Item P08BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: 9/21/12 (Marathon) Division: County Attorney
Bulk Item: Yes X No _ Staff Contact: Suzanne Hutton/Bob Shillinger x3470
AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval of resolution appointing a director and alternate director to
represent the County in the Gulf Consortium.
ITEM BACKGROUND: Congress passed the "Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist
Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012", known as the
RESTORE Act, to establish a trust fund for deposits of 80% of administrative and civil penalties
exacted from parties responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Act established the process
for distribution of the funds among the affected states. A consortium of the affected counties in Florida
has been proposed to represent those counties' collective interests. The approval of the interlocal
agreement (ILA) creating the proposed consortium is the subject of a separate agenda item.
The Gulf Consortium ILA contemplates that each member county will appoint a representative to serve
as a "director" on the governing board of the consortium. Due to the importance of each meeting and
the potential of scheduling conflicts for the appointed director, it is being proposed that the
Commission appoint an alternate to serve in the appointed director's place should that person not be
able to attend a particular meeting.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION: August 15, 2012, approval of a consulting agreement
with MW Biodiesel Consulting, Inc.
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Approval
TOTAL COST: none INDIRECT COST: none BUDGETED: Yes No
COST TO COUNTY: none SOURCE OF FUNDS: n/a
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes _ No AMOUNT PER MONTH Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty _ OMB/Purchasing Risk Management
DOCUMENTATION:
DISPOSITION:
Revised 7/09
Included X * Not Required
* See backup in related item approving ILA.
AGENDA ITEM #
RESOLUTION NO. -2012
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA, APPOINTING THE COUNTY'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE
GULF CONSORTIUM.
WHEREAS, the United States Congress passed the "Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability,
Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012," known as the
RESTORE Act, to establish a trust fund for deposits of 80% of administrative and civil penalties exacted
from parties responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill for distribution of the funds among the
affected states; and
WHEREAS, the RESTORE Act requires a plan for funding expenditures within the State of Florida
to be developed by a "consortia of local political subdivisions;" and
WHEREAS, counties in Florida affected by the oil spill are creating the Gulf Consortium to jointly
serve their interests in complying with and working within the framework established by the RESTORE
Act; and
WHEREAS, the Board has voted to join the Gulf Consortium; and
WHEREAS, under the terms of the Interlocal Agreement creating the Gulf Consortium, each
member county must appoint a "director" to represent its interests at Consortium meeting; and
WHEREAS, it is anticipated that there will be many meetings of the Gulf Consortium, some of
which may conflict with the appointed director's schedule; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the County and its residents to appoint an alternate
director should the appointed director not be able to attend a meeting of the Gulf Consortium; now
therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, that:
1. (name) -(position)___, is hereby appointed as Monroe
County's representative or "director", authorized to participate in discussions and vote as a
member of the Gulf Consortium on behalf of Monroe County.
2. (name) (position) , is hereby appointed as the alternate
County representative or "director" with the same authority as the representative
designated in Section 1, above, in the absence of the designated representative from any
consortium meeting or teleconferencing meeting.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida at a regular
meeting on said Board on the
(SEAL)
ATTEST: Danny L. Kolhage, CLERK
By:
Deputy Clerk
day of , A.D., 2012.
Mayor David Rice
Mayor Pro Tern Kim Wigington
Commissioner Heather Carruthers
Commissioner Sylvia Murphy
Commissioner George Neugent
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By:
MONROE CUUN 1 Y ATTORNEY
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BERT B. SHILLINGER, JR.
IS NT UNTY ATTORNEY
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Mayor David Rice