Item M6
BOARD OF COUNlY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: 8/15/07 -Key Lanzo
Division:
BOCC
Bulk Item: Yes
No -1L
Depamnent: DISTRICf FIVE
Staff Contact : Donna Hanson (305\852-7175
AGENDA I1EM WORDING:
Approval of a Resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County amending
Resolution 258-1993, clarifYing the appointment process for the Tourist Development Council.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
See resolution attached.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
Approval.
TOTAL COST:
N/A
BUDGETED: Yes
No
COST TO COUNTY:
N/A
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No
AMOUNTPERMONTH_ Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty _ OMBlPurchasing _ Risk Management_
DOCUMENTATION:
Included x
Not Required_
DlSPOsmON:
AGENDA ITEM 1# --rY). (p
Revised 1l/06
Commissioner Sylvia Mmphy
RESOLUTION NO.
- 2007
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY AMENDING
RESOLUTION 258-1993, CLARIFYING THE APPOINTMENT
PROCESS FOR THE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.
WHEREAS, Section 125.0104(4Xe), FS, requires the tourist development council for each
county adopting a tourism development tax to have a specified composition appointed by the board of
county commissioners, to wit: three elected officials, of which one shall be either the chair of the
governing board of the county or any other member of the governing board as designated by the chair,
and two of which shall be elected municipal officials, at least one of whom shall be from the most
populous mwrlcipality in the county; at least three, but no more than four, shall be from the lodging
industry; and at least two, but no more than three, shall be from the tourism (non-lodging) industry; and
WHEREAS, the County Code further provides that the BOCC appointments shall be based
on !he percentage of collections of the tourist development tax in each district, but that each district
will have at least one representative; and
WHEREAS, County Commission districts are not the same as the me districts; and
WHEREAS, the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners issued Resolution No. 258-
1993 to clarifY the process for making nominations and appointments to the Monroe County Tourist
Council; and
WHEREAS, it is desired to further clarifY the process set forth in Resolution 258-1993;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA: . ~
Section 1: Resolution No. 258-1993 is hereby repealed. ~ /
Section 2: Three (3) of the officials are essentially selected by ~atute in that one is the
Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners and two (2) ar~resentatives of municipalities
located within the County, one (I) of which is the most populous municipality, and these nominations
shall be and rEmain the nominations of the Board of County Commissioners.
Section 3: (a) Of the remaining six (6) appointments, there shall be at all times on the me an
appointment which was nominated by a commissioner representing each tourist development district as
defined in Monroe County Code Section 2-299(G)', and confirmed through appointment by the Board
of County Commissioners according to the representation which follows:
1 As of the date of this n:solution the IDC districts are:
District I the city limits of Key West
District II from the city limits of Key West to the west end of the Seven Mile Bridge
District ill from the west end of the Seven Mile Bridge to the Long Key Bridge
District N between the Long Key Bridge and mile marlc:er 90.939
District V from mile marker 90.940 to !he DadeIMonroe County line and any mainland portions of
Monroe County
IDC DISTRICT
District I
District n
District ill
District IV
District V
COMMISSIONER REPRESENTATION
BOCC District 3
BOCC District 1
BOCC District 2
BOCC District 4
BOCC District 5
(b) The Mayor shall have the right to select a second nominee (6~ in hislher capacity of Mayor.
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(c) These si~: (6) nominations shall satisfY the statutory requirements with respect to occupation as well
as the ordinance requirement with respect to geographic locale, and shall be the Board's appointees to
the Tourist Development Council.
Section 4: The TOe District representation by specified County Commission Districts would
also include the three (3) At Large appointments to the District Advisory Committees (DAC's) and the
nominees by the county commissioner for that district shall be appointed by the Board of County
Commissioners.
Section 5:
This Resolution shall become effective on the date written below.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida, at a meeting of said Board held on the 15th day of August, A.D., 2007.
Mayor Mario DiGennaro
Mayor Pro Tem Dixie M. Spehar
Commissioner Charles "Sonny" McCoy
Commissioner Sylvia Murphy
Commissioner George Neugent
(SEAL)
Attest: DANNY L. KOLHAGE, Clerk
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By
Deputy Clerk
By
Mayor/Chairman
n."