February 10, 2026
ACTION AGENDA
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 

ROBERT L. ANDERSON ADMINISTRATION CENTER
4000 SOUTH TAMIAMI TRAIL
COMMISSION CHAMBER
VENICE, FLORIDA
 
09:00 a.m.



INVOCATION


no action taken
1.

CONSENT SECTION:

approved/authorized
2.
EMERGENCY SERVICES
To approve the expenditure authorization form and to authorize the County Administrator, or designee, to approve individual purchases with Medline Industries LP, to provide medical and surgical supplies in a cumulative amount not to exceed budgeted funds.

adopted
3.
EMERGENCY SERVICES
To approve a resolution adopting the Sarasota County Unified Local Mitigation Strategy Plan as the formal guide for the County's mitigation activities, pursuant to Florida Statutes, Section 252.38(2).

approved/authorized
4.
GENERAL SERVICES
To approve and authorize the County Administrator, or designee, to execute a term contract with Genuine Parts Company, in a form substantially similar to the attached draft, for fleet and facility-related vendor management inventory and logistics management solutions, through December 3, 2028, in an amount not to exceed budgeted funds.

granted
5.
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
To grant a ten-foot-wide, non-exclusive permanent utility easement to Florida Power and Light Company to provide lighting at Snook Haven Park for County-owned property located at 4076 and 5000 East Venice Avenue, Venice, FL 34292.

adopted
6.
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
To adopt a Resolution to approve a Maintained Right-of-Way Map for Keyway Road.

approved/executed
7.
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
To approve and execute an agreement for the acquisition of a permanent utility easement associated with Lift Station No. 161-0465 on property owned by Peter and Marjorie Williams, and located at 337 Bayside Parkway, Nokomis, Florida, Parcel ID No. 0161030019, for compensation of $16,608.80 and authorize the County Administrator, or designee to take all steps necessary to complete the transaction.

adopted
8.
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
To adopt nineteen Resolutions of Necessity authorizing the acquisition of fourteen fee simple interests, sixteen drainage and slope easements, and eighteen temporary construction easements for the Fruitville Road Widening Project No. 95853, commencing at Debrecen Road extending to Lorraine Road, Sarasota County.

approved
9.
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
To approve a first amendment of exclusive permanent lift station easement with NEWTAK LLC to modify the location of the easement area for the property described as Unit B-5-B1A Fruitville Commons Land Condominium in Sarasota.

approved/authorized
10.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
To approve the expenditure authorization form and to authorize the County Administrator, or designee, to approve individual purchases with Hydro-Dyne Engineering, Inc. for the purchase of Bar Screen Systems, in a total amount not to exceed budgeted funds.

reappointed
11.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
To reappoint Chris Sharek to serve a three-year term as an at-large representative on the Water and Sewer Advisory Committee, effective through February 2029, and approve a waiver of the term limit pursuant to Resolution No. 2023-252 and Resolution No. 2012-092.

approved/authorized
12.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
To approve and authorize the County Administrator, or designee, to execute a term contract with Veolia WTS Solutions USA, Inc. to provide Electrodialysis Reversal system equipment, preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance, products and related chemicals as needed at the Carlton Water Treatment Facility, for a three-year period, in a total amount not to exceed budgeted funds.

approved
13.
SHERIFF
To approve expenditures from the Law Enforcement Federal Fund, for the following requests and in the specified amounts, for the support or operation of programs relating to the DOJ Justice and DOJ Treasury Law enforcement operations and investigations; training and education; equipment; travel and per diem; drug, gang and other awareness programs; matching grants; support of community-based organizations:

a.
Strack, Inc. for the purchase of Under Door Pole Camera Kit for $6,560.65

b.
Rescue Technology for the purchase of Rescue Recovery Manikin for $1,355.00

approved
14.
SHERIFF
To approve expenditures from the Law Enforcement Forfeitures Fund in the amount of $750.00 to the Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center, Inc., for the support or operation of programs relating to drug treatment, drug abuse education, drug prevention, crime prevention and/or safe neighborhoods.

approved/authorized
15.
SOLID WASTE
To approve and authorize the County Administrator, or designee, to execute an agreement with Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC for material recovery facility engineering services for a material recovery facility at the Central County Solid Waste Disposal Complex, in the total amount not to exceed $550,000.00 for the term of the project.

approved/authorized
16.
SOLID WASTE
To approve and authorize the County Administrator, or designee, to execute a settlement agreement with The State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection to resolve violations of Chapter 62-762, Florida Administrative Code in the total amount of $14,500.00.

approved/executed
17.
STORMWATER
To approve and execute the Notice of Federal Interest in accordance with the conditions of Subrecipient Agreement No. 200092191.01 between the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council and Sarasota County for the Dona Bay Hydrologic Restoration Project.

approved
18.

ratified/approved
19.
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT AND COUNTY COMPTROLLER
To ratify and approve the Warrants dated January 12, 2026 through January 23, 2026, in the amount of $39,003,392.43, as detailed in the voucher packages filed in the Finance Department.

approved
20.
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT AND COUNTY COMPTROLLER
To approve the Minutes of the meetings dated January 13, and January 16, 2026.

approved
21.

A.
To approve and join the lease agreement between Sarasota County and River North Transit, LLC, for the lease of vehicles; Sitting as the Board of County Commissioners

B.
To approve a lease agreement with River North Transit, LLC, for the lease of vehicles from the County to be used for providing Breeze Plus and OnDemand services, in the amount of $1.00 per leased vehicle annually.

DISCUSSION SECTION:

no action taken
22.

authorized
23.

A.
To provide policy guidance regarding potential County acquisition and future use of the Gulf Gate Golf Course property and to authorize the County Administrator to negotiate a potential Purchase and Sale Agreement with the property owner, subject to future Board approval;

B.
To authorize the County Administrator to engage the services of a qualified third-party engineering firm to analyze the site and develop cost estimates associated with environmental remediation, including arsenic impacts.

PUBLIC HEARINGS:

PUBLIC HEARINGS - PRESENTATIONS UPON REQUEST:

adopted/approved
24.

A.
(Not a public hearing) To adopt a resolution amending the Sarasota County Fiscal Year 2026-2030 Capital Improvement Program (Resolution No. 2025-164) to add the Resilient SRQ Voluntary Buyout Program - 148 Myakka Drive, Venice as Project No. 75889;

B.
(Public hearing) To adopt a resolution, Budget Amendment No. B2026-014, amending the Fiscal Year 2026-2030 Budget to appropriate funding for Capital Improvement Program Project No. 75889 – Resilient SRQ Voluntary Buyout Program - 148 Myakka Drive, Venice in the amount of $390,904.00;

C.
(Not a public hearing) To adopt a resolution authorizing the execution of contract for sale and purchase with the owner of property located at 148 Myakka Drive, Venice, for the sum of $247,771.00 pursuant to Resilient SRQ’s Voluntary Buyout Program, and authorizing the Chair, Vice Chair or County Administrator to execute the contract for sale and purchase and authorizing the County Administrator or designee to execute all documents necessary to complete the transaction, including the CDBG-DR Restrictive Covenant.

adopted/approved/authorized
25.

A.
(Public hearing) To adopt a resolution, Budget Amendment No. B2026-033, amending the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget to appropriate additional funding to Capital Improvement Program Project No. 88094 – System Wide Wellfield Improvements Program, in the amount of $2,297,000.00;

B.
(Not a public hearing) To approve and authorize the County Administrator, or designee, to execute a construction contract with Hausinger & Associates, Inc., for the Carlton Monitoring Wells, in an amount not to exceed $1,673,531.00.



PUBLIC HEARINGS - PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULED:

adopted/approved/authorized
28.

A.
(Not a public hearing) To adopt a resolution amending the Sarasota County Fiscal Year 2026-2030 Capital Improvement Program (Resolution No. 2025-164) to add the Stickney Point Road Property NPP Land Acquisition and Start-Up as Project No. 85692;

B.
(Public hearing) To adopt a resolution, Budget Amendment No. B2026-029, amending the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget to appropriate funding for Capital Improvement Program Project No. 85692 – Stickney Point Road Property NPP Land Acquisition and Start-Up Project ($20,666,000.00), Operating Impacts ($263,537.00), and related debt service and internal service charges ($430,500.00), in the amount of $21,360,037.00;

C.
(Not a public hearing) To adopt a resolution authorizing the acquisition of approximately 2.04 acres of real property located at 1500 Stickney Point Road, Sarasota, FL 34231 from Big Main Street LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, in the amount of $18,100,000.00, authorizing the execution of the contract for sale and purchase, and authorizing the County Administrator, or designee, to execute any necessary documents to effectuate the closing, and providing for applicability and an effective date.

REPORTS SECTION:



denied/approved
31.

A.
To consider proposed settlement offer received from Saba Sands II, LLC in case 2025 CA 004886 NC, Saba Sands II, LLC v. Sarasota County;

B.
To consider claim regarding Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, Willis A. Smith Construction, Inc., and Crisdel Group, Inc.


board assignment to bring back as a DISCUSSION ITEM UDC Section 24-282 A. Paragraph 3

board assignment to bring back as an agenda item the soliciting of dredging the middle section of Phillippi Creek
33.


approved a pause on the two-ballot items regarding debt level bond and emergency spending
36.

no action taken
35.



DISCUSSION SECTION:

Board assignment to move forward with permits regarding the Casey Key Beach Renourishment Resiliency Program
39.


Moved forward with option location No.6 and requested Staff to come back with more Information
41.