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R23-114 1 RESOLUTION NO. R23-114 2 3 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA, 4 APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO SIGN A FLORIDA 5 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RESILIENT FLORIDA 6 GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATION TO DEVELOP AN ADAPTATION PLAN 7 REQUESTING $300,000 IN FUNDING, EXECUTE ALL DOCUMENTS 8 ASSOCIATED WITH THE GRANT, ACCEPT THE GRANT, AND EXECUTE 9 THE GRANT AGREEMENT SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY 10 ATTORNEY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 11 12 13 WHEREAS, Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Resilient Florida 14 Planning Grant Program is a state funded program; and 15 WHEREAS, the Legislature recognizes that the state is particularly vulnerable to 16 adverse impacts from flooding resulting from increases in frequency and duration of rainfall 17 events, storm surge from more frequent and severe weather systems, and sea level rise; and 18 WHEREAS, the City of Boynton Beach has multiple infrastructure, climate and 19 resiliency planning initiatives and is requesting a Planning Grant to develop an Adaptation 20 Plan; and 21 WHEREAS, the requested grant funding for the project is $300,000 and local match 22 for planning projects is not required. 23 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF 24 BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA, THAT: 25 Section 1. The foregoing "Whereas" clauses are hereby ratified and confirmed as 26 being true and correct and are hereby made a specific part of this Resolution upon adoption 27 hereof. 28 Section 2. The City Commission approves and authorizes the Mayor to sign a S:\CA\RESO\Agreements\Grants\FDEP Resilient Florida Grant(Adaptation Plan)-Reso.Docx 29 Florida Department of Environmental Protection Resilient Florida Grant Program application 30 to develop an Adaptation Plan requesting $300,000 in funding, execute all documents 31 associated with the grant, accept the grant, and execute the grant agreement subject to the 32 approval of the City Attorney, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein as 33 Exhibit "A". 34 Section 3. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon passage. 35 PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5th day of September, 2023. 36 CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA 37 38 YES NO 39 40 Mayor—Ty Penserga ✓ 41 42 Vice Mayor—Thomas Turkin tstrei- 43 c� 44 Commissioner—Angela Cruz 45 46 Commissioner—Woodrow L. Hay 47 48 Commissioner—Aimee Kelley 49 50 VOTE 9-D 51 52 AT T: 53 54 ,Jpp_ �011PPP. 55 Mayle: D: -sus, MPA, MMC Ty P- 56 City Clerk Mayor 57 -OTON(-3-<<• 58 APPROVED AS TO FORM: 59 (Corporate Seal) L0/0, NI, 60 i ~ �7t0Rp,1E�i i V' p0 61 �� ; \NcoRg2� . 62 t, •.•,•,.••.�, David N. Tolces 63 FLO�, Interim City Attorney ` S:\CA\RESO\Agreements\Grants\FDEP Resilient Florida Grant(Adaptation Plan)-Reso.Docx The City of Boynton Beach ,C1i \T v o-- OFFICE OF THE MAYOR Mayor Ty Penserga \ 100East Ocean Ave 1 Boynton Beads,Florida 33435 (P):561-742-6010(E):pensergat@bbfl.us p ,\ 0 www.boynton-beach.org .ti ro N ° August 24,2023 Florida Department of Environmental Protection 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard Tallahassee, Florida 323 99-3 000 Re: RESILIENT FLORIDA GRANT 2023 CYCLE—PLANNING PROJECTS Dear Florida Department of Environment Protection Resilient Florida Program Staff, The City of Boynton Beach has multiple infrastructure, climate and resiliency planning initiatives and is requesting a Planning Grant to develop an Adaptation Plan. This would also include a component newly authorized this year in the Resilient Florida program: a feasibility study and the cost of permitting for nature-based solutions that reduce the impact of flooding and sea level rise. This proposed Adaptation Plan is based on a previously completed statutory and compliant multi jurisdictional Vulnerability Assessment as a pre-requisite. This project type is also contemplated in Section 380.093(3)(b)l.c. of the Florida Statutes for the development of projects, plans, and policies that allow communities to prepare for threats from flooding and sea level rise. The City Commission supports this grant application as this project bridges the gap between planning in a vulnerability assessment and identifying actual project priorities and conceptual cost estimates.The Adaptation Plan builds on the critical asset inventory previously completed, identifies project priorities, incorporates existing and future capital planning priorities and helps create a very specific path to adapt critical assets to flood risk. It also removes barriers to implementation through strategy recommendations in an Adaptation Strategy that will include removing policy barrier for adaption projects. Respectfully, / Ty Pen --7-. Mayor 7 / America's Gateway to the Gulfstream HOME (/GRANTS/S/) FRDAP v ORCP v CONTACT MANAGEMENT(/GRANTS/S/CONTACT-MANAGEMENT) RCP APPLICATION RCP Grants N/ Create a New Grant Application Grant Funding Type 0 Funding for Resilient Florida-Planning Projects v Resilient Florida-Planning Projects 1.Applicant and Project Information If your contact is not found, use the contact management button at the top of the page. Please Note: your application will be lost unless you select the Save button prior to vising the Contact Management link. > Applicant Account 0 Search Accounts... Boynton Beach Applicant Grant Manager 0 Alannah Irwin Applicant Authorized Signee 0 Ty Penserga Applicant Fiscal Agent 0 Corinne Elliot 2. Project Information Choose the project type you are submitting: 0 Available Chosen Complete Vulnerability Assessment(entire community) Partial Vulnerability Assessment(part of community) Update to Existing Assessment for Statutory compliance Comprehensive Plan Amendments for Peril of Flood *(required)Project Title 0 City of Boynton Beach adaptation Plan This field is calculated. Total Grant Funding Amount Requested 0 $300,000 This field is calculated. Total Grant Match Amount 0 List any municipalities directly served by the project and included in the scope of work. In the next step you will select the counties, if all municipalities are included that will be in the counties selected below, enter "all-inclusive." List the City(ies)/Town(s)/Village(s) 0 City of Boynton Beach Area Served Select your county. Available Chosen Palm Beach County Alachua Baker Bay Bradford Brevard Will the vulnerability assessment include any state managed lands such as National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs) or Aquatic Preserves (APs)? No, none. --None-- Total Population 80,859 Percent of Population 100% 3. Project Work Plan 75 Words Project Summary This project builds from the City's participation in the Coastal Resources Partnership(CRP),the first mull:i- jurisdictional Vulnerability Assessment(CCVA)found in compliance with Vulnerability Assessment criteria. The CRP included 8 jurisdictions meeting all modeling requirements in Section 380.093(3), F.S. The City currently lacks an adaptation plan that takes the prioritized assets of the CRP based on risk and exposure and identifies adaptation projects and strategies. This need would be filled by this project. Project Description 300 Words The City of Boynton Beach has multiple infrastructure, climate and resiliency planning initiatives and was a leader in forming the 8-jurisdiction Coastal Resources Partnership in Palm Beach County. The group created the first multi- jurisdictional Vulnerability Assessment compliant with the State's Vulnerability Assessment criteria in 2022 and serves as a model for multi-jurisdictional collaboration setting a very high bar for technical analysis and modeling (including rainfall) for vulnerability assessments statewide.The City wishes to continue that leadership by completing an Adaptation Plan that will help harmonize the various infrastructure,climate and resiliency planning initiatives because now the City is uniquely positioned to move beyond planning into implementation of adaptation projects. The Adaptation Plan will be comprised of two major elements: 1)a prioritized Adaptation Project list and 2) an Adaptation Strategy. The project will utilize existing CCVA data and harmonize that threat and exposure information to 1)create conceptual project information to implement Adaptation Projects. The primary source of data will be based upon the list of critical assets and regionally significant assets developed in the 2022 update to the CCVA. This data set will be further reviewed for prioritization ranking and serve as the basis for a preliminary project list. That effort will be supplemented with existing and in process capital improvements and budgeting priorities to arrive at a concise final prioritized Adaptation Project list that can drive future funding and implementation priorities. Additionally,the Adaptation Plan will include an Adaptation Strategy that may require program and policy modifications to facilitate the Adaptation Project list's implementation. This may include items such as Comprehensive Plan and/or Code modifications necessary to change infrastructure design policies and standards. It will also include recommendations on the implementation of the Adaptation projects and integration with capital planning and programming overall throughout the City. Finally, it also evaluate the feasibility of nature-based features for implementation associated with various recommended projects. 4. Project Need and Benefit Explain the demonstrated need, which the project addresses. The demonstrated need is that the City is one of the very few jurisdictions in the State will a fully compliant Vulnerability Assessment meeting at Section 380.093(3), F.S. criteria that is able to take the next steps necessary to create an Adaptation Plan. The City needs to harmonize multiple capital and resiliency planning initiatives and harmonize them into one defined Adaptation Project list and remove any barriers to adaptation project implementation that may exist in various policy frameworks such as the Comprehensive Plan and Code. The City has multiple capital planning processes, is currently completing a CRS-based Watershed Management Plan (that will provide stormwater project priorities to address future flood risk)and the City is also already aggressively pursuing other related capital projects that will address needed adaptation, hardening and create water quality improvement co-benefits. This Adaptation Plan will bring those efforts under one cohesive planning process to continue the City's groundbreaking momentum towards becoming a more resilient community. Explain how the proposed project fits into one or more of the Project Types. This proposed project is to complete an Adaptation Plan based on a previously completed statutory and compliant multi-jurisdictional Vulnerability Assessment as a pre-requisite. This project type is also contemplated by Section 380.093(3)9b)1.c.for the development of projects, plans, and policies that allow communities to prepare for threats from flooding and sea level rise. If the project is a Vulnerability Assessment for Peril of Flood compliance or other, please describe how the project will meet the outlined requirements for a Vulnerability Assessment under s. 380.093, F.S. No, although comprehensive plan policy recommendations may be a strategy recommendation. If applicable, explain how the proposed project adapts critical assets to the effects of flooding and sea level rise as defined in s. 380.093, F.S. The project clearly adapts critical assets to the effects of flooding and sea level rise because it bridges the gap between planning in a vulnerability assessment and identifying actual project priorities and conceptual cost estimates. The Adaptation Plan builds on the critical asset inventory previously completed, identifies project priorities, incorporates existing and future capital planning priorities and helps create a very specific path to adapt critical assets to flood risk. It also removes barriers to implementation through strategy recommendations in an Adaptation Strategy that will include removing policy barrier for adaption projects. Discuss how the project is feasible and can be completed by the grant period deadline. Because so much work has already been completed in the previous CRP's Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and much data about assets (including a prioritized asset list) already exists,this project will be streamlined to be completed in one year. Has the applicant entity(ies) performed a prior vulnerability assessment, separate from what is being proposed in this application? Yes Please list which entities have a prior VA. The City of Boynton Beach was a leader in the formation of the Coastal Resources Partnership, a Palm Beach County-based multi-jurisdictional Vulnerability Assessment found in compliance by DEP in 2022. Would you be willing to share this work with DEP? Yes 0 --None-- In order to access the rest of the application all required fields (indicated with an asterisk*)must be filled in and saved. Cancel Save Existing Applications HOME (/GRANTS/S/) FRDAP v ORCP v CONTACT MANAGEMENT(/GRANTS/S/CONTACT-MANAGEMENT) RCP APPLICATION RCP Grants Create a New Grant Application Existing Applications Uploads Task Complete information about the Tasks Two Tasks: Task 1: Public Education (BUDGET: $30,000 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES ONLY) Title Other: Adaptation Plan Public Meetings Work Performed by: Contactor Task Description: Two public meetings will be held with the public to: 1)describe the previous Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment work to date,the data sets available and the process to develop the Adaptation Plan and 2)provide a draft of the Adaptation Plan for elected official and community input. This will focus on prioritization of projects. Goal: Gain community and elected official support for the priority recommendations in the Adaptation Plan. Time to completion: 12 months Deliverables: • A summary report from each workshop or meeting, including attendee feedback and outcomes,and a copy of all materials created at each workshop or meeting. • Meeting agenda and sign-in sheets indicating location,date,and time of meeting Task 2: Data Collection or Study(BUDGET: $270,000 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES ONLY)) Title Other: Final Adaptation Plan Work Performed by: Contactor Task Description: The Adaptation Plan will be comprised of two major elements: 1)a prioritized Adaptation Project list and 2)an Adaptation Strategy. Goal: A Final Adaptation Plan will be produced with prioritized projects,cost estimates and a strategy for implementation. Time to completion: 12 months Deliverables: • Final report or study to include the process and methodology and any data gaps.