Resolution 312-2002
Board of County Commissioners
RESOLUTION NO. 312 -2002
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE
ON BEHALF OF MONROE COUNTY A CONTRACT WITH KW RESORT
UTILITY, INC., FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF WASTEWATER
COLLECTION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SOUTH STOCK ISLAND
WHEREAS, the Monroe County Comprehensive Plan requires Monroe County to meet
State mandated wastewater treatment standards by 2010; and
WHEREAS, the Monroe County Sanitary Wastewater Master Plan identifies South
Stock Island as a highest priority area for central sewer service; and
WHEREAS, centralized wastewater services are available to only a limited number of
businesses and residences located on South Stock Island; and
WHEREAS, the prevailing method of wastewater treatment is the utilization of cess
pits and septic systems; and
WHEREAS, the prevailing method of wastewater treatment is both a known source of
near shore water pollution and is damaging the living coral reefs that in turn damage
Monroe County's tourist based economy, and is also an ecological wrong in its own right;
and
WHEREAS, the County must eliminate the cess pits and septic systems and desires
to make available to the residences and businesses of South Stock Island a central
wastewater treatment system; and
WHEREAS, KW Resort Utility has substantial capacity to provide additional
wastewater treatment services and agrees to provide wastewater treatment services to the
residences and businesses located on South Stock Island, and connecting South Stock
Island to its plant is the most economical way to prOVide such services to South Stock
Island; and
WHEREAS, the KW Resort Utility has designed, permitted and bid the construction of
a collection system on South Stock Island pursuant to plans of Weiler Engineering
Corporation dated May 30, 2002 (Project); and
WHEREAS, for the reasons stated above, Monroe County's funding of KW Resort
Utility's construction of wastewater collection infrastructure for South Stock Island serves a
paramount public purpose with an only incidental benefit to private persons; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The Board hereby adopts the findings of fact and conclusions set forth
above.
Section 2. The Mayor is authorized to execute on behalf of the County the contract
with KW Resort Utility for the construction of wastewater collection infrastructure for South
Stock Island.
Section 3. All connection fees collected by KW Resort Utility and remitted to the
County will be placed in the infrastructure sales tax account and used for the purposes for
which infrastructure sales tax revenue may be spent.
Section 4. In the event property owners required by law and ordinance to connect
to the newly constructed South Stock Island wastewater collection system fail to do so, the
County will use the legal remedies available to it to compel connection to the system.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida, at a special meeting of said Board held on the 31st day of July, 2002.
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