Resolution 311-2002
RESOLUTION 311 -2002
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY FLORIDA,
APPROVING AN AGREEMENT REACHED BY THE
INTERGOVERNMENTAL TASK FORCE FOR ALLOCATION OF
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
GRANT FUNDING FOR WASTEWATER AND STORMWATER
PROJECTS AMONG MONROE COUNTY AND ITS FIVE
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS
WHEREAS, as Line Item 1765A, 2002-2003 General Appropriations Act, the Florida Legislature
appropriated $11.8 million in funds to be used by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection
("FDEP") to fund the construction of eligible wastewater and stormwater projects in Momoe County; and,
WHEREAS, the appropriations language required that the FDEP initially distribute funds
totaling $7.04 million to projects meeting eligibility requirements as follows: (1) $1.66 million each to the
municipalities of Marathon and Key West, Village of Islamorada, and to Momoe County for Key Largo;
and, (2) $200,000 each to the municipalities of Key Colony Beach and Layton.
WHEREAS, the appropriations language provides that the remaining $4.76 million in grant
funds and funds initially distributed to projects that fail to meet eligibility requirements will be
proportionally divided among eligible projects by the FDEP or in such other amounts as may be agreed in
writing by the local governments of qualifying projects; and,
WHEREAS, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection prepared specific guidelines
and procedures for project eligibility requirements in response to the provisions of the language contained
in Line Item 1765A of the 2002-2003 General Appropriations Act; and,
WHEREAS, during a teleconference held on July 10, 2002, with FDEP and other state agency
representatives, local government representatives indicated a willingness to consider the option of
allocating grant funds up-front among all six local Monroe County governments identified as eligible to
receive grant funding; and,
WHEREAS, the FDEP representatives indicated that if the local governments wanted to change
the distribution of the funding they needed to reach a consensus on such redistribution within 30 days; and,
WHEREAS, the local governments agreed to call a meeting of the Intergovernmental Task Force
to address the funding redistribution issues; and,
WHEREAS, the Intergovernmental Task Force met at a duly noticed and advertised public
meeting on July 18, 2002, at the Marathon Government Annex; now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA THAT:
Section 1: The Board of County Commissioners approves the understanding reached by the
Intergovernmental Task Force concerning the redistribution of FDEP grants among Momoe County and its
five municipal governments, which is as follows:
a) The Intergovernmental Task Force reached unanimous agreement to divide the remaining
$4.76 million in funding not initially allocated, among each local government on the same percentage basis
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as the initial funding distribution of$7.04 million. Based on that understanding, the distribution of the
remaining $4.76 million in grant funding will be as follows: (1) $1,122,408 each to the municipalities of
Marathon and Key West, Village of Islamorada, and Monroe County; and (2) $135,184 each to the
municipalities of Key Colony Beach and City of Layton.
b) The Intergovernmental Task Force also agreed that if a local government finds that it is
unable to move forward with a project eligible for funding or is unable to met the March 1, 2003, deadline,
that government will notify the Intergovernmental Task Force to reconvene in order to reach agreement on
the division of these initially allocated funds among the eligible projects of the other local governments.
Section 2: The County Administrator is requested to send a copy of this resolution to the Florida
Department of Environmental Affairs and to the five municipal governments in Monroe County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida,
at a speci4eting of said Board held on the 24th of July , A.D.,2002.
Mayor McCoy yes
Mayor Pro Tern Spehar no
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f pmmissioner Jimenez yes
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