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Home My WebLink About05082002S£BASTIA HOME OF PEUCAN iSLAND SEBASTIAN CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REGULAR MEETING WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2002 - 7:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1225 MAIN STREET, SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA ALL AGENDA ITEMS MAY BE INSPECTED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK - 1225 MAIN STREET, SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA Individuals will address the City Council with respect to agenda items immediately before deliberation of the item by the City Council - limit of ten minutes per speaker (R-99-21) 02.108 02.109 02.096 02.097 02.098 1-10 7. 8. 02.099 CALL TO ORDER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE INVOCATION - Rev. Bob Shields, Alliance Community Church ROLL CALL AGENDA MODIFICATIONS (ADDITIONS AND/OR DELETIONS) Items not on the written agenda may be added only upon a majority vote of City Council members (R-99-21) PROCLAMATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND/OR PRESENTATIONS B. C. D. E. Presentation of Plaque to Employee of the Quarter Proclamation - National Hospital Week Proclamation - Emergency Medical Services Week Presentation by Dr. Grant Gilmore Unique Species of Fish Florida Power and Light Report - Electricity Infrastructure Expansion CITY ATTORNEY MATTERS CITY MANAGER MATTERS A. Status of Schumann Drive Irrigation System Bid Process 02.100 11-12 02.101 13-34 02.102 35-40 9. 10. 11. 41-52 02.103 53-54 02.104 55-60 02.106 61-76 B. Presentation by Anna Jackson - Historical Preservation Opportunities Presentation by Paul Tischler and Director of Growth Management, Tracy Hass - Fiscal Impact Analysis and Annexation Study (Growth Management Transmittal 4/30/02, Analysis, Map) Barber Street Sports Complex Parking Expansion Opportunities (City Manager Transmittal 5/2/02, Drawings, Aerials) CITY CLERK MATTERS CITY COUNCIL MA'i-rERS Ao B. C. D. Mr. Hill Mr. Majcher Mr. Coniglio Mayor Barnes 1. Assignment of Councilmembers to Attend Indian River County Commission Meetings Mr. Barczyk CONSENT AGENDA All items on the consent agenda are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of consent agenda items unless a member of City Council so requests; in which event, the item will be removed and acted upon separately. A. Approval of Minutes - 4/24/2002 Regular Meeting Renew Sod Contract with B & T Sod (Public Works Transmittal 4/18/02) Request by Joy Green to Use the Community Center for Graduation Party June 7th, 2002, 8-12 pm (City Clerk Transmittal 4/30/02, Application) Resolution No. R-02~20 - Vacation of Easement - Jackson (GMD Transmittal 5/2/02, R-02-20, Site Map, Staff Report, Application, Utility Letters) A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, VACATING A PORTION OF A CERTAIN EASEMENT ON LOTS 28 & 29, BLOCK 293, SEBASTIAN HIGHLANDS UNIT 11; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR RECORDING; PROViDiNG FOR EFFECTIVE DATE. 12. PUBLIC HEARING Procedures for public hearings: (R.99.21) · Mayor opens Headng · Attorney Reads Ordinance or Resolution · Staff Presentation Public Input - Limit of Ten Minutes Per Speaker · Staff Summation · Mayor Closes Hearing · Council Action Anyone wishing to speak is asked to sign up before the meeting, when called go to the podium and state his or her name for the record 02.094 77-82 02.080 83-88 Quasi-Judicial Public Hearing for Ordinance No. O-02-10 - Laurel Reserve PUD (GMD Transmittal 5/1/02, O-02-10, Map, P & Z Recommendation) (Quasi-judicial hearing procedures on back of agenda) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE DAVIS PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT LOCATED NORTHWEST OF SCHUMANN LAKE TO PROVIDE FOR 96 SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGS AND RENAMING AS LAUREL RESERVE PUD; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 1st Public Hearing for Ordinance No. O-02-11 - Moratorium - 2nd Public Hearing Scheduled for 5/22/02 (City Manager Transmittal 5/2/02, O-02-11) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, DECLARING A SIX-MONTH MORATORIUM ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF APPLICATIONS AND ISSUANCE OF PERMITS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PROPERTY LOCATED BETVVEEN THE SEPARATED SEBASTIAN BOULEVARD RIGHT-OF-WAY; PROVIDING FOR EXCEPTIONS; SETTING FORTH EXPIRATION; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE. 13. INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS FROM THE PUBLIC Item that has occurred or was discovered within the previous six months which is not otherwise on the agenda - sign~up required - limit of ten minutes for each speaker 02.043 89-102 14. 02.028 103-118 15. 02.023 16. 02.105 119-122 02.107 123-130 02.095 131-134 COMMITTEE REPORTS/RECOMMENDATIONS A. Tree and Landscape Advisory Board 1. Interview, Unless Waived and Appoint One Alternate Member Position (City Clerk Transmittal 4/29/02, Applications, Ad, Board Members) B. Code Enforcement Board 1. Interview, Unless Waived and Appoint One Alternate Member Position (City Clerk Transmittal 5/2/02, Applications, Ad, Board Members) OLD BUSINESS A. Schedule City Council/Code Enforcement Workshop NEW BUSINESS A. Joint Project Agreement Between the City of Sebastian and the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce/Art & Music Festival (City Manager Transmittal 5/1/02, Agreement) B. Runway 4-22 Lighting Contract (Airport Transmittal 4/29/02, Bid Tabulations and Recommendations, FDOT Approval) C. First Reading of Ordinance No. 0-02-07 - Police Retirement - Schedule Public Hearing for June 12, 2002 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, AMENDING CITY CODE CHAPTER 58, ARTICLE III, POLICE OFFICERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE 3 02.090 135-138 Resolution No, R-02-21 - Recreation Policy (City Manager Transmittal 5/2/02, R-02-21) A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, ESTABLISHING A POLICY THAT THE CITY WILL PROVIDE IT'S OWN RECREATION PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO THE CITIZENS OF SEBASTIAN; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE. 17. ADJOURN (Ali meeting shall adjourn at 10:30 p.m. unless extended for up to one half hour by a majodty vote of City Council) ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE BY THE CITY COUNCIL WiTH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER CONSIDERED AT THIS MEETING (OR HEARING) WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE HEARD. (286.0105 F.S.) IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA), ANYONE WHO NEEDS A SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION FOR THIS MEETING SHOULD CONTACT THE CITY'S ADA COORDINATOR A T 589.5.330 A T LEAST 48 HOURS IN ADVANCE OF THIS MEETING. HEARING ASSISTANCE HEADPHONES ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS FOR ALL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS. 4 Procedures for Quasi-Ju,d,icial Hearin~l 2. 3, 4. 5. 6, 8. 9. 10, Mayor Opens Hearing City Council Members Disclose Ex-PaRe Communication Applicant or Agent Makes Presentation in Favor of Request Following Swearing In By City Clerk Staff Presents Findings and Analysis Following Swearing In By City Clerk Council Asks Questions of the Applicant and Staff Mayor Opens the Floor' for Anyone in Favor of the Request (anyone presenting factual information shall be sworn but anyone merely advocating approval need not be sworn in) Applicant Provided Opportunity to Respond to Issues Raised by Staff or Public Applicant Provided Opportunity to Summarize Request City Council Deliberation and Questions Mayor Calls for a Motion City Council Action MEMO DATE: TO: FROM: COPY: RE: Thursday, 2 May 2002 Terrence Moore, City Manager Dave Fisher, City Engine~~;~' Terry Hill, Public Works Director Update - New FPL Feeder Lines / Routing Options Further to my memo to you dated 18 April 02 and following our meeting with FPL on April 25th, we are continuing to meet and work with FPL engineering / planning people to determine best options for rerouting the proposed new feeder lines. We are in the process of determining and outlining trade-offs (aesthetics vs, service needs vs. cost of various options). Some current tasks / scheduled milestone events are: 1, Thursday afternoon, May 2: D. Fisher and T. Hill to meet with FPL Planner Dennis Pagano. 2. Wednesday evening, May 8: FPL to give a presentation at City Council meeting. Expect concerned residents to attend and speak also. Soonest: We have requested FPL to provide, in writing, their planning criteria and cost calculus for placing existing overhead lines underground. We hope to receive this prior to the City Council meeting on May 8th, 02.0q 2May02 / DWF Pg l of l o < >~ CHRiSTIANA E. JACKSON ~ Paint~l Ikmti~ Vero Beach,, l~oflda 32963 (772) RE: City of Sebastian, Florida - Reecommendations for the protection and preservation of historical structures and landscapes within the city limil~. In an effort to preserve the character and integrity of the historic structures within the Cky of Sebastian, 1 do suggest the following options: 1. Create a Preservation Ordinance, and/or 2. Designate a National Register District along Palmetto/Louisimm,~or 3, Designate historic structures w~thin thc City of Sebastian by listing them in a National Register Multiple Property Listing. Description: l) The City of Sebastia~ would create a Preservation Ordinance, .providing for the identification, protection and promotion of restoration of buildings and districts within the city which have special historical, architectural and archaeological significance. The ordinance would be designed to fit the needs of the city, arid would be most effective if it provided for a Historic Preservation Board and a local landmarks program. ( This option offers the most legal protection). And/or 2) Attempt to designate a Na~donaI Register District along Palmetto and Louisiana Avenue. The State Historic Preservation office is aware of future poss~le changes in the area and remains hopeful that a National Register district could be approved in this mv.a at their meeting in. the Fall. ( A NationalRegister district, aRhough prestigious, does nof offer any legal protection for the designated area,) A~/or 3) Attempt to designate "ltke nmltiple historic property's" located in the City of Sebastian via a National Register Multiple Property Listing. i.e, all vernacular structures built between 1900 and 1925. This option offers a comprehensive way of listing a number of structures at once in one nomination form. (A multiple property listing does not offer any legal protection for th~ designated area), Sincer~rly, Christiana E. Jackson 02. t HOME OF i~L.~CAN ISLAND City of Sebastian, Florida Subject: Presentation by Paul Tischler, of Tischler & Associates, Inc., regarding recently completed annexation study. Exhibits: Fiscal Impact Analysis, map EXPENDITURE REQUIRED: None Agenda No. 0,,2 , I 0 { Department Origins: ,C4ro,,wth Management Tracy E. Hass4~"' Date Submitted: April 30, 2002 [ For Agenda of: May 8, 2002 outlining targeted areas for pospib,,!e future annexations. AMOUNT BUDGETED: APPROPRIATION None REQUIRED: None SUMMARY Tischler and Associates, Inc. recently completed a fiscal impact analysis of residential and nonresidential land use prototypes within the City of Sebastian. Essentially, the fiscal impact analysis provides an overview of the costs and revenues of various land use prototypes in order to determine the fiscal effect of each land use. In other words, the analysis provides a better understanding of what type of land uses generate net revenues and net deficits to the City. This information will prove most useful during the course of evaluating future annexations, and in determining the most beneficial and desirable land use categories. Additionally, within the enclosed information you will find a map outlining targeted areas for potential future annexations. The enclosed map is only intended to provide you with a conceptual outline of areas for future growth. Additional information will be provided as we delve further into the annexation process. ~ 0 0 [] [] 0 [] [] [] 0 ---Z moo U [] [] [] [] · [] 0 · ,-' ~ Zoning Map North City of Seba. sti. m. ' }Im';D 3/22/2000-(')I~-IT)I.NAN('2I:~ NO, 0~00-(}9 A cie.. City of Sebastian Zoning Map - South ADOPTED 3/2212000-ORDINANCE NO, 0-00-09 KEY III :'~' ....................... ii" ........ ' .... III ~,~:,',,,~,,,,,,, ...... -, .-3'_'>-'"- ........ ,? - ................ o KEY HOME Of ?~d~CAN ISLAND Subject: Barber Street Sports Complex Additional Parking ~r,,S"~~~.,'..ity Manager Agenda No. _O_a2.~-[-O-~oq'- Department. Origin: Date Submitted: 05-02-02 For Agenda of: 05-02-08 -Exhibits: Drawings and Aerials SUMMARY As previously reported to you in my information letter dated, April 26, 2002, staff will present an overview of options for consideration to expand parking opportunities at the Barber Street Sports Complex. RECOMMENDED ACTION. Consider input and offer direction accordingly. Z Z PARKING AND AHHENITIE$ FDR THE BARB£R STREET 3PDRT CDNPLEX ef PE__RSIAN LA~ 2. 3. 4. BASTU HOME OF PEUCAN ISLAND DRAFT SEBASTIAN CITY COUNCIL MINUTES REGULAR MEETING WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2002 - 7:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1225 MAiN STREET, SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA The Mayor called the Regular City Council meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited, There was a moment of silence. ROLL CALL City Council Present;.. Mayor Walter Barnes Vice-Mayor James Hill Mr. Joe Barczyk Mr. Edward J. Majcher, Jr. Mr. Ray Coniglio Staff Present: City Manager, Terrence Moore City Attorney, Rich Stringer City Clerk, Sally Maid Deputy City Clerk, Jeanette Williams City Engineer, David Fisher Finance Director, Mark Mason Police Chief, James Davis Captain Dave Puscher Lieutenant Eugene Ewert Public Works Director, Terry Hill City Engineer, Dave Fisher Human Resources Director, Jim Sexton Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Two DRAFT o 02.081 02.082 AGENDA MODIFICATIONS ADDITIONS AND/OR DELETIONS Items not on the written agenda may be added only upon a majodty vote of City Council members (R-99-21) Mr. Coniglio suggested New Business item D be moved to the first item under New Business. PROCLAMATIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS AND/OR PRESENTATIONS A. Ceertifi.cate of Appreciation to Corey Barb0ur for Plant ng Flowers Around City Signs Mayor Barnes read and presented the certificate to Corey Barbour. B. Certificate of A reciation to Christo her Burr for his Assistance with the Arrest of a Hit and Run Driver 02.083 02.084 Mayor Barnes read and presented the certificate to Christopher Burt. Certificate of A reciation to Adrina Davis David Foster David Folkenin for Their Service on the Citizens Bud et Review Adviso Board Mayor Barnes read and presented certificates to Adrina Davis and David Folkening. David FoSter was not present to accept his certificate. Certificate ora reciation to Jean Vesia for Her Service on the Plannin and 02.085 Mayor Barnes read the certificate, however, Mrs. Vesia was unable to attend the meeting to receive it. Relay for Life Recognition 02.086 02.087 Mayor Barnes recognized the City of Sebastian Relay for Life team and thanked all those who gave donations. MuniciDal Clerks Week Proclamation Mayor Barnes read and presented the Municipal Clerks Week proclamation. Nurse Week 2002 Proclamation Mayor Barnes read and presented the Nurses Week 2002 proclamation to Inez Fielding, Sue Lee and Shirley Berlin. Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Three 02.088 H. 02.089 I. D AFT Pled.qe of Civility, Proclamation Mayor Barnes read the Pledge of Civility proclamation, however, there was no one in attendance to accept it. The Mayor read a letter from the National American Family Association, which presented a framed "in God We Trust" poster to hang in the City of Sebastian. Susan Bisno, A T & T Broadban~dd Bob Stephens, Ann Murphy and Larry Johnson, representing AT&T Broadband, briefly addressed City Council. City Council members expressed satisfaction with the improvement in cable service under AT&T Broadband. Mr. Stephens said all fiber optic cable installation is complete and commended Mr. Johnson on his commitment. Ms. Murphy discussed the merger with Comcast. CITY ATTORNEY MATTERS , Explained to alleviate any confusion on the CR 512 triangle, that there is no intent to establish a park or single family housing on the property and that the western most properties, already zoned with proper land use category, should be turned loose from restrictions in 6-8 weeks. He further stated there is a holdup on the public service and industrial tracts because land use must be processed by the state. He discussed proposed annexations west and south of the City and whether they are ready for land use changes to coordinate with the aforementioned CR 512 properties. o 02.090 1-20 CITY MANAGER MATTERS. The City Manager said the next street resurfacing program will begin the week of May 6th. A. Recreation Service Provision Cit Mana er Transmittal 4/16/02 Anal sis Facilit Use The City Manager addressed the scenarios he had presented in the agenda packet relative to proposed future recreation services for the City of Sebastian. Following a description of the various scenarios, citing scenario two which would increase the City's millage, is the recommendation of Indian River County, and will result in no gain in services for the City of Sebastian; he recommended scenario 1 even though it was no real benefit for City. He suggested perhaps looking into the City managing its own recreation activities at its facilities. Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Four D AFT 02.091 21-46 City Council discussion followed on the fact that scenario 2 will cost more but provide no further benefits. The City Manager stated an ordinance or an interlocal agreement would be needed to make scenario 2 work. It was the consensus of City Council to direct the City Manager to come back to the next meeting with a possible potential policy recommendation that we are in favor of scenario 1. The City Manager stated the County would like to hear from us by May 16th. Vessel Moorin within the Cit Limits PD Transmittal 4/18/02 Exhibits A-G) The City Manager further reported on safety and environmental issues relative to vessels moored in the Indian River Lagoon and requested that City Council establish some regulatory provisions on the matter. The Chief of Police introduced Captain Puscher and Tim Left, Vero Beach Police Officer, who is assisting the Sebastian Police Department in identifying boats moored in the lagoon. He said Officer Left pointed out numerous violations which would be ticketed in Vero Beach, that several of the boats had been run out of Vero Beach, and had expressed concern that the City may be getting itself into a situation it cannot get out of in years to come. He said a representative of FIND said if the City did not establish regulations for its waters it may be overcome by many moored boats in the future. TAPE I - SIDE II (8:05 p.m.) Mr. Barczyk cited current LDC and Code mooring provisions. Officer Left responded to questions from City Council relative to Vero's mooring field. The City Attorney said the state encourages the regulation of mooring fields, and that the City can petition to move the field to another location. Discussion took place on the need for on land facilities to accommodate a mooring field. Mayor Barnes asked the City Manager to bring back further information relative to regulation, and that he did not want to spend additional money on facilities. The City Attorney handed out current regulations from the Land Development Code relative to moored vessels (see attached). He said the only thing not provided for in the current regulations is permitting procedures. It was the consensus of Council to get rid of the unlicenced and derelict boats in the area and begin the process of establishing some rules for the citizens of Sebastian. Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Five DgAFT Bill Germain said he had moored his boat in the lagoon for many years and was shocked to receive a letter from the City, that according to the Army Corps of Engineers, the area south of Captain Hirams to Floodtide is a designated anchorage; and that he knew most of the boat owners and would not call the boats derelict. Cokey Chapman, who said he lives on his boat, asked if the City had recourse to establish regulations on a federal waterway. He suggested more discussion take place before a consensus is received. Mr. Hill said it is not Council's intent to remove any legally registered boats. CITY CLERK MATTERS The Clerk extended an invitation from County Commission staff for City Council Members to attend a Public Records Management Workshop on April 25, from either 8:30-11:30 a.m. or 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Indian River County Commission Chambers conducted by Roxanne Dunn of the State Division of Archives. 10. CITY COUNCIL MATTERS Discussed Mr. Coniglio's memo regarding Code Enforcement in the City subsequent to his ride along with Code Enforcement officers. Expressed concern due to lack of house numbers on some residences in Sebastian. Discussed confusion of residents regarding location of trees in waterways, and asked for a consensus of Council to direct the City Attorney to get information from FEMA. Mr. Hill Discussed calls from a resident about a Capital Sanitation oil spill and urged residents with problems with Capital Sanitation or other vendors to contact City Hall to lodge their complaints. , Recommend staff revisit irrigation for Schumann Drive because plants are dying. It was the consensus of Council to pursue this activity 5-0. Reported on his ride with a Code Enforcement officer and that he would like to see some type of workshop. Congratulated the officers involved in the recent capture of the bank robber. Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Six DRAFT 02.077 02.092 11. · Said he had taken a ride with Code Enforcement today and also suggested a workshop with Code Enforcement, staff and the Building Department. · Invited the public to the cleanup this Saturday sponsored by Keep Indian River Beautiful, organizing at Riverview Park. · Also invited the public to attend the April 29th meeting regarding recreation at 5:30 p.m. Reminded his colleagues that the City Attorney appraisals are due. CONSENT AGENDA All items on the consent agenda are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of consent agenda items unless a member of City Council so requests,, in which event, the item will be removed and acted upon separately. A. Approval of Minutes - 4/10/2002 Regular Meeting B. Authorize Roadside Mowing Services Agreement between BK Maintenance of West Melbourne and the City of Sebastian in the Amount of $49,578.66 (City Manager Transmittal 4/18/02, Agreement) C. Resolution No. R-02-18 Transfer of Cable Franchise (GSA Transmittal 4/11/02, R-02-18) 02.093 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, APPROVING THE TRANSFER OF CABLE FRANCHISE PURSUANT TO A T & T MERGER WiTH COMCAST; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE. Resolution No. R-02-19 Huddy Vacation of Easement (GMD Transmittal 4/16/02, R-02-19, Site Map, Staff Report, Application, Utility Letters) A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, VACATING A PORTION OF A CERTAIN EASEMENT ON LOT 15, BLOCK 264, SEBASTIAN HIGHLANDS UNIT 10; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR RECORDING; PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE. The City Attorney read resolutions R-02-18 and R-02-19 by title. MOTION by Hill/Majcher "1 move approval of consent agenda items A-D." ROLL CALL: Mayor Barnes - aye Mr. Hill - aye Mr. Barczyk - aye Mr. Coniglio - aye Mr. Majcher - aye MOTION CARRIED 5~0 6 Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Seven 12. 02.053 pUBLIC HEARING. A. Resolution No. R-02-17 Authorizin the Florida Small Cities Communit Develo ment Block A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN'S FISCAL YEAR 2002 FLORIDA SMALL CITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION APPLICATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS. The City Attorney read Resolution No. R-02-17 by title. The City Manager introduced Betty Jordan. Ms. Jordan addressed City Council, said she had a draft application for execution, and that the City's score is 675.98 which is a good score. The Mayor opened the public hearing at 8:55. There were no speakers. by Barczyk/Coniglio MOTIO"NI would move to adopt Resolution No. R-02-17." ROLL CALL: Mr. Hill - aye Mr. Barczyk - aye Mr. Coniglio - aye Mr. Majcher - aye Mayor Barnes - aye MOTION CARRIED 5-0 Authorize the Commitment of a $300,000 Match. from the Git,/of Sebastian's FY 2002 ~Ud et for the Louisiana Avenue Area CDBG Im rovement Pro ram The City Manager stated this is a formal requirement of the process. Ms. Jordan stated this commitment adds 60 points to the application. MOTION by Hill/Majcher "Move to authorize the commitment of $300,000 match from the City of Sebastian's FY 2002 Budget for the Louisiana Avenue Area CDBG Improvement Program." ROLL CALL: Mr. Barczyk - aye Mr. Coniglio - aye Mr. Majcher - aye Mayor Barnes - aye Mr. Hill - aye MOTION CARRIED 5-0 Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Eight D AFT 13. Mayor Barnes called recess from 9 p.m. to 9:10 p.m. All members were present when the meeting was reconvened. INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS FROM THE PUBLIC Item that has occurred or was discovered within the previous six months which is not othen/vise on the agenda - sign.up required, limit of ten minutes for each speaker None. 02.014 14. COMMITTEE REPO, RT, SIRECOMMENDATiONE A. Planning and Zoning Commission Interview Unless Waived and A oint One Re ular Member Position Cit Clerk Transmittal 4/15/02 A lications Ad Member List Mayor Barnes explained the policy that in most cases an incumbent is reappointed, and urged other applicants to apply for other available positions. Ms. Reichert recommended re-appointing Mr. Barrett and other applicants in attendance said they would hold their applications for other positions. MOTION by Barczyk/Coniglio "Move to re-appoint Mr. Barrett to the Planning and Zoning Board to a regular three year term to expire 5/1/2005." ROLL CALL: Mr. Coniglio - aye Mr. Majcher - aye Mayor Barnes - aye Mr. Hill - aye Mr. Barczyk - aye MOTION CARRIED 5-0 15. OLD BUSINESS None. 02.095 t6. NEW BUSINES-~ Discussion and Direction Re ardin Police Pension Cit Mana er Transmittal 4/12/02 Memo Summa O-02-07 Statement Lee Dehner and Ward Foster, representing the Police Officers' Pension Plan, gave a lengthy presentation to City Council. TAPE II- SIDE I (9:18 p.m.) Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Nine Mr. Dehner stated that the City's plan for its officers meets the minimum requirements, is Iow in relation to other agencies in the area, and recommended an increase to the 3% multiplier for all years of service. They then responded to questions from Council. Mr. Foster verified that the City would be 'responsible to fund the plan if the state could not provide the funding. The Finance Director said millage would have to increase by .25 mills to cover this increase. The City Manager said the City can absorb the 3% adjustment prospectively. Adrina Davis, Sebastian, said, for the record, said the City is losing officers to state and federal agencies due to Iow compensation. Sherri Reichert, said she would pay more property taxes to see the officers get their funding. Mr. Foster said the 12.1% is not unprecedented in the funding of the plan, citing that in 1997 the city's funding rate was 11.9% which is not uncharted territory. Lieutenant Gene Ewert, Chairman of the Police Pension Board, said this proposal has been brought up numerous times to several other administrations prior to this. Joe Scarpa, said he was willing to pay a tax increase to support these officers. Rappy Perez, member of the Police Pension Board, said it will cost each taxpayer $25 a year to take care of this increase. Frank Gorchese said the officers deserve a raise. Cokey Chapman urged an increase. Sergeant Michelle Morris expressed concern for the inequity that long term employees will find compared to new-hires. MOTION by Barczyk/Hill "1 move that we go with the 3% retroactive." ROLL CALL: Mayor Barnes ~ aye Mr. Hill - aye Mr. Barczyk - aye Mr. Coniglio - aye Mr. Majcher - aye MOTION CARRIED 5-0 Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Ten 02.094 A. The City Attorney said he will bring back an ordinance that reads the City adopts an ordinance that adopts a Chapter 185 Plan with a benefit payment of 3%. Mayor Barnes recommended that the Police Pension bring items to the Council and not wait if it cannot get through administration. Readin.q of Ordinance No. O-02-10 Laurel Preserve PUD ('GMD Transmi.tta 4/12/0~ ~)~02-10.. Conceptual plan, MaD..P &.Z Recommendation) ' AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE DAVIS PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT LOCATED NORTHWEST OF SCHUMANN LAKE TO PROVIDE FOR 96 SiNGLE-FAMiLY DWELLINGS AND RENAMING AS LAUREL RESERVE PUD; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILiTY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. The City Attorney read Ordinance No. O-02-10 by title and briefly described the decrease in density and waterfront homes. Mayor Barnes and Mr. Hill inquired about access. Mayor Barnes asked about exit onto Kildare Drive but not a second exit. The City Attorney replied that Kildare is an emergency exit only and an offshoot from Bailey (Laurel Reserve Drive) will be an exit. The Mayor was concerned about traffic using Del Monte Drive where there is now a gate. Mr. Hill asked if the plan included running a road along Fischer Island Circle. The City Attorney stated it will run along 3 lots but be heavily landscaped by the County when the road goes in. MOTION by Barczyk/Hill "1 move to adopt Ordinance No. O~02-10 and schedule a quasi-judicial public hearing for May 8th year 2002." ROLL CALL: Mr. Hill - aye Mr. Barczyk - aye Mr. Coniglio - aye Mr. Majcher - aye Mayor Barnes - aye MOTION CARRIED 5-0 02.019 B. Authorize Work Authorization #3 to Kimle Horn & Assoc. u to the Amount of ,$12,500.00 for En,qineern,q Servces for Riverview Park Expansion {'En.qineerin,'i Transmittal 4/!8/0.2, Work Auth.0riz.at on #3) ' ' ' Mr. Good said the task will be to prepare environmental permits to be submitted to the SJRWMD. MOTION by Majcher/Coniglio "Move to approve Work Authorization No. 3, to Kimley Horn & Associates not to exceed $12,500." ]0 Regular City Council Meeting April 24, 2002 Page Eleven ROLL CALL: Mr. Barczyk - aye Mr. Coniglio - aye Mr. Majcher - aye Mayor Barnes - aye Mr. Hill - aye 02,044 MOTION CARRIED 5-0 Authorize Staff to Enter REG Architect Inc. Contract in Amount of 55 000.00 with the The City Manager stated this item is a result of the 2127102 meeting and that Mr. Gonzalez and Mr. Wagner were present to answer any questions. TAPE II - SIDE II (lO:21 P.M.) Mayor Barnes confirmed this analysis is for future spacial needs. Ric Gonzalez with REG Architects stated a report on the needs that may include conceptual designs will be presented this summer for discussion. 'll/Ma'cher MOTION by H~ J ........... ,,~, ?h~_ o,,,~,~ssional Services Agreement with REG "1 move to autnorlze star[ ~o ex~u ........... Architects, Inc., for Phase i of Exhibit "A" (Pre-Design, Planning and Conceptual Designs) in the amount of $55,000." ROLL CALL: Mr. Coniglio - aye Mr. Majcher - aye Mayor Barnes - aye Mr. Hill - aye Mr. Barczyk - aye MOTION CARRIED 5-0 17. Being no further business, Mayor Barnes adjourned the meeting at 10:23 p.m. Approved at the May 8th, 2002 Regular City Council Meeting. Walter W. Barnes Mayor Sally A. Maio, CMC City Clerk City of Sebastian, Florida Subject: Sod Contract Ap.~y.e d f~$hb .'n~.~y: Te~rence~o'~", Ci(~nager Agenda No. ~)~,/~3 ...... Department O rigin~;--P u b]J~, W 9~s/'f Dept. Head: ~ (~/~ General Services: Date Submitted: 04/18/02 For Agenda of: 05/08/02 Exhibits: EXPENDITURE REQUIRED: As needed AMOUNT BUDGETED: $ As needed APPROPRiATiON REQUIRED: SUMMARY The firm of B and T Sod has a mmual contract with the City to furnish and install sod as needed. The contract was for one year with a two-year renewal option. The contractor and the City wish to renew the contract for the second and final year of its renewal option. RECOMMENDATION Move to approve the renewal of the sod contract to B and T sod for m~ additional year in accordance with the approved contract prices. ¢~ 0F SEBASTIAN HOME OF PELICAN ISLAND 1225 Main Street Sebastian, Florida 32958 Telephone (561) 589-5550 FAX (561) 589~5570 Subject: Use of Community Center for Su City Manager IAgendaNo. ~)~ /0~ Department Origin: City Clerk Date Submitted: 4/30/02 For Agenda of: 5/8/02 Exhibits: Application Expenditure Required: Amount Budgeted: Appropriation Required: S~UMMARY STATEMENT An application has been received from Joy Green requesting rental of the Community Center on June 7, 2002 from 8:00 PM to 12 Midnight for a Graduation Party. As required by Ordinance No. 0-00-20, Section 74-8(e) (copy attached), she is requesting approval to hold the event until Midnight. R~ECOMMENDED ACTION Consider the request and act accordingly. HOM£ O~ pEL~CA~ ISLAND DATE.: CITY OF SEBASTIAN RENTAL PERWKT APPLICATION q- 30-O~ ~r] COM2vfUNITY CENTER YACHT CLUB NAME OF PERMITTEE: ._ .~ C ~CeM] ADDRESS OFPEtLM2TTEE:(~3~ ~°//irl~]4i 1) No. '~ street c~ ?HONE # ~3 g8 - i o?o g MML~Ne ADDm~SS: NAM~ OF OROUP Ol~ ORGANIZATION: ----- ANTICIpATED NUM2BER OF PERSONS ATTENDING EVENT: If more than 75 attendees, extra duty police officer services are required 01-01-13) REQUESTED DATE: ~l~e 77 ~OQ~_~ TIME: From: PLEASE ANSWER YES OR NO: 1. Are You a Resident of Sebastian? · 2. Will Tlaere Be Pm Admission or Door Charge? 3. Will Alcolxolic Beverages Be Served? 7,5 (a) If answer to #3 is Yes, Permittee' s proof of age: Make checks payable to City of Sebastian (A service fee of 5% or $10.00, whichever is greater, may be charged for a dishonored check per City Resolution No. R-96-41) Office Use Only Rem ............... $ N°n-Residem.. Total ................ $. Tax. P.'O. Services Total ..... · .......... $ SECURITY DF'POSIT .............. RENT ............................. 7% TAX., ......................... POLICE OFFICER SERVICES 5250,00 OFFICE USE ONLY RECEIPT_.NO. ,INITIALS APPROVED Alcohol Beverage Request [] Police Department Agreement Corrarmed (if applicable) Key Pidcup Date: Key Returned Dale: Security Deposit Returned By City Check# For $ [] DISAPPROVED Date ?o ~s o~ SEBA~%L~ co~foNrry c~a ox YAc~ ~:. A fl~posit of ~o-h~dmd ~ do~s (~250, 00) for ~leanup mu~ be made ~ ~e app~oa~o~. T~s depoi~ is r~dable ~e b~g is left ~]e~ ~fl ~d~aged by peewee. F cle~g or r~ is ne~ess~ by Ci~ emplaye~s, t~s deposit or a po~on' of the deposit be foff~ted, based on ~omafian suppled by ~e supe~tendent ofbufl~gs. Sally A. Ma~6, CMC '" City Clerk and reguh~ions'and agree to all the conditions listed. Furthermore, I understand lhat neglecting oe~n the premises immediately afterward will result'in forfeiture, i~ part or ful/, o£the security ;Date (el) .Prohibited uses. No permit shall be granted for the zommercial ese of a Public-Use t~acility, although fund-raising far non-profit organizations shall be allowed subject to Council approval as set forth below. In the event that gambling activity is to be ~ part of the permitted use, the City Council shall make a determination that such activity is not in conflict with the general law of the State of Florida. .,~'(e.). Council approval. In the event that the p;oposed use may include activities involving gambling, alcoholic beverages, the use of a facility for greater than eight hours or after 11:00 p.m., or if a charge for admission, food.costs, requ/red donation or other fee is to be assessed, then the permit can only be issued upon approval of the. City Council. (f) City Manager approval. Other than permits requiting Council approval, the City Manager shall issue a use permit for a ?ublic-I. Jse Facility upon a' determination that the same is consistent with the public interest and in accordance with applicable law. The permit shall be conditioned upon compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, posting of a security deposit covering potential expenses from olean-up and damage in an amount established by resolution of Council and, if the permitted activity requires the use of additional City resources, adequate previsions to off-set such associated costs. The Manager may impose such other reasonabl~'' conditions as are necessary to protect the public interests. (g) Appeal. A decision of the City Manager to deny, or to grant. with conditions, an application made pursuant to this section may be appealed by the applicant to the City Council. The appeal shall specify the grounds for the appeal and shall be in writing filed with the city clerk 'and shall be heard at the Council's next regular meeting. The City Council shall a~rm, reverse or modify the decision of the City Manager. The decision of the City Council shall be final. Section 9. That the Code of Ordinances, City of Sebastian, Florida is hereby amended to create a new section to be umbered section 74-9 which shall read as fellows: Sec. 74-9. Claims against security deposit. All or part of the security deposit for any permit issued under this Article shall be forfeited to the City if it is deterrrfined by the City Manager that non-compliance with the terms of this Article Or conditions of the permit occurred, or if damages to the facilities have occurred which can be attributed to the applicant. The City Manager is authorized to pre-rate the amount of estimated damages and shall return any amount of the deposit in excess of estimated d~mages. Damages are determined to be either .physical Ci tian, Florida Subject: Resolution No. R-02-20 Agenda No. Vacation of Easement - Jackson Lots 28 & 29, Block 293, Sebastian Department Origin: Growth Management Highlands Unit 11 Date Submitted: 5/2/02 ~ (TH) ore or Su,bmitta ~ · , For Agenda of: 5/8/02 Exhibits: 1) R-02-20 2) SiteMa 3) Staff Re ort 4) A plication 5) Utility Letters EXPEN'DIT~--~ ~J I AMOUNT BUDGETED: ~--~OPmATION · ' I~-one KEQUIRED: None REQUIRED. None I SUMMARY This is a request for vacation of 3.2 feet of the rear 20' public utility and drainage easement located on Lots 28 & 29, Block 293, Sebastian Highlands Unit 11,480 Concha Drive. The house and pool were constructed in 1994. Because of an inaccuracy in the original survey, the pool was built 3.2 feet into the rear easement. The owners wish to sell the house and cannot get title insurance issued without the abandonment. Adopt Resolution No. R-02-20. ~RECOMMENDED ACTIO~NN HOl~. OF PLUC,,,~( JSLAHD e ABANDONMENT OF EASEMENT Staff Report Project Name: Residence of William & Helen Jackson Requested Action: Abandonment of the northwestern most 3.2 feet of the rear public utility and drainage easement located on the southeastern most twenty (20) feet of Lots 28 & 29, Block 293, Sebastian Highlands Unit 11, less the northeastern r~ost six (6) feet and the southwestern most six (6) feet thereof. Project Location: a. Address: 480 Concha Drive b. Legal: Project Owner: Lots 28 & 29, Block 293, Sebastian Highlands Unit 11 a. Name: b. Address: Project Agent: William & Helen Jackson 480 Concha Drive Sebastian, Florida 32958 a. Name: b. Address: Project Description a, Narrative of proposed action: Applicant wishes to abandon the northwestern most 3.2 feet of the southeastern twenty (20) foot public utility and drainage easement on Lots 28 & 29, Block 293, Sebastian Highlands Unit 11, in order to bring their property into compliance regarding a rear easement encroachment of the swimming pool. The encroachment occurred because of an inaccurate original survey used when the house and pool were built in 1994. b. Zoning: RS-10 c. Future Land Use: LDR d. Existing Land Use: Single-family residence INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS FROM THE PUBLIC SIGN-UP SHEET, MAY 8, 2002 REGULAR MEETING "New Business" as used herein, is defined as an item that has occurred or was discovered within the previous six months USE THIS FORM ONLY FOR INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS NOT OTHERWISE ON THE PREPARED AGENDA*- LIMIT OF 10 MINUTES PER SPEAKER If the item on which you wish to speak is on the printed agenda, do not sign this form. The Mayor will call for public input prior to Council deliberation on each agenda item. Please raise your hand when he calls for input. ........................... ':: ................ : ....... ~7' ........ ~ .............................. New Subject' '~'~] ......................... "~i ....... '-'--- - Name. New Subject: New Subject: 02.094 PUBLIC HEARING SIGN-UP SHEET May 8, 2002 Quasi-Judicial Public Hearing for Ordinance No. O-02-10 - Laurel Reserve PUD AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT pLAN FOR THE DAVIS pLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT LOCATED NORTHWEST OF SCHUMANN LAKE TO PROVIDE FOR 96 SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGS AND RENAMING AS LAUREL RESERVE PUD; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABiLITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE, NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS 02.080 B. PUBLIC HEARING SIGN-UP SHEET May 8,2002 1st Public Hearing for Ordinance No. O-02-11 - Moratorium - 2n" Public Hearing Scheduled for 5/22/02 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, DECLARING A SIX-MONTH MORATORIUM ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF APPLICATIONS AND ISSUANCE OF PERMITS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PROPERTY LOCATED BETWEEN THE SEPARATED SEBASTIAN BOULEVARD RIGHT-OF-WAY; PROVIDING FOR EXCEPTIONS; SETTING FORTH EXPIRATION; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE. NAME ADDRESS /3 77 NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS NAME NAME · ,,~ / V&'~ NAME NArvTE ADDRESS ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS Utilities Comments: a. Florida Power & Light: approved b. Southern Bell: verbal approval c. Charter Communications: approved d. Indian River County Utilities: approved e. City Engineer (drainage): approved Zoning Technician Comments: The house was constructed in 1994 by VERSA Development. Because of inaccurate survey figures regarding the length of the sides of the house, the pool was inadvertently built 3.2 feet into the rear easement. The owners now wish to sell the house, but cannot get title insurance issued until the house is in compliance. 9. StaffRecommendation: Approve Resolution R-02-20 Prepared by ~'-/t Date RESOLUTION NO. R-02-20 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, VACATING A PORTION OF A CERTAIN EASEMENT ON LOTS 28 & 29, BLOCK 293, SEBASTIAN HIGHLANDS UNIT 11; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR RECORDING; PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the owner of the land at 480 Concha Drive has filed a request for a partial abandonment of the public utility and drainage easement along the southeastern side lot line of the site; and WHEREAS, the providers of telephone, electric, cable, water, and drainage utilities have all consented to abandonment thereof. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, as follows: Section 1. VACATION OF EASEMENT. The City Council of the City of Sebastian does hereby vacate, abolish, abandon and discontinue all of that portion of land previously dedicated for a public utility and drainage easement described as follows: The northwestern most 3.2 feet of the southeastern most twenty (20) feet of Lots 28 & 29, Block 293, Sebastian Highlands Unit 11, less the northeastern most six (6) feet and the southwestern most six (6) feet thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 7, Pages 56 and 56A-L, of the Public Records of Indian River County, Florida. all located within the City of Sebastian, Indian River County, Florida. Section 2. CONFLICT. All resolutions or parts of resolutions in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 3. RECORDING. records of Indian River County, Florida. Section 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. upon its adoption. The foregoing Resolution was This resolution shall be recorded in the public This resolution shall take effect immediately moved for adoption by Councilmember The motion was seconded by Councilmember and, upon being put into a vote, the vote was as follows: Mayor Walter Barnes Vice-Mayor James A. Hill Councilmember Joe Barczyk Councilmember Ray Coniglio Councilmember Edward J. Majcher, Jr. The Mayor thereupon declared this Resolution duly passed and adopted this 2002 CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA day of ATTEST: By: Walter Barnes, Mayor Sally A. Maio, CMC City Clerk Approved as to form and legality for reliance~7 the City of Sebastian only: Rich Stringer, City Att~ey ~OUNO 5' S~'O~E 124,00' M~, TO ~. MON. 0.7' ~ ~ ~E~S MONU~E~ kl m 2. ~OS SHOWN HEREON W~E NOT . THIS LOT F~ IN LOTS 2B AND 29 BLOCK 29~ SEBASTIAN H/GH~NDS UNIT 1 1 ACCORD/NC TO THE P~T THEREOF RECORDED tN P~T BOOK 7 PAGES 56, AND 56A-L OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF /ND/AN RIVER COUN~ FLOR/DA. ~ND - ID = IDE~I~CA~ON S~ ~4 IRON ROD ~0 CONCHA DRI~ Will ~ PLS ~477 SE~S~N, ~ORI~ ~2958 - ~- CEN~RUNE - P = P~r ~O Z~E x - A= DELTA - MON.~ MONUME~ C~L DE 5HAY ~ .... - ~,~. ~o~,= ~Hsss UONU~E~ CE~ED TO= PRO~SSJO~L ~H ~OR ~477 - B~G. = BUILDING ~L~RD JONES. II/ ~A~ OF FLORIOA - PK= P~KER ~LON ~BOR ~DE~L ~VIN~S ~K - AC-- AIR CONDITIONER FIRST ~ERI~N ~[LE INSU~NCE CO~PANY - PC - POINT OF CURVATURE - PCP= PER~E~ CONTROL POINT ..... PRO~SSIONAL ~ SU~V~OR ~77 ~NDARY SU~ 4-~ ~ 9525 S~G~E DRIVE [0[: ~ VERO B~CH, FLORIDA 52963 897/62 PHONE 589-2B15 ~L~RD JONES, /11 4°e~2 ................... 085 14.0 21.1 11,9 CONCHA DRIVE N42'26'OO~E 159,80' MEA$. N47~26'OO"E 160.00' PLAT N47'26'OO"E 159,80' t0.8 ONE STORY RESIDENCE SCREEN~ ~fTHPOOL 13' I4,1 I U77UTY AIYDI DRAINAGE EASEMENT I N47'26'OO"E 160,00' PLAT N47'26'OO'E 159.80' MEAS, ELKCAM WA TER WA Y 40.0 City of Sebastian Development Order Application Applicant (If not owner, walden autflorizatJon (notarized) from owner is required) Permit Application No. Owner (If different from applicant) Name: Address: Phone Numben ( ) FAX Numben ( ) - E-Mail: lType of permit or action requested: PLEASE COMPLETE ONLY THOSE SECTIONS WHICH ARE NECESSARY FOR THE PERMIT QR ACT]ON THAT YeLl ARE REQUESTING. COPIES OF ALL MAPS, SURVEYS, DRAWINGS, ETC. SHALL BE A~'ACHED AND 81/2' 8Y 1 1" COPIES OF ANY Aq-FACHMENTS SMALL 8E INCLUOED. AT'TACH THE APPROPRIATE SUPPLEM~AL INFORMATION FORM. la. Project's Name (if applicable): B. Site Information Lot: Black: Unit: Subdivision; Indian River Coun~ Parcel ~ Zoning Cla~ifi~ion: Futu~ Land Use: ~J~Jng Use: P~posed Use: C. Description of proposed a~v~ and pu~ose of the reque~ed, pe~it or a~on (a~ch e~ shee~ if For~ CD-200'I A,ppr'~ved: 08/2wg7 FEE PAID: $/.~5'- ~o RECEIVED B,.~~ PaEe '/ of 3 J Development Application ~ FTle Name: ermit Application No. D. ' Project Personnel: .. Agent: Name: Address Phone Number ( ) FAX Number:. ( E-Mail: At-[omey: Name: Address Phone Number:. ( ) FAX Number:, ( - E-Mail: Engineer: Name: Address ~ "' FAX Numbe¢. ( Phone Numbe¢. ( ) E-Mail: Surveyor: Name: Address Phone Num~en ( ) - FAX Numl~er:. ( ) E-Mail: I, ~)/~-~' '~ ~ ~. ,,~A/_~5~ ¢~ BEING FtRST OULY SWORN, DEPOSe AN~ SAY ~A% '~ J AM ~E OWNER -- ~ AM ~E ~GAL REPRESE~A%VE QF ~E OWNER OF ~E PROPER~ DESCRIBED WHICH IS THE. SUBJECT ~ER OF ~IS ACOU~TE ANB TRUE TO ~E BEST OF ~ ~QWLEDGE AND 8EMEF. ~ ~ATE ~ / SIGNA~RE N~TARY'S StGNA~RE COMMISSION NQ,J~PI~ON ' .]~ MY COMMISSION ~ CC 7~ S~L: ~ I ~le Name: Dca ' ' ermit Application No. Tlte following is required for all. comprehensive plan amendments~ zoning amendment (including rezaning), site plans, conditional use permit~ special use perrnit~ vari.,a..nces, exceptions~ and appeals. I/~VE, /~ THE OWNER(S) THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF THiS AJ=PLJCA~ON, HEREBY AUTHOR~.~ F. ACH AND EVERY MEMBEP, QF THE O-t'~t (~O~-~,-t I- BOARD/COMMISSION OF THE CFFY OF SEBASTIAN (THE "BQARD"POOMMI.SS1ON") TO PHYSICALLY EN"/E:R ~JPQN THE PROPERTY ANO VIEW THE PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH MY/OUR PENOtNG APPLICA~ON, I/1/VE HEREBY WAIVE ANY OBJECT]ON OR DEFENSE I/WE MAY HAVE, 0UE TO THE QUASI-JUDICIAL NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS, RESULTING FROM ANY BOARDJCQMMIS,SiON MEMBER ENTERING OR VIEWING THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING ANY CLAIM (2R ASSERT]ON THAT MY/OUR PROCEDURAL OR SUBSTAN'FIVE OUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER THE FLORIDA CONS'FITUT~ON OR THE UNITED STATES OONSTTTUTiON WERE V1OLA'r~D BY SUCH ENTERING OR VIEWING. THIS WAIVER AND CONSENT IS SE]NG SIGNED BY ME./US VOLUNTARILY AND NOT AS A RESULT OF ANY COERCION APPLIED, OR PROMISES MADE, BY ANY ~PLOYEE, AGENT, CONTRACTOR OR OFFICIAL OF THB CIT'Y 0¢' SEBASTIAN. S~6N~TU~E ~ DA~ / Sworn to and subscribed befere me by ~~ ~_ ~_~ ' who is pe~onatl~ known to me or produc~ ~) ~ ~ ~0 ~9) ~ - 3~.%¢% ¢- ~ as identJfi~tion, this /~ day of ~~ , ~ ~0o ~ Notary's Signature Printed Name of Notary Commission No JExpiration Seal: EXPIRES: October 26, 2002 ~ Po~'rn CD..200'1 ?~,..A%ro V ed: t __. Pa~e 3 o¢ 3 I Development ApplicaEon Revision: I File Name: Doa Supplemental Information Easements, vacation of permit Application No. 1. Describe the easement to be vacated (provide a legal description, if possible): 2. Why is this vacation of an easement being request?. 3. Attach a survey showing the location of the property lines, all easements and all structures on the property. . .. . ... . - ~ - . /// /~, k ..... /, . /t~/2,~,.,,,-~ Cbc'Cf'- "~"*~"~' Apt/1 22, 2002 City of S~b~ttia~ 225 M. aJN STRUT ~ SF.~ASTiAN, FLOKIDA 32958 'FF.&EPHONE (772) $89-55_'17 [] FAX (772) 589.2566 DescriQtion Of Easemeutto b~ab~ndol~ee,: Thc r~crthwe~m mint 3.2 ~m of ~ re~ punic & 29, Blo~ 293, Seb~ Ht~ Unit 11, less ~e a~t~ most s~ (6) f~ ~d · c sou~w=stm mo~ ~ix (6) f,~ ~h~r~af Lo~m of E~ment: 480 C~cha Drive. Smb~d~ Floh~ U~LITY: DaSd ~sh~, Ci~ E~gl~er ' F~ NO: ~89-6~0~ CiD' of Sebastian 225 MAiN STREET U SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA 32958 TELEPHONE (772) 589-5537 q FAX (772) 589-2566 REQUEST FOR ABANDO,NM.ENT OF EASEMENT April 22, 2002 Desc.r'it~tion of Ease .m. en.t to be, abando, ne.d: The northwestern mo~ 3,2 feet of the rear public utility and drainage easement located on the southeastern most twenty (20) feet of Lots 28 & 29, Block 293, Sebastian Highlands Unit 11, less the northeastern most six (6) feet and the southwestern most six (6) feat thereo5 L..ocatio. n o.f Easement: 480 Cone-ha Drive, Sebastian, Florida UTILITY: Ke~,i.n N. Osthus, I.ILC. Utilities FAX NO: 770-~143 APPROVED: ~ ,~ DEN~D: ~ ~ DATE: '~/g- Return to: Dorri Bosworth, City of Sebastian, Growth Management Department Fax No. (772) 589-2566. 1225 M.~N STRY=T~T [] SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA 32958 TELM~PHONB (772) 589-5537 ~ FAX(772) 5~9-25~6 April 22, 2[302 l)escr~tion of E~ement ~o b~ ab_a. ndonerl~ Tlm ucr~hwes~¢rn ma~t 3.2 faa~ of ~e rear u~ility and ckahmge ea~emen£ loea~ on the sou~hea~m most twenty (20) feet of Lot~ 28 & 29, Block 293, Sebastian Higl~l~ds Uni~ l 1, less the nord~ea~tem mz~t ~jx (6) feet and the ~oathwestem mast six (6) feet Loeatlon of Easement: 480 Coneha Drive, Sehastimu, Florida UTILITY.. P.~o_.,~Rab~,t,,~ rPL FAX NO: (77~) 489..622a COMMENTS :~ _ K~mm to: Do~ Boswo~, Cit~' of S ebasCo, ~o~ M~agemenr D~p~r Fax No, (772) 589-2566. 5101lOX 2: aTMM B~DG DEPT 55BASTIRM Ci:7 of Sebastian I125 MAIN STREET Q SEBASTIAN, ~LOKIDA 3295g TELEPHONB (772) $~9.5537 Q FAX (?72) 5§9-2566 IfEST FOR ABA1NI~ ~ O1~ EASE 2002 Desc~ ~on of Easement to be ab ~ned: The northwea:mm nms~ 3.2 f~ of ~c ~ pubEc u~!i~ ~ ~a~ ~t loc~¢d on ~ 29, Blo~ 293, Sehasfi~ Highl~ U~ 11, less ~c no~¢~t~ most ~ix (6) fc:t ~d ~e ~ou~west~ mast s~ (6) ~et Location o[~ase~e~t; 4~0 ConcM Dfiv=, S=basd~ Flo~ APPRO~D~~D BY: (si~a~~ ri:ram to: Dorri Bosworth, City of Sebasfiau, Oro',~ah Managm'a~nt Dcpaztmznt F~ No. (772) 589-~-566, HOME OI~ PF..LIC, AN ISLAND City, of Sebastian, Florida Subject: Second reading, and quasi-judicial public hearing, of Ordinance No. O-02-10, revised conceptual development plan for a proposed 80-acre planned unit development situated south of South Moon Under Subdivision and west of Schumann Lake, and known as Laurel Reserve. ~~.._...~rov 'fo..r~Su~ ' l~by: ' ~xhibitsi~}r~nance No. O-02-1"0, EXPENDITURE REQUIRED: None Agenda No. t~ ~. (..gq ~. Department Origin:. ~G~owth Management Tracy E. Hass/~ Date Submitted: May 1, 2002 For Agenda of: May 8, 2002 , Location Map, and P&Z IAMOUNT BUDGETED: None recommendation. APPROPRiATION REQUIRED: None SUMMARY Laurel Reserve is situated on approximately 80 acres formerly known as the Davis PUD. The property was recently annexed as a PUD-R, with an underlying zoning designation of RM-8 (multi-family). The area in question is situated south of South Moon Under Subdivision and West of Schumann Lake. The Davis PUD conceptual plan approval outlined a total of 8 blocks containing as many as 434 total units. The Laurel Reserve proposal represents a significant modification to the Davis PUD, with a proposed total of 96 single-family units. Therefore, proposed density will be reduced from 7.32 units/acre to 1.2 units/acre. Additionally, the proposed preliminary development plan incorporates a unique subdivision layout, unlike the more traditional communities in Sebastian. However, the design incorporates maximum preservation of open/common areas, while incorporating the necessary roadway network and drainage system. The stormwater lakes are mainly located along perimeter boundaries, providing for additional buffeting for neighboring residents in existing communities. The development will have public water and sanitary sewer as well. Access will be accomplished via an 80-foot wide access easement to Bailey Drive. Additionally, a secondary (emergency) access is proposed for the southwest comer of the property. This location provides for minimum disruption to the neighborhood lying south, of the proposed subdivision. The Plarming and Zoning Commission reviewed the revised conceptual development at their regular meeting on April 4, 2002. Additionally, the Planning and Zoning Commission held the required public hearing and forwarded a recommendation for approval of said request. RECOMMENDED ACTION Hold a quasi-judicial public hearing and move to adopt Ordinance No. 0-02-10. ORDINANCE NO. 0-02-10 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE DAVIS PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT LOCATED NORTHWEST OF SCHUMANN LAKE TO PROVIDE FOR 96 SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGS AND RENAMING AS LAUREL RESERVE PUD; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, Laurel Homes, Inc. has filed a petition for amendment to the Conceptual Development Plan for the Davis PUD to reduce the maximum density of development to 96 single-family dwellings and change the name of the project to the Laurel Reserve Planned Unit Development; and WHEREAS, the City Council has provided notice of the proposed zoning change and conducted a public hearing to receive citizen input; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Sebastian, Florida, has considered the criteria identified in the Land Development Code together with the recommended findings and recommendations of its staff and Planning and Zoning Commission; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the proposed use is consistent with the goals, objectives and other elements of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows: Section 1. PROPERTY. The change in zoning classification created by the adoption of this ordinance shall affect the following described real property, now lying and being within the incorporated area of the City of Sebastian, Indian River County, Florida: The West ½ of the Northeast ~,4 of Section 18, Township 31 South, Range 39 East in indian River County, Florida. Section 2. AMENDMENT OF CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN. The Conceptual Development Plan of the PUD-R zoning for the real property described in this Ordinance, originally approved as the Davis PUD by Ordinance No. 0-01-10, as amended by Ordinance No. 0-01-25, is hereby amended to provide for a maximum density of 96 single- family dwellings in accordance with the attached rendering, and the name of said project is hereby changed to the Laurel Reserve Planed Unit Development. Section 3. CONFLICT. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 4. SEVERABILITY. In the event a court of competent jurisdiction shall hold that any part of this Ordinance is invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of the Ordinance shall not be affected and it shall be presumed that the City Council of the City of Sebastian did not intend to enact such invalid or unconstitutional provisions. It shall further be assumed that the City Council would have enacted the remainder of this Ordinance without said invalid or unconstitutional provision, thereby causing said remainder to remain in full force and effect. Section 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. Following its adoption and authentication by the signatures of the presiding officer and the Clerk of the City Council, this Ordinance shall become effective. The foregoing Ordinance was moved for adoption by Councilmember The motion was seconded by Councilmember and, upon being put into a vote, the vote was as follows: Mayor Walter Barnes Vice-Mayor James Hill Councilmember Joe Barczyk Councilmember Edward J. Majcher, Jr. Councilmember Ray Coniglio The Mayor thereupon declared this Ordinance duly passed and adopted this 8 t;h day of May, 20O2. CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA ATTEST: By: Mayor Walter Barnes Sally A. Maio, CMC City Clerk Approved as to form and legality for reliance by the City of Sebastian only: Rich Stringer, City Attorney RS-lO COLLIE~ CREI~( I)R~NN~E R-O-W RS-lO (VACANT) PUD'R PROJECT SITE PUD--R ,,,', SEBASTIAN ~ HIGHLANDS .... A-1 PS ~ ~ A-1 PS ~w ~;~,, SEBASTIAN ,.~ HIGHLANDS SCHUMANN .::::; LAKE ~..,~ VICINITY N.T.S. MAP PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF APRIL 4, 2002 Public Hearing - Recommendation to City Council - Revised PUD Conceptual Plan - Laurel Reserve Subdivision (formerly known as the Davis 80 acre PUD) Deb Robinson, 315 Greytwig Road, Vero Beach, FL, Vice President of Laurel Homes, was present, and along with Tracy Hass, was sworn in by the Chairman at 7:11 PM. Ms. Robinson gave a presentation with a brief history of her company and the many communities that they have been involved with. She described the design for stormwater management. Tracy Hass gave staff presentation, noting the reduction in density from the originally planned community, the underground utilities, and the lack of any commercial activity. The closed stormwater system as well as the entire community layout were commended by various Commission members. Many issues were discussed including sidewalks, which will be installed as houses are built. The issue of emergency access was also discussed. MOTION by Smith/Monier I make a motion for recommendation to City Council on the revised PUD conceptual plan for Laurel Reserve Subdivision, formerly known as Davis 80 Acre PUD. Roll call: Chmn. Barrett - yes Mr. Rauth - yes VC Smith - yes Mr. Mahoney - yes Ms. Carbano - yes Mr. Svatik, Jr. - yes Ms. Monier - yes The vote was 7 - 0. Motion carried. MOTION by Svatik, Jr./Carbano I would like to make a motion for the approval of the preliminary development plan for Laurel Reserve. Roll call: Mr. Mahoney - yes Chmn. Barrett - yes Ms. Carbano - yes VC Smith - yes Ms. Monier - yes Mr. Rauth ~ yes Mr. Svatik, Jr. - yes The vote was 7 - 0, Motion carried. City of Sebastian, Florida OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORI EY AGENDA TRANSMITTAL Subject: Ordinance 0-02-11; Moratorium Agenda No. Qo~-. Date Submitted: 5/2/02 For Agenda of: 5/8/02 SUMMARY: Staff is developing a new Community Redevelopment District to implement the concepts of the Regional Planning Council's CR512 charrette for creation of a new town center in the area between the divided pairs of the highway. It will take some time to formulate all the Comp Plan and LDR changes, as well as setting up the CRA, etc. Any development within the area that is not in accordance with the plan may destroy the ability to put in the desired infrastructure at a later date. A formal moratorium will require allow time to make the needed changes in our codes. RECOMMENDED ACTION: At Council's discretion - Move to pass Ordinance O-02-07 on first hearing and set second public hearing for May 22, 2002.. AUTHORIZED PLACEMENT ON AGENDA BY CITY MANAGER,~ ORDINANCE NO. 0-02-1! AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, DECLARING A SIX-MONTH MORATORIUM ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF APPLICATIONS AND ISSUANCE OF PERMITS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PROPERTY LOCATED BETWEEN THE SEPARATED SEBASTIAN BOULEVARD RIGHT-OF-WAY; PROVIDING FOR EXCEPTIONS; SETTING FORTH EXPIRATION; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2(b), Article VIii of the Florida Constitution and Chapter 166, Florida Statutes, the City of Sebastian is authorized and required to protect the public health, safety and welfare, and may exercise any power for any governmental purpose except as expressly prohibited by law; and WHEREAS, pursuant to said authority and Florida Statutes 163.3202, the City has enacted land development regulations consistent with its adopted Comprehensive Plan, which protect the quality of life in the City of Sebastian; and WHEREAS, the City commissioned the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council to host a charrette on the future development of the County Road 512 corridor through the City; and WHEREAS, the City of Sebastian received the Charreette Report (the "Development Master Plan") dated November 3, 2000, and adopted it as the conceptual basis for the policies governing development in the CR 512 corridor within the City of Sebastian; and WHEREAS, on November 28, 2001 the City of Sebastian began to implement these policies through adoption of Resolution R-01-83 renaming the roadway "Sebastian Boulevard", with this re-christeningtaking effect March 1, 2002; and WHEREAS, the Master Plan recommends various enhancements to the Sebastian Boulevard roadway, other public infrastructure improvement projects, as well as changes in the zoning laws and development standards for the corridor; and WHEREAS, on March 27, 2002 the City Council adopted Resolution R-02-15 submitting the first of these improvements to the Federal Enhancement Program administered through the Metropolitan Planning Organization; and WHEREAS, a key element of the Sebastian Boulevard Development Master Plan involves creation of a "new town center" area in the land located between the divided right-of- way for the corridor; and WHEREAS, at its January 23, 2002 meeting the City Council discussed pending changes to the laws governing Community Redevelopment Agencies that have subsequently passed and will take effect in the coming months; and WHEREAS, it was determined that Staff would review the City's redevelopment plans in light of these changes and further advise Council; and WHEREAS, consideration is being given to implementing the redevelopment provisions of the New Town Center concept of the Sebastian Boulevard Development Master Plan by utilizing the Community Redevelopment Agency provisions of law, and it would be advantageous to do so before the recent amendments take effect; and WHEREAS, the New Town Center concept requires an integrated redevelopment plan; the concept will lose its integrity if some parcels within the area develop outside of the regulations being proposed; WHEREAS, the City requires a reasonable time period to formulate and process land use and land development regulation amendments so that the City Council can implement the New Town Center concept in a manner that meets state and local goals and legislative mandates; and WHEREAS, in view of the foregoing, a situation exists justifying an immediate moratorium on development within the area; and WHEREAS, a moratorium will be of temporary impact to property within the City; and WHEREAS, this moratorium is enacted in good faith, without unjust discrimination, and is of the minimum feasible duration; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows: Section 1. MORATORIUM. Except as otherwise provided herein, no application for any permit or other development order relating to development of land shall be accepted or approved including, but not limited to, site plan review, conditional use approval, land clearing or building permit approval, for any structure or real property located between the divided right- of-way of east-bound and west-bound Sebastian Boulevard west of the FEC Railroad right-of- way for a period of six months from the effective date of this ordinance or until final adoption of new land development regulations applicable thereto, whichever shall occur first. Section 2. EXCEPTIONS. apply to: 1) City-owned property; The prohibition set forth in Section 1 hereof shall not 2) 3) 4) Adding any internal improvements to an existing structure wherein the value of the original structure is not increased by more than 10%; Non-essential repair of any existing structure wherein the part being repaired does not constitute more than 10% of the value of the original structure; Emergency repairs of an existing structure necessary to allow the same be safe or, if a dwelling, habitable wherein the part being repaired does not constitute more than 50% of the value of the original structure; or 5) Section 3. are hereby repealed. Permits for demolition of a structure; CONFLICT. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith Section 4. SEVERABILITY. In the event a court of competent jurisdiction shall determine that any part of this Ordinance is invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of the Ordinance shall not be affected and it shall be presumed that the City Council did not intend to enact such invalid or unconstitutional provision. It shall further be assumed that the City Council would have enacted the remainder of this Ordinance without said invalid or unconstitutional provision, thereby causing said remainder to remain in full force and effect. Section 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately following its adoption by the City Council. The foregoing Ordinance was The motion was seconded by Councilmember upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows: Mayor Walter Barnes Vice-Mayor James Hill Councilmember Joe Barczyk Councilmember Edward J. Majcher, Jr. Councilmember Ray Coniglio moved for adoption by Councilmember and, The Mayor thereupon declared this Ordinance duly passed and adopted this 22~a day of May, 2002. CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLOR~A ATTEST: By: Mayor Walter Barnes Sally A. Maio, CMC City Clerk Approved as to form and legality for reliance by the City of Sebastian only: Rich Stringer, City Attorney City of Sebastian Subject: Tree and Landscape Advisory Board Manager Agenda No. O~..0~ Department Origin:. City Clerk Date Submitted: 4/29/2002 For Agenda of: 5/812002 Exhibits Applications, advertisement, board members Expenditure Required: Amount Budgeted: Appropriation Required: SUMMARY STATEMENT The Tree and Landscape Advisory Board has an alternate member position, with an unexpired term, open due to the current member's resignation. This was advertised and three applications have been received. RECOMMENDED ACTION Interview applicants, unless waived, and appoint one to the following position: 1. Alternate member position Unexpired term to expire 11/1/2002 ~t§~35570 CI'F'¢ FJF SEBC,;JT.IA/' <' , I APPLICAT_ION TO SER%~ ON CITY (All City l;10~d and Committee Memb~s Mu~t be Relidcnis ofi se CiV of Sebailiau) ~OME P : /'D (~,O~'~ ~OM.~ FAX: ~'aAIL: BL'$IN~S S ADDRESS: , ..... DO YOU CU~~Y.. HOLD A~* P~LIC OFFICE? : DO YOU P~SEN~Y SERV~ ON A~ 0~R CI~ BO~ OR C( PL~SE CHECK ~ BO~D$ ON W~CH YOU ~ ~S~D ~ SER~G ~ O~ OF P~FE~'CE ~ ~T CHOICE BE~O ~1; ___....__.CHARTER KI~VIEW COMMITTEE (serves onl:,' 6 months ever~ 7 years) CITIZ]gN$ BUDOI~T KEVIEW ADVISORY BOARD CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD .__.___CONSTRUCTION BOARD ___.___HA.NDICAPPED SELF-r'.% ALU^TION COMlVIITrEE PLANNING A.I',~ ZOlqllqG COMM[$SlON POLICE KErlKEIVlEriT BOAP, D O¥ TRUSTEES PARKS & P~CI~EATION ADVISORY COIvO~TI~E ",i~;>---TR~E & LANDRCAPE ADVI5ORY BOA~LD OTI~R TEMPORARY COMMITT]~ m '-ri co r.q --~< ~ m APPLICA.~LE EDUCATION AND, OR £)CPEKIENCE: latin.eh ~e.s~e -e~rme if m,~.~,~;s~l REA SONS FOR WAn'TING TO SERVE ON I~OARD OP, CO~~. ~' ¢ . ~ . ~ ~ LIST ANY ADD~IONAL QtfA~IFICA~S TO 5~RY~ ON BOA~ ~ OR ~~: ~VE YOU ~VE~ BE~ ~C~ OF A~ F~NY ~ ~S C ~ ~Y STATE~ .^vt you stp co v,c . sDm ot vo,_vr o WOU~ YOU CONS~E~ SER~6 ON A BOARD O~R ~N ~, ~ O~(S) SELEO~ I h~by ee~ ~t I ~n~ q~aUfied to hold the position for ~hieh Ibis appllc ~tion is m~e. Fu~h~, 1 h~by aulhoNze the C~ of $~an to investigate ~e ~u~lness of all i afo~a:t~ whieh l ~ve provided j, this ~ppli~tion, I ~emtenfl the~ eny mi=~resenmtion or om.~slon of info~ation ~questefl in thi~ appli~tion i; eau~ for di~q~lifiemio~. I have be~n provided wilh, read and unflcrst~d City of 8e~tian C~e of C rdinanees $eefiom 2-166 throu~ 2-173 (ameba). InfuSiOn ~lat~e to a ~ifie bo~r ~m~s availab{e if requestS, Sub~ori~d ~d sworn ~ before me thi~ / d~y of , , ~, who ts per~nally known to me, ~ has ~ id~tification. N~ Publie, State of Fbrid~ \wp-form~app lieat,~xl rex,. 3/2002 APPLICATION TO SERVE ON CITY BOARD/COMMITTEE (All City Board and Committee Members Must be Residents of the City o£ Sebastian) E-MAIL: BUSINESS PHONE:._~(./_~).O BUSINESS FAX: E-MAIL: ARE YOU A REGISTERED VOTER? ~ VOTER REG. NO. tT~ HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A RESIDENT OF SEBASTIAN? DO YOU CURRENTLY HOLD ANY PUBLIC OFFICE? DO YOU PRESENTLY SERVE ON ANY OTHER CITY BOARD OR COMMITTEE? WHICH BOARDS/COMMITTEES? PLEASE CHECK THE BOARDS ON WHICH YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SERVING IN ORDEI~g OF PREFERENCE WITH FIRST CHOICE BEING #1: u=. CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE (serves only 6 months evew 7 >;ears) CITIZENS BUDGET REVIEW ADVISORY BOARD CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD CONSTRUCTION BOARD HANDICAPPED SELF-EVALUATION COMMITTEE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION POLICE RETIREMENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES PARKS & RECREATION 'ADVISORY COMMITTEE _TREE a LANDSCAPE ADVISORY BOARD . OTHER TEMPORARY COMMITTEE ~/'~.~,, %[ ~~/~. (WRITE IN COMMITTEE APPLICABLE EDUCATION AND/OK EXPERIENCE: (attach separate resume if necessary) REASONS FOR WANTING TO SERVE ON BOARD OR COMlvlITTEE: LIST ANY ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE ON BOARD OR COMMITTEE: I-I_AVE YOU EVER BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY FELONY IN THIS OR ANY STATE? HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY MISDEMEANOR INVOLVING MORAL TURPITUDE IN TI-US OR ANY STATE? WOULD YOU CONSIDER SERVING ON A BOARD OTt-12ER THAN THE ONE(S) SELECTED ABOVE? }/d $ I hereby certify that I am qualified to hold the position for which this application is made. Further, I hereby authorize the City of Sebastian to investigate the truthfulness of all information which I have provided in this application. I anderstand that any misrepresentation or omission of information requested in this application is cause for disqualification. I have been provided with, read and understand City of Sebastian Code of Ordinances Sections 2-166 through 2-173 (attached). information relative to a spe~3)fic board or committee is available if requested. .... ~'l~licant Signature Subscribed and sworn to before me this /~7~]1 day of /q/aW/. , gT--)OZ, by ,~L4~jj~q~'J'l/~p//[~L,t/g)t"f/') .... who is personally known to me, or has produced F'L Drt Lie r'.~ L ice nse as identification. l~fitary Public, State of Florida ,.~: · , ~.- , -.. \wp - form\app I i c at. wp d " rev. 3~2002 'z,,~,~,.tlC, APPLICATION TO SERVE ON CITY BOARD/COMMITTEE (All City Board and Committee Members Must be Residents of the City of Sebastian) NAW[E: William F Creamer 738 Benedictine Terrace, Sebastian Fla HOME .~[DDRES S: , ,, HOMEPHONE: 581 -0.766 HONIEFAX: None E-MAIL: BUSINESS: Retired ~. , BUSrNESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: BUSiNESS FAX: B-MAIL: ~RE YOU A REGISTERED VOTER? Yes VOTER REG. NO. ,~ ~ HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A RESIDENT OF SEBASTIAN? 5 months .... DO YOU CURRENTLY HOLD ANY PUBLIC OFFICE? No DO YOU PRESENTLY SERVE ON ANY OTHER CITY BOARD OR COM/vliTTEE? WHICH BOARDS/COMMITTEES? No PLEASE CI-IECK TIq~ BOARDS ON WHICH YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SERVING IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE WITH FIRST CHOICE BEING #1' 1 CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE (serves only 6 months every 7 years) CITIZENS BUDGET REVIEW ADVISORY BOARD CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD CONSTRUCTION BOARD HANDICAPPED SELF-EVALUATION COMMITTEE PLANNING AND ZONING COIvl]ViISSION POLICE RETIREMENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES PARKS & RECREATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE TREE & LANDSCAPE ADViSORY BOARD OTHER TEMPORARY COMMITTEE (WRITE IN COMMITTEE NAME) APPLICABLE EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: (attach separate resume if necessary) £our years of High School, 10 years o£ college (Attached resume will explain). ~EASONS FOR WANTING TO SERVE ON BOARD OR COMMITTEE: I worked and owned a horticulture business and I love landscaping and tree work. I love Sebastian and it would be an honor to do something for this city. I want to ~et to know people in my retirement. I have no financial ,, view in wanting to got on this bc~-rd.,, ' ' LIST ANY ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE ON BOARD OR COMMITTEE: Iworked as Director of Recreation for New Brunswick N.J. I was a field worker for the State Recreation Board of N.J. I also was a member of the National Rec Assoc. I built parks, playfield~ and landscaped many playfields. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY FELONY IN THIS OR ANY STATE? No HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY MISDEMEANOR iNVOLVING MORAL TURPITUDE IN THIS OR ANY STATE? WOULD YOU CONSIDER SERVING ON A BOARD OTI-I~R THAN THE ONE(S) SELECTED ABOVE? N o. I hereby certify that I am qualified to bold the position for which this application is made. Further, I hereby authorize the City of Sebastian to investigate the truthfulness of all information which I have provided in this application. I understand that any misrepresentation or omission of information requested in this application is cause for disqualification. I have been provided with, read and understand City of Sebastian Code of Ordinances Sections 2-166 through 2-173 (attached). Information relative to a specific board or committee is available if requested. Subscribed and sworn to before me this ~day [77.'[/.~4, : O£e*~ln~f' . who is p~rsonally f-~ 0 /h ~ as identification. notary Publici' S--~te °f Fi°rids Applicant Signature or has produced \wp-form\applicat.wpd rev. 3/2002 EDUCATION: NOTE: Completed four years of High School ak St. Peter's, New Brunswick, N.J. Completed four years of College at Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Completed my first M/A at Trenton State Teacher's College Bwin~ Twp, outside of Trenton, N.J. Completed two Years toward My Doctorate at Plorida Atlantic University. FAU is located in Boca Raton, Florida. If It is necessary, I will complete dates on all my schools. WORK EXPERIENCES: HORTICULTURE WORK: I worked as Assr Director of Recreation for the City of New Brunswick while attending Seton Hall College. ! worked for four years during the summers and winter evenings. 1945-49 I became a field a~ent for the State Recreation Bureau 1950 to 55~. I worked with peeple in setting up recreation programs in different cities and I also worked with people in building parks and playgrounds. I became the Director of Recreation for East Brunswick Twp ...1956 to 1962. In 1962 I be~'ame Director of Athletics, basketball & Baseball & soccer coach at a new Prep school .... Notre Dame Prep in Lawrencevitle~ New Jersey. I;'enjoyed this position in teaching & coaching as I built a large stadium and fields for all sports. In 1970, my family and I decided to move to Plorida. I secured a position at Boca Raton Middle School. I taught & coached and after 6 years I became Assr Principal and then I became the Principal of the Night school Program. I helped build fields and worked with the City of Boca Raton in other park projects. This was very rewarding and I retired in 1993. During my coachin~ & teaching career in New Jersey I owned with another person a Horticulture business for eight yesrs. 80Nq[ OF PtLICAN ISLAND APRIL 10, 2002 PRESS RELEASE TREE & LANDSCAPE ADVISORY BOARD THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN IS SEEKING APPLICANTS TO FILL AN ALTERNATE MEMBER POSITION ON THE TREE & LANDSCAPE ADVISORY BOARD, WITH AN UNEXPIRED TERM, WHICH IS OPEN DUE TO A MEMBER'S RESIGNATION. QUALIFICATIONS: RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN THIS BOARD MEETS ON THE FIRST MONDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 5:30 P.M. IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 1225 MAiN STREET, SEBASTIAN. APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE, CITY HALL, 1225 MAIN STREET, SEBASTIAN, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:00 A.M. AND 4:30 P.M. AND WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2002. TREE AND LANDSCAPE ADVISORY BOARD 3 YEAR TERMS MEMBER NAME AND ADDRESS APPOINTMENT HISTORY Cathy L. Fulton 249 Easy Street Sebastian, Florida 32958 388-0570 Home Charles D. Cardinale 474 Thomas Street Sebastian, Florida 32958 589-4892 Home AnneDann 826 Robin Lane Sebastian, FL 32958 888-3440 Lynn Albuw 1666 Seahouse Street Sebastian, FL 32958 589-0037 Ruth Davies 497 Lloyd Street Sebastian, FL 32958 589-3687 Beverly Te~eoglou-Bell 591Wimbrow Drive Sebastian, FL 32958 388-5015 Appointed Regular Member Term Vacated by Shirley Kilkelly: 7/14/99 Term Expires: 4/2001 Reappointed Regular Member; 4/11/2001 Term to Expire: 412003 Appointed Regular Member: 4/98 Term to Expire: 4/2000 Reappointed Regular Member: 4126/2000 Term to Expire: 4/2002 Reappointed Regular Member: 3127/2002 Term to Expire: 4/2005 Appointed to Regular Member Position Vacated by Clay Fielding: 12/15/99 Term to Expire: 4/2001 Reappointed Regular Member: 4/11/2001 Term to Expire:412003 Appointed to Regular Member Position Vacated by Dan Herlan: 12/15/99 Term to Expire: 4/2000 Reappointed Regular Member: 4/26/2000 Term to Expire: 4/2002 Reappointed Regular'Member: 3/27/2002 Term to Expire: 412005 Appointed to Regular Member Position Vacated by Virginia Gordon: 12/15/99 Term to Expire: 4/2001 Reappointed Regular Member: 4/11/2001 Term to Expire: 4/2003 Appointed Alternate Member Unexpired Term of Roth: 4/26/2000 Term to Expire: 11/2000 Reappointed Alternate Member:12/21/2000 Term to Expire: 11/2002 93 Larry Birchmeyer 634 Breakv,-ater Terrace Sebastian, FL 32958 388-8586 Appointed Alternate Member Position Vacated by William Brognano: 12/7/2000 Term to Expire:Il/2002 BOARD SECRETARY - Tim Z. elinski 94 City of Sebastian Subject: Code Enforcement Board Agenda No. 0~, Appr/o~ -"s.,u,.bmitf.~,~ity Manager Exhibits Applications, advertisement, board members Expenditure Required: Amount Budgeted: IDepartment Origin: Date Submitted: For Agenda of: City Clerk 5/2/2002 5/8/2002 Appropriation Required: SUMMARY STATEMENT The Code Enforcement Board has an alternate member position, with an unexpired term, open due to'the current member's resignation. This was advertised and three applications have been received. RECOMMENDED ACTION interview applicants, unless waived, and appoint one to the following position: 1. Alternate member position Unexpired term to expire 4/1/2003 PPLICATION TO SERVE ON CITY (Al1 City Board and Committee Members Must be Residents of the City of Sebastian) ao~m^DDm~ss: ~/~ ,&'AAx ~/.-z..~...~z/v~h/ ~ YOU ^ ~OISTEm~D voTE~? ?~ vor~P, m~O. N0. ?//2 ~,r ? ~ow r~oNo ~w YOU SEEN ^ m~SmENT OF SESASr~XN? ,.7/..~C F / i F,2. DO YOU CUP,_RENTLY HOLD ANY PUBLIC OFFICE? DO YOU PRESENTLY SERVE ON A_NY OTHt{R CITY BOARD OR COMMITTEE? WHICH BOARDS/COMMITTEES? PLEASE CFiECK THE BOARDS ON WIqlCH YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SERVING IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE WITH FIRST CHOICE BEING #1: BOARD OF ADJUST/vfENT CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE (serves only 6 months every 7 years) CITIZENS BUDGET REVIEW ADVISORY BOAtLD CODE ENFORCEIvl]ENT BOARD CONSTRUCTION BOARD HANDICAPPED SELF-EVALUATION COMMITTEE PLANNING AND ZONING COlVl]VIISSION POLICE KETltlEMENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES PARi~S & RECREATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE TREE ADVISORY BOARD OTHER TEMPORARY COMMITTEE (WRITE IN COMMITTEE NAME) PPLICABLE EDUCATION AND/OR EXPEKIENCE: (attach separate resume if necessary) LIST ANY ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE ON BOARD OR COMMIT'I~E: e 1, ' ' . e - · ~ ~ ~k'~. ~.,z ~ ~ YH.4 ,v~ ,c _~ m ~ h x- /'~u cZ'. -~-,4.~J/ ~/J ~.~r J s~.,~' ~ ~ i-,/,,+/v~ z.,,,,vf...' laFepz ¢, I-.~VE YOU EVER BEF_.,N CONVICTED OF ANY FELONY iN THIS OR ANY STATE? h"~' HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN CON-VIC'TED OF ANY MISDElviEANOR INVOLVING MORAL TURPITUDE IN THIS OR ANY STATE? ,A/uo WOULD YOU CONSIDER SERVING ON A BOARD OTHER THAN THE ONE(S) SELECTED ABOVE? I hereby certify that I am qualified to hold the position for which this applicalion is made. Further, I hereby authorize the City of Sebastian to investigate the truthfulness of all information which I have provided in this application. I understand that any misrepresentation or omission of information requested in this application is cause for disqualification. ./~.~.'~-',"~zPZ/'-¢/Tx.." ,who is ~¢rsonally known to Z, or has ~, ~f.,~.. ,,_~¢'-,-~(,.~~,'~xz- ~ as identification. - . x "~/''r'9~''6'~~~ :: ........ ~l~ ~*~ MY COMMISSION ~ DD 089531 I have been provided with, read and understand City of Sebastian Code of Ordinances Sections 2-166 through 2-173 (attached). Information relative to azcific board or(c~. ~ttee is available if requested. Subscribed and sworn to before me mis /~ day of ;,,~.~...e~_~,ar~_ , ...~c;,,~, by produced \wp-formkapplicat. wpd rev. 4/5/99 POLLOWING ARE AREAS OF MY BUSINESS EXPERIENCE THAT ARE TRANSFERABLE: They could be useful ko one or more departments at Sebastian City Hall. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Recruiting, screening, and qualifying new employees. Interviewing- (Trained in a form of psychological interviewing.) coun.selling- Mediation. s~ra%eglC planning- Compensation plans. Position evaluation. (Establishing goals and time~ables-) Useful for salary review as well. 8. Operational reviews. (Departmental) I am prepared to be involved in any of ~he above on a consul~a~ive basis or "hand's on". Harry Enderlein 589'-6252 Harry Enderlein Director-Marketin9 Services Reuben H. Donndley ~[~ Thc I[~n ~c Br'a~t~'~l C°r P°mtt en 825 Third Avenue New York, N.Y. 10022 212 97278272 APPLICATION TO SER .VE ON CITY BOARD/COMMITTEE c0 (All City Board and Committee Members Must be Residents of the City of Sebastian) _~ HO1VIE ADDRESS: /.//~ / ~.~ .... :'-..,~--g> ' ~ FAX: E-MAIL: HOME PHONE: $~3 ~ HOME BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: BUSINESS FAX: B-MAIL: A S" HOW LONG I-LAVE YOU B~.RN A RESIDENT OF SEBASTIAN? DO YOU CURRENTLY HOLD ANY PUBLIC OFFICE.9 DO YOU PRESENTLY SERVE ON ANY OTI-~R CITY BOARD OR COMMITTEE? WHICH BOARDS/COMMITTEES? ~/~9 PLEASE CHECK TI-IE BOARDS ON WHICH YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SERVING IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE WITH FIRST CHOICE BEING #1: CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE (serves only 6 months every 7 years) ~.___~CITIZENS BUDGET REVIEW ADVISOKY BOARD CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD ;CONSTRUCTION BOARD HANDICAPPED SELF-EVALUATION COM]MITTEE · ~, , PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION POLICE RETIREMENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES PARKS & RECREATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE TREE 8, LANDSCAPE ADVISORY BOA-RD A __ or~m~ ~MPORAR¥ COMMitTEE ~, h/~'~ , +/;// (WVa~ IN COm~XTrEE NAME) c~ --4 APPLICABLE EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: (attach separate resume if necessary) //c~ i',~0 ,, REASONS FOR WANTING TO SERVE ON BOA_RD OR COMMITTEE: LIST ANY ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE ON BOARD OR COMMITTEE: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY FELONY IN TitlS OR ANY STATE? HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY MISDEMEANOR IN OLVING MORAL TLrRI~ITUDE IN THIS OR ANY STATE? WOULD YOU CONSIDER SERVING ON A BOARD OTHER THAN THE ONE(S) SELECTED I hereby certify that i am qualified to hold the position for which this application is made. Further, I hereby authorize the City of Sebastian to investigate the truthfulness of all information which I have provided in this application. I understand that any misrepresentation or omission of information requested in this application is cause for disqualification, I have been provided with, read and understand City of Sebastian Code of Ordinances Sections 2-166 through 2-173 (attached). Information relative to a spec~e b0a. rd. or commi~,]e,~vaila~. . if. requested. Su~ribed and sworn to before me this ~z~_~day o~__,~.~~,~d)~, by (t~~...~.~.' ~ ~~' ' ,' , who i~ ~ersoBa~ kn~~m. ~e, o~~d ~0m~ Public, S~e-of Fi~: [t~}[ I [ ~2~ MYO0MMISSt0N ~ DD 089531 Il ~ ll ~:~i~~ EXP RES Mamh 18 2~6 II I \wp-form\applicat.wpd rev, 3/2002 All City Board and Committee Members Must be Residents of the City of Sebastiar~ APPLICATION TO SERVE ON CITY BOARD/COMMITTEE BUSINESS: BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: /fi' .//)'.~' BUSINESS FAX: /-//~ E-MAIL: ARE¥OU^REOISTE DVOr R? ,,, vor R O. o. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A RESIDENT OF SEBASTIAN? DO YOU CURRENTLY HOLD ANY PUBLIC OFFICE? DO YOU PRESENTLY SERVE ON ANY OTHER CITY BOARD OR COMMITTEE? WHICH BOARDS/COMMITTEES? PLEASE CHECK TI-IE BOARDS ON WHICH YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SERVING IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE WITH FIRST CHOICE BEING # 1: CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE (serves only 6 months every 7 years) ~CITIZENS BUDGET REVIEW ADVISORY BOAP,.D CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD ~..__,~_CON STRUCTION BOARD HANDICAPPED SELF-EVALUATION COMMITTEE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION POLICE RETIREMENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES PAP_KS & RECREATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE TREE & LANDSCAPE ADVISORY BOARD OTIq~R TEMPORARY COMMITTEE (WRITE Eq COMIVIITTEE NAME) APPLICABLE EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: (attach separate resume if necessary) 6,5. L2.4J 14 g-z> a-,e REASONS FOR WANTING TO SERVE ON B~ARD OR CO~TTEE: .bet $~r~.'p~'~ '? LIST ~ ADDITIONAL QQALIFICATIONS TO SERyE.ON BOARD ~O~R, COMM~.T~,E,: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY FELONY IN THIS OR ANY STATE?. HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY MISDEMEANOR INVOLVING MORAL TURPITUDE IN TIES OR ANY STATE? WOULD YOU CONSIDER.SERVING ON A BOARD OTHER THAN THE ONE(S) SELECTED ABOVE? I hereby certify that I am qualified to hold the position for which this application is made. Further, I hereby authorize the City of Sebastian to investigate the truthfulness of all information which I have provided in this application. I understand that any misrepresentation or omission of information requested in this application is cause for disqualification. I have been provided with, read m~d understand City of Sebastian Code of Ordinances Sections 2-166 through 2-173 (attached). Information relative to a specific board or committee is available if requested. Applicant Signature ~ S.urbscribed and )~vom to before me this ,;/~)q'l day of ~f')~ ,c T tOga_ ., by Y~o~O P ,~e,e]4~-/ , who is personally known to me, or has produced as identification. LINDA.. C. GRANI Nota.r,y Public., State oi Florida My camm, exp. IVia{. 10, 2005 Comm. No. DO \wp-form\appli cat.wpd rev. 3/2002 £BASTIA] HOME OF PELICAN ISLAND APRIL22,2002 PRESS RELEASE CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN IS SEEKING APPLICANTS TO FILL AN ALTERNATE MEMBER POSITION ON THE CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD, WITH AN UNEXPIRED TERM, WHICH IS OPEN DUE TO A MEMBER'S RESIGNATION. QUALIFICATIONS: RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN THIS BOA_RD MEETS ON THE THIRD WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH, IF A HEARING IS NEEDED, AT 2:00 P.M., IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 1225 MAIN STREET, SEBASTIAN. APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE CITY CLERK' S OFFICE, CITY HALL, 1225 MAIN STREET, SEBASTIAN, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:00 A.M. AND 4:30 P.M. AND WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2002.. CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD MEETS THIRD WEDNESDAY OF MONTH IF HEARING IS NEEDED- 2:00 P.M. MEMBER NAME AND POSITION APPOINTMENT ADDRESS .... HISTORY Thomas T. Connelly Engineer Appointed Reg. 149 Kildare Drive Position Member Term Sebastian FI 32958 388-1846 Vacated By Metcalf: 9/11/96 Term Expired: 8/1/99 Reappointed Regular Member Position: 9/8/99 Term to Expire: 8/2002 Is in 6ch Regular Member Year and 2"d Full Term William H. Simmons Member Appointed Regular 509 Drawdy Way Position Member Unexpired Sebastian, Florida 32958 589-9826 Term Vacated by Sal Neglia: 2/13/2002 Term to Expire: 3/1/2003 No full term - f~t , Regular Member Year Allen G. Schofield Subcontract Appointed Regular 734 Rose Avenue or Position Member Sebastian, Florida 32958 Position Vac. By May: 388-1805 6/17/98 Unexpired Term to Expire: 2/2000 Reappointed Regular Term: 3/2000 Term to Expire: 2/1/20O3 Is in 3~ Rog Membar , ., Year and 1't Full Term 82 Ken Cosco Realtor / Appointed 1st 372 Banyan Street Position Alternate 6/95 Sebastian, FL 32958 Term to Expire: 6/98 388-5432 Appointed to Regular Member Realtor Position Vacated by Gilliams: 5/96 Term to Expire: 3/99 Reappointed to Regular Member Realtor Position: 3/24/99 TermtoExpire3/1/2002 Reappointed Realtor Position: 2/27/2002 Term to Expire: 31112005 Is in 5~h Rog Member Year and 2~d Full Term Jayne Barczyk Member Appointed Unexpired 609 Caravan Terrace Position Regular Member Sebastian, FL 32958 Position 388-fl949 Of Joseph Flescher: Vice Chair - appointed 9/9/98 1/02 Term to Expire: 3/2001 Reappointed Regular Member: 2/28/2001 Term to Expire: 312004 Is 'in .let Full Term -4t~ Regular Member Year Ronald M. VanBuskirk General Appointed Unexpired 252 Dock Avenue Contractor Regular Member Sebastian, Florida 32958 Position Contractor Position 589-7804 Vacated by Peter Cavallo: 2/12/2001 Term to Expire: 6/1/2002 Is in 1st Regular Member Year John Oakes Businessma Appointed Unexpired 593 Birch Court n Position Regular Member Sebastian, Florida 32958 Businessman Position 388-2957 Vacated by Joel Alan Kea: 12/12/2001 Term to Expire: 3/1/2003 Is in 1st Regular Member Year 83 Adrina Davis I Alternate I Appointed Unexpired 668 Benedictine Terrace Alternate Sebastian, FL 32958 Member Position 589-2408 Vacated by Donna Merritt: Term to Expire: 6/2001 Reappointed Alternate Member Position: 6/13/2001 Term to Expire: 6/2004 Joseph Morozowski Alternate Appointed Unexpired 3426 Heatherway Lane Alternate Member Sebastian, FL 32958 Position Vacated by 589-8024 Elizabeth Griffin: 9/8/99 Term to Expire:4/2000 Reappointed Alternate Member Position: 5/10/2000 Term to Expire: 4/2003 BOARD RECORDING SECRETARY -Ann Brack 84 Subject: oo:n~ PROJ-'EL~ ~~T Between the City of Sebastian and the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce/A~[..,&A~sic Festival fovgub ' y: City Manager Agenda No. ~ 0~_,_/O :5 Department Origin: Date Submitted: 05-01-02 For Agenda off 05-08-02 Exhibits: Proposed Joint Project Agreement between the City of Sebastian and the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce EXPENDITURE REQUIRED: I AMOUNT BUDGETED: APPROPRIATION REQUIRED: SUMMARY As part of organizational efforts and the continuing success of the annual Art and Music Festival, it'": was the desire of the City and the Chamber to formalized specific event responsibilities. Therefore;. the attached Joint Project Agreement between the City of Sebastian and the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce sets forth specific obligations and privileges for the continuation ofthe annual Art and Music Festival. RECOMMENDED ACTION Move to authorize the City Manager to execute the Joint Project Agreement between the City of Sebastian and the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce setting forth specific obligations and privileges for the continuation of the annual Art and Music Festival. JOINT PROJECT AGREEMENT This agreement entered into this SEBASTIAN, a Florida municipal SEBASTIAN day of corporation (hereinafter RIVER AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE "CHAMBER") provides that WltEREAS, the City has hosted a two day Arts and Music Festival for the last two years, with ajuried Art Show and Music Entertainment along the City's Riverfront in December each year, and WHEREAS, the Chamber agrees to organize and sponsor the event, and WHEREAS, the City and the Chamber desire that the CHAMBER be designated the status of sponsor and organizer of the Art and Music Festival, and the parties hereby set forth the obligations and privileges of continuing the Festival; THEREFORE, IN AND FOR CONSIDERATION of the mutual benefits and promises provided herein, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged by the parties, it is agreed: , between the CITY OF called "CITY") and the (hereinafter called the The parties shall cooperate in organizing and conducting the Fine Arts and Music Festival for the years 2002 through 2006 as set forth herein. The Chamber, with the aid and assistance of necessary City personnel, shall organize and administrate all activities and events for said Arts Festival in compliance with all applicable ordinances, statutes, health codes mad other governmental regulations and subject to the safety controls of the Sebastian Police Department, Fire Marshall and Health Department. Said Festival shall entail, at a minimum, a juried art show, a food and drink court and musical entertainmem over a two - day period, with such additional events to be determined by the CHAMBER to be feasible. The City shall provide public works personnel to supervise and help in maintaining the park and grounds, including trash removal and insect control, beginning on Friday evening set-up through Sunday evening breakdown. Additionally, the City shall provide all electric power as needed by the Festival. The City shall provide law enforcement personnel, as deemed necessary by the Chief of Police, throughout the event, including an officer who shall be specifically assigned to duty at Riverview Park for security overnight on the Saturday evening of the event. The City shall provide three (3) half page ads in the Press Journal and advertising in the TGIF of the Florida Today. The Chamber shall have the right to rent concession booths in Riverview Park and if needed, close a portion of the Indian River Drive right-of-way as part of the Festival, and shall be entitled to all proceeds from said concession activities. The Chamber shall organize fundraising and otherwise have full financial responsibility for funding the Festival event. The Chamber agrees to indemnify, defend and hold City harmless fi'om any and all claims of any nature brought by the Chamber members, or 2 10. CITY OF SEBASTIAN By: agents in the course of performing Chamber's obligations under this Agreement, or from any claims by any persons arising from or damages incurred by the City from the actions of Chamber members or agents whatsoever arising from the exercise of the privileges and obligations set forth hereunder. The City agrees to inderrmify, defend and hold the Chamber harmless from any and all claims of any nature brought by City's employees or agents in the course of performing City's obligations under this Agreement, or from any claims by any person arising from the wrongful acts of City's employees or agents whatsoever arising from the exercise of the privileges and obligations set forth hereunder. Nothing herein shall be deemed a waiver of sovereign immunity. AGREED to on the date first set forth above. SEBASTIAN RIVER AREA CItAMBER OF COMMERCE By: Terrence R. Moore City Manager (Seal) Attest: Approved as to Form and Content For Reliance by the City of Sebastian Only: Sally A. Maio, CMC City Clerk Rich Str~ger, City Attorney (Seal) 3 HO~ O~F P~~: lSLAND City of Sebastian, Florida Subject: Runway 4-22 Lighting Contract Approved for Submittal by: /~,Terr~ Mop~~anager fl ,,,,,, Agenda No. 0,,~.. / 0 -/ Department Origin: AirlloX& Dept. Head: ~~..~~ Finance: ~~;',o, ~n~--~z_ General ServiCes: ~~~ Date Submitted: 4/29/02 For Agenda of: 05/08/2002 Exhibits: Bid Tabulations and Recommendation/'rom the LPA Group, Inc., FDOT Approval EXPENDITURE REQUIRED: $ 236,886 AMOUNT BUDGETED: $ 253,544 APPROPRIATION REQUIRED: N/A SUMMARY In June of 2000 the City Council approved a Joint Participation Agreement (JPA) with the Florida Department of Transportation, Aviation Section for the installation of Medium Intensity Runway Lighting on Runway 4-22 at Sebastian Municipal Airport. In late 2001, this project was advertised for bid, however the three bids received exceeded the budgeted amount considerably. Rather than requesting an appropriation to begin construction, it was decided that we examine the design and engineering more closely to determine if it were possible to complete the project within our financial constraints. After some minor redesign work, the bid documents were rewritten, and the project was re-advertised. Staff is now pleased to report that five bids were received and three of them were within budget. The apparent Iow bidder is JACO Airfield Construction, Inc. Based on an internal analysis of the bids as well as a recommendation from The LPA Group, Inc.; staff recommends awarding the contract to JACO Airfield Construction. JACO has experience in airfield lighting as has completed similar work at many large and small airports around the country. RECOMMENDATION Move to award Runway 4-22 Medium Intensity Runway Edge Lighting contract to J~,CO Airfield Construction, Inc. in the amount of $236,886.00. THE LPA GROUP INCORPORATED Transportation Consultants 12000 RESEARCH PARKWAY, 'SUITE 152 · ORLANDO, FL 32826-3287 · 407-306-0200 · FAX 40~'-30~-0460 April 18, 2002 Mr. Jason Milewski Airport Manager City of Sebastian 1225 Main Street Sebastian, FL 32958 Subject: Sebastian Municipal Airport Review of X26 04-22 MIRL Bids Received 11-APR.02 Dear Mr. Milewski: THE LPA GROUP INCORPORATED and Hillers Electrical Engineering have reviewed the bid packages submitted on 11-APR-02 by the 5 Contractors for the subject project. Based on the bid prices submitted, we recommend the following combination of items/prices: Total Base Bid + Additive Alternates 3, 4, 5 and 6~ The following prices were submitted for that combination: Contractor JACO Airfield Construction, Inc. H.L Pruitt Corp C&F Electric, Inc.. The Signal Group, Inc. Florida Industrial Electric, Inc. Total Base Bid + Additive Alternates 3~ 47 5 and 6 $236,886.44 $246,O58.0O $275,170.00 $390,949.00 $385,385.75 The apparent Iow bidder is JACO Airfield Construction, Inc. for the total price shown. In our copy of the bid, we discovered one math error with additive bid item 2, which was corrected in the attached bid tabs, and verified April 12, 2002 in a conversation with Jeff Green of JACO. Based on the bid examination, discussion with JACO and their verbal understanding of the items, checks of their references, and their listed experience, we recommend awarding the bid to JACO Airfield Construction, Inc. They also submitted the required documentation in support of their bid. ATLANTA · BATON ROUGE -"~'FI~RLESTON · CHARL~i i b · CHi'bAGO · CO~'UMBIA · GR"EENSBORO '"'"~ULFPORT m' KNOXVII' LI: MOBILE · MYRTLE BEACH · ORLANDO · RALEIGH · RICHMOND · SARASOTA · TALLAHASSEE · TAMPA · WEST PALM BEACH Mr. Jason Milewski, Page 2 "' Please also consider the following recommendations: Do not start the project until you have a firm grasp on when the FPL service will be at the vault building site. Prepare the vault building site, to grade, with properly compacted fill material before starting. Allow the Contractor to complete demolition of the existing airfield lighting systems (award alternates 4 and 5). This will lessen the chance of causing him delay. For the same reason, allow the Contractor to be responsible for traffic control (award item 6). Based on the aforementioned information, we recommend the award of the contract to JACO Airfield Construction, Inc. for $236,886.44, contingent upon City of Sebastian Legal and General Services review, and availability of funds. Please see the attached bid tabs for a breakdown of the unit prices, and base bid and bid alternate costs. Aisc please feel free to call me if you have any questions or comments. Sincerely, THE LPA GROUP INCORPORATED <<original signed and mailed>> Mark C. Jansen, P.E. Project Engineer Attachment: Bid Tabs CC: Mohsen Mohammadi, LPA Tom Doran, Hillers Electrical Engineering File (TA412002.1 d) JEB BUSH GOVERNOR Florida Department of Transportation OFFICE OF MODAL DEVELOPMENT 3400 WEST COMMERCiAJ~ BOULEVARD .FORT LAU-DERDALE, i~ORIDA 33309-3421 TELEPHONE: (954)777-449.0; 1~/~k(9:54~.~7.7-7892; Toll-Free: (866)336-8435 /.~pnl z~' zuuz THOMAS F. BARRY, JR. SECRETARY Mr. Jason Milewski Airport Manager Sebastian Municipal AirpOrt 1225 Main Street Sebastian, FL 32958 Dear Mr. Milewski: Subject: Fin. Proj. No.: Description: Re: 408783-1-94-01 Install Runway Lighting & Security Authorization to Award & Notice to Proceed We have reviewed the bid documents you submitted for the subject project as it relates to the specifications of work to be completed and the comparison to your engineer's estimate. Legal aspects of the documents were not addressed because it is considered the responsibility of the Sponsor to ensure compliance with all applicable laws, statutes and ordinances. We concur with your analysis and hereby issue an Authorization to Award the contract to JACO Airfield 'Construction, Inc. After reviewing the contract/bid documents as they relate to the scope of work for the subject project, we authorize your issuance of a Notice to Proceed. Please keep this office advised of the status of this project as it progresses. If you have any questions, contact me at (954) 777-4404 or e-mail rebecca.rivett@dot, state.fl.us. Sincerely, Rebecca L. Rivett Aviation Coordinator Office of Modal Development CC: Nancy Bungo, Modal Development Administrator Larry Merritt, intermodal Transportation Manager File www.dot.state.fl,us ~RECYCLEDPAPER City of Sebastian 1225 Main Street Sebastian, Florida 32958 Agenda ,o. O~ . Oq~ Department Origin: City Manager Date Submitted: For Agenda of: 518/02 Subject: Ordinance No. 0-02-07 Exhibits: 0-02-07 Expenditure Required: Amount Budgeted: Appropriation Required: SUMMARY STATEMENT This ordinance changes the percentage of retirement benefit calculation per authorization given at the April 24th, 2002 council meeting. RECOMMENDED ACTION Pass Ordinance No. O-02-07 on first reading and schedule public hearing for 5/22/2002. ORDINANCE NO. 0-02-07 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, AMENDING CITY CODE CHAPTER 58, ARTICLE III POLICE OFFICERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE AND CONFLICTS WHEREAS, in 1989 the City instituted a Chapter 185 police pension plan; and WHEREAS, the legislative history of said pension plan, including each subsequent amendment thereto, has stated the intention that said plan be a statutory chapter plan; and WHEREAS, the City Code language provides that any provisions of the City Code inconsistent with a Chapter 185 plan shall not be given effect; and WHEREAS, Chapter 99-1, Laws of Florida, virtually rewrote the police pension law in the state of Florida and requires local government compliance with extensive minimum pension standards; and WHEREAS, the City Council determines that it is in the public interest to increase the retirement benefit for police officers from the minimum annual rate of 2% to a rate of 3%; and WHEREAS, in consultation with the Division of Retirement, it has been further determined that the best means for the City of Sebastian to remain in compliance with Chapter 185 requirements is to directly adopt said Chapter 185 with the minimum changes necessary; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, as follows: Section 1. That the Code of Ordinances, City of Sebastian, Florida, section 58-46, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 58-46. Maintenance of Statutory Chapter Plan. The City of Sebastian shall maintain a Statutory Chapter Plan for police officers' pensions in accordance with the provisions of Florida Statutes Chapter 185 subject to the following provisions: (a) In calculating the retirement benefit for any officer retiring subsequent to May 31, 2002, the rate of 3% per annum shall be used in place of the minimum rate of 2%, and (b) Member contributions shall remain at 5% of salary. Section 2. That the Code of Ordinances, City of Sebastian, Florida sections 58-47 through 58-54 are hereby repealed in their entirety. Section 3. Section 4. are hereby repealed. The ordinance shall take effect immediately upon passage. CONFLICT. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith The foregoing Ordinance was moved for adoption by Councilmember motion was seconded by Councilmember was as follows: Mayor Walter Barnes Vice-Mayor James Hill Councilmember Joe Barczyk Councilmember Edward J. Majcher, Jr. Councilmember Ray Coniglio The and, upon being put to a vote, the vote The Mayor thereupon declared this Ordinance duly passed and adopted this 22nd day of May, 2002. CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA ATTEST: By: Mayor Walter Barnes Sally A. Maio, CMC City Clerk Approved as to form and legality for reliance by the City of Sebastian only: Rich Stringer, City Attorney ution No. R-02-21 ~pp~ fo~:-'City Manager Agenda No. 6),,2-. O~ O Department Origin: Date Submitted: 05-02-02 For Agenda of: 05-02-08 Exhibits: Proposed Resolution No. R-02-21 EXPENDITURE REQUIRED: I AMOUNT BUDGETED: SUMMARY As a result of the Recreational Services Scenario Analysis, dated April 8, 2002, as provided by the Office of the County Administrator and Sebastian City Council deliberations on April 24, 2002, the proposed Resolution R-02-21 establishes a policy that the City will provide its own recreation programs and services to the citizens of Sebastian. APPROPRIATION REQUIRED: RECOMMENDED ACTION Move to adopt Resolution R-02-21 establishing Policy that the City will provide it own recreation programs and services to the citizens of Sebastian. RESOLUTION NO. R-02- ?.l A RESOLUTION OF THE CiTY OF SEBASTIAN, INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, ESTABLiSHiNG A POLICY THAT THE CiTY WiLL PROVIDE ITS OWN RECREATION PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO THE CITIZENS OF SEBASTIAN; PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE. PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT; WHEREAS, the City Manager met several times with indian River County Administration and City Managers/Administrators from Vero Beach, Orchid, Indian River Shores, and Fellsmere to discuss various scenarios with regard to recreational service provisions in Indian River County; and WHEREAS, upon deliberation of the City Council of the various scenarios included in the Scenario Analysis dated April 8, 2002 as provided by the Office of the County Administrator and presented to City Council at its April 24, 2002 Regular Meeting, and the determination that Scenario Two would have imposed a millage rate increase of 2.3% and would not have provided any more services than those currently provided, a consensus was reached to concur with Scenario One; and WHEREAS, City Council directed the City Manager to bring back a policy recommendation for Scenario One; and NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, as follows: Section 1. POLICY STATEMENT. The City of Sebastian: Provides outdoor recreational facilities at Barber Street Sports Complex to sports leagues year-round which are utilized by the Little League, Sebastian Panthers, and the Soccer Association. Provides a skateboard facility within Barber Street Sports Complex Provides park properties for use by various clubs and organizations to conduct arts, crafts and seasonal fairs and exhibits Provides indoor and outdoor facilities to Indian River County to conduct various aerobics/exercise programs and parades which could easily be transferred to City administration Is currently working toward implementation of a neighborhood park program utilizing recreation impact fees to provide passive parks and recreation facilities to all of its citizens, and Is working with the Boys and Girls Club of America, Inc. to provide a site for development of a facility adjacent to the City Hall complex The City Council now feels that it is in a position to provide all recreational activities and programs though its Parks Divisions; and therefore concur with Scenario One as included in the Scenario Analysis dated April 8, 2002 as provided by Indian River County. Section 2. The City Manager is hereby directed to forward a copy of this Resolution to the Board of County Commissioners for Indian River County and County Administrator, James Chandler. Section 3. CONFLICTS. herewith are hereby repealed. Section 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. upon its adoption. All resolutions or parts of resolutions in conflict This resolution shall take effect immediately The foregoing Resolution was moved for adoption by Councilmember The motion was seconded by Councilmember into a vote, the vote was as follows: and, upon being put Mayor Walter Barnes Councilmember Joe Barczyk Coun¢ilmember James Hill Councilmember Edward J. Majcher, Jr. Councilmember Ray Coniglio The Mayor thereupon declared this Resolution duly passed and adopted this 8th day of May, 2002. CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA ATTEST: Sally A. Maio, CMC City Clerk By: Mayor Walter Barnes Approved as to form and legality for reliance by the City of Sebastian only: Rich Stringer, City Attorney Presented by Dr. Grant Gilmore to council at 5/8/02 meeting with slide show indicating special fish in the Sebastian River. FINAL REPORT LIFE HISTORY AND CRITICAL HABITAT/ENVIRONMENT OF OPOSSUM PIPEFISH, MYCROPHIS BRACHYURUS LINEATUS: , A POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS R.Grant Gilmore, Ph.D. Principal Investigator Estuarine, Coastal and Ocean Science, Inc. 5920 First St. SW Veto Beach, FL 32968 20 December 1999 NMFS Reference Order No. 40GANF900091 NMFS Requisition No. 9fn5300812BBA00 FINAL REPORT LIFE HISTORY AND CRITICAL HABITAT/ENVIRONMENT OF OPOSSUM PIPEFISH, MYCROPHIS BRACHYURUS LINEATUS: A POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS R.Grant Gilmore, Ph.D. Principal Investigator Estuarine, Coastal and Ocean Science, Inc. 5920 First St. SW Veto Beach, FL 32968 INTRODUCTION The western Atlantic opossum pipefish, Mycrophis (Oostethus) brachyurus lineatus, is a circumtropical doryrhamphine pipefish (Gastrophori: Doryrhamphinae). It was previously known as Oostethus lineatus until synonomized with the Indo-Pacilic species Microphis brachyurus by Dawson (1984, 1985). Male doryrhampine pipefishes are characterized by having an abdominal pouch (males). There are ten genera and 52 species of doryrhampine pipefishes worldwide with only five species occurring in the Atlantic Ocean. Microphis (Oostethus) brachyurus is represented by four subspecies. Microphis brachyurus brachyurus is an Indo-Pacific subspecies occurring from Sri Lanka to the Society Islands, including Japan and northern Australia. Microphis brachyurus millepunctatus occurs in east Africa, Madagascar and Maruitius. Microphis brachyurus aculeatus occurs in the eastern Atlantic. The species is conspicuously absent from the eastern Pacific. Microphis brachyurus lineatus is limited to the tropical western Atlantic having been captured from the Bahama Islands, West Indies, Greater Antilles and South and Central America. There is evidence that western Atlantic populations ofM. b. lineatus may be further separated into three additional forms, or metapopulations, with reduced genetic exchange. Meristic characters (numbers of dorsal fin rays, trunk and tail rings) reveal distinct forms separated geographically between the Caribbean/North Atlantic and the South Atlantic (Dawson and Vari 1982). Pipefish captured south of Point Calcanbar, south of the Brazilian states of Paraiba and Parnambuco, clearly separate from North Atlantic-Caribbean specimens using fin ray and trunk/tail ring meristic characters (Table 1; Figure 1). In addition, extremely low counts 1 Sl~npl~ul -oN 0~'01 gZ'Ol 00'0[ = 0~'6 O0'g gL'L come from a population in Lake Isabal, Guatemala. These observations indicate genetic separation between Lake Isabal and North Atlantic populations as well as South Atlantic populations of M. brachyurus lineatus. Although no comparative genetic studies have been conducted, these systematic studies indicate that tropical western North Atlantic specimens from northern South America and the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern United States are apparently one population with little clinal variation. This corresponds with the major oceanic current patterns which separate North and South Atlantic systems at Point Calcanbar, Brazil (Longhurst 1998). This is a common biogeographic pattern observed in other tropical western Atlantic species pairs (sibling or geminate species), with one occurring in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, the other along the southern Bra:,.ilian coast. Extensive quantitative ecological and fish faunal studies conducted throughout the northern Gulf of Mexico, around the Florida peninsula, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela and portions of the West Indies verify the disjunct distribution of opossum pipefish within the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern United States (Dawson and Vari 1982; Gilmore and Hastings 1983; Dawson 1984; Gilmore 1985; Gilmore and Gilbert 1992; Gilmore 1995; Gilmore in press). Dawson (1970, 1972, 1979) and Gilmore and Hastings (1983) predicted ocean and coastal current patterns as well as ambient coastal winter temperatures prevent effective settlement and annual reproduction of opossum pipefish along the west coast of Florida from Florida Bay north, and in the northern Gulf of Mexico and also north of 28° 00 N. on the Atlantic coast of the U.S.(Figure 2). The microhabitat for breeding adult opossum pipefish in freshwater (Panicura spp. and Polygonurn spp.) and juvenile pelagic life stages (Sargassurn spp.) is found throughout the tropical North Atlantic. However, ambient water temperatures and predictable ocean current access limit effective breeding of opossum pipefish populations to the Loxahatchee, St. Lucle and St. Sebastian rivers of the Indian River Lagoon. Figure 2 reveals a winter seawater temperature scenario for the tropical western Atlantic showing cooling of inshore continental shelf and open Gulf of Mexico waters (cooler waters are green & blue). The warm tropical waters (orange and red) offer appropriate climatic and hydrological conditions for pipefish survival. This distribution of coastal freshwater breeding populations ofM. b. lineatus follows these winter ocean temperature patterns. Figure 3 shows the potential habitat relative to ocean currents, eddies and gyres. Oyres on the cool west Florida shelf prevent efficient oceanic larval transport across the shelf (Fig. 3). In contrast, there is a westward warm core ring movement from eddies off the Loop Current. These cores may spend months transporting water masses and organisms to western Gulf shelf and coastal waters of Mexico and Texas. Figure 3 2 also designates cominental margins, continental islands, true insular and continental insular habitats. Adequate freshwater habitat for breeding adult M. b. lineatus apparently does not occur readily in the Lesser Antilles or smaller coastal islands throughout the Caribbean and Bahamas. Continental islands (Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Jamaica) and low gradient tropical continental riverine systems are apparently preferred habitat. Reviews of published and unpublished fish survey literature from the southeastern United States reveal that although the opossum pipefish has been captured as far north as North Carolina (Ross 1981, Ross et al 1988), there is no evidence demonstrating permanent breeding popuhfions of opossum pipefish north of 28° 00 N. Ephemeral opossum pipefish popuhtions or individual wai£~ have been captured along coastal Gulf of Mexico, Tampico (Mexico), in Rio Bravo (= Rio Grande, Texas/Mexican border), coastal Mississippi, and the Florida panhandle, the St. Johns River, Florida, and McClellanville, South Carolina and North Carolina (Fowler 1945; McClane 1955; Dawson 1970, 1972, 1979; Ross 1981; Dawson and Vari 1982; Gilmore and Hastings 1983; Pezold and Edwards 1983; Ross et aL 1988) (Figure 2). Within the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) system the opossum pipefish has only been captured in freshwater tributaries south of 28° 00 N. in spite of intensive quantitative collections made in Turnbull and Sykes creeks in the mid and northern IRL 1972-1983 (Dr. John Morris, Fla. Institute Tech., pets. comm.). Predictable collections of opossum pipefish can be made in the appropriate vegetative habitats and sites in the Loxahatchee, St. Lucie and St. Sebastian rivers as well as the South and North Relief canals in Indian River County. The largest single collection contained 25 specimens. Most collections contained one to two specimens. Large breeding adults were most often found isolated in male/female pairs. Two hundred and fifty opossum pipefish specimens (50-175 mm SL) were captured in the Indian River Lagoon, its freshwater tributaries and adjacent Atlantic Ocean from 1955 to 1997. Opossum pipefish specimens were captured incidental to extensive and intensive long term fish ecology studies conducted by Dr. R.G. Gilmore and his associates at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution or by various other individuals conducting exploratory regional ichthyological surveys. Over 15,563 collections were made from 1972 to 1993 encompassing wetland, seagrass and freshwater habitats in repetitive quantitative samples, taken biweekly or monthly over several consecutive years. Seagrass habitats were sampled monthly for 73 months from 1974 to 1980 (Gilmore 1985, 1988); wetlands from 1978 to 1993 (Gilmore et aL 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993; Gilmore 1985); freshwater 1972-1992 (Gilmore 1977, Gilmore et al. 1982; Gilmore and Hast'mgs 1983; Brockmeyer 1987). The most comprehensive freshwater collections were made monthly from 1978 to 1980 with 1,376 collections at 58 stations in IRL tributaries in Brevard and Indian River counties. The freshwater collections include artificial canals typical of south Florida drainage systems as well as natural stream systems. Additional exploratory freshwater collections were made for 20 yrs from 1972 to 1992 in the Loxahatchee and St. Lucie rivers as well as Goat, Sykes and Turnbull creeks of the northern IRL. Records from these latter collections are limited to field notes in various catalogues and in catalogued HBOM specimens as they were not entered into a data base. Gilmore and Hastings (1983) and Gilmore and Gilbert (1992) report that opossum pipefish occurred most often in emergent vegetation along stream and canal banks, particularly Polygonum spp. and Panicurn spp. Therefore, it is hypothesized that local distribution is at least partially dictated by the abundance of emergent herbaceous vegetation. Anthropogenic activities further limit available pipefish habitat. Unfortunately, most emergent herbaceous vegetation in coastal tributaries to the IRL, including most canal systems, are treated with herbicides, further limiting available habitat. Gilmore and Hastings 0983) documented the eradication of opossum pipe£~sh habitat with herbicides in the South Relief Canal in Indian River County, Florida. It is not known whether these herbicides are toxic to opossum pipefish or their larvae. The extent of stream system availability to adult opossum pipefish is limited by salinity barriers and flood gates. The ability of this pipefish to migrate considerable distances upstream was shown with the capture of an opossum pipefish specimen from a cooling effiuem lake associated with the Florida Power and Light Co. Indiantown Power Plant on the east shore of Lake Okeechobee, 50 km inland fi.om the nearest ocean inlet (St. Lucie Inlet; Gilmore and Gilbert 1992). This capture and others in Panama (@50 kin; Hildebrand 1939) demonstrate that opossum pipe£zsh can penetrate upstream beyond ship locks, but not flood gates and salinity dams. Therefore, opossum pipefish would normally penetrate Floridian fresh waters many km upstream if coastal salinity barriers and floodgates were not present. This means'opossum pipefish are limited both by available settlement sites (herbaceous emergent vegetation) and extent of stream area available for settlement within 50 km of the coast. East Florida opossum pipefish populations examined from 1949 to 1998, probably give the best estimate of pipefish populations under these habitat limitations. The largest s'mgle collection from any of the IRL study sites was 25 individuals from the north fork of the St. Sebastian River in November 1979. Recent collection activity in the south fork of the St. Sebastian River has produced far fewer specimens principally due to the low area of viable herbaceous habitat. Only one isolated stand ofPolygonum spp. was observed along 10 kra of the Sebastian River south fork in May 1997 and this produced five opossum pipefish. This appeared to be the only opossum pipe£~sh population in the south fork of the St. Sebastian River at this time. These tributaries have been higMy modified and managed by human activities to the point that all rare indigenous aquatic faunas limited to this region of the United States are potentially threatened. The unique microhabitat requirements, morphology, behavior and life history of the opossum pipeflsh make it particularly vulnerable to human activity through impacts on freshwater stream, river and canal ecosystems. For this reason this species was designated as a potential candidate for protection as an endangered marine species. SCOPE OF WORK Existing data on the opossum pipeflsh populations was organized and reviewed from quantitative research program fries collected by R. Grant Gilmore. These data were analyzed to: (1) reveal opossum pipefish microhabitat, critical plant associations, stream/estuarine/marine environments and mating sites; (2) determine recruitment periods, larval release periods; (3) determine larval oceanic environments in association with transport mechanisms via historic and extant satellite oceanic data sources, relative to known coastal stream recruitment patterns from historic quantitative sampling programs (note that this last item was not carried out as it is the basis of the simultaneous National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to produce oceanographic models for opossum pipef~sh recruitment to coastal habitats); (4) determine historical sources of threats to the opossum pipefish, including: (a) loss in critical habitat through herbicide treatment, dredging and in-water construction; (b) anthropogenic manipulation of water flows on rnicrohabitat quality and quantity, adult residency, and ~n juvenile recruitment; (c) list of specific management conservation sources and activities; (5) incorporate all of the above analyses in a life history model that will allow isolation of factors which will threaten or enhance the survival of opossum pipefish. 5 RESULTS This work developed a Population Viability Analysis for the opossum pipefish determined the following: (1)- opossum pipefish life history strategies; (2)- critical microhabitat choice; (3)- distribution of chosen microhabitat at sites studied; (4)- water management influence on opossum pipefish life history and critical environments; It also made management recommendations which will enhance the survival of opossum pipe fish and all associated/syntopic indigenous tropical peripheral fishes which inhabit limited habitats of southeast Florida. REGIONAL HABITAT DESCRIPTION The Indian River Lagoon (IRL) spans 2.07° of latitude [253 km (157.2 miles)] from Ponce de Leon Inlet, near New Smyrna Beach, in the North to Jupiter Inlet in Palm Beach County to the South. The lagoon basin is approximately 2280 sq. miles in area and includes 375.5 km2 (145 miles2) of coastal mangrove, wetland and seagrass ecosystems. This long linear system is composed of three major sections, including Mosquito Lagoon, Banana River Lagoon and Indian River Lagoon. It encompasses almost one third of the east Florida coastline. This results in a continuous lagoonal estuarine system that ranges from an aquatic environment in the North that is temperate, to a system in the South that is tropical. This climatic transition translates to a significant floral and faunal transition along the IRL north-south axis. Consequently, plant and animal communities in the north are quite different from those in the south (Snelson 1983; Gilmore 1995; Schmalzer 1995). Due to this high regional biodiversity, the IRL was designated as an "Estuary of National Significance" under the EPA National Estuary Program and the IRL Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan was adopted in 1996. Two major Atlantic Coastal Ridge systems bound the IRL on the west and a linear barrier island dune system separate the IRL eastern shore from the Atlantic Ocean. Freshwater flow into the IRL was limited to relatively short (< 25 km) stream systems whose tributaries paralleled the axis of the IRL -- Turnbu'll, Eau Galle, Turkey, Crane creeks, and the St. Sebastian, St. Lucie, Loxahatchee rivers. Most inland freshwater flowed north through the St. Johns River system or south through the Lake Okeechobee-Everglades sYstem. However, today the western drainage has been historically altered to include watershed drainage from the St. Johns River and Lake Okeechobee drainage basins through a series of manmade canals and water control structures built for agricultural development and flood control. Natural ocean 6 inlets were limited to four sites--Ponce de Leon, Indian River, Gilberts Bar and Jupiter inlets. Today five manmade inlets are maintained with a series of navigation channels greatly influencing the lagoon basin structure and hydrologic function. It is estimated that the total IRL watershed currently consists of 922 km2 (356 miles2) of lagoon surface and 4923.5 km2 (1901 miles2) of watershed basin. While the lagoon surface area has remained constant there has been a 212% increase in the historical watershed basin which was estimated to originally be 2318 km2 (895 miles2). The extension of the watershed has changed the ratio of lagoon surface to watershed basin area (from 2318/300 = 7.72 to 4924/300 = 16.4) and this ratio is most greatly expressed in the southern end where the greatest watershed alteration has occurred, a 212.4 % increase in area of freshwater inflow into the lagoon. The southern region is also where four of the five ocean inlets are located. These inlets are adjacent to the mouths of freshwater rivers that form the primary opossum pipefish habitat (St. Sebastian River/Sebastian Inlet; C-25/Fort Pierce Inlet; St. Lucie River/St. Lucie Inlet; Loxahatchee River/Jupiter Inlet in Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7). The watershed increase does not account for the associated increase in volume of each freshwater release relative to the size and number of canals consu'ucted. Indian River County alone has over 450 km of freshwater canals, all of which drain eventually into the lagoon through major relief canals (South, Main and North Relief canais). OPOSSUM PIPEFISH LIFE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY The opossum pipefish is an anadromous species whose adult populations are only found in freshwater tributaries and in specific vegetative habitats, most notably, emergent bank vegetation (Gilmore and Hastings 1983, Gilmore et al. 1992). Juveniles less than 60 mm SL are found in pelagic oceanic environments, associated with Sargassurn communities (Gilmore et al. 1992). The subspecies, M. b. lineatus, is limited to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean (Dawson 1984, 1985). Predictable recurrent breeding populations within the United States are limited to freshwater tributaries of southeast Florida, most notably those to the southern Indian River Lagoon, the Loxahatcllee, St. Lucie, and St. Sebastian rivers, as well as several larger naturally vegetated drainage canals (Gilmore et al. 1992). Oceanographic and hydrological transport mechanisms are obviously needed for the large scale migration of pipefishes, as they have very limited swimming abilities, using their dorsal and pectoral fins for primary propulsion. Though it has not been observed, it is predicted that M. b. lineatus could posture or hide behind objects under unfavorable current conditions as well as move vertically within the water column when Figure 4. Location of principal river systems containing reproductive populations of Microphis brachyurus lineatus in Florida. St. Sebastian River St. Lucie River __ Loxahatchee River Figure 5. USGS map of St. Sebastian River showing principal populations of Mycrophis brachyurus lineatus (open circles) based on historical s~mples taken from 1978 ~ 1982 and recent collections 1997-1999. Barriers to upstream migration in the north fork are sho.wn as floodgates and spillways on the C-54 and Fellsmere Canals. Extensive drainage canal systems are also shown in association with agriculture and urban/suburban development. Figure 6. St. Lucie River drainage with primary pipefish capture sites circled. tidal or other stream transport is favorable. The need for geographic mobility and complex life history strategy of the opossum pipefish, its multiple habitats through ontogeny, as well as specific breeding adult microhabitat needs in freshwater, make it particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic impacts. Obvious ontogenetic transitions divide the opossum pipefish life history into ten distinct stages, all having their own environmental limitations and conditions for survival. ~/_Lq~.LR..e/~ - All adult male pipefish carrying eggs and larvae within their open abdominal pouch have been captured in vegetated freshwater or oligohaline stream and canal habitats. Therefore, it is presumed that larvae are released in freshwater or oligohaline stream habitats. Male IRL opossum pipeflsh were found to carry between 35 and 734, 0.6-0.8 nun diameter eggs, a mean of 383 ova/larvae per male, fifty per cent with 572-734 ova/larvae. The maximum number recorded worldwide is 744 ova (Herald 1943). This is a relatively high fecundity rate for pipefishes, however, other Florida coastal species, the chain pipefish, Syngnathus louisianae (454-898 eggs) and the dusky pipefish, S. floridae (358-886), both carry a comparable number of eggs in tail pouches rather than a trunk pouch (Dawson and Vari 1982). Adult males have been found with larvae fi'om May through December. This covers the warm wet season (May-November) throughout the tropical western Atlantic and southeast Florida. Release of hundreds of 3-6 mm larvae (Figure 8) during the warm/wet season ensures adequate freshwater stream flow seaward to the coast and, therefore, larval transport to coastal waters. This is also the period of the year in which coastal and estuarine plankton reaches its greatest abundance providing sufficient food for developing larvae. Two adult egg bearing male opossum pipefash were captured with an adult female on November 23'a 1999 in alligator weed, Alternatha and panic grass, Panicum purpurascens just below the spillway salinity barrier in the Fellsmere Canal confluence with the north fork of St. Sebastian River. On November 29a the larger of the two males released nearly all of its hatched larvae i~to the water column of a 20 gal aquarium. They were being held in freshwater, 0.0 ppt salinity. The smaller male also released its eggs in the water coluran in the aquarium and 0.0 ppt. Experiments were then conducted on these released larvae to determine their salinity tolerance and rate at which they could withstand salinity change. It is assumed from these observations that the male pipefish releases its larval brood in freshwater, although the captive males had no choice under these experimental conditions. Larval Transport - The location of larvae after release is unknown. They are assumed to be in the water column. Aquarium observations indicate that opossum pipefish larvae tend to float in the water column (Gilmore 1977; and this study). Aquarium observations cannot be considered identical to field conditions where more hydrodynamic turbulence and rapid changes in water density and salinity are likely with downstream movement from fresh water into polyhaline and marine estuaries, eventually to marine coastal waters. Experiments were conducted from Nov. 26 to Dec. 13, 1999 to determine the ability of newly released larvae to withstand various salinities. The larvae were released by the aforementioned male on Nov. 26. They were divided into four treatment and one control group with two replicate groups of 20 larvae each for each treatment and control The control group was kept at 0.0 ppt salinity, which was the salinity of the capture site in the wild. In the ftrst treatment, called the "fast" treatment, 40 larvae, (20 in each of two aquaria) were transferred to 18 ppt salinity within 24 hrs al~er release. The "medium" treatment group was transferred after 48 hrs at 0.0 ppt; "slow" group at 72 hfs; "very slow" group at 96 hrs. By the fourth day 50% of the larvae had died in the 0.0 salinity, while all had died in the ''very slow" treatment. Only 3 larvae (of 40) died in the "fast" treatment. Higher mortalities were observed in the "medium" and "slow" treatments. These results indicated that the larvae needed to make a transition to moderate salinities, 18 ppt, by at least 24-48 hrs post release. The 18 ppt salinity was that of the IRL adjacent to the St. Sebastian River. The larvae from the early experiment that survived at 18 ppt for seven days were now transferred to marine conditions (32 ppt, filtered ocean water) at different times, for a $il!nilar set of experiments. This time ten larvae were used in duplicate conditions for each of four treatments and a control. The control group was kept at 18 ppt. The '`fast" treatment was transferred to 32 ppt within 24 hrs; "medium", 48 hrs; "slow" 72 hrs; ''very slow", 96 hrs. The '`fast" treatment suffered total mortality within 72 hrs. Total survival occurred in the control kept at 18 ppi, while the highest survival rate, 90%, by the seventh day occurred in the ''very slow" treatment. This indicated that the larvae could not effectively make a transition to raarine conditions within the first two weeks after release. This was further verified in a third experiment in which three treatments, each with ten larvae, were fed rotifers and kept at 0.0, 18.0 and 32.0 ppt for two weeks. Total mortality occurred at 0.0 ppt and 32 ppt and no mortality at 18 ppt. The 18 ppt larve also grew at a more rapid rate. 9 These salinity transition experiments also agree with water flow and exchange rates predicted from hydrographic/oceanographic models for St. Sebastian River developed by Dr. Gary Zarillo at the Florida Institute of Technology CDr. Gary Zarillo, FIT, pers. comm.). Further oceanographic model examination is necessary relative to our biological observations. However, these initial results reveal that a progression from fleshwater to brackish conditions is necessary. This could take place at the interface between estuaxine and riverine waters in the salt wedge through vertical larval migrations (active movements), or through horizontal transport into the estuary (passive movements). Larval swimming behavioral experiments may determine the nature of larval migrations to required salinity environments, and whether they are active or passive movements. Salinity models indicate that they can be passive and remain on the larval salinity survival schedule determined in initial experiments. The duration of the larval stage is not known. The minimum size of juveniles is also unknown. The smallest juvenile M. b. lineatus collected was 50 mm SL. Pelagic juveniles are 50- 100 ram SL. Planktonic young ofS. louisianae are 20-70 mm SL. Syngnathus scovelli hatchlings can reach 28-30 mm in 30 days, but leave the pouch at 12-15 mm 'IL, considerably larger than the 3-6 mm M. b. lineatus. If salinity tolerance experiments are correct, it is possible that a slow transition to the oceanic juvenile phase may occur within the estuary or ocean inlet before reaching the open sea. Considerable growth rate information is now necessary to determine larval-juvenile transition rates and is potentially possible with aquarium experiments. Oligohaline or mesohaline estuarine passage to the juvenile phase would be beneficial as juvenile pipefish would have more control over their position in the water column than very small larvae. The latter larvae would possibly have some difficulty negotiating swift ocean inlet currents. Juveniles 50 mm SL are likely to be more capable of avoiding flood tides in vertical migrations and using favorable ebb tidal transport to the open ocean. The minimum juvenile size captured in plankton nets on the continental shelf adjacent to the Indian River Lagoon was 50 mm SL (21 October 1980). Opossum pipefish larvae must be capable of feeding on a variety of phyto- and zoo- plankters during this early development period as they will be passing through a variety of water bodies with widely differing physical and biological conditions. However, nothing is known of their feeding habits. Larvae in our 1999 experiments fed successfully on rotifers. 10 The timing of larval release in the warm wet season not only correhtes with maximum coastal and estuarine plankton production, maximum freshwater runoff and tributary flows, but also with the maximum flow rate of the Florida Current, Gulf Stream, Loop and Yucatan currents fi'om the Caribbean basin through the Gulf of Mexico and along the southeast coast of the United States. This provides a hydrographic setting which may have significant implications on opossum pipefish larval/juvenile entrainment or dispersal. The mechanisms a 10-50 nun pipefish may utilize in successfully becoming entrained in major ocean current flows 30-50 lan from the nearest ocean inlet are unknown. It is also unknown whether larvae and juveniles are more likely to recruit back to the ecosystems and streams of origin, or if they randomly enter a larval/juvenile pool in oceanic Sargassum communities to disperse to distant coastal habitats throughout the tropical western Atlantic. However, except for the semi-isolated semi-dwarf popuhtion in Lake Izabal, Guatemala, the smallest specimens have been consistently captured in oceanic plankton nets and most often with Sargassum. Juvenile Transition - The location and time of larval transition to the juvenile developmental phase is unknown. As stated above, it would be adaptive for this transition to take place before the pipefish migrate to the open ocean. Passage of juvenile opossum pipefish among floating flotsam, seagrass leaf litter of algae, on an ebbing tide is a likely scenario. The size at which this transition takes place is unknown. Opossum pipellsh captured in association with oceanic Sargassum communities are between 50 and 115 mm SL and are virtually colorless, thus blending well with floating vegetation in a translucent tropical sea (Figure 9). The highest mortality of opossum pipefish must take place during this early transitional developmental phase in the estuary or ocean inlet. From the time of larval release and larval/juvenile transport to the estuary or open ocean, water quality, vegetative cover, stream and inlet flow rates, predator and food densities must impact heavily on larval-juvenile survival. Oceanic Pelagic Juvenile Transport - Once in the open ocean juvenile opossum pipefish appear to associate with drifting Sargassum weed masses as several specimens have been captured in pelagic Sargassum (BOhlke and Chaplin 1968; Bortone and Hastings ). Opossum pipefish ranging from 50.0-115 mm SL (2, 50-58 mm 21 Oct. 1980: Gilmore collections--HBOM specimens; 4, 69.5-78 mm; 7, 72-91 mm; 1, 115 mm; 1, 76.5 mm: Dawson 1982) have been captured in floating Sargassurn in the Bahama Islands and in surface plankton tows in the Atlantic Ocean off South Hutchinson Island, adjacent to the IRL. 11 The duration of the pelagic juvenile stage is unknown. An estimation of the larval-juvenile phase duration could be obtained If juveniles that have just reentered the estuary or freshwater stream site could be aged. Attempts should be made to age opossum pipefish using otoliths and skeletal features such as vertebrae and operculi. Oceanic transport rates could also be determined via examination of existing oceanographic models for the tropical western Atlantic. This will he an objective for the future National Fish and Wildlife Foundation studies of satellite imagery, extant drifter tracks and quantification of oceanic recruitment processes, eddy or gyve formation and movement, as well as cross shelf transport processes. Juvenile Transport to the Estuary - Juvenile opossum pipefish, 63 - 86.3 mm SL (Gilmore and Hastings 1983), are carried hack to the nearshure coastal waters by prevailing winds, oceanic gyres, Ekman transport mechanisms and near-shore countercurrents. These oceanographic and hydrological phenomena typically cause floating surface algal mats and their associated organisms to move toward or along coastal shores. North or south near shore transport of drifting/floating organisms eventually bring them to the proximity of ocean inlets to the estuary where powerful tidal currents occur. It is now known that fish larvae encountering ocean to estuary inlets change their position in the water column relative to the bottom based on current flow direction. Since most estuarine dependent larvae must enter the inlet, they rise into the water column on a flooding tide and are carried into the estuary. Once inside, they settle temporarily to the bottom seeking refugia from ebbing tides flowing in the opposite direction. They then rise into the water column on the next flood tide to be carried further into the estuary. It is highly likely that the opossum pipefish, which lacks the capacity to navigate against strong current flows even as an adult, will use this alternating tidal transport mechanism. Suvenile opossum pipefish must enter freshwater tributaries soon after their entry into the IRL estuary as they are extremely rare in IRL estuarine collections. Juvenile opossum pipefish have been captured in estuarine seagrass meadows on only'four occasions out of 400 collections (1.8 million fish captured) made over 73 months (1974-1980) using two different quantitative techniques (Gilmore 1987b, 1988). However, two of these seagrass collections were at ocean inlets (Fort Pierce and St. Lucie inlets). Over 13,800+ collections (2.0 million fish captured) made in estuarine mangrove and saltmarsh habitats of the IRL from 1978 to 1998 did not produce a single opossum pipefish specimen even though nine different techniques were used (Gilmore et al. 12 1982, 1986a, 1986b, 1987a, 1987b, 1990, 1992; Gilmore 1984, 1987a; Gilmore and Peters 1986; Gilmore and Eames 1987; Gilmore personal observations, August 1993, August 1994, July 1995, May 1997). The paucity of opossum pipefish in vegetated IRL habitats indicates that juvenile pipefish search for freshwater tributaries once entering the lagoon, apparently while still in the water column, and do not typically settle in vegetated benthic habitats of the IRL. The duration of estuarine residence is not known but may be as little as 2-10 tidal cycles based on extensive oceanographic and hydrographic studies conducted in the southern IRL (Smith 1983, 1986, 1987, 1990a, 1990b, 1990c, 1993). Opossum pipefish estuarine habitat is predicted to be limited to pelagic environments, most likely the upper water column of the Intra Coastal Waterway. Juvenile Transport to Freshwater - All major freshwater tributaries to the IRL enter the Lagoon across from ocean inlets (Sebastian Inlet across from Sebastian Creek, St. Lucie Inlet opposite the St. Lucie River, Jupiter Inlet, opposite the Loxahatchee River). These three riverine systems harbor the largest opossum populations within the Florida peninsula and United States. Consequently, movement of juveniles from the ocean to the most substantial freshwater source is a straight course from ocean inlet to stream system. Opossum pipefish are also carried up the IRL 17-25 km as evidenced by pipefish occurrence in the South and North Rehef canals (built at historical creek locales) within Indian River County,. It is likely that flood tidal transport carries opossum pipefish upstream on two or more tidal cycles. Even though pipefish transit to freshwater from the ocean inlet is apparently ephemeral and possibly limited to 24-120 hrs, this is one of the most dangerous periods of movement due to the high density of estuarine predators in the water column. This transit apparently occurs as the opossum pipefish associates with floating Sargassum and other plant material which could be used for refugia. Pipefish movement from the ocean to freshwater tributaries occurs primarily during the cool dry season, November/December, February through April and June. The smallest juvenile opossum pipefish specimens (70 mm SL) from freshwater tributaries in the IRL were captured during December, March, April and June (catalogued in the HBOM; Table 2; Figure 10). This is a period of low plankton levels and low IRI~ pelagic predator concentration, thus optimum occurrence for a transiting juvenile fish in the water column or neuston. This is also the period of lowest stream flow rates allowing juvenile pipeflsh with relatively poor swimming abilities to more easily counter stream flow during upstream migration. This upstream migration may cover tens of kilometers. They apparently settle when the appropriate vegetated bank habitat is reached. 13 Figure 11. Location of relief canals under study in Indian River County "ARD COUNTY North Relief Cannl ER COUNTY Main Relief Canal South Relief Canal COUNTY Juvenile Settlement - The primary microhabitat for juvenile opossum pipefish after settlement in freshwater tributaries was examined vh monthly vegetation surveys simultaneous and syntopic with fish collections made in the South and North Relief canals in Indian River County (Figure 11). This survey was conducted fi.om April 1980 to April 1981. Twelve sites were staked with numbered markers in each canal, six on either side of the canal bank. Therefore, six sites were facing south, the other six to the north. Vegetation abundance estimates were based on total estimated aerial coverage. Since specific species of vegetation grow over and beneath other species, trees over bank terrestrials, bank terrestrial~ over semi-aquatic emergents, emergents over aquatic submergents, the combined total percent coverage for each species may exceed 100%. Only aquatic emergent and submerged vegetation were assessed in this study. To account for the coverage exceeding 100% in our coverage analyses, we reduced the raw percent coverage proportionally to allow the total to equal 100%. The number of pipefish captured at each stake site was noted relative to the species of vegetation, percent coverage of each species and total vegetation cover. A total of 212 vegetation cover estimates were made along with the fish collections. Photographs were taken each month of each stake site and kept on file for future vegetation reference and habitat analyses, as well as, to verify the data file. Nineteen primary aquatic vegetation species ~ 0.77% coverage) were found within each canal (Table 3). As each canal always had some water flow, often exceeding 1.0 m/seC, little or no floating vegetation was present. Bank vegetation did not grow extensively out away fi.om the bank due to constant stream flow. Slower, still, ientic waters may be more conducive to both bank vegetation growth and appropriate pipefish habitat development. Even though the South Relief Canal had a greater total aquatic vegetation cover for all of its stations than the North Relief Canal, it only produced one opossum pipefish specimen (a juvenile at stake site 6,' 16 January 1981), while the North Relief Canal produced 14 opossum pipefish during the survey Since fourteen opossum pipefish were captured in the North Relief Canal during the survey a correlation test wa~ run on the association of pipefish with total vegetation cover for each collection station. There was a positive correlation ( r = 0.61914, a = 0.05) between number of pipefish and total vegetation cover at the sites where pipefish were captured. Specific vegetation species associated with this trend cannot be isolated as there is an increase in pipefish specimens with increase in vegetation cover provided by the dominant vegetative type at the collection site (Table 4). With these data it appears that whatever emergent aquatic vegetation is 14 present and most abundant, the pipefish will associate with it.' It is also possible that increases in abundance of these vegetation types just happened to correlate with increases in abundance of pipefish (Table 5). Seasonal patterns in primary vegetation types, Colocasia esculentum, Phargmites australis, Polygonum hydropoperoides, Panicum purpurascens, Alternanthera philoxeroides and Peltandra virginica were examined to see if there was correlation with opossum pipefish recruitment to the North Relief Canal. Most North Relief Canal opossum pipe£~sh, 64% (9 individuals) were captured during the wet season (June-October). This is the period of greatest abundance of the annual vegetation species, smartweed, Polygonum and the panic grasses, Panicum spp (Table 6 and 7). Colocasia and Phragmites are perent~al but also increase in abundance during the warm wet season. All wet season pipefish were adults. All dry season fish were juveniles. Normally juveulles outnumber adults. Juveniles recruit primarily during the dry season. Figure 13 shows data for all Florida east coast opossum pipefish captured fi.om 1955 to 1983. It is obvious that pipefish are most abundant during the dry season, November/December through April/May. This is the period of lowest freshwater flow rates in regional tributaries and apparently most successful tributary penetration by juvenile pipefish. Fewer fish were captured during the wet season, May/June to October/November. This is the period of adult reproduction in the tributaries. Juvenile settlement in tributaries during the winter does not correspond with maximum emergent plant growth. However, plant seasonality in subtropical freshwater tributaries is much less than in warm temperate streams. In July of 1980 the south bank of the South Relief Canal was sprayed with herbicides (four different herbicides were used simultaneously, John Amis, Indian River Fanus Flood Control District, pets. com.). This killed all bank vegetation on the south side of the canal creating an interesting pattern in vegetation succession. There were apparently later treatments on both the south and north banks. The vegetation most sensitive was the terrestrial and larger emergent plants like Phragmites and Colocasia. This could be the reason that these latter species were more abundant in the North Relief.Canal which was not treated with herbicides during this study. The denuded bank eroded considerably forming sand bars along the south side of the South Relief CanaL These sandbars eventually vegetated with Panicumpurpurascens. Colocasia and Phragmites survived on the north bank. The herbicide treatment created major vegetative and topographical microhabitat differences between the North and South Relief canals. There were significant differences between the two canals with regard to vegetation. The rehtive 15 Table 3. Total vegetation species for the South and North Relief Canals, Indian River County SOUTH NORTH NO. PIPEFISH VEGETATION SPECIES RELIEF CANAL RELIEF CANAL CAPTURED WITH Submerged Vegetation Hydrilla verticillata 8.78 0.77 Cexatophyllum demersum 33,51 Pithophom sp. 11.01 3,08 Najas guadalupensis 98A Egeria clensa. 2.31 Small Emergent Vegetation Bacopa monnieri. Tradescantia spp. 0.77 3.44 64.72 0.77 Moderate Emergent Vegetation Ludwigia repens Polygonum hydropoperoides Panicum maximum Panicum purpurasccns Panicum repens Altemanthera philoxeroides 1.92 57.12 53.50 2 0.77 335.21 23.85 2 10.17 19.23 9.35 2 Large Emergent Vegetation Colocasia esculentum Peltandra virginica Phragmites australis Scirpus validus 130.97 411.78 8 3.08 1 48.67 209.62 5 1.92 Small Emergent Trees and Shrubs Ludwigia octovalis Salix spp. 3.5 Total Coverage 825.9 722.32 Table 4. Vegetation with pipefish associates ranked by overall abundance. Data from the North Relief Canal as no vegetation occurred with the single specimen from the South Relief Canal. VEGETATION SPECIES ClYlVIULATIVE PERCENT COVER NUMBER OF PIPEFISH Colocasia escalentum Phragmites australis Polygonum hydropoperoides Panicum purpurascens Altemanthera philoxerff~des Peltandra virginica 411.78 8 209.62 5 53.50 2 23.85 2 9.35 2 3.08 1 Table 5. Spearman rank order correlation coeifficient analysis of opossum pipefis association with specific vegetation types within the North Relief Canal, Indian River Co., n = 156 in all cases; Sampling period = April 1980 to April 1981 Species of Vegetation Altemanthera philoxeroides 0.196 Bacopa monnieri -0.0329 Colocasia esculentum 0.104 Egeria densa -0.0232 Hydrilla verticillata -0.0232 Panicum maximum 0.274 Panicum purpurascens 0.0482 Peltandm virginica 0.274 Phragmites australis 0.0308 Pithophora spp. -0.0329 Polygonum hydropopemides 0.0455 Salix spp. -0.0329 Tradescantia spp. -0.0232 Significance P value alpha = 0.05 Tendency 0.0143 s. increase together 0.683 n.s. none 0.197 n.s. none 0.774 n.s. none 0.774 n.s. none 0 s. increase together 0.55 n.s. none 0 s. increase together 0.702 n.s. none 0.683 n.s. none 0.573 n.s. none 0.683 n.s. none 0.774 n.s. none Correlation Coefficient ~0~00 ~00 5 oo~ooo5~ 0 O0 00000 o o ~o~oo~o o ~ oooooo ~ 00000 Table 7. Revised percent vegetation cover for all species in the South Relief Canal revealing monthly change at each site. Herbicide treatment of the south bank occurred in July 1980. Additional herbicides were sprayed on both banks between October and December 1980. No. species given after station no. Station 1 1980 1981 Mean Species APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR cover 0.385 0.008 4.769 Ceratophyllum 0 Panicum pur. 2 i~*~:~*::::::~ ...... 50 10 TOTAL COVERAGE 0 7 0 iii~ ~li!iii!i 0 0 50 0 10 0 0 0 0 Station 2 1 2 iii!?~i!?~iii~iii~ 1 1 Ceratophyllum I ::i~i::i::i~[~iii:!ii~:!i:~:: 10 Najas guad. ~ i::~,:~:~,!!:~: 40 90 Panicumpur. 99 100 100 ii~!i~iil 100 100 100 100 99 10 Panicum repens ~'::~*'":*~: 20 Tradescantia sp. TOTAL COVERAGE 100 100 100 i:~![i~?: 100 Station 3 2 1 1 ~!~[ 1 20 20 Ceratophyllum 8 Colocasia sp. 62 Hydrilla sp. 31 Ludwigia octo. Najas guad. Panicum put. 9 Polygonum sp. 73 Tradescantia sp. 18 TOTAL COVERAGE 100 100 100 Station 4 3 3 3 Alligator weed Ceratophyllum 10 Colocasia sp. 18 30 8 Hydrilla sp. 9 Najas guad. Polygonum sp. 30 25 Tradescantia sp. 73 30 67 TOTAL COVERAGE 100 Station 5 3 Bacopa sp. Ceratophyllum 9 Colocasia sp. Najas guad. Pithophora sp. Polygonum sp. 91 100 Tmdescantia sp. TOTAL COVERAGE 100 100 10 9O 3 1.615 16.92 69.85 1.538 0.069 100 100 100 100 0 70 100 100 1 1 1 2 3 2 2 5 5 100 45 100 100 100 100 I0 5 50 45 9 90 50 2.515 64 } .905 3.496 11.47 0.699 5.595 1.398 100 100 100 100 100 100 10 100 100 I 3 1 i 1 1 I 3 2 8 50 10 25 50 90 50 90 25 30 40 7.692 5.385 35.11 0.7 5 6.428 75 50 10 50 10 2 20 5 35.6 52 100 95 3 3 4 7 25 40 10 73 10 50 9 18 100 10 50 10 4 3 ..~i!i~¢i!~i I 2 2 2 2 2 18 ii:ii:4i:ii!?i:::4i:i!::ili 66 50 100 100 100 iiiiii~i 50 50 Station 6 2 1 Ceratophyllum 10 Hydrilla sp. 10 Ludwigia repens Najas guad. Phragmites sp. Pithophora sp. Scirpus sp. TOTAL COVERAGE 20 0 0.769 7.063 31.09 4.546 1.398 31.21 7.692 99 100 100 100 100 20 70 100 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 3 7 10 30 10 25 25 0 0 50 0 0 0 10 40 2 1 2 0.769 O.769 1.923 3.077 0.077 2.692 1.923 Table 7 continued Station 7 1980 1981 Species APR MAY JUN i;~IiU~.~ AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR Ceratophyllum 11 ::ii:i:~i~ii i ii~:ii:i :.~!~i~[~ ~:: :.~::~ Hydrilla sp. 11 ..... ............ Najas guad. 11 i 10 90 90 Phragmites sp. 100 67 100 ............... 100 25 50 60 40 80 10 Panicumpur. 25 50 30 60 20 50 10 Mean 0.855 0.855 15.47 48.59 18.85 Pithophora sp. 0.769 TOTAL COVERAGE 100 100 100 iiii~iiiil 100 50 100 100 100 100 60 100 100 Station 8 1 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 6 14 9 10 2.568 r Ceratophyllum Colocasia sp. 10 Hydrilla sp. 18 Najas guad. 27 i:~::*:~:~:~.~:i:: 23 10 Panicumpur. 55 86 91 ili}ii~!ii!i 50 100 100 100 90 100 100 80 Panicum repens 68 TOTAL COVERAGE 100 100 100 ~::~1~::~ 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Station 9 3 2 2 iiiiii~ii!i~i! 2 1 1 1 2 I I 3 3 TOTAL COVERAGE 100 Ceratophyllum 78 ~i~::::i}~ii::i!~iii::!ii :. 10 Najasguad. ::::~:.~7:iii::i::iii:: 80 2 22 57 10 Panicumpur. 22 100 i::iiiii~iii::i!::::::.:.~ 20 100 98 100 100 100 78 33 80 Pithophora sp. 10 0.769 1.398 4.615 80.09 5.245 4.615 0.7 Station 10 2 1 1 ~:i~iiiii!~ 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 3 3 Ceratophyllum 23 ~i~i~i~i~i~i~i~i~i 5 Najasguad. ~:~:~:~: 80 2 50 57 10 Panicumpur. 15 .:.::::.:::.:::iii~iii~iiiiiiiiiiiii~iiiiii 20 90 98 100 50 50 50 90 Panicum repens ilililiiiiiiiiiii!i!ii!i!~i 19 Polygonumsp. 62 iiiiiiiiiiiii!i!iii!iiiiiii 19 Tradescantia sp. 15 20 iiiii~ilili 50 TOTAL COVERAGE 100 15 20 iiii!i!~i}~i!i!i 100 Station 11 3 1 1 iiiii!iiiii~iiiiiiili 2. 1 8 6.752 13.14 70.88 1.538 1.154 5 2.142 15.32 43.31 1.465 6.198 50 18.11 90 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 2 1 2 2 2 4 2 6 Najas guad ............................. ===================== TOTAL COVERAGE 50 100 100 iii~iiiiii 70 100 100 100 100 100 90 85 100 Station 12 3 1 1 ili~!~i!!!!i~ii!~iiii~ 2 1 2 1 2 I 3 4 2 :5,~;~,~*;~ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL COVERAGE 0 30 0 Species Number 1 9.231 3.846 1.154 8.846 51.54 1.923' 7.692 7 2.308 ~ 0 0 0 0 0 0 J~AO0 uIIoi.~)e§~A % e^!ielnuJno me)o.l, i~ueo ~e~leB qpoN A~V~fl (IN¥ 'S~IVfl(HKI(I~I &O Z Z contribution between each of the nineteen species for the North and South Relief canals did not show a strong correlation when the most abundant species were included (Figure 12: r = 0.29773, a = 0.05). The North Relief Canal contained significantly more Coloca~ia and Phragrnites. In contrast, the South Relief Canal contained more Panicum purpurascens and Najas guadalupensis. Panicum and Polygonum have most often produced opossum pipefish specimens in many historic collections made in the relief canals and freshwater tributaries prior to and after the 1980-81 vegetation survey. They should have produced adequate habitat for opossum pipefish. During the year prior to herbicide treatment the South Relief Canal produced five opossum pipefish. There could have been other factors responsible for poor opossum pipefish recruitment to the South Relief Canal during 1980, including abundance and type of vegetation cover. Hydrological flows appear to be similar between the study sites as the North and South Relief canals have the same water release schedules, flow rates and volumes as well as dredged deminsions. The South Relief Canal is no longer treated with herbicides below the floodgate as constant water flow prevents problem vegetation growth and the Indian River Farms Flood Control District has decided to conserve aquatic wildlife resources below the floodgates. Maturation - Juvenile maturation to breeding adults takes place in freshwater tributaries of the Indian River Lagoon fi'om spring into summer when fish reach lengths over 100 mm SL. Dawson (1982) reports the smallest male opossum pipeftsh with a brood pouch at 91.5 mm SL. The smallest IRL male opossum pipefish with a brood pouch was 105 mm SL. As mature males and females have not been captured in oceanic, wetland or estuarine habitats and only in freshwater and oligohaline stream or canal habitats, it is believed that they are limited to these habitats (at least in Florida waters). Juveniles recruit to freshwater tributaries during the winter/spring- cool/dry season. However, mature adults are not commonly encountered until the summer/fall- warm/wet season. This means maturation may take several months to complete. The only microhabitat in which mature adults have been taken is emergent herbaceous vegetation along the stream bank or in shallow grassy vegetated islands within wider rivet/ne systems in tributaries to the IRL. Polygonum spp., Panicum spp., Alternanthera and Najas as well as accumulations of wood and leaf detritus, appear to be the primary associates. There is no quantitative data to provide evidence for these specific associations. Mature adults differ from juveniles in body proportions and coloration. Body depth increases in adults and the abdominal pouch becomes evident in males over 105 mm SL. The 16 snout is divided vertically into black and brilliant red bars varying in number (between 3 and 7). The dorso-lateral portion of each abdominal segment has a red blotch on a burnt sienna body. The adult opossum pipefish is one of the most colorful western Atlantic pipefishes, in contrast to the nearly colorless oceanic phase juveniles. The burnt sienna body coloration allows adult camouflage in tannin stained fresh waters, while the brilliant snout coloration may have some function in species or individual recognition, as well as possibly a function in mating rituals. Once maturation has occurred it is believed that mortality rates decline. Adult opossum pipefish kept in captivity are very active, mob'de and aggressive. Adults may have the lowest mortality rates, but they are also the least represented in collections revealing the high mortalities that have taken place during the larval dispersal and juvenile settlement periods. Adult Pairine - Adult opossum pipefish are often captured in male-female pairs. The male-female pairs are often isolated to a particular region of the stream bank, particularly if appropriate habitat is patchily distributed. On occasion, other mature pipefish have been captured in the same clump of emergent grass. When larger numbers are captured, they usually include mostly immature juveniles. Adult pairing occurs during the warm/wet season, May through November. The two mature males and breeding female collected in late November 1999 were breeding, transferring eggs and releasing larvae in aquaria up to December 15, 1999. These are the latest breeding adults captured in this region of Florida. Adult Mating/Egg Transfer - The mature ovigerous female transfers several hundred eggs to the male. It is not known whether the same female deposits eggs in the male pouch or that the male collects eggs from several females. Examination of museum specimens demonstrates that the mature breeding adult female to male ratios are nearly identical Males have been captured which only had ova in one third of their pouch with no evidence of having had ova in the remainder of the pouch. This meant that a single female must stage her egg transfer. Capture interrupted her egg transfer, or that additional females may deposit ova in the male pouch at another location or time. The female captured with the two males on 22 November 1999, transferred eggs to the largest of two males. Both males contained eggs and larvae in their pouches when captured at the same location with this female. The larger male released his brood five days after initial capture, leaving a few eggs in the anterior portion oftbe pouch which were released 16 days after capture ( 11 days after the first larvae began to leave the pouch). Initial releases appear to occur at night, but larvae continue to leave the pouch throughout the 24 hr period over several days. Two days 17 after the largest male released its final larvae from the anterior section of its pouch, the female transferred additional eggs to the male filling the posterior haft of the pouch. These larvae were released 5-6 days later, over three days (13-16 December 1999), and are still being released as of this writing. These observations indicate that at least brooding males can take on multiple batches of eggs during a breeding season and that larvae are released over a several day period. Only 48 b. rs are necessary between broods. This may mean that the female fecundity rates may be higher than anticipated (i.e. more than a single brood per year). Gonads of preserved specimens need to be examined to determine fecundity rates. The female aggressively courts the largest male and shuns the smaller male. She pursues the male with a variety of postures, with head bobbing and shaking. Both males and females will vibrate their entire bodies and it is thought that sound was produced during this period. Hydrophones were placed in the aquarium with the breeding pair, but no sounds were recorded. All egg bearing males were captured in herbaceous bank vegetation in freshwater canals and streams between May and November. It is possible that ovigerous males may migrate into open pelagic freshwater sites to release larvae into the water column or release larvae in deeper benthic habitats. It is not known whether the same individual opossum pipefish reside within the same stream system or site for more than one year. However, the paucity of adults during the cool/dry season indicates that either adults migrate away from bank habitats during this period, or that they die after one annual cycle. They overwinter in deep channel thermal refugia and return to the bank vegetation during the warm/wet season to repeat another spawning cycle. Deep channels were not sampled in any of the freshwater rivers with gears that would capture and hold pipefish. Examination of otoliths and skeletal features from freshly captured opossum pipefish may allow age determination and answers to many life history questions related to migration, reproduction and longevity. Museum specimens cannot be used for this analysis as all specimens were in~tlally fixed in formaldehyde. Final Life History Model and Population Vi~tbili~_ - Even though there are still many questions regarding the reproductive rate, longevity and distribution of opossum pipefish, it is now 18 understood that freshwater habitats in southeastern Florida are necessary for them to mature and reproduce effectively. It is aiso apparent that estuaries are important habitats for the early larvae after release from the male pouch as survival rates are highest in mesohaline conditions, 18 ppt, not seawater (32 pt) or freshwater (0 ppt). Eventual movement out into the Atlantic Ocean must take place at lengths between 6 and 50 mm TL. The duration of oceanic larvae and juveniles is unknown, as well as the time and location of larval transition to the juvenile stage. Once arriving back in freshwater tributaries during the dry season (7 mos, Nov to April), typically at lengths between 90 and 105 nun SL, opossum pipefish mature. During this period the numbers of pipefish collected averaged 29/mo (1955-1983 museum data). In contrast, the five month wet season (June to October) captures of breeding adults averaged 3.4 fish/mo. This gives a rough estimate of an 88 % mortality rate during the transition from settling juveniles to breeding adults. THREATS TO SPECIES SURVIVAL Habitat Modification Impacts - Nearly all freshwater entering the IRL from the adjacent watershed is under the control of water control structures. For this reason, human control of freshwater has a profound impact on the amount and quality of freshwater entering the IRL. Anthropogenic control of major external loading on the Lagoon has major biological implications as it has been correlated with harmful algal blooms (dinoflagellates), unusually high flow rates and volumes, increased water column turbidity, changes in zooplankton communities and Increased incidence of pathogenic fish disease (Steidinger, 1979; Steidingur, et al. 1998; Karen Steidinger, FDEP, pers. com.). Increased precipitation, incidence of storm events and rapid watershed human population growth will increase the intensity and periodicity of controlled freshwater release into the IRL. It is necessary to determine the long term implications of freshwater release on the health and biota of the IRL ecosystem. All of southern IRL Lributaries are recipients of freshwater from significant inland and upland sources as part of extensive county and state coastal flood control systems. The South Florida Water Management District controls water flow t~ough the Loxahatchee and St. Lucie Rivers, through the C-44, C-25, C-24 and C-23 canals in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties. The water control districts release water under their jurisdiction typically based on previously set operating conditions. Individual water releases are not necessarily reviewed prior to release by either state or federal permitting agencies. The St. Lucie Canal drains Lake Okeechobee which in turn receives significant water flows from the Kissimmee River and various 19 streams around the lake basin. This watershed encompasses several thousand square miles and is responsible for some of the most serious deleterious freshwater flow and volume impacts on the IRL watershed from 1958 to present. Major releases through the St. Lucie Canal in the winter of 1998 caused significant fish mortality, disease and disphcement from the lower watershed and in the IRL. Toxic dinoflagelhte blooms (Crytoperidinopsis) were recorded as a result of these freshwater releases. It is very likely that negative effects were not limited to the commercial and spo~ fishery species documented by Florida Department of Environmental Protection biologists, but also included many more cryptic species such as the opossum pipefish. Siwilar freshwater releases and dinoflagelhte blooms have been documented for the St. Sebastian River drainage and the C-54 Canal (both are under the jurisdiction of the St. Johns Water Management District). PaLm Beach, Martin, St. Lucle, Indian River and Brevard counties all have their own county administrated water control districts that also release significant amounts of freshwater through hundreds of miles of canals and dkches. Average dally discharge from the North Canal is 20.3 mgd; 26.1 mgd for the South Relief Canal. Both canals flow perpendicularly into the IRL on the western shore and are nearly identical in their construction, morphology and management, having both been constructed by the same equipment in 1914. Their maximum recorded flow rates are comparable: 1,155 mgd for the N. Relief Ca., 1,245 mgd for the S. Relief Canal. The mouths of the canals are approximately 6.8 km apart. Flood control structures are manually opened by local district personnel allowing flow rates to he carefully monitored. The watersheds of each canal are largely a mixture of suburban domestic housing and agriculture (mostly orange groves), as well as some natural forest. The opossum pipefish recruits to the St. Lucie River during a period of low water flow (November through May). Therefore, the winter release of large volumes of freshwater is atypical and likely to deleteriously impact juvenile pipefish movement upstream during this period. Pipefish have limited swimming abilities, so rapid unnatural current flows generated by the release of unnaturally large volumes of water is likely to wash these fish downstream and delay effective habitat settlement to post-release periods. Besides the rapid aseasonsl release of huge volumes of freshwater, all regional freshwater tributaries to the IRL have flood gates and other water management barriers phced in the water course at varying distances upstream~ Flood control structures limit upstream migration of opossum pipefish as evidenced by the capture of opossum pipefish inland of the St. Lucie Canal locks near the juncture with Lake Okeechohee. Blocking inland niigration reduces available 20 pipefish breeding habitat. Flood gates also produce rapid and voluminous freshwater releases during high rainfall periods, principally to prevent urban/suburban and agricultural terrain flooding. This rapid release of large quantifies of freshwater impacts emergent herbaceous vegetation, prime opossum pipefish habitat, and may wash pipefish downstream. HII/2I~L~I~I - Canal and stream vegetation is managed by local and state flood control districts through periodic herbicide treatments and mechanical bank vegetation removal. Herbicide treatment is permitted under EPA and Florida DEP guidelines. Unfortunately, the principal microhabitat for opossum pipefish, panic grass, Panicurn spp. and smartweed, Polygonum spp., are targeted for routine herbicide treatment by all flood control districts along the IRL. Complete emergent vegetation removal at opossum pipefish breeding sites has been documented (Gilmore and Hastings 1983). Canal dredging with mechanical equipment is alsQ routine and eliminates considerable herbaceous bank habitat. The extent of emergent plant species cover in historical studies is not known. However, it can be calculated from data taken during 1978 to 1980, as all plant species were enumerated per unit urea at collection sites and % cover estimated as well as documented with photography on a monthly basis for two years. Herbicide treatments and dredging were documented at specific sites with this procedure. The overall impact of herbicide treatment and mechanical vegetation removal needs to be addressed at the water control district level for each county and county subdistrict as well as the state water management districts. The herbicides used by each county need to be enumerated and classified. In May 1997 a survey Was made of potential habitat for these species along a 10:12 mile' stretch in the Sebastian River south fork and found only one Polygonum patch containing extraordinary numbers of the opossum pipefish and bigmouth sleepers apparently crowding into the last remaining habitat. At present only the west shore of Sebastian River is in a conservation area~ Home construction and bank vegetation removal is progressing at a rapid pace along the east bank. The upper reaches of this river fork were subject to a major emergent vegetation control program through herbicide treatment and mechanical vegetation removal permitted by the state of Florida. It is expected that the east shore of Sebastian River will be completely developed for private home sites in the future, possibly eliminating half of the potential opossum pipefish habitat in this productive river system. These home sites will not only eliminate potential pipefish habitat, but also contribute to water quality decline through standard home yard treatments of fer~iliTers, pesticides and herbicides. 21 Detailed analyses of historical opossum pipefish population data relative to potential available habitat is possible. It could be accomplished by correlating known grass area and pipefish densities with historical and extant aerial photography of coastal canal and stream systems allowing an estimate of herbaceous emergent Potygonum spp and Panicum spp. stands and, therefore, potential pipefish habitat. Overutilization for Commercial. Recreational. Scientific or Educational Pu~_ oses . No impacts from these sources is predicted or currently experienced for the opossum pipefish. Disease or Predation - No information exists on opossum pipefish pathology. However, many fishes syntopic with opossum pipefish and indigenous to the St. Lucie and St~ Sebastian rivers have been diagnosed with lesions, bacterial infections and tumors. These health problems are associated with major out-of-season, atypical freshwater releases from the St. Lucie Canal and the C-54 Canal by the Army Corps of Engineers and the regional Flood Control Districts. The only verified predator on opossum pipefish are jacks, Caranx spp. (Dawson 1982) which are common and seasonally abundant in the IRL. It is not known how predation influences opossum pipefish survival It is probable that the greatest influence is on the larval and juvenile stages as a host of planktonic and nektonic predators could consume pipefish while they are in these smaller life history stages. Inadequacy of Exit#ne Reeulatorv Mechar~i,vrn. y - There are no regulations on control of water release volumes or schedules from freshwater tributaries relative to impacts on the opossum pipefish or any other fish species of ecological or fishery value in tributaries to the IRL. Massive winter 1998 water releases from the St. Lucie Canal not only created significant incidences of fish disease and mortality, as well as toxic dinoflagellate blooms, it also reduced the 6verall biodiversity of estuariae and freshwater fish communities within the IRL for several months post release (.Gilmore personal data and observations May 1998, Bessie Cove, IRL, relative to Gilmore 1987b, 1988). The IRL at the St. Lucie Inlet and St. Lucie River mouth contains the richest estuarine fish fauna within the continental United States (400 species) and is partially responsible for the designation of the IRL as an Estuary of National Significance by Congress and EPA. Deleterious impacts of freshwater release and declines in freshwater quality continue to increase significantly throughout the southern IRL, effecting all local fish communities, including the opossum pipefish. Apparently state or federal water quality standards can be viohted with jurisdictional freshwater release fi-om regional IRL tributaries under certain circumstances. Further research needs to be done on the legal measures that are necessary to protect regional aquatic resources fi-om these deleterious impacts. There also should be an appraisal and recommendation as to what water management conditions such releases can be condoned with least environmental and biotic damage. Each flood control district has its own set of guidelines. For example, Indian River Farms Water Management District will release water if there is 1.0 inch of rainfall anywhere within the County within a 24 hr period (John Amis, Director, pets. comm., 1990). There is some indication that there is little environmental regulatory control on major water releases through the St. Lucie River or St. Sebastian River. The question is, do federal (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) and state (Florida Department of Environmental Protection) environmental reguhtory agencies have any jurisdiction over water quality associated with major water releases for flood control? Historical and recent deleterious environmental impacts (fish disease and major pathological mortalities in fish, as well as salim'ty change mortalities in clams) associated with the release of massive amounts of water from the St. Lucie Canal during the winter of 1998 indicates that the answer is "no". Natural Of Marinade Factory Affecting the Continued Existence of Opossum Pipe_fish - There are natural factors which may greatly influence opossum pipefiSh survival in IRL tributaries. Predation is most likely the major mortality source. Predation can be influenced by herbaceous habitat succession tree. Trees shade banks and often preclude herbaceous bank vegetation growth. The ideal habitat would have a patchwork of woody and herbaceous vegetation. The natural vegetation state in the three regional native rivers acting a pipefish habitat has not been quantified or mapped, so the nature of plant succession along regional tributaries has not been determined. Plant distribution patterns will have major impact on opossum pipefish distribution. The single greatest threat to opossum pipefish populations is the rapid and continual growth of human populations in coastal Florida, as well as significant growth in the regional tourist trade. This has placed additional developmental pressure on native terrestrial and aquatic communities through the following: (a) direct removal ofbabitat, (b) increased runoffand water flow volumes through regional freshwater tributaries and canals, (c) decreased water quality through the runoff of suburban and urban use of pesticides and herbicides (the highest non- agricultural pesticide use rate in the United States). Habitat removal and degradation is not only a continual threat but a documented result of extreme coastal development for human habitation. 23 Populations of this pipefish are threatened throughout its known breeding range in southeastern Florida as it not only requires access to freshwater tributaries, but also to specific emergent vegetation types for effective reproduction. Unfortunately, the opossum pipefish and all associated tropical peripheral species occur only in coastal marine and freshwater systems where the most rapidly growing human population on the east coast of the United States also occurs (southeast Florida, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach to Cocoa Beach). This justifmbly means that without protection this species and its breeding habitats win not survive. Additional Svntopic Rare. Threatened and Endaneered Soecies - There are six additional syntopic tropical peripheral species found consistently breeding in the United States only within tributaries and oligobaline portions of the Indian River Lagoon. These species are the centropomid snooks (tarpon snook, Centropomuspectinatus and fat snook, C. parallelus) and the gobioids (bigmouth sleeper, Gobiomorus dormitor; river goby, Awaous banana; slashcheck goby, Gobionellus pseudofasciatus and blackear goby, G. fasciatus). Gobionellus fasciatus represents a new continental record for the United States from the St. Sebastian River. An of these species reach their peak population levels in shallow bank habitats during the dry season, November through May, and decline in numbers during the wet season, June through October (Gilmore and Hastings 1983; Gilmore et aL, 1992). Considerable work needs to he done in isolating the preferred microhabitat of these species. It appears that the snook and the gobies, with the exception of the river goby, all require sandy bottoms with adjacent emergent vegetation. The river goby has been captured most often on shallow sand bottoms across the width of streams where bottom topography is relatively stable. The river goby appears to avoid heavy vegetation and sloping bottoms as well as mud. Flowing water is preferred by the river goby. An species appear to he lotic with most captures in oligohallne and downstream freshwater regions of local streams. The largest single collections of juvenile tarpon and fat snook came from the St. Sebastian River (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Museum specimens of C. parallelus and C. pectinatus). The snook and gobies have lmwal and juvenile stages in marine and estuarine environments and are members of a tropical peripheral freshwater fish guild that is only found commonly in the United States in freshwater tributaries to the I~diar~ River Lagoon. They are negatively impacted by extant water management practices ia coastal Florida, most notably the extensive use of herbicides and radical water release scenarios. These species are syntopic with the opossum pipefish and are impacted by the same deleterious human activities as the pipefish. For this reason they should also bo considered for protection as rare, threatened and endangered species. 24 Additional fish species that occur in the same streams with the opossum pipefish, but are rarely captured, are the mountain mullet, Agonostomus monticola, swordspine snook, C. ensiferus, and the burro grant, Pomadasys crocro. These species are also members of the same euryhaline tropical peripheral fish guild found in the Caribbean and Central America. However, the mountain mullet, swordspine snook and burro grant are not known to reproduce in waters of the United States. In spite of intensive collecting efforts throughout freshwater and coastal habitats of southeastern Florida, only a few specimens have been captured. Their rarity indicates the absence of permanent breeding populations or populations large enough to represent viable residency in the United States. CURRENT CONSERVATION EffORTS There are efforts to conserve the natural state of portions of all three Florida rivers systems in which the opossum pipefish commonly occurs. However, there are no ongoing conservation efforts spec'tfically for the opossum pipefish or other rare species dependent on these southeast Florida tributaries. Certain stream sites where the species are found are being developed rapidly for human habitation as well as receiving large quantities of flood control waters and periodic herbicide treatments from rapid coastal suburban, commercial and agricultural development. The north forks of the Loxahatchee River are basically preserved within the Jonathan Dickenson State Park and the Loxahatchee is designated as a Wild and Scenic River. The north fork of the St. Lucie River is designated as an "Outstanding Florida Water" and is part of the Florida Aquatic Reserve System. However, the north fork of the St. Lucie has received significant industrial and agricultural runoff in the past two years resulting in significant fish mortalities. The pathological disease rate of fishes in the St. Lucie River system are among the highest in Florida. Portions of the north and south forks of the St. Sebastian River have been designated as part of the Florida Aquatic Reserve system and State wildlife areas have been designated along the north fork. However, all three rivers still receive flood control waters from upstream sites, including the entire Okeechohee-Kissimmee flood control basin and the upper St. Johns River basin. Significant release of low quality water with very rapid flow rates occur periodically, particularly in the St. Lucie and St. Sebastian rivers. This causes significant sediment (muck) resuspension and water column degradation, in addition to carrying contaminants from external sources. Human population densities continue to increase significantly on lands adjacent to all of these rivers and land use variances from historically conservative master plans are granted monthly by all regional county commissions. 25 J ~ Z ~0~° o Routine professional pesticide and berbicide yard treatments in coastal South Florida are at the highest application rates in the United States. Lawn ferti!iTation is routine. These activities lower water quality and need to be controlled. There is a major state wide program entitled the Surface Water Improvement and Management Program (SWIMM) which is controlled by the regional state water management districts and requires governmental prevention of regional water pollution and increased runoff. The success of this effort is questioned as it has not precluded significant use of pesticides, fert'flizers and other associated water contaminants by rapidly growing coastal human populations. Significant land rezoning from agriculture to high density human development (agriculture to six units per acre) has occurred within the past two years on major canal systems 4-6 miles from the Indian River Lagoon. There has been no effort by state or local governmental bodies to curtail population growth, or to curtail use of pesticides/herbicides and other contaminants on coastal terrains adjacent to regional tributaries. From 1988-89 to date Indian River Farms Water Management District has refrained from using herbicides on the South Relief Canal below the flood control structure to enhance habitat for the opossum pipefish and all other threatened tropical fishes syntopic with it. This was done by Mr. John Amis, the District director, per discussions with Dr. Grant Gilmore from 1980 to 1988. Hopefully, recognition of the rarity and value of indigenous tropical fish communities that enrich freshwater and estuarine systems of the Indian River Lagoon and United States, will allow other water management districts to seriously consider modifying their fresh water release practice to benefit aquatic resources. At present the limited protective measures given opossum pipefish habitat quantity and quality do not ensure its survival, nor that of the plant and animal communities in which it breeds. J J A partial listing of federal, state and regional management groups that impact the major freshwater habitats of the opossum pipefish are presented in Table 8. This table is incomplete and in the process of being revised. Many of these individuals listed have been contacted or met in person to discuss the management of these particular river systems recently or over the years in the past. SUGGESTED CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES The following activities should be seriously considered to conserve habitat and water quality, not only to permit the survival of opossum pipefish, but to offer adequate habitat and 26 quality environments for the diverse and rare invertebrate and vertebrate species indigenous to east Florida stream systems. These measures would enhance and protect the biodiversity and biocomplexity of the region. 1. Conduct low altitude high resolution aerial photography of the three major streams systems CLoxahatchee, St. Lucie and St. Sebastian rivers) and major below spillway canal systems (ex. C- 23, C-24, C-25, South, Main and Noah, C-54) entering the Ind!a~ River Lagoon. Conduct this work at the appropriate altitude and resolution to determine emergent plant groups and separate emergent herbaceous vegetation from trees. Conduct these flights quarterly. 2. Ground truth all streams and canals photographed to determine the extent and location of herbaceous vegetative cover and how often these sites are destroyed or displaced by natural and/or manmade processes. 3. Organize volunteer and professional groups for periodic (quarterly) ground truth surveys of critical habitat sites in all streams and canals under study for reclamation. Use same personnel for selected planting specific habitat vegetation types. 4. Conduct periodic non-destructive surveys of opossum pipefish populations during peak recruitment (dry season) and during peak reproduction (wet season) periods. Sample more intensively during water release periods. 5. Determine water quality (hydrology and nutrients) parameters for all habitat streams on a two week basks with more intensive sampling during water release periods. 6. Keep lines of communication open between water system managers, county planners and commissioner activities to present concerns on decisions that may have direct or indirect impacts on water quality and managemem. Try t.o educate all water managers and local governments on the necessity to preserve stream/canal integrity, biological productivity and diversity. 7. Conduct research in plant community development relative to stream flow and develop guidelines which will eliminate the need for herbicide treatment of canals and rivers of southeast Florida. Herbicides are not used in flowing, lotic waters of most North American rivers. Why are they used in Florida7 27 8. Develop regional programs that educate the public that it is unnecessary to use pesticides and herbicides in home settings if preventive home (sanitary) and garden (xeriseape) practices are adopted. 9. Experiment with water barrier systems which will allow fish passage to upstream habitats. 10. Determine which satellite technology has the best capability, if at all, to assay floating Sargassum weed habitats in the open ocean. This is a primary pelagic fish habitat and nursery ecosystem on earth and not only supports opossum pipefish, but multiple spec'w.s, including many of great importance to regional and world fisheries, both recreational and commercial ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Doctoral candidate, Sarah Frias-Torres, made the most recent observations on captive opossum pipefish mating rituals and performed the larval survival experiments based on water salinities. 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