Item M08
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Revised 3/99
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date:01/19/00
Bulk Item: Yes D No [g]
Division: SOCC
Department: Nora Williams
AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval of Mark Rosch to represent Monroe County for a
land Manaqement Review team lead by the Department of Environmental Protection,
ITEM BACKGROUND: The Division of State lands has been directed by the Florida
leqislature to establish land manaqement review teams to determine whether natural
resource lands titled to the Internal Improvement Trust Fund are beinq manaqed for the
purposes for which they were acquired and in accordance with approved land
manaqement plans,
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION: Mark Rosch is the Executive Director of the
Monroe County land Authority,
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
TOTAL COST: lQ
BUDGETED: Yes D No D
COST TO COUNTY:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes D No D
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Jeb Bush
Governor
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Building
3900 Commonwealth Boulevard
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3000
December 20, 1999
David B, Struhs
Secretary
The Honorable Nora Williams
Monroe County Commission
490 63rd Street, #110
Marathon, Florida 33050
Dear Commissioner Williams:
The Division of State Lands has been directed by the Legislature to establish land management
review teams to determine whether natural resource lands titled to the Internal Improvement
Trust Fund are being managed for the purposes for which they were acquired and in accordance
with approved land management plans. Please see the enclosed excerpt from the 1998 Florida
Statutes. Membership on these teams shall include the following:
* one individual from the county or local community in which the parcel is located, and
who is selected by the county commission in the county that is most impacted by the parcel
* one individual from the Division of Recreation and Parks
* one individual from the Division of Forestry
* one individual from the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
* one individual from the DEP's district office
* a private land manager mutually agreeable to the state agency representatives
* a member of the local Soil and Water Conservation District board of supervisors
* a member of a conservation organization
We have selected Curry Hammock State Park, Bahia Honda State Park, and Lignumvitae State
Botanical Site in Monroe County for management reviews, which will be conducted January 24
- 26, 2000. The reviews will include a field trip to view each site and a meeting in which the
reviewers will be asked to fill out and make comments on forms, checklists
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The Honorable Nora Williams
Monroe County Commission
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and other materials that will be provided, Please designate a representative for the Lignumvitae
Key State Botanical Site on January 24 and Curry Hammock State Park on January 26 to
participate in this process. Send the name of your representative to John Barrow, MS 140, at the
letterhead address or by fax (850-413-7478) no later than December 27, 1999. For more
information you may contact John Barrow, or me at 850-487-1750. Thank you for participating
in this worthwhile process.
Sin
Qilliam RowelI, OMC Manager
Division of State Lands
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