Item P5
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date:
January 19, 2000
Division:
County Attorney
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Request to advertise a resolution for four consecutive weeks and to set a hearing time
and date. The resolution states the Board's intent to levy non-ad valorem assessments
in the Key Largo area for central sewage treatment facilities.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
The resolution is required by Sec. 197.3632, FS, and must be approved by March I and
delivered to the Property Appraiser and Tax Collector by March 10,2000.
PREVIOUS RElEVANT BOCC ACTION:
The BOCC has authorized the advertising for, and evaluation of, proposals for the
design/build/operation of central sewage treatment facilities in the Key Largo area.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Approval to advertise for public hearing.
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes_ No_
APPROVED BY:
County Attorney X
OMB/Purchasing
Risk Management
DIVISION DIRECTORG~
DOCUMENTATION: Inclu d
To Follow
Not required
AGENDA ITEM #
1,1'5
Commissioner Nora Williams
RESOLUTION NO.
-2000
A RESOLUTION DETERMINING THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR CENTRAL SEWAGE
INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE KEY LARGO AREA; PROVIDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE
KEY LARGO AREA; AND STATING THE INTENT OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD
OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO USE THE UNIFORM METHOD FOR THE
COLLECTION OF NON-AD VALOREM ASSESSMENTS TO FUND CENTRAL
SEWAGE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE KEY LARGO AREA
WHEREAS, near shore water pollution in the seas adjacent to the Key Largo area
caused by septic tanks, cess pits and otherWise poorly maintained or operated wastewater
treatment systems constitutes a direct threat to public health;
WHEREAS, such pollution also endangers the health and continued existence of the
coral reefs off-shore of Key Largo; and
WHEREAS, the coral reefs are not only a national and world ecological treasure they
also draw to Key Largo visitors from the U.S. and abroad and thus help to support a
significant portion of the local economy; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY,
FLORIDA:
Section 1. This resolution is adopted pursuant to Sec. 197.3632(3). FS.
Section 2. The Board restates the whereas clauses set forth above and determines
that there is a pressing need for the central sewage infrastructure in the following areas:
a) Key Largo, excluding Ocean Reef; and
b) Cross Key.
Section 3. The Board determines that the need for central sewage infrastructure in
the area described in section 2 necessitates the use of the uniform method for the collection
of non-ad valorem assessments authorized in Sec. 197.3632, FS. The Board hereby states its
its intent to use the non-ad valorem assessment method within the area described in section
2 to fund central sewage infrastructure. All real property in the area described in section 2,
unless exempt under Florida law, is to be subject to non-ad valorem assessments for central
sewage infrastructure.
Section 4.
The Clerk of the Circuit Court is directed to send and deliver certified
copies of this resolution to the Property Appraiser and Tax Collector before March 10,2000.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held on the
day of January, 2000.
MayorShirley Freeman
Commissioner Wilhelmina Harvey
Commissioner George Neugent
Commissioner Mary Kay Reich
Commissioner Nora Williams
(SEAL)
Attest: DANNY L.KOLHAGE. Clerk
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY. FLORIDA
By
Deputy Clerk
By
Mayor/Chairperson
jresiiiklsewer