Resolution 345A-1999
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FILED FOR RECORD
99 AUG 23 PH ,: 0 ,
Environmental Resources Department
Of.l.\'ir.-Y L. y,OLHAGE
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A RESOLUTION CREATING THE MONROE COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL
RESTORATION FUND, AN ACCOUNT WITHIN THE BUDGET OF THE MONROE
COUNTY PLANNING. ZONING AND BUILDING DISTRICT
RESOLUTION NO. 345A -1999
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA:
Section 1.) (a)
There is hereby created a Special Revenue Fund to be
called the Monroe County Environmental Restoration Fund, hereafter the Fund.
(b) The following revenues must be deposited in the Fund:
(i) restoration fees paid by landowners developing in disturbed
salt marsh and buttonwood wetlands;
(ii) when the comprehensive plan or land development
regulations require the transplanting of plants, but the County biologist has
determined that the survivability of such plants is low, the fee paid in lieu of such
transplanting;
(iii) when the comprehensive plan or land development
regulations require the furnishing of plant stock or a fee in lieu of the stock, the
fee paid;
(iv) any fine for an environmental crime when such fine is
ordered by the sentencing court to be paid into the fund.
(c) In addition to the revenue described in subparagraph 1 (b), the
Fund may also accept donations, gifts, and revenue appropriated or transferred to the
Fund by the County Commission from any lawfully available source.
Section 2.) (a)
The revenue deposited in the Fund may only be used for
those environmental restoration and improvement purposes set forth in the Monroe
County Comprehensive Plan, and Land Development Regulations.
(b) Fund revenues for the purchases of goods, services or
improvements to real property may only be expended according to general law and
to the Board of County Commissioners' Purchasing Policy and the applicable
purchasing ordinances. Fund revenues used for the purchase of real property, or an
interest in real property, may only be expended as provided by general law governing
the County's purchase of real property or interests in real property.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe
County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 22nd day of
July,
,1999.
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Deputy Clerk
Mayor Wilhelmina G. Harvey
Mayor Pro Tem Shirley Freeman
Commissioner George Neugent
Commissioner Nora Williams
Commissioner Mary Kay Reich
yes
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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Mayor/Chairman
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