Item P03
Commissioner Neugent
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: 18 September 2002
Division:
Growth Management
Bulk Item: Yes l No
Department"
Marine Resources
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Approval of a Resolution applauding the Ocean Conservancy and Clean Florida Keys for their efforts in
organizing and carrying out a Keys wide beach cleanup to take place on 21 September 2002.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
Clean Florida Keys and the Ocean Conservancy have a long partnership in cleaning the shoreline areas of the
Florida Keys. Each September these partners sponsor a shoreline cleanup, which this year will be held on 21
September 2002
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
Approval of similar resolutions in previous years
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
NA
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS;
Approval
TOTAL COST:
NA
BUDGETED: Yes
No
COST TO COUNTY: NA
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No --X. AMOUNT Per Month
Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty
NA
NA
Risk Management ~
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
\..1 irector of Growth Manageren
DOCUMENTATION: Included -1L.. To Follow _ Not Required
DISPOSITION:
AGENDA ITEM NO.:
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BC020950
08/28/023:32 PM
Commissioner Neugent, District 2
RESOLUTION NO. 2002
A RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS APPLAUDING THE OCEAN CONSERVANCY &
CLEAN FLORIDA KEYS FOR THEIR EFFORTS IN ORGANIZING
AND CARRYING OUT A KEYS WIDE BEACH CLEANUP TO TAKE
PLACE ON 21 SEPTEMBER, 2002
WHEREAS, the Florida Keys have diversity of coastal resources including
fringing mangroves, saltmarshes, seagrass meadows, nearshore patch reefs, offshore
barrier 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 eccnomic 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, and Clean Florida Keys sponsored the
Adopt - A- Shore program since 1994 resulting in the nations' largest coastal cleanup
effort; and
WHEREAS, the Ocean Conservancy and Clean Florida Keys is sponsoring a
coastal cleanup in the Florida Keys on Saturday 21, September 2002;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA THAT:
The coastal cleanup efforts of the Ocean Conservancy & Clean Florida Keys
critically important to the protection of coastal resources in the Keys; and
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.
Additionally, the Board would like to commend the many businesses in the Keys
that donated time and materials to this effort, including the Monroe County Recycling
Department, The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Cl~an Florida Keys and Keys'
solid waste haulers, Keys Sanitary Service, Marathon Garbage Service, Waste
MaDagcmcnt Inc., BFllne.,
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners, Monroe
County, Florida at a regular meeting of said Board held on the ~ day of September.
AD, 2002.
Mayor Clw'les "Sonny" McCoy
Mayor Pro Tem Dixie Spehar
Commissioner George Neugent
Commissioner Bert Jimenez
Commissioner Murray Nelson
BOARD OF COUNfY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By
Mayor/Chairman
A TrEST:
DANNY L. KOLHAGE. CLERK
BY:
DEPUTY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND
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