BCC Minutes 09/23/2021 B
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September 23, 2021
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Community Redevelopment Agency Board (CRAB)
Airport Authority
BUDGET AGENDA
Board of County Commission Chambers
Collier County Government Center
3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd Floor
Naples, FL 34112
September 23, 2021
5:05 PM
Commissioner Penny Taylor, District 4 – Chair
Commissioner William L. McDaniel, Jr., District 5; Co-Chair
Commissioner Rick LoCastro, District 1
Commissioner Andy Solis, District 2
Commissioner Burt Saunders, District 3
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YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN
ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT 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 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS’ OFFICE.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
1. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING - BCC – FY 2021-22 Budget
A. Discussion of FY 2021-22 Millage Rates and Increases Over the Rolled
Back Millage Rates
B. Discussion of Further Amendments to the Tentative Budget
C. Public Comments and Questions
D. Resolution to Amend the Tentative Budgets
E. Public Reading of the Taxing Authority Levying Millage, the Name of the
Taxing Authority, the Rolled-Back Rate, the Percentage Increase, and the
Millage Rate to be Levied.
F. Adoption of Resolution Setting Millage Rates. Note: A separate motion is
required for the Dependent District millage rates; and a separate motion is
required for the remaining millage rates.
G. Resolution to Adopt the Final Budget by Fund. Note: A separate motion is
required for the Dependent District budgets; and a separate motion is
required for the remaining budgets.
2. ADJOURNMENT OF FY 2022 PUBLIC BUDGET HEARING
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida September 23, 2021
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 5:05 p.m., in BUDGET
SESSION in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples,
Florida, with the following members present:
Chairman: Penny Taylor
William L. McDaniel, Jr.
Rick LoCastro
Burt L. Saunders
Andy Solis (Telephonically)
ALSO PRESENT:
Sean Callahan, Interim County Manager
Edward Finn, OMB Director
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Troy Miller, Communications & Customer Relations
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MR. CALLAHAN: Madam Chairman, you have a live mic.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much, good evening,
Collier County. We're here at our second budget meeting of
September the 23rd. This is when we're going to make a decision on
the final budget, and public comment is welcome.
But first we've got some preliminary things to address. And I'd
like everyone to stand, and we'll do a Pledge of Allegiance.
And, Commissioner Saunders, if you would say the Pledge,
please.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
MOTION ALLOWING COMMISSIONER LOCASTRO TO
PARTICIPATE TELEPHONICALLY – APPROVED
MR. CALLAHAN: Madam Chair, just a reminder that
Commissioner Solis will be participating by phone, so that requires a
motion by the Board to allow.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
Commissioner Solis, are you there?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I am here.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Okay.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Hey, Commissioner Solis.
The next round's on me.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Anytime you can make it to
Ireland.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yes, that's right.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: I'll make a motion to allow
him to participate by phone.
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COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the floor and a
second to allow Commissioner Solis to participate in this meeting.
All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
MR. CALLAHAN: Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Ed Finn, our director of the
Office of Management and Budget to take us through the final
adoption of the budget.
MR. FINN: Thank you, Sean.
Edward Finn, OMB director. Good evening. Welcome.
I'll get right into it. See if we can get through this in as tidy a
fashion as possible. You know there's a lot of script here, and I'll do
the best I can to get us through.
Opening remarks: Madam Chair, Commissioners, this is the
final public hearing on the Collier County Government Fiscal Year
'21/'22 budget which begins on October 1, 2021 and runs through
September 30, 2022.
This final public budget hearing must follow a specific format
pursuant to Truth in Millage guidelines. Your agenda contains the
specific sequence of agenda items to be covered. Pursuant to Florida
Statute, Chapter 200, the required advertisement for this final hearing
was published in the Naples Daily News on Monday, September 20,
2021.
Agenda and speaker slips are available in the hallway. Anyone
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interested in addressing the Board regarding the county budget must
complete a speaker slip. Following some remarks regarding tax rate
and changes to the budget that we approved at our previous meeting
on September 9, there will be an opportunity for public comment
under Item 1C.
Item #1A
DISCUSSION OF FY 2021-22 MILLAGE RATES AND
INCREASES OVER THE ROLLED BACK MILLAGE RATES –
DISCUSSED
Agenda Item 1A, discussion of the FY '21/'22 millage rates and
increases over the rolled-back millage rates. State law requires that
the first substantive issues to be discussed are percentage increases in
millage over the rolled-back rate needed to fund the budget and the
reasons ad valorem tax revenues above the rolled-back rate as
calculated by the State DR-420 forms are being increased.
Rolled-back rate is defined as that tax necessary to generate
prior year tax revenues, and this tax rate is calculated not including
taxable values associated with new construction, additions, deletions,
and rehab improvements. The Board-adopted budget guidance for
FY'22 including a millage-neutral operating levy position, meaning
the same tax rate as last year. Budget guidance also included the
reinstatement of the Conservation Collier tax levy.
For the General Fund, the millage-neutral rate is 3.5645 per
thousand dollars of taxable value, as it has been since FY 2010. For
the Unincorporated Area General Fund, the millage rate is .8069 per
thousand dollars of taxable values, as it has been since 2017.
The Unincorporated Area is a little different. Pursuant to Board
guidance, the additional marginal ad valorem dollars above a base
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millage-neutral operating levy established in '16 is devoted
maintaining landscape medians.
The reinstated Conservation Collier tax levy is included in the
'22 budget with a millage rate of .2500 per thousand dollars pursuant
to the voter-approved November 20 referendum. Tax levies for the
General Fund, Conservation Collier, and Unincorporated Area
General Fund together represent 97 percent of the total aggregate
taxes levied across all Collier County Government authorities for '22.
The FY'22 tentative General Fund and Unincorporated Area
General Fund operating and capital budgets, as presented, are based
on Board-adopted budget policy. Both the General Fund and the
Unincorporated Area General Fund proposed tax rates are higher than
the rolled-back rate. Collier County taxable value has increased the
past 10 years, and the increase for '22 is 5.64 and 5.75 percent within
the General Fund and Unincorporated Area General Fund
respectively.
Within an increasing taxable value environment under a
millage-neutral operating and capital policy guidance, the rolled-back
rate will be lower than the millage-neutral rate, and this is what your
budget is based on.
The cumulative aggregate rolled-back rate for all county taxing
authorities, exclusive of debt service, totals 4.0655 per thousand
dollars of taxable value.
The proposed aggregate tax rate for all Collier County taxing
authorities, exclusive of debt service, totals 4.4407 per tax -- per
thousand dollars of taxable value.
This represents an increase of 9.23 percent over the aggregate
rolled-back rate and necessitates a notice of proposed tax increase
advertisement for TRIM purposes rather than a simple summary of
budget advertisement.
So referring to Exhibit 1A. Exhibit 1A, your Packet Pages 1
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through 3 or the packet pages, if you printed it out, 9 through 11,
show the rates that we're talking about.
Item #1B
DISCUSION OF FURTHER AMENDMENTS TO TENTATIVE
BUDGET – DISCUSSED
I'm going to move to Agenda 1B, discussion of further
amendments to the tentative budget. As provided in Exhibit 1B,
there are a handful of small housekeeping changes to the '22 budget
that have been made subsequent to the September 9, '21, public
hearing.
The first change involves CRA funds and stems from Board
action at the meeting of September 14th that reallocated funding into
projects within the Bayshore and Immokalee CRA funds.
The second change involves moving EMS capital project
budgets into the -- what is identified as the EMS Motor Pool Capital
Recovery and Capital Fund, and that accommodates some limitations
of the accounting system so that we can account for it using the
project format. There are no changes to the roster of millage rates
approved at our previous public hearing on September 9th.
At this point, ma'am, if it pleases the Board, we could move to
public comments and questions, if there are any.
MR. MILLER: Madam Chair, I have no registered comment
here in the room and no registered comment on Zoom.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All right. Then the public part of
this meeting is closed.
MR. FINN: Very good. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you.
MR. FINN: We'll move, then, to -- that was Agenda Item 1C.
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Item #1D
RESOLUTION 2021-189: AMENDING THE TENTATIVE
BUDGET – ADOPTED
We'll move to Agenda Item 1D, which is a resolution to amend
the tentative budgets. Under 1D, the resolution amending the
tentative budgets, as I just elaborated on a second ago, staff would
request a motion to approve the resolution amending the tentative
budgets.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: So move.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Motion on the floor and a second to
amend the budgets as stated. All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
Thank you.
MR. FINN: Very good. Thank you.
Item #1E
PUBLIC READING OF THE TAXING AUTHORITY LEVYING
MILLAGE, THE NAME OF THE TAXING AUTHORITY, THE
ROLLED BACK RATE, THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE, AND
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THE MILLAGE RATE TO BE LEVIED – READ INTO RECORD
I'm going to move on to Agenda Item 1E. This is a public
reading of the taxing authority. Levying the millage, the name of the
taxing authority, the rolled-back rate, the percentage increase over the
rolled-back rate, and the millage rate to be levied.
Please refer to Tab 1E where you'll find the resolution providing
the tentative millage rates. And with your leave, I'll proceed to read.
Commissioners, the General Fund 001, proposed millage rate is
3.5645; the rolled-back millage rate is 3.4577; the percentage change
from rollback is 3.09 percent.
The Water Pollution Control Fund 114, proposed millage rate is
0.0293; the rolled-back rate millage is 0.0284; the percentage change
from rollback is 3.17 percent.
The Conservation Collier Fund 172, proposed millage rate is
0.2500; the rolled-back millage rate is zero; the percentage change
from rollback is not applicable.
The Unincorporated Area General Fund 111, proposed millage
rate, 0.0 -- strike that -- 0.8069; the rolled-back millage rate is
0.7864; the change from rollback is 2.61 percent.
The Golden Gate Community Center Fund 130, proposed
millage rate is 0.1862; the rolled-back rate is 0.1766; the change from
rollback is 5.44 percent.
The Victoria Park Drainage MSTU Fund 134, proposed millage
is 0.3814; the rolled-back rate is 0.0293; the percentage change from
rollback 1,201.7 percent.
Naples Park Drainage MTS&BU Fund 139, proposed millage is
0.0049; the rolled-back rate is 0.0049; the percentage change from
rollback is 0 percent.
The Vanderbilt Beach MSTU Fund 143, proposed millage is
0.5000; the rolled-back rate is 0.4869; the change from rollback is
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2.69 percent.
The Ochopee Fire Control District Fund 146, proposed millage
is 4.0000; the rolled-back rate is 3.8738; the percentage change from
rollback is 3.26 percent.
The Goodland/Horrs Island Fire Control District Fund 149,
proposed millage is 1.2760; the rolled-back rate is 1.1764; the change
from rollback is 8.47 percent.
The Sable Palm MST&BU fund 151, proposed millage is zero;
the rolled-back millage rate is zero; the change from rollback is not
applicable.
Lely Golf Estates Beautification MSTU proposed millage is
2.0000; the rolled-back millage rate is 1.9497; the change from
rollback is 2.58 percent.
Golden Gate Parkway Beautification MSTU Fund 153, proposed
millage is 0.5000; the rolled-back rate is 0.4654; the change from
rollback is 7.43 percent.
The Hawksridge Stormwater Pumping MSTU Fund 154,
proposed millage is 0.0354; rolled-back rate is 0.0354; the change
from rollback is zero.
The Radio Road Beautification MSTU Fund 158, proposed
millage is zero; rolled-back millage is zero; the change from rollback
is zero.
Forest Lake Roadway Drainage MSTU Fund 159, proposed
millage is 4.0000; the rolled-back rate is 1.3294; the change from
rollback is 200.9 percent.
The Immokalee Beautification MSTU Fund 162, proposed
millage is 1.0000; the rolled-back rate is 0.9596; the change from
rollback is 4.21 percent.
The Bayshore Beautification MSTU Fund 163, proposed millage
is 2.3604; the rolled-back rate is 2.2085; the change from rollback is
6.88 percent.
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The Haldeman Creek Maintenance Dredging MTSU Fund 164,
proposed millage is 1.0000; the rolled-back rate is 0.9414; the change
from rollback is 6.22 percent.
The Rock Road Improvement MSTU Fund 165, proposed
millage is 1.3413; the rolled-back rate is 3.4763; the change from
rollback is minus 61.4 percent.
The Vanderbilt Waterways MSTBU Fund 168, proposed millage
is 0.3000; the rolled-back rate is 0.2884; the change from rollback is
4.02 percent.
The Forest Lakes MSTU Debt Service Fund 259, proposed
millage is zero; the rolled-back rate is 2.5293; the change from
rollback is minus 100 percent.
The Blue Sage Drive MSTU Fund 341, proposed millage is
3.0000; the rolled-back rate is 3.0287; the change from rollback is
minus 0.95 percent.
The Collier County Lighting District Fund 760, proposed
millage is 0.1315; the rolled-rate -- rolled-back millage rate is 0.1315;
the change from rollback is 0.00.
The Pelican Bay MST&BU Fund 1 -- 778, proposed millage is
0.0857; the rolled-back rate is 0.0856; the change from rollback is
0.12 percent.
Commissioners, the FY'22 aggregate millage rate is 4.4407; the
aggregate rolled-back millage rate is 4.0655; the percentage change
from the rolled-back rate is 9.23 percent.
Item #1F
RESOLUTION 2021-190: RESOLUTION SETTING MILLAGE
RATES: A SEPARATE MOTION IS REQUIRED FOR THE
DEPENDENT DISTRICT MILLAGE RATES; AND A SEPARATE
MOTON IS REQUIRED FOR THE REMAINIMG MILLAGE
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RATES: MOTION TO APPROVE THE DEPENDENT DISTRICT
MILLAGE RATES – APPROVED; MOTION TO APPROVE THE
REMAINING MILLAGE RATES – APPROVED – ADOPTED
We can move on to Agenda Item 1F, which is adoption of a
resolution setting millage rates. If you would, if we could have
separate motions relative to the dependent district rates and a separate
motion relative to the remaining millage rates.
So the first would be -- the first motion requested is adopting the
dependent taxing district millage rates.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Do I hear a motion to that effect?
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the floor and a
second to adopt the dependent millage rates, dependent district.
MR. FINN: Dependent taxing district millage rates, yes,
ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Department taxing district millage
rates. All those in favor, say eye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously thank you.
MR. FINN: Very good. And the second motion would be a
motion adopting the remaining millage rates.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
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CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the floor and a
second to adopt the remaining -- remaining tax rates.
MR. FINN: Yes, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
MR. FINN: Thank you.
Item #1G
RESOLUTION 2021-191: RESOLUTION TO ADOPT THE FINAL
BUDGET BY FUND. NOTE: A SEPARATE MOTION IS
REQUIRED FOR THE DEPENDENT DISTRICT BUDGETS; AND
A SEPARATE MOTION IS REQUIRED FOR THE REMAINING
BUDGETS: MOTION TO APPROVED THE DEPENDENT
DISTRICT BUDGETS – APPROVED; MOTION TO APPROVE
THE REMAINING BUDGETS – APPROVED; - ADOPTED
Moving on. Agenda Item 1G, this is a resolution to adopt the
final budget by fund. Again, a request would be a separate motion
similar to the last one. The first motion requested would be a motion
adopting the dependent districts' budgets by fund.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: There's a motion on the floor and a
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second to adopt the dependent districts' tax fund.
MR. FINN: Districts' budgets by fund.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Budgets by fund, excuse me. All
those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
MR. FINN: Very good. The second motion would be a
motion adopting the final budgets for the remaining funds.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: So moved.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: I'll second that.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Yeah, I was going to say,
rather than trying to repeat it.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: All those in favor, say aye.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER McDANIEL: Aye.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Those opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It carries unanimously.
MR. FINN: Very good. If -- Madam Chair, if you indulge me
one second, I'd just like to take an opportunity to thank the Board for
providing sound budget policies and supporting staff through what is
a long budget process. I know you've put in a lot of hours, and it's
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greatly appreciated.
I'd also like to thank the County Manager and all the
professionals in the Manager's agency and the Court Administration
for their dedication and hard work in developing the budget.
We also need to thank the constitutional officers, the Sheriff, the
Clerk, the Tax Collector, Property Appraiser, and the Supervisor of
Elections, for their professionalism and commitment to the budget
process.
Finally, my heartfelt thanks to the staff in the Budget Office.
Thank you very much.
With that, ma'am, that concludes our presentation on the budget
for FY'21/'22.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Thank you very much.
Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And I just want to
congratulate and thank staff for --
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- making this process as
easy and well stated as it is. Obviously, we have no members of the
public speaking in opposition to anything that staff has put together
or anything that we've done as a board in terms of the budget, and
that's to your credit, to staff's credit. So thank you.
MR. FINN: Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: You're right. It's very easy when it
comes up here, but the work you put in -- and I'm just thinking, that
as of October the 1st, you're working on next year's budget, correct?
MR. FINN: Yes, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: It takes a long time to put it together.
Well done to you and your staff. Thank you.
MR. FINN: Thanks very much.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: And on that note, no other comments.
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COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I actually have a comment.
It has nothing to do with this, but after consulting with our County
Attorney, to keep everything in the Sunshine, it's a totally different
issue, but since you're all here -- and it concerns the e-mails that
you're all getting from people that have concerns about Caxambas.
So I just wanted to give you an update.
So Dan Rodriguez and I have done a lot, meeting with all the
business owners. I spoke at the Marco City Council on Monday on
behalf of the business owners, and what we're doing and what we're
not doing and separating rumor from fact, we're not closing down
Caxambas to businesses on 1 January, which was something that
people interfered from a meeting that we and Marco Island had with a
group of business owners.
So alls I would ask is -- people are blasting out e-mails with a lot
of correct [sic] information to all of us. I'm responding back to those
people just singularly. And I think we made a lot of headway on
Monday when I spoke at the Marco Island City Council.
So this is not lost on us. There's a lot of misinformation. We
want balance and fairness. And that park has been packed to the
gills for many, many years with not as much oversight as we possibly
could have. And so between Dan and Barry and a bunch of folks
here and the Marco City Council, who are very supportive of keeping
it open to businesses but in a much better way, I just wanted you-all
to know that a lot of things are in motion, you know, in District 1 and
with our staff.
So, you know, when you see those notes, I mean -- and when I
reply to the individual, I let them know I'm replying on behalf
of -- that we are aware and we're working it. So I thought I would
just say that.
And then just a little sidenote just with Amy here. Amy, I
wanted to give you a shout-out. Amy and I had a town hall meeting
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on Isles of Capri to talk about septic-to-sewer possibilities. She is
like the Rainman of -- and I mean that as a compliment. You know,
this is another example of somebody from our county staff in front of
a whole bunch of people that have a lot of misinformation, and just
watching her in action speak to the citizens, talk about stuff that's 10
years' history and piecing it all together, I mean, you know, we really
walked out of there with the board members from Isles of Capri
feeling very confident that the county does have its act together.
We're not a bunch of idiots. We're not sitting on our hands, and
couldn't have done any of that without just giving her the microphone
and letting her run.
So, just, in front of everyone here, I wanted to say -- and you
didn't even have to show up. I just called you for information. And
then she said, why don't I join you in the parking lot; probably
because you probably thought I was too stupid to speak in front of
these people. But as a team, I thought we were great, and you
really -- you really did a great job.
So thank you so much, ma'am. I appreciate you coming to that,
and it really went a long way to build trust and faith in the citizens as
we move forward. Thank you.
MS. PATTERSON: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN TAYLOR: On that note, we are adjourned.
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There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 5:28 p.m.
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