Report to the Board of County Commissioners
January 4, 2011
1- Board action to approve Chairman’s signature on a $2,457 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant for the Sheriff’s Office for to purchase supplies and equipment related to radars in patrol cars.
2- Board action to appoint Carrabelle City Commissioner Jim Brown to the ARPC. He was the only city official who expressed interest in the appointment.
3- Provide Board with copy of executive summary of the Unified Command’s Summary Report for Sub-Sea and Sub-Surface Oil and Dispersant Detection. The full report is 131 pages long. The Executive Summary by US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Zunkunft is: “Based upon the robust sampling effort, the expert analysis of the data provided in this report and the decision criteria summarized, I have determined that there is no actionable oil in the water or sediments of the deep water or offshore zones. Ongoing removal operations will continue where oil remains in nearshore sediments and shorelines.”
4- Provide Board with copy of report regarding the fish kill reported in Bay before Christmas. The conclusion of the report is the fish kill was caused by a sudden change in temperatures. The preponderance of fish killed was hard head catfish. Quoting from the report, “It would seem likely if this fish kill were related to oil/dispersants then I would suspect different species of fish, not just Hard head Catfish, to be observed.”
5- Board action to award contract to Mowrey Elevator to bring courthouse elevator up to code. The only two elevator contractors in the area where contacted and Mowrey was the low bid at $54,500. The courthouse elevator has not been modernized since it was installed over 30 years ago. The elevator shaft has caught fire once and has been cited by inspectors for code violations.
6- Remind Board of Legislative Delegation meeting on Thursday, Jan. 6, at 4 PM in the Courthouse Annex. Commissioner Jackel will not be in attendance as she will be completing her commissioner certification with the FAC.
7- Report to Board on architects who have responded to the RFQ for architectural services for Weems Hospital. Deadline for submitting RFQs was Monday. Board will need to decide if they want to review and rank proposals or have some other group create a short list. The 7 respondents are: CRA (Tallahassee); DAG Heery (Destin); Gresham Smith (Nashville); Harvard Jolly (Tampa); Hunton/Brady (Orlando); SLAM (Atlanta); TRO JB (Sarasota)
8- Board action on sending representatives to the NACo conference in Washington, DC on March 5-9.
9- Board action to create a more consistent flow of traffic on Alligator Point by creating two 25 mph zones and all other speed limit on the Point will be 35 mph. Representatives of APTA have requested the Board re-align the speed limits on Alligator Point such that the speed limit becomes 35 mph as you enter the curve onto Point itself, and then maintains 35 mph throughout the length except for two existing 25 mph speed zones in front of South Shoal and at the S-Curve. I have spoken with Clay Kennedy, Preble-Rish, on these improvements and he recommends the Board approve contingent upon him verifying. According to APTA, the existing speed posting has some 7 different speed limits which make enforcement very difficult.
10- The Board has previously agreed to the concept of using $25,000 of SHIP emergency funds to repair the fire damage of Ms. Marcia Thomas’ house contingent upon bids being received which show the house can be repaired. The SHIP Office has received bids from several local contractors, and while the low bid has not been selected, Ms. Lori Switzer verifies that the house can be repaired for $25,000. Board action to award $25,000 of SHIP emergency funds to repair Ms. Thomas’ fire damage.
11- Inform the Board that the Chairman of the state E911 Board called in response to the letter the Board wrote on behalf of Mr. Dave Baker. The Chairman is sending a letter that I will forward on to Mr. Baker but I wanted to provide the Board some of the information. The state is aware of the risk of under-reporting of cell phones usage by cell phone companies and in order to protect rural counties in particular the Board provides that rural counties get a minimum of $7000 in cell phone receipts, even if the number of cell phones in use is much lower. According to state data, in July, based upon actual cell phone numbers, Franklin County would have received $1802 as its surcharge but in fact the county received the state mandated minimum of $7000. The Chairman said that it was “not possible” for Franklin County to have enough cell phones in use in the county that its straight surcharge would be more than $7000, as that would represent 14,000 cell phones assigned in Franklin County in a population of 12,000.
12- Inform Board that one of the bills approved by the Board was one for some $20,000 payable to GRD. This payment is being made because BP has provided the county these funds as a payment for GRD services in October. There is still a considerable amount of money in limbo and as BP makes payments to the county then there will be additional checks cut to GRD or CGA.
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