CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: May 30, 2024
Agenda Date: July 9, 2024
Prepared By: Abby Morgan, P.E., Public Works Director/City Engineer
Through: Stockton Whitten, City Manager
Requested Action:
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Approve the District 4 Brevard County Parks and Recreation Interlocal Agreement.
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BACKGROUND:
Brevard County Recreation District 4 is a taxing district that levies property taxes on the Cities of Cocoa, Rockledge, and a portion of the unincorporated County. The district's governing board comprises the Cities of Cocoa, Rockledge, and Brevard County members.
Brevard County has operated and maintained all the parks in Recreation District 4, including all Cocoa and Rockledge Parks, through Interlocal Agreements for over 40 years. The current Interlocal Agreement with the City of Cocoa expired in 2011, and the Interlocal Agreement with Rockledge expires in 2031.
Under the expired Interlocal Agreement, the County assumed the costs of operations and maintenance as well as some capital improvements to the Parks within the City of Cocoa except for: Bracco Pond Park, Cocoa Conservation Area, Cocoa Riverfront Park, Johnnie Johnson Nature Trails, Lee Wenner Park and Taylor Park. The City of Cocoa has also provided for some investments into their Parks.
The Brevard County Parks and Recreation Department has continued to operate and maintain the City Parks and make capital investments in cooperation with the City of Cocoa. In Fiscal Year 2022-2023, Recreation District 4 generated $568,957 within the City of Cocoa. The expenses for the Cocoa Parks operations, maintenance, and capital projects totaled $1,683,713, leaving the County to fund the remaining deficit.
In the last couple of years, the City has provided comments on the County proposed Interlocal Agreement. The latest proposed Interlocal Agreement includes several updates, language clauses, and notifications. It also addresses responsibility for utility payment and termination language. Th...
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