BCC Minutes 06/23/2020 RJune 23, 2020
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, June 23, 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
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Community Redevelopment Agency Board (CRAB)
Airport Authority
AGENDA
Board of County Commission Chambers
Collier County Government Center
3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd Floor
Naples, FL 34112
June 23, 2020
9:00 AM
Commissioner Burt Saunders, District 3 — Chair
Commissioner Andy Solis, District 2 — Vice -Chair
Commissioner Donna Fiala, District 1; CRAB Co -Chair
Commissioner Penny Taylor, District 4
Commissioner William L. McDaniel, Jr., District 5; CRAB Co -Chair
NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST
REGISTER PRIOR TO PRESENTATION OF THE AGENDA ITEM TO BE
ADDRESSED. ALL REGISTERED SPEAKERS WILL RECEIVE UP TO THREE
(3) MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS ADJUSTED BY THE CHAIRMAN.
REQUESTS TO PETITION THE BOARD ON SUBJECTS WHICH ARE NOT ON
THIS AGENDA MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING WITH EXPLANATION
TO THE COUNTY MANAGER AT LEAST 13 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF
THE MEETING AND WILL BE HEARD UNDER "PUBLIC PETITIONS."
PUBLIC PETITIONS ARE LIMITED TO THE PRESENTER, WITH A
MAXIMUM TIME OF TEN MINUTES.
ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD
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WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING PERTAINING THERETO,
AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD
OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE
TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO.2003-53 AS AMENDED BY
ORDINANCE 2004-05 AND 2007-249 REQUIRES THAT ALL LOBBYISTS
SHALL, BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY LOBBYING ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDRESSING THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS), REGISTER WITH THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AT THE
BOARD MINUTES AND RECORDS DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY
ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING,
YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN
ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT DIVISION LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL,
SUITE 1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380; ASSISTED
LISTENING DEVICES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ARE AVAILABLE IN
THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION.
LUNCH RECESS SCHEDULED FOR 12:00 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
2. AGENDA AND MINUTES
A. Approval of today's regular, consent and summary agenda as amended (ex
parte disclosure provided by commission members for consent agenda.)
B. May 26, 2020 BCC Meeting Minutes
3. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
A. EMPLOYEE
B. ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
C. RETIREES
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D. EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
4. PROCLAMATIONS
5. PRESENTATIONS
6. PUBLIC PETITIONS
7. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE CURRENT
OR FUTURE AGENDA
8. BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
9. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS
A. This item to be heard no sooner than 10:45 a.m. This item continued
from the April 14, 2020 BCC meeting, continued further to June 23,
2020 BCC Meeting. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance amending
Ordinance No. 89-05, as amended, the Collier County Growth Management
Plan for the unincorporated area of Collier County, Florida, specifically
amending the Urban Golden Gate Estates Sub -Element of the Golden Gate
Area Master Plan Element and Urban Golden Gate Estates Future Land Use
Map and Map Series by amending the Estates Mixed -Use District to add the
Naples Senior Center community facility subdistrict to allow construction of
up to 30,000 square feet of community facility uses for family social service
programs and activities for seniors aged 60 and over. The subject property is
located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Oakes Boulevard and
Autumn Oaks Lane, approximately 350 feet south of Immokalee Road, in
Section 29, Township 48 South, Range 26 East, consisting of 8.7f acres; and
furthermore, recommending transmittal of the adopted amendment to the
Florida Department of Economic Opportunity; providing for severability and
providing for an effective date. [PL20180002622] (This is a companion to
Agenda Item #913) (District 3)
B. This item to be heard no sooner than 10:45 a.m. This item requires ex
parte disclosure be provided by the Commission members. Should a
hearing be held on this item, all participants are required to be sworn
in. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance amending Ordinance Number
2004-41, as amended the Collier County Land Development Code, which
established the comprehensive zoning regulations for the unincorporated
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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 an Estates (E) zoning district to a Community Facility
Planned Unit Development (CFPUD) zoning district for the project to be
known as Naples Senior Center CFPUD, to allow up to 30,000 square feet of
Individual and Family Social Services (SIC 8322) for seniors 60 and older,
including activity centers for the elderly, adult day care centers, community
centers for senior citizens, senior citizen associations, family counseling, old
age assistance, and outreach programs and for Group Support Services for
the elderly on property located on the southeast corner of the intersection of
Oakes Boulevard and Autumn Oaks Lane, approximately 350 feet south of
Immokalee Road, in Section 29, Township 48 South, Range 26 East,
consisting of 13.6± acres; and by providing an effective date.
[PL20180002622] (This is a companion to Agenda Item #9A) (District 3)
10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
A. Recommendation to direct the County Manager to work with the County
Attorney to bring back a resolution at the next Board meeting designating
the area located in the District 2 Industrial Park area as the Naples Art
District. (Commissioner Solis) (District 2)
11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT
A. Recommendation to accept the COVID-19 Status Report and provide further
direction as appropriate. (Steve Carrell, Department Head, Public Services
Department) (All Districts)
B. Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners enter into a
funding agreement with the Florida Department of Emergency Management
for Coronavirus Relief Act funds allocated to Collier County, authorize the
County Manager or designee to execute any sub -award agreements and
payment requests necessary to distribute reimbursement for expenses to
eligible parties, authorize necessary budget amendments to carry out
distribution of funds, authorize up to eight (8) temporary, full-time
employees to administer the program, and provide direction on a staff plan
for the distribution of funds; and approve all necessary budget amendments.
(Sean Callahan, Executive Director, Corporate Business Operations) (All
Districts)
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C. Recommendation to approve Agreement No. 20-045-NS with Navitus
Health Solutions, LLC, for Pharmacy Benefit Management Services,
effective January 1, 2021 and authorize estimated expenditures in the annual
amount of $9,891,000. (Jeff Walker, Risk Management Division Director)
(All Districts)
D. Recommendation to approve the purchase of a Cisco Voice-over-IP
telephone system and professional services for installation and migration
from the current telephone system using General Services Administration
("GSA") contracts No. GSA GS-35F-303DA (hardware/software) and GS-
35F-538GA (professional services) in the estimated amount of $2,500,000.
(Len Price, Department Head, Administrative Services) (All Districts)
E. Recommendation to award Agreement No. 19-7593 in the total amount of
$7,721,527.60 to Q. Grady Minor & Associates, P.A. for the "Palm River
Utility Improvements," with authorization to issue an initial purchase order
for Task 1 in the amount of $743,542.50; to be followed by future purchase
order modifications for subsequent Tasks 2 and 3, both encompassed in the
total contract amount, subject to and dictated by Board -approved funding
under Projects Nos. 70257 and 60234; and authorization of the necessary
budget amendments. (Tom Chmelik, Public Utilities Engineering and
Project Management) (District 2)
12. COUNTY ATTORNEY'S REPORT
13. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
14. AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND/OR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY
A. AIRPORT
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
15. STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
A. BCC Future Workshop Schedule (All Districts)
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16. CONSENT AGENDA - All matters listed under this item are considered to be
routine and action will be taken by one motion without separate discussion of
each item. If discussion is desired by a member of the Board, that item(s) will
be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered separately.
A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and accept the
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for Naples
Reserve Phase III, PL20180002712 and to authorize the County
Manager, or his designee, to release the Final Obligation Bond in the
total amount of $4,000 to the Project Engineer or the Developer's
designated agent. (District 1)
2) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and accept the
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for
Fronterra Phase 113, PL20180001934 and to authorize the County
Manager, or his designee, to release the Final Obligation Bond in the
total amount of $4,000 to the Project Engineer or the Developer's
designated agent. (District 3)
3) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and accept the
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for
Greyhawk at Golf Club of the Everglades Phase 3, PL20180003487
and to authorize the County Manager, or his designee, to release the
Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $4,000 to the Project
Engineer or the Developer's designated agent. (District 5)
4) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water
utility facilities for Price Street Plaza — Phase 4, PL20180003732, and
to authorize the County Manager, or his designee, to release the Final
Obligation Bond in the total amount of $4,000 to the Project Engineer
or the Developer's designated agent. (District 1)
5) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for Price Street Plaza (Phase 1), PL20180003074,
accept the conveyance of a portion of the potable water and sewer
facilities, and to authorize the County Manager, or his designee, to
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release the Final Obligation Bond in the total amount of $4,000 to the
Project Engineer or the Developer's designated agent. (District 1)
6) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer facilities and accept the conveyance of the potable water and
sewer facilities for City Gate Commerce Center Phase Three,
PL20200000609. (District 3)
7) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water
facilities and accept the conveyance of the potable water facilities for
the Sports Complex and Event Center — Phases IA, I and Phase 2,
PL20200000727. (District 2)
8) Recommendation to approve final acceptance and accept the
conveyance of the potable water and sewer utility facilities for Artesia
Phase 4, PL20180000208 and to authorize the County Manager, or his
designee, to release the Final Obligation Bond in the amount of
$4,000 to the Project Engineer or the Developer's designated agent.
(District 1)
9) Recommendation to approve a Resolution for final acceptance of the
private roadway and drainage improvements for the final plat of
Hadley Place East, Application Number PL20160002628, and
authorize the release of the maintenance security. (District 3)
10) Recommendation to approve a Resolution for final acceptance of the
private roadway and drainage improvements for the final plat of
Maple Ridge Reserve at Ave Maria, Phase 1, Application Number
PL20140001692, and authorize the release of the maintenance
security. (District 5)
11) Recommendation to approve the selection committee's ranking and
authorize staff to enter into contract negotiations with Agnoli, Barber
& Brundage, Inc., concerning Request for Professional Services
("RPS") #20-7678, "Solana Road Stormwater Improvements Design
Services." (District 4)
12) Recommendation to authorize the electronic submission of the County
Incentive Grant Program (CIGP) Application with the Florida
Department of Transportation to fund a phase of Collier Boulevard
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(CR 951) from the Golden Gate Main Canal to Green Boulevard in
the amount of $10,000,000. (District 5)
13) Recommendation to authorize the electronic submission of the County
Incentive Grant Program (CIGP) Application with the Florida
Department of Transportation to fund a phase of Randall Boulevard
from 8th Street NE to Everglades Boulevard in the amount of
$6,725,000 (District 5)
14) Recommendation to authorize the electronic submission of the County
Incentive Grant Program (CIGP) Application with the Florida
Department of Transportation to fund a phase of Vanderbilt Beach
Road from 16th Street NE to Everglades Blvd in the amount of
$21,000,000. (District 5)
15) Recommendation to approve Change Order No. 11 to Agreement
No. 05-3865 with Jacobs Engineering, Inc., for restarting the design
and permitting of the Collier Boulevard ("CR 951 ") expansion from
Green Boulevard to the Golden Gate Main Canal, to align the
roadway improvements with the County's recent acquisition of the
former Golden Gate Golf Course and the development of the Collier
County Sports Complex, in the total not -to -exceed amount of
$726,762; and to authorize the necessary budget amendment. (Project
68056) (District 3, District 5)
16) Recommendation to approve the Developer Agreement with Halstatt,
LLC that will allow for the design, right-of-way and construction of
intersection improvements on Airport Road at Golden Gate Parkway,
right-of-way for a future right turn lane extension on Golden Gate
Parkway at Airport Road and a cost sharing and reimbursement plan.
(District 4)
17) Recommendation to recognize the funding received by a Public
Transit Grant Agreement between the Florida Department of
Transportation and the Collier Metropolitan Planning Organization
that includes Federal pass -through 49 USC § 5305(d) funding and to
authorize necessary budget amendments for grant revenue in the
amount of $133,410 and a local match in the amount of $14,823. (All
Districts)
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18) Recommendation to approve an agreement for the purchase of an
easement required for maintenance, operation, and construction of
improvements to the Corkscrew Canal Weir 2 control facilities
located on Shady Hollow Blvd. West just north of Immokalee Rd. and
west of Wilson Blvd. (Canal Easement Acquisitions Project No.
50180.) (All Districts)
19) Recommendation to approve two agreements for the purchase of
easements required for maintenance, operation and construction of
improvements to the Faka Union Canal Weir 5 control facilities just
south of Randall Blvd and east of Everglades Blvd. (Canal Easement
Acquisitions Project No. 50180.) (All Districts)
20) Recommendation to award a supplemental contract to Stewart Title
Company under Request for Proposal ("RFP") #17-7200SS, "Real
Estate Title & Closing Services." (All Districts)
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
1) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, acting as
the Community Redevelopment Agency Board, approve and authorize
the Chairman to execute a Site Improvement Grant Agreement
between the Community Redevelopment Agency and Bad Assets
LLC, in the amount of $8,000 for the property located at 3399 Canal
Street, Naples, Florida 34112 located within the Bayshore Gateway
Triangle Community Redevelopment Area. (District 4)
C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve a Fifth Amendment to Real Estate Sales
Agreement with Richard D. Yovanovich, Successor Trustee (and not
individually) for the extension of the due diligence period for the sale
of the 47 +/- acre parcel known as the Randall Curve Property.
(District 5)
2) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid ("ITB") No. 20-7716,
"Pelican Ridge Blvd. 8" Water Main Replacement" (Project No.
70195), to Kyle Construction, Inc., in the amount of $667,658 and
authorize the Chairman to sign the attached agreement. (District 2)
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3) Recommendation to approve a $364,619 work order under Request
for Quotation No. 15-6469 to Wells & Water System, Inc., under
Project Number 70085, to condition and treat twelve production wells
in the Golden Gate Wellfield. (All Districts)
4) Recommendation to approve the selection committee's ranking and
authorize entering into negotiations with Kaufman Lynn Construction,
Inc., for a contract related to Request for Proposal No. 20-7754-ST,
"Construction Manager at Risk ("CMAR") for the Heritage Bay
Government Center." (All Districts)
D. PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve staff s action undertaken to make the
minimum repairs required to facilitate the safe transport of emergency
service vehicles on Blue Sage Drive, so as to provide for the health,
safety, and welfare of County residents, and authorize any after the
fact Budget Amendments required to have made those necessary
repairs utilizing public funds on a private road, subject to
reimbursement from the Blue Sage Drive Municipal Service Taxing
Unit. (District 5)
2) Recommendation to approve and authorize an Amendment to the
Agreement (20.h.sm. 100.020) between the State of Florida,
Department of State, Division Historical Resources and Collier
County Board of County Commissioners to extend the Period of
Performance end date from June 30, 2020 to August 15, 2020 for the
Margood Harbor Park Historic Cottage site. (District 1)
3) Recommendation to award Request for Quotation No. 2004-012,
"SNF Lazy River Bridge Replacement," under Agreement No.
19-7525, Annual Agreement for General Contractor Services, to
Compass Construction, Inc., and authorize the issuance of purchase
order in the amount of $348,328 to replace the timber pedestrian
bridge over the Lazy River water feature at Sun-N-Fun Lagoon Water
Park. (District 3)
4) Recommendation to approve a Resolution and authorize the Chairman
to execute the FY2020/21 Transportation Disadvantaged Trust Fund
Trip/Equipment Grant Agreement with the Florida Commission for
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the Transportation Disadvantaged to assist with system operating
expenses, and the necessary Budget Amendments. (All Districts)
5) Recommendation to approve an Agreement for Sale and Purchase
with Fairmont Arcadia, Inc., a Florida corporation, for 2.28 acres
under the Conservation Collier Land Acquisition Program at a cost
not to exceed $34,300. (All Districts)
6) Recommendation to authorize a Budget Amendment to allow
continuous operation of the State Housing Initiatives Partnership
Program prior to the execution of the FY2020/2021 funding award.
(All Districts)
7) Recommendation to authorize a Budget Amendment for an additional
FY 2019/2020 SHIP program allocation of $104,264 and FY
2019/2020 Program Income of $82,006.64, and authorize an extension
of FY 2017/2018 funding from June 30, 2020 to December 30, 2020.
(All Districts)
8) Recommendation to approve and authorize the chairman to sign six
(6) mortgage satisfactions for the State Housing Initiatives Partnership
loan program in the amount of $76,950 and the associated Budget
Amendment. (All Districts)
9) Recommendation to approve two (2) "After -the -Fact" second
amendments and corresponding attestation statements with the Area
Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida, Inc., for Community Care
for the Elderly and Home Care for the Elderly grant programs for
Services for Seniors to add temporary services for COVID-19 to the
contract via an amendment to Attachment I (Statement of Work) and
Attachments XII (CCE) and XIV (HCE) (Service Rate Report). (All
Districts)
10) Recommendation to authorize the necessary Budget Amendments to
reflect the estimated funding for the Community Care for the Elderly,
Alzheimer's Disease Initiative, and Home Care for the Elderly
programs in the amount of $1,385,202; $26,643.60 in co -payment
contributions and the estimated cash match of $82,430.51. (All
Districts)
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11) Recommendation to approve an "after -the -fact" amendment and
attestation statement with the Area Agency on Aging for Southwest
Florida, Inc., Older American Act grant program for the Collier
County Services for Seniors to add Families First Act COVID-19 C 1
in the amount of $91,668.32 and COVID-19 C2 in the amount of
$170,293.92, add Shopping Assistance and Telephone Reassurance as
an approved reimbursement cost, and approve supporting Budget
Amendments. (All Districts)
12) Recommendation to approve an amendment to the Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) 49 USC § Section 5307 FYI Grant Award to
change the Program scope from purchasing Bus Flashers and Back-up
Sensors to purchasing and installing Fixed Route Bus Driver Security
Barriers, and authorize the execution of the amendment through the
Transit Award Management System (TrAMS). (All Districts)
13) Recommendation to approve an "After -the -Fact" third amendment
and attestation statement with the Area Agency on Aging for
Southwest Florida, Inc., Alzheimer's Disease Initiative grant program
for Services for Seniors to amend Attachment XV-Service Rate
Report to add temporary services for COVID-19 to the contract. (All
Districts)
14) Recommendation to authorize the Chairman to sign three (3)
applications for facilities impacted by Hurricane Irma to the State
Department of Economic Opportunity for competitive Community
Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery funding in the amount
of $2,499,298.38. (All Districts)
15) Recommendation to extend Agreement No. 09-5247, Tigertail Beach
Food & Beach Concessions with Recreational Facilities of America,
Inc., until July 14, 2020. (District 1)
16) Recommendation to (1) approve the Collier County FY2020-2021
One -Year Action Plan for U.S. Department of Housing & Urban
Development for Community Development Block Grant, HOME
Investment Partnerships and Emergency Solutions Grant Programs,
including the reprogramming of funds from previous years and
estimated program income; (2) approve the Resolution, U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development Certifications and
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Assurances, and SF 424s Application for Federal Assistance, and (3)
authorize the Chair to sign future federal funding agreements and
authorize transmittal to the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban
Development. (This is a companion item to Agenda Item # 16D 17)
(All Districts)
17) Recommendation to (1) approve and authorize the Chairman to sign
twelve (12) subrecipient agreements for activities previously approved
in the FY2020-2021 Action Plan for the Community Development
Block Grant), HOME Investment Partnership and Emergency
Solutions Grant Programs; and (2) authorize the necessary Budget
Amendments, in the amount of $3,673,078, for the HUD FY2020-
2021 budget as approved in the HUD Action Plan for entitlement
funds and (3) authorize a budget amendment recognizing $14,838.54
in recaptured funds received under the Home Investment Partnership
Program. (This is a companion to Agenda Item 16#D 16) (All
Districts)
E. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to award Request for Professional Services ("RPS")
No. 18-7432-AQ, "Professional Services Library — Aquatics
Engineering and Design Services Category," to Water Technology,
Inc., Aquatic Design & Engineering, Inc., d/b/a Martin Aquatic
Design & Engineering, and Aquatic Technologies Design &
Engineering Group, Inc., and authorize the Chairman to sign the
attached agreements. (All Districts)
2) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute a
Federally Funded Subgrant Agreement to accept the annual
Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) in the amount
of $110,834 for emergency management planning, response, and
mitigation efforts and to authorize the necessary budget amendments.
(All Districts)
3) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute State -
Funded Subgrant Agreement A0099 accepting a Grant award totaling
$105,806 from the Florida Division of Emergency Management for
emergency management program enhancement and authorize the
associated budget amendment. (All Districts)
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4) Recommendation to approve the administrative reports prepared by
the Procurement Services Division for change orders and other
contractual modifications requiring Board approval. (All Districts)
F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to recognize Debbi Maxon, Public Services Case
Manager, Services for Seniors as the May 2020 Employee of the
Month. The award has been presented to the recipient by staff
members. (All Districts) (All Districts)
2) Recommendation to approve a report covering two budget
amendments impacting reserves and moving funds in an amount up to
and including $25,000 and $50,000, respectively. (All Districts)
3) Recommendation to adopt a resolution approving amendments
(appropriating grants, donations, contributions or insurance proceeds)
to the Fiscal Year 2019-20 Adopted Budget. (All Districts)
G. AIRPORT AUTHORITY
1) Recommendation to authorize an increase in the Purchase Order for
Carlton Fields, P.A., in its construction law -related assistance
involving the construction of the new terminal facility, runway apron
and associated safety improvements at the Marco Island Executive
Airport (the "MKY Project") by West Construction, Inc. (Project No.
33484) (District 1)
H. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
I. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
1) Miscellaneous Correspondence (All Districts)
J. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
1) Recommendation to approve a budget amendment recognizing
$1,060,400 in revenues and expenditures in the Sheriffs Office
FY2020 General Fund budget. (All Districts)
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2) Request that the Board approve and determine valid public purpose
for invoices payable and purchasing card transactions as of June 17,
2020. (All Districts)
3) 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 May 28, 2020 and June 10, 2020 pursuant to Florida
Statute 136.06. (All Districts)
K. COUNTY ATTORNEY
1) Recommendation to approve a Retention Agreement for Legal
Services with Noell Law, PLLC. (All Districts)
2) Recommendation to reappoint a member to the Contractors Licensing
Board. (All Districts)
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17. SUMMARY AGENDA - This section is for advertised public hearings and
must meet the following criteria: 1) A recommendation for approval from
staff; 2) Unanimous recommendation for approval by the Collier County
Planning Commission or other authorizing agencies of all members present
and voting; 3) No written or oral objections to the item received by staff, the
Collier County Planning Commission, other authorizing agencies or the
Board, prior to the commencement of the BCC meeting on which the items
are scheduled to be heard; and 4) No individuals are registered to speak in
opposition to the item. For those items which are quasi-judicial in nature, all
participants must be sworn in.
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A. Recommendation to adopt a resolution approving amendments
(appropriating carry forward, transfers and supplemental revenue) to the
Fiscal Year 2019-20 Adopted Budget. (All Districts)
INQUIRIES CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE BOARD'S AGENDA SHOULD
BE MADE TO THE COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE AT 252-8383.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Ladies and gentlemen, the
meeting of the County Commission will please come to order.
We'll turn to our partner over here, Commissioner McDaniel, to
lead us in a pledge and also in an invocation.
Commissioner?
Item #1
INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Good morning, everyone. If
you would please bow your heads.
Heavenly Father, we want to ask thy blessing upon these
proceedings. Father, help us, as you always do, to remember the
good that you provide in our community every single day. Father, as
always, we ask you to keep sacred those on the front lines fighting
this virus: Our nurses, our doctors, our first responders and, as
always, Father, keep close those who fight for our freedoms.
In thy holy name I pray. Amen.
With me, ladies and gentlemen.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We generally like to have
representatives of various religions come to provide us with the
invocation, but because of the COVID situation, we don't want to
bring anybody unnecessarily to the Commission chambers. So,
Commissioner McDaniel, thank you for filling in.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's my honor and
pleasure, sir. I appreciate the opportunity.
Item #2A
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TODAY’S REGULAR, CONSENT AND SUMMARY AGENDA
AS AMENDED (EX PARTE DISCLOSURE PROVIDED BY
COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR CONSENT AGENDA.) –
APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED W/CHANGES
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Mr. Ochs, we have the
agenda and minutes. I know there's some changes to the agenda.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman and Commissioners,
good morning.
These are the proposed agenda changes for the Board of County
Commissioners' meeting of June 23rd, 2020.
The first proposed change is to move Item 16D1 from the
consent agenda to become Item 11F. This is a recommendation to
approve actions undertaken by the staff to effect repairs -- emergency
repairs on Blue Sage Drive. That item is moved at Commissioner
McDaniel's request.
And then we have a request to withdraw or continue
indefinitely, whichever you prefer, Items 9A and 9B. Those are the
public hearing items related to the senior center proposal at
Immokalee Road and --
MR. KLATZKOW: This should be continued, not withdrawn.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. They'll be continued
generally. And I see that Mr. Yovanovich is in the audience. If
he'll just acknowledge that that is his request. He can say -- just
wave your hand. That will be sufficient just to acknowledge that is
the request of the petitioner.
So these items, if the Board votes to do so, will be continued
generally when we approve the agenda and the consent agenda.
Any other changes?
MR. OCHS: No, sir. I do have an employee of the month,
after the Board sets the agenda, I'd like to recognize. Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner
McDaniel, any additional changes?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: No, sir, and nor any ex parte.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I don't think we -- do we have ex
parte this morning on the consent agenda?
MR. OCHS: You may have, potentially, for some on these
acceptance of easements or utility acceptance.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No changes to the agenda and
no ex parte.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No changes and no ex parte as
well.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, I wanted to continue two. Is
that --
MR. OCHS: No one can hear you, ma'am. You've got to get
up to the microphone.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, maybe I'm not worth hearing.
Who knows.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: You're definitely worth hearing.
Did you some other continuances?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah, a couple, and let me get
them, because they arrived back here. Just for discussion at another
meeting. Not bad discussion at all. It's just good stuff. And this is
No. 16D5, and that was the acquisition, the Conservation Collier, and
I would just like to discuss it at a meeting maybe the next time. I
didn't want to delay this meeting and -- or we could just pull it off
here, too.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, we're going to have a very
short meeting. So if you wanted to pull it off, if you're ready, it
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would be better to do it now.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That would be fine, yeah, right.
And the other one was the -- there's actually two of them, but they're
talking about the same thing and that's -- this is the housing
affordability program, and not that there's anything wrong with it.
I just have a great idea.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And I wanted to discuss it with
you, and that's 16D6 and also 16D17.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Mr. Ochs, if you could
tell us where those items would be, we'll put those on the regular
agenda this morning.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. Item 11 -- excuse me -- 16D5 will
become Item 11G. Item 16D6 will become 11H.
And then, Commissioners, the other item that was asked to be
moved is actually a companion item, so we'll need to pull both of
those to the regular agenda. Those would be Items 11D -- excuse
me -- 16D16 and 16D17 becoming Items 11I and J.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I thought it was 16D7. Was it
16D17 that you were --
MR. OCHS: No.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Seventeen is what she said.
MR. OCHS: She said 17, and 16 is a companion to that, so
we'll move them both.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. And which item will
that be 11 --
MR. OCHS: 11I is 16D16, and 11J is 16D17.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. All right. And I have no
changes and no ex parte as well.
Are there any other -- any discussion on the changes to the
agenda?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: If none, I'll entertain a motion to
approve the agenda as changed and the consent agenda and the
summary agenda.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion for approve.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Second.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: 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: It passes unanimously.
Mr. Yovanovich, we'll see you in September.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Correct.
Proposed Agenda Changes
Board of County Commissioners Meeting
June 23, 2020
Move Item 16D1 to Item 11F: Recommendation to approve staffs action undertaken to make the
minimum repairs required to facilitate the safe transport of emergency service vehicles on Blue
Sage Drive, so as to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of County residents, and authorize
any after the fact Budget Amendments required to have made those necessary repairs utilizing
public funds on a private road, subject to reimbursement from the Blue Sage Drive Municipal
Service Taxing Unit. (Commissioner McDaniel's request)
Withdraw Item 9A: ***This item to be heard no sooner than 10:45 a.m.***This item continued from
the April 14, 2020 BCC meeting, continued further to June 23, 2020 BCC Meeting.***
Recommendation to approve an Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 89-05, as amended, the Collier
County Growth Management Plan for the unincorporated area of Collier County, Florida, specifically
amending the Urban Golden Gate Estates Sub -Element of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan Element
and Urban Golden Gate Estates Future Land Use Map and Map Series by amending the Estates Mixed -
Use District to add the Naples Senior Center community facility subdistrict to allow construction of up
to 30,000 square feet of community facility uses for family social service programs and activities for
seniors aged 60 and over. The subject property is located on the southeast corner of the intersection
of Oakes Boulevard and Autumn Oaks Lane, approximately 350 feet south of Immokalee Road, in
Section 29, Township 48 South, Range 26 East, consisting of 8.7± acres; and furthermore,
recommending transmittal of the adopted amendment to the Florida Department of Economic
Opportunity; providing for severability and providing for an effective date. [PL20180002622] (This is a
companion to Agenda Item 9.6) (District 3) (Petitioner's Request)
Withdraw Item 9B: ***This item to be heard no sooner than 10:45 a.m.*** This item requires ex
parte disclosure be provided by the Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance amending
Ordinance 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 an Estates (E) zoning district to a Community Facility
Planned Unit Development (CFPUD) zoning district for the project to be known as Naples Senior
Center CFPUD, to allow up to 30,000 square feet of Individual and Family Social Services (SIC 8322)
for seniors 60 and older, including activity centers for the elderly, adult day care centers, community
centers for senior citizens, senior citizen associations, family counseling, old age assistance, and
outreach programs and for Group Support Services for the elderly on property located on the
southeast corner of the intersection of Oakes Boulevard and Autumn Oaks Lane, approximately 350
feet south of Immokalee Road, in Section 29, Township 48 South, Range 26 East, consisting of 13.6±
acres; and by providing an effective date. [PL20180002622] (This is a companion to Agenda Item 9.A)
(District 3) (Petitioner's Request)
7/13/2020 8:15 AM
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Item #2B
MAY 26, 2020 BCC MEETING MINUTES – APPROVED AS
PRESENTED
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, that takes you to Item 2B,
approval of the Board of County Commissioners' meeting minutes of
May 26th, 2020.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Any discussion, changes, or
corrections to the minutes?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Move approval.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And a 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.
Item #3D (See Item #16F1)
RECOGNIZING DEBBI MAXON – RECOGNIZED
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, I would like to take this
opportunity to recognize Debbi Maxon. Debbi Maxon is our Public
Services case manager and is our Employee of the Month for May of
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2020. She's not here because of our restrictions to attendance due to
the COVID pandemic, but I did want to just tell you a little bit about
Debbi, because she's been a long-time valued member of our team;
been with the county for 29 years. She works in our Community and
Human Services Division.
She does a great job year in and year out. Most recently she,
once again, went above and beyond the call. She had a client that
needed some assistance who was wheelchair bound, and she went out
and, on her own initiative, made contact with Collier Resource Center
trying to get help for a 92-year-old client to have a wheelchair ramp
constructed outside of her home so she could get in and out more
easily.
Due to Debbi's initiative, the Center secured funding from the
Saint Vincent De Paul and Alley Design Corporation to build and
donate their time for the permitting and construction of that ramp,
and it was completed earlier this year, and they had a nice ribbon
cutting ceremony, and it's just indicative of the kind of work that
Debbi Maxon does for us day in and day out, and it's the reason why
she was nominated by her peers, and we're honored to recognize and
congratulate her as the May 2020 Employee of the Month.
So, Debbi, if you're watching, congratulations.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So thanks for that opportunity,
Mr. Chairman.
And that takes us to Item 7 this morning, public comments on
general topics not on the current or future agenda.
MR. MILLER: I have no registered speakers under this topic,
sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right.
Item #10A
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RECOMMENDATION TO DIRECT THE COUNTY MANAGER
TO WORK WITH THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO BRING BACK
A RESOLUTION AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING
DESIGNATING THE AREA LOCATED IN THE DISTRICT 2
INDUSTRIAL PARK AREA AS THE NAPLES ART DISTRICT -
UPDATE GIVEN BY PAULA BRODY; MOTION TO BRING
BACK A RESOLUTION AT THE JULY 14, 2020 MEETING –
APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Okay. So that moves us to Item 10 this morning.
Item 10A is a recommendation to direct the County Manager to work
with the county to bring back a resolution at the next Board meeting
designating the area located in the District 2 industrial park area as
the Naples Art District, and Commissioner Solis had brought this
item forward.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Yes, this is a request from an organization that's been around,
actually, as the -- loosely. They started in 2006 as the Naples Art
District. And I actually have a map that I'd like to put on the
visualizer.
It's a group of artists, sculptors, ceramicists, jewelers that have
worked together since 2006 in an area off of Pine Ridge Road in the
industrial area. This is a group that has grown there organically.
As you can see, there's over 61 separate studios/galleries. These are
not only art galleries, but they're actually working studios. These are
professional artists that make their living this way and produce the
art, whether it's painting sculptures, ceramics, jewelry. These are
working studios for working professional artists that have grown up
organically here in this area.
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They incorporated as Naples Art District in 2016 and already
have a 501(c)3 designation. They have developed a well-known
following. They have cultural events there during the year.
Obviously, not this year. But regularly they have had events there
that many, many people attend. It's a well-known area. They spend
around $20,000 at least -- $20,000 a year in advertising the area and
advertising their events.
And as you can see, it's spread out over a fairly wide area off of
Shirley Street and J&C. And it's a -- it's a natural place for these
artists because they're tucked in with the cabinetmakers, with the
contractors that, you know, build custom homes, the companies that
do cabinetry and marble work and things like that. So it's been a
natural fit for the artists. And this is exactly what our Cultural
Strategic Plan says is something that we need to emphasize. It's a
designated area. It's known for this.
And what the request is is to have the County Manager and the
County Attorney work a resolution to come -- to bring back to the
Board to designate this area as the Naples Art District.
Some of the interesting things about this area is that they
are -- and this is what I think is fascinating is that they are -- they're
working studios. I mean, people go there to watch the artists create
their art, which I believe is another one of the things that the Cultural
Strategic Plan says is needed.
So, I mean, it's a real draw. You can spend -- you know, you
can spend a day there. I believe that we have someone that's either
on the phone or -- Paula Brody?
MR. MILLER: Yes, we do. We have Ms. Brody on the line, I
believe. Did you want her to speak as a public speaker or just --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Well, I'd like her to give a more
detailed background about what happens in the district area there,
what -- what the Naples Art District is and give you a better flavor of
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what's happening there, because it's really fascinating.
MR. MILLER: Ms. Brody, are you on the line?
MS. BRODY: I am.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And, Ms. Brody, you'll have as
much time as you need. Generally we limit speakers to three
minutes, but you're part of the Commissioner's presentation, so take
your time.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Thank you, Mr. Chair.
MS. BRODY: Thank you so much. I'm Paula Brody. And I
want to just begin by thanking all of the commissioners for the
deliberations this year regarding the coronavirus and the very tough
decisions you had to make keeping all of us in Collier County safe
and healthy.
I'm proud to represent our business neighborhood today as
president of the Naples Art District which, as Commissioner Solis
said, is a non-profit 501(c)3 alliance of over 65 working artists whose
studios are in the industrial area. Working in the industrial area has
not only enabled us to find studio space that is affordable, but it also
enables our potters to fire their ceramic art in kilns, our
woodworkers, our glassblowers, our silversmiths, and painters as
well to have large working studio spaces.
I personally am a mixed-media artist. I'm owner of Inspirations
Artists and Design Gallery, a location which I rented over four years
ago after being in the art district for two previous years. And at
Inspirations we have 2,000 square feet with six working artists, five
painters are working there, and one fiber artist who paints on silk.
We also teach classes and I, personally, had it not been for the
coronavirus, would have encouraged well over 100 people this year
alone to discover their own inner artist with classes encouraging their
creativity at Inspirations. Many of our other artists are actively
teaching, and we are really working in a wide variety of media.
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The unique thing about the Naples Art District is that our studios
are open to the public, if they could find us, but we also have regular
monthly events in the season: Our first Wednesday, Art Alive open
studios, and third Saturday, which are free opportunities for the
public to meet the local working artists, to actually watch art come
alive, to see a potter throw a pot, to see a collage artist add materials
to their painting, to understand what a silversmith goes through to
create beautiful custom jewelry, et cetera.
As Commissioner Solis mentioned, we spent over $20,000 a
year, money that really comes from our artists primarily and their
membership dues to the Naples Art District just in order to publicize
our area and enable people to find us through advertising in the
Naples Daily News, which is a media sponsor of the Naples Art
District but, nevertheless, we have to spend significant amounts of
money and publish our map so that people can discover us.
In the six years that I have been working in the Naples Art
District, I would say the most common question that people ask is
how long have you been here? How did we not know you were
here? It's hard to find the studios once you've discovered the Naples
Art District itself. We are tucked in among wonderful businesses
that cater primarily to the home design industry. It's certainly where
the granite is crafted and where the chairs are upholstered in addition
to where the art is made.
So we value our location in the industrial district. We're
certainly centrally located within Greater Naples, but it's very hard to
find us without any street signage.
So we're coming to you again today after coming to you a year
ago to ask for a formal designation as a cultural arts district here in
Naples in Collier County, actually, and this designation would allow
us to have street signage that would designate the Naples Art District
so that tourists and residents alike could more easily find what is
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really a cultural tourism asset for the county and really, as
Commissioner Solis said, a fabulous destination for a day of
exploring and meeting our local artists and watching art come alive.
A year ago you asked us to wait until the Strategic Arts Plan,
which had just been approved, was completed, and although we lost a
full season, which could have enhanced our visibility, we understood
that it was important to do this research.
And at this point the strategic plan has been completed. I
served on that task force and was pleased that the plan recognized
multiple cultural art districts throughout the county to be recognized,
including assistance with branding, signage, and promotion of all of
the cultural assets within Collier.
I wasn't surprised to see the research which indicated that
72 percent of survey respondents chose to go to art galleries or art
studios more than any other art venue, including art museums,
which -- 49 percent, or multipurpose art venues, 56 percent. And for
me that research solidified the importance of recognizing this
concentration of working art studios within the county as a cultural
asset. It seems that this designation would be a win win win for
everyone. It would certainly enable our entire neighborhood to
thrive, not only the artists, but the businesses surrounding us.
We are working collaboratively with these businesses now and
last year would have offered a premiere multi-day art and design
expo with our design neighbors had the coronavirus not canceled it
right on the cusp when it was scheduled for March 19th through
22nd. But that's planned again for November. We're hoping that
we will have a healthy and robust season ahead, but -- that
collaboration with our neighbors who are very supportive of having
the art district receive more visibility and accessibility as it will
enable all of us to thrive.
The survey research also said that 82 percent of Collier residents
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felt that top priorities should be making the arts more accessible, and
85 percent wanted free or low-cost opportunities. Furthermore, half
of the residents said they do not hear about the opportunities that are
there.
I just want to say that everything that we offer is free and open
to the public. We really want to make arts awareness and arts
education accessible to everyone at all economic and age sectors.
That is our mission.
Many of us teach arts in non-profit organizations. The list is
extensive, from the Collier County Childcare Resources,
STARability, Grace Place. Many of us are really giving our time in
that way. Many of us teach throughout the county at Naples Art
Association. I teach at the Center for the Arts in Bonita, as do many
of our local artists who also are professional artists showing their
work in the juried shows downtown.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Ms. Brody, let me interrupt. I
think we've got the general idea here. Let me turn it over to
Commissioner Solis. And I think one of the questions that I would
have is -- and this is for the County Manager or the County Attorney.
The thing says to designate this as "the arts district," and I think we
may have more than one arts district. And I want to make sure that
we're not precluding the areas in East Naples for --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No, absolutely not. And that's one
of the -- no. This is -- this would be one of the art districts.
Hopefully we'll have many art districts all over Collier County. You
know, obviously we've talked a lot about the Bayshore District, and
hopefully there's others that would come forward.
This particular one has grown organically over the years as the
Naples Art District. It's not intended that it would be the sole art
district in Naples or -- by any means. That is just the way its grown.
That's been the umbrella organization for this group of 60-plus artists
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that are there.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'd like to reserve my remarks
for after we hear from the United Arts Council, and I'm hoping -- I
think they're on the line.
Is that correct, Mr. Miller?
MR. MILLER: We have a couple remote speakers that are
registered. I do believe two of them are definitely on the line, yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel, do you
want to wait until the speakers speak?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I would like that as well,
please.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. And if you would advise
the speakers that they have three minutes.
MR. MILLER: Absolutely, sir. Our first speaker registered
for this item is Laura Burns.
Ms. Burns, are you on the line? Ms. Burns?
MS. BURNS: I am on the line.
MR. MILLER: You will have three minutes, ma'am.
MS. BURNS: Thank you. Good morning, everyone.
First, thank you very much to the Commission for the
investment into the Arts and Culture Strategic Plan. Without that
investment of $50,000 and $100,000 overall from our community, we
wouldn't be able to have the plan as our outline and with our
implementation strategy that's still being worked out.
All that being said, there's no denying that the Naples Art
District is a strong presence in our community, and they've done
wonderful work. And I can attest to that, being somebody who used
to have a studio in there in the '90s. So it's been working for a long
time in that area.
What I will say is the intention of the plan in Goal 2 is to
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establish all of Collier County as a cultural destination, and that's to
identify, develop, and promote unique and distinctive arts and culture
experiences throughout the county. It's anticipated, as we develop
this implementation plan in partnership with county management, the
CVB, and also our community organizations, that we would work in
a collaborative fashion to identify the source and work with hoteliers
in the community to create these activities and bundle them into a
district to ultimately be advertised for consumption and cultural
tourism for visitors and residents alike.
In my consultation and work with the cultural planning group,
the intention is that the Cultural Paradise Arts District Strategic Plan
has recommended a countywide cultural arts district program, and
this is meant to be an inclusive program looking at all the thriving
cultural areas of the district and to develop a comprehensive plan for
the county for signage, naming, and recognition.
And although the districts and the specific brand identities will
be unique, the program is meant to create a countywide program.
The Naples Art District is certainly one of those areas, a community
of artists that contribute directly to the economy of Collier, and the
arts district leadership would work in tandem with other
communities, the other designations, and the United Arts Council to
develop this program once a contract for services has been secured
between UAC and the county.
So, really, we're talking about what the process is as we move
forward with the understanding that it is a countywide initiative and
not just one place.
So thank you again for all of your attention to arts and culture,
as we're going to need it for sure moving forward as recovery through
this pandemic.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you.
Commissioner Taylor.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: May I ask the speaker a
question?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yes.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. Yes. Ms. Burns,
what's the holdup? What's happened?
MS. BURNS: We are talking about funding and the
implementation roles between CVB and the United Arts Council. So
we're in the process of active negotiations and discussions on the
priorities of the implementation, especially in light of the current
economic situation.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And so are you -- do we have
an end date here, or what -- where are we going with this?
MS. BURNS: I would anticipate the end date would be around
September of this year.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay. All right. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Next speaker.
MR. MILLER: The next speaker is Nora Beyrent.
Ms. Beyrent, are you on the line?
MS. BEYRENT: I am. Can you hear me?
MR. MILLER: Yes, ma'am. Please proceed. You have three
minutes.
MS. BEYRENT: Wonderful. Hello, my name is Nora Sharp
Beyrent. I'm a local working artist and owner of Art Lab Gallery
and Studios on J&C Boulevard. In addition, I am the current vice
president of the Naples Art District. Have been a member for almost
three years, and I'm speaking today in support of designating the
industrial neighborhood containing the Naples Art District 501(c)3
non-profit as one of the cultural arts districts in Collier County.
The neighborhood I speak of is bordered away by Pine Ridge
Road, Airport, Trade Center Way, and Taylor Street, which I believe
you-all had up on the map earlier.
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To give you a little bit of quick information about myself, I was
fortunate enough to be born and raised in Naples and have spent my
whole life in performance and visual arts. I received a Bachelor's in
music with a focus on performance violin from Rollins College and
an MSA in painting from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
To me, when I see almost 70, now it's close to 70, working
artists in galleries concentrating into one central location, artists
whom offer year-long classes, workshops, bimonthly open studios
events and host events with neighboring businesses, it is a no-brainer
to me that this location should actually be considered a cultural arts
district in Collier County.
There is a very long history of artists creating and working
within this community. There is a strong current presence of them
creating and working within this community, and there has been
incredible, consistent, and organic growth of the number of these
artists and galleries setting up shops in this location, a number that
started at just a few founders and is now nearing 70 artists. And this
number includes only members of the Naples Art District 501(c)3
membership. There are many, many, many more artist studios and
galleries within this neighborhood that would appreciate this
designation as well.
Commissioners, I thank you for your time and appreciate your
dedication and support of the arts in Collier County. I am asking
you today to award the neighborhood surrounding the Naples Art
District 501(c)3 non-profit a cultural arts designation with the ability
to have Wayfair signage to lead locals and tourists alike to this
thriving artist community.
Thank you very much for time. I appreciate it. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Mr. Chair?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis.
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Just a couple things. I think,
number one, obviously the intent is to move forward in conjunction
with the strategic plan. I mean, Ms. Brody served on the committee,
on the Strategic Planning Committee, and the intent has always been
to be part of this overall county effort. There's no -- I think if there's
an impression that this is something separate from the overall
strategic plan efforts, it's not.
I didn't hear Ms. Burns saying that we shouldn't have a
designation. I don't think I heard that.
What I heard was that the formalization of the agreements
between the United Arts Council and the county is something that's in
process, which is fine, and I fully support that. And I'm sure that the
art district here is fully supportive. They've been involved in the
process.
So this is simply, just moving forward, what this group of
organically assembled artists and artisans over, you know, years,
going back to the '90s, has done and -- because to continue to wait on
this pending the -- you know, the working out of funding and things
for the overall plan really does a disservice, I think, to this group of
artists; that all they're seeking is a designation to draw more
residents, more tourists, and more people there. That's all. This is
moving -- if anything, this moves the strategic plan forward in a big
way.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. I'm absolutely in
support of promoting the arts as much and as often as we can. I have
concerns with regard to the designation of an industrial park, one of
the few areas that we actually have industrial zoning as an additional
attractor for bringing in the general public.
We have issues concerning the infrastructure in this particular
park. Both of our industrial parks are lacking in subsurface
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infrastructure, stormwater, street size, and then we also have issues
with parking. I have concerns -- and we know that there are not
supposed to be any retail businesses going on in our industrial parks,
and we all know that they are.
And so I am in support of this. I think this initiative is fine.
I'm not arguing or talking in any manner, way, shape, or form, but we
also know that there is pricing components that push people into
particular areas because of affordability, and a lot of -- the
well-known fact of starving artists is a --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: It's a reality.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's a thing.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's absolutely a thing. So if
we're going to bring forward a resolution, I would like to address the
lack of infrastructure; what kind of investment we're going make in
that community. It's been needed forever.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Absolutely.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'd like to address the parking
circumstances, and maybe -- maybe we start to have some
discussions about the lack thereof of industrial space at all.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Agreed.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: As you know, we just paid an
enormous amount of money for some industrially zoned land where
our Paradise Park is at to the tune -- and I think those vacant land
tracks -- we got a -- what was perceived as an extremely good price
per acre, 200,000 an acre when the 400,000 asking price was there,
which doesn't -- you know, supply and demand would suggest that
there's a need for more. So those are just some thoughts. I like the
premise. I don't necessarily think that it goes outside of our efforts
so far. But I want -- if we're going to do this, I want to address some
known needs that the community has.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And I'd be glad to work with you
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on those, because I think that's -- there are certainly improvements
that could be made that would certainly benefit the industrial area as
a whole. I think that's -- there's no doubt about that.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You know, we've talked
about the housing issue and, as these communities continue to
mature, allowing for different designations and multi-level properties
that are confined with housing on top to better bring people in and
not be putting so much stress on our infrastructure and the like. So
just -- those are --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Absolutely; absolutely.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. You may not
know this. I learned this a couple of days ago. The Bayshore Arts
District has not been officially designated.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It should be. I would support that.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Well -- but I think now the
issue is is we have a process in place. And I'm not suggesting that it
not be. I'm just suggesting that we allow the implementation of the
plan which we've heard is September, and that should be the date;
that should be it one way or another; that we allow the people that
understand this process better than anyone up here -- because that's
what they do, and they've done it, and they've done it in other
communities -- designate different areas as districts.
One of the most important part of designation is, for instance,
with the Bayshore Art District, when you go to the Bayshore Art
District, you know, it's Bayshore. And everything on Bayshore is
lifted up with that.
The Naples Art District, of course, you think of the entire
community because we know it as Naples. Those in the city say, no,
there's one Naples Art District, and the Naples Art Association is the
center of it.
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Now, this is a lot of issues that are not going to ever be solved.
But I think for the purpose of process, I think I would ask my
colleagues to move this to a September time where the United Arts
Council and the TDC can put their teeth into this, because I don't
think they've addressed it.
The other issue is length of time. There were living artists
living in Bayshore in the '70s. They had art galleries. They had
art -- public display of art and gatherings. They had festivals, and
then it changed. And, Commissioner Fiala, you know very well
what happened. But Naples Art Association was established, I
believe, in the '50s, and it was established by private people who got
together to not only create art but to sell art.
So I think we owe it to the arts community -- and I can certainly
respect the need to officially designate these areas, but I also suspect
that part of this official designation will be to give a stature to maybe
one area over another and, therefore, have more funding perhaps
from the TDC if possible, because arts are part of the funding process
with the TDC. And, clearly, when you're spending $20,000 a year to
market an area, you are looking for other sources to supplement that.
So I'd like to ask my colleagues that -- it's not long. I asked the
question what happened, but, you know, we all know what happened.
It was COVID, and it's delayed everything. So at this point we are at
a point where we can follow a process and have the date being
September. Just have it September.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let me make a suggestion, then
I'll --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- recognize Commissioner Solis,
since his light is lit up.
But, obviously, we're not going to approve anything here before
September anyway because a resolution has to come back. This is a
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request to bring back a resolution, and it sounds like there's going to
be a lot that has to kind of go into this because there was a discussion
about the road infrastructure and the parking, and I think,
Commissioner Solis, you had indicated that you would work to try to
address some of those issues.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: But that's a -- that's an industrial
zone issue as a whole. I mean, I'm sorry -- because I would like to
respond. I mean --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. The question, I think, is do
you want to bring this back at the next meeting, which I'm perfectly
okay with, or do you want to wait until September? There's been
that suggestion.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I would like to bring this
back. I mean, this particular group of artists -- and I'm actually kind
of surprised that Bayshore hasn't been designated that. I mean, we
refer to it as the Bayshore Art District. I mean, it is a wonderful area
where artists have gravitated. I don't think there's as many artists in
Bayshore as there are here with, you know, permanent galleries and
things, and maybe there are. But, you know, the Naples Art District
came last year. They had a lot of things planned. They stepped
back. They engaged in the process and have worked through the
whole strategic planning process.
I mean, I don't see -- the only thing it's going to do -- unless
someone's going to oppose this area being designated a cultural arts
district pursuant to the plan, the only thing it's going to do is set back
the artists from, you know, having some visibility to help them
sustain themselves, even more so during COVID. I mean, I'm sure
that as with any downturn, but maybe even more with this COVID
situation, that the artists, certainly musicians and artists of all kinds,
have suffered equally, maybe even to a greater extent than some of
our other folks in the county.
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So, you know, I just don't see -- whether or not this group comes
forward to the TDC, which they have never done, then the TDC will
review -- as the chairman, the TDC will review each application as it
does with every single application based upon how much tourism and
how many nights and things it will generate, right? I mean, that's a
process that we already have.
We don't know -- we hope that the agreement with the UAC will
be finalized in September. I, frankly, am surprised. I thought it was
done.
So, you know, I just don't see -- the only thing that putting this
off until September will do is just to delay supporting our artists. I
mean, this is going to be -- you know, it is one of the larger, if not the
largest area, that artists have naturally gravitated to and, as we heard,
they've been there for decades.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis, everybody's
lit up here. I'll support your motion to bring this back at our next
meeting in July.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: But I need to make sure that we
are able to separate these districts. So, for example, if this is
designated the Naples Art District, that would be confusing if we go
south and we have another "the Naples Art District," and maybe
there's a way on a signage to say -- I'm just throwing this out as an
example -- the Naples Art District North, and then in East Naples you
can have the North -- the Naples Art District. Just some way to
designate --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- that there's going to be more
than one of these.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. I mean, I think that's
something, certainly, that -- the actual implementation of signage and
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things, I think, is certainly a conversation to have later.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: So we would not necessarily be
approving the actual signage at that meeting, but we would at least
begin that process. That's the thing that's most important to me is to
make sure that we can designate an arts district --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Absolutely.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- but freely designate another
area as an arts district without the signage being confusing to the
public.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Absolutely. And I don't think the
folks at the Naples Art District would want confusion, number one,
and they want to make sure that there are as many art districts in the
county as possible. So, no, absolutely. I think that's -- this is just
taking a step forward, and then the details, certainly, we can have
those discussions later.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. Thank you so much.
Excuse me.
About Bayshore, I was on the committee back in the '90s as we
tried to form this thing. My committee consisted of people like Paul
Arsenault, Jerry Vallez, Roba, Phil Fisher. We all worked together
to make this an art district. We had it -- it went all the way to
Tallahassee, and they approved it.
Apparently somebody didn't sign it, and so then they say it's not
an art district. But it was approved by Tallahassee. We all
celebrated that approval and so forth. It was a wonderful thing.
And as far as we were concerned, as long as we were designated an
art district, that was good.
And going on to say there's another art district, too, that's right
in the City of Naples there with theirs, and that's a Naples art district,
I guess, as well, so that would be duplicate names; confusion.
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I like the fact that we're discussing the arts as we are because
that's long been an effort from all -- for all of Collier County is to
focus on the arts, the performing arts, as well as the visual arts. This
is an important thing to our community. I'm glad we're doing this.
I'm sure we're going to sort it out, but I just wanted to straighten out
the Bayshore arts. You don't have to worry about Naples Art
District there, because the Bayshore Arts says what it is, and so...
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And are we going to
move this back until September, or -- because I don't really -- and
I -- again, I'm --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: In terms of the procedure, there's a
request. I would assume that Commissioner Solis is going to make a
motion to hear this -- bring this resolution back in July. I'm going to
second that motion if no one else does, and so that will be a thing that
we're going to vote on. Now, whether it passes or not is another
story. So, yes, it's going to be discussed in a moment, I would
assume.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yep.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I just wanted to say I don't
see any effort here of designating one area over another as more
important or not. I think to me -- and there are those who are far
more familiar with this subject matter than me, that this is a good
thing for our community at large. And so we're not promoting -- I
don't see it as such as a this is better than that. I think that the arts
are a good thing for our community in aggregate.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I think this discussion and
understanding all these different moving parts is the reason that we
need to let the UAC, which is supposed to be under contract in
September, to sort this out and bring it to us.
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One of the things that I was told again and again as I went
through this process to bring the arts and bring a strategic arts plan
for Collier County to this board was that the artists have a tendency
to work independently of each other, that they -- and they
don't -- they don't play well with each other is the expression I heard
again and again.
And I just would respectfully ask that we, perhaps, bring that
resolution back at a time when we have -- we've finally completed
the process which has been delayed at no one's fault except we've had
a crisis of COVID, and that has slowed down absolutely everything.
So based on that, it hasn't -- the slowing down of this process
hasn't been because of one person or three people. It's because of a
disease that has caused government to close down for almost a month
and certainly has put a damper on progress.
And, clearly, given the atmosphere that we're living in now, the
idea that we're going to have hordes of people going up to the Naples
Art District once we designate them as a district is probably not
dealing with the reality of where we are as a community.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. So I think we've had
sufficient discussion. Commissioner Solis, I'll turn it over to you if
you have a closing comment and a motion.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. Just one quick comment.
I mean, again, all we're -- all these artists are asking for is that this
area be designated a cultural arts district. That's it. And that would
help them with some signage. What that signage says we can work
out. You know, and it may be that the recommendation is that all
the arts districts just have a sign that say "art district over here."
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Right.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: But -- so I would make a motion
that we direct the staff to bring back a resolution designating this
particular area as shown on the map as the Naples Art District.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'll second your motion.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. You have a motion and
second. Before I call for the vote, I would like to urge you to work
closely with the -- and I know you will -- work closely with the staff,
because the wording of this resolution --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Absolutely.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- if it's not right, then we're into
September.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Sure. Absolutely.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have a motion and
second. Any discussion on the motion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: If not, I'll call for the vote. All in
favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Opposed based on reasons
given.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. Passes 4-1.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'd like to just mention I wish I
wore my polka dot dress.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Your polka dot dress?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. Take a look at that tie. I
could be joining him. Excuse me. Just a little levity there.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Any more discussion
about ties? I have --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's a tie.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: These are nice ties as well.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: I almost stole that one, except I
didn't have anybody to give it to.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: This is one of those ones you close
your eyes and you can still see it.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I like it.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Ochs, are we ready for 11A?
Item #11A
RECOMMENDATION TO ACCEPT THE COVID-19 STATUS
REPORT AND PROVIDE FURTHER DIRECTION AS
APPROPRIATE – UPDATE BY JOHN DREW WITH THE
HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND STEVE CARNELL REGARDING
COUNTY OPERATIONS
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. That is a recommendation to accept the
COVID-19 status report and provide any further direction as
appropriate.
MR. DREW: Good morning, Commissioner.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Good morning.
MR. DREW: I'm John Drew, the Florida Department of Health
in Collier County, and I'm here on behalf of Stephanie Vick.
So I'm going to give you a quick update on our current situation.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And, Mr. Drew, let me -- if I
might, we've been looking at all these charts, so we kind of know
what the substance of them are. So just, kind of, the conclusions
would, I think, be all that we need.
MR. DREW: Yes, sir. I'll go through them as quickly as I
possibly can.
The first slide here is just the numbers that we all see from the
dashboard and see every day, so just a quick summary.
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Total resident cases in Florida as of yesterday was 3,126, plus
we have 80 nonresident cases, for a total of 3,206. And then up on
the top right, total tests that we've done that we've completed to date,
29,006. Out of those,3,206 positive, which is an 11.1 percent
positivity rate. And then we have, currently, 64 Collier resident
deaths and eight nonresidents who have died in Collier County, for a
total of 72 people who have died from COVID in Collier County.
So these are the gating criteria charts. We'll just go through
them quickly. As you can see with the symptoms, these are the
emergency department visits: Influenza-like illness syndrome and
COVID-like illness syndrome. We have an upward trend on both of
those over the past two weeks.
Number of cases and percentage of cases, upward trends on both
of those for the last two weeks. We're averaging about 79 new cases
per day. We're averaging -- which is about a 12.7 positivity rate
over the last two weeks.
The hospital capacity still looks just fine. If you just -- I'll draw
your attention to the bottom -- the colors on the bottom, which are
showing the ventilators in use on the left and the COVID patients in
the hospital on the right. But as you can see, that's been holding
relatively steady over the past two weeks.
So our conclusions on the gating criteria, have we met them: In
the symptoms area, no; in the positive tests area, no; but in hospital
capacity, yes, we have met the gating criteria.
So -- and remember these indicators are designed for the safe,
smart, step-by-step reopening of the economy and Florida's recovery.
And if we were making a decision to go into a new phase, you know,
these indicators would tell us to reconsider that decision, but I don't
think any of that's on the table today, so...
Next I want to give you an update about what's been happening
in Immokalee. As you know, we had a high percentage of our
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positive cases were coming from the Immokalee area, and so we
increased our mitigation efforts, increased our testing in that area.
As you can see, to date, in June we've done over -- well, actually, if
we count the testing that we did yesterday, we're over 3,000 tests that
have been conducted at DOH Collier facilities in Immokalee.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Now, just one quick question.
Does that -- that's just the DOH testing. That's not the Healthcare
Network or the Braden Facility or --
MR. DREW: Correct.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- the independent doctors.
Do you have an estimate as to the total amount of tests at large or no?
MR. DREW: Well, I could tell you that we are receiving on
average about 650 test results per day, so it looks like we're doing
about half of those.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Right. I was just going to
say, I would --
MR. DREW: The other half are coming from -- and that's not
just Immokalee. That's countywide.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis, you had a
question as well?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I can wait till the end of the
presentation, if you like.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Fine.
MR. DREW: I just have a couple more quick slides.
So the chart on the right shows the percentage of Immokalee
cases. So it's actually good news, because our efforts in Immokalee
have actually been resulting in the percentage of cases from
Immokalee going down compared to the rest of the county. And I
just -- I need to pause and say that when I say "our" and "we," this
has definitely been a community effort; lots and lots of partners.
And I'm not even going to try to start naming them, because I'm sure
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I'll leave somebody out. But it's definitely a community effort here
that's been going into this.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: When you finish your
presentation, if you could leave this chart on the screen. I'd like to
talk a little bit about that as well.
MR. DREW: I can certainly bring it back, yes, sir. So just
another demonstration of the chart. On the right it shows the
cumulative cases, so the orange line is Immokalee. The blue line is
all other Collier County cases. They're separated. And you can see
there was a merging of those two lines because the Immokalee cases
were increasing and becoming a higher percentage, but now over the
past couple of weeks that has started to diverge again, and -- or the
Immokalee cases are becoming a smaller percentage of all the Collier
County cases.
On the left the bullet points, just a listing of some of the things
that we have been doing. Our DOH Collier health educators have
been visiting businesses, and just within the last couple of weeks,
they've visited 155 businesses, over 800 printed items. So they're
giving out, like, flyers and signs to put in the windows, things like
that. So -- and then over 1,400 masks have been given out just to the
businesses.
And then we're doing the walkup testing at the DOH Collier site
at 419 North First Street; walkup testing Monday, Wednesday, Friday
from 9:00 to 5:00. We're doing testing at Fellowship Church on
Lake Trafford Road 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Sundays -- and I'm
sorry -- on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and walkup testing at the
Immokalee site, the DOH Collier Immokalee site, again, on Sundays
from 12:00 to 6:00.
And when people come to those sites for testing, we're also
offering them masks and gloves. And so from those testings -- since
June 8th, from those testing sites, we've handed out 8,700 cloth
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masks, over 9,000 pairs of gloves, over 5,000 disposable masks, and
we've given out 100 thermometers.
And then, as Commissioner McDaniel mentioned, we have
partners in the area doing testing. Healthcare Network of Southwest
Florida, and we have new initiatives, growing initiatives with Global
Health Management and Partners in Health, both of which are
national and/or international organizations.
We've also hired 10 local Immokalee residents as promotoras,
and they've all been interviewed, selected, and are just going through
all of our pre-employment processes right now. So they should be
on the ground doing community-based education very soon.
And then we've also been working with lots of partners, our
colleagues, our Department of Health colleagues, and lots of other
partners in Hendry and Palm Beach County, in that whole
farmworker community area.
So the next steps, we're, of course, going to continue all those
actions in Immokalee, and then we're also going to allocate some
resources in a couple of other high-risk areas. I don't know if you
looked at your dashboard before you came in, but Florida Health
dashboard shows the 34116 area code is now in the red. We've been
tracking that for a couple of weeks now, and there are a couple of
other ZIP codes that are tracking up that way where we're seeing a
higher rate of positivity from certain ZIP codes than other areas of the
county.
So on the map up there I've kind of circled the areas where we
plan to focus our efforts. And some of the things that we'll begin
doing is restarting the COVID van and the rolling message board in
the Golden Gate and East Naples areas. We're going to initiate PA
announcements in the Golden Gate and East Naples region. We've
been doing that in Immokalee. A sheriff's vehicle has been driving
around with a PA announcement in Spanish and, I think, in Creole as
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well.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Three languages, yes.
MR. DREW: Yes, thank you, sir.
And then we'll expand the outreach that we've been doing to
businesses. We'll move some of those resources into the Golden
Gate and East Naples area to visit those businesses in those areas.
That's it.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's it. All right.
Commissioner Solis, you had some questions.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. Just going back to
the -- let's see. The one, two -- the hospital capacity charts -- and
this is really a question to get more of a sense of what's going on, you
know, maybe behind the scenes in terms of how we're -- how the
criteria are being reviewed or anything, if you know. I mean, so we
have had, obviously, the counts, and whichever way you look at it,
they're kind of on an upward trajectory, but the hospital capacity has
remained flat from the very beginning, essentially, right? I just want
to make sure I'm seeing this right. If I'm looking at the hospital
capacity, the number of ventilators in use is basically flat.
MR. DREW: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Is there any -- are there any
discussions going on that maybe the way the criteria was set up at the
beginning was -- now that we're learning more and we're seeing what
actually happens, is there any discussion going on about changing or
reviewing or revising any of this? Because it just -- you know,
based upon the way I understood it, it kind of defies -- in some
respects it defies the logic of this many more people and a percentage
of those people are going to be -- you know, get really sick and in the
hospital, and a smaller percentage of those people are going to end up
in the ICU and then a small percentage on ventilators, that the whole
thing's going up, those numbers increase theoretically. I mean,
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logically, that would stand to reason.
But what we're seeing is not that. And I'm just curious if there's
any -- are there any discussions going on to change how we're
viewing this?
MR. DREW: I would have to defer to Stephanie on that.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. That's a loaded question.
I'm sorry.
MR. DREW: The one observation that I can make just from
my familiarity with the data is that because we're doing so much
more testing, that we're catching so many more a symptomatic
people.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right.
MR. DREW: And we've always known that there are
asymptomatic individuals out there in the population. It's just that
the testing availability is so much more widespread that those -- the
positive cases, the percentage of them going -- ending up in the
hospital is not as high.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And, Commissioner Solis, I might
be able to add a little bit to that. The average age of the people that
are testing positive has gone down dramatically.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right, has gone down.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And so I think most of them are
below the age of 50, and they don't get as seriously ill as the older
folks. So that would explain why there would be more positive
cases but not necessarily an increase in hospitalizations. I think
that's kind of true all across the state.
MR. DREW: And the other thing is from the data -- again, our
hospitals did such a fabulous job of preparing for this pandemic when
it hit that they were never really to a point where they were stressed.
And so the -- they've always had plenty of capacity all the way along
the way. There were times when we were concerned about it, but it
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never came to a point where there was any reason to panic.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. Just a quick follow-up.
Because the concern is -- the spike in the total number of cases is,
obviously, a concern, but the real concern is a spike in the number of
cases that are in the ICU and on ventilators. I mean, that's the
danger is that the hospitals get overwhelmed and, yet, we've
never -- it just -- I'm just looking at the historical data and the number
of ventilators used. It's always been, you know, 31 to 18, 17. Now
we're at 20. It's just --
MR. DREW: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I find that intriguing, and I'm
wondering if there's been any conclusions reached about that.
MR. DREW: I'm going to pass on that one.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. Thanks.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Has anybody analyzed that?
MR. DREW: I'll let either the physicians answer that or the --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
MR. DREW: I mean, anecdotally, one thing that I've heard,
and this is not an official DOH response, but that ventilator use has
become a less frequent treatment.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah. Just -- I just went to the
dashboard, as you mentioned, and the average age of a COVID
patient in Florida is 43; in Collier County it's 40.
MR. DREW: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And I'm -- you know, let's --
MR. DREW: Median age.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Median age.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Median, yes. Let's remember
what we have been through as a state and certainly within this
community over the last two or three weeks with the protests.
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Clearly, I remember Ms. Vick saying that we had -- in Immokalee
there was a challenge of the Cinco De Mayo celebration that
coincided almost perfectly with their rise. And congratulations on
the numbers going down. But now the idea that, you know, there
were a lot of people marching in this community and social
distancing was not followed, and a great deal of those folks were
young. So I think we've got a situation right now that hopefully will
right itself.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, yeah. Just a quick one. Is
there anybody that analyzes these things? And, of course, you'd
have to have a few different ones because every analyst will come out
with a different result. But maybe analyzing them, say, three
different areas, and then putting them together to see if it -- if there's
any explanation to some of these questions.
MR. DREW: Are you referring to the hospital questions or
the --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, to, actually, the age, the
location, where they're being infected and so forth.
MR. DREW: The -- I --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: If you don't have an answer, that's
okay.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: That's fine.
MR. DREW: I don't have an answer to that.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay. So nobody's doing the
analyzing?
MR. DREW: Well, I won't say that nobody's doing it. I just
don't know.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Okay.
MR. DREW: I don't know what types of analysis is being
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done.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: There's all kinds of analysis.
MR. DREW: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I think with the opening up of
the economy, as I said, the average age now is below 50, and I think
the median age was 43 -- or 40 in Collier and 43 statewide. And the
explanations, I think, are pretty obvious that restaurants are open,
bars are open, demonstrations, and the --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And the real concern, I think, from
the uptick -- and that's why I wanted to have that other chart showing
is that those young people that are getting infected aren't getting as
sick, they're not winding up in the hospital, but they're going to infect
other people, and that's where the real concern is with all of these
positive cases now, and they're going to increase. Is it going to be a
burden on the hospitals? So far it hasn't been, but there's plenty of
analysis as to why all of these things are happening.
MR. DREW: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And, Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. Well -- and I just
wanted to add in, similarly, with regard to what you said,
Commissioner Saunders, there has never been, cannot be an initiative
to stop the virus. There is no cure. There is no therapeutic. There
is no vaccine. We can only, at best, hope to manage the spread.
The entire effort was to not overwhelm our hospitals.
And I think, Commissioner Solis, your viewpoint with regard to
the utilization of ventilators, we've actually had physicians from
NCH come and tell us that there's pretty decent medical studies that
ventilation's not the proper treatment to assist folks to get through
this, so -- and I regularly watch -- I've shared with you the AHCA
dashboard that talks about the hospital assets that we currently have
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available. I get reports from Lee Health because, as I've said
regularly, though Immokalee does not have a hospital in our
community -- on a double-edged sword, not having one's not so great
from an infrastructure standpoint. But we are equidistant from Lee
Health/Fort Myers and Collier's hospital assets. And amongst those
assets, there's an enormous amount of capacity in the hospitals,
hospital beds, the ICU beds, and the ventilators in total, so...
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: In terms of -- I do want to have a
little bit of a discussion about masks and things that we might be able
to consider doing. In terms of businesses opening up, that's really
the Governor's call. And it's interesting to see all the gating criteria,
but there's not going to be any rollback of the opening of the
economy. That's just not going to happen.
And so the question becomes, how do we deal with the fact that
we're going to have more positive cases? Everyone acknowledges
that. And we want to keep that as low as possible. And there are
only a few ways to do that.
Obviously, the social distancing becomes very important.
Washing hands and all the hygiene are important. And I think the
majority of the experts are suggesting that wearing masks whenever
in public is probably the most important thing you can do to stop the
spread of this virus.
I don't think the county should be involved in mandating
wearing a mask. I don't think that's a position to take that would be
very well accepted in the community. Obviously, there will be some
people that would love to see that, but I think the vast majority, or
certainly the vocal folks, would find that to be an invasion of their
constitutional rights and all of that. But I think if we don't take that
step, I think we could take a step of doing more to encourage people
to wear a mask.
There are some businesses -- I will tell you I went to a restaurant
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last night, and I almost left. I probably should have, but I was not
the only person there. The waiters weren't wearing masks. And I
asked the -- I asked the waiter at our table to wear a mask, which he
did. He said it was really up to the customers. Well, it's not really
up to the customers in a situation like that. I think that's probably a
violation of the -- I know it's a violation of the CDC
recommendations. I'm not sure if it's a violation of the state at this
point, or the Governor's order.
There was a restaurant; waiters not wearing masks. And I,
obviously, felt uncomfortable. But, I guess a question I would ask
the Board is, is there something we could do to encourage more use
of masks, not mandate it, but do more? Because I think that's the
one thing that we could, perhaps, do to help reduce the spread.
Commissioner McDaniel.
MR. DREW: May I make a suggestion first?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yes, absolutely.
MR. DREW: I just want to bring your attention to the
June 20th Saturday press release, that the Surgeon General issued an
additional public health advisory, and in that public health advisory
recommends the wearing of masks in all places where social
distancing is not possible. So all public situations.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: So I'll give you an example.
There are some local governments, when anybody comes to a local
government meeting, if they don't have a mask, they're given one and
urged to wear them when they're sitting in the audience. I notice that
our staff -- and this is not a criticism, but I do see our staff huddling
to talk to each other. You know, there will be a little bit of
whispering going on, and that's so that they can communicate without
bothering the Board. But when they do that, they're in close contact,
and they're whispering to each other, and that's not something that we
should be doing and, as a government, we need to send the right
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message. So I think we can clean up our house a little bit in that
regard.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. Two questions.
John, if you mind, please. Do you have anything going on or
an update with the Global Response Management Team that we
know is coming to Immokalee to assist with the processes out there?
MR. DREW: I don't have anything, but our preparedness
coordinator is here. Is there something that you can --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We've been working
diligently with this organization. It's a group of doctors/nurse
practitioners from NCH that are coming to Immokalee, and I know
they've worked out -- it's been going on for almost a month now, and
it's a -- the legal issues, immunity, and so on and so forth, that -- and
we're pretty -- and I'm very excited about this organization coming to
help our community, and I think with their cooperative efforts with
the Braden Hospital and Healthcare Network, we're going to be able
to spread them out throughout the entire community, and then I have
another comment with regard to what you were talking about,
Commissioner.
MS. MARR: Hi. Good morning. For the record, Kathleen
Marr, Department of Health.
Stephanie Vick has been working with Global Response
Management under a program called 766, which would -- she would
have to sign off to provide permission to actually work -- can you
hear me okay with the mask on?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes, just fine.
MS. MARR: So we have a point of contact. I'll be reaching
out as well to further some discussions. But, yes, we plan on
working with them.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Outstanding. Thank you
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very much. That's -- and it's important from a communications
standpoint to share with the community, because there's a lot of
misnomers that are spread with regard to this virus and such, and
there's almost a sense of helplessness with regard to folks that are
being tested and communication and the like, and I just wanted to -- I
wanted to share that, because I really view them as a huge asset to
our community at large. So thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Commissioner Saunders, I --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Oh, you had one more? I'm
sorry.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I had a question for John with
regard to that, and then I wanted to share with you my thoughts as far
as the mask issues goes. And I think it's one of my notes when we
go to 11B to discuss the CARES fundings and how we appropriate
those funds.
I would dearly love to see an educational effort put forth by us
to do the instruction with regard to what you were talking about, the
social distancing, the proper way to wear a mask, habitual
circumstances that people do, use the back of your knuckle in order
to rub your eye or scratch your nose until you can get to hand
sanitizer and/or wash your hands; adjust your glasses with your left
hand, not your dominant hand and such.
So I think the key to success is education, and the
management/expenditure of those funds in that effort is a key
component.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I mean, I would like to talk about
the mask issue. I mean, I think, you know -- and I, like everybody
else, I'm sure, has received lot of emails about requiring masks. And
the question I keep asking myself is, you know, if potentially
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catching a virus that can kill you is not the motivating factor to wear
a mask, I mean, if that one doesn't -- isn't the motivating factor, I
don't know what an ordinance, you know, that the county imposes is
going to do. I mean, number one, it is about self-preservation.
Number two is the fact that you can't -- you can give it to your
loved ones and that they can die isn't the motivating factor, then I
don't know what we can do personally; although, you know, there are
lots of things that we require from the standpoint of public health.
We've got to wear seat belts. We can't smoke in public buildings
and in restaurants anymore. I mean, there's all sorts of things that
are required for the public health and safety of everyone.
So, you know, I mean, I take it that there is no consensus or
majority anyway on the Board to move forward with requiring
masks. I don't know how it would be enforceable, number one.
You know, we're trying to get people out of the jails because of the
situation of COVID getting in the jails. I mean, how are we going to
enforce this thing? I think it would be unenforceable. I think the
people that wear masks religiously and as recommended by the CDC,
then, are going to do that.
But I agree, and I like Commissioner McDaniel's idea of
potentially using some of those funds if we can, some of the CARE
funds, to do social distancing. And I don't know if this falls within
the criteria for which we can use it, but even, you know, mask
distribution, if that's --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We absolutely can spend it on
supplies --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- to help prevent the spread.
That's one of the listed -- and education is one of them as well.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think those are two great ways to
use those funds that would make a difference, you know. And I
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don't know how -- what else we can do other than to appeal to
everyone that, you know, we need to treat our neighbors like
ourselves.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Before I turn to
Commissioner Taylor, I'm going to ask the County Attorney to give
some thought to another aspect of this, because I don't believe we
should be ordering our residents to wear a mask. But what about our
employees in certain businesses? And I'll turn to the restaurant that I
was at last night. So just -- I don't need an answer right now, if you
want to think about it, but can we require business
employees -- businesses to have their employees wear masks because
they're dealing with the public? And it's a protection for them. So
I'm going to ask you that question after we finish our speakers here.
Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Just a couple of comments.
The first time -- the first one is that I think there is a great concern in
this community about the spread of COVID, and if a business
chooses not to have their employees use masks, then you don't
frequent that business. That's the best way to move it.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's a choice.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: That's a choice. It keeps
personal choice there.
Second of all, I'd like to ask Mr. Drew a question.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Did I call -- I called him the
wrong name earlier. Forgive me. I'm sorry, Drew. I called you
John before.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: It is John Drew.
MR. DREW: Mr. Drew, yes. You got it right. Both of you
got it right.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: We both got it right.
You don't hear too much about it right now, but are
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temper -- you know, when I go to the gym, they take my temperature;
first thing they do. I don't get through those doors until they take my
temperature. Is that still an issue -- is that still a very good indicator
of, well, sick people in a way?
MR. DREW: I'm not qualified to answer that question, and I
don't know if Kathleen's willing to. Is she?
MS. MARR: It still is; it still is. A low-grade temperature.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay.
MS. MARR: Around 100.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: All right. Good. So, you
know, I think there's difference of opinion out there, as we know,
about masks. And, again, I guess my mantra has been, through this
whole affair, is it's personal responsibility and to understand that we
do live in a community and to respect other people. But to force
folks to behave differently, I think, is a pretty much losing
proposition.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. We do have some public
speakers, I believe. So let's go through those, and then we'll wrap
up.
MR. MILLER: Yes, sir. All of our public speakers that we
have registered for this item are registered remotely. Let me go
ahead and call -- your first speaker is --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Remind them of the three minutes.
MR. MILLER: Yes, sir. And I do play a little countdown
clock for them to see if they're joining via computer. Our first
speaker will be Lisa Freund. I hope I'm saying that right.
Ms. Freund, are you on the line?
MS. FREUND: Yes, I am.
MR. MILLER: Okay. Please begin.
MS. FREUND: All right. I want to thank all the
commissioners for taking my call.
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I agree with Commissioner Saunders 100 percent that, as a
government, you need to send the right message out. And I also
want to thank Commissioner McDaniel about encouraging education,
a more solid education program.
I want to disagree with Commissioner Solis. I believe that
mask wearing is enforceable. We are now up in Massachusetts, and
they've had a great deal of success with mandatory mask wearing in
the Boston area. All their numbers are coming down. So I'm
urging you to make mask wearing mandatory in Collier County to
minimize the spread of COVID-19 in our community.
My family was touched personally by the death of my
mother-in-law due to complications from COVID-19. I'm also
touched personally because I have a son who works in the area. He
is an assistant manager at a restaurant in East Naples on East Trail.
And so I'm very familiar with balancing health concerns and
economic concerns. Of course, he was laid off for three weeks, and
we were happy he was re-hired, but we are concerned about the fact
that not all people in the restaurant are wearing masks.
In terms of my information to back up my views, the front page
of the Naples Daily News identified South Florida as a COVID
hotspot. So our own local paper.
The other thing is that the only two Apple stores that are being
closed again to the public in the entire state of Florida are the
Waterside Shops, which is half a mile from my home, and Coconut
Point.
More importantly, though, masks do save lives. There was a
recent worldwide study in 169 countries that indicated the death rates
increased by 43 percent in countries where people were not wearing
masks but just 2.8 percent in countries where mask wearing was
prevalent.
I'm so sorry that mask wearing has become a partisan issue. It
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isn't. It's a public health issue. It's the responsibility of every
citizen not just to protect themselves but to protect them other -- each
other.
Now, I can tell that many of you are not leaning toward
mandating mask wearing, but I would -- I beg you to do more, such
as what Commissioner Saunders recommended, and to take a look at
businesses, particularly those that deal with food, and increase the
requirement for mask wearing in those businesses.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Dr. Richard Conrath.
Dr. Conrath, are you available, sir? Dr. Richard and Karen
Conrath, are you available?
MS. CONRATH: Right there.
DR. CONRATH: Yes.
MR. MILLER: You have three minutes. Please begin, sir.
DR. CONRATH: Okay. Thank you, Commissioners. I
appreciate your -- first of all, I appreciate the stances that you're
taking. This is marvelous. It's heartening to hear your discussion
about the use of masks.
My background is I was a philosophy professor. Those people
who are considered to be Ivy League -- Ivy Tower folks who don't
get down to the streets.
I must say that the field that I taught, for the most part, was
ethics, and part of ethics is medical ethics, and I just finished leading
a discussion on Zoom about issues in medical ethics in an age of
coronavirus. And, clearly, the main issue in medical ethics today in
terms of this pandemic is the allocation of scarce resources.
Now, it's heartening also to hear that our hospitals are not
getting overwhelmed with patients but, of course, with the spike in
the cases in Collier County specifically, and in Florida, there is a
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danger that they will be -- the allocation of resources will be
challenged.
Certainly, the issues of allocation are issues of hospital beds,
ventilators and, more specifically, the PPEs, the personal protective
equipment. Masks are a central part of those -- that equipment, and
it's probably the only -- if we could call it cure or defense against the
spread of this virus, that is the wearing of masks. We don't have a
cure yet. We don't have a vaccine yet.
It's great to hear that the commissioners -- that the
commissioners are talking about the necessity of wearing masks.
Commissioner Saunders, Commissioner Solis, Commissioner
McDaniel, and Commissioner Taylor, we appreciate that.
And I understand your concern about mandating use of masks.
And I would like you to explore further how we get more people in
Collier County wearing masks. You know, when I drive down Fifth
Avenue, as you probably know, it's frightening, actually, in a way, to
see people sitting shoulder to shoulder in restaurants and outside of
restaurants. And I think we only saw one person who had a mask, it
was a young person, and the mask was around her neck.
So that sort of thing doesn't lead me to believe that we can really
tackle this pandemic without the -- without more encouragement
from the council -- from the commissioners to wear masks.
My wife is the one that started this, but she wanted me to do the
talking. Around the house she usually does most of the talking and
most of the ordering, so I take orders well. And we both thank you
for your attention --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you.
DR. CONRATH: -- to our thoughts today.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you, Dr. Conrad.
MR. MILLER: Your next registered speaker is Judit Price, and
she will be followed by David Holden.
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Ms. Price, are you available? Ms. Price? All right. I don't
hear her.
Mr. Holden. David Holden, are you available?
MS. PRICE: No, no. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here.
MR. MILLER: Oh, Judit Price. Thank you, Ms. Price. You
have three minutes.
MS. PRICE: I'm here. Yes. I know. I understand.
Thank you so much for having me talk today. I really
appreciate your generosity. I would submit, also, that wearing
masks indoors in our community should be -- please be mandatory.
I will give you four reasons:
Number 1, mask is a safety device like a seat belt, a fire
extinguisher, and a defibrillator. It's an aid in dealing with serious
issues. Unfortunately, wearing a mask has been politicized. I
implore you to view this necessary -- view this as a necessary
protection against a threat that can literally kill. It's not a political
matter but a matter of survival of which the death of 120,000-plus
Americans can attests.
Number two, Florida is a hotspot, as we all know, for the
coronavirus. The growing case numbers are a horrific warning to
the citizens of Florida and our community that we must take
precautions. It appears our governor has also taken notice and
modified his prior policies.
Number three, unfortunately, too often we place too much value
in ignorance and incompetence and ignore the experts. The science
and medical advice we receive is based on research, hard data, and
experience. Too often too many of our leaders ignore that advice for
expediency. Please, please, do not make that mistake.
Number four, it might be good for business. If we can convince
our community that we are serious about protecting our citizens and
back it up with substantive legislation and enforcement, it could build
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confidence in encouraging our citizens to venture up.
I would like to remind everyone that the local ordinance by a
duly authorized body of which you are is not an infringement on our
rights but a responsible action during a time of public disaster.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you, Ms. Price.
MR. MILLER: All right. Your last registered speaker for this
item is Mr. David Holden.
Mr. Holden, are you here?
MR. HOLDEN: I am here.
MR. MILLER: Please begin, sir. You have three minutes.
MR. HOLDEN: Thank you very much. Thank you, member
commissioners, for hosting this conversation. It's been most
enlightening.
I want to -- you know, we know the reality. This is a deadly
pandemic. Florida is not doing a very good job across the board of
containing it, and we certainly have serious issues here in Collier
County. So I'm urging the Board to mandate facemasks in public
and in businesses for all people here.
We heard from the health commission representative how poorly
we're doing. While deaths are down, infections are increasing.
And, you know, the reality is, people do respect the law for the most
part. To say that passing an ordinance that will be difficult to
enforce means we shouldn't make the effort, I think, is counter to
what the moment calls for.
I know that I'm not sitting where you're sitting, and I know that
you face political pressures and challenges that civilians may not
understand, but this is a time for leadership, and this is a time for
courage, and I urge you to, again, mandate masks for public and in all
stores and restaurants.
Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Mr. Chairman, that was your final registered
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public speaker for this item.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I was just going to ask our County
Attorney if he has had a chance to look at any of the jurisdictions that
have actually imposed a mandatory mask-in-public ordinance, how
that's being enforced.
MR. KLATZKOW: There are a number of jurisdictions in
Florida, mostly on the East Coast, that have been enacting these
emergency orders. Their relatively recent in time, so I don't know
that the mechanics of the enforcement are well known. I'll see.
I will tell you that enforcing county ordinances is generally
through the Code Enforcement Board. My understanding -- and Leo
can correct me -- is the Code Enforcement Board's not meeting right
now. If you wanted to enforce it, it probably should be a
misdemeanor of some sort so that the Sheriff can enforce it. That's
probably the only meaningful enforcement tactic, and -- which is
atypical of how we enforce our ordinances. We usually -- it's
usually by fine rather than by prison or jail.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right.
MR. KLATZKOW: So, yes, other jurisdictions are doing this.
Will they be subject to challenge down the line? I don't know. But
other jurisdictions are doing this.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Could you -- could you just maybe
survey the ones -- you know, I think Hillsborough County, Broward
County, maybe. I'm just curious as to how they would possibly
enforce something like that.
MR. KLATZKOW: It's generally through a second-degree
misdemeanor.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
MR. KLATZKOW: I mean, I can come back with a survey at
the next meeting, if you'd like.
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I mean, I would like to
know that just so we understand what -- you know, what are the
options. And, you know, ultimately, I think, what Commissioner
Taylor said is right. I mean, if there are businesses that are
intentionally not complying with CDC recommended guidelines and
putting people at risk, I mean, ultimately, we can vote with our
dollars and with our feet.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And our brain.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And we should -- you know, I
would hope that everybody sees it that way, and that's the best way,
probably, to get businesses to comply. Certainly, it's been my
experience that the few restaurants that I've been to have been
complying. In fact, one of them, you know, the first thing they did
was take your temperature before you even walked in the door, and
I'm glad they did it, so -- but I would be interested to know what
these other jurisdictions are doing and whether or not there are
anything other than just a blanket mandatory mask wearing for
everybody, you know, in public. If they've -- are there any things
like what Commissioner Saunders has recommended or suggested
that apply to businesses, whatever they are, restaurants, grocery
stores, where a lot of people will congregate. I'd be interested in that
as well.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Just one comment, that I would
caution my colleagues of creating something that the Sheriff has to
enforce given what is out there right now and what he has dealt with
over the last three weeks and will continue to address. I believe that
people have a personal responsibility, and so do businesses. And I
think that to create an ordinance -- or we could create a resolution
recommending. But to have something where there's a punitive part
of it that the Sheriff's Department has to enforce in this day and age is
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nothing that I would support.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. I'm going to make a
comment and -- the positivity rate has traditionally been around 9 to
9-and-a-half percent for the first couple of months of this. It's now
12.7 percent over the last two weeks, and that number has actually
been going up.
So just statistically -- there are about 30 people in this room.
Three of us, statistically, could have COVID-19 just based on the rate
of positivity of tests. I'm not suggesting anybody does, but that's
how statistics work. If you've got a positivity rate of random testing
and it turns out to be 12.7 percent, that's about one out of 10 that
you're testing.
So I want the county to do more in terms of social distancing
and, as I mentioned, and it's almost necessary to an extent for people
to kind of huddle and to whisper, but I don't think it's a smart thing
for us to be doing. And it sends the right message.
So when the County Manager has a message for the County
Attorney or for one of us, let's practice social distancing even here in
this room. Let's offer masks. I don't know if we should -- we could
require masks for anybody that comes into this room. I don't think
that would be a problem. And we could hand those out.
So I think just cleaning up our own house that way, I think,
would send the right message. I always come in here with a mask
because I want to send a message to the public that I personally
believe that that's important. So I'd like to certainly have us be more
cognizant of that.
And then I think, Commissioner Solis, you were asking for some
additional information at our next meeting so we could discuss
further.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I don't have any issues with
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that. I'm not -- and I do agree with the Board that we should not be
mandating the general public to be wearing masks. There's a lot of
personal responsibility there, but I think we should, as Commissioner
McDaniel said, provide more education, provide masks, and perhaps
consider whether or not we should be looking at businesses requiring
employees to wear masks, and we can do that at the next meeting.
If we put that on the agenda, we will have a flood of people
saying yes, and we'll have a tremendous flood of people saying no.
And so if there's no appetite to even consider that, then I don't think
we should even put it on the agenda, because that's just going to
create a monster of a meeting. I will kind of poll the Board here to
see if we really want to do that.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I mean -- just to clarify, I mean, I
was really asking the County Attorney for me. I mean, I wasn't
intending to put that on the --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Set is up.
MR. KLATZKOW: I can give you a private memo, and if any
commissioner wishes to bring it forward at the next meeting, that
would --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think that would be a good way
to handle that.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Sure.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have three lights lit
up. And we're not going to be taking any action today so
we -- obviously, if you want to speak, that's fine. But if it's just
about the mask, we're not doing anything with mask. So go down
the row here.
Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah. I've been a great fan and
continue to be a great fan of taking people's temperatures. I think
that would give us a better sense of confidence, and I think it's easy to
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do, and you can do it at a distance. So if we're going to suggest that
staff does anything, I think temperature taking should be part of it.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Are you talking about in
this room when people come in?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Sure. Why not? When they
come through the downstairs, what -- you know, we scan to see
what's in their pockets. Just take their temperature.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And then the legal question would
be, can we prevent someone from coming to a public meeting that
has a fever? So that --
MR. KLATZKOW: We have access for remote.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: So we could set up a situation, if
someone comes in, they have a fever, we don't grant them access to
the room, but there's -- we could give them instructions on remote.
MR. KLATZKOW: I'm very confident that that is a procedure
that can be enforced, yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Those types of things, I think,
make a lot of sense.
Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. We also can encourage
businesses, if we don't like the fact that they're using -- not using
masks, just don't go there. You know, it's pretty simple. If you feel
that that's not the thing, go to another business. You have
plenty -- because they'll notice the drop in business, too, if a lot of
people don't go. We have plenty to say without enforcement
slapping their hands, you know.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. We'll wrap this up. We're
going to get into the CARES Act in a few minutes, and that's when
we'll start talking about some education.
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, you still have a portion of this item
from the staff after probably a court reporter break.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, let's wrap this one up real
quickly, so...
MR. OCHS: Very good. Steve.
MR. CARNELL: Troy, I need help with the slides here.
MR. MILLER: Hold on a second, sir.
It should be ready.
MR. CARNELL: Okay. Thank you.
For the record, Steve Carnell, your Public Services department
head. I'm going to walk you through a very brief operational update
where we are across the county right now.
We just got through Father's Day weekend, and our city and
county beaches were relatively calm. Really, the only noteworthy
issue was Marco Island beaches, and this is, by the way, a
long-standing tradition on Father's Day and Mother's Day on Marco
Island in particular with South Beach with vehicle traffic backing up,
the parking lot/garage -- or parking lot filled up there, and we did
have closures in the street. And the Marco Island Police Department
did close entrance to the park because of traffic.
And we're working with the Marco Island Police Department to
manage that, particularly with the forthcoming 4th of July weekend
looking at some strategies to try to better help them and assist them.
The City of Naples reported to us increased utilization but no
significant issues on their beaches this past weekend.
Just briefly, Clam Pass. I want to highlight a couple of things I
told you last time; that the tram service is operational again running
seven days a week, and we have -- the Naples Grande has equipped
those units with plexiglass to promote social distancing and protect
tram riders.
And then something else that really has nothing to do with the
COVID virus. This was long planned long before, but it's about to
happen and is happening. The restrooms at Clam Pass are currently
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closed as we're embarking on an expansion project of the restroom
facilities, which was planned a long time ago with the Naples Grande
jointly and is actually getting into full gear in August and will take a
break about 60 days. But the restroom service is temporarily
unavailable. We have portable units set up in the parking lot at that
beach, and we're attempting to get the temporary restrooms or the
existing restrooms back into service for a temporary period of time.
Hoping to have that done by next week.
Summer camps remain busy. We have 580 campers presently
at 11 locations. The playgrounds that are at community centers are
limited only to summer camp use, and we're considering opening
them to the general public as soon as this coming weekend, but more
about playgrounds in a moment. Let's talk about them collectively.
I want to talk to you about some things that have happened at
camp. We have had COVID positive test outcomes there, six of
them at four different locations: At the Vineyards Community Park.
That was part of summer camp; and at North Collier Regional Park
Sports Camp, we had a positive test; and then we've -- independent of
summer camps, we've had positive tests at the Immokalee Sports
Complex and at Eagle Lakes aquatic facility.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Of children or staff?
MR. CARNELL: Staff. Staff. Yeah, parents have been
notified who are attending the camps at the Vineyards and at North
Collier Regional Park. Vineyards was about as well timed as you
can get, if there is such a thing. The positive test was detected on
Friday. We closed the facility over the weekend. Did massive
sanitation. Notified the parents Monday morning, and at this point
have only had one student withdraw.
And the staff were removed. Our regional manager came in
and ran the camp last week. And the staff -- or the positive test
person is undergoing medical care and will be returned after she
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has -- clears two successful negative tests, which means she doesn't
have it anymore.
And then we have other staff that were proximate to her who
have been removed who are on observation right now, and they'll
come back either when they get a positive -- or negative test,
meaning they don't have -- or they've been cleared 14 days of
separation from the facility. But we are able to operate the
Vineyards in the meantime, that camp.
North Collier Regional Park. That's a sports camp that was
closed, and it will be closed and reopening in two weeks. Again, we
had one staff member, I believe, who tested positive there.
Immokalee Sports Complex and Eagle Lakes, we had staff who
tested there and, unfortunately, during the contact tracing, the
infected person identified that they had been in close proximity with
just about all of the staff. So we had to remove all of the staff from
the Immokalee Sports Complex, and they're on observation right now
and testing. And, again, that facility's closed. We'll be trying to
reopen it as soon as we can, if we can get enough staff back there.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have three lights lit up here.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Mine's at the end, please.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah. Just as we go into the
next item, once we take our break, if we ever do, dear Terri, I'd like
to have it identified if --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: It's the next item. Let's just --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Well, I don't know if you're
going to be -- are you going to be at the next item? Because I'd like
to know if we have additional facilities to have childcare.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Carnell, if you'll be here for
the next item. Let's get to that then.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'm just wondering if they have the
summer camp over at East Naples Community Park.
MR. CARNELL: Yes. We're operating in East Naples.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, great. Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah. My point is -- this
has nothing to do with the parks and the report. I was under the
impression I thought we were going to have some kind of a report
with regard to the fires and how we're doing with managing those
cases, the people that lost their homes, and so ons and so forth. So
that was my comment.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Ochs, if you can fill in the
Commissioner during the break here on that.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: If you'll go ahead and conclude
your report.
MR. CARNELL: I will. All right.
Pools and fitness centers, I told you our pools reopened on
June 1st, and so far, through three weeks of use, we've had almost
2,100 patrons.
The fitness center visitation resumed since June -- it's actually
reopened -- we opened in late May. But our June 1st through June
19th visitation was almost 3,100 folks.
Our indoor gymnasiums, we're starting to get inquiries in the
community about people wanting to access our indoor gymnasiums.
Primarily, that would be North Collier Regional Park specifically or
possibly the Golden Gate Community Center. And at the moment,
we are working with these different adult -- these are adult basketball
groups that want to play indoors, and for the moment we're trying to
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direct them outdoors and provide them outdoor facility access. So
that's something that's in discussion right now in terms of how we
might proceed with that. Right now we have not made any decision
to open our indoor gymnasiums for adult league play or casual
pickup games.
Playgrounds. I mentioned last meeting that we were working
towards a plan to reopen our playgrounds on July 1st. And we'll just
need to make sure everybody's clear what we're talking about here.
We have 28 playgrounds across the entire county park system.
Eleven of them are dedicated to summer camp use Monday through
Friday, and that's through Friday, August 7th.
We recently reopened four playgrounds that are not being used
for summer camp, and that's Sugden Regional Park, Pelican Bay
Community Park, the Oakes Neighborhood Park, and on the Gordon
River Greenway. And we placed informational signage up regarding
the fact that the playgrounds are only being routinely cleaned -- and
I'll explain what routinely cleaned is in just a moment -- and inform
people and encouraging them to clean up before and after they use
the facilities and the equipment. So we have 13 that are still entirely
closed.
Now, this has been an area where dynamics are changing.
That's what's true about everything with COVID; the only constant is
change.
And with the CDC guidance, the CDC guidance on playgrounds
has relaxed. They have gone -- they are now making a distinction
between outdoor and indoor cleaning when it comes to facilities.
And they are saying with outdoor cleaning there's not as much of a
need to clean as intensely as you might indoors, and they are -- the
words that are in the CDC guidance literally are to use routine
cleaning. They also encourage you to talk to your local health
officials, which we have spoken to the Health Department about the
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playgrounds, and essentially to resume our prior practices. That's
really what the CDC guidance amounts to, as we read it and interpret
it.
And, again, like the adult basketball gymnasium use, we're
getting constituents who are starting to ask about playground access
for their children. And we've had several conversations with them
about individual responsibility and their willingness to take protective
measures with their children when they're there and to clean up
before and after, and they all seem to be willing to do that.
Where we're at now -- well, one other point. A lot of
discussion about sanitizing liquids and compounds. CDC guidance
is soap and water. It's easier to apply. It's easier to procure and
obtain. And as far as the CDC's concerned, it's just as effective for
this type of outdoor use and purpose.
All right. So where we are right now is we're prepared to
reopen playgrounds with the Board's consent under the following
conditions: The community center playgrounds, the ones that are
dedicated to summer camp would only be open on weekends until
August 8th -- Saturday, August 8th, after summer camp ends. The
other 13 I'm just talking about here could reopen for regular public
use during the day, and we would, at minimum, clean them once a
week. That is the routine standard is once a week. Now, in reality,
we're going to clean more frequently than that.
We have -- the challenge here is 28 sites and really 13 that we've
got to focus on in this discussion. Really 17 we have to focus on in
this discussion. The challenge is they're all over the place. They're
not, you know, 100 yards apart. You've got to literally drive all over
the county to clean these things, and the cleaning can be anywhere
from two to three hours. It's faster when you're doing soap and
water and you can apply it with some kind of spray device as
opposed to something else that may not be as efficient to apply. But,
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nonetheless, it's going to be challenging.
Now, we think we've got the staff to do a more frequent
regiment than daily, but I want to be truthful with the five of you. I
can't swear to you that they'll all be cleaned daily. We're going to
aspire to that, but it's going to, in reality, probably fall into something
between weekly and daily in terms of the facilities; three to four
times a week, something along those lines. That's the plan that we
are prepared to implement effective tomorrow. And I want to get the
Board's input and guidance on that before we proceed further.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Steve, I'd just like to ask you one
question. Being that the playgrounds are outside and in the sun and
they tell us that you can take your masks and put them in the sun for a
few minutes and it more or less sterilizes them, kills the COVID
germs, I would think that that would help the playgrounds. And I
couldn't understand why we closed them in the first place. But,
anyway, have they found that that's why they're going to open the
playgrounds now, because --
MR. CARNELL: I haven't heard that specifically,
Commissioner, but you're on the right track from what I'm hearing.
What I'm hearing is outdoor is safer than indoor. Clearly, the
retention of the virus is less frequent outdoors with the sun, with the
wind, whatever. It is not as dangerous a place in general. There's
less opportunity for spread outdoors versus indoors.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'm just -- if Mr. Carnell is
finished. I mean --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think there's two more slides.
Do you want to go ahead and finish then --
MR. CARNELL: We can do that. Yeah, I'm almost done.
And I'll be happy to come back to the playgrounds.
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
MR. CARNELL: Okay. Just sports leagues and tournaments,
we've had a great deal of communication with our local leagues
regarding them resuming use of our facilities. All of them have been
tasked with developing and submitting to us a COVID-19 prevention
plan, and some of them have done so and have been authorized to
return: Azzurri Storm, Florida West, Mexi Soccer, Naples Roller
Hockey. You see the list here. They're all active again on our fields
and our facilities. All of them have COVID protection plans for
their members.
And then we had an event this past weekend at North Collier
Regional that went well, and we have four more tournaments
scheduled in June or July. All of them are submitting, again, these
protection plans for their members and participants.
And Swim Florida, as I told you last time, they now have, in
fact, resumed swim practices at the Golden Gate Community Park.
And just one clarification. We are allowing the public to use
outdoor shower facilities at this time at our aquatic facilities. We're
cleaning them pretty regularly throughout the day, but some -- like,
for example, Swim Florida is imposing more restrictive requirements
on their participants. So they're asking their members, when they
come to swim practice, to not shower beforehand on site or shower
on site after they practice. Just go home, and minimize the contact
with, if you will, the equipment.
So I want to make that distinction, if you see a member of the
public in general use -- at one of our aquatic facilities using the
shower, that's okay. We're permitting that because we're cleaning
them ourselves. But these groups are putting limits -- self-imposed
limits on their members, which we're, of course, honoring and
respecting.
Okay. Then, lastly, just before -- I'm going to step out to
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libraries for a moment, then we'll go back to playgrounds. I just
want to let you know that we have reopened the Golden Gate and the
Marco Island branch libraries. They've been open for a full week
now, and -- give you some circulation numbers. And these are
strictly just the in-person activities on site. This has nothing to do
with audio books or ebooks or anything off-line -- online through the
Internet. This is just strictly in-person activity at our library
locations. If you have any questions about that, I'll be entertaining
that, and if not, we can go back to the playground discussion.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yes. You know, given the
presentation that we received and all of the indicators trending
upward, the gating criteria now, we have three that are "no" based
upon the numbers, and we know that the numbers are going up in
younger people. And me, like everyone else probably that
experienced this with their children, whatever your kids get, you're
going to get, and it's going to be much worse for you, or at least it
was for me.
You know, I just think that given what's going on, given that
there's a spike, given that it's in young people, I just -- I don't -- it
seems illogical to me to continue to open up facilities when things are
headed in the wrong direction. It just doesn't make -- it's not logical.
And this -- and we're talking about added expense to clean these
facilities every day. I mean, I just don't know -- it's not logical to me
that -- given what we're being told by the Department of Health, to
continue opening up facilities that are -- I mean, they're the epitome
of nonsocial distancing.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let me check with the court
reporter. I didn't realize we were -- are you still okay?
THE COURT REPORTER: Yes. We can finish it.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: That's all I had to say.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: You're okay to go ahead and
finish this item?
THE COURT REPORTER: Yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I'll make this quick. I was just
wondering, are you planning, at some point, to open the East Naples
Library branch? That's usually where the people in the different
nursing homes, they can get there in a wheelchair, as well as the kids,
they can get there on a bike. I was just wondering if you were
planning on opening that.
MR. CARNELL: We do. We will have it open before the end
of the fiscal year. I don't have a date yet for you, Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, fiscal year. So that's before
October 1.
MR. CARNELL: Yeah, before -- by September, yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I think we have to look at this in
the broader perspective, and I think children need to play on
playgrounds. So I support the playgrounds being open.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have one point of
decision that we need to make, I believe, and that is -- if we want to
concur with staff's recommendation to open up -- there were some
facilities you were talking about you needed a consent from the
Board. If you would review what that consent is that you're looking
for, I'll poll the Board here real quickly.
MR. CARNELL: I would ask that the Board would give the
staff discretion to reopen our 28 playgrounds countywide. I will tell
you that for now we're not going to reopen the playgrounds in
Immokalee. There's a handful there. But the others we're ready and
equipped to open as early as tomorrow with the Board's consent.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Now, there may be some
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objections to that. Let's just see if there's any objection to staff
proceeding with that.
Commissioner Solis, are you okay with opening? I think you --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- said no. Okay.
Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Well, I am, because they're in the
sunshine.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Commissioner
McDaniel?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'm okay.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'm fine with that.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I'm okay with that as long as
you take all of the precautions that you're discussing. And if we
have a problem, you can report back to us at each meeting, but -- all
right. I think that concludes this particular item.
We'll come back at -- how about quarter after 11:00. So,
Commissioner McDaniel, that will give you 12 minutes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Twelve minutes. Nice.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We are in recess until
11:15.
(A brief recess was had from 11:02 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: The Commission will come back
to order.
Item #11B
RECOMMENDATION THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS ENTER INTO A FUNDING AGREEMENT
WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY
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MANAGEMENT FOR CORONAVIRUS RELIEF ACT FUNDS
ALLOCATED TO COLLIER COUNTY, AUTHORIZE THE
COUNTY MANAGER OR DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE ANY SUB-
AWARD AGREEMENTS AND PAYMENT REQUESTS
NECESSARY TO DISTRIBUTE REIMBURSEMENT FOR
EXPENSES TO ELIGIBLE PARTIES, AUTHORIZE NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENTS TO CARRY OUT DISTRIBUTION OF
FUNDS, AUTHORIZE UP TO EIGHT (8) TEMPORARY, FULL-
TIME EMPLOYEES TO ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM, AND
PROVIDE DIRECTION ON A STAFF PLAN FOR THE
DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS; AND APPROVE ALL NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENTS – MOTION TO APPROVE FUNDING
THE AGREEMENT AND HAVING THE COUNTY MANAGER
AS THE DESIGNEE – APPROVED; MOTION TO AUTHORIZE
THE HIRING OF UP TO 8 TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES –
APPROVED; DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO BE BROUGHT
BACK AT THE JULY 14TH MEETING BY THE COUNTY
MANAGER
MR. OCHS: Commissioners, we're moving to Item 11B this
morning. This is a recommendation that the Board consider entering
into a funding agreement with the Florida Department of Emergency
Management for Coronavirus Relief Act funds allocated to Collier
County; to authorize the County Manager to execute any sub-award
agreements and payment requests necessary to distribute
reimbursement for eligible expenses; authorize the necessary budget
amendments to carry out the distribution of funds; and to authorize
up to eight temporary full-time employees to administer the program;
and, finally, to provide staff direction on the types of fund allocations
that the Board would prioritize.
And Mr. Sean Callahan will take the Board through a
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presentation.
Sean?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Callahan.
MR. CALLAHAN: Good morning, Commissioners. For the
record, Sean Callahan, executive director of the Corporate Business
Operations. Preface this up front, there's a lot of information that
we're going to communicate. So if you have questions throughout,
feel free to stop me, or we can wait till the end of the presentation.
Your pleasure.
So we're asking for a couple of different things out of the Board
today: One, to authorize us to sign a funding agreement with the
Florida Division of Emergency Management for the allocation of
those CARES Act funds; to authorize the Manager or his designee to
execute sub-award agreements, payment requests, and any necessary
budget amendments to get that funding in place; authorize up to eight
temporary full-time employees for administration of the program.
Those employees will be fully reimbursable under this funding, as
they'll be dedicated solely to response of the COVID-19 pandemic,
and they will go away after this funding is expired; and then fourth,
to provide necessary direction that we need for the allocation of these
funds that the Board would like to see them go to.
So just to step back, back in March the CARES Act, the largest
stimulus bill in history, was signed in to law by the President. It was
a $2.2 trillion aid package. It provided everything from direct
payments to taxpayers to expanded unemployment insurance to loans
to businesses, a lot of different things that we can talk about.
Specific today, we're talking about the $150 billion Coronavirus
Relief Fund that was set aside to make payments to state, local, and
travel governments. So in May 2020, the beginning of May, direct
appropriations were made from the feds to counties and
municipalities that had over 500,000 people in their population, and
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about a week ago Governor DeSantis announced the plan to distribute
the remainder to counties with below 500,000 in population, which
would include Collier County.
Within his guidance, just to point out, he did say that counties of
jurisdiction would be responsible for reimbursement of municipalities
and other governmental entities within their jurisdiction.
So just to speak solely about Collier County's allocation, just
mechanically how this works with the CARES Act funding is that
counties receive the first 25 percent of their allocation as a direct
payment so -- or if we're to enter this funding agreement with FDEM,
we will receive the first 25 percent. Anything beyond that first
25 percent is actually, at this point, going to be funded by the county
and fronted by the county and then applied for on a reimbursable
basis.
So under that allocation mechanism, in total, Collier County was
set aside a little bit over $67 million which makes our direct payment
that will be allocated to us, after entering the funding agreement,
16 -- about 16.8 million.
At a high level and just mechanically, these funds can be made
available to cover costs that are necessary expenditures deemed by
the local government to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and
they need to be incurred from March 1st of this year through the end
of the calendar year. One interesting note there in the middle: They
have to be costs that were not already accounted for in our latest
budget as of March 27th, which would be the Fiscal Year '20 budget
for this board.
Sticking at a high level, some of the eligible expenditures that
were outlined in the treasury guidance that governs the Coronavirus
Relief Fund are medical expenses, so emergency medical response
expenses. That could be due to increased testing, the establishment
of temporary health facilities, things of that nature.
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Public health expenses. So communication of public health
orders, which we heard some members of the Board reference earlier
would fit in there. Many enforcement costs that come along with
enforcing public health orders that are put into place by state various
local government ordinances.
Medical and protective supplies. So we'll go through some
examples of what other counties have put into place. We're
fortunate that those counties that had a direct allocation at the
beginning of May have at least put programs into place so we can see
some examples of how this funding has been used.
Payroll expenses for public safety and public health services.
So those are employees whose duties are solely dedicated and
substantially committed to the COVID-19 response and/or employees
who have been substantially re-purposed to respond to the
COVID-19 pandemic, which there's some strings attached there.
Actions to facilitate compliance with public health measures.
So increased cleaning, stabilization measures, increased delivery of
meals out to the community that can't take place because of not
congregating at meal sites, unforeseen teleworking costs that have
come for employees of public agencies, or schools, of some other
means.
And then the last category that the treasury guidance outlines is
the provision of economic support. So that's got a lot -- that's
probably where the most flexibility is to apply this different funding,
but we've seen other counties put in place small business program
supports for relaunch grants to small businesses, and then do some
more flexible individual payments and allocations to folks to help
them with rental, mortgage, utility payments, medical expenses, even
things of that nature.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor, did you
want him to complete or --
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No, when you're complete.
MR. CALLAHAN: So a few important notes on the uses that
have come out of this guidance. Again, must be used on incurred
expenses related to or a response to the public emergency that are
incurred between March 1st of this year and December 30th. So it
could be expenses that have not yet been incurred.
It can only be used to cover costs not accounted for in the latest
budget. There can be no duplication of benefits, and this is where it
gets complicated when you start to talk about direct assistance
programs, because you can't double dip between federal funds. So a
good example of this is if we were to move forward with a small
business assistance grant or some type of a grant of that nature and
that business had received the Paycheck Protection Program loan, we
would need to be able to account for expenses that weren't already
covered by that loan.
I think an important note here is that we, as the county, are
responsible for interpreting the treasury guidance that we've been
given and applying that to deem what are eligible expenditures under
this note, and because of that, anything that's deemed an ineligible
expenditure at the end of the day we're on the hook to pay back.
So funds not used by the end of the year for expenses that are
incurred will have to be returned. So $67 million is -- we're going to
be hard pressed to spend all of that, but we'll do our best.
And then funds that are definitely not eligible. That's one of the
clearest pieces of the guidance, to fill shortfalls in governmental
revenues. So we couldn't make up for some of the projected
shortfalls in our different tax revenue streams. And then all of this
money is federal to -- or subject to all federal Single Audit Act
requirements.
In talking to some of our counterparts in other counties that have
implemented programs like this, there's been misunderstanding and
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miscommunication about whether or not funding should be fronted
for programs or done on a reimbursable basis by the county of
jurisdiction.
So I did pull this directly from the treasury guidance which, if
you read it, payments from the fund are limited to only those
necessary due to the public health emergency, and it goes on to say
that unless the government were to determine that providing
assistance in the form of a stipend is a necessity, that the government
should provide as much -- such assistance on a reimbursement basis
to ensure, as much as possible, that funds are used to cover only
eligible expenses. So that is a pretty hard recommendation in that
treasury guidance.
So what might we need to fund? A couple of different
categories. We've talked a little bit about that provision of economic
support and some of the different communications, personal
protective equipment. So those human and business services that
may be immediate assistance for individuals, families, nonprofits,
businesses. We have some flexibility there.
Increased government costs. So we've had incurred costs,
as -- both the County Manager's agency. We've talked to some of
our constitutionals that have incurred additional costs that would be
eligible for funding under this.
One specific example that was given was any hurricane safety
measures that will need to be taken in the future to ensure social
distancing in a shelter plan could be eligible expenses that.
Medical testing and contact tracing. We have been in contact
with the Department of Health. They estimate that they've incurred
about $2 million worth of expenses that are outside what the
state's -- the state is reimbursing and covering right now.
Then any additional community needs. So one that we'll point
out that we've seen other communities respond to is the additional
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costs that have been incurred by food pantries and the food banks.
So here in Collier County we have 21 food pantries. We have six
mobile food banks. I'll read you a couple statistics on those. But
60 percent of their food is provided by the Harry Chapin Food Bank,
about 20 percent from the Midwest Food Bank, and 10 percent from
Wholefoods and Publix. All of those food pantries have seen an
increase of around 75 percent since the beginning of this pandemic.
So they've incurred some extremely large costs to be able to continue
to serve the public.
Then any other emerging needs. As I mentioned, just to
reinforce, that while this funding has been allocated to certainly cover
any expenses or necessities that have been generated by March 1st,
there could be expenses in the future that would fall eligible under
this funding.
Just to rewind and talk about -- you know, when you talk about
duplication of benefits, some of the things that we would have to
navigate if we were to provide direct assistance. CARES Acts
stimulus has paid out a substantial amount of money to individual
taxpayers based on income limitations. Your federal enhanced
reemployment that provides that additional $600 per week for
eligible individuals is still in place through the end of July.
We do currently have a rental mortgage and utility assistance
program in partnership with our United Way that is income limited.
So if we were to look at individual programs, we may want to figure
out where there's gaps between that program and what this funding is
eligible for to be able to provide that.
And then on the business side -- I mentioned this a little bit
earlier, but the CARES Act and Paycheck Protection Program
provided about $746 billion to small business, about -- a little bit over
30 billion of that was allocated here to Florida.
So those are some of the different things that we would have to
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take into consideration when allocating these expenses to direct
assistance programs to make sure that we weren't duplicating
benefits.
So potential community assistance programs that staff has
looked at and seen done effectively in other counties that have
received these funding allocations is some type of an individual rent,
mortgage, and utility relief. So you allocate a certain amount of
funding that folks would be eligible for. I think the best way that
we've seen that done in other counties would be people could bring
overdue bills in those arenas to us, and we could make direct
payment to either the landlord or mortgage company or utilities
company where they were behind.
Small business relaunch grants. So eligible expenditures to
come back to work. It's very flexible for businesses that were
affected by the Safer at Home Order. So that could be anything
from making up for lost revenues during that time to rehiring
employees to enhancing safety precautions that are with those
businesses if they have a large interaction with the public.
Assistance to food banks. I mentioned that a little bit earlier.
We do have those food pantries and mobile food pantries here that
have had substantial incurred costs.
Childcare grants and assistance. Another one that's out there
that folks have allocated some money to, one, at one point provide
assistance to folks, scholarships, if you may, for children who are
seeking childcare where they might not be available otherwise, and
then assistance to those providers for enhanced deep cleaning, things
like that.
I know, Commissioner Taylor, you mentioned additional
locations for providing childcare if it was related to social distancing
measures and things like that. That would be an eligible expense
under the CARES Act funding.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes.
MR. CALLAHAN: And then direct assistance to social service
agencies. So this could be in the form of direct assistance to
nonprofits, which we've gotten the same guidance that we would
have. It can't be for an existing program that they're doing. It
would have to be separate and apart from what they budgeted in some
form of an enhanced service that they're providing in direct response
to the health emergency.
So these are just some potential community assistance programs
that I think we, as staff, thought the Board might be interested in
taking a look at and discussing a little bit more today.
Implementation. Once you provide us direction, staff will
develop a plan with these allocations. If there's things that you're
comfortable with moving out today and we know we're going to do
that, I think the approval of this item will give us the ability to do
that. If there's things that you'd like to see us bring back to you on
your July 14th agenda for further discussion, we can do that as well.
But I think we'd really be trying to get the nuts and bolts in place to
be able to execute a program shortly after that if we were to bring it
back to you.
So our application for process and assistance will be working
through our existing Human Services Division. They do have an
online portal called Neighborly that we would be looking to build out
so that we can accept these applications online and process them
through.
One of the discussions with my counterpart up in Lee County is
that he thought that was probably the most successful thing that they
had in place was using that Neighborly online portal. He's offered to
bring himself and any of his staff down to assist us with the
implementation here as well. And then staff will come up and
coordinate some type of a communications plan to tell people about
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this funding and make sure they know what eligible expenditures are
out there.
Staff will work with any necessary entities to develop fiscal
procedures. As I outlined before, there's going to be a lot of
complicated audit trail type things that we're going to need to do to
make sure that we're spending this money in accordance with the
federal guidelines that we were given, and then we'll continually
evaluate any additional needs for future assistance in the community.
Reporting. In think in the executive summary we outlined that
we would like to do monthly reports to the BCC; post those on the
county website for the public, I think, would be a good measure of
transparency that we've seen in other communities.
Lee County has a great dashboard that they've developed off the
software that I've just mentioned that we may be able to make
available for public consumption and your consumption as well.
The CARES Act money in its acceptance requires a formal
expenditure report to FDEM on a quarterly basis, and then we'd look
to develop any further recommendations that we need for data
sharing as the program rolls out.
So just to give you an example of how some other counties have
allocated this founding. The ones that have larger populations,
obviously, got more funding than we did. Funding was largely
allocated off population of individual counties. Lee County put
aside $25 million to a small business relaunch program. So they
gave $5,000 grants to different businesses that were affected by the
Safer at Home Order. They limited those to 25 employees or less,
but they also included nonprofits, which is something that was unique
about the Lee County program as opposed to others to be available
for that.
An individual assistance program. So, as I mentioned, up to
$2,000 in back rent, mortgage, utility expenses.
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A PPE, excuse me, small business program. So they went out
and leveraged their government procurement methods to acquire a
large stock of PPE and then be able to distribute that to different
businesses in town.
And a childcare assistance program which, as I mentioned, was
split between scholarships for individuals in need versus providing
assistance to providers to actually provide deep cleaning and facilities
enhancements, things like that.
And then about $3 million they set aside for -- they saw very
likewise food bank cost increases as we did.
Orange County Florida, who saw a substantial amount of
CARES Act funding, one had a small business financial assistance
program much like the one I just described from Lee County, but it
was up to 10,000 per business for those relaunch costs.
Their social services and resident needs was a little bit different.
They set aside half of that, about $36 million, to make direct
payments to folks that resided in Orange County that had had some
loss of reduction of employment and then reserved the other half for
non-profit agencies to increase the number of services that they were
being able to provide to the public in response. So things like
coordinating homelessness programs, coordinating job training
programs, things like that they set aside for nonprofits to come with
plans to expend that and move forward, and then reserved a
substantial amount for both their own government expenditures,
municipality expenditures within there, and then a replenishment
count reserved as a -- or set aside as a reserve for any future needs
that were to come up.
And, finally, Pinellas County, which I think you can see they did
a $5,000 one-time grant for qualifying small businesses that had a
location. They excluded larger businesses, nonprofits. Home-based
businesses, they weren't eligible. And they just -- they made it very
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simple in the fact that you'd have to show that you incurred at least
$5,000 worth of economic injury during the shutdown to be able to
qualify for that grant.
So just giving you different flavors of things that have been
awarded. They also had an individual program that provided direct
payments to -- directly to landlords, mortgage companies, utilities,
things like that.
The Palm Beach Restart Business Grant, just to show you one
more, was a $25,000 maximum award. They also excluded publicly
traded companies. Rather than doing theirs on employee size, just to
show you another example of how they did that, they did it for gross
maximum sales and receipts for $5 million is what -- your eligibility
to determine what a small business was.
They also made eligible sectors, which we could discuss today,
and then you could see the eligible uses below are an example of
what these funds can be used for, and that's largely consistent across
these small business programs that we've seen just taking into
account that there should be no duplication of benefits.
So, again, I'll circle back and end there. I'm going to have
Ms. Kristi Sonntag with me, our Community and Human Services
Division director, who's going to, obviously, play a large part in
implementing this program, and we'll take your questions and any
discussion that you might have and try to answer your questions as
best as possible.
But just to -- again, we'd like to sign the funding agreement with
FDEM, authorize the County Manager to execute sub-award
agreements, payment requests and budget amendments, authorize up
to 10 -- sorry -- up to eight temporary full-time employees for
administration of the program and, again, have you provide any
necessary recommendations that are needed for the distribution of
these funds.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have several
commissioners with questions.
Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes. One comment. The
Salvation Army, from the beginning of this pandemic and, clearly,
through the years, has been on the front line of providing rental
assistance, utility payments, and housing for those in need. They
have developed a state-of-the-art computerized program by which our
own Housing Department is using. We are giving them the funds
that they can distribute. It's all tracked. It's seamless.
My suggestion with anything with individuals, that they go
through that system, that we work out some kind of agreement with
them. They have tracking. They know the folks that they have
denied funding for whatever reason, and I think it will -- it would be
a seamless relationship. So that would be my one comment.
My second comment is, it is extremely important that we get
people back to work in our community, and they won't get back to
work if they have 10 children that they have to worry about because
the neighbors left their children with them on the way.
So any kind of area that we can work in where -- because social
distancing is required, daycares can't take as many kids, and that's
when I came with this question about facilities. And I can see we
can lease a facility. I'm not saying this is going to be forever. But I
think it's the employees of these facilities, staff employees in many
cases, because we have a big childcare program here in Collier
County that the community uses, and then the facilities. I'd like to
see that.
And then, finally, with the seniors, there's two items on our
consent agenda today that we've already expended a quarter of a
million dollars just to make sure that our seniors are safe, and food
delivery. We are hiring more people so that we can make home
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visits to them because they're isolated; they can't get out. And I
think those are the areas that we -- that I would support. And, again,
we talked about maybe not reimbursing, but if we spent a quarter of a
million dollars, I'd like to see it reimbursed but, at the same time, we
seem to have a system by which we have outreach to these seniors
throughout the community. We don't need to invest [sic] the wheel.
We just need to make sure that the money's spent where we need to
have it spend it.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, thank you.
One of the things that I wanted to mention in Immokalee -- this
is only because I have a -- I know somebody who drives an
ambulance for different patients being sent home after they've been
declared with COVID, but then they're able to be released but still
have to stay isolated, right? Self-isolation.
Well, the problem is, they take them home, but the houses are so
full of people. And, in fact, they sleep in the same beds as each
other. Maybe there's something that we can do about either keeping
them longer at the hospital, using money like this to keep them there
so that they're not spreading more of it around and amongst their
whole families, or maybe there's something we can do about having
some location that they can go to that they would be isolated from but
not in a hospital. It wouldn't be that expensive. I don't know if we
can find, like, a motel or something like that and where they can have
a single room to stay there. So maybe that's something we could do.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am. The Commission has already
approved a couple of contracts with hotels and with the Collier
County Housing Authority to allow us to isolate patients if directed
by the Department of Health.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And I don't know how often
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that's -- when this ambulance driver took the lady home, first of all,
she didn't speak any English. She only spoke Creole, but the
ambulance driver didn't speak anything but Spanish and English, and
so they couldn't even communicate. He tried to say to the people
there, you've got to wear a mask. They didn't understand. And they
couldn't even -- I brought it up at the last meeting, and I said, you
know, they've got to be able to get masks.
And, like Bill said, well, they've got all kinds of masks, except
for some reason these people don't know how to get to the masks. I
don't know. That's another problem.
But, anyway, so we do know that they don't seem to know
where to go to isolate themselves or to get masks or anything.
There's a lot of help needed there.
And, you know, we do have problems in East Naples, too,
because we've got the farm there. They've got 6L Farms there, huge
farm, and they've got people isolated in -- not isolated, but living in
dormitories. Well, you know, the dormitories are -- and there's no
way to isolate yourself in a dormitory either or in all of those trailers.
So you've got problems there, too.
MR. CALLAHAN: Yes, ma'am. And I think, as the County
Manager indicated, we have resources available to be able to do that,
and where we might be able to do a better job of that is with some
type of a public education --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: There you go.
MR. CALLAHAN: -- campaign, which would be -- I know
we've heard some interest from others on the Commission for it to be
able to get that information out to folks.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's a good idea, you know, so
that the people know where to go and where they can get help, and
they don't realize it now. Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. I had a whole bunch of
thoughts, and I'd like to go backwards if I may, Sean.
MR. CALLAHAN: Sure.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: We got some appropriation
of CARES money early on in the process that was -- we partnered
with United Way, with -- and that was for rental assistance and the
like. Have we got any kind of report on how that's all going so far?
MR. CALLAHAN: I'm going to ask Kristi to speak to that.
She's definitely more familiar with that program.
MS. SONNTAG: For the record, Kristi Sonntag, your
Community and Human Services director.
Yes, Commissioner, that program has been in place since the
end of April. And currently the United Way has partnered with
Salvation Army for the Emergency Solutions Grant, and they have
expended zero dollars to date. The reason is there's still a
moratorium on evictions, and those funds have to be spent on persons
who are facing eviction.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay. Well -- and that's one
of the reasons I wanted to ask is because of the -- I know the
extension of the eviction holdback has been effectuated, but I also
have been hearing that there's an overwhelming amount of response
onto that portal for both of those agencies. And so I am extremely
supportive of cooperating with them, but I also want to make sure
that we have a mechanism to get the help to the people that actually
need it.
So I just want to make sure that we have facilities available, and
I think patterning with the Salvation Army and the United Way is a
really, really good way to go. I just want to make sure that we are
getting assistance to the people that need it directly.
Now, Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes, sir.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I welcome you sometime,
when you have time, twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4:00,
there is a call, we call it the partners call, where the Health
Department administers all of our partners in Immokalee: Coalition
of Immokalee Workers, Guadalupe Center, RCMA, the Unmet Needs
Coalition, Venison Foundation, the Sheriff's Department, the Fire
Department, EMS. Everybody's on that call.
And you heard me speaking earlier about education with regard
to case management, and that's, I think, something that I would like
us, as a board, to do, or as an organization. There is only so much
that the Health Department can, in fact, do with the positive cases.
There's -- they're in the 85 percentile range of contact when they
actually have a positive case.
People -- it's a pretty well-known fact that when someone goes
and gets tested and tested positive, you're about to stare at two weeks’
worth of quarantine, which means lack of income. The triage that's
currently going on with the positive cases via the Health Department
is by telephone, and it's -- and it probably is, just as a matter of assets,
a matter of reactionary as opposed to proactive just simply because of
assets.
So one of the propositions that I'd like to suggest is that we
assist the Health Department to take a more active/proactive stance
with those positive cases and better manage those positive cases as
opposed to a reactionary to a proactionary -- or a proactive status.
And, again, there are -- there are regulations that are involved.
There's HIPAA regulations and privacy issues and all kinds of things
that get in the way. But I think, from a personnel standpoint, if we
can assist the Health Department to take that proactive step to help
better manage the positive cases to ensure that folks are quarantining,
that they are self-isolating as best as they possibly can.
As Sean has shared with you, we have arrangements made with
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two different hotels here in the urban area. We recently went to
contract with the Housing Authority on the Horizon Village facility,
the dormitory that's over there, and that's where partners -- or, excuse
me, the Global Response Management Team is setting up to assist
with the care of those cases in Immokalee proper.
But I think the educational component to let folks know that
there is assistance available so that you don't have to be fearful of
going and getting tested, that you don't have to be fearful of losing
that income, people would potentially be more forthright with their
actions and the information that they, in fact, provide.
Last week on the call they talked about an 85 percent contact
with the positive cases in our ZIP code there in Immokalee, which
sounds like a fairly decedent percentage of contact. But when you
apply the 15 percent that didn't get touched, it comes close to 180,
190 people that tested positive and went through the crack
somewhere and continued to be out in amongst our community.
So I am a huge advocate of education, and I think that that's as
large of a component in managing this crisis as we can
possibly -- possibly hope to attain.
And as a final point, I am in consent with Commissioner
Saunders -- he brought it up last week when the availability of these
funds came before us. I would like to see 100 percent of this money
injected back directly into our community in some form or format
vis-a-vis philanthropic organizations. You know, there are a lot of
organizations in our community who had to shut down because they
were deemed nonessential. The thrift shops for the White Elephant
that supports our hospital, the Goodwills, Saint Matt's thrift shop next
door, they all experienced enormous amounts of revenue reduction
because of the essential/nonessential shutdown and then, in turn,
negatively impacted their programming that they have available in
support.
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The churches themselves were deemed to not be such a safe
place for folks to go for a period of time. Again, that's
a -- those -- those are the organizations that are on the ground all day
every day working with the community that truly has a need.
And so if it were up to me, I'd like to see a direct impact on the
educational aspects of what's going on, a proactive status on how
we're actually physically managing the cases and some direct
assistance to our philanthropic organizations.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Let me just add to what you just
said, and that is now they've said a big spike is in East Naples. My
guess is it's coming from the farm. I mean, the Six L's Farms is
huge, and maybe that's -- you know, what was in Immokalee is also
spreading to this area, and there's ways we could help.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The potentiality is, in fact,
there. But, you know, I've been in constant communication with
farmers, and Littman and the large growers have some -- an
enormous amount of precautionary steps: Temperature taking,
administration of more transport, less people on the buses to move
them to and from the living quarters and the like. So the potential
exists for that, but we'll soon find out.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Since we're adding to the list, I
would like to see some portion of this dedicated to mask distribution.
I think especially in communities where we can see that they're just
not available.
The education's a big issue, too. I'd like to support that.
The issue of how we're isolating folks that have tested positive if
they can't self-isolate, is that something that we're only doing in
Immokalee, or is that a countywide -- I'm asking the Manager. Is
that a countywide program? We're doing that?
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir, I believe. And, again, that's a mission of
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the Department of Health, but --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Oh, it is.
MR. OCHS: Yes. I think their protocol calls for contact
tracing, and isolation is a countywide protocol.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. And are we -- have
supported that financially? Because if --
MR. OCHS: This board has supported it through contracts with
hotels and, as I mentioned a minute ago, through Commissioner
McDaniel's leadership, the Collier Housing Authority.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. Well, I definitely think that
some -- if there is some need there that hasn't been budgeted before, I
think we should look at that, because that -- right, that is certainly
something that can be helpful.
Our food banks and philanthropic agencies that help with
feeding folks that are out of work, I think that's -- that's an issue.
You know, one of the things I'm wondering is -- one of the things
that's happened, at least from the folks that I know that are in the
field, is -- and we've talked a lot about the effects that social
distancing and shutting everything down had in terms of mental
health in Collier County. I think that is one of those things,
unfortunately, that when things get tight, people do without.
So I'd like to see if there's a way -- and the therapists that I know
that, you know, had to close down their offices, although many of
them are working telemedicine, teletherapy, whatever it is, that's
usually, at least from the folks I've talked to, only about half of the
people that they would normally, you know, see.
So if there's -- if there's an innovative way that we could
dedicate some of that money to provide some support, whether, you
know -- however we can do it to make that available to people that
really need it in this most stressful time, I think that would help us
overall as well because it would hopefully reduce the need for things
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like the David Lawrence -- you know, the demand on David
Lawrence Center and the jails and whatnot.
So part of that would be our veterans. I mean, what could we
do with some of these funds to specifically help our veterans, whether
it's housing, whether it's mental health services? You know, again, I
think when times get tough, people get out their pencil, they make a
list -- and what are the things that we can do without. And we ought
to -- we ought to look at that in terms of what are the things that
people are having to just do without because of the situation,
unemployment, whatever it is, and see how we can fill that gap,
because, you know, I feel certain that the longer this goes on, the
longer we will be dealing with the aftermath of the effects that it's
had on people.
So that's what I would like to see. And I think the business
grants and all that, I think we've seen a lot of that, and that's
probably -- there's probably lots of examples on how to do that. But
this other component of it, I think, is something we really need to
look at.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I'll make a few comments, and
then we do have some decision points to make.
I agree with Commissioner McDaniel, and I think everyone is
pretty much saying the same thing, that we want all these dollars to
go into the community for community needs, not for reimbursement
of local governments. And so the education and the issue of PPE
and masks, I think you've heard from all of us that we want to make
sure that there is more education. We want to make sure that there is
more distribution of protective equipment, cleaning equipment, and
masks.
I think we're all saying that we want to make sure that through
some mechanism, whether it's through the Salvation Army, through
the United Way, through the food banks, we want to get more food
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security out there for folks, and we also want to do more to take care
of the homeless problem, and Commissioner Taylor mentioned the
Salvation Army's process.
So I think we're all saying let's take care of the folks that are the
most needy, and I think you've got a lot of really great ideas. The
issue of childcare, I think, is an important one as well. So you've got
the issue of these are the types of things we want to use these funds
for. It's going to be 50-some-odd -- $52 million, I believe, is the
total amount --
MR. OCHS: Sixty-seven.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- or $67 million rather, and we
have to spend all this by December 20, 2020, or the money goes back
to the federal government. So we want to make sure that we get all
this into the community.
We have several decisions to make, and let's just get the
consensus or vote on each one of these.
First is the funding agreement with the Division of Emergency
Management. That's easy. And the other is to have the Manager or
his designee execute the sub-award agreements. I'll make a motion
to approve those first two items.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel has
seconded. Any discussion on just those first two?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Seeing none, all in favor, signify
by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously.
Now we're on to the issue of the eight temporary full-time
employees. I don't know that we need that many, but that's a
management decision. But if we start partnering with some of these
other agencies, like the Salvation Army and the United Way and the
food banks, do we really need eight people?
MR. OCHS: Commissioner, I think that's the absolute
minimum that we need. And, frankly, in talking to these other
counties that have administered these funds already, Lee County
mentioned to Mr. Callahan yesterday at one point they had 200
employees up there working on some aspects of this $135 million
CARES package that they received.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right.
MR. OCHS: So with all the full federal audit requirements
attached to these funds, I can tell you that that's probably light in my
opinion, but we will do our best.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, I'm persuaded. It looks
like -- I don't see anybody disagreeing with that, then.
MR. OCHS: But, again, all of this cost is covered by these
CARE Act funds.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let's get a motion on number
three, authorization of up to eight temporary full-time employees to
administer the program. Is there a motion?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So move.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and a second.
All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Maybe.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously.
So now we're on to the real heart of the issue?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: You didn't hear my "maybe,"
did you?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Maybe? I haven't looked at
Robert's Rules of Order, but I don't think "maybe" is an authorized
vote.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Okay.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: So the direction for the
distribution of funds, you've heard all of our conversation. I don't
know if you need any more direction. I think probably at our next
meeting you can come back and put some substance to the issues that
we've raised. Is that --
MR. OCHS: That's what I'd like to do is take this input and put
it into a few categories that we think will fit under the eligibility
requirements and maybe recommend some dollar allocations to each
and let you give us some additional guidance on that on the 14th.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Is there any problem
with that?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I think that's fine.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Then we'll have this as an agenda
item. And we're going to need to start spending some money here
pretty quickly.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir, I understand.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor, you had
something else?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah, just one thing. And,
again, maybe I'm a little confused. But, Mr. Chair, you said you do
not want to reimburse local government for expenses. Now, we may
be reimbursed, but we have just spent a quarter of a million dollars
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making sure the elderly services are not interrupted, and that's
on -- we just approved that under 16D11 on our agenda.
So are you suggesting that we do not -- and it's specifically
COVID-19 related. Are you suggesting that we do not reimburse the
budget assuming -- assuming the grant won't? This is extra expense
because of the requirements of COVID.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, I think we can certainly
have that further conversation. My concern is, to be perfectly blunt
about it, is I don't want to start getting refund requests from the City
of Naples and from Marco Island and from constitutional officers, not
that any of them would do that. But I just want to send the message,
this is money to get into the community. So if we have a program
we're creating right now to do these types of things, that's a little
different.
But looking retroactively -- and I'll just use the City of Naples as
an example. I'm just making this up. I don't know if there's any
expense there, but perhaps there was an expense associated with
more overtime for law enforcement. Well, I don't want to be sitting
back trying to figure out how much money we should reimburse our
local government when we have tremendous needs going forward.
Now, this is something we just approved today, and so I think
it's legitimate to pay for that with these funds, but I just don't want to
go retroactively. That's kind of my concern about it.
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, the staff's thought on that was, you
know, you have till the end of the calendar year. So we would like
to -- obviously, this first 16 to $17 million should all go direct to the
community, and once we get some experience with volume of
applications and dollar amounts, we would recommend that if you're
going to do some reimbursement for government-eligible expenses,
that we reserve that till the -- decision till late in the year, and that
way you'll know what kind of experience you've had with direct
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assistance to the community.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right.
Commissioner McDaniel, your light is up.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And that was -- and
just for clarifications, this first 17 million is a check from them to us
after we sign this agreement. The balance of it is us spending the
money and then be reimbursed back after those monies go out.
I think, inevitably, there will be some reimbursement coming
back to the government for these additional expenditures at some
stage.
You heard me talk last week to our Parks and Rec at the budget
center with regard to the bug zappers that Paul Hiltz calls them, the
ultraviolet kill-everything machines that they utilize in the hospitals.
I've since learned that those are 25-, $30,000 apiece, and that might
be something that we look into as a reimbursable expense back that
we could offer to the community and still have for Parks and Rec and
cleaning facilities and so on.
So I agree that -- as Commissioner Saunders has said, that we
keep as much of this -- at least this first tranche being injected
directly into our community.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay.
Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yes. I would think that we would
need to find what local businesses, especially small businesses -- but
even middle-sized businesses have had a lot of problems, and they're
just about to go under because of COVID-19. If we can find them
and inject that money right away, we might be able to save their
businesses.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. And I don't think that's -- I
think that's the first that we've kind of heard of trying to inject money
into businesses, and I would not be in support of that.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Oh, I would.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And the reason is, is that -- first of
all, it's going to -- we're going to being competing with the federal
government in terms of funding that they're providing, and it's just
going to be very difficult, I think, of start picking small businesses to
receive funding. Maybe we can discuss that going down the road,
but I just don't see how we could do it.
I mean, Commissioner Solis, do you have any thoughts on that?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Well, I think that's probably where
we get into how many employees we're going to need to administer
something like that. I mean, I think -- I really appreciate what the
County Manager just said is, as we kind of roll this out, we'll see
what kind of response we get, and maybe as we see how the -- how
difficult or easy it is to administer this, that maybe we can see
towards the end what -- you know, what we can do. But I'd like to
see the money directly going to individuals as well, yeah.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I mean, it's unfortunate, but there
are going to be a lot of businesses that, no matter what you do, they're
not going to reopen.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That's true.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And that's just a really difficult
process, I think, for us to try to get into.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: And that was kind of -- hit
my light.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor, you're
recognized.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Well, okay. Yeah, I would like
to look at the businesses to see what other counties are doing, seeing
what their criteria is. I agree with our chairman, it becomes -- it
might be a little different -- difficult and challenging, but I don't think
we can ignore the small businesses in our community. I think
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60 percent of the businesses in Collier community are 20 employees
or under; is that correct?
MR. CALLAHAN: Twenty-five and under.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Twenty-five and under, and
those are the ones that are feeling this.
MR. CALLAHAN: If you go up to 50, it encompasses almost
90 percent of our businesses.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Last but not least, and it's just
a -- I agree. I think we ought to explore -- and, again, it ends up
being an administrative process as well the wider we go. I think if
we focus our energies a lot on the philanthropic community, we're
going to be able to touch a very wide base all the way across the
board and do it in a very feasible manner.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So you're definitely going to
need those eight employees.
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Just a point of clarification on this
issue with small businesses. If a small business received the PPP
loan, does that -- does that then make them ineligible, or is that a little
more complicated than what I just said?
MR. CALLAHAN: Not necessarily. So the PPE loan was
recently adjusted to last for 24 weeks rather than eight.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right.
MR. CALLAHAN: The Paycheck Protection Enhancement
Act. It was also designated that it came down to 60 percent had to
be spent on payroll, 40 percent spent on operating. So if a business
has received Paycheck Protection Program, they would have to show
us necessary expenses outside of what they've been reimbursed for
for not only PPP, but also any types of private insurances. There's
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some businesses that have private insurance that --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right.
MR. CALLAHAN: -- covers them in times of disaster
otherwise, which this would qualify under. So it becomes a -- it
becomes the duplication of benefits question --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Wow. Right.
MR. CALLAHAN: -- to where I would also add that
eventually your PPP loan is going to run out and, further than that, if
you did have expenses with reopening, that could be an eligible
expenditure under this fund as well.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: So those -- those additional
expenditures would have to be COVID related?
MR. CALLAHAN: That's correct, but they could be to
reimburse businesses for lost revenue. We've seen that put into
place.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Restaurant.
MR. CALLAHAN: Lost revenue because of being affected by
the Safer At Home Order. So if you were closed for a number
months and we set a -- let's say a $5,000 one-time grant for small
businesses that wanted to come out of this, at some point we would
just have to verify that they had incurred some type of expense that
would equate to that so that we're not over-subsidizing them but at
some point it wasn't covered by another source. So it gets more
complicated. But I think every county that we've looked at that's had
these CARES Act funds has had some aspect of a small business
relief or relaunch program.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Maybe looking at -- maybe some
county has figured out a very low administrative cost way of
handling.
MR. OCHS: Put Pinellas up there. They have a fairly --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Pretty simple.
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MR. OCHS: -- straightforward program.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I could see where that
would be an administrative black hole.
MR. CALLAHAN: When we bring something back on the
next meeting, we can include that, and it can be up to the Board
whether you want to move forward.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think you've got some direction
for the next meeting on this.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And I think that concludes this
item. Now we have to make a decision. Do you want to struggle
through this? I think we can probably conclude the agenda fairly
quickly, or we can take a break for lunch. It's up to the Board.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Let's take a break.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's up to you. You're the
boss.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Just don't give me 30
minutes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Mr. Manager, how long do you
think it will take us to finish this? Is there anything on here that's
particularly difficult?
MR. OCHS: Not for me, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. All right. Let's do this.
Let's --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Take a lunch?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Give us sustenance.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. How long do you want
to break for lunch?
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: Forty-five minutes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. We'll come back at 1:00.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: 1:00.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's 50 minutes.
(A luncheon recess was had from 12:09 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: The meeting of the County
Commission will please come back to order. If you'd take your
seats.
Mr. Ochs, we're on 11C; is that correct?
Item #11C
RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE AGREEMENT NO. 20-045-
NS WITH NAVITUS HEALTH SOLUTIONS, LLC, FOR
PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGEMENT SERVICES,
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2021 AND AUTHORIZE ESTIMATED
EXPENDITURES IN THE ANNUAL AMOUNT OF $9,891,000 –
APPROVED
MR. OCHS: That is correct, Mr. Chairman. This is a
recommendation to approve an agreement with Navitus Health
Solutions, LLC, for Pharmacy Benefit Management Services
effective January 1, 2021; an estimated annual expenditure in the
amount of $9,891,000.
I'll just mentioned that this is a three-year contract proposal at an
estimated savings over the life of that contract of $4.4 million to our
pharmacy benefit expenditures.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Move approval.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: How much was the savings?
MR. OCHS: 4.4.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Oh. Second.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Congratulations. In this day
and age, this is fabulous. Well done.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a second, but we don't
have a motion. I think you seconded.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Oh, I thought you made a motion.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I moved approval.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Oh, you did?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and second.
All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: (Absent.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously.
Thank you very much.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, Commissioners.
Thank you, Mr. Walker. Well done.
Item # 11D
RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE PURCHASE OF A
CISCO VOICE-OVER-IP TELEPHONE SYSTEM AND
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR INSTALLATION AND
MIGRATION FROM THE CURRENT TELEPHONE SYSTEM
USING GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (“GSA”)
CONTRACTS NO. GSA GS-35F-303DA
(HARDWARE/SOFTWARE) AND GS-35F-538GA
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(PROFESSIONAL SERVICES) IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT
OF $2,500,000 – APPROVED
Item 11D is a recommendation to purchase a Cisco
Voice-over-IP telephone system as well as professional services for
installation and migration from the current telephone system using
the GSA contract. This is an estimated expenditure in the amount of
$2.5 million.
Ms. Price is available to give a presentation or answer questions
from the Board.
This is, as the title said, a computer-based telephone system,
digital system that not only serves your agencies but the
constitutionals as well. So it's a large system, but we've got an aging
system that's no longer supported by the vendor. So Len and her
team have been working on this for about the last 18 months, and
we're ready to go to contract.
Sorry, Len.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Are there any
questions? Do you want a presentation on this? Anybody have any
questions?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I have a question.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I noticed that Mr. Ahmad's
name was in the midst of this, and I wondered what his
department -- is that -- does it go into -- I remember -- maybe
I'm -- but just -- are we going into signalization or anything like that?
Is that going to --
MS. PRICE: No, this doesn't mix with that.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'll move for approval.
MR. OCHS: These are your desktop devices primarily.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Desktop.
MR. OCHS: Telephones.
MS. PRICE: Your telephones and PBX system.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'll move for approve.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and a second.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: 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 as well.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, Len.
Item #11E
RECOMMENDATION TO AWARD AGREEMENT NO. 19-7593
IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $7,721,527.60 TO Q. GRADY
MINOR & ASSOCIATES, P.A. FOR THE "PALM RIVER
UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS," WITH AUTHORIZATION TO
ISSUE AN INITIAL PURCHASE ORDER FOR TASK 1 IN THE
AMOUNT OF $743,542.50; TO BE FOLLOWED BY FUTURE
PURCHASE ORDER MODIFICATIONS FOR SUBSEQUENT
TASKS 2 AND 3, BOTH ENCOMPASSED IN THE TOTAL
CONTRACT AMOUNT, SUBJECT TO AND DICTATED BY
BOARD-APPROVED FUNDING UNDER PROJECTS NOS. 70257
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AND 60234; AND AUTHORIZATION OF THE NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENTS – APPROVED
Item 11E is a recommendation to award a contract to Q. Grady
Minor & Associates in the amount of $7,721,572.60 for the Palm
River Utility Improvements with a specific authorization today to
issue an initial purchase order for Task 1 in the amount of
$743,542.50.
Dr. Yilmaz is available to make a presentation or respond to
questions from the Board.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I actually would like to see just a
little brief presentation on that, but --
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I'll emphasize the word "brief";
just to get a little handle on --
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
George?
DR. YILMAZ: Sure. For the record, George Yilmaz, Public
Utilities.
Commissioners, on your package, Page 11, E5, Packet No. 701,
that shows you the magnitude of the project and the location of the
project. That's your Page 701.
Under considerations, this agreement is for design, permit, and
construction services for potable water, wastewater, and stormwater
where we can, irrigation quality water, and site work infrastructure.
That's, in a nutshell, the very brief presentation of the project.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Is this going to be on the scope
of what has been going on in Naples Park?
DR. YILMAZ: Yes, ma'am.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So that's all you had to say.
This is a Naples Park project. Poor Mr. Solis. Commissioner Solis
again, right?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And there's one another one in
District 2 as well. I mean, this is going to be a long road for these
residents, but there is a -- there is an upside that the staff has worked
very well with the residents there.
They have a real issue with the lack of sidewalks there as well.
Very dangerous; people walking in the road.
And as I understand as part of this, the -- and the stormwater
aspect of it's going to at least provide the area for, if the residents
wanted to go back later and do an MSTU or something to put in the
sidewalks, that they can.
So it's really going to help lay the groundwork, so to speak, for
them to be able to do that on their own later. They really need some
sidewalks in there. There's a lot of kids, you know, walking in the
road.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. We have Commissioner
Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I did.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay.
Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. And did it filter
through to you about my question about the 24 independent residents
that are on septic right now? Did that come over to you?
DR. YILMAZ: Yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Is there a motion?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I move for -- well, go ahead.
You can make the motion.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I thought Commissioner
Taylor -- if somebody hasn't moved, I'll move for approval. Thank
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you.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And I second that.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and a 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.
Item #11F
RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE STAFF’S ACTION
UNDERTAKEN TO MAKE THE MINIMUM REPAIRS
REQUIRED TO FACILITATE THE SAFE TRANSPORT OF
EMERGENCY SERVICE VEHICLES ON BLUE SAGE DRIVE,
SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND
WELFARE OF COUNTY RESIDENTS, AND AUTHORIZE ANY
AFTER THE FACT BUDGET AMENDMENTS REQUIRED TO
HAVE MADE THOSE NECESSARY REPAIRS UTILIZING
PUBLIC FUNDS ON A PRIVATE ROAD, SUBJECT TO
REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE BLUE SAGE DRIVE
MUNICIPAL SERVICE TAXING UNIT – APPROVED
We're now on 11F, and I think Commissioner McDaniel, you
had requested this to be pulled off the consent agenda.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I did. And if you don't
mind -- do you want to read it, or do you want me to just go into it?
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MR. OCHS: Well, just for the public's benefit, this is a
recommendation to approve some expenditures that the staff incurred
for minimum repairs required to -- for the safe transport of
emergency vehicles over this section of Blue Sage Drive, and in
keeping with the Board's prior policy, we are coming to you to set up
a multiple service taxing unit to allow the residents, over time, to
reimburse the county for these improvements on a private road.
Commissioner, that pretty much sums it up.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It does.
MS. ARNOLD: For the record, Michelle Arnold. There's an
MSTU already established. We're just coming back for -- or alerting
the Board of the modifications made to make the road safe, and we're
going to reimburse the MS -- the MSTU is going to reimburse the
Road Maintenance Department.
MR. OCHS: Yeah. Thank you for that correction, Michelle.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: The reason I asked it to be
pulled is because if you'll recall some time ago, several years ago, I
brought forward a countywide MSTU proposal to assist everybody.
We have 111 miles of private roads in Collier County. And we have
to date been able to -- through the activities of Collier County -- to
maintain on an as-needed basis the extraordinary circumstances that
are prevalent on some of these roads.
This is a perfect example. Now, this circumstance may have
prevailed whether or not that MSTU passed or didn't, and I know that
it didn't pass the last time. But I had suggested that we do something
different with regard to the folks who accessed the properties
vis-a-vis private roads.
This particular site is along a canal. There was an enormous
amount of erosion, and that's what caused -- it was in very dilapidated
condition in the first place, which is what initiated me to go forward
with the countywide MSTU. And then we did the $8,000 repair.
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Now there's another $25,000 repair that's being put upon those folks
on that road specifically. And I would like to see if there's a flavor
to revisit a different way of taking care of our residents who reside on
and access their properties via a private road.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Do you have any ideas?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. I proposed what I
thought was a pretty nifty idea, which was a flat fee and a small tax
on everybody that owns or accesses property via a private road,
several years ago, and it would allow for, similar to how this is
managed here, emergency access by the Sheriff's Department, the
Fire Department, or EMS to be able to get to these residents who
utilize private roads and only be brought up to and maintained
by -- for emergency vehicle access.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I believe if you want to do a
taxing district and you want to have something like that effective in
2021, I think you have to do it prior to January of 2021 to be effective
that next year. So if you want to bring something back --
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- it would be September.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well, I'd be happy to do that.
I kind of went down in flames the last time, and I wanted to revisit it
again just to see if there was a flavor to go through that. And we
could -- I could bring back what I did before, have the discussion,
and we could even initiate it now and then backfill it with the created
MSTU in a time frame that was more conducive than having to create
the MSTU and have it funded and then be able to go forward. So I
could do that.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I could make a suggestion. Bring
back your suggestion either in July, which you'd have to be really
quick, or bring it back in September. September probably would
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work best just because of timing. And then we can -- if we want to
move forward with an MSTU or whatever, we move that pretty
quickly.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll prepare an agenda item
and bring it back in July, and we'll have a discussion about it. I'm
going to move for approval on this, because this is necessary now to
take care, I believe, of the issue that's prevalent there.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Now, we're just talking about this
one area. We're not talking about all the MSTUs for different things,
right?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: On this item right now we're
just talking about Blue Sage Road.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So when I second your motion, I'm
only talking about this area.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I second it.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. And the work has already
been done.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It's -- yes.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. We have a motion and
second. Commissioner Solis and Commissioner Fiala, your lights
are lit up, and Commissioner Taylor. Have you all had --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I just asked my question.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I do, but maybe we could have
a vote. I have a question about what the proposal -- I have a
question about the proposal to bring back Commissioner McDaniel's
issue; clarification on it.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. And I just wanted to -- just
to be clear. I mean, we did go through this last time, and I -- for the
reasons I said last time, I can't support that on a countywide basis. I
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mean, this -- we have this process for if there's a road that's a private
road that needs to be repaired. These are -- these are private roads,
and people live on private roads because they want to live on private
roads, so...
I just wanted to --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: And I feel the same way.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- let you know that I wasn't going
to change my position if you brought it back, so...
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And that's what I was going to
say also, that I don't -- I don't support taxing other people that don't
live on a road to repair that road.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I think it could go piece by piece,
you know, on different roads.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Well -- and the reason I
brought this to you today was that issue on Blue Sage was prevalent
then when I brought forward the MSTU for everybody. And, by the
way, I live on a private road at the end of a mile-long dirt road
myself. So this is -- this includes me when I'm talking about this.
And this would -- my proposition was to charge everybody that
accessed or owned property on a private about $50 a year to have a
fund to allow our Emergency Services Department to make necessary
repairs to be able to get emergency vehicles to our residents.
That $8,000 expense occurred in '18, and now we've increased
that to another $25,000 strictly for the people on Blue Sage. And I
believe that that could have been avoided if some kind of a
continuing maintenance program were going on to provide for access
for emergency vehicles.
And if there's not a flavor to -- I won't bring the agenda item
back.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Why don't you bring something
back where you are assessing only people that are on private roads.
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: That's what it is.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's what I thought it was in the
first place.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It was. But I would be
paying my -- and just for an example, for explanation. If you and I
lived on a private road, we both put our $50 in. And if the -- if the
Fire Department deemed your road to be needing repair before mine,
my 50 went to you to take care of your road, and then if they deemed
my road to be -- need to be repaired, then it came in my direction.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Just make it clear that it's an
assessment only for people living on private roads.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: It is.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And perhaps that will solve
Commissioner Solis' problem. No?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Well, anyway, bring it back if you
want. We'll probably vote it down, but bring it back.
Okay. 11G. Oh, I'm sorry, did we --
MR. OCHS: We need a vote, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a motion and second.
MR. OCHS: Yes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I made a motion to approve
this.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I seconded.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's unanimous.
11G. And I think the next four items, Commissioner Fiala, you
brought those up for some discussion.
Item #11G
RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE AN AGREEMENT FOR
SALE AND PURCHASE WITH FAIRMONT ARCADIA, INC., A
FLORIDA CORPORATION, FOR 2.28 ACRES UNDER THE
CONSERVATION COLLIER LAND ACQUISITION PROGRAM
AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $34,300 – APPROVED
MR. OCHS: 11G is a recommendation to approve an
agreement for sale and purchase with Fairmont Arcadia,
Incorporated, for 2.28 acres under the Conservation Collier Land
Acquisition Program at a cost not to exceed $34,300.
Commissioner?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah. And I don't have any
problem with that. What I wanted to say was, I was just going to
talk to staff about this afterwards, but we just put it on here to pass it
anyway, and that is that I do hope before we have most of our pieces
of land that could be turned into green space in the urban area, I hope
we buy some of them before they're all gone, because we just keep
buying in Winchester Head. And that's great and everything, but we
don't get any land here amongst us where we live to see any green
spot. And I think that's important to people.
So, anyway, I just wanted to bring that up. And I was going to
come to your coastal high hazard -- not coastal high hazard -- to your
committee and present that with them, too. I just hope that they will
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grant some of these things in areas other than just something nobody
can see. That's all it was about.
MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: So motion to approve this one.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have a motion to
approve Agenda Item 16D5 --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Second.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- which became 11G. 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.
And then 11H was Item 16D6.
Item #11H
RECOMMENDATION TO AUTHORIZE A BUDGET
AMENDMENT TO ALLOW CONTINUOUS OPERATION OF
THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP
PROGRAM PRIOR TO THE EXECUTION OF THE FY2020/2021
FUNDING AWARD – APPROVED
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. This is a recommendation to authorize a
budget amendment to allow for continuous appropriation of the State
Housing Initiatives Partnership Program prior to the execution of the
FY '20/'21 funding award.
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COMMISSIONER FIALA: And, Leo, could we just couple
that with the next one, because that's just -- this is, again, really
simple. It's not going to take but a second, but I was going to
suggest, being that -- between these two things we have government
funding in the amount of $10 million. And we keep talking about
the housing that is needed in Immokalee, especially for people who
work in the farms, but anyplace else, too, and nobody seems to build
it, and they still go back to the same old trailers. And I thought, we
could take this money or we could ask the Housing Department to do
something about incentivizing somebody with offering part of this
money to have them build an apartment building or something so that
people actually have a place to stay rather than in the derelict trailers
that they're staying in. That's my point to ask this.
And so I don't ask you to do anything now. We can certainly
approve this, but I was going to ask you, then, if you could see about
investing -- instead of just doing the same old, same old, but actually
making a difference in these people's lives.
MR. OCHS: We'd be happy to do it. We've done it in the past
with willing partners in Immokalee, and we'll continue to try to
incentivize builders to work with us to build those kinds of affordable
units in that area, certainly.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Do you think that they would ever
build something like an apartment complex or something?
MR. OCHS: Well, we have a few examples.
Mr. Giblin, just real quickly, if you don't mind, Mr. Chairman.
MR. GIBLIN: Sure. Cormac Giblin, your Housing and
Operations and Grant Development manager, for the record.
We've got two examples going on right now in real time in
Immokalee that our staff has been deeply involved in. One is called
the Casa Amigos project. It's a farmworker housing development
being proposed by Rural Neighborhoods. That is -- they are slated
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for funding from this SHIP program that is in the budget today.
Another example is --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: How many people would it house?
MR. GIBLIN: That would be 96 units.
And another example of an apartment development that is slated
actually to go to your Planning Commission next Thursday is called
the Immokalee Fair Housing Alliance project, and that's 128
affordable low-income rental units. That, again, is going to the
Planning Commission on Thursday and then will come to you the end
of the summer.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I don't mean to step into Bill's
territory at all but we've been talking about this. Bill, you do more
for that community than anybody's ever seen before, you know.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I was happy you brought
this -- these subjects up, because it brought to light what we already
know is going on. But you were -- you were -- so there.
That's -- the second one's a little -- personally, the second one's a little
bit of a tight site, but it's okay. I mean, again, the more -- the
more -- the better increase in good housing for the people of
Immokalee the better.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Okay. So we're on 11H, which
was 16D6.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And we need a motion, then.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: I make a motion to approve both.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: When you say "both," I'm not
sure -- we've already done 11G, which was 16D5. So we just need a
motion on the one, 16D6, and then you have two other ones. So we
have a motion to approve 11H.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Second.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We have a 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.
MR. OCHS: Yeah, Mr. Chairman, the next two were
companion items, so that's why both were pulled, although the
Commissioner had just asked about one.
Item #11I
RESOLUTION 2020-109: ACTION PLAN FOR U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT, HOME
INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS AND EMERGENCY
SOLUTIONS GRANT PROGRAMS, INCLUDING THE
REPROGRAMMING OF FUNDS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS
AND ESTIMATED PROGRAM INCOME; (2) APPROVE THE
RESOLUTION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSURANCES, AND
SF 424S APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE, AND (3)
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIR TO SIGN FUTURE FEDERAL
FUNDING AGREEMENTS AND AUTHORIZE TRANSMITTAL
TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING & URBAN
DEVELOPMENT – ADOPTED
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Item #11J
RECOMMENDATION TO (1) APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN TWELVE (12) SUBRECIPIENT
AGREEMENTS FOR ACTIVITIES PREVIOUSLY APPROVED IN
THE FY2020-2021 ACTION PLAN FOR THE COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT), HOME INVESTMENT
PARTNERSHIP AND EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT
PROGRAMS; AND (2) AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENTS, IN THE AMOUNT OF $3,673,078,
FOR THE HUD FY2020-2021 BUDGET AS APPROVED IN THE
HUD ACTION PLAN FOR ENTITLEMENT FUNDS AND (3)
AUTHORIZE A BUDGET AMENDMENT RECOGNIZING
$14,838.54 IN RECAPTURED FUNDS RECEIVED UNDER THE
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM –
APPROVED
So, again, those are recommendations related to the county's
Community Development Block Grant five-year plan and the
one-year action plan approvals and awards to sub-recipients of our
annual process for distribution of those funds.
Commissioner, do you have any particular questions, or you
just --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: That was just all I wanted to do.
MR. OCHS: Okay. So, Mr. Chairman, a motion for both of
those would be in order.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I need a motion to approve Items
11I and 11J --
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Motion to approve 11I and 11J.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- which were 16A16 --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Second.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have a motion and
a 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 right. That passes
unanimously.
MR. OCHS: Thank you, Commissioners.
Mr. Chairman, that moves us, I believe, to Item 15, staff and
commission general communications.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let's see. Do you have anything
to add, Mr. County Attorney?
MR. KLATZKOW: (Shakes head.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And -- okay.
So we're on 15.
Item #15
STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. Nothing from me. Nothing from
Mr. Klatzkow, I believe, this morning or, excuse me, this afternoon.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right.
We do have the Clerk, Ms. Kinzel --
MS. KINZEL: Nothing.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: -- shaking her head that she has
nothing to add.
All right. I guess we'll go down the list.
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Commissioner McDaniel.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yes. I just want to
say -- well, I think you all got the letter. Our friend Mark Strain is
going to retire, and so it's going to be requisite upon the
commissioner for District 5 to appoint a replacement for that seat.
So I'd like to make it known that if anybody is of interest or has an
interest to please let me know.
And then I do want you to know that I only allowed Mark to
retire with the requisite that he answer my phone calls. So he's not
going anywhere. He's still going to be out there on the perimeter.
But he's been an enormous asset to our community forever.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Great researcher.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Forever; 20-plus years on the
Planning Commission, Hearing Examiner, and the like. So -- and
my just warmest -- happy, happy trails, my friend.
And if you guys -- if you folks know of anyone who might be
interested in serving in that position, let me know.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And, Mr. Ochs, at one point we
were talking about recognizing advisory board members, and so it
would be appropriate to --
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. We'll work with Commissioner
McDaniel and the rest of the Board for the timing on that.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Perfect.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes. In Commissioner Fiala's
district I learned that the road to Goodland is going to start to be
repaired or replaced; is that correct?
MR. OCHS: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And I understand that it's going
to be started in the season, in season, in the dry season. And I would
respectfully request that you look at it at starting at a different time,
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especially right now. And I know this is a hard one, but, you know,
it hasn't been raining for eight days right now. And I don't know
what that's going -- maybe you could bring back a plan of how you're
going to do it to make sure that the vital tourist industry that that
Goodland is so dependent on is not going to be interrupted.
MR. OCHS: Why don't I send you-all a schedule for that
project.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: How long will that project take?
MR. OCHS: I'm going to look to Nick for some help.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Nine months.
MR. OCHS: Nine months.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Nine months.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Nine months. And I would
presume that through traffic will be maintained through the whole
process. There won't be an interruption of traffic?
MR. OCHS: Let me ask Mr. Cohen --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It's going to take one season no
matter what.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah, nine months.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That's why I was asking the
question. That's why I was asking is, it doesn't matter if we start
now or we start in December; we're going to go through at least that
one season.
MR. COHEN: That's correct. And we'll bring you a schedule,
Commissioner, as to how we're planning on handling the traffic.
We just got our Army Corps permit, so we're excited about the
ability to be able to start. And we've worked out everything with
Rookery Bay and other partners, so we'll get you the schedule. Like
you say, it's going to go over one season.
We've got a traffic plan for how we're going to be able to handle
that with some of our partners. So we'll get that to you before the
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end of the day.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Okay.
MR. COHEN: All right?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
MR. OCHS: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: For all of us. And just -- is
it planned for through traffic --
MR. COHEN: Yes.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: -- the entire time of
construction -- you're not going to shut the road down at any
particular time?
MR. COHEN: That's correct. There will always be ability to
access.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And you're not straightening it?
COMMISSIONER FIALA: What was that? I didn't hear.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Elevating.
MR. COHEN: We'll get back to you. Yes, we're elevating.
MR. OCHS: Commissioner, what he indicated, that the road
would never be totally closed, so people will always have at least one
way to get in and out of town.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Yeah, because -- yeah. And I
think everybody knew that. I don't know how you're going to do it,
you know, stacking up one side or the other. It will be a challenge
for them.
MR. COHEN: Yeah. Jay's team has done a good job of being
able to provide a traffic control plan, and then when we work with the
contractor, we'll be able to refine that, plus we'll be able to have staff
down there once the construction starts to be able to tweak the plan as
needed. But we'll go over that with you. We'll set up a meeting
with you, Commissioner, to be able to walk you through how we're
planning on doing that.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And maybe you could
actually -- I mean, maybe you've done this, and if you have, please
forgive me. But maybe there could be -- once that plan is in place,
you could have a meeting down there, social distancing. I don't
know --
MR. COHEN: Social distancing.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: -- where you're going to do it,
but to let these -- because there's a lot of worried small
businesspeople on Goodland right now.
MR. COHEN: Sure. Absolutely.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Nothing from me other than one
question, and it's really for anybody here that knows. Has anyone
heard an update on the Conservation Collier referendum? Are they
going to bring that forward for this election cycle or --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I think I can probably address that
because, quite frankly, I called several of the major environmental
groups, and I suggested that this may not be the best time to have this
on the ballot, and they insisted that they want it on the ballot. And
so I told them I would not bring it up.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. So it's still planned to be
on the ballot in November?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: In November. That's all I had.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Not in August, huh?
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: No. November. And we've
already approved the ballot question. Everything's done from our
perspective. I just raised the question of whether they wanted to
come back and discuss timing, and the answer was no, they're
satisfied with the timing the way it is.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Commissioner Fiala.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Nothing, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: You have nothing? Okay. I'd
like the record to reflect this is the first time in four years that that has
happened.
I only have just one quick thing. We talked about being a little
bit more COVID-19 aware, and I've noticed that staff's starting to
wear masks a little bit more, and I really appreciate that.
There was a request to perhaps, especially on board-meeting
days, but to have people, when they come to these meetings, have
their temperatures checked, and I think that probably makes some
sense. And I don't know if it would be problematic or not to do that.
We only have one entrance to this building for the public, and so
I think that would be fairly easy just to have one of the security folks
there with one of those little guns to -- well, I shouldn't say a security
guard having a gun to point to somebody's head. That's not correct.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Wrong choice.
MR. OCHS: We do it at the courthouse, so we'll get that set up
over here on --
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Yeah. I think -- I think it
just -- will, again, keep our -- keep the public safe. Keep our staff
safe, and continue to send the message that this is serious stuff.
If there's nothing else --
MR. OCHS: Commissioner, I did have one comment from
Mr. Casalanguida.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: And then, Commissioner
McDaniel, you're recognized after that.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: For the record, Nick Casalanguida,
Deputy County Manager.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: What was your name again, sir?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Nicola Casalanguida. Nick.
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Commissioner Taylor had asked just to put it on the record.
The ribbon cutting we're going to have on July 2nd in the morning;
10:00. We invite you all to come. And that night we'll have an
open house from 5:30 to 7:30, and we've invited --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Where?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: At the Sports Complex at City Gate
Boulevard North, and we invite you all to come out, and we're going
to have social distancing and the ability to tour the park and visit, you
know, what's out there. I told the Manager, I can't promise you what
we're going to open on that day, because they're pouring concrete
every day up until the day we cut the ribbon, but we'll have our CO
for the buildings, and the fields are already CO'ed, so we're excited to
have you all there on July 2nd.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: When does the football
tournament start?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: July 8th.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: July 8th.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And who's going to be at the
ribbon cutting besides -- who are the invitations going to besides us?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Well, obviously, as you said, the
Board of County Commissioners. We've invited the City of Naples,
the City of Marco, the Mayor of Everglades City, and the Tourist
Development Council as well, too. After all, they pay into the
tourist development tax, and I think this is a regional facility, and I
think you'll be excited to see it.
Some of you have taken tours and some haven't. So the ones
that haven't been there recently, I think you'll be shocked to see what
we've built in record time.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Great.
Commissioner McDaniel, you had something else?
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COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I did, and it had to do with
what Commissioner Solis had brought up, and it had to do with that
proposition of the Conservation - I was in the minority on that
referenda question in the first place, but I had proposed what I
thought was a nice compromise to do a voluntary contribution for the
next two years until the '22 election cycle. We're not out of money
in Conservation Collier by any stretch. It would be a 100 percent
survey of our electorate that pays taxes and then revisit the re-funding
of the Conservation Collier via a ballot in '22 after we hopefully had
come through the emergency of the pandemic and financial issues
and such. So I still think that's a really good idea.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All you need to do is get two more
votes, and it becomes a great idea.
All right. Anything else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: If not, we are adjourned.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Happy 4th, everyone.
*****
**** Commissioner Fiala moved, seconded by Commissioner Taylor
and carried unanimously that the following items under the Consent
and Summary Agendas be approved and/or adopted ****
Item #16A1
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR NAPLES RESERVE PHASE III, PL20180002712 AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE,
TO RELEASE THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL
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AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE
DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – A FINAL INSPECTION
WAS CONDUCTED ON MAY 7, 2020 AND FOUND THE
FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY
Item #16A2
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR FRONTERRA PHASE 1B, PL20180001934 AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE,
TO RELEASE THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE
DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – A FINAL
INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED ON MAY 11, 2020 AND
FOUND THE FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY
Item #16A3
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR GREYHAWK AT GOLF CLUB OF THE EVERGLADES
PHASE 3, PL20180003487 AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY
MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE FINAL
OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO
THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S
DESIGNATED AGENT – LOCATED OFF OF OLD
VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD, EAST OF COLLIER BLVD.
Item #16A4
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FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER UTILITY
FACILITIES FOR PRICE STREET PLAZA – PHASE 4,
PL20180003732, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY
MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE THE FINAL
OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO
THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S
DESIGNATED AGENT – A FINAL INSPECTION WAS
CONDUCTED ON MAY 14, 2020 AND FOUND THE
FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY
Item #16A5
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES FOR PRICE STREET PLAZA (PHASE 1),
PL20180003074, ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION
OF THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES, AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE,
TO RELEASE THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $4,000 TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE
DEVELOPER’S DESIGNATED AGENT – A FINAL INSPECTION
WAS CONDUCTED ON MAY 18, 2020 AND FOUND THE
FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY
Item #16A6
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES FOR CITY
GATE COMMERCE CENTER PHASE THREE, PL20200000609 –
A FINAL INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED ON MAY 5, 2020
AND FOUND THE FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY
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Item #16A7
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER FACILITIES
AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER
FACILITIES FOR THE SPORTS COMPLEX AND EVENT
CENTER – PHASES 1A, 1B AND PHASE 2, PL20200000727 – A
FINAL INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED ON MAY 21, 2020
AND FOUND THE FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY
Item #16A8
FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
FOR ARTESIA PHASE 4, PL20180000208 AND TO AUTHORIZE
THE COUNTY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO RELEASE
THE FINAL OBLIGATION BOND IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,000
TO THE PROJECT ENGINEER OR THE DEVELOPER’S
DESIGNATED AGENT – A FINAL INSPECTION WAS
CONDUCTED ON MAY 12, 2020 AND FOUND THE
FACILITIES TO BE SATISFACTORY
Item #16A9
RESOLUTION 2020-103: FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE
PRIVATE ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS FOR
THE FINAL PLAT OF HADLEY PLACE EAST, APPLICATION
NUMBER PL20160002628, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE
OF THE MAINTENANCE SECURITY
Item #16A10
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RESOLUTION 2020-104: FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE
PRIVATE ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS FOR
THE FINAL PLAT OF MAPLE RIDGE RESERVE AT AVE
MARIA, PHASE 1, APPLICATION NUMBER PL20140001692,
AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE OF THE MAINTENANCE
SECURITY
Item #16A11
APPROVAL OF SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING AND
AUTHORIZING STAFF TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT
NEGOTIATIONS WITH AGNOLI, BARBER & BRUNDAGE,
INC., CONCERNING REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES (“RPS”) #20-7678, “SOLANA ROAD STORMWATER
IMPROVEMENTS DESIGN SERVICES.”
Item #16A12
THE ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF THE COUNTY
INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM (CIGP) APPLICATION WITH
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO
FUND A PHASE OF COLLIER BOULEVARD (CR 951) FROM
THE GOLDEN GATE MAIN CANAL TO GREEN BOULEVARD
IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,000,000 - THIS PROJECT WILL
IMPROVE TWO MILES OF COLLIER BLVD. BY EXPANDING
IT FROM 4-LANES TO 6-LANES
Item #16A13
THE ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF THE COUNTY
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INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM (CIGP) APPLICATION WITH
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO
FUND A PHASE OF RANDALL BOULEVARD FROM 8TH
STREET NE TO EVERGLADES BOULEVARD IN THE
AMOUNT OF $6,725,000 – EXPANDING RANDALL BLVD.
FROM A 2-LANE RURAL ROAD TO AN EXPANDABLE
URBAN 4-LANE THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE A FUTURE 6-
LANE FACILITY IF NECESSARY
Item #16A14
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF THE COUNTY INCENTIVE
GRANT PROGRAM (CIGP) APPLICATION WITH THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO FUND A
PHASE OF VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD FROM 16TH STREET
NE TO EVERGLADES BLVD IN THE AMOUNT OF $21,000,000
– EXTENDING VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
APPROXIMATELY 2-MILES FARTHER EAST INTO GOLDEN
GATE ESTATES
Item #16A15
CHANGE ORDER NO. 11 TO AGREEMENT NO. 05-3865 WITH
JACOBS ENGINEERING, INC., FOR RESTARTING THE
DESIGN AND PERMITTING OF THE COLLIER BOULEVARD
("CR 951") EXPANSION FROM GREEN BOULEVARD TO THE
GOLDEN GATE MAIN CANAL, TO ALIGN THE ROADWAY
IMPROVEMENTS WITH THE COUNTY'S RECENT
ACQUISITION OF THE FORMER GOLDEN GATE GOLF
COURSE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLLIER
COUNTY SPORTS COMPLEX, IN THE TOTAL NOT-TO-
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EXCEED AMOUNT OF $726,762; AND AUTHORIZING THE
NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENT. (PROJECT #68056) – AS
DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16A16
DEVELOPER AGREEMENT WITH HALSTATT LLC, THAT
WILL ALLOW FOR THE DESIGN, RIGHT-OF-WAY AND
CONSTRUCTION OF INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS ON
AIRPORT ROAD AT GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY, RIGHT-OF-
WAY FOR A FUTURE RIGHT TURN LANE EXTENSION ON
GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY AT AIRPORT ROAD AND A COST
SHARING AND REIMBURSEMENT PLAN
Item #16A17
RECOGNIZING FUNDING RECEIVED BY A PUBLIC TRANSIT
GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE COLLIER
METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION THAT
INCLUDES FEDERAL PASS-THROUGH 49 USC § 5305(D)
FUNDING AND TO AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENTS FOR GRANT REVENUE IN THE AMOUNT OF
$133,410 AND A LOCAL MATCH IN THE AMOUNT OF $14,823
Item #16A18
AN AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF AN EASEMENT
REQUIRED FOR MAINTENANCE, OPERATION, AND
CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CORKSCREW
CANAL WEIR 2 CONTROL FACILITIES LOCATED ON SHADY
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HOLLOW BLVD. WEST JUST NORTH OF IMMOKALEE RD.
AND WEST OF WILSON BLVD. (CANAL EASEMENT
ACQUISITIONS PROJECT NO. 50180.) – FOLIO #73310000028
Item #16A19
TWO AGREEMENTS FOR THE PURCHASE OF EASEMENTS
REQUIRED FOR MAINTENANCE, OPERATION AND
CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FAKA UNION
CANAL WEIR 5 CONTROL FACILITIES JUST SOUTH OF
RANDALL BLVD AND EAST OF EVERGLADES BLVD.
(CANAL EASEMENT ACQUISITIONS PROJECT NO. 50180.) –
FOLIO #40366200009 AND A PORTION OF FOLIO
#40410240009
Item #16A20
AWARD OF A SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACT TO STEWART
TITLE COMPANY UNDER REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (“RFP”)
#17-7200SS, “REAL ESTATE TITLE & CLOSING SERVICES.” -
PROVIDING REAL ESTATE TITLE AND CLOSING SERVICES
ON PROSPECTIVE RIGHT-OF-WAY AND OTHER REAL
PROPERTY ACQUISITIONS
Item #16B1
A SITE IMPROVEMENT GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND BAD
ASSETS LLC, IN THE AMOUNT OF $8,000 FOR THE
PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3399 CANAL STREET, NAPLES,
FLORIDA 34112 LOCATED WITHIN THE BAYSHORE
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GATEWAY TRIANGLE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AREA – FOLIO #71800000242
Item #16C1
FIFTH AMENDMENT TO REAL ESTATE SALES AGREEMENT
WITH RICHARD D. YOVANOVICH, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE
(AND NOT INDIVIDUALLY) FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE
DUE DILIGENCE PERIOD FOR THE SALE OF THE 47 +/- ACRE
PARCEL KNOWN AS THE RANDALL CURVE PROPERTY –
EXTENDING THE PERIOD TO SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Item #16C2
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 20-7716, “PELICAN
RIDGE BLVD. 8” WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT” (PROJECT
NO. 70195), TO KYLE CONSTRUCTION, INC., IN THE
AMOUNT OF $667,658 AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO
SIGN THE AGREEMENT – THE PROJECT CONSISTS OF
REPLACING THE ASBESTOS CEMENT POTABLE WATER
LINE AND RELOCATING EXISTING WATER SERVICES
FROM THE ASBESTOS CEMENT WATER MAIN TO THE
POLYVINYL CHLORIDE (“PVC”) WATER MAIN IN FRONT OF
WALGREENS AT THE NORTH EAST CORNER OF US41
NORTH AND VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
Item #16C3
A $364,619 WORK ORDER UNDER REQUEST FOR
QUOTATION NO. 15-6469 TO WELLS & WATER SYSTEM,
INC., UNDER PROJECT NUMBER 70085, TO CONDITION AND
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TREAT TWELVE PRODUCTION WELLS IN THE GOLDEN
GATE WELLFIELD – THE PROJECT CONSISTS OF INJECTING
AN ACID SOLUTION INTO SELECTED TAMIAMI
PRODUCTION WELLS TO PROVIDE WELL BORE
REHABILITATION AND WELL YIELD IMPROVEMENTS
Item #16C4
APPROVAL OF THE SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING
AND AUTHORIZING ENTERING INTO NEGOTIATIONS WITH
KAUFMAN LYNN CONSTRUCTION, INC., FOR A CONTRACT
RELATED TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 20-7754-ST,
“CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK (“CMAR”) FOR THE
HERITAGE BAY GOVERNMENT CENTER.”
Item #16D1 – Moved to Item #11F (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
Item #16D2
AN AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT (20.H.SM.100.020)
BETWEEN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT OF
STATE, DIVISION HISTORICAL RESOURCES AND COLLIER
COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO
EXTEND THE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE FROM
JUNE 30, 2020 TO AUGUST 15, 2020 FOR THE MARGOOD
HARBOR PARK HISTORIC COTTAGE SITE – IN ORDER TO
SUBMIT ALL DOCUMENTS FROM MLD ARCHITECTS, LLC
TO THE DOS
Item #16D3
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AWARD REQUEST FOR QUOTATION NO. 2004-012, “SNF
LAZY RIVER BRIDGE REPLACEMENT,” UNDER
AGREEMENT NO. 19-7525, ANNUAL AGREEMENT FOR
GENERAL CONTRACTOR SERVICES, TO COMPASS
CONSTRUCTION, INC., AND AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF
PURCHASE ORDER IN THE AMOUNT OF $348,328 TO
REPLACE THE TIMBER PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE
LAZY RIVER WATER FEATURE AT SUN-N-FUN LAGOON
WATER PARK
Item #16D4
RESOLUTION 2020-105: AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO
EXECUTE THE FY2020/21 TRANSPORTATION
DISADVANTAGED TRUST FUND TRIP/EQUIPMENT GRANT
AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA COMMISSION FOR THE
TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED TO ASSIST WITH
SYSTEM OPERATING EXPENSES, AND THE NECESSARY
BUDGET AMENDMENTS
Item #16D5 – Moved to Item #11G (Per Commissioner Fiala during
Agenda Changes)
Item #16D6 – Moved to Item #11H (Per Commissioner Fiala during
Agenda Changes)
Item #16D7
A BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR AN ADDITIONAL FY
2019/2020 SHIP PROGRAM ALLOCATION OF $104,264 AND
FY 2019/2020 PROGRAM INCOME OF $82,006.64, AND
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AUTHORIZE AN EXTENSION OF FY 2017/2018 FUNDING
FROM JUNE 30, 2020 TO DECEMBER 30, 2020
Item #16D8
SIX (6) MORTGAGE SATISFACTIONS FOR THE STATE
HOUSING INITIATIVES PARTNERSHIP LOAN PROGRAM IN
THE AMOUNT OF $76,950 AND THE ASSOCIATED BUDGET
AMENDMENT – FOR THE FOLLOWING PROPERTIES: 9650
VICTORIA LANE, 325 ROSE AVE, 5218 FLEMING STREET,
12175 FULLER LANE, 4430 BOTANICAL PLACE CR., #104
AND PROPERTY OWNED BY SANTOS GOMEZ
Item #16D9
TWO (2) “AFTER-THE-FACT” SECOND AMENDMENTS AND
CORRESPONDING ATTESTATION STATEMENTS WITH THE
AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR SOUTHWEST FLORIDA,
INC., FOR COMMUNITY CARE FOR THE ELDERLY AND
HOME CARE FOR THE ELDERLY GRANT PROGRAMS FOR
SERVICES FOR SENIORS TO ADD TEMPORARY SERVICES
FOR COVID-19 TO THE CONTRACT VIA AN AMENDMENT
TO ATTACHMENT I (STATEMENT OF WORK) AND
ATTACHMENTS XII (CCE) AND XIV (HCE) (SERVICE RATE
REPORT)
Item #16D10
BUDGET AMENDMENTS REFLECTING THE ESTIMATED
FUNDING FOR THE COMMUNITY CARE FOR THE ELDERLY,
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE INITIATIVE, AND HOME CARE FOR
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THE ELDERLY PROGRAMS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,385,202;
$26,643.60 IN CO-PAYMENT CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE
ESTIMATED CASH MATCH OF $82,430.51 - THE CCE GRANT
HAS A LOCAL MATCH REQUIREMENT OF TEN PERCENT
(10%) IN THE AMOUNT OF $101,784.11, WHICH WILL BE
PARTIALLY MET THROUGH THE CO-PAYMENTS RECEIVED
($19,354.00) AND LOCAL VENDOR MATCH CONTRIBUTION
($52,430.11) REQUIRING LOCAL CASH MATCH IN THE
AMOUNT OF ($30,000). NEITHER ADI NOR HCE HAVE
MATCHING REQUIREMENTS
Item #16D11
AN “AFTER-THE-FACT” AMENDMENT AND ATTESTATION
STATEMENT WITH THE AREA AGENCY ON AGING FOR
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, INC., OLDER AMERICAN ACT
GRANT PROGRAM FOR THE COLLIER COUNTY SERVICES
FOR SENIORS TO ADD FAMILIES FIRST ACT COVID-19 C1 IN
THE AMOUNT OF $91,668.32 AND COVID-19 C2 IN THE
AMOUNT OF $170,293.92, ADD SHOPPING ASSISTANCE AND
TELEPHONE REASSURANCE AS AN APPROVED
REIMBURSEMENT COST, AND APPROVE SUPPORTING
BUDGET AMENDMENTS – AS DETAILED IN THE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16D12
AN AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERAL TRANSIT
ADMINISTRATION (FTA) 49 USC § SECTION 5307 FY18
GRANT AWARD TO CHANGE THE PROGRAM SCOPE FROM
PURCHASING BUS FLASHERS AND BACK-UP SENSORS TO
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PURCHASING AND INSTALLING FIXED ROUTE BUS DRIVER
SECURITY BARRIERS AND AUTHORIZE THE EXECUTION
OF THE AMENDMENT THROUGH THE TRANSIT AWARD
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TRAMS) – DUE TO COVID-19
Item #16D13
AN “AFTER-THE-FACT” THIRD AMENDMENT AND
ATTESTATION STATEMENT WITH THE AREA AGENCY ON
AGING FOR SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, INC., ALZHEIMER’S
DISEASE INITIATIVE GRANT PROGRAM FOR SERVICES FOR
SENIORS TO AMEND ATTACHMENT XV-SERVICE RATE
REPORT TO ADD TEMPORARY SERVICES FOR COVID-19 TO
THE CONTRACT - ADDING DELIVERABLES TO THE
SERVICE RATE REPORT AND ADDITONAL SERVICES FOR
SHOPPING ASSISTANCE AND TELEPHONE REASSURANCE
Item #16D14
THREE (3) APPLICATIONS FOR FACILITIES IMPACTED BY
HURRICANE IRMA TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR COMPETITIVE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT - DISASTER
RECOVERY FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,499,298.38 –
FOR IMMOKALEE STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS AT THE
EDEN PARK NEIGHBORHOOD, UF/IFAS EXTENSION OFFICE
PERMEABLE PARKING LOT AND THE UF/IFAS EXTENSION
GREENHOUSE AND STORAGE FACILITY OFFICE
Item #16D15
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EXTENDING AGREEMENT NO. 09-5247 TIGERTAIL BEACH
FOOD & BEACH CONCESSIONS WITH RECREATIONAL
FACILITIES OF AMERICA, INC., UNTIL JULY 14, 2020
Item #16D16 – Moved to Item #11I (Per Commissioner Fiala during
Agenda Changes)
Item #16D17 – Moved to Item #11J (Per Commissioner Fiala during
Agenda Changes)
Item #16E1
AWARD REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”)
NO. 18-7432-AQ, “PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY –
AQUATICS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN SERVICES
CATEGORY,” TO WATER TECHNOLOGY, INC., AQUATIC
DESIGN & ENGINEERING, INC., D/B/A MARTIN AQUATIC
DESIGN & ENGINEERING, AND AQUATIC TECHNOLOGIES
DESIGN & ENGINEERING GROUP, INC., AND AUTHORIZE
THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE AGREEMENTS
Item #16E2
A FEDERALLY FUNDED SUBGRANT AGREEMENT TO
ACCEPT THE ANNUAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
PERFORMANCE GRANT (EMPG) IN THE AMOUNT OF
$110,834 FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING,
RESPONSE, AND MITIGATION EFFORTS AND TO
AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS -
THE GRANT HAS CERTAIN TRAINING REQUIREMENTS OR
BEST PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ON
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OCCASION, MAY HAVE TO BE MET BY ATTENDING
REGIONALLY OR OUT OF STATE TRAVEL, AT A STATE OR
FEMA TRAINING LOCATION
Item #16E3
A STATE-FUNDED SUBGRANT AGREEMENT A0099
ACCEPTING A GRANT AWARD TOTALING $105,806 FROM
THE FLORIDA DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
ENHANCEMENT AND AUTHORIZE THE ASSOCIATED
BUDGET AMENDMENT – FUNDING CAN BE USED FOR
PROGRAM ENHANCEMENT ACTIVITIES SUCH AS A
GENERATOR, BOX TRUCK AND TRAVEL COSTS FOR
TRAINING
Item #16E4
THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY THE
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS
AND OTHER CONTRACTUAL MODIFICATIONS REQUIRING
BOARD APPROVAL
Item #16F1
RECOGNIZING DEBBI MAXON, PUBLIC SERVICES CASE
MANAGER, SERVICES FOR SENIORS AS THE MAY 2020
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH. THE AWARD HAS BEEN
PRESENTED TO THE RECIPIENT BY STAFF MEMBERS
Item #16F2
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A REPORT COVERING TWO BUDGET AMENDMENTS
IMPACTING RESERVES AND MOVING FUNDS IN AN
AMOUNT UP TO AND INCLUDING $25,000 AND $50,000,
RESPECTIVELY
Item #16F3
RESOLUTION 2020-106: AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING
GRANTS, DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS OR INSURANCE
PROCEEDS) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2019-20 ADOPTED
BUDGET
Item #16G1
AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN THE PURCHASE ORDER
FOR CARLTON FIELDS, P.A., IN ITS CONSTRUCTION LAW-
RELATED ASSISTANCE INVOLVING THE CONSTRUCTION
OF THE NEW TERMINAL FACILITY, RUNWAY APRON AND
ASSOCIATED SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AT THE MARCO
ISLAND EXECUTIVE AIRPORT (THE “MKY PROJECT”) BY
WEST CONSTRUCTION, INC. (PROJECT NO. 33484)
Item #16I1
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE – ITEMS TO FILE FOR
THE RECORD:
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
June 23, 2020
1. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS TO FILE FOR RECORD WITH ACTION AS DIRECTED:
A. DISTRICTS:
1) Cedar Hammock Community Development District:
Meeting Agenda 03/09/2020
Meeting Minutes 03/09/2020
2) Heritage Bay Community Development District:
Meeting Agenda 03/05/2020
Meeting Minutes 03/05/2020
3) Naples Heritage Community Development District:
Meeting Agenda 03/03/2020
Meeting Agenda 03/03/2020
4) Winding Cypress Community Development District:
FY20/21 Proposed Budget
B. OTHER:
1) Bayshore Gateway CRA:
Legal Notice regarding Bid #20-7773
2) Immokalee Water & Sewer District:
District Documents
5) Naples CRA
Annual Report FYI 8/19
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Item #16J1
A BUDGET AMENDMENT RECOGNIZING $1,060,400 IN
REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES IN THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE
FY2020 GENERAL FUND BUDGET – FOR MISCELLANEOUS
SERVICES INCLUDING SPECIAL DETAIL CONTRACTS,
SEXUAL PREDATOR COLLECTIONS, INMATE MEDICAL
AND SUBSISTENCE NEEDS, INMATE HOUSING AND
PROVISION OF INMATE LABOR
Item #16J2
BOARD APPROVED AND DETERMINED VALID PUBLIC
PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND PURCHASING
CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF JUNE 17, 2020
Item #16J3
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 MAY 28, 2020 AND JUNE 10,
2020 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 136.06
Item #16K1
A RETENTION AGREEMENT FOR LEGAL SERVICES WITH
NOELL LAW, PLLC – FOR WORK RELATED TO RISK
MANAGEMENT DEFENSE CASES
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Item #16K2
RESOLUTION 2020-107: RE-APPOINTING KYLE LANTZ TO
THE CONTRACTORS LICENSING BOARD WITH TERM
EXPIRING ON JUNE 30, 2023
Item #17A
RESOLUTION 2020-108: AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING
CARRY FORWARD, TRANSFERS AND SUPPLEMENTAL
REVENUE) TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2019-20 ADOPTED
BUDGET
*****
June 23, 2020
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 1 :32 p.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL
BURT L. SAUNDERS, CHAIRMAN
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CRYSTALK ,KINZEL, CLERK
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These minutes approved by the Board on 9 )B/acj , as
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TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF FORT MYERS
COURT REPORTING BY TERRI LEWIS, FPR, COURT
REPORTER AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
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