitation and have a very casual lunch upstairs after they
present in the morning, and then we'll break for lunch. But the lunch
break we should have probably should be about an hour and a half.
Now, I know that's a little bit of ka-dewy (phonetic), but this will
be the only time that, I think, Dr. Shang can meet with the public only
because of his schedule. And I wanted to see if you were -- is
everyone okay with that?
So the concept would be, he will present and explain what he's
going to do, and then everybody can go upstairs at lunchtime to meet
with him and talk to him.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Is this on October 17th; is that
part of that?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: On the 17th or --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, on the 10th, excuse me. I know.
This kind of all got blurred together because of the hurricane.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: No. It got messed up in our minds a
little bit because of October 17th.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I beg your pardon, yeah. So it's
October 10th at a regular meeting, Dr. Shang is coming in.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, at a regular meeting?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes. We had him -- remember we had
him --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: He's with this group though, right?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Oh, he's Dr. Shang and Dr. Savarese.
They're the ones who applied for and were granted the million dollars
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from NOAA.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Are you talking about a lunch
for us to go participate in? Because we can't do that. I mean, that
would --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: If we pay for it.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: No, but, I mean -- no. We have
our commission meeting that day. You're talking about having a lunch
break where we go upstairs and talk.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Just for a few minutes, just to be there,
and then we can leave. No? You don't think so?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: No. You'd have to ask the
County Attorney what we could do, but it would have to be open. I
mean, it's --
MR. KLATZKOW: We generally frown on these things.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You generally frown on these things.
I'll take that as a frown.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: He generally frowns all the time.
Can I -- just to throw another curveball in there, I'm looking at my
calendar on October 17th, and I've got something blocked off for the
Collier County Legislative Delegation meeting. Is that --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah. They don't meet in
here.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Is that an error? Is that something --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: You know, I've got the
delegation meeting on my calendar.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: They don't meet here, but is that
something we attend?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: It will be at the North Collier
Park. Yeah, we should --
MR. OCHS: Usually you send the Chair to present the Board's
legislative priorities.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. And we can refigure our
priorities at the next meeting.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. Well, I just -- I had it on my
calendar.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I've got October 19th;
Thursday October 19th for the Collier County State Legislative
Delegation Meeting.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I just called Mike, and I don't have
anything on my calendar for that date.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I had it for the 17th.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay. All right. Very good. And then
--
MR. OCHS: Excuse me. October 19th.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Nineteenth. Okay. So then are we --
we will --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Skip lunch.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah, we will skip lunch if we have to,
but would it be appropriate to have the reception here upstairs on the
fifth floor?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I think we should have lunch
there, too, because, you know, I think it would be a good idea. I don't
know how, but maybe Jeff can find out a way that we can do it all
legally and everything.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Even if we have to --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: If we don't sit next to each other and
we don't talk about anything we're going to bid -- or vote on. It's just --
MR. KLATZKOW: I'll chat with the Chair.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Huh?
MR. KLATZKOW: I'll chat with the Chair and see what we can
do.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Chat with the Chair, okay.
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So what we're going to do is they're definitely going to present,
and we are going to have a reception; whether or not we attend, that's
another thing. And then we'll work on a list of the leadership to meet
these two scientists and to talk about what work they're going to do for
Collier County; is that all right?
Okay. So, finally, would you please put those two photographs
up, Troy. So this was last night, Naples Pier. I want a big -- I want
this huge. You know, September 25th, 2017, about seven o'clock at
night.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: They opened it up?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: No, sir. No. And you can see -- and
this is also last night.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Everything's open for business; is
that what you're saying?
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And there's children and the people
down at the beach and just enjoying it, and everybody got grouped
together to --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Send that over to Jack Wert
and say -- date it, you know.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I know. It's just we are open, and it is
beautiful and people are enjoying what we have here. So -- and if you
go back to the pier shot, I'm standing where it's -- the pier is closed
about halfway, so I'm standing at that halfway with the pier shot.
Right there. So that last little stretch they just need to replace some
planking.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, boy, that looks great. And it
says a lot about us, the county as a whole, and the people that we've
had working in emergency management and the guys picking up
everything. And, you know, remember we all started this voting to get
this all in place back in February. Remember that? These guys here,
every year, February there they go. They're bringing all the stuff back
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to store all the trash and all of the debris and everything and making all
of the arrangements. And everybody shakes their head and says, what
in the heck are we doing there? It's always just on the consent but, you
know, it's always there and, boy, did it pay off this year.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah. And, I guess, congratulations. I
mean, it's hard. You know, who would have thought, and this darn --
you know, you followed Irma and you thought you were getting
whiplash. She was here, she was there, she was there. No, it's not.
You go talk in the grocery store. We're okay. Oh, no, you were not;
we're evacuating.
And the threat and the arrival of that storm was horrifying in so
many ways. And, you know, you rode it coolly; everybody did their
job. There was a calm over the EOC that gave me courage.
And one of the best things about this last two weeks I'll remember
is that when I would go into the EOC, there would be this darn map of
Florida and there would be this hurricane coming towards it, and when
it was through, it was NBC on there, you know, this huge -- and it was
what was open and what wasn't. And it was a visual for me, a visual
picture of -- that we had gotten through it and how we changed and
what the emphasis was.
And County Attorney Klatzkow said it, there was a time where he
said, it's calmer now. You can feel that the tension is slowly going out,
and yet we still have people in need, we still have people that are living
without power, and we are out there working.
Go down to Everglades City, and you can see it; parts of
Immokalee, you can see it; in Chokoloskee. And folks haven't even
come --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm going to Goodland tonight.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: -- in Goodland. But, boy, I'll tell you
what. We are working together, and that's the most exciting part.
That's the most exciting part of this. So well done, sir. It's your team.
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MR. OCHS: It's the team, ma'am; thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Well done.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I will move to adjourn.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And I'll second. We're done.
***** Commissioner Fiala moved, seconded by Commissioner
McDaniel and carried unanimously that the following items under the
Consent and Summary Agendas be approved and/or adopted except
for the following: Item #16F1 continued to the next meeting;
Commissioner McDaniel opposed to Item #17H; Commissioner Fiala
and Commissioner Taylor opposed to Item #16A45; Commissioner
Solis abstained from voting on Item #16A2, Item #16A17, Item
#16A38 and Item #16K20 due to conflict *****
Item #16A1
PROPOSAL FROM CB&I ENVIRONMENTAL &
INFRASTRUCTURE, INC. FOR FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS OF
BUILDING COLLIER COUNTY’S COASTAL RESILIENCY
UNDER CONTRACT NO. 15-6382, AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY
MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE THE WORK
ORDER FOR A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF $24,975,
AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS, AND
MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS EXPENDITURE PROMOTES
TOURISM – FOR A POTENTIAL BEACH WIDENING AND
ADDITION OF DUNES; ONCE THE ANALYSIS IS COMPLETE
THEY WILL PROVIDE A MEMO TO COLLIER COUNTY AND
SET UP A WEBINAR TO CONSULT FDEP
Item #16A2 – Commissioner Solis abstained due to conflict
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RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF ARTESIA NAPLES, PHASE
4, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20170001099) APPROVAL OF
THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND
MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE
AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/
STIPULATIONS
Item #16A3
RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF PRICE STREET PLAZA,
(APPLICATION NUMBER PL20170001084) APPROVAL OF THE
STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE
PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/STIPULATIONS
Item #16A4
RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF FRONTERRA PHASE 2,
(APPLICATION NUMBER PL20170000897) APPROVAL OF THE
STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE
PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/STIPULATIONS
Item #16A5
RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF BENT CREEK PRESERVE
PHASE 2A (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20160003590)
APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION
AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE
AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/
STIPULATIONS
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Item #16A6
RECORDING THE MINOR FINAL PLAT OF OYSTER HARBOR
AT FIDDLER’S CREEK PHASE 2B, APPLICATION NUMBER
PL20170001113 – LOCATED IN SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 51
SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST
Item #16A7
RECORDING THE MINOR FINAL PLAT OF SIERRA
MEADOWS 1 & 2, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20160002608 –
LOCATED IN SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 50 SOUTH, RANGE 26
EAST
Item #16A8
RECORDING THE MINOR FINAL PLAT OF TRACT J-1 AT
TALIS PARK, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20170002034 –
LOCATED IN SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RANGE 26
EAST
Item #16A9
RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF WARM SPRINGS – PHASE
2, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20170001519) APPROVAL OF
THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND
MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE
AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/
STIPULATIONS
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Item #16A10
RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF NAPLES RESERVE
CIRCLE, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20160000038)
APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION
AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE
AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/
STIPULATIONS
Item #16A11
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES FOR VI AT BENTLEY VILLAGE, WEST
CLUBHOUSE, PL20150002633, ACCEPT UNCONDITIONAL
CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE POTABLE WATER
FACILITIES, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER,
OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES
PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION
BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $10,567.64 TO THE
PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED
AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF
IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES ON APRIL 26,
2017 AND THE FACILITIES WERE FOUND TO BE
SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A12
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE
OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR SIENNA RESERVE, PL20150001595, AND TO AUTHORIZE
THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE
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THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF
$4,000 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S
DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION WAS
CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC
UTILITIES ON JUNE 6, 2017 AND FOUND THESE FACILITIES
TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A13
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES FOR ULTIMATE EXPRESS CAR WASH,
PL20150002751, ACCEPT UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE
OF A PORTION OF THE SEWER FACILITIES, AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE,
TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY
(UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $4,772.10 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE
DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION
WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH
PUBLIC UTILITIES ON MAY 4, 2017 AND THE FACILITIES
WERE FOUND TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A14
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES FOR ISLES OF COLLIER PRESERVE
AMENITY CENTER, PHASE 1, PL20150001719, ACCEPT
UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE
POTABLE WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES, AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE,
TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY
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(UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $17,291.38 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE
DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION
WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH
PUBLIC UTILITIES ON APRIL 14, 2017 AND THE FACILITIES
WERE FOUND TO BE ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A15
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES FOR BERKSHIRE PLACE, PL20150001414,
ACCEPT UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION
OF THE POTABLE WATER FACILITIES, AND TO AUTHORIZE
THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE
THE UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) AND
FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF
$12,984.80 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE
DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION
WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH
PUBLIC UTILITIES ON JULY 11, 2017 AND THE FACILITIES
WERE FOUND TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A16
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES FOR CIPRIANI AT LELY RESORT,
PL20150001136, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY
MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES
PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION
BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $43,014.27 TO THE
PROJECT ENGINEERING OR THE DEVELOPER’S
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DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION WAS
CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC
UTILITIES ON JUNE 22, 2017 AND THEY WRE FOUND TO BE
SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A17 – Commissioner Solis abstained due to conflict
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES FOR GIAVENO, PL20140001923, ACCEPT
UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE
POTABLE WATER FACILITIES, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE
COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE
UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) AND FINAL
OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $32,566.24
TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S
DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION WAS
CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC
UTILITIES ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 AND THE FACILITIES
WERE FOUND TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A18
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES FOR NAPLES RESERVE, PHASE 1,
PL20150000348, AND ACCEPT UNCONDITIONAL
CONVEYANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND A PORTION
OF THE SEWER FACILITIES, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE
COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE
FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO
THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED
AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF
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IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES ON JULY 11,
2017 AND FOUND THESE FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY
AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A19
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE
OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR NAPLES RESERVE, PHASE 2, PL20150000335, AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE,
TO RELEASE THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE
AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE
DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION
WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH
PUBLIC UTILITIES ON JULY 11, 2017 AND THE FACILITIES
WERE FOUND TO BE FOUND THESE FACILITIES TO BE
SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A20
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE SEWER FACILITIES FOR LB
NAPLES GRANDE - TEMPORARY SALES OFFICE,
PL20170001553 – LOCATED AT 7330 PREMIER DR., NAPLES
Item #16A21
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE
OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR LAKOYA PHASE 2, PL20130002656, AND TO AUTHORIZE
THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE
THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF
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$4,000 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S
DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION WAS
CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC
UTILITIES ON APRIL 20, 2017 AND FOUND THESE
FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A22
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE
OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR HERITAGE BAY COMMONS TRACT D, PL20150002518
AND PL20150002877, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY
MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES
PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION
BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $17,313.47 TO THE
PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED
AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF
IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES ON MAY 16,
2017 AND FOUND THESE FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY
AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A23
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE
OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR FIRANO AT NAPLES, PHASES 1, 2, AND 3,
PL20110002021, PL20130002513, AND PL20110002596 AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE,
TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY
(UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $18,383.58 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE
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DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION
WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH
PUBLIC UTILITIES ON OCTOBER 27, 2016 AND FOUND
THESE FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY AND
ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A24
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE SEWER FACILITIES FOR
GERMAIN AUTO IMAGES, PL20160000439, AND ACCEPT
UNCONDITIONAL CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THESE
SEWER FACILITIES
Item #16A25
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR SFWMD BIG CYPRESS
FIELD STATION, PL20160000750, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE
COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE
FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO
THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S
DESIGNATED AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION WAS
CONDUCTED BY STAFF IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC
UTILITIES ON JULY 17, 2017 AND FOUND THESE FACILITIES
TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A26
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER
FACILITIES FOR NAPLES RESERVE ISLAND CLUB, PHASE 1,
PL20150001154, AND ACCEPTING UNCONDITIONAL
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CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE POTABLE WATER
FACILITIES, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER,
OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES
PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION
BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $18,298.07 TO THE
PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED
AGENT – FINAL INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF
IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES ON JULY 11,
2017 AND THE FACILITIES WERE FOUND TO BE
SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A27
RESOLUTION 2017-151: FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE
PRIVATE ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS FOR
THE FINAL PLAT OF FIDDLER’S CREEK, PHASE 3, UNIT
ONE, APPLICATION NUMBER AR-1607 WITH THE
ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS BEING
PRIVATELY MAINTAINED; ACCEPTANCE OF THE PLAT
DEDICATIONS, AND AUTHORIZING THE RELEASE OF THE
MAINTENANCE SECURITY
Item #16A28
EASEMENT USE AGREEMENT (AGREEMENT) FOR LOT 15,
NATURE POINTE, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS
RECORDED AT PLAT BOOK 20, PAGES 20 THROUGH 22 OF
THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF COLLIER COUNTY – LOCATED
AT 1635 GORDON RIVER LANE, NAPLES
Item #16A29
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EASEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A ROAD
RIGHT-OF-WAY, DRAINAGE, AND UTILITY EASEMENT
(PARCEL 409RDUE) REQUIRED FOR THE EXPANSION OF
GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD FROM EAST OF EVERGLADES
BOULEVARD TO EAST OF FAKA UNION CANAL (PROJECT
60145) (ESTIMATED FISCAL IMPACT: $6,054)
Item #16A30
EASEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A ROAD
RIGHT-OF-WAY, DRAINAGE, AND UTILITY EASEMENT
(PARCEL 412RDUE) REQUIRED FOR THE EXPANSION OF
GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD FROM EAST OF EVERGLADES
BOULEVARD TO EAST OF FAKA UNION CANAL (PROJECT
60145) (ESTIMATED FISCAL IMPACT: $15,054)
Item #16A31
EASEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A ROAD
RIGHT-OF-WAY, DRAINAGE, AND UTILITY EASEMENT
(PARCEL 418RDUE) REQUIRED FOR THE EXPANSION OF
GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD FROM EAST OF EVERGLADES
BOULEVARD TO EAST OF THE FAKA UNION CANAL
(PROJECT 60145) (ESTIMATED FISCAL IMPACT: $10,100) – A
4,515 +/- SQUARE FOOT, VACANT NON-EXCLUSIVE ROAD
RIGHT-OF-WAY, DRAINAGE AND UTILITY EASEMENT
Item #16A32
EASEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A ROAD
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RIGHT-OF-WAY, DRAINAGE, AND UTILITY EASEMENT
(PARCEL 415RDUE) REQUIRED FOR THE EXPANSION OF
GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD FROM EAST OF EVERGLADES
BOULEVARD TO EAST OF FAKA UNION CANAL (PROJECT
60145) (ESTIMATED FISCAL IMPACT: $14,100)
Item #16A33
A SECOND AMENDMENT TO PURCHASE AGREEMENT FOR
THE PURCHASE OF A FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY (PARCEL
101FEE) REQUIRED FOR THE IMMOKALEE STORMWATER
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (PROJECT 60143) (ESTIMATED
FISCAL IMPACT: $10,000
Item #16A34
A PURCHASE AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF TWO (2)
FEE SIMPLE PARCELS (PARCELS 103FEE1 AND 103FEE2)
REQUIRED FOR ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS AT THE
INTERSECTION OF AIRPORT ROAD AND DAVIS
BOULEVARD (PROJECT NO. 60148) (FISCAL IMPACT:
APPROXIMATELY $695,950)
Item #16A35
A DRAINAGE, ACCESS AND MAINTENANCE EASEMENT
FOR THE DONATION OF AN EASEMENT PARCEL (109DAME)
REQUIRED FOR ROUTINE MAINTENANCE OF THE SR29
CANAL (ESTIMATED FISCAL IMPACT: $44) – DONATED BY
GLOBAL SIGNAL ACQUISITIONS IV LLC
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Item #16A36
AWARD BID NO. 17-7155 TO HORSEPOWER ELECTRIC, INC.
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT
THE INTERSECTION OF CR 856 (RADIO RD) AND MADISON
PARK BLVD/SANCTUARY DRIVE IN THE AMOUNT OF
$497,497 AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENT (PROJECT NO. 60172)
Item #16A37
THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE AN IRREVOCABLE
STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT IN THE AMOUNT OF $16,400
WHICH WAS POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION
PERMIT NUMBER 60.146, PL20160000338 FOR WORK
ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLLIER CHARTER ACADEMY –
THE AS-BUILT CROSS SECTIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED
AND THE LAKES HAVE BEEN INSPECTED BY THE
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW DIVISION
Item #16A38 – Commissioner Solis abstained due to conflict
THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE IRREVOCABLE
STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT NO. FGAC-15118 IN THE
AMOUNT OF $12,660, WHICH WAS POSTED AS A
GUARANTY FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH CASORIA AT
TREVISO BAY, SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN (SDP)
PL20140000605
Item #16A39
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THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A CASH BOND IN THE
AMOUNT OF $1,040 TO SLOAN ENGINEERING GROUP
WHICH WAS POSTED AS A DEVELOPMENT GUARANTY
FOR AN EARLY WORK AUTHORIZATION (EWA)
(PL20160002677) FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH DOLLAR
GENERAL
Item #16A40
THE RELEASE OF A CODE ENFORCEMENT LIEN WITH AN
ACCRUED VALUE OF $95,600 FOR PAYMENT OF $500 IN
THE CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ENTITLED BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS V. YISLEN DE LA O AND
ROESMEL RUA, CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD CASE NOS.
CESD20140005957 AND CESD20140023123 RELATING TO
PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2883 50TH TER SW, COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA – FOR A VIOLATIONS THAT CONSISTED
OF THE BUILDING OF A DOCK WITHOUT PERMITS AND A
CHICKEE HUT WITH AN EXPITED PERMIT – BROUGHT INTO
COMPLIANCE ON AUGUST 31, 2015 AND APRIL 11, 2017
Item #16A41
THE RELEASE OF A CODE ENFORCEMENT LIEN WITH AN
ACCRUED VALUE OF $222,600 FOR PAYMENT OF $7,000 IN
THE CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ENTITLED BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS V. H & H 29TH AVE HOLDINGS
LLC. CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD CASE NO.
CESD20100019403 RELATING TO PROPERTY LOCATED AT
3220 29TH AVE NE, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA –
VIOLATIONS THAT CONSISTED OF A TIKI HUT, A SHED
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AND A FRONT WALL STRUCTURE WITHOUT BUILDING
PERMITS BROUGHT INTO COMPLIANCE ON JUNE 7, 2017
Item #16A42
THE RELEASE OF CODE ENFORCEMENT LIENS WITH AN
ACCRUED VALUE OF $139,550 FOR PAYMENT OF $450 IN
THE CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ENTITLED BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS V. EDILBRAY PEREZ AND
BELKIS MARTINEZ. CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD CASE
NOS. CEPM20080001391 AND CESD20100001280 RELATING
TO PROPERTY LOCATED AT 5563 17TH AVE SW, COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA – FOR VIOLATIONS THAT CONSISTED
OF A VACANT TRI-PLEX WITH BROKEN WINDOWS AND AN
UNPERMITTED SHED BROUGHT INTO COMPLIANCE BY A
NEW OWNER ON JUNE 24, 2014
Item #16A43
THE RELEASE OF A CODE ENFORCEMENT LIEN WITH AN
ACCRUED VALUE OF $298,950 FOR PAYMENT OF $500 IN
THE CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ENTITLED BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS V. FIDEL AND ESPERANZA
ALVIAR, JR., CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD CASE NO.
CESD20110000036 RELATING TO PROPERTY LOCATED AT
519 ADAMS AVENUE, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA – FOR
VIOLATIONS THAT CONSISTED OF UNPERMITTED
ADDITIONS AND SHEDS WITHOUT PERMITS THAT WERE
BROUGHT INTO COMPLIANCE ON FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Item #16A44
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RESOLUTION 2017-152: SUPPORTING COUNTY
APPLICATIONS TO THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FOR LONG RANGE
BUDGET PLAN REQUESTS FOR BEACH RENOURISHMENT
PROJECTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018/2019; MAINTAINS THE
COUNTY'S ELIGIBILITY FOR STATE COST SHARE FUNDING
FOR FUTURE RENOURISHMENT PROJECTS
Item #16A45
RESOLUTION 2017-153: APPROVING AN AGREEMENT
BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY AND THE FLORIDA PACE
FUNDING AGENCY TO ADMINISTER THE PROPERTY
ASSESSED CLEAN ENERGY (PACE) PROGRAM WITHIN THE
UNINCORPORATED AREA OF COLLIER COUNTY, AN
INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLLIER
COUNTY AND COUNTERPOINTE ENERGY SOLUTIONS (FL)
LLC, THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR, AND AUTHORIZE
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS (BOARD) TO SIGN THESE AGREEMENTS
Item #16A46
AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE DISTRICT
SCHOOL BOARD OF COLLIER COUNTY PROVIDING FOR
THE CONVEYANCE OF MANATEE ROAD EXTENSION TO
COLLIER COUNTY AS PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY (PROJECT
#60131) (ESTIMATED FISCAL IMPACT: $122,920.70)
LOCATED BETWEEN ROOST ROAD AND US 41; A FIVE
FOOT STRIP OF LAND RUNNING THE A DISTANCE OF 522.29
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FEET, WHICH THE DISTRICT NEEDS TO FOR AN
ELECTRICAL CONDUIT TO SIGNAGE
Item #16A47
THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
(SFWMD) AGREEMENT AMENDMENT NO. 4600003476A-1
EXTENDING THE COMPLETION DATE FROM SEPTEMBER
29, 2017 TO MAY 31, 2018 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
HALDEMAN CREEK WEIR REPLACEMENT PROJECT,
(PROJECT #60103)
Item #16A48
CONTINUING THE ONGOING UPDATE OF THE FEDERAL
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) DIGITAL
FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP (DFIRM) WHICH WILL
MORE ACCURATELY IDENTIFY THE FLOOD RISK FOR
COUNTY RESIDENTS AND POTENTIALLY REDUCE THE
COST OF FLOOD INSURANCE PREMIUMS FOR CERTAIN
RESIDENTS – EXTENDING THE CONTRACT WITH TCE
UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2020 TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT
Item #16A49
AUTHORIZING THE PAYMENT OF AN OUTSTANDING
INVOICE FOR AGREEMENT NO. 14-6332, EXOTIC
VEGETATION REMOVAL FOR PROJECTS TO EARTH TECH
ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC – A COMPANION TO ITEM #17G
Item #16A50
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RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF HADLEY PLACE EAST,
(APPLICATION NUMBER PL20160002628) APPROVAL OF THE
STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE
PERFORMANCE SECURITY (THIS IS A COMPANION TO
AGENDA ITEM #17G) – W/STIPULATIONS
Item #16B1
AWARDING BID #17-7150 FOR THE BAYSHORE CRA FIRE
SUPPRESSION SYSTEM TO QUALITY ENTERPRISE USA, INC.
FOR A BID PRICE OF $520,282.44, AUTHORIZE THE
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD CHAIR
TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT AND AUTHORIZE A $73,282.44
BUDGET AMENDMENT – FOR THE UPGRADE OF EXISTING
POTABLE WATER MAINS AND NEW AND/OR UPGRADED
FIRE HYDRANTS ALONG PETERS AVENUE, COLLEE COURT
AND GORDON STREET
Item #16B2
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BCC), AS THE
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA), APPROVE
AN AMENDMENT TO THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
(HUD) GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BCC AND THE
CRA FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF
$125,000 AND A TIME EXTENSION FOR THE IMMOKALEE
SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD TO SIGN THE AMENDMENT
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AND AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS –
EXTENDING THE AGREEMENT TO MARCH 29, 2018
Item #16C1
CONTRACT AMENDMENT NUMBER 5 REACTIVATING
CONTRACT NO. 04-3673, "PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING
SERVICES FOR DESIGN OF THE NORTHEAST WATER
RECLAMATION FACILITY AND WATER TREATMENT
PLANT," AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A
PURCHASE ORDER IN THE AMOUNT OF $172,642 TO
INITIATE THE UPDATE OF THE NORTHEAST UTILITY
FACILITY DESIGN CRITERIA, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT – AS DETAILED IN THE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16C2
A $32,193.49 CHANGE ORDER TO A PURCHASE ORDER,
ISSUED UNDER CONTRACT #14-6213 FOR "NCWRF BELT
FILTER PRESS NO. 6 REHABILITATION,” WITH MITCHELL &
STARK CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., UNDER NORTH COUNTY
WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY TECHNICAL SUPPORT
(PROJECT NUMBER 73968) – WITH THE CURRENT
CONTRACT TO EXPIRE ON JULY 7, 2018
Item #16C3
A RIGHT-OF-WAY CONSENT AGREEMENT AND
ASSOCIATED MEMORANDUM WITH FLORIDA POWER &
LIGHT COMPANY, PROVIDING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A
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PORTION OF THE SECOND PHASE OF THE LIVINGSTON
ROAD FORCE MAIN ON PROPERTY LOCATED ALONG THE
WEST SIDE OF LIVINGSTON ROAD FROM GOLDEN GATE
PARKWAY TO MARBELLA LAKES DRIVE WITHIN FLORIDA
POWER & LIGHT COMPANY’S POWER-LINE RIGHT-OF-WAY
– TO ENABLE THE TRANSFER OF WASTEWATER FLOW
BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH COUNTY WATER
RECLAMATION FACILITIES
Item #16C4
A RIGHT-OF-WAY CONSENT AGREEMENT AND
ASSOCIATED MEMORANDUM WITH FLORIDA POWER &
LIGHT COMPANY, PROVIDING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A
PORTION OF PHASE 6A OF THE LIVINGSTON ROAD FORCE
MAIN ON PROPERTY LOCATED SOUTH OF LIVINGSTON
ROAD AND PINE RIDGE ROAD INTERSECTION WITHIN
FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY’S POWER-LINE
RIGHT-OF-WAY – CONNECTING THE NORTH AND SOUTH
WATER RECLAMATION FACILITIES
Item #16C5
RECOGNIZING AND APPROPRIATING REVENUE TO THE
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION COST CENTER IN THE
AMOUNT OF $105,041.04 FOR THE PERIOD OF JUNE 2017
THROUGH AUGUST 2017 OF FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017 AND
AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT
Item #16C6
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A CERTIFICATION OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, AS
REQUIRED BY THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, FOR THE RENEWAL OF
AN OPERATING PERMIT FOR THE DEEP INJECTION WELL
SYSTEM AT THE SOUTH COUNTY WATER RECLAMATION
FACILITY – FOR THE DISPOSAL OF TREATED EFFLUENT
WATER FROM THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS;
THE PERMIT EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 12, 2017
Item #16C7
A BUDGET AMENDMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $148,000
TRANSFERRING FUNDS BETWEEN COST CENTERS AND
LINE ITEMS WITHIN THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER-
SEWER DISTRICT OPERATING FUND (408) TO COVER
COSTS FOR UNANTICIPATED INCREASES IN BANK FEES
AND CONTRACTUAL SERVICES – FOR PAYMENTS THAT
INCLUDE A LOCKBOX, CREDIT CARDS, BANK DRAFTS,
OVER-THE-COUNTER CASH AND CHECKS, ETC.
Item #16C8
RESOLUTION 2017-154: THE ANNUAL RATE RESOLUTION
TO ESTABLISH THE FEES, RATES, AND CHARGES FOR THE
USE OF COLLIER COUNTY SOLID WASTE FACILITIES,
INCLUDING LANDFILL TIPPING FEES, RECYCLING DROP-
OFF CENTER FEES, AND RESIDENTIAL MULTI-FAMILY AND
COMMERCIAL WASTE COLLECTION FEES FOR FY18. THIS
RESOLUTION ADOPTS THE RATES THAT FUND THE FY18
BUDGET FOR SOLID WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL
AND INCREASES THE RATES BY 2.9% IN ACCORDANCE
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WITH THE CPI FOR THE YEAR
Item #16C9
A SIGNED AGREEMENT WITH AECOM TO REINSTATE,
AMEND AND EXTEND CONTRACT #16-6597, THE JAIL
MASTER PLAN, TO COMPLETE THE FINAL REPORT FOR
THE PLAN – EXTENDING THE EXPIRED CONTRACT FROM
AUGUST 18, 2017 TO DECEMBER 29, 2017
Item #16D1
THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH
NWNG LLC, D/B/A NAPLES GRANDE BEACH RESORT TO
INCREASE TRAM SERVICE AND MANAGE INCLEMENT
WEATHER OPERATIONS – INCREASING THE NUMBER OF
TRAMS TO THREE FROM JUNE 1 THROUGH OCTOBER 31
AND FIVE FROM NOVEMBER 1 THROUGH MAY 31
Item #16D2
RELEASE OF LIEN TO COMBINE THE RELEASE OF 3
SEPARATE LIENS WITH ONE DEVELOPER FOR A
COMBINED AMOUNT OF $11,788.56 FOR PROPERTIES
DEVELOPED BY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER
COUNTY, INC. THAT HAVE REMAINED AFFORDABLE FOR
THE REQUIRED 15-YEAR PERIOD SET FORTH IN THE STATE
HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) IMPACT FEE
PROGRAM DEFERRAL AGREEMENTS – AS DETAILED IN
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
September 26, 2017
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Item #16D3
RELEASE OF LIEN COMBINING THE RELEASE OF 12
SEPARATE LIENS WITH ONE DEVELOPER FOR A
COMBINED AMOUNT OF $82,290.74 FOR PROPERTIES
DEVELOPED BY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER
COUNTY, INC. THAT HAVE REMAINED AFFORDABLE FOR
THE REQUIRED 15-YEAR PERIOD SET FORTH IN THE STATE
HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) IMPACT FEE
PROGRAM DEFERRAL AGREEMENTS – AS DETAILED IN
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16D4
RELEASE OF LIEN TO COMBINE RELEASE OF 19 SEPARATE
LIENS WITH ONE DEVELOPER FOR A COMBINED AMOUNT
OF $137,494.40 FOR PROPERTIES DEVELOPED BY HABITAT
FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY, INC. THAT HAVE
REMAINED AFFORDABLE FOR THE REQUIRED 15-YEAR
PERIOD SET FORTH IN THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES
PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) IMPACT FEE PROGRAM DEFERRAL
AGREEMENTS – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
Item #16D5
TEN RELEASES OF LIEN FOR A COMBINED AMOUNT OF
$45,463.87 FOR SINGLE-FAMILY OWNER-OCCUPIED
PROPERTIES THAT HAVE REMAINED AFFORDABLE FOR
THE REQUIRED 15-YEAR PERIOD SET FORTH IN THE STATE
HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) IMPACT FEE
September 26, 2017
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PROGRAM DEFERRAL AGREEMENTS – AS DETAILED IN
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16D6
A RELEASE OF LIEN TO COMBINE THE RELEASE OF NINE
SEPARATE LIENS WITH ONE DEVELOPER FOR A
COMBINED AMOUNT OF $36,448.14 FOR PROPERTIES
DEVELOPED BY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER
COUNTY, INC. THAT HAVE REMAINED AFFORDABLE FOR
THE REQUIRED 15-YEAR PERIOD SET FORTH IN THE STATE
HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) IMPACT FEE
PROGRAM DEFERRAL AGREEMENTS – AS DETAILED IN
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16D7
ACCEPT THE TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT AMOUNT OF $6,000,
IN THE FORECLOSURE ACTION STYLED NEW PENN
FINANCIAL, LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE V. ELAIN
K. O’DONNELL, COLLIER COUNTY, ET. AL. (CASE NO. 11-
2017-CA-000779) NOW PENDING IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO
EXECUTE A SATISFACTION OF MORTGAGE – THE INITIAL
SHIP GRANT WAS FOR $23,985.00
Item #16D8
STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP ANNUAL
REPORTS AND LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVE
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CERTIFICATION FOR INTERIM FISCAL YEARS 2014/2015,
2016/2017; 2017/2018 TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS – SHIP’S FISCAL YEAR RUNS
FROM JULY 1ST TO JUNE 30TH AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
HAVE THREE YEARS TO EXPEND PROGRAM FUNDS
Item #16D9
FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES
PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) SPONSOR LAND USE RESTRICTION
AGREEMENT (LURA) BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY AND
BIG CYPRESS HOUSING CORPORATION THAT CORRECTS A
SCRIVENER'S ERROR AND CLARIFIES TERMS AND
CONDITIONS – AN ERROR WAS FOUND IN THE ADDRESS
AND ADDS A LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR THE PROPERTY
Item #16D10
AFTER-THE-FACT CONTRACTS AND ATTESTATION
STATEMENTS WITH THE AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, INC. (AGENCY) COMMUNITY CARE
FOR THE ELDERLY (CCE), ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
INITIATIVE (ADI), AND HOME CARE FOR THE ELDERLY
(HCE) GRANT PROGRAMS FOR COLLIER COUNTY
SERVICES FOR SENIORS (CCSS) – PROVIDES SUPPORT
SERVICES TO ELDERLY CLIENTS
Item #16D11
THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE
PARKS AND RECREATION DIVISION FACILITY USE
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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) WITH
NAPLES BMX, INC. TO EXTEND THE AGREEMENT FOR AN
ADDITIONAL ONE-YEAR TERM – EXTENDING THE
AGREEMENT TO JUNE 14, 2018
Item #16D12
OBTAINING ADDITIONAL FY17 FEDERAL TRANSIT
ADMINISTRATION (FTA) 5307 GRANT FUNDS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $77,939 AND SUBMITTAL OF A REVISED
GRANT APPLICATION THROUGH THE TRANSIT AWARD
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TRAMS), AND AUTHORIZE THE
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT
Item #16D13
OBTAINING ADDITIONAL FY17 FEDERAL TRANSIT
ADMINISTRATION (FTA) 5339 GRANT FUNDS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $12,254 FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS AND
SUBMITTAL OF A REVISED GRANT APPLICATION
THROUGH THE TRANSIT AWARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(TRAMS) – THE FINAL APPORTIONMET TO THE BONITA
SPRINGS/NAPLES URBANIZED AREA
Item #16D14
TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX FUNDING FOR
ENGINEERING, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTION OF TEN (10)
PICKLEBALL COURTS AT EAST NAPLES COMMUNITY
PARK (ENCP) AT A COST UP TO $300,000, AUTHORIZE ALL
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS, APPROVE AND
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AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE COUNTY
WORK ORDER IN THE AMOUNT OF $55,447 FOR
ENGINEERING SERVICES, AND MAKE A FINDING THAT
THIS EXPENDITURE PROMOTES TOURISM
Item #16D15
A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE DISTRICT SCHOOL
BOARD OF COLLIER COUNTY (SCHOOL BOARD) FOR THE
CONTINUED USE OF THE PROPERTY AT VETERANS
MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – TO ACCOMMODATE
A BALL FIELD AND MULTI-PURPOSE ATHLETIC FIELD
Item #16D16
A MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT WITH FLORIDA FISH
AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION (FWC) TO
ALLOW YOUTH HUNTS FOR COLLIER COUNTY RESIDENTS
AT PEPPER RANCH PRESERVE IN DECEMBER 2017 AND
FEBRUARY 2018 – FOR A HOG HUNT DECEMBER 8 – 10, 2017
AND A FEBRUARY 23 – 25, 2018 TURKEY HUNT
Item #16D17
COUNTY ATTORNEY TO ADVERTISE AND BRING BACK
FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AN ORDINANCE REPEALING
ORDINANCE 2009-44, AS AMENDED, KNOWN AS THE RADIO
ROAD, EAST OF SANTA BARBARA BOULEVARD TO THE
INTERSECTION OF RADIO ROAD AND DAVIS BOULEVARD
MUNICIPAL SERVICE TAXING UNIT (MSTU), AND
DISSOLVING THE MSTU’S ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Item #16D18
RESOLUTION 2017-155: REMOVING UNCOLLECTIBLE
RECEIVABLES IN THE AMOUNT OF $7,377.33 FROM THE
FINANCIAL RECORDS OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION
DIVISION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RESOLUTION NO. 2006-
252 AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE ATTACHED
RESOLUTION
Item #16D19
AMENDMENT # 1 TO COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS
(CHP) MANAGED CARE SERVICE AGREEMENT #12-5854, TO
INCLUDE CASE MANAGEMENT CHART REVIEW AND
REFERRAL SERVICES FOR THE OPERATIONS AND
VETERAN SERVICES (OVS) DIVISION TO ASSIST IN CLIENT
CLAIMS REQUIRING IN-DEPTH MEDICAL HISTORY
ANALYSIS
Item #16D20
THE FY14-17 DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
(DCF) CRIMINAL JUSTICE MENTAL HEALTH SUBSTANCE
ABUSE (CJMHSA) GRANT FINAL PROGRAM AND
FINANCIAL STATUS REPORT AND RECOGNIZE THAT THAT
THE EXCESS MATCH MADE BY COLLIER COUNTY
SHERIFF’S OFFICE MAY BE USED TO COVER THE
SHORTFALL IN CONTRACTUAL MATCH REQUIREMENT BY
DLC AND NAMI OF COLLIER COUNTY SUBRECIPIENTS
ALONG WITH SPECIFIC FINDINGS – FOR THE PERIOD
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BETWEEN JULY 1, 2014 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2017
Item #16D21
AFTER-THE-FACT FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC
OPPORTUNITY (DEO) COMMUNITY PLANNING TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE GRANT APPLICATION TO IMPLEMENT A
TOURISM MARKETING MOBILE- RESPONSIVE WEBSITE IN
THE AMOUNT OF $60,000 – APPROVED BY THE COUNTY
MANAGER ON JUNE 23, 2017
Item #16D22 – Moved to Item #11J (During Agenda Changes)
Item #16D23
THREE RELEASES OF LIEN FOR FULL PAYMENT OF THE
DEFERRAL OF 100% OF COUNTYWIDE IMPACT FEES FOR
OWNER- OCCUPIED AFFORDABLE HOUSING DWELLING
UNITS – LOCATED AT 3800 JUSTICE CIRCLE, LOT 69,
IMMOKALEE; 4530 BOTANICAL PLACE CIRCLE #404,
NAPLES AND 13348 COVENANT ROAD, NAPLES
Item #16D24
A BUDGET AMENDMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $100,000 TO
COMPLETE THE RESTORATION OF THE 1947 BUDD
TAVERN TRAIN CAR AT THE NAPLES DEPOT MUSEUM
(DEPOT) – VARIAN CONSTRUCTION HAS AGREED TO
COMPLETE THE WORK BY JANUARY 31, 2018
Item #16D25
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A LOAN AGREEMENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND
ANTHROPOLOGY ALLOWING THE COLLIER COUNTY
MUSEUMS AND THE MARCO ISLAND HISTORICAL
SOCIETY TO BORROW SIGNIFICANT ARTIFACTS FOUND
ON MARCO ISLAND DURING THE 1896 PEPPER-HEARST
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION FOR A TEMPORARY
EXHIBIT AT THE MARCO ISLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM,
CORRECTING A SCRIVENER’S ERROR IN THE AGREEMENT
PREVIOUSLY APPROVED BY THE BOARD – FOR A LOAN
PERIOD OF NOVEMBER 12, 2018 TO NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Item #16D26
A PROGRESS REPORT RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF
BIG CORKSCREW ISLAND REGIONAL PARK, AND APPROVE
MODIFICATION OF A PROPOSED LAYOUT FOR ATHLETIC
FIELDS IN PHASE I OF THE PROJECT
Item #16D27
THE SUBMITTAL OF COLLIER AREA TRANSIT'S TITLE VI
PROGRAM TO THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
(FTA) – VALID THROUGH 2020
Item #16D28
THE FY2017-2018 STATE AID TO LIBRARIES GRANT
AGREEMENT, 2018-2022 STRATEGIC PLAN, AND 2017-2018
ANNUAL PLAN OF SERVICE, AUTHORIZING THE COLLIER
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COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY TO APPLY FOR STATE AID TO
LIBRARIES IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $221,236 – FOR
OPERATING EXPENSES, PERSONNEL, MATERIAL AND
EQUIPMENT
Item #16D29
SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENTS TO COLLIER COUNTY'S U.S
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
(HUD) ANNUAL ACTION PLANS FOR FY 2015-2016 AND FY
2016-2017, TO ACCEPT A TERMINATION OF THE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG)
AGREEMENT WITH OAK MARSH, LLC, AND TO APPROVE A
CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH ROCK ISLAND ECONOMIC
GROWTH CORPORATION TO EXTEND THE TERM AND
REMOVE HOMEBUYER EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
Item #16D30
INTEREST EARNED FROM THE PERIOD JANUARY
THROUGH JUNE, 2017 ON ADVANCED LIBRARY FUNDING
RECEIVED FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE
TO SUPPORT LIBRARY SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT FOR
THE USE OF COLLIER COUNTY RESIDENTS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $2,094.07
Item #16E1
THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
FROM PB WATER SERVICES USA INC. TO WSP USA INC AS
IT RELATES TO CONTRACT #13-6164-WF “PROFESSIONAL
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SERVICES ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING” FOR THE
FOLLOWING DISCIPLINE: WELLFIELD STUDY, PLANNING
AND/OR DESIGN (WEL)
Item #16E2
THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE THE SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE
AGREEMENT FOR MEDICAL EXAMINER SERVICES
(CONTRACT NO. 11-5776 MEDICAL EXAMINER) EXTENDING
THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT TO SEPTEMBER 30, 2018
Item #16E3
PURCHASE OF FLOOD INSURANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018
IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $352,698 – COMPLYING
WITH THE STAFFORD ACT WHILE PROTECTING THE
COUNTY’S REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
Item #16E4
THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE A FEDERALLY FUNDED
SUBGRANT AGREEMENT TO ACCEPT THE ANNUAL
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANT
(EMPG) IN THE AMOUNT OF $105,778 FOR EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT PLANNING, RESPONSE, AND MITIGATION
EFFORTS AND TO AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENT – FOR FEMA ASSISTANCE THROUGH THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS THAT
ANNUALLY MAKES FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THE DATA
PROCESSING AND OPERATING EQUIPMENT, SHELTER
SUPPLIES AND DISASTER RESPONSE EQUIPMENT
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Item #16E5
THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE STATE- FUNDED SUBGRANT
AGREEMENT 18-BG-09-21-01, ACCEPTING A GRANT AWARD
TOTALING $105,806 FROM THE FLORIDA DIVISION OF
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ENHANCEMENT AND
AUTHORIZE THE ASSOCIATED BUDGET AMENDMENT –
THROUGH JUNE 30, 2018
Item #16E6
AWARDING INVITATION TO BID (ITB) #17-7147 “MOTOR
OILS, LUBRICANTS, AND FLUIDS” TO SAFETY KLEEN
SYSTEMS INC., PALMDALE OIL COMPANY, EDISON OIL
COMPANY, FLAMINGO OIL CORPORATION, AND HOWELL
OIL COMPANY
Item #16E7
AWARDING INVITATION TO BID (ITB) #17-7078 “FILTERS
FOR FLEET VEHICLES” TO SUNBELT AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
D/B/A NAPA AUTO PARTS
Item #16E8
AN ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT TO JETPAY PAYMENT
SERVICES, FL, LLC., AS IT RELATES TO THE JULY 26, 2011
AGREEMENT FOR CREDIT CARD AND AUTOMATED
CLEARING HOUSE (ACH) PROCESSING – STAFF WAS
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NOTIFIED OF THE CHANGE JULY 17, 2017
Item #16E9
SECOND AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT #12-5874 WITH
ADVANCED DATA PROCESSING FOR EMS BILLING TO
EXTEND SERVICES FOR A 1-YEAR PERIOD TO ALLOW
PROCESSING OF ACCOUNTS RECEIVED THROUGH
SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 AND TO CORRECT A SCRIVENER’S
ERROR
Item #16E10
THE ANNUAL CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE
AND NECESSITY (COPCN) FOR AMBITRANS MEDICAL
TRANSPORT, INC. TO PROVIDE CLASS 2 ADVANCED LIFE
SUPPORT (ALS) INTER-FACILITY TRANSPORT AMBULANCE
SERVICE FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR
Item #16E11 – Moved to Item #11I (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
Item #16E12
AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF MARCO
ISLAND TO PROVIDE FIRE PROTECTION AND RESCUE
SERVICES TO THE UNINCORPORATED AREA OF THE
COUNTY KNOWN AS GOODLAND
Item #16E13
AN “AFTER-THE-FACT” REQUEST FOR FIRE MANAGEMENT
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ASSISTANCE SUBGRANT TO THE FLORIDA DIVISION OF
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF
EXPENSES INCURRED DURING THE FLORIDA 30TH
AVENUE FIRE – WHICH MAKES LABOR, EQUIPMENT,
MATERIALS IN SUPPORT OF THE EMERGENCY ALL PART
OF THE ELIGIBLE EXPENCES
Item #16E14
RATIFY PROPERTY, CASUALTY, WORKERS’
COMPENSATION AND SUBROGATION CLAIM FILES
SETTLED AND/OR CLOSED BY THE RISK MANAGEMENT
DIVISION DIRECTOR PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION #2004-15
FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF FY 17
Item #16E15
AN ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PREPARED BY THE
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR DISPOSAL OF
PROPERTY AND NOTIFICATION OF ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR
SURPLUS (FROM 8/8/17 MEETING) – ALTHOUGH $600 WAS
RECEIVED AS A TRADE-IN VALUE FOR NEW EQUIPMENT
Item #16E16
AN ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PREPARED BY THE
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR DISPOSAL OF
PROPERTY AND NOTIFICATION OF ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR
SURPLUS
Item #16E17
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THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY THE
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS
AND OTHER ITEMS AS IDENTIFIED
Item #16E18
THE COUNTY MANAGER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
COUNTY'S PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE 2017-08, SECTION
11.4, COOPERATIVE PURCHASING, TO USE THE
ALLOWABLE FEDERAL GSA SCHEDULES (EX: SCHEDULE
70 AND 1122 PROGRAM), THE STATE OF FLORIDA
CONTRACTS, AGREEMENTS AND PRICE LISTS,
COMPETITIVELY SOLICITED CONTRACTS BY US
COMMUNITIES, WESTERN STATES CONTRACTING
ALLIANCE, NATIONAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL
PURCHASING ALLIANCE (NIPA), NASPO VALUE POINT,
PROCURE SOURCE, HGAC BUY, NATIONAL COOPERATIVE
PURCHASING ALLIANCE, THE COOPERATIVE PURCHASING
NETWORK AND NATIONAL JOINT POWERS ALLIANCE
(NJPA) PUBLIC PURCHASING CONSORTIUMS,
COMPETITIVE SOLICITATIONS FROM STATE OF FLORIDA
CITIES, COUNTIES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND OTHER
PUBLIC MUNICIPALITIES (I.E., SHERIFF’S ASSOCIATION;
TRANSIT CONSORTIUM BUS PROCUREMENT CONTRACT;
LIBRARY PURCHASING COOPERATIVE CONSORTIUM) FOR
THE EFFICIENT PURCHASE OF GOODS AND SERVICES FOR
THE DELIVERY OF PUBLIC SERVICES AND FOR WHICH
FUNDS WERE APPROVED IN OPERATING BUDGETS; AND
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER OR THEIR DESIGNEE
TO SIGN USER AGREEMENTS OR CONTRACTS
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ASSOCIATED WITH THESE PURCHASES
Item #16E19
PURCHASE OF LIABILITY, AUTOMOBILE, WORKERS’
COMPENSATION, AIRCRAFT, AIRPORT AND OTHER
INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR FY 2018 IN THE ESTIMATED
ANNUAL AMOUNT OF $949,474
Item #16E20
AMENDMENT #4 TO AGREEMENT #11-5729 TO ALLEGIANCE
BENEFIT PLAN MANAGEMENT, INC. FOR THE AWARD OF
GROUP HEALTH THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATION
SERVICES; AWARD AN AGREEMENT (#17- 7209) FOR
MANAGED CARE SERVICES TO NAPLES PHYSICIAN
HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION, KNOWN AS COMMUNITY
HEALTH PARTNERS, INC., AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO
EXECUTE THE AMENDMENT AND AGREEMENT – FOR
SERVICES COMMENCING ON JANUARY 1, 2018
Item #16E21
RESOLUTION 2017-156: ADOPTING PAY AND
CLASSIFICATION PLANS FOR THE COUNTY MANAGER’S
AGENCY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE EFFECTIVE
OCTOBER 1, 2017; AND TO APPROVE THE CREATION OF
NEW CLASSIFICATIONS, MODIFICATION AND/OR
DELETION OF CLASSIFICATIONS AND ASSIGNMENT OF
PAY RANGES FROM THE PROPOSED PAY AND
CLASSIFICATION PLANS, FROM JULY 1, 2017 FORWARD
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USING THE EXISTING POINT-FACTOR JOB EVALUATION
SYSTEM
Item #16E22
EXTENDING EXISTING CONTRACTS TO STEWART TITLE
COMPANY AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SERVICES
CORPORATION UNDER BID #13-6043, “REAL ESTATE TITLE
& CLOSING SERVICES” FOR A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS TO
ALLOW STAFF TO RE-SOLICIT THESE SERVICES WITH A
REVISED AWARD CRITERIA TO INCLUDE A ROTATION
PLAN – FOR THE PROSPECTIVE RIGHT-OFWAY AND OTHER
REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITIONS MADE BY THE COUNTY
Item #16E23
PURCHASE ORDERS FOR DISASTER RECOVERY
CONSULTING SERVICES WITH CDR MAGUIRE, INC. AND
TIDAL BASIN GOVERNMENT CONSULTING, INC., IN A
PRELIMINARY AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $250,000 PER
FIRM ($500,000 TOTAL) – THAT WILL ASSIST WITH FEMA
CLAIMA ND RE-IMPURSEMENT PROCESS RESULTING
FROM HURRICANE IRMA
Item #16E24 – Withdrawn (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE ADMINISTRATIVE
REPORTS PREPARED BY THE PROCUREMENT SERVICES
DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS AND OTHER ITEMS AS
IDENTIFIED
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Item #16F1 – Continued to the October 10, 2017 BCC Meeting
(During Agenda Changes)
BOARD RATIFICATION OF SUMMARY, CONSENT AND
REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS APPROVED BY THE COUNTY
MANAGER DURING THE BOARD'S SCHEDULED RECESS. (IN
ABSENTIA MEETING(S) DATED JULY 25, 2017; AUGUST 8,
2017 AND AUGUST 22, 2017)
Item #16F2
TOURIST DEVELOPMENT TAX PROMOTION FUNDING TO
SUPPORT THE FIVE UPCOMING OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER
2017 SPORTS EVENTS UP TO $20,600 AND MAKE A FINDING
THAT THESE EXPENDITURES PROMOTE TOURISM – FOR
EVENTS THAT INCLUDE: IFG SUPER SENIOR TOURNAMENT
OCTOBER 2-6, 2017 AT THE NAPLES BATH & TENNIS CLUB;
USTA NATIONAL WOMEN’S 40 & 50 MOTHER DAUGHTER
CLAY COURT CHAMPIONSHIPS ON OCTOBER 4-8 AT THE
NAPLES BATH & TENNIS CLUB; USSSA NAPLES FALL
CLASSIC ON OCTOBER 13-15 AT VETERANS PARK, NORTH
COLLIER REGIONAL PARK AND GOLDEN GATE PARK; ITF
SENIOR TOURNAMENT ON OCTOBER 23-27 AT NAPLES
BATH & TENNIS CLUB; AND THE SUNCOAST
INVITATIONAL NOVEMBER 4-5 AT NORTH COLLIER
REGIONAL PARK
Item #16F3
A SUB-LEASE AGREEMENT TO HOUSE THE GREATER
NAPLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VISITOR INFORMATION
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CENTER AT THE NAPLES DEPOT MUSEUM, APPROVE THE
PROJECTED CONSTRUCTION EXPENDITURES OF $600,000,
AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS, AND
MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS EXPENDITURE PROMOTES
TOURISM – INCLUDES PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS,
ELEVATIONS AND REMODELING COSTS FOR THE
INTERIOR OF THE BAGGAGE CAR THAT WILL INCLUDE AN
ADA COMPLIANT ENTRANCE RAMP, AIR CONDITIONING,
FLOORING AND WALL COVERINGS
Item #16F4
BUDGET AMENDMENTS TOTALING $23,000 THAT WILL
PROVIDE FUNDING FOR VARIOUS AGENCIES WITHIN THE
COURTS SYSTEM TO COVER ARTICLE V REVENUE
SHORTFALL FOR THE BALANCE OF FY 2017
Item #16F5
BUDGET AMENDMENTS APPROPRIATING
APPROXIMATELY $396,121,342.14 OF UNSPENT FY 2017
GRANT AND CAPITAL PROJECT BUDGETS INTO FISCAL
YEAR 2018
Item #16F6
TERMINATION OF THE BASIC INDUSTRY GROWTH
PROMOTION INCENTIVE PROGRAM AGREEMENT
BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY AND FERRIS MARKETING,
INC., DUE TO FERRIS MARKETING, INC. BEING UNABLE TO
MEET THE JOB REQUIREMENTS OF THE AGREEMENT AT
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THE INITIAL VALIDATION MEETING
Item #16F7
FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT FOR IMPACT FEE
PAYMENT REFUND BETWEEN HAYNES CORPORATION
AND THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, WHICH
CORRECTS A SCRIVENER’S ERROR ON THE NUMBER OF
JOBS REQUIRED FOR VALIDATION – CORRECTING THE
CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF 17 NEW JOBS FOR 6
YEARS
Item #16F8
RESOLUTION 2017-157: APPROVING AMENDMENTS
(APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS
OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2016-17
ADOPTED BUDGET
Item #16F9
THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT
TAX GRANT AGREEMENTS FOR FY 18 FOR PROMOTION
($164,300) AND NON-COUNTY OWNED MUSEUMS ($604,073)
GRANTS, AND MAKE A FINDING THAT THIS ACTION
PROMOTES TOURISM – TO FUND THE FOLLOWING:
NAPLES, MARCO REGION OF ANTIQUES AUTOMOBILE
CLUB OF AMERICA, INC.; ARTIS-NAPLES, INC.; HODGES
UNIVERSITY; KIWANIS CLUB OF PELICAN BAY NAPLES,
INC.; SPIRIT PROMOTIONS, LLC; FOOD IDEA GROUP, INC.;
ARTIS-NAPLES, INC.; NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN, INC.;
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GOLISANO CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF NAPLES, INC. AND
NAPLES ZOO, INC.
Item #16G1
PAYMENT OF AN OUTSTANDING INVOICE FOR
AGREEMENT NO. 15-6374R–MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, AND
TESTING FOR FUEL STORAGE TANK SYSTEMS FOR
PROJECTS TO ADAMS TANK & LIFT, INC. – FOR WORK
PREFORMED IN OCTOBER 2016
Item #16G2
SINGLE-SOURCE PURCHASE OF A LEKTRO TOWBARLESS
AIRCRAFT TOWING VEHICLE IN THE AMOUNT OF $69,998
FOR THE MARCO ISLAND EXECUTIVE AIRPORT
Item #16G3
TO TERMINATE FOR CAUSE A LEASE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE COLLIER COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY
AND DUANE TRUITT AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY
ATTORNEY’S OFFICE TO TAKE ALL ACTION NECESSARY,
INCLUDING LITIGATION, IN ORDER TO HAVE MR. TRUITT
REMOVED AS A TENANT FROM THE PROPERTY AND TO
RECOVER ALL OUTSTANDING MONIES OWED
Item #16G4
RESOLUTION 2017-158: AFTER-THE-FACT ACCEPTANCE OF
THE ATTACHED FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
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(FAA) GRANT OFFER IN THE AMOUNT OF $149,850, TO
APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE
THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EXECUTION
OF JOINT PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT CONTRACT NO.
G0O39 WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION FOR $8,333 FOR PHASE 1 OF THE
EVERGLADES AIRPARK RUNWAY 15/33 REHABILITATION
PROJECT, AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENTS (PROJECT NO. 33528) (FISCAL IMPACT:
$149,850 FAA, $8,333 FDOT, AND $8,333 COUNTY)
Item #16G5
RESOLUTION 2017-159: AFTER-THE-FACT ACCEPTANCE OF
THE ATTACHED FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
(FAA) GRANT OFFER IN THE AMOUNT OF $983,920, TO
APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE
THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EXECUTION
OF JOINT PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT CONTRACT NO.
G0E60 SUPPLEMENT ONE WITH THE FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR $42,350 FOR THE
REHABILITATION OF TAXIWAY B AT THE IMMOKALEE
REGIONAL AIRPORT, AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENTS (PROJECT NO. 33485) (FISCAL
IMPACT: $983,920 FAA, $42,350 FDOT, AND $66,974 COUNTY)
Item #16G6
RESOLUTION 2017-160: EXECUTION OF JOINT
PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT CONTRACT NO. G0O51 WITH
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR
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$80,000 FOR THE SEAPLANE BASE PROJECT AT
EVERGLADES AIRPARK, AND AUTHORIZE THE
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS (PROJECT NO. 33533)
(FISCAL IMPACT: $80,000 FDOT AND $20,000 COUNTY)
Item #16G7
AWARD INVITATION TO BID NO. 17-7126, IMMOKALEE
REGIONAL AIRPORT TAXIWAY B REHABILITATION TO
O-A-K/FLORIDA, INC. D/B/A OWEN-AMES-KIMBALL
COMPANY (OAK) FOR $971,013.74, AND APPROVE AND
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE THE CONTRACT
(PROJECT NO. 33485)
Item #16H1 – Added Item (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
A PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING OCTOBER 10, 2017 AS
THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) DAY, IN HONOR OF
THE RELATIONS AND CONNECTIONS THAT THE TAIPEI
ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL OFFICE HAS MADE WITH
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AND COLLIER COUNTY, AND
WELCOMING THOSE TAIWANESE BUSINESSES AND
ENTREPRENEURS SEEKING TO DEVELOP BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR AREA, THIS PROCLAMATION
WILL BE DELIVERED TO PHILIP WANF, DIRECTOR
GENERAL OF THE TAIPEI ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL
OFFICE IN MIANI, FLOIRDA (COMMISSIONER TAYLOR’S
REQUEST)
Item #16H2 – Added Item (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
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A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING FLORENCE JELKS,
FORMER PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL,
FOR HER DEDICATION WORKING TIRELESSLY TO
ACHIEVE THE GOALS OF THE IMMOKALEE COMMUNITY.
(COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL’S REQUEST)
Item #16J1
TO RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER
PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR
WHICH THE REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS WERE DRAWN
FOR THE PERIODS BETWEEN AUGUST 10 AND AUGUST 30,
2017 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06
Item #16J2
REQUEST THAT THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE
VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND
PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF SEPTEMBER 6,
2017
Item #16J3
THE USE OF $1,000 FROM THE CONFISCATED TRUST FUNDS
TO SUPPORT THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA, INC.
Item #16J4
BUDGET AMENDMENT TO INCREASE CURRENT FUNDING
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FOR THE COLLIER COUNTY SHERIFF'S FUND 608
(SHERIFF'S EDUCATION TRUST FUND) IN THE AMOUNT OF
$80,000 – TO COVER EDUCATION AND TRAVEL EXPENSES
Item #16J5
AN AFTER THE FACT APPROVAL TO DESIGNATE THE
SHERIFF AS THE OFFICIAL APPLICANT AND POINT OF
CONTACT FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, OFFICE
OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS, BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE
EDWARD BYRNE MEMORIAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT
(JAG) FY17 LOCAL STANDARD GRANT. AUTHORIZE THE
ACCEPTANCE OF THE GRANT WHEN AWARDED, APPROVE
ASSOCIATED BUDGET AMENDMENTS AND APPROVE THE
COLLIER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE TO RECEIVE AND
EXPAND 2017 JAG STANDARD GRANT FUNDS
Item #16J6
TO RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER
PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR
WHICH THE REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS WERE DRAWN
FOR THE PERIODS BETWEEN AUGUST 31 AND SEPTEMBER
13, 2017 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06
Item #16J7
REQUEST THAT THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE
VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND
PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF SEPTEMBER 20,
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2017
Item #16K1
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT
OF $30,000 FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL 399RDUE IN THE
PENDING CASE STYLED COLLIER COUNTY V. JARRETT
COX, ET AL, CASE NO. 16-CA-1313, REQUIRED FOR THE
WIDENING OF GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD FROM 20TH
STREET EAST TO EAST OF EVERGLADES BOULEVARD,
PROJECT NO. 60145. (FISCAL IMPACT: $27,300)
Item #16K2
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$30,000 AS FINAL COMPENSATION FOR THE TAKING OF
PARCEL 310FEE REQUIRED FOR THE GOLDEN GATE BLVD.
PROJECT NO. 60145 (FROM 20TH ST. E. TO EAST OF
EVERGLADES BLVD.), IN THE PENDING CASE STYLED
COLLIER COUNTY V. JOSEPH BARTOSZEK, ET AL., CASE
NO. 16-CA-1200 (FISCAL IMPACT: $4,300)
Item #16K3
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT
OF $30,000 FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL 401RDUE IN THE
PENDING CASE STYLED COLLIER COUNTY V. JARRETT
COX, ET AL, CASE NO. 16-CA-1313, REQUIRED FOR THE
WIDENING OF GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD FROM 20TH
STREET EAST TO EAST OF EVERGLADES BOULEVARD,
(PROJECT NO. 60145) (FISCAL IMPACT: $28,670)
September 26, 2017
Page 230
Item #16K4
A FINAL JUDGMENT FOR PARCEL 198RDUE IN THE CASE
STYLED COLLIER COUNTY V. BABY BROTHERS
ENTERPRISES, INC., ET AL., CASE NO. 15-CA-298, NOW
PENDING IN THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, COLLIER
COUNTY, REQUIRED FOR THE WIDENING OF GOLDEN
GATE BOULEVARD (PROJECT NO. 60040) (FISCAL IMPACT:
$15,600)
Item #16K5
A STIPULATED ORDER SETTLING ALL STATUTORY
ATTORNEY AND EXPERT FEES AND COSTS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $10,250 TO WALGREEN, CO., INCURRED IN
THE TAKING OF PARCELS IN THE CASE STYLED COLLIER
COUNTY V. LOWE’S HOME CENTER INC., ET AL., CASE NO.
13-CA-0142 FOR THE US 41/C.R. 951 INTERSECTION
IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (PROJECT NO. 60116) (FISCAL
IMPACT: $10,250)
Item #16K6
A MEDIATED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $85,657 FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL 150RDUE
IN THE CASE STYLED COLLIER COUNTY V. GG1 NAPLES,
LLC, ET AL., CASE NO. 15-CA-329, REQUIRED FOR THE
WIDENING OF GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD (PROJECT NO.
60040) (FISCAL IMPACT: $39,827)
September 26, 2017
Page 231
Item #16K7
A MEDIATED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $27,446.79 FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL
253RDUE IN THE CASE STYLED COLLIER COUNTY V.
PEDRO PENA, ET AL., CASE NO. 15-CA-350, REQUIRED FOR
THE WIDENING OF GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD (PROJECT
NO. 60040) (FISCAL IMPACT: $25,959.79)
Item #16K8
A MEDIATED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $133,988.50 FOR THE TAKING OF PARCELS
236DAME1 AND 236DAME2 REQUIRED FOR THE LELY
AREA STORMWATER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT NO. 51101
(CREWS ROAD, COPE LANE AND SANDY LANE/WING
SOUTH INTERCONNECT) IN THE PENDING CASE STYLED
COLLIER COUNTY V. ANDY R. MORGAN, ET AL., CASE NO.
14-CA-2308 (FISCAL IMPACT: $42,158.50)
Item #16K9
THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IN
THE AMOUNT OF $3,500 TO SETTLE THE LAWSUIT STYLED
SCOTT HOLTREY V. COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, CASE NO. 2:16-CV-00034 NOW PENDING
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, MIDDLE
DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FORT MYERS DIVISION – ENDING
THE FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT LAWSUIT INCLUDING A
PENDING EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
COMMISSION CLAIM
September 26, 2017
Page 232
Item #16K10
THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN AN AGREEMENT AUTHORIZING
THE COLLIER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE TO HAVE
TRAFFIC CONTROL JURISDICTION OVER PRIVATE ROADS
WITHIN THE MARBELLA ISLES SUBDIVISION
Item #16K11
RESOLUTION 2017-161: APPOINTING GENEVIEVE “TERI”
O’CONNELL AND DON LEE BRADKE TO THE OCHOPEE
FIRE CONTROL DISTRICT ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO
TERMS EXPIRING ON DECEMBER 31, 2019
Item #16K12 – Moved to Item #12A (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
Item #16K13
RESOLUTION 2017-162: REAPPOINTING DEBRA JOHNSON
HUBBARD (FOR A TERM EXPIRING JUNE 25, 2021)
APPOINTING MICHELE D’ANNIBALLE (FOR A TERM
EXPIRING ON JUNE 25, 2019) AND JOHN PAUL (FOR A TERM
EXPIRING ON JUNE 25, 2018) TO THE BLACK AFFAIRS
ADVISORY BOARD
Item #16K14
RESOLUTION 2017-163: REAPPOINTING CHERRYLE
THOMAS TO THE IMMOKALEE BEAUTIFICATION MSTU
ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR A TERM EXPIRING
September 26, 2017
Page 233
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Item #16K15
RESOLUTION 2017-164: APPOINTING LINDA OBERHAUS TO
THE IMMOKALEE LOCAL REDEVELOPMENT ADVISORY
BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING APRIL 4, 2019
Item #16K16
RESOLUTION 2017-165: REAPPOINTING TONY BRANCO
AND LINDA RAE JORGENSEN TO THE LELY GOLF ESTATES
BEAUTIFICATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO TERMS
EXPIRING ON OCTOBER 1, 2021
Item #16K17 – Withdrawn (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
RECOMMENDATION TO DIRECT THE COUNTY ATTORNEY
TO ADVERTISE, AND BRING BACK FOR A PUBLIC
HEARING, AN ORDINANCE TO EXTEND THE TEMPORARY
MORATORIUM ON THE OPENING OF CERTAIN NEW
CANNABIS DISPENSING FACILITIES FROM OCTOBER 10,
2017 TO DECEMBER 31, 2017
Item #16K18
WAIVE ANY POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND THE
CHAIR EXECUTE THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST WAIVER
FORM IN THE CASES STYLED, JOSE ENCALADA. V.
PREFERRED MATERIALS, INC. AND COLLIER COUNTY,
CASE NO. 15-CA-2124 AND EDAMIS MEDINA V. PREFERRED
September 26, 2017
Page 234
MATERIALS, INC. AND COLLIER COUNTY, CASE NO. 17-CA-
310, IN THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR
COLLIER COUNTY
Item #16K19
WAIVE ANY POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND THE
CHAIR EXECUTES THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST WAIVER
LETTERS RELATED TO THE COUNTY’S ACQUISITION OF
THE GOLDEN GATE UTILITY SYSTEM FROM THE FLORIDA
GOVERNMENTAL UTILITY AUTHORITY (FGUA)
Item #16K20 – Commissioner Solis abstained due to a conflict
RESOLUTION 2017-166: AUTHORIZING THE COLLIER
COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO
ISSUE BONDS FOR A CHARTER SCHOOL KNOWN AS GULF
COAST CHARTER ACADEMY SOUTH
Item #17A
RESOLUTION 2017-167: DESIGNATING THE CLOSE-OUT OF
THE ADOPTED BALMORAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT
(PUD) WHICH HAS FULFILLED ALL OF THEIR
COMMITMENTS WITHIN THEIR DEVELOPMENT ORDERS
EXCEPT FOR ONE TRANSPORTATION COMMITMENT
REMAINING WHICH WILL BE TRACKED THROUGH THE
COMMITMENT TRACKING SYSTEM [PL20160000605]
Item #17B – Under Item #7B, this item was reconsidered
September 26, 2017
Page 235
RESOLUTION 2017-172 (District I); RESOLUTION 2017-173
(District II): APPROVING THE PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
ROLLS AS THE FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLLS, AND
ADOPTING SAME AS THE NON-AD VALOREM ASSESSMENT
ROLLS FOR PURPOSES OF UTILIZING THE UNIFORM
METHOD OF COLLECTION PURSUANT TO SECTION
197.3632, FLORIDA STATUTES, FOR SOLID WASTE
MUNICIPAL SERVICE BENEFIT UNITS, SERVICE DISTRICT
NO. I AND SERVICE DISTRICT NO. II, SPECIAL ASSESSMENT
LEVIED AGAINST CERTAIN RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES
WITHIN THE UNINCORPORATED AREA OF COLLIER
COUNTY, THE CITY OF MARCO ISLAND, AND THE CITY OF
EVERGLADES CITY, PURSUANT TO COLLIER COUNTY
ORDINANCE 2005-54, AS AMENDED. REVENUES ARE
ANTICIPATED TO BE $25,052,700
Item #17C
ORDINANCE 2017-36: AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 99-53,
THE WALGREENS PUD, TO CORRECT A SCRIVENER’S
ERROR DUE TO THE INADVERTENT OMISSION OF TEXT IN
THE PUD DOCUMENT AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE
SOUTHWEST CORNER OF AIRPORT-PULLING ROAD AND
VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD IN SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 49
SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA [SE-
PL20170001679]
Item #17D – Moved to Item #9D (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
Item #17E
September 26, 2017
Page 236
RESOLUTION 2017-168: AMENDING SCHEDULES 1 AND 2
OF APPENDIX A TO SECTION FOUR OF COLLIER COUNTY
ORDINANCE NO. 2001-73, AS AMENDED, TITLED THE
COLLIER COUNTY WATER-SEWER DISTRICT UNIFORM
BILLING, OPERATING, AND REGULATORY STANDARDS
ORDINANCE, TO INCLUDE PROPOSED RATES FOR WATER,
WASTEWATER, AND IRRIGATION QUALITY WATER
SERVICES WITH EFFECTIVE DATES ON OCTOBER 1, 2017
Item #17F
RESOLUTION 2017-169: APPROVING AMENDMENTS
(APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD, TRANSFERS AND
SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2016-17
ADOPTED BUDGET
Item #17G
RESOLUTION 2017-170: PETITION VAC-PL20170002386 TO
DISCLAIM, RENOUNCE AND VACATE THE COUNTY AND
THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE CONSERVATION EASEMENT
DESCRIBED IN O.R. BOOK 3996, PAGE 3495, ET SEQ. OF THE
OFFICIAL RECORDS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA. THE
SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE NORTHEAST
CORNER OF PALM SPRINGS BOULEVARD AND RADIO
LANE, APPROXIMATELY ONE HALF MILE WEST OF
COLLIER BOULEVARD, IN SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 49
SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
(THIS IS A COMPANION TO AGENDA ITEM 16.A.50)
September 26, 2017
Page 237
Item #17H
ORDINANCE 2017-37: AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2017-17,
EXTENDING THE TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE
OPENING OF CERTAIN NEW CANNABIS DISPENSING
FACILITIES FROM OCTOBER 10 TO DECEMBER 31, 2017
Item #17I
ORDINANCE 2017-38: AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 84-37, AS
AMENDED, CODIFIED IN CHAPTER 38, CIVIL
EMERGENCIES, ARTICLE III, DECLARATION OF STATE OF
EMERGENCY, OF THE CODE OF LAWS AND ORDINANCES,
TO MAXIMIZE THE COUNTY’S OPPORTUNITIES FOR
REIMBURSEMENT UNDER FEDERAL EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM
*****
September 26, 2017
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 3:17 p.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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FORM 8B MEMORANDUM OF VOTING CONFLICT FOR
COUNTY, MUNICIPAL, AND OTHER LOCAL PUBLIC OFFICERS
LAST NAME—FIRST NAME—MIDDLE NAME NAME OF BOARD,COUNCIL,COMMISSION,AUTHORITY,OR COMMITTEE
Solis, Andrew I. Collier County Board of County Commissioners
MAILING ADDRESS THE BOARD,COUNCIL,COMMISSION,AUTHORITY OR COMMITTEE ON
3299 East Tamiami Trail, Suite 300 WHICH I SERVE ISAUNITOF:
CITY COUNTY ❑CITY ClfCOUNTY ❑OTHER LOCAL AGENCY
Naples Collier NAME OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISION:
DATE ON WHICH VOTE OCCURRED Collier County
September 26, 2017 MY POSITION IS: d ELECTIVE ❑ APPOINTIVE
WHO MUST FILE FORM 8B
This form is for use by any person serving at the county, city, or other local level of government on an appointed or elected board, council,
commission, authority, or committee. It applies to members of advisory and non-advisory bodies who are presented with a voting conflict of
interest under Section 112.3143, Florida Statutes.
Your responsibilities under the law when faced with voting on a measure in which you have a conflict of interest will vary greatly depending
on whether you hold an elective or appointive position. For this reason, please pay close attention to the instructions on this form before
completing and filing the form.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 112.3143, FLORIDA STATUTES
A person holding elective or appointive county, municipal, or other local public office MUST ABSTAIN from voting on a measure which
would inure to his or her special private gain or loss. Each elected or appointed local officer also MUST ABSTAIN from knowingly voting on
a measure which would inure to the special gain or loss of a principal (other than a government agency) by whom he or she is retained
(including the parent, subsidiary, or sibling organization of a principal by which he or she is retained); to the special private gain or loss of a
relative; or to the special private gain or loss of a business associate, Commissioners of community redevelopment agencies(CRAs)under
Sec. 163.356 or 163.357, F.S., and officers of independent special tax districts elected on a one-acre, one-vote basis are not prohibited
from voting in that capacity.
For purposes of this law, a "relative" includes only the officer's father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife, brother, sister, father-in-law,
mother-in-law, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law. A"business associate" means any person or entity engaged in or carrying on a business
enterprise with the officer as a partner, joint venturer, coowner of property, or corporate shareholder (where the shares of the corporation
are not listed on any national or regional stock exchange).
ELECTED OFFICERS:
In addition to abstaining from voting in the situations described above, you must disclose the conflict:
PRIOR TO THE VOTE BEING TAKEN by publicly stating to the assembly the nature of your interest in the measure on which you are
abstaining from voting; and
WITHIN 15 DAYS AFTER THE VOTE OCCURS by completing and filing this form with the person responsible for recording the
minutes of the meeting, who should incorporate the form in the minutes.
APPOINTED OFFICERS:
Although you must abstain from voting in the situations described above, you are not prohibited by Section 112.3143 from otherwise
participating in these matters. However, you must disclose the nature of the conflict before making any attempt to influence the decision,
whether orally or in writing and whether made by you or at your direction.
IF YOU INTEND TO MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION PRIOR TO THE MEETING AT WHICH THE VOTE WILL BE
TAKEN:
• You must complete and file this form (before making any attempt to influence the decision)with the person responsible for recording the
minutes of the meeting,who will incorporate the form in the minutes. (Continued on page 2)
CE FORM 8B-EFF. 11/2013 PAGE 1
Adopted by reference in Rule 34-7.010(1)(f),F.A.C.
APPOINTED OFFICERS (continued)
• A copy of the form must be provided immediately to the other members of the agency.
• The form must be read publicly at the next meeting after the form is filed.
IF YOU MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION EXCEPT BY DISCUSSION AT THE MEETING:
• You must disclose orally the nature of your conflict in the measure before participating.
• You must complete the form and file it within 15 days after the vote occurs with the person responsible for recording the minutes of the
meeting, who must incorporate the form in the minutes.A copy of the form must be provided immediately to the other members of the
agency, and the form must be read publicly at the next meeting after the form is filed.
DISCLOSURE OF LOCAL OFFICER'S INTEREST
Andrew I. Solis hereby disclose that on September 26 20 17 •
(a)A measure came or will come before my agency which(check one or more)
inured to my special private gain or loss;
inured to the special gain or loss of my business associate, •
inured to the special gain or loss of my relative, •
inured to the special gain or loss of a client of my law firm, Lennar/WCI by
whom I am retained; or
inured to the special gain or loss of ,which
is the parent subsidiary, or sibling organization or subsidiary of a principal which has retained me.
(b)The measure before my agency and the nature of my conflicting interest in the measure is as follows:
On September 26, 2017, BCC Agenda Item 16A2, the Board will consider a recommendation to record the final
plat of Artesia Naples, Phase 4, approval of the standard form Construction and Maintenance Agreement, and
approval of the amount of the performance security.
The applicant, Artesia Naples is a WCI Community, and the Lennar Company, is a client of my law firm, and in
an abundance of caution, I will abstain from voting pursuant to Section 286.012, Fla. Stat., to avoid any
perceived prejudice or bias.
If disclosure of specific information would violate confidentiality or privilege pursuant to law or rules governing attorneys, a public officer,
who is also an attorney, may comply with the disclosure requirements of this section by disclosing the nature of the interest in such a way
as to provide the public with notice of the conflict. /0„
September 26, 2017
Date Filed Si. .ture
NOTICE: UNDER PROVISIONS OF FLORIDA STATUTES §112.317, A FAILURE TO MAKE ANY REQUIRED DISCLOSURE
CONSTITUTES GROUNDS FOR AND MAY BE PUNISHED BY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: IMPEACHMENT,
REMOVAL OR SUSPENSION FROM OFFICE OR EMPLOYMENT, DEMOTION, REDUCTION IN SALARY, REPRIMAND, OR A
CIVIL PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED $10,000.
CE FORM 8B-EFF. 11/2013 PAGE 2
Adopted by reference in Rule 34-7.010(1)(f), F.A.C.
FORM 8B MEMORANDUM OF VOTING CONFLICT FOR
COUNTY, MUNICIPAL, AND OTHER LOCAL PUBLIC OFFICERS
LAST NAME—FIRST NAME—MIDDLE NAME NAME OF BOARD,COUNCIL,COMMISSION,AUTHORITY,OR COMMITTEE
Solis, Andrew I. Collier County Board of County Commissioners
MAILING ADDRESS THE BOARD,COUNCIL,COMMISSION,AUTHORITY OR COMMITTEE ON
3299 East Tamiami Trail, Suite 300 WHICH I SERVE ISAUNITOF:
CITY COUNTY ❑CITY gCOUNTY ❑OTHER LOCAL AGENCY
Naples Collier NAME OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISION:
DATE ON WHICH VOTE OCCURRED Collier County
MY POSITION IS:
September 26, 2017 Li ELECTIVE 0 APPOINTIVE
WHO MUST FILE FORM 8B
This form is for use by any person serving at the county, city, or other local level of government on an appointed or elected board, council,
commission, authority, or committee. It applies to members of advisory and non-advisory bodies who are presented with a voting conflict of
interest under Section 112.3143, Florida Statutes.
Your responsibilities under the law when faced with voting on a measure in which you have a conflict of interest will vary greatly depending
on whether you hold an elective or appointive position. For this reason, please pay close attention to the instructions on this form before
completing and filing the form.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 112.3143, FLORIDA STATUTES
A person holding elective or appointive county, municipal, or other local public office MUST ABSTAIN from voting on a measure which
would inure to his or her special private gain or loss. Each elected or appointed local officer also MUST ABSTAIN from knowingly voting on
a measure which would inure to the special gain or loss of a principal (other than a government agency) by whom he or she is retained
(including the parent, subsidiary, or sibling organization of a principal by which he or she is retained); to the special private gain or loss of a
relative; or to the special private gain or loss of a business associate. Commissioners of community redevelopment agencies(CRAB)under
Sec. 163.356 or 163.357, F.S., and officers of independent special tax districts elected on a one-acre, one-vote basis are not prohibited
from voting in that capacity.
For purposes of this law, a "relative" includes only the officer's father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife, brother, sister, father-in-law,
mother-in-law, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law. A"business associate" means any person or entity engaged in or carrying on a business
enterprise with the officer as a partner, joint venturer, coowner of property, or corporate shareholder (where the shares of the corporation
are not listed on any national or regional stock exchange).
•
ELECTED OFFICERS:
In addition to abstaining from voting in the situations described above, you must disclose the conflict:
PRIOR TO THE VOTE BEING TAKEN by publicly stating to the assembly the nature of your interest in the measure on which you are
abstaining from voting; and
WITHIN 15 DAYS AFTER THE VOTE OCCURS by completing and filing this form with the person responsible for recording the
minutes of the meeting,who should incorporate the form in the minutes.
APPOINTED OFFICERS:
Although you must abstain from voting in the situations described above, you are not prohibited by Section 112.3143 from otherwise
participating in these matters. However, you must disclose the nature of the conflict before making any attempt to influence the decision,
whether orally or in writing and whether made by you or at your direction.
IF YOU INTEND TO MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION PRIOR TO THE MEETING AT WHICH THE VOTE WILL BE
TAKEN:
• You must complete and file this form (before making any attempt to influence the decision)with the person responsible for recording the
minutes of the meeting,who will incorporate the form in the minutes. (Continued on page 2)
CE FORM 8B-EFF. 11/2013 PAGE 1
Adopted by reference in Rule 34-7.010(1)(f),F.A.C.
APPOINTED OFFICERS (continued)
• A copy of the form must be provided immediately to the other members of the agency.
• The form must be read publicly at the next meeting after the form is filed.
IF YOU MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION EXCEPT BY DISCUSSION AT THE MEETING:
• You must disclose orally the nature of your conflict in the measure before participating.
• You must complete the form and file it within 15 days after the vote occurs with the person responsible for recording the minutes of the
meeting, who must incorporate the form in the minutes.A copy of the form must be provided immediately to the other members of the
agency, and the form must be read publicly at the next meeting after the form is filed.
DISCLOSURE OF LOCAL OFFICER'S INTEREST
Andrew I. Solis hereby disclose that on September 26 20 17 •
(a)A measure came or will come before my agency which (check one or more)
inured to my special private gain or loss;
inured to the special gain or loss of my business associate,
inured to the special gain or loss of my relative, ;
inured to the special gain or loss of a client of my law firm, Lennar/WCI by
whom I am retained; or
inured to the special gain or loss of , which
is the parent subsidiary, or sibling organization or subsidiary of a principal which has retained me.
(b)The measure before my agency and the nature of my conflicting interest in the measure is as follows:
On September 26, 2017, BCC Agenda Item 16A17, the Board will consider a recommendation to approve the
final acceptance of the potable water and sewer facilities for Giaveno, accept unconditional conveyance of a
portion of the potable water facilities, and to release the Utilities Performance Security and Final Obligation Bond.
The applicant, Giaveno at Treviso Bay, a Lennar Company, is a client of my law firm, and in an abundance of
caution, I will abstain from voting pursuant to Section 286.012, Fla. Stat., to avoid any perceived prejudice or
bias.
If disclosure of specific information would violate confidentiality or privilege pursuant to law or rules governing attorneys, a public officer,
who is also an attorney, may comply with the disclosure requirements of this section by disclosing the nature of the interest in such a way
as to provide the public with notice of the conflict.
September 26, 2017
Date Filed S• . .re
•
{'
NOTICE: UNDER PROVISIONS OF FLORIDA STATUTES §112.317, A FAILURE TO MAKE ANY REQUIRED DISCLOSURE
CONSTITUTES GROUNDS FOR AND MAY BE PUNISHED BY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: IMPEACHMENT,
REMOVAL OR SUSPENSION FROM OFFICE OR EMPLOYMENT, DEMOTION, REDUCTION IN SALARY, REPRIMAND, OR A
CIVIL PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED $10,000.
CE FORM 8B-EFF, 11/2013 PAGE 2
Adopted by reference in Rule 34-7.010(1)(f), F.A.C.
FORM 8B MEMORANDUM OF VOTING CONFLICT FOR
COUNTY, MUNICIPAL, AND OTHER LOCAL PUBLIC OFFICERS
LAST NAME—FIRST NAME—MIDDLE NAME NAME OF BOARD,COUNCIL,COMMISSION,AUTHORITY,OR COMMITTEE
Solis, Andrew I. Collier County Board of County Commissioners
MAILING ADDRESS THE BOARD,COUNCIL,COMMISSION,AUTHORITY OR COMMITTEE ON
3299 East Tamiami Trail, Suite 300 WHICH I SERVE ISAUNITOF:
CITY COUNTY ❑CITY a COUNTY ❑OTHER LOCAL AGENCY
Naples Collier NAME OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISION:
DATE ON WHICH VOTE OCCURRED Collier County
MY POSITION IS:
September 26, 2017 Li ELECTIVE ❑ APPOINTIVE
WHO MUST FILE FORM 8B
This form is for use by any person serving at the county, city, or other local level of government on an appointed or elected board, council,
commission, authority, or committee. It applies to members of advisory and non-advisory bodies who are presented with a voting conflict of
interest under Section 112.3143, Florida Statutes.
Your responsibilities under the law when faced with voting on a measure in which you have a conflict of interest will vary greatly depending
on whether you hold an elective or appointive position. For this reason, please pay close attention to the instructions on this form before
completing and filing the form.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 112.3143, FLORIDA STATUTES
A person holding elective or appointive county, municipal, or other local public office MUST ABSTAIN from voting on a measure which
would inure to his or her special private gain or loss. Each elected or appointed local officer also MUST ABSTAIN from knowingly voting on
a measure which would inure to the special gain or loss of a principal (other than a government agency) by whom he or she is retained
(including the parent, subsidiary, or sibling organization of a principal by which he or she is retained); to the special private gain or loss of a
relative; or to the special private gain or loss of a business associate. Commissioners of community redevelopment agencies(CRAB) under
Sec. 163.356 or 163.357, F.S., and officers of independent special tax districts elected on a one-acre, one-vote basis are not prohibited
from voting in that capacity.
For purposes of this law, a "relative" includes only the officer's father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife, brother, sister, father-in-law,
mother-in-law, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law. A"business associate" means any person or entity engaged in or carrying on a business
enterprise with the officer as a partner, joint venturer, coowner of property, or corporate shareholder(where the shares of the corporation
are not listed on any national or regional stock exchange).
ELECTED OFFICERS:
In addition to abstaining from voting in the situations described above, you must disclose the conflict:
PRIOR TO THE VOTE BEING TAKEN by publicly stating to the assembly the nature of your interest in the measure on which you are
abstaining from voting; and
WITHIN 15 DAYS AFTER THE VOTE OCCURS by completing and filing this form with the person responsible for recording the
minutes of the meeting, who should incorporate the form in the minutes.
APPOINTED OFFICERS:
Although you must abstain from voting in the situations described above, you are not prohibited by Section 112.3143 from otherwise
participating in these matters. However, you must disclose the nature of the conflict before making any attempt to influence the decision,
whether orally or in writing and whether made by you or at your direction.
IF YOU INTEND TO MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION PRIOR TO THE MEETING AT WHICH THE VOTE WILL BE
TAKEN:
• You must complete and file this form (before making any attempt to influence the decision)with the person responsible for recording the
minutes of the meeting, who will incorporate the form in the minutes. (Continued on page 2)
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APPOINTED OFFICERS (continued)
• A copy of the form must be provided immediately to the other members of the agency.
• The form must be read publicly at the next meeting after the form is filed.
IF YOU MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION EXCEPT BY DISCUSSION AT THE MEETING:
• You must disclose orally the nature of your conflict in the measure before participating.
• You must complete the form and file it within 15 days after the vote occurs with the person responsible for recording the minutes of the
meeting, who must incorporate the form in the minutes.A copy of the form must be provided immediately to the other members of the
agency, and the form must be read publicly at the next meeting after the form is filed.
DISCLOSURE OF LOCAL OFFICER'S INTEREST
Andrew I. Solis hereby disclose that on September 26 20 17 •
(a)A measure came or will come before my agency which (check one or more)
inured to my special private gain or loss;
inured to the special gain or loss of my business associate, ;
inured to the special gain or loss of my relative, •
inured to the special gain or loss of a client of my law firm, Lennar/WCI by
whom I am retained; or
inured to the special gain or loss of , which
is the parent subsidiary, or sibling organization or subsidiary of a principal which has retained me.
(b)The measure before my agency and the nature of my conflicting interest in the measure is as follows:
On September 26, 2017, BCC Agenda Item 16A38, the Board will consider a recommendation to authorize the
Clerk of Courts to release Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit which was posted as guaranty for work associated
with Casoria at Treviso Bay.
The applicant, Treviso Bay, a Lennar Company, is a client of my law firm, and in an abundance of caution, I will
abstain from voting pursuant to Section 286.012, Fla. Stat., to avoid any perceived prejudice or bias.
If disclosure of specific information would violate confidentiality or privilege pursuant to law or rules governing attorneys, a public officer,
who is also an attorney, may comply with the disclosure requirements of this section by disclosing the nature of the interest in such a way
as to provide the public with notice of the conflict. �/7
September 26, 2017
Date Filed Sig irre
NOTICE: UNDER PROVISIONS OF FLORIDA STATUTES §112.317, A FAILURE TO MAKE ANY REQUIRED DISCLOSURE
CONSTITUTES GROUNDS FOR AND MAY BE PUNISHED BY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: IMPEACHMENT,
REMOVAL OR SUSPENSION FROM OFFICE OR EMPLOYMENT, DEMOTION, REDUCTION IN SALARY, REPRIMAND, OR A
CIVIL PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED$10,000.
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FORM 8B MEMORANDUM OF VOTING CONFLICT FOR
COUNTY, MUNICIPAL, AND OTHER LOCAL PUBLIC OFFICERS
LAST NAME—FIRST NAME—MIDDLE NAME NAME OF BOARD,COUNCIL,COMMISSION,AUTHORITY,OR COMMITTEE
Solis,Andrew I. Collier County Board of County Commissioners
MAILING ADDRESS THE BOARD,COUNCIL,COMMISSION,AUTHORITY OR COMMITTEE ON
3299 East Tamiami Trail, Suite 300 WHICH I SERVE ISA UNIT OF:
CITY COUNTY ❑CITY dCOUNTY ❑OTHER LOCAL AGENCY
Naples Collier NAME OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISION:
DATE ON WHICH VOTE OCCURRED MY POSITION IS:
September 26, 2017 d ELECTIVE ❑ APPOINTIVE
WHO MUST FILE FORM BB
This form is for use by any person serving at the county, city, or other local level of government on an appointed or elected board, council,
commission, authority,or committee. It applies to members of advisory and non-advisory bodies who are presented with a voting conflict of
interest under Section 112.3143, Florida Statutes.
Your responsibilities under the law when faced with voting on a measure in which you have a conflict of interest will vary greatly depending
on whether you hold an elective or appointive position. For this reason, please pay close attention to the instructions on this form before
completing and filing the form.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 112.3143, FLORIDA STATUTES
A person holding elective or appointive county, municipal, or other local public office MUST ABSTAIN from voting on a measure which
would inure to his or her special private gain or loss. Each elected or appointed local officer also MUST ABSTAIN from knowingly voting on
a measure which would inure to the special gain or loss of a principal (other than a government agency) by whom he or she is retained
(including the parent, subsidiary, or sibling organization of a principal by which he or she is retained);to the special private gain or loss of a
relative; or to the special private gain or loss of a business associate. Commissioners of community redevelopment agencies(CRAs) under
Sec. 163.356 or 163.357, F.S., and officers of independent special tax districts elected on a one-acre, one-vote basis are not prohibited
from voting in that capacity.
For purposes of this law, a "relative" includes only the officer's father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife, brother, sister, father-in-law,
mother-in-law, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law. A"business associate" means any person or entity engaged in or carrying on a business
enterprise with the officer as a partner, joint venturer, coowner of property, or corporate shareholder(where the shares of the corporation
are not listed on any national or regional stock exchange).
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ELECTED OFFICERS:
In addition to abstaining from voting in the situations described above,you must disclose the conflict:
PRIOR TO THE VOTE BEING TAKEN by publicly stating to the assembly the nature of your interest in the measure on which you are
abstaining from voting; and
WITHIN 15 DAYS AFTER THE VOTE OCCURS by completing and filing this form with the person responsible for recording the
minutes of the meeting,who should incorporate the form in the minutes.
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APPOINTED OFFICERS:
Although you must abstain from voting in the situations described above, you are not prohibited by Section 112.3143 from otherwise
participating in these matters. However, you must disclose the nature of the conflict before making any attempt to influence the decision,
whether orally or in writing and whether made by you or at your direction.
IF YOU INTEND TO MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION PRIOR TO THE MEETING AT WHICH THE VOTE WILL BE
TAKEN:
• You must complete and file this form (before making any attempt to influence the decision)with the person responsible for recording the
minutes of the meeting,who will incorporate the form in the minutes. (Continued on page 2)
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APPOINTED OFFICERS (continued)
• A copy of the form must be provided immediately to the other members of the agency.
• The form must be read publicly at the next meeting after the form is filed.
IF YOU MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION EXCEPT BY DISCUSSION AT THE MEETING:
• You must disclose orally the nature of your conflict in the measure before participating.
• You must complete the form and file it within 15 days after the vote occurs with the person responsible for recording the minutes of the
meeting,who must incorporate the form in the minutes.A copy of the form must be provided immediately to the other members of the
agency, and the form must be read publicly at the next meeting after the form is filed.
DISCLOSURE OF LOCAL OFFICER'S INTEREST
Andrew I. Solis hereby disclose that on September 26 20 17 .
(a)A measure came or will come before my agency which(check one or more)
inured to my special private gain or loss;
inured to the special gain or loss of my business associate, ;
inured to the special gain or loss of my relative,
inured to the special gain or loss of a client of my law firm, who is the owner of the subject property by
whom I am retained;or
inured to the special gain or loss of ,which
is the parent subsidiary, or sibling organization or subsidiary of a principal which has retained me.
(b)The measure before my agency and the nature of my conflicting interest in the measure is as follows:
On September 26, 2017, BCC Agenda Item 16-K-20, the Board will consider a recommendation to approve a
resolution authorizing the Collier County Industrial Development Authority to issue bonds for a charter school
known as Gulf Coast Charter Academy South.
My law partner is representing the owner of the building being sold to the charter school, and in an abundance of
caution, I will abstain from voting pursuant to Section 286.012, Fla. Stat. to avoid any perceived prejudice or bias.
If disclosure of specific information would violate confidentiality or privilege pursuant to law or rules governing attorneys, a public officer,
who is also an attorney, may comply with the disclosure requirements of this section by disclosing the nature of the interest in such a way
as to provide the public with notice of the conflict.
September 26, 2017 /
Date Filed Signa' r-
NOTICE: UNDER PROVISIONS OF FLORIDA STATUTES §112.317, A FAILURE TO MAKE ANY REQUIRED DISCLOSURE
CONSTITUTES GROUNDS FOR AND MAY BE PUNISHED BY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: IMPEACHMENT,
REMOVAL OR SUSPENSION FROM OFFICE OR EMPLOYMENT, DEMOTION, REDUCTION IN SALARY, REPRIMAND, OR A
CIVIL PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED$10,000.
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