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2021 STATE OF THE COUNTY AND INFORMATION GUIDE 2 Monroe County | monroecounty-fl.gov Monroe County Statistics Table of Contents Approx. 77.5 Table of Contents, County Statistics 2 74,228 people per square Message: Administrator Roman Gastesi 3 Population mile .4 percent County Organizational Chart 4 2019 estimate of Florida’s County Senior Staff Directory 5 Population Board of County Commissioners 6 Stay in the Know About Monroe 7 Area: Islands: Budget & Finance 8-9 3,738 1,783 COVID-19/CARES Act Funding 10 Square Miles of 1 acre or larger Airports: Key West & Marathon 11 (73 Percent Water) Building and Permitting 12 FEMA Floodmap Changes, CRS 13 Code Compliance, MCeSearch 14 Established: 1823 Planning & Environmental Resources 15 County Seat: Fire Rescue, Trauma Star 16 Key West Districts: 5 Fire Marshal, Training, ARFF 17 Emergency Management 18 Irma Recovery/Tiny Homes 19 Employee Services 20 Employees of the Quarter 21 $63,030 4,572 Median Household Income Number of Employment Engineering and Roads 22-23 Establishments Fleet Management 24 Facilities Maintenance/Public Works 25 Project Management 26 Unemployment Groundbreakings/Infrastructure 27 2.6% Rate 48.3 Legislative Affairs: State & Federal 28-29 Median Age Social Services and Bayshore Manor 30-31 Solid Waste & Recycling 32-33 Average Number of Registered Information Technology/MCTV 34 Commute to Boats: 29,037 Libraries & Strategic Planning 35 Work: 17.8 (Statistics courtesy of census.gov, Sustainability and Canal Restoration 36-37 minutes edr.state.fl.us and flhsmv.gov) Veterans Affairs 38 Monroe County is the southernmost county in the County Attorney 39 continental United States and consists of the entire Extension Service 40 Florida Keys chain, the surrounding waters and a Guardian Ad Litem 41 mostly uninhabited region of Everglades National Land Authority 42 Park and Big Cypress National Preserve on the TDC/Council of the Arts 43 mainland. Citizen Boards & Committees 44-45 County Parks, Beaches, & Boat Ramps 46-47 The 2021 Monroe County State of the County County Historic Properties & Museums 48-49 and Information Guide was produced by Public Constitutional and District Officers 50-51 Information Officer Kristen Livengood with the help of Monroe County’s Senior Management Team Municipalities/Federal Agencies State 52 . Agencies 53 Cover photo by Kimberly Wallen on Summerland Key while Local Quick References & Animal Control 54 paddleboarding in the backcountry near her home in October 2020. Message: Mayor Michelle Coldiron 55 The airports, despite a decline in travel worldwide, thrived with new projects and even a COVID-19 germ-fighting robot and is Looking Ahead leading the nation in rebounding from the pandemic. When we entered the new decade on January 1, 2020, Monroe County looked forward to building a resilient community. We never Legislatively, the County allocated millions of CARES Act dollars to imagined how that would morph only two months into the year. local renters, homeowners, small businesses, and nonprofits. There is nothing more important to our County staff than the health, Budget and Finance simultaneously advocated for reimbursements safety, and wellbeing of our residents and visitors. Our staff, of storm-related expenses while producing and administering the alongside our residents, learned what adaptation really means as we $460.3 million FY21 budget. Social Services, Veterans Affairs, and all navigated these challenging and uncertain times with innocence, Guardian ad Litem advocated for our most vulnerable residents, innovation, and creativity. We continue to monitor the impacts of many of whom are in even greater need due to the pandemic. COVID-19, a global pandemic that has affected every facet of our lives, and go into 2021 with a renewed hope as we strive to enhance Being on the frontline of COVID-19, Monroe County Fire Rescue the quality of the lives of our citizens, business owners, and visitors. and Trauma Star continued to provide a record number of Despite the challenges of COVID-19, I am proud of the work County lifesaving services and flights to the mainland, all while staff completed this past year in addition to the day-to-day transporting our residents with no out-of-pocket costs. Fire Rescue operations. also graduated its third “Hot Shots” class waiving tuition fees for residents at its fire training academy. Emergency Management partnered with the Florida Department of Health Monroe County, community partners, and the municipalities From Ocean Reef to Key West, our services continued. Building and will continue to do so for the vaccination rollout. Activating for permits were issued without physical contact. Planning and three storms this hurricane season, Solid Waste led a month-long Environmental developed new technology for damage cleanup in Key Largo following Tropical Storm Eta. Information assessments after storms and implemented mobile marine sewage Technology helped staff move to remote work, taught us how to pumpouts to protect our marine environment. Code Compliance Zoom, and helped automate services. focused on illegal vacation rentals, sewer hookups, unsafe structure abatement, and illegal clearing of our critical habitat. The Office of Sustainability and our County Commissioners continue Fleet continued maintenance of county vehicles. Safety procedures to lead the country in climate change and sea-level rise adaptation were put into place by Employee Services to keep our employees conversations. To mitigate flooding issues, the Engineering and Roads healthy and County services in operation. The County Attorney’s Department tested temporary barrier systems in two Upper Keys Office stayed fully engaged. The Extension Service continued neighborhoods, while repairing and replacing county-maintained seamlessly with virtual classes. And our five libraries stayed open roads and bridges throughout the county. Through the Community for call-in/pick-up/drop-off activities, proving they are community Rating System, Monroe County flood insurance policyholders resource centers, even virtually. continue to save approximately $5 million annually. In my 30 years of public service, five major hurricanes, an oil spill, flesh-eating flies, and several other public health emergencies, Facilities Maintenance always 2020 was by far the most challenging. Despite its uncertainty, our strives to maintain the highest purpose remains steady, Monroe County is committed to creating cleaning standards at county- a better life, every day, for everyone in the Florida Keys. In 2021, maintained properties and buildings and increased the Monroe County will continue to have open and courageous frequency of our cleanings, communication to help you in your decisions regarding your family especially in high traffic areas and work life. We will be here for you. This is a community we can like our county parks, which we all be proud of and we will continue to strive to make our island were able to keep open home a safe place to live, work, and play. throughout the pandemic. Project Management Cheers in paradise, continued capital projects at Marathon library, Plantation Key Courthouse, and others with new protective measures in place. Roman Gastesi Monroe County Administrator 4 Monroe County | monroecounty-fl.gov PUBLIC CLERK OF COURTS TAX COLLECTOR SHERIFF BOARD OF COUNTY PROPERTY APPRAISER JUDICIAL CHIEF JUDGE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS Kevin Madok Sam Steele Rick Ramsay COMMISSIONERS Scott Russell Mark Jones Joyce Griffin David Rice Mike Forster Michelle Coldiron EddieMartinez Craig Cates TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL COUNTY ATTORNEY COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR MEDICAL EXAMINER LAND AUTHORITY Stacey Mitchell Robert Shillinger Roman Gastesi Dr. Michael Steckbauer Charles Pattison ASSISTANT COUNTY BUDGET & FINANCE ASSISTANT COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY ADMINISTRATOR Christine Hurley, AICP Rhonda Haag Tina Boan Kevin Wilson, P.E. BUILDING OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS FIRE RESCUE ENG. SERVICES & ROADS Rick Griffin Lisa Tennyson James Callahan Judith Clarke OFFICE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING PLANNING & ENV. RES. AIRPORTS FLEET LIBRARIES Emily Schemper & Richard Strickland Daryl Greenlee Kimberly Matthews INFO TECHNOLOGY PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER SOCIAL SERVICES SOLID WASTE Cheryl Alan MacEachern Kristen Livengood Sheryl Graham Sullivan EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT VETERANS AFFAIRS CODE COMPLIANCE PROJECT MANAGEMENT Cynthia McPherson Shannon Weiner Cathy Crane Cary Knight EMPLOYEE SERVICES EXTENSION SERVICES GUARDIAN AD LITEM FACILITIES MAINTENANCE Bryan Cook Alicia Betancourt Alexsa Leto William DeSantis Monroe County Organizational Chart The County Administrator, Roman Gastesi, has overall responsibility for the daily operations of Monroe County’s government, with the exception of the Constitutional offices. The County Administrator, County Attorney, Land Authority, Tourist Development Council and Medical Examiner answer directly to the elected Board of County Commissioners. The County Administrator and two Assistant County Administrators, Christine Hurley and Kevin Wilson, oversee the County’s 24 departments and offices that cover a broad range of services and activities. Assistant County Administrator Assistant County Administrator CHRISTINE HURLEY, AICP KEVIN WILSON, P.E. 305.289.2517 305.453.8788 Hurley-Christine@ Wilson-Kevin@ monroecounty-fl.gov County Administrator monroecounty-fl.gov Aide: Kelly Cummings ROMAN GASTESI Aide: Suzanne Rubio Cummings-Kelly@ 305.292.4441 Rubio-Suzanne@ monroecounty-fl.gov Gastesi-Roman@ monroecounty-fl.gov monroecounty-fl.gov