BCC Minutes 03/08/2022 RMarch 8, 2022
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Naples, Florida March 8, 2022
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: William L. McDaniel, Jr.
Rick LoCastro
Burt L. Saunders
Andy Solis
Penny Taylor
ALSO PRESENT:
Mark Isackson, County Manager
Amy Patterson, Deputy County Manager
Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney
Derek Johnssen, Finance Director, Clerk's Office
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
March 8, 2022
9:00 AM
Commissioner William L. McDaniel, Jr., District 5; – Chair – CRAB Co-Chair
Commissioner Rick LoCastro, District 1; – Vice Chair
Commissioner Andy Solis, District 2
Commissioner Burt Saunders, District 3
Commissioner Penny Taylor, District 4; – 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
WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING PERTAINING THERETO,
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AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD
OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE
TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 2003-53 AS AMENDED BY
ORDINANCE 2004-05 AND 2007-24, REQUIRES THAT ALL LOBBYISTS
SHALL, BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY LOBBYING ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDRESSING THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS), REGISTER WITH THE CLERK TO THE BOARD AT THE
BOARD MINUTES AND RECORDS DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY
ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING,
YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN
ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT DIVISION LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL,
SUITE 1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380; ASSISTED
LISTENING DEVICES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ARE AVAILABLE IN
THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION.
LUNCH RECESS SCHEDULED FOR 12:00 NOON TO 1:00 P.M.
1. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
A. Invocation by Reverend Kirt Anderson of Naples Community Church
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.)
3. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
A. EMPLOYEE
B. ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
C. RETIREES
D. EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
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4. PROCLAMATIONS
A. Proclamation designating March 19, 2022, as Save the Florida Panther Day
in Collier County. To be accepted by Erin P. Myers, Florida Panther
National Wildlife Refuge Manager, and Mac Hatcher, Friends of the Florida
Panther Refuge Treasurer.
B. Proclamation designating March 2022 as Gentle'men Against Domestic
Violence Month in Collier County. To be accepted by Linda Oberhaus,
Chief Executive Officer, The Shelter for Abused Women & Children.
C. Proclamation designating March 14 - 20, 2022, as Government Finance
Professionals Week in Collier County, joining in the statewide recognition
of government finance professionals. To be accepted by representatives of
the Collier County Clerk's Office.
D. Proclamation designating March 13 - 19, 2022, as Sunshine Week in Collier
County, and reaffirming our unified commitment to providing citizens with
open, honest, and transparent governmental operation. To be accepted by
Sheriff Kevin Rambosk, Tax Collector Rob Stoneburner, Derek Johnssen
representing the Clerk & Comptroller, Maria Pizarro, representing the Board
of County Commissioners, Trish Robertson, representing the Supervisor of
Elections, Vickie Downs, representing the Property Appraiser, and Mona
Rzeszewski, representing the Sheriff's Office.
E. Proclamation designating March 8, 2022, as International Women's Day in
Collier County. To be accepted by Donna Messer, Chair of Women's
Foundation of Collier County.
5. PRESENTATION
A. Presentation of the 2021 Supervisor of the Year. James Hanrahan,
Supervisor - Recreation, Parks and Recreation Division. (All Districts)
B. Recommendation to recognize Heather Meyer, Growth Management
Department, Operations Support as the 2021 Employee of the Year. (All
Districts)
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C. Presentation of the Collier County Business of the Month for March
2022 to Cariloha Naples. The award will be accepted by owners, Robin
and Jeffrey Snell. Also present is Bethany Sawyer, Vice President of
Membership, The Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce.
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
10. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
A. Recommendation to authorize the Chairman to sign a letter in support of the
Tigertail Lagoon Restoration Project proposed by the City of Marco Island
and the Hideaway Beach Tax District, and to convey the letter to the Florida
Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and United States Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE). Sponsored by Commissioner McDaniel &
Commissioner LoCastro. (Trinity Scott, Transportation Management
Services Department Head) (All Districts)
B. Recommendation to review the progress of the County Manager recruitment
and provide staff with additional direction regarding process steps and
timeline. (Amy Lyberg, Human Resources Division Director) (All Districts)
11. COUNTY MANAGER'S REPORT
A. Recommendation to adopt resolutions accepting proposals of Webster Bank,
N.A. (successor by merger to Sterling National Bank) and Raymond James
Capital Funding, Inc. to provide the County with term loans in order to
refund all of the County’s Special Obligation Refunding Revenue Bonds,
Series 2011 and 2013, respectively, for net present value interest savings;
approving the form of respective loan agreements and a forward note
purchase agreement (with respect to the Series 2022B Note); authorizing the
issuance of a Special Obligation Refunding Revenue Note, Series 2022A
and a Special Obligation Refunding Revenue Note, Series 2022B in the
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principal amounts of not to exceed $33,000,000 and $76,000,000,
respectively; authorizing the repayment of such Notes from a covenant to
budget and appropriate legally available non ad valorem revenues;
delegating certain authority to the Board Chairman and other appropriate
officers of the County for the execution and delivery of the loan agreement;
and authorize all necessary budget amendments. (Mark Isackson, County
Manager & Derek Johnssen, Clerk's Office Director of Finance and
Accounting) (All Districts)
B. Recommendation to authorize the necessary budget amendment to reallocate
funds in relation to Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 21-7935, “Wiggins Pass
and Doctors Pass Dredge 2021-2022,” in the amount of $2,197,180.00 and
make a finding that this expenditure promotes tourism. (Project No. 80288 &
No. 90549). (Andrew Miller, Manager - Coastal Zone Management) (All
Districts)
C. Recommendation to authorize twenty (20) additional Full-Time Equivalent
(FTE) positions as follows: nine (9) FTEs in the Growth Management
Community Development Department, three (3) FTEs in the Collier County
Water-Sewer District, five (5) FTEs in the Transportation Management
Services Department - Road Maintenance Division (Landscape section) and
three (3) FTEs in the Public Services Department - Parks and Recreation
Division (Conservation Collier) due to expanded customer and/or Program
demand, and authorize any associated budget amendments needed. (James
French, Growth Management Department Community Development
Department Head; Trinity Scott, Transportation Management Services
Department Head; Tanya Williams, Public Services Department Head;
George Yilmaz, Public Utilities Department Head) (All Districts)
D. Recommendation that the Board award Request for Proposal No. 21-7891,
Collier Area Transit CAD/AVL, to Ineo Systrans USA, Inc. d /b/a ENGIE in
the amount of $2,102,051 and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached
agreement. (Transit Grant Fund 424) (Michelle Arnold, Public Transit &
Neighborhood Enhancement Division Director) (All Districts)
E. Recommendation to award Request for Professional Services (“RPS”) No.
21-7911, “Design Services for Collier County Mental Health Facility," to
RG Architects, P.A., to provide professional design and related services in
the amount of $2,462,809. (Edward Finn, Director, Facilities Management)
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(All Districts)
12. COUNTY ATTORNEY'S REPORT
A. Recommendation to appoint the initial membership of the Public Art
Committee. (All Districts)
13. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
14. AIRPORT AUTHORITY AND/OR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY
A. AIRPORT
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
15. STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
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16. Consent Agenda - All matters listed under this item are considered to be
routine and action will be taken by one motion without separate discussion of
each item. If discussion is desired by a member of the Board, that item(s) will
be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered separately.
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A. GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
1) This item has been continued from the January 25, 2022,
February 8, 2022, February 22, 2022 BCC Meetings, and further
being continued indefinitely. Recommendation to direct staff to
advertise and bring back for a public hearing at the March 8, 2022
Board Meeting, an ordinance of Collier County, Florida, amending
Ordinance No. 2003-37, as amended, including Ordinance No. 2003-
58, by amending Section 110-30 of the Collier County Code of Laws
and Ordinances to exclude the Bayshore Gateway Triangle
Community Redevelopment Area from the prohibition of enclosing
swales in public rights-of-way; providing for inclusion into the Code
of Laws and Ordinances; providing for conflict and severability;
providing an effective date. [PL20210001222] (District 4)
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2) Recommendation to approve a resolution of the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida amending the
Administrative Code for Land Development, which was created by
Ordinance No. 2013- 57, by amending Chapter Three, Quasi-Judicial
Procedures with a Public Hearing, Chapter Four, Administrative
Procedures, Chapter Six, Waivers, Exemptions and Reductions, more
specifically to add N. Limited Density Bonus Pool Allocation
(LDBPA), and Chapter Twelve, Acronyms; and providing an effective
date. [PL20210001033] (This is a companion to Item #17B) (District
4)
3) Recommendation to approve an Agreement for a temporary traffic
facilities easement (Parcel 499TTFE) required for the construction of
a temporary traffic signal and related facilities at the intersection of
Randall Boulevard and 8th Street (Project No. 60230). Estimated
Fiscal Impact: $1,100. The funding source is gas taxes. (All Districts)
4) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the sewer utility
facilities and accept the conveyance of a portion of the sewer utility
facilities for 4992 32nd Ave SW, PL20210001706. (District 3)
5) Recommendation to approve final acceptance of the potable water and
sewer utility facilities and accept the conveyance of a portion of the
potable water and all sewer utility facilities for the Shirley Design
Center, PL20210003152. (District 2)
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 Oyster Harbor at Fiddler's Creek Phase 2C,
PL20210002509. (District 1)
7) Recommendation to approve a Resolution for final acceptance of the
private roadway and drainage improvements for the final plat of Isles
of Collier Preserve Phase 2, Application Number PL20140000395,
and authorize the release of the maintenance security in the amount of
$437,963.35. (District 4)
8) This item requires that ex parte disclosure be provided by
Commission members. Should a hearing be held on this item, all
participants are required to be sworn in. Recommendation to
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approve for recording the final plat of Juniper Pointe (f/k/a Crews
Road Townhouses), Application Number PL20210000100, approval
of the standard form Construction and Maintenance Agreement and
approval of the performance security in the amount of $1,269,809.06.
(District 4)
9) Recommendation to approve a Transportation Post Project
Maintenance Agreement with the Florida Department of
Transportation (FDOT), for the maintenance of the sidewalk along
Copeland Avenue from Chokoloskee Bay Bridge to north of
Broadway Avenue upon completion of the FDOT improvements
project, Financial Project No. 437096-1-52-01, with anticipated
maintenance and inspection costs of $2,800 annually paid from the
transportation operating budget, and a Resolution authorizing the
Chairman to sign the Agreement. (District 1)
10) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign a
Locally Funded Reimbursement Agreement (LFRA) with the Florida
Department of Transportation (FDOT) to provide a lump sum deposit
for Construction Engineering and Inspection (CEI) services for the
replacement of existing Bridge #030138 on Immokalee Road (CR
846) related to Project 66066 - “Eleven Bridge Replacements east of
SR29” and to execute a Resolution memorializing the Board’s action.
(District 5)
11) Recommendation to approve an Adopt-a-Road Program Agreement
for the roadway segment of Greenway Road from US 41 (Tamiami
Trail E) north for 1.5 miles to the end of the roadway with two (2)
recognition signs and two (2) Adopt-a-Road logo signs for a total cost
of $200 with the volunteer group, Syngenta Seeds, LLC. (District 1)
12) Recommendation to award Agreements for Invitation for
Qualification (“IFQ”) No. 21-7885, “Beach Maintenance Related
Activities,” for county-wide general contractor services to TSI
Disaster Recovery, LLC, Earth Tech Enterprises, Inc., and Kelly
Brothers, Inc., and to authorize the Chairman to sign the attached
Agreements. (All Districts)
13) Recommendation to approve the release of a code enforcement lien
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with an accrued value of $258,423.95 for payment of $14,500 in the
code enforcement action titled Board of County Commissioners v.
William J. Fotre, Jr in Case No. CEPM20170017470 relating to
property located at 2948 Orange Street, Collier County, Florida.
(District 4)
14) Recommendation to approve an amendment to the Community
Aesthetic Feature Agreement with the Florida Department of
Transportation (FDOT) for Collier Area Transit to place public art
community aesthetic features, the yellow CAT logo with a green
background, at ninety (90) additional bus stops on FDOT owned
rights-of-way and approve a Resolution authorizing the Chairman of
the Board of County Commissioner to sign the agreement. (All
Districts)
15) Recommendation to authorize the necessary budget amendments to
reallocate funds within the Growth Management Department
Stormwater Capital Fund 325. ($802,000) (All Districts)
16) Recommendation to approve the selection committee’s ranking for
Request for Professional Services (“RPS”) No. 22-7944, “Design
Services for 16th Street NE Bridge,” and authorize staff to begin
contract negotiations with the top ranked firm, Kisinger Campo &
Associates, Corp., so that a proposed agreement can be brought back
for the Board’s consideration at a future meeting. (Project No. 60212)
(District 5)
B. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
1) Recommendation that the Collier County Board of County
Commissioners (BCC) acting as the Community Redevelopment
Agency (CRA) approve an After-the-Fact electronic grant
application submittal in the amount of $250,000 to the Collier
County Community and Human Services FY 2022/2023 Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG) for the First Street Pedestrian Safety
Improvement Project within the Immokalee Community
Redevelopment Area. (District 5)
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C. PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
D. PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT
1) Recommendation to approve the electronic submittal of the
Corporation for National and Community Service Retired and Senior
Volunteer Program application, accept year-two of the grant award in
the amount of $75,000 for the operation of the program, and authorize
the necessary Budget Amendments. (Housing Grants Fund 705 and
Housing Grants Match 706) (All Districts)
2) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign the
First Amendment to the HOME Investment Partnerships Subrecipient
Agreement with Collier County Hunger & Homeless Coalition, Inc.
(Housing Grant Fund 705) (All Districts)
3) Recommendation to approve a Collier County Tourist Development
Council (TDC) Category “A” Grant Application for Beach Park
Facilities for Fiscal Year 2022 in the total amount of $55,000 within
TDC Beach Park Facilities Fund (183), to authorize necessary Budget
Amendments, and to make the finding that the expenditure promotes
tourism. (All Districts)
4) Recommendation to approve and authorize the chairman to sign three
(3) mortgage satisfactions for the State Housing Initiatives Partnership
loan program in the amount of $49,448.50 and approve the associated
Budget Amendment to appropriate repayment amount totaling
$46,948.50. (SHIP Grant Fund 791) (All Districts)
5) Recommendation to approve and authorize the chairman to sign one
(1) release of lien for an Affordable Housing Density Bonus
agreement for a unit that is no longer subject to the terms of the
agreement. (Affordable Housing Trust Fund 116) (All Districts)
6) Recommendation to approve and authorize the chairman to sign two
(2) Releases of Lien for full payment in the amount of $33,212.40
pursuant to Agreement for Deferral of 100% of Collier County Impact
Fees for Owner-occupied Affordable Housing Dwellings. (All
Districts)
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7) Recommendation to approve the second modification for the Florida
Department of Emergency Management Hazard Mitigation Grant
#H0311 extending the agreement deadline to April 30, 2022, for the
hardening of the University Extension Services’ Institute of Food and
Agricultural Services building. (Public Services Grant Fund 709) (All
Districts)
8) Recommendation to extend Agreement No. 11-5785, “Management of
Pelican Bay Tennis Center,” with The Naples Tennis Academy, LLC
for a period not to exceed twelve months, and authorize the Chairman
to sign the attached Amendment to Extend Agreement No. 11 -5785.
(Unincorporated Areas General Fund 111) (District 2)
9) Recommendation to accept a restricted donation from the Greater
Cincinnati Foundation in the amount of $8,656.30 to benefit the
Sugden Regional Park and authorize any additional Budget
Amendments necessary to address changes in price of the sole source
purchase of concrete game tables. (PSD Grant Fund 709) (District 4)
10) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign two
(2) the Memorandum of Understanding documents with the Boys &
Girls Club of Collier County, Florida, Inc. for the delivery of the 21st
Century Learning Centers swimming skills and drowning prevention
“Miracle 1 and Miracle 2” programs in Immokalee and authorize the
County Manager or designee to enter into this Agreement. (Fiscal
Impact $36,000, Unincorporated Area General Fund 111-Parks) (All
Districts)
11) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chairman to sign the
First Amendment between Collier County and Collier Health
Services, Inc. d/b/a Healthcare Network for the administration of the
Community Development Block Grant - Coronavirus (CV) program
with a net $0 impact. (Grant Fund 705) (All Districts )
E. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
1) Recommendation to award Invitation to Bid (“ITB”) No. 21-7940,
Purchase of Road Widener for Road Maintenance, to Linder Industrial
Machinery Company to purchase road widening equipment in the
amount of $97,194.00. (All Districts)
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2) Recommendation to approve the administrative report prepared by the
Procurement Services Division for disposal of property and
notification of revenue disbursement. (All Districts)
3) Recommendation to approve the administrative reports prepared by
the Procurement Services Division for change orders and other
contractual modifications requiring Board approval. (All Districts)
4) Recommendation to recognize accrued interest from the period
September 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021 earned by EMS
County Grant and appropriate funds for a total amount of $373.24.
(EMS Grant Fund 493) (All Districts)
F. COUNTY MANAGER OPERATIONS
1) Recommendation to renew the North Collier Fire Control and Rescue
District’s Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for
Advanced Life Support non-transport services for one year and
authorize the Chairman to execute the Permit and Certificate. (All
Districts)
2) Recommendation to adopt a resolution approving amendments
(appropriating grants, donations, contributions or insurance proceeds)
to the FY21-22 Adopted Budget. (All Districts)
3) Recommendation to approve a reimbursement in the amount of
$311,114.13 to Northbrooke Professional Village, LLC, for impact
fees paid on voided Building Permit Numbers 2006031817,
2006035195, 2006031819 for three office buildings originally
proposed for Folio #6856700005.1 (District 3)
G. AIRPORT AUTHORITY
1) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners, acting as
the Airport Authority, authorize its Chairman to execute the attached
Collier County Airport Authority Standard Form Lease Agreement
with Business Jet Acquisitions, LLC for aeronautical use counter
space at the Marco Island Executive Airport. (District 1)
2) Recommendation to adopt a Resolution authorizing execution of
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Amendment No. 3 to the Public Transportation Grant Agreement
(PTGA) G0Z12 with the Florida Department of Transportation for
additional funding for the Rehabilitation of Runway 18/36 at the
Immokalee Regional Airport in the amount of $183,641 and authorize
all necessary budget amendments. (Growth Management Grant Fund
(498) Grant Match Fund (499) and Airport Capital Fund (496)
(District 5)
3) Recommendation to authorize budget amendments to recognize
revenue for Marco Island Executive Airport, in the amount of
$1,500,000 to accommodate increased fuel purchases and associated
operating expenses over budgeted levels. (District 1)
H. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
I. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
J. OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS
1) To record in the minutes of the Board of County Commissioners, the
check number (or other payment method), amount, payee, and
purpose for which the referenced disbursements were drawn for the
periods between February 10, 2022 and February 23, 2022 pursuant to
Florida Statute 136.06. (All Districts)
2) Request that the Board approve and determine valid public purpose
for invoices payable and purchasing card transactions as of March 2,
2022. (All Districts)
K. COUNTY ATTORNEY
1) Recommendation to appoint a member to the Affordable Housing
Advisory Committee. (All Districts)
2) Recommendation that the Board of County Commissioners authorize
and direct the County Attorney to pursue any and all legal action
necessary to abate the public nuisance located at the corner of Santa
Barbara and Davis Boulevard, including but not limited to filing a
civil action in Circuit Court. (All Districts)
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3) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $5,000 plus $1,518 in statutory attorney’s fees for the
taking of Parcel 377RDUE required for the Golden Gate Blvd. Project
No. 60145. (Collier County v. George A. Nestory, et. al. Case No. 16-
CA-1347) (All Districts)
4) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $102,500 plus $22,570 in statutory attorney fees, experts’
fees and costs, for the taking of Parcel 206FEE required for the
Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No. 60168. (All Districts)
5) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $27,300 with Pro Se Respondents for the taking of Parcel
333FEE/TDRE1/TDRE2 required for the Vanderbilt Beach Road
Extension Project No. 60168. (All Districts)
6) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $968,000 plus $139,418.17 in statutory attorney and
experts’ fees and costs for the taking of Parcel 152POND required for
the Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No. 60168. (All
Districts)
7) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $635,000 plus $93,078.38 in statutory attorney and experts’
fees and costs for the taking of Parcel 124FEE/124TDRE required for
Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No. 60168. (All Districts)
8) Recommendation to approve a Stipulated Final Judgment in the
amount of $106,000 plus $29,328 in statutory attorney and experts’
fees and costs for the taking of Parcel 223FEE required for the
Vanderbilt Beach Road Extension Project No. 60168. (All Districts)
9) Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to execute a
Settlement Agreement in the lawsuit styled Agnes M. Amodeo v.
Collier County, (Case No. 21-CA-0649), now pending in the Circuit
Court of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit in and for Collier County,
Florida, for the sum of $7,500. (All Districts)
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17. Summary Agenda - This section is for advertised public hearings and must
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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 approve an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 2019-
01, as amended, the Floodplain Management Ordinance, to specify elevation
of manufactured homes in flood hazard areas; to provide criteria for
accessory and agricultural structures in flood hazard areas; and other
changes. (All Districts)
B. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance amending Ordinance Number
04-41, as amended, to the Collier County Land Development Code, to
establish a limited density bonus pool allocation for multi-family projects
and mixed-use projects 2 acres or less, and to provide for public realm
improvements for projects which utilize the density bonus pool.
[PL20210001033] (This is a companion to Item #16A2) (District 4)
C. This item has been continued from the January 25, 2022, February 8,
2022, February 22, 2022, and March 8, 2022 BCC Meetings and is
further being continued to the March 22, 2022 BCC Meeting. This item
is the first of two hearings. Recommendation to approve an Ordinance
amending Ordinance number 04-41, as amended, the Collier County Land
Development Code, to change the name of the Bayshore Mixed Use Overlay
District to the Bayshore Zoning Overlay District and the name of the
Gateway Triangle Mixed Use District to the Gateway Triangle Zoning
Overlay District, to rename the Bayshore Gateway Triangle Redevelopment
Area to the Bayshore Gateway Triangle Community Redevelopment Area;
to add prohibited uses, add appearance standards for outdoor display and
storage, add a boundary map for the Bayshore Zoning Overlay District and
for the Gateway Triangle Zoning Overlay District, add architectural
standards for single family homes, and change other development standards.
[PL20210001222] (District 4)
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18. Adjourn
INQUIRIES CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE BOARD’S AGENDA SHOULD
BE MADE TO THE COUNTY MANAGER’S OFFICE AT 252 -8383.
March 8, 2022
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MR. ISACKSON: Chair McDaniel, Commissioners, you have
a live microphone.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, County Manager.
Good morning, everyone. As always, before we begin, I'm
going to call for a prayer and a pledge. So if you all would rise,
please.
Pastor Kirt, would you lead us?
Item #1A
INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE –
INVOCATION GIVEN BY REVEREND KIRT ANDERSON
PASTOR ANDERSON: Yes. And we need to pray because
otherwise Bill McDaniel will try to get Collier County to go invade
Russia.
Let's pray together. Father, people from all over the world want
to live here. The beauty of this place, our people, gladden their
souls. They come, they move in, they clog our streets, shop our
shops, fill our restaurants. They want to belong. This commission
facilitates civic joy. As they do their work, may they know that their
community stands by them, supports them, respects them, and loves
them. May we graciously defer to their judgments and abide by their
hard-won decisions. The safety and beauty we enjoy have been
bought with a price, and they pick up the tab.
Guide their deliberations as they attend your will, for it is your
desire that they keep our community safe, our city beautiful, and our
people free.
We pray in your holy name, amen.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, sir.
Commissioner Taylor, would you lead us this morning, please.
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(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: And before he leaves the room,
Pastor Kirt Anderson is the pastor of Naples Community Church and,
as you can well tell, he and I are very, very close friends. But I just
addressed you as Pastor Kirt this morning. And, my friend, thank
you, thank you. That was a very nice prayer.
Okay. Now let's move forward here.
I do want to announce we have at least two speakers on the
consent agenda, so before we move off and vote on that, I do want to
announce that they're -- I think they're both online, are they not?
MR. MILLER: One online and one in the room, sir.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. All right.
Item #2A
APPROVAL OF 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
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Mr. Chairman and
Commissioners.
These are the proposed agenda changes for the Board of County
Commissioners meeting of March 8th, 2022.
The first item is to add on Item 10C. It's a discussion of
Productivity Committee membership, and that's at Commissioner
Saunders' request.
The second item is to continue Item 12A to the April 12, 2022,
BCC meeting. It's a recommendation to appoint the initial
membership of a public art committee, and that's at Commissioner
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Taylor's request.
The third item is to move Item 16K1 to 12B. It's a
recommendation to appoint a member to the Affordable Housing
Advisory Committee. That's at Commissioner LoCastro's request.
Commissioners, Item 16A1, the Bayshore proposed amendment
to the Code of Laws to allow for enclosed swales has been continued
indefinitely and, based upon that continuance, Item 17C, the general
Bayshore LDC amendments are being continued to March 22, 2022,
to remove references to the swale enclosure proposed amendments.
Commissioners, Item 16D9, the requested amendment is
contingent upon confirmation of the final grant award.
I will note that the minutes from the February 8, 2022, meeting
were uploaded to the agenda as Item 2B after the agenda was initially
published.
I will also note that Item 11A will be heard before noon. This
will allow for the document signing to occur over the lunch hour by
the Chair.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: That means I get no lunch?
MR. ISACKSON: Well, we generally try and make those fairly
quickly, sir. We're fairly organized when it comes to those --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Yes, we really are.
MR. ISACKSON: -- as you know.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. Let's see if there are any
changes or declarations on ex parte, and then I'll call for the vote after
we hear the public speakers. Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No changes and no disclosures.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I have no changes but, if I
may, I'd like to make a comment on 16D9, if I would, just a brief
comment.
16D9, just for everybody's information, is a donation being
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made to Sugden Park of quite a few concrete chess tables. You've
seen them, you know, in Central Park. You've seen them in other
places where people can come and gather. And I just want to go on
the record and say this is a gift from Jay and Patty Baker who have
done so much in our community, they're so generous and so
philanthropic. Their initial thought was to put them in Baker Park.
For whatever reason, that didn't work out; that they couldn't put their
donation in their own park. But on behalf of all the commissioners
here, I said Collier County would love your generosity, and we found
a perfect spot in Sugden Park.
So I just didn't want it to be sort of buried in the agenda and just
say, you know, "donation." The Bakers have been extremely
generous to our community and, on the record on behalf of all of us,
we want to thank them for their generosity. And we look forward to
having Lely High School and other schools and chess clubs and
whatnot come out there and use their generous donation, which is in a
perfect beautiful spot of Sugden Park. So thank you to the Bakers.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you for that recognition.
That was very nice to bring that up.
Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No changes; no disclosures.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: And, Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I have no changes and no
disclosures as well.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I, as well, have no changes or
disclosures.
So with that, we'll call on the public speakers, and then I'll call
for the vote for the agenda.
MR. MILLER: Your first speaker is for Item 16K2, Garrett
Beyrent. He will be followed online by H. Michael Mogil, who will
be speaking about Item 16A11.
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MR. BEYRENT: For the record, I'm Garrett FX Beyrent.
And this particular item, 16K2, has obviously directed about the
nightmare at the corner of Santa Barbara and Davis Boulevard, right?
And I talked briefly to the County Attorney, and the problem we have
is that the man that was running the show accidently killed himself.
He got a piece of pipe through the side of his head. He was
operating an older machine not on that site but on his own property
on Industrial Boulevard, Mercantile Avenue, where there's a giant
heap of mostly concrete from buildings downtown Naples, and that's
where all that fill was coming from, the concrete.
Unfortunately, in the concrete columns, there is a steel bar,
rebar, and while he was crunching up the rebar with the concrete, it
got stuck in the machine. It was a smaller machine. And when he
tried to pull it out, it went through the side of his head. He died
shortly thereafter.
And as far as what's going on there now, I'd have to talk at great
length of which I don't have the time today, and I guess you don't
really want to hear it specifically.
But virtually ever -- the property is involved in a very
complicated multiple trust of children for the most part. And they're
my children, my brother-in-law's children, my other brother-in-law's
children, my ex-wife's children. And for that reason, I think we need
to hire another attorney, because Jim Sieskey, who was the attorney I
hired many years ago to represent the family, moved out of the area.
He has an office here, but he told me he does not attend the office or
go to meetings anymore.
So once again, I'm standing up here. I am not a lawyer. I'm a
lobbyist. And I'm not here for that specific reason. I'm here to
argue who you should have as a better selection for a County
Manager, but that will be another item on the agenda. Just to -- for
the public's knowledge, that's actually what happened. And it's very
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complicated. So, thank you for letting me talk for two-and-a-half
seconds -- or minutes.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Garrett.
MR. MILLER: Mr. Chair, your final speaker on the consent
agenda is H. Michael Mogil online. Mr. Mogil, you're being
prompted to unmute yourself, if you'll do so at this time. And there
you are. You have three minutes, Mr. Mogil.
MR. MOGIL: Thank you very much. I'm talking today about
16A11, the Adopt-a-Road program. Thank you very much.
For years I've pondered putting my own business out there as
Adopt-a-Road, and I don't know enough about the program, but I see
that the people that sign up pay $200 for a sign. And I guess I just
want to know if someone could answer it this morning. Is this an
advertising piece, or does the company actually go out and do
something to physically adopt the road by taking care of it, doing
things to it? I don't know. But I think that if we're going to have an
Adopt-a-Road program, we should really have an adoption.
So if someone could address this, I would appreciate it. And if,
indeed, the people do go out and do good deeds on the road, like
cleaning up trash or possibly trimming some bushes that might need
trimming, then I think that would be something that should be
highlighted in the county reports.
That's all I have to say on this item.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Mike. If you would
send me an email, and off-line I'll explain the entire program to you,
how it works, signage, so on and so forth, so -- we have that agenda
item on consent today, and it is, in fact, going forward, so -- but I'd be
happy to explain that all to you straight up and certainly would look
forward to your participation, so...
Okay. With that, any other public comment with regard to the
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agenda or consent?
MR. MILLER: No, sir.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. So --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Mr. Chair, sir, at the direction
of the County Manager, who just whispered in my ear, before we
approve the consent agenda, this would be the time where I could,
with your concurrence and the concurrence of the Board, make a
walk-on proclamation. This is the official --
MR. ISACKSON: Yes, sir.
Item #4
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MARCH 8, 2022, AS “BAIO
BACKS THE BLUE DAY” IN COLLIER COUNTY – ADOPTED
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: So all the commissioners
received a one-way communication from me, and, sir and ma'am and
my peers, with the concurrence of the Board, I'd like to read a special
walk-on proclamation, and I'll read it from here so everybody can
hear.
Proclamation -- thank you, Mr. Chair.
Whereas, the citizens of Collier County acknowledge our local
law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day to
protect, serve, and keep our community safe. They do this job
selflessly to uphold the law, to improve our quality of life, and to
save lives;
Whereas, we contend the overwhelming majority of law
enforcement officers are doing their best to protect and serve our
communities in an ethical, compassionate, and courageous manner
and have earned and deserve our support;
Whereas, law enforcement across the United States is facing
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unprecedented challenges. We've witnessed needless violence and
disrespect to our law enforcement officers. Fortunately, there are
pro-law-enforcement supporters that do value, understand, and
appreciate the risks our officers take to protect our community;
Whereas, one such supporter has stated, if you are a law
enforcement officer and need a break, you can come park outside our
house. If you're thirsty, we'll bring you a drink. If you are hungry,
we will fix you something to eat and serve you a good, strong cup of
coffee. If you are hot, we will invite you inside to cool off. If you
need backup, we will stand with you, and if you need to cry, we will
hug you and let you. If you need to talk, we will listen, and if you
need to pray, we will kneel with you.
This strong supporter is entertainment icon Scott Baio. Scott
Baio is well known for his 50 years in Hollywood performing in
movies and on television, and he is also known for advocating for
law enforcement by his actions, not just words.
Scott Baio has donated a percentage of the proceeds of his
current "How Did I Get Here" U.S. tours to benefit nonprofit fallen
officers -- the nonprofit Fallen Officers organization which supports
the Robert L. Zore Foundation here locally and supporting police all
over the country.
Scott Baio exemplifies a true supporter of the men and women
in blue. He has always been pro-law enforcement and very vocal
about it. Scott Baio's continued use of his entertainment platform to
defend and protect our officers is truly inspiring;
Whereas, we encourage each citizen to join Scott Baio in
supporting our Collier County law enforcement officers. Let us
never forget our officers go to work every day to protect and to serve
our community.
When many in the public and entertainment eye often shy away
from supporting our heroes in blue, Scott Baio ensures his actions
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have always spoke louder than words or silence.
Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by this entire Board of County
Commissioners that March 8th be designated as Baio Backs the Blue
Day.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed a happy day. Ladies and
gentlemen, Scott Baio.
(Applause.)
MR. BAIO: I didn't want to get up early in the morning, but
I'm glad I did. Thank you so much. Thank you. Wow, wow. I
didn't know what I was walking into here. Do you want me to
speak -- or I know you like to talk, Rick, but --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: If we're both commissioners,
you'd be here till midnight. Okay. We'd like to whatever --
MR. BAIO: No. Listen, I don't know how to follow up what
you just said about me. That's crazy.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: We have a microphone.
MR. BAIO: You have a hand-held. You can't hear me in the
back? Well, thank you. Thank you. What I said was, you know,
Rick -- I was told -- first of all, I want to thank Mike Randall and the
Fallen Officers for --
(Applause.)
MR. BAIO: -- setting all this up and doing all this. And Mike
told me last night that we got -- we did this show last night in Fort
Myers, and we got done at about midnight or 11:00 or whatever, and
Mike said, you've got to get up at 7:00 in the morning to come to
Naples. I went, oh, for what? And I said -- and I saw Rick. I said,
Rick, can we move it back a little bit later, like, maybe 9:00, 10:00?
He said, we're pretty business.
But, anyway. Thank you. I'm sort of overwhelmed by this.
And I just want you to know, yes, I'm a big proponent of police and I
do what I can. And I know that there are some police here, and I
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just -- I just want you to know that I'm -- I don't -- I feel horrible
what's happening, and I think it's all swinging back the other way
now.
And you are needed and you are respected. And we -- and I
thank you and I thank every -- I tell -- my wife and I tell our daughter
every time they see a police officer or fireman to say thank you for
your service, because you're important.
And what absolutely amazes me -- I was just talking to Robert
Capizzi; I don't know if he's in here. He was telling me a story about
what happened when we got one of his badges.
The fact that you guys will sacrifice your life for me or
whomever and you don't even know me, and I find that absolutely
amazing and selfless, and that's why I don't -- I respect you and I
just -- Rick, I'm -- thank you and God bless you guys, because we do
love you and we do need you.
(Applause.)
MR. BAIO: Thank you. I blinked on every one, on every one.
I did. Do another one. I do it for a living.
All right. That was a good one. And then I moved. I moved.
Good.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Here, get on my shoulders.
MR. BAIO: Wow, cool. Thank you so much.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: To law enforcement that's
here, Scott's going to be our commissioner conference room just right
around the corner. And we don't want a mass exodus here, but he's
agreed to stay for a little bit if you'd like to get a photo op or just to
shake his hand or whatnot. We want to keep our proceedings going,
obviously. We wanted to surprise everyone and, most of all, you,
sir. Thank you for everything you do. It's noticed and appreciated.
MR. BAIO: No, you're welcome.
(Applause.)
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MR. BAIO: Wow, thank you. Completely overwhelmed.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I just want to go on record,
he's Italian, Sicilian, okay. There's, like, three of us, right? Capizzi.
Who else? Any other goombahs in the audience here? Right?
And if you don't know who Scott Baio is, like he said last night
at his show, your parents do. So, yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair and
fellow commissioners. Really appreciate that.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Well -- and thank you,
Commissioner LoCastro. And just -- you know, certainly, we
appreciate what Mr. Baio's doing for our community, but there is a
lot of law enforcement officers in here right now, and I
personally -- our Sheriff himself. I want to thank you all very, very
much.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I'll just add that Sheriff
Rambosk and his team are going to kidnap Scott after this, and
they're actually going to -- he's going to spend most of the day with
you all. So he didn't just come in here to get a framed piece of
paper. I mean, he's really spending the day with our Collier County
team. And thank you for picking up where we left off here, Sheriff
Rambosk. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All right. Okay. Let's go -- we
have some business to attend to.
MR. ISACKSON: Chair, I think a motion to set the agenda and
the minutes, please.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So moved.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been moved and seconded that
the agenda is set as we have it previously discussed and heard. Is
there any other discussion?
(No response.)
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CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
Proposed Agenda Changes
Board of County Commissioners Meeting
March 8, 2022
Add item 10C: Discussion of Productivity Committee Membership (Commissioner Saunders’ request)
Continue item 12A to the April 12, 2022 BCC Meeting: Recommendation to appoint the initial membership
of the Public Art Committee. (All Districts) (Commissioner Taylor’s request)
Move item 16K1 to 12B: Recommendation to appoint a member to the Affordable Housing Advisory
Committee. (All Districts) (Commissioner LoCastro’s request)
Continue item 16A1 indefinitely: *** This item has been continued from the January 25, 2022, February 8,
2022, February 22, 2022 BCC Meetings, and further being continued indefinitely. *** Recommendation to
direct staff to advertise and bring back for a public hearing at the March 8, 2022 Board Meeting, an
ordinance of Collier County, Florida, amending Ordinance No. 2003-37, as amended, including Ordinance
No. 2003-58, by amending Section 110-30 of the Collier County Code of Laws and Ordinances to exclude the
Bayshore Gateway Triangle Community Redevelopment Area from the prohibition of enclosing swales in
public rights-of-way; providing for inclusion into the Code of Laws and Ordinances; providing for conflict
and severability; providing an effective date. [PL20210001222] (District 4) (Staff’s Request)
Continue item 17C to the March 22, 2022 BCC Meeting: *** This item has been continued from the
January 25, 2022, February 8, 2022, February 22, 2022, and March 8, 2022 BCC Meetings and is further
being continued to the March 22, 2022 BCC Meeting. This item is the first of two hearings. ***
Recommendation to approve an Ordinance amending Ordinance number 04-41, as amended, the Collier
County Land Development Code, to change the name of the Bayshore Mixed Use Overlay District to the
Bayshore Zoning Overlay District and the name of the Gateway Triangle Mixed Use District to the Gateway
Triangle Zoning Overlay District, to rename the Bayshore Gateway Triangle Redevelopment Area to the
Bayshore Gateway Triangle Community Redevelopment Area; to add prohibited uses, add appearance
standards for outdoor display and storage, add a boundary map for the Bayshore Zoning Overlay District
and for the Gateway Triangle Zoning Overlay District, add architectural standards for single family homes,
and change other development standards. [PL20210001222] (District 4) (Staff’s Request)
Note: Minutes from the February 8, 2022 Meeting were uploaded to the agenda as item 2B after the agenda
was initially published.
Item 16A1 (PL#20210001222), the Bayshore proposed amendment to the Code of Laws to allow for enclosed
swales has been continued indefinitely, and based upon that continuance, Item 17C (PL#20210001222), the
general Bayshore LDC amendments are being continued to the March 22, 2022 BCC Hearing to remove
references to the swale enclosure proposed amendments.
16D9: The requested budget amendment is contingent on confirmation of final grant award.
Time Certain Items:
4/19/2022 10:58 AM
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Item #2B
BCC MEETING MINUTES FOR FEBRUARY 8, 2022 –
APPROVED AS PRESENTED
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
2A is our minutes from our February 8th meeting. Take a
motion.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So move.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been moved and seconded that
we accept the minutes as printed from our February 8th meeting.
Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
Added Item #2C
ARTWORK IN THE BOARD ROOM FROM VARIOUS AREA
SCHOOLS
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Before we move into the
proclamations, I want to take a moment and recognize our
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artists -- artists of the month. We're delighted to welcome high
school, middle school, and elementary art students from Collier
County Public Schools as our March artists of the month. Students
were given the opportunity to submit art specifically for display in
our boardroom. And I think those kids' names are on those pieces in
the back.
Each participating art teacher selected one or two pieces to
represent their school in this show. Students were allowed to choose
their subject matter and media. There was a variety of styles from
hyper realistic drawings, impressions, landscapes, and collages.
Schools participating in this viewing here were Village Oaks,
Laurel Oaks Elementary, Golden Gate, Cypress Palm, and Oak Ridge
Middle Schools, and Palm -- excuse me -- Palmetto, Lely High
School, Everglades City, Naples High, Golden Gate, and Barron
Collier High School.
So before -- when we take a break -- we have to give Ms. Terri a
break at 10:30. She has trouble keeping up with how fast I talk.
But if you take a moment and please view these students' artwork
that's displayed all around in the back of the room, so...
Okay, County Manager.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As you
mentioned, some additional proclamations are in order.
Item #4A
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MARCH 19, 2022, AS SAVE
THE FLORIDA PANTHER DAY IN COLLIER COUNTY.
ACCEPTED BY ERIN P. MYERS, FLORIDA PANTHER
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MANAGER, AND MAC
HATCHER, FRIENDS OF THE FLORIDA PANTHER REFUGE
TREASURER – ADOPTED
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First proclamation designating March 19th, 2022, as Save the
Florida Panther Day in Collier County. To be accepted by Aaron P.
Myers, Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge Manager, and Mac
Hatcher, Friends of the Florida Panther Refuge Treasurer.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Come on up.
(Applause.)
Item #4B
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MARCH 2022 AS
GENTLE'MEN AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MONTH IN
COLLIER COUNTY. ACCEPTED BY LINDA OBERHAUS,
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED
WOMEN & CHILDREN – ADOPTED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, your next proclamation
designates March 2022 as Gentlemen Against Domestic Violence
Month in Collier County. To be accepted by Linda Oberhaus, chief
executive officer of the Shelter for Abused Women and Children.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Linda's looking all surprised over
there. Did you think we weren't going to call on you?
MS. OBERHAUS: I thought John Jordan was going to be
accepting. Is that right, John?
MR. JORDAN: I'm making some remarks. I think we can all
accept.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: You can all come on up and get the
award. Come on.
MS. OBERHAUS: Why don't we all come up. These are our
gentlemen here.
(Applause.)
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CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: We're going to put the rose in
amongst the thorns.
John, do you want to say a few words, please.
MR. ISACKSON: Mr. John Jordan will make some comments,
sir.
MR. JORDAN: Thank you. Kind of off my comments,
having Scott Baio accept his award really ties closely to what we do.
We work as gentlemen against domestic violence. We work very
closely with the local and county police department. Sheriff
Rambosk has been an amazing partner to the shelter, and it's kind of
interesting that we tied the two together today. Perfect -- good
timing for us.
But my name is John Jordan, and I, along with these
distinguished gentlemen, am a founding father of Gentlemen Against
Domestic Violence. It is an all-men initiative of the Shelter for
Abused Women and Children here in Naples, Florida.
We would like to thank the commission for recognizing the
significance of Gentlemen Against Domestic Violence Day.
In 2020, there were more than 1,600 domestic violence calls to
911 in Collier County, yet more than half of domestic violence
incidents go unreported. It is also important to note that these calls
represent nearly every neighborhood in our community. The
estimated cost of domestic violence in Collier County on an annual
basis is in excess of $32 million and could actually be greater.
GADV was established in 2008 by a group of like-minded men
with a mission calling on men to stand as equal partners with women
to end domestic violence and human trafficking in Collier County.
Our goal is to empower men to end all forms of violence against
women by educating first ourselves; secondly, the community; and,
in turn, raising awareness and creating social change.
While this day and every day we call on men to stand with us
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and recognize that violence against women is not the responsibility of
women and that violence will not end until men become part of the
solution to actually end it.
Men must take an active role in creating a culture and social
shift that no longer tolerates violence against women. We are
pleased to report that the shelter GADV initiative has continued to
grow, and we draw more and more men to our programs each year.
And we are sincerely thankful for your support. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Appreciate it.
(Applause.)
Item #4C
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MARCH 14 - 20, 2022, AS
GOVERNMENT FINANCE PROFESSIONALS’ WEEK IN
COLLIER COUNTY, JOINING IN THE STATEWIDE
RECOGNITION OF GOVERNMENT FINANCE
PROFESSIONALS. ACCEPTED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF
THE COLLIER COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE – ADOPTED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, your next proclamation
designates March 14th through 20, 2022, as Government Finance
Professionals Week in Collier County. Joining in the statewide
recognition of government finance professionals, to be accepted by
representatives of the Collier County Clerk's Office.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Do you want to say a few words,
Derek?
MR. JOHNSSEN: Yes, I will.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. Nice.
MR. JOHNSSEN: You had to talk me into it.
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Derek Johnssen from the Clerk's Office. We appreciate the
recognition. We love what we do. We want to keep on doing it for
you. Thank you so much.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, sir. Appreciate all
your efforts.
(Applause.)
Item #4D
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MARCH 13 - 19, 2022, AS
SUNSHINE WEEK IN COLLIER COUNTY, AND REAFFIRMING
OUR UNIFIED COMMITMENT TO PROVIDING CITIZENS
WITH OPEN, HONEST, AND TRANSPARENT
GOVERNMENTAL OPERATION. ACCEPTED BY SHERIFF
KEVIN RAMBOSK, TAX COLLECTOR ROB STONEBURNER,
DEREK JOHNSSEN REPRESENTING THE CLERK &
COMPTROLLER, MARIA PIZARRO, REPRESENTING THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, TRISH ROBERTSON,
REPRESENTING THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS, VICKIE
DOWNS, REPRESENTING THE PROPERTY APPRAISER, AND
MONA RZESZEWSKI, REPRESENTING THE SHERIFF'S
OFFICE – ADOPTED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, the next proclamation
designates March 13 to 19, 2022, as Sunshine Week in Collier
County and reaffirming our unified commitment to providing citizens
with open, honest, and transparent governmental operations. To be
accepted by Sheriff Kevin Rambosk; Tax Collector Rob Stoneburner;
Derek Johnssen, representing the Clerk and Comptroller; Marie
Pizarro, representing the Board of County Commissioners; Trish
Robertson, representing the Supervisor of Elections; Vickie Downs,
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representing the Property Appraiser; and Mona Rzeszewski,
representing the Sheriff's Office.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: There you go.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Did you guys see Sheriff
Rambosk brought in a Tiger Beat magazine with a Scott Baio album?
We saw you sneak that in there.
SHERIFF RAMBOSK: I want my signature.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. Thank you, sir.
Item #4E
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING MARCH 8, 2022, AS
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY IN COLLIER COUNTY.
ACCEPTED BY DONNA MESSER, CHAIR OF WOMEN'S
FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY – ADOPTED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, finally, you have a
proclamation designating March 8th, 2022, as International Women's
Day in Collier County. To be accepted by Donna Messer, chair of
Women's Foundation of Collier County.
(Applause.)
MS. MESSER: May I speak?
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I'd be honored. Please come up.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Commissioners, that brings us
to Item 5 on your agenda.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: One second, County Manager.
MR. ISACKSON: Excuse me. My fault.
MS. MESSER: That's okay. Thank you.
MR. ISACKSON: Go ahead.
MS. MESSER: First of all, I am honored -- we all are honored
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to share this day with all of the other folks who got proclamations,
and Scott Baio, that's awesome.
Thank you to Commissioner Solis for sponsoring that
proclamation for us and all the other commissioners for
acknowledging this really special day. This is a global day all over
the world, International Women's Day, and what it does is celebrate
the achievements of women in social, culture, economic, and political
achievements. So it's a really special day all over the world.
And in our little corner of the world, in Collier County, the
mission of the Women's Foundation is to be a catalyst for change in
the lives of women and girls through grant-making, advocacy, and
education, and we do that at the Women's Foundation through all
sorts of different programs. And our newest program, which is
Women Lifting Women, is a program that we are facilitating to help
senior women through working, homelessness, and trying to help
caregivers and women who are in isolation and also young women
who are in need of scholarships and mentorships and career
development. So with the community's help, we can do that, and all
women and girls in Collier County can thrive. So thank you very
much.
(Applause.)
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, now that brings us to
Item 5, presentations on your agenda.
Item #5A
PRESENTATION OF THE 2021 SUPERVISOR OF THE YEAR.
JAMES HANRAHAN, SUPERVISOR - RECREATION, PARKS
AND RECREATION DIVISION – APPROVED
It's my honor to make a couple of employee recognitions, 5A
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and 5B. Let me ask Mr. James Hanrahan to come up, your
Supervisor of the Year for 2021.
(Applause.)
MR. ISACKSON: While James comes up, let me just say that
as part of the county's formal recognition program each year, the
Human Resources Division solicits nominations from staff to
highlight the accomplishments of a special supervisor who
exemplifies the characteristics of great leadership through a special
project or continually throughout the year.
This year eight nominees were considered by the Employee of
the Month Committee, and Mr. Hanrahan, Parks and Recreation
Division Supervisor, has been selected as your 2021 Supervisor of
the Year. James started with the county in 2016 and became a
recreation supervisor for the Rec Plex in 2021 after the facility had
been without a permanent supervisor for almost a year.
James brought the Rec Plex staff together as a team using his
Parks and Recreation experience and positive can-do attitude. He
exemplifies great leadership through his actions as a supervisor.
James leads by example, is positive, and professional with a smile on
his face and a kind word regardless of the situation.
He deftly balances the needs of his staff with the needs of the
facility to ensure his staff are taken care of while ensuring and
maintaining business continuity. He follows through and makes
himself available to staff both during and after his regular working
hours. As an example, there was an evening when the facility
experienced an issue with locking the doors at the end of the business
day. Despite the problem coming up outside of the hours he was at
the Rec Plex, James took immediate action to assist his team with the
issue. He stayed on the phone with his staff until 9:30 at night,
talking with them until a facility's management representative arrived
on site to repair the facility -- the faulty locks.
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The facility, as well as the division, has experienced staffing
shortages, and James has always handled those situations with
composure, making sure that the customers to the location have a
positive and safe experience during their visit. As another example
of James' leadership skills and action, he was asked to assist during
the summer of 2021 with the opening of the Sun-n-Fun Lagoon. The
park was open for the summer seven days a week, and James was on
site almost daily to supervise and support staff.
His assistance ranged from ensuring adequate staffing,
scheduling food trucks, assisting patrons, and fixing malfunctioning
lockers, to cover the gate so his employees could take breaks.
James has a unique ability to motivate and empower his team
while providing the patrons of the Rec Plex with great customer
service, quality programs and facilities. James embodies the
county's motto of exceeding expectations every day, and this is why
James is being named the Collier County Supervisor of the Year.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So just so you know, Maria took
your check. So just pay attention.
MR. HANRAHAN: Yeah, I saw that.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER: One more picture.
MR. HANRAHAN: Yes, could I have coworkers?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Melissa, all that stuff's true,
right?
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: For the public listening and
certainly watching on television, Community Services is probably
one of the toughest jobs there is. They're the face of our government
to the public, and we're just so proud of everyone that works, and
very, very proud of you, James. Thank you.
MR. HANRAHAN: Thank you.
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Item #5B
RECOGNIZING HEATHER MEYER, GROWTH MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT, OPERATIONS SUPPORT AS THE 2021
EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR – APPROVED
MR. ISACKSON: In that light, Commissioners and
Commissioner Taylor, I'm going to ask Heather Meyer, your Growth
Management Department, to come forward. She's with Operations
Support, and she is the 2021 Employee of the Year.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Security, security. In the
back row. Security.
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, the Employee of the Year
is selected by the Employee of the Month Committee from all of the
Employee of the Month winners in the year to recognize the efforts
and accomplishments of an employee who made significant
contributions to the organization and to our community.
Heather's an operations analyst in the Operations Support
Division in Growth Management and has been with the county since
2016. Heather was nominated for employee of the month in
June 2021 when she was a management and budget analyst
responsible for providing fiscal support for several sections of
Growth Management, including Traffic Operations, Coastal Zone
Management, and Landscape Management.
In addition to her regular job responsibilities, she provided
invaluable support for the county's three airports when they were
down two key management employees during the busiest season of
the year.
Heather's financial skills, great customer service, and keen
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business sense provide the necessary operations support for several
airport operations tasks and projects. She was on-site point of
contact for three capital improvement projects at the Immokalee
Airport, she coordinated a contract extension, was responsible for
contract and grants compliance for active airport FDOT projects, and
was instrumental in drafting and processing numerous executive
summaries for BCC approval.
Heather also actively participated in the FY '22 preparation and
review along with the airport authority's five-year capital
improvement program. In addition to providing this invaluable
support for the airports, Heather worked diligently to keep up with
the demands of her regular job responsibilities. Heather's
willingness to go far above and beyond what was expected of her,
especially during a time of record-breaking business and several large
capital improvement projects, make her truly deserving of this
recognition.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Come on up, you guys. Come
on.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Come get your picture taken. All
you all that were cheering, come on.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Mom and Dad's here.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Oh, we've got to have a picture of
Mom and Dad.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Why didn't you tell us?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And your son.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. Let's get them all up here.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Do we need to take a vote on the
proclamations?
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MR. ISACKSON: We've got one more, sir, under
presentations.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Oh, yeah, you do. Sorry about
that.
Item #5C
PRESENTATION OF THE COLLIER COUNTY BUSINESS OF
THE MONTH FOR MARCH 2022 TO CARILOHA NAPLES.
ACCEPTED BY OWNERS, ROBIN AND JEFFREY SNELL.
ALSO PRESENT IS BETHANY SAWYER, VICE PRESIDENT OF
MEMBERSHIP, THE GREATER NAPLES CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE – APPROVED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, 5C is a presentation of the
Collier County Business of the Month for March 2022 to Cariloha
Naples. The award will be accepted by owners Robin and Jeffrey
Snell and also present is Bethany Sawyer, vice president of
membership, the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce.
(Applause.)
MR. ISACKSON: Excuse me, I see Michael Dalby walking up
also. Let me not forget that.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Would you like to say a few
words?
MR. SNELL: Yes. My name is Jeff and Robin. We're the
owners at Cariloha Naples over at Mercato. Very honored. Thank
you very much to the Chamber and to the Collier County
Commissioners for just even thinking of this for this award for the
month.
Robin and I went on a cruise one day and came back and just
fell in love with bamboo. It's all over the Caribbean. It's a very
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sustainable product, and we knew right where we wanted to put it. I
came here visiting my entire life, family members down here in
Naples. I got permission to open up one of our stores and did it right
over there at Mercato.
In the last four years, we've gone to No. 1 in sales in the United
States for a resort store, just in our little small store. That is without
a website that we are not allowed to have because we were one of just
a couple of private owners.
So we ask everybody to come into our store -- we ship for
free -- instead of going online, and it really helps the mom and pops
that are down here in the area.
The biggest struggle that we have right now, as everybody else
is having, is finding employees. We pay more than anybody else in
Mercato. We've gone up 35 percent in wages, and we still cannot
get anybody to work in the store or apply. We cannot really go up
anymore because, you know, paying for people's commutes an hour
each way is just too much for a small store. So we ask that we work
on some adequate housing for some people in the area. That would
greatly help the stores like us. All right.
Again, thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Absolutely. Thank you, sir.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All right. And can we vote on the
proclamations and the presentations en masse?
MR. ISACKSON: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Take a motion for the acceptance
of those.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll move to approve the
proclamations and presentations.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been moved and seconded that
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we accept the proclamations and presentations as presented. All in
favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
With that...
Item #7
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON GENERAL TOPICS NOT ON THE
CURRENT OR FUTURE AGENDA
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item No. 7
on your agenda. It's public comment on general topics not on the
current or future agenda.
Troy?
MR. MILLER: Mr. Chairman, we have two registered speakers
for this item today. Your first speaker is Garrett Beyrent, and he will
be followed by Joe Trachtenberg.
MR. BEYRENT: For the record, Garrett FX Beyrent. This is
actually why I came here this morning. I didn't come here to talk
about the death of Bobby Cadenhead and the cement nightmare, I call
that.
But I actually came here because I've been standing in front of
this podium for exactly 50 years --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Fifty.
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MR. BEYRENT: -- and for 50 years I've been dealing one on
one with every County Manager all the way back even before Neil
Dorrill, so -- and it tells you where people end up, because it's very
interesting where most of them have passed on.
But I'm here specifically to say how come it's always been a
guy, a man that's a County Manager? The word is operations
manager, m-a-n-a-g-e-r, when, in fact, the logic would dictate right
now that you have a female as a County Manager, maybe make a
change, because everybody that's gone before has been a man.
And I think you've got one right there. She's sitting right over
there, Amy. She would be the logical manager, somebody that's
already under the manager. And I hate to see him go, because
Mr. Isackson's been an excellent manager. He's faced with the
reality like all of us, is the COVID virus, you know, taking its toll on
a lot of people I know. A lot of people have died or, you know, have
terminal problems with their lungs.
Me, I already have agent orange problems, but that was one of
the donations I made long ago when I was a soldier, which I actually
regret, but such is life. And for that reason, I just thought I should
get up and say, sometimes the best man for the job is a woman.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Garrett.
MR. MILLER: Your second and final speaker for Item 7 is Joe
Trachtenberg.
MR. TRACHTENBERG: Good morning, Commissioners.
For the record, I'm Joe Trachtenberg, chairman of your AHAC
committee. I've got just a very few items I'd like to share with you
this morning.
First and principally, our committee met yesterday, and we
sincerely thank you for your supportive response to our
February 22nd presentation along with the very serious concerns
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expressed by approximately 30 percent -- approximately 30 of our
neighbors and our essential workers.
We heard similar comments yesterday from a Marco Island fire
chief who took the time to attend our committee meeting.
So the first subject this morning, the $20 million of surtax
money. In addition to identifying surplus county land, we need to
establish a process where current landowners and developers who are
interested can respond to invitations to negotiate which can then be
vetted by county staff. We need to promptly identify willing
partners.
The surtax provides funding for the acquisition of land. We
need to broaden all the potential sources from which this land might
come. We also understand that the oversight committee that
evaluates such requests currently only meets three times -- three
months -- every three months. So once recommendations are
developed, we're going to need your help to assure that approvals are
considered in a timely manner.
Now, you likely know as of last Friday, both the Florida House
and Senate have passed SB962, and it will undoubtedly be signed
into law. This bill gives you the unique authority to accelerate
passage of affordable housing projects. Please let's study its
implications and, if appropriate, let's adopt it.
There were several other proposals you collectively embraced,
at least for consideration at the February 22nd meeting. Let's get
these items on your agenda for further discussion and for decisions at
an upcoming meeting. These include utilizing General Fund money,
a study of linkage fees, impact fees, and several others. On behalf of
AHAC, we ask that you please designate a date for a meeting at
which these matters may come before you.
And, finally, it's become apparent to our committee that the
significant demand for resources both with respect to granting relief
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to needy citizens and the increased emphasis on affordable housing is
landing on the shoulders of two very outstanding staff persons, and
we sincerely hope that someone can figure out how to get them some
help. Thank you very much for your time.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Joe. Do you have a
question for him or a comment?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I just wanted to make a
comment, if I might.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Joe.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to echo, we do have -- we are working a date for
our session that we voted on. But one of the good-news stories,
several that have already come out of the last meeting, and Joe didn't
mention it, but if you recall, there was a program that was due to
launch in April -- I'm just summarizing here very quickly -- and we
said, hey, light a fire under that. At yesterday's meeting, our housing
staff said they've already gotten it moved up one month. So it's
imminent launch instead of maybe end of April or maybe even later,
so that was one good thing. We're going to talk about another good
thing later about how we're adding another strong member to our
Affordable Housing Advisory Committee.
But good things are already rolling and, sir, thank you for your
great work, you know, leading the team and proud to work with you.
MR. TRACHTENBERG: Thank you, all.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Joe.
Item #10A
THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN A LETTER IN SUPPORT OF THE
TIGERTAIL LAGOON RESTORATION PROJECT PROPOSED
BY THE CITY OF MARCO ISLAND AND THE HIDEAWAY
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BEACH TAX DISTRICT, AND TO CONVEY THE LETTER TO
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION (FDEP) AND UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS
OF ENGINEERS (USACE) – MOTION TO APPROVE THE
LETTER DRAFTED BY THE COUNTY W/CHANGES –
APPROVED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, that brings you to Item 10,
Board of County Commissioners agenda items. The first agenda,
Item 10A, is a recommendation to authorize the Chairman to sign a
letter in support of the Tigertail Lagoon Restoration project proposed
by the City of Marco and the Hideaway Beach tax district and to
convey the letter to the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection and the United States Army Corps of Engineers. This is
sponsored by Commissioner McDaniel and Commissioner LoCastro.
Ms. Trinity Scott, your Transportation Management Services
Department Head, will make some offering remarks.
MS. SCOTT: Commissioners, at your March 1st board
workshop with the City of Marco Island, Chairman Brechnitz
requested a letter of support for the Tigertail Lagoon/Sand Dollar
Island Ecosystem Restoration Project. We have provided a draft of
that within your agenda packet. I also have it available to put on the
screen.
Troy, if you can go ahead and put that on the screen.
MR. MILLER: Sure. Is it this one?
MS. SCOTT: The other one, please.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: That's the one that's not up on your
screens.
MR. MILLER: It will be.
MS. SCOTT: There it goes. Perfect.
I'm going to minimize it just a little bit so that you can see the
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entire item. You'll see this is a strikethrough underlined version with
the --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: My fault. My bad.
MS. SCOTT: -- correct permit numbers on there for both the
DEP permit and the Army Corps permit.
Just a brief recap: I know you-all sat through the workshop, but
just for viewing public, the -- after Hurricane Irma, there was sand
washed into the channel, which has significantly diminished the
flows to the lagoon. The city as well as, in partnership with the
Hideaway Beach district, is proposing a project to dredge to pre-Irma
conditions. They have advised, per that workshop, that they
anticipate this will increase the channel width to promote the higher
flows to and from the lagoon and help protect the interior channel
from overwash and prevent sand traveling eastward from blocking
channel entrance.
Yesterday you received -- I was copied on an email from Mr.
Cornell, and I believe he's also signed up to speak. He has requested
some modifications to this letter. So I'll leave it at that, and I believe
there's some public speakers.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I believe there is. Do you want
to -- does anybody have -- well, I have no one lit up at this stage.
Let's go ahead and do public comment then.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'm sorry. I failed to push
that. But I just wanted to ask staff a question. The issue that's
raised by some of the environmental folks is the issue of the 6.4-acre
sand trap at the north end of the island. I've gone out to Tigertail
probably 50 times over the last three years to take a look at some of
the birds, the skimmers, in particular. But this year it's been a little
bit -- there have been fewer of those there at Tigertail. I'm
concerned about the sand trap, the 6.4 acres. Do you have any
thoughts as to whether or not there was an alternative to that? I don't
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have a problem supporting the project, but I do have a problem
supporting that particular portion of the project.
MS. SCOTT: I see Amy poised to step in.
MS. PATTERSON: At the -- Amy Patterson, for the record.
At the workshop, the consultants did indicate that there are
alternatives to the sand trap. He did not go into detail about what
those are, but I believe that's what Mr. Cornell is asking for through
his comments. He would like the 6.4 acres to be preserved and to
look at other alternatives to the sand trap.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Just a quick follow-up, just
so I understand what you just said. The consultant for the --
MS. PATTERSON: Project.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: -- project has indicated that
there is an alternative to the 6.4-acre sand trap?
MS. PATTERSON: Yes. He did not -- he did not indicate if
that would be more expensive or what the challenges are with the
alternatives, but he did indicate that there were alternatives.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Well, I would support this if
there's recognition that there needs to be an alternative to that, that
6.4 acres.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: And just a quick question: From
my perspective, does this letter of support support everything in
aggregate, or is this a support of the project holistically with the
potential adjustments that come from the consultants and the permit
issuers?
MS. PATTERSON: The intent of the letter is to be a general
letter of support. We want to be a good partner but, of course, in
recognition that we have protected wildlife, we have environmental
interests, and those things have to be worked through our partner
agencies; it's not an attempt to strong arm the agencies or anything
like that. Mr. Cornell's suggestions -- and I'm sure he's going to
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come in to speak about those -- may be a viable addition to the letter
to acknowledge that we would like those alternatives explored. It
may turn out that they are not viable but, I think, that, obviously, they
warrant a closer look due to the sensitive nature of this ecosystem.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Sure.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Trinity, before we go final or
regardless of how we vote, I got an email late last night from
Chairman Brechnitz with some other corrections. It was more of
administrative things. You know, he already corrected some of the
terminology on the numbers. It wasn't the verbiage, but to get
everything correct.
Second, the 6.44 acres was actually -- like, Draft 7, they wanted
to move much more sand, so that was the compromise.
My understanding is that the Audubon Society were either going
to send their own letter to these same agencies. But I can't agree
more with what Amy Patterson has said is that this letter -- and if it
gives the inference then -- more than what we think, I think all of
us -- you know, I can't speak for my colleagues, but I share -- I can
feel the mojo up here that we're not trying to direct a decision, but we
know there's a problem there. We support this group. We're
working as a team with Marco and Hideaway and all those different
agencies and to send a message to the Army Corps and to the
Environmental Protection Agency.
And then I was told yesterday whatever letter we send, then
those two agencies blast it out to lots of other stakeholders. So we
do want this to be correct. But I agree with Commissioner Saunders
that I want this fully correct and not as directive that we've made
some command decision as to what's correct and to listen to all
agencies. And, you know, Mr. Cornell has a seat at our table at all
of the -- you know, we had a nice formal meeting here, but I've had
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several with the Tigertail groups in this room, and he's always, you
know, an invited speaker.
So everybody has a voice. This letter is basically saying -- I
think reminding that we've all come together as a team, and
Tigertail's important to us. But we shouldn't make any reference to
we agree with the final draft solution. I mean, that's for others to
agree with. But we agree with, you know, the restoration of
Tigertail or whatever.
But I need to send you the final email, so don't go final on
whatever gets decided today. He has some other little things in
there. Nothing that would affect -- it was more of the numbers and
the words and whatnot. So if you think it's more than that, then it
needs to come back to us so we don't approve something that's not the
final version and --
MS. SCOTT: We'll take a look at that. We updated the title,
the permit application title, as well as the permit, and that's what you
see up on the screen in the strikethrough underline.
The highlighted portions are the portions in a strikethrough
underline that Mr. Cornell sent that were available prior to the
meeting. So those are there for your consideration as well.
The intent of this was a generalized letter of support, not getting
into the details of, you know, this specific aspect of the permit or this,
you know, other specific aspect of the permit, but understanding that
it has a review process that -- with other agencies that will be looking
at it as well.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So what -- did we name this
fill-in land the silting-in sand trap? Is that what we named it? What
is the sand trap exactly?
MS. SCOTT: So I'm going to have Andrew -- Andy Miller, our
coastal zone manager, come up and explain the items about the sand
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trap.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: How that name evolved?
Yeah.
MR. ANDREW MILLER: Yes. Good morning,
Commissioners. For the record, Andy Miller with Coastal Zone.
Do we have the drawings available, Trinity, or no, not really?
MS. SCOTT: Troy, if you go to the iDrive, there should be a
PowerPoint on 10A.
MR. ANDREW MILLER: There we go. Okay. Let me see if
I can point using my mouse. The sand trap in this drawing is the
area hatched as No. 5, and the intent of the sand trap or the proposal
is to remove the sand from that area, the very tip of the sand spit of
Sand Dollar Island. And it basically will reduce the elevation to
below water level and become, in essence, a pit or a sand trap. And
what that does is as sand flowing in the current travels from the gulf
into the river and past the entrance -- or close to the entrance of the
channel into the lagoon, the sand trap basically catches the sand and
delays the situation where the sand would want to block the lagoon.
So it basically buys time by catching the sand for a period of time
prevents the lagoon shutting down.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Correct. So, Commissioner
Saunders, your concept wouldn't be take it from here but put it
somewhere else?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I don't have a concept on
what to do at those 6.4 acres other than not to destroy the bird habitat
there. So I don't know if there's an alternative. I'm assuming from
the letters I've read that the birds are nesting on that, which is marked
No. 5, that hash-tagged area, that that's a nesting area, and I'd like to
find an alternative to that. And I understand from just the discussion
that there may very well be an alternative.
I will support the letter if there's a sentence in the letter that says
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that we have concerns in reference to the issue of destroying the
habitat for the various bird species that are nesting there.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I would concur with that. That
was a -- thank you for the explanation.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Sure. Very good.
Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Just a question for Andy Miller.
So, essentially, the sand trap is a temporary -- it's a Band-Aid because
it -- the sand -- it will fill up eventually, probably, right?
MR. ANDREW MILLER: That's correct. And we all know
that these projects require ongoing maintenance and the --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right.
MR. ANDREW MILLER: -- the period of time is unknown.
It obviously depends on mother nature. But once and if that's
permitted, as the trap fills up, they'll go back out and dredge it and --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
MR. ANDREW MILLER: -- over time, yeah.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Well, I agree with Commissioner
Saunders' point. I think -- and the way the letter reads to me, as
originally written, is we're supporting a permit. The permit
specifically is -- and correct me if I'm wrong, but the permit
specifically references -- it's a permit to dredge the sand trap, right?
So I agree with Commissioner Saunders and Commissioner
Taylor. I would be okay with adding the language that Mr. Cornell
has proposed if we can put that back up there. I don't know -- I think
the last edition is kind of an absolute, that I think there's always some
impact somewhere, and I think -- so I'm not wedded to that very last
part that says absolutely -- you know, there's no -- no habitat will be
destroyed. I just think that's an absolute. Anytime we do anything
anywhere it's going to have an impact. Maybe it could say, you
know -- I don't know, just not an absolute.
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CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Just eliminate the absolute, just put
a period at the end ecosystem and be done.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I would be -- that would be
acceptable to me, and I would support that.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I would as well. And I think it's
important just to say it out loud. And I said it yesterday when I was
being interviewed. I mean, none of these processes ever occur
during turtle nesting season, during bird nesting season. Those are
all prohibitive actions from the operational perspective. So in case
someone's listening and thinking that this is going to interrupt
those -- now, it may interrupt if, in fact, the permit were issued and
the sand pit were removed, and it was a previous bird nest in sight
and it wasn't there anymore. Of course, that would have -- those
birds would have to go somewhere else. But none of these
operations are going to be performed during those times.
I think we're all done with what we have to say. Let's hear our
public comment.
MR. MILLER: Your first speaker is Brad Cornell. He will be
followed by Brittany Piersma.
MR. CORNELL: Good morning, Commissioners. I'm Brad
Cornell, and I'm here on behalf of Audubon Western Everglades and
Audubon Florida and appreciate the opportunity to address you on
this letter.
I want to start by saying thank you for that conversation. I
really -- I'm glad you're wrestling with some of the nuances of this.
There's nothing that's black and white when you're talking about
wildlife habitat, so that does get dangerous.
Audubon Western Everglades and Audubon Florida support the
overall ecological objectives of this restoration project, so we
recognize that we want to improve the way the ecosystem works as
much as we can, recognizing this is a very changeable barrier island
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system; that, you know, storms come, fronts come. But we do want
to improve the ecology of that. So we want to support the general
objectives ecological restoration.
Audubon has had many years of biologists and volunteers
working on conserving these shorebirds where they nest and in the
wintertime. And, in fact, one of our full-time biologists, Brittany
Piersma, is going to speak after me, and she has some biology to
share with you about this.
There's one fatal flaw, though, and you've identified that in your
conversation, and that is the sand trap that would destroy the
6.4 acres. That's a federally -- those 6.4 acres are federally
designated critical habitat for Piping Plovers in the wintertime, and
it's also protective of the federally listed Red Knot and state-listed
Black Skimmers, Least Terns, and imperiled Wilson's Plovers. So
those last three nest up there.
And, as Commissioner Saunders noted, especially the Black
Skimmers in very large numbers. So that tip is very important to
these birds. Why? Don't know, but that's where they nest.
So -- and actually maybe the biologists know. I don't know.
Loss of the acreage is also identified by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service to likely cause harm and even kill some of these
shorebirds. And so what restoration project is going to kill wildlife
in pursuit of its ends? That seems incongruous.
So this is not an all-or-nothing situation. The consultant,
Humiston & Moore, as you heard, admitted in a meeting that
Commissioner LoCastro had convened last week that there are
alternatives to the sand trap. Now, as you heard, we don't know
what those are, but I would submit to you that exchanging
convenience or expense for the lives of these threatened species is not
a good trade. We should be protecting the habitat and finding
alternatives.
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So I appreciate your movement toward that objective. Please
consider the language that I've offered to you. And I do want to say
we're very thankful for the partnership we have with the county, with
the City of Marco Island, Rookery Bay, Friends of Tigertail, FWC.
We appreciate that. That's the kind of collaboration we need to see
on these kinds of projects and the protection of these species. So
thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, sir.
MR. MILLER: Mr. Chair, your final speaker on this item is
Brittany Piersma.
MS. PIERSMA: Hi, my name is Brittany Piersma. I'm a field
biologist working for Audubon Western Everglades.
First, I just want to give some basic biology information about
the birds that are nesting out on that beach. You may go there
different times of the season and notice that they're not always out
there. The Black Skimmers do use Clam Pass as their migration area
as well as sandbars further south. So if you go out there right now,
you're probably not going to see any Black Skimmers.
Last season there was about 544 nests on that beach. So if you
think of the magnitude of -- that's about over a thousand birds nesting
on that beach. It's really vital habitat for that large of a colony. On
top of that, Least Terns, Wilson's Plovers use that entire area.
Those 6.4 acres that's deemed to be removed is really unmatched
to any other habitat that's thought to be created down south. It will
have irreversible damage, and this critical area is being used by
state-threated Black Skimmers, Least Terns, and also imperiled
Wilson's Plover. Those Wilson's Plovers do actually nest throughout
a variety of vegetation as well, but they also use that colony as
protection. So Wilson's Plovers will nest within a big colony of
Black Skimmers and Least Terns.
Additionally, it removes vital resting spots for a lot of migratory
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species that come to our area. Those include federally protected
Piping Plovers and Red Knots which there are decent numbers of
those that come into that lagoon and use it as critical feeding area
amongst all of those mud flats. Annually, we get hundreds of
shorebirds of all different species that use that lagoon as a migratory
spot to refuel, whether they're staying there the whole winter or
they're traveling all the way down to the south tip of South America.
So it's really important habitat.
Specifically for the Black Skimmers and Least Terns, they
choose to nest in that exact area for a couple different reasons.
These birds have adapted and modified to choosing areas that are
going to eliminate and shield themselves from overwash. So they
have moved in different areas of that sandbar, and for at least five
documented years, they have chosen to nest within that north tip
because it shields them from overwash, and it further isolates them
from predators. So these birds are choosing areas that they're not
going to have as many mammal predators that have easy access to get
specifically to where they're nesting.
Where these birds do nest, they have a lot of threats that they're
coming across from just natural human disturbance that's in the area;
predators, which is a lot of management out there; but also they have
to come across the common disturbance that they have from either
hurricanes, tropical storms, they try to nest early, they try to prevent
themselves from doing anything that's going to have that severe a
case but, obviously, they can't predict these storms.
So if we can do what we can to prevent eliminating having more
overwash come into their area, we need to protect this colony. We're
losing vital coastal dunes all over the world. This is a huge problem
in a variety of areas. The numbers of birds are plummeting. I have
people come up to me every day and ask me, where are the birds?
Why are they going down in numbers? It's because they're losing
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habitat, so we need to protect the habitat.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Do you have a question for
Brittany?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I do.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Don't go away, young lady.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: First, I agree with my
colleagues; we're not trying to force feed anything, and, you know,
we're trying to find that balance of what we can do down there
without, you know, disturbing the natural habitat. But my question
for you is to learn the science. I mean, this is what you do.
When you quoted those numbers of 500 and something, you
know, nesting, is that just in 6 point acres, because Tigertail -- that
area extends all the way down. That's quite a bit of habitat there.
So were you just talking about that one specific footprint, there's been
that many nesting there, or you're saying sort of in the whole -- you
know, whole area?
MS. PIERSMA: You'd have to look at the exact GPS points. I
don't have exact GPS points of exactly where they're going to. That
frontal area including portions of that would contain.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Right.
MS. PIERSMA: But if you're thinking of, you know,
magnitude of a thousand birds, they may choose to nest left or right.
Every year it's a bit different.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah. I mean, I say that as a
clarification because I've hosted a lot of these meetings, and we know
those numbers. And there's a high concentration on the tip for all the
things you just said, lack of predators and whatnot. But that number
has come up in other meetings, and I think I did see some of the
maps, and it was more of sort of the entire encompassing area, which
is -- you know, it's -- I'm not making a point to say that we don't
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support this, but just to sort of understand the numbers.
My last question would be, obviously, as you said, when you
remove any habitat and sort of shrink down their landing area, it's a
negative. But there is quite a bit of area out there. This is more of a
scientific question for you really just to educate myself. Let's say we
remove six acres, three acres, but it shrunk at some point. Do you
think there's enough remaining areas that, you know -- like you said,
these birds are smart. They know where to go, where the predators
aren't.
If they come back, you know, they migrate back and see that
two acres are gone, three acres are gone, six acres gone, whatever
that number turns out to be, or nothing, but let's say something's
gone, is there enough natural habitat there that can absorb them safely
and not affect the numbers in such a negative way?
I mean, it might be a little bit of a loaded question. And I'm not
asking it to put you on the spot for anything. I really just want to
understand that -- you know, the importance of that tip, if it reduced
in any way, shape, or form -- Tigertail is a large area -- do you feel
that the birds are -- like you said, they're smart enough to figure out,
are there areas that it could absorb the same amount of nesting even if
it lost an acre, two acres, three acres? What's your honest thought on
that?
MS. PIERSMA: We've had a change in different species. So,
originally, Least Terns would nest there in very high numbers as
well. I don't have a specific number for you. But we've only had
Black Skimmers in the recent years because of different issues going
on out there. If you're going to be adding Least Terns back into the
situation, which could easily happen any year -- we've had Least
Terns prospect and still nest within that area -- you're not going to
have enough space with removing all of that, especially when you're
considering, if they're moving further south, that's where they're
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going to have increased overwash. We still had overwash last year,
year before where they were nesting within areas that they moved
further north. So they're choosing that based on that.
But, additionally, the reason that there was an increase in birds
last season was because of areas such as Kice and Caxambas, the
birds are not nesting there for who knows what reason: Human
disturbance, lack of habitat, extreme overwash. So we had an
increase of birds that no longer nest at Caxambas that are using Sand
Dollar as the only Collier County nesting habitat besides limited birds
on Second Chance. That's mainly used by Least Terns. So I think
it would have a detrimental impact on multiple species.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Brittany.
Before I go to Commissioner Saunders -- don't go away,
Brittany.
Commissioner Taylor, did you have a question for her?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'm going to listen.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'm going to listen to
Commissioner Saunders.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. You may go away.
Forgive me, dear.
Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: No. I'm going to go ahead
and make a motion, Mr. Chairman. I've listened to what everybody
has said.
We have a letter that addresses a specific application, and so we
have to craft this letter so it doesn't give us some unintended support
of something that we don't support. So I'm going to make a motion
that we approve the letter that was drafted by the county with the
addition of the language recommended by Brad Cornell with two
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changes. On one of the lines, the letter says the county urges the
applicants and agencies to find alternatives to the sand trap that do
not destroy any critical habitat. I want to delete the word "any,"
because no matter what is done out there, there's probably going to be
some critical habitat that may be destroyed. But we're trying to
protect that 6.4 acres.
And I also want to delete the last phrase that says, "as long as no
wildlife habitats are destroyed in the process."
So I'll make a motion to approve the letter with those two
changes, deleting the word "any" in that first sentence and taking out
that last phrase about destroying any habitat.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Somebody want to second?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. Do you have a comment,
or are you going to second it?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. Commissioner Taylor, you
were lit up, you unlit. Are you okay?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah. I just would like my
colleagues to consider something. I understand Mr. Cornell's, the
last -- the last phrase, why he put it in there, but could we -- rather
than strike it completely, could we -- to minimize instead of striking
it completely, to minimize wildlife -- the destruction of wildlife
habitats as much as possible so that we -- rather than saying no, but
we also understand that -- it's our awareness that wildlife habitat is
being destroyed.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Potential. And -- there's a
potential for it if, in fact --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No, it will be.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: -- this operation goes forward. I
think Commissioner -- unless the motion maker's interested in
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making an adjustment to the --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Can I finish? Can I finish?
So I was thinking that it would be -- it would be helpful to put
as -- with the understanding that -- to minimize the wildlife -- the
destruction of wildlife habitat. I'd like to have that in there but -- not
to say no but to minimize it.
Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I don't have a problem with
adding that phrase that simply says -- eliminating the phrase that says
"as long as no wildlife habitat is destroyed," and changing that to
"minimize the destruction of wildlife habitat." I think that's -- I think
that's everybody's goal on every project. So I have no problem
changing the motion to reflect that.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: You okay with that on the second?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Absolutely. Yep. Second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I don't disagree. It's a bit
duplicative because, I mean, the entire premise of these permit
applications is to not destroy habitat, but I'm okay with that from
a -- moving this -- moving this process forward.
All right. It's been moved and seconded that we produce the
letter with the suggested adjustments, the removal of the word "any"
in the first highlighted section and then the adjustment to minimize
the destruction, destroy wildlife habitat. Correct synopsis?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been moved and seconded.
Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
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COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
MS. SCOTT: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: There we go.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Let the record reflect that
Mr. Brad Cornell raised his hand, which appeared to be in the
affirmative and smiled about it.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Really?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Now we have a thumbs up,
so now we're good to go.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: That's wonderful.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Security, please remove
Mr. Cornell from the premises.
MR. ISACKSON: Chair, do you want to give Terri her break
now before we launch into 10B, or what's your pleasure?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Well, my pleasure is to do 10B and
be done by 10:30. That's my pleasure. Are you going to be done in
seven minutes?
MS. LYBERG: Certainly will work with that, yes.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay.
Item #10B
REVIEW THE PROGRESS OF THE COUNTY MANAGER
RECRUITMENT AND PROVIDE STAFF WITH ADDITIONAL
DIRECTION REGARDING PROCESS STEPS AND TIMELINE –
DISCUSSED
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MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, Item 10B, it's a
recommendation to review the progress of the County Manager's
recruitment and provide staff additional direction regarding process,
steps, and timeline. Ms. Amy Lyberg, your Human Resources
Division director, will present.
MS. LYBERG: Good morning, Commissioners.
Last meeting you had instructed us to come back today with an
update on the recruitment of the County Manager, so I'm here to do
that.
We posted the position on the 25th of February, and it will be
posted through March 31st. We are currently advertising through a
number of outlets to seek qualified candidates, including
governmentjobs.com, indeed.com, Zip Recruiter, LinkedIn, and
we've also advertised at Florida Association of Counties and the
National Association of Counties.
As of 5:00 p.m. last evening, we currently have resumés and
cover letters for 20 applicants that we have not determined if they
are -- you know, in terms of the suitability or qualifications for the
position, but they are -- that's what we have as of today.
And, Troy, I think -- if we could, is there a -- if we could put the
presentation up, I can kind of go through some recommended
recruitment steps.
I think it should be on the iDrive.
MR. MILLER: Yeah, my mouse is dead. Give me just a
second.
MS. LYBERG: Uh-oh.
MR. MILLER: Where was it in the iDrive, Amy?
MS. LYBERG: I think it's under 10B, hopefully. There we
go. Thank you.
I just want to kind of review the recruitment steps and the
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timeline that would be going on to finalize this recruitment. One of
the things you did last year when you were contemplating hiring a
County Manager was create -- or complete a recruitment profile.
That was part of the backup to the packet today and is one of those
things, you can make a determination if that's even something that
you're needed -- is needed for -- as you complete this recruitment. If
you do feel that there are some changes that have been made since
the last time that we went through that in terms of determining what
skills and abilities you want the next County Manager to have, it
might be a good time to get that updated in advance of interviews.
Based on a closing date of March 31st, we are recommending
that the commissioners receive and review applicant submissions
between April 1st and April 10th of this year. And then before the
April 12th board meeting, each commissioner would rank candidates
and provide the rankings to the Human Resources Division for
compilation.
Depending on the number -- again, today we are at 20
applicants. You may want to set a minimum and maximum number
of candidates that you want to rank for consideration of the position.
The ranked list would be provided at the April 12th board
meeting, and you could select as many as you want, but we're
recommending maybe five candidate finalists that you want to have
as part of the interview process.
Last year when you did the interviews, you conducted
one-on-one interviews with the candidates as well as having them
present before the Board at a public meeting such as this. And the
recommendation would be to consider that for May -- the first May
meeting in 2022.
Once you've selected a County Manager, have the Chair and the
County Attorney negotiate the contract with selected candidate, and
then after the Board reviews and approves the contract, set a tentative
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start date for the County Manager with the indication that they would
start by around June of 2022 to give a little bit of time to work with
Mr. Isackson, if that's the pleasure of the Board.
So some action items today, one of the things that was brought
up the last time as well, we talked a little bit about a screening
process for the applicants to this position and just as well as to get
your decisions or discussion on if this timeline is acceptable for you
so that we can move forward.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Very nice.
MS. LYBERG: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I was just going to say -- and
I know that you're saying recommend five finalists, and it's not being
directive or anything. I just remember last time when we did this,
there definitely was a sweet spot, you know. And I can't remember,
but I would just, you know, tell my colleagues, let's look for that, you
know, let's not be so -- and you're not saying this. But, you know, if
we sit here and we go, wow, you know, there was definitely a top
seven, then a gigantic gap and then No. 8 was really 48, you know, I
mean, there was something like that. Let's make sure we're dynamic
enough so we don't leave anybody out.
But I just remember -- and hiring another -- and we've all hired
people. There usually is some gap. We don't want the gap to be,
wow, the first 17. I mean, we try to -- we want to skinny it down to
something competitive. But I do remember last time there definitely
was a gap where you didn't want to sort of leave anybody out even if
it meant a couple of more interviews. I mean, I guess I'm just saying
that, you know, just spitballing, but we'll see if it lends itself to that.
But I'll be looking for that, you know.
And I think I actually -- and I think most of us did, turned in one
or two extra names above the recommended, because we sort of all
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felt about the same way. So, you know, I'll be looking for that. But
great report. Glad to hear. And, you know, you've mentioned sites
you've hung this advertisement. That's exactly what the headhunter
guys do. You know, they might do one or two other things and, you
know, that's what you pay them for. But, you know, you're doing all
the right things. Those are sidestep people. They peruse regularly
looking for the pop-ups, and my guess is County Manager and
beautiful Naples, Florida, with a six figure, you know, assumed
salary, you know, is going to net us, you know, quite a few more
people as word spreads. But thanks for the report --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Absolutely.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: -- and we'll look for
that -- we'll look for that list of, you know, the -- sort of the top
echelon folks that seem like they're worth an interview.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: My quick question to my
colleagues is, how do you -- because one of the things we've said is
that we're not going to go do background checks and education
checks and reference checks on all of the applicants. We would wait
till we move to a pared list. Would you like to receive and can it be
sent to -- can these applicants' files, if you will, unreviewed, can
those be -- would you like to see those in advance? Because I know
some of you read forward -- Rick and I got them all as they were
coming in but, ultimately, it comes to this board. Would you like to
receive those in advance as they come in, yes or no?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yes.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I would.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Can you do that?
MS. LYBERG: Yes, we can do that.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Can you do it digitally?
MS. LYBERG: Yes.
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CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: With that singular adjustment to
what you've suggested -- and I think it's just -- it's worth
repeating -- the suggestions of timeline, the process are there. The
numbers aren't hard fast. If it is the will of the Board that we go to
an interview process on seven, we'll do seven instead of five or two,
or as the case may be. So I like it a lot.
So with that, I don't think we even have to take -- we don't have
to take a motion on anything. You're all --
MR. ISACKSON: Just an update for the Board.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Just an update. With that
adjustment to the process, I'm good with that. And it is, in fact,
10:30. We'll be back at 10:40.
(A brief recess was had from 10:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.)
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, you have a live mic.
Item #10C
DISCUSSION OF PRODUCTIVITY COMMITTEE
MEMBERSHIP – MOTION TO BRING BACK AN AMENDMENT
TO THE ORDINANCE REDUCING THE QUORUM
REQUIREMENTS 6 TO 4 – APPROVED
Commissioners, that brings us to Item 10C on your agenda. It's
the discussion of Productivity Committee membership, and it was
brought forward by Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Mr. Chairman, the -- I sat
with the Productivity Committee at their last meeting on Thursday.
They've had some difficulties in getting a quorum. They did have a
quorum on this past meeting.
The committee consists of 11 members, and the request is that
we reduce the membership to nine members; that we appoint two
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members to be alternates so that when a member is not there, if the
alternate's there, the alternate can vote and can form part of the
quorum but is not required in terms of the total quorum number.
And so that's the request in terms of the committee itself.
Reduce it to nine permanent members, two alternates, and the two
alternates can vote if a -- if a permanent member is not in the room,
and they can count towards the quorum.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: And how many members are on
there now?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I believe there are 11. And
the quorum at this point is five.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So that would reduce it to what,
four?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. What?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. Actually, the
quorum is six. I understand that generally 50 percent. But if it's -- I
was under the impression that for some reason it was five. So the
quorum requirements are six. We want to reduce that to nine current
members so the quorum is five, and then you have two alternates that
can help form the quorum when needed.
MR. KLATZKOW: Or you can just change the quorum
requirement from six to four. This way you don't have to --
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: If we could do that.
MR. KLATZKOW: Sure. Well, it's your ordinance. I can
bring it back next meeting.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: All right. Let's do that,
then. If --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: That would be --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It might be easier.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Then let's keep it the way it
is with the quorum requirement of four. That would --
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I like that. That's elegant.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Make a motion.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, I'll make that motion.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'll second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been moved and seconded we
reduce the quorum requisite from six to four. Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Commissioners.
Item #11A
RESOLUTION 2022-43 & 2022-44: RESOLUTIONS
ACCEPTING PROPOSALS OF WEBSTER BANK, N.A.
(SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO STERLING NATIONAL BANK)
AND RAYMOND JAMES CAPITAL FUNDING, INC. TO
PROVIDE THE COUNTY WITH TERM LOANS IN ORDER TO
REFUND ALL OF THE COUNTY’S SPECIAL OBLIGATION
REFUNDING REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 2011 AND 2013,
RESPECTIVELY, FOR NET PRESENT VALUE INTEREST
SAVINGS; APPROVING THE FORM OF RESPECTIVE LOAN
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AGREEMENTS AND A FORWARD NOTE PURCHASE
AGREEMENT (WITH RESPECT TO THE SERIES 2022B NOTE);
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL OBLIGATION
REFUNDING REVENUE NOTE, SERIES 2022A AND A
SPECIAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING REVENUE NOTE,
SERIES 2022B IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNTS OF NOT TO
EXCEED $33,000,000 AND $76,000,000, RESPECTIVELY;
AUTHORIZING THE REPAYMENT OF SUCH NOTES FROM A
COVENANT TO BUDGET AND APPROPRIATE LEGALLY
AVAILABLE NON AD VALOREM REVENUES; DELEGATING
CERTAIN AUTHORITY TO THE BOARD CHAIRMAN AND
OTHER APPROPRIATE OFFICERS OF THE COUNTY FOR THE
EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THE LOAN AGREEMENT;
AND AUTHORIZE ALL NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENTS – ADOPTED
That brings us to Item 11A. It's a recommendation to adopt
resolutions accepting proposals of Webster Bank N.A., (successor by
merger to Sterling Bank) and Raymond James Capital Funding, Inc.,
to provide the county with term loans in order to refund all of the
county's Special Obligation Revenue Bond Series, 2011 and 2013,
respectively, for net present value interest savings; approving the
form of respective loan agreements and a forward note purchase
agreement with respect to the Series 2022B note; authorizing the
issuance of a Special Obligation Revenue Note, Series 2022A, and a
Special Obligation Refunding Revenue Note, Series 2022B in the
principal amounts of not to exceed 33 million and $76 million
respectively; authorizing repayment of such notes from a covenant to
budget and appropriate legally available non-ad valorem revenues;
delegating certain authority to the Board chairman and other
appropriate officers of the county for execution and delivery of the
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loan agreement; and authorize all necessary budget amendments.
I've asked Derek Johnssen of the Clerk's Office to make some
opening remarks, and then I'd like to follow up for a couple minutes,
if you don't mind.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Perfect.
MR. JOHNSSEN: Good morning, Commissioners. Again,
Derek Johnssen from the Clerk's Finance Department.
I must have drawn the long straw, because they let me bring this
very good-news item to you today.
Before you are two separate financing -- refinancing
opportunities. Each of these exceeds the threshold set forth in your
debt policy of 5 percent savings. Combined, these refinancings
represent $13.9 million in gross interest savings. In fact, one of the
issues is the best issue I've ever seen for savings for this county.
I have a brief presentation giving you a little bit more detail, if it
pleases the Commission.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It pleases.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It pleases, yes.
MR. JOHNSSEN: Your finance team recommends, of course,
these refinancings. Okay.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It pleases the Chair and
Commissioner Taylor, too, I think.
MR. JOHNSSEN: Okay. These were procured through a
competitive request for quotes. We had 16 responses. That's also
the most number of responses in my experience that we've ever had.
The selection criteria was lowest true interest cost. So best deal for
the county.
The aggregate cash savings are as follows. I quoted you a
number that was just gross. It's 1.9 million for the issue that
refinances the 2011 issue, and 11.9 for the 2013 issue, and that's the
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issue that I mentioned was the best that we've ever seen.
The net present value savings, which is just a discounted
measure of the same number, recognizing the time value of money,
was 5.6, which exceeds your benchmark of 5 percent, and 14.2,
which exceeds it greatly.
Again, just to rehash what the debt management policy says. It
says, that any savings that achieves more than 5 percent of NPV
should be pursued. We formally recommend that you approve this
item as presented.
I'll take any questions.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I have nobody lit up.
County Manager, you said you wanted to make a few
comments?
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, I've been with the county
for 18 years. This is the most net present value interest savings on
an issue that we've done, and we began restructuring the portfolio
back in 2010. At that point, since then we have restructured and/or
refunded $531 million of the portfolio for a total net interest savings
of $44 million.
If you can't make it on the interest income side, then you switch
and make it on the interest the other side of the house, and that's
essentially been our philosophy over the last -- since 2010.
I want to recognize Derek, members of the Finance Committee,
and also Steve Miller, our bond counsel, and Sergio Masvidal with
Public Financial Management, who is our independent financial
advisor. All of these folks have performed admirably over the years
in scrutinizing our portfolio, and I just want to give a shout-out to
them for their excellent work over the years. And this will be
probably the last refinancing that you'll see under my tutelage.
So I just thought -- I wanted to make those introductory remarks.
So thank you very much.
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CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, County Manager.
Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I was just going to say, this is
great, going out with a bang, a big savings. Congratulations.
And, yeah, thanks, Derek, for -- your office for all the hard
work. I mean, this is great -- great news.
I was looking through the attachments. Is your presentation
part of -- or if it's not, can I got a copy of that? Because I'd like to
share --
MR. JOHNSSEN: Absolutely. I'll send it to all
commissioners.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: That's some great news.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, that's some great news that I
think residents need to understand how closely everybody watches
this and the great financial leadership that we have.
So if I could get a copy of that. And I -- if there's nothing -- if
there aren't any speakers, I mean, I'll go ahead and make a motion to
approve.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'll second that motion.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: And then I'll call upon
Commissioner Taylor for the first set of comments.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So just for my edification, and
maybe the public, give me an idea of the process by which you zone
in on in getting these results. What's your time frame? How do
you -- how do you approach it? Is it a constant study? How do
you -- how do you move forward in it?
MR. JOHNSSEN: Commissioner, that's a great question. It is
really a constant monitoring of that debt portfolio. Just like you
have an investment portfolio, you have a debt portfolio. As the
Manager said, if we can't make money on the asset side, we need to
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spend less money on the debt side. So we're constantly monitoring
that in concert with your financial advisor, PFM, to look at different
debt issues that would generate a 5 percent savings, anything above
5 percent.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And that 5 percent justifies
going -- getting involved in the process, correct?
MR. JOHNSSEN: Yes, ma'am, it does. And, again, I think
another important point is when we quote savings to you, all the costs
of closing are included in those numbers.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Very good. Very good.
All right. It's been moved and seconded that we moved forward
with this reissue. If there's no further discussion, all in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Commissioner.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Derek, and County
Manager.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I mean, it goes without saying,
thank you.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Commissioners.
Item #11B
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BUDGET AMENDMENT TO REALLOCATE FUNDS IN
RELATION TO INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 21-7935,
“WIGGINS PASS AND DOCTORS PASS DREDGE 2021-2022,”
IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,197,180.00 AND MAKE A FINDING
THAT THIS EXPENDITURE PROMOTES TOURISM –
APPROVED
Item 11B, it's a recommendation to authorize the necessary
budget amendments to reallocate funds in relation to Invitation to Bid
ITB No. 21-7935. It's the Wiggins Pass and Doctors Pass Dredge
for 2021/2022 in the amount of $2,197,180, make a finding that this
expenditure promotes tourism. Andrew Miller, your Coastal Zone
Management director, will present.
MR. ANDREW MILLER: Good morning, again,
Commissioners. And I've got some background and a couple
pictures that -- you should find this interesting.
At this time last year, or even before last year, we recognized
that Wiggins Pass was getting shallow, shoaling to the point where
we became concerned, the boating community became concerned,
and even though we had planned and budgeted for the dredging at a
little later date, we decided to go ahead and expedite the project. We
started designing -- the design and permitting in May of last year.
And we -- after four months we put the project on the street for
bid in October. We got bids in and the contract ready to process by
December and realized that if we wanted to go to three boards to
spend 195 funding, it was going to push us into January because TDC
does not meet in December. And we felt it was important to get the
project moving, so we used General Funds to open the PO to get the
contractor on board, and we started him in late December.
The good news I'll give you today is that what you're looking at
on the screen is Wiggins Pass as it was before the dredge started, and
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you can see the shoaling there.
Troy, can we switch to the other view.
And this was just probably a few days ago. You can see that
the dredger is nearing completion and, according to the folks in the
field, we should be finishing up Wiggins Pass dredge tomorrow
around midnight. And so all is well with Wiggins Pass.
This item is essentially to transfer 195 funds back into General
Funds to basically repay that. And so what we're asking here is for
the Board to authorize a budget amendment and to agree that this
project promotes tourism.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Absolutely.
Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, I'd like to give a shout-out to
Andy and the staff that have been working on this. You know, the
residents that live back, you know, inland from Wiggins Pass, the
Yacht Club there, were really concerned. And you guys did a great
job, you know, keeping them, one, informed of what was going on,
and they really took to heart that you were monitoring it on a constant
basis. So a great shout-out to you and the staff that were monitoring
all this and getting creative on how to expedite it, too. So thanks for
that. It was greatly appreciated by everybody up around Wiggins
Pass.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Absolutely.
Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Well, while I respect advisory
boards and their need to have breaks, I think when you have
something this level of urgency, I'd like to see if there's any
consensus up here that they call a special meeting to --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Sure.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I mean, what do you think,
Commissioner Solis?
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, I think -- I think what -- I
mean, we could do that, but I think the solution that the staff came up
with was an emergency thing.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No, it was a good solution, but I
don't even know if it's necessary to do that, go back and forth. Why
not just -- this is important because it's more than just tourism that --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think it was just that this
particular December, I think the meeting would have -- the usual
meeting would have -- we just didn't have one in December.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I thought they normally don't
meet in December.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Because it's -- the TDC meetings
are usually what day of the month?
MR. ANDREW MILLER: I believe it would have been the
28th of December. So it just wasn't convenient time-wise.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, it was going to be difficult to
get everybody there, I think. But anyway. Either way, yeah. I
mean, I think if there's -- if there's an issue that's kind of a crisis, I
mean, we could always have a -- we've done it before.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: And at the end of the -- you know,
my thought process is that the TDC is an advisory board to this
board. This board's the one that pulls the trigger in order to make
these things get done.
I have a compliment for Andy and staff as well just because I
can remember the day when we used to -- when we were coming out
of Wiggins Pass. We had to jump and get up on a plain because
there wasn't enough water to shoot the -- to shoot over the sandbar,
so...
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: It was getting dangerous, yeah. It
was closing in fast.
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CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Well in advance of that. I mean,
there were some maybe larger draft boats that had issues, but
compliments for, as Commissioner Solis said, moving it forward.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Now, could I ask a question?
Because you brought up an issue, Mr. Chair, that -- I mean, some of
these -- if we're going to used TDC funds, these things have to go to
the TDC --
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- first, right, some of them or for
all of them?
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes. If you're going to use TDC funds,
you need the TDC to review it, make a recommendation. It will
come to you. You make a finding whether or not it promotes
tourism.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. So there's a statutory
requirement that it --
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes, there is.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right. Okay. So, yeah, I think if
there's a need, I mean, having an emergency meeting is perfectly well
and good. I think in this instance it was just it was a 28th, and it
was.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: My misunderstanding. I was -- I
apologize, I actually thought that there was a requisite for
recommendation and then we actually did the final expenditure.
MR. KLATZKOW: If timing is an issue, it can come to you
first, all right, and it will be conditional use of TDC funds. By it
going back to them, they would make a recommendation. Should
they somehow not make the recommendation, you may have to use
General Funds, but that's highly unlikely.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: That's a more eloquent way of
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doing it.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Excuse me.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Just one second, Commissioner
Taylor.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I guess just a couple
questions for the County Attorney, just so I understand. And this
process seemed to work well. We used General Fund money, but
now it's being reimbursed with tourist taxes after the fact. Are you
saying that we really can't do that? You can't expend money in
advance in an emergency and then have the TDC review it after the
fact? It has to --
MR. KLATZKOW: You can, yes, but you're running the risk
the TDC will say, no, we do not recommend the use of funds.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Then we'd appoint a new
TDC.
MR. KLATZKOW: That is within your powers, yes.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: So the point I'm making is, I
don't -- this worked well, and I don't want to take away from staff the
ability to react in an emergency situation like this.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Right.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And so I'd be reluctant to
say, well, if there is an emergency, you have to call an emergency
TDC meeting in advance. I think the staff has to have some
flexibility like they did in this one.
MR. KLATZKOW: And we do this all the time. When there's
an emergency, it comes to you first, and then we'll go to the TDC
with the understanding of the remote chance you might have to use
General Funds.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Okay. So that's my point.
I just want staff to continue to be able to have some flexibility in the
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case of a situation like this.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Absolutely.
Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So, Mr. Miller, what's going on
with Doctors Pass? Have you yet to start Doctors Pass dredging?
MR. ANDREW MILLER: Like I said, the dredging at Wiggins
will wrap up tomorrow around midnight, and they'll begin
mobilization to Doctors Pass. I would imagine within a week or so
we'll be down at Doctors Pass actively dredging, so...
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And is there a lot of silting
there? Because I know that that's always been a problem.
MR. ANDREW MILLER: It wasn't nearly as bad as Wiggins,
but the numbers are -- I think we dredged 65,000 cubic yards from
Wiggins, and we're going to wind up dredging 25,000 from Doctors
or so. And the good news is that the sand is going to go on
Lowdermilk Park in between what we renourished last year and what
we renourished this year, so it's going to close that gap, and
everyone's going to have a new -- nice new wide beach.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So you're taking it to
Lowdermilk?
MR. ANDREW MILLER: Absolutely, yes.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And how are we moving with
talking to the neighbors just north of Doctors Pass regarding the
desperate position they're in?
MR. ANDREW MILLER: Actually, we just had a
meeting -- our staff had a meeting yesterday with the folks at -- the
community on the south is -- I can't remember the name of -- the
condo community, but they're actually working with us to allow us to
store our fuel barge adjacent to their docks. So they're all well aware
of the situation, and they're well aware that we're going to be
addressing the need for the dredge.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: At Doctors Pass?
MR. ANDREW MILLER: Correct.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. All right.
Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. I'll make a motion to
approve the budget amendment.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All right. It's been moved and
seconded that we approve the budget amendment as recommended by
the staff report. Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
MR. ANDREW MILLER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Andy.
Item #11C
TWENTY (20) ADDITIONAL FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT (FTE)
POSITIONS AS FOLLOWS: NINE (9) FTES IN THE GROWTH
MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT, THREE (3) FTES IN THE COLLIER COUNTY
WATER-SEWER DISTRICT, FIVE (5) FTES IN THE
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TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES
DEPARTMENT - ROAD MAINTENANCE DIVISION
(LANDSCAPE SECTION) AND THREE (3) FTES IN THE
PUBLIC SERVICES DEPARTMENT - PARKS AND
RECREATION DIVISION (CONSERVATION COLLIER) DUE
TO EXPANDED CUSTOMER AND/OR PROGRAM DEMAND,
AND AUTHORIZE ANY ASSOCIATED BUDGET
AMENDMENTS NEEDED – APPROVED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, that brings you to
Item 11C. It's a recommendation to authorize 20 additional full-time
equivalent positions as follows: Nine in the Growth Management
Community Development Department, three in the Collier County
Water/Sewer District, five in the Transportation Management
Services Road Maintenance Division, and three in the Public Services
Department Parks and Recreation Division for Conservation Collier
due to expanded customer and program demands, and authorize any
necessary budget amendments. Your senior leadership team,
Mr. French, Ms. Scott, Ms. Williams, and Mr. Yilmaz, are available
and will discuss the item.
MR. FRENCH: Good morning, Commissioners. Thank you
for your time today. For the record, Jamie French, your department
head for Community Development.
I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.
Otherwise, we've provided a brief presentation just to go over some
of the numbers. That was already provided to you in your backup
material.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Nobody -- well, there's
Commissioner Taylor. I almost got you past.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'd like to make a motion to
approve this. It's needed, and I think -- I'm very excited to see this.
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MR. FRENCH: Thank you, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I'll second that.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All right. It's been moved and
seconded.
Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I'd like to hear the
presentation first, and then I'd like to make some comments.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: And then we have public speakers.
MR. FRENCH: Sure. Thank you,
Commissioner -- Commissioners.
Again, I'm going to kind of start this off. I'll go over the
numbers that directly correlate with the area that's within my
purview, and then I'll turn it over to the other department heads --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Sure.
MR. FRENCH: -- for their presentation.
So just very high level, what we're seeking today is five fully
funded for Fund 113 and four FTEs for Fund 131. That equates to
two building inspectors and one plumbing; one plumbing inspector
mechanical -- I'm sorry. One building inspector in our mechanical.
That's your HVAC group; electrical inspector; and then one building
plans reviewer primarily with a plumbing license.
We're also seeking within our 131, our land-use side, is one
senior project manager, which would be a licensed engineer; one
senior field inspector, one principal planner; and one planner. You'll
notice none of these positions that we're asking for are support
professionals. These are all licensed, skilled professionals within
our organization that they're going to be in high detail review and
inspection process.
Permit activity overall, just year over year to give you a
snapshot. And, again, this was provided in your backup material.
Just to give you a good idea, as we can see, we're seeing that steady
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growth with 2018 being a little bit of a misnomer. It could have
been fluctuation in market, market prices, but we are starting to see
the average growth increase.
The building inspection activity, that's pretty significant. And
in your backup material we've indicated to you that our average
inspector's driving about 80 miles a day in this traffic, and they're
performing anywhere from 24 to 36 inspections per day. Now, when
we compare that to the City of Naples, City of Marco, and those other
areas within Collier County, they're also performing a high number of
inspections, but their average drive time, their windshield time is
somewhere between five and 10 miles.
So we're able to do this with the -- thankful to -- under the
leadership of the County Manager, he's given us some good direction
and supported us in the use of overtime, and we have taken advantage
of that to a point where I've actually had to take a stand and cap a
little bit overtime just for safety reasons because when you've got an
employee or got a skilled licensed professional that can come in at
4:30 in the morning and work till 10:00 at night, it goes beyond -- at
that point we've out-used the resource, so to speak. So we need
them to rest and get fresh legs for the morning.
Land development review activity, although you don't see -- you
see a more calculated approach with my leadership and under the
leadership of Mr. Bosi and Ms. Cook, what we -- with the Planning
Commission, what you don't see is a lot of the site development plans
that are administratively reviewed and approved and the correlation
that goes into that with the actual development activity.
And so, again, our summary is that we're asking nine FTEs, five
vehicles, because five of those positions are in the field. These are
fully funded by Enterprise Fund 113 and 119 -- I'm sorry, 131, my
apologies, and there is no cost, no impact to the General Fund.
This was unanimously supported by your Development Services
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Advisory Committee and the Collier Building Industry Association.
Is there any questions on the Growth Management Plan
Community Development?
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah. I mean, I'm
wanted -- I knew it was just a few slides, but I think it's just important
that, you know, the general public who watches this, you know, sees
these numbers. And, you know, we get a lot of complaints
sometimes that permitting isn't moving as fast and other
constructive-criticism type things. But, you know, it's not because
the county is sitting on their hands. You need the manpower and the
staff that you need.
Just a couple of comments. I recently attended a Development
Services Advisory Committee meeting, DSAC, and sat next to
Mr. French and heard from the people that run that committee how
your staff could really benefit from some help.
But I wanted to -- I wanted to really make a point. I spoke with
our County Manager yesterday, and we've got to make sure that you
have the dedicated HR support that you need. You know, one of the
challenges of any organization is when you have empty seats or
needed staff, then you get the FTEs, you advertise for the jobs, a
pouring of applications come in. Somebody's got to vet those,
interview the people, et cetera, et cetera. And from the conversation
I had with Mr. French and with Mr. Isackson is when that department
is so busy, sometimes juggling the daily work and then, you know,
the valuable people you're trying to hire.
So we had a great conversation yesterday where I know
Mr. Isackson and his team is working with HR. And in the past -- I
mean, I was educated in the past when we had these similar
challenges, and not that we moved anybody from HR, not that we
hired any extra people, but somebody or a person was identified as
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being maybe more dedicated or chopped, if you will, you know, or
matched to the different departments that were about to have a lot of
applications hit the -- hit the airwaves so that you could get through
those quickly and build the staff fast.
And so I liked what I heard from Mr. Isackson. You know, he's
got a lot of great ideas on how we can accelerate some support, you
know, for your department and others that are looking to hire more
people but, really, the HR piece is a key piece. I mean, if 50
applications come in and they sit on your -- and I'm not saying this
literally. But if they sit on a desk for an extended amount of time
because it takes time to vet and hire and interview and all that, then
you won't get these needed people you need.
So I was really encouraged yesterday talking to Mr. Isackson
about some unique things that, you know, I've done in the past in
different business ventures that I've had of how you could get a little
extra mileage out of HR and for a set amount of time, whether it's 30
or 60 days, or whatever is needed. Have them dedicate very specific
people to make it sort of their priority to really work hard with you so
that when people apply for these jobs that we're going to advertise
that we can move a little bit quicker and get them up on staff and up
and running so we can deliver, you know, better customer service.
So I appreciate what Mr. Isackson and what Ms. Patterson said
in my office to, you know, their close relationship with HR.
And then, Jamie, just as you and I talked about, it's a -- it's a
dance, you know, it's a balance. But anything you can do -- you
know, the easy part's approving these, actually. The hard part's then,
you know, getting these folks in.
So let us know if you're hitting a wall somewhere or you need
help or, you know, whatever. And it's not throwing HR under the
bus or the County Manager, but we're all a team here. So like I said,
it's easy to just say, you know -- you know, I second the motion,
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everybody approves, and then, you know, we're sitting here months
later, and maybe you've got a stack of applications but not necessarily
interviews and hires and all that.
So, you know, we're here to help you as well, and County
Manager's Office has pledged that he's going to work very closely
with HR to help ensure that we put a priority on supporting you in
any way we can and the other -- the other folks that are adding FTEs.
So thank you.
MR. FRENCH: Certainly appreciate that, Commissioner.
And just to note during the first recession, or the recession not that
long ago, and certainly not outside of our -- that escapes our memory.
But if not for Mr. Isackson and Ms. Lyberg, we would not have been
as successful over the past years, because they have been really
wonderful partners as well as the County Attorney's Office and Jeff
giving his good guidance. But the only thing that we would ask for
is perhaps -- and I'm joking, but maybe we could make it illegal for
the private sector or for other governments to recruit our staff, but
that might be helpful.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
MR. FRENCH: Would you like to hear from the other
departments?
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I knew you had -- I'm just
saying for me, I wanted -- I knew you had some big numbers in here
that I think are echoed in the other departments. I don't necessarily
need to hear, but if my colleagues want to hear their other
presentations, but this is all paddling in the same direction.
And the other departments are going to always need accelerated
HR help as well to make sure we actually fill and we don't miss
out -- because one of the things that also happens is someone applies
for a job at the county who's a superstar never hears from the county,
we find out six months later or six days later they're working for
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Arthrex. You know, they're working for something else and, you
know, they moved a lot faster than we did, and we lost somebody
who really did want to work for the county, so we want to prevent
that.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Jamie.
Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: For some reason I do not have
this presentation in my packet, the one that you're showing now.
MR. FRENCH: This is -- I'm sorry, ma'am. This was just a
summarization of what was provided to you in the attached materials.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I would -- if each of the
department heads have this kind of presentation, the visual on a slide,
I would very much like that.
MR. FRENCH: A copy of it?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes, please.
MR. FRENCH: Yes, ma'am, no problem.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. It would be very
helpful, County Manager, if we could get the complete presentation
before they're presented.
MR. ISACKSON: Understood.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Very good. It's been moved and
seconded that we approve these requests. Is there any other
discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Public comment.
MR. MILLER: Yes, sir. We have three registered speakers
for this item, two here in the room and one online. Amelia Vasquez
will be followed by Dan Cook.
MS. VASQUEZ: Good morning, Commissioners. My name
is Amelia Vasquez. I'm the executive officer for the Collier
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Building Industry Association.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today
concerning Agenda Item 11C, the staff positions requested today by
the Collier County Growth Management Department, Jamie French.
On behalf of Collier Building Industry Association leadership
and members, I am pleased to share our support of the staff positions.
Your vote in this action will result in no fiscal impact to the General
Fund, as Jamie explained, and there will be no additional increase in
fees to fund these positions. With the addition of nine requested
positions, our Growth Management Division will be able to continue
to provide the quality service and better support attrition rates and
retirements in the departments.
Let me also add that we work very closely with Jamie French
and his staff to provide quality service and applications, inspection
requests from our members, saving time and money for both the staff
and the professionals that we serve.
I appreciate this opportunity to speak with you concerning this
agenda item. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your next speaker is Dan Cook. He'll be
followed online by H. Michael Mogil.
MR. COOK: Good morning, Commissioners, Board.
When I looked through the agenda this morning, I read through
11C, and the thing that came to my mind is government is growing.
And that's normally a red flag for me to just be a little weary of that;
however, after the presentation, I'm glad to hear that money's not
coming from the General Fund, so I don't think it's affecting
taxpayers, so that's not an issue for me anymore.
However, I would just say whatever this fund that the money is
coming from doesn't negate the fact that we should -- you know, if
we're running a business and we have to hire more staff, is it
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absolutely necessary? I guess that's my point.
And so as you as commissioners, you've already looked through
the packet, you're privy to a lot more information than I am. So I
just merely want to ask and reiterate and encourage you to really look
through and to ask if the county managers are doing everything
possible to work within the budget that they already have, the staff
that they already have, and really know for sure if this is necessary.
And like I said, I don't know the ins and outs of this. I don't know
how needed these positions are or not, but I just wanted to share the
concern just for fiscal responsibility, so thank you.
MR. MILLER: Your final speaker for this item online, H.
Michael Mogil. Sir, you're being prompted to unmute yourself, if
you'll do so at this time. And there you are. You have three
minutes, sir.
MR. MOGIL: Thank you. We're talking about expanded
customer and program demand. And what I read in the brief writeup
and what I just heard in the presentation is we need more people in
order to have more growth which means that we'll need more people.
We are already building or overbuilding at a record pace as
based on the graphs that were just presented, and that trend line says
that we'll be back next year or the year after that for more people.
So what I want to do is find out about things that we're doing
now. And this isn't about the construction piece. This is about just
keeping the median strip vegetation trimmed so drivers can see the
oncoming traffic. This is an ongoing thing that doesn't require
inspectors, and yet the county's not doing a good job on this.
I drive an SUV, and I can tell you that I'm high, and I can't see
over the vegetation. What about all the drivers that are in small
cars?
So I'm going to go back to my experience in the National
Weather Service for three decades where I had to specifically justify
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new positions, not just a statement that we needed them or the
program needed them, and not a blanket statement that there's no
cost, because there is a cost in putting new people in here. If it's not
in direct cost, it's going to be in benefits. And if it's not in benefits,
it's going to be in something else.
So I had to justify every single position that we justified. We
either had to reprogram, we had to re-prioritize. We had to move
people around. We had to do stuff before somebody said, here, have
new FTEs. And I don't see that here. I just see a blanket statement
that everything's good.
So what I would like to do is ask that we get some more details
about this. Where is the money coming from these positions? If,
indeed, it is being reprogrammed from somewhere else, then I think
that should be part of the presentation.
And what I would do is urge that before we hire new FTEs no
matter how, quote, necessary it is at this moment, that we have a little
bit more Sunshine in this to see if we really need 20 new FTEs or
maybe we need 10 or maybe we do need 20, I don't know. But I
think maybe we need more detail, and I'd like to see it before it gets
approved.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Mike.
MR. MILLER: That was your final speaker on this.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Very good. Is there any other
discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been moved and seconded that
we approve as directed by the --
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: May I make one comment?
No, I think it's important. I want to address, if I could.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Yeah.
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COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Just as a comment about the
medians and, you know, the county's not doing anything. Just, you
know, for the record, not all medians and sides of the roads are
created equal, as we know. Our county works really hard with
Florida Department of Transportation, and many of those areas that
may be -- might be overgrown -- and I don't disagree that we have
some areas that need attention -- are FDOT's responsibility. And I
don't say that to kick the can, but I really applaud the county.
FDOT right now is in serious, serious lack of staff. They're
doing the same thing that we are, but it's not adding staff; they're
trying to replace staff. But, you know, those that work for the
county that are hearing me speak right now -- and I know the County
Manager's been really instrumental in making sure that in areas
where we had serious overgrowth that we didn't just sit here and wait
for FDOT to show up, that we actually partnered in some areas to
make sure things got cut.
But to the speaker's comments about, you know, the medians
being overgrown and the county not doing anything, a lot of what is
being observed by residents is actually under FDOT's control. And
we've been really proactive to try to work with them during a time
where they're really short staffed. So it's not an excuse, but just a
clarification of it's not the county doing nothing.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: And I just would like to say, you
know, it's a -- it's important for us to remember that folks that come
to the podium or speak to us in person necessarily have the right to
say whatever they want even if it isn't correct. And so we have to
resist the urge to respond.
But similar when I spoke to Mike earlier about asking questions,
we don't ask questions during this period of time. This is a portion
of public comment. And any of the circumstances that are, in fact,
addressed, we are -- we have the -- we have that information and that
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knowledge and that recommendation from our staff.
So I just -- it's important for me, for us to -- for us to realize that
when folks -- when folks come to the podium to speak with us, they
have the right to say necessarily whatever they want, express their
concerns, and then we can address those concerns as is, in fact,
required, so...
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Well, I thought it was
required there, and I don't think we -- I would respectfully disagree.
I don't think we resist the urge, because if incorrect information is
hanging out there on public comment, I think the average person
watching us, then that's their last takeaway. So if secretly we answer
his question or correct the record in secret with a one-to-one email,
the rest of the public doesn't get the benefit of that.
So I'm not saying in every particular case, but when broad
statements are made under public comment -- and I welcome when
they're correct or not -- but I think, you know, at any time -- you
know, we've seen this before where the County Manager has injected
in or an attorney said, for the record, what was just stated, you know,
needs a little more clarification.
So in this particular case I just wanted to add that clarification,
because I know how hard our county staff is working to partner and
work with FDOT to address those issues.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All right. It's been moved and
seconded. With no further discussion, all in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
MR. FRENCH: Thank you.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Commissioners.
Item #11D
THE BOARD AWARD REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 21-7891,
COLLIER AREA TRANSIT CAD/AVL, TO INEO SYSTRANS
USA, INC. D/B/A ENGIE IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,102,051 AND
AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED
AGREEMENT – APPROVED
Item 11D is a recommendation that the Board award Request for
Proposal No. 21-7891, Collier Area Transit CAD/AVL to Ineo
Systrans USA, Inc., doing business as NG in the amount of
$2,102,051, and authorize the Chairman to sign the attached
agreement.
Your Public Transit & Neighborhood Enhancement Division
director, Michelle Arnold, will present.
MS. ARNOLD: Good morning.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: There you are.
MS. ARNOLD: It's been a long time, I feel like, I've been
standing at this podium. But I'm here to present to you this contract.
Just a little bit of background. We've had a CAT/AVL or a
computer-aided dispatch and automated vehicle locater system,
which has a lot of other components associated with it that I'll go
over in a little bit for over 10 years now.
We went through a very intense process recently, and back in
2020 we hired a consultant to evaluate all of our technology and help
us to prepare a roadmap going forward to determine where we go
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with our technology, whether or not we should be just upgrading
some of our existing technology or replacing it altogether.
And with that roadmap we started the various procurement
processes, and we are here today to address one of the many
components that was identified in that assessment to address the
CAD/AVL and improve our products and our various technology on
there, including some of the farebox.
This proposed system will provide for us, as I indicated, an
integrated intelligence system, or a CAD/AVL system, that that
system helps us with monitoring where the buses are on the roadway
and help us to track our on-time performance.
Another component is a mobile data terminal which is the little
computers that are on our buses that helps us with logging on for our
drivers and all of the various components that they were having to
track with passengers getting on and off of the bus. And we have an
automated voice annunciator system which helps with our ADA
compliance. That helps for the visually impaired that are utilizing
our system to know when the next stop is coming.
The automated voice annunciator also helps with some of our
advertising technology on the bus as well.
We've got automated passenger counters that's included with
this. We track boarding and alighting of all of our -- at all of our
stops, and it helps us with planning for future routing and stop
locations.
We've got -- this system will help us integrate with our
electronic fareboxes, and that's a new proposal that's going to be
coming back to you-all in a couple months.
Onboard sign infotainment system is another component of this,
and that's going to provide us some digital information for our
passengers as well as digital advertising in the future.
One of the new components that's going to be included in this
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award is the piloting of a traffic signal prioritization. That's -- we're
working with our traffic ops team, and they're going to be working
with us identifying appropriate locations where we could look to
allow the bus to have signal priority when we're running behind, and
that's going to be limited times, hopefully, that we use that.
There's -- those are the highlights in terms of the various
components that are included in this proposal.
We worked with our procurement staff and did a solicitation
where we had three responsive bidders, and they're identified here on
the slide. The recommendation is to award the bid to ENGIE, I'm
going to leave it at that, doing business as ENGIE. That's a pretty
successful company that has a lot of experience with this type of
technology.
Staff did negotiate with the vendor and was able to reduce the
costs about 267,225. And the overall award is for $2.1 million. All
those funds would be 100 percent funded from government -- or
federal grants that we were successful to obtain.
And staff is just recommending at this time that you award the
contract to Ineo Tran Systems [sic] USA or doing business as
ENGIE.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'd like to make a motion to that
effect, please.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: For approval, okay.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been moved and seconded that
we follow the staff recommendations on the -- on the agenda item
and engage with ENGIE. Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
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CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved. Thank you, Michelle.
MS. ARNOLD: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It was good seeing you.
MS. ARNOLD: Nice seeing you, also.
Item #11E
AWARD REQUEST FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”)
NO. 21-7911, “DESIGN SERVICES FOR COLLIER COUNTY
MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY," TO RG ARCHITECTS, P.A., TO
PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL DESIGN AND RELATED
SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,462,809 – APPROVED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 11E.
It's a recommendation to award Request for Professional Services
No. 21-7911, "Design Services for the Collier County Mental Health
Facility" to RG Architects, P.A., to provide professional design and
related services in the amount of $2,462,809. I don't see Mr. Finn in
the audience. Oh, there he is. He escaped me.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Hastily arriving; hastily arriving.
MR. ISACKSON: Mr. Ed Finn, your director of Facilities
Management, will present.
MR. FINN: Thank you, Mr. Isackson. I've perfected the
just-in-time management approach.
Mr. Chairman, Edward Finn, Facilities Management director.
I'm here today to -- it's a good-news item -- get the Board's
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approval on Professional Services Request No. 21-7911, design
services for the surtax-funded Collier County Mental Health Facility.
The only exception I will note here is that I will point out that
we are fully committed to this project. This is a major community
project funded by the surtax, and this has the full attention of myself
and my staff. And our intent is to prosecute this to the best of our
ability.
I would point out that one little thing in here involves -- this
design contract includes the entitlement work for property that this
facility's going to be built on, and that was originally the
responsibility of the David Lawrence Center. The cost of that is
about $91,000. It's included in this design. It was a request that
DLC made to county staff through the County Manager's Office a
few months back. We are acknowledging that we're going to do that
on their behalf or now it will be our responsibility. The contracts we
have with DLC will be amended and brought before the Board, and
they will reflect that change.
Other than that, I would request a motion to award Request for
Professional Services No. 21-7911 for Collier County Mental Health
Facility design services and authorize the Chairman to sign same.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah. And I'd just like to thank
the County Manager and Ed and the whole team. I think maybe Ed
can introduce the whole team back there, because, you know, we've
got the A team working on this. Thank you very much for that.
And I appreciate the attention and the priority that you're all putting
on this, because this is -- this is a big deal, and thanks for -- for all of
the extra efforts to prioritize this. And I think the change into the
county staff handling the entitlements makes sense to me. It just -- I
mean, it's what we do --
MR. FINN: Yes, sir.
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COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- you know, and so I support that
completely. And, again, thanks for all of the dedication and
attention that everyone is putting into this. It's very much
appreciated, and I would make a motion to approve it.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been moved and seconded that
we approve as presented with that one -- does it require us to talk
about the adjustment or just note that that adjustment was part of?
MR. FINN: I simply wanted that noted for the record.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay.
MR. FINN: We will be bringing those contracts before the
Board.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: You said that, yes, sir.
MR. FINN: That will be technically where we adjust it.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been moved and seconded.
Any other discussion? Do we have public comment?
MR. MILLER: (Shakes head.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
MR. FINN: Thank you, sir. Mr. Chairman --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Can you introduce the team?
MR. FINN: If I may, given an opportunity, I always want to
thank the team. We have among some of our most senior and
experienced staff on this. That would be Ayoub Al-Bahou and
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Claudia Roncoroni. I just want to thank them for their efforts.
Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Ed.
Item #12B
RESOLUTION 2022-45: APPOINTING PAUL SHAE TO THE
AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE –
ADOPTED
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, that brings us to Item 12.
12B was brought forward, formerly Item 16K1. It's a
recommendation to appoint members to the Affordable Housing
Committee. This was brought forward by Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Thank you.
I just wanted to give this a little clarification for the Board.
Another good-news story that came out of our meeting two weeks
ago about how we want to light a fire, we want to accelerate our
focus on affordable housing. So what this does is -- I guess way
back when, I mean, I was educated by some folks that are on
the -- have been on the Affordable Housing Committee for a while,
and they said what an advantage it was to have somebody from the
Planning Commission who would have a seat on the Affordable
Housing Advisory Committee to answer very specific questions, and
it was very valuable at the time. They named the names of people
who had taken that role before, and then it just disappeared one day.
But we all said, why can't we bring it back, and we ran it
through the channels. So we're going to be adding, it's sounded like
to me, Paul Shea, I believe, is the person from the Planning
Commission. Mr. Shea is going to be an add-on. And then also on
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top of that, and it's not, you know, part of this line item, but in
addition, in the conversation from our affordable housing
meeting -- advisory committee meeting yesterday, there was a lot of
questions that were in Mr. French's area of Growth Management.
And so we want to be much more proactive, and rather than just
talk via emails and have it -- you know, we kick the can for two
weeks or whatever, Mr. French agreed to attend the next Affordable
Housing Committee meeting in early April and separate rumor from
fact, help us get our hands around certain things and be part of the
accelerated solution.
So, really, we're going to be permanently adding Paul Shea from
the Planning Commission and, Mr. French, I appreciate you attending
the April meeting, because there's a lot of things that you can help
educate. We have a lot of new members, too, in the Affordable
Housing Advisory Committee.
So I really just wanted to put a little spotlight that this just
wasn't, oh, we're asking for an extra chair. We're bringing in a very,
very specific piece of expertise that had helped this committee in the
past and, you know, will do so again. So another improvement.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Do we need to make a motion on
those adjustments?
MR. ISACKSON: It would be appropriate, sir, yes. Thank
you.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I make a motion that we
approve.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Second.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: It's been seconded.
Commissioner Taylor, so that brings something I was going to
bring up at the correspondence. The City of Naples has made a
request, not in writing, but I do present to them once a month. They
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would like a seat on the Affordable Housing Committee. So I don't
know -- I don't know what the pleasure of this board is, but I'm
bringing that towards you.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: It was mentioned at
Monday's meeting, but it was sort of an aside. Somebody else had
heard it. I don't know that, you know, necessarily we need, you
know, a formal request written in, you know, letters or whatnot.
Jacob's getting up here. But somebody mentioned it at the meeting,
and we thought I don't know if that's good or bad. It all sounds great
to me. We didn't vote on it because we weren't really sure how
formal of a request it was or if somebody just thought it was a neat
idea.
But, Jacob, if you want to sort of fill in the --
MR. LaROW: Good morning, Commissioners. Jacob LaRow,
your Affordable Housing manager.
To Commissioner LoCastro's point, yes, I've been
communicating with the Florida Housing Coalition which is our
technical advisory committee that advises us on our SHIP program,
the local housing assistance plan that we put together.
And so I know there had been a query about a City of Naples
elected official position. We did have clarification from the Florida
Housing Coalition that is something that the board could act on at a
future date. And I also had submitted a formal request for legal
services to the County Attorney's Office, and they did confirm that
that was something that was allowable under our ordinances that this
board has previously passed.
So just as a note, a clarification, with the appointment of Paul
Shea, we will be full. The committee can only have a maximum of
11 members. So after -- presumably, here in a couple minutes, we'll
have 11 members, but this coming October, we'll have three positions
that the terms for those positions will expire, and that would provide
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an opportunity for a City Council -- a City of Naples councilmember
to be appointed as well.
And one other just sidenote, the County Attorney's Office did
further indicate that should the Board wish to do so, a City Council
member from the City of Naples could be appointed as an advisory
member of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee but would
not have any voting rights until such time a vacancy would arise,
presumably in the fall.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Yeah, I will add that, now
that I'm recalling the conversation that we had, which was very
informal, there was a few people on the board that felt like the City of
Naples was already represented. I can't remember -- Jacob, you
might be able to clarify. But, remember, there was two or three that
didn't hate the idea or anything, but if the whole thing was to make
sure that representation was on the board and not necessarily if it was
an elected official or not.
And then I'd echo the same thing you would say, anyone can
attend our meetings at any time. So if there's an elected official that
wants to sort of wait his or her turn or for us to vote, they could have
been coming to these meetings all the time. You know, they didn't
need to wait for a seat at the table. I mean, we have citizens that
come all the time, and they're not, you know, appointed or anything,
and we also mentioned that.
Am I correct, weren't there a few that have been on our
committee for a while who felt that it might be -- and we were just
brainstorming. Nobody was shooting anything down. But weren't
there a few that felt like the City of Naples, not by an elected official,
but as educated developers, whatnot, felt like they were represented?
It may or may not be enough, so nobody was shooting anything
down. But didn't -- wasn't that the conversation?
MR. LaROW: Yes, Commissioner, your recollection is correct.
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I think a number of them said by residency that they reside within the
city and so were presumably representing the city.
Residency and jurisdiction is one of the statutory qualifications
that we have to meet for AHAC, and we do have at least two, I
believe, on AHAC that represent that, but that is for the county as a
whole, not necessarily the city. But the question, I think, that was
posed to staff was for a City Council member to be represented and
not just a resident.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Right.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes, yes, exactly, a City
Council. So I think maybe from this point on understanding there's
no vacancies at this time, given state statute, what we can do is I'll
ask the city to write a formal letter of request to specify that they
would like an elected official on this board, and then once you get it,
maybe you can respond accordingly, and then we'll start that process.
I think it's important to have that letter.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I think that's a good way to
proceed. We've got items here with -- that's been moved and
seconded for the other positions' appointments, and having that
specifically from the city would be a great way to handle that.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: All right. Thank you very
much.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. It's been moved and
seconded that those appointments be rendered. Any other
discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All in favor?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Aye.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Aye.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Aye.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Opposed, same sign, same sound.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: So moved.
MR. ISACKSON: Thank you, Commissioners.
That moves us to Item 15 on your agenda. It's general
communications from the County Manager's Office, the County
Attorney, and the Board.
I'd like to start off with a couple things. One is I'd like Kristi
Sonntag to come to the podium and give the Board a flavor for what's
going on in the rental assistance program and some of the most recent
news reports that have come out, just so the Board has a flavor for
what we're trying to do there.
Kristi.
MS. SONNTAG: Good morning, Commissioners. Kristi
Sonntag, your Community and Human Services director.
I'm pleased to report that on March 17th we will open the
American Recovery portal that will allow for rental assistance for
those persons 81 percent and above the area median income and also
assist homeowners who have housing instability related to their
mortgage, and those would be folks from 0 to 140 percent. And as
you know, most of the programs that we do offer, the federally
funded programs, assist those 80 percent and below.
So this is a nice opportunity for the community to expand the
range of services that we can offer, and it also opens it up to a larger
group of individuals. So we're really excited about that.
I'm also happy to report that we've entered into an agreement
with Legal Aid to offer free legal services to folks facing foreclosure
and eviction. I'm happy to report three people have already accessed
that program. We just entered into a contract last week, so that's
exciting.
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And also we have a contract with HELP. Many of you might
be familiar with that organization, and they are our housing
navigators. So the role of the housing navigator will be to try to
secure housing for folks, work with landlords, try to encourage
landlords to participate in our ERA program and in our ARP
program. And everyone who goes through our American Recovery
Program will be offered financial counseling to help them get back
on their feet if they're behind on rent, mortgage, and so forth.
So we're really excited about the new programs, and I thank you
for your support with the American Recovery Program. You'll be
seeing an amendment the end of March. I don't even know what
month we're in; sorry. You'll be seeing an amendment the end of
March, and I think you'll be pleased with some of the changes that
are happening with the program. So any questions?
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I have a brief comment. I just -- I
really, really appreciate what you are, in fact, doing. And it's
important for the community to be aware of that these assistance
programs don't go to the tenant, don't go to the person that's
got -- that's behind on their mortgage payment. There's a
verification process and a collaborative effort with the landlord
and/or the mortgagor who are the ultimate recipient of these relief
funds. This isn't -- that's one of -- it's just important for the public to
hear that, that those are very, very tightly monitored to get the
assistance, because that was our board's direction back in the day
when the CARES money came available and this program became
available, that this board wanted that assistance to go to the people
who were in need of it. And so our staff's been moving in that
regard, and I really appreciate -- really appreciate your efforts.
Thank you.
MS. SONNTAG: Thanks. I couldn't do it without all the staff
and definitely the Clerk's Office. I need to give them some kudos.
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They push out a lot of checks every month, and they've been really
great partners with us, and I really appreciate that, so...
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Thank you, Kristi, again.
MS. SONNTAG: Okay, thanks.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All right.
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, just a reminder of some of
your critical dates for the budget cycle, if I can.
MR. MILLER: I don't know why that's not working.
MR. ISACKSON: If I can get this thing to work.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Somebody hit the power button
already.
MR. ISACKSON: That's all right. I'll just -- I'll just announce
them.
Commissioners, a reminder that your submittals for the Sheriff,
Supervisor of Elections, and the Clerk of Courts are on May 1st.
Your budget workshop dates are June 16th and, if necessary,
June 17th. You adopt your tentative maximum Fiscal Year '23
millage rates on Tuesday, July 12th, 2022. The Board receives their
tentative budget for '23 on Friday July 15th, 2022, and your public
hearings in September are September 8th, 2022, and your final
hearing is September 22nd, 2022.
Along those same lines, I know Dan Rodriguez, Deputy County
Manager's, also trying to work with the City of Naples to get an
acceptable date for the workshop with the city. There are a number
of items that have been going back and forth in terms of the agenda
for that meeting. So as soon as we get an update on that, I will let
the Board know and schedule that date, so...
That's all I have.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Very good.
County Attorney?
MR. KLATZKOW: Nothing.
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CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Just -- actually, I was remiss in not
giving a shout-out to the Deputy County Manager, Dan Rodriguez,
for also stepping in and, with Sean Callahan's departure, really
spearheading the oversight of the facility and the data collaborative,
which were the two most -- two of the most important parts of the
strategic plan. So, thank you, Dan, for jumping in on that. I should
have said that before.
That's all I have.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: I do.
We started on a real positive note this morning recognizing
some superstars. We had Scott Baio here from Happy Days, Joanie
Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge, and all that he's doing, and got a
report right now he's having a super time with Sheriff Rambosk and
all of our law enforcement team out at the hangar and doing a bunch
of things.
We recognized James, our Supervisor of the Year, amazing;
Heather and her -- well, she was one that had all the cheerleaders
with her, right? She's the Employee of the Year.
So this county staff is full of superstars, but what you probably
don't know is we actually have a superhero on our county staff.
Troy, can I have the first slide, please.
Keith, come forward here. I want you all to know this is what
our chief of security and executive protection does in his off-time.
So this is our Captain America at NCH in his off-time. We didn't
pay for this, right, Keith? I just want to make sure this
is -- yeah -- in his off-time.
Troy, why don't you run through the slides. This is him visiting
children at NCH. Got a report from my friends at NCH that just say
this is like one of the biggest things that -- and you'll see it's not just
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the kids. Then all the staff comes out. Yeah, if we could make
those a little bit bigger. There's some -- I mean, you know, this is
one of our own on his own time just doing -- look at that. That's the
NCH staff. So if you don't think they try to keep him there as long
as humanly possible -- and he puts amazing smiles on the faces of
children.
I don't think anybody really knew who he was except for
Captain America. It was covered by a lot of news agencies as a
good-news story. And, you know, so many times in here we're
dealing with really serious and important issues, but it's nice to end
on a good note.
You know, Mr. Wallace, I've got to say, you were a true
professional. You know, you provided some security to me when I
had a couple of death threats against me at a recent event. Not
really. But, you know, you've always said, never miss the
opportunity that if you think something can possibly go wrong, that's
what you're here for. I appreciated that. But, more importantly, for
what you do for the community. I didn't want to miss the
opportunity. I'm sure some people saw this online and whatnot.
But, you know, you truly are somebody that deserves recognition.
You're one of our law enforcement superstars and also superhero.
So thank you, sir, for what you're doing --
MR. WALLACE: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: -- and how you're doing it.
And, you know, you're really making us all proud.
MR. WALLACE: Thank you.
(Applause.)
MR. WALLACE: Can I say something?
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Sure.
MR. WALLACE: Hello. So a little over five-and-a-half years
ago I came to Collier County. I remember when I used to watch the
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Board on TV. At first I thought, I was like, what are they talking
about? It's like, you know, it's not boring, but it's not something I
paid attention to.
But then when I actually started working for Collier County as a
security contractor, I actually found out exactly what the Board was
doing. I mean, you're actually planning for the future, not for you,
but -- and not for the people in the audience but their kids and their
families down the long run. So you're actually shaping the future for
a long-term value and not just for personal gain.
So, to me, that's pretty awesome. And I like providing security
for each one of you. I think I've done that for each one of you. And
I just love what I do.
So this was something I thought about doing for years and didn't
have an outlet for it. But then after I was Captain America for
Halloween, I was like, okay, now I may have an opportunity to put on
the suit and actually do that. So long time coming. NCH is, you
know, a great organization, and they received me well, and I think I
got more out of it than they did, so it was awesome.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Outstanding. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Thank you.
MR. WALLACE: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: That's all I have. Thank
you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Outstanding.
Commissioner Taylor.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'm going to let -- if you don't
mind -- I'm -- well, I think everybody's in the room. Mr. Bellows is
not coming?
MR. FRENCH: He's on his way.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Pardon me? Yeah, I'd like to
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wait until Mr. Bellows arrives. He's on his way. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: I don't have anything to add
this afternoon.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. Well, I have -- what's Ray
coming for; recognition?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: No, not recognition, an
awareness --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. All right.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: If you could --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: We'll muddle along here with my
notes. I do have one thing. I've been approached by -- you-all
remember the Randall property, commercial district, a special
subdistrict on the south side of Randall east of the Mobil station that
goes all the way to the county-owned land where the Forestry
Department is. There's been a suggestion that they enter
in -- because -- they enter into a mediation arrangement to renegotiate
their -- or reappropriate their DCA, their Developer Contribution
Agreement.
And so I spoke with the County Attorney about it yesterday, and
I would like to seek Board authorization to allow him to move
forward with that. I tried for almost a year working with that group.
There's eight or nine people that are involved in that commercial
subdistrict and -- all over the country where they reside. So I'd like
to allow the County Attorney to work with them to find out if, in fact,
a satisfactory or a plausible developer contribution, DCA, can
actually be accommodated for that group. So.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: What's the issue?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah, I don't understand.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Well, they have a DCA for the --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right.
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CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: -- for the subdistrict, and the
DCA's with the defunct bankrupt -- or I don't know that they're
actually bankrupt. Out of business development company, a
developer that no longer exists and property ownership changes that
have transpired since.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Doesn't that carry with the
property, the DCA? Doesn't that --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Yes.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: -- carry underlying -- whoever
the owner is, that's what they -- that was the agreement; is that
correct?
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes. They're looking to renegotiate the
agreement.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: To renegotiate the agreement?
MR. KLATZKOW: Yeah. What happened was once upon a
time, the county got into a deal. I believe his name was Sullivan.
There was a Comprehensive Plan amendment that would have
allowed those tracts of lands to become commercial. In exchange,
the county got a promise for needed right-of-way.
Over -- you had the crash and nothing's happened with the
property since then. There are -- as Commissioner McDaniel noted,
there are eight or nine different property owners involved, the State
Forestry Service was involved, the fire district is involved in this.
It's a very complicated deal.
They're just asking if they could sit down with a mediation
process, see if everybody can work out a proposal that I could then
bring back to the Board for your consideration. You could always
say no.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: You could always say no. But,
there again -- and, again, it's -- this is the request that came to me,
and the County Attorney suggested that I get the head nod to allow
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him to proceed. Nothing happens -- nothing happens unless this
board ultimately approves it.
But as it stands, there is an un-developable piece of property
with the current DCA. They don't have anything to sell. The
property owners wish to sell this piece of property, but they don't
have a -- they don't have a DCA that is functional. So there's the --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Can we just put this on the next
agenda or something? Just get a -- I mean, I just feel like I don't
understand --
MR. KLATZKOW: I would be happy to bring back for the
next agenda --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: -- what the issues are.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- the issues, yes.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Number two, job description with
our magistrate. Is that what we're waiting on Mr. Bellows for?
MR. ISACKSON: No. Why don't we -- Mr. Bosi is fully
versed on, I think, what Commissioner Taylor wants to talk about,
and --
MR. KLATZKOW: I would prefer if Mr. Bosi [sic] was here,
because there were certain statements that were -- not Mr. Bosi -- Mr.
Bellows was here, because there were certain statements attributed to
him that I'd like to hear in public.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Let's go ahead and take care of our
magistrate and that job offering that's out there as well.
MR. KLATZKOW: Would you like me?
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I would like you to.
MR. KLATZKOW: We are currently soliciting for a new
magistrate. When I learned this, I was told that we were doing this
because Brenda wanted to retire. At the last special magistrate
hearing, I approached Brenda. I said, you know, before I go out and
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start asking some people if they'd like to apply, is it your intent to
retire? She said absolutely not.
I'm not entirely sure what's going on, but I do know that it's not
up to staff to fire your special magistrate; that's up to you. So
whether or not you want to give Brenda an amendment to the contract
to extend her or if you want to solicit for a new special magistrate,
that's a Board decision. She is your contract employee. She does
not work for staff.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: When does the contract currently
expire?
MR. KLATZKOW: May 15.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: May 15th.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: I think every time, at least that I
recall, when the contract expired, it went out to bid, and we talked to
people. I mean, I remember that last time.
MR. KLATZKOW: That has not been the entire history.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay.
MR. KLATZKOW: What is happening is staff wants a new
special magistrate, so they're going through this process. Last time
we went through this before where you had a public discussion on
this. Before -- I think the appropriate thing before going out for a
solicitation would be to get Board direction whether or not that's what
the Board wants, or if the Board simply wants to extend. It's your
contract employee.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: How about if we -- how about if
we set it as an agenda item for our first meeting in -- where we at?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: April, yes. I mean, does that give
us sufficient time to --
MR. KLATZKOW: That gives us sufficient time, yes.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: And we can actually have a
discussion, review the contract, and review the job offering that's out
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there, and then make a decision as a board without just -- without just
a casual head nod with regard to how we wish to proceed. And if we
don't make a decision at that time, we can certainly -- if the
magistrate is of the mind, we can extend the contract appropriately to
be able to get to where we're needing to go.
MR. KLATZKOW: I will bring you an item first meeting in
April if that's what your desire is.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: That is mine. I'm the one that
brought it up. Are you okay with that?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah. No, I don't -- so
we -- they've already gone -- we've already gone out into the
community asking for people to send --
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes. We want to do a solicitation.
You've got one response. I've got two other people I think would be
highly qualified for that who I've already spoken to. But before I
pursue this, it's -- this is your contract employee.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And so our decision is to allow
this to proceed?
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: No. I think what we're saying is,
let's bring this back as an agenda item so we can have a discussion
about what's going on. That's the way I feel.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Well, what our intentions are. Do
we --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Yeah, what our intentions are.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Do we wish to keep the current
magistrate, or do we -- and do we -- are we the ones that set the
parameters for the solicitation for the new magistrate? That's the --
MR. KLATZKOW: This is no different than what you're doing
now with your County Manager. It's no different.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Or the hearing examiner.
MR. KLATZKOW: Or the hearing examiner or anybody else.
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It's -- you're the ones who direct what the process is.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: That's correct. So -- it was -- so
we'll have that -- without further discussion, we'll go forth and have
an actual agenda item at our first meeting in April and make a
decision then with all of the information provided to us.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: All right. So is Mr. Bellows --
MR. ISACKSON: I'm being told that Mr. Bellows is about 10
minutes out. So do you want to take a break for 10 minutes?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: It's important.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: We're about due for a court
reporter break.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Well, you know, do you want to
take lunch and come back at 1:00, or do you want to take 10 minutes
and do a court reporter break and then come back?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yeah, I would prefer that. I
think it's better.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Let's take 10.
MR. KLATZKOW: You do have a bond closing, too.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: I know that.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Oh, the bond closing.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Yeah, but that's not you. It's just
me going and signing paperwork.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: And you need to be part -- you
need to be --
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Do what?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: You need to be part of this.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Right. They'll wait on me. They
won't go anywhere without me. Let's give him 15, 12:15. How's
that?
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
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(A brief recess was had from 11:59 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.)
MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, you have a live mic.
Item #15
STAFF AND COMMISSION GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Yes, yes, yes. Good afternoon.
We have one more item here, Commissioner Taylor, for your -- under
15, comments.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you very much for your
patience and indulgence in this for everyone to stay later. This is
important because it happened last night. This is -- the first NIM
meeting for the conversion of a golf course to residential happened
last night for the Rivera Golf Community, and it was held at New
Hope Church. I was there, and so was Mr. Bellows there, and I'd
like Mr. Bellows to come up and relay what happened, please.
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows. I did attend
the stakeholders outreach meeting that was held for the conversion of
the Rivera golf course. It was very well attended. Matter of fact,
there was not enough seats to accommodate all those who wanted to
attend. And because of that, we felt that there was an issue, and the
applicant felt there was an issue with occupancy of the building being
exceeded.
So we tried to see if anyone -- or the applicant asked if anyone
wanted to leave and then we'd reschedule a follow-up meeting.
Nobody wanted to leave, so they were forced to cancel the meeting.
And we did get some conversations with Paula McMichael,
who's representing the applicant, along with Rich Yovanovich, who's
also representing the applicant. No commitments were made about
whether this meeting counted towards their requirement of two
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outreach meetings.
We did have a follow-up conversation with Bob Mulhere this
morning and told him we would be working with Mike Bosi and our
attorney's office to finalize how we proceed.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: So in your opinion, was it the
neighbors that disrupted the meeting and caused the meeting to end,
or was it the lack of planning?
MR. BELLOWS: Well, my personal opinion is they knew that
there was going to be opposition. They know the number of
residents that live in the area. The room was too small to
accommodate that. They should have gone to a bigger forum, in my
opinion.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you. And so the way it
was left, at least as expressed by the attorney to me after this meeting,
is that they are considering that this meeting that never happened be
considered one of two NIM meetings required to be held during the
season, which means the season ends -- let's just say for this
conversation it's April, I think, the 15th; it's Easter Sunday. That's
when season is over. You might argue, well, season's really over the
first of April. But what is interesting is that it's -- the season began
in November.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Well, I don't think -- I mean, can
it -- can it count as a NIM if they try to have it and don't have enough
space or is that -- is that -- what's the process with regard to this?
MR. BOSI: Mike Bosi, Planning and Zoning director.
Within our code, the SOM, it's the stakeholder outreach
meetings, there's two meetings that are required before they can even
submit an application to rezone their property. So it's required that
they have two meetings with the community, and they're engaged for
a community -- for a conversation. They present an alternative
design or a design that's going to be suggested in terms of how the
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golf course is going to be re-purposed, and then the conversation
starts with the community, and this is designed specifically to try to
find areas of compromise.
Last night I was not at the meeting but Ray and two of my
other -- Nancy Gundlach and Richard Henderlong, both of my staff,
were at the meeting as well as Mr. French. And what it turns out is
there was no discussion that happened with the community, so there
was no real exchange amongst the applicant's team and the attendees,
and it had everything to do with the lack of space that was within the
facility.
I plan to sit down with Mr. French, Mr. Bellows, Ms. Ashton
from Jeff's team, to discuss the repercussions and the specifics of
whether this would satisfy the individual requirements, because we
said March is the end of the window of opportunity for when these
stakeholder outreach meetings could happen.
And we'll -- and based upon what did and did not transpire, we'll
make a determination with -- with the team, with the full team, say
whether it did satisfy that requirement. But the intent of it is to have
a conversation, and from the lack of conversation, I'm somewhat
concerned that the intent of what the process was designed to fulfill
was not, indeed, fulfilled.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Agreed.
Commissioner Solis.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. So just so I can understand
what happened, so this is falling under the golf course conversion
ordinance that we adopted.
MR. BOSI: Correct.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And that -- refreshing my memory,
that -- in that ordinance we required that there be two stakeholder
information meetings. So these are not NIMs.
MR. BOSI: No.
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COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Pardon me.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: The NIMs happen after an
application.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: I'm sorry, yeah.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right. Okay. No. I'm just
trying to figure out the chronology. So -- but it's required that they
have two of these before they file their application. It's a
prerequisite.
MR. BOSI: Two stakeholder outreach meetings and an online
visual preference survey that provides for opportunities for the public
to --
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Right.
MR. BOSI: -- pick what they like and don't like within
potential design ideas.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All by the end of?
MR. BOSI: All by the end of March.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Of March.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: The end of March.
MR. BOSI: Yes.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: All by the end of March.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: Okay. I mean, I know this
is -- we're kind of flying by the seat of our pants here, but I don't see
that there's a big issue. I mean, they either had a meeting and people
got to say what they wanted to say or they didn't.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Period, the end.
COMMISSIONER SOLIS: And it sounds like they didn't.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Commissioner, I'm with you.
Commissioner LoCastro.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: Ditto. Calling a meeting and
having a meeting isn't the same thing. If they've had -- they might
have till the end of March, but what I'm hearing here is they wasted
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quite a few months where they could have been having meetings and
wouldn't -- am I correct here? When could they have had this first
meeting? November? December? January? February?
MR. BOSI: November, December, January, February, March.
Those are the five months in which -- the window for a stakeholder
outreach.
COMMISSIONER LoCASTRO: That's not on the citizen.
That's on, you know, this developer who's making a request. And I
would also preface this by saying -- because this Riviera Golf Estates
was in my district, and Commissioner Taylor's, like -- you know, it
was awesome how she's, you know, taken it over, and I've heard
nothing but positive comments from the citizens who said, you know,
they've had correspondence with her.
But nothing's been approved yet. So, you know, when we use
words like, well, this is for the golf course conversion. Well, it's a
golf course conversion request. I mean, nothing's been approved.
And so we've got to make sure. Commissioner Saunders, you know,
he taught me this on day one, words matter. Right, sir?
And so -- but I'd echo what Commissioner Solis said, calling a
meeting and not having one -- and maybe they got, you know,
overcome by citizens and all that. But, you know what, when you
do your homework -- you know, I certainly know when I have a town
hall meeting if I'm going to get 10 people or 500. And so -- and if
they wasted several months and now they're up against a time crunch,
you know, that's not the citizens' fault.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Correct.
Commissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Yeah, just real quickly. I
mean, we set this up because it's very important to get citizen input
into these -- into this process on a golf course conversion. I don't
consider that to be a meeting. And if I'm called to vote on a
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petition -- this is a message for the petitioner. If I'm called to vote
on a petition that requires two public meetings like that, my view is
it's an incomplete petition.
And so, I know the County Attorney's probably stewing over
there a little bit as to whether or not we have a -- but that's -- my
position would be, I'm not going to entertain an application that
requires two meetings where a meeting is called to order and, because
there's so many people there, they cancel it. That's -- like
Commissioner LoCastro said, that's not a meeting.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Right.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you very, very much, all
of you. That was very important for -- I think, for the neighborhood
to hear.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: The community at large.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yes, and the community,
because this is -- this is a train on a track, and there's more coming.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: This is the first of many.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Yep. So thank you very much.
That's all I have to say today. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: There you go. I'm glad we waited
to get through that. Thanks for -- thanks for rushing -- Ray, thanks
for rushing down here. I appreciate -- I appreciate you doing that.
MR. BELLOWS: My pleasure. Anything to get away from
the paperwork is great.
CHAIRMAN McDANIEL: Okay. If there is no further
comment/discussion, we are adjourned.
COMMISSIONER TAYLOR: Thank you.
****Commissioner Saunders moved, seconded by Commissioner
LoCastro and carried that the following items under the Consent and
Summary Agendas by approved and/or adopted****
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Item #16A1 – Continued Indefinitely (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
THIS ITEM HAS BEEN CONTINUED FROM THE JANUARY 25,
2022, FEBRUARY 8, 2022, FEBRUARY 22, 2022, BCC
MEETINGS, AND FURTHER BEING CONTINUED
INDEFINITELY. RECOMMENDATION TO DIRECT STAFF TO
ADVERTISE AND BRING BACK FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AT
THE MARCH 8, 2022 BOARD MEETING, AN ORDINANCE OF
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.
2003-37, AS AMENDED, INCLUDING ORDINANCE NO. 2003-
58, BY AMENDING SECTION 110-30 OF THE COLLIER
COUNTY CODE OF LAWS AND ORDINANCES TO EXCLUDE
THE BAYSHORE GATEWAY TRIANGLE COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AREA FROM THE PROHIBITION OF
ENCLOSING SWALES IN PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY;
PROVIDING FOR INCLUSION INTO THE CODE OF LAWS
AND ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT AND
SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
[PL20210001222]
Item #16A2
RESOLUTION 2022-36: A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
AMENDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE FOR LAND
DEVELOPMENT, WHICH WAS CREATED BY ORDINANCE
NO. 2013- 57, BY AMENDING CHAPTER THREE, QUASI-
JUDICIAL PROCEDURES WITH A PUBLIC HEARING,
CHAPTER FOUR, ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES,
CHAPTER SIX, WAIVERS, EXEMPTIONS AND REDUCTIONS,
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MORE SPECIFICALLY TO ADD N. LIMITED DENSITY BONUS
POOL ALLOCATION (LDBPA), AND CHAPTER TWELVE,
ACRONYMS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
[PL20210001033] (THIS IS A COMPANION TO ITEM #17B)
Item #16A3
AN AGREEMENT FOR A TEMPORARY TRAFFIC FACILITIES
EASEMENT (PARCEL 499TTFE) REQUIRED FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF A TEMPORARY TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND
RELATED FACILITIES AT THE INTERSECTION OF RANDALL
BOULEVARD AND 8TH STREET (PROJECT NO. 60230).
ESTIMATED FISCAL IMPACT: $1,100. THE FUNDING
SOURCE IS GAS TAXES - EXPECTED TO START DURING
THE FIRST HALF OF 2023 WHEN THE LOCATION OF THE
PERMANENT SIGNAL WILL BE DETERMINED
Item #16A4
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES
AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE
SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR 4992 32ND AVE SW,
PL20210001706 - A FINAL INSPECTION TO DISCOVER
DEFECTS WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF OCTOBER 27, 2021,
AND THE FACILITIES WERE FOUND SATISFACTORY AND
ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A5
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE
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CONVEYANCE OF A PORTION OF THE POTABLE WATER
AND ALL SEWER UTILITY FACILITIES FOR THE SHIRLEY
DESIGN CENTER, PL20210003152 - A FINAL INSPECTION TO
DISCOVER DEFECTS WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF
JANUARY 4, 2022, AND THE FACILITIES WERE FOUND
SATISFACTORY AND ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A6
FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE POTABLE WATER AND
SEWER FACILITIES AND ACCEPT THE CONVEYANCE OF
THE POTABLE WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES FOR
OYSTER HARBOR AT FIDDLER'S CREEK PHASE 2C,
PL20210002509 - A FINAL INSPECTION TO DISCOVER
DEFECTS WAS CONDUCTED BY STAFF JANUARY 12, 2022,
AND THE FACILITIES WERE FOUND SATISFACTORY AND
ACCEPTABLE
Item #16A7
RESOLUTION 2022-37: A RESOLUTION FOR FINAL
ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVATE ROADWAY AND
DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE FINAL PLAT OF
ISLES OF COLLIER PRESERVE PHASE 2, APPLICATION
NUMBER PL20140000395, AND AUTHORIZE THE RELEASE
OF THE MAINTENANCE SECURITY IN THE AMOUNT OF
$437,963.35
Item #16A8
THIS ITEM REQUIRES THAT EX PARTE DISCLOSURE BE
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PROVIDED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS. SHOULD A
HEARING BE HELD ON THIS ITEM, ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE
REQUIRED TO BE SWORN IN. RECORD THE FINAL PLAT
OF JUNIPER POINTE (F/K/A CREWS ROAD TOWNHOUSES),
APPLICATION NUMBER PL20210000100, APPROVAL
OF THE STANDARD FORM CONSTRUCTION AND
MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THE
PERFORMANCE SECURITY IN THE AMOUNT OF
$1,269,809.06 - WITHIN THE CREWS ROAD RPUD
Item #16A9
RESOLUTION 2022-38: A TRANSPORTATION POST
PROJECT MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FDOT), FOR THE
MAINTENANCE OF THE SIDEWALK ALONG COPELAND
AVENUE FROM CHOKOLOSKEE BAY BRIDGE TO NORTH OF
BROADWAY AVENUE UPON COMPLETION OF THE FDOT
IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, FINANCIAL PROJECT NO.
437096-1-52-01, WITH ANTICIPATED MAINTENANCE AND
INSPECTION COSTS OF $2,800 ANNUALLY PAID FROM THE
TRANSPORTATION OPERATING BUDGET, AND A
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE
AGREEMENT
Item #16A10
RESOLUTION 2022-39: A LOCALLY FUNDED
REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT (LFRA) WITH THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FDOT) TO
PROVIDE A LUMP SUM DEPOSIT FOR CONSTRUCTION
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ENGINEERING AND INSPECTION (CEI) SERVICES FOR THE
REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING BRIDGE #030138 ON
IMMOKALEE ROAD (CR 846) RELATED TO PROJECT 66066 -
“ELEVEN BRIDGE REPLACEMENTS EAST OF SR29” AND TO
EXECUTE A RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE BOARD’S
ACTION
Item #16A11
AN ADOPT-A-ROAD PROGRAM AGREEMENT FOR THE
ROADWAY SEGMENT OF GREENWAY ROAD FROM US 41
(TAMIAMI TRAIL E) NORTH FOR 1.5 MILES TO THE END OF
THE ROADWAY WITH TWO (2) RECOGNITION SIGNS AND
TWO (2) ADOPT-A-ROAD LOGO SIGNS FOR A TOTAL COST
OF $200 WITH THE VOLUNTEER GROUP, SYNGENTA SEEDS,
LLC
Item #16A12
AWARD AGREEMENTS FOR INVITATION FOR
QUALIFICATION (“IFQ”) NO. 21-7885, “BEACH
MAINTENANCE RELATED ACTIVITIES,” FOR COUNTY-
WIDE GENERAL CONTRACTOR SERVICES TO TSI DISASTER
RECOVERY, LLC, EARTH TECH ENTERPRISES, INC., AND
KELLY BROTHERS, INC., AND TO AUTHORIZE THE
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENTS
TO ADDRESS MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND
CONSTRUCTION, INCLUDING ANNUAL CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECTS, EFFICIENTLY AND
EFFECTIVELY
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Item #16A13
RELEASE OF A CODE ENFORCEMENT LIEN WITH AN
ACCRUED VALUE OF $258,423.95 FOR PAYMENT OF $14,500
IN THE CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTION TITLED BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS V. WILLIAM J. FOTRE, JR IN
CASE NO. CEPM20170017470 RELATING TO PROPERTY
LOCATED AT 2948 ORANGE STREET, COLLIER COUNTY,
FLORIDA - BROUGHT INTO COMPLIANCE AUGUST 30, 2021
Item #16A14
RESOLUTION 2022-40: AN AMENDMENT TO THE
COMMUNITY AESTHETIC FEATURE AGREEMENT WITH
THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FDOT)
FOR COLLIER AREA TRANSIT TO PLACE PUBLIC ART
COMMUNITY AESTHETIC FEATURES, THE YELLOW CAT
LOGO WITH A GREEN BACKGROUND, AT NINETY (90)
ADDITIONAL BUS STOPS ON FDOT OWNED RIGHTS-OF-
WAY AND APPROVE A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER
TO SIGN THE AGREEMENT
Item #16A15
BUDGET AMENDMENTS TO REALLOCATE FUNDS WITHIN
THE GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
STORMWATER CAPITAL FUND 325. ($802,000) - FOR
PROJECTS #51101 (LELY CANAL) AND #50160 (FLOOD
AUTOMATION)
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Item #16A16
SELECTION COMMITTEE’S RANKING FOR REQUEST FOR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (“RPS”) NO. 22-7944, “DESIGN
SERVICES FOR 16TH STREET NE BRIDGE,” AND
AUTHORIZE STAFF TO BEGIN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS
WITH THE TOP RANKED FIRM, KISINGER CAMPO &
ASSOCIATES, CORP., SO THAT A PROPOSED AGREEMENT
CAN BE BROUGHT BACK FOR THE BOARD’S
CONSIDERATION AT A FUTURE MEETING. (PROJECT NO.
60212) - AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16B1
RECOMMENDATION THAT THE COLLIER COUNTY BOARD
OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BCC) ACTING AS THE
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA) APPROVE
AN AFTER-THE-FACT ELECTRONIC GRANT APPLICATION
SUBMITTAL IN THE AMOUNT OF $250,000 TO THE COLLIER
COUNTY COMMUNITY AND HUMAN SERVICES FY 022/2023
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) FOR THE FIRST
STREET PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
WITHIN THE IMMOKALEE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AREA - INCLUDES INSTALLING FLASHING BEACONS,
ADDING A SIDEWALK AND ADDING ADDITIONAL LIGHT
POLES
Item #16D1
THE ELECTRONIC SUBMITTAL OF THE CORPORATION FOR
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NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE RETIRED AND
SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM APPLICATION, ACCEPT
YEAR-TWO OF THE GRANT AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF
$75,000 FOR THE OPERATION OF THE PROGRAM, AND
AUTHORIZE THE NECESSARY BUDGET AMENDMENTS.
(HOUSING GRANTS FUND 705 AND HOUSING GRANTS
MATCH 706) - A PROGRAM THAT PLACES SENIOR
VOLUNTEERS IN VARIOUS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
AND COUNTY AGENCIES
Item #16D2
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS SUBRECIPIENT
AGREEMENT WITH COLLIER COUNTY HUNGER &
HOMELESS COALITION, INC. (HOUSING GRANT FUND 705) -
ALLOWING A WIDER RANGE OF RESIDENTS TO BENEFIT
FROM THE PROGRAM
Item #16D3
COLLIER COUNTY TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
(TDC) CATEGORY “A” GRANT APPLICATION FOR BEACH
PARK FACILITIES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 IN THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $55,000 WITHIN TDC BEACH PARK FACILITIES
FUND (183), TO AUTHORIZE NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENTS, AND TO MAKE THE FINDING THAT THE
EXPENDITURE PROMOTES TOURISM – FOR
IMPROVEMENTS AT CLAM PASS PARK INCLUDING THE
INSTALLATION OF (2) ADDITIONAL FULL SHOWERS AND
ENGINEERING AND INSTALLATION OF A LADDER AND
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PLATFORM FOR THE CONCESSION BUILDING FOR
MAINTENANCE
Item #16D4
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THREE (3) MORTGAGE
SATISFACTIONS FOR THE STATE HOUSING INITIATIVES
PARTNERSHIP LOAN PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF
$49,448.50 AND APPROVE THE ASSOCIATED BUDGET
AMENDMENT TO APPROPRIATE REPAYMENT AMOUNT
TOTALING $46,948.50 (SHIP GRANT FUND 791)
Item #16D5
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN ONE (1) RELEASE OF LIEN FOR AN
AFFORDABLE HOUSING DENSITY BONUS AGREEMENT
FOR A UNIT THAT IS NO LONGER SUBJECT TO THE TERMS
OF THE AGREEMENT (AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST
FUND 116)
Item #16D6
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN TWO (2) RELEASES OF LIEN FOR FULL
PAYMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $33,212.40 PURSUANT TO
AGREEMENT FOR DEFERRAL OF 100% OF COLLIER
COUNTY IMPACT FEES FOR OWNER-OCCUPIED
AFFORDABLE HOUSING DWELLINGS
Item #16D7
SECOND MODIFICATION FOR THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT
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OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HAZARD MITIGATION
GRANT #H0311 EXTENDING THE AGREEMENT DEADLINE
TO APRIL 30, 2022, FOR THE HARDENING OF THE
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SERVICES’ INSTITUTE OF FOOD
AND AGRICULTURAL SERVICES BUILDING. (PUBLIC
SERVICES GRANT FUND 709) - FOR REPAIRS TO THE
BUILDING DUE TO HURRICANE IRMA IN 2017
Item #16D8
EXTEND AGREEMENT NO. 11-5785, “MANAGEMENT OF
PELICAN BAY TENNIS CENTER,” WITH THE NAPLES
TENNIS ACADEMY, LLC FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED
TWELVE MONTHS, AND AUTHORIZE THE CHAIRMAN TO
SIGN THE ATTACHED AMENDMENT TO EXTEND
AGREEMENT NO. 11-5785. (UNINCORPORATED AREAS
GENERAL FUND 111) - EXTENDS THE AGREEMENT TO
APRIL 9, 2023
Item #16D9
A RESTRICTED DONATION FROM THE GREATER
CINCINNATI FOUNDATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $8,656.30
TO BENEFIT THE SUGDEN REGIONAL PARK AND
AUTHORIZE ANY ADDITIONAL BUDGET AMENDMENTS
NECESSARY TO ADDRESS CHANGES IN PRICE OF THE
SOLE SOURCE PURCHASE OF CONCRETE GAME TABLES.
(PSD GRANT FUND 709) - TO PURCHASE FOUR (4)
OCTAGONAL CONCRETE PICNIC TABLES WITH GAME
TOPS FROM SOLE SOURCE PROVIDER HIGHLANDS
PRODUCTS GROUP, LLC
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Item #16D10
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN TWO (2) THE MEMORANDUM OF
UNDERSTANDING DOCUMENTS WITH THE BOYS & GIRLS
CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, INC. FOR THE
DELIVERY OF THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING CENTERS
SWIMMING SKILLS AND DROWNING PREVENTION
“MIRACLE 1 AND MIRACLE 2” PROGRAMS IN IMMOKALEE
AND AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY MANAGER OR DESIGNEE
TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT (FISCAL IMPACT
$36,000, UNINCORPORATED AREA GENERAL FUND 111-
PARKS) - TO PROVIDE SWIM LESSONS, DROWNING
PREVENTION AND RECREATION CAMPS TO ELEMENTARY
AND MIDDLE SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN IN IMMOKALEE
Item #16D11
CHAIRMAN TO SIGN THE FIRST AMENDMENT BETWEEN
COLLIER COUNTY AND COLLIER HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
D/B/A HEALTHCARE NETWORK FOR ADMINISTRATION OF
THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT -
CORONAVIRUS (CV) PROGRAM WITH A NET $0 IMPACT
(GRANT FUND 705) - AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
Item #16E1
AWARD INVITATION TO BID (“ITB”) NO. 21-7940,
PURCHASE OF ROAD WIDENER FOR ROAD MAINTENANCE,
TO LINDER INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY COMPANY TO
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PURCHASE ROAD WIDENING EQUIPMENT IN THE
AMOUNT OF $97,194.00 - TO REPLACE A 20-YEAR-OLD
CURRENT WIDENER
Item #16E2
THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PREPARED BY THE
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR DISPOSAL OF
PROPERTY AND NOTIFICATION OF REVENUE
DISBURSEMENT
Item #16E3
THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS PREPARED BY THE
PROCUREMENT SERVICES DIVISION FOR CHANGE ORDERS
AND OTHER CONTRACTUAL MODIFICATIONS REQUIRING
BOARD APPROVAL
Item #16E4
RECOGNIZING ACCRUED INTEREST FROM THE PERIOD
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021, THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2021,
EARNED BY EMS COUNTY GRANT AND APPROPRIATE
FUNDS FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $373.24. (EMS GRANT
FUND 493)
Item #16F1
RENEW THE NORTH COLLIER FIRE CONTROL AND RESCUE
DISTRICT’S CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND
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NECESSITY FOR ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT NON-
TRANSPORT SERVICES FOR ONE YEAR AND AUTHORIZE
THE CHAIRMAN TO EXECUTE THE PERMIT AND
CERTIFICATE
Item #16F2
RESOLUTION 2022-41: A RESOLUTION APPROVING
AMENDMENTS (APPROPRIATING GRANTS, DONATIONS,
CONTRIBUTIONS OR INSURANCE PROCEEDS) TO THE
FY21-22 ADOPTED BUDGET
Item #16F3
A REIMBURSEMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $311,114.13 TO
NORTHBROOKE PROFESSIONAL VILLAGE, LLC, FOR
IMPACT FEES PAID ON VOIDED BUILDING PERMIT
NUMBERS 2006031817, 2006035195, 2006031819 FOR THREE
OFFICE BUILDINGS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED FOR FOLIO
#6856700005.1 - FOR BUILDINGS NEVER CONSTRUCTED ON
THE PROPERTY, EVENTUALLY SOLD TO MASON
CLASSICAL ACADEMY, INC.
Item #16G1
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, ACTING AS
THE AIRPORT AUTHORITY, AUTHORIZE ITS CHAIRMAN TO
EXECUTE THE ATTACHED COLLIER COUNTY AIRPORT
AUTHORITY STANDARD FORM LEASE AGREEMENT WITH
BUSINESS JET ACQUISITIONS, LLC FOR AERONAUTICAL
USE COUNTER SPACE AT THE MARCO ISLAND EXECUTIVE
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AIRPORT - FOR A 60-MONTH LEASE PERIOD
Item #16G2
RESOLUTION 2022-42: AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF
AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
GRANT AGREEMENT (PTGA) G0Z12 WITH THE FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR ADDITIONAL
FUNDING FOR THE REHABILITATION OF RUNWAY 18/36 AT
THE IMMOKALEE REGIONAL AIRPORT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$183,641 AND AUTHORIZE ALL NECESSARY BUDGET
AMENDMENTS (GROWTH MANAGEMENT GRANT FUND
(498) GRANT MATCH FUND (499) AND AIRPORT CAPITAL
FUND (496)
Item #16G3
BUDGET AMENDMENTS TO RECOGNIZE REVENUE FOR
MARCO ISLAND EXECUTIVE AIRPORT, IN THE AMOUNT OF
$1,500,000 TO ACCOMMODATE INCREASED FUEL
PURCHASES AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING EXPENSES
OVER BUDGETED LEVELS
Item #16J1
TO RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, THE CHECK NUMBER (OR OTHER
PAYMENT METHOD), AMOUNT, PAYEE, AND PURPOSE FOR
WHICH THE REFERENCED DISBURSEMENTS WERE DRAWN
FOR THE PERIODS BETWEEN FEBRUARY 10, 2022, AND
FEBRUARY 23, 2022, PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE
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136.06
Item #16J2
REQUEST THAT THE BOARD APPROVE AND DETERMINE
VALID PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR INVOICES PAYABLE AND
PURCHASING CARD TRANSACTIONS AS OF MARCH 2, 2022
Item #16K1 – Moved to Item #12B (Per Agenda Change Sheet)
Item #16K2
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AUTHORIZE
AND DIRECT THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO PURSUE ANY
AND ALL LEGAL ACTION NECESSARY TO ABATE THE
PUBLIC NUISANCE LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF SANTA
BARBARA AND DAVIS BOULEVARD, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO FILING A CIVIL ACTION IN CIRCUIT COURT
Item #16K3
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$5,000 PLUS $1,518 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY’S FEES FOR
THE TAKING OF PARCEL 377RDUE REQUIRED FOR THE
GOLDEN GATE BLVD. PROJECT NO. 60145. (COLLIER
COUNTY V. GEORGE A. NESTORY, ET. AL. CASE NO. 16-CA-
1347)
Item #16K4
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
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$102,500 PLUS $22,570 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY FEES,
EXPERTS’ FEES AND COSTS, FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL
206FEE REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60168
Item #16K5
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$27,300 WITH PRO SE RESPONDENTS FOR THE TAKING OF
PARCEL 333FEE/TDRE1/TDRE2 REQUIRED FOR THE
VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD EXTENSION PROJECT NO.
60168
Item #16K6
STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$968,000 PLUS $139,418.17 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY AND
EXPERTS’ FEES AND COSTS FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL
152POND REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60168
Item #16K7
A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$635,000 PLUS $93,078.38 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY AND
EXPERTS’ FEES AND COSTS FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL
124FEE/124TDRE REQUIRED FOR VANDERBILT BEACH
ROAD EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60168
Item #16K8
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A STIPULATED FINAL JUDGMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$106,000 PLUS $29,328 IN STATUTORY ATTORNEY AND
EXPERTS’ FEES AND COSTS FOR THE TAKING OF PARCEL
223FEE REQUIRED FOR THE VANDERBILT BEACH ROAD
EXTENSION PROJECT NO. 60168
Item #16K9
THE CHAIR TO EXECUTE A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IN
THE LAWSUIT STYLED AGNES M. AMODEO V. COLLIER
COUNTY, (CASE NO. 21-CA-0649), NOW PENDING IN THE
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN
AND FOR COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, FOR THE SUM OF
$7,500
Item #17A
ORDINANCE 2022-07: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 2019-01, AS AMENDED, THE FLOODPLAIN
MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE, TO SPECIFY ELEVATION OF
MANUFACTURED HOMES IN FLOOD HAZARD AREAS; TO
PROVIDE CRITERIA FOR ACCESSORY AND AGRICULTURAL
STRUCTURES IN FLOOD HAZARD AREAS; AND OTHER
CHANGES
Item #17B
ORDINANCE 2022-08: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
ORDINANCE NUMBER 04-41, AS AMENDED, TO THE
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, TO
ESTABLISH A LIMITED DENSITY BONUS POOL
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ALLOCATION FOR MULTI-FAMILY PROJECTS AND MIXED-
USE PROJECTS 2 ACRES OR LESS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR
PUBLIC REALM IMPROVEMENTS FOR PROJECTS WHICH
UTILIZE THE DENSITY BONUS POOL. [PL20210001033] (THIS
IS A COMPANION TO ITEM #16A2)
Item #17C – Continued to the March 22, 2022 (Per Agenda Change
Sheet)
THIS ITEM HAS BEEN CONTINUED FROM THE JANUARY 25,
2022, FEBRUARY 8, 2022, FEBRUARY 22, 2022, AND MARCH
8, 2022, BCC MEETINGS AND IS FURTHER BEING
CONTINUED TO THE MARCH 22, 2022, BCC MEETING. THIS
ITEM IS THE FIRST OF TWO HEARINGS.
RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 04-41, AS AMENDED,
THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, TO
CHANGE THE NAME OF THE BAYSHORE MIXED USE
OVERLAY DISTRICT TO THE BAYSHORE ZONING
OVERLAY DISTRICT AND THE NAME OF THE GATEWAY
TRIANGLE MIXED USE DISTRICT TO THE GATEWAY
TRIANGLE ZONING OVERLAY DISTRICT, TO RENAME THE
BAYSHORE GATEWAY TRIANGLE REDEVELOPMENT AREA
TO THE BAYSHORE GATEWAY TRIANGLE COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AREA; TO ADD PROHIBITED USES, ADD
APPEARANCE STANDARDS FOR OUTDOOR DISPLAY AND
STORAGE, ADD A BOUNDARY MAP FOR THE BAYSHORE
ZONING OVERLAY DISTRICT AND FOR THE GATEWAY
TRIANGLE ZONING OVERLAY DISTRICT, ADD
ARCHITECTURAL STANDARDS FOR SINGLE FAMILY
HOMES, AND CHANGE OTHER DEVELOPMENT
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STANDARDS [PL20210001222]
*****
March 8, 2022
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 12:29 p.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL DI UNDER ITS CONTROL
Cam- �.
WILLIA L. McDANIEL, JR., CHAIRMAN
ATTEST:
CRYS ' - ,,KINZEL, CLERK
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These minutes approve by the Board on /fd/2I? . , as
presented or as corrected
TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF FORT MYERS
COURT REPORTING BY TERRI L. LEWIS, REGISTERED
PROFESSIONAL REPORTER, FPR-C, AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
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