ADA City Council Meeting
Regular MeetingBonita Springs, FL · August 16, 2023
Agenda
City Council Chambers
9101 Bonita Beach Road
Small Tc,.-,1 Chami. Bonita Springs, Florida 34135
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CITY COUNCIL
MEETING AGENDA
August 16, 2023
9:00 a.m.
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table outside of Chambers. Completed comment cards should be submitted to the City Clerk who
sits to the left of the podium prior to the start of the meeting.
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national origin, sex, age, disability, religion, income, or marital status. To request an ADA-
qualified reasonable modification at no charge to the requestor, please contact City Clerk Mike
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which such appeal is to be based.
1. Call to Order
2. Invocation
3. Pledge of Allegiance
4. Roll Call
5. Approval of Agenda
6. Mayor’s Welcome
7. Public Comment on Agenda Items
8. Proclamations and Presentations:
A. Appearance by the new President of Florida Gulf Coast University, Dr. Aysegul
Timur. (Green Sheet No. 23-08-179)
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B. Presentation and approval of Streamline Technology proposal to calibrate Imperial
River Flood Forcast Tool. (Green Sheet No. 23-08-169)
9. Consent Agenda:
A. Approval of the August 2, 2023, Draft City Council Meeting Minutes
B. Confirm and ratify Resolutions Extending Local State of Emergency (Green Sheet
No. 23-08-170)
C. Approve a Resolution to engage ten (10) firms for the City’s Miscellaneous Water
Quality Design and Engineering Services (CN 23-14) and authorize staff to enter
into negotiations with the firms selected. (Green Sheet No. 23-08-166)
D. Approve a Resolution to accept the Selection Committee’s recommendation to
engage ten (10) firms for the City’s Miscellaneous Traffic Engineering Services
(CN 23-16) and authorize staff to enter into negotiations with the firms selected.
(Green Sheet No. 23-08-167)
E. Approve Resolution awarding the Vegetation Management & Debris Removal in
Leitner & Rosemary Canal Segments RFB 23-09 to the lowest responsive,
responsible bidder, Mettauer Environmental, in the annual bid amount of
$76,089.80, upon approval of all documentation. (Green Sheet No. 23-08-168)
F. Approve amendment #2 with the Florida Department of Environmnetal Protection
(FDEP) for the Imperial Bonita Estates/Quinn/Downs/Dean west of Imperial
Parkway Drainage Improvement Project (Green Sheet No. 23-08-171)
G. Approve purchase agreement amendment #2 for the Voluntary Home Buyout
Program extending the agreement expiration date from August 25, 2023 to
December 29, 2023 (Green Sheet No. 23-08-172)
H. Approve Resolution accepting the Selection Committee’s recommendation to
engage nine firms for the City’s Miscellaneous Planning Services (CN 23-11).
(Green Sheet No. 23-08-174)
I. Authorize staff, in coordination with Bonita Springs Utililities, to submit a grant
proposal for a Septic to Sewer Project to the Florida Department of Environmental
Water Quality Improvement Grant Program (Green Sheet No. 23-08-180)
• Opportunity for City Council Comments on Consent Agenda
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10. Mayor and Council Member Items:
A. Update regarding the Lee County Recovery Task Force. (Green Sheet No. 23-08-
173)
B. Consider a request from the Historical Society to send a cutting of our Banyan tree
to the town of Lahaina in Maui, Hawaii. (Green Sheet No. 23-08-177)
C. Consider two applications for appointment to the Technology Advisory Board.
(Green Sheet No. 23-08-175)
11. City Attorney’s Items:
A. FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
INTERIM BORROWING NOT TO EXCEED $2,000,000 IN PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF A DEBT OBLIGATION TO FINANCE CONTINUING
GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS; PROVIDING FOR A COVENANT TO
BUDGET AND APPROPRIATE LEGALLY AVAILABLE NON-AD
VALOREM REVENUES TO PAY THE PRINCIPAL OF AND INTEREST ON
THE DEBT OBLIGATION; PROVIDING FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE HOLDER
OF SUCH NOTE; PROVIDING SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.. (Green Sheet No. 23-08-178)
B. FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BONITA SPRINGS
FLORIDA, AMENDING THE BONITA SPRINGS LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
CHAPTER 7- ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES AND MARINE
FACILITIES, STRUCTURES AND EQUIPMENT, ARTICLE XII. - DOCK AND
SHORELINE STRUCTURES; AND CHAPTER 9- DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING FOR
CONFLICTS OF LAW, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, SCRIVENER’S ERRORS,
AND MODIFICATIONS THAT MAY ARISE FROM CONSIDERATION AT PUBLIC
HEARING AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. (Green Sheet No. 23-08-176)
12. City Manager’s Items:
A. Update regarding Hurricane Ian recovery
B. Update regarding fiscal year 2023-2024 draft budget
13. Mayor and Council Member Reports
14. Public Comment
15. Adjournment
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