Report to the Board of County Commissioners
June 7, 2011
1- Inform the Board that Mr. Chris Giametta, County Building Inspector, was killed in a car accident while at work on Tuesday, May 31. Board action on Resolution presented to the family.
2- Board action to pay $7700 for appraisals and surveys related to the condemnation suit on Alligator Point out of the Bald Point Trust fund. These costs are FEMA reimbursable so when the FEMA money comes in it will go back into the Trust Fund.
3- Inform the Board that Florida’s Great Northwest is assisting in promoting the county airport. They are developing a postcard style brochure similar to what the commissioners received about another airport in the panhandle.
4- Inform the Board that the advertising for the Request for Proposals for the new airport hangar and the Fixed Base Operator are in the paper, and have been distributed to aviation outlets. The Board will be opening the RFPs at the July 19th Board meeting. The Board will need to decide at that meeting who they will want to review and rank the RFPs. I presume it will be the Airport Advisory Committee but the Board may choose to do it themselves.
5- Inform Board that in coordination with the Finance Office I have coordinated to have the Chapman Auditorium air-conditioning and electrical systems separated from the rest of the Chapman Building. No matter who uses the Chapman Building the arrangement has always been that the auditorium would be under the control of the ABC Charter School, so I have now had the electrical utilities separated. I have met with the Charter School and they understand that they will be paying the electric bill. They are already in charge of use of the space.
6- Provide Board update on phone conference I participated in regarding the BP oil spill and various efforts the 8 counties are under-taking on this issue. The conference call was organized and moderated by the FAC. These were the key points:
*The state of Florida is going to file one claim for the state and all the counties for loss of sales tax. There will be some division of that claim but the details have not been worked. Some of the counties had intended to file their own claims but BP has refused to accept county claims on sales tax saying the state will be filing one claim for everyone.
*BP has said that a loss in property tax revenue because of the oil spill is a speculative claim and has refused to pay claims from any county. BP says it is impossible to separate a decline in property values associated with the general recession from any particular effect the oil spill might have caused.
*While the Governor vetoed a bill authorizing $6M in state revenue for economic development in the 8 impacted counties, the veto did not affect the original $10M that Senator Gaetz had gotten passed. Evidently the $6M was for specific projects and the Governor vetoed that, but he approved the $10M which will go OTTED and other state agencies to development some economic opportunities in the region.
7- There was another conference call that I missed regarding the NRDA projects for which Franklin County has submitted $50M in funding requests. The 8 counties are now scheduling a face to face meeting on June 17th to discuss this same NRDA funding. The request is that a County Commissioner and County Administrator attend the meeting. Commissioner Parrish has been the Board’s contact on this subject so he and I plan to attend this June 17th meeting in Fort Walton Beach.
8- Inform the Board that Commissioner Jackel, I, and a Weems Hosp. representative participated in a teleconference with NACo staff on June 6 to discuss the NACo heath survey. As the Board is aware, Franklin County was one of 3 counties in the nation to be awarded a NACo survey. The structure of the NACo survey is that there will be 2 community meetings in Franklin County where NACo will lead the discussion about improving health care.
9- Senator Nelson and Congressman Southerland both have responded to the Board’s letter about North Florida Medical Center and both have said that getting an improvement in that situation will be a top priority.
10- The Hosp. Board met in regular session on May 26, and these are the items of interest discussed:
A) $9K in Capital Outlay funds were spent for specialized laptop computers for the ambulances. They will allow better response and treatment of patients while in the ambulance.
B) TMH is providing Emergency Room tele-conference capabilities with Weems ER which will allow Weems greater access to TMH ER specialists.
C) $9750 in Capital Outlay funds were spent on repairs to the AC in the ER.
D) There was a delay in interviewing the final CEO candidate so there was no action taken on the CEO replacement. The final CEO candidate should be interviewed this week.
10- Inform Board that Mosquito Control Director has asked for support on some legislation regarding federal requirements for mosquito control and I have followed the directions on his email and sent an electronic response to our US Senators. I did it as Director of Administrative Services. The Board may also want to send a response.
11- The County has been informed that there will be an FWC boating improvement grant cycle. The Board can apply but it must be on a site it owns, as land purchase is not funded through FWC, and the site needs to have sufficient water access and parking. Does the Board have any proposed sites it wants staff to investigate?
12- The Carrabelle Chamber of Commerce has requested the county continue to support Phase 2 of the Carrabelle Multi-Use Path. Currently Phase 1 engineering is funded, with Phase 1 construction starting in 2013. Mark Curenton has called DOT and while there is no additional money available, DOT will consider letting the Board list the Phase 2 bike path as the next priority whenever money becomes available. In the past the Board had listed future bike paths in this order: Phase 2 of Carrabelle Multi-Use, Island Drive in Eastpoint, and Bayshore Drive in Eastpoint. Alligator Point was selected for funding last year so it is already in the funding cycle. Does the Board want to send a priority list to DOT as I have listed above?
13- At a previous meeting the Board approved Bayshore Drive/Patton St. in Eastpoint, as a project for CIGP funding to DOT. Commissioner Jackel asked me and Preble-Rish to evaluate Pine St. on St. George Island as a possible candidate as well. Pine St. is an unpaved road that is a detour for traffic on Franklin Blvd and Gulf Beach Drive (also known as SR 300). Clay Kennedy believes Pine St is an equal candidate to Bayshore Dr/Patton St as it gets a lot of traffic and meets the DOT requirements for CGIP funding. The Board would see savings in local dollars if Pine St. were paved as it would no longer need to be regularly maintained by the county with grading, ditching, receive limerock or milled asphalt.
Board action to replace Bayshore Dr/Patton St. with Pine St. on St. George Island for CIGP funding.
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