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Item I04 I4 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COUNTY of MONROE �� i Mayor Holly Merrill Raschein,District 5 The Florida Keys Mayor Pro Tern James K.Scholl,District 3 Craig Cates,District 1 Michelle Lincoln,District 2 ' David Rice,District 4 Board of County Commissioners Meeting January 31, 2024 Agenda Item Number: I4 2023-1966 BULK ITEM: Yes DEPARTMENT: Airports TIME APPROXIMATE: STAFF CONTACT: Richard Strickland n/a AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval of a resolution amending Resolution No. 520-2022, which imposed a Customer Facility Charge (CFC) on customers of rental car companies accessing Key West International Airport, increasing the initial CFC charge of$4.00 to $6.00 per transaction day effective March 1, 2024. ITEM BACKGROUND: Increases in passengers and rental car customers has placed a strain on the Airport's public parking facilities, rental car facilities, and terminal curb space. The CFC will be used for planning, designing, financing, constructing, operating and maintaining consolidated rental car facilities at the Airport. Due to preliminary design estimates and increasing cost of construction, the Airport wishes to increase the initial CFC from $4.00 to $6.00 per transaction day. PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION: Approval of Resolution No. 520-2022 on December 7, 2022. INSURANCE REQUIRED: No CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES: Increases CFC from $4.00 to $6.00 per transaction day. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval. DOCUMENTATION: Resolution- CFC A end ent.pdf 2345 FINANCIAL IMPACT: Revenue Producing: $6.00 per transaction day(Total TBD) Effective Date: March 1, 2024 2346 RESOLUTION NO. -2024 A RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 520-2022, ATTACHED HERETO, WHICH IMPOSED A CUSTOMER FACILITY CHARGE ON CUSTOMERS OF RENTAL CAR COMPANIES ACCESSING KEY WEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; AMENDING SECTION 2 FOR PURPOSES OF INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF THE CFC CHARGE FROM FOUR DOLLARS TO SIX DOLLARS PER TRANSACTION DAY; AMENDING SECTION 2 FOR PURPOSES OF SETTING THE DATE UPON WHICH COLLECTION OF THE INCREASED CFC CHARGE IS TO BEGIN ON MARCH 1,2024. WHEREAS, Monroe County is the owner and operator of the Key West International Airport (the "Airport") and is empowered to establish, fix, and collect fees and charges for its use and operation; and WHEREAS, on the 7th day of December 2022 the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners passed Resolution No. 520-2022 imposing a customer facility charge (CFC) on customers of rental car companies accessing the Airport; and WHEREAS, as a result of preliminary design estimates as well as the increasing cost of construction, Monroe County finds it to be prudent and necessary to increase the amount of the CFC charge from four dollars to six dollars. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY,FLORIDA,that: Section 1. The following terms shall have the meanings specified in this Section, unless otherwise specifically provided. Other terms may be defined in other parts of this Resolution. "Airport"means the Key West International Airport. "Airport Customer"means any person who comes to the Airport by any means of transportation and enters into a vehicle rental agreement with a Rental Car Company at the Airport. "Customer Facility Charge" means the fee imposed by this Resolution and used to plan, design, finance, construct, operate and maintain the Rental Car Facility. "Director of Airports" means the Monroe County Director of Airports, or his or her designee. "Rental Car Company" means a rental car company having executed a rental car concession 2347 agreement for the operation of a rental car concession at the Airport. "Rental Car Facility" means a consolidated rental car facility or facilities to be developed and located at the Airport. "Transaction Day" means, with respect to any vehicle available for rent by any Rental Car Company, for twenty-five (25) or fewer hours for the initial or first transaction day, and any portion of one or more additional twenty-four (24) hour periods for each transaction day thereafter. Section 2. The Customer Facility Charge shall be charged to and assessed to each Airport Customer. For the period of March 1, 2023 until February 29, 2024 the amount of the Customer Facility Charge shall be four dollars and no cents per Transaction Day. Beginning March 1, 2024 the amount of the Customer Facility Charge charged to and assessed to each Airport Customer shall be six dollars and no cents ($6.00)per Transaction Day. Section 3. The Rental Car Companies shall collect the Customer Facility Charge from each Airport Customer at the time payment is first made under any agreement with an Airport Customer. Each Rental Car Company shall further remit the full amount of the Customer Facility Charge to the County or to an agent appointed by the County not less frequently than monthly, regardless of whether the full amount of such Customer Facility Charge was actually collected from the Airport Customer. Section 4. All Customer Facilities Charges collected by any Rental Car Company on behalf of the County shall be held in trust for the beneficial interest of the County until they are remitted. The Rental Car Companies shall have no legal or equitable interest in the Customer Facility Charges they collect and shall characterize any Customer Facility Charges in their possession as trust funds in financial statements. The Rental Car Companies shall maintain adequate records, in full conformance with generally accepted accounting principles, that account for all Customer Facility Charges charged, collected and remitted and these records shall be available to the County for review, inspection and audit. The Rental Car Companies shall be entitled to no compensation for the collect of the Customer Facility Charge. Section 5. The Customer Facility Charge shall be separately identified by the Rental Car Companies on any rental agreement with an Airport Customer. The Rental Car Companies shall clearly and conspicuously disclose the existence and amount of the Customer Facility Charge in: (i) any advertisement intended to generate customers at the Airport or in any advertisement intended to generate customers at multiple airports, and (ii) any quotation (regardless of form) to a potential Airport customer. Section 6. The County specifically authorizes the Director of Airports to make, amend, and rescind rules and regulations as may form time-to-time be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Resolution. 2348 Section 7. Collection of the Customer Facility Charge shall commence no later than March 1, 2023. Section 8. If any provision of this Resolution is held to be invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, then such provision shall be severed from the Resolution and the remainder of this Resolution shall not be affected thereby. Nothing in this Resolution shall be construed as a limitation on the County to amend this Resolution at any time in the future or otherwise revise the Customer Facility Charge in any manner consistent within the authority granted to it. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of the Board held on the 31 st day of January 2024. Mayor Holly Merrill Raschein Mayor Pro Tem James K. Scholl Commissioner Craig Cates Commissioner Michelle Lincoln Commissioner David Rice (SEAL) BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Attest: KEVIN MADOK, Clerk OF MONROE COUNTY, FL By By Deputy Clerk Mayor Holly Merrill Raschein �?NIPI,OE ouNTY f 7TTonNE�q 130 ! P � of 47, PED O J. 0 ASSI WONTY ATTORNEY Da 12/29/23 2349 RESOLUTION NO. 520 -2022 A RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IMPOSING A CUSTOMER FACILITY CHARGE ON CUSTOMERS OF RENTAL CAR COMPANIES ACCESSING KEY WEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FOR THE PURPOSES OF PLANNING,DESIGNING, FINANCING, CONSTRUCTING, OPERATING, AND MAINTAINING CONSOLIDATED RENTAL CAR FACILITIES AT KEY WEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. WHEREAS, Monroe County is the owner and operator of the Key West International Airport (the "Airport") and is empowered to establish, fix, and collect fees and charges for its use and operation; and WHEREAS, growth at the Airport,including increases in air passengers and rental car customers has placed a strain on the Airport's public parking facilities,rental car facilities, and terminal curb space; and WHEREAS, Monroe County believes it to be in the best interest of the traveling public to provide adequate consolidated airport facilities to permit rental car companies to operate from and service and store their rental vehicles at the Airport. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY,FLORIDA,that: Section 1. The following terms shall have the meanings specified in this Section, unless otherwise specifically provided. Other terms may be defined in other parts of this Resolution. "Airport"means the Key West International Airport. "Airport Customer"means(1) any person who comes to the Airport by any means of transportation and enters into a vehicle rental agreement with a Rental Car Company at the Airport. "Customer Facility Charge" means the fee imposed by this Resolution and used to plan, design, finance, construct, operate and maintain the Rental Car Facility. "Director of Airports"means the Monroe County Director of Airports, or his or her designee. "Rental Car Company"means a rental car company having executed a rental car concession agreement for the operation of a rental car concession at the Airport. "Rental Car Facility" means a consolidated rental car facility or facilities to be developed and located at the Airport. "Transaction Day" means, with respect to any vehicle available for rent by any Rental Car Company, for twenty-five(25)or fewer hours for the initial or first transaction day,and any portion of one or more additional twenty-four(24)hour periods for each transaction day thereafter. Section 2. The Customer Facility Charge shall be charged to and assessed to each Airport Customer. The initial amount of the Customer Facility Charge shall be four dollars and no cents ($4.00)per Transaction Day. 1 2350 Section 3. The Rental Car Companies shall collect the Customer Facility Charge from each Airport Customer at the time payment is first made under any agreement with an Airport Customer. Each Rental Car Company shall further remit the full amount of the Customer Facility Charge to the County or to an agent appointed by the County not less frequently than monthly, regardless of whether the full amount of such Customer Facility Charge was actually collected from the Airport Customer. Section 4. All Customer Facilities Charges collected by any Rental Car Company on behalf of the County shall be held in trust for the beneficial interest of the County until they are remitted. The Rental Car Companies shall have no legal or equitable interest in the Customer Facility Charges they collect and shall characterize any Customer Facility Charges in their possession as trust funds in financial statements. The Rental Car Companies shall maintain adequate records, in full conformance with generally accepted accounting principles,that account for all Customer Facility Charges charged,collected and remitted and these records shall be available to the County for review, inspection and audit. The Rental Car Companies shall be entitled to no compensation for the collect of the Customer Facility Charge. Section 5. The Customer Facility Charge shall be separately identified by the Rental Car Companies on any rental agreement with an Airport Customer. The Rental Car Companies shall clearly and conspicuously disclose the existence and amount of the Customer Facility Charge in: (i) any advertisement intended to generate customers at the Airport or in any advertisement intended to generate customers at multiple airports, and (ii)any quotation (regardless of form)to a potential Airport customer. Section 6. The County specifically authorizes the Director of Airports to make, amend, and rescind rules and regulations as may form time-to-time be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Resolution. Section 7. Collection of the Customer Facility Charge shall commence no later than March 1, 2023. Section 8. If any provision of this Resolution is held to be invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, then such provision shall be severed from the Resolution and the remainder of this Resolution shall not be affected thereby. Nothing in this Resolution shall be construed as a limitation on the County to amend this Resolution at any time in the future or otherwise revise the Customer Facility Charge in any manner consistent within the authority granted to it. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida,at a regular meeting of the Board held on the 7'day of December,2022. Mayor Craig Cates Mayor Pro Tern Holly Merrill Raschein Yes Commissioner Michelle Lincoln Yes Commissioner James K. Scholl Yes ommissioner David Rice -Yes, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSlONERS ADOK, Clerk OF MONROIE C(;` '"ry, Fl. or/chairman 10— As Deputy Clerk M or/chairman NROE COUNTY ATTOnNEY E FORM 2 ASS NTY ATTORNEY Date 11/18/22 2351