BoCC Regular Meeting & Public Hearing: September 21, 2021

CALL TO ORDER - 9:00 a.m. (RICK WILSON, CHAIRMAN) 00:00:03

INVOCATION 1. Pastor Peter Grant, Parkway Baptist Church, Lakeland PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (RICK WILSON, CHAIRMAN)

A. PRESENTATIONS and RECOGNITIONS 00:01:23

2. Recognition of employees with more than 20 years of service to Polk County.

C. REQUEST FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC/AUDIENCE AND OP 00:04:54

3. Comments.

D. APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA 01:22:58

4. Approve Consent Agenda.

E. COUNTY COMPTROLLER (STACY M. BUTTERFIELD, CPA) 01:23:17

5. Disbursements.

E. COUNTY COMPTROLLER (STACY M. BUTTERFIELD, CPA) 01:24:22

6. Approve Minutes of Regular Board Meeting held on September 7, 2021.

G. COUNTY ATTORNEY (RANDY MINK) 01:24:42

7. Approve Astonia North Plat for Conditional Approval. (No fiscal impact)

H. COUNTY MANAGER (BILL BEASLEY) 01:25:08

8. Approve and ratify Letter of Agreement from the State of Florida, Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) for the Public Emergency Medical Transportation Medicaid Managed Care Supplement Payment Program. ($1,735,013.17 not-to-exceed, one-time expense)

H. COUNTY MANAGER (BILL BEASLEY) 01:27:25

9. Approve Letter of Agreement from the State of Florida, Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) for Central Florida Health Care request for matching funds through the Low Income Pool (LIP). ($778,673 not-to-exceed one-time expense)

H. COUNTY MANAGER (BILL BEASLEY) 01:31:32

10. Approve renewal agreement for core public health services with the Florida Department of Health in Polk County. ($380,000 not-to-exceed one-time expense)

I. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 1 (GEORGE LINDSEY) 01:32:57

11. Commissioner Lindsey Comments.

J. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 3 (BILL BRASWELL) 01:33:19

12. Commissioner Braswell Comments.

K. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 4 (MARTHA SANTIAGO) 01:36:05

13. Commissioner Santiago Comments.

L. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 5 (NEIL COMBEE) 01:37:32

14. Commissioner Combee Comments.

M. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2 (RICK WILSON, CHAIRMAN) 01:41:57

17. Chairman Wilson Comments.

M. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2 (RICK WILSON, CHAIRMAN) 01:45:49

15. Appoint Tina A. Peak, MLS, as a member of the Polk County Historical Commission, representing Polk County Library Cooperative (Seat 9), for the three-year term, October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024.

M. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2 (RICK WILSON, CHAIRMAN) 01:46:17

16. Reappoint Richard A. Fifer as an At-Large (Seat 8) Member of the Polk County Historical Commission, for the three-year term, October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024.

N. LAY BOARD APPOINTMENTS 01:46:38

18. Appoint Pamela D. McNeil to serve on the Community Relations Advisory Council for the four-year term, September 21, 2021 through September 20, 2025.

N. LAY BOARD APPOINTMENTS 01:46:57

19. Reappoint William G. Land to the Tohopekaliga Water Authority (TWA) Board of Supervisors for the three-year term, October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024.

O. PUBLIC HEARINGS 01:48:00

* County Attorney opening comments

O. 20. PUBLIC HEARINGS 01:50:03

20. Public Hearing to consider adoption of a Resolution to vacate platted, unopened, and unmaintained right-of-way as shown on the plat of Poinsettia Park.

O. 21. PUBLIC HEARINGS 02:07:29

21. Public Hearing to consider adoption of a Resolution to vacate platted, unopened, and unmaintained rights-of-way as shown on the Revised Plat of Crooked Lake Subdivision, recorded at Plat Book 27, Page 47.

O. 22. PUBLIC HEARINGS 02:09:28

22. Public Hearing to consider adoption of a resolution to vacate a platted, unmaintained drainage canal and drainage easement as shown on the Plat of Conine Heights, Winter Haven.

O. 23. PUBLIC HEARINGS 02:12:03

23. Public Hearing to consider adoption of a Resolution allowing for the installation of nine traffic calming devices (speed humps) on Twenty-Sixth Street Northwest, near Winter Haven. ($45,000 estimated one-time expense)

O. 24. PUBLIC HEARINGS 02:14:42

24. Public Hearing (LDCU-2021-15 Sutton MH De Novo Hearing) to consider an appeal to the Planning Commission’s decision to approve LDCU-2021-15.

O. 25. PUBLIC HEARINGS 03:12:47

25. Public Hearing (LDPD-2021-17 Touchstone Residential PD De Novo Hearing) to consider an appeal to the Planning Commission’s decision to approve LDPD-2021-17.

O. 26. PUBLIC HEARINGS 04:48:32

26. Public Hearing (LDCPAL-2021-6 Mims RV Park) (Transmittal Hearing) to consider a Large-Scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment to change the Future Land Use (FLU) designation on 979.65 +/- acres from Phosphate Mining (PM) and Agricultural/ Residential-Rural (A/RR) to Leisure Recreation (LR) in the Rural Development Area (RDA).

O. 27. PUBLIC HEARINGS 04:52:47

27. Public Hearing (LDCD-2021-10 Dranefield Sub-District Change) to consider a Sub-District Map change from Business Park Center-1 (BPC-1) to Business Park Center-2 (BPC-2) on +/- 9.51 acres.

O. 28. PUBLIC HEARINGS 04:56:50

28. Public Hearing (LDPD-2021-23 Brooklyn Meadows MHP) (Adoption Hearing) to consider a Planned Development request for a 46-unit Mobile Home Park with amenities on approximately 9.2 acres in a Residential Low-2 (RL-2) district.

O. 29. PUBLIC HEARINGS 05:15:52

29. Public Hearing (LDCT-2021-10 Land Use Hearing Officer Expansion)(First Hearing - No Action) to consider a county-initiated ordinance amending the Land Development Code to expand the types of applications heard by the Land Use Hearing Officer and to revise the appeal process.