CALL TO ORDER - 9:00 a.m. (RICK WILSON, CHAIRMAN)
00:03INVOCATION 1. Pastor Peter Grant, Parkway Baptist Church, Lakeland PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (RICK WILSON, CHAIRMAN)
A. PRESENTATIONS and RECOGNITIONS
01:232. Recognition of employees with more than 20 years of service to Polk County.
C. REQUEST FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC/AUDIENCE AND OP
04:543. Comments.
D. APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA
01:22:584. Approve Consent Agenda.
E. COUNTY COMPTROLLER (STACY M. BUTTERFIELD, CPA)
01:23:175. Disbursements.
E. COUNTY COMPTROLLER (STACY M. BUTTERFIELD, CPA)
01:24:226. Approve Minutes of Regular Board Meeting held on September 7, 2021.
G. COUNTY ATTORNEY (RANDY MINK)
01:24:427. Approve Astonia North Plat for Conditional Approval. (No fiscal impact)
H. COUNTY MANAGER (BILL BEASLEY)
01:25:088. 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)
01:27:259. 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)
01:31:3210. 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)
01:32:5711. Commissioner Lindsey Comments.
J. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 3 (BILL BRASWELL)
01:33:1912. Commissioner Braswell Comments.
K. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 4 (MARTHA SANTIAGO)
01:36:0513. Commissioner Santiago Comments.
L. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 5 (NEIL COMBEE)
01:37:3214. Commissioner Combee Comments.
M. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2 (RICK WILSON, CHAIRMAN)
01:41:5717. Chairman Wilson Comments.
M. COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2 (RICK WILSON, CHAIRMAN)
01:45:4915. 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)
01:46:1716. 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
01:46:3818. 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
01:46:5719. 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
01:50:0320. 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
02:07:2921. 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
02:09:2822. 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
02:12:0323. 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
02:14:4224. 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
03:12:4725. 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
04:48:3226. 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
04:52:4727. 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
04:56:5028. 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
05:15:5229. 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.