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Approve Amendment 1 to an agreement between the City of Clearwater (the City) and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, for a Community Planning Technical Assistance Grant to prepare Comprehensive Plan amendments to address the Peril of Flood requirements in Florida Statutes, to amend Deliverable 2 within the Scope of Work to establish that the City will present proposed comprehensive plan amendments to the Community Development Board (local planning agency) for recommendation by June 23, 2017, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
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SUMMARY:
On January 19, 2017, City Council authorized the execution of an agreement between the City and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) to receive a Community Planning Technical Assistance Grant in the amount of $20,000 to prepare Comprehensive Plan amendments to address the “Peril of Flood” requirements in Florida Statutes.
The original scope of work (Attachment 1 of the Agreement), which DEO originally drafted in Fall 2016, called for the City to hold a transmittal public hearing (City Council First Reading) by June 23, 2017, which is the end of the State’s fiscal year. However, it took several months for DEO to complete its internal review of the Agreement, thereby delaying the timing for City approval and project initiation by the City’s consultant, HDR Engineering, Inc. DEO has since agreed that the City could meet their objective of holding a public hearing before end of fiscal year by taking proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments to the City’s local planning agency, the Community Development Board. This is reflected in the attached amendment.
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