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Agenda 05/26/2020 Item # 2B (Minutes 04/28/2020)05/26/2020 COLLIER COUNTY Board of County Commissioners Item Number: 2.B Item Summary: April 28, 2020 BCC Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: 05/26/2020 Prepared by: Title: Executive Secretary to County Manager – County Manager's Office Name: MaryJo Brock 05/12/2020 9:00 AM Submitted by: Title: County Manager – County Manager's Office Name: Leo E. Ochs 05/12/2020 9:00 AM Approved By: Review: County Manager's Office Nick Casalanguida County Manager Review Completed 05/18/2020 9:37 AM Board of County Commissioners MaryJo Brock Meeting Pending 05/26/2020 9:00 AM 2.B Packet Pg. 10 April 28, 2020 Page 1 TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Naples, Florida, April 28, 2020 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: Burt L. Saunders Andy Solis William L. McDaniel, Jr. Donna Fiala Penny Taylor ALSO PRESENT: Leo Ochs, County Manager Nick Casalanguida, Deputy County Manager Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney Crystal K. Kinzel, Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller Troy Miller, Communications & Customer Relations April 28, 2020 Page 2 MR. OCHS: Let's start with -- I want to welcome all of you this morning, and I'm really glad to see everybody's practicing social distancing. I want to thank our staff for making sure everyone's accommodated with hand sanitizer and seats that are marked for people to sit in and overflow rooms and everything that you're doing to keep our staff safe as well as the public safe. So I want to welcome all the commissioners. These are some very trying times, and I'm glad to see that we're all here this morning. Let's start with an invocation. And we'll ask our Commission Member Mr. McDaniel to lead us in the invocation and in the Pledge of Allegiance. Item #1 INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Good morning, everybody. If you'd bow your heads with me. Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for the many blessings that you have bestowed upon us. Father, these are trying times. It has been evidenced throughout our history that, with your guidance, humanity has come along and done very well. Father, we ask that you continue to bless our community that we -- and that you keep mankind safe. Father, as is always the case, please keep our military people safe, protect them for the freedoms that they fight for us every single day. As is always, our first responders who are out there every single day answering the call for whatever may arise. And, Father, please, a new group, our physicians, our medical facilities, those folks that are on the front line fighting every single day to protect the health of our citizenry. April 28, 2020 Page 3 It's in thy holy name I pray, amen. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Amen. MR. OCHS: Amen. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And with me, ladies and gentlemen. (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Next on our agenda is the approval of today's regular, consent, and summary agenda. And I believe we have some amendments to that. So we'll start off with Mr. Ochs in terms of the proposed changes to the regular agenda and the consent agenda. Item #2A APPROVAL OF TODAY’S REGULAR, CONSENT AND SUMMARY AGENDA AS AMENDED (EXPARTE DISCLOSURE PROVIDED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR CONSENT AGENDA) – APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED WITH CHANGES MR. OCHS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Commissioners. These are the proposed agenda changes for the Board of County Commissioners' meeting of April 28th, 2020. The first proposed change is to continue Item 16A18 and to move that to your May 12th, 2020, meeting agenda. That is a continuance at Commissioner Taylor's request. We're going to provide a bit more information for her on that project. And the final proposed change is to withdraw Item 16A30 from your Growth Management consent agenda. These are a series of updates to your Land Development Administrative Code, and we'll bring those back after we have a chance to consult with the Planning April 28, 2020 Page 4 Commission on a few of those. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. MR. OCHS: And those are all the changes that I have this morning, Mr. Chairman. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And you don't have any particular issues with those changes? MR. OCHS: No, sir. No, I don't. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: County Manager Ochs, so you're intending it for review with the Planning Commission before it comes to us? MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you very much. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Klatzkow, do you have any changes? MR. KLATZKOW: No, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Good morning, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Any changes -- any other changes from the commission? (No response.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Then we need a motion to approve the regular and consent agenda as amended. MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, excuse me. Is there any ex parte by commission members on either the consent or summary agenda, just for the record? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I don't see any. COMMISSIONER FIALA: No. Thank you. April 28, 2020 Page 5 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. No ex parte. All right. Then we need a motion to approve the regular agenda and the consent agenda as amended. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So moved. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Move to approve. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and second. All in favor, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed? (No response.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously. April 28, 2020 Page 6 Item #2B, #2C, #2D and #2E BCC REGULAR MEETING MINUTES FOR MARCH 10, 2020; BCC EMERGENCY MEETING MINUTES FOR MARCH 16, 2020; BCC REGULAR MEETING MINUTES FROM MARCH 24, 2020; AND THE BCC EMERGENCY MEETING MINUTES FOR MARCH 27, 2020 – APPROVED AS PRESENTED CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a series of minutes for four meetings. Let me just see if there are any corrections or changes to any of the minutes that are listed there. (No response.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And seeing none, then we just need one motion to approve -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So move. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- the minutes of the four meetings, 2B, 2C, 2D, and 2E listed. We have a motion and second. All in favor, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed? (No response.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously. That takes us down to public comments to topics not on the agenda. Item #7 PUBLIC COMMENTS NOT ON GENERAL TOPICS ON THE ~ April 28, 2020 Page 7 CURRENT OF FUTURE AGENDA CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Do we have any registered speakers for that, or anybody in the audience want to speak on an item that's not on the agenda? (No response.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Then we'll move on to -- MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, just -- I see Mr. Miller stepped out for a moment, so in the event that he's got a slip over there -- here he comes. Anyone registered, Mr. Miller, for public comment on general topics not on the current -- MR. MILLER: No, just for Item 11A, sir. MR. OCHS: Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Then we'll move on to Item 9A, advertised public hearings. Mr. Ochs. Item #9A ORDINANCE PETITION PL20180002792/CPSS-2019-03, A GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN SMALL SCALE AMENDMENT SPECIFIC TO THE URBAN COMMERCIAL DISTRICT OF THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT, TO CREATE A NEW SUBDISTRICT, VANDERBILT BEACH COMMERCIAL TOURIST SUBDISTRICT. (ADOPTION HEARING) [THIS IS A COMPANION TO AGENDA ITEM #9B] (DISTRICT 2) Item #9B ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS April 28, 2020 Page 8 OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 2004-41, AS AMENDED, THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, WHICH ESTABLISHED THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING REGULATIONS FOR THE UNINCORPORATED AREA OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, BY AMENDING THE APPROPRIATE ZONING ATLAS MAP OR MAPS BY CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF THE HEREIN DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY FROM A COMMERCIAL INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT (C-3) ZONING DISTRICT TO A COMMERCIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (CPUD) ZONING DISTRICT FOR THE PROJECT TO BE KNOWN AS VANDERBILT BEACH COMMERCIAL TOURIST COMMERCIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT, TO ALLOW UP TO 17 HOTEL AND MOTEL UNITS AND 7,000 SQUARE FEET OF COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT ON PROPERTY LOCATED ON THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE INTERSECTION OF GULF SHORE DRIVE AND SOUTH BAY DRIVE, APPROXIMATELY 400 FEET NORTH OF VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD, IN SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST, CONSISTING OF .62± ACRES; AND BY PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. (PL20180002793) (THIS IS A COMPANION TO AGENDA ITEM #9A) (DISTRICT 2) MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. 9A and 9B, Mr. Chairman, as you indicated in the title on your executive summary, were scheduled for March 24th and have been further continued to your May 12th meeting, so these items are scheduled for hearing on May 12th. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. All right. Item #11A April 28, 2020 Page 9 COVID-19 UPDATE/DISCUSSION (All Districts) MR. OCHS: Okay. So we're ready to move, sir, right into the staff report, Item 11A. This is an update and a briefing on the current conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a number of subject-matter experts that are here to provide a briefing to the Board and respond to questions, obviously, from the Commission, so we're ready to go when you are, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, we're all set. I want to advise the speakers and the folks that are making presentations that this, obviously, is the main issue for today, and take your time. We're not in a rush, so we want to make sure that the public gets all the information that is needed. MR. OCHS: Thank you. We'll begin this morning with a briefing from your public health system [sic] Stephanie Vick, the state of Florida Department of Public Health for Collier County will brief the Commission. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Good morning. MS. VICK: Good morning. And for the record, Stephanie Vick, Administrator, Florida Department of Health in Collier County. We've got a lot to talk about. I'll try to keep it in a nutshell as much as possible. Just to bring you up to speed, you'll see in front of you some statistics for the county. As of yesterday, these were what the numbers are. And I say "as of yesterday" because the information comes out so quickly. It comes out in the newspaper. It comes out in the -- on the television screen, so I need to go with what the official count is from Department of Health. And you may see some April 28, 2020 Page 10 different numbers other places, but these are what the official numbers are, okay. So as of yesterday, we had 562 total cases. About 73 percent of those have been acquired in Florida; most of them being in our county, which is quite a difference from when we first started out. Most of the cases came from travel cases, and now the vast majority are transmittal here in our own county, okay. We have some that were acquired other places in the United States, like New York or California, so that that accounts for only about 5.3 percent. We have still some that were acquired outside of the United States. They could have been on cruises. They could have come from other countries. And that accounts for 6.1 percent. Some of them we're still investigating, and you'll see later when I talk about the number of positive cases and the number of contacts that we're investigating. We cannot verify exactly where those cases came from until we're done with the investigations. So the total cases for Florida residents are 495 and non-Florida residents are 67. And as I said, the total cases are 562. So you may wonder how many tests that we've done in Collier County so far. We've done 5,230 cases [sic]. And I remember in our last briefing I was asked, so how many tests do we need to do? To be on a really good footing so we know exactly where we are, we need to do -- we would have needed to do, by this point, about four times that number of tests. So about 20,000 tests. Okay. And as you saw 562 were positive. That gives us a 10.7 percent positivity rate for the county of those cases that we know were tested and we got a result on. Okay. Our death data, the official report for Collier residents is 15; non-Collier residents but they have died in our hospitals, four. So that brings us to a total of 19. And I regret to inform you that that number should be going up today by at least one. We're at 20. April 28, 2020 Page 11 So -- and later on in the sheet you'll see, you know, where some of those deaths that are reported come from, because the Medical Examiner is required to certify every death for COVID. So if it's a death that happens at home, they're testing for COVID, and then reporting those numbers. But then if the hospital and the physicians in the hospital determine that it's COVID through testing, then they go on and certify that, but... Okay. So where we are now, as a nation and as a state, is we are supposed to be looking at gating criteria. And this is a framework. So there is some expectation that we will try to follow the gating criteria, but there is flexibility in this criteria so that there can be decisions made at the state level and at the local level as it applies to what's happening in your county. But the criteria looks at tracking symptoms that occur in your vicinity, so in our case it would be in our county, and the cases, and then what the hospital censuses are and how they're handling the need in the county. So you see they come in three -- three different categories. There are actually only five criteria that we are supposed to meet, because the middle criteria for cases is an either/or situation. You either meet the top, which is the downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period, or you meet the bottom, and that's the downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of the total tests. So when I was telling you that we range 10 -- around 10.7 percent -- and we've been holding that way since the beginning. Ten to 11 percent is what our average has been. Now, some days we're 15 percent of the tests; some days we're 6 percent. But the average is -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Average. MS. VICK: Yeah. So what we want to see is a downward slant so that we are consistently going 7 percent positivity rate, 6 percent April 28, 2020 Page 12 positivity rate, okay. Again, I'll tell you when we look at these graphs, we're not as big as Miami-Dade; we're not as big as Broward; we're certainly not as big as Palm Beach in population numbers. And so with smaller numbers, you do get quite a bit of variability in your charts and in your reporting. So with that, we have -- we have drawn trend lines for you over a 14-day period of time and over a seven-day period of time, and you'll see how that changes. I understood that our commission wanted to look at a seven-day period of time. So for this first indicator under symptoms, for influenza-like illness, if you see on the top graph, the black dotted line shows you a downward slope, a downward trend. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Mr. Chair? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm getting a lot of messages from folks that the TV feed and the live feed is not working, and I think this is imperative information for our community to be able to see. So if, in fact, it's still not -- MR. MILLER: We are having an issue. I'm working to direct a secondary link to our web page. Give me a couple of minutes, okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Maybe we should take a brief recess until that is accomplished, Mr. Chair. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I don't have any issue with doing that. I think we should, quite frankly, just stay in place. Maybe we'll just recess for a few minutes see what -- MR. MILLER: Let me see what I can do. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Give us a report back. But let's stay in place. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I didn't mean to interrupt, Stephanie. Just I'm getting pinged that there's -- that the feed's not April 28, 2020 Page 13 working. MS. VICK: Oh, no. That's okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: More than just my mother. MS. VICK: We need to hear it. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: My mother watches this. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. We're in recess at the moment, so let's... (A brief recess was had.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Perhaps if you could advise the public at this point what they may want to do to -- MR. MILLER: Yeah. If you're attempting to watch online, you may have to refresh your browser. We did have an Internet connectivity issue with our external stream on our website, but everything seems to be back up and running now, but you will have to refresh your browser, so... CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. So we're all set. Ms. Vick. MS. VICK: Okay. Well, I'm glad we did that, because that gave me a chance to remember that I forgot to introduce Muhammad Abbasi, who is here with us. He's here in the front row. And he's my director of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control and has the Epidemiology Department within his division. So should I need to refer, he's right here. Okay. Thank you. So back to the first graph and the symptoms. And I was telling you, the gating criteria as it's proposed suggests that we use a 14-day trend. And I did tell you about, with our number of residents being smaller than major city areas, we get a lot of variability in graphs when we do them. So the black line, as I was telling you, the black dotted line on this represents the trend over a 14-day period of time, which is downward. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So the small black -- April 28, 2020 Page 14 MS. VICK: The small black dots. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Do one of these so we can -- can you make it bigger? MS. VICK: That, yeah. Okay, great. Okay. So these small dotted lines. This red line is just over the past seven days. So if you just go the past seven days, you see that there's an increase there. When I get to the end and tell you where we score on the gating criteria, we have used the recommended 14-day trend because of the reasons that we have smaller numbers, and I think you get a better picture of trending rather than using seven days, right? Okay. So that's where we are in influenza-like illnesses. Over 14 days, we have a downward trend. All right. In COVID-like illnesses, we are pretty much flatlined over the 14-day period. You see, the black dotted line all the way across is pretty much flat. If you do that one for the seven-day period, that one also ends up being flat. So if we were asking the question on No. 1A, is there a downward trend with influenza-like illness in Collier County, we would say yes using 14 days, okay. Then the question is, is there a downward trend in COVID-like illness syndrome in Collier County? And we would say no because that's flat. No downward trend. And we put them together in a category, so under symptoms. Because there's one yes and one no, we gave that a no, okay. Then looking at cases. So the next question is, is there -- is the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Collier County decreasing? And, of course, they're not, and we probably will, for a long time, say no because the testing is increasing. More testing, the more positives we get. But remember in this category, in cases, in that overall category, it's an either/or scenario. So either you have your number of cases that are going down or the percentage of positive tests is April 28, 2020 Page 15 going down. So remember I talked about we're averaging around 10 percent, 10 to 11 percent right now. So you might want to see 9 to 10 percent over a two-week period of time, and then you might want to see 8 to 10 percent and 6 to 7 percent, and then we would answer, yes, that's going down. And so that category overall would be yes because it's an either/or. Does that make sense? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. On this page it shows confirmed on the one level and positive on the other. I would think they were saying the same thing. So there must be a different definition, or what is it? MS. VICK: I'm sorry. I should have pointed that out right away. The top chart is number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. The bottom chart is percentage. COMMISSIONER FIALA: So the confirmed is -- MS. VICK: Number of confirmed. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Is that a different level as positive -- than positive? MS. VICK: No. They both have to do with confirmed or positive, but one is number versus percentage. So I might have -- I might have a total of 10 tests that were being done, and five of them were positive. So the number is five, and yesterday the number was six, and tomorrow the number is three. So the average percentage that came out was close to 50 percent over that time period. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I guess I just don't understand the difference between positive and confirmed. So if it's only me, than that's -- MS. VICK: No, those are not -- those are not different. It's the number of cases and the percentage of cases. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor, you had a April 28, 2020 Page 16 question? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Director Vick -- MS. VICK: Yes. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: -- given the fact that we hope there will be increased testing as we go forward and given the fact this is not going to go away, is it conceivable that we'll hover around a 10 percent for the next four or five months? MS. VICK: That is conceivable. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Probable? MS. VICK: Probable, but probably not the only thing you're going to want to make your decision on -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Right. MS. VICK: -- because, again, under cases, it's either/or. So we may get 10 percent, but we may get decreasing numbers as time goes on. But, again, that's not likely because we're ramping up testing right now. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah. That's the other part. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Let's see if we can kind of hold our questions until Ms. Vick is finished, because she may answer some of those questions in her comments. So after each speaker we'll take questions, if that's okay with the Commission. So make notes as she goes through. MS. VICK: All right. So now we're looking at the hospital capacity. And I'm sure our hospitals are going to report more on what's happening with them. But the third category in the gating criteria has to do with how our hospitals are able to deal with illness in their community, not only COVID illnesses, but the heart attacks that come in and strokes that come in and people that might have pancreatitis and need to be hospitalized. So is the system being overrun by COVID or is the hospital system -- are they able to treat anything that comes through April 28, 2020 Page 17 the door and COVID and still have some space left over and still have ventilators left over. Okay. So we looked at from the 1st of April on this one on how we're doing with -- and you'll see up at the top is the key. So the black line tells you how many available vents we have among all the hospital systems, and that would be Physicians Regional, NCH, and Landmark Hospital, okay. So right here at the end, they're -- at the last -- at the last measurement, which was yesterday, and the last report that we got, we had 78 ventilators available that were not in use, okay. Then we have -- with the orange line, we have the number of available ICU beds. Now, I worry a little bit more right now about the number of ventilators being available than I do the ICU beds because the hospitals have plans in place to make other rooms ICU beds if that need be, but this does give us a good indication of what's happening in the county right now. So if you look at the available ICU beds and go all the way to the 27th, you'll see that there were 24 reported yesterday. And, again, that's among all three hospitals. Okay. And then the last part are the cases in ICU, which I like this one quite a bit in that you can see more of a trend because of the widening band that is across there. But the number of cases that are in ICU as of yesterday were nine. Could be more today. They discharge them out of there to the floor or -- but you'll see that back here in the beginning, around the 3rd of April, the 4th of April, we had a much bigger rise, and then around the 10th we had a rise, but it's starting to go down for longer periods of time with the numbers of people that are in ICU. Make sense? Okay. Okay. So the answer, then, to our hospitals up here at the top would be, can they treat all patients without crisis care, without April 28, 2020 Page 18 putting people in their cafeterias or in the hallways or in their walk-in clinics? Can they treat anybody that comes through the door without crisis care? And they can right now. Do they have robust testing programs in place? And that would be, are they testing all of their staff for both positivity, and then the criteria asks, are they doing emerging antibody testing? Which I don't think anybody in our county's doing that right now. So we're going to look at the gating criteria altogether. So remember, the first one -- the first category was symptoms. So we answered yes, there is a downward trend over 14 days in influenza-like illness. No, there's not a downward trajectory of COVID-like syndrome and cases. And so for that grouping we answered no. Okay. And 2A, there's a downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period. We said no. We said -- and then the other thing is, it's an "or." So, or is there a downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of total tests? And the answer is no. So with that grouping we answered no. On 3 we said -- and that has to do with the hospitals -- we treat all patients without crisis care, and the answer is yes. And do we have a robust testing program in place for at-risk healthcare workers, including antibody testing, and the answer is no, so -- for that group. So you'll see the overall groups, our outcome is no, no, no. However, we did this last week for a 14-day period, and we only had one yes. So we're moving in the right direction. We just -- we need to hold pretty steady and keep going, okay. Okay. Right now the Health Department is -- their criteria is that they're testing healthcare facility workers, and the hospitals are testing healthcare facility workers with symptoms and hospitalized patients, and then Priority 2 -- we're both doing pretty much Priority 1 and 2, patients in long-term-care facilities with symptoms. So the April 28, 2020 Page 19 hospitals would be doing that if that patient gets transferred to the hospital. The patients that are 65 years of age and older that have symptoms, patients with underlying conditions with symptoms, and first responders with symptoms. It's all symptom-based right now as far as the Health Department is concerned, hospitals are concerned, the medical providers are concerned. But we're very quickly getting ready to move to a stance where we'll be testing high-risk people regardless of symptoms, and then from there jumping off to testing anybody that wants the test, but that's all predicated on the number of tests that become available in the county, and we don't quite have that yet. All right. So for the Health Department we're doing the Priority 1 and 2, and we're doing testing in both Naples and the Immokalee locations. Our specimens are forwarded to the Florida Department of Health Bureau of Public Health Laboratories. And of those 562 positive cases that I told you we have, that, then, has led us to be monitoring and doing contact tracing for 1,336 people, which then has translated into changing our staffing around to meet the need, requesting staffing from the state, working on a plan with the county for when the testing continues to rise and we continue to get more positive cases. We're working closely with the long-term-care facilities. That's one of the top priorities right now for all of Department of Health. So we've been in contact with every single one of our long-term-care facilities in the county. They have had several visits from assessment teams to try to help them look at what their infection control practices are to help them as to how they're managing their personal protective equipment, and I think there is a little fatigue there with the number of visits that they're getting, because they keep getting many different April 28, 2020 Page 20 groups of people that are coming in. But now there is an incident management team that has been formed that's actually going to go to particular nursing homes that have more than just one case, several cases coming out with staff and with residents, that they're going to be testing everybody. All the residents, all the staff. Right now we have 52 long-term-care facilities, and of that, the residents in those facilities, there are 32 positive cases among those 52 facilities and 19 staff people that are positive. You know, early in the actions that were taken across the state, we shut down visitation into the nursing homes right away, so nobody was allowed in there except for staff. But that will tell you oftentimes people in the community, including staff that may be in nursing homes, may have the virus and have no symptoms and then end up transferring it on to other people, which is another reason, with whatever actions that we decide to do in our county, we need to make sure that we are continuing social distancing, masking, emphasizing hand washing. Those are our only tools until there is adequate treatment or there's a vaccine. Okay. So with more testing comes -- as I've been trying to drive home, comes more positive cases, at least for a while. And this is going to stress us as a system, but it's going to stress your health department as well. A lot of it is going to end up in needs for support for where do we put people when those people end up being positive and they have nowhere to isolate themselves. So we have plans that are in place, but that also costs in order to do it, and it's going to run for a long time. So these are things that we're going to need to think about. We're going to -- if we put people somewhere, we're going to need to feed them, too, and we're going to need to monitor them. So it's not just the facility. It's the staffing. It's the food. It's all the wraparound services that go, which is what April 28, 2020 Page 21 I'm talking about right here. I did want to point out to you that, again, we have a plan in place with the county where once our support from the state level goes -- and it -- right now what we have, it's scheduled to be here for about a month. But once that goes, we need other support. And we do have a plan with the county and a screening plan to determine who's right for the role, but to train people and to be able to deal with this surge of positive cases as they come along. So we are looking to the future for that -- for that plan. So the staff will be trained. We have to provide space for them. We're going to have to provide electronic support, and we're going to have to have them ready to go in June when these other people that are with us leave. So training is going to happen this month so that we're ready to go. And that's it for me. I'll answer your questions. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Are there any questions for Ms. Vick? And I'll ask commissioners to use your buttons here. Commissioner Solis. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I'd like to just go back to those gating criteria. MS. VICK: Criteria. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And I just want to make sure and have you explain, for those watching, those criteria are gating for what exactly? MS. VICK: Think of -- I think the public should think of gating criteria as like when you're getting ready for a horse race, and all the horses are lined up behind the gate. And when you're able to meet the requirements that will open that gate, that's when you should be starting to open up your communities in a much bigger way. You can start with a few small things, things that weren't in the original plan to shut down in the very beginning, and limit exposure for those April 28, 2020 Page 22 things. But you're supposed to be able to meet that gating criteria before the gate opens and the horse race begins. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And how does that relate to the different phases that we've heard from the federal government? Is that what we're talking about? MS. VICK: That's what we're talking about. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. That's what I was -- so this is the criteria for how we should be looking at entering the different phases that have been outlined by the federal government and the CDC? MS. VICK: That is true. It comes from the Opening America Plan, which has then been carried to the states and then locally. But as I started out in the very beginning saying, that the plan itself does allow for some massaging to make it meet your community. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. MS. VICK: Okay. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: That's all I had. Thanks. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: How many ventilators do we have in all of the hospitals in Collier County? MS. VICK: Well, let's see. Let's go back here. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: You have 78 available. MS. VICK: Right. We have 100 and some. Seventy-eight. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I can answer that. MS. VICK: Maybe we should -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: That's fine. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: We can't really tell. MS. VICK: I would have to look it up. I can't pull it out of my head right now. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I can answer it. MS. VICK: You can? Okay. April 28, 2020 Page 23 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I spoke with -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I spoke with Paul Hiltz this morning, and 160 available. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Hundred and sixty. MS. VICK: Is that just in his hospital? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: In his hospital, correct -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: In his hospital. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- which is significantly different than the 78 that you have here on the graph. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel, did you have anything else? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I just was answering her question. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: No. But you were listed here. Do you have anything else? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I do have other questions. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. You're recognized. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Commissioner Taylor's not done. I was just answering her question. MS. VICK: Okay. Let me tell you about this graph. This graph is only as good as the people that are reporting into it. And the information that comes out of it comes out of the ESS system that all the hospitals are to be reporting into. So if they had more of a stash, it's not being reported into the system. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor, anything else? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes. The gating criteria, to me, is important here, and the testing, of course, is something that you talked about over a month ago -- MS. VICK: Yeah. April 28, 2020 Page 24 COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: -- in our first time you came before us. The -- so you're telling me there's wiggle room here with this gating criteria, because the testing issue is not an issue locally; it's an issue federally in terms of ramping up and getting enough. Maybe the state, but -- MS. VICK: Statewide. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: State. State -- so that we can get -- so that's not an issue that we can control. That's an issue we can benefit from when more tests come. MS. VICK: Correct. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So could you say that, perhaps, we -- that's the wiggle room we have here on our level of trying to meet this criteria? Would you agree to that? I don't know how we can be responsible or try to meet criteria when we don't get enough tests to test. MS. VICK: Right. And I would agree to that. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. All right. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. My first question, Stephanie, you made a comment early on that someone said that this board wanted to see a seven-day running average -- MS. VICK: Well, that's what came -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- as opposed to the 14? MS. VICK: -- to me. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I just was wondering how that got there without us actually talking about it. MS. VICK: Yeah. MR. OCHS: Commissioner, I can explain that. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. Mr. Ochs. MR. OCHS: What that is, that came out of a discussion of the April 28, 2020 Page 25 working group that I assembled with Marco Island, the City of Naples, and Lee County to try to develop some criteria for re-opening the beaches. And the proposal from the working group was to look at a seven-day instead of a 14-day. I had asked Ms. Vick to report on that data for me just so that I had it for that working group. It's informative, but the number that you're working with here from the public health standpoint is the 14 days. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I just -- MR. OCHS: Thank you for the clarification. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I saw that in your suggestions with regard to our opening up of our beaches -- MR. OCHS: Yes, that's where it came from. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- and that came from that committee, but that was also what she said that this board was looking for as well, and -- MR. OCHS: No, I asked her. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- I don't remember having that discussion. MR. OCHS: You're correct. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Number two, did I hear you say with regard to the fatalities that 100 percent of the fatalities are being marked as COVID? Did I hear you say that? MS. VICK: No, no. You didn't hear me say that. I said that COVID deaths are being certified by the ME, the Medical Examiner. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct. MS. VICK: So that means -- usually if there's a case that happens in a hospital and a physician is certifying it, the ME will also recognize that. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct. MS. VICK: Okay. But if a case happens in the home, it could April 28, 2020 Page 26 happen in a nursing home, you've never been to the hospital, that person would end up going to the ME, he would test, and then certify whether it was a COVID death or not. So that's why we get resident deaths and then we have nonresident deaths. We get resident deaths that are reported on the DOH report. And almost every day there will be a discrepancy, number one, because DOH only -- only reports resident deaths, and then we know about the nonresident deaths, but then additional cases have happened. So we'll report 19 deaths, okay. But another one has happened during the last day, but it hasn't made it into our systems that the ME has certified. And it may not be a resident. So when we have our Monday, Wednesday, Friday calls, they keep us up to date on how many overall deaths that we have. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And do you have that information on an overall basis? MS. VICK: Twenty as of yesterday. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm sorry? MS. VICK: Twenty as of yesterday. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Nineteen of which are being designated as COVID or COVID related? Is that correct? MS. VICK: All 20 will be COVID related. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. And that's 100 percent of the deaths that have occurred -- MS. VICK: In Collier County. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- in Collier County. MS. VICK: To date yesterday. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: To date since March 1st-ish. MS. VICK: Since we were tracking. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So necessarily, then, 100 percent of the deaths are being attributed to COVID. MS. VICK: Well, no. We have had other deaths, I'm sure, from April 28, 2020 Page 27 heart disease and stroke and -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That was what I was -- I'm sorry. And maybe I wasn't being clear, Stephanie. I'm not being -- I'm not being -- I'm not being aggressive. I just -- I was asking about all of the deaths that have transpired in the past 20 days. Do we have that data? MS. VICK: We have that data. I don't have it with me, but I can get it for you. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I would like that. I'd like to see that as well. MS. VICK: Okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Now, you also made a comment about the antigen test not being available as of yet? MS. VICK: Not from the state. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Not from the state. It is in private labs. MS. VICK: That's right. If you are a private provider and you would like to do the antibody test and you want to pay for them and order them, there's nothing stopping you to do that. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. MS. VICK: However, if you've been watching lately with statements from WHO and from CDC, and this also has been coming from our Department of Health as late as yesterday, that people should be careful when ordering those antibody tests and thinking that that gives them a passport to immunity. Right now there's no evidence -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct. I just -- the statement that you made was that the antigen tests were not available, and they are. So, I mean -- and you might have been speaking specifically with the Health Department, but the antigen test -- and, again, we're aware that it's not conclusive data that if you have those antibodies April 28, 2020 Page 28 that you're bullet proof. MS. VICK: Right. They weren't available through the Department of Health -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct. MS. VICK: -- but they are available if you want to order them. And if, when you order them, they get shipped to you, because the Department of Health did order a batch, as they were told yesterday, and they got hung up in China and we never got them. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And that -- about the -- how about the number of recovered cases? That used to pop up on the dashboard. And I'm not seeing it anymore. Do you have that data available anywhere of folks that have tested positive and come through the virus? MS. VICK: I'd like to see where that came up on the dashboard. It has not been reported to date, and it's not been available. And the state home office has been trying to work on some sort of formula that would be useful in doing recovered from COVID. If you have that and you could share it with me, I'd appreciate it. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I don't have it. I was asking for it. I have asked for it in the past, because we've been doing these tests for 60 days, and a certain percentage of our folks have passed away and a large percentage have recovered. And I would like to know what that -- what that group -- what that subset is as well. And, again, this is just something for us to talk about. I mean, you've listened -- I've asked for data, data, data. And as Ms. Stephanie has even said today, the accuracy of the datasets is suspect. We're watching datasets being manipulated on a regular basis, and not with malice by any stretch. I mean, I was on the -- I was on the phone with Paul -- and are we going to have a report from NCH and Regions [sic] today? MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. April 28, 2020 Page 29 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You'll hear, then, from them. I mean, I was on the phone with Paul Hiltz this morning, and they have 160 ventilators available. They have 49 ICU beds available. They can go to 75 more if they want. So the datasets that we're looking at can oftentimes reflect a poorer or lesser or more dire opinion than what's actually transpiring. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Sure. Let's see if there's any more questions. On the issue of the number of people that have tested positive and the number of people that have died, I think if you just do the simple math there, you'll get at least an idea of the number of people that tested positive versus the number of people that died. That will give you an idea of the recovery rate. Obviously, some of those folks are still in the hospital and that sort of thing, but that will be fairly close. MS. VICK: Right. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. I liked hearing those figures. I'm sorry that we couldn't hear the rest of it. But I thought that was interesting, because we don't hear the positive. We only hear the negative. And I asked that same question the very first time you gave a presentation, you know, how many had recovered, you know. Because if we've got all these hospital beds, we know they're not in the hospital anymore. And so have they recovered? Is that the case? I mean, they didn't die, because we have 19 deaths. You say this morning might say another -- so we'll say 20, but not confirmed yet. And I think those are positive things that we must look at as we begin to make decisions today, and that's very, very important. And that goes back to how we figure -- and these are my questions. How we figure all of these numbers and figures because that -- the wording has a lot to do with whether we add them in or don't add them in. April 28, 2020 Page 30 So I'm going to ask one more time: If you test positive, does that mean you have COVID? MS. VICK: If you test positive, you've been exposed to COVID. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Exposed. That doesn't mean you have it. MS. VICK: You most likely are active with COVID. Because there's a difference between active and able to spread it to other people and in the middle of the disease, and you may have just been exposed or you may just be finishing up and you're not contagious. COMMISSIONER FIALA: So if you're testing positive, you've got it, maybe? MS. VICK: Okay. Probably. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Probably. Okay. So if you're confirmed, do you have it? MS. VICK: Yes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. So confirmed actually means yes, that is a positive case. MS. VICK: Correct. COMMISSIONER FIALA: But positive doesn't mean that? MS. VICK: No, positive means that in the terms of the reporting, yes. COMMISSIONER FIALA: So in your figures you use both of those analogies under positive and then confirmed, but we're actually talking about the same beast? MS. VICK: No. COMMISSIONER FIALA: No? MS. VICK: We are talking about numbers versus percentage. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I guess I'll not get that. Maybe that's where the figures kind of puzzle us a little bit, because we're assuming that they mean the -- well, they all mean COVID, and April 28, 2020 Page 31 you're saying no, they don't. MS. VICK: No. They all mean COVID, but one is a picture looking at the percentage of positive cases and one is a picture looking at the numbers of positive cases over that 14-day period of time. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, then this poor mind just can't sort those things out. So the next question I have is, as you were talking about the figures again, how do flu-like symptoms figure into the things? Are they at all COVID, or they're just flu-like? They -- MS. VICK: Flu-like symptoms, some COVID cases mimic flu-like symptoms. And so when we look at flu-like symptoms, they may or may not have been tested for COVID. COMMISSIONER FIALA: So then how do COVID-like symptoms figure into it? If flu-like symptoms are COVID-like symptoms, how do COVID-like symptoms figure into -- MS. VICK: Not all flu -- not all people who have flu-like symptoms have COVID. COMMISSIONER FIALA: But you have two different categories there. Flu-like symptoms and COVID-like symptoms. MS. VICK: Right. I'd like to also point out to you, Commissioner, that these criteria that I'm reporting on come from the national gating criteria. I did not choose those criteria as the gating. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I don't care who chose them. I want to know what I'm reading, what it's actually saying, so, you know -- and right now it's not clear. Sometimes figures just are not clear, and I'm trying to put them -- I try to make them black and white, not hazy. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And if I may support you in this, because that was my question, what has flu-like symptoms got to do with the COVID? April 28, 2020 Page 32 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let's try to keep this in order. Commissioner Fiala, you're answering [sic] questions. We'll get back to you. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Well, no. I was just supporting Commissioner Fiala. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I understand, but we're going to be back and forth here all day, so, you know. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm done, though. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis, you're next. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So, again, I'm trying to understand how we go making decisions in terms of this gating criteria. And you're going to have to help me with the definition of "wiggle room," okay. I mean, what does that mean in terms of the criteria that we have to look at or we've been asked to look at by the CDC, the federal government, and the administration? MS. VICK: I think, as Commissioner Taylor was pointing out, that with testing -- and we think the testing is going to be increasing. In fact, we know it's going to be increasing. I think Mr. Summers will talk about -- when he talks, about a couple of bigger testing clinics that are coming up. But as we get more tests, we're going to have more positives. That's a given. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. MS. VICK: Okay. So to use an ever increasing number of positives and be afraid to move based upon that criteria, for here, is probably not the best think to use. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. But then that's why the testing is an either/or. MS. VICK: Right. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right? Because one, as you've been saying, is the number, the raw number, the raw count -- MS. VICK: Right. April 28, 2020 Page 33 COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- and the other one is the percentage of positives in relation to how many people have been tested? MS. VICK: Right. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So the wiggle room -- and, again, I'm trying to understand what "wiggle room" means. Then the wiggle room is that we get to choose which one of those we want to look at, or -- and then is there any other wiggle room in terms of the other two sets of criteria? MS. VICK: I think it would be you would choose which one you want to look at in that middle category -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. MS. VICK: -- and then -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And just -- and my impression is, is that since just the raw number is not necessarily a good picture because we're going to have increased testing and the numbers are going to go up and we know that, that then looking at the percentage -- MS. VICK: Right. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- is a better number to look at from the Department of Health's standpoint? MS. VICK: Right. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. Okay. MS. VICK: I think it is. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So then in terms of the first criteria, what's -- is there wiggle room in the first criteria, and what would that be? MS. VICK: I think if you were looking at one or the other -- because since I said that when someone has influenza-like illness, it might not be -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right. April 28, 2020 Page 34 MS. VICK: -- flu. It could be COVID because some of the symptoms are the same. But they may not have been tested for COVID, all right. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. MS. VICK: But COVID-like illness syndrome has many more of the things that would lead you to believe someone has COVID. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right. MS. VICK: Okay. And then they might end up in the hospital and ventilator and -- okay. If I were making that determination, I would go more with the COVID-like illness, because flu comes and goes, and that's -- the flu-like illness is naturally going to go down probably in the next month or so. I mean, we've pretty much past that peak. So that might be a false thing to follow as much as the COVID. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. MS. VICK: Okay? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Got it, okay. And then in terms of the third criteria, is what -- again, I'm just trying to understand how we go about looking at these gating criteria for purposes of making a good decision. I'm not trying to stump you. I'm trying to really be clear as to what -- how we go about making a decision in all of this. MS. VICK: Right. Well, in the third criteria where we're looking at the hospitals having the antibody testing, for instance, I would not -- personally, when I'm looking at that -- I don't know that this is a DOH stance, okay. I can't give you a DOH stance on that, okay. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. MS. VICK: All right. But I would personally, as your administrator in the county, would say that because those tests have not been readily available through DOH, because private providers April 28, 2020 Page 35 need to shell out the money to do that, because there is so much doubt about the validity of it, that when I'm looking at that part of the criteria, I would not be looking at are they testing for antibodies. I'd just be looking at are they able to test their healthcare workers when needed. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. MS. VICK: Okay? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. That was very helpful. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: You've answered my question. That was -- thank you very much. Just one more. Just a quick one. Crisis care is ventilator, is it not? Would crisis care be ventilator synony -- not synonymous, but require a ventilator? MS. VICK: Crisis care, as I understand we are interpreting it, is we're having difficulty as a hospital meeting the needs of our other patients because we're being overrun with COVID patients. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. Okay. MS. VICK: Okay. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel, did you have anything else? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Yes, I do. And I just want to say, in deference to Stephanie, when we're asking these difficult questions, it's certainly not a slight. There is no slight from -- or -- at least from me personally with regard to the information that you're providing. It's imperative, though, that we have accurate information from with which to make our decisions. And if we're only provided with information that is -- has a negative bias, then it's difficult for us to make -- I believe it's difficult for me to make a balanced decision as to how I go forward. Even these gating criterion that you brought forth are subjective. April 28, 2020 Page 36 There are subjectivities that are added in here. I believe that's the wiggle room that Commissioner Solis was, in fact, talking about. So I wanted to be very clear. You got a -- you got a little -- I felt that you got a little defensive when I was adding in information with regard to the availability of ventilators and ICU beds from one of the three hospitals that we have here in Collier County. This isn't new news for me. I've had communication with the Health Department with the accuracy of the information that's, in fact, being provided for weeks. And so when we're asking -- at least when I'm asking these questions, please, there's no reason for defensiveness from me personally. I'm well aware. I've been watching, on a lot of different levels, the datasets being manipulated as, in fact, time goes on. And, of course, with more information, you certainly can, in fact, be more accurate. But when you don't have all of the information, the available beds, the available ICU beds, the available ventilators and such to, in fact, care for our population who do, in fact, test positive and then, in fact, require hospitalization and then, in fact, require an ICU and ultimately a vent, if that's how they go, if you don't have the beginning portion of that, you're left with a fear-based decision-making process and not fact. MS. VICK: Commissioner, I just want to say, if I appeared defensive, I did not mean to be -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. MS. VICK: -- that way. And I just wanted to make it clear -- because I am aware that this is televised and the community watches it, I wanted to make it clear as to where the data comes from, what the expectation is that it goes in correctly. But as in any computer program, misinformation in -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Garbage out. MS. VICK: -- misinformation out. April 28, 2020 Page 37 COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Computer programming. Garbage in, garbage out. MS. VICK: Yeah. And so me as your administrator, I am required to follow a certain set of data, because we are an integrated Department of Health, and so when I report to the community, I report the information that we're supposed to be given. But if I know of a difference within our community, if I know -- so that would be like the hospital. If I know there's so many more ventilators, I would be reporting that as well. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. MS. VICK: Okay. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: The only comment I'm going to make -- I don't have any questions. But based on what Ms. Vick has indicated, I do believe we meet the first phase gating requirement. We have a reduced number of -- or the percentage, rather, has been steady for 14 days. The fact that we're going to have more cases as a result of more testing I don't think is an issue. I think the wiggle room that Commissioner Solis was talking about is that we stick with that percentage. If the percentage has been 10 percent or 11 percent for more than 14 days, then I believe we meet the gating requirement on that issue. Clearly, from a hospital standpoint -- and we'll hear more testimony from the medical community. But from the hospitalization's rates and the amount of ventilators that are available and ICU units that are available, we meet that gating criteria. So, in my view, we're going to -- when the Governor comes out with his proposals, we're going to be prepared to execute Phase 1, in my view. Now, that's just mine. Now, we'll talk more about that at the end. But I think the information that you've provided is very instructive, and I think, clearly, we meet that first -- that first phase. Anything else for Ms. Vick before we go to the next presenter? April 28, 2020 Page 38 If not, let's move on. We're going to have to take a break probably in about 30 minutes for our court reporter. I want to have our breaks to be relatively short and encourage people to kind of stay -- relax in place as much as possible. Let's go to the next presenter. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Can I just -- I'm sorry. May I ask one question about contact tracing? May I can ask one contact tracing. MS. VICK: Sure. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: This is, you know, from -- look, I'm not the expert here, but certainly the press, you know, has again and again a story how critical this is as we go forward. Is this something that you have to have a degree in epidemiology to do? Is this something -- we've got a lot of folks here that are unemployed. Is this something that there could be job opportunities? Because I don't see this as ending in a month or two in terms of contact tracing. MS. VICK: That's a loaded question. You do not have to have a degree to do contract tracing in epidemiology. You don't have to have that, but it helps to have at least a baseline Bachelor's Degree. It helps to have some health background to do that, unless you've been working in public health for a long period of time. So if someone has the right background, we certainly could work with them. Right now, with the county doing it, those people would be volunteers for us. The county is working on that and the things. But as for hiring people, that also is a financial requirement, and we have not been provided additional dollars to do that. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. MS. VICK: Okay. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Mr. Ochs, let's move on to the next presenter. April 28, 2020 Page 39 MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. We're going to hear a report on our community healthcare systems. We'll begin this morning with Mr. Scott Lowe, the CEO for Physicians Regional Healthcare System. Good morning, Mr. Lowe. MR. LOWE: Good morning. Thanks for having me. I did want to just start and, you know, real quickly just congratulate and thank all the physicians and the medical staff at Physicians Regional who have done a phenomenal job managing during this pandemic. You know, they're on the front lines, and I think we see it quite often. You know, they are the heroes during this episode, but they really have done a great job of managing in very uncertain times. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I'll echo that as well. I'm sure all of us are very appreciative of those front-line workers and really appreciate the physicians, the nurses, the administrators that are taking care of us. So thank you and thanks to them as well. MR. LOWE: Absolutely. They've done a phenomenal job. And I also want to thank the Collier County EOC, the Department of Health, and the bonnets [sic], a significant number of community members across the way that have done phenomenal things for our organization, whether it be food deliveries on a pretty routine basis, PPE utilization, masks. You name it, we've had tremendous support from the community. So I wanted to just make that public as well, because they've done a great job for us. Really, a lot of what I was going to kind of go through echoes along the lines of what Stephanie had done much more robustly from a statistics perspective, but it's just to give you a general idea of what we're seeing at Physicians Regional. You know, as of yesterday -- and as Stephanie alluded to, the numbers do change quite often. But we've seen or treated 770 cases April 28, 2020 Page 40 that presented to us. Now, with that, we've seen 68 positive results. I look at positives and confirmed as the same thing. So we treat positive/confirmed the same. You know, again, data's always different. But that means we've had 688 negative results. So we're below that 10 percent threshold. We still have about 14 results pending. Currently, at this point, we're using both Lab Corp and Quest for our outpatient testing, but we're using Sefia testing in-house, which is a rapid testing. So we can get results within 45 minutes. We're limiting those type of tests to our in-patient, the sicker patients, so we can protect the organization at the two locations. So currently in-house we have 14 patients in-house. That represents less than 10 percent of our total patients in-house. And we've seen that relatively consistently. Have not really seen a spike. Have not really seen any real change. We've kind of gone like this (indicating). Now, about two weeks ago when we introduced the Sefia testing prior to being able to utilize that lab test, we did have, you know, a handful of positives and about 20 rule-outs or PUIs, as they're called. But once we were able to introduce this testing, we were able to truly isolate those that are sick and have tested positive for the COVID. So when we're able to do that, we've isolated those patients, which not only further protects the patient, the staff, but also allows us to conserve PPE. So over the last two weeks, things have been really, I want to say, steady for us. You know, the PPE utilization has slowed because we're able to isolate. The anxiety at the facilities has dropped significantly just for the ability to be able to say we know where the COVID patients are and we're isolating them, so we're protecting the rest of the organization and anything else. And, of course, you know, from the beginning we've done a lot April 28, 2020 Page 41 of measures to protect the public. We've, you know, limited visitors coming. A lot of those different aspects that most hospitals across the country have done. But we've really -- over the last two weeks it's pretty -- it's been pretty steady for all intents and purposes. If anything, looking at the number of tests that we're performing now -- I tried to look quickly this morning. I think we had just the one new positive, but I think that was a known positive that came from a nursing home. So out of the 20 or so tests that we performed yesterday, we had no new positives. So it's more indicative of what we're seeing more routinely. And I think as we introduce more tests, what we're going to see is I think we're testing the sick folks right now. I think the patients that have those flu-like symptoms and feel like they may have -- be COVID positive are being tested. I think when we open the testing in a grander scale, I think all of us are going to want to say I want to get tested just so I know. And so I think that's going to change the dynamics of the testing percentages and those sort of things as well. So I do believe we are -- we do have the testing available to treat the patients that are sick and do meet that COVID criteria. One other piece that I wanted to talk about from -- just from a data perspective, currently this morning across our two hospitals we had six patients on vents, only one of those being a COVID-positive patient. So -- and yesterday I had zero. So one of them's a new one. So we're really -- I think we're seeing a trend -- and I don't know if you have any physicians that are speaking today, but I think they can speak to it a little bit. What we've seen at Physicians Regional, the acuity of the patient is not nearly as high as has been publicly reported. We're not seeing high vent utilization. If anything, we're seeing a trend towards the opposite, and that may be indicative of what Stephanie's graph also alluded to. It's -- you know, they're not April 28, 2020 Page 42 seeing the results from a vent patient. So when we talk about number of vents available, I think we have plenty, but at the same time, I don't believe that the utilization for the treatment of those patients is going to be as high as initially anticipated. You know, we have about 30 vents across our two campuses. If need be, all of our anesthesia machines can be turned into vents. So there's a lot more availability than maybe what is being publicly reported. And, certainly, I'm part of a much larger organization. If need be, we can pull from sister hospitals and whatnot. So, really, you know, for the most part, we've had no issues -- I don't want to say no issues because there certainly were some anxious moments. But we have not run out of PPE. We've really had very limited exposure of our staff because of our ability to isolate those patients, you know -- and for the most part, you know, we're looking forward to kind of getting to, you know, return to normal. The elective cases is something that we look forward to building back up and, you know, doing it in a very methodical and safe approach. We want to make sure that if we're going to move forward with elective cases -- hopefully Governor DeSantis allows us in the next couple of weeks -- that we do it in a way that protects not only the patient but our staff and go forward with that. But we really do believe that we won't have any issues going forward. We believe we have the resources we need to continue to treat the patients. My one concern is what we've seen a little bit over the last, actually, four or five days is an increase in very sick patients coming in, not COVID patients. So we're starting to see those patients that were avoiding the ER over the last few weeks and -- because they didn't want to be introduced to a COVID-positive area. But they're sick. They need to go to the emergency room. And, you know, for April 28, 2020 Page 43 the public's knowledge, we do isolate COVID patients. If you are sick, I do encourage you to go to the emergency room sooner than later and get the appropriate treatment. And, again, the staff is well prepared to isolate and make sure that there's no additional exposure concerns there. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: One quick question. Are you -- does that conclude your -- MR. LOWE: Yeah, I'm done. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Just one quick question, because you talked about elective surgeries and elective procedures. Are you ready to start having those? MR. LOWE: We're preparing for that now. We're putting our plans in place. But for all intents and purposes, yes, I believe we're ready to start having those. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And I think I heard the Governor say on Saturday on his news briefing that May 8th is the order -- is the expiration of -- MR. LOWE: That's the date of the expiration. So at this point we're really -- that's a Friday. So we're planning for -- and, again, it won't be 100 percent. We're going to make sure that we're isolating the right patients and doing what's right for the patients. But, you know, a lot of the patients that were considered non-emergent or elective a month ago, those cases are starting to get to a point where they're becoming urgent and more emergent in nature. So the 11th is when we're hoping to resume. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I really appreciate you bringing up that fact that the procedures -- I've listened regularly to the administrators from Lee Health and NCH. They have a phone call every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and they talk regularly about the procedures that have, in fact, been put in place to provide April 28, 2020 Page 44 for safe conditions for folks that truly need medical assistance, and the increase in those that have avoided it for fear has been somewhat problematic for them. I have a couple of questions, if I may. How many total beds does Physicians Regional have available? MR. LOWE: We've got 105 licensed beds at Pine Ridge, 100 beds at the Collier facility. But we're able to -- obviously, during season we have a surge plan in place. So we're able to go to about 260 beds across both campuses. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And you've got about how many available right now? MR. LOWE: Let's see. We're only at about 70 percent occupancy, so we could add about 60 or 70 patients. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And ICU beds total? MR. LOWE: Currently we've got -- let's see -- 12 and 18. So we're only using six. We're only at about 25 percent occupancy in our ICU. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Total -- and I listened to these phone calls, and you folks all deal in those percentages, but I deal in numbers. I got 210 beds, and then I hear about 30 ICU beds with six that are currently occupied? Is that what I heard? MR. LOWE: Yes. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. And that means we've got 24 available. MR. LOWE: That's correct. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And ventilators, you've got a total, actual ventilators, of 30, and seven are being used right now? MR. LOWE: Six are being -- no, I'm sorry. What did I say? Yeah, six patients currently ventilated. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Got it. That was what I was -- those are the hard numbers, and I share -- those numbers make -- April 28, 2020 Page 45 those numbers resonate with me. MR. LOWE: Absolutely. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So I appreciate you sharing that with me. MR. LOWE: No problem. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. If no one else has any questions, I want to get back to the elective surgeries just real quickly. If the Governor rescinds that part of the order saying that elective surgeries will take place before May 8th, would you be prepared to start more quickly than that? MR. LOWE: I believe we would. And, again, we're going to take a methodical approach to it to make sure that we can safely do the cases that we need to do. But, you know, again, if he were to lift it today and try and start tomorrow, no. But if you were to lift it today and say we can start sometime next week, we would be prepared. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think if it's lifted, it's gong to be when you're prepared to start. MR. LOWE: Absolutely, yeah. I think that's (unintelligible) is everything. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And the only reason I point that out is I think that it may be worthwhile, given some consideration, that this could be lifted sooner than May 8th. MR. LOWE: Sure. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Because there's a lot of pressure to begin those elective procedures, and rightfully so. All right. MR. LOWE: And we're preparing and hoping for that, to be honest with you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Thank you. MR. LOWE: Yeah, absolutely. Appreciate it. April 28, 2020 Page 46 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I see that we have a gentleman here. I use that term somewhat loosely, but we have a gentleman here from NCH. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. We have Mr. Phil Dutcher, the chief operating officer with the NCH Healthcare System. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And, Mr. Dutcher, I want -- just part of your comments, the same question concerning elective procedures. I think we're ready to open those up as quickly as possible. I know the Governor is. That's not our decision, but I'm hoping that the Governor will do that. And I want to hear your comments whether you're prepared to begin those types of procedures prior to May 8th. MR. DUTCHER: Certainly. Mr. Chairman, members of the County Commission, County Manager, my name's Phil Dutcher. I'm the Chief Operating Officer for the NCH Healthcare System. And it's a pleasure to come this afternoon -- or this morning to come and brief you on the status of NCH in this COVID-19 pandemic. To answer your question immediately, Chairman Saunders, we are preparing to do elective surgery, as Physicians Regional is, once the Governor's executive order expires. Right now we're planning on starting on Friday and Saturday the 8th and 9th to phase. And it will be a controlled admission of elective cases. We're already identifying a couple of physicians and testing their patients ahead of time to get ready for those -- that opening, and then Monday, the 11th, we'll probably go full open with our elective surgery program. So that's kind of our plan right now. I'd have to echo Scott's comments. You know, the nurses, the techs, the respiratory therapists, the physicians throughout the entire community have just done a tremendous job in addressing this very, very tragic pandemic. And, you know, my special thanks go out to all the people at all of our hospitals for what they've really done to April 28, 2020 Page 47 step up. In fairness to our representative, Stephanie, from the Health Department, this is a very complex issue. And I'll make sure, and I know we'll talk with Scott and his team, that the appropriate information, facts get to the Health Department so we're dealing with facts. And if we've in any way contributed to the uncertainty there, we certainly apologize. No harm meant. But we'll make sure that the facts get communicated to the Health Department so you're getting accurate information on a regular basis. Currently, NCH has tested -- or has treated 350 COVID-positive patients. So 350 have come and been treated in our hospitals. We have test 31 -- a little over 3,100. So almost 10 percent of those tested have been actually positive and been treated. We have, on the good news side, Dr. Fiala -- or, Commissioner Fiala, we have discharged 92 COVID-positive patients back to their homes, and the Health Department now is following up with -- they're ongoing, but we don't hear any bad things. So 92 have been discharged and safely back to their own homes. Twenty-five percent of our positive patients are admitted to the hospital. So as we test 3,000, about 25 percent of that come into the hospital. Of that 25 percent, 35 percent end up in our critical care. I know I'm confusing you with some percentages there, but I think the key there is that these are sick patients and, for the most part, as you've heard on a lot of the national and local news, these patients have a lot of complications. It's not just COVID-19. It is a lot of comorbidities and complications that these patients have. Frankly, we've had, I think, eight deaths at NCH, and I think 90 -- I think seven out of the eight, if not all eight, in the end were DNR patients. I mean, the family just said, you know, it's not -- they weren't worth -- well, I've got to make my words correctly here. The effort to continue with their treatment just, you know, didn't make a April 28, 2020 Page 48 lot of sense to the family, but -- so anyway... We have -- we're testing on an average of 115 tests a day. We're doing not only tests on our patients in the hospital, but also on our drive-through, and also we have one of our physician offices at Eagle View that is testing for COVID. So about 115 tests a day. In terms of the hospital's capacity, we're only at about 60 percent capacity in the hospital. We have noticed over the last week a couple of days census starting to creep up a little bit. But we're sort of at summertime, off-season census. So in terms of capacity, we really are pretty well off in terms of capacity. PPE equipment, we've charged our supply chain management team with making sure that we have ample supply of PPE equipment knowing that once we get to a point where we do go back to opening up and getting back to whatever will be normal in the future, we'll need a lot of PPE equipment. I mean, we're going to treat -- as we talked about elective surgery. Frankly, we're going to treat every patient that comes in elective surgery COVID -- potential COVID-positive patient. So all of staff will be in PPE equipment and making sure that we're taking all the precautions. We're very proud of the fact that we've had one employee that was exposed to a COVID patient unknowingly. It was a patient that came in from a nursing home, long-term-care facility. Did not in with COVID symptoms. Came in with heart issues. Didn't see any reason -- was asymptomatic. Didn't test him. Finally, on a discharge, the long-term-care facilities are now requiring us to positively -- or test each patient that we discharge back, we found that the individual was positive. And we had one employee. So we're very, very proud of the fact that our employees have really adopted our PPE policies and procedures, and we haven't had a lot of problems with our own employees. Ventilators. So the ventilator situation. Let me try to do some April 28, 2020 Page 49 clarification. We have about, as Mr. Hiltz, I know, has communicated with you, Commissioner McDaniel, we have about 160 ventilators. We have the ability to expand that up to about 183, because anesthesia machines can be converted to ventilators when you absolutely need them. And we'd have to take them out of service for treating surgical patients and things like that. But if you absolutely needed them, we could expand that to another 23. But, frankly, we have ample ventilator capacity at NCH today to take care of, really, any type of an increase in patient volume that would need that. In terms of beds, we have about 50 ICU. I'm trying to think. Downtown plus the North Naples campus, we have about 50 ICU beds. We have the ability and have gone forward and converted about 25 more rooms to be negative -- negative airflow, which is what you need for this type of isolation treatment. So we've gone ahead and converted about 25 other rooms in both the campuses. So, again, pretty set and think we're pretty comfortable with the amount of ICU negative-pressure rooms that we would need to see any type of a surge at our institution. In terms of antibody testing -- I'm going to get into a little slippery -- slippery territory here, but NCH has acquired, has ordered a piece of equipment that will do and is one of the few that are approved for antibody testing and will be here, we think, near the end of May. We'll get it hooked up, get it tested. Probably early June we'll start doing antibody testing. I do have with me Dr. David Lindner, our medical director for critical care and pulmonary medicine and has been our medical director for the whole COVID-19 effort at NCH, with me; probably could answer more technically any more questions you have regarding that. But our view is that antibody testing is not the silver bullet. April 28, 2020 Page 50 Clearly, we need to continue to test the positive testing for COVID-19 as well as be anti-testing. So we don't view it as either/or. It is a combination of testing both for the positive anti -- or positive COVID virus as well as the antibody. And so that's kind of our strategy is to try to be a comprehensive way of doing that. We think that the antibody testing will, in fact, help the community. It's our intent to provide that. We'll be able to do, when it's up and running, almost 3,000 tests a day. The one machine is going to do a thousand. We have our Semens in our lab should be ready by the end of May to test for antibodies as well. Semens is coming out with a new test that we think is going to be accepted and approved. So about 3,000 antibody tests per day. And it's our intent to do as much antibody testing for the community as we possibly can to help get things back in order. But, again, I want to caution, it is not an either/or. It is a combination of testing. So with that, I'll be glad to answer any questions you have, or if it gets too technical, I'm going to refer to my doctor friend, Dr. Lindner. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. And mine's not technical at all. It's just, you administrators deal in percentages, and I deal in real numbers. How many beds does NCH have available in aggregate? MR. DUTCHER: Seven hundred fifty licensed beds. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And how many are available right now? MR. DUTCHER: We're -- our bed census this morning was 385. So 330 beds. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Plus or minus. April 28, 2020 Page 51 MR. DUTCHER: Yep. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And those are numbers, sir, that I was looking at. When I was speaking with Paul yesterday, he continually talks about these percentages, but a lot of folks, if you don't know the top number, a percentage is virtually valueless, at least to me. And as far as ICU beds goes, you currently have available 49 and can take that up to how many more? MR. DUTCHER: About 75. As a matter of fact, we've already done that. We have converted another 25 beds to negative-pressure rooms. So if we needed them for COVID-positive patients, we could use them at a moment's notice. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And approximately how many ICU beds are being occupied right now? MR. DUTCHER: About 50 percent of our ICU beds. So 50 -- about 25 patients right now in the ICU. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Those are just real numbers for me. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Two things: Pass on to your staff and the nurses and everybody how much we really appreciate all the efforts that you guys have made on our behalf. You mentioned Dr. Lindner. Did you want Dr. Lindner to answer -- or to make some statements or just -- because we want to get you medical folks out of here as quickly as possible. MR. DUTCHER: Sure, sure. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Dr. Lindner. DR. LINDNER: I'll leave on since I was in patient rooms this morning with that. First off, Mr. Chairman, members of the commission, I think a couple things I can bring before you in entertaining questions. I can bring a little clarity with that. I know where she got her number, and April 28, 2020 Page 52 she was correct and you were correct, both, with that. There are 76 first-line vents available, so that's where she got that number. Those are our traditional vents with that. Further clarifying the numbers that -- you know, that Mr. Dutcher just said. Thirty-five noninvasive vents can be utilized as ventilators. We have -- we received between 10 to 15 ventilators from the state. We have 35 disposable vents in that number. That means those are one-time ventilators that could be utilized. And as he said, there's around 20 to 23 anesthesia machines that can be converted to ventilators. The only caveat on that number is that any anesthesia machine that is utilized as a ventilator has to be accompanied by a staff member, a CRNA who runs it. Those are not ventilators that you can set and forget like the other ventilators. So I hope that helps with that. And then, obviously, in -- there has been numerous statements and -- with that. We do have the technology to, I'm going to use the term, piggyback two people on a ventilator. We all recognize that every major medical society has recommended against doing that. Albeit, I do know and have personally contacted and discussed with individuals in New York who have done it because they had to. And so we have that technology to expand. However, I would also comment the vents are less of the issue right now. When we started this pandemic -- and this came out of Seattle, the people who were taking care of the cases there discussed intubating people early. The paradigm has absolutely switched. Our paradigm now is to intubate people only at the last resort, and that has changed totally, and that was because we were told to avoid the noninvasive and aerosolization of this, and now we have learned how to use input and output viral filters. And so we are doing the exact opposite. And I am, basically, only doing it as a last resort. So I don't think ventilators are going to be our issue. I concur with her April 28, 2020 Page 53 with that. And, basically, I think that the main reason that Mr. Hiltz asked me is I also agree with her statement. This is not a -- antibody testing is not a passport to immunity. I think that where things are really confusing here is you have to understand that, basically, we're going to have two tests that are going to be vitally important to the management, opening up our community, which is something I think everyone, I mean, is absolutely wanting to do. First of all, you have to understand the PCR tests, the swab that you hear about, it detects -- this virus is an RNA virus, so it detects part of that RNA, okay. So it's like -- basically, when I swab and you send it to the lab, it detects a piece of the virus, okay. She was not trying to be vague, okay. She was -- with that. The problem is, it can detect live virus. It can detect dead virus. So it can tell you that there is virus present, okay. The problem we all know is that now we have patients who have recovered and I swab them, and I can still detect virus. That means there is pieces of it left. Antibody testing, okay -- antibody testing will absolutely tell you whether you've been exposed. Absolutely. That has been proven. We're four months into something, depending on who you want to believe when it started. We're four months into this pandemic and, basically, we know that there are antibodies right now. My caveat to, yes, you can order it, but you have to make sure that the antibody test you're ordering has actually been approved. The FDA took unprecedented steps to approve non -- basically non-documented or non -- basically fully vetted testing, okay. When Mr. Dutcher stated that we've purchased antibody testing that has now been validated, yes, that is true. And so that is a real big problem. And right now we know that you can do tests for a total virus -- April 28, 2020 Page 54 or I'm sorry -- total antibody, okay, and that includes -- and I'm going to be -- have to be more technical here -- what's called an IGG and an IGM, okay. The IGM raises first and can indicate a person may still have active disease. IGG is what we hope will mean immunity. Can I stand up here or anyone stand up here and say that you -- that we can prove that you have immunity? At this stage, four months into a virus, no, there is no conclusive evidence that the SARS-CoV-2, that -- you know, we have antibodies that show that you are immune. We're four months into this. What evidence is there? We know -- and there is good evidence in some animal literature, and that's mainly in primates that there may be some immunity. That has been demonstrated and vetted. All the rest of our evidence comes from two things. In the 1990s we did extensive testing on coronavirus, seasonal. That's what the vast majority of us have probably already had. I can definitely say I had it. I'm a medical professional. We know that that immunity maybe lasted one to three years depending on the fact that the virus did not mutate. Again, hence why she says, well, yes, maybe okay. Because, remember, the virus likes to go around the world, and it likes to change a little bit. We also know from SARs and MERS, okay, which were in China and Hong Kong, that those people, especially healthcare workers, were exhaustively evaluated for antibodies, okay. Some of those people still have antibodies, good IGG neutralizing antibodies. SARs and MERS are very close relatives of COVID, right? So we're making some assessments. My institution just plopped down a very large check for antibody testing based upon what I just said. We believe that we're going to have that data. She is very correct in saying we do not have that data yet. For us to -- you know, so we have to be cautious on how we act even though what we are doing April 28, 2020 Page 55 seems very, very appropriate. As to the testing, my comment, and the thing I look at as the medical director of COVID, is not -- I agree, our numbers are going to continue to increase. Why? We're going to find more patients. We know that. I mean, I've seen estimates that there may be up to 10 percent of our population right now in this county who could have this disease and we don't even know it, okay. And if we were able to test -- and, yes, how much more testing do we need? Probably, you know, about 20 to 30 times more testing than we have. I mean, obviously, if I could, I'd test everyone. I mean, that's easy; however, basically, the key number to look at is the percentage of tests that are positive to the number of tests done. That's that number that she was quoting. And so if you look at that, we have statistically stayed the same. Every community that's surged, the number, that percentage has grown. So if we go from 10 to 11 percent to 14, 15, most of the communities that have gone into pandemic surge, their test-positive to test-total ratio went greater than 15 percent. We've -- every so often I see a day or two where our percentage goes up and, basically, we all kind of -- I grab the side of the rail and I get worried, okay. I can only say over the last few days several of us, including my ER colleagues and I, have noted a slight little increase. And so while the 14-day total that was actually showed, the last few days we have seen a slight uptick in the percentage of patients, okay. And is that real? Is that something? Only the next few days will tell. However, I will remind everyone that when we instituted the social distancing which, by the way, has worked, obviously -- I don't think there's a place in the world from Italy, you know, to definitely South Korea, you know, Singapore where you can see that the mitigation efforts have not been successful. So I do congratulate the April 28, 2020 Page 56 community on doing that. As hard as it is, it's worked. I think we need to be very cautious, because many of our predictive models suggested the next two-week period of time was going to be the time period that we were going to follow the East Coast. So if we see the numbers tick up, then we'll know that -- when we're doing that, if we see the numbers not go up, I think we can start making some discussions. I would agree with her in my medical opinion that we have not reached the gating criteria as of yet, though we're better. And then finally I will say that basically, yes, we are making preparations to open back up. I will note that the CMS guidelines that just came out suggested that the hospitals -- and I know that all of the hospitals in this area are doing this -- establish what we call NCC or non-COVID care areas of the hospital. We have already done that. I'm sure that all the other institutions have as well, and that means that it is safe to be there because, basically, patients in the future are going to be segregated to COVID, non-COVID, and that is -- and the staff like myself will continue to live in a mask and gowns and gloves for the foreseeable time until herd immunity and/or a vaccine is available. I had made those notes based upon some of the things that were just discussed. I hope maybe I helped bring a little bit of clarity to a few of the things. If -- and I know my specific role here today was supposed to be, or at least Mr. Hiltz asked me to comment on the antibody testing. I hope that has helped. And if there are any questions, I'd be glad to entertain them. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: There are some questions, and your comments have been very, very helpful. Thank you. Commissioner Solis, you were on the first -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Just a quick question. And I want April 28, 2020 Page 57 to make sure that I understand and anybody watching understands, too, that the availability of the anesthesia ventilators is kind of a double-edged sword in that if -- they're available, but if you use them for COVID patients, then they're not available for other patients that need a ventilator because they need emergency surgery or something like that. And so -- I mean, my understanding is is that in the places where, you know, ventilators became an issue, that that created another issue in the sense that then patients, not even COVID-related patients, couldn't be treated, and they had to go somewhere else. I mean, is that a fair assessment of the significance of having to use those? DR. LINDNER: Yes. And we work through predictive models based upon the number of patients that we would have, the number of patients who would go to the ICU, and the number of patients that may need to be intubated. And, basically, our census would have to -- you know, our census would have to get, and our pandemic model, well over 500 before we start getting into any of the other alternatives of disposable vents or that. When we get to -- if we got to 700 patients and if we start to have to expand beyond that, that's when we would have had to use the anesthesia machines. So at this point in time, because of the social distancing and mitigation, I don't personally see that happening. But you are correct in your assessment of the double-edged sword. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. Thank you. And thanks for everything that you're doing for the community as well. DR. LINDNER: You're welcome. We have a fabulous team. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And, again, I agree with Commissioner Solis. Thank you for all that you're doing for us. April 28, 2020 Page 58 Do you have any idea or basis of percentage with regard to those who have been tested that potentially or were asymptomatic, or has the testing been strictly confined to those that are symptomatic? DR. LINDNER: The percentage of asymptomatic carriers, which is something that is really important, has varied based upon the geographic area and the level of disease. So that's going to be a very difficult number that the asymptomatic carriers in one community versus if we went to New York and looked at the asymptomatic carriers in Manhattan, for instance, or the Bronx, it would be a very different number because there was a much higher disease penetrance with that. We know that the vast majority of the data now suggests that each COVID patient infects maybe three, maybe four patients. That's called a row. That number will be established for this disease only with time. So the problem is is that until we have antibody testing -- and one of the reasons we want to do this is we will then be able to establish for Collier County what is our asymptomatic carrier rate, because antibody testing will absolutely document exposure. I mean, that part of the equation I do not have to -- that part's been proven. So that part we know antibody testing will do. When we can start to do that, we will start to have an understanding of what our asymptomatic carrier rate is. We know it exists. We just don't know the number. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And one more quick question. Will 100 percent of the people that are exposed to this virus actually contract it, or if there is a sufficient immune system there to ward it off or circumstances that are there, would the antigen test prove that the exposure was there, or are there those that aren't going to test positive for either? DR. LINDNER: Okay. I think you just asked three questions, and I'm going to try to see if I can make sure I get them. April 28, 2020 Page 59 COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: You did. DR. LINDNER: First, 100 percent of the people will not become symptomatic, okay. So if you are exposed to it, there will be people who will have COVID, and they are going to be asymptomatic. I think what you're really asking, is that person contagious? There is evidence that for some of those people, they are definitely contagious, okay. Those are the asymptomatic carriers. And the real problem is is that there is a period of time between you contracting the virus and symptoms in which all patients have no symptoms but yet they shed the virus, and so they are contagious, and they can pass it on. So I think that's the first question you asked, does 100 percent of people, you know, become symptomatic. Do we understand why a certain individual develops more problem than others? That information is still coming. We don't know. We definitely know that there seems to be age. We know that there seems to be disease states that have greater risk for it. And those -- the risk factors for this are still evolving. I could list off some things that would probably make some people nervous, other people not, but none of that has been proven either, so I'm going to refrain from listing things that I can't prove. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And I wasn't asking you to go there, and maybe -- and, apparently, I wasn't as clear. I guess my question was, if -- will 100 percent of the people that are exposed to the virus contract it? That was, I thought, what I was asking in the first question. DR. LINDNER: And that answer is no, because we already know that. We have had staff at all three hospitals. We've had staff at extended-care facilities. Her staff has definitely been exposed. I mean -- and sometimes they may have been exposed with or without appropriate, you know, PPE on. And we have people who have not April 28, 2020 Page 60 contracted -- who have not contracted it. So mere exposure does not mean that you will get the virus. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And so then -- and that was where my brain was working with regard to an immune system that was there that could ward it off. You wouldn't necessarily be symptomatic and/or produce the antigens. DR. LINDNER: I cannot answer whether it's your immune system or the fact that, Mr. McDaniel, you and I both wear glasses. The likelihood of us touching our face is much greater than all the individuals up there who do not have glasses on. So, you know, there are many things that would lead from an exposure to a greater -- you know, a greater chance of you contacting the actual symptomatic COVID or actually having the virus do its job. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah. Just a couple of questions. The antibody test can test positive for antibodies, but the antibodies don't have to be the coronavirus; is that correct? DR. LINDNER: Okay. That's an excellent question. Many of the initial antibody tests that were offered and we actually looked into were coronavirus antibody tests. So you are correct that they cross-reacted to the other coronaviruses. SARS, MERS, which, you know, we do not have with that, but seasonal coronavirus, correct. The antibody testing that we purchased and that the people are -- both Semens as well as Ortho Diagnostics have is specific to COVID-19 and does not cross-react. The data is excellent on that. And so the antibody testing that is offered is specific to COVID-19. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. And then a final question, and it's a Miami. You did mention it. And you said, what -- and I think your reference was what's going on in Miami, so I'm going to ask you a question. What is going on in Miami? Why April 28, 2020 Page 61 are they so high? What's going on that they can't seem to handle it, and what's your prediction over there? DR. LINDNER: Well, there's multiple things that have gone on there. First, from a standpoint, I think, that is something that is germane for the commissioners is that if you note the positive-test to total-test ratio in Miami-Dade, Broward, and those counties, I think I saw at one point in time 18 to 20 percent compared to our around 10 to 11. So that's the first number that shows what's going on over there. And you can correlate our numbers to their numbers, okay. That percentage has been valid. New York City went up to 40 percent. So that is the first thing. Secondly, in an urban environment such as that where people are in very close contact and were exposed to the disease before they became symptomatic, that person had that maybe five-day period of time where they were shedding the virus even though they had no symptoms, before they became symptomatic, and they had contact with people, all right. That's -- that's why it spread: Much more densely populated area than here, and also an area where many people spent more time in close contact in a closed environment. Collier County, our population likes to be outside. We like to eat outside. We -- you know, our close contact was much less. And I think that what happened is we did not get the ball rolling, so to speak, and then we instituted this social distancing mitigation that worked. So I think the difference is is the ball got rolling there. They had a lot more travel related initially because of the cruise ship lines and all the other things that came in with that. I was concerned. I thought our risk factors in Collier County were much greater because of our elderly population. But it got rolling there. Every place you've seen it get rolling it, it just -- it goes. And the only avenue we had was to try to shut it down, which you-all did by social mitigation. April 28, 2020 Page 62 COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you very much. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Thank you, sir. Mr. Ochs, we need to take a short break. Why don't we come back at five minutes after 11:00. Seven minutes. Come back at five after 11:00. Those of you in the room, if you want to stay in the room, that's fine. And we'll be back in -- we'll be back in seven minutes. (A brief recess was had.) MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, you have a live mic. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, if you'd please take your seats. We're about to begin. MR. OCHS: Commissioners, we move now to the Emergency Services component of today's briefing. I'll begin this morning with Sheriff Rambosk to give a quick briefing on law enforcement activities related to the pandemic. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Good morning. SHERIFF RAMBOSK: Good morning, Chairman, members of the Board. I will be brief. Just a couple of things. I do also want to recognize everyone on the front line from the doctors to the nurses to the Health Department to our first responders, fire rescue, EMS, and deputies who are going into situations each and every day and night not knowing what they're going into and with the potential of being exposed. We actually had two of our deputies that were found to be positive. They are actually back online. They are doing well. Originally, in my earlier updates, I let you know that we had approximately 60 people that were quarantining, self-quarantining for some reason, either travel and/or exposure, potential exposure. We are down to about four to six people right now. And I tell you that and the community to reassure everyone that we virtually have a full complement of staff both in the support function and in the street. April 28, 2020 Page 63 The other more important updates is that we continue to have great compliance from the community with regard to the existing orders. We all know that those orders are about to expire and, more importantly, we've found people want to do the right thing as opposed to being told to do the right thing. I think that's going to become critical as we move forward to allow us to move forward and do it more safely than not. Our boat traffic, we've had a number of complaints there from boat ramps. This particular weekend it was not as bad mainly because of the weather. I understand that Miami has opened their boat ramps effective Wednesday. We believe that that will lessen the impact to our eastern part of the county. So that is one of the complaints we had been dealing with. I will tell you that we had been doing enforcement on land with that for parking. We were doing marine enforcement and regulation along with the Coast Guard and FWC. And, you know, if you think about regulations or not, boats have a particular capacity for safe operation. Most of them are less than what the order requires. So if you're operating safely on a vessel, you would be in compliance anyway. And if you're not, we're going to tell you you're not operating safely. But from a marine perspective -- and we're going to cite where necessary, and we have been doing that. We have had support from FWC, particularly with the barrier islands, and we will continue to have that. The -- a couple of things that are -- we thought were important. Traffic counts over the last two weeks are up 25 percent prior -- to the two weeks prior to that. So we know, and if you've been on the roads, you've seen that increase in traffic. We're not back to where we were for normal. Our 911 calls are up 10 percent compared to where we were a couple of weeks ago, but we're actually still down for this time of the April 28, 2020 Page 64 year that -- what would be normal. So not a concern about where we're going there. Traffic crashes are down about 50 percent. That's a good thing. They will go up as traffic goes up. That's just the way it's going to be. Domestic violence calls, although we don't endorse any domestic violence call, they are, on average, in par with what normal reporting incidents are. We've had some disturbance calls, so that's other than domestic violence. That's been pretty consistent. On a weekend or weekend evening, we've had a blip here and there but, again, nothing outside or well outside of the norm that I would raise a concern to you about. I think with all that in mind, we have had in place for the last several weeks an anticrime team, because that's what you and our community expect, and certainly our business owners who are not operating at this point, to make sure that their businesses are safe. They're patrolled 24/7. We had our official crime statistics published last week by the State of Florida. We continue to remain at the lowest crime rate since 1971 officially. That's important. What's more important is that year to date we are down 3 to 5 percent below that number. Now, that will change by the end of the year, but particularly looking at the time frame that we are in, we have been working together as a community to hold the line on increasing crime. But it's still a concern as we move forward. We've got a strong plan to do that, and we are here to help facilitate the re-opening of Collier County. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: That's great. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. I don't see any -- oh, Mr. Solis. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Sheriff, thank you and to everyone at the Sheriff's Department for doing what they're doing. April 28, 2020 Page 65 Just curious as to -- one of the things that we've heard a concern about is that this shelter-in-place requirement is going to create an uptick in mental-health related calls. Do you have any data on those kinds of calls? SHERIFF RAMBOSK: I don't have any specific data. I can tell you that we have had a couple of incidents where we have had mental-health issues that have escalated into barricaded subjects or suicidal subjects, but not so far out of the norm at this point that it would cause us more of a problem. We continue to be working with the David Lawrence Center on a regular basis. So we continue to do everything we do as normal, but we've not seen a huge significant spike in calls to us for that. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Great. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Thank you for your -- and thank you for all your men and women that are out there protecting us. Mr. Summers, if you could be relatively brief. I know you've got a lot of material here, and I think we've all gone through it. But there's some decisions that we're going to have to make as a board here today, and so I want to try to get to that as quick as possible, and we also have, obviously, some public comment, so... MR. SUMMERS: Commissioners, good morning. For the record, Dan Summers, director of Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services and Emergency Management. I just want to highlight a couple of things, quickly. Thank you. Again, our core mission here has been to continue to support in our unified command component with DOH and the Sheriff's Department. You will see there some of our mission requests that we've made to the state. And I have to tell you, with all 67 counties being impacted, it's been a phenomenal job of the resource distribution under a very trying global challenge to supply chains. April 28, 2020 Page 66 We worked very closely with FEMA for some approvals for non-congregate sheltering. That has a 30-day time lapse on it, and I have to renew that every 30 days. The second component I would just share with you is that through our office and what we're referring to as single-portal delivery, I'm very proud of our logistics team and our entire small staff. We have distributed 282,000 pieces of protective equipment through our Emergency Operations Center with combined donations from the community and Department of Health; 285 supply pickups; eighty-some organizations have been supported; and we have processed resource requests within the community to the neighborhood of -- about 212 mission requests have been made into our EOC. We have also sort of become a backup in the food chain for some of our food banks, and I want to commend them for their hard work. I want to remind the public that our food banks still need their donations, and we are still having challenges there. The meals that we're able -- and resources we're able to provide from the state Emergency Operations Center are disaster-type palletized food. They're not normal retail food, but at this point something is better than nothing. So we have been delivering and working through the Health Department, working with the Sheriff's Office, our food banks, many community partners to bring hurricane-type supplies into the food banks, and we've worked very hard in that and also worked to support the homeless population as well we've been providing kits, as you see there, in large volume to some the food pantries like Marco Island that also supports Everglades City, Chokoloskee, Wounded Warriors, and I can't say enough about Dr. Patton's effort for school lunches. She's working to find opportunities to keep that going through any summer break as well as summer programs. Her effort has absolutely April 28, 2020 Page 67 been -- and her team has just been phenomenal with these close to approaching 200,000 meals. And for the first time, we've supported bulk ordering of pet food, and that was received in our facility today for distribution. We continue to support Saint Matthews House periodically as we can. Let me move on; just a couple other bullets here real quick. As you've already talked to the hospitals, we've not exceeded any medical surge capacity. Medical surge was what was keeping me up at night in terms of remote resources that might be needed, and we're very blessed not to be in that scenario. PPE is a big challenge internationally, and we really are trying to get a 10-day PPE inventory established countywide that is a benchmark for the state. We are nowhere close to being able to provide yet a 10-day inventory based on current burn rate. And as the Sheriff mentioned again, we're very blessed not to have any other impact on public safety workforce. Just a few summary items. We're still working with the Florida Natural Guard and the Florida Division of Emergency Management for some random sampling in high-risk areas. Immokalee is one of those. Those plans are still ongoing, and it is challenging because, again, supplies and material that are expected are not showing up on time. And that's just the world that we live in. And we don't want to make any commitments till we have 100 percent visibility on the supplies and resources necessary to do that. The state is also looking, as was mentioned earlier today, at some state-driven mass testing. That, too, is running into some roadblocks with planning in terms of staffing and location and testing media. That's still being worked on. And as I mentioned, we're in the final stages of some further logistical planning for non-congregate sheltering. That's a new term. Our new acronym there is NCS, April 28, 2020 Page 68 non-congregate sheltering. I can't say enough about the partnerships. I can't say enough about the community's support. Our team has been working on calls literally around the clock. I want to thank our Human Services group as well. Commissioner McDaniel, you've been on the calls with Immokalee to make sure that we're providing all the information, not necessarily all the information they like to hear, but being 100 percent transparent with all of our nonprofit partners countywide. But, again, everybody's working hard and, I think, has good visibility on the challenges that we have, and thank you all for the continued support, and that's all I have unless you have questions. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And thank you, Dan. And I appreciate the efforts that are going on across the community. There are areas in our community that have different circumstances, and, of course, Immokalee is a very unique circumstance with our community there and people having a difficult time just meeting the criterion of social distancing and so on and so forth. And it's been -- it's been very transparent, as you said. It was a very -- it was a very, very good effort that has been done for our community. The question that I had for you had -- and I feel similarly, that I stayed awake a lot at night with regard to the predictive models and the medical surge that were going to be put upon us. And it seems to be, without getting too far ahead, that the Governor's orders and such are going to get amended at some stage. How long would it take for additional medical facilities to be brought here in the event that -- in the event that the necessity arose? How long would it take for one of those field hospitals to, in fact, be set up? April 28, 2020 Page 69 MR. SUMMERS: Let me talk about that, and let me backtrack on the answer just a little bit. First of all, the very last thing we want to do, because of our climate, the upcoming rainy season, is to go into a field hospital environment. It seems to be the first thing that you want to reach for. But the hospitals have done all the right thing in terms of building capacity within bricks and mortar. That's what you want to do, and that's the first component; expand your existing because of our climate. The second thing that we need to remember is that we can do medical treatment on a regional basis. We've got bed capacity in Lee, so we don't want to turn down beds in Lee, or we may reciprocate. Maybe we might help Lee County with the surge. So, again, maintaining that concept under what I term as bricks and mortar. The third component is that the state has made provisions for field hospitals, in this case, an absolute tent, which is not my preference, but at least the equipment that goes in it we can find in a covered space. The state is strategically staging some of those resources in that they are not -- they are still in the box, meaning they have not been unpacked; they have not deployed as demand continues to change. And then the other reason that the field hospital is a challenge is that any time you go off site of existing bricks and mortar, you've got to come up with staffing, and that staffing is almost impossible at this point to come up with. So if you do field hospital or you expand capacity, you want to stay on these hospital campuses so that you can maximize the existing level of personnel. So it is a contingency. It's a little further down the list, because I want to keep us, especially going into the summer, within that bricks and mortar, keep that manpower, and let the hospitals build that April 28, 2020 Page 70 efficiency internally. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you, Mr. Summers. MR. SUMMERS: Thank you, all. Mr. Ochs. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. We move on to the briefing on our local business conditions and assistance assessment. Mr. Michael Dalby for the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce will begin the briefing. MR. DALBY: Good morning, Commissioners. Good to be here. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Good morning. MR. DALBY: Let me just start with since the beginning of -- well, really the last of March, we've been reaching out to businesses and employers all across Collier County and trying to get a feel for what's going on with them, one-on-one conversations with them about what they're seeing and what's happening. Obviously, many businesses impacted by this, seeing employee layoffs, furloughs, cutbacks. We estimate that about 70 percent of our members have had some kind of major negative effect that's happened to them. Maybe they're still operating but only operating at maybe 10 percent of the revenue they would normally have, or they're not operating at all. They're temporarily closed, and they don't want to say they're completely closed because they intend to come back. And we've seen very few that have completely closed, but we know that the vast majority are impacted, particularly in three areas of our economy: Hospitality. That industry has been heavily impacted; restaurants, hotels, retail, and personal services. Each one of those areas they practically can't do their work. Kind of the scale here goes, the smaller the business, the more the economic impact, and also the more of the customer interaction of the business, the more impact that this has had in terms of shutting down. Most of these businesses have applied for one of the government programs, the PPP or the EIDL. Very -- a number of them have April 28, 2020 Page 71 received information they've been approved, but few of them have actually gotten the money. So it's kind of a half and half on there. The businesses very much want to open, but they also want to make sure that we do it right. There are industries that are already starting to put out their own kind of industry guidelines as to how to open in a safe and healthy way. And everybody's waiting for, essentially, the Governor's statement of, okay, here's where the general guidelines are and then trying to work through those guidelines. Some businesses -- and I had a slide somewhere there, but -- don't worry, it's okay. Is it -- do I touch it? All right. There you go. Okay. And I'm going to correct this because there's 30 and -- or 70 and 37. I can do math. It should be 70 and 30. But you've got 70 percent of them impacted. Thirty-seven -- or 30 percent of the businesses are actually doing pretty well. And it's interesting to see the businesses that are hanging in there and doing well within our community, and I've listed some of those areas like financial services; legal services; IT. All kinds of IT support that everybody's using now because of acting remotely; manufacturing and construction, particularly infrastructure construction seeing some really strong activity. So there are some areas where things are going well. Those businesses it's interesting to look at because as we talk about not just recovery but reimagining our economy and looking at diversifying our economy, these are lessons that we can realize from looking at those businesses that have been least impacted by this. Fortunately, many of these businesses are some of our larger employers, particularly when we add in senior living facilities; large employers that are continuing to go forward there. As we transition to re-opening, we like to use the term "re-open and stay open." So it's not just what do you kind of do to get yourself April 28, 2020 Page 72 open, but what actions do we need to take ongoing to remain open, and if something flares up, that we're able to contain it. I think our statement has always been that health and safety comes first, not just because it's the right approach to take, but also we are an economy that relies a lot on visitors and guests, and we want to tell them that we are taking all the right measures to ensure health above all else. We also have a large percentage -- I think 33 percent of our population is over 65, so that puts -- in age, and that puts them over in that vulnerable category as well. Towards that end, you also want to re-open some of those other associated health entities that have -- sometimes it's called non -- you know, nonelective -- or elective surgeries and -- or elective procedures. Those are some of the areas that they have the things in place to be able to start to re-open, and I think that would help us just from an overall health standpoint. As I've said before, some employers are easier to open than others. Business-to-business companies or entities are easier to re-open, and sometimes they just need to have the right guidelines and directives. Think of it mostly as office-type work or work that's done within their business. They're not really interacting with the general public. Those are probably the easier ones to start with. The harder ones are the B to C or the business to consumer, where it's a little more challenging and yet at the same time, they're the ones who have been most heavily impacted. Some concerns raised by businesses that we're starting to hear as we have these re-opening conversations is, is acquiring personal protective equipment. So whether that's masks, the infrared thermometers, cleaning supplies, some businesses have found, as they go out and try to source these things, that it's either very hard to find or they're having to source them from sources that they're not really certain of the quality that they're going to get. And any help April 28, 2020 Page 73 that could be used in that area or provided in that area would be helpful. Legal parameters, that's been a question that's come up about a lot of legal factors as you start to re-open. And occupancy limits that impact a number of different things. Obviously, we have a large event part of our economy here in Collier County, and determining where those -- those congregation limits are at, which may start smaller and then kind of grow from there. And, lastly, as they reconstitute their workforce, the whole childcare issue is one that has continually been discussed. And it's -- you know, we're coming up on summer. School would not be in session, but that's also a time when we also would frequently have camps of various types that are working with kids. And a lot of childcare has obviously been closed down, and it just impacts a lot of our workforce to be able to get back fully into doing work and still deal with those childcare issues. So I will stop there, and if there's any questions, happy to answer them. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. There doesn't appear to be any questions. I want to thank you for your -- MR. DALBY: Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- and we're going to be, I'm sure, talking to you as Collier County opens up so -- MR. DALBY: Absolutely, and we want to help in any way that we can. We've got a great board of directors that can act as a task force towards these issues, and we're constantly getting information from our businesses, and we want to be whatever help we can. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you. Mr. Callahan, you've got quite a bit of material here, and I would ask you to go through that as quickly as possible in light of the April 28, 2020 Page 74 fact that we do have to begin to focus on the public comment as well as our decision making on several things and -- MR. CALLAHAN: Understood, sir, and I'll be as brief as possible and not belabor any points that Michael's already covered. I think he gave a great update on where most of the businesses in Collier County are at. For the record, Sean Callahan, executive director of corporate business operations. Just to briefly touch on this, you've heard that the hospitality sector is obviously the most hit. I do want to point out that we are real-time tracking. Most hotels are at under 10 percent occupancy. That's coming off record months in January and February, but we've been adjusting our TDT budgets accordingly for this year and the next. Over on the construction side, I talked -- spoke with Mr. French earlier. There's been no notable drop off in permitting thus far. And two highlights is that they've implemented a virtual inspections program that's working very well, and about 92 percent of permits are being issued electronically, where it was about 65 percent pre-COVID-19. And the regional coordination with our partner counties has been great. So many thanks to all of them. Our job with all the different federal resources and state resources that have become available is to provide as timely and accurate information as we can to the public. We've done that through our website. Anybody who's interested in hearing about it or learning more about these different programs that they might be able to take advantage of, please go to our website. There's two separate pages, one that sets up for resources for individuals and families and then one that's set up specifically for business resources that are available. We update that on a weekly basis through our staff. And I'll tell April 28, 2020 Page 75 you a little bit more about some of the different programs that have come. Reemployment assistance, a brief update on that for the Commission. I know that's been a source of frustration of many in the community is accessing that program and getting benefits paid out. It does appear that some of -- those benefits are being paid out exponentially at this point, although some folks are still having trouble with denials for that unemployment. We're working -- the state is working through problems for that. But I will point out that the DEO has a virtual dashboard much like you'll see on the health realm that shows the amount of reemployment assistance benefits that are being paid out. And just paid to claimants, over the last week, last Monday that was about $50 million. That's at about $500 million. So it appears that DEO is beginning to work on some of the issues that we've seen and actually be able to pay out some of those different claims for reemployment insurance. They did launch a county page last week that doesn't have as timely information as being updated, but hopefully we'll get to that in the future. For us to support that mission, I will point out that our libraries, which were previously closed, we've opened up seven locations, and we've allowed for folks to come in and pick up a paper application to be able to fill that out and apply for the program through the paper application. They've processed approximately 200,000 applications, paper, at DEO, and there are four FedEx locations that will mail those for free. DEO's hired and re-purposed about 2,000 workers to process those, and that's why you're seeing the flow of those start to come in. They processed about 400,000 claims over the weekend. And then our CareerSource Southwest Florida has about 50 staff April 28, 2020 Page 76 members that are available to help folks reset their pins that you'll need to access those employments. The Paycheck Protection Program, which has been a big subject of the news, I won't belabor the point, but I do want to point out that out of the first 349 billion that was appropriated by Congress for that program, approximately 18 billion has come or is coming currently to Florida. We've heard from several of our community lenders that they are starting to actually issue those payments to businesses. We spoke with one community banker last Friday that said he had issued or had in the pipeline of issuing approximately $100 million to businesses here in Collier County. So I do want to point that out. It's about 5 percent of the total funding that was available, and there has been more re-appropriated. The SBA economic assistance and bridge loans, I'll update this number live and on the spot. We just got new data. It's approximately about 540 billion and 2,900 loans that have come to Florida businesses, and that percentage of funding for Florida has stayed about the same. It's about 6.8 percent. The average payout being about $180,000 to businesses. Last Friday, President Trump signed the Paycheck Protection Program and Healthcare Enhancement Act, which is commonly being referred to as CARES 2. It's the second stimulus package. Re- appropriate another $310 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program. If we take the same percentage that we got in the first tranche of that funding, we should see approximately another $16 billion coming to the state of Florida which, through that program, would be about $34 billion that's going to be coming into our economy or has already come into our economy. Additional $10 billion for the Economic Injury Disaster Assistance grants in loans that are available through the SBA, and another 50 billion for SBA disaster loan program, as well as April 28, 2020 Page 77 allocating a separate 100 billion through the Department of Health and Human Services that covers about 75 billion in reimbursable expenses for hotels for COVID-related expenses or lost revenues and sets aside 25 billion for COVID-19 testing. So I will tell you that the Paycheck Protection Program did open up again yesterday, two new applications, at 10:30 a.m. They're overwhelmed, and it's looking like it's going to be oversubscribed again very quickly. But like I said, some of that funding is obviously going to come here to Florida. Locally, working with Commissioner Taylor and some of our folks in the community, we did stand up a group to talk about the potential economic task force that could be implemented to out -- reach out to the community, be able to help us allocate some of the different funding that is available. You see some of the members there; discussing with them on the potential establishment of one of these task forces. They opined on Friday that they would like to be part of any bigger effort that's here to open the county. We do have some different CDBG funding that's been allocated. You'll see this week we are standing up, through the United Way, a rental assistance program using some CDBG funds that have become available as a result of COVID-19 and also some flexibility on different housing funds that we have through our housing division that was given to us by HUD, and that will be through a partnership with the United Way in an electronic portal. And then staff is obviously monitoring all of these different federal and state programs and looking for ways that we can actively supplement or come up with creative ways to help local businesses. So I will breeze through that there, and I'll stop if anybody has any questions. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I'll have to say that that was very fast. You're very good at that. April 28, 2020 Page 78 Commissioner Fiala has a question. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. First of all, don't worry about it, because we don't have any place to go anyway. So when we leave here, what are we going to do? Go home. There's nothing else open, so you don't have to worry about talking so fast. We have nothing else to do anyway. First of all, the libraries open for business, you said, to give out these -- MR. CALLAHAN: Yes, ma'am. There are -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- applications. Are they also open for regular business? MR. CALLAHAN: They're not currently at this point in time. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Ah-ha. I thought I noticed you just referring to that one item that they are offering, okay. The second thing, you've mentioned the task force. I know a lot of people have applied for that. Do we then -- does the County Commission get to choose the people on that board? MR. CALLAHAN: Ma'am, I think you're going to discuss that, potentially, in the next segment. This was a smaller group of folks who really just gathered together to help us take the pulse of local businesses. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's one of the issues that we need to make some decisions on. That's why I wanted to get to that as quickly as we can. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay. Oh, we've got all afternoon. Don't worry. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a lot of people out here that are interested and maybe don't have all afternoon. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Ochs? April 28, 2020 Page 79 MR. OCHS: Thanks, Commissioners. I'll just conclude with a real quick summary of some of our county operations and their current status. Let me just begin by saying, obviously, then, the Board knows this, but for the public's benefit, your county government team, since the beginning of this event, has continued to provide all the essential services required to our residents and visitors. Our business has been conducted through, I'd say, a combination of some normal business operations and certainly modified work methods and schedules and some alternative delivery methods focusing on trying to limit our interactions with our front-facing departments and direct customer contact. This first page basically tells you that with the exception of your Public Services Department, most of your other county operations are continuing to function at or near 100 percent level of service through some method of service delivery, either direct or some modified method. When we get into your public services departments, these are your primary front -- front-facing county government services. So right now your city and county beaches, obviously, have been closed. Parks have been partially opened. Your boat ramps have been open throughout with the exception of Caxambas boat ramp, your trails have been continued to remain open, and all your parks and your Greenway's been open as well. Museums are closed. Libraries, the facilities have been closed. They've continued to do virtual programming and checking out books by curbside delivery and checkout. So there has been activity in your libraries, but the facilities themselves have been closed. Your Domestic Animal Services has moved to an adoption by appointment only; continued their enforcement in the field. And your transit operations have had limited availability. Your Veterans April 28, 2020 Page 80 Services continue to reach out to our veterans by appointment only, and that's worked very well, and your Community and Human Services continue to work at 100 percent. These next few slides, Commissioners -- and I'm not going to go through them, but the basic emphasis in these slides is that everything we're doing now is with the obvious primary goal of maintaining the health and safety of both your workforce and the public and the vendor community that we come in contact with. Your Human Resources and your Risk Management staff are continuing to do a thorough risk assessment of all the exposures that we have in our workplace and our employees may encounter in developing a number of mitigating measures that you'll see here in these next few slides to try to mitigate any exposure to the COVID-19 virus. And then, finally, what we really wanted to get to today, Commissioners, was a discussion on the potential for re-opening some of your services to the public. As you've been reading over the past week, the number of counties and cities have begun to open their public beaches and their beach parks. Talked with my counterpart in Lee County this morning. They're meeting, just as you are, to discuss opening their beaches and re-opening their park system. I know Charlotte County and Sarasota County opened their beaches just yesterday, I believe. So I think it's in order, certainly, that this board have some discussion about that. Your staff's ready. We could be ready as soon as Thursday of this week to re-open your beach park facilities if you deem that appropriate. Also, your parks, as I said, we've maintained the trail systems in your parks and your greenways. We have closed the rest of our facilities but, again, I think we're ready, again, as soon as Thursday or Friday to re-open some of your athletic fields and your hard courts. With appropriate social distancing and appropriate enforcement, we'd April 28, 2020 Page 81 be ready when you're ready to move on those as well. And, finally, there was a discussion -- Mr. Dalby mentioned summer camps. We are going to make an effort to stand up our summer camp program. That normally begins on June 8th. And that's our intent again. We've got already 800 children that have registered for the program. The challenge there is to find a way to deal with large numbers of kids without congregating them in big groups, so -- but we're going to take that challenge on and try to figure out a way to run these programs to help those parents that need to get back to work to have a place to send the kids during the summer months. So that, essentially, concludes the report, Mr. Chairman. Look forward to the discussion. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Mr. Ochs, if you could leave that slide up during the public comment, because once we conclude that, we need to start talking about these types of issues that we need to make some decisions on. Commissioner Fiala. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. Just a question. I have a picture of what happened with the pickleball courts, so I didn't know if they were open. I have -- if you'd like to show it. I don't know if something like this would show on there, or I could just -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Why don't you work on that. Let's get into public comment. COMMISSIONER FIALA: It's kind of ripped all apart, so I didn't know if that was open. We're opening the parks, so that's what I'm asking. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. And we're going to get to those -- pickleball courts are closed right now. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, that -- I'm just -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We're going to talk about opening April 28, 2020 Page 82 these types of facilities. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Right. That's what I'm asking him: Are they going to open that? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's going to be a decision that we have to make. And I'm suggesting that, let's hear the public comment, and then let's get into the list of decisions that we need to make, if that's okay with the Board. I don't know how many speakers we have. MR. MILLER: Mr. Chairman, we have 11 registered speakers. I'm going to go ahead and call three names so that if they're located out of this room, they'll have time to queue up. We're asking all public speakers to use this center podium as well, just the center podium. Your first speaker is Alfie Oakes. He will be followed by Falynne Miller, and then Laurie Harris. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. And I'll remind the speakers that -- limited to three minutes, and we're going to strictly adhere to that time limit. MR. OAKES: My name's Alfie Oakes. Thank you for hearing me today. First, I'd like to say that we need to open -- open our businesses as soon as possible. I have 2,100 employees. Every single employee comes to work every day. We've not missed a day. I see -- I'm in front of thousands of people a day. None of my employees are sick. None of us -- very few of us are wearing masks. If they want to wear a mask, they can, of course. But this has turned out, obviously, not to be, you know, anything like the fear of what we thought it might have been three or four, you know, weeks ago or months ago. Right now we're still not at a normal flu season amount of fatalities in the country. The pandemic is a political pandemic and a fear pandemic, and the pandemic will end as soon as the fear ends. And the media keeps April 28, 2020 Page 83 hyping up the fear. If I owned a media station, I'd keep the fear going, too, because it's good for ratings. If I owned a hospital, I'd play it up as well. I mean, everyone's doing what they're supposed to do in their prospective place here, but the reality is is that this is -- this has not turned out to be anything that's alarming; otherwise, how -- there's a quarter million people that work in Florida that work for another big grocer. They don't have any alarming amount of people that are getting ill or fatality rates of all the people that are coming to work. Is it more safe for you to go shop in Walmart than it is to a boutique down on Fifth Avenue? Absolutely not. It's absurd. So at some point we've got to start thinking logically and start talking about the facts. I heard the woman from the Department of Health here spoke a lot. It was very confusing. A lot of times if you're trying to dupe somebody, it seems very confusing. Obama Care was 46,000 pages. Very confusing. If you want to talk about simple truths, simple truth is we have 19 people in two months that's died in Collier County, maybe 20 now. That's not different than it would have been during a normal flu season. We've made -- we've put all these people -- and how many -- what they don't bring up how many additional suicides have we had -- and I'm not talking about the total amount of suicides, because it's probably four times the amount of the 19 COVID deaths. There's more than 19 additional suicides during this time, and there's going to be much more when people are out of work. The Ritz-Carlton, when they re-open, there's 130 people that are not coming back to work, and that's just one place. There's plenty of businesses. There's going to be, you know, plenty of people out of work, and the repercussion of the bad -- you know, bad governing that's happened from our leaders from the top on down, it's going to April 28, 2020 Page 84 be endless. I watched all of you. We all held our hands over our hearts and we said the pledge. Did it say protection of viruses and justice for all, or did it say liberty and justice for all? We need to protect our liberties, and our liberties have been taken away here. So we need to re-open the government. MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Falynne Miller. She'll be followed by Laurie Harris and then Scott Lowe. MS. MILLER: Good morning. My name is Falynne Miller. I'm a lifelong resident of Collier County, and I'm here to address the Board regarding the continued closure of our parks and beaches. Just a note, it was reported about 45 minutes ago that Lee County did, in fact, vote to open their parks and beaches tomorrow. It doesn't seem like there is any, if at all, restrictions other than social distancing. When this all began, we were told a story that this virus was the scourge of the earth and that millions of people were going to die. We were warned that this virus was highly contagious and our hospitals were going to be overrun with patients. A picture was painted of overflowing morgues, dying patients being denied lifesaving treatment, and death panels being formed to decide who lived and who died and, yet, here we are with nothing even close to those predictions having transpired. I know you said you like numbers. I'm sorry. I prepared percentages. Collier County has an estimated population of over 32 -- 372,000 people. As of 9:00 p.m. last night, 15 one-hundredths of 1 percent of the population were confirmed to have COVID-19, and then only 2.67 percent of those cases resulted in death. And it is noteworthy, as it was mentioned earlier, that a very large percentage of those hospitalized patients had underlying health conditions. Our hospitals are relatively empty, and many staff members are April 28, 2020 Page 85 bored with no patients coming in COVID or otherwise. A friend of mine at NCH North said they have nothing to do but eat. This mirrors reports we are hearing from across the country. Hospitals are cutting back hours and laying off staff due to lack of patients. Fear drove us to where we are today, but if you look at the data and the emerging knowledge of how this virus affects us, we do not need to fear this as if it was the plague. There's no reason to keep our parks and beaches closed. Government is calling for more and more data to re-open, but we closed on nothing but conjecture and hyperbole. We need to stop moving the goal posts, and we need to re-open. Your constituents require access to their beaches and their outdoor spaces. The Governor's order even carves out outdoor activities as essential. We are taxpaying, law-abiding adults, and we do not need time limits or activity restrictions. What we need is for our elected officials to honor our rights to our public property that our taxes pay for. I urge you to move forward to doing your part in Collier County and open our beaches and parks. If we can manage our safety in Publix and Walmart, we can certainly manage ourselves at a beach or a park. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you. MS. MILLER: Thank you. MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Laurie Harris. She'll be followed by Scott Lowe and then Daniel Cook. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think Scott Lowe has already spoken, if I'm not mistaken. He was with the hospital. MR. MILLER: Thank you, sir. Laurie will be followed by Daniel Cook -- Phil Dutcher has already spoken -- and will be followed by -- well, I think Dr. Lindner has already spoken. Let's go April 28, 2020 Page 86 with Patrick Dearborn after Daniel Cook. Go ahead, Laurie. MS. HARRIS: Hi, there. I am Laurie Harris from Marco Island, Florida. We were told that we had to flatten the curve. Flattening the curve never meant dropping the number of cases. It meant leveling it out so that they all didn't appear at the hospital at the same time. We've done that. We were asked as Americans to flatten the curve so the virus didn't spread all at once at the same time to everyone and we all showed up at the hospital at the same time. We did what we were asked to do. The hospitals are now laying people off. The Comfort that arrived in New York City went home. We are not overrun. Our hospitals are not overrun. Our morgues are not overrun. It is the first time in our history that the healthy have been quarantined. Think about that for a moment. The healthy have been quarantined. Our seasonal restaurants will not survive. Marco Island is a three-season -- three-month seasonal island. Our businesses and restaurants make their money January, February, and March. They have been denied March and April so far. I fear that they will not be back next year. The cure seems now worse than the illness. It must stop. When abortion clinics are open and churches are closed, we've lost our way. Someone else's fear does not negate my rights. If you have a restaurant and you're fearful of re-opening it, don't. If restaurants are open and you're fearful of going to one, don't. Might I say the same with the beaches. If I can stay six feet apart from somebody at Walmart, I can stay six feet apart from somebody on the beach. In the words of George Washington, I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. With that, I ask you to re-open the April 28, 2020 Page 87 economy of Collier County. May God bless you. Where we go one, we go all. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. As the next speaker comes up, let me remind the public of what may be a misconception. The closing of restaurants was done pursuant to the Governor's executive order. The -- no churches are closed. The executive order is clear about that that the churches are not closed. And so Collier County Government has some options in dealing with issues, but we're not in a position to just simply say we're going to open up the economy. We're waiting for the Governor's instructions. And I can assure you that we're going to be anxious to do whatever we can to get business going, but we're not the ones that are in whole of control of that. So I just wanted to make that point clear as we go through these speakers. MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Daniel Cook. He will be followed by Patrick Dearborn, and then representative Byron Donalds. MR. COOK: Thank you. So about six weeks ago all levels of government went into overdrive to protect the people from the virus. We closed up schools. We canceled concerts and sporting events. We shut down restaurants; at the state level, of course. Salons, other nonessential businesses, and we put into place social distancing guidelines, and you told the people to stay home to prevent the spread of the virus. And the people, we complied. We sacrificed our leisurely activities. We sacrificed our workouts at the gym, our nights out on the town, and many of us, myself, included, even sacrificed our jobs, our ability to put food on the tables so that the government can keep us safe from the virus. You said that the purpose of the shutdown was that keep our April 28, 2020 Page 88 healthcare system from being overrun, and you did a good job. Our hospitals have not been overrun and, in fact, as the Governor said yesterday, our healthcare system is equipped to be ready for an increase in cases as we open up in the coming weeks and months. The Governor also said that he wants a data-driven, slow, methodical, and thoughtful re-opening. I hope that whatever role that you, the county commissioners, decide to play in the re-opening of Collier County, that you'll consider not just the COVID-19 data, but also the data regarding some of the unintended consequences of the shutdown that has already taken place and that will continue to take place if we don't open up soon. That includes layoffs, evictions, food lines, stress, defaults on car payments, credit card payments, bankruptcies, rationing, disruptions to supply chains, and our children's educations, mental health, citizens snitching on one another for not wearing a mask in the proper place. The people that afraid of -- some people are afraid of the government arresting us or fining us for trying to make a living. That's what -- you know, that's what we're concerned about. People just want to make a living. These are some of the things that most of us nonessentials are thinking about, and these are the worries that we have about our future. And I think maybe this is why some of our founding fathers said that he who trades liberty for security deserve neither. The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal, that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable [sic] rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. The purpose of government is not to protect us from ourselves. The purpose of government is not even to protect us from a virus. April 28, 2020 Page 89 The purpose of the government is to secure our rights, our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's time to open up for business, not on the 8th of May, not on the 1st of May, but today. The people who need to protect themselves from COVID-19 or any other contagious virus can do so by staying home, social distancing, wearing a mask. You don't need to pass the buck to some unelected task force, and you don't need to wait for the Governor's permission to take action. We elected you. So stop treating us like peasants and remember that you work for us. And if you don't remember, we'll remember in November. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We do have to wait for the Governor, unfortunately, but -- there is an executive order that we're all living under throughout the state. There's going to be changes to that, but we are living under the executive order of the Governor. Next speaker? MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Patrick Dearborn. He will be followed by Representative Byron Donalds and then Allen Biles. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Hang on just a second. Disinfecting this just for you. Good morning. MR. DEARBORN: Barely good morning. Commissioners, Sheriff Rambosk, if he's still here as well, and everybody that's spoken today, thank you, guys, for taking the time and allowing us to come speak. I think we all need a heavy dose of common sense, and I'm not just saying that directed to you; I'm just saying as Americans. And I feel like I'm hearing some great things today from the commissioners just based on feedback. I've heard some great things from most of the speakers you've had here today. I think common sense is, again, starting to prevail. I'm actually here speaking today because I've got so many April 28, 2020 Page 90 friends, like a lot of you do, that own these small businesses. I was blessed, because I'm a realtor, we were deemed essential. So I'm still able to work every day and try to provide for my family, and it's been tough. But I'm actually not here today about that. I'm here today about the small business owners and businesses that weren't deemed essential. And let me clarify right now that I truly believe in my heart that all of us, all of you, everybody in this room, and everyone that works in this county, whatever you do, the nice young lady that just wiped this thing down is as essential as anybody in this room. And I think everybody has a right to be considered essential and have the right to work and provide for their families. Speaking of restaurants -- and I love that Alfie came up here and spoke because I've been through -- been by Costco and the Walmarts and those big places, and I've seen the crowds, even the crowds outside in lines. And I'm sitting here scratching my head, like many of my friends in this county are, going, what are we doing when we are crowding up in lines at Walmart and we're getting to go to Seed to Table, which is a place I frequent often, grocery stores, et cetera, and yet we can't walk on the beach? Common sense should always prevail. And regarding our restaurants, I know from talking to many of my friends, and I know you all know many of your friends and constituents who own these restaurants and work in these restaurants, they have been devastated. Because of this reaction nationally, state level, and local level, these restaurants now, locally, here in Naples have been decimated. Our season, "season" -- and we use the word "season" in real estate as well -- is over. Our population is already turning into our summertime population here and will continue to go down like it normally does because people that were here for the six months or the snowbirds are gone. April 28, 2020 Page 91 I don't know how many of our restaurants and our fellow citizens are going to be out of business permanently even if we snap our fingers today and open things back up. So I think we have got to quickly -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We need you to go ahead and wrap up. MR. DEARBORN: -- smart and safely and strategically -- and like I'm hearing from you guys today -- and God bless you guys for saying these things -- get our beaches and our parks fully open so we can continue to get back to enjoying our lives and, more importantly than that, let's embrace the experts that say herd immunity works. Let's open things up as fast as we can, especially our restaurants. Even at 50 percent open capacity, they've got to get back. They've got to provide for their families. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you very much. MR. DEARBORN: Thank you. MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Representative Byron Donalds, and he will be followed by Allen Biles, who is the last speaker I have registered here today. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Representative, good afternoon. REPRESENTATIVE DONALDS: How you guys doing? It's good seeing you all in this room, actually. It seems like I was here a month ago in a different order. Burt, I'm kind of upset that your beard looks better than mine, but... CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, give yours another 30 years, and it will look as good as mine. REPRESENTATIVE DONALDS: I'm going to just keep dying mine. I like how it looks. Listen, guys, to be quick; I know you guys have a lot of business today. There's been a lot of data we've all been looking at. I've been April 28, 2020 Page 92 on the COVID-19 calls that Director Summers has been holding three days a week; I've been on them listening to the data just like you guys have. I think this -- it's been pretty clear where we are. We have a virus situation that is contagious but is not nearly as deadly as the experts originally thought. The American people, the people here in our great state of Florida, the people of Collier County have taken social distancing extremely serious. It's been said up here at this podium, so I don't want to belabor the point, but whether you're at Seed to Table, Target, Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club -- if I left your store out, I'm sorry -- Publix, people even as they go down the aisle, are doing anything they can to avoid each other and to maintain a level of distance. But, Commissioners, one of the things that you have the authority to do, even though the Governor has an order that he will chose either to extend or lift completely or amend, is you have the responsibility and the ability to do something about public parks, public beaches, recreation centers, summer camps that are going to be opening up, hopefully, on June 8th, and what you have the ability to do is to begin to change the narrative for the people of Collier County and in the media. The media is looking at what you're going to do. And I think that your decision here today about re-opening beaches, like what's happened, obviously, in Lee County about an hour ago, Charlotte County yesterday and other places, is that you have the ability looking at the data on the ground in our county to show your constituency and to also show the media that we do have this under control; that we are going to take this very seriously; that our medical community has the capacity and the ability to treat people and to send them back home so they can get better and they can get well. April 28, 2020 Page 93 But at the end of the day, human beings aren't meant to be cooped up for long periods of time. We simply can't continue to do this. It is not healthy on a myriad of levels far surpassing COVID-19. So my hope is is that you guys seriously consider re-opening our beaches, re-opening our parks, re-opening recreation centers and, please, get these children into something else, and get my kids out of the house, too, okay. They need something to do. But in all honesty, I know you guys have a serious decision ahead of you. Like I said to you last month, I take serious decisions as well when we're in the legislature. But, really, at this point I think the data's crystal clear. We can begin to re-open some of the things that will allow people to get back to normal life so we can get back to just being people and being Americans. So, you know, take care. You guys stay healthy, and I hope you make the right decision today. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you. REPRESENTATIVE DONALDS: See you, guys. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have one more speaker? MR. MILLER: Your final speaker today is Allen Biles. MR. BILES: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. My name is Allen Biles, a proud resident here of Collier County. My parents have been residents here since 1984. And I had a lot of things I wanted to say today, and a lot of what I wanted to say has already been spoken by Alfie and the young lady back there and the gentleman who just spoke. And I appreciate, Mr. Saunders, what you spoke, that you're only empowered with certain things. There's certain aspects of power granted to you as commissioners of this county. So what I would like to request, as has already been requested, within your ability to open up our county, to open up our businesses, to do so and move forward. Government -- as Mr. Cook stated, your April 28, 2020 Page 94 job and all elected officials' number one job is to defend our rights protected by the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of the State of Florida. That's your number-one job. Everything else falls second. And it's not about protecting us, as somebody else said, from ourselves. I think we're all adults, and we know how to protect ourselves effectively. So I'm requesting, very respectfully, on behalf of all of my friends who are business owners and all of my neighbors, several of who I know are damaged permanently financially because of this that are not going to be able to re-open, they don't want to take a government handout and a government loan, please do the right thing and re-open our county to the ability that you have the power to do, please. And I thank you, and I appreciate you. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you. MR. BILES: Bless you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. What I'd -- that concludes the public comment. There are certain things -- decisions that we can and should make today. And I've got a little bit of a list, and if you want, we can do these one at a time, and I think that that might be the most efficient thing to do, and, of course, there may be others that other people have on their mind as well. But if it's okay with the Board, I'd like to suggest that we begin with our beaches. We are clearly, under the Governor's order, enabled to deal with our beaches as we see fit. Most communities are dealing with that. And I would suggest that perhaps we have the conversation about what do we do with our beaches initially, and then we'll move on to some other items, if that's okay with the Board. All right. So let's start off with the beaches. The situation right April 28, 2020 Page 95 now is all of our county parking facilities are closed, the beach access points are all closed, and there's no activity on the beaches. Most communities are opening their beaches with certain restrictions. I have a personal view. My personal view is that we should open the beaches, open our parking facilities, bathroom facilities, and open the beaches for whatever activities people want to engage in as long as social distancing is strictly maintained. So, for example, in my view, if someone wants to come to the beach with a sandwich and lay on a blanket with their family, so be it. If somebody wants to go swimming, jogging, fishing, whatever you are normally permitted on the beaches, I think we should do other than congregation of people beyond the CDC guidelines. So I'll open it up for discussion, and we'll make a decision as to what we want to do with our beaches. That's my view. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Do you want to make that as a motion? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, no. We've got several speakers, so let's see what everybody has to say. Mr. Solis. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd just like to see if we can get some clarification on exactly what the decision was that Lee County made today. I mean, opening the beach, was it opening the beaches, opening also the parking facilities? Bathrooms? Do we know exactly what that -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Dawn to dusk. Dawn to dusk. They can sunbathe. They can recreate on the beach, according to NBC news. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Does that mean parking facilities? I mean -- MR. OCHS: Commissioners, in my discussions with Lee County and the cities, it was the joint recommendation that we open, or we recommend opening to our elected bodies with full facility April 28, 2020 Page 96 capacity, including the parking and restrooms and normal activities on the beaches with the provisos that the chairman just iterated. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I will add to that -- the Sheriff is still here. We may need to have him comment. But my understanding is from conversations with the Sheriff, that the requiring of social distancing is something that can be enforced and that he has the manpower to, in general, make that a reality. So, Sheriff Rambosk, I don't want to misstate your position, and your thoughts would be very important on that issue. SHERIFF RAMBOSK: I think the question of enforcement relative to all of this is going down a very slippery slope with regard to the Constitution; however, we have the staff that would enable us to remind people as long as there's an order in force that has been adopted, as we have done throughout -- and compliance has been our number one goal -- I would hope and I would ask the public just not to do that. Go recreate. Go get outdoors. You don't need a party of 30 on the beach. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: But... SHERIFF RAMBOSK: So, yes, we have the capability to do that; however, I would ask the public to just do what is right. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think the -- if I'm not mistaken, the Governor's executive order basically permits localities to open their beaches but requires the social distancing limitations to be imposed. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: So that's why I'm saying, I think we can open our beaches with that requirement, and unless the Governor changes his order, that is the order that would be in place. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. I have a couple parts to my question. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. I'm sorry. April 28, 2020 Page 97 COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. So that was the recommendation, open up full facilities. I mean, I have gotten I can't tell you how many emails from constituents concerned about not necessarily Collier County residents coming to the beach, but because of our proximity to Dade County, Broward County, which are the worst areas in the state, as we saw at the beginning of this with the spring breakers, that they -- that we will be the place to go because the East Coast beaches are not -- are not open. So -- and maybe this is a question for the County Attorney. I mean, how do we deal with the potential for having large crowds that are going to ignore our Sheriff's efforts and want to come to the beach in Collier County because the beaches on the East Coast are closed? MR. KLATZKOW: One approach would be that we do control our parking garages. And there may be an enforcement issue. I don't know. But if you limited your parking garages to county residents and those with existing beach stickers, I think you might alleviate at least some of it. You can't stop anybody from going to a hotel. That would -- I think that would be difficult, and certainly the Sheriff can walk up and down the beach and find out where you're from. But from a practical standpoint, one of your choking points is beach access, and we do control the garages. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I mean, I don't -- personally don't see -- from a legal perspective, the public's the public. We've got probably -- I wish the Property Appraiser was here. He could tell us what percentage of people that own property in Collier County don't have a -- aren't residents. It's probably half. So, I mean, I see that that's going to be really difficult to do, but that's been a question that's been raised to me, I mean, you know, hundreds of times in the last two weeks. And I think it is a valid concern, because that's one of the -- you know, obviously, what's April 28, 2020 Page 98 happened in Dade County and Broward County and Palm Beach County, I think, is safe to say -- I'm looking at Stephanie Vick, but related to spring break and the numbers of people at the beaches and things. So, I mean, I think we should open the beaches, but I am sensitive that we should have some plan in the event that it becomes an issue. I think that's the biggest concern I've heard around opening of the beaches. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. Thank you very much. I wanted to say, first of all, that I think that if we limit it to less than 10 people per group or something, that would be in going with -- in keeping with the Governor's comments. And when we talk about social distancing, which I think is absolutely perfect, except if you've got a family that live together in the same house and they're all laying on the blanket or something like that. I mean, you know -- and I'm sure if the Sheriff was going over and talking to them -- I don't know where Sheriff went. Oh, there you are. But then he would find out quickly that's a whole family, and to do that. I think that that's important. And you were talking about the people from the other coast. Leo Ochs was in my office the other day, and we were talking, and I said, that's the problem everybody's worried about is a lot of people coming from other coasts over here and bringing with them things that aren't in our county right now, possibly the disease or something. And so you said -- your words were, what do we do if we find that's a problem? And I thought, well, maybe we could quickly, then, as Leo suggested -- I would love to claim credit, but it wasn't my idea. Maybe we have certain hours. People could go to the beach from, say, 9:00 in the morning to noon and then close, again, the beaches, and then they can go back to the beach at 5:30. Well, April 28, 2020 Page 99 anybody driving over from the other coast wouldn't care to do that, you know, because by the time they drive over here, they'd lost their time. So that might be a way -- a thing that we could suggest. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I did some of my -- not my colleagues, but my council in the City of Naples, and I would remind everyone that the City of Naples has three -- two parking garages and ample parking for the beach. So the idea that we could restrict to residents probably's not going to work. And I did make our office -- Sherry made a call yesterday. Just FYI, the City of Miami Beach is not opening their beaches until June, the City of Miami is not talking about opening up their beaches, and Broward has no discussion at this point. We've heard testimony this morning that -- from our doctor from NCH that part of the problem with Miami is that there were people that didn't know they had the COVID virus, and they were shedding it. I kind of visualized that as we were talking. We know from our boat ramp experience that we are a destination for the East Coast. So I think we could open the beaches. But I agree with Commissioner Fiala, I'd like to see the hours maybe 8:00 to 10:00, something like that for the beach walkers, and then late in the afternoon. I did speak to Sheriff Rambosk about this. He said enforcement is a nightmare no matter what. Forgive me, Sheriff Rambosk, but we can do it. So whether it's all day or whether it's these period of times where we, you know, open the gates and let folks recreate, which is so important, he's willing to enforce it, and I think we need to remain nimble as a government. I think what we could do is see how it's going. We'll get lots of folks writing us. We'll have the Sheriff looking at things, and then if it looks like everything is moving in the right direction, we relax it a little bit more, do it gradually, but let's April 28, 2020 Page 100 open these beaches. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, I -- yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. I've gone back and forth on this a lot. And I'd like to give our community a little more credit, I think, than what's been given so far. Unlike other communities, Charlotte County, Lee County, Bonita, who have the large I call it the funnel effect of masses of people living here and getting to beaches in fairly easily regulated circumstances, we don't. We have miles and miles of open beach access that would be very, very difficult. So I understand the rationale of the balloon effect. We've talked about it on a regular basis and potentially overloading the facilities that we have. But I've watched our community. I've watched our community adjust to the circumstances that are requisite to provide for good, healthy conditions. So my thoughts are, if our staff is ready -- and Leo Ochs shared with us that he could be ready as early as the first, which is Thursday, I think -- MR. OCHS: It's the 30th. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The 30th. MR. OCHS: Yes. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. I would be -- I'm ready -- I'm ready to go ahead and open up our beaches. I don't want to see restrictions. I understand the rationale of hours of operation just to theoretically disincent people from coming here from other places, but there are other beaches that have already been open. I have friends up in Jacksonville and St. Augustine that are similarly distanced away from Miami-Dade. They opened up their beaches with little to no issue whatsoever. The enforcement was negligible. People came and went. They April 28, 2020 Page 101 set up hours of operation. I think in Jacksonville it was 6:00 in the morning until 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning, and then they came back in the evening. But there wasn't a major flux of people, in fact, coming. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Miami is much further away from Jacksonville than they are -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It depends on how fast you drive. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Oh, okay. He's talking about time. He's not talking about distance. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, he is. So the long -- the rash -- my thought processes are, I think we ought to give our community credit. I think we ought to give them the opportunity to show -- I'm not suggesting that we go past our CDC guidelines and certainly the guidelines that are put out by our governor, but I think we ought to -- and our staff has shared that we can and do have the facilities to do it. And I'll make that motion that we do, in fact, open up our beaches as of Thursday. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Let's -- in terms of the motion, let's put some meat on that little skeleton there. When you say "open the beaches," what is it that you're talking about? Are you talking about just -- as I had mentioned earlier, just the CDC guidelines in terms of -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Correct. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I mean, if you want a little -- I mean, I don't know -- I think the less specific we are from a limitation standpoint, the greater opportunity we have of managing the circumstance. I had a long conversation with our staff. We've got restroom facilities. We're going to enhance the -- and I don't think we need to necessarily go through, unless we want to. We can April 28, 2020 Page 102 review what we've done when we come back in May as to enhanced sanitary practices and recommendations of social distancing from an enforcement capacity. We have park rangers and Sheriff's officers, in fact, if that's a requirement. But I don't want to see -- I would rather not see restrictions on -- again, Dr. Birx, when she was talking on TV and the guidance with regard to not congregating more of [sic] 10, she said it out loud. If you're -- we're not talking about family members with regard to that. And spring break is necessarily over. And the decision to close the beaches probably worked out well because of that balloon effect and those spring breakers running from the other side. But I think if we open up on a regional basis, Charlotte's open, Sarasota's open, Lee's opening, we open, City of Naples, Marco Island, we've got sufficient area to spread -- to spread folks out. People can go, and I believe if we afford them a little bit of opportunity, they'll behave well. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Let me ask, on the motion, Mr. Ochs, I know you've been meeting with the City of Marco Island and the City of Naples, and they're talking about reopening their beaches. Obviously, they want to do that, whatever happens in conjunction with Collier County. In your conversations, have they been talking about generally opening up for -- as this motion indicates and I've discussed, you know, people want to lie on a blanket and all things that you normally do, but following the CDC guidelines. Is that kind of where you think the City of Naples is, or do you know that yet, the City of Marco as well? MR. OCHS: Yes. I believe they're both, essentially, in that position with the caveat that the city that, I think, is still going to close the pier, and they may make some separate decisions on Lowdermilk Park because of the concession activity there. But in terms of opening the parking and opening the beaches to normal April 28, 2020 Page 103 beach activities without restricting hours or specific activities, that was the consensus of the working group that met last week to talk about that. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think that -- and we'll have some more discussion, but I think that the limitation on people coming from the East Coast to Naples to use the beach, I think the parking is really the limitation. We have a certain number of beach parking spots, and unless you have, you know, college kids on spring break by the dozens in hotel rooms and in Airbnbs, I don't know that you're going to have this tremendous influx of people because there's just not going to be that many places to park. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: You will in the city. You will in the city, because they have two parking garages, and it's within walking distance. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And the city has the ability to restrict their parking in their garages as well. COMMISSIONER FIALA: But, you know, the people have left for back home, so we don't have as many people. So I don't think parking would be the limitation because right now the parking that we have would probably be sufficient for many things, you know, other than -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. COMMISSIONER FIALA: -- other than just our own people. So that means it would invite other people in. And, by the way, in your motion you didn't say when you wanted to start this. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I did. Thursday. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thursday. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, I'm sorry. I did not hear that then. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm sorry. Yes, ma'am. I did. I said it, on Thursday. That was when our County Manager said staff April 28, 2020 Page 104 could be prepared. The earliest they could be prepared to be opened would be Thursday. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay, fine. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion. We don't have a second yet. Commissioner Solis. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: One more question, because the County Manager mentioned this in relation to the concessions. I mean, I think we have to include in our motion what we're thinking about doing or allowing in terms of the concessions. I mean, Clam Pass Park -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- that is a place at the concession there where a lot of people gather, a lot of people are going to get food if it's open, and the other concessions that, say, operate on the beach. I think we have to at least talk about those and address it specifically in the motion. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: If you want me to address it, I'd be happy to. I mean, again, I have been -- I've been watching. I watched -- I watched folks at different restaurants where you have walk-in capacity of where it's only takeout. I think our concessions ought to be open. I think we ought to do similarly to what the other retail businesses have done. You mark off spacing on the sidewalk and tell people where they can stand. You -- and you make -- you make the recommendations to continue to abide by the CDC's recommendations and the Governor's guidance. It's going to come. The Governor -- I heard the Governor was coming on the TV this morning around 11:30. It may be going on now. And we adhere to the guidance that is given from the Governor with regard to that. But I think our concessions can be opened. I think that folks are -- folks -- I think -- I think that our community deserves the credit that they, in fact, have to be able to abide by and April 28, 2020 Page 105 provide for safe operations of our facilities. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And I would agree with you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Hang on a second. Commissioner Solis, did you have anything else? You're still on the list. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Did I address that accordingly? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: You did. I mean, I disagree. I think -- I think opening the beach is one thing. I think having concessions, which you're going to create, you know, situations, whether people intend it or not. I mean, I think, restaurants aren't open right now by the Governor's order, so... MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, if I might. With respect to Clam Pass, my understanding is that that restaurant concession is actually an operation of the Naples Grande. They lease the space, but they determine when they operate there. I don't believe they've been open. I'll verify that. I mean, their requirement to you is to abide by the lease terms and to provide a certain menu of reasonably priced food and drink for beachgoers. But whether or not they're open, I think, is primarily their decision in terms of the restaurant operation there. And I'll confirm that as discussion goes on here, but... CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: No one else is on the screen here. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, then I'll second the motion. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Did you have anything you wanted to -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I did. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: As we all are members of the Florida Association of Counties, the Florida Association of Counties had two webinars over the last month, both of them dealing with the April 28, 2020 Page 106 COVID-19 virus. The last one was Thursday. One of the recommendations by the University of Florida Public of Health [sic] that's listed on their website is to limit exposure to hot spot areas. I spoke to two medical professionals over the last 24 hours, and one of them succinctly said, why would you want to create an attraction for a hot spot when their beaches are closed and you open yours? So I am very concerned about a -- this is -- we're going back where we are, everything-is-fine kind of attitude. I'm not suggesting we close our -- keep our beaches closed. I think the public have really made it very, very clear that they would like to use the beach, and I think our community has been -- I'm so proud of our community and what they've done and what I know they'll continue to do. My concern is creating the attraction. I think we put our residents at risk, and I'm not willing to do that, but I am willing to say, limit the time to make it unattractive to spend an hour to drive over here if you drive fast or an hour and a half to drive over if you drive slowly to come to beaches that aren't open when you want to come there. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. In terms of the concession, you've added that to your motion, I believe, and you second that. Any other comments on the motion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I'm going to support the motion because I think that if a group of people want to come over from Miami, which, you know, that's always possible, our folks don't have to be exposed to them if we're maintaining social distancing. And so I think that opening the beaches is the right way to go. If we have a problem, we can back off on that. So if there's no other comment, I'll call for the question. All in April 28, 2020 Page 107 favor, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed signify by saying no. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes 3-2. (Applause.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: The next thing on my short list of things that we need to discuss is we're going to get some direction from the Governor in terms of opening businesses. There's going to be a phased approach to that. And the question is, do we need to establish some kind of a committee to digest the information, meet with the various affected entities, such as realtors, hotel operators, that sort of thing, and then make recommendations? If we don't need a committee, then that's fine. I'm just suggesting that if we do want to establish a committee, then we can discuss doing that. So the first question is, do we feel that we need to have a committee to advise the County Commission going forward in the event that there are issues that need to be determined by the county based on the Governor's process of opening up Florida? So that's kind of the first question. If we don't need a committee, then so be it. So, Commissioner McDaniel. I know we've all been thinking about this. So, Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. And I believe -- well, I've actually wanted to have a startup council for quite some time. It hasn't come to fruition. I believe if we do anything as a board, we should maybe schedule another interim meeting in between now and when the Governor comes out with his specific recommendations for us to review those and, at best, select members of our -- a small April 28, 2020 Page 108 group -- jiminy Christmas -- a small group of people to make recommendations to disseminate information as to what's, in fact, going on, what practices are available to provide for safe operations of businesses and the like in more of an advisory capacity back to us as opposed to proactive or suggestions as to what we could do when the -- when the opening up, in fact, transpires. I mean -- and just one little aside. You know, I speak to our hospital folks regularly. I talked to Paul yesterday, and they -- Paul Hiltz, and they actually have -- I call them a bug zapper, one of those UV light that kills everything, and -- they've actually gotten permission to bring that out of the hospital environment and use it in different circumstances, and that might be -- you know, there are things that -- initiatives that can be done, as you said earlier, Commissioner Taylor, to provide for safe environments for our community and enhance that safety aspect as we go forward. So I'm not -- I'm not in -- I'm not thinking we need to have a startup council at this stage. I would rather this board come back within a day or two after the Governor actually announces his adjustment, his amendment, and/or the lifting of the stay-at-home order and review that publicly and have discussions, and then make our recommendations accordingly. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Commissioner Fiala. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. I just don't want to wait too much longer. I think if we have a committee, by the time the committee meets and so forth, then everybody has to be publicly noticed, so now you've got certain time limits for publicly noticed. I think we're going to hold it up too much. Not only that, but we all are getting lots of mail from everybody. So we know the public sentiment, and we should all adhere to that. We're here to serve the public anyway, and I think we all feel that in common. And so I think we should be moving forward. April 28, 2020 Page 109 Yes, I think we have to hear from the Governor on things, but hopefully we hear from him pretty soon. But there are some things that make absolutely good sense. Like, beauty shops, for instance. I'm just going to say that for a second. My beauty shop, first of all, you can't go in unless she took your temperature, right. And then you have to fill out a little form if you've been traveling overseas before she even lets you -- well, before. Anyway, before she even let you in the shop. Well, those are nice little things to make sure that everybody in there feels safe, but they're not all overcrowded either. It's not like you have a huge group of people, and I doubt that you have 10 people in there, so I think beauty shops might be one of the things you want to open up. There are others, I think, that make perfectly good sense, and some people have said, you know, this is open, and we use it all the time, and yet these are closed. Why can't you do the same thing? And so those are common-sense things. But I would like to get together and us, as decision makers, make that decision. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think anytime that we have input from people in the community it's good, especially the business community. I think that, you know -- I guess he's left now. Mr. Oakes is fond of saying that we'd be abdicating our decision-making authority, which is totally ridiculous, by having this committee. But I think -- I think having some feedback from the major employers, different segments of the economy on what to do, what not to do, I think, is always good for us to hear. We ultimately make the decision. Because one of the things that I found surprising in speaking with the people I would like to see on this committee is whatever you do, don't open up the county and then have to shut it down again. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. April 28, 2020 Page 110 COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And that kind of surprised me that that was the -- that was uniformly what they've said to me. Whatever you do, do it very carefully, even if you do it slowly -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- so that you don't have to turn around and back up and shut it down completely again because there's a spike. And so, you know, I think we will hear things that maybe we wouldn't necessarily all think of here. So, I mean, I think we should go ahead, and if we're going to make a decision to have one, let's at least have it ready in the event that, depending on what the Governor does, we need to start making some decisions really quickly, because that's one of the things I think about is if the -- if the Governor either just let's it expire or -- you know, we've heard kind of where he's going with things, but until it happens, we don't know what -- how we're going to have to react. I would like to just -- I think we could go ahead and create it. If we don't need it, fine, but as Commissioner Fiala said, it's better to be prepared than not prepared. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And that's why I brought it up, because we may not have any authority at all. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We don't know. On the other hand, we may have a lot of authority. And we're going to want to be in a position to exercise that authority if we have it as quickly as possible. And that's why I thought that we would, perhaps, create a committee today, indicate who we -- not necessarily individuals that we thought would be on it, we could do that as well, but at least categories of people so we would be ready to meet immediately with that committee. Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: My understanding of the April 28, 2020 Page 111 businesses in this community is they're already ready. They're poised, ready to open. They know what they're doing with protocol. They've paid attention to CDC. They're ready to go. So there may need to be some coordination on a large area in terms of law enforcement or -- and I don't even know if that's -- I'm sure they've already figured this out. So I kind of see that once he makes a decision, we call a meeting. We come in here, we deal with it, and then go forward. I don't see creating a committee, a task force. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. Well -- and I have changed from the beginning when we went on with this. I do concur that hearing from our community is important and that I think we, as an organizing body, depending on what the Governor's orders, in fact, are, can -- we can whip up a committee if we, in fact, need one. But if we were to go -- if we were to do that now, it would be -- it's too late now. I mean, if we were going to do that, we should have been doing it the day after the CDC guidelines came out. We could have then married up that plan from a local basis with the CDC guidelines and then with the Governor's guidance. But at this stage we are where we are because of the guidance coming out of Tallahassee, and I think we should -- oh, yeah, by the way, it's very good guidance. So it's -- I think -- I think we should stay the course and maybe plan on an early meeting, depending on when -- depending on when -- but this group get back together again and go through those guidelines specifically and receive a report from our enforcement authorities as to how folks are acting. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Fiala, I'm sorry, your -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay, fine. First thing is, maybe we should choose that date to meet again right away, because then we April 28, 2020 Page 112 can notify everybody; otherwise, we'd have to choose a date, and then you have to make sure everybody is aware that we're going to have a meeting. So just in advanced preparation we can do that. Second thing is, one thing we didn't discuss today, but we all discussed the fact that everybody wants the parks open, too, but we didn't discuss it. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We're going to get there. (Simultaneous crosstalk.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We're going to get to that. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay, good. Okay, good. Thank you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have, you know, advisory boards and a whole lot of issues that we need to resolve, and I just thought we'd deal with the hard ones first, and... All right. So my thought was that, you know, if we're late in terms of setting up a committee, there's no point in making us more late by waiting. So I don't disagree with you that we could have done this a week ago, a month ago, but we haven't. And if the feeling is that we're late in doing that, by delaying we're simply making us more late in doing it. So my thought was that we would create a committee, and we'll have a vote on it. I think there's a majority that wants to go ahead and at least get the concept together so we can move quickly. My thought was -- and if you take out a pen and a piece of paper, let me go through a list of categories that I thought might be who would be a representative on this: Someone from NABOR, the board of realtors; someone from the Chamber of Commerce, which would be Mr. Dalby; a representative of the hotels and restaurants. Just one person; a representative of the medical community. That could be someone from NCH. It could be the Medical Society, but some medical expert on there; someone from construction; and then we have a April 28, 2020 Page 113 representative of the City of Naples; a representative of the City of Marco; a representative of Everglades City; and a representative of the County Commission. I thought if we at least put this type of a committee together, just in case we need it, that we could call a meeting of that committee very quickly if it would be of any benefit. So those are sort of categories. COMMISSIONER FIALA: What would restaurants be under? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I just had hotels and restaurants. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, okay. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think you could separate those. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. So we have someone from hotels and someone from restaurants. Commissioner Taylor, you -- COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah, I'd like to add somebody from Immokalee. I think Immokalee is -- unless you're the commissioner that's going to handle this task force, I think Immokalee needs to be represented, and the reason being that they are unto themselves and in so many ways uniquely positioned because of the agriculture and also, understanding from Mr. Summers, they're setting up a special testing area up there. For those reasons, I think they need to be included on this. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Isn't agricultural already going on? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, it is. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Can I make a suggestion? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'll push my button if I need to. I think there's -- some of the sectors that have been hardest hit should be on here, for example, retail. I think that's -- next to the hotels have April 28, 2020 Page 114 probably been the hardest hit. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Would the Chamber satisfy that need? Again, if you have too many sectors, then you're going to have 25 people on a committee, and that's -- COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Well, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Twelve. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think -- I mean, the Chamber could represent all of it, but I just think that having -- I mean, it would be -- if we separate out hotels and restaurants and we added somebody from the retail sector, that'd be 11. I think that's a good number. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Nonprofits need to be on this committee. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. We're heading down a rabbit hole again. This is not requisite at this stage. We are operating underneath the guidance from the CDC and the Governor's orders. The Governor's going to, perceptively, lift the stay-at-home order as of May the 1st. I think this board -- we don't have to -- I mean, by the time -- by the time we all get done adding somebody into this committee, we're going to be wore out just with instructions in five minutes of who's doing what. I don't disagree, Commissioner Solis, that having input from our community is imperative, but I think we can do that as a board and as a group and not appoint another bureaucratic committee that's going to -- that could potentially be a waste of everyone's time. Our community -- you know, the gating processes that we talk about, our folks are pushing at the gate right now, and I think that the April 28, 2020 Page 115 less bureaucracy that we put up in place in front of that and allow for common-sense activities, reminding folks of the individual responsibility to take care of themselves, I think, we would be better off as a group. I think we could pick a day, next Monday, that's fairly certain the Governor will come off his -- the stay-at-home order, and the guidance will have come from the Governor by then, maybe as early as this Friday, just to give people sufficient notice for us to have another meeting. But either Friday or Monday, pick a date certain. And then if we do anything, a small advisory group of -- I would rather see us set up a some sort of an information portal where people who have innovative ideas, business practices, that can, in fact, enhance health, safety, and welfare, things that people are doing could be shared so that we could, as Commissioner Taylor has said, better enhance the safety of our community. So that's where I'm staying on that, so... CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I think this has been a good conversation. I can't disagree with the fact that we're going to hear from the Governor in the next day or so and whether we need this committee or not. I'm sort of going back, doing a 180. We have at least a concept -- if we were going to create a committee, at least we have a concept of who -- the types of organizations we would want on that. We can meet in an emergency basis, if necessary, with very little notice so we can satisfy that problem of getting together quickly. So why don't we -- why don't we hold off on the creation of a committee. Keep in mind, if we do need to form one, we've got categories that we've talked about, think about who you'd want to be on that so that if we decide to call a meeting tomorrow based on an order from the Governor tonight, that we would know in our own minds who we'd like to have on this type of a committee if we need April 28, 2020 Page 116 one, all right. COMMISSIONER FIALA: I think that that's great. Now what you're doing is even addressing the people who need to get back to work, and you're emphasizing that we get together, the five of us, because we don't need anything else but just an announcement that we're going to have a meeting. I agree. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And if I can make one quick comment. Commissioner Taylor brought up the folks in Immokalee, and I would like to remind everybody that we have a partners call, and you're all welcome to join, every Tuesday at 4:00 with all of our organizations in Immokalee that talks about the educational processes that we have in place, the assistance processes that we have in place, medical facilities, our Health Department, Healthcare Network and so on. So by no means is Immokalee being left out of the equation. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Oh, I didn't mean to imply that at all. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, no, I didn't take -- I just wanted to say it out loud. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let's move on to the -- because there are a couple of other things that we do need to decide. I spoke with the Clerk yesterday concerning the Clerk's Satellite Offices, and the constitutional officers have their own facilities. And I think it would be appropriate for the Commission to basically say to the constitutional officers, you have your facilities, you know what the rules are. You're in control of when you want to open them and how you want to open them. If that's okay with the Board, I think that would be the direction to give to the constitutional officers. The Clerk, Ms. Kinzel, is in the back. I don't know if you have a microphone back there or not. And the question becomes, do you -- I know you've got some satellite offices that you want to open. Do you need any specific direction from us or just the kind of a general April 28, 2020 Page 117 consensus that constitutional officers are running their own show? THE CLERK: Thank you. I would appreciate that, Commissioner. We've been in close communication not only with the other constitutional officers but obviously the Supreme Court Chief Justice. The chief judge on the court-related functions, and we're working with county facilities to do everything in conjunction with safety and security for the public as well as our staff. We've got shielding and masks, and we're begging for some sanitizer. But we'll have that before we open. But we're looking at probably Monday we would like to open a little more. We've done a lot by appointment. We've been active from the Clerk's Office during this whole thing with e-filing, e-recording, processing as much as we can electronically, and we still encourage that. That saves money. It saves time. Electronic is the way to go. But for those people who do need to work on payment plans for their fines and fees, we need to get them into a facility to work with our staff. So, yes, we'd like to continue to work with the other constitutionals as well as the County Manager's Office and determine when our services should go ahead. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Well, let me just ask, is there any objection to what we just said in terms of the constitutional officers will determine how they're going to handle their facilities going forward? Is there any objection to that? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: That's very wise. I would agree. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. So you have your direction there. I think we need to put something on the county web page that when you open a facility, it should be on our county page, too, so that people know. I think -- and the telephone number that we have, was that a 211 number for information? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: 311. April 28, 2020 Page 118 CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: 311. I should have known that. I've never used it. 311. So those folks need to know that if they want to pay a fine and they call that number, Ms. Kinzel will be there to collect their checks. All right. I have on my short list the issue of our land-use decisions and how we want to proceed with advisory boards. We've shut all of that down. And I personally think that unless there's some advisory board meetings that are necessary, we should still continue to minimize those, but we do have an issue of land use and whether or not we should -- we'll get to the parks in just a second. On the -- is there a sense of what we should do in terms of beginning to initiate our planning board meetings? We can do that using Zoom or other technology. So, Mr. Ochs, that's kind of a question for you and kind of a question for the attorney, because now we are dealing with people's abilities to develop and use their properties. MR. KLATZKOW: Well, one of the things you did this morning on the consent agenda was approve a process where people could -- the advisory boards can meet electronically, so that's been taken care of. The question now is a policy standpoint on which advisory boards you want to open. On the one hand, it would be nice to get the business of the county restarted. On the other hand, a big point of land use is that it requires public participation from the neighborhood. And I know we're not doing NIMs right now, and I wouldn't suggest we start them. And I don't know how many people are comfortable coming out of their homes and participating in the process. I mean, I know my neighborhood, half the people have just locked themselves inside and won't leave for anything. I mean, I literally delivered a package to my landlord last night, and he just April 28, 2020 Page 119 waved at me. Just leave there. So I don't know. It's really up to the Board as a question of policy what you want to do. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. So any thoughts from the Commission? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah, I think that -- I think we should definitely move towards slowly re-opening, but to have NIMs and to have the most controversial issues that are facing us that are in the pipeline right now and expect people to weigh in on an even basis and a fair basis is just putting too much burden on an individual and their concern about their personal safety. That doesn't mean we don't look at it in two weeks. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. I don't disagree with that. Commissioner Solis? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: You know, I want to look at this in terms of what we were presented as to how to make these decisions, right? We had this grid. We have these phases that have been recommended by the federal government. We had testimony today that we didn't meet Phase 1. We have thrown that out the window. I don't think -- I think incorrectly, because we are relying upon the experts in this field. I don't think that we're in a position, based upon the data and the way this is supposed to work, to make any other decisions about opening things up. The beach is a different thing. I agree we should open up the beaches. I voted against it because I didn't think we should create areas that are intended to bring people to congregate. But, you know, I don't think we've met Phase 1 based upon the April 28, 2020 Page 120 statements that I heard today. So I don't think we're in a position to make that kind of a decision and create situations where either people won't come to a hearing that will affect them because of the pandemic or will come, and then we have a different issue. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Why don't we revisit that. Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Well -- and I think -- I don't agree with Commissioner Solis with regard for the rationale as to why not to have these meetings, but I believe that we're going to be able to acquire more data and see how things go with regard to our opening-up processes. I don't think we should incent congregations within buildings and the like at this stage, but I believe that we're going to have and should have more regular meetings with regard to how and what we should be doing as business practices. We're currently operating under the guidelines of the CDC and that that's recommended to us by the Governor, which don't incent groups of more than 10 to be able to be congregating inside a facility. So the -- I don't think we're ready to start having land-use meetings and the like; neighborhood information meetings and the like. I think the Governor will give -- I hope, anyway. I hope we'll get some guidance. He's already given guidance on how we can have public meetings and attend telephonically and electronically and the like that -- and as the evolution of this process transpires, we'll be able to get to those things and get to them in short order. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. And we're meeting every two weeks, so we can revisit this at the end of May. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. Maybe Friday if we meet again. Friday or Monday. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Well -- and that brings us to another issue. As we're meeting -- we're going back to our normal April 28, 2020 Page 121 schedule of meetings, I'd like to see if we can -- if there's support on the Commission that we don't have a state-of-emergency declaration anymore, that we go back where we have regular meetings, and that the decisions will be made as we always have before the state of emergency. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think two points I would make on that. The issue of meeting remotely is in the Governor's order, and so until that's rescinded, we have that ability to comply with it or not. I mean, we don't have to. But that's the Governor's order, not ours. And, secondly, in terms of the emergency declaration, that's to assist us in being able to get federal funds because of the declaration of an emergency. It doesn't have any practical effect on how we do business. And that's kind of a question for Mr. Ochs. I want to make sure that that's not an incorrect statement. MR. OCHS: Well, it does have some potential implications for doing business. Part of that order, at the Board's direction, allowed me to process certain contracts for goods and services in your absence. And now that we're getting back to a regular board meeting schedule, that shouldn't be much of an issue. The other thing is -- and, Jeff, help me if I'm misstating this, but I believe we link the duration of your local state of emergency to the state's state of emergency so that they would end or run concurrently. MR. KLATZKOW: Yes. That's what we did, because normally a local state of emergency only last seven days. MR. OCHS: So I would recommend that when the state terminates their order, yours will automatically terminate as a function of what you did previously. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. That's fine. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And my thoughts are in that regard, I like the idea of us staying with our state of emergency, April 28, 2020 Page 122 but I would like to clarify procedurally that no unilateral decisions are made and that even in decision-making processes that are done in absentia, they come back to this board for ultimate discussion and ratification so that we're not -- this isn't a -- this isn't a hurricane. I spoke with Jeff about this yesterday. This isn't a place and time where phones are off, power's off, and all we can get to is the Chairman of the Board. All of us are able to be reached and communicated with and polled, necessarily, as to decision and things that come up. So I just want to -- if, in fact, we need to amend the existing emergency declaration to ensure that that is continually -- going to continue to transpire, then -- and -- or if what we have is okay, then let's leave it alone and just leave it. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think what we have is okay. The Manager's not going to take advantage of that. The fact we're meeting every two weeks now -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Never. MR. OCHS: Yeah. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I wasn't suggesting -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: No, no. I just don't think there's any need to amend the order at this point unless there's -- a majority of the Board wants to. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I think having it in place allows us to qualify for funding -- MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- and things that may come from the federal and state government, so... CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Exactly. All right. Then the last thing on my list -- it's actually Commissioner Fiala's list -- is how do we deal with our parks. The current situation with our parks is that they're basically open without any organized activities except for pools are closed, the centers are April 28, 2020 Page 123 closed, but people can go out there and walk and hike and whatever types of activities they want to do outdoors following the CDC guidelines. The question I think you're asking now is do we need to open our parks even more than they already are. And perhaps you could kind of tell us where we are with our parks and how that's been -- MR. OCHS: Sure. You hit it on the head, sir. My recommendation to the Board would be, you know, effective this Thursday, that you authorize me to begin to re-open elements of your parks, primarily your playing fields and your hard courts, while still maintaining social distancing regulations that are in the CDC guidance. I wouldn't recommend opening aquatic facilities or any of your gymnasiums or fitness centers or indoor spaces at this point, but I would tell you that we're working on those plans, and we can bring those forward perhaps at your May 12th meeting and give you a sense of, again, with the Governor's update, when we might be able to make those recommendations to the Board. But, again, I would like to move as soon as this Thursday to begin opening playing fields and your hard courts in some of your park facilities. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Commissioner Taylor -- I mean, I'm sorry, Commissioner McDaniel was first. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No. And I -- he brought up two points, and it wasn't clear in my motion as far as the opening of our beaches and parks on Thursday. Is that Wednesday night at midnight, or is that Thursday morning, or what's the time? MR. OCHS: The parks open at dawn and close at dusk. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And our beaches? MR. OCHS: Those are your beach parks. I'm sorry. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. April 28, 2020 Page 124 MR. OCHS: Your parks -- I'm looking at Mr. Carnell because I don't want to -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Parks and rec. Just to be clear for the community so that we're not misleading people. MR. OCHS: Park hours, Steve? MR. CARNELL: Yeah. Right now we're opening sunrise to 8:00 p.m. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. So Thursday morning at sunrise is when we could actually see those openings transpires? MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Going back around to -- COMMISSIONER FIALA: I have a question for Steve, so don't leave. Go ahead. I didn't want to interrupt you, but... COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's all right. I agree with the Manager with regard to -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Steve, you need to social distance from the Sheriff. MR. OCHS: For your own good, Steve. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Somebody remind me what I was talking about. MR. OCHS: You agreed with the County Manager. I always remember that part. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: You remembered that part. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, yeah, that's right. I agree with County Manager. That's what it is. I think we ought to hold off on our gymnasiums and indoor facilities for a minute but allow for the hard courts and our fields and such to be opened back up again as long as people are abiding by the guidelines that are set forth. The boys can't play five on five. They've got to do three on three, and those that are waiting for their April 28, 2020 Page 125 turn to play, six feet apart and stay off to the side, so -- and I think we'll be able to get there. You know, I don't -- I really -- I have a lot of confidence in our community and their capacities to be able to abide by the guidelines that are set forth. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So I'm going to put in my little two cents here. Aquatic facilities, you could allow lap swimming. That could continue. You don't have to allow the playground to be open and whatnot. But I'm assuming the parks you're talking about -- are we talking about playgrounds opening? MR. OCHS: No. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No. So you wouldn't have to have the aquatic playground, and that would help a lot. But lap swimmers are notoriously solitary, and they -- by the time they finish, you know, their 50 laps, they're so tired they don't talk to anyone. So I'm thinking that perhaps we could start lap swimming. And it is chlorine they're immersed in also. MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Does that help? It helps. Okay. We heard it. CDC says it helps. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's if you stay under water for more than 30 minutes, and then that kills the virus. It kills the host, but it kills the virus. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: You're in the water for more than 30 -- you're in the water for about an hour. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Steve, you had said that the parks will close at 8:00, but a lot of these soccer games over at Eagle Lakes don't even start until after dinner, and they're always gone -- going until it gets dark. In fact, even after it's dark. They use the lights. April 28, 2020 Page 126 Will they not be able to then play their soccer games? MR. CARNELL: Well, ma'am, we're not recommending that anybody be playing soccer games at this time with competitive games. What I think we're contemplating is opening the fields, 10 people or fewer at a time on the fields and socially distanced. And what we're seeing in other counties that are re-opening their parks, they're putting that specific limit of no competitive activities. But more what you were alluding to, Commissioner, three on three, spaced-out activities. Almost like individual practice, because that's what keeps people six feet apart. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Can I get the Manager or, Mr. Carnell, get you to concisely tell us what you want to do with the parks, what you want to be open and what you want to be closed, and then we can make a motion to effectuate what you guys are saying that you want to do. MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. Again, our recommendation was to open the hard courts and the playing fields subject to the social distancing requirements in the Governor executive order beginning Thursday morning. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So moved. COMMISSIONER FIALA: And the playgrounds are open, too? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: No. MR. OCHS: No, ma'am. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Pools are closed. Everything's closed except for what he -- that's why I wanted him to clarify exactly what would be open. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Dog parks? MR. CARNELL: Not yet, but we could include that if you'd like. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Fine. April 28, 2020 Page 127 MR. CARNELL: It wasn't in the original recommendation. COMMISSIONER FIALA: What about the children? MR. OCHS: I'd just keep it to the recommendation I gave you. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Let's get back to, okay, what it is that you want us to do, specifically. MR. OCHS: Yes. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And then we already have a motion, but let's go ahead and restate it, and it just what you've said. MR. OCHS: Yes. Our recommendation is to open the hard courts and the playing fields subject to CDC and Governor's executive order social distancing requirements beginning this Thursday morning. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And you have the ability to enforce that? MR. OCHS: Yes, sir, and that goes back to some of -- the point about opening some of these other things. We're moving people from those areas to help us with enforcing beaches and these other areas we'd like to open. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I believe Commissioner Solis had made a motion to accept that; is that correct? COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And was there a second? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. He beat me. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: There was a second on the motion. Commissioner Fiala. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, on the motion -- and in a couple of our parks they don't have all of these other things. They only have a playground. And where will the children go then? We've got -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We're not going to open up the playgrounds yet. We can't do that -- April 28, 2020 Page 128 COMMISSIONER FIALA: I hear that. What do the kids do in the park? MR. OCHS: Commissioners, if I could get till your next board meeting to develop some additional plans and figure out where we're going to get the janitorial services to do the kind of cleaning on hard playground surfaces that's required, I'll bring that all back to you on the 12th. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. We have a motion and a second. It's a very limited motion in terms of continuing our park operations. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed, signify by saying no. (No response.) CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously. COMMISSIONER FIALA: No, I'm not going to say no, but I need to talk to Leo after we leave here. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. You can always do that. So you said yes, so the motion passed. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, I said yes. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. The motion passed unanimously. Okay. That was my list of things that we needed to discuss today. Does anybody have anything else from the Commission? COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I think we're good. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: So we're going to be meeting again at the call of the Manager and the Chairman in terms of an emergency meeting after the Governor issues his order. We'll April 28, 2020 Page 129 probably have to have a meeting -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We should. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- to discuss that. Our homework is, if we do decide to create a committee, we're going to have an idea who we want to be on that committee. I want to -- and there may be some closing comments from the Commission, but I want to -- my closing comment is that there has been a misconception -- and I've mentioned it once today. I'm going to mention it again -- and that is that Collier County businesses are closed because of Collier County Government. That's not the case. Businesses are closed in Florida right now because of the Governor's order, and we're complying with the order, and the citizens of Collier County have done a fantastic job of social distancing, and we're going to continue social distancing. What we've done today is we've opened our beaches. If there's a problem on the beaches, I'll be the first to call the emergency meeting to close down our parking facilities. So the citizens of Collier County need to exercise social distancing, or we're going to have to re-think what we've done. The only other thing that we've done today is basically open some more facilities at our parks or more opportunities at our parks. And I think that's all been very proactive and very positive stuff. Anybody else have any other comments you want to make before we adjourn? Commissioner McDaniel. Item #15 STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, commissioner comments, and it's just -- I'm going to -- and it has to do with what April 28, 2020 Page 130 we were talking about with land-use items and the like. At our next meeting, not the emergency meeting that we have to talk about the Governor's order and particularly with regard to the opening, but I'm going -- I want you to be thinking about this -- and I know your stuff's already packed, but I'm going to make a -- bring forward a resolution to extend our meetings through the summer and not take our typical summer break off and allow for -- yeah. COMMISSIONER FIALA: Excuse me. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: She's already not feeling good. But I just want you to start thinking about that and how you can add that in. At our next meeting I'm going to bring forward that in an executive summary so we can come to a consensus there. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Anything else? COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah, just -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: -- one thing. In the history, in past, not with me on this commission, but in the past they have had meetings that have lasted more than one day. So there is that opportunity also. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Sure. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I will resist with the last breath in my body two-day commission meetings. COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Oh. That's good. So we'll get a lot of work done. COMMISSIONER FIALA: What did you say, resist with -- CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: With the last breath in my body to have a two-day county commission meeting. COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You've done those before, haven't you? CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: No. I've never done a county April 28, 2020 Page 131 commission meeting that lasted that long. Other commissioners did that, and -- COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Oh, okay. We don't need to have that. CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I think that was -- I think that was crazy. We are adjourned. ***** **** Commissioner Solis moved, seconded by Commissioner Fiala and carried that the following items under the Consent and Summary Agendas be approved and/or adopted ****   Item #16A1 RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF ESPLANADE GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB OF NAPLES HATCHER PARCEL, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20190001680) APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/STIPULATIONS Item #16A2 RECORDING THE MINOR FINAL PLAT OF VINCENT ACRES REPLAT, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20190001665 – W/STIPULATIONS Item #16A3 RECORDING THE AMENDED FINAL PLAT OF MANATEE April 28, 2020 Page 132 COVE (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20190002421) APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – W/STIPULATIONS Item #16A4 RECORDING THE MINOR FINAL PLAT OF AZURE AT HACIENDA LAKES – PHASE 2 LOTS 178-199, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20200000024 – LOCATED OFF COLLIER BOULEVARD/RATTLESNAKE HAMMOCK ROAD Item #16A5 RECORDING THE MINOR FINAL PLAT OF HAMILTON PLACE - REPLAT, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20200000101 Item #16A6 RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF THE CAREER PATHWAY LEARNING LAB, (APPLICATION NUMBER PL20190000473) APPROVAL OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PERFORMANCE SECURITY – LOCATED OFF OF NEW MARKET ROAD, IMMOKALEE, FLORIDA Item #16A7 FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES, AND ACCEPTING CONVEYANCE OF A April 28, 2020 Page 133 PORTION OF POTABLE WATER FACILITIES FOR VANDERBILT COMMONS LOT 3 PHASE 2, PL20190002287 – A FINAL INSPECTION TO DISCOVER DEFECTS IN MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF ON DECEMBER 4, 2019, IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES, AND THE FACILITIES WERE FOUND TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE Item #16A8 FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND ACCEPTING CONVEYANCE OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR NAPLES RESERVE CIRCLE, PL20180002717 AND AUTHORIZING 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 – A FINAL INSPECTION TO DISCOVER DEFECTS IN MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP WAS CONDUCTED BY DEVELOPMENT REVIEW STAFF ON FEBRUARY 24, 2020, IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES, AND THE FACILITIES WERE FOUND TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE Item #16A9 FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND ACCEPTING CONVEYANCE OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR WINDING CYPRESS PHASE 2B, PL20170001128 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 ~ er, April 28, 2020 Page 134 DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT Item #16A10 FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES FOR CREEKSIDE CORNERS AT CREEKSIDE EAST, PL20160000024, ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES, AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE UTILITIES PERFORMANCE SECURITY (UPS) AND FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $26,687.72 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – A FINAL INSPECTION TO DISCOVER DEFECTS IN MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF ON MARCH 6, 2020, IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES, AND THE FACILITIES WERE FOUND TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE Item #16A11 FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR HEALTHCARE NETWORK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA NICHOLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, PL20190002129 – LOCATED ON COLLIER BOULEVARD Item #16A12 FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF POTABLE WATER AND SEWER April 28, 2020 Page 135 FACILITIES FOR DAVIS BOULEVARD SELF STORAGE, PL20190000073, ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF 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 $18,806.16 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – A FINAL INSPECTION TO DISCOVER DEFECTS IN MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF ON MARCH 23, 2020, IN COORDINATION WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES, AND THE FACILITIES WERE FOUND TO BE SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE Item #16A13 RESOLUTION 2020-66: FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF PUBLIC ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS FOR A PORTION OF THAT ROADWAY KNOWN AS WOODCREST DRIVE, LOCATED BETWEEN ACREMAKER ROAD AND TREE FARM ROAD, APPROXIMATELY 1,000 FEET OF TWO- LANE ROADWAY, PERMIT NO. PRROW20190204809 Item #16A14 RESOLUTION 2020-67: FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVATE ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF BENT CREEK PRESERVE (PHASE 1), APPLICATION NUMBER PL20120001267, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE MAINTENANCE SECURITY Item #16A15 ~~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~, ---- April 28, 2020 Page 136 AUTHORIZING THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $38,360 WHICH WAS POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER PL20170002567 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH MOORINGS PARK AT GRANDE LAKE – PHASE ONE Item #16A16 AUTHORIZING THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000 WHICH WAS POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR EXCAVATION PERMIT NUMBER PL20180003258 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH MOORINGS PARK AT GRANDE LAKE – PHASE TWO Item #16A17 AWARDING INVITATION TO BID NO. 20-7681, “MOTOROLA IRRIGATION CENTRAL CONTROL SYSTEM PARTS AND SERVICES” TO CONTEMPORARY CONTROLS & COMMUNICATIONS, INC. – TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT, SERVICE, TRAINING, PARTS, AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE COUNTY’S IRRIGATION SYSTEM, MOTOROLA ™ ICC PRO Item #16A18 – Continued to the May 12, 2020 BCC Meeting (Per Agenda Change Sheet) RECOMMENDATION TO AWARD AGREEMENT NO. 14-6213- 135, GOODLETTE ROAD WEST BANK PILOT PROJECT, TO QUALITY ENTERPRISES USA, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF ~ ~ April 28, 2020 Page 137 $426,100.30 FOR THE GOODLETTE ROAD WEST BANK STABILIZATION - PILOT PROJECT, AUTHORIZING NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS, AND AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE WORK ORDER. (PROJECT NO. 50186) – TO PROVIDE EROSION CONTROL AND BANK STABILIZATION IN A SECTION OF THE STORMWATER CONVEYANCE DITCH LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF GOODLETTE FRANK ROAD BETWEEN POMPEI LANE AND GRANADA BOULEVARD, AS A PILOT PROJECT Item #16A19 THE COLLIER COUNTY FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT PLAN 2018 AND 2019 PROGRESS REPORT, AND APPROVING THE PROPOSED ACTION PLAN FOR 2020 AND DIRECTING THE COUNTY MANAGER OR DESIGNEE TO INSERT IT INTO THE EFFECTIVE FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT PLAN – STAFF PROVIDES THIS ANNUAL REPORT TO KEEP THE BOARD INFORMED OF PROGRESS WITH REGARDS TO FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE COUNTY Item #16A20 AWARDING INVITATION TO BID NO. 20-7705 “MULCH AND INSTALLATION SERVICES” TO FORESTRY RESOURCES, LLC, D/B/A THE MULCH AND SOIL COMPANY, AS THE PRIMARY VENDOR, AND SOUTHEAST SPREADING COMPANY, LLC, AS THE SECONDARY VENDOR AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENTS – TO INSTALL MULCH WITHIN COUNTY MAINTAINED FACILITIES, ROADWAY MEDIANS, AND RIGHT-OF-WAY ~~ ~ ~ :i~ ~; -- April 28, 2020 Page 138 Item #16A21 A SHORT-LIST OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS PURSUANT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) #19-7599, DESIGN SERVICES FOR LOCAL AGENCY PROGRAM (LAP) FUNDED PROJECTS AND TO AUTHORIZE ENTERING INTO NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY AND CAPITAL CONSULTING SOLUTIONS, FOR "ENGINEERING & DESIGN SERVICES FOR LAP FUNDED PROJECTS", GROWTH MANAGEMENT GRANT FUND 711 – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16A22 ACKNOWLEDGING AN ALLOCATION OF SURFACE TRANSPORTATION-URBAN (“SU”) FUNDS TO THE COLLIER METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION (“COLLIER MPO”) IN THE AMOUNT OF $200,000, AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS – TO PREPARE THE 2045 LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN (LRTP) Item #16A23 SELECTION COMMITTEE RANKINGS FOR REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 19-7639R, “CEI SERVICES FOR GATOR CANAL BRIDGE REPLACEMENT (BRIDGE NUMBER 030160),” AND AUTHORIZING STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH TOP-RANKED FIRM, HARDESTY & HANOVER CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LLC – THE BRIDGE IS EXPERIENCING EXPONENTIAL ~~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~, ---- April 28, 2020 Page 139 TIMBER PILE DECAY Item #16A24 CREATING AND FUNDING A PILOT PROGRAM FOR SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS IN THE GOLDEN GATE ESTATES COMMUNITY – A BUDGET AMENDMENT IS REQUIRED TO FUND THE PURCHASE OF TEN (10) DRIVER FEEDBACK SIGNS AT THE COST OF $10,000 EACH AND TWO YEAR OF ANNUAL MAINTENANCE AT A COST OF $10,000 PER YEAR Item #16A25 RELEASE OF FOUR (4) CODE ENFORCEMENT LIENS, WITH AN ACCRUED VALUE OF $527,564.40 FOR PAYMENT OF $964.40, IN CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ENTITLED BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS V. PEE-WEE’S DUMPSTERS, INC., CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD CASE NOS. CESD20120014608, CELU20120014618, CEOCC20150022849, AND CEOCC20160012333, RELATING TO PROPERTY LOCATED AT 721 LOGAN BLVD. S., COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA – FOR PROPERTY IN FORECLOSURE AND LATER ACQUIRED AT AUCTION BY CDL NAPLES INVESTMENT, LLC, VIA CERTIFICATE OF TITLE Item #16A26 AUTHORIZING THE CLERK OF COURTS TO RELEASE A PERFORMANCE BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $15,000 WHICH WAS POSTED AS A GUARANTY FOR WORK WITHIN THE COUNTY RIGHT-OF-WAY; PERMIT PRROW2018010071601 – April 28, 2020 Page 140 FOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH WIRELESS FACILITIES Item #16A27 ACCEPTING A SUB-AWARD AND GRANT AGREEMENT H0452 WITH THE FLORIDA DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (FDEM) FOR FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $72,000 UNDER THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM FOR THE DESIGN OF FREEDOM PARK DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS – PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS WILL HELP ALLEVIATE FLOODING WITHIN THE UPPER GORDON RIVER BASIN Item #16A28 ACCEPTING SUB-AWARD AND GRANT AGREEMENT H0469 WITH FLORIDA DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (FDEM) FOR FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $112,500 UNDER THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM FOR THE DESIGN OF THE PINE RIDGE ESTATES SUBDIVISION DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS – PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS WILL HELP ALLEVIATE FLOODING WITHIN THE PINE RIDGE ESTATES SUBDIVISION Item #16A29 ACCEPTING SUB-AWARD AND GRANT AGREEMENT H0459 April 28, 2020 Page 141 WITH FLORIDA DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (FDEM) FOR FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $66,000 UNDER THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM FOR THE DESIGN OF THE UPPER GORDON RIVER CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS AND AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS – PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS WILL HELP ALLEVIATE FLOODING WITHIN THE UPPER GORDON RIVER BASIN Item #16A30 – Withdrawn (Per Agenda Change Sheet) RECOMMENDATION TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA AMENDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT, WHICH WAS CREATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 2013-57; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE Item #16A31 ACCEPTING GULF CONSORTIUM SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT NO. 200097221.01 UNDER THE RESTORE ACT SPILL IMPACT COMPONENT AND THE STATE OF FLORIDA STATE EXPENDITURE PLAN (POT 3) FOR MONITORING OF THE COLLIER COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE WATERSHED IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS FOR THE NORTH BELLE MEADE DRAINAGE AND ROAD NETWORK AREA FOR THE COMBINED AMOUNT OF $775,760 AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT (PROJECT NO. 33673) – AS DETAILED IN THE April 28, 2020 Page 142 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16A32 A RESTORATION AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN WINCHESTER LAND, LLC AND COLLIER COUNTY TO RESOLVE A PENDING CODE ENFORCEMENT CASE – TO ADDRESS OVER-EXCAVATION ON THE PROPERTY FROM MINING ACTIVITIES AND RESOLVE PENDING CODE ENFORCEMENT CASE CESD20180014546 Item #16A33 AWARDING A WORK ORDER TO KYLE CONSTRUCTION, INC., UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 14-6213, FOR THE LELY GOLF ESTATES STORMWATER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, IN THE AMOUNT OF $103,670 (PROJECT NO. 60224) AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT – LOCATED ON THE EAST SIDE OF BIG SPRINGS DRIVE Item #16A34 TERMINATION OF A UTILITY EASEMENT, ACQUIRED FOR SANITARY SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH CIRCLE K STORE NO. 3860, PL20190000401 – CONVEYED IN ERROR AND NOT NEEDED FOR THE CIRCLE K PROJECT Item #16B1 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, ACTING AS THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD, April 28, 2020 Page 143 RECOGNIZE RECEIPT OF SETTLEMENT PROCEEDS, APPROVE THE PREPAYMENT OF CRA TAXABLE NOTE, SERIES 2017, PRINCIPAL IN THE AMOUNT OF $360,000 AND AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS – TO UTILIZE SETTLEMENT PROCEEDS FROM LAWSUITS STYLED BAYSHORE-MARCO ISLAND, LLC V. CRA, NAPLES FUNDING, LLC V. CRA, AND LENDEQUITY, LLC V. CRA; THE SETTLEMENT RESULTED IN THE PAYMENT OF $24,000 FOR 15 LAND SALE PARCELS Item #16B2 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, ACTING AS THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD, APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE A SHORELINE STABILIZATION GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND DENNIS SAMBLANET, “DENNIS J. SAMBLANET AND KATHLEEN J. RILEY, AS TRUSTEES OF THE SAMBLANET- RILEY JOINT REVOCABLE TRUST DATED, MAY 24TH, 2019” IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,000 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2998 POPLAR STREET NAPLES FLORIDA 34112 LOCATED WITHIN THE BAYSHORE GATEWAY TRIANGLE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16C1 AWARDING FOUR AGREEMENTS FOR REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATION ("RFQ") #19-7622, “ANNUAL AGREEMENT FOR WASTEWATER PUMP STATIONS REPAIR AND April 28, 2020 Page 144 RENOVATION,” TO: QUALITY ENTERPRISES USA, INC., DOUGLAS N. HIGGINS, INC., PRECISION LIFT STATIONS, INC., AND US WATER SERVICES CORPORATION, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENTS – ROUTINE WASTEWATER PUMP STATION RENOVATION FOR MAINTAINING 903 WASTEWATER PUMP STATIONS Item #16C2 AWARDING A $502,447.35 WORK ORDER UNDER AGREEMENT NO. 14-6213 TO QUALITY ENTERPRISES USA, INC., TO INSTALL AN 8” HDPE FORCEMAIN PIPE TO CONVEY LEACHATE FROM THE EXISTING COLLIER COUNTY LANDFILL LEACHATE MASTER PUMP STATION TO THE NEW DEEP INJECTION WELL LOCATED IN THE RESOURCE RECOVERY BUSINESS PARK AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE WORK ORDER – THE PROJECT CONSISTS OF MULTIPLE CONSTRUCTION COMPONENTS, INCLUDING A PUMP STATION, SCADA MONITORING SYSTEM, AND CONVEYANCE PIPE Item #16C3 AMENDMENT NO. 2 WITH SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT TO CONTINUE LEASING OFFICE SPACE FOR TOURISM ON HORSESHOE DRIVE NORTH AND TO REVISE THE ANNUAL RENT AMOUNT – A 1-YEAR TERM FOR A LEASE AMOUNT OF $74,371.14, UNTIL TOURISM CAN BE RELOCATED TO A COUNTY-OWNED FACILITY, WHICH IS PLANNED TO OCCUR PRIOR TO THE 1-YEAR EXTENSION April 28, 2020 Page 145 Item #16C4 THE SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING OF REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 19-7637, “GOLDEN GATE CITY TRANSMISSION WATER MAIN IMPROVEMENTS DESIGN,” AND AUTHORIZING STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOP RANKED FIRM, JOHNSON ENGINEERING, INC., SO THAT STAFF CAN BRING A PROPOSED AGREEMENT BACK FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING – POTABLE WATER UTILITIES WITHIN GOLDEN GATE CITY HAVE REACHED THE END OF THEIR USEFUL LIVES AND PLANS TO EXPAND POTABLE WATER SERVICES TO GOLDEN GATE CITY RESIDENTS REQUIRE UPSIZING OF THE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Item #16C5 AUTHORIZING NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS TO REALLOCATE PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT PROJECT FUNDS – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16C6 AWARDING A $271,800 WORK ORDER UNDER REQUEST FOR QUOTATION NO. 14-6213-205372-2 TO DOUGLAS N. HIGGINS, INC., TO REPLACE AERATION TREATMENT EQUIPMENT AT THE NORTH COUNTY WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY (NCWRF), PROJECT NO. 70148 – ANTICIPATED TO BE COMPLETED IN 2020 April 28, 2020 Page 146 Item #16C7 AWARDING INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 20-7709, “SOUTH COUNTY WATER RECLAMATION FACILITY PUMP STATION NO. 5 & PIPING IMPROVEMENTS" (PROJECT NUMBER 70251), TO DOUGLAS N. HIGGINS, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,527,400, AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENT AND AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS – TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF THE PLANT DRAIN PUMPING SYSTEM AT SCWRF Item #16C8 SELECTION COMMITTEE RANKINGS OF REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ("RPS") NO. 19-7633, “SOUTH COUNTY REGIONAL WATER TREATMENT PLANT REACTOR TANK NO. 4 – CEI SERVICES,” PROJECT NO. 70135, AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH TOP-RANKED FIRM, STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES, INC., SO STAFF CAN BRING A PROPOSED AGREEMENT BACK FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING Item #16C9 AWARDING AN AGREEMENT FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (“RFP”) NO. 19-7592, “BUILDING AUTOMATION ENERGY MANAGEMENT SERVICES,” TO JUICE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. D/B/A PLUG SMART, AS A PRIMARY VENDOR, AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM SERVICES, INC., AS A SECONDARY VENDOR FOR COUNTY-WIDE BUILDING April 28, 2020 Page 147 AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEM SERVICES – TO OBTAIN BUILDING AUTOMATION ENERGY MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR REPAIRS, MAINTENANCE, TRAINING, TECHNICAL SUPPORT, EQUIPMENT, AND REPAIR PARTS Item #16C10 AUTHORIZING STAFF TO ELECTRONICALLY APPLY FOR A FOAM RECYCLING GRANT, IN THE AMOUNT UP TO $50,000, THROUGH THE FOAM RECYCLING COALITION (FRC) TO BE USED AT SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT DIVISION (SHWMD) RECYCLING FACILITIES – TO SUPPORT INCREASED RECYCLING OF FOODSERVICE PACKAGING MADE FROM FOAM POLYSTYRENE AND START OR STRENGTHEN POST-CONSUMER FOAM RECYCLING Item #16C11 AN EASEMENT AGREEMENT WITH ISTORAGE PO, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $2,100 FOR THE ACQUISITION OF A COUNTY UTILITY EASEMENT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF NEW WATERMAIN LINES TO FACILITATE I-75/ COLLIER BOULEVARD UTILITY RELOCATION PROJECT NUMBER 70229 – COMMENCING AT THE SOUTH COUNTY REGIONAL WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ENDING AT THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF FOREST GLEN GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB Item #16C12 April 28, 2020 Page 148 AN EASEMENT AGREEMENT WITH FOREST GLEN GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC., A FLORIDA NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $60,133 FOR THE ACQUISITION OF A COUNTY UTILITY EASEMENT AND TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF PROPOSED WATER MAINS TO FACILITATE THE I-75/COLLIER BOULEVARD UTILITY RELOCATION PROJECT, PROJECT NUMBER 70229 – COMMENCING AT THE SOUTH COUNTY REGIONAL WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ENDING AT THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF FOREST GLEN GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB Item #16C13 AWARDING AGREEMENT NO. 19-7621 IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $7,622,000 TO TETRA TECH, INC., FOR THE "GOLDEN GATE WASTEWATER ENGINEER OF RECORD (EOR) AND INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS," WITH AUTHORIZATION TO ISSUE AN INITIAL PURCHASE ORDER FOR PORTIONS OF PHASES 1, 2 AND 4 IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,467,000, FOLLOWED BY FUTURE PURCHASE ORDER MODIFICATIONS FOR SUBSEQUENT CONTRACT TASKS SUBJECT TO BOARD APPROVAL AND AS DICTATED BY BOARD-APPROVED FUNDING, IN SUPPORT OF GOLDEN GATE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT PROJECT NO. 70243 AND THE FUTURE REPAIR, REHABILITATION AND EXPANSION WITHIN GOLDEN GATE CITY – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16D1 April 28, 2020 Page 149 TWO SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENTS TO NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAMS 1 AND 3 TO ALIGN WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT'S FEDERAL REGISTER MODIFICATIONS ALLOWING FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE TARGETED GEOGRAPHIC AREAS – TO INCLUDE REVISED GEOGRAPHIC AREAS Item #16D2 A STATUTORY DEED BETWEEN COLLIER COUNTY’S STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SECTION AND THE CONSERVATION COLLIER PROGRAM FOR APPROXIMATELY 0.826 ACRES UNDER CONSERVATION COLLIER LAND ACQUISITION PROGRAM EXCEPTIONAL BENEFIT ORDINANCE, TO INCREASE DITCH CONVEYANCE CAPACITY AND CREATE A SPREADER SWALE SYSTEM ALLOWING BETTER DISTRIBUTION OF STORMWATER FLOW INTO THE NATURAL WETLAND SYSTEM ON THE EAST END OF THE PARK PRIOR TO ENTERING THE GORDON RIVER, AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $5,450 – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16D3 RELEASING SEVEN (7) MORTGAGE SATISFACTIONS FOR THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP LOAN PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF $350,000 – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16D4 ~~ ~~ ~, ---- April 28, 2020 Page 150 AWARDING CONTRACT #19-7596, SERVICES FOR SENIORS RESPITE FACILITY & ADULT DAY CARE, TO ARDEN COURTS-LELY PALMS OF NAPLES FL, LLC D/B/A ARDEN COURTS OF LELY PALMS AND SHIFTING SANDS ADULT DAY CENTER, LLC AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ASSOCIATED AGREEMENTS – TO PROVIDE FACILITY RESPITE AND DAYCARE SERVICES TO THE ELDERLY IN COLLIER COUNTY Item #16D5 AN “AFTER-THE-FACT” CONTRACT AMENDMENT AND ATTESTATION STATEMENT BETWEEN THE AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, INC. AND COLLIER COUNTY SERVICES FOR SENIORS TO AMEND THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT, COMMUNITY CARE FOR THE ELDERLY, HOME CARE FOR THE ELDERLY, ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE INITIATIVE PROGRAM, AND THE EMERGENCY HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM TO CORRECT THE COUNTY’S FEDERAL TAX ID NUMBER AND DUNS NUMBER ON THE CONTRACT Item #16D6 THREE (3) MORTGAGE SATISFACTIONS FOR THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP (SHIP) LOAN PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF $54,735 AND ASSOCIATED BUDGET AMENDMENT – DEPOSITED FUNDS WILL BE USED FOR SHIP ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES Item #16D7 ~ ~~ ~, ---- April 28, 2020 Page 151 ONE (1) RELEASE OF LIEN FOR FULL PAYMENT OF A COUNTY-WIDE IMPACT FEE FOR AN OWNER OCCUPIED AFFORDABLE HOUSING DWELLING – FOR PROPERTY AT 7524 BRISTOL CIRCLE, NAPLES, FL Item #16D8 COOPERATIVE PROCUREMENT AND USE OF JACKSONVILLE TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY’S CONTRACT NO. P-18-005, STATE OF FLORIDA HEAVY DUTY BUSES, FOR THE PURCHASE OF 30, 35 AND/OR 40-FOOT BUSES FOR THE COLLIER AREA TRANSIT SYSTEM – TO REPLACE OR EXPAND COLLIER AREA TRANSIT’S (“CAT”) BUSES BETWEEN JANUARY OF 2020 AND MAY 2024 Item #16D9 AUTHORIZING BUDGET AMENDMENTS TO ENSURE SUFFICIENT PROJECT FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO COMPLETE THE REPAIRS RESULTING FROM HURRICANE IRMA DAMAGE TO THE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION BUILDING – LOCATED AT 14700 IMMOKALEE ROAD Item #16D10 ELECTRONIC SUBMITTAL OF A 2020 FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION 5339 BUS AND BUS FACILITIES GRANT APPLICATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $9,020,000 FOR THE PURCHASE OF SIX (6) 30’ FIXED-ROUTE BUSES AND THE RENOVATION OF THE COLLIER AREA TRANSIT April 28, 2020 Page 152 MAINTENANCE FACILITY ON RADIO ROAD – REQUIRES A TWENTY PERCENT (20%) MATCH IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,051,324 Item #16D11 AFTER-THE-FACT ELECTRONIC SUBMITTAL OF YEAR THREE CONTINUATION APPLICATION TO THE CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE, FOR THE RETIRED AND SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $62,022 AND, IF APPROVED, ACCEPT THE AWARD AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT – REQUIRES A LOCAL MATCH OF $26,581 Item #16D12 A NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT TO RECOGNIZE REVENUE FOR FY20 RECEIVED FROM THE STATE AID TO LIBRARIES GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $210,937 Item #16D13 “AFTER-THE-FACT” ELECTRONIC SUBMITTAL OF A FY20 NATIONAL DAY OF SERVICE GRANT APPLICATION FROM THE CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE IN THE AMOUNT OF $49,975 TO COMPLETE THE FREEDOM MEMORIAL AT THE FRED W. COYLE FREEDOM PARK – BY PURCHASING “STATE STONES” TO COMPLETE THE MEMORIAL April 28, 2020 Page 153 Item #16D14 RESOLUTION 2020-68: SUPERSEDING RESOLUTION 2019-29 AND UPDATING THE CO-PAYMENT WAIVER PROCEDURE FOR SENIORS WHO ARE ENROLLED IN THE STATE GRANT PROGRAMS COMMUNITY CARE FOR THE ELDERLY AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE INITIATIVE ADMINISTERED BY THE COMMUNITY AND HUMAN SERVICES DIVISION Item #16E1 RESOLUTION 2020-69: ADOPTING COLLIER COUNTY’S MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL LOCAL MITIGATION STRATEGY (LMS) FOR COLLIER COUNTY AND ITS JURISDICTIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE FEDERAL DISASTER MITIGATION ACT OF 2000 Item #16E2 AN ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT ASSIGNING ALL RIGHTS, DUTIES AND BENEFITS, AND OBLIGATIONS TO HERITAGE LANDSCAPE SUPPLY GROUP, INC., UNDER AGREEMENT #19-7586 “SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF HERBICIDES, FUNGICIDES, AND PESTICIDES” – DUE TO A 2019 ASSET PURCHASE Item #16E3 AN AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT NUMBER 18-7263 FOR THE COUNTY’S VISA COMMERCIAL CREDIT CARD WITH J.P. MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. – CHANGING THE BILLING April 28, 2020 Page 154 CYCLE FROM THE CURRENT CYCLE TO ONE THAT COORDINATES WITH BCC MEETINGS AND ADDS A 30/25 TERM OF PAYMENT (30-DAY CYCLE WITH PAYMENT DUE WITHIN 25 DAYS) Item #16E4 AMENDMENT NO. 15 TO THE AGREEMENT WITH COLLIER COUNTY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD FOR THE DRIVER EDUCATION PROGRAM – IF APPROVED, FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $151,000 WILL BE PROVIDED WITHIN 45 DAYS TO THE DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD FROM THE DRIVER EDUCATION TRUST FUND Item #16E5 AWARDING REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-ME, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY – MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING AND TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING CATEGORY,” TO: JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC., MCKIM & CREED, INC., WOOD ENVIRONMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS, INC., JENKINS MAAG ASSOCIATES LLC, AND STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES INC., AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENTS Item #16E6 AWARDING REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-UC, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY – UTILITY COLLECTION & DISTRIBUTION,” TO: April 28, 2020 Page 155 JOHNSON ENGINEERING, INC., Q. GRADY MINOR AND ASSOCIATES, P.A., TETRA TECH, INC., AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC., STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES INC., CARDNO, INC., CAROLLO ENGINEERS, INC., AND CDM SMITH INC., AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENTS Item #16E7 AWARDING REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-SC, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY – SCADA ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION CATEGORY,” TO: TETRA TECH, INC., CAROLLO ENGINEERS, INC., MCKIM & CREED, INC., AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC., AND JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC., AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENTS Item #16E8 AWARDING REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-UP, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY – UTILITY PLANTS DESIGN AND ENGINEERING,” TO: TETRA TECH, INC., AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC., CAROLLO ENGINEERS, INC., STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES INC., CONSOR ENGINEERS, LLC, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO TKW CONSULTING ENGINEERS, INC., CDM SMITH INC., Q. GRADY MINOR AND ASSOCIATES, P.A., BLACK & VEATCH CORPORATION, HOLE MONTES, INC., CARDNO, INC., WATER SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, INC., CPH, INC., JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC., AND MCKIM & April 28, 2020 Page 156 CREED, INC., AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENTS Item #16E9 AWARDING REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-ST, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY - STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING CATEGORY,” TO: JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC., STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES INC., KISINGER CAMPO & ASSOCIATES, CORP., BRIDGING SOLUTIONS, LLC, HIGHSPANS ENGINEERING, INC., T.Y. LIN INTERNATIONAL, WESTON & SAMPSON ENGINEERS, INC., TRC WORLDWIDE ENGINEERING, INC., STANLEY CONSULTANTS, INC., AND BLOT ENGINEERING INC., AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENTS Item #16E10 AWARDING REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 18-7432-AR, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY ARCHITECTURAL STUDY, PLANNING AND DESIGN CATEGORY,” TO: VICTOR J. LATAVISH, ARCHITECT, P.A., WOOD ENVIRONMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS, INC., JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP, INC., HARVARD JOLLY, INC., BSSW ARCHITECTS, INC., ADG ARCHITECTURE, LLC, STUDIOPLUS, LLC, PK STUDIOS, INC., AND RG ARCHITECTS, P.A., AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENTS April 28, 2020 Page 157 Item #16E11 MODIFICATIONS TO THE 2020 FISCAL YEAR PAY & CLASSIFICATION PLAN WHICH CONSISTS OF TWO ADDITIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS AND SIX RECLASSIFICATIONS MADE FROM JANUARY 1, 2020 THROUGH MARCH 31, 2020 Item #16E12 AN ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PREPARED BY THE PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY AND NOTIFICATION OF REVENUE DISBURSEMENT – INCLUDES ON-LINE SALES THIS PERIOD IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,362.50 Item #16E13 ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS AND OTHER CONTRACTUAL MODIFICATIONS REQUIRING BOARD APPROVAL. NOTE: THIS ITEM WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR THE 4/14/20 BCC MEETING WHICH WAS CANCELLED – WITH A NET TOTAL FOR SEVEN (7) ITEMS = $1,643,182.57 Item #16E14 ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS AND OTHER CONTRACTUAL MODIFICATIONS REQUIRING BOARD ~ ~ ~ April 28, 2020 Page 158 APPROVAL – NET TOTAL FOR EIGHT (8) ITEMS = $330,257.88 Item #16F1 AN ASSUMPTION, ASSIGNMENT AND EXTENSION OF AGREEMENT NO. 12-5957, ACKNOWLEDGING THE ASSIGNMENT OF THAT AGREEMENT TO PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, INC.’S (THE “CONSULTANT”) AFFILIATE, PFM FINANCIAL ADVISORS, LLC (“PFM”), AND EXTENDING THAT AGREEMENT WITH PFM THROUGH MAY 31, 2022, AS AN EXEMPTION TO THE COMPETITIVE PROCESS UNDER SECTION 2-193 OF THE CODE OF LAWS AND ORDINANCES OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA – AVERAGE (ANNUAL) EXPENDITURES FOR 2018 AND 2019 HAVE TOTALED $95,700 Item #16F2 A REPORT COVERING TWO BUDGET AMENDMENTS IMPACTING RESERVES AND MOVING FUNDS IN AN AMOUNT UP TO AND INCLUDING $25,000 AND $50,000, RESPECTIVELY – BA #20-395: VETERINARIAN FEES IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000 Item #16F3 AWARDING REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 20-7680 FOR “PELICAN BAY SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS DESIGN,” IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $314,894, TO AGNOLI, BARBER & BRUNDAGE, INC., AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENT April 28, 2020 Page 159 AND AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT – WORK FOR THIS PROJECT INCLUDES PREPARATION OF ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS THAT SHOW SPECIFIC DETAILS NECESSARY FOR PERMITTING, BIDDING, AND CONSTRUCTION TO REPLACE EXISTING ASPHALT SIDEWALKS WITH CONCRETE AND WIDEN SIDEWALKS TO 6 FEET Item #16F4 RESOLUTION 2020-70: APPROVING AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2019-20 ADOPTED BUDGET Item #16G1 THE SELECTION COMMITTEE RANKINGS FOR REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 20-7692, “DESIGN SERVICES FOR EVERGLADES AIRPARK RUNWAY REHABILITATION,” AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOP-RANKED FIRM, HOLE MONTES, INC., SO THAT STAFF CAN BRING A PROPOSED AGREEMENT BACK FOR THE BOARD’S CONSIDERATION AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING Item #16G2 RESOLUTION 2020-71: AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION GRANT AGREEMENT CONTRACT NO. G1K34 WITH FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ~ ~ ~ ~ April 28, 2020 Page 160 TRANSPORTATION FOR $80,000 FOR THE SEAPLANE BASE PROJECT AT EVERGLADES AIRPARK, AND ASSOCIATED BUDGET AMENDMENTS Item #16G3 CHANGE ORDER #3 TO AGREEMENT NO. 18-7240, “MARCO EXECUTIVE AIRPORT NEW TERMINAL & ASSOCIATED IMPROVEMENTS,” WITH WEST CONSTRUCTION, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $115,412.08 – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #16G4 A DOCUMENT NECESSARY TO CONVEY AN EASEMENT TO FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT (FP&L) COMPANY OVER PROPERTY OWNED BY COLLIER COUNTY AT THE MARCO ISLAND EXECUTIVE AIRPORT – PARCEL #00744080001, APPROXIMATELY 774.115 SQUARE FEET (0.02 ACRES) Item #16G5 AFTER-THE-FACT ACCEPTANCE OF A FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (FAA) GRANT AMENDMENT AND AN ADDITIONAL $150,000 OF FUNDING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AIRFIELD SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AT THE MARCO ISLAND EXECUTIVE AIRPORT, AND APPROVE THE ASSOCIATED BUDGET AMENDMENTS – A REQUIRED MATCH OF $16,667 EXISTS WITHIN MATCH FUND (499) PROJECT NO. 33484 April 28, 2020 Page 161 Item #16H1 A PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MAY 7, 2020 AS NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER IN COLLIER COUNTY. THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE MAILED TO NEW HOPE MINISTRIES, 7675 DAVIS BOULEVARD, NAPLES, FLORIDA Item #16H2 A PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING APRIL 2020 AS NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING MONTH IN COLLIER COUNTY. THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE DELIVERED TO TAMI BAILEY, FEDERAL & STATE GRANTS MANAGER, COLLIER COUNTY COMMUNITY AND HUMAN SERVICES DIVISION Item #16H3 A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING THE RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE AVE MARIA STEWARDSHIP COMMUNITY DISTRICT DESIGNATING THE FEAST OF THE ANNUCIATION (NORMALLY MARCH 25TH) AS THE TOWN’S ANNUAL FEAST DAY AND RECOGNIZING MARCH 25TH AS THE BIRTHDAY OF TOM MONAGHAN, FOUNDER OF AVE MARIA TOWN AND AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY. THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE MAILED TO ROBERT L. KLUCIK JR., P.A. Item #16H4 A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING THE SUCCESSFUL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARTS OF COLLIER COUNTY, April 28, 2020 Page 162 FLORIDA FOR THE PAST 50 YEARS BY THE MARCO ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS. THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE MAILED TO DEBBY RODDY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE MARCO ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS Item #16H5 A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING THAT APRIL 12 - 18, 2020 WAS NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMMUNICATORS WEEK. THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE COLLIER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE Item #16H6 A PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING THAT APRIL 19-25, 2020 WAS NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMS' RIGHTS WEEK. THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE MAILED TO EILEEN WESLEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PROJECT HELP, INC. 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 APRIL 2, 2020 AND APRIL 15, 2020 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06. Item #16J2 REPORT TO THE BOARD REGARDING THE INVESTMENT OF April 28, 2020 Page 163 COUNTY FUNDS AS OF THE QUARTER ENDED MARCH 31, 2020 Item #16J3 THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF APRIL 22, 2020 Item #16K1 AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,000 TO SETTLE THE LAWSUIT STYLED JOSEPH GIANNONE V. COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, CASE NO. 19-CA-2386 NOW PENDING IN THE 20TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN COLLIER COUNTY Item #16K2 RESOLUTION 2020-72: REAPPOINTING JOHN AGNELLI TO THE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AUTHORITY TO A 5-YEAR TERM EXPIRING MARCH 23, 2025 Item #16K3 RESOLUTION 2020-73: REAPPOINTING GEORGE FOGG TO THE FOREST LAKES ROADWAY & DRAINAGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO A 4-YEAR TERM EXPIRING APRIL 21, 2024 Item #16K4 April 28, 2020 Page 164 RESOLUTION 2020-74: APPOINTING MICHAEL MCCABE (CITY OF NAPLES REP) AND REAPPOINTING AMANDA COX, NANCY KERNS AND VICTOR RIOS TO THE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL TO 4-YEAR TERMS EXPIRING APRIL 21, 2024 Item #16K5 EXECUTIVE ORDER 2020-01: AN EXECUTIVE ORDER AUTHORIZING THE USE OF COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA TECHNOLOGY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT PUBLIC MEETINGS Item #16K6 MODIFICATIONS TO THE COUNTY ATTORNEY OFFICE PAY PLAN BASED ON RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A 2020 SALARY STUDY CONDUCTED BY CODY & ASSOCIATES – AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Item #17A RESOLUTION 2020-75: APPROVING AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING CARRY FORWARD, TRANSFERS AND SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2019-20 ADOPTED BUDGET ***** April 28, 2020 Page 165 There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 1:13 p.m. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL ___________________________________ BURT SAUNDERS, CHAIRMAN ATTEST CRYSTAL K. KINZEL, CLERK ___________________________ These minutes approved by the Board on ______________________, as presented _____________ or as corrected _____________. TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF FORT MYERS COURT REPORTING BY TERRI LEWIS, FPR, COURT REPORTER AND NOTARY PUBLIC.