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COLUMBIA COUNTY BOAR[) OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS POST OFFICE BOX 1529 LAKE CITY, FLORIDA 32056-1529 COLUMBIA COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLEX 372 WEST DUVAL STREET LAKE CITY, FLORIDA 32055 AGENDA NOVEMBER 3, 2011 3:00 P.M. ·Invocation {Commissioner Ronald Williams} Pledge to U.S. Flag Staff Agenda Additions/Deletions Adoption of Agenda Public Comments Jody DuPree, Chairman {1} Presentation of National Hospice and Palliative Care Month Proclamation Marlin Feagle, County Attorney PUBLIC HEARING: {1} Ordinance Relating to Boating Restricted Areas STAFF MATTERS: HONORABLE JODY DUPREE. CHAIRMAN (1) Consent Agenda DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS: (1) Offer of Sale to Columbia County from Ellisville Investments, Inc. (2) Redistricting Proposals ** COMMISSIONERS COMMENTS ADJOURNMENT COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROCLAMATION 2011P-10 PROCLAMATION NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE MONTH - NOVEMBER 2011 WHEREAS, hospice and palliative care offer the highest quality services and support to patients and family caregivers facing serious and life-limiting illness; WHEREAS, hospice care and palliative care providers take the time to ask what's important to those they are caring for - and listen to what their patients and families say; WHEREAS, skilled and compassionate hospice and palliative care professionals - including physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, counselors, health aides, and clergy - provide comprehensive care focused on the wishes of each individual patient; WHEREAS, through pain management and symptom control, caregiver training and assistance, and emotional and spiritual support, allowing patients to live fully up until the final moments, surrounded and supported by the faces of loved ones, friends and committed caregivers; WHEREAS, the provision of quality hospice and palliative care reaffirms our belief in the essential dignity of every person, regardless of age, health, or social status, and that every stage of human life deserves to be treated with the utmost respect and care; WHEREAS, every year more that 1.5 million Americans living with life-limiting illness, and their families, received care fro the nation's hospice programs in communities throughout the United States; WHEREAS, more than 468,000 trained volunteers contribute 22 million hours of service to hospice program annually; WHEREAS, hospice and palliative care providers encourage all people to learn more about options of care and to share their wishes with family, loved ones, and their healthcare professionals; We do hereby proclaim November 2011 as national Hospice and Palliative Care Month and encourage citizens to increase their understanding and awareness of care at the end 01: life and to observe this month with appropriate activities and programs. Duly proclaimed this 3r<1 day of November, A.O., 2011. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA T · . - BY: ~~LJ~~~ J DY . DUPREE, CHAIRMAN P. DEWITT CASON, CLERK ORDINANCE NO.. 2011-22 AN ORDlNANCE RELATING TO BOATING RESTRICTED AREAS; PROVIDING FOR A PUl{~OSE, PROVIDING DEFINITIONS, ESTABLISHING BOATING RESTRICED AREAS, PENALTIES; and PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLUMBf"7 COUNTY, FLORIDA: SECTION 1. Purpose. The purpose of this ordinance is to provide uniform regulations for the safe operation of motorboats and other vessels in or upon the waters within the jurisdiction of Columbia County consistent with Chapters 125 and 327, Florida Statutes and Chapters 680-21 and/or 68D- 23, Florida Administrative Code. SECTION 2. Definitions. Boating-restricted area means an area of the waters of the state within which the operation of vessels is subject to specified restrictions or from which vessels are excluded. Motorboat means any vessel equipped with machinery for propulsion, irrespective of whether the propulsion machinery is in actual operation. Operate means to be in charge of or in command of or in actual physical control of a vessel upon the waters of this state, or to exercise control over or to have responsibility for a vessel's navigation or safety while the vessel is underway upon the waters of this state, or to control or steer a vessel being towed by another vessel upon the waters of the state. Person means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity. Regulatory marker means a device used to alert the mariner to various regulatory matters such as horsepower, speed, wake, or entry restrictions in conformity with the Uniform State Waterway Marking System and the United States Aids to Navigation System, Part 62 of Title 33 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Slow Speed and Slow Speed Minimum Wake may be used interchangeably and mean that a vessel must be fully off plane and completely settled into the water. The vessel must then proceed at a speed which is reasonable and prudent under the prevailing circumstances so as to avoid the creation of an excessive wake or other hazardous condition which endangers or is likely to endanger other vessels or other persons using the waterway. At no time is any vessel required to proceed so slowly that the operator is unable to maintain control over the vessel or any other vessel or object that it has under tow. A vessel that is: 1. Operating on plane is not proceeding at this speed; 2. In the process of coming off plane and settling into the water or coming up onto plane is not proceeding at this speed; 3. Operating at a speed that creates a wake which unreasonably or unnecessarily endangers other vessels or other persons using the waterway, or is likely to do so, is not proceeding at this speed; Page 1 of 3 4. Completely off plane and which has fully settled into the water and is proceeding at a reasonable and prudent speed with little or no wake is proceeding at this speed. Vessel is synonymous with boat as referenced in s. l(b), Art. VII of the State Constitution and includes every description of watercraft, barge, and airboat, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. Wake means when used in conjunction with a numerical size limit, means all changes in the vertical height of the water's surface caused by the passage of a vessel including, but not limited to, a vessel's bow wave, stern wake, and propeller wash, measured from the ambient tide level to the crest of the vessel's wake at a distance of not less than 25 feet from the vessel. SECTION 3. Area ofenforcement. The areas of enforcement shall be all waters, creeks and canals located within the boundaries described below for the purpose necessary to protect the safety of the public as such restrictions are necessary based on boating accidents, visibility, hazardous currents or water levels, vessel traffic congestion, or other navigational hazards in compliance with Section 327.46, Florida Statutes. (a) Confluence of the Santa Fe and lchetucknee Rivers -A Slow Speed Minimum Wake zone, shore to shore, within waters shared by Columbia, Gilchrist and Suwannee Counties, bounded by the following three points: 1. A point 300-feet east ofthe confluence of the Santa Fe and Ichetucknee rivers (upstream on the Santa Fe River), 2. A point 300-feet west of the confluence of the Santa Fe and Ichetucknee rivers (downstream on the Santa Fe River), and 3. A point 300-feet north ofthe confluence ofthe Santa Fe and Ichetucknee rivers (upstream on the Ichetucknee River) This restricted area is depicted in Drawing A. SECTION 4, Posting Boating Restricted Markers. Implementation of the boating restricted areas is contingent upon receiving all applicable state and/or federal authorizations to insure compliance with Chapter 68D-23, Florida Administrative Code and to assist in navigation consistent with the United States Aids to Navigation System. SECTION 5. Penalties. The provisions of this section may be enforced by any law enforcement officer as defined in s.943.10, Florida Statutes. Pursuant to Section 327.73, Florida Statutes, any person cited for a violation of any such provision shall be deemed to be charged with a noncriminal infraction, shall be cited for such an infraction, and shall be cited to appear before the county court. The civil penalty for any such infraction is $50, except as otherwise provided for allowable county court costs for boating infractions. References to other authorities. Where a statute or administrative rules are referenced herein, this shall mean the most recently adopted version of said statute and administrative rules. Page 2 of 3 Severabi/ity. If any section, sentence, clause, or word of this section is for any reason declared to be unenforceable or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining portions shall not be affected. SECTION 6. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be effective upon completion of the following: approved and adopted pursuant to Columbia County's procedure, approval by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission pursuant to Section 327.46, Florida Statutes and upon posting of tl:le regulatory markers. DULY PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3RD NOV. , 2011. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA ATTEST: BY·------------- Joay DuPree, Chairman P. DeWitt Cason, Clerk of Courts Page 3 of 3 SLOWSPE~DI ,. ,. I .._ .. t r t r• ; f· l MINtMUM WAKE f; ! fi· COMPLE~7.:;;FF PLANE •1- IJ l - LITTLE. OR NO WAKE. ,~ ~·f. Permit# Co Ordinance# : : f. ·.· • ) . ·I'.. ···,·;... ·- ,::· ~ ! ·:... ' - . ' Boating Restricted Areas - Waterway Regulatory Marker Work Plan - Suwannee and Santa Fe Rivers US Highway 129 Point 1: Install SSMW and RNSO signs downstream from the ramp will be on a tree on the south side of the river at approximately 29 54.683 and 082 51.662. This Bridge & Guy is 97 yards from the ramp and the coordinates were taken from about 1S feet from the tree. We will be taking measurements from the boat ramp downstream and Lemmon Boat from the upstream side of the bridge for the upstream location.