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ACTION AGENDA - CLEARWATER CITY COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING
Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - 9:00 A.M.- Commission Chambers
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Item #2 -, Accept a Public Use Easement for Submerged land from the State Department
of Environmental Protection to allow maintenance dredging of Clearwater Pass~
ACTION: Approved.
ITEM #3 - Adiournment - 9:12 8.m.
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Absent:
Brian J. Aun'gst
Mayor /C 0 m mi ssio ne,r
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SPECIAL CITY COMMISSION MEETING
CITY OF CLEARWATER
January 22, 2004
Present:
Ed Hart
Whitney Gray
Hoyt P. Hamilton
William C. Jonson
Vice-Ma yor /Commi ssioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Also present: William B. Horne II
, Garry Brumback
Pamela K.Akin
Cynthia E. Goudeau
Patricia O. Sullivan
City Manager
Assistant City Manager
City Attorney
City Clerk
Board Reporter
The Vice-Mayor called the special meeting to order at 9:01a.m. at City Hall.
To provide continuity for research, items are in agenda order although not
necessarily discussed in that order.
ITEM #2 - Accept a Public Use Easement for Submerged Land from the State Department
. of Environmental Protection to allow maintenance dredging of Clearwater Pass.
The project, maintenance dredging of Clearwater Pass and adjacent federal
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waterways, requires the City to accept this easement. The Public Use Easement will
provide the City proprietary rights to the submerged land for the sole purpose of
maintaining federal navigational channels. The channel will be dredged to a required depth
of 10 feet below MLW (mean low water) in the entrance channel between the Clearwater
Pass Bridge and Gulf of Mexico, and to 8 feet below MLW between the bridge and junction
with the GIWW (Gulf Intracoastal Water Way), and into the harbor. The allowable over
dredge depth is 2 feet. Approximately 30,000 cubic yards of dredged material will be
unloaded between 300 and 400 yards offshore, north of Pier 60. Dredge material will be
placed 8 feet below MLW. Subsequent maintenance dredging frequencies' have not been
determined.
Over the past three ye,ars, the City, L.!. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and FD EP
(Florida Department of Environmentally Protectiory) have collaborated on this project. The
Army Corps and FOEP have all, permit authority, money, resources, and equipment. The",
City is receiving a million dollar dredging project during tight economic times, after it was
legislatively tabled 2 years ago. There is no cost to local tax'payers or users, both
recreational and commercial. The Corps has offered to use their own equipment, rather
,than a contractor's, saving the Corps approximately $400,000. By following their
guidance, the project can be completed this year without further delay. Army Corps of
Engineers equipment is available for this project between January 23, 2002 and mid-
. March. After that, the City will lose Corps resources and will have to lobby again for
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project funding and resources. Efforts by the City Clerk's department are responsible for
appropriate legislative attention to this project during the' last legislative session.
Marine & Aviation Department Director Bill Morris reported Pinellas County had
requested the dredged sand. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could make the sand
available only if the County financed the additional '$600,000 required for use of ,special
equipment necessary to relocate the dredged materials. Agreements to dump the sand on
hotel properties that front Clearwater Pass have expired.
In response to a question, Mr. Morris said he had questioned the U.S. Army Corps
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of Engineers and FDEP if acceptance of the public use easement w,ould create a future,
financial liability for the City. The agencies had stated the agreement provides the, City
proprietary rights regarding requests to lay underground cable or pipeline in the subject
area and exclude entities from getting a permit to use the area. The City is not responsible
for financing future dredging projects of the subject federal waterways.
In response to a question, Mr. Morris said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had
determined the proposed location to deposit the sand north of Pier 60 is most beneficial to
the City as the sand will accrete to north beach. The Corps had rejected a site off Sand
Key due to concerns the sand would accrete back into Clearwater Pass. The Corps
opposed dumping the sand on hotel properties along Clearwater Pass without the property
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owners first financing additional studies and constructing groins. rhe U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers has made six visits to this area and studie'd the movement of the sand over the
past 15 years.
" Commissioner Hamilton moved to authorize th'e City Manager to accept a 10-year
Public Use Easement from the State of Florida Bureau of Public land Administration,
Division of State lands, for those submerged lands and navigable waterways in and around
the City necessary for the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain federal navigable channels '
in Clearwater Pass and surrounding areas and that the appropriate officials be authorized to
execute same. The motion was duly seconded and carried unanimously.
ITEM #3 - Adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 9: 12 a.m.
Attest: ,
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