A P P E A R A N C E S
Representing the Florida Cabinet:
JEB BUSH
Governor
CHARLES H. BRONSON
Commissioner of Agriculture
CHARLIE CRIST
Attorney General
TOM GALLAGHER
Chief Financial Officer
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1 Approved 13
2 Approved 14
3 Approved
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2 Approved 30
3 Approved 30
4 Approved
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3 Approved
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2 Approved 57
3 Approved 58
4 Approved
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2 Approved 111
3 Approved 111
4 Approved
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P R O C E E D I N G S
2 (The agenda items commenced at 9:40
a.m.)
3 GOVERNOR BUSH: The
next Cabinet meeting will
4 be Wednesday, November 12th, 2003, back in our new
5 Capitol of Tallahassee.
6 Now we'll begin the regular
part of our --
7 oh, excuse me. Commissioner.
8 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Governor, as much as
9 it hurts me to do this, I've got to announce to
10 the Cabinet Members that I'm going to lose my
11 Chief Cabinet Aide after this meeting. Michelle
12 Myers, who has been my bulldog on a lot of issues
13 that I've had her working on, and has done a great
14 job for us, she's going to be leaving to go to the
15 private sector. And I wish her well, even
though
16 I sure hate to lose her. And I have talked to
her
17 about her leaving and all the things she's going
18 to do and the great things she's going to do, one
19 of which is going to be making a lot more money,
20 I'm sure, than where she is now. But we hate to
21 lose her services.
22 And I am going -- and I'll
announce now to
23 you, with this announcement, that we'll be
24 bringing someone on that the Cabinet Members know
25 very well. Jim Boxold will be coming on as
our
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2 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you. Good luck.
3 MS. MYERS: Thank
you.
4 And thank you for not
calling me a Chihuahua.
5 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Exactly.
6 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Never a Chihuahua.
7 GOVERNOR BUSH: What
kind of dog would you
8 like to be?
9 MS. MYERS: I like
bulldog.
10 GOVERNOR BUSH: All
right. You take your
11 pick.
12 Thank you,
Commissioner.
13 This is now the regular
part of our Cabinet
14 meeting. We go through a regular agenda every
two
15 weeks that relates to the departments that
16 directly report to the Governor and Cabinet.
17 First is the Division of
Bond Finance. Ben,
18 if you could give a little bit of explanation of
19 what you do.
20 MR. WATKINS: Yes,
sir. I'll be happy to.
21 I'm Ben Watkins, the
director of the Division
22 of Bond Finance. Our primary business function
is
23 to borrow money on behalf of the state, and we do
24 this by issuing tax-exempt bonds. It is a
25 centralized debt management function so that
we
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1 borrow all money and administer all bond programs
2 on behalf of state agencies.
3 So, for example, we have
PECO bonds and
4 lottery revenue bonds that we issue for the
5 Department of Education for school construction,
6 and --
7 Yes, sir?
8 CFO GALLAGHER: PECO
won't quite get it. You
9 need to tell them what that means.
10 MR. WATKINS: Public
Education Capital Outlay
11 bonds for school construction, lottery revenue
12 bonds for school construction, Preservation 2000
13 bonds, and successor program to the Preservation
14 2000 program, Florida Forever, on behalf of the
15 Department of Environmental Protection to acquire
16 environmentally-sensitive lands. We issue
17 right-of-way bonds on behalf of the Department of
18 Transportation, and turnpike revenue bonds on
19 behalf of the Department of Transportation, to
20 acquire right of way and build roads. We issue
21 bonds on behalf of all the state universities to
22 build dormitories, parking garages, student
23 service centers, et cetera. So, that is our
24 primary business function.
25 And the Governor and
Cabinet are my
governing
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1 board who oversee the authorization, the
2 implementation of state borrowings. So, that's
3 what we do.
4 Another activity which we
engage in, which is
5 -- had been informal, and which is more
6 formalized, is an annual report on the State's
7 debt and what the level of the State's debt is.
8 We established a benchmark
debt ratio to
9 establish reasonable borrowing limits for the
10 state so that we can evaluate on an ongoing basis,
11 provide that information to the Legislature, which
12 is the body which authorizes the State's debt
13 through the budgetary process.
14 So now we have a formal
mechanism to monitor
15 the State's debt position and to evaluate any new
16 initiatives that are proposed legislatively, to
17 evaluate the long-term financial impact of any new
18 borrowing on the State's debt position.
19 So, with that --
20 GOVERNOR BUSH: Excuse
me.
21 MR. WATKINS:
Sure.
22 GOVERNOR BUSH: If you
could also just let
23 everybody know how much debt we're talking about.
24 People may not think we're big in the debt
25 business. I think we're pretty big in
it.
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1 MR. WATKINS: We are --
the state currently
2 has outstanding $20.4 billion in debt, and that's
3 with a B. It has increased significantly over the
4 last ten years from about 5 billion to about the
5 current $20 billion level that we're at now, which
6 in large part was the motivation behind developing
7 an analytical framework to continually monitor how
8 much debt we have and what the impact is of
9 bringing on new debt.
10 Of the $20.4 billion in
debt outstanding,
11 over half of that has been issued for school
12 construction.
13 The next largest program is
purchasing
14 environmentally-sensitive lands, and then the
15 Department of Transportation. So, those are the
16 three major components of debt outstanding.
17 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you, Ben.
18 CFO GALLAGHER: Motion
on the minutes.
19 GENERAL CRIST:
Second.
20 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and seconded. Without
21 objection, item 1 passes.
22 MR. WATKINS: Item
number 2 is a resolution
23 authorizing the issuance of up to $16,550,000 in
24 housing facility revenue bonds.
25 CFO GALLAGHER: Motion
on
2.
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1 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Second.
2 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and seconded. Without
3 objection, item 2 passes.
4 MR. WATKINS: Item
number 3 is the report of
5 reward on the master equipment financing
6 agreement. This is project financing for
7 approximately $82 million to finance the
8 replacement of the accounting information and cash
9 management system.
10 GOVERNOR BUSH: What's
that, Ben?
11 MR. WATKINS: It is --
it's basically the
12 computer system of where we keep track of,
13 hopefully, how we're spending our money and also
14 how we're managing our cash. The existing
system
15 has been around for some 15 to 20 years, is being
16 currently held together with bailing wire and duct
17 tape.
18 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Exactly.
19 MR. WATKINS: So, this
is going to be a great
20 step forward in integrating technology into the
21 financial management and cash management function
22 of the state which is so critical from a business
23 standpoint to keep things running.
24 The scope of this project
is -- it's going to
25 require, like I say, from a financing
standpoint
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1 about $82 million. The design, development and
2 implementation is going to take about three years,
3 three and a half years.
4 If you'll recall, it is
being administered by
5 the Chief Financial Officer's office. And you'll
6 recall Rebecca Sutton, back in Tallahassee two
7 weeks ago, gave us a report on the progress on
8 that system. So that's the system we're talking
9 about, and this is how we're paying for it.
10 This is a little bit
unusual in the sense of
11 the way we went about implementing or securing the
12 financing for this project. The way that it
works
13 is it is technically a lease purchase arrangement,
14 and, so, it is set up like a line of credit.
What
15 we did was draft the underlying legal documents.
16 We had meetings with prospective lenders so they
17 could familiarize themselves with the computer
18 system we were talking about, because what we're
19 talking about is having them loan us money on
20 something that's not built yet, and a large part
21 of which is not represented by hard assets.
22 Then once we did that, then
we solicited bids
23 on that underlying lease purchase arrangement.
We
24 got six bids. Wachovia was the winning bidder.
25 And interacting with the lenders, we offered
three
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1 different ways they could bid it all based on
2 indexes. So, they bid an index and we draw down
3 quarterly. Like I say, it operates like a line
of
4 credit. So, the interest rate is going to float,
5 and then it's fixed at the time we do the
6 quarterly draws.
7 So, the first draw was made
yesterday for
8 approximately $19.9 million for the first
9 installment of the $80 million, and the interest
10 rate was locked in at 2.59 percent.
11 So, the interest rate index
that the winning
12 bidder chose to use is a five-year swap index,
13 less 110 basis points.
14 So, that's the way this
financing is going to
15 work. I'm happy to report that it's been
16 successfully implemented, the documents have been
17 signed, and is in place to finance this critical
18 infrastructure.
19 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you.
20 CFO GALLAGHER: I
might add that every
21 department in state government is a part of this
22 because this is the accounting system that will
23 modernize what we're able to do and what reports
24 your office of management and budget can use, as
25 well as each of us can use in our own areas.
It's
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1 an enterprise resource accounting system. The
2 contract happens to be with People Soft. And we
3 will be able to do some things that cannot be done
4 today in the system we have. It's over 20 years
5 old and it's very slow. So, each agency has
6 people involved in this project. Some 50 people
7 from agencies throughout government are now either
8 permanently involved -- I won't say permanently --
9 for a few years, that's pretty permanent --
10 involved in making sure that this project meets
11 their needs as well as the total needs of the
12 state of Florida.
13 GOVERNOR BUSH: All
the people that worked on
14 the legacy system that we're replacing are all
15 retiring, so we have to come up with a new system
16 that people can actually work with and fix.
17 CFO GALLAGHER: It's a
language that nobody
18 uses anymore and lots of other things. But this
19 is going to be a good thing for the state of
20 Florida, and to keep us up with being able to know
21 what's actually going on in the bottom of the
22 barrel in state government.
23 GOVERNOR BUSH: Is
there a motion?
24 CFO GALLAGHER:
Motion.
25 MR. DEFENDANT:
Second.
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and seconded. Without
2 objection, the item passes.
3 Thank you, Ben.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Department of Revenue, your
2 friendly tax collector, Jim Zingale.
3 MR. ZINGALE: Item
number one is approval
4 of --
5 GOVERNOR BUSH: You
want to describe a little
6 bit.
7 MR. ZINGALE: With your
permission, item
8 number 2 is our performance contract, and I'll
9 kind of weave those two together.
10 GOVERNOR BUSH: Okay.
Is there a motion on
11 item one?
12 CFO GALLAGHER:
Motion.
13 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Second.
14 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and seconded. Without
15 objection, the item passes.
16 Item 2.
17 MR. ZINGALE: They've
given me big bold print
18 here, so maybe I won't need the glasses.
19 You have a package in front
of you. We're
20 going to be passing it out at the Agency Fair to
21 the public at large.
22 The Department of Revenue
is a large public
23 organization, 5,500 people. We're one of only a
24 few agencies -- as a matter of fact, I think we're
25 the only one that actually has employees
outside
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1 the state of Florida. We stretch from Los
Angeles
2 to New Jersey down to Key West.
3 We primarily serve three
business functions:
4 We are the administrators of some $27.8 billion
5 worth of taxes that are collected by the state of
6 Florida. We serve proudly 201,000 children who
7 come to the Department of Revenue for child
8 support enforcement services, and we oversee the
9 running of the 67 property appraisers' office and
10 tax collectors' office.
11 With that general overview,
we're going to
12 get into the fun subject, that we are the friendly
13 Department of Revenue, and we do serve the
14 citizens of Florida, primarily through the
15 business community.
16 Most people don't
understand it, but most of
17 the people that do transactions with the
18 Department of Revenue are businesses. As a
matter
19 of fact, 96.9 percent of all of the revenue comes
20 into the Department of Revenue through business.
21 The lion's share of that is coming in through
22 sales tax. 16.7 billion comes through from
sales
23 tax; 1.2 corporate; about 1.6 coming in from
24 communication services taxes.
25 We do consider this a
partnership
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1 businesses.
2 If you would look at our
vision mission and
3 value statements, up at the top we seek to
4 increase voluntary compliance. The most cost
5 effective way to administer the tax system is to
6 have those that remit the taxes to Florida do it
7 volunitarily. We strive to reduce their burden,
8 to try to make it as easy as possible for a
9 taxpayer to comply with the laws of Florida. As
a
10 backdrop to that, we try to cut cost, to raise
11 productivity, and improve services in everything
12 we do.
13 On the tax side, the last
year has probably
14 brought more change to the Department of Revenue
15 tax administration than in the previous ten. We
16 have gone to full one-stop registration. As a
17 matter of fact, we do $18 billion electronically.
18 60 percent of all the returns are coming in
19 paperless. In terms of one-stop registration
20 today, 40 percent of all registrations are
21 occurring on-line, from a few years ago when there
22 was nobody registering on-line. So, you can
23 register one stop; you can register on-line.
It's
24 a tremendous transformation.
25 We've been able to achieve
this with
a
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1 brand-new computer system. Suntax started four
2 years ago. This last March with the bringing up
3 of the sales tax system, 21 of the $27 billion are
4 fully integrated. The cost to date of that
5 system, 50 million bucks. In that first four
6 years of implementation, it's already paid for
7 itself through the 19 percent fewer FTE in the
8 department. The tax side has of 541 fewer FTE
9 than it did four years ago. And each succeeding
10 year forward, we project just through the FTE
11 savings, not the productivity, an extra $15.5
12 million per year added to that break-even point.
13 With respect to the future,
we look to the
14 future as today being the three-day short of the
15 ending of our amnesty period. We looked at
16 amnesty as a three-phase process. To use the
new
17 modern tools of Suntax for a fair tax
18 administration, going forth with some fairly
19 aggressive enforcement tools, and amnesty was the
20 first phase of that. It's only appropriate when
21 you go forward with enhanced enforcement to
22 provide the public an opportunity to come in,
23 fully understand what their liability is, to get a
24 break on interest, to get a break on penalty to
25 come in and disclose their
tax.
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1 To date we have $75 million
worth of amnesty
2 agreements in place, which is the estimate, and we
3 expect a lot more to come in. 75 million to date
4 signed.
5 GOVERNOR BUSH: What
did we budget for?
6 MR. ZINGALE: 75
million budgeted. And we
7 still have three more days to go, which we expect
8 to be the biggest three days.
9 GOVERNOR BUSH: When we
started this, it was
10 reported a couple weeks ago it was --
11 MR. ZINGALE: 46
percent of the target was a
12 couple weeks ago. If you have lots of
13 money --
14 GOVERNOR BUSH: That's
what deadlines do.
15 MR. ZINGALE: -- you
wait till the end to pay
16 those big checks. We're kind of pleased with
that
17 in terms of its progress.
18 Phase II will start next
Monday, and Phase II
19 will follow-up on all those people that we noticed
20 that had a tax liability. And we did a
21 substantial amount of noticing people of what we
22 perceived to be their tax liability. So, we're
23 kind of excited.
24 Last year the Department of
Revenue was voted
25 by Governing magazine, tied with six other
states
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1 as the number one Department of Revenue in the
2 country. SAP is recognized worldwide as the most
3 modern tax administration system in the world from
4 a lot of different forecasting services.
5 Our fund program is the
Child Support
6 Enforcement Program. When it came over from HRS
7 -- when it was HRS many years ago -- we were rated
8 48th in the nation. Today we're up around 22nd.
9 We do have an aggressive goal to be number one in
10 four years. We served 900 --
11 GOVERNOR BUSH: How do
you measure being
12 number one?
13 MR. ZINGALE: There
are five federal
14 measurements that are audited. And each year
they
15 rank the Department of Revenue in those five
16 measures. So, you can cleanly compare the
17 percentage of out-of-wedlock births for paternity;
18 the percentage of cases to order; the dollars
19 collected from current support; the dollars
20 collected from arrearages; and the last one is a
21 cost effective measure. You weight those
together
22 and you get a rough idea of where you fit in terms
23 of that.
24 We have made substantial
progress, which I'll
25 quickly review. People that we don't
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1 understand is that -- 901,000 children is almost
2 one in every four children in the state of Florida
3 that we serve today. Over an 18-year period,
it's
4 actually substantially more than one in every
5 four, because people come into the program and
6 drop out. 71.6 percent of these children are
7 either currently on public assistance or were on
8 public assistance. So, these are families that
9 desperately need to identify a father, hold that
10 father personally accountable for the birth of
11 that child, and succeed in generating minimal
12 support to that family. Our statistics show
that
13 a known-father who pays child support is one of
14 the most powerful things you can do in that
15 family's life in keeping them off public
16 assistance in the future. I think we're quite
17 proud that 31 percent of that population we serve
18 used to be on public assistance and is no longer
19 on public assistance.
20 We have an aggressive plan
to move forward.
21 Last year we had 11 percent increase in revenues
22 collected to children. That 11 percent increase
23 was with a declining caseload, which is also good.
24 We had a record 49,800 new orders brought to the
25 plate. That's, again, a record in both of
those
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1 numbers. But child support has a long way to go.
2 And we sat here two weeks
ago in Tallahassee
3 at the Cabinet meeting, and we believe we put in
4 the last piece in the puzzle in getting us to be
5 number one in the nation. The last four years
6 have been dominated by creative law changes and
7 tools. But two weeks ago, this Cabinet -- and
all
8 the children in Florida thank you -- came forward
9 with a $32 million brand-new computer system
10 paralleling the track that we had on the general
11 tax side.
12 GOVERNOR BUSH: I
think it's interesting, if
13 I might. We always think about technology to be
a
14 business application, something that enhances some
15 business process. If you listen to what's --
our
16 Cabinet meetings, when we talk about our
17 technology projects, we have some major ones, and
18 we just talked about two of the largest ones right
19 now.
20 A lot of times technology
is now being used
21 to help caseworkers to be able to track kids in
22 the foster care system, or to make sure dad's make
23 their payments. It's an interesting time in
state
24 government that they're really harnessing
25 technology to help individuals that are
expecting
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2 MR. ZINGALE: And
substantial cost savings
3 and productivity improvement associated with that,
4 which we have certainly seen on the general tax
5 side and anticipate on the child support side.
6 So, the child support
program, we're looking
7 to more money to more kids more quickly, and on a
8 very, very, very fast track.
9 In the two weeks since
you've left, SAP and
10 Deloitte are already on site. We're well ahead
of
11 schedule with only two weeks in the program.
12 The last program is
property tax
13 administration. Most people know, but not
14 everybody. Property tax is the second largest
tax
15 in the state of Florida. 8.7 million parcels;
16 $794 billion of taxable value; a taxing source
17 collected of $17.4 billion. It is a major
taxing
18 source that supports cities, counties, public
19 schools and a number of special districts.
20 The last few years -- the
last three years
21 the taxing value was actually increased 35
22 percent. That's due to the diligent work of our
23 property appraisers and, according to our
24 statistics, uniformity in the tax roll has in that
25 same four-year period of time, one year
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1 increased by 32 percent.
2 Our primary role though in
supporting that
3 oversight function is to provide quality control.
4 We sit in and review the property appraisers'
5 roles for levels of assessment and equity. We
6 approve true notices to ensure that the public is
7 adequately noticed when their values go up. We
8 provide a lot of aid and assistance. We actually
9 get out there with tape measures and help some
10 property appraisers in the rural areas that can't
11 get around and measure property do that, and we
12 review budgets.
13 The last thing we want to
notice is that the
14 Department of Revenue views itself as public
15 servants. 5,500 people trying to serve the
public
16 as best we can. Last year we exceeded our
17 minority purchase goal by 45 percent. The last
18 three years we've exceeded our United Way
19 contributions. To date, we've exceeded last
years
20 totals, but are still working to meet our goal for
21 the current year.
22 And I think, as
importantly, we recognize
23 concern for others as a department value. We
have
24 a large portion of our Department of Revenue
25 employees actively involved in mentoring,
actively
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1 involved in community service, and are quite proud
2 of their service to the public.
3 With respect to the
performance contracts,
4 we've met or exceeded all of our general tax
5 performance accountability measures on the
6 property tax side. One measure didn't meet
7 standards, our enhanced capability to evaluate
8 property appraisers on our non-in-depth side,
9 reviewed more defects this year. We don't view
10 that as a deterioration but an enhancement of what
11 we did.
12 And two child support
measures went through
13 substantial, with federal assistance, data
14 purification, and caused us to lower some of those
15 expectations. The 80 percent though in
paternity
16 is still quite high nationally.
17 With your permission, and
we'll be talking to
18 you about it over the next couple of weeks, we're
19 going to launch a major paternity in-hospital
20 initiative in December. Most of the paternities
21 are established in hospital. We've done root
22 cause analysis and we've identified where we think
23 we can make dramatic improvements in the next 12
24 months in terms of paternity establishment.
25 So that is the second item
on the agenda.
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1 you don't have any questions, I request approval.
2 CFO GALLAGHER: I move
the performance be
3 accepted.
4 GENERAL CRIST:
Second.
5 GOVERNOR BUSH: Any
other discussion?
6 There's a motion and second. Without objection,
7 the item passes.
8 MR. ZINGALE: We have
one small little third
9 item, it's a rule, that primarily deals with
10 consent agreements between the Department of
11 Revenue and the taxpayer. The rule allows for a
12 documentation of reading the current processes
13 that allow a taxpayer to ask for an extension to
14 collect more data. It's a fairly minor rule.
15 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Moved.
16 GENERAL CRIST:
Second.
17 MR. ZINGALE: Thank
you very much.
18 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Moved and seconded. Without
19 objection, the item passes.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: Department of
Veterans
2 Affairs.
3 MR. McPHERSON: Good
morning, Governor.
4 GOVERNOR BUSH: Rocky,
how are you doing?
5 MR. McPHERSON: Good,
sir.
6 Good morning, sir.
Your Department of
7 Veterans Affairs comes forth -- we generally have
8 three primary missions in the state: We are, of
9 course, the veterans' advocate for almost 1.9
10 million veterans who make Florida their home.
11 It's a huge number. We're second only to the
12 state of California. But, more importantly, we
13 are first in the number of older veterans, those
14 65 and older, and those who have serious medical
15 problems in need of care. So, we have a huge
16 challenge to work with the federal government in
17 ensuring that our veterans receive the federal
18 benefits for which they have earned through their
19 military service. That's one of our divisions.
20 We have about 70 folks at
19 different
21 locations throughout the state. And they visit
22 veterans -- in the six VA hospitals in the state
23 of Florida, if a veteran is admitted, one of our
24 service officers sees him within 24 hours. And
25 the question that we ask is, "Have you filed
for
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1 and are you receiving all of your federal
2 benefits?" And if they are not, we assist them
in
3 gaining those benefits and bringing that money to
4 both that family and to the state of Florida.
So,
5 veterans advocacy, and with the federal
6 government, is one of our primary missions.
7 And the second element that
we have that's a
8 part of our program is large participation in a
9 thing called the State Veterans Nursing Home
10 Program. We have -- we currently operate four
11 homes that are up and running. We have just
12 completed the construction of two additional
13 homes, one in Bay County and one in Charlotte
14 County.
15 And, Governor, you were
with us on August the
16 21st when we dedicated the Bay County home. I'm
17 pleased to report that we've completed all the
18 inspections, the OCCA inspections, the building
19 inspections, training and certification, and that
20 facility took its first five residents last week.
21 And we will incrementally grow that over a year to
22 a full capacity of additional 120 residents.
23 In Charlotte County we're
proceeding with a
24 plan to open that facility in January. And, as
25 you know, my budget request this year contains
a
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1 request for funds to begin planning for an
2 additional facility.
3 GOVERNOR BUSH: Where
would that be, Rocky?
4 MR. McPHERSON: It
would probably be in the
5 northeast part of the state, sir.
6 GOVERNOR BUSH: Oh.
7 MR. McPHERSON: We
don't have a site yet, but
8 we're looking in this particular corner of the
9 state.
10 The other thing that we do
is -- a lot of the
11 legislative -- you know, 99 -- 90 percent of the
12 rules that deal with veterans are federal
13 regulations, and, so, we monitor very closely all
14 the things going through the U. S. Department of
15 Veterans Affairs initiatives in Washington. And
16 we, of course, work with state legislature for
17 veterans issues.
18 And, then, finally, we work
in programs to
19 honor Florida's veterans.
20 Historically, the
department has sponsored
21 the Korean War Memorial, which is in Tallahassee.
22 The Korean War Memorial, the Vietnam War Memorial,
23 both of which were constructed about ten years
24 ago. Right now the key project we're engaged in
25 is the Florida World War II
Memorial.
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1 Interestingly enough, I
wandered Plaza de la
2 Constitution last night --
3 GOVERNOR BUSH: Good
Spanish accent.
4 MR. McPHERSON: -- and
if you know -- thank
5 you, sir.
6 If you notice, right there
in the town
7 market, just north of that, I came across a
8 monument last night that kind of leads right to
9 why we're doing the Florida World War II Memorial.
10 It was in place there by the Fleet Association of
11 St. Augustine in 1946. And it is the
12 St. Augustine World War II Memorial.
13 Mr. Mayor and
Commissioners, I know you
14 weren't in office then, but we're thankful that
15 you all took it. We're not quite as prompt in
16 that. We're working on one now for the state
17 authorized by the legislature in 1999. We have
18 spent the past several years working on
19 fund-raising, design, and we're just about to
20 complete those elements and be able to move
21 forward.
22 We have a design program
that -- the Memorial
23 itself consists of five elements. On December
the
24 7th, 2001, the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor,
25 we dedicated, with the Governor and many
folks,
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1 the Museum of Florida History's permanent World
2 War II museum exhibit, and it is still there.
3 Elements of it travel the state. There are
4 currently portions of it in Miami and Orlando.
5 That portion of the memorial concept is complete.
6 We've also completed a World
War II resource
7 network Web page with the Department of State.
8 The three elements remaining
to be completed
9 are a high school World War II curriculum
10 development program in cooperation with the
11 Department of Education. And they have given us
a
12 grant to move forward in that part of the program.
13 A Heritage Trail series
booklet that will
14 detail Florida's participation in World War II,
15 bases and stations and key personnel that were
16 here, and industries that were here that
17 contributed to the World War II effort.
18 And, then, finally, the
Florida World War II
19 monument which will be located, as depicted here,
20 on the grounds of the entrance to the Gray
21 Building in Tallahassee, the Florida Museum of
22 History.
23 That monument design
definition continues.
24 We have the pro bono service of an architectural
25 firm from Tallahassee that is doing this for
us.
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1 And, additionally, we are
moving forward with
2 beginning to wrestle to the ground the question I
3 always get asked is the budget for this project.
4 We now have, through the pro bono services of a
5 construction company in Tallahassee, a cost
6 estimate for this particular monument, and we're
7 moving forward in planning to get that done.
8 On November the 11th, this
year, Lieutenant
9 Governor Jennings is going to host a ceremony on
10 which we will do a groundbreaking event for this
11 monument, and a year from now, Veterans Day,
12 November 11th, 2004, we plan to have a dedication
13 ceremony to dedicate this completed memorial and
14 bring it to conclusion.
15 Moving forward into the
elements of what we
16 provided roughly today in our package --
17 GOVERNOR BUSH: Rocky,
on the Memorial, have
18 you decided what to do -- it's kind of hard for
19 people to see what this is -- but as you walk up
20 the walkway -- why don't you explain what those --
21 there.
22 MR. McPHERSON: The
concept of the Memorial
23 is -- let me note that in Washington, D.C. right
24 now on the mall, the National Mall, there is under
25 construction the National World War II
Memorial.
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1 And it consists of a set of pillars from each
2 state. What we've done is take the concept --
and
3 that pillar from Florida will be the centerpiece.
4 And we have -- just as they extended it to the
5 states at the national monument, we're extending
6 the concept to the counties. And as you can see,
7 that walkway that enters, there will be a marker
8 for each of the counties in the state of Florida.
9 And we've asked -- I have
communicated with
10 the county commissioners from all counties in the
11 state and asked them to help us develop what each
12 county would like to have portrayed as a part of
13 their contribution to the World War II effort in
14 this walkway that leads to the centerpiece of the
15 memorial. So all the counties are currently
16 working and I've asked -- -
17 GOVERNOR BUSH: You've
given them all --
18 MR. McPHERSON: Yes,
sir. I've communicated
19 with all the county commissioners and we've asked
20 to have their input back in January. And we'll
21 refine those and then work through incorporating
22 them into the design.
23 GOVERNOR BUSH: I
think this is going to be a
24 really fitting tribute. We've got to do it
pretty
25 quick since this generation of great Americans
are
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1 going to see their Maker.
2 MR. McPHERSON: Yes,
sir. We lose a lot of
3 World War II veterans daily in this nation. More
4 than a thousand daily in this nation.
5 The budget for this project
-- since we're
6 able to finally come forth with a design and a
7 costing project. It's going to be approximately
8 $400,000 for the monument portion, and then the
9 other elements that I mentioned, the museum piece,
10 the education piece, the Web site, will bring our
11 total budget to about $800,000.
12 Of that, to date we've
raised or received
13 grants for about 535,000 -- 583,000, and we have
14 spent about 400,000 to date on the other elements
15 of it. Cash balance currently is about
$180,000.
16 And we are looking at a
program, with the
17 assistance of Liza McFadden and some of her
18 resources, to help us gain sponsorships for some
19 of the portions of this monument to be able to
20 finish the fund-raising at a sponsorship program,
21 to be able to pull together all the resources,
22 have them in place so we can put this under
23 contract in the spring and get it finished, ready
24 for dedication next November.
25 The final portion.
This project finally
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1 becoming clearly defined. We -- we're moving
2 forward with it. We're glad of that, we're proud
3 of it.
4 I would also like to note
that the
5 interdepartmental cooperation that I'm getting is
6 wonderful. I've got the Department of State, the
7 Department of Education, the Department of
8 Management Services are all working with us for
9 various portions of this, including helping us
10 recover some of the cost. So, it's going rather
11 well.
12 I would remind everybody,
just as a closing
13 remark, that next Tuesday is Veterans Day. We
14 indicated in Tallahassee we're going to have a
15 groundbreaking ceremony for this, but I would
16 encourage everyone to remember next Tuesday.
It's
17 a particularly auspicious day for our nation.
And
18 with the things going on around the world, it is
19 time to remember not only our veterans, but also
20 our military who are serving our country
21 throughout the world.
22 Question, sir?
23 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Commissioner?
24 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
One of the questions I
25 would have is, and I haven't seen the full
specs
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1 on the design, but is there -- is there going to
2 be any move to show the different, various
3 campaigns, European-Asian campaigns?
4 MR. McPHERSON: Matt,
would you put up the
5 one that has the projection on it.
6 There is a wall -- a set of
walls surrounding
7 the monument. Each of those panels has the
8 potential to be dedicated to a variety of things:
9 One to the military services, one to the
10 campaigns, perhaps one to medal of honor
11 recipients from the state of Florida, and one to
12 sponsors. So, there's a lot of opportunity
there
13 to do things, and we are working on that portion
14 of the design.
15 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
It's odd to me to --
16 and, Governor, the reason why I ask that, until I
17 got up into high school or so, you didn't -- you
18 never heard much about the Aleutian Island
19 campaigns of World War II because, I guess, during
20 the war they really didn't let that many people in
21 the U. S. realize how close that campaign came to
22 the U. S. borders up in the northwest. And it
23 wasn't until I went to Hawaii and actually saw
24 their portrayal of the Aleutian Islands as part of
25 the Asian campaign that you actually saw how
far
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1 and how many people -- there were a lot of
2 Floridians, including my father, that were
3 dedicated to that campaign, two and a half years
4 in the Aleutian Islands, and nobody knew about it
5 until they came home.
6 I just wanted to know how,
how in-depth it
7 was going to show the campaigns of World War II?
8 MR. McPHERSON: We will
be doing it, but, of
9 course, it is in a relatively restricted area.
10 So, we're working on some concepts to incorporate
11 those things into the design.
12 GOVERNOR BUSH: Rocky,
I would just suggest
13 that hopefully we can get sponsors to help provide
14 support without making it cheesy.
15 MR. McPHERSON: Yes,
sir. Absolutely.
16 GOVERNOR BUSH: That's
a technical term.
17 MR. McPHERSON: Our
intent, sir, is to honor
18 our veterans and to do so in the manner and style
19 befitting of their service.
20 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Exactly.
21 I also would suggest -- I
like this concept a
22 lot. I think it ought to be driven by the
23 veterans themselves, the thought behind it. And
24 if it mimics the national monument, then that's
25 even
better.
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1 MR. McPHERSON: We have
two groups of
2 advisors, sir. Of course, you have nine veteran
3 commissioners that are advisors to me. They have
4 enthusiastically endorsed this concept. And I
5 meet monthly with the directors of all the state
6 veterans organization. We have made major
7 presentations to them and they are solidly behind
8 it, as I am.
9 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you, Rocky.
10 MR. McPHERSON: Thank
you, sir.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Department of Highway Safety
2 and Motor Vehicles.
3 Good morning, Dave.
4 MR. WESTBERRY: Good
morning, Governor,
5 Cabinet. Thank you.
6 My name is Dave
Westberry. I am the Deputy
7 Executive Director for the Department of Highway
8 Safety and Motor Vehicles. I'm pinch hitting
9 today for Fred who could not be with us.
10 But as someone who had the
privilege of
11 calling St. Augustine home for almost 18 years of
12 my life, I appreciate the opportunity to stand
13 before you today in what was my hometown.
14 Just to give you a brief
recap on the
15 department and its activities. Obviously, as a
16 Cabinet agency, we come before the Governor and
17 Cabinet routinely for direction and guidance.
The
18 department's primary mission is geared around
19 keeping our highways safe. We do that through a
20 number of different program areas, mainly focused
21 on law enforcement, public education and service.
22 Fred Dickinson heads the department, of course,
23 and we currently have about 4500 members
24 statewide.
25 One of the most visible
program areas we
have
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1 for the department is the Florida Highway Patrol.
2 The men and women that are in the highway patrol,
3 we're very, very proud of and the job they do,
4 especially here in the St. Augustine and St. Johns
5 County area.
6 Our St. Augustine personnel
are part of Troop
7 G, which is headquartered in Jacksonville under
8 the command of Major Grady Carrick.
9 Major, you're with us
today. I just want to
10 thank you personally for being here today and
11 supporting these men and women and the work that
12 we're doing here.
13 Governor and Cabinet, these
folks are doing a
14 great job for us. Here in northeast Florida,
15 we've got about 180 sworn and civilian personnel
16 that operate these seven counties in the northeast
17 quadrant, and we're real proud of the work that
18 they're doing.
19 We do have a local
subdistrict office here in
20 St. Augustine. Lieutenant Crews is in charge of
21 that and he does a great job as well.
22 Northeast Florida is really
not unique in its
23 challenges that we face as far as the patrol goes.
24 It is like very much the rest of our state in
25 terms of a growing population base.
They're
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1 facing more and more folks out there. It seems
2 that all the licensed drivers in the northeast, I
3 think, at one point in time are on I-95 or U. S. 1
4 at the same time that we are. And these are the
5 types of battles that they're facing.
6 Increased emphasis, of
course, is going to
7 all the education and enforcement activities.
8 It's the same -- it's the same key issues: It's
9 aggressive driving. It's drunken driving.
It's
10 distracted driving. And really trying to send a
11 message there, and on seat belt enforcement.
12 As you know from our last
report, our seat
13 belt enforcement in the state is at an all-time
14 high. It's the result of a lot of the work that
15 these folks are doing right here.
16 The patrol also has a very
good working
17 relationship with our local law enforcement folks.
18 Obviously here in St. Johns County in
19 St. Augustine is no different. Sheriff Neil
Perry
20 and his folks are great partners with us. They
21 share great rapport and we really appreciate the
22 work that they do and how they do it.
23 Of course, we do like our
citizens to know
24 that our Governor and Cabinet are the absolute
25 strongest supporters of law enforcement and
we
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1 appreciate the support that they give us and the
2 types of things that they provide for us.
3 Our two other large program
areas fall under
4 the umbrella of motorists' services, and that's
5 really our Division of Drivers Licensing and our
6 Division of Motor Vehicles. Obviously, this
7 includes the administration of the drivers
8 licensing function, as well as all the vessel and
9 vehicle titleage (sic) and registration services
10 that you have.
11 Again, with over 15 million
licensed drivers
12 on the road out there, you kind of get a feel for
13 the magnitude of the issues that we face, but I
14 got to tell you that the folks in St. Johns County
15 are also very blessed because they have serving
16 for them as our agent, here at the local level for
17 drivers licensing and motor vehicles work, one of
18 the finer tax collectors in the state of Florida,
19 Dennis Hollingsworth, I know you're with us today.
20 Thank you very much for the work that you do.
We
21 appreciate you.
22 Governor, these guys are
some of the more
23 forward thinking folks in the state. They have
24 been great partners for us.
25 GOVERNOR BUSH: How do
we have 15
million
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1 licenses issued with 16 million people that live
2 here.
3 MR. WESTBERRY: We have
a lot of folks that
4 have licenses who come in and out of the state, as
5 well as folks who have --
6 GOVERNOR BUSH: You can
get a license whether
7 you're -- whether you're a full-time resident?
8 MR. WESTBERRY:
Correct.
9 GOVERNOR BUSH: If
you're over six months and
10 a year -- a day, you have to have a license?
11 MR. WESTBERRY:
Correct. Yes, sir.
12 GOVERNOR BUSH: If
you're here for three
13 months, you can get a license?
14 MR. WESTBERRY: Yes,
sir.
15 GOVERNOR BUSH: I
didn't know that.
16 MR. WESTBERRY: There
are a number of things
17 -- exciting things that are going on in terms of
18 drivers licensing. Obviously, through the
19 leadership that the Governor and Cabinet have
20 provided, we're able to introduce a new driver's
21 license. We hope that to be both a more secure
22 process and a more secure document itself. We
23 signed the contract this past August, with your
24 approval. We're moving forward. Things
are
25 moving on schedule. We're very happy to be
able
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1 to roll that out. It's going to be an
implemented
2 process across the state. If things stay on
3 schedule, and supposedly they will, we're looking
4 at probably early summer for the first ones to
5 come off the belt and we'll be putting those in
6 everybody's hands. And these are key issues for
7 us to help law enforcement fight issues like
8 identity theft, as well as just being a more
9 secure process.
10 I know the Attorney General
has been very
11 involved in that, along with FDLE Commissioner
12 Tunnell, and moving forward in those initiatives,
13 and we want to give them as many tools as we
14 possibly can to do that job.
15 The other hot topic really
for us, Governor,
16 as far drivers licensing goes is the at-risk
17 driver. And as you know, last year the
18 legislature passed a bill which puts in place an
19 at-risk driver advisory council. They are
20 currently meeting. They met again last week.
And
21 they are working on a report that's due back to
22 the legislature in February in order to give us
23 some insight and guidance on how to deal with that
24 and deal with those issues.
25 We've got representatives
from the
medical
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1 community, senior citizen advocacy groups, and
2 research entities, and we are looking forward to
3 hearing their recommendations and acting on those
4 accordingly.
5 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you.
6 Is there a motion for item
1?
7 GENERAL CRIST:
Motion.
8 CFO GALLAGHER:
Second.
9 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and seconded. Without
10 objection, the item passes.
11 MR. WESTBERRY: Thank
you, Governor.
12 Item 2 is the quarterly
report for the
13 quarter ended June 30th. I think in general
it's
14 pretty consistent information that you see before
15 us. No large or big surprises there in the
16 information that you see. There was some slight
17 increases in highway deaths. Some of the
18 enforcement numbers went down in some areas, and
19 yet were up significantly in others, such as the
20 felony violations and things of that nature.
21 CFO GALLAGHER:
Motion.
22 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Second.
23 GENERAL CRIST:
Second.
24 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and seconded. Without
25 objection,
passes.
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1 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Governor?
2 GOVERNOR BUSH: Yes,
Commissioner.
3 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
I would at this time,
4 as Commissioner of Agriculture, like to commend
5 the department, the highway patrol, and all of
6 those who are working on this vehicle
7 identification program. I got some very hurried
8 calls a couple of weeks ago about this, and what I
9 found out, and I should have known this, but some
10 of our people in the oldest business in the state
11 of Florida, agriculture, have been using some --
12 have been using some -- -
13 GOVERNOR BUSH: I was
wondering where you
14 were going with that.
15 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
-- have been using
16 some trailers since 1946 and '47 that are still on
17 the road today because they fix them up after
18 every year's over with and sandblast them and
19 repaint them. Well, what they have done since
20 1946 is managed to remove the identification
21 numbers on those vehicles. And part of this new
22 program under Homeland Security and other issues
23 is to identify all of the vehicles. And, so,
now
24 they're having to go back, get the paperwork and
25 restamp all of these old vehicles, especially
the
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1 farm vehicles, to make sure they're going to
2 qualify under this new security system.
3 I would like to thank the
department, the
4 highway patrol, and all of those who have worked
5 on this to get -- make sure that all of our
6 agricultural producers in the state of Florida are
7 going to qualify.
8 MR. WESTBERRY: Thank
you, Commissioner. I
9 appreciate that.
10 The liaison work that your
staff did with us
11 in pointing out this issue, helping us work with
12 the industry to resolve it, I think it was a
13 perfect example of getting everybody together, of
14 the same mindset and moving forward. Thank you.
15 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you.
16 MR. WESTBERRY: Thank
you, Governor.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Department of Law
2 Enforcement. Commissioner Tunnell. You
still
3 like your job?
4 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL:
I think the jury's
5 still out, Governor.
6 CFO GALLAGHER: Just
official recently.
7 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL:
Yes, sir. It's been
8 exciting.
9 Good morning, Governor,
Members of the
10 Cabinet, and citizens of the St. Augustine area.
11 I'm Commissioner Guy Tunnell of the Florida
12 Department of Law Enforcement.
13 Before I get started this
morning on our
14 order of business, I wanted to provide a brief
15 overview of the Florida Department of Law
16 Enforcement and the primary services which we
17 provide to our criminal justice partners and the
18 citizens and visitors of the state of Florida.
19 We are a statewide law
enforcement agency of
20 some 1900 highly dedicated men and women whose
21 primary mission is to provide public service,
22 public safety to citizens and visitors of this
23 great state. We do this through a close
24 partnership with our federal, state and local
25 criminal justice partners, and we are
primarily
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1 serving as a support arm to local law enforcement
2 in such a way as to add value to their public
3 safety mission.
4 We provide criminal
investigative services,
5 crime laboratory services, ensure domestic
6 security along with our domestic security
7 partners, provide critical criminal justice
8 information both to criminal justice customers and
9 to the public, and oversee law enforcement and
10 correctional training and standards for the state.
11 We are located in seven
regional office
12 centers across the state, stretching from Miami to
13 Pensacola, and I have visited just about every one
14 of those in the last month.
15 FDLE will have several
booths at the Agency's
16 Fair located across the street, and we certainly
17 hope that the public will take advantage of this
18 and stop by and visit with our folks.
19 I'm also proud to announce
today that FDLE
20 will formally receive our fourth reaccreditation
21 from the Commission on Law Enforcement
22 Accreditation, CALEA, a national law enforcement
23 accrediting body.
24 At this time, I would like
to call forward
25 the executive director and introduce Mr.
Sylvester
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1 Dougherty of CALEA to say a few words and to
2 recognize this occasion.
3 Mr. Daugherty.
4 GOVERNOR BUSH: Good
morning, Mr. Dougherty.
5 MR. DOUGHERTY: Good
morning, sir. Governor,
6 Members of the Cabinet, it is my pleasure to be
7 here representing the commission on accreditation
8 for law enforcement agencies. I had the pleasure
9 to appear before you in 2000 as the agency was
10 reaccredited at that time. And I bring you
11 greetings on behalf of my commission.
12 The Florida Department of
Law Enforcement
13 again has been reaccredited. They had an
on-site
14 in April where we sent some professionals that
15 were hired by the commission to your state to
16 visit the various facilities, to interview
17 personnel, to look at files, to interview citizens
18 in your state regarding the Florida Department of
19 Law Enforcement's efforts to become and maintain
20 their accredited status.
21 The team was headed by
Michael E. F. Kelly,
22 who was the commissioner of the Maine Department
23 of Public Safety. He was the team leader, had
two
24 other team members with him. And, again, they
25 were here in April. He filed a very
complimentary
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1 report regarding the Florida Department of Law
2 Enforcement. I would just like to read to you
the
3 summary of what he provided to my commission for
4 their review. He states that, "The assessment
5 team was very impressed with the professional
6 standards displayed by all members of the Florida
7 Department of Law Enforcement. Directives were
8 well conceived and articulated. The assessment
9 team was most impressed with the staff's level of
10 knowledge concerning the accreditation
11 requirements. The team was very reassertive
about
12 interacting with agent staff, personnel and
13 executive level members.
14 "The agency is diligent in
its duties and
15 committed to working with the citizens and
16 numerous public safety agencies throughout the
17 state of Florida.
18 "As a result of the team's
observations, we
19 were duly effected by the commitment of the agency
20 to the accreditation process.
21 "At the conclusion of the
exit interview, the
22 assessment team found the Florida Department of
23 Law Enforcement to be in compliance with all
24 applicable standards and evidence and commitment
25 to principles of accreditation through its
efforts
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1 to achieve compliance and increase
2 professionalism.
3 "The assessment team is in
agreement in
4 recommending that the commission reaccredit the
5 candidate agency."
6 That was filed with my
21-member commission.
7 We met in July. At that time Commissioner Moore
8 was still head of the agency. He appeared with
9 the agency at the commission meeting in July and
10 they awarded accredited status to the Florida
11 Department of Law Enforcement.
12 The Florida Department of
Law Enforcement was
13 first accredited in July of 1990. They were
14 reaccredited in '95; they were reaccredited again
15 in 2000; and now 2003. That's 13 years that
your
16 department has operated as an accredited agency
17 with the commission. They are a flagship
18 organization for us.
19 Florida, as a state, is a
leader among
20 agencies that are involved in the accreditation
21 process, CALEA, and we also work in partnership
22 with your state commission on accreditation as
23 well through an alliance.
24 So, I'm happy to be here
representing the
25 commission. I offer my congratulations
to
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1 Commissioner Tunnell, and also express my
2 appreciation for the service provided by
3 Commissioner Moore.
4 Again, thank you very
much. We're happy to
5 be here. Congratulations to the state and to the
6 department.
7 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you, Mr. Dougherty.
8 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL:
Governor and Cabinet
9 Members, if it would please you, we'd like to
10 capture this by a photograph with you all.
11 CFO GALLAGHER: Motion
of the minutes.
12 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Second.
13 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and seconded. Without
14 objection, the item passes.
15 CFO GALLAGHER:
Approval motion two.
16 GOVERNOR BUSH: Were
you finished with your
17 report?
18 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL: I was
going to get into
19 that, but if you're on a roll, go ahead.
20 CFO GALLAGHER: I
thought you were ready for
21 a picture.
22 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL:
I feel a little
23 embarrassed about accepting this today.
24 GOVERNOR BUSH: You
shouldn't.
25
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1 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL:
It's nice to get on
2 board.
3 (Taking photograph.)
4 GOVERNOR BUSH: Item
2.
5 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL:
Item 2. I'd like to
6 respectively submit for approval, FDLE's first
7 quarter performance report and our contract to
8 purchases over $100,000 for the period July 1
9 through September 30th, 2003.
10 GOVERNOR BUSH: Motion
on 2.
11 CFO GALLAGHER:
Second.
12 GOVERNOR BUSH:
There's a motion and a
13 second. Without objection, the item passes.
14 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL:
Item number 3.
15 Respectfully submit the rules for adoption in
16 Title 11 of the Florida Administrative Code. If
17 you approve these rules today, they will take
18 effect on or after November 27. I would like to
19 add that FDLE went through the requested statutory
20 notice and received no written objections,
21 comments or requests for public hearing. Each
of
22 these rules are primarily housekeeping in nature,
23 and I'm prepared to go through each of these or
24 ask questions -- answer questions, as you see fit.
25 GENERAL CRIST:
Motion.
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1 CFO GALLAGHER:
Second.
2 GOVERNOR BUSH: Any
questions?
3 Moved and seconded.
Without objection, the
4 item passes.
5 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL:
Thank you, Governor,
6 Cabinet Members. Again, in closing, I am
enjoying
7 the job. Thank you for the opportunity.
8 GENERAL CRIST:
Governor, if I may.
9 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Yes.
10 GENERAL CRIST: I just
wanted to thank the
11 commissioner. The department's very helpful
with
12 our office of Attorney General to launch any Web
13 site on identity theft. I just wanted to thank
14 you personally for your help, your help to the
15 department. It's myfloridalegal.com. This is
a
16 fast growing crime in Florida, unfortunately, but
17 with you help and the department's help, I think
18 we're going to get our hands around it and help
19 our citizens.
20 Thank you very, very
much.
21 COMMISSIONER TUNNELL:
Thank you for the
22 opportunity, General. I've had a lot of great
23 comments from across the state already about that.
24 Thank you.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: South
Florida Water
2 Management District.
3 Mr. Dean, how are you
doing?
4 MR. DEAN: Fine,
Governor. Good morning,
5 Governor, Cabinet Members, welcome to
6 St. Augustine. I'm sure you've been welcomed by
7 others before me, but a beautiful, quaint, little
8 city by the bay we call it.
9 Governor, a quick
explanation of why the
10 South Florida Water Management District is here
11 before the Cabinet today.
12 GOVERNOR BUSH: That
will be good.
13 MR. DEAN: We normally
do not come before the
14 Governor and Cabinet on a regular basis, as the
15 DEP does before the trustees, but the reason we're
16 here is we have an agreement with the DEP and with
17 the trustees that when we issue -- we have the
18 delegated authority to issue what's called
19 environmental resource permits in our regulatory
20 role for activities such as residential
21 subdivision, shopping centers, et cetera.
22 When we have an activity
that involves also
23 the need to acquire an interest in state-owned
24 land, we issue the permit, but we also come in
25 front of you as staff for approval of
that
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1 state-owned land interest.
2 In this case, the applicant
is a company
3 called WCI. They are constructing a condominium
4 development in downtown West Palm Beach on the
5 Intracoastal. We have issued an ERP permit for
6 the uplands construction of the condominium.
What
7 they are here today in front of you for is a
8 marina lease in your role as trustees to lease the
9 sovereign submerged lands adjacent to or abutting
10 their uplands property for a marina to serve the
11 unit owners of the condominium development.
12 There are no resource
issues to speak of.
13 The ERP was issued without problem. This, in
14 fact, is an old borrow pit site and it's a
15 deep-water site. An old borrow pit. It's
not
16 like there's shallow sea grass. There are no
17 environmental issues.
18 So, to get to the nub of
the issue, Governor,
19 and the real crux of the matter, what we have here
20 is a request by the applicant, Florida Marina
21 Lease, which will, if approved, have a few more
22 slips than your current rule provides, number one.
23 Number two, a much larger
area of square feet
24 than your current rule provides.
25 And, so, they're coming
before you in a
bit
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1 of a unique situation in as much as because, if
2 they do not meet the rule requirement, the staff
3 is recommending denial because the rule is not
4 met. But they are coming with a package to
5 convince you in your discretion to approve the
6 lease in your proprietary role.
7 What they're offering up are
four things:
8 They're offering up, one, a conservation easement
9 over their privately-owned submerged lands.
These
10 are privately-owned submerged lands that have been
11 conveyed out by the state at an earlier date of
12 roughly 10,000 square feet. So, they are
offering
13 up a conservation easement over this 10,000 square
14 foot area.
15 GOVERNOR BUSH: Which
is adjacent to the
16 upland?
17 MR. DEAN: Yes,
sir.
18 GOVERNOR BUSH: Henry,
if you could stop for
19 a second. Let's get a motion on the minutes
from
20 the previous meeting.
21 GENERAL CRIST:
Motion.
22 CFO GALLAGHER:
Second.
23 GOVERNOR BUSH: You
kind of went right into
24 the subject at hand here.
25 There's a motion and
second.
Without
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1 objection, item one passes.
2 Now we're on item two, which
is what you've
3 been talking about.
4 MR. DEAN: Sorry.
5 GOVERNOR BUSH: No
problem.
6 MR. DEAN: So, they
would offer up a
7 conservation easement over that 10,000 square foot
8 area.
9 GOVERNOR BUSH: Henry,
can I see if maybe we
10 can provide a little structure to this in this
11 sense.
12 MR. DEAN: Okay.
13 GOVERNOR BUSH: I
assume there's someone here
14 to speak for the applicant?
15 MR. DEAN: Yes.
There's someone for the
16 applicant. And I saw a third party, an adjacent
17 owner representative.
18 GOVERNOR BUSH: Maybe
what you could do is
19 just kind of outline what our rules are as it
20 relates to the test that exists for the granting
21 of sovereign submerged land leases, and you can
22 then describe what the applicant has proposed as
23 an effort to deal with the fact that they don't
24 comply with each element of the test.
25 MR. DEAN:
Okay.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: And
then we'll have -- we'll
2 have people come to speak, and then you can come
3 back and we can ask you fun questions.
4 MR. DEAN: I fully
expected that.
5 GOVERNOR BUSH: Does
that make sense?
6 MR. DEAN: Yes,
sir.
7 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Okay. Tell us about the
8 test.
9 MR. DEAN: Let's
discuss the test. The test,
10 first of all, in the number of slips that -- I
11 believe the rule would allow 20 slips -- Terry, is
12 that correct? -- and the applicant is
requesting
13 22.
14 The rule would provide for
16,000 square feet
15 and the --
16 GOVERNOR BUSH: The
maximum amount that --
17 MR. DEAN: The
maximum. The maximum of 16,000
18 square feet. The applicant is seeking
19 approximately 64,000 square feet.
20 I believe also, Governor,
the applicant is
21 seeking an extended term. I believe 25 years.
I
22 believe the rule calls for a five-year lease.
23 And, so, those are the key issues that we need to
24 come to grips with to determine whether this would
25 be
approved.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: So,
it's a three-part test?
2 CFO GALLAGHER: No.
There's more tests, but
3 these are the only three in disagreement.
4 MR. DEAN: Yes.
5 GOVERNOR BUSH: How
many other parts of the
6 test are they in compliance with?
7 MR. DEAN: Terry?
Terry needs to bail me out
8 here.
9 GOVERNOR BUSH: Come to
his --
10 MS. BATES: Sure.
11 MR. DEAN: This is
Terry Bates that actually
12 knows the details of this application.
13 MS. BATES: Good
morning.
14 The applicant is in
compliance with the
15 requirements relative to the conservation
16 easement. That was an outstanding issue that has
17 been resolved, although there is a third party
18 that has a concern over the conservation easement
19 that's been proposed over the riparian shoreline.
20 The issue really comes down
to those three
21 issues, the 22 slips, where the rule would allow
22 20. And the actual test is whichever one of
those
23 criteria would preempt less sovereign submerged
24 land. So, it would either be 20 slips or 16,800
25 square
feet.
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1 And in this case, the
applicant is proposing
2 22 slips. And their position, as I'm sure
they'll
3 explain, even if they reduced it to 20 slips, they
4 still would be requesting the same amount of
5 preempted area which is about 64,000 -- a little
6 over 64,000 square feet.
7 CFO GALLAGHER: So the
slips are based on the
8 number of units upland?
9 MS. BATES: Yes.
Yes. Condo unit to ratio.
10 Yes.
11 CFO GALLAGHER: So,
the existing rule
12 basically will allow units of housing, basically
13 condo units, to slips no matter how much riparian
14 rights --
15 MS. BATES: Right.
16 CFO GALLAGHER: -- are
offered? We only give
17 them 16,000, normally based on, I guess, square
18 footage of land?
19 MS. BATES:
Right. It's based on the
20 two-part test, whichever one of those criteria
21 would preempt less sovereign submerged lands.
So,
22 in this case, the real limiting factor would be
23 the 16,000 square feet.
24 GOVERNOR BUSH: In
essence, we have a test
25 that worked in the time when people bought
Boston
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1 Whalers.
2 MS. BATES:
Right. Yes. And these are very
3 large vessels. We're talking 46-feet to 100-foot
4 size vessels.
5 CFO GALLAGHER:
Right. I can see, obviously,
6 they thought they were going to get 22 slips in
7 16,000 feet -- 20 slips in 16,000 feet at one
8 time.
9 MS. BATES: Right.
10 CFO GALLAGHER: So, it
appears to me that we
11 need to look at what the real world is today.
12 MS. BATES: That's the
difference is these
13 much larger vessels for this type of development.
14 Again, what's proposed are vessels 46 feet to 100
15 feet in length. With 16,000 square feet, you
16 can't fit very many of those vessels in that
17 preempted area.
18 CFO GALLAGHER: Do you
think it's time we
19 look at this rule and maybe have you do some
20 workshops?
21 MS. BATES: I think
that's definitely an
22 issue. We're seeing this more and more with
these
23 high-end type of residential developments. The
24 size of the boats that are really being proposed
25 for these facilities are much, much larger
than
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2 CFO GALLAGHER: There
aren't a lot of places
3 for these large boats to berth and to dock.
4 MS. BATES: That's
true.
5 CFO GALLAGHER: So,
there's a tremendous,
6 you know, need for them. This is economic
7 development in Florida because these large boats
8 bring crew and they spend a lot of money.
9 MS. BATES: Yes.
10 CFO GALLAGHER: So
this is good economic
11 development for Florida in my opinion.
12 How long does it take to
get a rule like this
13 looked at?
14 Ms. Bates: Gosh, I
would estimate -- DEP,
15 maybe -- probably at least a year of rule making.
16 I hear from DEP they've already started the
17 process of looking at that issue.
18 CFO GALLAGHER: That's
probably a good thing
19 to be looking at.
20 Another question I have is
have there been --
21 now this applicant's coming forward, you know,
22 because they believe they have a good argument.
23 How many people have not been able to do something
24 like this when they were building a similar
25 facility
--
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: That's
a good question.
2 CFO GALLAGHER: -- that
basically got turned
3 down, didn't come ask us, didn't do anything, and
4 we didn't have a new rule and they sort of got
5 stuck with less slips.
6 MS. BATES: I don't
know the answer to that
7 question.
8 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Secretary Struhs, you may
9 want to come up here.
10 MS. BATES: We had the
Water Management
11 District permit a couple other facilities in Fort
12 Lauderdale for these very large, 100-foot ships,
13 and that was a major issue for them is having
14 slips for those larger vessels. In that case,
the
15 condo facility was much larger. They were
allowed
16 a larger preempted area and were able to fit in
17 what they were looking for. But more and more,
18 especially in the lower east coast, those large
19 boats are finding very limited dockage space.
So,
20 that is an issue.
21 CFO GALLAGHER: Well,
if we all agreed that
22 we need to have slips for larger boats, and we're
23 working on the rule, if there's some in the works,
24 we need to look at those and not just, you know,
25 somebody that's willing to come to the
Cabinet
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1 gets it and those that don't, don't. Somehow or
2 another we need -- do you have some knowledge on
3 that?
4 MR. STRUHS: David
Struhs, secretary of the
5 Florida DEP. Thank you.
6 It is a trend. We are
going to see this
7 issue arise more and more, I think, until the
8 rules are modernized, recognizing that the vessels
9 of today are larger than they were even ten years
10 ago. So, I think it's something that we are
11 beginning to review and I think with your
12 direction, Treasurer Gallagher, we will accelerate
13 our pace reviewing those rules.
14 One of the things that
makes this proposal a
15 little bit different than some of the others is
16 this one is exclusively an ownership-oriented kind
17 of facility.
18 GOVERNOR BUSH: No
public spaces?
19 MR. STRUHS: In the
past we've seen similar
20 problem with the larger boats bumping up against
21 the limits in terms of our rules. In those
22 instances they were what we call hybrid
23 facilities. Some of it was an ownership
interest
24 and some of it was public. That's one of the
25 things that does distinguish this application
from
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1 others we've seen.
2 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Governor, I had a
3 question myself, or two. The two questions I
4 would have about this issue, number one, is even
5 if we extended and gave the square footage and the
6 extra two slips, does that in any way diminish any
7 of the rules and regulations on the use of those
8 boats in that area -- ships, if you will -- in
9 that area, as it concerns either manatee
10 protection, clean-water protection, any of the
11 issues of DEP that would be affected in that?
12 MR. DEAN: No,
sir.
13 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Okay. So they have to
14 maintain -- whether they drive a Boston Whaler or
15 a 150-foot boat, they're going to have to meet the
16 same criteria.
17 Now, does it --
18 GOVERNOR BUSH: It
wouldn't be cited if it
19 was in a manatee protection area or if it had some
20 sea grass that would be impacted. This is not a
21 resource issue.
22 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Right. Okay. That's
23 what I was getting at. There's nothing --
24 nothing, if we allowed it, that would preempt any
25 of our other protections that we
have?
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1 MR. DEAN: No.
2 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
The second issue would
3 be has -- and I'm not sure of this. Seems like I
4 remember we did one not quite like this, but
5 similar, on some public-interest issues of
6 dockage. But hasn't the Cabinet already done a
7 couple of issues that basically has allowed
8 exemptions for dockage issues?
9 MS. BATES: I would
have to look to the
10 department for some history. I don't have that
11 history myself.
12 GOVERNOR BUSH: We
have issues of sovereign
13 submerged land leases where the test was not
14 completely met, but there were mitigating --
15 mitigation done by the applicant as well.
16 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
My point was I wanted
17 to make sure we're not doing something for the
18 first time here, this has actually been done
19 before, but at a much smaller level than we've
20 talked about.
21 CFO GALLAGHER: One of
the things that we've
22 done is extend docks. When you get on the
23 St. Johns River and other places, you got to go
24 out 40 feet before you get to 3 feet of water.
25 People want to put their docks in, they've
gotten
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1 extensions 150 feet out. So they weren't going
to
2 be in the waterway. We've allowed them to do
that
3 so they can put some kind of boat that drew more
4 than 6 inches. We've done a lot of those.
5 They've had pretty good argument and it hasn't
6 hurt the sea grasses or anything and we've allowed
7 it to happen. Actually, some of them there was
8 some sea grasses. But this one doesn't have any
9 sea grasses.
10 GENERAL CRIST: I'd be
curious. The current
11 rules, the current parameters that we're looking
12 at, how long it have they been in place, 16,000
13 square feet?
14 GOVERNOR BUSH: So
long they don't know.
15 CFO GALLAGHER: So
long it's the gray-haired
16 guy has to tell.
17 MR. DEAN: We revised
them in '83 when I was
18 trustee.
19 MR. STRUHS: They were
probably last revised
20 in the mid to late 1980s. About 20 years ago.
21 GOVERNOR BUSH: Can we
have the applicant
22 come, unless there's other questions.
23 MR. DEAN: Jake Varn's
here representing the
24 applicant, Governor.
25 MR. VARN: Good
morning, Governor, Members
of
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1 the Cabinet. My name is Jake Varn. I'm with
the
2 Fowler and White law firm. I represent WCI.
I'd
3 like to kind of walk through the points with you
4 and, hopefully -- I got a draft here that might
5 show you what the picture is down there.
6 First off, from an
environmental standpoint,
7 there are no environmental issues. What is
before
8 you are simply the issues of your criteria under a
9 lease.
10 As Mr. Dean has said, we
have provided him
11 with a satisfactory conservation easement which
12 will prevent us from building anymore
13 water-dependent structures on this piece of
14 property.
15 This is the property.
It's a condominium.
16 This is the northern boundary, and the marina will
17 be built out here is the green area. And we
have
18 provided a conservation easement around the
19 property from this point to here to here to here.
20 There's a seawall that is here. We actually own
21 submerged lands out here. And the marina will
22 extend out here and is offset 25 feet from the
23 property line. What we're seeking is
24 authorization to construct the marina out here.
25 Thank you,
David.
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1 CFO GALLAGHER: Jake,
let me ask you a
2 question.
3 MR. VARN: Yes.
4 CFO GALLAGHER: On
where the conservation
5 easement is, right now your client owns that
6 submerged land?
7 MR. VARN: Yes,
sir.
8 CFO GALLAGHER: Are you
turning that over to
9 the state?
10 MR. VARN: It will be
-- and I will get to
11 that. We are putting a conservation easement on
12 that as well.
13 CFO GALLAGHER: I
understand that. Is that
14 so you don't have to rent it from us?
15 MR. VARN: We
can't. We can't convey it to
16 you now, and I will explain that and what we're
17 going to do about that. We -- because we got
some
18 local requirements that won't let us deed it to
19 you. We would love to deed it to you if we can
20 get cooperation from three different groups to do
21 it, including the city of West Palm Beach.
22 Let me pick these off one
at a time.
23 Relative to the term, we initially requested 25
24 years. We have -- we know of instances in the
25 past where the trustees have done that for
others.
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1 But at this point, to cut to the bottom line, we
2 would be content to get a five-year term and two
3 automatic renewals of five years so long as we
4 remain in compliance, which is something you've
5 done in the past so that -- to deal with that
6 issue.
7 As to the number of
slips. We have requested
8 22. And there was a formula developed in my
9 recollection. I say that formula was developed
10 back in the early 1980s. What it does is you
give
11 one slip for your first six units. You get a
half
12 a slip for your next eight units, and then you get
13 a third of a slip for this amount, da, da, da, da.
14 I would tell you that's
arbitrary. And if
15 they would just change the first number two
16 higher, we'd be in compliance.
17 GOVERNOR BUSH: Those
are the rules.
18 MR. VARN: But those
are the rules we're
19 stuck with. Exactly.
20 GOVERNOR BUSH: It's
not arbitrary. It
21 exists.
22 MR. VARN: You're
exactly right.
23 GOVERNOR BUSH: And
everybody plays by those
24 rules.
25 MR. VARN: That's
right.
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1 Those are the rules that
were set.
2 We have 20 and we have asked
for 22. The
3 reason we've asked for 22 as opposed to 20 is we
4 will have the same amount of preempted area. So,
5 even if we had 20 slips in there, we would still
6 be using the same amount of preempted area.
7 Now, the preempted area is
based on a
8 formula. You take the number of feet of frontage
9 you have there -- in our case it's about 275 feet
10 if I remember correctly -- and you multiply by 40,
11 and you do that math and you come out with a
12 calculation -- well, it comes out to 16,000 feet
13 -- square feet is the number it came out, so it
14 must be longer than 275. If you think about
that,
15 if we have 16,000 square feet in front of this
16 piece of property, I can tell you we could put two
17 110 boats -- two 110-foot long boats there. We
18 could get two slips there because we are planning
19 on boats as large as 210. Now, if we put some
65s
20 in there, we could put four 65s in there.
21 GOVERNOR BUSH: How
many boats are 210 feet
22 long?
23 MR. VARN: 110.
Two 110.
24 GOVERNOR BUSH: I
misunderstood you. U. S.
25
Navy.
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1 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Coast Guard.
2 MR. VARN: Not
quite.
3 But we anticipate that
there's a market down
4 there for boats up to 110 feet. Our smaller
boats
5 are 65 feet. If we had to live within that, we
6 could get maximum four slips in there, or two in
7 there in the worse case scenario.
8 GOVERNOR BUSH: Tell us
about the lack of
9 public access, which is another -- not a
10 requirement, but something that has been -- since
11 I've been Governor, we've negotiated these where
12 there's been public slips as well.
13 MR. VARN: In this
case --
14 GOVERNOR BUSH: These
are sovereign submerged
15 lands. These are people's lands.
16 MR. VARN: This is
correct.
17 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Normally there's some -- you
18 know, show us something for the effort here.
19 MR. VARN: What
happened here -- in our case,
20 this is going to be for the owners of the condos
21 only. The public will not have access to these
22 slips.
23 And that's the reason I
believe in your
24 rules, that if it were open to the public, they
25 can get -- they aren't -- they don't have to
meet
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1 these same limitations that --
2 GOVERNOR BUSH: Are you
leasing these?
3 CFO GALLAGHER: Selling
them.
4 MR. VARN: We will be
--
5 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Selling.
6 MR. VARN: --
essentially subleasing. Just
7 like a condo. For the term -- for as long as we
8 have a lease. Legally they're subleased because
9 we are getting a lease from the state.
10 GOVERNOR BUSH: You
don't own these.
11 MR. VARN: We don't
own them. All we can do
12 is give a sublease, for which the state will get a
13 percentage of the sale price under the rule.
14 GOVERNOR BUSH: The
lease price? We get a
15 percentage of the lease price?
16 MR. VARN: The lease
price -- the sublease
17 price.
18 CFO GALLAGHER:
Selling the right to lease
19 it.
20 MR. VARN: I will tell
you that if you look
21 at some of the aerial photographs you've been
22 provided, this marina, in terms of the number of
23 slips, has less slips than many of the marinas in
24 the area. It is smaller in size than the other
25 marinas in the area. And, so, from
that
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1 standpoint, the size of it, the number of slips
2 and all, but the other slips, the difference is
3 they are open to the public. And, so, that's why
4 they don't have to be bound by the same rules that
5 we are.
6 CFO GALLAGHER: You're
telling me you all
7 want to put behind this condominium docks that
8 were open to the public, what's the limit?
9 MR. VARN: If they were
open to the public?
10 CFO GALLAGHER:
Yes.
11 MR. VARN: There
wouldn't be any limit.
12 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
They're not open to
13 the public.
14 CFO GALLAGHER: There
wouldn't be any limit
15 with 64,000 feet, or be more than 64,000 feet?
16 MR. VARN: There would
be no limitation on
17 the number of slips that we could put in there as
18 to whatever the lease area that we could get from
19 the Governor and Cabinet.
20 Now, in this case, one of
the constraints
21 that you have is that you can't put a marina
22 within 100 feet of the center line of the
23 Intracoastal Waterway, so that becomes a
24 constraint as to how far out you can go. And
25 you've also got constraints that you can't
--
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1 you're suppose to have a 25-foot setback on both
2 sides. So, that gives you a maximum amount of
3 area that you can preempt. Now, how many slips
4 you put in there? That all depends on how many
5 you want to put in there. If this were open to
6 the public, or if a certain percentage of it -- I
7 forget what the percentage is -- but the rules
8 also have a percentage. If X percentage of these
9 were open to the public, there would be no
10 limitation on how many slips you could put in.
11 The rules are just different when they're open to
12 the public as opposed to the private sector when
13 they're ownership oriented. That's what we're
up
14 against here.
15 We have in this case,
because we know there's
16 a public-interest issue, in trying -- we don't
17 think building this marina is going to affect the
18 public in any way in terms of ability to navigate
19 and all. But in case someone has that concern,
20 clearly, we don't have any type of environmental
21 impact.
22 But what we have provided
is that we have
23 said that we would do donate an island over on the
24 west coast, called Little Joshua Island, that was
25 identified, which is about 25 acres. It's on
two
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1 different land acquisition lists. It is not only
2 on the state list for acquisition, it's on the
3 federal list for acquisition. So we said
4 certainly the environmental benefits and the
5 access the public would have to that 25 -- 25
6 acres would certainly offset that. Now, clearly,
7 it's on the other coast, a little remote from Palm
8 Beach County. So, as a result of that, there was
9 some land area that the district was interested in
10 up at Jonathan Dickinson Park, about 16 acres, and
11 it was a missing gap up there that they wanted
12 that would improve their access up there, and so
13 we're donating both of those parcels to make this
14 deal go forward. It's to overcome the
15 public-interest aspect to make this truly in the
16 public interest, and try to show -- even though we
17 don't think we'll have that many adverse impact,
18 here's some very positive things about this
19 proposal that we're doing.
20 CFO GALLAGHER: So,
Little Joshua Island is
21 in it?
22 MR. VARN: Little
Joshua Island is in it, and
23 so is the 15 acres of Jonathan Park. You should
24 have photographs.
25 Little Joshua Island is
just a
beautiful
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1 piece of property over there on the west coast of
2 Florida.
3 Now, we have also said
--
4 CFO GALLAGHER: Are you
transferring fee
5 simple to the state?
6 MR. VARN: Yes,
sir.
7 And we wanted to transfer
that 10,000 acres
8 of submerged land in front of our property. The
9 problem is that we have to overcome three
10 obstacles: The city of West Palm Beach says
that
11 if we divide that piece of property, it
12 constitutes a subdivision and they won't let us
13 subdivide the property. We are willing to make
a
14 good-faith effort -- we tried when we started
15 this, because we didn't want it to be part of the
16 condominium and they wouldn't let us. They said
17 it's a subdivision and you don't get our
18 subdivision requirements. We will make
good-faith
19 efforts to go back to the city to try to get them
20 to change their mind. And we wish that the
Water
21 Management District and the trustees would assist
22 us in that because I think that would put a little
23 more pressure on the city.
24 GOVERNOR BUSH: Mr.
Varn, why would they not
25 be interested? As Treasurer Gallagher says
that
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2 benefits the city of West Palm, it has that
3 benefit, why wouldn't they want to accommodate
4 you, and why should we want to, therefore,
5 accommodate you if they don't?
6 MR. VARN: I can't
explain why they wouldn't
7 want those lands in public ownership. I mean,
8 that just defines logic to me. Why wouldn't you
9 want those submerged lands in public ownership?
10 CFO GALLAGHER: I
think they looked at it as
11 subdividing as opposed to giving it to the public.
12 So, they get some legal opinion. I think once
13 you've done it, the condominium association wants
14 to donate it to the state, they can go get
15 permission to do it is my opinion.
16 MR. VARN: Well, what
we've agreed to do is,
17 if we can get the condominium association to agree
18 to it, and the marine association, if required,
19 and the city to agree to it, then we will donate
20 it to the state. We will see to it that it's
21 donated to the state. Certainly, I think that
22 land ought to belong to state ownership. It's
23 submerged lands. And for some reason it got out
24 of sovereign ownership, into private ownership,
25 and it ought to go back
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: Why
can't we just make that
2 -- why can't we defer this item and let you go do
3 that?
4 MR. VARN: What happens
--
5 GOVERNOR BUSH: Why
should we -- go ahead.
6 MR. VARN: What happens
if the city jerks me
7 around and says no?
8 GOVERNOR BUSH: Why
would they? I'm missing
9 the point of why. Is there something else here
10 that --
11 MR. VARN: Why didn't
they do it the first
12 time we asked them to? I mean, I don't
understand
13 that.
14 GOVERNOR BUSH: I
asked the question first.
15 It's your turn to answer it. I don't know what
16 the answer is.
17 MR. VARN: I wasn't
there and I didn't -- all
18 I know is when this project started, that's the
19 way they wanted to do it and the city told them
20 no, they couldn't do it that way. And, so, they
21 said, "Okay. We'll do the condominium this
way."
22 And as a result, we've ended up in this
23 predicament. It doesn't make sense to me
either,
24 Governor. But I -- it doesn't make -- somebody
is
25 reading the rule hard and fast as opposed to
see
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1 what you're really trying to accomplish with it in
2 my opinion.
3 CFO GALLAGHER: They're
getting the same
4 place by doing the conservation easement and
5 turning it over to us. I think once all that's
6 done, the city will probably say fine and let us
7 have it.
8 The only reason that I can
imagine the city
9 wouldn't want to do it -- and we're talking
10 pennies -- would be the tax.
11 MR. VARN: But what's
submerged lands worth?
12 CFO GALLAGHER: That's
what I'm saying. It's
13 got to be pennies.
14 GOVERNOR BUSH: I
don't know. You build this
15 marina, and you're leasing it on the economic
16 value of the marina with the rents you're going to
17 be getting, I would imagine --
18 CFO GALLAGHER:
They're going to sell them.
19 MR. VARN: We're going
to put a conservation
20 easement on it.
21 I would tell you, having
talked to some
22 people in Palm Beach County about submerged lands,
23 that they are delusionary in terms of what they
24 think the value of it is worth. They have this
--
25 in connection with the project, we talked to
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1 number of people, like for five acres, and they
2 were saying they wanted $250,000 an acre for the
3 stuff, you know. We're saying, "That's crazy.
4 You can do nothing with it." But that's the
5 mindset down there.
6 GOVERNOR BUSH: Talk to
us about the term of
7 the lease.
8 MR. VARN: The term of
the lease, as I said,
9 we initially asked for 25. We have said if we
can
10 get five -- a five-year lease with two automatic
11 renewals, if we are in compliance -- we have to
12 remain in compliance at the time of the renewal --
13 which is something that typically takes place
14 anyway -- we can live that -- because that gives
15 us the assurance -- because we know we're going to
16 be in compliance. That will give us a 15-year
17 term. And, so, from a financial standpoint,
18 that's going to help us with marketing the slips,
19 which is what this is all about.
20 GOVERNOR BUSH: What
will be the compliance
21 issues?
22 MR. VARN: Well, I
mean, technically, if
23 somebody -- I mean, if somebody -- I'm not sure if
24 "live-aboards" are going to be allowed here or
25 not, for example. If somebody put in
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1 "live-aboard." Or they put in a boat that
extends
2 beyond the preempted areas. There's a whole
3 variety of terms and conditions.
4 You know, if you got
120-foot slip, boats in
5 110-foot slip, that's not going to work. That
6 would be a violation. We're not going to have
it.
7 They're going to have a dockmaster there, make
8 sure that all those things are in compliance.
9 In the history, as best I
can tell history --
10 CFO GALLAGHER: They
got -- they got some
11 boats sitting there start pumping out stuff they
12 shouldn't and all those kinds of things, it could
13 be an environmental problem. That would be
14 breaking a lease and they could lose their lease
15 that way.
16 MR. VARN: If they
were to dump into the
17 water and not use these pump-out facilities.
18 GOVERNOR BUSH: Sorry
for interpreting you.
19 Are you --
20 MR. VARN: The last
point I would make,
21 because I know Mr. Ward is coming up here.
22 Mr. Ward has a concern about the language that the
23 state has in its conservation easement, thinking
24 that they own the property to the north of us,
25 then that language is going to adversely
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1 him. I tried to explain to him that it doesn't.
2 I talked with Mr. Vielhauer, the trustee's lawyer.
3 He agrees with me.
4 The language that we put in
there helps his
5 property. We say we're not going to interfere
6 with his property. The conservation easement is
7 drafted with that intention. But somehow he's
8 reached a legal conclusion that it adversely
9 effects the property. I've tried to write a
10 letter explaining to him that we do not intend to
11 adversely effect his property. We have no
12 intention of interfering with their riparian
13 rights. What we've proposed here does not
14 interfere with it.
15 And, frankly, this
conservation easement is
16 between my client and the trustees and does not
17 effect them in any way. So, I'm just
anticipating
18 what Gerry's going to say because we've talked
19 about this and some reason --
20 GOVERNOR BUSH: Let
him say it.
21 MR. VARN: -- we
respectfully disagree.
22 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you sir.
23 MR. DEAN: Governor,
the next speaker is
24 Gerry Ward representing the Rosarian Academy.
25 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Representing -- I'm sorry
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2 MR. DEAN: The Rosarian
Academy.
3 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Oh. Okay.
4 MR. WARD: Good
morning. Pleasant to be in
5 St. Augustine for a change versus Tallahassee.
6 I'm Gerry Ward, 31 West 20th
Street, Riviera
7 Beach in Palm Beach County, here in support of the
8 waterfront Rosarian Academy, a more than
9 three-quarters of a century church-school serving
10 the lower level grades. They are the adjacent
11 north riparian owner.
12 The applicant here has
significantly revised
13 the project over the past three plus years,
14 particularly as to the form of authorization.
Our
15 concerns relating to setbacks in earlier editions
16 were resolved this year when the form of
17 authorization request was changed.
18 Unfortunately, only last
week the
19 rule-required conservation easement language was
20 proposed by the applicant.
21 Rosarian has difficulties
with a phrase in
22 Paragraph 1 which resulted, as Jake has said, from
23 the standard conservation easement language.
But
24 this is applying, not to riparian shorelines, but
25 part of the language wraps around both sides
of
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1 the property by watermark and includes
2 non-riparian shoreline. That requires some
3 modification of the language.
4 It's not just Gerry
Ward. It's -- the
5 Rosarian Academy has one of the best real estate
6 lawyers I know who has written a letter, and your
7 staff has received it, expressing concern over
8 that language.
9 We really just suggest you
give direction.
10 We're not looking for you to -- as we listened to
11 the slip numbers and the preempted area and the
12 term of the lease questions. This is a
relatively
13 minor language change. I think you can just
give
14 direction that the easement be clarified to make
15 it very clear that the adjacent submerged lands
16 are not applicable in relation to non-riparian
17 shorelines, which is the area adjacent to the
18 Rosarian Academy riparian line.
19 CFO GALLAGHER: Can I
ask you a question?
20 MR. WARD: Yes,
please.
21 CFO GALLAGHER: Have
the -- is this the only
22 Channel 5 property?
23 MR. WARD: Yes,
sir.
24 CFO GALLAGHER: And
then you have -- it sort
25 of goes in from that -- I guess it was fill at
one
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1 time, and then it goes out to, I think, which is
2 the yacht club dock.
3 MR. WARD: That's the
Palm Beach Yacht Club,
4 which is even more historic than the Rosarian.
5 CFO GALLAGHER: You're
between the two; is
6 that right?
7 MR. WARD: Yes,
sir.
8 CFO GALLAGHER: How far
out are you?
9 MR. WARD: Well, our
shoreline is back at
10 the --
11 CFO GALLAGHER: I know
that. I mean, how far
12 out do you own?
13 MR. WARD: We own
nothing. We have riparian
14 interest.
15 The problem is that the
language, because
16 it's been taken as a standard language for
17 riparian shorelines and wrapped around the
18 watermark property to non-riparian shorelines,
19 says in Paragraph 1, it applies to, "...or the
20 adjacent submerged lands." That's an unbounded
21 term.
22 Our attorney, Larry
Alexander, would like to
23 see just a very simple word change to say it
24 applies only to the riparian adjacent submerged
25 lands, which would include this parcel that
Jake
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2 Palm Beach to do it.
3 They have a problem, I
think, as you've
4 scoped out, in subdivision law and changing major
5 condominium in our town.
6 CFO GALLAGHER:
Personally, I don't know why
7 we wouldn't change that unless somebody can tell
8 us.
9 MR. WARD: Thank
you.
10 CFO GALLAGHER: Can
somebody please give us a
11 reason why we would not change this other than
12 it's in all of them?
13 MR. VIELHAUER: Bud
Vielhauer, deputy general
14 counsel for public lands.
15 GOVERNOR BUSH: Say it
again, please.
16 MR. VIELHAUER:
Vielhauer, deputy general
17 counsel for public lands.
18 It is a portion of our
formula, and it is
19 required under our form that -- here, the reason
20 why we have done it, and why we're asking for
21 something a little different, and why we don't
22 want to just limit it to the riparian lands is
23 because the shoreline that was used to calculate
24 the number of square footage also includes the
25 land or the shoreline that goes to the
north.
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1 That does not have -- WCI
does not have any
2 -- does not have any riparian rights going to the
3 north. But they did use this shoreline as
portion
4 -- as a portion of the shoreline to calculate that
5 square footage. That's why we are asking for
them
6 to include that as some portion of the
7 conservation easement.
8 CFO GALLAGHER:
Understand something.
9 Rosarian believes that that shoreline is one they
10 should be able to use because they're the upland.
11 MR. VIELHAUER: And
they can. There's
12 nothing in this conservation easement that
13 prevents them from doing anything on their land
14 that does not affect their riparian rights.
15 GOVERNOR BUSH: Can't
you give them comfort
16 language --
17 CFO GALLAGHER: Same
dock.
18 GOVERNOR BUSH: --
just to be able to
19 clarify?
20 MR. VIELHAUER: We can
probably put some
21 comfort language in there, but not the comfort
22 language that they're suggesting, which is only
23 the riparian rights -- the land with the riparian
24 rights or the riparian line of WCI because then we
25 wouldn't be getting conservation over this
portion
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1 of it. We would only be limiting it to this
2 portion here, which is where their docks are.
3 Yet, we've already gone ahead and given this
4 square footage or used this shoreline as the
5 square foot or to calculate the square footage.
6 CFO GALLAGHER: Who
owns the shoreline that's
7 sitting north?
8 MR. VARN: This?
9 CFO GALLAGHER:
Right.
10 MR. VIELHAUER: WCI
does.
11 MR. VARN: WCI
does.
12 CFO GALLAGHER: You
guys want to take
13 advantage of their shoreline?
14 MR. WARD: No,
sir.
15 CFO GALLAGHER: You
don't?
16 MR. WARD: We merely
do not want to have in
17 -- the term adjacent submerged lands encumbered in
18 front of the Rosarian.
19 GOVERNOR BUSH: It
doesn't look like this is
20 too complicated.
21 CFO GALLAGHER: It can
be worked out. What
22 you need to do is just make sure that that doesn't
23 -- this does not encumber the land.
24 MR. VIELHAUER: We can
add some language --
25 comfort language that says that it in no
way
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1 affects of the riparian line if anybody came in.
2 MR. WARD: We would be
happy also, and
3 Rosarian.
4 MR. VARN: I agree with
both of them.
5 Whatever makes them happy, I'm happy with.
6 CFO GALLAGHER: Let me
make this motion. If,
7 in fact, this gets approved, that that language
8 will be changed to make everybody comfortable.
9 MR. VIELHAUER: We can
do that.
10 GOVERNOR BUSH: We'll
do the motion.
11 CFO GALLAGHER: If we
make a motion.
12 GOVERNOR BUSH: Mr.
Varn, can you come back
13 for another question.
14 MR. VARN: Yes,
sir.
15 GOVERNOR BUSH: I'm
interested to know how,
16 how you all calculate your subleases to these
17 lucky condo owners that are going to be able to
18 put their big boats in there. Market rates?
Have
19 you factored in the price?
20 MR. VARN: It's
market. They do marketing
21 studies to determine what a slip like that's
22 worth.
23 GOVERNOR BUSH: You're
not putting it into
24 the price of the condominium --
25 MR. VARN: No,
sir.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: -- and
lowering the value of
2 the lease?
3 MR. VARN: No, sir.
4 GOVERNOR BUSH: Adding
out the operating
5 expenses of the upland condominium association or
6 security or whatever?
7 MR. VARN: No. The
condos have already been
8 sold. I think at this point -- last time I had
9 count, 44, I think, of the 48 have already been
10 sold. There was no representations made to
them.
11 We just simply said, "These are going to be
12 available to whoever wanted to acquire them."
So,
13 who owns those or who has those subleases are
14 going to be confined to the 48. But we've got a
15 very small market. That's the other side of the
16 equation. We only have 48 people that we could
17 possibly sell those to.
18 GOVERNOR BUSH: They
can't sublease it?
19 MR. VARN: No. They
have to be an owner.
20 They have to be an owner. Because we put
21 restrictions in there that the lease -- that the
22 subleases have to be held by people who own
23 condos.
24 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Okay. Any other questions?
25 CFO GALLAGHER: I have
one.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: Yes,
Treasurer.
2 CFO GALLAGHER: Lease
rates --
3 MR. VARN: Yes.
4 CFO GALLAGHER: --
normally are based on the
5 square footage that you're leasing from us in
6 submerged lands or a percentage of the income
7 made, whichever is higher?
8 MR. VARN:
Correct. 6 percent.
9 GOVERNOR BUSH: That's
why I asked the
10 question.
11 CFO GALLAGHER: You
sell these slips, we get
12 6 percent --
13 MR. VARN: Yes,
sir.
14 CFO GALLAGHER: -- of what
you sell them for?
15 MR. VARN: Yes,
sir.
16 CFO GALLAGHER: Or
higher, if you want to pay
17 us?
18 MR. VARN: Let me tell
you the question that
19 everybody wonders about that has not been clearly
20 addressed as you're looking at the rules, and we
21 have been very upfront about this. Let's just
say
22 Mr. A subleases slip one and pays for that
23 sublease. At that point in time, you will get,
24 you know, 6 percent minus whatever, whatever the
25 preempted area is, times 12 point
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1 percent, cents per square foot. Okay. What
2 happened though when Mr. A sells condo and also
3 wants to make his sublease sell it to somebody
4 else? That's another transaction. The $64
5 question is, Does the state get 6 percent of that
6 transaction?
7 CFO GALLAGHER: We
would if we still own the
8 submerged lands.
9 MR. VARN: I
understand. I'm just saying
10 your rules are not imminently clear on that.
11 We have said from our
standpoint we don't
12 have a problem, but you need uniformity in terms
13 of the way you apply the rule. I think if you
14 talk to anybody on the department staff, that has
15 been the subject of a lot of debate as to whether
16 or not when that sublease gets turned over,
17 whether or not you are entitled to another 6
18 percent.
19 CFO GALLAGHER: I
think we can clarify it in
20 whatever deal we make with you all.
21 MR. VARN: I think you
can clarify it in your
22 motion. Yes, sir. I think you could.
23 CFO GALLAGHER: And I
think that will be part
24 of the rule updating that needs to be done so that
25 we don't lose the money that we should be
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: Again,
the other element of
2 this is not just the percentage, but the
3 definition of what the sublease -- what's the 100
4 percent -- what's the annual rent that these folks
5 will be paying? And can you suppress that number
6 and get it back through condominium association
7 fees, same people, or there's other ways.
8 I mean, we've had this
problem in the past
9 where entrepreneur -- entrepreneurial folks figure
10 out a way to --
11 MR. VARN: To get
around the rule.
12 GOVERNOR BUSH: -- get
around the rule.
13 MR. VARN: This system
won't. I mean, if you
14 -- what you're talking about doing won't get
15 around the rule because every time that sublease
16 turns over, that's a transaction and you'll get
17 the 6 percent on that. There's no way to get
18 around that.
19 CFO GALLAGHER: Must
you be a condominium
20 owner to buy a slip?
21 MR. VARN: Yes.
But remember, there's only
22 22 slips and 48 condo owners.
23 CFO GALLAGHER: Is
there an auction or what?
24 MR. VARN: Well, I'm
not in the marketing
25 part of this. I'm just trying to help them get
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though
2 when they get ready to do it.
3 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Okay. Any other discussion?
4 Would you like to close, Mr.
Dean?
5 MR. DEAN: Again, based
on the proposal, that
6 the applicant has brought to you, including the
7 conservation easement over the 10,000 square feet,
8 the parcels of land that they would convey to the
9 state, in my opinion this meets the test to not be
10 contrary to public interest, and notwithstanding
11 the fact that if they do not comply specifically
12 with your rules, that I think that they meet a
13 test where you have to have the discretion to
14 approve this lease under the terms that they
15 presented.
16 So, personally, I would be
comfortable with
17 an approval as outlined by the presentation just
18 made recognizing -- and I go back to your
19 discussion -- all of you zeroed in on a critical
20 point here in my opinion. These rules need to
be
21 reviewed, reanalyzed and meet today's real world.
22 And if I may offer one
gratuitous
23 recommendation, Governor. As an old, former
24 lawyer for the trustees 20 years ago -- Tom may
25 remember that -- I would recommend you not,
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1 not -- as trustees, remember you're proprietary,
2 not regulatory role -- and I would keep that door
3 kind of as wide as possible. There's going to
be,
4 I can guarantee you, unique situations in time, in
5 the future none of us can think of today.
6 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Absolutely.
7 MR. DEAN: The future
changes. As trustees
8 of sovereign lands, you have one litmus test,
9 What's best for the resource and best for the
10 people.
11 GOVERNOR BUSH: But I
think it's appropriate,
12 Henry, that we also give guidance to negotiate
13 this in a way that represents the people's
14 interest.
15 And I would also agree with
you, that this is
16 a unique circumstance and, therefore, it's not
17 creating precedent.
18 MR. DEAN: Those are
my closing remarks,
19 Governor, unless there's questions.
20 GOVERNOR BUSH: Any
other discussion?
21 CFO GALLAGHER: In
regards to what you said
22 about unique, not creating a precedent. Because
23 of the way this is, I think this should be
24 something that the rule writers and "relook-aters"
25 consider when they write it so that for the
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1 should be somewhat a precedent to realize that we
2 need to modernize the rule in issues like this.
3 It sort of is a rule
precedent if not an
4 individual come-in precedent.
5 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Commissioner Bronson?
6 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Governor, I would like
7 to offer a motion, and if it meets the approval of
8 the board, or if it needs to be changed, we can
9 work on that. It might supply the needed
language
10 that everyone seems to have been talking about
11 here. I move that we approve the WCI CFC
12 application for lease authorizing a 22-slip marina
13 that will preempt approximately 64,027 square feet
14 of sovereign submerged land. In addition, the
15 term of the initial lease shall be five years.
16 And in the event the lessee is in full compliance
17 with the terms of the lease, and the lessor shall
18 automatically renew the lease for two additional
19 five-year terms. As a special condition of the
20 lease prior to renewal, the lessee will make every
21 effort to work with the local government to
22 provide the state of Florida with title to 10,000
23 square feet of submerged land and will report back
24 to the board upon renewal. In addition, the
25 language agreed upon on the submerged land,
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3 CFO GALLAGHER: I would
like to add one thing
4 if I may before you go with this. The state will
5 receive its 6 percent, or whatever the rule calls
6 for, as rules do change, on all resales and
7 subleases.
8 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
And I agree to that
9 addition to my motion.
10 GOVERNOR BUSH: Do we
have to amend the
11 motion, anything --
12 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
I thought that was in
13 the original written offer about the transfer of
14 lands.
15 MR. DEAN: Yes,
sir. As part of the
16 application.
17 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Okay. There's an extended
18 motion.
19 Is there a second?
20 GENERAL CRIST:
Second.
21 GOVERNOR BUSH: Mr.
Dean, we need three votes
22 to make this work; is that correct?
23 MR. DEAN: Yes,
sir.
24 GOVERNOR BUSH:
Okay. All in favor, say aye.
25 All opposed? The motion carries forward.
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: Board
of Trustees.
2 MR. STRUHS: Good
morning. I'm David Struhs,
3 Department of Environmental Protection.
4 By way of introduction for
the department, we
5 have a role in dealing with these proprietary
6 interests, the real estate interests of the state
7 of Florida on behalf of this Board of Trustees,
8 the Cabinet, and we also have a regulatory
9 responsibility as an executive branch agency
10 working for the Governor.
11 What I'd like to do is
speak just very
12 quickly about some of the highlights of what
13 Florida has accomplished these last few years in
14 terms of making the air cleaner and safer, the
15 water more reliable, and the land cleaner, and
16 companies better regulated and more intelligently
17 regulated.
18 Over the last four years,
Governor, we have
19 achieved the largest reduction of air pollution in
20 Florida's history. We have worked with a number
21 of leading companies and institutions in Florida,
22 including NASA and Walt Disney World, to launch
23 electronic recording systems to lower costs.
24 We've worked with NASA, Walt Disney World,
25 farmers, ranchers, to come up with a whole
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1 approach to environmental regulation. We call it
2 more protection and less process.
3 It has long been
conventional thinking that
4 if you want to improve environmental protection,
5 you have to add more process.
6 I think what we've been able
to prove in
7 Florida is, in fact, sometimes just the opposite
8 is true. If you can eliminate the regulatory
9 underbrush and make the rules clear and
10 transparent and concise, you can actually improve
11 environmental performance, and that's what we've
12 attempted to do in Florida. And that's why the
13 air is cleaner, the water's better protected, and
14 the cost of regulation has been reduced.
15 As it relates to our
proprietary interest,
16 land management interests, Florida state parks
17 were voted the best state parks in America by the
18 National Parks and Recreational Council. Over
the
19 last four years, the visitation to Florida state
20 parks has grown by more than four million a year.
21 In fact, later this week we will be announcing
22 record park attendance of 18.2 million visitors
23 this past year. And with that dramatic increase
24 in visitation of state parks, seven new parks
25 added to the system, thousands of new acres
put
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1 into our management responsibility. And we've
2 done it without increasing staffing. And we've
3 done it by a smarter, more intelligent deployment
4 of our resources to make sure that we complied to
5 improve visitor services without having to
6 increase the staffing. We're very proud of that.
7 As it relates to the land
acquisition
8 programs, over the last four and a half years,
9 since January of '99, we've preserved nearly a
10 million acres of Florida's more sensitive
11 landscapes.
12 What I'd like to do is
focus right here in
13 St. Johns County. Since January of 1999,
14 Governor, right here in St. Johns County, 30,373
15 acres of very sensitive environmental lands, and
16 recreation lands, and water supply lands, have
17 been protected. That's at a cost to the state,
18 the investment the state of Florida has made, of
19 $53 million.
20 So, obviously, your
program, Governor, the
21 Florida Forever Program, is delivering real
22 benefits right here in St. Johns County.
23 Perhaps one of those
projects that is best
24 known to the community here is Guana Tolomato
25 Matanzas, which is a
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1 GOVERNOR BUSH: Why did
you bring that up
2 right now? Go ahead.
3 MR. STRUHS: Just
because I was practicing
4 saying it. Guana Tolomato Matanzas. That is
a
5 coastal wetland system, an estuary that is really
6 second to none. It's a remarkable partnership
7 between local government, federal government,
8 state government, managing these lands for public
9 recreation and conservation. So, with that by way
10 of introduction, to the department.
11 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you.
12 CFO GALLAGHER: Motion
on the minutes.
13 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Second.
14 GENERAL CRIST:
Second.
15 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and seconded without
16 objection, item 1 passes.
17 MR. STRUHS: Thank
you.
18 Item is an option agreement
to require 273
19 acres in the Wekiwa, Ocala, Greenway Florida
20 Forever Project. A lot of intention has been paid
21 recently to protecting the Wekiwa area, and,
22 indeed, the Governor has appointed a very
23 high-level and very important citizen task force
24 in that part of the state, near metropolitan
25 Orlando, to try to balance the needs of
improving
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1 our transportation infrastructure by opening up
2 lands for responsible development, and at the same
3 time protecting the underlying natural resources
4 that make that part of Orlando such a special
5 place to live.
6 What this particular project
does -- it's
7 just outside the boundaries of the area that the
8 task force is looking at. It's just immediately to
9 the north of that. And this 273 acres is a
puzzle
10 piece that builds the corridor that will create
11 habitat linkages between Wekiwa River State
12 Park, Rock Springs State Park, Ocala National
13 Forest.
14 By putting these parcels
together, it allows
15 the between 50, 60 Florida black bears that live
16 in this area today to gain access to the Ocala
17 National -- Ocala National Forest to the north.
18 So, it's a critical opportunity for consolidating
19 that habitat for the Florida black bear, as well
20 as other endangered species, in providing
21 important recreational and water supply
22 opportunities for the metro Orlando area.
23 So, we're recommending
approval of this item.
24 And we're pleased with the price. It's 90
percent
25 of the approved
value.
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1 CFO GALLAGHER:
Motion.
2 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Second.
3 GENERAL CRIST:
Second.
4 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and seconded without
5 objection. It passes.
6 MR. STRUHS: Item 3 is
an option agreement
7 for 3,883 acres within the Volusia Conservation
8 Corridor for the project. This is a three-way
9 partnership. We went into this arrangement with
10 the St. Johns River Water Management District and
11 Volusia County as our partners. And we decided
12 that if we could acquire this parcel through the
13 local importance, that we would split the cost
14 three ways. The St. Johns River Water
Management
15 District advanced our share. This item would
pay
16 them back for that third.
17 CFO GALLAGHER:
Motion.
18 GENERAL CRIST:
Second.
19 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Second.
20 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and second without
21 objection. The item passes.
22 MR. STRUHS: One of
the things that we do as
23 a management tool is we review annually the
24 properties that we are privileged to manage for
25 the state. Occasionally we find a question
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1 We find property where there are questions as to
2 its future management regime.
3 In this particular, case
we'd like to bring
4 to your attention the case of Fort Zachary Taylor
5 in Key West. There are probably few cities other
6 than Key West that this conversation is more
7 appropriate because there city is so well-known
8 for historic conservation.
9 Fort Zachary Taylor is an
old Civil War fort
10 in Key West, given to the state of Florida by the
11 federal government back in the 1960s to be
12 preserved as a military ruin. It's a very
popular
13 state park in Key West.
14 What I'd like to do is
invite Dana Bryan here
15 to do a short presentation to describe to you some
16 of the management issues with this particular
17 parcel as we figure out how to go forward with
18 managing this property. And then in the end,
19 would like for you to approve the Annual Land
20 Management Review Team findings.
21 MR. BRYAN: Thank
you. You have a handout.
22 GOVERNOR BUSH: If you
can briefly go through
23 this with us, we'd appreciate it since we have
24 people waiting for us.
25 MR. BRYAN: I
will.
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1 I'll refer to page
numbers. On Page 1, Fort
2 Zachary Taylor was built as a part of the federal
3 system of coastal fortification. After the War
of
4 1812, the United States was very concerned because
5 many major cities were occupied by the British, so
6 they decided to build this massive coastal
7 fortification system.
8 On Page 2, you can see the
fort was built as
9 a three-story trapezoid with three seaward facing
10 gun rooms and the longest space for barracks,
11 dining and the sally port. There was a
12 thousand-foot pier with a 30-foot drawbridge which
13 separated it from the land.
14 As you see on your diagram
on Page 2, it was
15 out to sea at one time, but since it's been
16 filled. The Navy base filled all this land
17 around, so now the fort is land, landlocked.
18 The Fort Taylor's
historical importance on
19 Page 3 of your handout. Fort Taylor's
historical
20 importance is its series of adaptations to meet
21 the needs of the day. It is one of the nation's
22 longest serving defensive fortifications.
23 Construction started before the Civil War in 1845,
24 and during the Civil War and Spanish American
25 Wars, it had its biggest activity, but also
had
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1 replacement guns of the day for World War I, World
2 War II, and missile tracking systems from the
3 Cuban Missile Crisis. It was abandoned in 1963
4 and transferred to the state in 1976.
5 In your handouts on Page
4. During the Civil
6 War, the fort was in federal hands and played a
7 key role in the blockade of Confederate shipping.
8 One historical report claimed that there were 299
9 captured ships in the harbor at Key West. The
10 full armament of the fort at that time was 200
11 canons and 500 men.
12 During the Civil War,
rifle-canon were
13 developed and brick forts became obsolete, and so
14 there was a period of inactivity, but the sinking
15 of battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, the
16 Spanish-American War erupted, and instantly Fort
17 Taylor became the focus of the nation because of
18 its proximity to Cuba.
19 The top two tiers of the
fort were removed
20 and there was a substantial amount of concrete
21 reinforcement added. There was a shortage of
22 materials and Lieutenant Bruce, who was in charge
23 of the reconstruction, was challenged and ended up
24 making poor quality concrete because of the lack
25 of supplies, didn't have metal reinforcement,
so
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1 he ended up using all the scrap metal that he
2 could find. Filled the casements in the front --
3 this is the original Civil War -- where all
4 casements were filled with sand and rubble and
5 everything else because the concrete was not as
6 thick as he wanted for the canon of the day.
7 Those top two layers of the fort were crushed and
8 used for aggregate of the concrete. Sand from
the
9 beach was used which added salt to the system, and
10 it made a very temporary structure.
11 On Page 6 of your handout,
there's a
12 photograph from 1969 of the fort after it had been
13 abandoned for a number of years, and with the Navy
14 base recycling dump.
15 It was transferred to the
state in 1976, Page
16 7. It was transferred as a ruin. That was
17 clearly spelled out in the 1976 acquisition
18 documents.
19 Our management objective
remains the same.
20 This is not a restoration project. This is a
21 stabilization project. The Elimara report made
a
22 recommendation relative to restoration. That is
23 not a goal.
24 Page 8. There's a
great deal of national
25 significance to the site. It's on the
National
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1 Register of Historic Places. It's a national
2 historic landmark and it's a site for the Save Our
3 American Treasures Program.
4 Page 9. The harsh
coastal environment of the
5 Florida Keys has constantly impacted the
6 structure, which was not built -- which was not
7 built to last forever.
8 Page 10. You see
another diagram, Battery
9 Osceola. The inner part of Battery Osecola that
10 I'm pointing out here was built without a
11 foundation, so it continues to settle and crack.
12 Page 11. There's a
photograph of the kind of
13 interior structural problems we have. The
rusting
14 iron pieces used to support it are expanding and
15 causing fractures throughout. Fiberglass
supports
16 will be required to stabilize that and that
17 requires a lot of money, and it requires selective
18 demolition which is a debatable topic among the
19 historic preservationists.
20 Page 12. Even the
sections of the Civil War
21 Fort, which are in relatively good shape, need
22 brick or pointing.
23 The management objectives
on Page 13 is to
24 retain the fort's appearance to keep it as stable
25 as visible, and to maintain visitor
access.
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1 On Page 14. We have
contracted condition
2 assessments done in cooperation with the Division
3 of Historical Resource and the Department of
4 State, and that has guided preservation spending
5 to date.
6 In 1989, the Historic
Preservation Planning
7 Report estimated a cost of stabilization at $3.8
8 million. This 14-year-old estimate would
probably
9 be adjusted to 7 to 10 million today given
10 inflation and the work that's already been done
11 and the new priorities.
12 On Page 15. The DHR
and Florida Park Service
13 have contributed significant funding for the
14 stabilization. We've received five grants from
15 DHR totaling $300,000. Similar match from DRP's
16 budget. A million dollar stabilization project
in
17 1995. Ongoing repair funds, one of which now is
18 preparing construction documents to stabilize this
19 portion of the barracks building and remove the
20 concrete roof, which is too heavy for the brick
21 wall.
22 The CSO, citizens core
organization and
23 volunteer activity had been huge there. We're
24 working with them to plan an electrolysis lab in
25 this area of the fort to deal about a lot
of
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1 artifacts. They've restored a Parrot canon
2 carriage, a 27,000 pound canon, a very rare canon,
3 and there's a carriage that's now ready for it.
4 Other projects -- the CSO
has raised $90,000
5 that they want to use to help stabilize the room
6 for the conservation lab.
7 Following the LMR report,
the land management
8 review report, we've organized what we call a
9 dream team of national and state historic
10 structure and artifact conservation experts to
11 meet on site and study the current needs.
12 The consensus for that
opinion -- or that
13 meeting was there should be an historic
14 structures' report which will be a phased approach
15 to stabilization, will do a comprehension
16 condition assessment, identify problems,
17 prioritize problems, and estimate costs. And
the
18 private sector funding we see will be very
19 important.
20 CFO GALLAGHER:
Move.
21 GENERAL CRIST:
Second.
22 COMMISSIONER BRONSON:
Second.
23 MR. BRYAN: Thank
you.
24 GOVERNOR BUSH: Moved
and seconded. Without
25 objection, the report is
accepted.
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1 Yes, Secretary.
2 MR. STRUHS: We
appreciate that being an
3 excellent presentation.
4 What we wanted to do is to
just to make sure
5 two things. You know that when we're trusted to
6 manage these properties, we do it very
7 thoughtfully. And we wanted to make sure we had
8 your okay as the underlying landowners, that we're
9 going to manage this as a ruin and not try to
10 expend public resources to try to turn it into
11 what it once was.
12 I think it's important to
note that
13 Ms. Sandra Walters is here, who is known to all of
14 you. She serves, Governor, as one of your
15 representatives on the Acquisition and Restoration
16 Council, which is the citizen panel that selects
17 how and where we spend our money on conservation.
18 And she is a long-time resident of Key West and is
19 very familiar with this property and the local
20 debate around that property's future. And she's
21 come all the way up from Key West because she
22 wanted to, I hope, endorse the department's --
23 endorse the department's recommendation on this.
24 GOVERNOR BUSH: I hope
so too since we've
25 already voted on it. Now we'll find
out.
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1 MS. WALTERS: Thank
you, Governor and
2 Cabinet. It's delightful to be here in
3 St. Augustine, I feel a kind of sister city to Key
4 West. And thank you for considering this
5 property.
6 The department is ensuing on
doing a study
7 for restoration -- some aspects of restoration of
8 this site of which I am very personally supportive
9 of. We've had historic experts from all over the
10 country come and meet and discuss this.
11 One thing that Mr. Bryan
did not mention is
12 in and all that debris that went into the casement
13 filling of cement are some of the rarest Civil War
14 weaponry in the country, to the tune of probably
15 three times, four times as many of these weapons
16 as anywhere else in the country.
17 There's tremendous historic
opportunities
18 here, and a great deal of opportunity for
19 public-private partnerships. As I'm sure you
20 know, there has been a great deal of contribution
21 by the very deep-pocketed people of Key West to
22 support the wonderful historic resources there.
23 And the Civil War has a great deal of cache.
And
24 we think that once this plan is put together, we
25 can go out to the community and partner with
the
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1 state and the federal governments to do some
2 wonderful educational restoration at this site as
3 well.
4 Thank you very much.
5 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you.
6 MR. STRUHS: That
concludes our agenda.
7 GOVERNOR BUSH: Thank
you, David.
8 Again, thank our hosts for
showing great
9 patience, being here through 12:30 and then you
10 sat through our entire meeting. It's tremendous
11 work. We appreciate your hospitality. We
look
12 forward to seeing you at the Agency Fair.
13
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3 COUNTY OF DUVAL )
4 I, Patijo Brown, a Notary Public in and
for
5 the state of Florida at Large, a Certified
6 Shorthand Reporter and a Registered Professional
7 Reporter, do hereby certify that I was authorized
8 to and did stenographically report the foregoing
9 proceedings; that the transcript is a true and
10 complete record of my stenographic notes, to the
11 best of my ability and understanding.
12 I further certify that I am not a
relative,
13 employee, attorney or counsel to any of the
14 parties, nor am I a relative or employee of any of
15 the parties' attorney or counsel connected with
16 the action, nor am I financially interested in the
17 action.
18 Dated this 5th day of November
2003.
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authorizing - 13:23,
1automatic -
76:3,
8automatically -
1available - 97:12
aye -
104:24:10
B
backdrop -
21:10
bailing - 14:16
109:25ce - 38:15,
117:19cks -
113:10,
base - 44:25,
1based - 16:1, 66:7,
98:4, 101:59,
77:7,
basis - 12:10,
1Bates - 65:10,
66:15, 66:19,
67:2,
.
68:4, 68:9, 68:14,
6Battery - 116:8,
1battles -
45:5
Bay - 32:13, 32:165
beach - 115:9
82:8, 83:10,
86:22, ,
9bear - 110:19:2
beautiful - 60:7,
8became -
114:13,
1become - 54:19
becoming - 39:1
begin -
9:6, 33:1
70:11nning - 36:2,
11:14, 11:17, 11:19, ,
1behind -
13:6, 6:7
4believes - 94:97
belt - 45:11, 45:13,
4Ben -
10:17, 10:21,
1benchmark - 12:83
benefits -
31:18,
108:2232:3, 82:4, 84:2,
best - 28:16,
88:9,
108:23, 122:1107:17,
106:16, 107:135,
89:16, 92:5,
104:1,
1beyond - 88:2 110:15
bidder - 15:24,
1bids -
15:22, 15:24
19:17, 23:16, 49:15,
9biggest - 23:8,
1bill -
48:18
13:5, 13:10, 20:4, :4,
27:16, 27:17, 22:3,
births -
24:17
19:6, 61:25, 70:150,
110:19 - 110:15,
blockade -
114:7
103:8, 103:24,
58:2,
.
2
106:7d - 1:11, 106:1,
88:1t - 71:15, 73:3,
68:7, 69:19, 69:22,
,
77:19, 77:21, 78:4,
8body - 12:12, 53:23
bond -
11:17
10:22 - 1:5, 10:17,
11:4, 11:11, 11:12, ,
11:21, 13:24,
11:18,
booklet - 35:136:4
borders - 40:22
11:1,
61:14, 61:15
12:18owing - 12:9,
Boston - 66:25, 2
7bottom
- 17:21,
7bought - 66:25
boundaries - 110:7
Boxold
- 9:25:16
brand - 22:1, 26:9
26:9nd-new -
22:1,
break-even - 22:1224
brick - 114:13,
1brief -
43:14, 52:14
bring - 36:14, 2
109:1, 112:3, 68:8,
13:9,
22:2, 32:3,
Bronson - 2:7, 9:8,
30:15, 39:24,
40:15,
50:15, 57:12, 71:2,
72:16, 78:1, 80:12,
104:12, 109:13,
4:8,
1brought - 21:14, :22
2Brown - 1:22, 122:4,
1Bruce -
114:22
112:21, 112:25,
1bucks - 22:51
budget -
16:24,
38:5, 38:11, 117:16
.
budgeted - 23:613
build - 11:20, 11:22,
8building -
32:18,
117:19 74:12, 81:17,
builds - 110:101
113:2,
113:8, 116:6, ,
1bulldog - 9:12, 10:9
burden -
21:720
9:3, 10:2, 10:5, 10:7,
13:17, 13:20, 14:2,
17:13, 17:23,
18:1,
19:14, 23:5, 23:9,
30:5, 30:18, 31:1, ,
36:17, 37:17,
37:23, 3,
41:20, 42:9, 43:1, ,
47:12, 47:15, 49:5,
50:13,
51:15, 52:1,
57:16, 57:24, 58:4,
59:9, 60:1, 60:12,
63:5, 63:9,
63:13, ,
64:7, 64:16, 65:1,
69:1, 69:8, 70:18,
73:21, 76:17,
76:20,
78:8, 78:14, 78:17,
79:14, 83:24, 85:1,
86:14, 87:6,
87:20,
89:25, 90:3, 93:15,
96:10, 96:12, 96:15,
97:18, 97:24,
98:1,
101:3, 102:6, 102:11,
104:10, 104:17,
106:1, 109:1,
109:11,
111:20, 112:22,
121:5, 121:724,
11:24, 12:25,
14:22,
26:14, 26:15, 50:10,
5businesses - 20:18,
2buy -
100:20
.
C
Cabinet - 1:15, 2:2,
10:1,
10:13, 10:16, 4,
26:16, 43:5, 43:16,
47:19, 52:10, 54:6,
60:11,
60:14, 69:25,
106:8, 120:280:19,
calculate -
93:23,
9calculation - 77:12
56:21a - 53:22,
54:1,
campaign - 40:21,
4campaigns - 40:3,
4candidate -
56:57
canon - 114:12,
1canons - 114:118:2
capacity
- 32:227
Capitol - 9:510
captured -
114:9
carriage - 118:2, 5
1Carrick - 44:8
case -
61:2, 66:1,
78:7, 78:13, 78:19,
112:3, 112:4,
81:19,
casement - 120:12
115:4ments -
115:2,
caseworkers -
2Cash - 38:15
14:21 - 14:8,
14:14,
causing - 116:15
center -
80:223
37:14erpiece - 37:3,
53:12, 60:211:23,
cents -
99:1- 10:25
ceremony - 36:9,
3certain - 81:6
53:16, 82:4,
82:6,
certification - 32:19
122:5ified - 1:24,
.
122:12fy - 122:7,
60:21ra - 11:23,
Cfo - 11:8,
13:18,
17:24, 19:12, 30:2,
57:11, 57:15, 57:20,
65:2, 66:7,
66:11,
67:18, 68:2, 68:5,
69:21, 72:21, 73:15,
75:13, 79:3,
79:18,
82:20, 83:4, 84:10,
88:10, 91:19, 91:21,
92:11, 93:6,
93:10,
95:9, 95:12, 95:15,
97:25, 98:2, 98:4,
99:7, 99:19,
99:23,
102:21, 104:3,
111:17, 118:20
challenged -
114:23
change - 21:14, 23
91:13, 92:23, 93:7,
9changed -
90:17,
9changes - 26:6,
1changing - 93:4
charge -
44:20,
1Charles - 2:7
Charlotte - 32:13,
3checks -
23:16
Chief - 2:14, 9:11,
1Chihuahua - 10:4,
1Child -
24:5
25:13, 26:1, 27:5, 1,
2children - 20:6,
25:22, 26:8
25:6,
church - 90:9
90:9rch-school -
102:16mstance
-
cities - 27:18,
1citizen - 49:1,
.
1citizens - 20:14,
52:22, 54:17, 55:15,
5City - 1:162
83:10,
83:19, 83:23,
85:19, 86:6, 86:8,
1Civil - 112:9,
113:23,
114:12, 115:3,
120:23, 120:13,
claimed -
114:85
clarify - 94:19,
9clean - 71:10
cleaner -
106:14, 0
1cleanly - 24:16
107:9r - 91:15, 99:10,
81:20, 82:6,
98:19,
1client - 75:5, 89:16
52:23, 101:421,
closing -
39:12,
5club - 92:2
coast - 69:18,
8Coast -
78:183:1
113:3, 113:6, 116:4
collect - 30:14
24:19,
24:20, 25:22,
2collector - 19:2
collectors' -
20:10
comfort - 94:15,
9comfortable - 96:8,
1coming -
9:25,
61:25, 62:4, 68:21,
8command - 44:8
commencing -
1:18
comments - 58:21,
5Commission - 53:21
54:11, 54:15,
55:3,
56:17, 56:22, 56:25
2:8, 9:7, 9:8, 10:6,
30:15, 39:23,
39:24,
.
3
50:1, 50:2, 50:3, 50:4,
52:4, 52:7, 52:11,
57:12, 57:18, 57:22,
8,
59:5, 59:21, 71:2,
72:16, 78:1, 80:12,
104:12, 109:13,
4:8,
1commissioner - 18:22
5Commissioners -
3commissioners
-
3commitment - 42:3
5committed - 55:15
37:9, 37:18ed
-
20:24unication -
29:1, 49:1, 108:24,
1companies -
1company
- 36:5,
6compare - 24:16
35:5, 122:1034:20,
32:17, 35:6,
35:8,
3completely - 72:14
55:23, 56:1, 65:6,
87:11, 87:12,
87:16,
8complicated - 95:20
complimentary -
5comply -
21:9,
6components -
1comprehension -
1computer -
14:12,
1conceived - 55:8
36:22, 37:2, 37:6,
4concepts -
41:10
65:18, 81:19, 88:22,
9concerned - 113:4
concerns -
71:9, 0
9concise - 107:10
conclusion - 36:14,
5concrete -
114:20,
117:20, 115:5, 115:8,
.
117:1, 118:16103:19,
Condo - 66:9 88:3
69:15, 79:7,
96:17,
9condominium -
74:15, 80:7, 83:16,
93:5, 96:24, 97:5,
,
1condos - 78:20,
9Confederate - 114:7
congratulations
-
5Congratulations -
5connected - 122:15
consensus -
118:12
Conservation -
1conservation -
65:15, 65:18,
74:11,
86:4, 86:19, 88:23,
90:23, 94:7, 94:12,
112:8, 118:6,
118:10,
1consider - 20:25,
1considering - 120:4
consists
- 34:23,
3consolidating -
1constantly -
116:5
Constitution - 34:2
constraints -
80:20,
8construct - 74:24
constructing - 61:3
11:11,
11:12, 13:12,
61:6, 117:18 36:25,
113:23ruction -
content
- 76:225
continues - 35:23,
1contract - 17:2,
58:7,
38:23, 47:23,
contracts - 29:3:1
contributed -
35:17,
1contribution -
3contributions -
.
2control - 28:3
107:3entional -
112:6ersation -
101:8ey -
75:15,
convince - 62:51
35:10, 39:5, 75:20,
1core -
117:22
corporate - 20:23
47:11, 98:847:8,
78:16,
104:22:12,
correctly - 77:10:10
Corridor -
111:80
22:4, 24:21, 27:2, ,
108:17, 111:13, 117:7
costs -
106:23,
1Council - 107:18,
1council - 48:19
93:17, 122:13,
122:15
counties - 27:18,
37:15, 44:1637:10,
39:20,
120:10, ,
1County - 32:13,
44:5, 45:18, 46:14,
108:13, 108:14,
7,
1county - 37:10, 22:3
3couple - 23:10,
69:11, 72:78,
50:8,
33:16, 41:9, 42:2,
4crack - 116:11:23
create -
110:10
102:22ing - 102:17,
credit - 15:14,
16:4
Crews - 44:20
criminal - 52:17, 6
53:85, 53:4,
53:7,
Crist - 2:10, 13:19,
49:23, 58:25, 59:8,
104:20,
109:14, :10,
.
1criteria - 65:23, 21
6critical - 14:22,
110:18 53:7,
101:19,
crux - 61:195:7
Csr - 122:22,
118:4
Cuban - 114:3
current - 13:5,
61:22, 61:24,
73:10,
7curriculum - 35:9
cut - 21:10,
76:1
D
dad's - 26:22
Dana
- 112:14 38:4
date - 22:4, 23:1,
38:14, 62:11,
117:5
Daugherty - 54:3
David - 70:4, 74:25,
1days -
23:7, 23:8
de - 34:13
deal - 33:12, 48:23,
82:14,
99:20, 115:24,
120:20, 120:23,
deals - 30:96:5
60:13,
62:17, 63:4,
63:25, 64:4, 64:6,
65:7, 65:11, 71:12,
74:10,
89:23, 90:2,
102:18, 104:15, 2:7,
1deaths - 49:17
debate
- 99:15, 18
1debris - 120:12
12:8, 12:12, 12:15,
13:2, 13:8,
13:9, 4,
1December - 29:20,
3decided - 36:18,
1declining -
25:23
dedicated - 32:16,
52:20, 40:8, 41:3,
.
dedication - 36:12,
3deed - 75:18, 75:19
120:21-
61:15,
120:21pocketed -
defects -
29:91:15
defensive - 113:22
defined -
39:1
definitely - 67:21
100:3nition -
35:23,
delightful - 120:2
Deloitte -
27:10:21
demolition - 116:18
Dennis - 46:19
68:14,
68:16, 70:5,
7department - 16:21,
43:15, 43:22, 44:1,
57:6,
59:15, 72:10,
120:6, 106:4, 109:10,
1:7, 1:8, 1:9, 11:5,
13:15,
19:1, 19:22,
20:20, 21:14, 23:24,
28:24, 30:10, 31:1,
35:11,
39:6, 39:7,
52:12, 52:15, 54:12,
55:7, 55:22,
56:11,
5department's - 7:3
119:22, 119:2359:17,
10:15rtments
-
depicted - 35:193
depth - 29:8, 41:6
deputy
- 93:13,
9describe - 19:5,
6design - 15:1,
37:22, 38:6, 40:1,
,
4desperately - 25:9
details - 65:12
29:10rioration
-
96:21rmine -
64:24,
.
4
developed - 76:8,
7developing - 13:6
15:1, 35:10,
61:4,
68:11, 84:1, 110:2,
67:23lopments -
diagram -
113:14, 15
1Dickinson - 43:22,
8difference - 67:12,
8different
- 16:1,
43:20, 45:19, 70:15,
93:21, 81:11, 82:1,
diligent
- 27:22, 21
5diminish - 71:6
direction -
43:17,
7Directives - 55:7
84:1ectly - 10:16,
director -
10:21,
5directors - 42:5
disagreement - 1
6disclose -
22:25
101:13etion - 62:5,
120:10ss - 64:9,
101:3, 101:19,
102:20
106:24y - 106:22,
distinguish -
70:25
District - 1:10, 60:2,
111:10,
111:1583:21,
districts - 27:19
Division -
1:5,
46:6, 117:21, 46:5,
dock - 68:3, 92:2,
9dockage -
69:19,
7dockmaster - 88:7
72:25, 80:7, 95:2
documentation
-
3documents - 15:15,
1dog - 10:718, 117:18
dollars -
24:18,
.
2domestic - 53:5,
5dominated - 26:6
84:14,
84:19:23,
donating - 82:13
29:21, 36:7, 37:2,
72:18,
72:22, 73:4,
86:6, 93:20, 99:24,
117:10 108:3,
117:2,
dormitories - 11:22
54:4, 54:5, 57:71,
49:18,
65:20, 69:3,
7downtown - 61:4
drafted - 89:7
74:4
107:23tic - 29:23,
drawbridge - 16:7
1draws -
16:6
drew - 73:3:9
driven - 41:22
driver's -
47:2048:19
46:11, 46:17, 47:18, ,
4Drivers - 46:5
drop -
25:65:9, 45:10
drunken - 45:9
due - 27:22,
48:21
dump - 88:16,
1during - 40:19,
1During -
114:5,
1duties - 55:14
Duval -
122:3
E
earned -
31:1876:10
62:13, 63:7, 65:16,
75:5, 75:11, 86:4, ,
89:15,
90:19, 90:23,
101:7, 94:7, 94:12,
easy - 21:88
68:10,
86:1568:6,
Education - 11:5,
.
1education - 38:10,
4educational - 121:2
89:11,
89:17:18,
effective - 21:5,
2effects - 89:9
37:13, 63:23,
78:18,
8efforts - 54:19,
5eight - 76:12
65:24, 71:9,
85:23:7,
117:24rolysis -
electronically - 23
2element -
32:7,
6elements - 34:20,
38:9, 38:14, 36:15,
Elimara -
115:21
embarrassed - 7:8
5emphasis - 45:6
122:14yee -
122:13,
28:25oyees - 19:25,
encumber - 95:236
95:17mbered
-
112:18 23:15, 67:23,
110:20gered -
85:22, 114:23,
115:1,
1ending - 22:15
119:23se - 119:22,
Enforcement -
1:9,
52:16, 53:21, 54:12,
56:11, 56:1255:23,
22:19, 22:21,
43:21,
45:17, 45:25, 48:7,
53:9, 53:22, 54:81,
54:19rcement's
-
engaged - 33:24
29:7anced - 22:21,
29:10ncement
-
enjoying - 59:64
ensure - 28:6, 53:5
.
enterprise - 17:1
enthusiastically -
4entire -
121:10
entitled - 99:17
entrepreneur -
0
1entrepreneurial -
1environment -
1Environmental
-
1environmental -
74:7, 81:20, 82:4,
107:11,
108:15107:4,
11:16, 13:14ally -
sensitive - 11:16,
1equation -
97:16
equity - 28:54:5
erupted - 114:163
50:25,
69:18- 44:4,
essentially - 79:6
established -
12:8,
2establishment -
2estate - 91:5, 106:6
36:6, 68:14,
117:8,
1estimated - 117:7
et - 11:23,
60:21
European-asian -
4evaluate - 12:10,
1event - 36:10,
:7
1evidence - 55:24
14:18, 41:20, 76:19
example -
11:3,
5exceeded - 28:16,
2excellent - 119:3
exciting -
47:17,
5exclusively - 70:16
excuse -
9:720
executive - 53:25,
5exempt - 10:24
exhibit -
35:22:8
.
66:11ting - 14:14,
76:21ts - 63:20,
expanding -
116:14
expectations - 23:7
2expected - 64:4
expend
- 119:1025
experienced - 68:1
120:9rts - 118:10,
66:3,
75:16, 84:6,
8explaining - 89:10
10:18, 60:9n
-
expressing - 91:7
74:22nd - 72:22,
64:21, 71:5,
104:17
extends - 88:1:5
extensions -
73:1
extra - 22:11, 71:6
F
facilities - 54:16,
88:17, 69:11, 70:23,
32:20, 32:24,
33:2,
6facing - 45:1, 45:5,
1fact - 19:24, 20:19,
96:7, 101:11,
107:7,
1factor - 66:22
fair - 22:176:19
121:12- 19:20,
53:16,
faith - 83:14, 83:184
familiar -
119:19
families - 25:85:17
family's -
25:1532:4
48:16, 80:24, 92:8,
9farm - 51:1
fast - 27:8,
59:16,
8father - 25:9, 25:10,
2favor - 104:24
53:19, 58:191,
53:15,
February -
48:22
.
5
29:13, 31:16, 31:17,
52:24, 82:3, 109:7,
121:11, 113:2,
114:6,
fees - 100:7
64:14, 64:18, 64:19,
67:7, 67:14,
67:15,
74:22, 77:8, 77:9,
77:21, 78:4, 78:5, ,
103:13,
103:23101:7,
few - 17:9, 19:24,
61:21, 106:13,
112:5
Fiberglass - 116:15
figure - 100:9,
1filed -
31:25, 54:25,
5files - 54:17
filled - 113:16,
1Filled -
115:2
final - 38:25:13
35:18, 38:6, 38:25
10:22nce - 1:5,
10:17,
16:17nce - 14:7,
15:5ancial - 2:14,
14:21, 87:17
12:17,
financing - 14:5, 16
16:14 14:25,
15:12,
Fine - 60:4112:20
finer -
46:18
finished - 38:23,
5firm - 35:25, 74:2
22:5, 22:20,
31:13,
58:6, 64:10, 72:18,
85:14, 76:15, 85:11,
fit -
24:22, 58:24,
6fitting - 37:24
24:15, 32:20, 34:23,
87:1,
87:10, 103:15,
1five-year - 16:12,
103:19 76:2, 87:10,
.
fixed - 16:5 50:17
Fleet - 34:10:17
Florida -
1:10, 1:15,
17:12, 17:20, 20:1,
21:9, 25:2, 26:8,
32:4, 33:25,
34:9, ,
37:3, 37:8, 40:11,
46:18, 50:11, 51:6,
54:12, 54:18,
55:1,
56:10, 56:12, 56:19,
60:10, 61:20, 68:7,
103:22, 106:7,
:2,
107:7, 107:12,
108:18, 108:21,
110:19, 112:10,
122:5,
117:12, 122:2,
35:14, 106:20, 108:10
focus - 108:12,
2
1focused - 43:20
44:13, 45:1, 45:15, 5,
46:23, 47:3, 47:5,
,
5follow - 23:1900:9
Following - 118:7
95:5, 99:1,
113:127,
71:5, 93:24, 94:5,
9force - 109:23,
1forecasting -
24:4
Forest - 110:13,
1forever - 116:7
108:21,
109:2014,
form - 90:14, 90:16,
9formal -
12:14
formally - 53:206
formula - 76:8,
7Fort -
69:11, 112:4,
113:19, 114:16, 3:18,
1fort - 112:9,
113:8,
114:10, 114:19,
.
1fort's - 116:2417:25
38:6th - 22:18, 31:7,
113:7ification -
113:3,
113:22fications -
forward - 14:20,
26:8, 34:21,
35:12,
39:2, 46:23, 47:24,
53:24, 68:21, 82:14,
121:12,
112:17,
foundation - 116:11
22:9, 24:10, 25:2,
32:10,
62:7, 77:20,
107:20, 108:8, 120:15
fourth -
53:20:25
fractures - 116:15
frankly -
89:157
friendly - 19:2, 2
2front - 19:19, 60:25,
95:18,
115:2 83:8,
Fte - 22:7, 22:8,
2full - 21:16,
32:22,
114:10 47:7, 103:16,
fully - 22:4, 22:23,
6fun -
20:12, 64:3
10:25, 11:24, 14:21,
2functions - 20:3
38:20 -
24:5, 34:19,
fund-raising -
3funding - 117:13,
1funds -
33:1, 117:17
22:14, 25:16, 102:5,
102:7, 112:2,
119:20
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32:3110:16
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86:18, 88:10, 91:19,
92:8, 92:11,
93:6,
95:6, 95:9, 95:12,
96:11, 97:25, 98:2,
98:16, 99:7,
99:19,
100:23, 102:21,
111:17, 118:20 111:1,
garages -
11:22
general - 20:11,
49:13, 93:13, 93:16
13:19, 30:4,
30:16,
58:25, 59:8, 59:10,
73:10, 104:20, 2:21,
111:18,
118:21
generating - 25:11
Gerry - 89:24,
90:6,
9Gerry's - 89:18
35:11, 37:17, 95:3,
1glad -
39:29
goal - 24:9, 28:17,
2good-faith - 83:14,
8Gosh -
68:14
Governing - 23:25
16:21, 17:7, 17:22,
32:6, 103:21,
109:7,
1governments -
1Governor - 1:15,
10:5, 10:7, 10:10,
,
12:22, 13:17, 13:20,
16:19, 17:13, 17:23,
19:10, 19:14,
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36:17, 37:17,
37:23,
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44:13, 45:24, 46:22,
47:12, 47:15,
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51:16, 52:1, 52:5,
57:8, 57:13,
57:16, :7,
58:12, 59:2, 59:5,
60:5, 60:9, 60:12, 0:4,
62:18,
62:23, 63:5,
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65:5, 65:9, 66:24,
71:2,
71:18, 72:12,
73:25, 76:17, 76:20,
78:8, 78:11, 78:14,
79:10,
79:14, 80:19,
85:8, 85:14, 85:24,
88:18, 89:20, 89:22,
93:15,
94:15, 94:18,
96:15, 96:23, 97:1,
98:1, 98:9, 100:1,
101:23,
102:6,
102:20, 103:5, 103:6,
104:21, 104:24,
106:18,
108:14,
109:11, 109:15,
111:20, 112:22,
119:24, 120:1,
121:5,
1grades - 90:10
grant - 35:12
grants -
38:13,
1grass - 61:16, 71:20
73:8, 73:9 73:6,
Gray -
35:20 101:22
gray-haired - 73:15
14:19, 37:25,
44:14,
46:24, 52:23, 59:22,
120:20, 120:23,
121:8
Greenway -
109:19
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6
grips - 64:244:11
groundbreaking -
3grounds -
35:20
75:20ps - 42:1, 49:1,
growing - 44:25,
5grown -
107:20
109:4a - 108:24,
Guard - 78:1102:4
66:17,
91:2519,
48:23, 102:123:17,
gun - 113:10:4
Guy -
52:111
guys - 46:22, 95:12
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habitat - 110:11,
1haired - 73:15
41:3, 76:11,
108:83,
hand - 62:24
113:19, 115:11:21,
hands -
48:6, 59:18,
1happy - 10:20,
57:4, 96:2, 96:5:24,
114:15r -
34:24,
hard - 15:21, 36:18,
8harnessing -
26:24
hate - 9:16, 9:20
Hawaii -
40:235
headed - 54:21
44:7dquartered -
hear -
68:162
hearing - 49:3, :18
5heavy - 117:20
help -
26:21, 26:25,
41:13, 48:7, 59:14,
100:25, 118:5
87:18,
helping - 39:9,
5helps - 89:4
102:12 - 62:18,
63:9,
.
Heritage - 35:13
40:17, 45:14, 67:23,
1high-end -
67:23
higher - 76:16, :23
9highlights -
106:12
highway - 44:2,
4Highway - 1:8, 43:1,
4highways -
43:19
Historic - 116:1,
1historic - 92:4,
118:9, 118:13,
120:9,
1Historical - 117:3
113:19, 114:8 113:18,
History
- 35:2233:20
72:11, 88:9, 106:20
hitting -
43:8:1
Hollingsworth -
4home - 31:10,
3Home - 32:9
43:11
homes - 32:11, 2
3hometown - 43:13
40:10,
41:1719,
hope - 47:21, 53:17,
1hopefully - 14:13,
4
4hospital - 29:19,
2hospitality - 121:11
host - 36:9
31:22
hot - 48:15:8
housekeeping -
5housing -
13:24,
6Hrs - 24:6, 24:7
117:23- 31:11, 31:15,
hurt -
73:60:7
hybrid - 70:22
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I-95 - 45:3
identification -
5identified -
29:22,
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8identify - 25:9,
5identity - 48:8,
5Ii - 23:18,
33:25,
35:6, 35:9, 35:14,
37:13, 38:3, 40:19,
4imagine -
86:8,
8immediately - 110:8
impact - 12:17, 10
88:25
81:21, 82:17,
116:5cted - 71:20,
12:2, 15:2, 22:6-
16:16, 48:1d
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111:13, 113:18,
1important -
109:23,
119:12, 118:19,
31:12rtantly - 28:22,
55:9ressed -
55:5,
82:12, 107:4, 107:10,
1Improvement -
1:11
improvements - 7:3
2improving -
109:25
in-hospital - 29:19
inches -
73:4114:14
94:6lude - 92:25,
91:1, 93:24 46:7,
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101:6,
1income - 98:6
incorporating - :10
3increase -
21:4,
107:23, 108:6 56:1,
27:21, 28:1- 13:3,
increases -
49:17
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16:12x - 16:2,
16:11,
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5infrastructure -
1initial - 103:15
initiatives
- 12:16,
3inner - 116:9
insight - 48:23
32:18, 32:19
-
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7instantly - 114:16
106:21tutions
-
integrating - 14:20
intelligently - 8:3
1intend -
89:10
intention - 89:7,
8interacting -
15:25,
5interdepartmental -
3interest - 16:4, 16:9,
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82:9,
8interesting - 26:12,
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107:16ests -
106:6,
89:14rfere - 89:5,
interior -
116:1312
interpreting - 88:18
54:17, 55:21
54:16,
80:23acoastal - 61:5,
53:25oduce - 47:20,
106:4, 109:10
-
investment - 108:184
involved - 17:6,
29:1,
48:11, 56:20,
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Island -
40:18,
82:25, 82:20, 82:22,
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41:4ands - 40:24,
issue - 11:4, 11:16,
60:18, 60:24,
61:18,
68:17, 69:13, 69:20,
72:2, 76:6, 81:16,
8issued -
13:11,
4issues - 9:12, 3
48:6, 48:7, 48:24,
64:23, 65:21,
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22:7, 28:14,
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- 73:23, 74:1,
7January - 32:24,
3Jeb - 2:4:9,
108:13
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44:21, 48:14,
5Johns - 44:4, 45:18,
108:14, 108:22,
8:13,
1Jonathan - 82:10,
8Joshua - 81:24,
8July - 56:7,
56:9,
5June - 49:13
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- 116:5
kind - 10:7, 19:9,
36:18, 46:12, 62:23,
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102:3, 116:12,
1kinds - 88:12
70:2wledge - 55:10,
50:9, 108:24,
112:7,
1known-father -
2knows - 65:12
33:22an -
33:21,
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lab - 117:24,
118:6
lack - 78:8, 114:24
land - 60:24,
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103:23, 103:25,
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1landlocked - 113:177
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119:8
13:14, 61:9, 62:9,
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91:15, 92:20,
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1landscapes
-
1language - 17:17,
90:19, 90:23, 90:25,
92:15, 92:16,
94:16,
95:25, 96:7, 103:9,
1Large - 122:5
19:21, 19:22,
28:24,
67:3, 68:3, 68:7,
6larger - 61:23, 19
69:15, 69:16,
69:22,
.
7largest - 13:13,
2Larry - 92:22106:19
28:16 - 23:24,
25:21,
22:2, 24:20, 26:4, ,
28:13, 28:17, 28:19,
45:12, 48:17,
48:20,
90:18, 97:8, 106:13,
108:8, 116:719,
Lauderdale -
69:12
59:12, 106:2219,
45:17, 45:25, 48:7,
53:22, 54:8,
74:2,
9Law - 1:9, 52:1,
54:12, 54:19, 55:1,
56:12 55:23,
56:11,
lawyer - 89:2,
1lawyers - 91:6
leader -
54:23,
5leadership - 47:19
leads - 34:8,
37:14
lease - 15:13, 15:23,
74:9, 79:8, 79:9,
79:18,
80:18, 87:7,
91:12, 97:2, 97:21,
103:15, 103:17,
1leases -
63:21,
7leasing - 79:2,
8least - 68:15
left - 27:9:14,
9:17
legal - 15:15, 84:12,
8Legally -
79:8
legislatively - 12:16
34:17, 48:18,
48:226,
lenders - 15:16, 11
1length - 67:15
66:21, 69:5,
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1lessor - 103:17
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level - 12:7, 13:5,
72:19, 90:10, 109:23
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- 22:23,
2liaison - 51:10
47:10, 47:13, 47:21
46:11nsed -
45:2,
47:4enses - 47:1,
licensing - 46:8,
4Lieutenant -
36:8,
4life - 25:15, 43:12
80:14, 93:228, 80:11,
81:10tation -
80:16,
limited - 69:199:1
95:1iting - 66:22,
line -
15:14, 16:3,
74:23, 76:1, 80:22,
101:1, 94:24,
96:1,
lion's - 20:21:11
listen -
26:152:3
lists - 82:11:10
live - 47:1, 78:5,
110:5,
110:15 88:1,
live-aboards - 8:1
8Liza - 38:17
loan
- 15:19
46:16, 52:24, 53:1, 7,
111:13, 119:19 109:7,
53:11,
53:165:19,
locked - 16:10:21
long-term -
12:17
longest - 113:10,
1look - 21:2, 22:13,
69:24, 72:9,
79:20,
9looked - 22:15,
6looking - 27:6, 33:8,
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96:17
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Mall - 36:24
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119:91:24,
Management - 20
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112:20,
111:14,
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118:79,
109:8, 112:184:14,
71:19tee - 71:9,
March -
22:218
61:10, 74:16, 74:21,
81:17, 86:15, 86:16,
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61:20
79:25nas - 79:23,
mark - 111:258
market -
34:7, 78:3,
9Market - 96:18
96:20, 100:2487:18,
master -
14:5:6
109:4nzas - 108:25,
materials - 114:22
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- 40:41
20:18, 21:17, 61:19,
6maximum - 64:16,
6Mayor -
34:131:2
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Mcpherson - 31:3,
36:22, 37:18, 38:2, :4,
41:17, 42:1,
42:10
87:22, 87:23, 92:11,
1means - 11:9
24:21, 28:11,
29:6
24:14urements -
28:9, 29:5, 29:12,
medal -
40:102:14
48:25cal - 31:14,
42:5, 62:2, 71:15, ,
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1meeting - 9:3, 9:11,
56:9, 62:20, 118:13,
1meetings -
15:16,
2meets - 17:10,
1Members - 9:10,
59:6, 60:5, 73:25
57:9,
54:24, 55:6, 55:13
33:22, 33:25, 34:9,
36:22, 36:25,
36:17,
36:13, 37:1535:5,
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mentioned -
38:9
merely - 95:16:25
met - 29:4, 48:20,
5metal -
114:25,
1metro - 110:22
109:24politan -
Michael -
54:213:12
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26:13, 74:4, 103:9
39:20, 40:9,
112:12
16:8, 16:9, 22:5, 5:1,
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83:2024
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87:5dset - 51:14,
minor - 30:14, 91:13
minus -
98:24:17
57:11, 62:19, 109:12
Missile - 114:3
85:8sing -
82:11,
43:18, 52:21, 53:3
32:6sions - 31:8,
77:24nderstood
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103:2rnize -
16:23,
modification - 91:3
money - 9:19,
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23:13, 27:7,
116:17, 119:17:25,
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- 42:5
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52:13, 54:4, 54:5, 2:9,
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29:20 - 20:16, 27:13,
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- 13:18,
49:7, 49:21, 57:11,
109:12, 111:1, 111:17
19:10, 30:6,
49:6,
62:25, 96:6, 96:10,
104:9, 104:11, 03:7,
1motivation -
13:6
Motor - 1:8, 43:2,
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move -
25:20, 30:2,
103:11 35:12, 40:2,
14:2, 18:1, 19:14,
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49:24, 57:13, 59:3,
111:20, 118:24
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Museum - 35:1, 0
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35:2,
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37:5,
116:1, 118:9, 115:24,
natural - 110:3:16
58:22re -
49:20,
Navy - 77:25, 18
1near - 109:24
need - 11:9,
19:18,
64:23, 67:11, 68:6,
95:22, 99:12, 101:20,
1needed -
103:9116:21
99:24, 103:8, 109:25,
1negotiate -
102:12
Neil - 45:19 78:11
Never - 10:6:7
New
- 20:2:18
12:17, 13:9, 17:15,
26:9, 47:20, 50:21,
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107:25, 25,
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58:1
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21:22, 41:47:17,
91:16, 92:18 91:2,
non-riparian -
91:2,
9none - 102:5, 109:6
normally - 60:13,
6north -
34:7, 88:24,
95:7, 110:9, 110:17
northeast -
33:5,
4northern - 74:162
Notary - 122:4:22
119:12- 36:23,
39:4,
nothing - 71:23,
94:12, 87:4, 92:13,
58:20ce -
28:13, 34:6,
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noticing -
23:21
101:10thstanding -
36:8, 36:12, 38:24,
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61:188
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27:19, 31:11, 31:13,
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115:19
observations - 6:23
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114:13
Obviously - 43:15,
4obviously - 67:5,
1Ocala -
109:19,
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59:12, 44:19, 53:11,
Officer's - 15:5
official -
52:64
old - 17:5, 50:25, 6
112:9, 61:15,
101:23,
oldest - 50:10 31:14
21:22, 21:231:21,
once
- 15:22, 84:12,
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21:16, 21:19,
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75:22, 76:11,
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97:25, 98:22, 101:22,
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39:24,
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2ones - 26:17,
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4Ongoing - 117:17
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16:36
opinion - 68:11,
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101:9, 101:20, 118:12
110:22, 120:17 -
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5opposed - 77:3, 0:18
104:25 84:11, 85:25,
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109:18,
1order - 24:18,
4orders - 25:24
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81:13nted - 70:16,
115:3inal -
104:13,
109:25, 110:4, 110:22
Osecola - 116:9
84:22,
84:2522,
24:17of-wedlock -
outline - 63:19
outside
- 19:25,
1outstanding - 13:2,
1overcome - 82:14,
8oversee -
12:1,
2oversight - 28:3
52:15view - 20:11,
79:10, 79:11,
88:24,
99:72, 92:13, 97:22,
61:1, 62:9, 62:10
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7ownership - 70:16,
84:9, 84:22,
84:24,
oriented - 70:16
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36:16,
62:419:19,
113:14, 113:19, 13:8,
115:15, 115:24,
116:20,
116:23,
6:12,
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9
1page - 35:7, 113:1
Palm - 61:4, 75:21,
86:22, 90:7,
92:3,
9panel - 119:16
paperless - 21:19
Paragraph -
90:22,
9paralleling - 26:10
parcel - 92:25, 11
1parcels -
27:15,
8Park - 82:10, 82:23,
1park - 107:22,
1parking -
11:22
107:17, 107:20,
1Parks - 107:18
part - 9:6,
10:13,
32:8, 33:5, 35:12,
50:21, 65:1, 66:20,
100:25, 101:1,
9:23,
110:4, 113:2, 116:9
35:14icipation - 32:8,
36:6, 110:6,
112:3,
1particularly - 39:17,
9parties - 122:14
partner -
120:255
46:24, 52:17, 52:25,
5partnership - 20:25,
111:9,
56:21, 109:6,
120:19erships -
party - 63:16,
65:17
passes - 13:21,
30:7, 30:19, 49:10,
59:4, 63:1,
109:16,
1passing - 19:20
68:1, 70:19, 75:25, ,
107:2390:13,
100:8,
paternity - 24:17,
2patience - 121:924
122:22o -
1:22, 122:4,
.
patrol - 44:2, 44:23,
4pay - 23:15, 98:16,
1paying -
15:9, 100:5
pays - 25:13, 98:22
Peco - 11:3,
11:8
pennies - 86:10,
8Pensacola - 53:13
17:2, 24:25,
72:25
17:13, 17:16, 19:23,
23:21, 25:5, 27:13,
41:1, 47:1,
50:10, ,
86:22, 87:1, 97:16,
112:24, 120:21102:10,
102:13e's -
78:15,
perceived - 23:22
20:19, 21:18, 21:20,
25:17,
25:21, 25:22,
29:15, 33:11, 98:8,
99:5, 99:18,
100:4,
1percentage - 24:17,
81:6, 81:7, 81:8, 98:6,
1perfect -
51:13
29:3, 29:5, 30:2, 58:7,
1perhaps - 40:10
period -
22:15,
114:1427:25, 58:8,
35:1manent - 17:9,
permission -
19:7,
2permit - 60:24, 61:5,
6permits - 60:19
Personally
- 93:6
44:10, 59:14, 101:16,
1personnel - 35:15,
55:12 44:15,
54:17,
22:20e - 22:16,
phased - 118:14
57:10, 58:3,
115:12,
1photographs -
.
7phrase - 90:21
picture - 57:21, 74:5
38:10, 74:13,
77:16,
8pieces - 116:14:10
pillar - 37:3
pinch -
43:8:1
place - 16:17, 23:2,
73:12, 86:4, 87:13,
1places -
68:2, 72:23
plan - 25:20, 32:24,
3planning - 33:1,
:24
3Planning - 117:6
played - 114:6
Plaza -
34:13
pleased - 23:16,
3pleasure - 54:6,
5plus -
90:13
point - 22:12, 45:3,
85:9, 88:20, 97:8,
9pointing -
51:11, 0
1points - 16:13, 74:3
poor -
114:2406:19
population - 25:17,
4port - 113:11
35:5,
38:8, 38:25,
94:4, 94:6, 94:25,
9portions - 35:4,
3portrayal -
40:24
position - 12:15,
1positive - 82:18
102:3ible -
21:8,
97:17ibly - 48:14,
pound -
118:20:8
practicing - 109:3
102:22, 103:1,
103:3,
1predicament -
8preempt - 65:23,
103:13 71:24,
81:3,
.
67:17, 69:16, 77:4,
91:11, 98:2588:2,
preparing -
117:18
101:17, 112:15, 119:3
42:7sentations
-
Preservation - :15
1preservation -
7:6
1preservationists -
1preserved - 108:9,
1presiding -
1:16
pretty - 12:25, 17:9,
3prevent -
74:12:5
previous - 21:15,
6price - 79:13, 79:14,
96:19,
96:24, 110:24
20:14, 30:9, 52:25,
5primary - 10:22,
32:6,
43:18, 52:16,
5principles - 55:25
priorities -
117:11
private - 9:15, :17
120:19 84:24,
118:18,
62:10ately - 62:9,
62:9, 62:10owned -
privileged
- 111:24
problem - 61:13,
88:13, 92:15, 93:3,
9problems -
31:15,
118:17, 118:16,
proceedings - 2:23
1process -
12:13,
48:2, 48:9, 55:20, ,
107:5, 68:17,
107:2,
producers - 51:62
21:11, 22:11, 27:3
122:6essional
- 1:23,
professionalism - 5
5professionals -
.
5Program - 24:6,
3program - 11:13, :3
25:5, 27:6,
27:11,
35:10, 35:12, 38:16,
46:3, 50:7, 50:22, ,
1programs -
11:1,
3progress - 15:7,
2project - 14:6,
17:10, 22:10,
33:24,
38:25, 85:18, 86:25,
115:20, 115:21, 1:8,
1Project -
109:20
projects - 26:17,
1prompt - 34:15
119:6erties -
111:24,
property - 20:9,
28:10, 28:11, 29:6,
74:15,
74:19, 74:23,
83:11, 83:13, 88:24,
89:11, 91:1, 91:22,
119:19,
120:5 112:18,
proposal - 70:14, 0
8proposed -
12:16,
67:24, 89:13, 90:20,
proprietary -
62:6,
1prospective - 15:16
108:17cted - 107:13,
110:3ecting -
109:21,
106:3ection - 11:15,
71:19, 107:2, 107:4,
proud -
25:17, 29:1,
53:19, 108:644:17,
prove - 107:66
22:22,
28:3, 28:8,
52:17, 52:21, 53:4,
103:2263:10, 64:14,
47:20,
55:3, 57:2,
81:22, 74:18,
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61:24ides - 61:22,
proximity - 114:18
19:22, 22:22,
25:7,
25:19, 27:18, 28:6,
43:21, 52:21, 52:22,
55:16, 58:21,
70:18,
78:12, 78:21, 78:24,
80:13, 81:6, 81:9,
82:5, 82:15,
82:16,
93:14, 93:17, 101:10,
1Public - 11:10,
0:19
5public-interest -
7public-private -
1pull -
38:21
pump-out - 88:17
purchase - 15:13,
1purchases
- 58:8
purification - 29:14
40:4, 72:25, 73:3,
80:7,
80:17, 80:21,
83:22, 86:19, 87:25,
96:18, 97:20, 107:25,
1puts
- 48:18
75:11, 96:23, 110:14
puzzle - 26:4,
110:9
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quaint -
60:7:17
quality - 28:3, 51:7
1quarter - 49:13,
5quarterly
- 16:3,
1quarters - 90:9
39:24, 58:24, 59:2,
91:12, 97:24,
102:19,
1quick - 37:25, 60:9
27:7, 106:124:25,
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.
raised - 38:12,
1raising - 34:19,
3ranchers -
106:25
rapport - 45:21
rarest - 120:13
16:11 -
16:4, 16:10,
rates - 96:18, 98:2
ratio - 12:8,
66:9
reaccreditation -
5reaccredited -
5reached -
89:86:14
reading - 30:12,
8ready - 38:23,
5real - 44:17,
61:19,
101:21, 106:6, 108:21
103:1ize - 40:21,
37:24, 40:20,
44:22,
48:15, 65:20, 67:24,
8reanalyzed - 101:21
60:15, 77:3,
78:23,
93:11, 93:19 89:19,
reassertive -
55:11
recap - 43:146
53:20, 104:51:17,
58:20, 91:7,
117:14
recently - 52:6,
1recipients - 40:11
54:2ognize -
28:22,
recognizing - 70:8,
1recollection -
76:9
101:25mend -
101:23, 115:22, -
1recommendations
-
4recommending -
5reconstruction -
1record -
25:24,
2recording - 106:2310
recreation - 108:16,
.
1recreational -
1Recreational -
1recycling -
115:14
reduced - 66:3,
1reduction - 106:19
refine -
37:21
55:1arding - 54:18,
regime - 112:221
Register
- 116:1
Registered - 1:23,
1registering - 21:22
21:19,
46:9on - 21:16,
21:20strations -
10:14, 60:14:6,
10:13,
106:17ated - 106:16,
107:14ation - 107:1,
71:7ulations -
33:13,
102:2, 106:8, 107:8,
114:21, 114:25 -
63:20, 107:15,
108:7
relation - 91:16
Relative - 75:235:17
115:22,
122:12, 5,
1relatively - 41:9,
9reliable -
106:15
relook-aters -
1remain - 76:4, 87:12
remains
- 115:19
remarkable - 109:6
remember -
39:16,
100:21, 101:25, 102:1
remit - 21:612
remove
- 50:20,
1removed - 114:19
renewal - 87:12,
1renewals -
76:3,
8rent - 75:14, 100:4
repaint - 50:19
.
replacement - 14:8,
1replacing - 17:14
14:4, 15:7, 16:15,
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49:12, 55:1, 57:17,
115:21, 118:7, 118:8,
1Report - 117:7
122:8
Reported - 1:210
1:24, 122:6, 122:7
represent
- 74:2
97:10esentations -
63:17esentative -
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2representing - 54:7,
5represents -
102:13
32:25, 33:1, 61:20,
9requested - 58:19,
7requesting -
64:12,
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109:18re - 14:25,
90:19, 93:19,
116:16
78:10irement - 62:2,
55:11, 65:15, 75:18,
8requires -
91:2,
1resales - 104:6
resident - 47:7,
1residential -
60:20,
6residents - 32:20,
3resolution - 13:22
resolved -
65:17,
9resource - 17:1,
71:21, 102:9 61:12,
resources -
38:18,
119:10, 120:22110:3,
29:3pect -
22:13,
respectfully - 89:21
responsibility -
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1responsible - 110:2
.
restamp - 50:25
restoration - 119:15
120:7,
121:222,
restricted - 41:9
result - 45:14,
7:21
5resulted - 90:222
retiring - 17:15
revenue -
11:4,
20:19, 11:18, 13:24,
19:22, 20:7, 20:13, ,
23:24, 24:1,
24:15,
2revenues - 25:2111
review - 24:25,
70:11, 111:23,
118:8
101:21wed - 29:9,
revised - 73:17,
7reward -
14:5
rifle-canon - 114:12
rights - 66:14,
1:17
94:23, 94:24 94:14,
66:13, 89:12, 90:11,
91:18, 92:13,
92:17,
94:2, 94:14, 94:23,
9risk - 48:16, 48:19
110:11,
111:10,
1Riviera - 90:6
roads - 11:20 50:17
Rocky -
31:4, 33:3,
3role - 28:2, 60:20,
106:5, 114:7102:2,
roll
- 27:24, 48:1,
5roof - 117:20
room - 118:5
root -
29:2110
90:2, 90:8, 90:21,
94:9, 95:18, 96:3,
1rough -
24:22
62:12hly -
36:16,
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1rule - 30:9,
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62:2, 62:3, 64:11, ,
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79:13, 85:25,
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100:12, 100:15, 0:11,
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103:3,
90:19-required -
58:17, 58:22, 63:19, ,
71:7, 73:11,
76:17,
78:24, 80:4, 81:7,
101:12, 101:20, :10,
1running -
14:23, :9
2rural - 28:10
rusting -
116:13
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safer - 106:14
55:16ty
- 52:22, 53:3,
43:8, 54:23:8, 43:1,
sales - 20:22,
22:3
salt - 115:911
Sand - 115:8
Sandra -
119:1318
sat - 26:2, 121:10
Save - 116:2 -
74:11
27:2ings - 22:11,
63:16- 40:23, 40:25,
schedule -
27:11,
4school - 11:5,
35:9, 40:17, 90:911,
scope -
14:2419
scrap - 115:1
73:6, 73:8, 73:9, 0,
1seat - 45:11,
45:12
seaward - 113:9
14:1, 17:25, 19:13,
49:22, 49:23,
57:12,
.
104:20, 109:13, 22,
111:18, 111:19, 11:3,
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27:14,
32:7, 58:13, 62:19,
109:6, 111:20104:19,
14:2, 18:1,
19:14,
57:13, 59:3, 109:15,
1Secretary - 69:8,
1secretary -
70:4
sector - 9:15, 81:12,
1secure - 47:21,
4securing -
15:11
security - 51:2,
5see - 36:19, 37:6,
58:24, 63:9,
67:5,
92:23, 113:8, 113:14,
1seeing - 67:22,
1seek -
21:3
64:21, 74:234:18,
selective - 116:17
sell -
86:18, 97:17,
9Selling - 79:3, 79:5,
7sells - 99:2
senior
- 49:1
63:11, 64:5, 85:23
13:14, 108:10, 108:15
separated
- 113:13
series - 35:13,
1serious - 31:14
serve -
20:3, 20:6,
28:15, 61:10 25:17,
serves - 119:14
29:1,
29:2, 31:19,
43:21, 52:21, 57:29,
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20:8,
20:24, 21:11,
46:9, 52:16, 53:4, 6:4,
5serving - 39:20,
.
113:22 53:1, 90:9,
40:6, 77:114, 37:1,
setbacks -
90:15
seven - 44:16,
5several - 34:18,
5shall -
103:15,
1shallow - 61:16
share - 20:21,
4Sheriff -
45:19
ships - 69:12, 71:8,
1shopping - 60:21
91:2, 92:9,
93:23,
94:9, 95:4, 95:6,
9shorelines - 90:24,
9short - 22:14,
:18
1shortage - 114:21
122:6thand - 1:24,
41:7, 74:5, 78:18,
,
8showing - 121:8
side - 21:13, 22:8,
29:8, 97:15,
29:6,
signed - 16:17, :25
2significance -
1significant -
117:13
49:19, 90:12ly - 13:3,
70:19, 72:568:24,
simple -
83:5, 92:23
sinking - 114:147:11
sit -
28:420:3
38:10, 54:13, 59:13,
116:2, 118:11, 120:8,
1sitting -
88:11, 95:7
situations - 102:4
31:22, 47:9,
76:115,
79:24, 80:14, 67:24,
slip - 76:11, 76:12,
91:11,
96:21, 98:22,
1slips - 61:22, 64:10,
.
66:2, 66:3, 66:7, 4,
69:5, 69:14, 69:22,
77:18, 78:6,
78:12,
80:2, 80:17, 81:3,
100:22 87:18, 98:11,
small -
30:8, 97:15
78:4, 79:2472:19,
Soft -
17:208:3
solicited - 15:220
someone - 9:24,
81:19,
63:13, 63:15,
somewhat - 103:17
Sorry - 63:4,
88:18
103:3 - 69:4, 91:24,
27:18ce - 27:16,
60:10h - 1:10,
60:1,
63:21, 65:23, 66:21,
102:8, 103:14 84:24,
113:10 -
69:19,
Spanish - 34:3,
1Spanish-american -
1speaker -
89:23
103:19, 110:4:19,
specifically - 0
1specs -
39:25
spend - 68:8, 17
1spending - 14:13,
1spent - 34:18,
38:14
sponsored - 33:20
41:13sors - 40:12,
38:20sorship
-
38:18sorships -
Springs - 110:12
62:12, 62:13,
63:7,
65:25, 66:6, 66:17,
73:13, 77:13, 77:15,
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60:6, 72:23, 90:5, ,
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1stabilization -
117:14, 117:16,
1stabilize -
116:16,
1stable - 116:24
60:25, 62:2, 91:7, 12,
9staff's -
55:9
108:6fing - 108:2,
standard - 90:23,
9standards -
29:7,
5standpoint - 14:23,
87:17, 99:11 80:1,
started -
22:1, 23:9,
85:18, 113:23 83:14,
11:21, 12:2, 12:10, ,
17:12,
17:19, 17:22,
26:23, 27:15, 31:8,
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37:8, 37:11,
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51:6, 52:18, 52:23,
54:15,
54:18, 55:17,
59:23, 60:23, 61:1,
79:12, 82:2, 83:5,
84:22,
88:23, 99:5,
106:6, 107:16, 104:4,
107:24, 108:17,
109:24,
111:25,
114:4, 115:15, 118:9,
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117:4,
122:2, 110:12,
12:12, 12:15, 12:18:7,
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52:19ewide -
43:24,
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58:19
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1stenographically -
1step -
14:20
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77:5, 99:7, 56:8, 66:4,
21:23,
53:18, 62:189,
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stretch -
20:1
strive - 21:753:12
structural - 116:13
115:10,
116:6, 118:10
structures' - 118:14
70:19, 73:19,
106:2,
111:22, 119:2, 121:6,
student -
11:226:19
study - 118:11,
1stuff - 87:3,
88:11
subdistrict - 44:19
subdividing -
84:11
60:21, 83:12, 83:17,
8subject - 20:12,
6sublease -
79:12,
99:3, 99:16, 100:3,
1subleased - 79:8
97:13, 97:22,
98:22,
1subleasing - 79:6
62:9, 62:10, 63:21,
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78:14,
86:11, 86:22, 91:15,
98:6, 99:8, 103:14,
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25:4
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48:43
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24:19, 25:12,
25:13,
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120:2290:7,
116:14,
supporters - 45:25
44:11orting -
28:2,
supports - 27:18,
1suppose - 81:1
suppress -
100:53
surrounding - 40:6
swap -
16:126
Sylvester - 53:25
14:12, 14:14, 15:8,
17:4, 17:14,
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106:23,
114:2
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10:24, 19:2, 8
21:5, 21:13, 21:15,
22:25, 23:20, 23:22,
27:12,
27:14, 27:24,
86:10 29:6, 46:18,
taxable -
27:16:24
21:6es - 20:5, 20:24,
27:17, 27:21:16,
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112:9, 113:2, 114:17
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54:24,
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.
118:9, 55:22, 56:3,
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technically -
15:13,
8technology - 14:20,
26:25, 26:17, 26:20,
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13:4, 21:15,
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79:7, 87:6, 87:8, ,
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103:17,
103:19, :14,
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6test - 63:20, 63:24,
65:22,
66:20, 66:24, 6,
102:8, 101:9, 101:13,
thankful -
34:14
themselves - 15:17,
4therefore - 84:4,
1They've -
19:17,
7they've - 68:16,
7thick - 115:6
88:23,
107:346:23,
65:17, 76:13, 111:16,
thousand - 38:4,
9:7
1thousand-foot -
1thousands - 107:25
15:3, 15:25, 20:3,
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23:8, 27:20, 28:18,
65:1, 65:3, 65:20,
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111:8,
1three-day - 22:14:15
three-phase -
22:16
90:9ee-quarters -
three-way - 111:8:9
31:21, 39:21,
55:16,
1tied - 23:25
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titleage - 46:9
today - 17:4, 21:20,
43:9, 43:13,
44:9,
53:19, 57:23, 58:17,
70:9, 102:5, 110:16,
1today's -
101:21
19:9, 24:21, 38:21,
5Tolomato - 108:24, 4
1Tom - 2:13,
101:24
tool - 111:23 34:15
26:7, 48:13:17, 22:19,
115:7-
21:3, 114:19,
116:18 - 48:15,
totaling -
117:15:11
town - 34:6, 93:5
26:21, 27:8:12,
26:10,
Trail - 35:134:2
training -
32:19,
5transaction - 99:4,
9transactions -
2transcript -
122:9
104:13fer - 83:7,
115:15, 115:16
114:4,
transformation - :4
2transparent -
1Transportation
-
1transportation - 5
1trapezoid - 113:9
Treasurer -
70:12,
8Treasures - 116:3
21:24, 68:5, 120:17,
1trend -
70:6
tried - 83:14, 89:1,
8Troop - 44:6
107:8, 122:9,
68:4,
Trust - 1:125
trustee - 73:18
trustees
- 60:15,
.
83:21, 89:16, 101:24,
1Trustees - 1:11,
1try - 21:8,
21:10,
119:9, 119:10 109:25,
45:10, 81:16, 86:1,
1Tuesday -
1:17,
3tune - 120:14
52:2, 52:4, 52:7,
57:18, 57:22,
58:1,
59:21 58:14, 59:5,
turned - 69:2,
99:16
turnpike - 11:1886:5
Two - 77:23:16
19:9,
26:2, 26:7, ,
29:12, 32:12, 41:3,
57:15, 61:23, 63:2,
76:2,
76:15, 77:16,
81:25, 87:10, 92:5,
115:7, 119:519,
type -
67:13, 67:23,
8types - 45:5, 46:2
87:13cally -
24:25,
U
umbrella -
46:4
under - 36:24, 20
50:22, 51:2, 74:8,
7underbrush -
107:94
15:23, 110:3, 119:8,
90:18rtunately -
59:16rtunately
-
99:12ormity - 27:24,
62:1, 102:4, 102:16,
1unit - 61:11,
66:9
113:4ed - 28:18,
66:13, 76:11, 76:122,
unless -
73:22, 1:21
9unusual - 15:10
17:15, 17:20,
21:3,
. 13
28:7, 32:11, 36:19,
49:19, 50:17, 62:7,
69:9, 70:20,
78:4,
82:12, 85:22, 88:21,
114:23, 115:1, 119:21
upfront
- 98:214
66:8, 94:10, 97:5
61:10nds - 61:6,
uses -
17:18
V
value - 21:3,
27:16,
86:16, 86:24, 97:1,
1values - 28:7
various - 39:9,
40:2,
5Varn - 73:25, 74:1,
75:15, 76:18, 76:22,
78:13, 78:16,
78:19,
79:16, 79:20, 80:9,
83:6, 83:24, 84:6, ,
85:11, 85:17,
86:11,
88:16, 88:20, 89:21,
96:12, 96:14, 96:20,
97:19, 98:3,
98:8,
99:9, 99:21, 100:11,
100:24, 100:21,
vehicle -
46:9, 50:6
50:21, 50:23, 50:25,
5Vehicles - 1:8, 43:2,
4versus
- 90:5
vessels - 67:3, 67:4,
69:14, 70:84,
67:16,
42:2eran - 31:23,
31:7, 32:9, 33:15,
3veterans -
31:10,
32:5, 33:12, 33:17,
41:18, 41:23, 42:6,
veterans'
- 31:9
93:13, 93:16, 94:11,
.
96:90, 95:10, 95:24,
view - 29:93:22
violation -
88:6
visible - 43:25, 0
1vision - 21:2
54:16t - 31:21,
53:18,
107:24ation - 107:19,
visitor - 108:5,
1visitors -
52:18,
5volunitarily - 21:7
volunteer - 117:23
111:11ia -
111:7,
107:17, 119:25,
votes -
104:21
W
wait -
23:155:24
walk - 36:19, 74:3
37:7,
37:1436:20,
walls - 40:6 117:21
106:24- 106:22,
120:1ers
- 119:13,
wants - 84:13, 99:3
War - 33:21,
33:22,
35:2, 35:6, 35:9, ,
36:25, 37:13, 38:3,
113:3, 113:23,
2:9,
114:6, 114:12, 114:2,
116:20, 120:13,
1Ward - 88:21,
88:22,
91:4, 91:20, 91:23,
92:13, 93:9, 95:14,
9Wars -
113:25
33:15, 36:23-
60:10, 69:10, 83:20,
1water -
61:15,
88:17, 106:15, 4:13,
1water's - 107:13
74:13r-dependent
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14
watermark - 91:1,
9Waterway - 80:23
Watkins -
10:20,
13:1, 13:22, 14:4, ,
1ways - 16:1, 100:7,
1Wci - 61:3,
74:2,
95:11, 103:11, 104:1
weapons - 120:154
Web -
35:7, 38:10,
5wedlock - 24:17
week - 32:20, 48:20,
9weeks
- 10:15, 15:7,
26:7, 27:9, 27:11,
2weight - 24:21
109:21,
110:1119,
welcomed - 60:6
west - 81:24, 83:1
75:21,
83:10, 84:2,
112:6, 112:10, :5,
119:18, 119:21,
1Westberry -
43:4,
47:11, 47:14, 47:16,
4wetland - 109:516
Whalers -
67:1
66:20, 98:7- 65:22,
whole - 88:2,
1wide -
102:3
83:13ing - 69:25,
16:11ing - 15:24,
wish - 9:15,
83:20
44:11, 52:202,
120:22, 121:239:6,
wonders -
98:1913
words - 54:1
69:23s - 15:12,
World - 33:25,
34:9,
35:9, 35:14, 35:17,
38:3, 40:19, 41:7,
,
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14
1world - 24:3, 39:18,
3worldwide - 24:2:21
worth - 20:5,
23:1,
8wrapped - 92:17:22
wrestle - 36:2
writers -
102:242:25
91:6, 104:138:20,
Y
yacht - 92:2
year - 16:12, 21:13,
24:14, 25:21,
27:25,
32:21, 32:25, 36:8,
64:22, 68:15, 76:2,
107:20,
107:23103:19,
years - 13:4, 14:15,
21:21, 22:2, 22:6,
7:9,
26:5, 27:20, 28:18,
41:3, 43:11, 56:15,
75:24, 76:3,
90:13,
106:13, 106:18,
1yesterday -
16:75:13
Z
Zachary -
112:4,
1zeroed - 101:19
19:7, 19:17, 23:6, :3,
27:2, 30:8,
30:1713,
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