Agenda 09/22/2020 Item # 2C (PBSD Budget Meeting Minutes 09/03/2020)09/22/2020
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COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 2.0
Item Summary: September 3, 2020 - Pelican Bay Services Division Budget Meeting Minutes
Meeting Date: 09/22/2020
Prepared by:
Title: Executive Secretary to County Manager — County Manager's Office
Name: MaryJo Brock
09/15/2020 2:35 PM
Submitted by:
Title: County Manager — County Manager's Office
Name: Leo E. Ochs
09/15/2020 2:35 PM
Approved By:
Review:
County Manager's Office Nick Casalanguida County Manager Review
Board of County Commissioners MaryJo Brock Meeting Pending
Completed 09/16/2020 8:23 AM
09/22/2020 9:00 AM
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September 3, 2020
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida, September 3, 2020
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Board of County
Commissioners, in and for the County of Collier, and also g
as the Board of Zoning Appeals and as the governing board(s) of
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such special districts as have been created according to law and
having conducted business herein, met on t�� date at 6:00 p.m., in
Pelican Bay Services Division BUDGE ESSION in Building "F"
of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following
members present:
ALSO PRESENT:
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CHAIRMAN: Burt L. Saunders
Andy Solis
William L. McDaniel, Jr.
Donna Fiala
Penny Taylor
Leo Ochs, County Manager
Nick Casalanguida, Deputy County Manager
Mark Isackson, Corporate Financial & Mgmt. Svc. Director
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Ladies and gentlemen, the
meeting of the Commission will please come to order.
We're dealing with the first of two evening budget hearings.
Our discussion will be limited to the budget and no other topics.
And with that, I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Ochs.
Mr. Ochs, I left my budget book in the office, so I'm going to
step out and get it while you're doing your --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I'll get Angela.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Oh, okay. Perfect.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I did the same. �Z5
MR. OCHS: Very good. Thank you, Commissioners.
I'll go ahead and turn this to Mr. Isackson. He'll take us
through tonight's agenda. Mark? ,C
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, County Manager Ochs.
Item #2A
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FISCAL YEAR 2020 PELICAN BAY SERVICES DIVISION
BUDGET — PRESENTED BY NEIL DORRILL
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, your first item on the
docket is discussion of the Pelican Bay budget as well as a resolution
which establishes the assessment and the spreading of the assessment
roll for Pelican Bay. I will note that Pelican Bay is a $15 million
budget; 9 of which is operating, 5 of which is capital. And their
overall assessment, Neil, you'll correct me, but I think you're a little
bit below where we were last year, if I'm not mistaken. But I'll turn
it over to Mr. Dorrill.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Let me ask a quick question
before Mr. Dorrill starts. My recollection is that only have one
hearing in reference to this budget, so what we do tonight is the final
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decision on this.
MR. ISACKSON: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Everything else we have a second
budget hearing, so I just want the audience to know that this is the
final vote on this particular item. N1
Mr. Dorrill. A L�"
MR. DORRILL: Good evening, Commissioners. And the
principal reason for that is the Pelican Bay Service Division's primary
source of revenue is a non -ad valorem special assessment that is
uniformly applied against all of the benefiting properties in the
community.
This budget comes to you with a unanimous vote of approval
prior to your workshops from your advisory board that represents
both the commercial interest in the community as well as the
residential interest. -� r
The budget director is correct, through hard work on their part,
we have a decrease of $81.09 in the operating and maintenance
portion of this assessment next year. We do have an increase in the
capital assessment. This community has an ambitious capital
improvement schedule for the foreseeable future, primarily involving
sidewalks. You may recall a pretty innovative effort on your part
last year to provide a contribution in aid of construction of those
sidewalks but for which the community will be responsible for the
total cost of the construction and the perpetual maintenance of the
pathways and the sidewalks in the community.
I won't belabor that any further to tell you, though, the reality of
the COVID virus in this case, we have a series of committees under
the advisory board, and our budget committee, which is also chaired
by the chairman, had made one change from the workshop that you
saw. It does not affect the total budget. It does not affect the total
numbers on the capital side, but there is a desire on their part, in lieu
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of borrowing money, to use existing cash fund balances to offset
Phase 1 of the sidewalk construction.
Those plans are complete. The estimated cost of that is
$600,000. And also, the replacement of a 40-year-old maintenance
and operations building, and we're going to pay cash for that, again,
in lieu of incurring debt. A - L r
The community has some serious interest, though, in incurring
some debt to address lake bank erosion and accelerated matters
pertaining to the restoration of the lake and the drainage system that
are there, and those conversations will be held in the next fiscal year.
But those associated transfers were discussed. We haven't had
committee meetings in months, but they were discussed and
presented by our chairman at their last advisory board meeting that
occurred about three weeks ago. '0 41Vr
So, at the appropriate time, the motion should be to adopt the
budget and to also adopt the associated resolution levying both the
special assessment roll and levying the special assessment against
those benefited properties and authorize the Chairman to execute the
resolution.
I'd be happy to answer any questions.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Any questions or
comments from the Commission?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We may have a -- do we have any
registered speakers? I know we have some on the budget.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: I can confirm you have four
registered speakers for the budget, but they haven't said if it's about
Pelican Bay. I'm assuming they're not after speaking to them.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: We'll go ahead and entertain the
motion on this. If one of the four speakers want to talk on this topic,
let us know. I would assume it's mostly on the main budget.
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Item #2B
PUBLIC COMMENT
MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, I suggest maybe we just call those
four names quickly and they indicate whether they want to speak
about this Pelican Bay budget, or their comments are reserved to the
larger county budget.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Good suggestion.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Sir, I've got them. It's Melissa
Alamo. y Jr
Here. Not for the Pelican Bay? O
Tharina Oris?
MS. ORIS: Mine is not for Pelican ay.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Okay. Michelle McCormick?
MS. MCCORMICK: Noy
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And Brad Estes?
MR. ESTES: (Shakes head.)
MR. CASALANGUIDA: So, no, sir, none of them are for
Pelican Bay, sir.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: I bet Mr. Estes wants to talk about
the floods. kz
All right. So we've heard the presentation from Mr. Dorrill.
Item #2C
RESOLUTION 2020-135: PELICAN BAY SERVICES DIVISION
BUDGET AND A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT ROLL AND LEVYING THE SPECIAL
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ASSESSMENT AGAINST THE BENEFITED PROPERTIES
WITHIN THE PELICAN BAY NUMICIPAL SERVICE TAXING
AND BENEFIT UNIT — ADOPTED
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR:
budget as stated.
I make a motion to approve the
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CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And I'll second that.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. We have a motion and
second. Mr. Dorrill, is that -- the motion satisfactory? IV
MR. DORRILL: Yes, sir. tky.N
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All right. Any discussion on the
motion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: `Aye.
COMMISSIONER FIALA:y Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: All opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: That passes unanimously. Thank
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MR. DORRILL: Thank you. On a purely personal level,
Commissioner Fiala, on behalf of the people in Pelican Bay, we want
to thank you, Madam, for your poise and your grace. This is
probably the last official time that I will see you on their behalf. But
thank you very much for your service and commitment to the
community.
COMMISSIONER FIALA: Oh, thank you so much for saying
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that.
MR. DORRILL: You're a sweet lady.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Thank you, Mr. Dorrill.
And that's one -- that comment, Mr. Dorrill, about the Donna
Fiala being a sweet lady, I think all five of us can agree to that.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Amen.
MR.00HS: Amen. zlbo
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS: Including Commissioner Fiala.
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
Pelican Bay Services Division Budget has concluded.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL
BURT SAUNDERS, CHAIRMAN
ATTEST tz**��
CRYSTAL K. KINZEL, CLERK
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These minutes approved by the Board on
as presented or as corrected
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