MINUTES
ESCAMBIA COUNTY RESTORE ACT ADVISORY COMMITTEE February 29, 2016 - 4:00 p.m. Ernie Lee Magaha Government Building BCC Meeting Room, First Floor 221 Palafox Place Pensacola, FL 32502 |
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1. | Call To Order - February 29, 2016 meeting called to order at 4:00 p.m. by Chairperson, Bentina Terry. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. | Proof of Publication - The meeting was advertised in the Pensacola News Journal on February 20, and February 27, 2016. |
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3. | Attendance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4. | Approval of Minutes for 02-1-2016 RESTORE Meeting Motion was made by Alan McMillan to approve the February 1, 2016 Minutes of the RESTORE Advisory Committee Meeting. Christian Wagley seconded. Motion carried unanimously. |
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5. | Old Business | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6. | New Business
Robert Turpin from Escambia County Marine Resources Division presented Version 1 of the Best Available Science Tool (BAST) created by Escambia County to review best available science for each of the RESTORE Proposals. The BAST was made available to the RESTORE Advisory Committee if any of the members wished to use it.
Jennifer McFarren presented on Economic and Workforce Development in relation to Escambia County. Ms. Farren also showed how certain RESTORE Proposals accomplished either economic or workforce development.
Steve Hayes presented Visit Pensacola’s Master Plan for Escambia County. Mr. Hayes discussed what the RESTORE Advisory Committee should be looking for in a tourism project to align with the master plan.
Chips Kirschenfeld, Interim Department Director for Escambia County Natural Resources Management Department, and Shelly Marshall, Escambia County RESTORE Coordinator, presented the RESTORE Proposals in a fishbone watershed approach. This presented the proposals in a spatial relation to each other. It also demonstrated how projects in the same watershed could work together.
The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) decided they would like the RESTORE Proposals to be presented to them in three buckets: Infrastructure, Environment, and Economy. The RESTORE Advisory Committee concluded that this different presentation of the projects to the BCC would not affect their scoring or process. Chairperson Bentina Terry asked that the Committee members have any and all final score changes to county staff by 5:00 pm Friday, March 4, 2016 so final rankings can be discussed at the March 7, 2016 RESTORE Advisory Committee Meeting. |
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7. | Public Comment (limit 3 minutes each) Susan Feathers, 802 East Belmont Street, Pensacola Jeremy Evans, 1175 Wensec Drive, Greater Pensacola Chamber Sherri Myers, 526 Parker Drive, Pensacola Elizabeth Benchley, 2910 Magnolia Avenue, Pensacola Warren Jernigan, 2210 Warren Jernigan Place Melissa Pino, 413 Southeast Baublits Drive Jessica Koelsch, National Wildlife Federation Gloria Wiggins, 6923 Cabral Street Dorothy Dubuisson, 1308 North Barcelona Street Wilheminia Ladd-Gadson, 2315 N Tarragona Street, Pensacola |
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8. | Adjournment - Meeting adjourned at 6:09 pm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||