County planner Alan Pierce's report for the January 17th Franklin County Commission meeting

Report to the Board of County Commissioners

January 17, 2012

1-     Provide Board with copy of FAC annual report.

2-     Direction from Board on whether it wants to support a Resolution promoted by the City of Tallahassee requesting that Amtrack passenger service be reinstated from Jacksonville to New Orleans.

3-     Inform the Board that DOT is willing to consider another landscaping grant for Franklin County.  The grant has to be spent on the improving the ROW on a state road and the county has to take responsibility for maintenance.  Does the Board want to agree on another site to seek a landscaping grant?

4-     Inform the Board that the architects for the Energy Grant have met with the City of Carrabelle and have come up with a list of improvements for the city complex.  Mark is seeking approval from the state Energy Office for the improvements.  The improvements involve replacing the front windows with Impact Thermal Insulated Glass, putting window film on other windows, building a cripple wall in the attic to restrict the flow of air as there is no insulation in part of the roof.  If approved by the Energy Office we will do a change order with the contractor working on the courthouse windows as we do not have time to advertise and open bids and get the contract completed by April 30.

5-     Provide Board with copy of Amendment No. 3 to the Ochlockonee Boat Ramp.  Amendment No. 3 is the final amendment clarifying what was built on site.  The grant has been closed out and the county has been reimbursed the $500,000 worth of construction that FWC had been holding.

6-     Mr. Lee Edmiston, Estuarine Research Reserve Director, is here to tell the Board about a proposed controlled burn the state will be doing on state lands on the Bay side of St. George Island.  When the state bought Unit IV the county retained ownership of the roads and the state will need to use the roads to perform the controlled burn.   The Division of Forestry will do the controlled burn.

7-     The Hospital Board has experienced two recent vacancies it would like to fill, and they would like to change the by-laws to move the Medical Officer seat to a non-voting status.  They would then put another at-large voting member in the place of the non-voting Medical Officer so that the number of voting members remains at 7.  The Hosp. Board has 3 individuals it would like appointed to fill the seats just described.  They are: Homer “Mack” McMillan, Debra Huckabe, and Duffy Harrison.   Board direction.

8-     Inform the Board that the TDC did authorize the use of $9,000 of funds to continue the bridge clean-up program through the end of Sept. 30, 2012.  I have contacted VMS for a new Bridge cleaning contract for the Board to consider as we have currently expended all the VMS money. I am hoping we get a new VMS contract in February.  It is my suggestion that the Board combine the TDC and VMS funds into one contract.  

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