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SUSTAINABILITY DISTRICT
AGENDA
ST. LUCIE COUNTY
Regular Meeting
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
9:01 AM
St. Lucie County Commission Chambers
2300 Virginia Avenue
3rd Floor of Roger Poitras Building
Fort Pierce, FL 34982
BOARD MEMBERS
District No. 3, Chair
PAULA A. LEWIS
District No. 5, Vice-Chair
KIM JOHNSON
District No. 1
CHRIS DZADOVSKY
District No. 2
TOD MOWERY
District No. 4
FRANNIE HUTCHINSON
Mission Statement
To provide service, infrastructure and leadership necessary to advance a safe and sustainable community,
maintain a high quality of life, and protect the natural environment for all our citizens
Regular Meeting Tuesday, October 20, 2015 9:01 AM
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WELCOME
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meeting.
INVOCATION-PLEDGE – To bring order and decorum to its meeting, the Board begins its meetings with an invocation followed by the
Pledge of Allegiance. Participation is voluntary.
CONSENT AGENDA – These items are considered routine and are enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of
these items unless a Commissioner so requests.
REGULAR AGENDA – Proclamations, Presentations, Public Hearings, and Department requests are items, which the Commission will
discuss individually, usually in the order listed on the agenda.
PUBLIC HEARINGS – These items may be heard on the first Tuesday at 6:00 P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible and on a third
Tuesday at 9:00 A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible, these time designations are intended to indicate that an item will not be
addressed prior to the listed time. The Chairman will open each public hearing and asks anyone wishing to speak to come forward,
one at a time. Comments will be limited to five minutes.
As a general rule when issues are scheduled before the Commission under department request or public hearing, the order of
presentation is: (1) County staff presents the details of the Board item (2) Commissioners comment (3) if a public hearing, the
Chairman will ask for public comment, (4) further discussion and action by the board.
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printed agenda.
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three minutes.
DECORUM – Please be respectful of others’ opinions.
MEETINGS – All Board meetings are open to the public and are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month; the first Tuesday
at 6:00 P.M. and the third Tuesday at 9:00 A.M., unless otherwise advertised. Meetings are held in the County Commission
Chambers in the Roger Poitras Administration Annex at 2300 Virginia Ave., Ft. Pierce, FL 34982. The Board schedules additional
workshops throughout the year as necessary to accomplish their goals and commitments. Notice is provided of these workshops.
Assistive Listening Device is available to anyone with a hearing disability. Anyone with a disability requiring accommodation to
attend this meeting should contact the Safety & Risk Manager at (772) 462-1783 or TDD (772) 462-1428 at least forty-eight (48)
hours prior to the meeting.
Regular Meeting Tuesday, October 20, 2015 9:01 AM
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1. CALL TO ORDER
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
There are no items scheduled.
3. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
4. CONSENT AGENDA
There are no items scheduled.
5. PUBLIC HEARINGS
Resolution - Energy Special Assessment District Notice of Intent for 2016
Staff recommends Board adoption of the Special Assessment Notice of Intent Resolution for the
Energy Special Assessment District.
6. MOTION TO ADJOURN
ITEM NO. RES-2015-215
DATE: 10/20/2015
AGENDA REQUEST *PUBLIC HEARINGS
BACKGROUND:
One of the funding methods available for capital improvements and essential services is through non-ad
valorem special assessments levied on specially-benefited properties within the special assessment
district and collected using the uniform method pursuant to Section 197.3632, Florida Statutes. In order
to preserve this collection option, it is necessary for the Board to adopt a resolution expressing its intent
to use the uniform method commencing in November, 2016. The resolution must be considered at a
duly advertised public hearing held prior to January 1, 2016.
The resolution does not in any way obligate the County to levy special assessments; rather, it simply
preserves the County’s option to use the uniform method of collection if special assessments are levied.
The Board has created the Energy Special Assessment District to provide energy conservation and
renewable energy improvements to the parcels within the proposed boundary.
PREVIOUS ACTION:
September 15, 2015 - Board granted permission to advertise this public hearing.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
N/A
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends Board adoption of the Special Assessment Notice of Intent Resolution for the Energy
Special Assessment District.
COMMISSION ACTION:
TO: Sustainability District
PRESENTED BY: Barbara Guettler, MSBU Project Manager
SUBMITTED BY: MSBU Program
SUBJECT: Resolution - Energy Special Assessment District Notice of Intent for 2016
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Updated: 10/8/2015 8:35 AM by Barbara Guettler Page 2
Coordination/Signatures
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RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY SUSTAINABILITY DISTRICT
STATING ITS INTENT TO USE THE UNIFORM METHOD
OF COLLECTING NON-AD VALOREM SPECIAL
ASSESSMENTS LEVIED WITHIN THE ENERGY SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT DISTRICT; DESCRIBING THE AREA
SUBJECT TO THE ASSESSMENT; STATING A NEED
FOR THE LEVY; PROVIDING FOR MAILING THE
RESOLUTION; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, St. Lucie County, Florida (the "County") created the St. Lucie
County Sustainability District (the "District") for purposes of offering an energy
financing program throughout the County pursuant to which the District may impose
non-ad valorem assessments against real property, with the consent of the owners of
such property, to finance the acquisition and construction of energy conservation,
energy efficiency, renewable energy, wind resistance and sustainability improvements
(the "Improvements"); and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the District (the "Board"), as the
governing body of the District, intends to use the uniform method for collecting such
non-ad valorem special assessments to fund the cost of the Improvements as
authorized by Section 197.3632, Florida Statutes because this method will allow the
special assessments to be collected annually commencing in November 2016, in the
same manner as provided for ad valorem taxes; and
WHEREAS, on October 20, 2015, the Board held a duly advertised public
hearing to consider the adoption of this resolution, proof of publication of this hearing is
attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit "A".
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the
St. Lucie County Sustainability District, Florida, as follows:
Section 1: Commencing with the 2016-2017 Fiscal Year and with the ad
valorem tax bills issued in November, 2016, the Board intends to use the uniform
method of collecting non-ad valorem assessments authorized in Section 197.3632,
Florida Statutes for collecting non-ad valorem assessments levied within the District to
fund the cost of the Improvements. A description of the boundaries of the real property
within the District and subject to the levy is attached hereto and made a part hereof as
Exhibit "B". The non-ad valorem assessments levied by the District are annual
assessments which will continue from year to year until discontinued by the District.
Section 2: The Board hereby determines that the levy of the assessments is
necessary to fund the cost of the Improvements.
Section 3: Upon adoption, the County Attorney or his designee is hereby
directed to send a copy of this resolution by United States mail to the Florida
Department of Revenue, the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser and the St. Lucie
County Tax Collector.
Section 4: This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption.
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After motion and second, the vote on this Resolution was as follows:
Chair Paula Lewis
Vice Chair Kim Johnson
Commissioner Chris Dzadovsky
Commissioner Frannie Hutchinson
Commissioner Tod Mowery
PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 20th day of October, 2015.
ATTEST: ST. LUCIE COUNTY
SUSTAINABILITY DISTRICT
______________________________ By:_____________________________
Deputy Clerk Chair
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND
CORRECTNESS:
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County Attorney
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EXHIBIT A
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
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EXHIBIT B
DESCRIPTION: ST. LUCIE COUNTY SUSTAINABILITY DISTRICT
The boundaries of the St. Lucie County Sustainability District are coterminous with the
boundaries of St. Lucie County which are described as follows: Beginning on the
eastern boundary of the State of Florida at a point where the north section line of
section thirteen, township thirty-seven south, range forty-one east, produced easterly,
would intersect the same; thence westerly on the north line of said section and other
sections to the northwest corner of section eighteen, township thirty-seven south, range
forty-one east; thence south on the range line between ranges forty and forty-one east,
to the township line between townships thirty-seven and thirty-eight south; thence west
on the said township line to the range line dividing ranges thirty-six and thirty-seven
east; thence north on said range line, concurrent with the east boundary of Okeechobee
County, to the northwest corner of township thirty-four south, range thirty-seven east;
thence east on the township line dividing townships thirty-three and thirty-four south, to
the Atlantic Ocean; thence continuing easterly to the eastern boundary of the State of
Florida; thence southerly along said east boundary, including the waters of the Atlantic
Ocean within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the place of beginning.
12/30/2009
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