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File #: 2020-28    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 7/24/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: 8/13/2020 Final action: 8/13/2020
Enactment date: 8/20/2020 Enactment #: 2020-28
Title: SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET RESOLUTION NO. 2020-28 - CITY OF PENSACOLA RESILIENT COASTLINES PROGRAM - FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION GRANT AGREEMENT R2116
Sponsors: Grover C. Robinson, IV
Attachments: 1. Supplemental Budget Resolution No. 2020-28, 2. Supplemental Budget Explanation No. 2020-28

LEGISLATIVE ACTION ITEM

 

SPONSOR:                         Grover C. Robinson, IV, Mayor

 

SUBJECT:

 

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SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET RESOLUTION NO. 2020-28 - CITY OF PENSACOLA RESILIENT COASTLINES PROGRAM - FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION GRANT AGREEMENT R2116                      

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RECOMMENDATION:

 

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That City Council adopt Supplemental Budget Resolution No. 2020-28.

 

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND MAKING REVISIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YER ENDING SEPTEMBER 30 2020; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

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HEARING REQUIRED:  No Hearing Required

 

SUMMARY:

                                          

Northwest Florida is threatened by sea-level rise, record-breaking heat indexes, increasing frequency and long durations of extreme heat and drought, heavier rain events, wildfires, inland and coastal flooding, storm surges exacerbated by stronger hurricanes, and decreasing freshwater availability.  Historical water level records from Pensacola, Florida National Oceanic, and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tide gauges have established a representative long-term historical SLR trend of 0.73 ft/century. 

 

The City of Pensacola and its regional partners, including counties and other local governments, are pursuing an aggressive and overarching climate-planning objective to address underlying climate change threats.  The City of Pensacola has the opportunity of ensuring more detailed and new planning initiatives to ensure the community is resilient to climate change. The first step is to understand better what changes are likely at the local (and regional) level and to prepare for these changes. 

 

This grant scope of work advances five (5) key tasks that include: identifying coastal risk from sea-level rise, linking coastal risk to FEMA’s Community Rating System (“CRS”) program, developing a technical basis to plan for future sea-level rise (with mitigation and adaptation strategies) and communicating future sea-level rise risks to the public. The City is currently a Class Rating of seven (7), and data completed as part of this scope of work will serve as a strategy to improve the City’s Class Rating during its next CRS cycle.  The City also has an excellent opportunity to move its vulnerability planning to the next step, building on work previously completed by the Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Task Force (CMATF) and other local and regional partnerships.  To date, the City has undertaken some specific efforts to start its vulnerability planning efforts.  All activities include:

                     Report of Pensacola Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Task Force (2018).

                     Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (FDEO) Vulnerability Assessment of Escambia County, which includes detail related to the City of Pensacola (2016)

                     Santa Rosa County, in partnership with UF IFAS Sea Grant, University of West Florida (UWF), and Emerald Coast Regional Council (ECRC), applied and received funding from the Northern Gulf of Mexico Resilience to Future Flooding RFPI, to effect informed decision-making through assessing vulnerability and developing a flood risk cost estimator that will be communicated in a story map and web application (2019).  The effort was undertaken by Cynthia Cannon, who will also spearhead this grant effort.

 

Pensacola will review existing policy guidance, best practices, and case studies to determine the most current approaches for complying with the Peril of Flood amendments.  With the understanding that POF amendments have already been adopted in approximately 90 jurisdictions statewide, there are multiple models to work from to help the City’s process. The City has also completed an initial set of Climate Action Recommendations from which to build upon.

 

PRIOR ACTION:                     

 

None

 

FUNDING:                     

 

     Budget:                     $  75,000                     

 

     Actual:                      $  75,000

 

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

                     

Adoption of the supplemental budget resolution will appropriate the grant funds.

 

CITY ATTORNEY REVIEW:    Yes

 7/27/2020

   

STAFF CONTACT:

 

Keith Wilkins, City Administrator

Kerrith Fiddler, Deputy City Administrator - Community Development

Sherry Morris, AICP, Planning Services Director

 

ATTACHMENTS:

 

1)                     Supplemental Budget Resolution No. 2020-28                     

2)                     Supplemental Budget Explanation No. 2020-28

 

PRESENTATION:     No   end