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Resolution 296-2009 RESOLUTION NO. 296 -2009 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, URGING IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF WATER PROTECTION AND REINVESTMENT ACT. WHEREAS, the spirit of the Clean Water Act is threatened by lack of funding for water infrastructure; and WHEREAS, Florida statutes designed to protect water quality are also threatened by lack of funding for water infrastructure; and WHEREAS, compliance with the federal and state statutes mandating improved water quality place a high cost burden on residents; and WHEREAS, H.R. 3202 provides for grants and other financing opportunities for wastewater infrastructure; and WHEREAS, the lack of wastewater infrastructure threatens the quality of the waters that support the complex and fragile ecosystem of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, which is critical to the region's commercial fisheries and marine-based tourism industry; and WHEREAS, the wastewater charges for residents of the Keys exceed the financial hardship standards established by the US Environmental Protection Agency; and WHEREAS, U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer has sponsored a bill establishing a water protection and reinvestment fund to support investments in clean water and water infrastructure; and WHEREAS, the bill provides for grants and other financing opportunities for wastewater infrastructure; and WHEREAS, providing centralized sewerage and treatment systems throughout the Florida Keys and onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems in areas of the Keys too remote for centralization to be feasible is of grave importance to all of Monroe County; and WHEREAS, the imposition of greater treatment standards on the Florida Keys than anyplace in the state of Florida, coupled with the greater costs of construction in general in the Florida Keys due to enhanced building codes and the distance from the mainland has rendered the costs of sewering the Keys much higher than elsewhere in the United States; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County that: Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County hereby endorses the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act, and urges the III th Congress of the United States to enact the bill introduced by Representative Blumenauer. Section 3. Upon adoption, the County Clerk is hereby directed to send a copy of this Resolution by United States mail to the co-sponsors of the bill, to wit: Representatives Norman Dick, Donna Edwards, Sam Farr, Raul Grijalva, Maurice Hinchey, Henry "Hank" Johnson, Jr., Carolyn Kilpatrick, Steven LaTourette, Grace Napolitano, Thomas Petri, Janice Schakowsky, Michael Simpson, Robert Wexler, and Ed Whitfield, as well as Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Section 4. This Resolution shall be effective as of the date of its adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 16th.day of Sept:. , 2009. Mayor George Neugent Mayor Pro Tern Sylvia Murphy Commissioner Heather Carruthers Commissioner Mario DiGennaro Commissioner Kim Wigington ~. o~f~ Q~~.. ~p~~ 0;'0 .iZ ~~./f '\.~~.,.~\ /~ C--' ,.C. .1,.'< i/ ''i'' - 'fl..;." '\ {Ie 18 23 v~\. Ii ~<f .. ~~) ~:;,\ .~.~ . 'i:;~ 1 " '\~'~{~~I j~~ c c:::: o (..) w a: a::: o LL. o W -J - LL Yes No Yes Y~Q No BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA NY L. KOLHAGE, c:rk ~)'-~.. 'oJ~,~ Mayor George Neugent CD N MONROE COUNTY ATTORNEY 4PROm AS TO FORM: ~t;;-(, · .'ql.J-~ I/J CHRISTINE M. LIMBERT-BARROWS ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEY Date 1t1/J loq , I .. - W -1 c.!J u.... 4:t-=-...:: :r: c...., ~_ c5 Q~:' ~ x.: CJ ~~.. :II: a... II) . ..... (...) o IS c::> c..... _--1.:JL._. _c:'~ ~:w ~ d ~~.~~ < C) a :E ? 't"H1\