Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Mitigation Credit Supply Agreement with Bluefield Ranch Environmental Mitigation Bank, LLC.
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Submitted By: Alaina Knofla, Acting Procurement Manager.
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of high-quality infrastructure and facilities.
Summary Brief (Agreements/Contracts only)
1. Prepared by: Alaina Knofla, Acting Procurement Manager.
2. Parties: City of Port St. Lucie & Bluefield Ranch Environmental Mitigation Bank, LLC.
3. Purpose: To purchase environmental mitigation credits to address the wetlands at the Westport Wastewater Treatment Facility as part of the design to add the necessary reject water tanks.
4. New/Renewal/Modified: New.
5. Duration: One time purchase.
6. Benefits to Port St. Lucie: The reject tanks are an essential component of the Advanced Wastewater Treatment process planned at the Westport Wastewater Treatment Facility. Due to spatial constraints, the only viable location for the two 175-foot diameter storage tanks is within the current wetland area. Regulatory agencies mandate that the Utility Systems Department ("USD") purchase mitigation credits to compensate for the land used, thereby preserving natural wetlands.
7. Cost to Port St. Lucie (Annual and Potential): Estimated expenditures are $93,500.00 for 0.34 mitigation credits.
Presentation Information: N/A.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Mitigation Credit Supply Agreement with Bluefield Ranch Environmental Mitigation Bank, LLC. as the sole source provider.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Mitigation Credit Supply Agreement with Bluefield Ranch Environmental Mitigation Bank, LLC.
2. Move that the Council reject the recommendation and provide staff direction.
Background: The Westport Wastewater Treatment Facility was previou...
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