Item B01Revised 3/99
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: -August 17, 2000 Division: Growth Management
Bulk Item: Yes X No ❑ Department: Code Enforcement
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Approval of a Resolution establishing a fund for the purpose of making reservations for
vacation rentals that will provide competent evidence for prosecution of the violation
before the Monroe County Special Master or a court of competent jurisdiction.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
Section 22 of Monroe County Ordinance 004-1997 provides for penalties for violation of
the ordinance that are greater for actual rental as opposed to merely offering a residence
for rental. The resolution will provide a means of gathering evidence for a more severe
penalty.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
Enacting Monroe County Ordinance 004-1997.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
TOTAL COST: $5000
COST TO COUNTY: $0
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes ❑ No x
BUDGETED: Yes X No ❑
N/A
AMOUNT PER MONTH
YEAR
APPROVED BY: COUNTY ATTY ❑ OMB/PURCHASING ❑ RISK MANAGEMENT ❑
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR APPROVAL: % 3/-06
Tr#i immo ctor, Code Enforcement
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL: y- 3 ( -co
Tim McGarry 1544tor 1?rr-qkvth Management
DOCUMENTATION: INCLUDED: x TO FOLLOW: ❑ NOT REQUIRED:
DISPOSITION: AGENDA ITEM #: r
AUG-03-00 10:42 FROM:MONROE COUNTY ATTY OFFICE ID=3052923S16
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Board of County Commissioners
RESOLUTION NO. -2000
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING ESTABLISHMENT OF A FUND FOR
ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCE NO. 004-1997 VACATION AL
WHEREAS. the Board of County Commissioners adopted Ordinance No. 04-1997 with an
enforcement date of January 4, 1999: and
WHEREAS. Section 22 of Ordinance No. 004-1997 provides for acquiring evidence for
Prosecution of Violations of the ordinance; and
WHEREAS, Section 22 provides for disposition of cases before the Monroe County Code
Enforcement Special Master or before a court of competent jurisdiction:
WHEREAS, the penalties are more severe far documentation of actual rental as opposed to
merely offering for rental a house in a residential neighborhood and that serves to deter the short
term vacation rental of houses in quiet residential neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has determined that the use of public funds
to pay for short term vocation rental deposits, even if such deposits arc not subsequently
recovered, is a valid law enforcement public purpose: now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY,
FLORIDA:
That a fund be established in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) for the purpose
of making reservations for vacation rentals that will provide competent evidence for prosecution of
the violation before the Monroe County Special Master or a court of competent jurisdiction.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida,
at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 17th day of August, 2000.
Mayor Shirley Freeman
Commissioner Wilhelmina Harvey
Commissioner George Neup"
Commissioner Mary Kay Reich
Commissioner Nora Williams
(SEAL)
Attest: DANNY L.KOLHAGE, Clark
Deputy Clerk
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By
Mayor/Chairperson
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