05/10/2018 SpecialMINUTES
OF THE MONROE COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Special Meeting
Board of County Commissioners
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Marathon, Florida
A special meeting of the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners convened at 11:00
a.m. at the Marathon Government Center. Present and answering to roll call were Commissioner Heather
Carruthers, Commissioner Danny Kolhage, Commissioner Sylvia Murphy, Commissioner George
Neugent and Mayor David Rice. Also present at the meeting were Roman Gastesi, County
Administrator; Bob Shillinger, County Attorney; Pamela Hancock, Deputy Clerk; county staff, members
of the press and radio; and the general public.
ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS, DELETIONS
Al There were no Additions, Corrections or Deletions to the agenda.
PLANNING & ENVIRONMENTAL, BUILDING & CODE
COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENTS
B1 Christine Hurley, Assistant County Administrator, made a Power Point Presentation on
Department of Economic Opportunity (DSO's) Community Development Block Grant - Disaster
Recovery (CDBG -DR) DRAFT Action Plan including Florida Keys set aside of $90 Million of which
$50M is for housing repair /reconstruction; $20M is for Low - Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
projects through Florida Housing Finance Corporation (FHFC); $IOM for land acquisition for affordable
housing; $IOM for voluntary sellouts of sites for green space and possible affordable housing
development. Ms. Hurley advised that the presentation will be added to the County's website
( www.monroecounty- fl.gov) The Board took no official action.
B2 Ms. Hurley, Bob Shillinger, County Attorney, and Roman Gastesi, County Administrator,
addressed the Board concerning direction on the initiative by Governor Scott to Department of
Economic Opportunity (DEO) for the Keys Workforce Housing Initiative to allow 1300 additional
affordable housing Rate of Growth Ordinance Allocations (ROGO) for rental workforce housing, with a
condition that developments that receive these ROGO allocations have a rental management
agreement in place that requires rental occupants to evacuate in the early phase (48 hours in advance of
tropical storm winds reaching the shore of the Florida Keys) of a hurricane evacuation. Currently
transient units (hotels) and mobile home occupants are required to evacuate in the early phase of
evacuation. The following individuals addressed the Board: Mark Songer, representing Last Stand;
Virginia Panico, representing the Key West Chamber of Commerce; Deb Gillis, representing Islamorada
Council & Chamber; Joe Walsh, representing Rockland Key LLC; Captain Ed Davidson, Chairman,
representing Florida Keys Citizens Coalition; Mike Morawski, representing Hemingway Home; Diane
Eliopoulos, representing Hard Rock Cafe International & The Lodging Association of the Florida Keys &
Key West; Dotti Moses, representing 1,000 Friends of Florida; and Jan Edelstein. Board directed staff to
discuss the concerns expressed at today's meeting with DEO staff during their meeting on May 15, 2018;
and, to give an update to the Board at the regularly scheduled meeting on Mayl6, 2018.
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There being no further business, the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners was
adjourned.
Kevin Madok, CPA, Clerk
and ex- officio Clerk to the
Board of County Commissioners
Monroe County, Florida
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