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OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
NO. LTC # 219-2007
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LETTER TD COMMIS~IC~1
TO: Mayor David Dermer and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Jorge M. Gonzalez, City Manager
DATE: September 26, 2007
SUBJECT: FOLLOW UP ON CITY COMMISSION DISCUSSION OF UNDERGROUND
ELECTRIC FACILITIES
At the last City Commission meeting concerns raised by the Palm Hibiscus Homeowners
Association relative to the progress of an underground electric conversion project were
discussed by the City Commissioners. During the discussion, the Administration briefly
presented information on the various steps necessary to successfully complete an
underground electric conversion project and further indicated that there was no information
to suggest that the City was causing any delay in the Palm Hibiscus underground electric
conversion project. The City Commission action was to express their unanimous desire to
encourage FPL to proceed with the Palm Hibiscus underground electric conversion project
and to express their intent to allow the City's right-of-ways to be used for such purposes.
Subsequent to this City Commission discussion, a resident of Sunset Islands 3 & 4
communicated a similar concern that the City by virtue of not executing a Right of Way
Agreement with FPL for underground electric conversion for Sunset Islands 3 & 4 was
causing that project to be delayed. The City Administration has verbally confirmed with FPL
that as expressed in the Palm Hibiscus discussion at the City Commission meeting, there is
not an FPL requirement or expectation that the City sign a Right of Way Agreement for any
underground electric conversion project at this point in time. The City and FPL have agreed
that the Right of Way Agreement will need to be executed at the appropriate point in the
project process; however, that point in time is after the completion of a final design, a final
cost estimate and the City Commission establishment of a Special Assessment District.
A meeting with FPL representatives has been scheduled for Friday, September 28, 2007 at
City Hall at 10:00 a.m. to discuss the specific procedural and process steps that need to be
followed by the City and FPL in order to successfully complete underground electric
conversion projects. The homeowner associations representing Palm Hibiscus Islands,
Sunset Islands 3 & 4 and the Venetian Islands have been invited to attend the meeting.
One of the issues that will be discussed and further clarified at the meeting is also the
process of communications between the different parties involved in underground electric
conversion sects. In each of the previously indicated instances, it appears as if several
misunder ndings were created as a result of ineffective communication.
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