City of Punta Gorda 2023 Burnt Store Isles Canal Advisory Committee, 8 Aug 2023

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Burnt Store Isles Canal Advisory Committee 8-8-2023

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All right, I guess we're on now: yep, okay,.

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So you about ready, ready if.

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You are okay, call daughter, uh roll call.

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Mike Petra president Ian Milne here Sean Harrigan, here Stuart griffinburg.

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Rick Dougherty.

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Here: okay, uh we'd stand for Pledge of Allegiance. Please.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

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Amen all righty uh next, uh uh our announcements, anything in particular we're going to talk about here. I will have a public comment announcement here. Anyone wishing to address the Burnt Store Isle Canal advisory committee on any subject, may do so at the 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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The other announcement is, if you have a cell phone I, ask that you either turn it off or put it on mute with that we're moving right along. Oh next meeting. Okay, what is the next meeting I? Think it's scheduled for September 12th? Does anybody have a problem with that?

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Okay, nobody has a problem with that.

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Up is approval of last meetings. Minutes is everybody reviewed the minutes from last time? Any comments, thoughts.

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Yeah Sean Harrigan a motion to approve this shawna's.

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Motion to prove.

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Second, okay motion: eight in seconds any other comment: if not in favor all.

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Motion carries all righty financial.

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Report good afternoon, Kathy Miller Canal maintenance for the record.

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And your packets are this month's Finance reports. Are there any questions or concerns.

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I do have a question.

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Interest on investments, it's showing forty nine thousand three hundred forty six dollars in Revenue.

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I have no idea what that's for, but I will find out from the finance department and email all the members. Okay,.

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Okay, I assume it's a mistake, but nope.

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Nope, it's for something yeah. It's for something I will follow through on that.

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Okay, so I caught that and I thought. Oh we're, making all kinds of money on interest here well.

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If I remember correctly, the tax dollars that we collect go into an account and we accurate interest on that money, so I'm going to assume that's what that is, but I want to make sure that that's what it is well.

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I'm just saying the budget was for 1240, then all of a sudden, 49 000 shows because it says year to date at the time, but that still wouldn't be.

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Anything received yeah I, just I just want to make sure that that's what.

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It is I, don't want to give you guys bad information, bad information I figured as much, but.

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Anyway, that's the only.

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Know in that van, what do we have in reserves? On top of that, I mean. Could that be.

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Reserves for contingency is fifty thousand that's for when we replace the sea walls, that's something we added and.

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We'd carry over from last year's budget correct.

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Yeah, we're speculating, but I suspect that it's the two.

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Yeah I, don't specifically see it on here.

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But I can find out also and yeah and I'll. Let you guys.

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Know, reserves that would be that'd be good.

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Pardon me moving right along moving right along budget utilization report.

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Okay, you can see here that um we haven't really had any billing go through as far as the month of July I do know that we have received invoices for Seawall replacement, but that comes out of something else out of a different account for the hurricane Ian stuff. Okay,.

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Right so I'm not sure how they're gonna, how we're gonna present that but um I will get with finance and find out.

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It's important that all the staff members understand that FEMA is a reimbursement program, so we actually have to pay the invoices and then, as they come in, then they get we get reimbursed for those funds. Yes,.

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Are there any other questions, nope.

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See you all replacement status, okay,.

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We have three projects currently under construction. Mondovi just needs sod, a project isn't completed until the sod has been placed actually Valletta has started, and so is San Pietro. But this report is uh what was a status report as at the end of July, okay,.

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Yeah I think I'd last last month on this particular Seawall replacement, I'd ask for it to have and an additional column.

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Call them and see well replacement schedule with the actual start dates to keep the residents.

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Start dates, my apologies I will note that and have it for you next month. My apologies.

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Anything else we're all good all righty permits authorized by City staff.

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Looks like there's three.

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Any questions on that concerns.

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And the capital Improvement program- yes,.

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Again, our goal is to the this winter is to um put the BSI lock widening back out on the streets.

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So we'll be moving forward with that.

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Any other questions.

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The master permit.

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So dep has issued um a revised exemption for dredging, so you know we have the sea wall in the rip rat permit. So now we're working on um updating the dredging permits and when I say dredging I mean the inlet, dredging and Dockside dredging right. Okay, so um is there anything you want to share with this Mr disher? Nothing, okay, I think that's about the only update! We have we're still going through the permitting process on that. Okay.

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That's it for permitting.

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We have nothing as far as public hearings are concerned, correct.

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So if it's okay with you, I would like to jump in on a FEMA update, okay, and it should be under staff comments.

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So, um in the next six weeks we should be completed with the FEMA inspections. I think we are completed in the BSI Zone as far as a FEMA representative, coming in the backyards and doing their own, estimating with the city representative, I, think we're done in BSI, but I think we still have four to six more weeks to go in PGI and then that will be completed.

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And then we sign um the inspect the estimates- and you know start that process to move forward, Channel markers that contract has been awarded and that should start August 14th doesn't really affect BSI. You guys didn't have any channel markers that were damaged, but just in case you are using the inlets and notice the channel markers so that that should take about 30 days to.

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um So that's the channel markers out through Alligator Creek, all the way out into the harbor Excel. No.

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Those Channel markers are owned by the county. Those are so those are County maintained, County, yes,.

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The channel markers at Ponce, Pompano bass, Inlet that were damaged um and I, think I had one or two over at Lashley. Okay,.

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Had like 24 Channel markers that were damaged.

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That will be replaced.

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Up there, yeah Kathy.

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Which ones are our County? The.

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Channel markers along alligator.

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Yes, coming out of Greater Creek out into the harbor, got.

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It, however, the Buckley pass Channel markers, Belong, To, The, City, okay, but we report those under PGI because they're really part of pgi's District. Okay.

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um What else can I share with you? As far as we have? We continue to have our bi-weekly meetings with FEMA um just going through that whole process of sharing information and and working through that application process, we're still going through all that.

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We have the we have hired a project management, consulting firm that has provided us with four inspectors, and so they started last week. So so one inspector is assigned two zones and those inspect those guys are doing the inspection services as opposed to the city, hiring staff, buying vehicles and buying computers and stuff. We hired a consultant to do all that.

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What inspections are they actually doing now? Own the sea walls.

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Himself on the sea wall itself, yeah.

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And this is part of that biannual Seawall inspection, no.

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That that Seawall assessment is completely different, they're just overseeing the construction of the seawall replacement, making sure that the right panels are going in that they're straight. The backfill is right: the welds are good. The Steel's in place, it steals tied, concrete is proper, restoration is done, you know, and that we're meeting all of our permit requirements and stuff like that, okay,.

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I'm with you now.

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And and I think that's about all I have for a FEMA update.

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um Can I move on to another subject then, absolutely uh this evening at six o'clock, or is it 6 30 the the city is having their meeting right here in this room? Yes,.

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Six o'clock: what can we expect at that? Is that.

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So what we're going to go over is we are going to share with the public um our Capital Improvement projects. We have the three projects, so we're going to share with them those projects and we're going to share with them the seawall study why we need to increase the amount of seawalls that we're replacing and we've provided them with.

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So the Taylor study with you, which you guys are in all you know familiar with uh we're gonna again reintroduce that, and you know they propose that you know we increased our Seawall replacement by a percentage, we're sharing that information and why we need to increase their assessments. Okay, okay, it correct me if I'm wrong, but at our last meeting we decided to increase our assessments to cover the capital projects this year, so that and we'll be explaining that as well right. Okay, okay,.

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What kind of response would we expect to see I.

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Have no idea I'm, not so I'm, not asking for a sign-in sheet. It's not a it's not like a hearing. It's just an informational meeting.