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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda & Minutes 10-11-2007 FORT PIERCE HARBOR ADVISORY CONNlnEE Meeting Held On October 11, 2007 ·__·'_'~·___'___~."~'_"_'U"<·'"__'~_____ _.'"'~~"-'~...-".-~.-.---.-'~-~.-~._-~~.~._-_.,,---~-~-..",~-,-.,~~.,._,.,.,"-".~-~"~'.,-"--",._.,.,,<~.~",~"'~'_.<>.' Convened at 3:09 p.m. Adjourned at 4:21 p.m. '__~~,~_'·~______~~'-~N_'·='_·"'.~~~~~_~,"·__·_·.,.,·.~_'.""~'___'..'.'>'W"·"·3~ This meeting of the Fort Pierce Harbor Advisory Committee (FPHAC) was held Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 3:09 p.m. in Conference Room 3 on the 3'd floor of the Administration Building, 2300 Virginia Avenue, Fort Pierce, Florida. ROLL CALL ,O~¡1/¡ JY J I Roll call was ta~en. Me..d.ers Prese.." Mary Chapman, Chairperson Howard Con~lin, Vice Chairman Bill Thiess, Commissioner Craft Appointee Gerald Ku~lins~i, Commissioner Grande Appointee Pieter StryRer David Souza, St. Lucie Village Commissioner Eddie Becht, City of Ft. Pierce (Arrived at 3:27 p.m.) Councilman Christopher S. Cooper, City of P.S.L. Heather Young, SLC Assistant County Attorney Michael Brillhart, Economic & Strategic Development Director Alto Prese.." APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. The minutes from the August 9, 2007 meeting were unanimously approved. OLD BUSINESS. Ms. Chapman discussed Jeanne Hearn's resignation from the Fort Pierce Harbor Advisory Committee. NEW BUSINESS. Michael Brillhart discussed what had been taRing place with the Harbor Pointe RFQ. Mr. Brillhart stated there would be five individuals sitting on the Selection Committee. The Selection Committee will meet on October 16, 2007 and is not a public meeting. The committee members are Don West, Faye Outlaw, Larry Daum, Michael Brillhart and Neil Appel. The Selection Committee will review the RFQ and maRe a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners sometime either late October or early November. The committee was concerned with the fact that only one RFQ submittal was received. Brillhart said the RFQ was mailed out to a very large database and staff was well. Mr. '¡ , CO. ADMIN. OFFICE Fort Pierce Harbor Advisory Committee October 11, 2007 Page 2 ---~-----~_.._,.......--~~-~--'-------"-,.__..~-_._.....-~~_.."~-"--"''"-'''~---''-'-'-''--~~-'''~''-'''''''~'--''-''~'..,,~.'_._.-~'~-~~'''~--~ Mr. Con~lin expressed concem with the language used in the RFQ. Mr. Brillhart said much of the language used was taRen from the 2002 RFQ for that area and it was also tied to the land use plan. Ms. Chapman expressed her thoughts on the Fort Pierce Harbor Advisory Committee. Ms. Chapman stated, "I generally could care less about the survival of this group. If they're not going to let us do anything, I don't want to waste my time and I certainly don't want to waste all of your time. I thinR it is highly unfair. I gave a list of three things I was really concerned about for this group, and the same thing in Environmental Advisory, and absolutely nothing has been permitted to any of the six items. I finally gave up on Environmental Advisory and said I'm not messing anymore with vegetation legislation, thanR you very much. I want to be involved in something liRe water quality and it's very frustrating to spend many, many hours a weeR on this Rind of stuff and not have the County Commission at least listen to our recommendations. They don't have time to go over all of this, they don't have time to individually do the diligence and they assume we do and then they don't even read what we send and that is very frustrating. If we want to fight for survival that's one thing but if they are not going to permit us to be an active beneficial group then..." Mr. Thiess stated the RFQ received did not seem in sync with the Port Master Plan. Mr. ConRlin suggested calling a few of the top names in the database and find out why they did not respond. He thin~s there should be some sort of follow-up interview with the blunt of the people the County thought would bid and find out what went wrong. Mr. ConRlin made a motion, "For the County Commission to do a post request interview of some of the expected bidders, to find out why they did not put out a response i.e. credit marRet conditions or the wording parameters and strongly consider a reissuance of the RFQ based on the response received from those interviews." The committee unanimously approved the motion. Ms. Chapman as~ed Mr. Billhart how they could go about getting the County to reissue the RFQ. Mr. Brillhart said if the RFQ that has been received doesn't meet the criteria they'll have to rebid it. The committee aSRed about adding some incentives to the RFQ. Mr. Brillhart said that during the RFQ process there are no incentives or financial arrangements but during the RFP write up they could put in it that, "This project could be eligible for specific County and State economic development incentives". Mr. Souza stated, "The site itself could be the problem because when you loo~ at it, it doesn't really induce you to want to thinR about a high-end retail type thing when you go into an industrial area." Commissioner Becht aSRed how the Commission approved the RFQ. Upon review of the agenda item it was, "Approved 5-0 including language that any plan must be connected to the remaining 67 acres in conjunction with the Port Master Plan". Commissioner Becht stated the City of Fort Pierce capped stacRing containers at 30'. Commissioner Becht suggested going bacR to an idea Mr. ConRlin had a while ago about putting a Cou':1ty Marina on the property. \ Fort Pierce Harbor Advisory Committee October 11, 2007 Page 3 -,---...~---.~--.~-_.,--..,..-~-,-..,_._~._,___.~"",,'·_~__·__~'M"_~~_______~_,·.~,~__.__n Mr. Thiess made a motion, "If we're going to ma~e a recommendation of this qualification statement, I would recommend they deny it because it's grossly inadequate and doesn't come close to meeting the requirements of the RFQ. If they want examples, I went through it and there's 10% of what was even listed as the format for submitting the qualification statement including major things liRe proof they have the right to do business, banR references, relevant design build experience. It's a nonresponsive submittal and it should be dismissed." The motion was unanimously approved. Mr. Thiess suggest the five-committee members that are appointees get with their Commissioner and aSR why they are left out of the loop and why the Chair went to get the copy of the submittal and she got the run around. Ms. Chapman stated, "I was appointed by Paula and I've voiced this to her a number of times over the last few years so that's no secret. I ~now Joe Smith was very much aware of Jeanne's feelings when she left." Mr. KURlinsRi aSRed who was telling Ms. Chapman this information. Ms. Chapman replied, "When I call Stephanie Bush and say put this on the agenda and when it gets mailed out it's not on the agenda. If we remain irrelevant then I thinR we are wasting our time but I'm very hopeful that situations liRe this will get peoples attention." ADJOURNMENT. At 4:21 p.m. the meeting was adjourned. The next meeting will be held Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 3:00 pm in Conference Room 3, on the third floor of the Administration Building. 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