Resolution 179-2007
Mayor Mario DiGennaro
RESOLUTION NO.
179- 2007
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA,
REQUESTING TIlAT COUNTY BE REIMBURSED FOR FUNDS
CONTRIBUTED TO THE SINKING OF THE VANDENBERG IF
GRANT MONIES FROM STATE AND/OR FEDERAL
GOVERNMENTS OR OTHER SOURCES ARE OBTAINED.
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners for Monroe County contracted with the City
of Key West in an interlocal agreement dated March 22, 2001, and extended on June 19, 2002, also on
June 18, 2003, also on May 19, 2004, and also on July 20, 2005, to expend up to two hundred fifty
thousand dollars ($250,000) of tourist development taxes for the sinking of the USS Gen. R.S.
Vandenberg; and
WHEREAS, on October 18, 2006, the Board of County Commissioners for Monroe County
contracted with the City of Key West in a new interlocal agreement to expend up to an additional seven
hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) of tourist development taxes for the sinking of the USS Gen.
H.S. Vandenberg; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners for Monroe County included in its FY 07
budget an allocation of $2,000,000 of infrastructure sales tax for the sinking of the Vandenberg although
no interlocal agreement has been entered regarding same; and
WHEREAS, the County has a critical need for wastewater treatment infrastructure and other
public purpose; and
WHEREAS, the City of Key West and the Vandenberg project sponsoring Artificial Reefs of the
Keys, Inc. have indicated that they are seeking federal and State grants to fund as much of the sinking
project as possible; now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, that:
1. Should the City of Key West and or Artificial Reefs of the Keys, or any other sponsor, obtain any
grants for the Vandenberg project, the County its contribution be reimbursed at same rate as the
County's total contribution is multiplied by the percent of total costs covered by the grant(s).
2. The Clerk is directed to send copies of this Resolution to the Clerk and the mayor of the City of Key
West.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida at
a regular meeting on said Board on the ll>th day of May, A.D., 2007.
Mayor Mario DiGennaro
Mayor Pro Tern Dixie M. Spehar
c;o.mnlssip~er Charles "Sonny" McCoy
,C<iiiip;!s'li,one,r Sytvia Murphy
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