MINUTES OF MEETING
PORT OF THE ISLANDS
COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
The regular meeting of the Board of
Supervisors of the Port of the Islands Community Improvement District was held
on Friday, February 15, 2002 at 10:00 A.M. at Egret Room, 25000 Tamiami Trail,
Naples, Florida.
Present and constituting a quorum
were:
Richard Gatti Chairman
Bernard Wolsky Supervisor
Richard Burgeson Supervisor
Ted Bissell Supervisor
John Robinson Supervisor
Also present were:
Darrin S. Mossing Assistant
Manager
Daniel Cox Attorney
Tim Stephens Field Manager
Mr. Gatti called the meeting to
order and stated all Supervisors were present at roll call.
SECOND
ORDER OF BUSINESS Administration
of Oath of Office - Supervisor Robinson
Mr.
Gatti stated it is appropriate that we administer the oath of office to Mr.
Robinson.
Mr.
Mossing stated for the record, I am a notary public for the State of Florida
and am able to administer the oath of office.
Mr. Robinson, if you will raise your right hand and swear or affirm that
you are a resident of the State of Florida and citizen of the United States of
America and being a supervisor of Port of the Islands Community Improvement
District and a recipient of public funds on behalf of the district do hereby
solemnly swear or affirm that you will support the Constitution of the United
States and of the State of Florida and will faithfully, honestly and
impartially discharge the duties devolving upon me in the office of supervisor
of the Port of the Islands Community Improvement District in Collier County,
Florida.
Mr.
Robinson responded I will.
THIRD
ORDER OF BUSINESS Approval
of the Minutes of the January 18, 2002 Meeting
Mr. Gatti stated a copy of the
minutes of the January 18, 2002 meeting are enclosed in the agenda packages.
Are there any additions, corrections or deletions?
There not being any,
On MOTION by Mr. Wolsky seconded by Mr.
Bissell, with all in favor, the minutes of the January 18, 2002 meeting were
approved as presented.
A. Attorney
Mr.
Cox stated I do not know if at the last meeting I mentioned that we have the
last of the easements in place now for the improvements that we are going to
do. Mr. Bissell asked about the status
of the well field and I have confirmed that we do have fee simple ownership of
the property where the wells are located and an easement for our road and
utility lines that go back to it.
Mr.
Gatti stated that is a very important point, but I want you to understand where
we really could have problems from the South Florida Water Management District
that allocates each area of South Florida so much water every five years. It is that renewal that we have to concern
ourselves with. We are in good
shape. We have another four years
gone. In that same point, it is a very
valid concern because when we go through these drought periods that could come
down and effect us.
Mr.
Gatti stated I made a little bit of an incorrect analysis. I do not want to get into a big discussion on
this. I just want to correct any
misinformation that I gave out. I was
describing Ms. Marchand’s suit. The case
that she was arguing was the allotment for each unit. As an example, 4/10, 8/10 and 1 unit. That is incorrect. What she contends is that there were too many
units allocated to her property.
Mr.
Cox stated it is not the assignment of ERCs to the type of unit that she is
challenging, she is saying that she gets too many units.
Mr.
Gatti responded yes. I just wanted to
clarify that because I went through a description of that and I was incorrect.
Ms. Marchand was nice enough to tell me that out in the hall. I wanted to
apologize and clarify that. Her case is that she says there are too many ERCs
applied to that property. I have had conversations with Dan and based on the
zoning that exists, that is absolutely not the case.
Mr.
Bissell asked is there anything new on the case?
Mr.
Cox responded nothing has really happened. We had a settlement conference
scheduled for last Thursday and one of the parties could not make it, so that
had to be cancelled. The settlement
offer they had presented was pretty much that we would give them everything
that they were asking for. So, Allstate
rejected it. I have not responded
because once Allstate rejected it, I figured it was moot.
Mr. Gatti stated I see Dr. Benson is
not here. Mr. Burgeson, did you get an opportunity to bid that? What happened?
Mr.
Burgeson stated no. I just did it. That is our bid.
Mr.
Gatti asked have you submitted it?
Mr.
Burgeson responded no, I have not
submitted it, I just did it.
C. Manager
There
not being any, the next item followed.
D. Field Manager
Mr.
Gatti stated I have seen Mr. Stephens around a few nights; what is going on?
Mr.
Stephens responded they put the pump station on land on Newport Drive. We have a small problem with that. There is a problem where the line from the
Sunset Cay lift station comes down and it nineties back into a manhole in the
center of the road, and then gravity feeds into that line. It should not do that. It should tie straight into a gravity line
that goes into the wet well or either dump straight into the wet well. I talked to Jerry McNeill this morning and
Hole, Montes. Right now, it has a real
high flow. What is happening is that it
will not handle it. It is too restricted
for some reason. It was done as a
temporary thing.
Mr.
Gatti stated I do not know that any of us are really understanding what you are
saying. Do we have a set of plans that
shows what is going on? Do we have a
drawing? We should look at it after the
meeting. What I want the board to hear
is that we are looking at it, we think we know what the solution is, and we are
pursuing it.
Mr.
Stephens responded right.
Mr.
Gatti asked anything else, how about the mosquito spraying?
Mr.
Stephens responded I sprayed the other night.
FIFTH
ORDER OF BUSINESS Supervisor’s
Requests and Audience Comments
Mr.
Robinson stated after the meeting, we will talk a little bit about the cable
situation.
Mr.
Gatti asked does the audience have any comments they would like to make or any
questions or issues you would like to bring up?
This is your meeting. One
gentleman is very interested in the crossings that we have made with asphalt
where they have patched it up. They are
not complete. They ran out of asphalt
and they will finish it when they do the next phase. They did a good job.
SIXTH
ORDER OF BUSINESS Financial
Statements and Approval of Check Registers
Mr.
Gatti asked are we going to be looking at budgets soon?
Mr.
Mossing responded in May. Usually we
will issue the draft proposed budget in May and schedule a public hearing
within 60 days for its adoption. If we
need further time, we will continue that into August, but we need to certify
the assessments in August.
Mr.
Gatti asked do you want to mention Mr. Colletta?
Mr.
Wolsky stated the chairman and I met with Jim Colletta who is our
representative on the County Commission. He is very interested in establishing
contact with our community and has asked to attend one of our CID
meetings. It will be the one in
March. He will attend the meeting and
then afterward he would like to hear from anybody who has any sort of a problem
of any kind – that is the way he described it to us. Anything that pertains to the commission that
he could possibly help us with. He
mentioned in this background that he set up a civic association in Montpellier,
which is part of his turf, which worked out very well. He also mentioned that he has been very
active in Everglades City helping them with their problems. I accessed the Everglades City Echo on the
internet and ran a trace on his name; there were 37 articles in this past year
that mentioned him by name in Everglades City. He holds meetings after their
council meetings. He has established
contact with Sammy Hamilton, the mayor.
The fishermen have complained to him that the state is trying to cut off
their means of sustinence by closing snook season in May, so he has set up a
meeting with them in Tallahassee and he accompanied them to argue their
case. He is a very activist-type person.
He wants to establish contact with our community and help us in any way he
can. I can think of a dozen ways just
off-hand that he could be helpful in our community. So, please try to attend the March meeting.
Mr.
Robinson asked is there any way to get the information to the community?
Mr.
Gatti stated I was just about to say that we should mention that in the
newsletter that he will be here in March.
A
resident stated the newsletter is not planning to be out that soon. The next newsletter is slated for April.
Mr.
Gatti stated well then it might be a good idea to do a mail-out or something.
Mr.
Bissell asked does everyone get the newsletter or only those who subscribe to
it?
Mr.
Wolsky responded everybody as far as we know.
Mr. Genung is distributing it at his cost.
Mr.
Gatti stated my impression of Mr. Colletta from the first time that I have
really sat down with him one-to-one, is that he is a very receptive guy and he
is very accommodating. A lot of the
things that we bring up here at the CID are really the county’s bailiwick. We are at the point now that we have a pretty
good electoral impact, so I am sure they are interested.
On MOTION by Mr. Bissell seconded by Mr.
Wolsky, with all in favor, the board approved the invoices and check registers
included in the agenda package.
On MOTION by Mr. Burgeson seconded by Mr.
Wolsky, with all in favor, the board adjourned the meeting.
Darrin
S Mossing Richard
Gatti
Assistant
Secretary Chairman