03/28/1991 Special
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Special Meeting
Joint County/City Commissions
Thursday, March 28, 1991
Key West
A Special Meeting of the Monroe County Board of
County Commissioners and the Key West Board of City
Commissioners convened at 9:30 a.m. on the above date at the
Lions Club in the City of Key West. The following members
of the County Commission were present: Commissioner Earl
Cheal, Commissioner Douglas Jones, Commissioner Jack London,
Commissioner John Stormont, and Mayor Wilhelmina Harvey.
The fOJlowing members of the City Commission were present:
Commissioner Sally Lewis, Commissioner Virginia Panico,
Commissioner Harry Powell, Commissioner Jimmy Weekley, and
Mayor Tony Tarracino. Also present were Danny L. Kolhage,
County Clerk; Randy Ludacer, County Attorney; Tom Brown,
County Administrator; County and City Staff; members of the
Press and Radio; and the general public.
All stood for the Invocation and Pledge of
Allegiance.
The Joint Boards proceeded to a discussion con-
cerninq approval of a Master Site Plan and Revised Community
Impact Assessment Statement for the Monroe County Detention
Facility, Norman's Island, North Stock Island, City of Key
West. The following individuals addressed the Board: Jose
Gonzalez, County Administrator Tom Brown, Doug Fuller,
County Attorney Randy Ludacer, Dona Merritt, R. L.
Blazevich, Ken Williams of CH2M Hill, A. C. Weinstein, Dona
Merritt, Chief Judge Richard Fowler, State Attorney Kirk
Zuelch, Public Defender Rand Winter. The Boards continued
their discussion. The County Attorney offered several com-
ments on some of the conditions in the Resolution proposed
for adoption by the City Commission. Motion was made by
Commissioner London and seconded by Commissioner Stormont to
approve the following items as set forth in the letter from
County Mayor Harvey to City Mayor Tarracino dated March 28,
1991 as the County Commission's official position relative
to the action being requested of the City Commission:
"1. Community Impact Assessment Statement (CIAS)
The City needs to approve the CIAS as submitted
by the firms of Hansen Lind Meyer, Gonzalez,
Architects. The subject facility will provide
530 beds under normal operations with the
ability to provide 626 beds during emergency
operation. The CIAS approval is required
before the project can proceed.
2. Master Site Plan
Same as for the CIAS.
3. Waiver Of All Impact Fees
The proposed new Key West Detention Facility is
a public purpose project that is being developed
to resolve a critical jail bed space deficiency.
It is therefore in the best interest of the
community and the taxpayers that all impact fees
be waived.
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Also, to avoid having to expend additional
taxpayer dollars for new fire fighting equipment,
the County is amenable to executing an inter local
agreement relieving the City of Key West's
responsibility to provide fire protection services
to this facility.
4. A Variance To Permit Tertiary Waste Water
Disposal Via Shallow Well Iniection
The City has enacted an Ordinance banning the use
of shallow well injection as a means of disposing
of waste water effluent.
Stock Island is not serviced by the City's waste
water disposal system. Approving this variance
will enable use of "gray water" within the
detention facility, resulting in substantial water
use and taxpayer dollar savings. Alternative
methodologies are not economically practicable.
The County should also be formally excluded from
ever having to connect to the City sewer system
in the event said system is ever expanded to
include the new jail site.
5. Traffic Impact Improvements To Junior Colleqe
Road And U.S. Hiqhway 1
All vicinity roadway improvements shall be made
in accordance with that specified in the CIAS and
as required by the applicable State permitting
and regulatory agencies at no cost to the City of
Key West."
as the Board's official position relative to the action
being requested of the City Commission. During discussion,
the motion was amended to include the County Attorney's com-
ments relative to Conditions 1, 2 and 4 of the proposed City
Resolution. Roll call vote was unanimous.
There being no further business, the meeting was
adjourned.
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