Subject:
Title
Approval, Re: Contract for Sale and Purchase from Gamopin, LLC, as part of the West Cocoa Master Stormwater Improvements Project – Mud Lake – District 2
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Fiscal Impact:
$745,000.00 – Natural Resources Management Department (Fund 1112)
Dept/Office:
Public Works Department / Land Acquisition Office / Natural Resources Management Department
Requested Action:
Recommendation
It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners:
approve and authorize the Chair to execute the attached Contract for Sale and Purchase, and
approve and authorize the County Manager to execute all future amendments or modifications to the Contract for Sale and Purchase to Gamopin, LLC, and
approve BCR’s to shift acquisition funding to the project from the Angel Avenue Stormwater Project (FP number 6964231), and
approve and authorize the County Manager to execute all necessary budget amendments (BCRs).
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Summary Explanation and Background:
The subject properties are located in Section 24, Township 24 South, Range 35 East, on Range Road, west of Clearlake Drive, and south of Highway 524 in Cocoa.
The Mud Lake – West Cocoa Stormwater Project improves control structures and creates a regional flood impoundment in West Cocoa. This project is a portion of a multiphase regional stormwater improvement plan, known as the West Cocoa Master Stormwater Improvements Project. This master project increases flood protection for homes, businesses, and critical public infrastructures. Each completed flood project increases the level of protection provided in Brevard and reduces risk to people, infrastructure and habitat.
The Natural Resources Management Department (NRMD) has identified the parcel owned by Gamopin, LLC, as necessary for implementation of the West Cocoa Master Stormwater Improvements Project. NRMD proposes to acquire the parcel for use as flood storage to assist in mitigating downstream flooding in the West Cocoa area. The acquisition will be funded through NRMD’s...
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