Item L5
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: June 16, 2004 Division: Growth Management
Bulk Item: Yes No X Department: N/A
AGENDA ITEM WORDING: A resolution of the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners
authorizing submission of a Florida Forever Boundary Modification form and designation of Monroe County as
Land Manager therein for the conservation lands.
ITEM BACKGROUND: In response to County requests, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection
has agreed to make all vacant, privately-owned properties within the County's designated Conservation and
Natural Areas (CNA) as candidates for inclusion in the Florida Forever via boundary modification. The State is
currently sending out letters to property owners in Phase One of this boundary modification.
In order to receive benefit of State acquisition funding under the Florida Forever Program, each boundary
modification form submitted must identify a property manager, as the State or Federal government may not be
willing to manage the property. The County's Land Steward will be the designated property manager for those
conservation properties.
Land Management activities will be financed from the County's Environmental Land Management and
Restoration Fund. The dedicated source of funding for this Fund will be from the mitigation fees paid by
property owners when native habitat is cleared.
Although the staff is still working on estimates of potential costs to the County to manage these conservation
lands, the staff believes the mitigation fees coupled with the State grants for invasive plant removal should be
sufficient to enable the County to carry out is responsibilities.
The Growth Management Division staff will be preparing a master land acquisition and management plan
during the next six months, which will more fully detail the anticipated costs for land management, including
appropriate land management responsibilities of the County and various State, Federal, and non-governmental
organizations throughout the CNA. As part of this plan, the County staff will identify appropriate County
staffing, procedures and organizational changes to carry out these land management responsibilities in an
efficient and effective manner.
The County staff is currently preparing detailed maps and a list of candidate properties for inclusion within the
Florida Forever boundary expansion, This information will be available shortly and will be included in the
boundary modification application(s).
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION: Approved CNAs in Resolution 346-2003 and per cooperative
agreement with DCA in Resolution 39-2004
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES: N/A
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Approval
TOTAL COST: Unknown
COST TO COUNTY: Unknown
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes N/A No
BUDGETED: Yes N/A No
SOURCE OF FUNDS: N/ A
AMOUNT PER MONTH Year
APPROVED BY:
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DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
DOCUMENTATION: Included
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DISPOSITION:
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RESOLUTION NO. 2004
A RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS AUTHORIZING SUBMISSION OF A
FLORIDA FOREVER BOUNDARY MODIFICATION FORM
AND DESIGNATION OF MONROE COUNTY AS LAND
MANAGER THEREIN FOR CONSERVATION AND
NATURAL AREA LANDS.
WHEREAS, on August 20~ 2003, the Monroe County Board of County
Commissioners adopted Resolution 346-2003, thereby identifying natural areas
appropriate for public acquisition on the Conservation and Natural Areas (CNA)
Map; and
WHEREAS, State funding is available through the Florida Forever program
to acquire natural areas in the Keys where such lands are included within a
designated Florida Forever project; and
WHEREAS, due to the Area of Critical State Concern designation,
Outstanding Florida Waters designation, high biodiversity, and potential impacts
on State-owned conservation lands, all properties in the CNA are candidates to be
added to a Florida Forever project via a boundary modification; and
WHEREAS, in order to receive the benefit of State acquisition funding, all
boundary modification forms must identify a property manager; and
WHEREAS, the state and federal governments already manage the majority
of the publicly owned properties within the CNA; and
WHEREAS, there may be some properties in the CNA which the land
managing agencies at the state and federal levels are either unable or unwilling to
manage and for which Monroe County will be the only available manager; NOW
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS, MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA THAT:
SectiOD 1. Staff is hereby authorized to submit a Florida Forever boundary
modification fonn to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for the
balance of the vacant, private property within the CNA which is not already
included within the existing Florida Forever projects or their proposed additions.
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Section 2. Where there is no willing manager available at the state or federal
government level, staff is authorized to identify Monroe County as the designated
land manager on the boundary modification fonn.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners,
Monroe County, Florida at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 16th
day of June, A.D., 2004.
Mayor Murray Nelson
Mayor Pro Tern David Rice
Commissioner Dixie Spehar
Commissioner George Neugent
Commissioner Charles "Sonny" McCoy
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
BY:
MA YORlCHAIR PERSON
(SEAL)
ATTEST:
DANNY 1. KOLHAGE, CLERK
DEPurY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND
LEGAL SUFFICIENCY
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