Franklin County Director of Administrative Services May 3rd report to the county commission

Report to the Board of County Commissioners

May 3, 2011

1- Inform Board and public that Ms. Doris Pendleton, Property Appraiser, will not be here this morning.  She re-scheduled for June 7, and she assures the Board she will be ready then.

2- Provide Board with copy of NACo grant application for community health survey.  NACo will announce recipients in May.

3- Ms. Leslie Cox has requested the Board consider adopting a Resolution naming SR65, CR67, and US 98 as ideal candidates to establish pilot project corridors for management of native wildflowers.  The state, through Visit Florida, is pushing wildflower tourism and North Florida is a prime area as we actually have a spring flower bloom unlike south Florida.  Board action.

4- Inform Board that FDOT has announced the county has until June 15, 2011 to submit one road for consideration of funding under the County Incentive Grant Program (CIGP).  I have reviewed the grant requirements with Mr. Clay Kennedy.  A project must show that it relieves congestion on the state highway system.  In our opinion the best project that meets that criterion would be the widening and resurfacing of South Bayshore Drive in Eastpoint and then carrying over and widening and resurfacing of Patton Drive.  These two road segments together form a by-pass for US 98 through Eastpoint.

5- Board action to rescind the 8 county Resolution where the split of money was based on 1/3 for Gulf Coast exposure, 1/3 for length of shoreline and 1/3 for population and replace it with a split based upon 60% of the funds based on length of shoreline, and 40% of funds based upon population.  Evidently this is the way the formula now reads in the federal legislation and this Resolution is attempting to mirror the federal legislation.  Neither Commissioner Parrish nor I have great comfort that this most recent draft Resolution will be the last.  So long as the Resolution is in keeping with the intent of current draft does the Board want to consider authorizing Commissioner Parrish to approve the Resolution if a final draft comes in before the next Board meeting?  Commissioner Washington, Escambia County, is trying to get a final Resolution approved so that he can present it in Washington when he goes on May 10^th.

6- Airport update.  I attended the Airport Advisory Committee meeting on Monday, April 25, to discuss directly with the Committee the following items.

            A)  Hanger Update- The hanger that is under construction is slowly coming to completion.  Upon advice from the Airport Consultant, AVCON, the Committee will re-advertise the availability of the 10,000 square foot hanger and 1600 square feet of office space. 

            B) Advertise for the lease for the Fixed Base Operator (FBO).  The current FBO’s 20 year lease expires in February 2012.  The Committee will advertise for an FBO.  The current FBO is welcome to apply but the Committee feels that after 20 years there needs to be an opportunity to review new offers for the airport.

            The advertisement for the Hanger and the FBO will be done locally but will also be sent to industry outlets to get a wide announcement.  At this time the Airport Manager, Ted Mosteller, and I are looking at the Board opening RFPs for these two items at a June Board meeting.  Both items may take some time to review and negotiate so that will provide six months before the current FBO lease expires. 

7- Inform Board that Weems Hospital has spent $6,279 of Sales Tax Capital Outlay for plumbing improvements at the Hospital.  King’s Plumbing did the work.

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