Item L12BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: Sept 16,_2105_ Department: BOCC
Bulk Item: Yes x No Staff Contact /Phone 4: T. Colonna
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
A resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida applauding the Ocean
Conservancy, The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and The Florida Keys Scenic Highway
Corridor Alliance for their efforts in organizing and carrying out a Keys -wide beach cleanup to take
place on September 19, 2015
ITEM BACKGROUND:
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APPROVED BY: County Attorney OMB/Purchasing Risk Manaocment
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Commissioner Neugent
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WHEREAS, the Florida Keys have a diversity of coastal resources including
fringing mangroves, saltmarshes, seagrass meadows, nearshore patch reefs, offshore
harrier reefs, and sandy beaches; and
WHEREAS, the coast has provided the Keys with a rich scenic, cultural, and
historical heritage and constitutes a national recreational and economic resource
supporting a robust commercial fishing and tourist industry; and
WHEREAS, Monroe County is strongly committed to the wise management of
its coastline in order to ensure the natural and economic sustainability of this resource;
and
WHEREAS, the proper disposal and recycling of solid waste is an important
aspect of protecting the Keys' coastal resources and achieving coastal sustainability; and
WHEREAS, the Ocean Conservancy has sponsored an annual County and
Statewide coastal cleanup in Florida since 1988, resulting in the nations' largest coastal
cleanup effort; and
WHEREAS, the Ocean Conservancy, the Florida Keys National Marine
Sanctuary and the Florida Keys Scenic Highway Alliance is sponsoring a coastal cleanup
in the Florida Keys on Saturday, September 19, 2015;
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The coastal cleanup efforts of the Ocean Conservancy, the Florida Keys
National Marine Sanctuary and the Florida Keys Scenic Highway
Corridor Alliance are critically important to the protection of coastal
resources in the Keys.
2, The Board and citizens of Monroe County, the Florida Keys, support this
laudable effort with the same strength of spirit held by those who
organized the cleanup and volunteered their substantial time and energy,
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Additionally, the Board would like to
the Keys that donated time and mat(
Monroe County Waste Management
National Marine Sanctuary, and Keys'
Service, Marathon Garbage Service,
Advanced Disposal.
commend the many businesses in
rials to this effort, including the
Department, The Florida Keys
solid waste haulers: Key Sanitary
Waste Management, Inc., and
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe
County, Florida at a regular meeting of said Board held on the l6th day of September,
2015.
Mayor Danny L. Kolhage, District I
Mayor Pro Tern Heather Carruthers, District 3
Commissioner George Neugent, District 2
Commissioner David Rice, District 4
Commissioner Sylvia Murphy, District 5
(Seat)
Attest: Amy Reavffin, Clerk
By:
Deputy Clerk
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By:
Mayor Danny L. Kolhage
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