Item K5RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE
Commissioner Sonny McCoy
- 2007
BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA,
PETITIONING THE STATE OF FLORIDA TO FLOAT A
$50090009000 BOND TO COMPLETE THE SEWERING OF THE
FLORIDA KEYS IN AN EXPEDITIOUS MANNER.
WHEREAS, Monroe County is an Area of Critical State Concern; and
WHEREAS, the State of Florida has mandated that the Florida Keys be fully
sewered by 2010 in order to protect the near -shore waters of the Keys; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Keys constitute a 120-mile long archipelago with a
tremendous amount of near -shore waters; and
WHEREAS, the sewering of the Florida Keys is intended to protect the waters in
order to preserve marine life; and
WHEREAS, sewering the Florida Keys will further the interest of the health,
welfare, and safety of citizens, visitors, and wildlife; and
WHEREAS, Monroe County has been funding sewer projects for a number of
years, with erratic funding from the State, notwithstanding the State mandate to
accomplish the sewering; and
WHEREAS, building the sewering projects over the timeline necessary without
federal and only partial State funding, with no future State assistance secured, results in a
lengthy process which incurs construction costs increasing at a rate that the County's
resources will be depleted before finishing the projects throughout the County; now
therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR
MONROE COUNTY, that: %
Section 1. The Board Of Coui}4f Commissioners For Monroe County, Florida, petitions
the State of Florida to float a and issue in the amount of $500,000,000 (five hundred
million dollars), in order to expeditiously complete the sewering of the Florida Keys.
Section 2. The Clerk is directed to send copies of this resolution to Governor Charles
Crist, Senator Larcenia Bullard, and Representative Saunders.
Res. Pet. State Bonds for Sewers
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Section 3. This Resolution shall be effective on the day stated below.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe
County, Florida at a regularly scheduled meeting of said Board held on the 16`h day of
May, 2007.
Mayor Mario DiGennaro
Mayor Pro Tern Dixie Spehar
Commissioner George Neugent
Commissioner Charles "Sonny" McCoy
Commissioner Sylvia Murphy
(SEAL)
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
DANNY L. KOLHAGE, CLERK OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By:
Deputy Clerk
Res. Pet. State Bonds for Sewers
By:
Mayor/Chairperson