Marion County - File #: 2024-14553

• File #: 2024-14553
• Type: Consent
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 3/20/2024
• Meeting Body: Board of County Commissioners
• On agenda: 4/16/2024
• Title: Request Approval and Execution of Easement Number 33579 Between the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida and Marion County Associated with a Well Monitoring Site on or Across Parcel Numbers 40741-000-00 and 40736-00-00 (Budget Impact - None)

SUBJECT:

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Request Approval and Execution of Easement Number 33579 Between the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida and Marion County Associated with a Well Monitoring Site on or Across Parcel Numbers 40741-000-00 and 40736-00-00 (Budget Impact - None)

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INITIATOR:	DEPARTMENT:
Steven Cohoon, P.E., County Engineer	Office of the County Engineer

DESCRIPTION/BACKGROUND:

This is a request to approve and execute the attached Easement Number 33579 between the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida and Marion County.

On December 13, 2022, the Southwest Florida Management District (SWFWMD) approved the Marion County Utilities’ (MCU) Water Use Permit Number 20006151.014. Special Condition Number 5 within the Water Use Permit directed MCU to construct a monitoring well and staff gage within Ross Prairie.  To satisfy the Special Condition, MCU required an easement from the Division of State Lands, State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida) to construct the required monitoring well and staff gage. The easement presented for consideration provides the area for constructing and maintaining the monitoring well and provides the required access through State lands to the monitoring well site.

BUDGET/IMPACT:

None

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Recommended action

Motion to approve Easement Number 33579 and authorize the Chair and Clerk to execute the same.

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