Item P14BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: December 17, 2008 (Mara).
BOCC
Bulk Item: Yes No X
Division:
Department: County Attorney.
Staff Contact /Phone #: Suzanne Hutton
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Approval of Resolution inviting Key Largo Fire Rescue & Emergency Medical Services District to
commence negotiations for an interlocal agreement to include the area within the District boundaries
in the Monroe County Northern County Emergency Air Transport MSTU.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
During budget hearings in the summer of 2008, it was proposed that there be an MSTU to cover the
costs of TraumaStar which are in excess of the revenue generated by patient transports. After passage
of such an ordinance, the County must seek action from the municipalities and independent special
district for them to be covered in the taxing & service district.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
Approval of referendum question being placed on ballot at 2008 general election, and passage of
Ordinance No. 30-2008 creating 2 MSTU's for emergency air transport.
CONTRACTIAGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
TOTAL COST:
COST TO COUNTY:
BUDGETED: Yes No
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes ` No AMOUNT PER MONTH Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty OMB/Purchasing Risk Management
DOCUMENTATION:
DISPOSITION:
Included X Not Required
AGENDA ITEM #
Revised 11/06
RESOLUTION NO. -2008
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, INVITING KEY LARGO FIRE RESCUE AND
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DISTRICT TO ENTER INTO AN
INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR INCLUSION OF DISTRICT IN THE
EMERGENCY AIR TRANSPORT MSTU BOUNDARIES SET BY ORDINANCE
No. 30-2008, AND INITIATING NEGOTIATIONS THEREFOR.
WHEREAS, the Monroe County Sheriff obtained a helicopter with the use of forfeiture funds in
2002 and operated an air ambulance service for trauma victims to be transported rapidly to trauma care
facilities in Miami, saving hundreds of lives; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners appropriated funds to purchase a replacement
helicopter when the original helicopter became so old that maintenance and replacement parts became
cost -prohibitive; and
WHEREAS, the annual costs of operation of TraumaStar, the Sheriff s rapid -transport air
ambulance, has been approximately $1,800,000 per year in excess of revenues collected from user
service fees; and
WHEREAS, the State legislature, in 2007 and 2008, limited the collection of ad valorem taxes
by local governments, except by super -majority or unanimous vote by the governing board or by
approval through referendum by the taxpayers; and
WHEREAS, it has been estimated that the amount necessary to supplement the TraumaStar
service revenues to keep it operational for trauma scenes throughout the Florida Keys can be met by less
than a .15 mill tax; and
WHEREAS, a running order by the Monroe County Fire Chief designates Mile Marker 95 as the
point above which air ambulance service from Miami -Dade County is requested for trauma scenes, and
below which TraumaStar is requested for trauma scenes due to the time necessary for the respective air
ambulance to reach the scene; and
WHEREAS, it is equitable to assess a lower millage in the area above Mile Marker 95 because
TraumaStar acts as a secondary provider for trauma scenes in that area and a higher millage in the area
below Mile Marker 95 where it acts as primary provider; and
WHEREAS, the impact of the maximum levy of the proposed surtax on a property with an
assessable value of $350,000 would be $52.50 per year below Mile Marker 95 and $26.25 per year
above Mile Marker 95; and
WHEREAS, county -wide, a majority vote by the electors on November 4, 2008, supported the
establishment of two taxing areas with the northern area to be limited to 7-1/2 cents tax per thousand
dollars of taxable value of real property and the remainder of the Florida Keys to be limited to 15 cents
per thousand dollars of taxable value of real property; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners for Monroe County, Florida, did, at a public
hearing on December 8, 2008, adopt Ordinance No. 30-2008, creating two MSTU's, one for the area
north of Mile Marker 95 Northern County Emergency Air Transport Municipal Service Taxing Unit),
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and one for the area encompassing Mile Marker 95and south (Central -Southern County Emergency Aix
Transport Municipal Service Taxing Unit), for the County's fiscal year beginning October 1, 2009, and
continuing through September 30, 2019; and
WHEREAS, Key Largo Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services District is an
independent special district established by the State of Florida; and
WHEREAS, s.171.203, F.S. requires an independent special district to consent by interlocal
agreement to inclusion of the area within the district boundaries in the taxing unit established by the
County; and
WHEREAS, by multiple resolutions passed the date below, the County is inviting the following
entities to take action to opt into the MSTU's: the municipalities of Islamorada, Key Colony Beach, Key
West, Layton, and Marathon, and the Key Largo Fire Rescue & Emergency Services District; now
therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR MONROE
COUNTY that:
Section 1. Invitation for District to Negotiate ILA to be Included in the Emergency Air Transport
MSTU. The Key Largo Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services District is invited to enter
negotiations with the County for an interlocal agreement authorizing the real property within the District
boundaries, to wit: all of Cross Key and that part of Key Largo from South Bay Harbor Drive and
Lobster Lane to the southern boundary of the right-of-way County Roads 905 and 905A, to be included
in the Northern County Emergency Air Transport MSTU established by Ordinance No. 30-2008.
Section 2. Delivery of copy of Resolution to Invitee. The Clerk shall send copies of this Resolution to
the chief administrative officer, District Clerk Vicky Fay.
Section 3. Effective Date.
This resolution shall be effective on the date written below.
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 December, AD, 2008.
Mayor George Neugent
Mayor Pro Tem Sylvia Murphy
Commissioner Heather Carruthers
Commissioner Mario DiGennaro
Commissioner Kim Wigington
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA
(SEAL)
ATTEST: By:
DANNY L. KOLHAGE, CLERK
LON
Deputy Clerk
TraumaStar Funding Opt -in Res - KLFREMSD
MAYOR
VONROE COUNTY ATTORNEY
ED AS TO r IM:
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