CALL TO ORDER - 9:00 a.m. (RICK WILSON, CHAIR)
00:01INVOCATION Murphy Hanley, Polk County Fire Rescue Chaplain PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (RICK WILSON, CHAIR)
A. PRESENTATIONS and RECOGNITIONS
00:58A.1. Employee Recognition
C. REQUEST FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC/AUDIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD
06:45C.1. Comments.
D. APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA
20:57D.1. Approve Consent Agenda.
E. COUNTY COMPTROLLER (STACY M. BUTTERFIELD, CPA)
21:07E.1. Disbursements.
E. COUNTY COMPTROLLER (STACY M. BUTTERFIELD, CPA)
22:20E.2. Minutes of Regular Board meeting held on April 1, 2025.
G. COUNTY ATTORNEY (RANDY MINK)
22:33H.1. COUNTY MANAGER (BILL BEASLEY)
22:35H.1. Request Board approve (1) construction contract with C&T Contracting Services, Inc. for the septage receiving and leachate treatment system project ($21,430,000.00 one-time expense) and (2) CIP amendment and budget transfer from the Utilities Capital Expansion Fund Reserve for Future Capital Expansion to fully fund the project ($18,343,741.00 one-time transfer).
H.2. COUNTY MANAGER (BILL BEASLEY)
27:33H.2. Approve Amendment No. 2 to Agreement 2022-025 with Hazen and Sawyer, P.C. to provide professional engineering services for septage receiving stations ($488,410.00 one-time expense)
H.3. COUNTY MANAGER (BILL BEASLEY)
30:47H.3. Approve the Local Agency Program (LAP) Agreement between Polk County and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for the Old Dixie Trail Project, associated resolutions, CIP Budget Amendment and budget resolution ($2,000,335.00 one-time unanticipated revenue).
I. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 1 (BECKY TROUTMAN)
33:15I.1. Commissioner Troutman Comments.
J. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 3 (BILL BRASWELL)
33:56J.1. Commissioner Braswell Comments.
K. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 4 (MARTHA SANTIAGO)
34:51K.1. Commissioner Santiago Comments.
L. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 5 (MICHAEL SCOTT)
34:53L.1. Commissioner Scott Comments.
M. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2 (RICK WILSON, CHAIR)
36:57M.1. Chair Wilson Comments.
N. LAY BOARD APPOINTMENTS
37:00N.1. Appoint Danielle Tanner as a member of the Housing and Neighborhood Development Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) for a three-year term, April 15, 2025, through April 14, 2028. (No fiscal impact).
O. EXPEDITED HEARINGS PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 2022-089
37:20* County Attorney opening comments
O.1. EXPEDITED HEARINGS PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 2022-089
39:38O.1. Public Hearing (LDCPAS-2025-4 Bradley Junction Fire Station) (Adoption Hearing) to consider the adoption of a Small-Scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment to change the Future Land Use from Rural Cluster Center (RCC) to Institutional (INST) on ±8.13 acres to recognize an existing Water Treatment Facility and County Fire Rescue Station in the Rural Development Area (RDA).
O.2. EXPEDITED HEARINGS PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 2022-089
40:53O.2. Public Hearing (LDCPAS-2025-6 ABC Road Caloosa Fire Station) (Adoption Hearing) to consider the adoption of a Small-Scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment to change the Future Land Use designation from Agricultural/Residential Rural (A/RRX) to Institutional-1 (INSTX) on ±5.82 acres for a new County Fire Rescue Station in the Rural Development Area (RDA).
O.3. EXPEDITED HEARINGS PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 2022-089
42:02O.3. Public Hearing (LDCT-2024-28 I-4 SAP LDC Text Amendment) (Adoption Hearing) to amend Chapter 4, Section 401.01, I-4/NE Parkway Plan Districts, to remove outdated criteria and requirements for residential development from the I-4 Selected Area Plan (SAP). (No Fiscal Impact).
O.4. EXPEDITED HEARINGS PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 2022-089
43:17O.4. Public Hearing (LDCT-2025-2 INST-2 LDC Text Amendment) (Adoption Hearing) to allow Vehicle Service, Mechanical and outdoor storage in the Institutional-2 (INST-2) land use district. (No Fiscal Impact).
O.5. EXPEDITED HEARINGS PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 2022-089
44:53O.5. Public Hearing (LDCT-2025-6 Mobile Homes in Plats Prior to 1971) (First Reading) to consider the adoption of a County-initiated LDC Text amendment to Chapter 3 Conditional Uses, Section 303, Criteria for Conditional Uses, Individual Mobile Homes, to allow mobile homes by right in subdivision plats recorded prior to May 20, 1971.
O.6. EXPEDITED HEARINGS PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 2022-089
47:18O.6. Public Hearing (LDCT-2025-4 1,000 Foot Public Hearing Mailer Radius) (First Reading) to consider the adoption of a County-initiated LDC Text amendment to Chapter 9 Development Review Procedures, Section 960(A), Types of Public Notice, by removing the current text of a 500-foot distance in which mail notices are to be sent to area property owners and replacing it with 1,000 feet.
O.7. EXPEDITED HEARINGS PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 2022-089
48:29O.7. Public Hearing (LDCT-2025-3 Stressed Basins and Stormwater Management) (First Reading) to consider the adoption of a County-initiated LDC Text amendment to multiple sections of Chapters 2, 7 and 10 and Appendix A of the Land Development Code, to address stressed drainage basins, and improve stormwater management standards.
P. PUBLIC HEARINGS
51:15P.1. Public Hearing to consider the adoption of an Ordinance of the Polk County Board of County Commissioners prohibiting camping on certain property, unless specifically authorized. (Continued to May 6, 2025)