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MINUTES
OF THE MONROE COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Special Meeting/W orkshop
Board of County Commissioners
Friday, February 10, 2006
Marathon, Florida
A Special Meeting/Workshop of the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners
convened at 8:30 a.m., at the Marathon Government Center. Present and answering to roll call
were Commissioner Murray E. Nelson, Commissioner George R. Neugent, Commissioner David
P. Rice, and Mayor Charles "Sonny" McCoy. Absent was Commissioner Dixie M. Spehar. Also
present were Pamela Hancock, Deputy Clerk; Jerry Sanders, Assistant County Attorney; Debbie
Frederick, Assistant County Administrator; County Staff, members of the press and radio; and the
general public.
All stood for the Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance.
ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS, DELETIONS
Motion was made by Commissioner Rice and seconded by Commissioner Neugent to open
the Agenda to add the County Attorney's request to the Board for approval to schedule and
advertise an Attorney-Client Closed Session of the Board of County Commissioners in the matter
of Thomas F. Collins et al. v. Monroe County v. State of Florida. Motion carried unanimously.
SPECIAL MEETING
Jerry D. Sanders, Assistant County Attorney addressed the Board concerning the
scheduling and advertising of an Attorney-Client Closed Session of the Board of County
Commissioners in the matters of Galleon Bay v. Monroe County v. State of Florida, Case No.
CAK-02-595, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Monroe County, Florida and Thomas F. Collins, et al. v.
Monroe County v. State of Florida, CAM-04-379, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Monroe County,
Florida. Motion was made by Commissioner Rice and seconded Neugent to schedule the
Attorney-Client Closed Session for February 21,2006 at 9:00 a.m. at the Marathon Government
Center. Motion carried unanimously.
WORKSHOP
Reggie Paros, Director of Housing and Community Development and Chairman of the
Affordable Housing Task Force introduced the Affordable Housing Task Force Members to the
Board as follows: Bill Loewy, Ed Swift, John Dolan-Heitlinger, Donna Windle, Jim Sanders, and
Jerry Coleman, Task Force Attorney. Mr. Paros also gave the names of the members who were
not in attendance at today's meeting as follows: Maureen Lackey, Dave Boerner (Mr. Boerner
arrived later in the meeting), Carol Fisher, Tim Koenig, and Brian Schmidt. Mr. Coleman
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addressed the Board concerning the document entitled Summary of Task Force and
Recommended BOCC Resolutions. During discussion regarding Fractional ROGOs,
Commissioner Rice suggested allowing the owner of a duplex to transfer off half a ROGO per
side which would provide one market rate permit that would be marketable to bring in revenue to
offset the sales price if they deed restricted their property for affordability and to the future
creating $150,000 that can be subtracted from the sale price which means that the purchaser of
that property is buying it that much cheaper going to the bank getting a mortgage that is lower
which should allow them maybe if the numbers work right to keep that currently existing
affordable duplex or apartment in affordablity into the future. After further discussion, motion
was made by Commissioner Nelson and seconded by Commissioner Rice directing the Housing
Committee to look into the above and bring back their recommendations based on looking at this
from every possible direction and see whether or not that would be more advantagous than
basically building a new unit. Motion carried unanimously.
Jerry Sanders, Assistant County Attorney advised the Board that Resolution No.
320-2005 that was adopted in August 2005, would be expiring next week, and gave a brief
description ofthe Resolution.
The Commission gave their thanks to the Affordable Housing Task Force and for their
time.
Mr. Sanders, Assistant County Attorney discussed with the Board the coordination
between the Affordable Housing Task Force and the Planning Commission. No official action
was taken.
Motion was made by Commissioner Rice and seconded by Commissioner Neugent to hold
a Special Meeting to adopt a Resolution to extend Resolution No. 320-2005 which Resolution
directed the staff of Growth Management to continue the policy of the deferring the acceptance
and processing of development applications and the issuance of development approvals for the
redevelopment or conversion often units or more of multi-family rental housing and or mobile
home parks and requests for a land use district zoning map amendment from Urban Residential
Mobile Home (URM) and Urban Residential Mobile Home-Limited (URM-L) to any other land
use zoning district designation continuing this policy until new land development regulations or
amended land development regulations are adopted by the Board of County Commissioners or
until the passage of 180 days from the date of this Resolution whichever occurs first. After
discussion, motion was made by Commissioner Neugent and seconded by Commissioner Rice to
extend the defined Resolution until the next County Commission meeting in Key Largo on
February 15, 2006. Motion carried unanimously.
RESOLUTION NO. 032-2006
Said Resolution is incorporated herein by reference.
There being no further business, the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners was
adjourned.
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Danny L. Kolhage, Clerk
and ex-officio Clerk to the Board
of County Commissioners
Monroe County, Florida
Pamela G. Hancock, Deputy Clerk
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