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SUSTAINABILITY DISTRICT
AGENDA
ST LUCIE COUNTY
Regular Meeting
Tuesday, August, 20, 2013
9:03 AM
St. Lucie County Commission Chambers
2300 Virginia Avenue
3rd Floor of Roger Poitras Building
Fort Pierce, FL 34982
COUNTY COMMISSION MEMBERS
District No. 3
PAULA A. LEWIS
District No. 2
TOD MOWERY
District No. 4
FRANNIE HUTCHINSON
District No. 1, Chair
CHRIS DZADOVSKY
District No. 5, Vice-Chair
KIM JOHNSON
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
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WELCOME
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GENERAL RULES AND PROCEDURES – Attached is the agenda, which will determine the
order of business conducted at today’s Board 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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NON-AGENDA ITEMS – These items are presented by an individual Commissioner or staff as
necessary at the conclusion of the printed agenda.
PUBLIC COMMENT – Time is allocated at the beginning of each meeting for the general
public comment. Please limit comments to five 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.
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I. CALL TO ORDER
II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Sustainability District minutes for the meeting of Tuesday, May 21,
2013
III. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
IV. CONSENT AGENDA
A. COUNTY ATTORNEY
There are no items scheduled.
B. PUBLIC WORKS
Special Assessment Notice of Intents for 2014 - Sustainability
District
Board permission to advertise a public hearings to consider use of the
uniform method of collecting special assessments to be held at the
Board’s regular day meeting on October 15, 2013.
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SUSTAINABILITY DISTRICT
ST LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA
Regular Meeting
May 21, 2013 Convened: 10:26 AM
Adjourned: 10:26 AM
I. Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 10:26 AM by District No. 2 Tod Mowery
Attendee Name Title Status Arrived
Paula A. Lewis District No. 3 Present
Tod Mowery District No. 2 Present
Frannie Hutchinson District No. 4 Present
Chris Dzadovsky District No. 1, Chair Present
Kim Johnson District No. 5, Vice-Chair Present
Faye Outlaw County Administrator Present
Kelly Phelan Recording Clerk Present
II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Tod Mowery, District No. 2
SECONDER: Kim Johnson, District No. 5, Vice-Chair
AYES: Lewis, Mowery, Hutchinson, Dzadovsky, Johnson
1. Approve the minutes from the February 19, 2013 meeting.
III. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
There were no General Public Comments.
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IV. MOTION TO ADJOURN
There being no further business to be brought before the Board, the meeting
was adjourned.
Chairman
Clerk of the Circuit Court
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ITEM NO. (ID # 1481)
DATE: 08/20/2013
AGENDA REQUEST *CONSENT
AGENDA\PUBLIC WORKS
BACKGROUND:
One of the funding methods available for the capital improvements and essential services listed below is through
non-ad valorem special assessments levied on specially-benefitted properties within the proposed special
assessment districts 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 resolutions expressing its intent to
use the uniform method commencing in November, 2014. The resolutions must be considered at a duly
advertised public hearing held prior to January 1, 2014.
The resolution, which will be provided before the public hearing, does not in any way obligate the County to levy
the special assessments; rather, it simply preserves the County’s option to use the uniform method of collection
if a special assessment is levied.
It is anticipated that in 2014, the Board will consider the creation of the Energy Special Assessment
District which would be partially funded through the method as described above.
PREVIOUS ACTION:
N/A
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Sufficient funding is available from the advertising account in the MSBU program within the
Transportation Trust Interlocals Fund (101001-4115-549000-400).
RECOMMENDATION:
Board permission to advertise a public hearings to consider use of the uniform method of collecting special
assessments to be held at the Board’s regular day meeting on October 15, 2013.
COMMISSION ACTION:
TO: Sustainability District
PRESENTED BY: Barbara Guettler, MSBU Project Manager
SUBMITTED BY: MSBU Program
SUBJECT: Special Assessment Notice of Intents for 2014 - Sustainability
District
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Updated: 8/6/2013 9:29 AM by Barbara Guettler A Page 2
Coordination/Signatures
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