Waterways Advisory Committee

City of Marco Island Florida 51 Bald Eagle Drive Marco Island, Florida cityofmarcoisland.com Meeting Minutes - Final Thursday, March 16, 2017 9:00 AM Community Room Waterways Advisory Committee Chair: Phares Heindl Vice-Chair: Rodger Parcelles Ben Farnsworth, Monica Pierce, Robert Roth, Steve Sokol, Sam Young City Staff: Chadd Chustz, Mary Husted Waterways Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes - Final March 16, 2017 (1) ROLL CALL Present: 7- Ben Farnsworth, Vice-Chair Rodger Parcelles, Chair Heindl, Steve Sokol, Monica Pierce, Robert Roth and Sam Young Absent: 0 (2) PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (3) APPROVAL OF AGENDA There was discussion on the procedures to add items to the agenda. Those items deferred at the last WAC meeting can be covered under Item 8 "Committee Communications. MOTION by Member Farnsworth, seconded by Member Pierce, that this Agenda be approved. MOTION CARRIED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: Yes: 7- Member Farnsworth, Vice-Chair Parcelles, Chair Heindl, Member Sokol, Member Pierce, Member Roth and Member Young (4) APPROVAL OF MINUTES Mr. Heindl read from emails from Mr. Honig, Ms. Roman and Ms. Litzan regarding items for the committee to review including the stormwater ordinance, 2015 Stormwater Program and Permit for MS4 and a water utility. In reference to the Item: "Review of Draft City of Marco Island Stormwater Ordinance, "Mr. Heindl had concerns regarding the wording of the motion on page 5 of the February 16, 2016 meeting minutes. He does not feel that the committee moved the Stormwater Ordinance forward and the minutes should reflect that. Ms. Litzan suggested making a motion for reconsideration of the item. Motion by Chair Heindl to reconsider the motion to move forward and ask that the WAC have the the opportunity to review the Stormwater Ordniance at the appropriate time. Second by Sam Young. MOTION CARRIED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: Yes: 7- Member Farnsworth, Vice-Chair Parcelles, Chair Heindl, Member Sokol, Member Pierce, Member Roth and Member Young ID 17-1429 February 16, 2017 Meeting Minutes MOTION by Chair Heindl, seconded by Vice-Chair Parcelles, to approve the February 16, 2017 minutes. MOTION CARRIED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: Yes: 7- Member Farnsworth, Vice-Chair Parcelles, Chair Heindl, Member Sokol, Member Pierce, Member Roth and Member Young (5) STAFF COMMUNICATIONS The IT Department is requesting committee members arrive 30 minutes prior to the next meeting to review audio visual equipment. (6) OLD BUSINESS City of Marco Island Florida Page 1 Waterways Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes - Final March 16, 2017 A. PRESENTATION OF MARCO ISLAND WATER QUALITY DATA ANALYSIS BY TURRELL, HALL AND ASSOCIATES Tim Hall from Turrell, Hall and Associates presented a water quality analysis to the committee. Public Comment Bill Trotter, 720 N. Collier Blvd., commented on the importance of our waterways as we are an island community with extensive waterways and that using geometric means and minium standards does not serve our island well. He feels it is important to get down to the individual measurement levels. Andrea Battaglia - 39 North Collier Blvd., commented that there are over 500 drainage places that do not have any filters and questioned if any of the water quality tests were being done in these places. Vic Rinke, Lamplighter Drive., commented that this was great dialogue and a fine presentation. He feels that this is a great start in getting all of the issues out there. Landmark Waterway is a huge body of water and he has been working on this issues for the past 5 years. Sediment and heavy elements are also of concern. He stated lets keep this water as Class 2 and talk about this water as some of the least impaired in the State of Florida. Bob Olsen 900 Montego court, thanked everyone for their involvement. Let's all come together and wrap are arms around this, let's not do it with minimum standards we are a cadillac community lets develop standards, lets figure out the best method, lets get scientific data and set up test areas and do this job right. ID 17-1462 B. OCEANS HABITATS UPDATE-STAFF By consensus of the committee, Mr. Timmerman was invited to give a presentation of the Ocean Habitats program at the next meeting. Mr. Chustz reviewed the Ocean Habitats FDEP Deminimus Exemption PDF with the committee, specifically The Specific Condition-Maintenance Monitoring Reports on Page 2 of the letter. Public Comment Jim Timmerman, 831 Perrine Court, the false impression being portrayed that Ocean Habitats has not been in compliance with City requirements is very alarming to him. He advised that as of today all data and more has been submitted tot he City. He hopes to maintain and establish a very positive rapport with everybody. He will make a presentation to the committee when staff allows. ID 17-1442 C. UPDATE ATONS (AIDS TO NAVIGATION) & PATONS (PRIVATE AIDS TO NAVIGATION) MAINTENANCE-STAFF Mr. Pinter reviewed his memorandum with the committee regarding his meeting with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) and Collier County staff regarding maintenance of markers. FWC recommended that the City conduct an inventory of signs and remove the private and non-permitted signs. Any signage requests for docks should be directed to the Public Works Department. Mr. Parcelles asked if marker 3A will be placed back at its original coordinates. Mr. Pinter advised that the marker was placed at the correct coordinates. Mr. Parcelles will contact Tim Pinter with what he City of Marco Island Florida Page 2 Waterways Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes - Final March 16, 2017 feels are the correct coordinates. Mr. Parcelles would like the committee to discuss a request to City Council to make maintenance of ATONS and PATONS a seperate line item the Public Works Department budget seperate from the Waterways Committee budget in the overall City budget. Repair of signs could be listed under regular maintenance. The next agenda will have an item regarding the need for budgeting for ATON and PATON repair and maintenance. There was further discussion regarding the 2018 budget schedule and scheduling the Waterways Committee's agenda to discuss committee budget needs. The next agenda will have a seperate item regarding the need for budgeting for ATON and PATON repairs. Public Comment Andrea Battaglia, 39 North Collier Blvd., asked if the City was responsible and would put shoaling signs where you come into Caxambas Pass and also the "Resume Normal Speed" sign which has been missing since 2005 near Shipps Landing. Mr. Pinter advised that the County will be handing the Shipps Landing sign. The shoaling signs from FWC were illegal we would have to go through and re-permit those which will cost approximately $5,000. A motion was made by Member Ben Farnsworth, seconded by Chair Phares Heindl, that a discussion of the Waterways Committee budget be placed on the next meedting's agenda with committee members brining in a list of ideas of viable budget items to discuss. THE MOTION CARRIED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: by the following vote: Yes: 7- Member Farnsworth, Vice-Chair Parcelles, Chair Heindl, Member Sokol, Member Pierce, Member Roth and Member Young ID 17-1443 (7) NEW BUSINESS A. DISCUSSION OF 2015 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM & FDEP GENERIC PERMIT FOR MS4 Mr. Heindl proposed setting up a workshop for the Discussion of the 2015 Stormwater Management Program. Mr. Pinter advised the committee that the items needing to be discussed are the six categories inside the program which consist of public education, public involvement, illicit discharge detection, construction site runoff control , post construction management and new development and pollution and good housekeeping in municipality and municipal operations. After discussion it was decided to hold a workshop meeting on April 24th at 9:00 AM. ID 17-1441 (8) COMMITTEE COMMUNICATIONS ID 17-1436 Bill Trotter, 720 N. Collier Blvd., discussed the issue of having a WAC group email. He was told that City of Marco Island Florida Page 3 Waterways Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes - Final March 16, 2017 committees do not have group emails, however, that is incorrect because the Planning Board has one. He was also told that it is inappropriate because of public records issues. He advised that you could have a group email to the committee with a copy to the staff liaison to cover public records retention. He asked WAC to recommend to City Council that the committee be granted a group email. Discussion followed. Public Comment Bob Olson, 900 Montego Ct., he stated that this is a simple technological fix. There isno need for this to go through City staff and possibly or possibly not be filtered. there should be an opportunity for the citizens of this community to talk directly to our citizens on this committee. MOTION by Chair Heindl, seconded by Member Young, that in order to facilitate public perception, transparency and comunication we request City Council to direct the City Manager to require that the City website provide direct communication to all members of the Waterways Committee. MOTION CARRIED 4-3 ID 17-1451 By consensus it was decided to combine this item with the MS4 Workshop. ID 17-1452 By consensus it was decided to combine this item with the MS4 Workshop. ID 17-1454 Mr. Heindl advised that the sites listed are those he has come across doing his own research that might be helpful to the committee members. If any committee member has has information that they feel may be helpful to the committee they are welcome to submit it prior to a meeting. (9) PUBLIC COMMENT Debbie Roddy, Watson Rd., Coastal Advisory Committee updated the committee on Collier Creek, the County is reviewing proposals for the modeling project for Collier Creek. Mr. Farnsworth commented that the water is still very active. Bob Olsen 900 Montego Court, thanked the committee for addressing the budgeting issue. Setting up a separate storm water utility should be thought about and discussed. Education is a big part of the issue and the public could be a part of the solution. The public is not satisfied with the water quality testing as it is done now. Staff needs to be proactive to the community. Sam Young, mentioned Mr. Pinter promised a tour of the storm water inlet filters to the sport fishing club. He advised the committee should be able to go. Laura advised that this can be discussed at the next meeting as a "fact finding" mission. By consensus it will be on the next agenda. Chadd Chutsz apprised the committee on the red tide report. (10) ADJOURN City of Marco Island Florida Page 4 Waterways Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes - Final March 16, 2017 NOTE: TWO OR MORE CITY COUNCILORS OR OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS MAY BE PRESENT City of Marco Island Florida Page 5