Committee of the Whole Recommendation.

Recommendation:  The Committee of the Whole (C/W), at the December 18, 2014, C/W Workshop, recommended that the Board take the following action:

A. Eliminate the following sites, which are north of Interstate 10, as a possible site for a Correctional Complex (C/W Item 4):

1.  Site 1 - Vicinity:  1/2 mile north of Highway 196 and Highway 29 (Molino Area)
2.  Site 2 - Vicinity:  2 1/2 miles north of Muscogee Road on Highway 29
3.  Site 3 - Vicinity:  Intersection of Becks Lake Road and Highway 29
4.  Site 4 - Vicinity:  Intersection of Interstate 10 and Beulah Road

B.  Take the following action concerning aggressive panhandling (C/W Item 6):

1.  Authorize the scheduling and advertising of a Public Hearing for consideration of adopting an Ordinance amending Escambia County's Open Container Ordinance and direct the County Attorney to draft the amendments in coordination with the Santa Rosa Island Authority;

2.  Authorize the scheduling and advertising of a Public Hearing for consideration of adopting an Ordinance amending Escambia County's Panhandling Ordinance to create panhandling prohibition zones within a 1/2  mile east and west of Interstate 110, and north and south of all intersections of Interstate I10; and

3.  Approve that the Board will assist the Sheriff with additional funding to enforce the Panhandling Ordinance; and

C.  Offer County Administrator Jack R. Brown a three-year contract, with two one-year extensions, with a salary of $170,000 per year (C/W Item 8).