City of Punta Gorda 2022 Burnt Store Isles Canal Advisory Committee, 14 Mar 2023

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Burnt Store Isles Canal Advisory Committee 3-14-2023

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Tell me when you're on we'll we'll go ahead and get started, you're up and running, okay, we're close enough! You guys ready.

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Okay, you tell me when.

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Oh, that's great.

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I'm going to ask you to silence that in just a minute: okay, okay,.

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Were you able to get any in yeah, okay,.

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We're good okay, we're going to start today. I asked anybody with cell phones or other similar devices to either turn them off or silence them.

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Griffin Burr.

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Rick Daughtry here.

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Milne here, Mike Petrov.

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I ask everybody to stand for Pledge of Allegiance. Please.

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uh Announcements.

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What do we got? Anything I.

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Would like to have an announcement, if you guys don't mind sure.

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The record Kathy Miller, Canal maintenance I, would like to introduce to you Chris fankhauser did I say that right she is our new community outreach coordinator, she's, going to be helping us with coordinating news and information about hurricane Ian's, stuff.

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I, don't know if you want to come on up, but this is Chris. Welcome, so she's going to be sending you guys out an email, giving you contact information. So if anybody comes to you and has questions or whatever you'll have her contact information.

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Still available um so and and we're still having um fiber optic issues at public works, so the best way to reach anybody at public works. Right now is through email, because a lot of us are having to work remotely or or whatever so.

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Like a plan to me, okay and Chris will be providing us updates at our monthly meetings and stuff, like that. So.

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Okay, all right any more announcements is that pretty much it I.

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Think that's it.

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All right next meeting is scheduled for uh April 11th. uh uh Does anybody have a problem with that.

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Everybody sounds good, so we're moving on from there um I, don't see anybody to really talk about public comment, uh I'll I'll, just say it anyway. Anyone wishing to address the burnt store aisle Canal advisory committee. Any subject may do so. It's appropriate time during the meeting. Those who choose to speak must State their name for the record. Each person will be allowed to speak up to a maximum of three minutes.

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uh With that we go on uh approval of the minutes. Do I hear a motion.

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I moved to approve the minutes as published.

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Second, oh any comment, no comment: I'll approve.

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All right against all right: she carries uh moving right along and we're into reports. Kathy.

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Okay, again for the record: Kathy Miller cow maintenance. In your package, you have the financial reports. Are there any questions or concerns.

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Okay, next is the budget utilization report.

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Any questions or concerns we haven't spent any money yeah. So that's a good thing so far.

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What is the up, what is the update for getting some of these funds in in use? Is there.

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Well, as far as the mangrove- well, let's start off with the seawall replacement. Obviously that's going to be on hold until we figure out what we're going to do with uh storm damage.

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Sea walls correct so because we know that there's going to be a share along with the FEMA assistance, a mangrove trimming I'm expecting Mangrove chewing to start sometime in April I have not yet received a schedule, so um he is working on that uh our so our mangroves are trimmed by a certified Mangrove trimmer and right now he's kind of busy helping other municipalities trying to get things cleared away and stuff like that. So, but he did promise me things would start in April.

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So that's what I'm counting on Inlet dredging, that's mainly um just a maintenance thing. uh You BSI spent a lot of money to have their perimeter Canal dredged a couple years ago and that we go out there during the summer months and see if there are any high spots. So we don't have the time to do that now and right now, I don't have any vessels to actually perform that work.

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So if you guys hear of anyone who hits a high spot, especially in the perimeter, Canal I would be interested in that I can get a vessel in, and we can look into that to see if we need to to do some dredging out there. Okay, um Inlet widening that is the BSI Inlet widening project. We'll talk about that when we get to the capital Improvement one okay and then the permit renewals will give guys an update on the permit renewals. um I know we had some spendings because we got our sea wall.

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Permit we've received our Seawall permit Seawall rip wrap permit. We just got an exemption from dep for the dredging permit. So oh really look at.

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Stuff, so we are moving forward But, but so so we it's in the works. It's just staff is so focused on getting FEMA all the things that they're requesting they're actually requesting us information from Hurricane Irma, as well as the.

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We've experienced during Hurricane Ian.

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It we've been quite busy trying to satisfy that once we're through the application process. The gates are open and you know it's full force. Last.

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Time you we talked I, think I think you mentioned that FEMA is just so far behind. They can't even give you the bandwidth you need to go through these applications. Is that correct? Are they? Are they starting to get the backlog.

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Well, you know um so so now now they've come up with another idea. Is we've sent them all the photos that we've taken of every sea wall failure all of our inspection reports, so they're hoping to do a lot of inspections by desk top by looking at photos, I mean the high priorities, it's pretty obvious, yeah, that's a fail! It's in the water right, so those I think they'll be able to inspect from their computers, and you know move that paperwork forward. We have moved forward with the seawall replacement.

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The contract is out on the streets right now. Bids are supposed to be open by Monday, so we'll be able to keep moving forward with that because they said go ahead, keep moving forward with that, while we scramble and get you know things together. So the paperwork will catch up with itself.

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I'm sorry for the follow-up question here, but I'm new, but are there? Is there a short list of things you're trying to get done before hurricane season starts again just to mitigate any damage that might occur on top of the existing damage.

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Got any suggestions, let's see, walls that are you know in danger of you know, weakening further or other. You know just other storm related things that could make exacerbate the damage already that we have so.

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There's nothing we really can do especially to the walls that are already damaged, yeah, um there's nothing. We really can do uh the the ones that were on the breakup being damaged. You know, they've failed with the storm, so you know it's pretty much now, just a reactive.

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Process until we.

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Get through the storm damage, sea walls, I.

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Noticed that um the other day when we were out at some of the um people who lost their sea walls in their yards are compromised, they put these large signs up no wake. Are we helping anybody with um by doing that, because some of these boats- just you know they they go way faster than they should anyway, but I think to help some of these people? You know with these large and awake signs, some people will take advantage of you know slowing down I.

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Do have some signs left over from Hurricane Irma that I've had that I have had handed out. um It just says: please slow down damage, Seawall kind.

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I probably have about a dozen of those left.

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No we're not we're not printing anymore we're not making any more, and some people have opted to put their own signs in their own yard. Okay,.

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Know and experience says that it impacts a very small portion of the people who go by.

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Yeah yeah yeah. Well, that's true: I mean there was a boat in front of us and they didn't slow down. We we almost came to a stop. I mean they had a sign, a huge sign on the side of their sailboat. That said, no wake, please it was nicely and it was a professionally done sign.

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Yeah, that's nice.

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Debris: removal: okay! Is there any update on when that's going to begin.

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Yes, you're jumping the gun a little bit, but.

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That's okay. We.

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Can wing it? We can wing it. So um we had started the process doing the Waterway debris, removal with FEMA and they required us to get a permit through Army Corps of Engineers, and we had to jump through a bunch of Hoops. The Public Works director was able to reach out to the Florida Emergency Management Group they're, actually doing debris, removal for Charlotte County and we were able to piggyback onto that. They started mobilizing this week, they'll be staging at the Ponce Park to unload their debris and haul it off and stuff like that.

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I don't know when they're going to get to BSI, but they have started out at in PGI. So they have started this week. They just started this week so.

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So what degree do the do they go into the mangroves, because some of this large pieces of debris are way back. That's.

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A that's a question: Mike I, don't know you know they. They may feel uncomfortable with getting off the boat to crawl into the mangroves.

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Stuff, like that, you know.

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But that's a good question.

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Okay: okay, moving on to Capital, Improvement, I, guess Gary's! Not here this week, I say well.

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Here are your status reports too. Obviously, that hasn't changed yeah. Okay, um both permits any questions on the permits, building permits for docs lifts, no, no okay, um Capital Improvement yeah.

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So, as I explained before um it was my recommendation that we waited until we got the bids open for the seawall replacement before we went out for bids on the lock widening. Yes, because we didn't want two contractors on top of each other, we didn't want a contractor closing the lock if we had a contractor that needed access to the lock to replace the sea walls.

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So we were going to wait till the bids were open which will be open on Monday and then I figure it'll be a week, maybe two before it goes to council for approval, then I should start receiving schedules and we can take a look at those schedules. So I'm hoping at our next meeting. We can have that discussion. Okay,.

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So this is just the sea walls, it hasn't even started on the uh the lock itself. Then. As far as that's concerned,.

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Right right, we've just I, didn't feel comfortable with closing down the lock when I had people that were losing their Pro, their backyard.

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Trying to get their.

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So that's that's what we talked about and, like I said at our next meeting, I'm hoping that we can readdress that again and you know yes see where we're going.

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Yes, I I appreciate that I just want us to continue to keep the focus on absolutely.

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Absolutely that money is available this fiscal year and I plan on.

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Using it so yeah yeah, good, okay, let's.

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Keep in mind I, just also want to mention uh BSI only experienced what three quarters of a mile in for sea wall damage, so I think the the sea ball replacement, they'll be in and out of there within four or five months. It'll, be you know, a quick fix, I'll be in and out and gone so.

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I'm not saying we're going to wait until then I'm.

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Just saying you know: well once we get a better idea of their schedule and how that.

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And I think they'll give us a better handle on what we can do.

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Correct all right and then permits I think I touched on that a little bit um again. We did get our Seawall riprap permit. We did receive that um and just the other day we've got our our Florida Department of Environmental Protection permit exemption for dredging. Now the next step is to go to Army Corps of Engineers.

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So that's what that's me. I apologize I didn't have a chance to turn that.

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Off sorry, all right we're going to slap your wrist, that's what we're going to do.

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So so that's our next step with the dredging permit is to go to the Army Corps of Engineers and to get that permit so so um FD fdep is also still requiring any dredging that we do in the BSI development gets put back into the deep sections of the canal, they're still requiring us to do that. Okay!

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You guys have some deep section.

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They hold fish, you know, that's that's right. I.

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I'm not saying I hear that.

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All the time Rick I'm.

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I hear that all the time yeah are there any other questions or concerns.

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Nope moving on staff comments. Pardon me any staff comments.

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I shared all my good stuff with you in the beginning of.

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The meeting yeah alrighty member comments do we have anything from them the board here? No, no, nothing at all. uh Is there anything else guys. Did we miss anything, it's a short meeting, but.

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Now again, I just want to remind you that if you do have people that have concerns or questions about hurricane recovery or anything else like that, they can reach out to Chris. Chris is going to be sending you an email with her contact, information and again emailing us is the best way to go right now. Good, okay, instead of.

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Calling Chris your last name.

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Anything else that's about it.

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Record meeting.

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I'm looking for a motion guys.

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Right got emotions.

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A second uh all in agreement hi, it opposed all right, hey we're.

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Done guys, thank you very much, quick one good cookie. Thank.

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You quickie I, like quickies.

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Off the Record yeah.

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You ain't coming all this stuff.