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Resolution 093-2002 410 JOINT RESOLUTION OF MONROE COUNTY BOCC AND FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY MONROE COUNTY RESOLUTION#093-2002 FKAA RESOLUTION#02-08 A JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF WASTEWATER FACILITIES IN THE KEY LARGO AREA OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA; PROVIDING FOR A COMMITMENT TO THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY IN ORDER TO PRESERVE AND SECURE CERTAIN GRANT FUNDING FOR WASTEWATER PROJECT(S) IN THE KEY LARGO AREA PROVIDING FOR MATCHING FUNDING BY MONROE COUNTY; PROVIDING FOR REIMBURSEMENTS BY MONROE COUNTY TO THE FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY; PROVIDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CRITICAL EVENTS SCHEDULE ACCEPTABLE TO FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT A WASTEWATER PROJECT IN THE KEY LARGO AREA; PROVIDING THAT THIS JOINT RESOLUTION BE DEEMED AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 163.01, FLORIDA STATUTES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY THAT: SECTION 1. FINDINGS. It is ascertained, determined and declared that: (A) The Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority (the "FKAA") is a special purpose local government charged with the authority to provide wastewater facilities and services in unincorporated Monroe County pursuant to a Special Act of the Florida Legislature under Chapter 76-441, Laws of Florida, as amended. (B) Monroe County and the FKAA have entered into various memoranda of understanding and other agreements that describe shared responsibilities between Monroe County and the FKAA for the development of wastewater facilities and services in Monroe County. (C) Under Public Law 106-31, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1999 (1249 and 1259 Unmet Needs Program), a supplemental appropriation was made available to Monroe County for wastewater projects in the Key Largo area. Premised upon the authority of the FKAA to provide wastewater facilities and services within the unincorporated portions of Monroe County, the FKAA has been designated as sub-grantee under the Unmet Needs Program to receive and expend grant funds for a wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area. The Federal Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA") and the State of Florida Department of Community Affairs ("DCA") are charged with administering grants under the Unmet Needs Program. (D) In order to secure grant funding under the Unmet Needs Program, FEMA has advised Monroe County that Monroe County and FKAA must provide a firm commitment to immediately develop and implement wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area or the foregoing grant funds under the Unmet Needs Program will be withdrawn. (E) Further, FEMA has advised Monroe County and FKAA that a firm commitment to proceed will require the development of a set of "milestones" or critical events to advance, develop and implement the construction of the contemplated wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area and that such "milestones" or critical events thereafter must be diligently and timely accomplished in order to continue to secure grant funding under the Unmet Needs Program. (F) It is recognized and agreed that the FKAA has no independent source of funds for the Key Largo Wastewater project(s) and is acting hereunder on reliance upon Monroe County and the Unmet Needs Program in order to fulfill its obligations hereunder. SECTION 2. MONROE COUNTY COMMITMENTS TO FKAA. In order to secure wastewater project funding under the Unmet Needs Program for the Key Largo area, Monroe County commits and agrees as follows: (A) Monroe County shall immediately appropriate and fund all matching fund requirements of local government under the Unmet Needs Program grant requirements. Monroe County will forward to FKAA twenty percent (20%) of the required local match upon execution of this resolution. Such funds to be held by FKAA as security for the local match in a separate fund and used for the Key Largo wastewater project(s), and otherwise segregated from all other funds of the FKAA. Monroe County will subsequently make local match reimbursements upon the approval of the federal/state reimbursements to FKAA. It is the intent of the parties to recover Monroe County's local match contribution from user fees and/or special assessments. (B) Monroe County reaffirms and acknowledges its obligation to reimburse the FKAA for all prior legally incurred expenditures related to wastewater initiatives in the Key Largo area and to pay in full to the FKAA all remaining reimbursements due within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this resolution. (C) Monroe County commits to obtain and convey to the FKAA in fee simple the proposed wastewater treatment plant site approved by FEMA at Mile Marker 100.5 (the "Mile Marker 100.5 Site"). Time is of the essence in acquiring the Mile Marker 100.5 Site and Monroe ftwo County shall exercise its powers of eminent domain if it cannot otherwise expeditiously negotiate the purchase for the site. It is recognized that the cost to acquire the site is an eligible expense from funding under the Unmet Needs Program and/or the required matching grant dollars. (D) Within fifteen (15) days after the effective date hereof, the FKAA shall propose the area(s) that will be served by the Mile Marker 100.5 Site,] (sometimes commonly referred to as a "hot spot") Monroe County shall be responsible for affirming and approving by resolution the proposed area(s) to be served within thirty(30)days thereof. (F) Monroe County shall work diligently with the FKAA to develop and adopt, within sixty (60) days of the effective date hereof, a subsequent joint resolution which will provide a series of milestones or critical events, acceptable to the FKAA and FEMA for the completion of wastewater project(s)in the Key Largo area. (G) Monroe County agrees to timely implement the foregoing critical events schedule adopted by the FKAA and Monroe County as approved by FEMA. SECTION 3. FKAA COMMITMENTS TO MONROE COUNTY. In order to secure wastewater project funding under the Unmet Needs Program for the Key Largo area, the FKAA commits and agrees as follows: (A) FKAA shall work diligently with Monroe County to develop and adopt, within sixty (60) days of the effective date hereof, a subsequent joint resolution which will provide a series of milestones or critical events, acceptable to Monroe County and FEMA, for the completion of wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area(using the Mile Marker 100.5 Site). (B) FKAA agrees to timely implement the critical events schedule adopted by the FKAA and Monroe County as approved by FEMA; provided however, that all FKAA activities called for under this resolution shall be paid as an eligible expense from funding under the Unmet Needs Program and/or the required matching grant dollars, or otherwise reimbursed to FKAA by Monroe County. (C) Upon the creation, establishment and organization of the Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District (the "District") by the Florida Legislature as an independent special purpose local government, the FKAA agrees to convey or otherwise transfer all wastewater facilities and responsibilities to the District without additional cost (other than full reimbursement as set forth in subsection (B) above) upon the District's unqualified acceptance and assumption of all liability and responsibility associated therewith. Any such transfer shall be first subject to approval by FEMA and DCA. SECTION 4. INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. (A) This Resolution constitutes a joint exercise of power,privilege or authority by and between Monroe County and the FKAA and shall be deemed to be an "Interlocal Agreement" within the meaning of the Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969 as amended. This Resolution shall be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Monroe County. (B) This Resolution shall remain effective until the Unmet Needs Program grant funding addressed by this resolution is expended for wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area; or, such grant funds are withdrawn by FEMA or DCA and are no longer available, and until the FKAA has been fully paid all sums as required hereby. SECTION 5. SEVERABILTY. Any provision of this Resolution shall be held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not invalidate or render unenforceable any other provisions thereof. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Coty Commissioners, Monroe County, Florida at a regular meeting of said Board held on this III -day of February 2002. Mayor Charles "Sonny" McCoy Yes Commissioner Murray Nelson Absent Commissioner George Neugent Yes Commissioner Dixie Spehar Yes Commissioner Nora Williams Yes /' BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF •�‘ MONROE COUNTY,FLORIDA Fl,,lr tfi'd'e*N4D 4 S .:4 a! By: io "' or rr Mayor/Chairpers Danny L. Kolhage, Clerk s • eputy Cle A APPROVED. AS T PORN �;E• did A JNPC,7j 3OdHO> DATE • Y so :Z kid I — coal G210338 do.� 0311.4 fio DULY ADOPTED by the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority this Z day of February 2002. BOARD OF DIRECTORS FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY (SEAL) By: 1/ J n M. Koenig, ., hairman Attest athryn A. Ovide, Redording Clerk of Record J:\BONDS\2000\4155\Resol utions\ID-2.RESOLUTION.02 11 02.DOC toilo AMENDMENT TO THE FKAA/MONROE COUNTY JOINT RESOLUTION AND INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT THIS AMENDMENT to a joint resolution/interlocal agreement dated February 14, 2002 (a copy of which is attached and made a part of this amendment, hereafter the original agreement), is entered into by and between Monroe County (the County) and the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority (FKAA). In consideration of the mutual promises and consideration set forth below, the parties agree as follows: 1. The original agreement, Sec. 2A, is amended to read as follows: Monroe County shall immediately appropriate and fund all matching fund requirements of local government under the Unmet Needs Program grant requirements (Project Funding $7,314,285: Federal Share $5,485,714,000, State Share $914,286 and Local Share $914,285). Monroe County will forward to FKAA twenty percent (20%) $182,857 of the required local match upon execution of this resolution. Such funds are to be held by FKAA as security for the local match in a separate fund and used for the Key Largo wastewater project(s), and otherwise segregated from all other funds of the FKAA. Any earned interest on these funds shall be considered as part of the principal amount of local match funding required by Monroe County and subject to same conditions of expenditure. Upon FKAA written request based on previous expenditure documentation, Monroe County will subsequently make local match reimbursements up to the stated 20% ($182,857) upon the approval of the federal/state reimbursements to FKAA. It is the intent of the parties to recover Monroe County's local match contribution from user fees and/or special assessments. For all matching funds forwarded or transferred to the FKAA under this agreement, the FKAA must establish fiscal control and fund accounting procedures that comply with generally accepted government accounting principles, satisfactory to the County's Clerk, in order to assure that the County matching funds forwarded or transferred to the FKAA are spent for the purposes set forth in this agreement. All FKAA financial records pertaining to this agreement must be made available, upon request, to the Clerk, an auditor employed by the County or the State of Florida. Any matching funds forwarded or transferred by the County to the FKAA under this agreement that are determined by the Clerk, an auditor employed by the County or employed by the State to have been spent on a purpose not contemplated by this agreement must be paid back to the County with interest calculated pursuant to Sec. 55.03(1), F.S., from the date the auditor determines the funds were expended for a purpose not authorized by this agreement. The FKAA agrees to provide the County Clerk and Administrator with quarterly status reports concerning the expenditure of County matching funds in sufficient detail to demonstrate compliance with the provisions of this joint resolution and interlocal agreement. ler 2. This amendment will take effect when executed by both parties and filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court. •r-v-..4 ITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have set their hands and seals the day �z=,{"-' •rth below. � g 23� 0 AC r" 4 � _0_, BOARD OF COUN COMMISSIONERS fr 4 : n�-�a . KOLHAGE CLERK OF MONROE CO FLORIDA l B- . By D-puty Clerk Mayor/Chairman Date 11vt GC 2°, zoo L (SEAL) ATTEST: FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY By By rn � A Chairma �' Date &'cW2' 40/10/.�ai 3-a7-6 JdiaFKAA Z ry z y ►`.; APPROVED AS TO FORM Z "- A D GA V --+� i,. R.;:ERTN. •;. 2. � O DATE /Z 2 Co O JOINT RESOLUTION OF MONROE COUNTY BOCC AND FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY MONROE COUNTY RESOLUTION # 093-2002 FKAA RESOLUTION # 02-08 A JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF WASTEWATER FACILITIES IN THE KEY LARGO AREA OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA; PROVIDING FOR A COMMITMENT TO THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY IN ORDER TO PRESERVE AND SECURE CERTAIN GRANT FUNDING FOR W ASTEW A TER PROJECT(S) IN THE KEY LARGO AREA PROVIDING FOR MATCIDNG FUNDING BY MONROE COUNTY; PROVIDING FOR REIMBURSEMENTS BY MONROE COUNTY TO THE FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY; PROVIDING' FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CRITICAL EVENTS SCHEDULE ACCEPfABLE TO FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT A WASTEWATER PROJECT IN THE KEY LARGO AREA; PROVIDING THAT THIS JOINT RESOLUTION BE DEEMED AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 163.01, FLORIDA STATUTES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY THAT: SECTION 1. FINDINGS. It is ascertained, determined and declared that: (A) The Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority (the "FKAA") is a special purpose local government charged with the authority to provide wastewater facilities and services in unincorporated Monroe County pursuant to a Special Act of the Florida Legislature under Chapter 76-441, Laws of Florida, as amended. (B) Monroe County and the FKAA have entered into various memoranda of understanding and other agreements that describe shared responsibilities between Monroe County and the FKAA for the development of wastewater facilities and services in Monroe County. (C) Under Public Law 106-31, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1999 (1249 and 1259 Unmet Needs Program), a supplemental appropriation was made available to Monroe County for wastewater projects in the Key Largo area. Premised upon the authority of the FKAA to provide wastewater facilities and services within the unincorporated portions of Monroe County, the FKAA has been designated as sub-grantee under the Unmet Needs Program to receive and expend grant funds for a wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area. The Federal Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA") and the State of Florida Department of Community Affairs ("DCA") are charged with administering grants under the Unmet Needs Program. (D) In order to secure grant funding under the Unmet Needs Program, FEMA has advised Monroe County that Monroe County and FKAA must provide a firm commitment to immediately develop and implement wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area or the foregoing grant funds under the Unmet Needs Program will be withdrawn. (E) Further, FEMA has advised Monroe County and FKAA that a firm commitment to proceed will require the development of a set of "milestones" or critical events to advance, develop and implement the construction of the contemplated wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area and that such "milestones" or critical events thereafter must be diligently and timely accomplished in order to continue to secure grant funding under the Unmet Needs Program. (F) It is recognized and agreed that the FKAA has no independent source of funds for the Key Largo Wastewater project(s) and is acting hereunder on reliance upon Monroe County and the Unmet Needs Program in order to fulfill its obligations hereunder. SECTION 2. MONROE COUNTY COMMITMENTS TO FKAA. In order to secure wastewater project funding under the Unmet Needs Program for the Key Largo area, Monroe County commits and agrees as follows: (A) Monroe County shall immediately appropriate and fund all matching fund requirements of local government under the Unmet Needs Program grant requirements. Monroe County will forward to FKAA twenty percent (20%) of the required local match upon execution of this resolution. Such funds to be held by FKAA as security for the local match in a separate fund and used for the Key Largo wastewater project(s), and otherwise segregated from all other funds of the FKAA. Monroe County will subsequently make local match reimbursements upon the approval of the federaVstate reimbursements to FKAA. It is the intent of the parties to recover Monroe County's local match contribution from user fees and/or special assessments. (B) Monroe County reaffirms and acknowledges its obligation to reimburse the FKAA for all prior legally incurred expenditures related to wastewater initiatives in the Key Largo area and to pay in full to the FKAA all remaining reimbursements due within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this resolution. (C) Monroe County commits to obtain and convey to the FKAA in fee simple the proposed wastewater treatment plant site approved by FEMA at Mile Marker 100.5 (the "Mile Marker 100.5 Site"). Time is of the essence in acquiring the Mile Marker 100.5 Site and Monroe County shall exercise its powers of eminent domain if it cannot otherwise expeditiously negotiate the purchase for the site. It is recognized that the cost to acquire the site is an eligible expense from funding under the Unmet Needs Program and/or the required matching grant dollars. (D) Within fifteen (15) days after the effective date hereof, the FKAA shall propose the area(s) that will b~ served by the Mile Marker 100.5 Site,] (sometimes commonly referred to as a "hot spot") Monroe County shall be responsible for affirming and approving by resolution the proposed area(s) to be served within thirty (30) days thereof. (F) Monroe County shall work diligently with the FKAA to develop and adopt, within sixty (60) days of the effective date hereof, a subsequent joint resolution which will provide a series of milestones or critical events, acceptable to the FKAA and FEMA for the completion of wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area. (G) Monroe County agrees to timely implement the foregoing critical events schedule adopted by the FKAA and Monroe County as approved by FEMA. SECTION 3. FKAA COMMITMENTS TO MONROE COUNTY. In order to secure wastewater project funding under the Unmet Needs Program for the Key Largo area, the FKAA commits and agrees as follows: (A) FKAA shall work diligently with Monroe County to develop and adopt, within sixty (60) days of the effective date hereof, a subsequent joint resolution which will provide a series of milestones or critical events, acceptable to Monroe County and FEMA, for the completion of wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area (using the Mile Marker 100.5 Site). (B) FKAA agrees to timely implement the critical events schedule adopted by the FKAA and Monroe County as approved by FEMA; provided however, that all FKAA activities called for under this resolution shall be paid as an eligible expense from funding under the Unmet Needs Program and/or the required matching grant dollars, or otherwise reimbursed to FKAA by Monroe County. (C) Upon the creation, establishment and organization of the Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District (the "District") by the Florida Legislature as an independent special purpose local government, the FKAA agrees to conveyor otherwise transfer all wastewater facilities and responsibilities to the District without additional cost (other than full reimbursement as set forth in subsection (B) above) upon the District's unqualified acceptance and assumption of all liability and responsibility associated therewith. Any such transfer shall be first subject to approval by FEMA and DCA. SECTION 4. INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. (A) This Resolution constitutes a joint exercise of power, privilege or authority by and between Monroe County and the FKAA and shall be deemed to be an "InterIocal Agreement" within the meaning of the Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969 as amended. This Resolution shall be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Monroe County. (B) This Resolution shall remain effective until the Unmet Needs Program grant funding addressed by this resolution is expended for wastewater project(s) in the Key Largo area; or, such grant funds are withdrawn by FEMA or DCA and are no longer available, and until the FKAA has been fully paid all sums as required hereby. SECTION 5. SEVERABILTY. Any provision of this Resolution shall be held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not invalidate or render unenforceable any other provisions thereof. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of CO~Ety Commissioners, Monroe County, Florida at a regular meeting of said Board held on this J.!i.5!: day of February 2002. Mayor Charles "Sonny" McCoy Commissioner Murray Nelson Commissioner George Neugent Commissioner Dixie Spehar Commissioner Nora Williams Yes Absent ~ ~ ~ BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA By: () JJ MaYOr/Chairp!:i :G~h~~ eputy Cle ''11;/. ').1,HilO;] ]OtiHOJ,.f 1:1 ~IJ '}41J . ]D'v'H10,\.J -1 )" !'i'N'VQ gO :Z Ud 1- ~VU lOOl OClOJ3H tlO.:J 0311.:J 2002. -HI DUL Y ADOPTED by the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority this 20 -day of February BOARD OF DIRECTORS FLORIDA KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY (SEAL) By: <h/ hairman . Ovide, Redording Clerk of Record J :\BONDS\2000\4155\Resolutions\ID-2.RESOLUTlON.02_11_02.DOC